cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A proposal to cure spinning viral diseases (Maybe Covid 19)
Creators: name: Sepehri, Alireza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Covid 19
Oxygen
spin
cure

description: 1.As we know oxygen is mostly triplet spinning object. 2. It seems that any body accepts a type of spins, at least for each time. This is because that blood cells including iron atoms and spins move around alveolar cells and induce their spins to them. Thus, any cell should take an oxygen with opposite spins. 3. Some viruses seem to be spinning. Because, their membranes and DNAs are built from spinors like electrons and it is natural to have spins. 4. Each cell could interact only with spinning virus with opposite spin. 5. If above assumptions be true, by using oxygen triplets with parallel spins respect to spinning viruses, we can repel them and cure diseases. 6. If this works, to cure Covid 19, only, we need to replace random oxygen with spinning oxygen.
Security analysis of the W-OTS$^+$ signature scheme: Updating security bounds
Creators: name: Kudinov, M. A.
name: Kiktenko, E. O.
name: Fedorov, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we discuss in detail a flaw in the original security proof of the W-OTS${^+}$ variant of the Winternitz one-time signature scheme, which is an important component for various stateless and stateful many-time hash-based digital signature schemes. We update the security proof for the W-OTS${^+}$ scheme and derive the corresponding security level. Our result is of importance for the security analysis of hash-based digital signature schemes.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
Recovery of transverse velocities of steadily rotating patterns in flat galaxies
Creators: name: Sridhar, S.
name: Sambhus, Niranjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transverse velocities of steadily rotating, non--axisymmetric patterns in flat galaxies may be determined by a purely kinematical method, using two dimensional maps of a tracer surface brightness and radial current density. The data--maps could be viewed as the zeroth and first velocity moments of the line--of--sight velocity distribution, which is the natural output of integral--field spectrographs. Our method is closely related to the Tremaine--Weinberg method of estimating pattern speeds of steadily rotating patterns, when the tracer surface brightness satisfies a source--free continuity equation. We prove that, under identical assumptions about the pattern, two dimensional maps may be used to recover not just one number (the pattern speed), but the full vector field of tracer flow in the disc plane. We illustrate the recovery process by applying it to simulated data, and test its robustness by including the effects of noise.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Corvus caurinus Baird
Creators: name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Corvidae
Corvus
Corvus caurinus

description: Corvus caurinus Baird
Corvus caurinus Baird (in Baird et al.), 1858: 569 (Washington Territory and northwestern Coast).
Now Corvus caurinus Baird, 1858. See Hellmayr, 1934: 5; Deignan, 1961: 329; American Ornithologists’ Union, 1998: 450; Verbeek and Butler, 1999; Dickinson, 2003: 513; and dos Anjos, 2009: 626.
SYNTYPE: AMNH 42372, Sex?, collected at Fort Steilacoom, near Tacoma, 47.16N, 122.30W (Times Atlas), Pierce County, Washington, on 25 April 1856, by George Suckley (no. 322). From the George N. Lawrence Collection (no. 428).
COMMENTS: This specimen was presented to George N. Lawrence by the Smithsonian Institution and is one of the syntypes of C. caurinus named by Baird in Baird et al. (1858). It was based on a type series of eight specimens, four of which are in USNM; the disposition of the other four is listed by Deignan (1961: 329). In addition to the original label, this syntype bears Lawrence’s label annotated ‘‘Presented by Smith’n Institution,’’ an AMNH label printed ‘‘Lawrence Collection,’’ and an AMNH type label marked ‘‘Cotype of Corvus caurinus.’’
description: Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 125, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954
Rapid Oscillations in Cataclysmic Variables
Creators: name: Warner, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I give an overview of the rich phenomenology of dwarf nova oscillations (DNOs) and Quasi-periodic Oscillations (QPOs) observed in cataclysmic variable stars (CVs). The favoured interpretation of these rapid brightness modulations (3 - >1000 s time scales) is that they are magnetic in nature - magnetically channelled accretion from the inner accretion disc for DNOs and possible magnetically excited travelling waves in the disc for QPOs. There is increasing evidence for the magnetic aspects, which extend to lower field the well known properties of strong field (polars) and intermediate strength field (intermediate polars) CVs. The result is that almost all CVs show the presence of magnetic fields on their white dwarf primaries - though for many the intrinsic field may be locally enhanced by the accretion process itself. There are many parallel behaviours with the QPOs seen in X-Ray binaries, with high and low frequency X-Ray QPOs resembling respectively the DNOs and QPOs in CVs.
description: Invited Review for PASP, accepted for publication in the February 2004 issue of PASP
On the tensor product of well generated dg categories
Creators: name: Lowen, Wendy
name: González, Julia Ramos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18G80, 18G35, 18M05, 18E35

