cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Eva and the Angel of Death : a Holocaust remembrance opera : the compositional staging of ritual as memory
Creators: name: Yee, Thomas B.
name: 0000-0003-0064-9873
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Music semiotics
Music composition
Opera
Holocaust studies
Holocaust remembrance art
Eva Mozes Kor
Mengele twins
Leitmotif
Associative textural fields
Isotopy
Textural stratification
Collage
Intertextuality
Musical topics
Virtual agency

description: As the world grows removed in time from the Holocaust, it becomes increasingly important to preserve and share the stories of those who survived its horrors. The contemporary Holocaust remembrance opera Eva and the Angel of Death presents the powerful story of Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor, who, along with her twin sister Miriam, was subjected to sadistic medical experiments by Dr. Josef Mengele in Auschwitz. At the fifty-year anniversary of her liberation from the camp, Kor returned to Auschwitz and, to the surprise of many, announced to the world that she personally forgave the Nazis for what had been done to her. In the context of Holocaust remembrance, an opera like Eva and the Angel of Death contributes a unique ensemble of benefits, constituting an immersive memorial ritual that binds audiences together in a communal and aesthetic act of Holocaust remembrance. Eva Mozes Kor’s story is then summarized and its public reception explored, including the controversy surrounding her decision to forgive. Then, the Eva opera is analyzed in music-theoretic detail at a variety of levels—including a quasi-Schenkerian tonal plan and in-depth analyses of two of the opera’s pivotal arias. Of special note is an array of six semiotic strategies employed throughout the opera to establish meaningful relationships in musical material across wide temporal spans and to encode in music nuanced psychological experiences of trauma and memory. The selected strategies covered include leitmotif, associative textural fields, textural stratification and collage, intertextuality, musical topics, and virtual agency, which connect this modern opera to time-honored techniques of musical semiotics. Logistical plans for the opera’s premiere performances, surrounding programming, and organizational partnerships are presented— though the original performance schedule of an April 18-19 premiere was disrupted by the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the investigation concludes with a philosophical reflection on the theme of forgiveness as espoused by Eva Mozes Kor, suggesting that forgiveness may constitute a productive orientation for future Holocaust remembrance efforts as the historical events transition into cultural memory. As Eva did decades after her trauma, the next generation must discern a path forward to carry their memorial task into the future.
Hybrid Stimulated Raman Scattering -- Two Plasmon Decay Instability and 3/2 Harmonic in Steep-Gradient Femtosecond Plasmas
Creators: name: Tsymbalov, I.
name: Gorlova, D.
name: Savel'ev, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hybrid Stimulated Raman Scattering - Two Plasmon Decay instability had shown to play the dominant role for plasma waves excitation and energy absorption at interaction of very intense femtosecond obliquely incident $p$-polarized laser pulse (intensity $10^{17}-5\cdot10^{19}$ W/cm$^2$) with a steep gradient ($L\sim λ$) plasma near the quarter critical surface, i.e. within the typical for modern experiments conditions. The plasmons are excited as two wave packets confined near this surface with very wide $\approx ω_0/c$ spatial spectra along its normal. Hence, phase matching conditions for 3/2 harmonic generation fulfill immediately and include new mechanism coming from high harmonics of plasma waves. The latter mechanism have been proved experimentally observing an additional 3/2 harmonic beam.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures Revised argument in experimental confirmation section, results unchanged
Conventional character of the BCS-BEC cross-over in ultra-cold gases of 40K
Creators: name: Szymanska, Marzena H.
name: Goral, Krzysztof
name: Koehler, Thorsten
name: Burnett, Keith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the standard fermionic and boson-fermion Hamiltonians to study the BCS-BEC cross-over near the 202 G resonance in a two-component mixture of fermionic 40K atoms employed in the experiment of C.A. Regal et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040403 (2004). Our mean-field analysis of many-body equilibrium quantities shows virtually no differences between the predictions of the two approaches, provided they are both implemented in a manner that properly includes the effect of the highest excited bound state of the background scattering potential, rather than just the magnetic-field dependence of the scattering length. Consequently, we rule out the macroscopic occupation of the molecular field as a mechanism behind the fermionic pair condensation and show that the BCS-BEC cross-over in ultra-cold 40K gases can be analysed and understood on the same basis as in the conventional systems of solid state physics.
