cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Resource or Waste? The Economics of Swine Manure Storage and Management
Creators: name: Fleming, Ronald A.
name: Babcock, Bruce A.
name: Wang, Erda
name: Fleming, Ronald A.
name: Babcock, Bruce A.
name: Wang, Erda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: In Iowa, the release of confinement swine odors and manure nutrients into the environment has become an important issue. The impact of policies to address these issues depends, in part, on the cost of manure delivery, which depends on how manure is stored and the distance it must be hauled. This investigation considers the cost of delivering manure nutrients for two forms of manure storage, two target nutrients, two crop rotations, and two levels of field incorporation. Many studies have found that manure applications based on phosphorous (rather than nitrogen) increase delivery costs. This investigation shows that applications based on phosphorous can better match crop nutrient need, and thereby can lead to higher profits.
On the existence and scaling of structure functions in turbulence according to the data
Creators: name: Arenas, Alex
name: Chorin, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We sample a velocity field that has an inertial spectrum and a skewness that matches experimental data. In particular, we compute a self-consistent correction to the Kolmogorov exponent and find that for our model it is zero. We find that the higher order structure functions diverge for orders larger than a certain threshold, as theorized in some recent work. The significance of the results for the statistical theory of homogeneous turbulence is reviewed.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, to appear in PNAS
The Impact of the European Enlargement and Common Agricultural Policy Reforms on Agricultural Markets: Much Ado about Nothing?
Creators: name: Fabiosa, Jacinto F.
name: Beghin, John C.
name: Dong, Fengxia
name: Elobeid, Amani E.
name: Fuller, Frank H.
name: Matthey, Holger
name: Tokgoz, Simla
name: Wailes, Eric J.
name: Fabiosa, Jacinto F.
name: Beghin, John C.
name: Dong, Fengxia
name: Elobeid, Amani E.
name: Fuller, Frank H.
name: Matthey, Holger
name: Tokgoz, Simla
name: Wailes, Eric J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: CAP reform
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: EU enlargement
subject: European agriculture
subject: New Member States

description: Following a historical agreement on the EU enlargement, 10 new member states (NMS) acceded to the European Union on May 1, 2004. Although the European Union has expanded its membership in the past, this enlargement is unique in terms of its scope and diversity of the countries, area, and population involved. Thus, the effects of the EU enlargement on current and future member countries and on world commodity markets require careful consideration as the European Union is a major player in these markets. We analyze the effects of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform and enlargement on the EU-15, the NMS, and world agricultural markets. We compare three 10-year comprehensive agricultural outlook scenarios. In a "pre-enlargement" scenario, all pre-enlargement policies of the EU-15 are held in place and the 10 NMS maintain their independent economic policies and older technologies as if nothing happens. The second scenario considers the CAP reform in the EU-15. The third scenario is the 2004 Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) baseline projection, which incorporates both the CAP reforms and accession of the 10 NMS with the associated domestic and trade policy reforms and some convergence in technology within the EU-25. With prices in most commodities in the acceding countries historically below EU-15 prices, accession leads to a moderate decrease in the EU-15 prices, whereas for the 10 NMS, domestic prices of many commodities increase substantially. Holding income levels constant, consumption levels of agricultural products in these countries decrease in most instances because of higher food prices, while production levels rise. The impact of the two reforms on world markets is moderate to negligible. The CAP reform has a moderate impact on the EU-15.
Monocular Vision based Crowdsourced 3D Traffic Sign Positioning with Unknown Camera Intrinsics and Distortion Coefficients
Creators: name: Chawla, Hemang
name: Jukola, Matti
name: Arani, Elahe
name: Zonooz, Bahram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Autonomous vehicles and driver assistance systems utilize maps of 3D semantic landmarks for improved decision making. However, scaling the mapping process as well as regularly updating such maps come with a huge cost. Crowdsourced mapping of these landmarks such as traffic sign positions provides an appealing alternative. The state-of-the-art approaches to crowdsourced mapping use ground truth camera parameters, which may not always be known or may change over time. In this work, we demonstrate an approach to computing 3D traffic sign positions without knowing the camera focal lengths, principal point, and distortion coefficients a priori. We validate our proposed approach on a public dataset of traffic signs in KITTI. Using only a monocular color camera and GPS, we achieve an average single journey relative and absolute positioning accuracy of 0.26 m and 1.38 m, respectively.
description: Accepted at 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)
ФИРИБГАРЛИК ЖИНОЯТИНИНГ ЎЗИГА ХОС ХУСУСИЯТЛАРИ
Creators: name: Матниязов, Данияр
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Мақолада фирибгарлик жинояти тушунчаси, қилмишнинг жиноят-ҳуқуқий тавсифи, унинг ҳуқуқий белгилари, баъзи хорижий давлатлар қонунчилигидаги фирибгарлик учун назарда тутилган жавобгарлик, айрим хорижий давлатлар қонунчилиги нормалари миллий жиноят қонуни нормалари билан қиёсий таҳлил қилинган.
