cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: A General Microsimulation Model for the EU VAT with a specific Application to Germany
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Siemers, Lars-H. R.
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: RWI-VAT-SIM
EU
Economics
Wirtschaft
VAT microsimulation . VAT exemption

description: The sales taxes in the EU|and in several other countries|are practiced as value-added tax of the consumption type with invoice method. Literature on microsimula- tion models (MSM) for this type of VAT is rare, though the importance of VAT has continuously increased. We discuss the issues of VAT-MSM in detail and develop a basic general VAT-MSM, applicable to the EU member states (and beyond). To illustrate the functioning of the general model, we apply it in detail to the specific case of Germany. We provide comprehensive estimation results for the distributional and fiscal effects of the German VAT. Finally, we simulate the effects of a small VAT reform in 2010, comparing static and behavioral response simulations.
CALF RETENTION AND PRODUCTION DECISIONS OVER TIME
Creators: name: Lambert, David K.
name: Lambert, David K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Ranch production and marketing decisions occur sequentially over time as uncertainty regarding future events is resolved. The model developed in this paper explicitly considers the sequential nature of ranch decision making in determining optimal strategies for calf retention and production. A number of optimal decisions are reported for each period, conditional upon the state of nature and expected future events at that decision node. Solutions are found to be dependent on observed and expected output prices.
Characterizing Halloumi cheese bacterial communities through metagenomic analysis
Creators: name: Kamilari, Eleni
name: Anagnostopoulos, Dimitrios A.
name: Papademas, Photis
name: Kamilaris, Andreas
name: Tsaltas, Dimitris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Halloumi is a semi hard cheese produced in Cyprus for centuries and its popularity has significantly risen over the past years. High throughput sequencing (HTS) was applied in the present research to characterize traditional Cyprus Halloumi bacterial diversity. Eighteen samples made by different milk mixtures and produced in different areas of the country were analyzed, to reveal that Halloumi microbiome was mainly comprised by lactic acid bacteria (LAB), including Lactobacillus, Leuconostoc, and Pediococcus, as well as halophilic bacteria, such as Marinilactibacillus and Halomonas. Additionally, spore forming bacteria and spoilage bacteria, were also detected. Halloumi produced with the traditional method, had significantly richer bacterial diversity compared to Halloumi produced with the industrial method. Variations detected among the bacterial communities highlight the contribution of the initial microbiome that existed in milk and survived pasteurization, as well as factors associated with Halloumi manufacturing conditions, in the final microbiota composition shaping. Identification and characterization of Halloumi microbiome provides an additional, useful tool to characterize its typicity and probably safeguard it from fraud products that may appear in the market. Also, it may assist producers to further improve its quality and guarantee consumers safety.
Real Separated Algebraic Curves, Quadrature Domains, Ahlfors Type Functions and Operator Theory
Creators: name: Yakubovich, Dmitry V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Primary 47B20, Secondary 30F50, 14H45

description: The aim of this paper is to inter-relate several algebraic and analytic objects, such as real-type algebraic curves, quadrature domains, functions on them and rational matrix functions with special properties, and some objects from Operator Theory, such as vector Toeplitz operators and subnormal operators. Our tools come from operator theory, but some of our results have purely algebraic formulation. We make use of Xia's theory of subnormal operators and of the previous results by the author in this direction. We also correct (in Section 5) some inaccuracies in two papers by the author in Revista Matematica Iberoamericana (1998).
description: 43 pages, 2 figures; zip archive
Marmardji, A. M.: Diatessaron de Tatien
Creators: name: Baumstark, Anton
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 33 Nr. 2 (1936): Oriens christianus, Band 33, Heft 2
title: State Fiscal Policies and Regional Economic Activity
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Uhl, Matthias
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: Spending multiplier
Tax multiplier
Subnational government
Economics
Wirtschaft

description: In this paper, I estimate a structural panel vector autoregression to study the consequences of changes in U.S. state government fiscal policies for local economic activity in the short-term. My main result is that the state-level spending multiplier is relatively small and the tax multiplier relatively large. After four years, the government spending multiplier is 0.6 and the tax multiplier -2.62. This conclusion is found to be robust across different model specifications. I also find that both state spending and state revenue shocks increase out of state output.
