cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Induction in myeloid leukemic cells of genes that are expressed in different normal tissues
Creators: name: Lotem, Joseph
name: Benjamin, Hila
name: Netaneli, Dvir
name: Domany, Eytan
name: Sachs, Leo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Using DNA microarray and cluster analysis of expressed genes in a cloned line (M1-t-p53) of myeloid leukemic cells, we have analyzed the expression of genes that are preferentially expressed in different normal tissues. Clustering of 547 highly expressed genes in these leukemic cells showed 38 genes preferentially expressed in normal hematopoietic tissues and 122 other genes preferentially expressed in different normal non-hematopoietic tissues including neuronal tissues, muscle, liver and testis. We have also analyzed the genes whose expression in the leukemic cells changed after activation of wild-type p53 and treatment with the cytokine interleukin 6 (IL-6) or the calcium mobilizer thapsigargin (TG). Out of 620 such genes in the leukemic cells that were differentially expressed in normal tissues, clustering showed 80 genes that were preferentially expressed in hematopoietic tissues and 132 genes in different normal non-hematopietic tissues that also included neuronal tissues, muscle, liver and testis. Activation of p53 and treatment with IL-6 or TG induced different changes in the genes preferentially expressed in these normal tissues. These myeloid leukemic cells thus express genes that are expressed in normal non-hematopoietic tissues, and various treatments can reprogram these cells to induce other such non-hematopoietic genes. The results indicate that these leukemic cells share with normal hematopoietic stem cells the plasticity of differentiation to different cell types. It is suggested that this reprogramming to induce in malignant cells genes that are expressed in different normal tissues may be of clinical value in therapy.
Anti-interference Computational Ghost Imaging with Pink Noise Speckle Patterns
Creators: name: Nie, Xiaoyu
name: Yang, Fan
name: Liu, Xiangpei
name: Zhao, Xingchen
name: Nessler, Reed
name: Peng, Tao
name: Zubairy, M. Suhail
name: Scully, Marlan O.
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: We propose a computational ghost imaging scheme using customized pink noise speckle pattern illumination. By modulating the spatial frequency amplitude of the speckles, we generate speckle patterns with a significant positive spatial correlation. We experimentally reconstruct images using our synthesized speckle patterns in the presence of a variety of noise sources and pattern distortion and shown it is robust to noise interference. The results are compared with the use of standard white noise speckle patterns. We show that our method gives good image qualities under different noise interference situations while the traditional way fails. The proposed scheme promises potential applications in underwater, dynamic, and moving target computational ghost imaging.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
title: The role of scientific evidence in Canada's west coast energy conflicts
Creators: name: Clermont, Holly
name: Dale, Ann
name: King, Leslie
name: Reed, Maureen
Publisher: name: Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship
Year: 2021
Subjects: Canada
Knowledge mobilization

description: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. The version of record is available at https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/jces/vol13/iss3/5.
description: With salience, credibility, and legitimacy as organizing themes, we investigated how opposing communities engaged with scientific information for two contentious proposed energy projects in western Canada, and how their perceptions of science influenced its use in decision-making. The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, to carry diluted bitumen from northern Alberta’s oil sands to tankers on British Columbia’s (BC) south coast, was expected to adversely impact biodiversity and contribute to climate change. The Bute Inlet hydroelectric project, a large renewable energy project planned for BC’s Central Coast, was anticipated to impact biodiversity but was largely seen as climate-friendly. Based on surveys and interviews with 68 participants who had made one or more personal or professional decisions pertaining to the projects, we discovered that values, cultural cognition, and media effects permeated all aspects of using scientific evidence—from commissioning scientific research to selecting, assessing, and weighing it with other forms of information. As a result, science was developed and used to support positions rather than to inform decisions. We discuss ways to improve the use of science in environmental assessments and other planning and development processes where engaged communities are divided by oppositional positions. We hope this research will lead to community-university partnerships that identify broadly salient, credible, and legitimate sources of information about energy and climate issues, and foster knowledge mobilization across conflict divides.
License terms for reusing the AI-READI dataset
Creators: name: Contreras, Jorge
name: Evans, Barbara
name: Hurst, Samm
name: Patel, Bhavesh
name: Mcweeney, Shannon
name: Lee, Cecilia
name: Lee, Aaron
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: License
Clinical research data
Human subjects
Privacy

description: We provide here the license file containing the terms for reusing the AI-READI dataset (see https://docs.aireadi.org for more information). These license terms were specifically tailored to enable reuse of the AI-READI dataset (and other clinical datasets) for commercial or research purpose while putting strong requirements around data usage, security, and secondary sharing to protect study participants, especially when data is reused for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) related applications.