Costs of Retailing Meats in Relation to Volume
Creators: name: Farstad, Edmund
name: Brensike, V. John
name: Farstad, Edmund
name: Brensike, V. John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1952
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics

description: The purposes of the study upon which this report is based were (1) to measure the costs of retailing meats in selected cities during 1950; (2) to ascertain the degree of variability in retailing costs among individual stores selected for study, as well as the variability in costs of retailing among cities; and (3) to ascertain the factors that affect operating costs and those that cause variations in costs of retailing.
OUTPUT SUPPLY AND INPUT DEMAND SYSTEM OF COMMERCIAL AND BACKYARD POULTRY PRODUCERS IN INDONESIA
Creators: name: Fabiosa, Jacinto F.
name: Jensen, Helen H.
name: Yan, Dong
name: Fabiosa, Jacinto F.
name: Jensen, Helen H.
name: Yan, Dong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: broiler trade
subject: Indonesian poultry production
subject: normalized quadratic profit function
subject: production economics

description: Indonesia's domestic broiler production has grown rapidly, in part because of a ban on imports of poultry parts and strict inspection and meat certification requirements. Whether Indonesia will continue to protect the domestic broiler sector and import feed grains and other inputs or whether it will directly import meat products is a relevant question to many stakeholders. This study uses a normalized quadratic function to estimate the output supply of commercial and backyard broiler producers in Indonesia and the input demand for three major inputs: day-old chicks, feed, and labor. Data come from three datasets: a 1996 household survey and 1996 and 2000 surveys of commercial producers. For the most recent dataset, the own-price elasticity in both the output supply and feed input demand equations were found to be significant. The signs of the elasticities were theoretically consistent, with a positive supply and negative demand elasticity. The magnitudes of the elasticities were smaller than expected (the supply elasticity was 0.285). The inelastic supply explains the high border protection imposed by Indonesia, which in turn implies that any income-driven expansion in the quantity of broiler product demanded would be quickly constrained by rising prices. Consequently, supply from imports would become attractive and would dampen any incentive for growth in the domestic sector. This result cast doubt on the long-term sustainability of Indonesia's import substitution policy regime.
24. Occcultations of Europa and Triton
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: A stellar occultation occurs when a solar system object passes in front of a star. The brightness drop can be used to determine the occulting object's size and shape, the presence of an atmosphere around it, and structures such as rings or moons. Gaia is allowing occultation events to be accurately predicted in much larger numbers.
Gallup/Potomac Poll # 1964-637POS: National Survey of Attitudes, Hopes, and Fears
Creators: name: Potomac Associates
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Location of birth (1); opinions on human nature (1); hopes and wishes for U.S. (57); fears and worries for U.S. (54); federal aid to education (1); Medicare (1); Civil Rights law (2); federal housing program (1); urban renewal program (1); aid to foreign countries (1); strength of U.S. defense (1); opinions on statements (3); opinions on certain groups and organizations (12); development of science and technology (1); nuclear power (2); race to land on the moon (1); preference for time to live in (1); concerns about certain problems (23); big business opinion (1); racial integration (1); opinions on international matters (6); opinions on other matters (6); countries U.S. should cooperate with (35); U.S. and Communism (2); most proud of as an American (9); rating of certain issues (9); rating certain Presidents (9); trust in President Lyndon Johnson (2); trust in Barry Goldwater (2); Johnson administration handling certain issues (18); Goldwater administration handling certain issues (18); partisan opinions (4); parents' partisan opinions (3); intentions to vote (2); Johnson vs. Goldwater (3); 1960 presidential election (1); Congressional elections 1962 (1).
Platinum group metal complexes of pyridyl- and anilinyldiphosphine ligands
Creators: name: Jones, Nathan David
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis describes the synthesis, structure, solution behaviour, reactivity and catalytic properties of a collection of platinum metal complexes coordinated by pyridyl- or anilinyldiphosphine ligands; the ligands have the general formula Ar₂P(Z)PAr₂ (for Ar = o-C₆H₄NMe₂, Z = CH₂ (dmapm), (CH₂)₂ (dmape), cyclic-C₅H₈ (dmapcp); for Ar = o-py, Z = (CH₂)₂ (dpype), cyclic-C₅H₈ (dpypcp); py = pyridyl). [the rest of the abstract can be found in the attached PDF file]
U.S. Proposal for WTO Agriculture Negotiations: Its Impact on U.S. and World Agriculture
Creators: name: Food And Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI)
name: Food And Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: Senator Chambliss asked FAPRI to analyze the latest U.S. proposal for WTO agriculture negotiations. This proposal includes changes in export competition, market access, and domestic support. The analysis covers the first seven years of policy changes implied by the proposal, during which the most significant reductions in tariffs and trade-distorting domestic support and elimination of export subsidies would be phased in starting in 2007/08. The proposal reduces the permitted current U.S. aggregate measures of support to $7.64 billion and limits blue box support to $4.77 billion. These limits imply lower loan rates and support prices and reduced counter-cyclical payments. The proposal lowers EU domestic support to 11.4 billion, implying large reductions in actual domestic support for sugar, dairy, cereals, fruits, and vegetables. The proposal includes significant tariff reductions or tariff rate quota (TRQ) expansions. These market access reforms would open the protected rice, sugar, and dairy markets.