description: We endow the homotopy category of well generated (pretriangulated) dg categories with a tensor product satisfying a universal property. The resulting monoidal structure is symmetric and closed with respect to the cocontinuous RHom of dg categories (in the sense of Toën [26]). We give a construction of the tensor product in terms of localisations of dg derived categories, making use of the enhanced derived Gabriel-Popescu theorem [21]. Given a regular cardinal alpha, we define and construct a tensor product of homotopically alpha-cocomplete dg categories and prove that the well generated tensor product of alpha-continuous derived dg categories (in the sense of [21]) is the alpha-continuous dg derived category of the homotopically alpha-cocomplete tensor product. In particular, this shows that the tensor product of well generated dg categories preserves alpha-compactness.
FrameAxis: Characterizing Microframe Bias and Intensity with Word Embedding
Creators: name: Kwak, Haewoon
name: An, Jisun
name: Jing, Elise
name: Ahn, Yong-Yeol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7

description: Framing is a process of emphasizing a certain aspect of an issue over the others, nudging readers or listeners towards different positions on the issue even without making a biased argument. {Here, we propose FrameAxis, a method for characterizing documents by identifying the most relevant semantic axes ("microframes") that are overrepresented in the text using word embedding. Our unsupervised approach can be readily applied to large datasets because it does not require manual annotations. It can also provide nuanced insights by considering a rich set of semantic axes. FrameAxis is designed to quantitatively tease out two important dimensions of how microframes are used in the text. \textit{Microframe bias} captures how biased the text is on a certain microframe, and \textit{microframe intensity} shows how actively a certain microframe is used. Together, they offer a detailed characterization of the text. We demonstrate that microframes with the highest bias and intensity well align with sentiment, topic, and partisan spectrum by applying FrameAxis to multiple datasets from restaurant reviews to political news.} The existing domain knowledge can be incorporated into FrameAxis {by using custom microframes and by using FrameAxis as an iterative exploratory analysis instrument.} Additionally, we propose methods for explaining the results of FrameAxis at the level of individual words and documents. Our method may accelerate scalable and sophisticated computational analyses of framing across disciplines.
description: 24 pages; published in PeerJ CS
Compost Contamination at UBC : An Investigation into Attitudes and Schaefer Bin Accessibility
Creators: name: Li, Jamie
name: Tang, Henr
name: Anderson, Marie Claire
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: With various environmental thresholds being met and exceeded around the world, it is becoming increasingly important for sustainable environmental practices to be implemented at local scales. Improper waste management and disposal of biodegradable materials can lead to the production of greenhouse gasses accelerating various other environmental issues past their tipping points. At the local level, it is easier to intervene on current waste management systems and reassess how to make changes to current infrastructure and systems that enable enhanced sustainability. The purpose of this research is to assess if compost contamination trends, at waste collection sites on the northside of academic campus at UBC Vancouver, can be explained in conjunction with waste producers attitudes towards sustainable waste practices. Data was collected through audits accessing contamination and accessibility were conducted over the course of three weeks. A quantitative survey was conducted to get data on how people on campus interacted with compost bins and policies. The audits had concluded that high contamination rates and bin fullness tended to occur near high traffic pedestrian walkways and buildings that contained food services. The survey concluded that a large portion of respondents followed composting guidelines. Respondents also indicated that unclear signage and excessive time consumption to be common motivations for compost contamination. 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.”
Consumer's preferences for "bicycle poultry" in Benin: Implications for the design of breeding schemes
Creators: name: SODJINOU, Epiphane
name: HENNINGSEN, Arne
name: O. KOUDANDE, Delphin
name: BIAOU, Gauthier
name: MENSAH, Guy Apollinaire
name: SODJINOU, Epiphane
name: HENNINGSEN, Arne
name: O. KOUDANDE, Delphin
name: BIAOU, Gauthier
name: MENSAH, Guy Apollinaire
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2112
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: village poultry
subject: consumer preferences
subject: willingness to pay
subject: breeding traits
subject: the Republic of Benin