Discovery of CH and OH in the -513 km s-1 Ejecta of Eta Carinae
Creators: name: Verner, E.
name: Bruhweiler, F.
name: Nielsen, K. E.
name: Gull, T. R.
name: Kober, G. Vieira
name: Corcoran, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The very massive star, Eta Carinae, is enshrouded in an unusual complex of stellar ejecta, which is highly depleted in C and O, and enriched in He and N. This circumstellar gas gives rise to distinct absorption components corresponding to at least 20 different velocities along the line-of-sight. The velocity component at -513 kms-1 exhibits very low ionization with predominantly neutral species of iron-peak elements. Our statistical equilibrium/photoionization modeling indicates that the low temperature (T = 760 K) and high density (n_H=10^7 cm^-3) of the -513 kms-1 component is conducive to molecule formation including those with the elements C and O. Examination of echelle spectra obtained with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) aboard the confirms the model's predictions. The molecules, H_2, CH, and most likely OH, have been identified in the -513 kms-1 absorption spectrum. This paper presents the analysis of the HST/STIS spectra with the deduced column densities for CH, OH and C I, and upper limit for CO. It is quite extraordinary to see molecular species in a cool environment at such a high velocity. The sharp molecular and ionic absorptions in this extensively CNO- processed material offers us a unique environment for studying the chemistry, dust formation processes, and nucleosynthesis in the ejected layers of a highly evolved massive star.
description: tentatively scheduled for the ApJ 1 September 2005, v630, 1 issue
Speaking out: an analysis of the markan characterization of the Greek Syrophoenician woman
Creators: name: Roberts, Margaret Joyce
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Consensus is rarely reached about the meaning of Mk 7:24-30 except to say that it addresses Jew-Gentile relations, that Jesus' metaphor is crucial to understanding the scene, that Jesus' initial response to the woman seems harsh, and the woman's actions and words are counter-cultural within a first century context. After a review of the exegetical literature, there are nuances in Mk 7:24-30 that are not adequately explained; many concern the protagonist in the scene, namely, the Greek Syrophoenician woman. Narrative criticism is useful in analyzing the characterization of the woman, bringing to light some possible explanations about these unexplained subtleties within the text. In this narrative critical exegesis of Mk 7:24-30, the characterization of the Greek Syrophoenician woman reveals her transitional role in Jesus' mission to the Gentiles. For a female minor character, she is well-developed, with the traits of a bold and active suppliant with faith, who is understanding, intelligent and witty. The Greek Syrophoencian character's dialogue with Jesus is unique to Mark on three counts: it is the only example of the Markan narrator providing a woman's words to Jesus in first-person dialogue form; it is the only example of anyone besting Jesus in a debate; and it is the only example of anyone changing Jesus' mind. Jesus' metaphor of the 'children' (Jews) receiving their 'bread' (life-giving sustenance) before the 'dogs' (Gentiles) resonates on various levels when the reader understands its first century context (including the socio-political relationship between the Tyrians and the Galileans, and the ancient Near Eastern use of dogs in healing rituals). The woman's response to Jesus shifts his view of the Gentiles, so that he renews and expands his activities among them. The Greek Syrophoenician woman speaks out, is heard and understood by Jesus, and that makes all the difference not only in the lives of her and her daughter, but also within the Gentile world of the Gospel of Mark.
PHENIX measurements of low momentum direct photons from large ion collisions as a function of beam energy and system size
Creators: name: Sharma, Deepali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: qm17
phenix
direct photon
thermal photon
invariant yield
flow
au+au
cu+cu
rgamma
scaling

description: Talk presented at the Quark Matter 2017 conference
Braid Group, Temperley--Lieb Algebra, and Quantum Information and Computation
Creators: name: Zhang, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we explore algebraic structures and low dimensional topology underlying quantum information and computation. We revisit quantum teleportation from the perspective of the braid group, the symmetric group and the virtual braid group, and propose the braid teleportation, the teleportation swapping and the virtual braid teleportation, respectively. Besides, we present a physical interpretation for the braid teleportation and explain it as a sort of crossed measurement. On the other hand, we propose the extended Temperley--Lieb diagrammatical approach to various topics including quantum teleportation, entanglement swapping, universal quantum computation, quantum information flow, and etc. The extended Temperley--Lieb diagrammatical rules are devised to present a diagrammatical representation for the extended Temperley--Lieb category which is the collection of all the Temperley--Lieb algebras with local unitary transformations. In this approach, various descriptions of quantum teleportation are unified in a diagrammatical sense, universal quantum computation is performed with the help of topological-like features, and quantum information flow is recast in a correct formulation. In other words, we propose the extended Temperley--Lieb category as a mathematical framework to describe quantum information and computation involving maximally entangled states and local unitary transformations.