Options for Orbifold-GUT Model Building from Five-Dimensional Supergravity
Creators: name: McReynolds, Sean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the first paper of a series that will examine the options for embedding supersymmetric orbifold-GUTs into five-dimensional N=2 Yang-Mills-Einstein supergravity theories (YMESGTs). In particular, we focus on the allowed couplings of charged hypermultiplets in the lowest dimensional reps of the gauge groups SU(5), SO(10) and E(6). Our results are within the classification of homogeneous quaternionic scalar manifolds. In the minimal coupling of a generation of bulk matter hypermultiplets, supergravity requires the field content of an SO(10) scenario. In the minimal coupling of $n$ bulk generations of matter and higgs hypermultiplets, supergravity requires the field content of an E(6) scenario. We also discuss the coupling of tensors and non-compact gaugings in 5D YMESGTs, which can serve as alternative ways to obtain four-dimensional Higgs sectors. Charged tensor couplings seem to be difficult to work with phenomenologically since a U(1) gauge factor is always required when they are present, and it is not clear if tensors can be put in unified multiplets with other fields, if this is desired. This seems to imply that tensor coulpings in GUT scenarios may be better suited in higher dimensional settings. The non-compact gaugings discussed here are simple, and offer a novel unification scenario in which the supergravity and vector multiplets are connected by gauge transformations. The main points are summarized in tables and the conclusion. Although the discussion is in the spirit of a "bottom-up" approach, M-theory is taken as a motivating background.
description: V.2 Significant changes: shortened, typos corrected, main focus of paper emphasized. Submitted to Nucl. Phys. B
More Impacts of Economic Reform in Poland: Welfare Changes within a Consistent Framework
Creators: name: Huffman, Sonya Kostova
name: Johnson, Stanley R.
name: Huffman, Sonya Kostova
name: Johnson, Stanley R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Political Economy

description: The costs of shortages and rationing are not captured by standard consumer price indices. In this study, virtual prices for the rationed goods are used to calculate a new cost-of-living index (CLI). The results for Poland show that from 1987 to 1992 the CLI that ignores the rationing effects is biased upward from 3.6 to 6.99 percentage points per year. Compared to the welfare loss calculated by neglecting the rationing effects in the prereform period, the welfare loss that reflects the rationing is only 25 percent as large using external virtual prices, and only 15 percent as large using Hausman virtual prices.
Nurse anesthesia programs: readiness for mentorship
Creators: name: Chan, Gloria
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: Resident Registered Nurse Anesthetists (RRNAs) undergo enormous stress related to the lifestyle changes that are necessary to commit to full time training in nurse anesthesia programs (NAPs). Mentorship and mentoring initiatives have proven to provide positive benefits to the parties involved and providing the positive support to enhance wellness in RRNAs. Purpose of Project: This descriptive study was conducted to assess the status of mentorship and mentorship initiatives in NAPs and to understand and analyze the specific constructs of organizational change from the perspective of nurse anesthesia program directors (NAPD) toward mentorship after viewing an online educational video. Methodology: NAP demographic information from current NAPDs (n=36) was conducted to obtain the current descriptive statistics of mentorship in nurse anesthesia programs. An adapted Organizational Readiness for Implementing Change (ORIC) measure was conducted via an online survey before and after viewing an online educational video concerning the topics of stress of RRNAs, mentorship and formalized mentorship programs. The adapted ORIC measure assessing for 6 constructs of change was completed by applicable study participants (n= 26). Responses to the survey were analyzed by comparing pre- and post- median scores via a Wilcoxon signed rank test. Results: Statistically significant increases in the median scores of change commitment, change valence, task knowledge and resource availability were noted in study participants (p <0.05), reflecting that education was able to increase organizational readiness for change in these specific constructs. Implications for Practice: The findings of this study suggest initiatives concerning NAPDs should target and address these constructs of change commitment, change valence, task knowledge and resource availability to successfully implement mentorship in nurse anesthesia programs in the future.