description: 16 pages, 10 eps figures; final version
JUNO Oscillation Physics
Creators: name: Zhang, Jinnan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kton multi-purpose liquid scintillator detector with an expected $3\%/\sqrt{E[\mbox{Mev}]}$ energy resolution, under construction in a 700 m underground laboratory in the south of China (Jiangmen city, Guangdong province). The exceptional energy resolution and the massive fiducial volume of the JUNO detector offer great opportunities for addressing many essential topics in neutrino and astroparticle physics. JUNO's primary goals are to determine the neutrino mass ordering and precisely measure the related neutrino oscillation parameters. With six years of data taking with reactor antineutrinos, JUNO can determine the mass ordering at a 3-4$σ$ significance and the neutrino oscillation parameters $\sin^2θ_{12}$, $Δm^2_{21}$, and $|Δm^2_{31}|$ to a precision of better than 0.6\%. In addition, the atmospheric neutrino and solar neutrino measurement at JUNO can also provide complementary and important information for neutrino oscillation physics. This work focuses on the oscillation physics of JUNO, which includes measurement and analysis of the reactor neutrinos, the atmospheric neutrinos, and the solar neutrinos. With the delicate energy response calibration and event reconstruction potential, JUNO will make a world-leading measurement on the neutrino oscillation parameters and neutrino mass ordering in the near future.
Long-wavelength metric backreactions in slow-roll inflation
Creators: name: Losic, B.
name: Unruh, W. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the importance of second order corrections to linearized cosmological perturbation theory in an inflationary background, taken to be a spatially flat FRW spacetime. The full second order problem is solved in the sense that we evaluate the effect of the superhorizon second order corrections on the inhomogeneous and homogeneous modes of the linearized flucuations. These second order corrections enter in the form of a {\it cumulative} contribution from {\it all} of their Fourier modes. In order to quantify their physical significance we study their effective equation of state by looking at the perturbed energy density and isotropic pressure to second order. We define the energy density (isotropic pressure) in terms of the (averaged) eigenvalues associated with timelike (spacelike) eigenvectors of a total stress energy for the metric and matter fluctuations. Our work suggests that that for many parameters of slow-roll inflation, the second order contributions to these energy density and pressures may dominate over the first order effects for the case of super-Hubble evolution. These results hold in our choice of first and second order coordinate conditions however we also argue that other `reasonable` coordinate conditions do not alter the relative importance of the second order terms. We find that these second order contributions approximately take the form of a cosmological constant in this coordinate gauge, as found by others using effective methods.
description: Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Boba: Authoring and Visualizing Multiverse Analyses
Creators: name: Liu, Yang
name: Kale, Alex
name: Althoff, Tim
name: Heer, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multiverse analysis is an approach to data analysis in which all "reasonable" analytic decisions are evaluated in parallel and interpreted collectively, in order to foster robustness and transparency. However, specifying a multiverse is demanding because analysts must manage myriad variants from a cross-product of analytic decisions, and the results require nuanced interpretation. We contribute Boba: an integrated domain-specific language (DSL) and visual analysis system for authoring and reviewing multiverse analyses. With the Boba DSL, analysts write the shared portion of analysis code only once, alongside local variations defining alternative decisions, from which the compiler generates a multiplex of scripts representing all possible analysis paths. The Boba Visualizer provides linked views of model results and the multiverse decision space to enable rapid, systematic assessment of consequential decisions and robustness, including sampling uncertainty and model fit. We demonstrate Boba's utility through two data analysis case studies, and reflect on challenges and design opportunities for multiverse analysis software.
description: submitted to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. VAST)
Lafontaine, Guy: La version grecque ancienne du livre armenien d'Agathange
Creators: name: Winkler, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 60 (1976): Oriens christianus, Band 60
The Virial Equation of State of Low-Density Neutron Matter
Creators: name: Horowitz, C. J.
name: Schwenk, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model-independent description of low-density neutron matter based on the virial expansion. The virial equation of state provides a benchmark for all nuclear equations of state at densities and temperatures where the interparticle separation is large compared to the thermal wavelength. We calculate the second virial coefficient directly from the nucleon-nucleon scattering phase shifts. Our results for the pressure, energy, entropy and the free energy correctly include the physics of the large neutron-neutron scattering length. We find that, as in the universal regime, thermodynamic properties of neutron matter scale over a wide range of temperatures, but with a significantly reduced interaction coefficient compared to the unitary limit.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, minor revisions, to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Peripheral mononuclear blood cell apheresis in a preclinical ovine model.