description: v1,v2: 50 pages, 29 figures, Latex; v3: 47 pages, 30 figures, Latex
A Market Share Analysis of Virgin Olive Oil Producer Countries with special respect to Competitiveness
Creators: name: Turkekul, Berna
name: Gunden, Cihat
name: Abay, Canan
name: Miran, Bulent
name: Turkekul, Berna
name: Gunden, Cihat
name: Abay, Canan
name: Miran, Bulent
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: In this study, Constant Market Share Analysis is used in order to determine the competitiveness of Turkey and its competitors, which are the main olive oil producers, in the USA, Australia, Canada, Brazil and Japan's markets between 1990/94 and 200/04 periods. The analysis shows that during the period covered Italy is the most competitive in the destination markets. Greece and Turkey follow Italy. In the same period although Spain's export towards destination markets is increased, its competitiveness is affected adversely due to decrease in its market share. Turkey's success in sustainable and permanent international competitiveness in olive oil depends on production, organization and trade policy.
Searching for Lepton Flavour (Universality) Violation and Collider Signals from a Singly-Charged Scalar Singlet
Creators: name: Crivellin, Andreas
name: Kirk, Fiona
name: Manzari, Claudio Andrea
name: Panizzi, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, evidence for lepton flavour universality violation beyond the Standard Model has been accumulated. In this context, a singly charged $SU(2)_L$ singlet scalar ($ϕ^\pm$) is very interesting, as it can only have flavour off-diagonal couplings to neutrinos and charged leptons, therefore necessarily violating lepton flavour (universality). In fact, it gives a (necessarily constructive) tree-level effect in $\ell\to\ell^\primeνν$ processes, while contributing to charged lepton flavour violating only at the loop-level. Therefore, it can provide a common explanation of the hints for new physics in $τ\toμνν/τ(μ)\to eνν$ and of the Cabibbo Angle Anomaly. Such an explanation predicts ${\rm Br }[τ\to eγ]$ to be of the order of a few times $10^{-11}$ while ${ \rm Br}[τ\to eμμ]$ can be of the order of $10^{-9}$ for order one couplings and therefore in the reach of forthcoming experiments. Furthermore, we derive a {novel} coupling-independent lower limit on the scalar mass of $\approx 200\,$GeV by recasting LHC slepton searches. In the scenario preferred by low energy precision data, the lower limit is even strengthened to $\approx300\,$GeV, showing the complementary between LHC searches and flavour observables. Furthermore, we point out that this model can be tested by reinterpreting DM mono-photon searches at future $e^+e^-$ colliders.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, matches version published in PRD
НЕСТАЦИОНАРНАЯ ГИДРАВЛИЧЕСКАЯ МОДЕЛЬ ПРОЦЕССА ВЛАГОПЕРЕНОСА В ГИДРОМОРФНЫХ СРЕДАХ, ОБУСЛОВЛЕННОГО ИЗМЕНЕНИЕМ УРОВНЯ ПОДЗЕМНЫХ ВОД
Creators: name: Ашуралиева, З.
name: Ортиков, И.
name: Назаров, Ш.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Анализ режима влажности в естественных условиях и при орошении позволяет выделить в зоне аэрации три области. Первая область - активный слой, мощность которого редко превышает 1 метр. Вторая область, ниже активного слоя - область переменной влажности, имеет мощность от 1 до 4 метров. Колебания влажности в ней связаны с сезонными изменениями в поступлении и расходовании влаги в верхнем активном слое. Мощность этой зоны зависит от периода колебания влажности и фильтрационных свойств пород. В верхней части зоны аэрации сезонные изменения интенсивности влагопереноса выше, а с глубиной они уменьшаются.