Robust determination of optical path difference: fringe tracking at the IOTA interferometer
Creators: name: Pedretti, Ettore
name: Traub, Wesley A.
name: Monnier, John D.
name: Millan-Gabet, Rafael
name: Carleton, Nathaniel P.
name: Schloerb, F. Peter
name: Brewer, Michael K.
name: Berger, Jean-Philippe
name: Lacasse, Marc G.
name: Ragland, Sam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the fringe packet tracking system used to equalise the optical path lengths at the Infrared Optical Telescope Array (IOTA) interferometer. The measurement of closure phases requires obtaining fringes on three baselines simultaneously. This is accomplished using an algorithm based on double Fourier interferometry for obtaining the wavelength-dependent phase of the fringes and a group delay tracking algorithm for determining the position of the fringe packet. The comparison between data acquired with and without the fringe packet tracker shows about a factor 3 reduction of the error on the closure-phase measurement. The fringe packet tracker has been able so far to track fringes of signal-to-noise as low as 1.8 for stars as faint as mH=7.0.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
TESTING FOR THE MONOTONE LIKELIHOOD RATIO ASSUMPTION
Creators: name: Roosen, Jutta
name: Hennessy, David A.
name: Roosen, Jutta
name: Hennessy, David A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: affiliation
subject: auction
subject: likelihood ratio
subject: order-restricted inference
subject: stochastic order

description: Monotonicity of the likelihood ratio for conditioned densities is a common technical assumption in economic models. But we have found no empirical tests for its plausibility. This paper develops such a test based on the theory of order-restricted inference, which is robust with respect to the correlation structure of the distributions being compared. We apply the test to study the technology revealed by agricultural production experiments. For the data under scrutiny, the results support the assumption of the monotone likelihood ratio. In a second application, we find some support for the assumption of affiliation among bids cast in a multiple-round Vickrey auction for a consumption good.
Evolution of Stellar Bars in Live Axisymmetric Halos: Recurrent Buckling and Secular Growth
Creators: name: Martinez-Valpuesta, Inma
name: Shlosman, Isaac
name: Heller, Clayton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evolution of stellar bars in disk galaxies is accompanied by dynamical instabilities and secular changes. Following the vertical buckling instability, the bars are known to weaken dramatically and develop a pronounced boxy/peanut shape when observed edge-on. Using high-resolution N-body simulations of stellar disks embedded in live axisymmetric dark matter halos, we have investigated the long-term changes in the bar morphology, specifically the evolution of the bar size, its vertical structure and exchange of angular momentum. We find that following the initial buckling, the bar resumes its growth from deep inside the corotation radius and follows the Ultra-Harmonic resonance thereafter. We also find that this secular bar growth triggers a spectacular secondary vertical buckling instability which leads to the appearance of characteristic boxy/peanut/X-shaped bulges. The secular bar growth is crucial for the recurrent buckling to develop. Furthermore, the secondary buckling is milder, persists over a substantial period of time, ~3 Gyr, and can have observational counterparts. Overall, the stellar bars show recurrent behavior in their properties and evolve by increasing their linear and vertical extents, both dynamically and secularly. We also demonstrate explicitly that the prolonged growth of the bar is mediated by continuous angular momentum transfer from the disk to the surrounding halo, and that this angular momentum redistribution is resonant in nature -- a large number of lower resonances trap disk and halo particles and this trapping is robust, in a broad agreement with the earlier results in the literature.
description: Revised (typos, references, additional figure), 15 pp., 11 figures (high-resolution figures and Mpeg Animation movie can be requested directly from the authors), The Astrophysical Journal, 637, in press. The Animation is available from http://www.pa.uky.edu/~shlosman/research/galdyn/movies.html
Validation of EPIC for Two Watersheds in Southwest Iowa
Creators: name: Kramer, L.A.
name: Gassman, Philip W.
name: Chung, S.W.
name: Williams, Jimmy R.
name: Gu, R.
name: Kramer, L.A.
name: Gassman, Philip W.
name: Chung, S.W.
name: Williams, Jimmy R.
name: Gu, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The Erosion Productivity Impact Calculator (EPIC) model was validated using long-term data collected for two southwest Iowa watersheds in the Deep Loess Soil Region, which have been cropped in continuous corn Zea Mays L. under two different tillage systems (conventional tillage and ridge-till). The annual hydrologic balance was calibrated for both watersheds during 1988-94 by adjusting the runoff curve numbers and residue effects on soil evaporation. Model validation was performed for 1976-87, using both summary statistics (means or medians) and parametric and nonparametric statistical tests. The errors between the 12-year predicted and observed means or medians were less than 10 percent for nearly all of the hydrologic and environmental indicators, with the major exception of a nearly 44 percent overprediction of the N surface runoff loss for Watershed 2. The predicted N leaching rates, N losses in surface runoff, and sediment loss for the two watersheds clearly showed that EPIC was able to simulate the long-term impacts of tillage and residue cover on these processes. However, the results also revealed weaknesses in the model's ability to replicate year-to-year variability, with r2 values generally below 50 percent and relatively weak goodness-of-fit statistics for some processes. This was due in part to simulating the watersheds in a homogeneous manner, which ignored complexities such as slope variation. Overall, the results show that EPIC was able to replicate the long-term relative differences between the two tillage systems and that the model is a useful tool for simulating different tillage systems in the region.