description: Village poultry, also termed “bicycle poultry,” is produced in scavenging farming systems and is a chewy meat with a low fat content, and constitutes an important source of meat in many African countries. This study investigates consumers’ preferences regarding the physical traits of these birds (notably chickens, ducks and guinea fowl) in the Republic of Benin. For this purpose, we applied the hedonic price method on field data collected from retailers in four urban and five rural markets. We found that meatier drake and meatier guinea fowl with white plumage are preferred by consumers who are willing to pay a premium for these types of birds. The factors which significantly influence the price of chicken are the breed of the bird, the plumage color, the meatiness and the age of the bird. Consumers are willing to pay a price premium for meatier birds of traditional breeds with white plumage color and aged between six and twelve months. Thus, efforts to improve local breeds should stress these preferred traits.
Suspension, coherence, and credence
Creators: name: Del Rio, Andrew Emmanuel
name: 0000-0002-1932-5935
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Suspension
Credences
Agnostic
Belief
Traditional epistemology
Evolutionary debunking
Credence one

description: This dissertation is a collection of three papers, “Why undermining evolutionary debunkers is not enough,” “Absence of evidence against belief as credence one,” and “Suspending belief in credal accounts.” The role of suspension—the agnostic’s attitude that sits between belief and disbelief—is central in each paper. The first paper demonstrates that though mere undermining of the evolutionary debunker is a tempting response to their argument, it requires suspension on a premise. That is incoherent with belief in the other premise and disbelief in the conclusion. Therefore, mere undermining does not make believing we have moral knowledge epistemically permissible. The second paper demonstrates that Jane Friedman’s objection to an account of suspension as credence between 0 and 1 relies on equivocation or a false premise. Friedman’s objection entails that suspension on p is rationally permissible while one is maximally confident that not-p. I argue that these two attitudes are incoherent and so her objection fails. The third paper demonstrates that suspension should not be thought of as a credence of any kind whether precise or imprecise. Unique problems are associated with every possible credal account of suspension. This means that a traditional picture of belief, suspension, and disbelief cannot be reduced to a credal picture. Suspension is either fundamental or should be eliminated.
Better Compression with Deep Pre-Editing
Creators: name: Talebi, Hossein
name: Kelly, Damien
name: Luo, Xiyang
name: Dorado, Ignacio Garcia
name: Yang, Feng
name: Milanfar, Peyman
name: Elad, Michael
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: Could we compress images via standard codecs while avoiding visible artifacts? The answer is obvious -- this is doable as long as the bit budget is generous enough. What if the allocated bit-rate for compression is insufficient? Then unfortunately, artifacts are a fact of life. Many attempts were made over the years to fight this phenomenon, with various degrees of success. In this work we aim to break the unholy connection between bit-rate and image quality, and propose a way to circumvent compression artifacts by pre-editing the incoming image and modifying its content to fit the given bits. We design this editing operation as a learned convolutional neural network, and formulate an optimization problem for its training. Our loss takes into account a proximity between the original image and the edited one, a bit-budget penalty over the proposed image, and a no-reference image quality measure for forcing the outcome to be visually pleasing. The proposed approach is demonstrated on the popular JPEG compression, showing savings in bits and/or improvements in visual quality, obtained with intricate editing effects.
Network Inference using Sinusoidal Probing
Creators: name: Delabays, Robin
name: Tyloo, Melvyn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this manuscript is to present a non-invasive method to recover the network structure of a dynamical system. We propose to use a controlled probing input and to measure the response of the network, in the spirit of what is done to determine oscillation modes in large electrical networks. For a large class of dynamical systems, we show that this approach is analytically tractable and we confirm our findings by numerical simulations of networks of Kuramoto oscillators. Our approach also allows us to determine the number of agents in the network by probing and measuring a single one of them.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: Coherence effects in three- and four-level laser-cooled rubidium systems
Creators: name: de Echaniz, Sebastián R.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2002

description: This thesis presents developmental work on the existing magneto-optical trap (MOT) system and novel studies of coherence effects.

 The developmental work was carried out on the experimental apparatus used previously in this laboratory in order to perform experiments to study coherence effects in three- and four-level rubidium systems in the MOT. This developmental work includes the upgrading and installation of new laser systems, the improvement of the MOT, the installation of data acquisition hardware and software, and the commissioning of a new “second generation” MOT.

 As part of our studies of coherence effects, we present a wide-ranging theoretical and experimental study of non-adiabatic transient phenomena in a A system which exhibits electromagnetically induced transparency when a strong coupling field is rapidly switched on or off using a Pockels cell. The theoretical treatment uses a Laplace transform approach as well as standard numerical methods to solve the time-dependent density matrix equation. The results show clear Rabi oscillations and transient gain without population inversion of a weak probe in parameter regions not previously studied, and provide insight into the transition dynamics between bare states and dressed states.