Electroweak symmetry breaking and cold dark matter from hidden sector technicolor
Creators: name: Ko, Pyungwon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider models with a vectorlike confining gauge theory in the hidden sector, and demonstrate that the origin of the electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) is due to the dimensional transmutation in the hidden sector gauge theory, and the lightest mesons in the hidden sector could be a good cold dark matter (CDM) candidate. There would be more than one neutral Higgs-like scalar bosons, and they could decay mainly into the CDM pair, if that decay channel is kinemtically allowed.
description: To appear in the proceeding of the 4th International Conference on Flavor Physics
The Bump at the End of the Bridge
Creators: name: Hopkins, Tommy C.
name: Deen, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1969
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The nature and causes of the differential settlements between a bridge deck and the adjoining highway approach pavement have been the subject of an increasing number of investigations in recent years. This settlement of the highway approach pavement not only presents a hazardous condition to rapidly moving traffic, but creates a rough and uncomfortable ride. These defects of the pavement surface require costly maintenance and, where a heavy traffic flow exists, the maintenance operation may tend to impede the normal flow.  Bridge abutments in Kentucky are usually founded on relatively a stable foundation such as rock or point-bearing piles to rock, and practically speaking, cannot settle. Highway approach pavements, on the other hand, are located on an embankment and foundation which are potentially free to settle. The extent to which either settlement of the embankment or foundation contributes to the approach settlement will obviously depend on the particular conditions at any given bridge site. Data obtained from a survey of existing bridge approaches conducted in the summers of 1964 and 1968 have provided general information as to the prevalence of the problem in Kentucky. In addition, these data imply there is a general relationship between development of the approach fault and such possible causative factors as the type of abutment, geological conditions, and soils conditions. This report surrnnarizes the general relationship between the occurrence of bridge approach settlement and various conditions at the bridge sites.
Gauge Invariance, Polar Coordinates and Inflation
Creators: name: Akil, Ali
name: Tong, Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out the necessity of resolving the apparent gauge dependence in the quantum corrections of cosmological observables for Higgs-like inflation models. We highlight the fact that this gauge dependence is due to the use of an asymmetric background current which is specific to a choice of coordinate system in the scalar manifold. Favoring simplicity over complexity, we further propose a practical shortcut to gauge-independent inflationary observables by using effective potential obtained from a polar-like background current choice. We demonstrate this shortcut for several explicit examples and present a gauge-independent prediction of inflationary observables in the Abelian Higgs model. Furthermore, with Nielsen's gauge dependence identities, we show that for any theory to all orders, a gauge-invariant current term gives a gauge-independent effective potential and thus gauge-invariant inflationary observables.
description: 18 pages
[Southern Pomo texts]
Creators: name: Allen, Elsie
name: Halpern, Abraham M.
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: peq
subject: Southern Pomo language

description: Transcriptions of recorded Southern Pomo texts.

(The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Halpern.025.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Halpern.025.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Halpern.025-image_metadata.txt.)
The circular economy in the real estate sector : Challenges and opportunities in Spain
Creators: name: Elizalde, Francisco de
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Circular economy
Consumer protection
Real estate
Property law
Economía circular
Protección al consumidor
Bienes raíces
Derecho de propiedad

description: Este artículo examina la problemática jurídica que suscitan las cláusulas contractuales que contienen referencias a terceros, en particular, las que aluden a competidores o rivales de las partes contratantes para regular distintos aspectos de la relación contractual. La utilización de este tipo de cláusulas se ha multiplicado con el desarrollo de los mercados plataforma y el comercio digital en internet. Tras analizar la lógica económica que suele inspirar estos términos contractuales, particularmente sobre el precio, se consideran aquéllos supuestos en los que las circunstancias relativas a los bienes/servicios objeto de contrato y la posición de las partes contratantes en el mercado pueden hacer que estas cláusulas tengan un impacto negativo en el bienestar social y se consideren ilícitas. The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether Private law could determine the fate of the Circular Economy. The article will first assess the legal relationship that the service creates between the supplier and the consumer. This relationship establishes a contractual bond in which the quality of performance is at stake. Next, the paper moves on to the complex proprietary consequences of the service, an issue that is aggravated in the context of real estate. The erga omnes effects of property rights justify the chapter’s focus on the supplier-customer relationship but also on the interaction of third parties with the goods deployed in the service. Lastly, the article addresses an issue that affects both the contracting parties and third parties: non-performance and insolvency.