Laylo Research Strategies: April 2020 Coronavirus Facebook Poll of the Philippines
Creators: name: Laylo Research Strategies
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Actions taken in last week (13); how worried are you that any member of your family be infected by COVID-19 (coronavirus) (1); worried about finances under quarantine (1); satisfied with government's performance in addressing pandemic (2); optimistic that your family will recover from this pandemic (1).
Mechanism of Gravity Impulse
Creators: name: Wu, Ning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well-known that energy-momentum is the source of gravitational field. For a long time, it is generally believed that only stars with huge masses can generate strong gravitational field. Based on the unified theory of gravitational interactions and electromagnetic interactions, a new mechanism of the generation of gravitational field is studied. According to this mechanism, in some special conditions, electromagnetic energy can be directly converted into gravitational energy, and strong gravitational field can be generated without massive stars. Gravity impulse found in experiments is generated by this mechanism.
description: 10 pages
Habitus and Interest in Agroforestry Practices in Missouri
Creators: name: Flower, Todd
name: Valdivia, Corinne
name: Dorr, Hilary
name: Flower, Todd
name: Valdivia, Corinne
name: Dorr, Hilary
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: adoption
subject: attitudes
subject: forest farming
subject: habitus
subject: interest
subject: riparian

description: This study analyzes the factors driving interest in two agroforestry practices, riparian buffers and forest farming. Because agroforestry is outside main stream commodity production in US agriculture, the purpose is to evaluate a framework to understand attitudes. The framework incorporates Pierre Bourdieu's notions of "habitus" and "field" along with individual economic and demographic characteristics of farm operators' traditionally used in adoption studies. Four attitudes are analyzed: disengagers, conservatives, lifestyle, and accumulators. A Logit regression measures the effects of respondents' attitudes, and other internal and external factors to assess interest in each practice. The data used is from a household survey of 364 farm-operators from the Fox Wyaconda watershed in northeast Missouri and Scott County in southeast Missouri gathered in 1999. Findings show that a conservative or a lifestyle attitude, are significant, with high probability of being interested in riparian buffers. Those with an accumulator or a lifestyle attitude have a significant and high probability of being interested in forest farming. Other variables also significant in riparian buffer interest are knowledge of agroforestry, and interest in alternative farming practices, and especially having perceptions of erosion problems. In forest farming, a high value of farm and assets has a negative effect, while belonging to informal groups has a positive effect pointing to characteristics that do not belong to traditional farmers.
The synthesis and characterization of ruthenium disulfoxide complexes and their preliminary in vitro examination as potential chemotherapeutic agents
Creators: name: Huxham, Lynsey Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The anti-cancer activity of the water-soluble complexes cis- and trans- RuCl2(DMSO)4 has led, in this laboratory, to further investigation of disulfoxide complexes of Ru as potential chemotherapeutic agents. The dithioether precursors and disulfoxides were synthesized in this work following literature procedures. The disulfoxides used were of the formula RS(O)(CH2)nS(O)R, where R = Et (BESE) or Ph (BPhSE) for n = 2; and R = Et (BESP) or Pr (BPSP) for n = 3, and the dithioether used was BPTP (l,3-bis(propylthio)propane). These compounds/ligands were reacted with Ru precursors to yield complexes characterized mainly by NMR, elemental analysis, IR, and conductivity, while three complexes were also characterized by X-ray crystallography. A mixed sulfoxide/disulfoxide complex, cis-RuCl2(DMSO)2(BESE), was isolated during this thesis work. The water-soluble complex was characterized by X-ray crystallography, the solution chemistry was studied, and preliminary in vitro tests were performed. The crystal structure shows cis chlorides, one O-bound DMSO, one S-bound DMSO, and S-bound BESE. The complex does not exhibit significant host toxicity toward CHO (Chinese hamster ovarian) cells below 1.1 mM, and was found to have essentially no anti-cancer activity, at concentrations up to 3 mM, toward human mammary cancer cells. The known complex [RuCl(BESE)(H2O)]2(μ-Cl)2 ionizes in aqueous solution to generate 2 equiv. of H+ and 2 equiv. Cl per mole of complex, and sulfoxide exchange reactions with the in situ formed species (thought to be [Ru(BESE)(OH)(H2O)]2(μ-Cl)2) were briefly studied. In an attempt to synthesize the previously characterized, dinuclear complex [RuCl2(BPTP)]2(μ-Cl)2 , trans-RuCl2(BPTP)2 was isolated and characterized by NMR, and elemental analysis. The synthesis of thioether complexes was performed to attempt a subsequent oxidation of the coordinated dithioether while retaining the geometry about the Ru. This thesis work led to the isolation of three Ru disulfoxide-bridged complexes. One such complex, [RuCl3(BPhSE)](μ-BPhSE), was characterized by elemental analysis, IR, and mass spectrometry, and two Ru(p-cymene) complexes with bridging sulfoxides were also isolated. The first, [RuCl2(p-cymene)]2(μ-BESE), was characterized by X-ray crystallography and contains S-bound sulfoxide, while the other, [RuCl2(p-cymene)]2(μ- BESP), characterized by NMR, elemental analysis, and IR, appears to be chemically similar to the μ-BESE complex. [RuCl2(p-cymene)]2(μ-BESE) was shown in vitro to exhibit no significant host toxicity below concentrations of 1.1 mM, but did exhibit, in the concentration range 345-360 μM, anti-cancer activity against human mammary cancer cells. A third p-cymene complex, [RuCl(p-cymene)(BESE)]PF6 , was characterized by X-ray crystallography and shown to have S-bound sulfoxide. [Scientific formulae used in this abstract could not be reproduced.]