Creators: name: Lydon, Helen
name: Brooks, Roger
name: McCaskie, Andrew
name: Henson, Frances
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Leukocytes, Mononuclear
Animals
Sheep
Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor
Leukocyte Count
Leukapheresis
Female

description: Background. Recent research has demonstrated that circulating peripheral blood mononuclear fractions (PBMC) containing haematopoietic stem (HSC)/progenitor cells have the potential to play a crucial role in regenerative medicine strategies. Work in our laboratory has shown that a peripheral blood mononuclear cell fraction (PBMC) enhances cartilage repair in an osteochondral defect model in sheep and has a significant effect on cells in the joint niche. In order to obtain PBMC rich blood containing HSCs for further studies, we have performed, for the first time, apheresis on adult sheep. Results. Subcutaneous granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) was used to mobilise white blood cells and continual flow apheresis was performed on 8 sheep under general anaesthetic. There were no observable side effects, although a marked tendency for blood clotting during the procedure was noted. The administration of G-CSF for 3 days increased the white blood cell (WBC) count in the peripheral blood from to 6.7 ± 2.1 x 106/ml to 16.1 ± 5.0 x 106/ml. Following apheresis, the WBC numbers in the apheretic product increased to 38.5 ± 27.6 x 106/ml, comprised of a significant increase in neutrophils and PBMC (from 5.25 ± 1.8 x 106/ml following G-CSF stimulation to 27.5 5 ± 27.6 x 106/ml). There was a mean of 2.1% CD34+ve cells and 95.5% CD45+ve cells in the apheretic product Conclusions. This study describes the administration of G-CSF and subsequent apheresis in adult sheep. The technique is safe when performed as described with no observable side effects. The technique permits collection of an increased WBC fraction containing neutrophils and PBMC in adult sheep. This apheretic product contains CD34+ve cells, representing an HSC/progenitor population for use in in vivo and in vitro experiments.
Additional file 1 of Understanding transmission and control of the pork tapeworm with CystiAgent: a spatially explicit agent-based model
Creators: name: Pray, Ian W.
name: Wakeland, Wayne
name: Pan, William
name: Lambert, William E.
name: Garcia, Hector H.
name: Gonzalez, Armando E.
name: O’Neal, Seth E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Text S1. Data sources and statistical methods for CystiAgent parameters.
Bootstrapping Complete The Look at Pinterest
Creators: name: Li, Eileen
name: Kim, Eric
name: Zhai, Andrew
name: Beal, Josh
name: Gu, Kunlong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Putting together an ideal outfit is a process that involves creativity and style intuition. This makes it a particularly difficult task to automate. Existing styling products generally involve human specialists and a highly curated set of fashion items. In this paper, we will describe how we bootstrapped the Complete The Look (CTL) system at Pinterest. This is a technology that aims to learn the subjective task of "style compatibility" in order to recommend complementary items that complete an outfit. In particular, we want to show recommendations from other categories that are compatible with an item of interest. For example, what are some heels that go well with this cocktail dress? We will introduce our outfit dataset of over 1 million outfits and 4 million objects, a subset of which we will make available to the research community, and describe the pipeline used to obtain and refresh this dataset. Furthermore, we will describe how we evaluate this subjective task and compare model performance across multiple training methods. Lastly, we will share our lessons going from experimentation to working prototype, and how to mitigate failure modes in the production environment. Our work represents one of the first examples of an industrial-scale solution for compatibility-based fashion recommendation.
description: 9 pages, 12 figures, To be published in KDD '20
Improving Semantic Image Segmentation via Label Fusion in Semantically Textured Meshes
Creators: name: Fervers, Florian
name: Breuer, Timo
name: Stachowiak, Gregor
name: Bullinger, Sebastian
name: Bodensteiner, Christoph
name: Arens, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Models for semantic segmentation require a large amount of hand-labeled training data which is costly and time-consuming to produce. For this purpose, we present a label fusion framework that is capable of improving semantic pixel labels of video sequences in an unsupervised manner. We make use of a 3D mesh representation of the environment and fuse the predictions of different frames into a consistent representation using semantic mesh textures. Rendering the semantic mesh using the original intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters yields a set of improved semantic segmentation images. Due to our optimized CUDA implementation, we are able to exploit the entire $c$-dimensional probability distribution of annotations over $c$ classes in an uncertainty-aware manner. We evaluate our method on the Scannet dataset where we improve annotations produced by the state-of-the-art segmentation network ESANet from $52.05 \%$ to $58.25 \%$ pixel accuracy. We publish the source code of our framework online to foster future research in this area (\url{https://github.com/fferflo/semantic-meshes}). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first publicly available label fusion framework for semantic image segmentation based on meshes with semantic textures.