Antiresonances as precursors of decoherence
Creators: name: Torres, L. E. F. Foa
name: Pastawski, H. M.
name: Medina, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that, in presence of a complex spectrum, antiresonances act as a precursor for dephasing enabling the crossover to a fully decoherent transport even within a unitary Hamiltonian description. This general scenario is illustrated here by focusing on a quantum dot coupled to a chaotic cavity containing a finite, but large, number of states using a Hamiltonian formulation. For weak coupling to a chaotic cavity with a sufficiently dense spectrum, the ensuing complex structure of resonances and antiresonances leads to phase randomization under coarse graining in energy. Such phase instabilities and coarse graining are the ingredients for a mechanism producing decoherence and thus irreversibility. For the present simple model one finds a conductance that coincides with the one obtained by adding a ficticious voltage probe within the Landauer-Buettiker picture. This sheds new light on how the microscopic mechanisms that produce phase fluctuations induce decoherence.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Europhys. Lett
Typical Products and Marketing Strategies for Sicilian Olive Oils
Creators: name: Polelli, Mario
name: Giacomelli, Paolo
name: Corsi, Stefano
name: Polelli, Mario
name: Giacomelli, Paolo
name: Corsi, Stefano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The research analyses the Sicilian Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) olive oils chain in the contest of Sicilian rural development and as an instrument aimed to add value to agricultural production. Olive oil is a characteristic product of Southern Italian and Mediterranean agriculture and one of the main agro-food production of some Southern Italian Regions; it plays a leading role in Sicilian agricultural production and it can be considered the mort representative typical products of Sicilian rural environment, rural culture and eno-gastronomic tradition. Origin labelled oils are a small but important part of extra virgin olive oil chain process. Even if the present production areas of Sicilian PDO olive oils cover a large part of the region and almost the whole region constitutes a wide quality oil production area, the sold amounts of these products result still lower than the potential. To propose a strategy aimed to improve Sicilian typical oil market, we analysed demand and supply, opportunities and threats. Improving proposals are classified according to supply chain subjects and marketing mix steps.
A dichotomy for bounded displacement equivalence of Delone sets
Creators: name: Smilansky, Yotam
name: Solomon, Yaar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37B05, 37B52,

description: We prove that in every compact space of Delone sets in $\mathbb{R}^d$ which is minimal with respect to the action by translations, either all Delone sets are uniformly spread, or continuously many distinct bounded displacement equivalence classes are represented, none of which contains a lattice. The implied limits are taken with respect to the Chabauty--Fell topology, which is the natural topology on the space of closed subsets of $\mathbb{R}^d$. This topology coincides with the standard local topology in the finite local complexity setting, and it follows that the dichotomy holds for all minimal spaces of Delone sets associated with well-studied constructions such as cut-and-project sets and substitution tilings, whether or not finite local complexity is assumed.
description: 16 pages. The title and abstract have been changed, the exposition is clearer, and an appendix was added. To appear in Ergo. Theo. Dynam. Sys
Experimental Test of the Numerical Renormalization Group Theory for Inelastic Scattering from Magnetic Impurities
Creators: name: Bauerle, Christopher
name: Mallet, Francois
name: Schopfer, Felicien
name: Mailly, Dominique
name: Eska, Georg
name: Saminadayar, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of the phase coherence time \tauphi in quasi one-dimensional Au/Fe Kondo wires and compare the temperature dependence of \tauphi with a recent theory of inelastic scattering from magnetic impurities (Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107204 (2004)). A very good agreement is obtained for temperatures down to 0.2 $T_K$. Below the Kondo temperature $T_K$, the inverse of the phase coherence time varies linearly with temperature over almost one decade in temperature.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Stochastic approaches to inflation model building
Creators: name: Ramirez, Erandy
name: Liddle, Andrew R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While inflation gives an appealing explanation of observed cosmological data, there are a wide range of different inflation models, providing differing predictions for the initial perturbations. Typically models are motivated either by fundamental physics considerations or by simplicity. An alternative is to generate large numbers of models via a random generation process, such as the flow equations approach. The flow equations approach is known to predict a definite structure to the observational predictions. In this paper, we first demonstrate a more efficient implementation of the flow equations exploiting an analytic solution found by Liddle (2003). We then consider alternative stochastic methods of generating large numbers of inflation models, with the aim of testing whether the structures generated by the flow equations are robust. We find that while typically there remains some concentration of points in the observable plane under the different methods, there is significant variation in the predictions amongst the methods considered.