Sri Lanka's Rural Non-farm Economy: Removing Constraints to Pro-poor Growth
Creators: name: Jin, Songqing
name: Deininger, Klaus W.
name: Sur, Mona
name: Jin, Songqing
name: Deininger, Klaus W.
name: Sur, Mona
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: We use a survey of small rural enterprises from Sri Lanka to demonstrate quantitatively the economic importance of this sector and to identify participants' characteristics and obstacles to the sector's expansion and productivity. Value added in the rural non-farm sector is estimated to amount to 80% of agricultural GDP and mean incomes for those having a rural enterprise to be about double of those who do not. Barriers to entry appear to be low and the impact of non-farm enterprise development on inequality modest and temporary, implying the potential for the sector to make a significant contribution to growth and poverty reduction. At the same time, infrastructure constraints (but not regulatory obstacles) pose a formidable barrier to startup of new enterprises and to investment and increased productivity by existing ones. The fact that such constraints emerge as particularly harmful for small enterprises suggests that policies to improve delivery of the public services in question will be important to provide a basis for a flourishing rural non-farm sector which in turn will have an important role for poverty reduction.
Accessible Artmaking Put into Practice: Ha Bik Chuen (1925-2009) on Being-in-the-World
Creators: name: Holton, Delaney
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ha Bik Chuen
modern art
contemporary art
Chinese art
Hong Kong
Flanerie
photography
collage
archive

description: This thesis investigates the intersection of access in artmaking and Ha Bik Chuen’s position on the periphery of the mainstream art world by drawing from a selection of works of photography, collage books, and original writings from the Ha Bik Chuen Archive. I advocate for Ha’s conviction in the value of his individual perspective, captured and recorded via practices of archive, photography, and collage. Through this thesis project, I hope to address the dearth of research on the Ha Bik Chuen Archive to provide needed context from which future studies may draw. My curation and production of an interactive archive exhibition seeks to promote, in the 21st century, the do-it-yourself artmaking practice Ha employed in his 60-year archival project. With this thesis, I argue that the Ha Bik Chuen Archive continues to embody the vision of accessibility Ha set forth when he bequeathed the collection to Hong Kong for public use as a dynamic, living archive.
Error bounds for monotone approximation schemes for parabolic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations
Creators: name: Barles, Guy
name: Jakobsen, Espen R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M15, 65M06, 35K55, 49L25

description: We obtain non-symmetric upper and lower bounds on the rate of convergence of general monotone approximation/numerical schemes for parabolic Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Equations by introducing a new notion of consistency. We apply our general results to various schemes including finite difference schemes, splitting methods and the classical approximation by piecewise constant controls.
Reducing Deer Overabundance by Distinguishing High-productivity Hunters: Revealed-Preference, Incentive-Compatible Licensing Mechanisms
Creators: name: Ward, Kelly John
name: Ward, Kelly John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: deer overabundance
subject: incentive compatible
subject: deer harvest

description: This paper models the current problem of overabundance (and under-harvesting) of white-tailed deer as a Principal-Agent problem, with adverse selection and moral hazard. Using econometric analysis of data available from hunter behaviors studies in Pennsylvania, overall welfare gains are estimated from increased hunter satisfaction and license revenue. Results indicate that significant gains in economic surplus result when licensing schemes are unrestricted by current quota systems.
Plator insolens
Creators: name: Zhu, Ming-Sheng
name: Tang, Gui-Ming
name: Zhang, Feng
name: Song, Da-Xiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Trochanteriidae
Plator
Plator insolens

description: The insolens species­group The insolens species­group can be recognized from other Plator species by the absence of RTA of male pedipalpus (Figs 19, 24, 30, 35), and female epigyne with narrow first windings of the copulatory duct system (Figs 17, 22, 27, 28, 33). Three species, all from Northeast Asia, are included in this group: P. i n s o l e n s Simon 1880, P. sinicus Zhu & Wang 1963 and P. nipponicus (Kishida, 1914). Here the former two Chinese species are redescribed.