Reconstruction of Protein Structures from Single-Molecule Time Series
Creators: name: Topel, Maximilian
name: Ferguson, Andrew L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Single-molecule experimental techniques track the real-time dynamics of molecules by recording a small number of experimental observables. Following these observables provides a coarse-grained, low-dimensional representation of the conformational dynamics but does not furnish an atomistic representation of the instantaneous molecular structure. Takens' Delay Embedding Theorem asserts that, under quite general conditions, these low-dimensional time series can contain sufficient information to reconstruct the full molecular configuration of the system up to an a priori unknown transformation. By combining Takens' Theorem with tools from statistical thermodynamics, manifold learning, artificial neural networks, and rigid graph theory, we establish an approach Single-molecule TAkens Reconstruction (STAR) to learn this transformation and reconstruct molecular configurations from time series in experimentally-measurable observables such as intramolecular distances accessible to single molecule Förster resonance energy transfer. We demonstrate the approach in applications to molecular dynamics simulations of a C24H50 polymer chain and the artificial mini-protein Chignolin. The trained models reconstruct molecular configurations from synthetic time series data in the head-to-tail molecular distances with atomistic root mean squared deviation accuracies better than 0.2 nm. This work demonstrates that it is possible to accurately reconstruct protein structures from time series in experimentally-measurable observables and establishes the theoretical and algorithmic foundations to do so in applications to real experimental data.
Centrality Measures in Spatial Networks of Urban Streets
Creators: name: Crucitti, Paolo
name: Latora, Vito
name: Porta, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study centrality in urban street patterns of different world cities represented as networks in geographical space. The results indicate that a spatial analysis based on a set of four centrality indices allows an extended visualization and characterization of the city structure. Planned and self-organized cities clearly belong to two different universality classes. In particular, self-organized cities exhibit scale-free properties similar to those found in the degree distributions of non-spatial networks.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Imaging and Spectroscopy of Domains of the Cellular Membrane by Photothermal-Induced Resonance
Creators: name: Quaroni, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We use photothermal induced resonance (PTIR) imaging and spectroscopy, in resonant and non-resonant mode, to study the cytoplasmic membrane and surface of intact cells. Non-resonant PTIR images apparently provide rich details of the cell surface. However we show that non-resonant image contrast does not arise from the infrared absorption of surface molecules and is instead dominated by the mechanics of tip-sample contact. In contrast, spectra and images of the cellular surface can be selectively obtained by tuning the pulsing structure of the laser to restrict thermal wave penetration to the surface layer. Resonant PTIR images reveal surface structures and domains that range in size from about 20 nm to 1 um and are associated to the cytoplasmic membrane and its proximity. Resonant PTIR spectra of the cell surface are comparable to far-field IR spectra and provide the first selective measurement of the IR absorption spectrum of the cellular membrane of an intact cell. In resonant PTIR images, signal intensity, and therefore contrast, can be ascribed to a variety of factors, including mechanical, thermodynamic and spectroscopic properties of the cellular surface. While PTIR images are difficult to interpret in terms of spectroscopic absorption, they are easy to collect and provide unique contrast mechanisms without any exogenous labeling. As such they provide a new paradigm in cellular imaging and membrane biology and can be used to address a range of critical questions, from the nature of membrane lipid domains to viral membrane fusion.
Gyekye, Kwame (hrsg.): Ibn al-Tayyib's commentary on Porphyry's eisagoge
Creators: name: Khoury, Nabil El-
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 60 (1976): Oriens christianus, Band 60
Hierarchy of correlation quantifiers comparable to negativity
Creators: name: Ganardi, Ray
name: Miller, Marek
name: Paterek, Tomasz
name: Żukowski, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum systems generally exhibit different kinds of correlations. In order to compare them on equal footing, one uses the so-called distance-based approach where different types of correlations are captured by the distance to different sets of states. However, these quantifiers are usually hard to compute as their definition involves optimization aiming to find the closest states within the set. On the other hand, negativity is one of the few computable entanglement monotones, but its comparison with other correlations required further justification. Here we place negativity as part of a family of correlation measures that has a distance-based construction. We introduce a suitable distance, discuss the emerging measures and their applications, and compare them to relative entropy-based correlation quantifiers. This work is a step towards correlation measures that are simultaneously comparable and computable.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures. Final version
MARKETING OBJECTIVES AMONG RURAL FOOD RETAILERS
Creators: name: Stegelin, Forrest E.