description: 7 pages RevTeX4 with 7 figures. Updated to match version accepted by PRD. Calculations extended to sixth-order and extra clarifications added
Analysis of the Preferences for a New Convenient Seafood Product: Empirical Application for Spain and Norway
Creators: name: Dopico, Domingo Calvo
name: Olsen, Svein Ottar
name: Tudoran, Alina
name: Dopico, Domingo Calvo
name: Olsen, Svein Ottar
name: Tudoran, Alina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: consumer behaviour
subject: preferences
subject: seafood
subject: convenience

description: Fish and seafood products represent a very healthy food, low in saturated fats and offer an excellent source of protein essential for our health. However, very often, consumer behaviour would seem to infer that seafood products do not rank particularly highly in terms of preference, this being due to the perception of various physical and psychological costs, which represent barriers to consumption. Consequently, there is an opportunity to develop new tailor-made seafood products more adapted to recent demand. The aim of this study is to analyse the overall preference of young consumers for such a new seafood product. The experiments were carried out in two European countries: Spain and Norway, with samples of 349 and 296 young people respectively. The study permits to infer how consumers weight the product dimensions against each other when arriving to overall preference for the product and also to estimate how these have an influence on overall satisfaction and future intention to consume. Evidence suggests that liking for the sensory aspects plays a dominant role in (sea)food product choice and consumption, as it explains most of the satisfaction and intention to consume the product. The relative contribution of health and convenience aspects is significant only on intention to consume, but not on satisfaction. Consequently, appropriate strategies for promoting seafood eating behaviour among young people might benefit from an increase attention towards product likes and/or convenience rather than messages emphasizing health alone.
Quark-Antiquark Condensates in the Hadronic Phase
Creators: name: Tawfik, A.
name: Toublan, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a hadron resonance gas model to calculate the quark-antiquark condensates for light (up and down) and strange quark flavors at finite temperatures and chemical potentials. At zero chemical potentials, we find that at the temperature where the light quark-antiquark condensates entirely vanish the strange quark-antiquark condensate still keeps a relatively large fraction of its value in the vacuum. This is in agreement with results obtained in lattice simulations and in chiral perturbation theory at finite temperature and zero chemical potentials. Furthermore, we find that this effect slowly disappears at larger baryon chemical potential. These results might have significant consequences for our understanding of QCD at finite temperatures and chemical potentials. Concretely, our results imply that there might be a domain of temperatures where chiral symmetry is restored for light quarks, but still broken for strange quark that persists at small chemical potentials. This might have practical consequences for heavy ion collision experiments.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures
Globular clusters as tracers of the dark matter content of dwarfs in galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Doppel, Jessica E.
name: Sales, Laura V.
name: Navarro, Julio F.
name: Abadi, Mario G.
name: Peng, Eric W.
name: Toloba, Elisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Globular clusters (GCs) are often used to estimate the dark matter content of galaxies, especially dwarfs, where other kinematic tracers are lacking. These estimates typically assume spherical symmetry and dynamical equilibrium, assumptions that may not hold for the sparse GC population of dwarfs in galaxy clusters. We use a catalog of GCs tagged onto the Illustris simulation to study the accuracy of GC-based mass estimates. We focus on galaxies in the stellar mass range 10$^{8} - 10^{11.8}$ M$_{\odot}$ identified in $9$ simulated Virgo-like clusters. Our results indicate that mass estimates are, on average, quite accurate in systems with GC numbers $N_{\rm GC} \geq 10$ and where the uncertainty of individual GC line-of-sight velocities is smaller than the inferred velocity dispersion, $σ_{\rm GC}$. In cases where $N_{\rm GC} \leq 10$, however, biases may result depending on how $σ_{\rm GC}$ is computed. We provide calibrations that may help alleviate these biases in methods widely used in the literature. As an application, we find a number of dwarfs with $M_{*} \sim 10^{8.5}\, M_{\odot}$ (comparable to the ultradiffuse galaxy DF2, notable for the low $σ_{GC}$ of its $10$ GCs) with $σ_{\rm GC} \sim 7$ - $15\; \rm km \rm s^{-1}$. These DF2 analogs correspond to relatively massive systems at their infall time ($M_{200} \sim 1$ - $3 \times 10^{11}$ $M_{\odot}$) which have retained only $3$-$17$ GCs and have been stripped of more than 95$\%$ of their dark matter. Our results suggest that extreme tidal mass loss in otherwise normal dwarf galaxies may be a possible formation channel for ultradiffuse objects like DF2.
description: 19 pages, 15 figures. Accepted to MNRAS Dec. 11 2020
Brachychampsa montana Gilmore 1911
Creators: name: Sahni, Ashok
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1972
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Crocodylia
Crocodylidae
Brachychampsa
Brachychampsa montana

description: Brachychampsa montana Gilmore, 1911
The species is represented by isolated teeth. The genus has not been reported from the Judith River Formation, although teeth similar to those from this formation occur in the Oldman Formation and have been identified by Lambe (1902, p. 48) as Bottosaurus perrugosus Cope (1874, p. 26).
