cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Access-based Intuitionistic Knowledge
Creators: name: Lewitzka, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce the concept of access-based intuitionistic knowledge which relies on the intuition that agent $i$ knows $φ$ if $i$ has found access to a proof of $φ$. Basic principles are distribution and factivity of knowledge as well as $\squareφ\rightarrow K_iφ$ and $K_i(φ\veeψ) \rightarrow (K_iφ\vee K_iψ)$, where $\squareφ$ reads `$φ$ is proved'. The formalization extends a family of classical modal logics designed in [Lewitzka 2015, 2017, 2019] as combinations of $IPC$ and $CPC$ and as systems for the reasoning about proof, i.e. intuitionistic truth. We adopt a formalization of common knowledge from [Lewitzka 2011] and interpret it here as access-based common knowledge. We compare our proposal with recent approaches to intuitionistic knowledge [Artemov and Protopopescu 2016; Lewitzka 2017, 2019] and bring together these different concepts in a unifying semantic framework based on Heyting algebra expansions.
description: 28 pages
A. Alpago-Novello u.a., Architecture Géorgienne
Creators: name: Wessel, Klaus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 63 (1979): Oriens christianus, Band 63
Trade and environmental protection within the World Trade Organization framework
Creators: name: Zhu, Yun
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The issue of tensions between market access and environmental protection is relatively new focus in the domain of international trade. This article suggests solutions to this conflict within the WTO framework so that while pursuing the goals of free trade and promoting development of economy the objective of 'sustainable development' can be achieved at the same time. This article includes an introduction, the main body (three chapters) and conclusion. j The Introduction starts by describing the development of the regimes of market access and environmental protection; it goes on to analyze the causes of the tension between the two and finally emphasizes the importance of resolving this tension within the World Trade Organization (WTO) framework. Chapter One elaborates on the existing principles, regulations and exception in the WTO framework and states that these regulations cannot live up to expectations of the developed countries and environmentalists. The conclusion is that it is impractical for the developing countries to avoid this issue. Chapter Two starts with an inquiry into the crux of tensions between free trade and environmental protection. It goes on to enlist different proposals by academic scholars and compare these principles' application in European Community Treaty (EC) and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), hoping to resolve the tensions between market access and environmental protection. Chapter Three summarizes academic proposals and experiences of EC and NAFTA and discusses possible practical resolutions within WTO including both short-term measures and long-term ones. This chapter concludes by suggesting possible courses of action for China that could allow it to sustain the 'green challenge.' The Conclusion discusses the objectivity and unavoidability of the tensions between the free trade and the environment protection and reinforces the importance of resolving the problem within the WTO framework as well as the necessity of amending related regulations and harmonizing environmental standards of the WTO members.
A. Alpago-Novello u.a., Consistenza e tipologia delle chiese armene in Iran
Creators: name: Wessel, Klaus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 63 (1979): Oriens christianus, Band 63
High-energy Astrophysics and the Virtual Observatory
Creators: name: Padovani, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Virtual Observatory (VO) will revolutionise the way we do Astronomy by allowing easy access to all astronomical data and by making the handling and analysis of datasets at various locations across the globe much simpler and faster. I report here on the need for the VO and its status in Europe, concentrating on the recently started EURO-VO project, and then give two specific applications of VO tools to high-energy astrophysics.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, invited talk at the Workshop ``Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources'', Vulcano, Italy, May 2005, F. Giovannelli et al., in press
Relativistic Harmonic Oscillator
Creators: name: Li, Z. -F.
name: Liu, J. J.
name: Lucha, Wolfgang
name: Ma, W. G.
name: Schoberl, F. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the semirelativistic Hamiltonian operator composed of the relativistic kinetic energy and a static harmonic-oscillator potential in three spatial dimensions and construct, for bound states with vanishing orbital angular momentum, its eigenfunctions in compact form, i. e., as power series, with expansion coefficients determined by an explicitly given recurrence relation. The corresponding eigenvalues are fixed by the requirement of normalizability of the solutions.
description: 14 pages, extended discussion of results
Global Open Science Cloud (GOSC) Flyer 2023
Creators: name: GOSC International Programme Office (GOSC IPO)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science
Open Science Cloud
Global Open Science Cloud

description: The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science affirms the importance of Open Infrastructure as one of the key pillars of Open Science. The Recommendation calls for the development of multinational, regional, and national Open Science platforms, as integrated and federated e-infrastructures, and urges stakeholders to ensure that no one is left behind. The idea to bring together partners to co-design and co-build the Global Open Science Cloud (GOSC) originated at the CODATA 2019 Beijing conference. Launched in 2021, the GOSC Initiative is now an important component of the ISC CODATA Decadal Programme ‘Making Data Work for Cross-Domain Grand Challenges’, in the International Science Council’s Action Plan, and is supported by seed funding from the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). CODATA and the Computer Network Information Center (CNIC), CAS work together to coordinate and support the international collaborations around GOSC.