name: Stegelin, Forrest E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Food retailers representing four retailer types (family operated grocery stores, produce markets, meat/egg/dairy markets, and convenience stores) in rural Georgia communities were surveyed as to their marketing objectives. Qualitative marketing objectives were ranked by the marketers as to marketing intentions, and by customers as to marketing expectations. More definitive and quantitative marketing objectives were also ranked by the food retailers as to the priority of implementation in their own retail establishment. Differences in the rank order of marketing objectives were observed within and among the four food retailer categories. Without exception, subtle differences in the rankings occurred.
Bauer, Gertrud: Athanasius von Qus
Creators: name: Sidarus, Adel Y.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 60 (1976): Oriens christianus, Band 60
Bone sawing and milling in computer-assisted total knee arthroplasty
Creators: name: Plaskos, Christopher
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In total knee arthroplasty, poor limb alignment has been correlated to early failures requiring revision surgery. This thesis therefore addresses three questions: (1) How repeatable and accurate is the conventional sawing process? (2) Could a milling tool produce better results? (3) How can we optimize the milling process for clinical application? (1) Based on 85 resections performed by eight orthopaedic surgeons on 19 cadaveric femurs and tibias, I estimate the varus/valgus alignment variability associated with making two bone cuts to be ~0.8° SD for expert surgeons and ~1.4° SD for less experienced surgeons (taking √2 x the variability associated with a single cut at 95% confidence). In flexion/extension, alignment precision is estimated to be worse at over 2° SD for the group. A significant bias of ~1° in extension due to saw-blade defection on open guide surfaces was detected. Slotted cutting guides eliminated the bias in the sagittal plane but did not significantly improve frontal plane alignment variability. (2) A novel milling technique is designed and developed to improve cutting precision. Six operators performed a total of 62 cuts on 25 porcine femurs and tibias with the milling technique. The overall varus/valgus alignment variability is estimated to be ~0.6° SD (√2 x °SD at 95% confidence) with the milling instrumentation, regardless of the experience of the operator. Similar improvements were observed in flexion/extension, with an estimated alignment variability of ~1.2° SD (compared with >2°) and no significant bias for the milling instrumentation. (3) A bone-milling model was formulated based on the specific cutting energy of cortical bone, which I estimated from orthogonal cutting tests in the literature. A non-linear model was used to estimate resection accuracy under several different conditions, by solving for the quasi-static deflection of the tool in the direction normal to the cutting surface. Simulation results indicated that resection accuracy could potentially be improved by simply optimizing the surgical parameters of the cutting technique (for example, increasing the feed rate - depth of cut ratio). Alternatively, one could maintain accuracy while improving cutting time.
COMPARISON OF NEW ZEALAND AND THE UNITED STATES MEAT INDUSTRY EXPORTING AND MARKETING PRACTICES
Creators: name: Welsh, Robert S.
name: Llanes, Violi
name: Welsh, Robert S.
name: Llanes, Violi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The paper is a comparative analysis of selected beef and sheep meat exporting practices. These two particular types of meat were selected as these are the two major export products from New Zealand. The United States also is a major beef exporter, but exports little sheep meat. There is a major difference between the two countries in their overall approach to the export market. New Zealand utilizes a coordinated industry strategy while the United States does not have a coordinated strategy as individual companies aggressively pursue their own individual interests without much consideration of the overall implications for the total industry. The paper initially considers beef and sheep meat production, exports and imports, and the critical issues pertaining to exports. Then there is consideration of the two countries' approaches to export markets and future opportunities, and the differences in industry strategies.