 Experimental studies of a doubly driven V system are also reported, together with a theoretical dressed-state analysis of such systems. The expected three-peak spectrum is explored for various coupling field strengths and detunings.

 In all this work we have found good agreement between the theory and the experimental spectra once light shifts and uncoupled absorption in the rubidium system are taken into account.
The Globular Cluster System of the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy
Creators: name: Forbes, Duncan A.
name: Strader, Jay
name: Brodie, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Prompted by the discovery of the accreted Canis Major dwarf galaxy and its associated globular cluster (GC) system (Martin etal.), we investigate the contribution of accreted GCs to the Galactic system. The Canis Major GCs, and those associated with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, exhibit a range of galactocentric radii, prograde and retrograde motions, and horizontal branch morphologies, indicating that such properties are of limited use in identifying accreted GCs. By contrast, we find that the age-metallicity relation (AMR) of these dwarf galaxies is distinct from that of the main Galactic GC distribution at intermediate-to-high metallicities ([Fe/H] > -1.3). The accretion of GCs with a distinct AMR would explain much of the apparent age spread in the Galactic GC system. The Canis Major and Sagittarius AMRs are similar to those of other Local Group dwarf galaxies and are consistent with a simple closed-box chemical enrichment model -- a further indication that these GCs formed outside of the Milky Way. The Canis Major GCs all have smaller-than-average sizes for their galactocentric distances, lending further support to their origin outside of the Milky Way. Our findings suggest that accretion of similar mass dwarfs does not appear to have played a major role in building the stellar mass of the thick disk or bulge of the Milky Way.
description: 13 pages, Latex, 3 figures, 1 table, submitted to AJ
Corvus frugilegus subsp. tschusii Hartert
Creators: name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Corvidae
Corvus
Corvus frugilegus
Corvus frugilegus tschusii hartert

description: Corvus frugilegus tschusii Hartert
Corvus frugilegus tschusii Hartert, 1903d: 14 (Gilgit).
Now Corvus frugilegus frugilegus Linnaeus, 1758. See Hartert, 1919: 127; Vaurie, 1954b: 17; 1959: 167; Dickinson et al., 2004b: 123; and dos Anjos, 2009: 625–626.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 674831, female, collected at Gilgit, 35.55N, 74.18E (BirdLife International, 2001: 2643), Kashmir, on 7 December 1879, by J. Scully (no. 711). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert mentioned only the type specimen, giving Scully’s number for it.
description: Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on pages 124-125, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954
On generalization in moment-based domain adaptation
Creators: name: Zellinger, Werner
name: Moser, Bernhard A
name: Saminger-Platz, Susanne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68Q32, 68T05, 68T30

description: Domain adaptation algorithms are designed to minimize the misclassification risk of a discriminative model for a target domain with little training data by adapting a model from a source domain with a large amount of training data. Standard approaches measure the adaptation discrepancy based on distance measures between the empirical probability distributions in the source and target domain. In this setting, we address the problem of deriving generalization bounds under practice-oriented general conditions on the underlying probability distributions. As a result, we obtain generalization bounds for domain adaptation based on finitely many moments and smoothness conditions.
Investissement public et sécurité alimentaire au Burkina Faso : une analyse en Equilibre Général Calculable dynamique
Creators: name: ZIDOUEMBA, Patrice
name: GERARD, Françoise
name: ZIDOUEMBA, Patrice
name: GERARD, Françoise
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2112
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Public Economics
subject: sécurité alimentaire
subject: trappe à pauvreté
subject: investissement public
subject: Équilibre Général Calculable
subject: Burkina Faso