Magnon and Spin Transition Contribution in Heat Capacity of Ferromagnetic Cr-doped MnTe: Experimental Evidence for a Paramagnetic Spin-Caloritronic Effect
Creators: name: Polash, Md Mobarak Hossain
name: Rasoulianboroujeni, Morteza
name: Vashaee, Daryoosh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present experimental evidence for the simultaneous existence of the magnons and spin-state transition contributions to the heat capacity in ferromagnetic (FM) Cr-doped MnTe (Tc~280K), where the magnon heat capacity is attributed to the observed magnon-bipolar carrier-drag thermopower. The pristine antiferromagnetic (AFM) MnTe shows only a magnon-induced peak in the heat capacity near the Neel temperature, TN~307K. However, Cr-doped MnTe shows a magnon-contributed heat capacity peak at ~293K with an additional peak in the deep paramagnetic domain near 780K. Temperature-dependent magnetic susceptibility reveals that Cr-doping initially creates low-spin (LS) states Mn2+ ions into MnTe near and below TN due to a higher crystal field induced by Cr ions. Above 400K, LS Mn2+ ions start converting into high-spin (HS) Mn2+ ions. The LS-to-HS transition of Mn2+ leads to an excess entropy and hence excess heat capacity contribution in the system. Temperature-dependent X-ray diffraction (XRD) and magnetic field-dependent susceptibility (M-H) confirmed no presence of any structural changes and magnetic polaron, respectively. Both XRD and M-H ensure that the peak of the heat capacity in the paramagnetic domain is originated solely by the spin-state transition. The heat capacity versus temperature was calculated to explain the contribution of each component, including the ones due to the phonons, magnons, spin-transition, Schottky anomaly, and lattice dilation. With the recent advances in spin-caloritronics extending the spin-based effects from magnetic to paramagnetic materials, the data from the heat capacity can play a crucial role to probe the presence of different phenomena such as paramagnon-carrier-drag and spin-entropy thermopowers.
Ricerca sull'architettura Armena 10 und 15
Creators: name: Wessel, Klaus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 63 (1979): Oriens christianus, Band 63
Patenting innovation : intellectual property rights in the new economy
Creators: name: Ramage, Ian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In advanced industrial economies where, increasingly, intellectual assets are the principal source of value, productivity, and growth, strong intellectual property rights (IPRs)—conferred by patents, copyrights, and penalties for misappropriation of trade secrets—are an important inducement to invention and investment. For this reason, the extension and strengthening of IPRs in the United States and elsewhere in the past twenty-five years were appropriate and probably necessary. It may be that in some respects those processes should proceed further. On the other hand, there is growing friction over the assertion and exercise of some IPRs, particular patents, and claims that in some circumstances they may be discouraging research, its communication, and use. The question arises whether in some respects the strengthening and extension have proceeded too far. It is well known that the use of, reliance upon, and effects of patent protections vary across industries and technologies, but until recently there has been remarkably little empirical research documenting these differences. Fortunately, this is beginning to change, and the effects of some of the policy changes in the 1980s and 1990s are beginning to be investigated. Some evidence suggests that the effort to strengthen patent rights has indeed increased their importance and may have contributed to the growth of industrial R&D funding. On the other hand, recent survey evidence indicates that U.S. manufacturing firms in most industries rely more heavily on trade secrecy, lead time, and other technological protections to recoup their R&D investments than they do on legal mechanisms such as patents. This thesis examines the effects that a stronger, broader patent regime is having on today's industries. The main issues that emerge are those of patent quality and scope, as caused by problems with patent administration and litigation. Various solutions to these problems are then investigated, and recommendations made for future reform.
Additional file 1 of Utility value estimates in cardiovascular disease and the effect of changing elicitation methods: a systematic literature review
Creators: name: Betts, Marissa Blieden
name: Pratik Rane
name: Bergrath, Evelien
name: Madhura Chitnis
name: Mohit Kumar Bhutani
name: Gulea, Claudia
name: Qian, Yi
name: Villa, Guillermo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1. File format including the correct file extension (including name and a URL of an appropriate viewer if format is unusual). Supplementary Material. Pages: 12. Figures: 3. Tables: 5.