THE ROLE OF HOME CARE COMMUNITY HEALTH VOLUNTEERS (CHV) IN MALAYSIA
Creators: name: Ali, Muhammad Najib
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140205 Environment and Resource Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 140208 Health Economics

description: The objective of this study was to assess the role of Home Care Community Health Volunteer (CHV) in delivering services to elderly and family during the crisis in Home Care in Klang Valley and its associated factors. The result of this study was organized into two (2)-factor framework consisting of contextual factors and outcome factors. The descriptive evaluation methods of research include interviews (qualitative) and mailed questionnaires (quantitative). Data were analyzed to describe self-reported activities of home care CHV as they interacted with elderly, friends and families from 21 Home Care in Klang Valley. The emailed questionnaires were sent to 210 home cares CHV to identify the interaction role of home cares CHV, socialization activities and prevent isolation with elderly. The subjective portions of reports were analyzed to identify concerns described by elderly to home care CHV. The respondents comprised 55% females, 85% married, and 50% aged above 45 and above and 75% completed their education up to secondary school. Data were analyzed to describe self-reported activities of 21 Home Cares CHV as they interacted with elderly, friends and families. Among the activities assigned to home cares CHV is as compulsory duties assisting caregivers of home care such as listening and responding, interaction with elderly, providing physical and spiritual comfort. CHVs offer interpretation and translation services, provide culturally appropriate health education and information, help people get the care they need, give informal counseling and guidance on health behaviors, advocate for individual and community health needs, and provide some direct services such as first aid. The result revealed that 59.0% of the respondents agreed and understood their role of home care CHV. Results feature the analysis of both volunteer (n = 210) and caregivers narratives (n = 21) to make the home healthcare workings more transparent. The results will hope to improve educational programs for home care CHV in terms of evaluation of Hospice and Palliative programs despite establishing a data base support to the need for home care services.
The Locus of Highly Accreting AGNs on the M_BH--sigma Plane: Selections, Limitations, and Implications
Creators: name: Mathur, Smita
name: Grupe, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We re-examine the locus of narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies on the M_BH--sigma (black hole mass--bulge velocity dispersion) plane in the light of the results from large new optically selected samples. We find that (1) soft X-ray selected NLS1s have a lower ratio of BH mass to σ^{4}_{[OIII]} than broad line Seyfert 1 galaxies; this remains a robust statistical result contrary to recent claims otherwise; (2) optically selected NLS1s have systematically lower Eddington luminosity ratio compared to X-ray selected NLS1s; and (3) as a result, the locus of NLS1s on the M_BH--sigma plane is affected by selection effects. We argue that there is no single explanation for the origin of the M_BH--sigma relation; instead tracks of galaxies on the M_BH--sigma plane differ with redshift, consistent with the downsizing of AGN activity. If these results at face value are incorrect, then the data imply that AGNs with high Eddington accretion reside preferentially in relatively late type galaxies at the present epoch, perhaps a more interesting result and a challenge to theoretical models.
description: To appear in ApJ
Heterogeneous Optoelectronic Characteristics of Si Micropillar Arrays Fabricated by Metal-Assisted Chemical Etching
Creators: name: Qian, Yang
name: Magginetti, David J.
name: Jeon, Seokmin
name: Yoon, Yohan
name: Olsen, Tony L.
name: Wang, Maoji
name: Gerton, Jordan M.
name: Yoon, Heayoung P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent progress achieved in metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) has enabled the production of high-quality micropillar arrays for various optoelectronic applications. Si micropillars produced by MACE often show a porous Si/SiOx shell on crystalline pillar cores introduced by local electrochemical reactions. In this paper, we report the distinct optoelectronic characteristics of the porous Si/SiOx shell correlated to their chemical compositions. Local photoluminescent (PL) images obtained with an immersion oil objective lens in confocal microscopy show a red emission peak (about 650 nm) along the perimeter of the pillars that is threefold stronger compared to their center. On the basis of our analysis, we find an unexpected PL increase (about 540 nm) at the oil/shell interface. We suggest that both PL enhancements are mainly attributed to the porous structures, a similar behavior observed in previous MACE studies. Surface potential maps simultaneously recorded with topography reveal a significantly high surface potential on the sidewalls of MACE-synthesized pillars (+0.5 V), which is restored to the level of planar Si control (-0.5 V) after removing SiOx in hydrofluoric acid. These distinct optoelectronic characteristics of the Si/SiOx shell can be beneficial for various sensor architectures.
description: 4 figures, 1 table
Raw image data of Supplementary Figure 2e for paper "MFSD7C Switches Mitochondrial ATP Synthesis to Thermogenesis in Response to Heme".