description: Cet article analyse les raisons des faibles performances dans la lutte contre l’insécurité alimentaire et la pauvreté au Burkina Faso malgré les performances macroéconomiques enregistrées par le pays au cours des dernières décennies. Il analyse ensuite, à l’aide d’un modèle d’Équilibre Général Calculable, la capacité d’un investissement public dans l’agriculture à améliorer la situation actuelle des pauvres. Plusieurs éléments se conjuguent pour expliquer la persistance de la pauvreté et de l’insécurité alimentaire : la forte croissance démographique qui implique une faible croissance du PIB (Produit Intérieur Brut) par tête ; la faible contribution de l’agriculture à la croissance globale ; la persistance d’un chômage urbain ; et une répartition des fruits de la croissance peu favorable aux pauvres. L’investissement public dans l’agriculture, en augmentant la productivité dans les activités agricoles, permet des progrès en milieu rural et surtout en milieu urbain.
K-essence and the coincidence problem
Creators: name: Malquarti, Michael
name: Copeland, Edmund J
name: Liddle, Andrew R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: K-essence has been proposed as a possible means of explaining the coincidence problem of the Universe beginning to accelerate only at the present epoch. We carry out a comprehensive dynamical systems analysis of the k-essence models given so far in the literature. We numerically study the basin of attraction of the tracker solutions and we highlight the behaviour of the field close to sound speed divergences. We find that, when written in terms of parameters with a simple dynamical interpretation, the basins of attraction represent only a small region of the phase space.
description: 5 pages RevTeX4 file with two figures incorporated. Minor changes to match PRD accepted version
Le conseiller, une pièce maîtresse sur l'échiquier de la coopérative agricole
Creators: name: FILIPPI, Marilyne
name: FREY, Olivier
name: FILIPPI, Marilyne
name: FREY, Olivier
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2112
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: conseil agricole
subject: courtier de connaissance
subject: coopérative agricole
subject: conseiller
subject: TIC

description: Le conseil agricole reste soumis à d’importantes évolutions dues à l’accroissement de la technicité mais aussi, à la prise en compte des enjeux environnementaux. Impliquant trois agriculteurs sur quatre, le conseil coopératif est un élément essentiel de l’évolution de systèmes productifs agricoles et des filières agroalimentaires françaises. Cet article propose d’appréhender le conseiller en coopérative comme un courtier de connaissance permettant de penser les interactions entre les adhérents et leur coopérative. Si le conseil revêt une dimension technique, il possède également une dimension relationelle en lien avec la révolution introduite par les Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC). Dès lors, le conseil agricole coopératif devient emblématique de l’évolution des modes de gouvernance de ces entreprises. Le conseil personnalisé et payant révèle le basculement des valeurs coopératives, de l’égalité à l’équité.
Maximum information states for coherent scattering measurements
Creators: name: Bouchet, Dorian
name: Rotter, Stefan
name: Mosk, Allard P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The use of coherent light for precision measurements has been a key driving force for numerous research directions, ranging from biomedical optics to semiconductor manufacturing. Recent work demonstrates that the precision of such measurements can be significantly improved by tailoring the spatial profile of light fields used for estimating an observable system parameter. These advances naturally raise the intriguing question of which states of light can provide the ultimate measurement precision. Here, we introduce a general approach to determine the optimal coherent states of light for estimating any given parameter, regardless of the complexity of the system. Our analysis reveals that the light fields delivering the ultimate measurement precision are eigenstates of a Hermitian operator which quantifies the Fisher information based on the system's scattering matrix. To illustrate this concept, we experimentally show that these maximum information states can probe the phase or the position of an object that is hidden by a disordered medium with a precision improved by an order of magnitude as compared to unoptimized states. Our results enable optimally precise measurements in arbitrarily complex systems, thus establishing a new benchmark for metrology and imaging applications.
Remote WAB-R administration for aphasia (Dekhtyar et al., 2020)
Creators: name: Dekhtyar, Maria
name: Braun, Emily J.
name: Billot, Anne
name: Foo, Lindsey
name: Swathi Kiran
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Language
subject: 100509 Video Communications
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Purpose: There is a rapid growth of telepractice in both clinical and research settings; however, the literature validating translation of traditional methods of assessments and interventions to valid remote videoconference administrations is limited. This is especially true in the field of speech-language pathology where assessments of language and communication can be easily conducted via remote administration. The aim of this study was to validate videoconference administration of the Western Aphasia Battery–Revised (WAB-R).Method: Twenty adults with chronic aphasia completed the assessment both in person and via videoconference with the order counterbalanced across administrations. Specific modifications to select WAB-R subtests were made to accommodate interaction by computer and Internet.Results: Results revealed that the two methods of administration were highly correlated and showed no difference in domain scores. Additionally, most participants endorsed being mostly or very satisfied with the videoconference administration.Conclusion: These findings suggest that administration of the WAB-R in person and via videoconference may be used interchangeably in this patient population. Modifications and guidelines are provided to ensure reproducibility and access to other clinicians and scientists interested in remote administration of the WAB-R.
Supplemental Material S1. Participant questionnaire regarding current technology use.
Supplemental Material S2. Verbal instructions provided at time of testing.
Dekhtyar, M., Braun, E. J., Billot, A., Foo, L., & Kiran, S. (2020). Videoconference administration of the Western Aphasia Battery–Revised: Feasibility and validity. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_AJSLP-19-00023
Quantum Phase Transitions of Quasi-One-Dimensional Heisenberg Antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Munehisa
name: Todo, Synge
name: Yasuda, Chitoshi
name: Takayama, Hajime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the ground-state phase transitions of quasi-one-dimensional quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets by the quantum Monte Carlo method with the continuous-time loop algorithm and finite-size scaling. For a model which consists of S=1 chains with bond alternation coupled on a square lattice, we determine the ground state phase diagram and the universality class of the quantum phase transitions.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, proceedings for the 16th Annual Workshop "Recent Developments in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics", Center for Simulational Physics, University of Georgia, USA, 2003
Impact of land administration programs on agricultural productivity and rural development: existing evidence, challenges and new approaches
Creators: name: GIGNOUX, Jeremie
name: MACOURS, Karen
name: WREN-LEWIS, Liam
name: GIGNOUX, Jeremie
name: MACOURS, Karen
name: WREN-LEWIS, Liam
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2112
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Land administration programs
subject: property rights
subject: agricultural productivity
subject: rural development
subject: impact evaluation methods