Neural Subdivision
Creators: name: Liu, Hsueh-Ti Derek
name: Kim, Vladimir G.
name: Chaudhuri, Siddhartha
name: Aigerman, Noam
name: Jacobson, Alec
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper introduces Neural Subdivision, a novel framework for data-driven coarse-to-fine geometry modeling. During inference, our method takes a coarse triangle mesh as input and recursively subdivides it to a finer geometry by applying the fixed topological updates of Loop Subdivision, but predicting vertex positions using a neural network conditioned on the local geometry of a patch. This approach enables us to learn complex non-linear subdivision schemes, beyond simple linear averaging used in classical techniques. One of our key contributions is a novel self-supervised training setup that only requires a set of high-resolution meshes for learning network weights. For any training shape, we stochastically generate diverse low-resolution discretizations of coarse counterparts, while maintaining a bijective mapping that prescribes the exact target position of every new vertex during the subdivision process. This leads to a very efficient and accurate loss function for conditional mesh generation, and enables us to train a method that generalizes across discretizations and favors preserving the manifold structure of the output. During training we optimize for the same set of network weights across all local mesh patches, thus providing an architecture that is not constrained to a specific input mesh, fixed genus, or category. Our network encodes patch geometry in a local frame in a rotation- and translation-invariant manner. Jointly, these design choices enable our method to generalize well, and we demonstrate that even when trained on a single high-resolution mesh our method generates reasonable subdivisions for novel shapes.
description: 16 pages
ISSUES IN NONMARKET VALUATION AND POLICY APPLICATION: A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE
Creators: name: Walsh, Richard G.
name: Johnson, Donn M.
name: McKean, John R.
name: Walsh, Richard G.
name: Johnson, Donn M.
name: McKean, John R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: While issues in estimating nonmarket values continue to cause concern, resource economists have more reason now than ever before to be optimistic. More progress toward improved measurement has been made in the past six years than in the previous quarter century since development of the contingent valuation and travel cost methods. The new challenge is to learn how to adjust past studies to estimate nonmarket values for future policy analysis. The process involves developing an understanding of the important variables that explain the observed difference in estimates. This paper illustrates how the results thus far could be adjusted to develop some tentative estimates of the recreation-use value of Forest Service resources.
0^-+ Trigluon Glueball and its Implication for a Recent BES Observation
Creators: name: Hao, Gang
name: Qiao, Cong-Feng
name: Zhang, Ai-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the mass of $0^{-+}$ triple-valence-gluon resonance, the trigluon glueball, with QCD sum rules. Its mass is found to be approximately in the region between 1.9 GeV and 2.7 GeV with some theoretical uncertainties. Moreover, it is likely that the new BES measurement of the $p \bar{p}$ enhancement near threshold in the $J/ψ$ decays exhibits the behavior of this trigluon state. Our analyzes favor the baryonium-gluonium mixing picture for the BES observation.
description: 14 text pages; 2 eps-form figures.To appear in Phys.Lett.B
’Family women’ : gender, family and identity among Korean-Canadian women
Creators: name: Jerry, Kyle
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis is based on a series of interviews about social life that were conducted with eight Korean-Canadian women who migrated to Canada in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It uses these interviews as the basis to discuss issues of identity formation, memory, migration, and narrative among these women. Whereas previous authors have identified ethnic institutions like the church and political organizations as primary sites of identity formation, this thesis identifies family as a key site for the negotiation of social identities. By focusing on the women's narrative patterns, it seeks to illustrate how family has often set the parameters for their post-migration social activities and provided them with a source of identity.
title: On the interrelation between carbon offsetting and other voluntary climate protection activities: Theory and empirical evidence
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Lange, Andreas
name: Schwirplies, Claudia
name: Ziegler, Andreas
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: green consumption
climate change
impure public goods
climate protection
carbon offsetting
complement; substitute
Economics
Wirtschaft

description: This paper provides theoretical and empirical insights on the extent to which the availability of carbon offsetting may substitute the individual use of other carbon-reducing measures. Theoretically, we demonstrate an ambiguous impact of offsetting on the use of other measures and derive conditions under which both are substitutes or complements. We then empirically test our predictions using data from representative surveys among more than 2000 citizens in Germany and the U.S. Considering seven measures that can be taken by individuals to directly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, our empirical evidence is consistent with the theoretical predictions that substitution occurs particularly if individuals lay a sufficiently large weight on environmental preference or if offsetting is perceived to be relatively effective in providing the public good climate protection. Complementary effects are shown to exist for a perceived intermediate effectiveness of offsetting activities.