description: Published as part of Sahni, Ashok, 1972, The vertebrate Fauna of the Judith River formation, Montana, pp. 319-416 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147 (6) on page 351, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3382461
Contracting, Competition, and Rent Distribution Theory and Empirical Evidence from Developing and Transition Countries
Creators: name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Vandeplas, Anneleen
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Vandeplas, Anneleen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Commodity value chains have undergone tremendous changes in the past decades. Private traders, retailers and food processing companies increasingly contract with farms and rural households to whom they provide inputs and services in return for guaranteed and quality supplies. However, due to a variety of market imperfections and poor public institutions, farmers in developing and transition countries face major constraints in realizing high-quality, consistent supplies. These include financial constraints as well as difficulties in input markets, lack of technical and managerial capacity etc, especially for high-standards products. To secure their supplies, traders and processors engage in contracting to overcome farmers' constraints. Emerging empirical evidence suggests that these new forms of private vertical coordination can be an engine of economic growth, rural development and poverty reduction. However, at the same time there is a concern that the nature of these contracts may act as an important barrier to entry for other agents and may give the dominant partner in a transaction some additional leverage. Competition could potentially play an important role in reducing inefficiencies and enhancing the bargaining power of local suppliers and thereby improving contract terms, in particular where contract conditions are imposed by monopolistic organizations. However, at the same time competition may undermine contract enforcement in these vertical coordination systems, as opportunistic behavior may emerge or as reputation costs of contract breach are lower. The objective of this paper is to analyze the effects of competition on contracting in high-value supply chains in an environment of widespread factor market imperfections and weak contract enforcement. We present a conceptual model and present evidence from various case-studies.
F&V Trade Model to Assess Euro-Med Agreements. An Application to the Fresh Tomato Market
Creators: name: Garcia Alvarez-Coque, Jose-Maria
name: Martinez-Gomez, Victor
name: Villanueva, Miquel
name: Garcia Alvarez-Coque, Jose-Maria
name: Martinez-Gomez, Victor
name: Villanueva, Miquel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The complexity derived from the bilateral trade liberalisation process in the Mediterranean region is difficult to represent in a trade model, not only because of the range of instruments still constraining trade but also because of the special nature of the most important traded goods (product differentiation and seasonality). Tariff-rate quotas (TRQ's) and the entry price system are clearly defined on a monthly basis for the fruits and vegetables trade flows towards the European Union (EU). This point makes efforts to model such a trade in yearly basis not representative of reality. We propose a static partial equilibrium model tailored to model trade impacts of specific policy instruments which considers imports from different sources as imperfect substitutes, following the non-linear Armington type model. Different policy scenarios have been run using the model, considering changes in TRQ's and Entry Price regimes, its tariffication and preference erosion. The results of model runs show that, as regards to EU producers, bilateral trade liberalisation with extension of TRQs would be the least dramatic scenario. By contrast, the phasing out of the entry price system would have serious consequences on EU producers. The model has also given detailed information on Morocco's interests in the negotiation, although it could easily include a larger number of suppliers. Morocco appears to be interested in multilateral liberalisation as well as in bilateral liberalisation. In fact, multilateral liberalisation will not cause a great deal of preference erosion against Moroccan exporters, unless tariff reductions only affect MFN suppliers.
Stellar Wind Variations During the X-ray High and Low States of Cygnus X-1
Creators: name: Gies, D. R.
name: Bolton, C. T.
name: Blake, R. M.
name: Caballero-Nieves, S. M.
name: Crenshaw, D. M.
name: Hadrava, P.
name: Herrero, A.
name: Hillwig, T. C.
name: Howell, S. B.
name: Huang, W.
name: Kaper, L.
name: Koubsky, P.
name: McSwain, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from Hubble Space Telescope UV spectroscopy of the massive X-ray binary system, HD226868 = Cyg X-1. The spectra were obtained at both orbital conjunction phases in two separate runs in 2002 and 2003 when the system was in the X-ray high/soft state. The stellar wind lines suffer large reductions in strength when the black hole is in the foreground due to the X-ray ionization of the wind ions. A comparison of HST and archival IUE spectra shows that similar photoionization effects occur in both the X-ray states. We constructed model UV wind line profiles assuming that X-ray ionization occurs everywhere in the wind except the zone where the supergiant blocks the X-ray flux. The good match between the observed and model profiles indicates that the wind ionization extends to near to the hemisphere of the supergiant facing the X-ray source. The H-alpha emission strength is generally lower in the high/soft state compared to the low/hard state, but the He II 4686 emission is relatively constant between states. The results suggest that mass transfer in Cyg X-1 is dominated by a focused wind flow that peaks along the axis joining the stars and that the stellar wind contribution is shut down by X-ray photoionization effects. The strong stellar wind from the shadowed side of the supergiant will stall when Coriolis deflection brings the gas into the region of X-ray illumination. This stalled gas component may be overtaken by the orbital motion of the black hole and act to inhibit accretion from the focused wind. The variations in the strength of the shadow wind component may then lead to accretion rate changes that ultimately determine the X-ray state.