description: Investment in land administration projects is often considered key for agricultural productivity and rural development in developing countries. But the evidence on the effect of such interventions is remarkably mixed. This article reviews the literature and discusses a number of challenges related to the analysis of the impacts of land administration programs, focusing on developing countries where the starting position is one of land administration systems based on the Napoleonic code, with existing individual rights that may be imperfect and insecure. We examine a set of conceptual and methodological challenges including: 1. a conceptual challenge related to the need to unbundle property rights and to establish the plausible causal chain for land administration interventions; 2. the existence of other binding constraints on productivity, implying the need to consider heterogeneities in policy impacts and the complementarity between property rights and other productive interventions; 3. the need to account for spillover effects of land interventions on non-targeted households; and 4. methodological challenges related to the causal identification of the impacts of such interventions.
ADJUSTMENT MECHANISMS FOR MILK SUPPORT PRICES
Creators: name: Miller, James J.
name: Sleight, Lynn G.
name: Miller, James J.
name: Sleight, Lynn G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Dairy
subject: price-support programs
subject: parity
subject: milk production
subject: price indices

description: Weaknesses of parity worsened the recent surplus of milk. A better support-price mechanism would have sent clear signals to reduce milk production. In response to a congressional mandate, this report recommends ways of improving performance of mechanisms based on price indices. Index-based mechanisms are not necessarily superior to other methods of setting support prices. However, a mechanism incorporating an appropriately weighted price index, a longrun adjustor, and shortrun flexibility could have performed much better than did parity.
U.S. Farmland Values, 1982-84: .A Comparison of Experimental and TraditiOnal Data
Creators: name: Greene, Catherine
name: Barnard, Charles
name: Greene, Catherine
name: Barnard, Charles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Farmland
subject: value
subject: cash rents
subject: cropland
subject: grazing land
subject: woodland
subject: survey
subject: States

description: This report describes an experimental farmland-value-survey of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) county executive directors, initiated in 1982 and repeated in 1983 and 1984, and compares it with the U.S. Department of Agriculture farm report survey. State-level estimates of per acre farmland value from the 1984 ASCS survey are presented and compared with those derived from the farm report survey. The annual percentage changes in State-level farmland values shown by the ASCS survey are compared with those derived from the farm report survey. A simple paired comparison did not reveal a significant difference between the two percentage changes.
Explicit parity violation in $SU(2)_L\otimes SU(2)_R\otimes U(1)_{B-L}$ models
Creators: name: Diaz, Henry
name: Castillo-Ruiz, E.
name: Ravinez, O. P.
name: Pleitez, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we propose models with $SU(2)_L\otimes SU(2)_R\otimes U(1)_{B-L}$ electroweak gauge symmetry in which parity (or charge conjugation) is broken explicitly and the interactions of left- and right-handed fermions are completely different from each other at any energy scale. In these sort of models there is no restoration of parity at high energies. However, as in all left-right symmetric models, the electroweak charged interactions of quarks and leptons appear to be only left-handed at low energies, because the right-handed interactions are suppressed by the mass of the respective charged vector bosons and/or because these interactions may be much weaker than the left-handed ones.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures, we are replacing the previous version of our article Explicit parity violation in $SU(2)_L\otimes SU(2)_R\otimes U(1)_{B-L}$ models. This new version has already been published in the Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
PROCEDURES FOR DEVELOPING A POLICY-ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION OF NONMETROPOLITAN COUNTIES
Creators: name: Ross, Peggy J.
name: Green, Bernal L.
name: Ross, Peggy J.
name: Green, Bernal L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Economic base
subject: economic specialization
subject: developmental policy
subject: nonmetropolitan
subject: county classification
subject: rural development
subject: typology