ESTIMATING THE VALUE OF SEQUENTIAL UPDATING SOLUTIONS FOR INTRAYEAR CROP MANAGEMENT
Creators: name: Mjelde, James W.
name: Dixon, Bruce L.
name: Sonka, Steven T.
name: Mjelde, James W.
name: Dixon, Bruce L.
name: Sonka, Steven T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Results of comparing updating versus nonupdating modeling assumptions call into question the use of models based on nonupdating strategies as valid representations of actual farmer actions. If farmers are sequential updaters, the results indicate that models assuming no updating are inaccurate. The degree of this inaccuracy ranges between 4% and 10% of profits for the study area. Further, the results indicate that updating appears to be important for both descriptive and prescriptive studies of farmer behavior.
title: The Value of User-Specific Information for Two-Sided Matchmakers
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Brühn, Tim
name: Götz, Georg
name: Meinusch, Annette
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: Economics
Wirtschaft

description: This article analyzes the incentives of a monopolistic matchmaker to generate user-specific information. By merging two-sided market modeling with two-sided matching, we derive a micro-foundation of cross-side externalities as a function of the number of potential matches and the accuracy level of user-specific information. Incentives to make fixed investments in identification technologies are determined by two effects that work in opposing directions: Whereas economies of scale work in favor of platforms with large customer bases, expected improvements to match quality are more significant for small-scale platforms.
Transport properties of the heavy fermion superconductor PrOs$_{4}$Sb$_{12}$
Creators: name: Sugawara, H.
name: Kobayashi, M.
name: Osaki, S.
name: Saha, S. R.
name: Namiki, T.
name: Aoki, Y.
name: Sato, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the electrical resistivity, thermoelectric power, Hall coefficient, and magnetoresistance (MR) on single crystals of PrOs$_{4}$Sb$_{12}$, LaOs$_{4}$Sb$_{12}$ and NdOs$_{4}$Sb$_{12}$. All the transport properties in PrOs$_{4}$Sb$_{12}$ are similar to those in LaOs$_{4}$Sb$_{12}$ and NdOs$_{4}$Sb$_{12}$ at high temperatures, indicating the localized character of 4$f$-electrons. The transverse MR both in LaOs$_{4}$Sb$_{12}$ and PrOs$_{4}$Sb$_{12}$ tends to saturate for wide field directions, indicating these compounds to be uncompensated metals with no open orbit. We have determined the phase diagram of the field induced ordered phase by the MR measurement for all the principle field directions, which indicates an unambiguous evidence for the $Γ_{\rm 1}$ singlet crystalline electric field ground state.
description: 7 pages, 10 figures, to appear in Physical Review B
Adversarial Infidelity Learning for Model Interpretation
Creators: name: Liang, Jian
name: Bai, Bing
name: Cao, Yuren
name: Bai, Kun
name: Wang, Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Model interpretation is essential in data mining and knowledge discovery. It can help understand the intrinsic model working mechanism and check if the model has undesired characteristics. A popular way of performing model interpretation is Instance-wise Feature Selection (IFS), which provides an importance score of each feature representing the data samples to explain how the model generates the specific output. In this paper, we propose a Model-agnostic Effective Efficient Direct (MEED) IFS framework for model interpretation, mitigating concerns about sanity, combinatorial shortcuts, model identifiability, and information transmission. Also, we focus on the following setting: using selected features to directly predict the output of the given model, which serves as a primary evaluation metric for model-interpretation methods. Apart from the features, we involve the output of the given model as an additional input to learn an explainer based on more accurate information. To learn the explainer, besides fidelity, we propose an Adversarial Infidelity Learning (AIL) mechanism to boost the explanation learning by screening relatively unimportant features. Through theoretical and experimental analysis, we show that our AIL mechanism can help learn the desired conditional distribution between selected features and targets. Moreover, we extend our framework by integrating efficient interpretation methods as proper priors to provide a warm start. Comprehensive empirical evaluation results are provided by quantitative metrics and human evaluation to demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed method. Our code is publicly available online at https://github.com/langlrsw/MEED.
description: 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '20), August 23--27, 2020, Virtual Event, USA
Optical and X-ray discovery of the changing-look AGN IRAS23226-3843 showing extremely broad and double-peaked Balmer profiles
Creators: name: Kollatschny, W.
name: Grupe, D.
name: Parker, M. L.
name: Ochmann, M. W.
name: Schartel, N.
name: Herwig, E.
name: Komossa, S.
name: Romero-Colmenero, E.