description: Published as part of Zhu, Ming-Sheng, Tang, Gui-Ming, Zhang, Feng & Song, Da-Xiang, 2006, Revision of the spider family Trochanteriidae from China (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), pp. 31-51 in Zootaxa 1140 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1140.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/172053
description: {"references": ["Simon, E. (1880) Etudes arachnologiques. 11 e Memoire. XVII. Arachnides recueilles aux environs de Pekin par M. V. Collin de Plancy. Annales de la Socit entomologue de France, 10 (5), 97 - 128.", "Zhu, C. D. & Wang, F. Z. (1963) Chinese Platoridae and a new species. Journal of Jilin Medical University, 5, 467 - 470. (In Chinese).", "Kishida, K. (1914) Japanese spiders (9). Kagaku-sekai 8, 44 - 47."]}
Samlinger af juridiske og historiske Materier |c ved Lorentz Ewensen, Kongelig Toldprocureur i Trundhiems Stift
Creators: name: Ewensen, Lorentz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1784

description: Første bind, Fjerde hefte. Bind 1 Inneholder 4 hefter med separat tittelblad og paginering.
Bernoulli Regression Models: Re-examining Statistical Models with Binary Dependent Variables
Creators: name: Bergtold, Jason S.
name: Spanos, Aris
name: Bergtold, Jason S.
name: Spanos, Aris
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Bernoulli Regression Model
subject: logistic regression
subject: generalized linear models
subject: discrete choice
subject: probabilistic reduction approach
subject: model specification

description: The classical approach for specifying statistical models with binary dependent variables in econometrics using latent variables or threshold models can leave the model misspecified, resulting in biased and inconsistent estimates as well as erroneous inferences. Furthermore, methods for trying to alleviate such problems, such as univariate generalized linear models, have not provided an adequate alternative for ensuring the statistical adequacy of such models. The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the underlying probabilistic foundations of statistical models with binary dependent variables using the probabilistic reduction approach to provide an alternative approach for model specification. This re-examination leads to the development of the Bernoulli Regression Model. Simulated and empirical examples provide evidence that the Bernoulli Regression Model can provide a superior approach for specifying statistically adequate models for dichotomous choice processes.
25. The origin of Oumuamua
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The astronomy world was captivated by the announcement of an interstellar traveller in October 2017. Named Oumuamua, from the Hawaaian for 'scout', it was discovered crossing the solar system some 40 days after its closest approach to the Sun. Gaia is in the process of pin-pointing its progenitor star system.
Do Homebuyers Care about the 'Quality' of Natural Habitats?
Creators: name: Katz, G.
name: Colby, Bonnie G.
name: Osgood, Daniel E.
name: Bark-Hodgins, Rosalind H.
name: Stromberg, J.
name: Katz, G.
name: Colby, Bonnie G.
name: Osgood, Daniel E.
name: Bark-Hodgins, Rosalind H.
name: Stromberg, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: We study if homebuyers in Tucson, Arizona care about the condition of natural habitats and if they have preferences between natural and manmade habitats. Using field work data we examine whether homebuyers willingness to pay is influenced by the biological condition of the neighboring riparian habitat and how homebuyers value alternative manmade green areas, specifically golf courses. We also explore the relationship between the field data and remote sensing vegetation indices. The results of a hedonic analysis of houses that sold within 0.2 miles of 51 stratified-random selected riparian survey sites in Tucson, Arizona reveals that homebuyers significantly value habitat quality and negatively value manmade park-like features. Homebuyers are willing to pay twenty percent more to live near a riparian corridor that is densely vegetated and contains more shrub and tree species, particularly species that are dependent on perennial water flow. These environmental premiums are significant, outweighing structural factors such as an additional garage or swimming pool. Likewise, proximity to a riparian habitat with low biological quality or to a golf course lowers property values.
Labeling Genetically Modified Food Products: Attitudes among the consumers in the United States and United Kingdom
Creators: name: Rimal, Arbindra
name: Moon, Wanki
name: Balasubramanian, Siva K.
name: Rimal, Arbindra
name: Moon, Wanki
name: Balasubramanian, Siva K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Eight perceived attributes of agro-biotechnology were identified to be associated with consumers' attitude toward existing practices of GM food labeling. The perceived negative attributes, particularly health risk from GM food, played a dominant role in shaping the overall attitude toward GM labeling. Female and older respondents were more likely to be concerned about the existing GM labeling practices than male and younger respondents. Consumers with college education were less likely to be concerned about existing GM labeling practices than those without college degree.