description: This report documents the procedures and results of classifying U.S. nonmetro counties into seven socioeconomic types: agriculture, government, manufacturing, mining, Federal lands, poverty, and retirement. The classification accounted for 2,073 of 2,443 counties falling into one or more types. Sixty percent fell into only one of seven types with the least amount of overlap occurring for the agriculture and manufacturing counties. The largest amount of overlap occurred among the poverty and Federal lands counties. An evaluation of the classification highlights the growing diversity in rural areas and the expanding nonagricultural character of rural America through the rise of new industrial specializations.
GOVERNMENT REGULATION AND POLICIES AFFECTING THE U.S. TURKEY INDUSTRY: AGENCIES AND COST IMPACTS
Creators: name: Jones, Harold B.
name: Jones, Harold B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Economic regulation
subject: industry costs
subject: agricultural policy
subject: environmental protection
subject: transportation
subject: feed additives
subject: poultry inspection

description: A wide variety of Government regulations and policies influence the turkey industry. This report describes the major regulatory agencies and policies affecting the industry and assesses their relative cost impacts on various sectors of the industry. Regulatory activity is classified into three types: economic regulation; environmental, health, and safety regulation; and social regulation. At least 19 different Federal agencies affect the turkey industry. The combined effects of these regulatory laws and programs contributed an estimated 9.75 + 1.82 cents per pound (ready-to-cook weight) to the cost of producing and marketing turkeys in the early eighties. Economic regulation accounted for 3 cents per pound; environmental, health, and safety regulation 2.6 cents per pound; and social regulation 4.1 cents per pound. However, regulatory costs could be expected to range from 7.9 to 11.6 cents per pound, with even greater variations from yearly changes in policies and programs.
Decoupled two-dimensional superconductivity and continuous melting transitions in layered superconductors immersed in a parallel magnetic field
Creators: name: Hu, Xiao
name: Tachiki, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Possible phases and the B-T phase diagram of interlayer Josephson vortices induced by a magnetic field parallel to the superconducting layers are investigated by Monte Carlo simulations based on the anisotropic, frustrated XY model. While for low magnetic fields and small anisotropy parameters a single first-order transition is observed similarly to the melting of Abrikosov (or pancake) vortex lattice, an intermediate phase, characterized by decoupled, two-dimensional (2D) quasi long-range crystalline order (QLRCO) and superconductivity, is found at high magnetic fields and large anisotropy parameters. Combining the simulation results with a symmetry argument, it is revealed that this intermediate phase is of Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) type, and the melting of 2D quasi Josephson vortex lattices and suppression of superconductivity is a KT transition. Evolution of the intermediate phase to the low-temperature phase of 3D LRCO is second order and belongs to the 3D XY universality class. The three phase boundaries merge at a multicritical point. It is revealed that decoupling of the 3D Josephson vortex lattice into the 2D phase is triggered by hops of Josephson flux lines across superconducting layers activated by thermal fluctuations. The equilibrium phase diagram with the KT phase at high magnetic fields and large anisotropy parameters is consistent with the peculiar Lorentz-force-independent dissipation observed in highly anisotropic high-Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O(8+y) by Iye et al. (Physica 159C, 433 (1989)).
description: 13 pages, 14 figures. to appear in PRB
A measurement of the group velocity of scintillation light in liquid argon
Creators: name: Babicz, M.
name: Bordoni, S.
name: Fava, A.
name: Kose, U.
name: Nessi, M.
name: Pietropaolo, F.
name: Raselli, G. L.
name: Resnati, F.
name: Rossella, M.
name: Sala, P.
name: Stocker, F.
name: Zani, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The propagation velocity of scintillation light in liquid argon $v_{g}$ at $λ\sim 128$~nm wavelength, has been measured for the first time in a dedicated experimental setup at CERN.\\ The obtained result $\frac{1}{v_{g}} = 7.46 \pm 0.08$~ns/m , is then used to derive the value of the refractive index (n) and the Rayleigh scattering length ($\mathcal{L}$) for liquid argon in the VUV region. For $λ= 128$~nm we found $n= 1.358 \pm 0.003$ and $\mathcal{L}= 99.1 \pm 2.3$~cm. The measured values are of interest for a variety of experiments searching for rare events like neutrino and dark matter interactions. The derived quantities also represent key information for theoretical models describing the propagation of scintillation light in liquid argon.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures
FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF U.S. AGRICULTURAL LAND THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 1984
Creators: name: DeBraal, J. Peter
name: Majchrowicz, T. Alexander
name: DeBraal, J. Peter
name: Majchrowicz, T. Alexander
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Agricultural land
subject: foreign landownership
subject: landholdings
subject: land acquisitions
subject: land dispositions