name: Santos-Lleo, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We detected a very strong X-ray decline in the galaxy IRAS23226-3843 within the XMM-Newton slew survey in 2017. Subsequently, we carried out multi-band follow-up studies to investigate this fading galaxy in more detail. We took deep follow-up Swift, XMM-Newton, and NuSTAR observations in combination with optical SALT spectra of IRAS23226-3843 in 2017. In addition, we reinspected optical, UV, and X-ray data that were taken in the past. IRAS23226-3843 decreased in X-rays by a factor of more than 30 with respect to ROSAT and Swift data taken 10 to 27 years before. The broadband XMM-Newton/NuSTAR spectrum is power-law dominated, with a contribution from photoionized emission from cold gas, likely the outer accretion disk or torus. The optical continuum decreased by 60 percent and the Balmer line intensities decreased by 50 percent between 1999 and 2017. The optical Seyfert spectral type changed simultaneously with the X-ray flux from a clear broad-line Seyfert 1 type in 1999 to a Seyfert 1.9 type in 2017. The Balmer line profiles in IRAS23226-3843 are extremely broad. The profiles during the minimum state indicate that they originate in an accretion disk. The unusual flat Balmer decrement Ha/Hb with a value of 2 indicates a very high hydrogen density of n_(H) > 10 exp(11) cm^(-3) at the center of the accretion disk. IRAS23226-3843 shows unusually strong FeII blends with respect to the broad line widths, in contrast to what is known from Eigenvector 1 studies.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures, Astronomy & Astrophysics in press. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1804.05911
Acanthamoeba-Bacteria-Bacteriophages Interactions
Creators: name: Alrashidi, Wafaa
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In nature, bacteria are frequently exposed to predation by bacteriophages and protozoa. These two microbial groups were described as the main causes of bacterial mortality. Yet, bacteria were found to co-exist and thrive in the presence of both predators.This study was established to investigate whether the presence of Acanthamoeba can protect bacteria from killing by bacteriophages. Gentamicin protection assay was used to determine the ability of P. aeruginosa WB1 and E. coli 4s to intracellularly survive within Acanthamoeba castellanii cells. Later, bacteria retrieved form gentamicin protection assay were subjected to phage infection. Phages were applied in a form of single and combination treatments. Results have indicated that P. aeruginosa WB1 and E. coli 4s were not able to intracellularly survive within the amoebal cells and were digested by 99%. And, single-phages were effective in a single-enemy system (phage-bacteria system) but were not effective in multiple-enemies system (in Acanthamoeba presence), while, phage combinations showed higher efficiency in eradicating bacterial numbers in both systems.In addition, this study has investigated the ability of phages to internalise and survive within Acanthamoeba cells. Two experiments were performed, first, the ability of phages to survive inside Acanthamoeba cysts was assessed. Non-nutrient agars were seeded with bacteria infected with phages, then, Acanthamoeba trophozoites were introduced and incubated at room temperature for two weeks to induce encystation. Later, cysts were exposed to acid (2% (v/v) HCL) treatment, UV radiation and extreme heat to assess Acanthamoeba ability to protect phages from hostile conditions. Second, phages (without bacterial hosts) were co-cultured with trophozoites and exposed to UV radiation and extreme heat. Results have indicated that phages were able to intracellularly survive within Acanthamoeba cells. Phages were found more resistant to adverse conditions once trapped within Acanthamoeba cysts, as well as, in the presences of amoebal trophozoites.
RESEARCH ON FUTURES MARKETS: ISSUES, APPROACHES, AND EMPIRICAL FINDINGS
Creators: name: Blank, Steven C.
name: Blank, Steven C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper presents a brief assessment of the recent futures and options literature with reference only to agricultural markets. The discussion centers on the markets' social value and economic value to firms. Issues currently unresolved are highlighted, in some cases by presenting hypotheses contrary to standard positions. Overall, the current literature describes these markets as having positive social value and serving useful functions at the firm level, but existing theory and empirical methods are criticized for many weaknesses.
title: Soft Paternalismus und Verbraucherpolitik
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Kerber, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: Soft Paternalismus
Verbraucherpolitik
Economics
Wirtschaft
Verhaltensökonomie

description: Obwohl es dem Konzept des Soft Paternalismus gelang, die Aufmerk-samkeit auf die Bedeutung verhaltensökonomischer Erkenntnisse und die verhaltensbeein-flussende Wirkung von ‚weichen‘ Politikinstrumenten wie Default rules zu lenken, wird ge-zeigt, dass der Soft Paternalismus nur einen sehr begrenzten neuen Beitrag für die Begrün-dung und Ausgestaltung der Verbraucherpolitik leisten kann. "Weiche" Governance-Instrumente und Verhaltensökonomie können auch unabhängig vom Soft Paternalismus verwendet werden. Dagegen kann dieses Konzept aufgrund seiner normativen Unklarheit gerade nichts Neues zur normativen Begründung des Paternalismus bei Zielkonflikten zur individuellen Entscheidungsfreiheit und damit zur Vorzugswürdigkeit von "weichen" gegen-über "harten" Politikinstrumenten bieten. Eine ernsthafte normative Diskussion über den Pa-ternalismus steht damit immer noch aus.