Creators: name: Yingzhong Li
name: Kleyman, Marianna
name: Jianzhu Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60104 Cell Metabolism
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Molecular Biology

description: Raw image data of Supplementary Figure 2e for paper "MFSD7C Switches Mitochondrial ATP Synthesis to Thermogenesis in Response to Heme".
Performance of the Micromegas detector in the CAST experiment
Creators: name: Aune, S.
name: Dafni, T.
name: Fanourakis, G.
name: Ribas, E. Ferrer
name: Geralis, T.
name: Giganon, A.
name: Giomataris, Y.
name: Irastorza, I. G.
name: Kousouris, K.
name: Zachariadou, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gaseous Micromegas detector designed for the CERN Axion search experiment CAST, operated smoothly during Phase-I, which included the 2003 and 2004 running periods. It exhibited linear response in the energy range of interest (1-10keV), good spatial sensitivity and energy resolution (15-19% FWHM at 5.9keV)as well as remarkable stability. The detector's upgrade for the 2004 run, supported by the development of advanced offline analysis tools, improved the background rejection capability, leading to an average rate 5x10^-5 counts/sec/cm^2/keV with 94% cut efficiency. Also, the origin of the detected background was studied with a Monte Carlo simulation, using the GEANT4 package.
description: Prepared for PSD7: The Seventh International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 12-16 Sep. 2005
PROTEST BIDDERS IN CONTINGENT VALUATION
Creators: name: Halstead, John M.
name: Luloff, A.E.
name: Stevens, Thomas H.
name: Halstead, John M.
name: Luloff, A.E.
name: Stevens, Thomas H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Protest bids are often excluded during analysis of contingent valuation method data. It is suggested that this procedure might introduce significant bias. Protest bids are often registered by respondents who may actually place a higher- or lower-than-average value on the commodity in question but refuse to pay on the basis of ethical or other reasons. Exclusion of protest bids may therefore bias willingness to pay (WTP) results, but the direction of bias is indeterminate a priori.
Statistical Predictive Models in Ecology: Comparison of Performances and Assessment of Applicability
Creators: name: Tan, Can Ozan
name: Ozesmi, Uygar
name: Beklioglu, Meryem
name: Per, Esra
name: Kurt, Bahtiyar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Ecological systems are governed by complex interactions which are mainly nonlinear. In order to capture this complexity and nonlinearity, statistical models recently gained popularity. However, although these models are commonly applied in ecology, there are no studies to date aiming to assess the applicability and performance. We provide an overview for nature of the wide range of the data sets and predictive variables, from both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems with different scales of time-dependent dynamics, and the applicability and robustness of predictive modeling methods on such data sets by comparing different statistical modeling approaches. The methods considered k-NN, LDA, QDA, generalized linear models (GLM) feedforward multilayer backpropagation networks and pseudo-supervised network ARTMAP. For ecosystems involving time-dependent dynamics and periodicities whose frequency are possibly less than the time scale of the data considered, GLM and connectionist neural network models appear to be most suitable and robust, provided that a predictive variable reflecting these time-dependent dynamics included in the model either implicitly or explicitly. For spatial data, which does not include any time-dependence comparable to the time scale covered by the data, on the other hand, neighborhood based methods such as k-NN and ARTMAP proved to be more robust than other methods considered in this study. In addition, for predictive modeling purposes, first a suitable, computationally inexpensive method should be applied to the problem at hand a good predictive performance of which would render the computational cost and efforts associated with complex variants unnecessary.
description: 34 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to Ecological Informatics
Decoherence in Josephson Qubits from Dielectric Loss
Creators: name: Martinis, John M.
name: Cooper, K. B.
name: McDermott, R.
name: Steffen, Matthias
name: Ansmann, Markus
name: Osborn, K.
name: Cicak, K.
name: Oh, S.
name: Pappas, D. P.
name: Simmonds, R. W.
name: Yu, clare C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dielectric loss from two-level states is shown to be a dominant decoherence source in superconducting quantum bits. Depending on the qubit design, dielectric loss from insulating materials or the tunnel junction can lead to short coherence times. We show that a variety of microwave and qubit measurements are well modeled by loss from resonant absorption of two-level defects. Our results demonstrate that this loss can be significantly reduced by using better dielectrics and fabricating junctions of small area $\lesssim 10 μ\textrm{m}^2$. With a redesigned phase qubit employing low-loss dielectrics, the energy relaxation rate has been improved by a factor of 20, opening up the possibility of multi-qubit gates and algorithms.