description: Foreigners owned 14 million acres of U.S. agricultural land as of October 8, 1984. This is slightly more than 1 percent of all privately held agricultural land and 0.6 percent of all land in the United States. These and other findings are based on an analysis of reports submitted in compliance with the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978.
Noise exposure-related central auditory changes (Bramhall et al., 2020)
Creators: name: Bramhall, Naomi F.
name: Niemczak, Christopher E.
name: Kampel, Sean D.
name: Billings, Curtis J.
name: McMillan, Garnett P.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Purpose: Complaints of auditory perceptual deficits, such as tinnitus and difficulty understanding speech in background noise, among individuals with clinically normal audiograms present a perplexing problem for audiologists. One potential explanation for these “hidden” auditory deficits is loss of the synaptic connections between the inner hair cells and their afferent auditory nerve fiber targets, a condition that has been termed cochlear synaptopathy. In animal models, cochlear synaptopathy can occur due to aging or exposure to noise or ototoxic drugs and is associated with reduced auditory brainstem response (ABR) wave I amplitudes. Decreased ABR wave I amplitudes have been demonstrated among young military Veterans and non-Veterans with a history of firearm use, suggesting that humans may also experience noise-induced synaptopathy. However, the downstream consequences of synaptopathy are unclear.Method: To investigate how noise-induced reductions in wave I amplitude impact the central auditory system, the ABR, the middle latency response (MLR), and the late latency response (LLR) were measured in 65 young Veterans and non-Veterans with normal audiograms.Results: In response to a click stimulus, the MLR was weaker for Veterans compared to non-Veterans, but the LLR was not reduced. In addition, low ABR wave I amplitudes were associated with a reduced MLR, but with an increased LLR. Notably, Veterans reporting tinnitus showed the largest mean LLRs.Conclusions: These findings indicate that decreased peripheral auditory input leads to compensatory gain in the central auditory system, even among individuals with normal audiograms, and may impact auditory perception. This pattern of reduced MLR, but not LLR, was observed among Veterans even after statistical adjustment for sex and distortion product otoacoustic emission differences, suggesting that synaptic loss plays a role in the observed central gain.
Supplemental Material S1. Description of priors for Bayesian regression model.
Bramhall, N. F., Niemczak, C. E., Kampel, S. D., Billings, C. J., & McMillan, G. P. (2020). Evoked potentials reveal noise exposure–related central auditory changes despite normal audiograms. American Journal of Audiology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_AJA-19-00060
FISCAL INDICATORS AND TRENDS IN RURAL AREAS, 1972-77
Creators: name: Reeder, Richard J.
name: Reeder, Richard J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Political Economy
subject: Fiscal indicators
subject: local government finances
subject: rural development
subject: fiscal trends
subject: fiscal conditions
subject: rural local governments

description: During the midseventies, local governments in both urban and rural areas were able to increase their expenditures while improving their fiscal condition by reducing property taxes and government debt. However, the fiscal conditions of nonmetro governments improved less than did metro governments. Fiscal conditions may have actually deteriorated in isolated, sparsely populated areas, where government fiscal problems are comparable in some respects with those of large central cities. Although most nonmetro governments can handle their own fiscal problems, Federal, State, and local government policies may be implemented to relieve the relatively severe fiscal problems of totally rural areas.
Observations on the survival of 112 plant taxa on a green roof in a semi-arid climate
Creators: name: Schneider, Amy
name: Fusco, Mark
name: Bousselot, Jennifer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70699 Horticultural Production not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: The Denver Botanic Gardens (DBG) green roof, built in November 2007, is the first green roof on a city owned building in Denver, Colorado. To date, 112 plant taxa have been trialed, observed, and described on this low water green roof in the high and dry climate of the Colorado Front Range. Plant taxa survival was documented based on the original number of plants installed, and the surviving plants were rated on a scale of 1-4. Additionally, in 2011-2013, plant heights and widths were recorded. The data indicate that taxa can be grouped into categories of perish, survive, and thrive.