description: ApJ, in press, 41 pages, 15 figures
title: A pastor-theologian in search of a faith worthy of all acceptation : the theological genealogy of Andrew Fuller and his critique of it
Creators: name: Rathel, David Mark
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2019

description: The eighteenth-century Particular Baptist minister Andrew Fuller lived a consequential life. He assisted in forming the Baptist Missionary Society, the first modern Protestant missions society. His published theological tracts, particularly his works on soteriology, left an indelible mark on Baptist and even evangelical life. Fuller remains most famous for rebutting a form of Calvinism described as hyper- Calvinism or false Calvinism in the relevant literature. This theological tradition sought to maximize divine grace by minimizing human participation in salvation’s reception. To downplay human action, hyper-Calvinist ministers denied both the legitimacy of free offers of the Gospel and a universal duty to respond to the Gospel. Despite Fuller’s significance, existing scholarly accounts of his life present deficient readings of the hyper-Calvinist theology that he rejected. They either fail to explore the primary source material closely, or they rely on incorrect assumptions about hyper- Calvinism’s development. This fact has led to incomplete portrayals of Fuller’s biography. Contemporary scholars are unable to discern accurately the concerns that animated Fuller, the particular ministers that he sought to engage, and even the sources on which he relied. In this thesis, I provide a more nuanced reading of the hyper-Calvinism relevant to Fuller’s setting to contextualize his response to that theology. I present hyper-Calvinism as a diverse movement—more diverse than the current literature portrays. Though hyper-Calvinist theologians shared the goal of diminishing human agency, they disagreed on approach; some preferred to present salvation as occurring pre-temporally in the covenantal arrangements of God while others chose to emphasize a human inability to believe the Gospel. I argue that this reading of hyper-Calvinism provides new insight into Fuller’s writings; in particular, it reveals that Fuller relied on the works of John Gill and publications composed by participants in the modern question debate more than scholars have realized.
Structural Equation Modelling of Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Food (GM) in the Mediterranean Europe: Spain, Greece and Italy.
Creators: name: Costa-Font, Montserrat
name: Gil, Jose Maria
name: Costa-Font, Montserrat
name: Gil, Jose Maria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Genetically modified food
subject: Structural Equation Modelling
subject: Mediterranean Europe

description: The inception of genetic modification (GM) techniques in food production conveys both opportunities - improve food production technologies and/or product differentiation - and risks - dread of a change of the technological status quo, ambiguity in the food properties.. . Hence, some research has been devoted a careful understanding of consumer's reactions towards to GM food. However, unavoidably individual's perceptions involve taking into account several factors at a time that cannot be taken as given or exogenous such as traditional food values and trust in information sources primarily. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the behavioural process that drives individual's perceptions to GM food using a methodology that allows accounting for such effects. Structural Equation Model or causal modelling allows to examine a system of interdependent effects driving consumers' decision-making process. We undertake an empirical application in three specific Mediterranean countries, namely Spain, Italy and Greece where traditional values, such as Mediterranean diet, contrast that of modern benefits of technology. We argue that public attitudes towards GM food are formed as a result of a reasoning mechanism that departs form trust in science and in public authorities and ultimately affects consumer's final purchase decision. Our finding suggests marked differences in the reasoning mechanism that leads to the acceptance of GM food in the three different countries examined.
Parallel Imports and Innovation in an Emerging Economy
Creators: name: Mantovani, Andrea
name: Naghavi, Alireza
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: This paper studies the consequences of parallel import (PI) on process innovation of firms heterogeneous in their production technology. In an international setting where foreign markets differ with respect to their intellectual property rights regime, a move by a technologically inferior firm to exploit a new unregulated market can result in imitation and PI. The impact of PI on innovation is determined by the degree of heterogeneity between firms and trade costs.
Increasing trade costs shifts from the market share losses brought by PI from the more to the less productive firm. This induces the former to invest more in R&D. At this point, sales in the foreign market become a determinant of the R&D decision by the technologically inferior firm. For low levels of firm heterogeneity, PI increases output by this firm targeted for the unregulated market, hence increases its Innovation efforts. A tariff policy accompanied by opening borders to PI only increases welfare when the technological gap between the two firms are sufficiently large.