description: shortened version submitted to PRL
Raw Western blotting data for paper "MFSD7C Switches Mitochondrial ATP Synthesis to Thermogenesis in Response to Heme"
Creators: name: Yingzhong Li
name: Ivica, Nikola A.
name: Dong, Ting
name: Jianzhu Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Molecular Biology

description: Raw Western blotting data for paper "MFSD7C Switches Mitochondrial ATP Synthesis to Thermogenesis in Response to Heme"
The Dilepton Q_T Spectrum in Transversely Polarized Drell-Yan Process in QCD
Creators: name: Kawamura, Hiroyuki
name: Kodaira, Jiro
name: Shimizu, Hirotaka
name: Tanaka, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the transverse momentum Q_T distribution of Drell-Yan pair, produced in collisions of transversely polarized protons. We calculate the transversely polarized Drell-Yan cross section up to order α_s in the dimensional regularization scheme, which gives QCD prediction at large Q_T. For small Q_T region, we include all-orders resummation of large logarithms due to emission of soft gluons up to next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. At intermediate Q_T region, the resummation formula is matched with the fixed-order α_s perturbative results in a systematic way, so that we derive the cross section with uniform accuracy over the entire range of Q_T.
description: 8 pages PTPTeX, 1 figure. Typos corrected and improvements made to the text
Controlled creation of a singular spinor vortex by circumventing the Dirac belt trick
Creators: name: Weiss, L. S.
name: Borgh, M. O.
name: Blinova, A.
name: Ollikainen, T.
name: Möttönen, M.
name: Ruostekoski, J.
name: Hall, D. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Persistent topological defects and textures are particularly dramatic consequences of superfluidity. Among the most fascinating examples are the singular vortices arising from the rotational symmetry group SO(3), with surprising topological properties illustrated by Dirac's famous belt trick. Despite considerable interest, controlled preparation and detailed study of vortex lines with complex internal structure in fully three-dimensional spinor systems remains an outstanding experimental challenge. Here, we propose and implement a reproducible and controllable method for creating and detecting a singular SO(3) line vortex from the decay of a non-singular spin texture in a ferromagnetic spin-1 Bose--Einstein condensate. Our experiment explicitly demonstrates the SO(3) character and the unique spinor properties of the defect. Although the vortex is singular, its core fills with atoms in the topologically distinct polar magnetic phase. The resulting stable, coherent topological interface has analogues in systems ranging from condensed matter to cosmology and string theory.
description: Author's accepted manuscript, 10 pages, 7 figures
Non-Hermitian $C_{NH} = 2$ Chern insulator protected by generalized rotational symmetry
Creators: name: Chen, Kai
name: Khanikaev, Alexander B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a non-Hermitian topological system protected by the generalized rotational symmetry which invokes rotation in space and Hermitian conjugation. The system, described by the tight-binding model with nonreciprocal hopping, is found to host two pairs of in-gap edge modes in the gapped topological phase and is characterized by the non-Hermitian (NH) Chern number $C_{NH}=2$. The quantization of the non-Hermitian Chern number is shown to be protected by the generalized rotational symmetry $Ĥ^{+}=ÛĤÛ^{+}$ of the system. Our finding paves the way towards novel non-Hermitian topological systems characterized by large values of topological invariants and hosting multiple in-gap edge states, which can be used for topologically resilient multiplexing.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Böhlig, Alexander: Das Ägypterevangelium von Nag Hammadi
Creators: name: Davids, Adelbert
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 60 (1976): Oriens christianus, Band 60
ESTIMATION OF FIRM-VARYING, INPUT-SPECIFIC EFFICIENCIES IN DAIRY PRODUCTION
Creators: name: Lass, Daniel A.
name: Gempesaw, Conrado M.
name: Lass, Daniel A.
name: Gempesaw, Conrado M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Production Economics

description: Firm-varying production technologies were estimated using random coefficients regression methods for a sample of Massachusetts dairy farms. Results were compared to OLS Cobb-Douglas production function estimates. The random coefficients regression model was found to virtually eliminate conventionally measured firm technical inefficiencies by estimating individual firm technologies and ascribing remaining inefficiencies to specific inputs. Input-specific measures of firm inefficiencies showed hired labor, land, and machinery inputs to be used in excess of efficient levels. Livestock supplies were underutilized by all farms. Efficiencies of feed, crop materials, fuels, and utilities varied, although estimated means were closer to optimal levels.