A STUDENT-TO-STUDENT PROGRAM: THE POLICY FAIR
Creators: name: White, Fred C.
name: White, Fred C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Student participation in such instructional activities as presentations, panel discussions, and projects can be used to stimulate interest and learning. Such activities need not be limiting to a single class. This paper describes potential linkages between selected classes in which students from upper level or graduate classes are used as instructional resources in other classes. The general approach, which is described as a student-to-student program, has been applied in a Policy Fair. The Policy Fair is described and evaluated in this paper. There was a widespread support among faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate for the general concept and this specific application.
AN ANALYSIS OF CONSUMER CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PURCHASE OF BEEF AND PORK VARIETY MEATS
Creators: name: Goodwin, Barry K.
name: Koudele, Joe W.
name: Goodwin, Barry K.
name: Koudele, Joe W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: This analysis uses a dichotomous qualitative response model to assess the influences of several economic and demographic characteristics of consumers on the purchase decision for variety (edible organ and offal) meats. Specific factors considered include education, age, income, household size, and ethnic heritage. Data collected from a survey of 3,340 consumers are utilized. Results confirm strong income, age, household size, and ethic effects on the purchase of variety meats.
Detecting Suspicious Behavior: How to Deal with Visual Similarity through Neural Networks
Creators: name: Martínez-Mascorro, Guillermo A.
name: Ortiz-Bayliss, José C.
name: Terashima-Marín, Hugo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Suspicious behavior is likely to threaten security, assets, life, or freedom. This behavior has no particular pattern, which complicates the tasks to detect it and define it. Even for human observers, it is complex to spot suspicious behavior in surveillance videos. Some proposals to tackle abnormal and suspicious behavior-related problems are available in the literature. However, they usually suffer from high false-positive rates due to different classes with high visual similarity. The Pre-Crime Behavior method removes information related to a crime commission to focus on suspicious behavior before the crime happens. The resulting samples from different types of crime have a high-visual similarity with normal-behavior samples. To address this problem, we implemented 3D Convolutional Neural Networks and trained them under different approaches. Also, we tested different values in the number-of-filter parameter to optimize computational resources. Finally, the comparison between the performance using different training approaches shows the best option to improve the suspicious behavior detection on surveillance videos.
Kinetic theory models for the distribution of wealth: power law from overlap of exponentials
Creators: name: Patriarca, Marco
name: Chakraborti, Anirban
name: Kaski, Kimmo
name: Germano, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Various multi-agent models of wealth distributions defined by microscopic laws regulating the trades, with or without a saving criterion, are reviewed. We discuss and clarify the equilibrium properties of the model with constant global saving propensity, resulting in Gamma distributions, and their equivalence to the Maxwell-Boltzmann kinetic energy distribution for a system of molecules in an effective number of dimensions $D_λ$, related to the saving propensity $λ$ [M. Patriarca, A. Chakraborti, and K. Kaski, Phys. Rev. E 70 (2004) 016104]. We use these results to analyze the model in which the individual saving propensities of the agents are quenched random variables, and the tail of the equilibrium wealth distribution exhibits a Pareto law $f(x) \propto x^{-α-1}$ with an exponent $α=1$ [A. Chatterjee, B. K. Chakrabarti, and S. S. Manna, Physica Scripta T106 (2003) 367]. Here, we show that the observed Pareto power law can be explained as arising from the overlap of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions associated to the various agents, which reach an equilibrium state characterized by their individual Gamma distributions. We also consider the influence of different types of saving propensity distributions on the equilibrium state.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures, Springer style. Submitted to the Proc. Vol. for the International Workshop on the "Econophysics of Wealth Distributions"
Additional file 1 of Characterisation of an inflammation-related epigenetic score and its association with cognitive ability
Creators: name: Stevenson, Anna J.
name: McCartney, Daniel L.
name: Hillary, Robert F.
name: Campbell, Archie
name: Morris, Stewart W.
name: Mairead L. Bermingham
name: Walker, Rosie M.
name: Evans, Kathryn L.
name: Boutin, Thibaud S.
name: Hayward, Caroline
name: McRae, Allan F.
name: McColl, Barry W.
name: Spires-Jones, Tara L.
name: McIntosh, Andrew M.
name: Deary, Ian J.
name: Marioni, Riccardo E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary methods.