Additional file 5 of Parental mental health conditions and use of healthcare services in children the first year of life– a register-based, nationwide study
Creators: name: Heuckendorff, Signe
name: Johansen, Martin Nygård
name: Johnsen, Søren Paaske
name: Overgaard, Charlotte
name: Fonager, Kirsten
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5: Supplementary Table 5. Sensitivity analysis excluding children with at least one week of hospital admission in the first month of life. Incidence rate ratio (95% confidence interval), crude and adjusted, of healthcare contacts for each exposure group.
Elasticity, stability, and quasi-oscillations of cell-cell junctions in solid confluent epithelia
Creators: name: Zankoc, Clement
name: Krajnc, Matej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Macroscopic properties and shapes of biological tissues depend on the remodelling of cell-cell junctions at the microscopic scale. We propose a theoretical framework that couples a vertex model of solid confluent tissues with the dynamics describing generation of local force dipoles in the junctional actomyosin. Depending on the myosin-turnover rate, junctions either preserve stable length or collapse to initiate cell rearrangements. We find that noise can amplify and sustain transient oscillations to the fixed point, giving rise to quasi-periodic junctional dynamics. We also discover that junctional stability is affected by cell arrangements and junctional rest tensions, which may explain junctional collapse during convergence and extension in embryos.
APPLICATION OF EXPERIMENTATAL ECONOMICS CONCEPTS AND PRECEPTS TO CVM FIELD SURVEY PROCEDURES
Creators: name: Bergstrom, John C.
name: Stoll, John R.
name: Bergstrom, John C.
name: Stoll, John R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Experimental economics (EE) axioms are directly applied in this paper to contingent valuation method (CVM) field survey procedures. The implications of EE concepts and precepts for conceptualizing and handling potential CVM biases and framing effects also are discussed. It is concluded that EE concepts and precepts provide useful principles and guidelines for CVM field survey procedures.
title: Land allocation in subsistence economies and intra-familial time-use decisions
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Miclanche Azebaze, Nadege
name: Falk, Thomas
name: Korn, Evelyn
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: intra-household decision making, intergenerational property transfer
inheritance rules
Land allocation
Economics
Wirtschaft
education
subsistence

description: Classical household theory predicts that adolescents facing a developed labour market should invest in formal education. In contrast, it is obvious that adolescents in subsistence economies should choose learning-by-doing approaches to working on the family farm. However, it is unclear what determines optimal education choices among societies in transition from subsistence to labour-market integration. While education is generally the basic condition to enter the labour market, access to land represents an important asset in subsistence farming. This paper argues that intra-household time use and education { that is, time spent learning outside the family farm { is influenced by the way land is transferred from one generation to the next. We use a dichotomous approach assuming that land is either transferred by bequest or by a formal land board. These two methods represent the extremes of a scale that considers personal relations and reliance on certified abilities as the basis for land allocation. This paper provides a theoretical analysis of how anticipated bequests and asset transfers from other sources influence trade-offs between work on the family farm and other time-use options. We discuss the effects using a case study from the Okavango.
Spatial dispersive shock waves generated in supersonic flow of Bose-Einstein condensate past slender body
Creators: name: El, G. A.
name: Kamchatnov, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supersonic flow of Bose-Einstein condensate past macroscopic obstacles is studied theoretically. It is shown that in the case of large obstacles the Cherenkov cone transforms into a stationary spatial shock wave which consists of a number of spatial dark solitons. Analytical theory is developed for the case of obstacles having a form of a slender body. This theory explains qualitatively the properties of such shocks observed in recent experiments on nonlinear dynamics of condensates of dilute alkali gases.