The Effects of Photon Bubble Instability in Radiation-Dominated Accretion Disks
Creators: name: Turner, N. J.
name: Blaes, O. M.
name: Socrates, A.
name: Begelman, M. C.
name: Davis, S. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the effects of photon bubble instability in radiation-dominated accretion disks such as those found around black holes in active galactic nuclei and X-ray binary star systems. Two- and 3-D numerical radiation MHD calculations of small patches of disk are used. Modes with wavelengths shorter than the gas pressure scale height grow faster than the orbital frequency in the surface layers. The fastest growth rate observed is five times the orbital frequency and occurs on nearly-vertical magnetic fields. The spectrum of linear modes agrees with a WKB analysis indicating still faster growth at unresolved scales, with a maximum proportional to the gravity and inversely proportional to the gas sound speed. Disturbances reaching non-linear amplitudes steepen into trains of shocks similar to a 1-D periodic non-linear analytic solution. Variations in propagation speed result in merging of adjacent fronts, and over time the shock spacing and amplitude increase. Growth is limited by the strength of the field, and the structure is disrupted when the ram pressure exceeds the magnetic pressure. The largest horizontal density variations are similar to the ratio of magnetic to gas pressure, and in our calculations are more than 100. Under the conditions considered, radiation diffuses through the inhomogeneneous flow 5x faster than through the initial hydrostatic equilibrium, and the net cooling rate is several times greater than in a similar calculation without magnetic fields showing the effects of convection. These results indicate photon bubbles may be important in cooling radiation-dominated disks.
description: 21 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
A Study of Pseudo-Central Collision Events Observed in Pion-Nucleus Interactions
Creators: name: Ahmad, Tufail
name: Ahmad, Nazeer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present study is based on the interactions caused by 340-GeV negative pions with emulsion nuclei. The main aim of this paper is to investigate some aspects of central collision events. Thus, the events in which the total number of charged shower particles is greater than or equal to twenty eight (Ns geq 28) were chosen for the analysis. They are not exactly central collision events, but may be considered as pseudo-central collision events. The angular characteristics of relativistic charged secondaries have been studied in terms of pseudo-rapidity, and bimodality is found to be absent in the distributions. The mean pseudo-rapidity seems to be independent of grey and heavy particle multiplicities, which indicates its independence with number of collisions. Finally, the correlation between different particle multiplicities in this paper is discussed.
description: Accepted
Allerunderdanigste Beskrivelse over Nordlands Amt efter de fra det ... Danske Cancelie den ... April 1743 foreskrevne Spørsmaale og Puncter
Creators: name: Schnitler, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1744
Subjects: Topografi
lokalhistorie
nord-norge

description: Forfatteren er temmelig sikkert Peter Schnitler, se bl. a. henvisning til Examinationsprotokollen (2 steder) IV, s. 345 ff
A Theory of the Pseudogap State of the Cuprates
Creators: name: Varma, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phase diagram for a general model for Cuprates is derived in a mean-field approximation. A phase violating time-reversal without breaking translational symmetry is possible when both the ionic interactions and the local repulsions are large compared to the energy difference between the Cu and O single-particle levels. It ends at a quantum critical point as the hole or electron doping is increased. Such a phase is necessarily accompanied by singular forward scattering such that, in the stable phase, the density of states at the chemical potential, projected to a particular point group symmetry of the lattice is zero producing thereby an anisotropic gap in the single-particle spectrum. It is suggested that this phase occupies the "pseudogap" region of the phase diagram of the cuprates. The temperature dependence of the single-particle spectra, the density of states, the specific heat and the magnetic susceptibility are calculated with rather remarkable correspondence with the experimental results. The importance of further direct experimental verification of such a phase in resolving the principal issues in the theory of the Cuprate phenomena is pointed out. To this end, some predictions are provided.
description: 41 pages, 8 figures
Chaotic desynchronization of multi-strain diseases
Creators: name: Schwartz, Ira B.
name: Shaw, Leah B.
name: Cummings, Derek A. T.
name: Billings, Lora
name: McCrary, Marie
name: Burke, Donald S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-strain diseases are diseases that consist of several strains, or serotypes. The serotypes may interact by antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), in which infection with a single serotype is asymptomatic, but infection with a second serotype leads to serious illness accompanied by greater infectivity. It has been observed from serotype data of dengue hemorrhagic fever that outbreaks of the four serotypes occur asynchronously. Both autonomous and seasonally driven outbreaks were studied in a model containing ADE. For sufficiently small ADE, the number of infectives of each serotype synchronizes, with outbreaks occurring in phase. When the ADE increases past a threshold, the system becomes chaotic, and infectives of each serotype desynchronize. However, certain groupings of the primary and second ary infectives remain synchronized even in the chaotic regime.
description: 6 pages with 7 figures accepted to Physical Review E
Experimental Evidence of Risk Aversion in Consumer Markets: The Case of Beef Tenderness
Creators: name: Alfnes, Frode
name: Rickertsen, Kyrre
name: Ueland, Oydis
name: Alfnes, Frode
name: Rickertsen, Kyrre
name: Ueland, Oydis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: We use an experimental auction market to investigate how inconsistency in tenderness affects consumers' WTP for beef. We find that both the level and the spread of tenderness affect consumers' WTP. Categorization the beef into various classes of tenderness increased the total value of the beef by 8%.