description: 10 pages, revised version with additions and corrections
Branding Chongqing: Understanding Chinese Place Branding From A Government Perspective
Creators: name: Zhang, Bowen
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Due to the complexity and multidisciplinary nature of place branding, there is no universal explanation or theory that is commonly accepted despite decades of commitment and research. This research aims to explain how place branding is conceptualised in China. The similarities and differences of Chinese place branding in comparison to western concepts of place branding are presented through a review of both western and Chinese literature. However, a theoretical foundation remains elusive, as all existent literature directly applies either marketing theory or branding theory to local contexts, or only focus es on practice perspectives, such as the influence of mega events. This research attempts to close this research gap and provide a path to a better understanding of place branding. Taking a case study approach, the paper examines a vast body of discussion a rising from in depth interviews with branding authorities and government officials in the case study city of Chongqing. The analysis shows that place branding in China is influenced, and largely controlled by the government. Cases of place branding in the three major aspects of tourism, commerce and resident identity, are described, and the role of government in place branding is revealed. Rationales for government engagement in place branding and the general branding processes are investigated in detail, which constitute s the major practical contribution of this study. Discussion of the agents of Chinese place branding, place branding as a government tool and the trend towards policization contribute to the theoretical expansion of place branding beyond a neoliberalism perspective.
THE IMPORTANCE OF FUNCTIONAL FORM IN THE ESTIMATION OF WELFARE
Creators: name: Kling, Catherine L.
name: Kling, Catherine L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Researchers have recognized the central role that the choice of functional form has on estimated of consumer surplus. The purpose of this paper is to quantify the magnitude of errors which might arise from the use of incorrect functional forms. It describes a simulation experiment where estimated consumer surplus, based on simulated data sets, is compared with consumer surplus computed directly from the simulate data. The errors resulting from the use of mismatching functional forms range from approximately 4% to 107%.
title: International Marriage for Homogeneity? - Evidence from Marriage Migration in South Korea
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Cho, Seo-Young
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: and South Korea
Similarities
Sorting Traits
Marriage Migration
Demographic Changes
Economics
Wirtschaft

description: This paper investigates empirically whether cultural, racial, and linguistic
similarities increase marriage migration. By using marriage migration data from South Korea, I find that the similarities between an origin country and South Korea pull more marriage migration, but the positive effects of the similarities are mainly driven by female marriage migrants from middle and low income countries. The pulling effects of the similarities can be explained by female deficits in the marital age group in South Korea that motivate Korean men to seek foreign brides who share similar traits with locals.
title: Private provision of public goods: Do individual climate protection efforts depend on perceptions of climate policy?
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Schleich, Joachim
name: Schwirplies, Claudia
name: Ziegler, Andreas
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: climate protection activities
Public good
perceptions of international climate policy
Economics
Wirtschaft
voluntary contribution

description: This paper extends the economic literature on the private provision of public goods by exam-ining the relevance of perceptions of climate policy to voluntary contributions to the public good of climate protection. Based on an analytical model which allows for perceptions of cli-mate policy such as justification of international climate policy, procedural trust and proce-dural justice to affect voluntary climate protection activities, we examined data from repre-sentative surveys among citizens in the USA and Germany. Our microeconometric analysis confirmed the prediction that the perceived justification of international climate policy is posi-tively related to voluntary contributions to climate protection in both countries. We also found empirical support (mainly for the USA) that higher perceived procedural justice lowers citi-zens’ propensity to adopt climate protection activities. In contrast, we found no support that higher perceived procedural trust reduces citizens’ propensity to adopt such measures. In a broad interpretation, our empirical results imply that individuals’ perceptions about the pro-cess of providing public goods should also be considered when analyzing the factors explain-ing voluntary individual contribution to public goods.
A New Asteroseismic Diagram For Solar-type Stars
Creators: name: Mazumdar, Anwesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new kind of seismic diagram, based on the determination of the locations of sharp acoustic features inside a star. We show that by combining the information about the position of the base of the convective envelope or the second helium ionisation zone with a measure of the average large separation, it is possible to constrain the unknown parameters characterising the physical processes in the stellar interior. We demonstrate the application of this technique to the analysis of mock data for a CoRoT target star.
description: 2 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the "Stellar Pulsation and Evolution" conference, Monte Porzio Catone, June 2005
title: Rating Agencies – An Experimental Analysis of their Remuneration Model
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Bühren, Christoph
name: Plessner, Marco
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: Economics
Wirtschaft
financial crisis
rating
experiment

description: Does it matter who pays for ratings? Yes, but not for the rating agencies’ behavior. These are the findings of our experiment where we analyze the effect of the remuneration model of rating agencies on their assessments as well as on investors’ and issuers’ behavior. First, we find that rating agencies’ assessments are comparable whether the agency is (partially) paid by issuers, investors, or solely by the experimenter. Issuers, on the other hand, more often do not return investor’s trust when they or investors pay for ratings. Further, investors more often act according to the agencies’ recommendations when they have to pay for this information.
title: Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Times of Crises: A New Keynesian Perspective in Continuous Time
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Hayo, Bernd
name: Niehof, Britta
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: New Keynesian Models
Economics
Wirtschaft
Fiscal Policy
Monetary Policy
Financial Crisis
Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models, Continuous Time Model

description: To analyse the interdependence between monetary and fiscal policy during a financial crisis, we develop an open-economy DSGE model with monetary and fiscal policy as well as financial markets in a continuous-time framework based on stochastic differential equations. Monetary policy is modelled using both a standard and a modified Taylor rule and fiscal policy is modelled as either expansionary or austere. In addition, we differentiate between open economies and monetary union members. We find evidence that the modified Taylor rule notably reduces the likelihood that the financial market crisis affects the real economy. But if we assume that households are averse with respect to outstanding government debt, we find that a combination of expansionary monetary policy and austere fiscal policy provides better stabilisation of both domestic and foreign economies in terms of both output and inflation. In the case of a monetary union, we find that stabilisation of output in the country where the financial shock originates is no longer as easy and, in terms of prices, there is now deflation in the country where the crisis originated and a positive inflation rate in the other country.
Can we distinguish between h^{SM} and h^0 in split supersymmetry?
Creators: name: Diaz, Marco Aurelio
name: Perez, Pavel Fileviez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the possibility to distinguish between the Standard Model Higgs boson and the lightest Higgs boson in Split Supersymmetry. We point out that the best way to distinguish between these two Higgs bosons is through the decay into two photons. It is shown that there are large differences of several percent between the predictions for Γ(h\toγγ) in the two models, making possible the discrimination at future photon-photon colliders. Once the charginos are discovered at the next generation of collider experiments, the well defined predictions for the Higgs decay into two photons will become a cross check to identify the light Higgs boson in Split Supersymmetry.
description: 8 pages, 3 Figures, typos fixed, version published in J.Phys. G31 (2005) 563-569
Theory of the two-proton radioactivity in the continuum shell model
Creators: name: Rotureau, J.
name: Okolowicz, J.
name: Ploszajczak, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the microscopic description of the two-nucleon radioactivity in the framework of the Shell Model Embedded in the Continuum. This approach is applied for the description of spontaneous two-proton radioactivity in $^{45}$Fe, $^{48}$Ni and $^{54}$Zn.
description: 61 pages, 5 figures
Analyzing the World-Wide Impact of Public Health Interventions on the Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19
Creators: name: Mohler, George
name: Schoenberg, Frederic
name: Short, Martin B.
name: Sledge, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We analyze changes in the reproduction number, R, of COVID-19 in response to public health interventions. Our results indicate that public health measures undertaken in China reduced R from 1.5 in January to 0.4 in mid-March 2020. They also suggest, however, the limitations of isolation, quarantine, and large-scale attempts to limit travel. While the world-wide reproduction number briefly dropped below 1 as China implemented extensive public health measures, the introduction of the virus to other nations swiftly led to an increasing world-wide average value of R. In Italy, the nation hardest-hit following China, social distancing measures brought the local value of R down from 3.71 to 2.51. Nonetheless, the value of R in Italy persisted at levels well above 1, allowing for ongoing transmission. By mid-March 2020, as COVID-19 spread in areas without extensive public health interventions in place, the world-wide value of R increased to a level similar to that of late January.
Liturgische Texte der Nestorianer und Jakobiten in Süd-Türkischen Mundarten
Creators: name: Heffening, Willi
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 33 Nr. 2 (1936): Oriens christianus, Band 33, Heft 2
Blue phosphorene bilayer is a two-dimensional metal -- and an unambiguous classification scheme for buckled hexagonal bilayers
Creators: name: Arcudia, Jessica
name: Kempt, Roman
name: Cifuentes-Quintal, Miguel Eduardo
name: Merino, Gabriel
name: Heine, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-level first-principles computations predict blue phosphorene bilayer to be a two-dimensional metal. This structure has not been considered before and was identified by employing a block-diagram scheme that yields the complete set of five high-symmetry stacking configurations of buckled honeycomb layers, and allows their unambiguous classification. We show that all of these stacking configurations are stable or at least metastable configurations both for blue phosphorene and gray arsenene bilayers. For blue phosphorene, the most stable stacking configuration has not yet been reported, and surprisingly it is metallic, while all other arrangements are indirect band gap semiconductors. As it is impossible to interchange the stacking configurations by translations, all of them should be experimentally accessible via the transfer of monolayers. The metallic character of blue phosphorene bilayer is caused by its short interlayer distance of 3.01 Å and offers the exceptional possibility to design single elemental all-phosphorus transistors.
Gender and Working Roles in Television Commercials: A Comparison between Japanese and Thai Television Commercials
Creators: name: Piya Pongsapitaksanti
Publisher: name: สมาคมญี่ปุ่นศึกษาแห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2017
Subjects: television commercial
advertising
gender roles
Japan
Thailand

description: วารสารเครือข่ายญี่ปุ่นศึกษา, 7, 3, 159-171
title: Professional Cycling and the Fight against Doping
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Robeck, Volker
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: Economics
Wirtschaft

description: Doping seems to be well-organized and inherent in the system of
professional cycling. This paper provides a theoretical approach, by
using a multi-task (training and doping) principal-agent (team manager
and cyclist) model, to illustrate the information asymmetry and
conflicting objectives between both actors. Three settings are used to
represent different situations in which the fight against doping takes
place with varying intensity. The comparison of the equilibria in each
setting reveals the influence of the fight against doping on the team
members’ behaviour. The analysis shows that team managers are interested
in doping, and that current anti-doping institutions cannot
suppress the abuse of forbidden drugs.
Additional file 1 of Community-based educational interventions for prevention of type II diabetes: a global systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Tayebeh Shirvani
name: Javadivala, Zeinab
name: Somayeh Azimi
name: Abdolreza Shaghaghi
name: Fathifar, Zahra
name: H. D. R. Devender Bhalla
name: Mohammadhiwa Abdekhoda
name: Nadrian, Haidar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Data: file 1: The search strings for literature search.
Lattice ${\mathbb C} P^{N-1}$ model with ${\mathbb Z}_{N}$ twisted boundary condition: bions, adiabatic continuity and pseudo-entropy
Creators: name: Fujimori, Toshiaki
name: Itou, Etsuko
name: Misumi, Tatsuhiro
name: Nitta, Muneto
name: Sakai, Norisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the lattice ${\mathbb C} P^{N-1}$ sigma model on $S_{s}^{1}$(large) $\times$ $S_τ^{1}$(small) with the ${\mathbb Z}_{N}$ symmetric twisted boundary condition, where a sufficiently large ratio of the circumferences ($L_{s}\gg L_τ$) is taken to approximate ${\mathbb R} \times S^1$. We find that the expectation value of the Polyakov loop, which is an order parameter of the ${\mathbb Z}_N$ symmetry, remains consistent with zero ($|\langle P\rangle|\sim 0$) from small to relatively large inverse coupling $β$ (from large to small $L_τ$). As $β$ increases, the distribution of the Polyakov loop on the complex plane, which concentrates around the origin for small $β$, isotropically spreads and forms a regular $N$-sided-polygon shape (e.g. pentagon for $N=5$), leading to $|\langle P\rangle| \sim 0$. By investigating the dependence of the Polyakov loop on $S_{s}^{1}$ direction, we also verify the existence of fractional instantons and bions, which cause tunneling transition between the classical $N$ vacua and stabilize the ${\mathbb Z}_{N}$ symmetry. Even for quite high $β$, we find that a regular-polygon shape of the Polyakov-loop distribution, even if it is broken, tends to be restored and $|\langle P\rangle|$ gets smaller as the number of samples increases. To discuss the adiabatic continuity of the vacuum structure from another viewpoint, we calculate the $β$ dependence of ``pseudo-entropy" density $\propto\langle T_{xx}-T_{ττ}\rangle$. The result is consistent with the absence of a phase transition between large and small $β$ regions.
description: 31 pages, 13 figures; (v2) minor corrections, to appear in JHEP
title: Public Preferences for Government Spending Priorities: Survey Evidence from Germany
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Hayo, Bernd
name: Neumeier, Florian
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: public preferences
Economics
Wirtschaft
Germany.
public debt
Public spending
survey
taxes

description: Employing data from a representative survey conducted in Germany, this paper examines public preferences for the size and composition of government expenditure. We focus on public attitudes toward taxes, public debt incurrence, and public spending in six different policy areas. Our findings suggest, first, that the current scope of government is supported by a majority of the German population. Second, we find that individual preferences for the composition of government spending differ along various dimensions. Specifically, personal economic wellbeing, economic literacy, confidence in politicians, political ideology, and time preference are significantly related to individual attitudes toward public spending, taxes, and debt. The magnitude of the effects is particularly large for time preference, economic knowledge, and party preference. Third, public preferences for public spending priorities are only marginally affected when considering a public budget constraint.