TARGET MARKETS FOR RETAIL OUTLETS OF LANDSCAPE PLANTS
Creators: name: Turner, Steven C.
name: Dorfman, Jeffrey H.
name: Fletcher, Stanley M.
name: Turner, Steven C.
name: Dorfman, Jeffrey H.
name: Fletcher, Stanley M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Merchandisers of landscape plants can increase the effectiveness of their marketing strategies by identifying target markets. Using a full information maximum likelihood tobit procedure on a system of three equations, target markets for different types of retail outlets in Georgia were identified. The results lend support and empirical evidence to the premise that different retail outlet types have different target markets and thus should develop different market strategies. The estimated target markets are identified and possible marketing strategies suitable for each type of retail outlet are suggested.
A comparative analysis of semantic frames and constructions in the English and German translations of Le Petit Prince
Creators: name: Ahn, Ji Hyun
name: 0000-0003-2545-2364
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Frame semantics
Construction grammar
Comparative analysis
Parallel texts

description: The goal of my Master’s Report is to gain a better understanding of how the semantics of the frames are realized syntactically by applying the theories of Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar to parallel texts. The report seeks answers to the following research questions. First, do the English and German translations of the same source text evoke “maximally comparable frames” (Čulo 2013: 142)? Second, to what degree is the assignment of semantic frames realized with different morpho-syntactic constructions? Chapter 1 introduces the topic of the report and the research questions. In Chapter 2, I review prior research on multilingual lexical databases using semantic frames, text analysis and translations through semantic frames and constructions, FrameNet, and the Berkeley constructicon (a repository of grammatical constructions). In Chapter 3, I introduce my methodology for annotation and analysis as well as my data. In addition to the phrase type construction layers and the frame layers developed by Ziem et al. (2014), my annotations consist of the lemma layer, part of speech layer, and layers for other grammatical/schematic constructions including word order construction, tense constructions, number constructions, subject-predicate agreement constructions, and subject-auxiliary-inversion constructions. The data in my Master’s Report consists of five pairs of English and German sentences translated from the French source Le Petit Prince. In Chapter 4, I provide annotations of each of the five sentences from the English translation and the German translation, using annotations I created with Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. After I provide the annotation of the first English sentence, I provide a prose description followed by the annotation of the German translation and its prose description. Then, I discuss similarities and differences in how the semantic frames are evoked by different LUs and to what degree the realizations of constructions diverge between the two sentences. Chapter 5 summarizes my results and discusses future research on the topic.
Confidence-rich grid mapping
Creators: name: Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar
name: Heiden, Eric
name: Hausman, Karol
name: Sukhatme, Gaurav S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Representing the environment is a fundamental task in enabling robots to act autonomously in unknown environments. In this work, we present confidence-rich mapping (CRM), a new algorithm for spatial grid-based mapping of the 3D environment. CRM augments the occupancy level at each voxel by its confidence value. By explicitly storing and evolving confidence values using the CRM filter, CRM extends traditional grid mapping in three ways: first, it partially maintains the probabilistic dependence among voxels. Second, it relaxes the need for hand-engineering an inverse sensor model and proposes the concept of sensor cause model that can be derived in a principled manner from the forward sensor model. Third, and most importantly, it provides consistent confidence values over the occupancy estimation that can be reliably used in collision risk evaluation and motion planning. CRM runs online and enables mapping environments where voxels might be partially occupied. We demonstrate the performance of the method on various datasets and environments in simulation and on physical systems. We show in real-world experiments that, in addition to achieving maps that are more accurate than traditional methods, the proposed filtering scheme demonstrates a much higher level of consistency between its error and the reported confidence, hence, enabling a more reliable collision risk evaluation for motion planning.
description: Published at International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) 2019 (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0278364919839762)
THE WHEAT AND STOCKER CATTLE ANALYZER: A MICROCOMPUTER DECISION AID FOR EVALUATING WHEAT PRODUCTION AND STOCKER CATTLE GRAZING DECISIONS
Creators: name: Ralston, Roger E.
name: Knight, Thomas O.
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Lippke, Lawrence A.
name: Ralston, Roger E.
name: Knight, Thomas O.
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Lippke, Lawrence A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The Wheat and Stocker Cattle Analyzer is a microcomputer decision aid for evaluating interrelated wheat production and stocker cattle grazing decisions under yield, weight gain, and price uncertainty. An important feature of the model is that wheat commodity program provisions are incorporated into the analysis. A wide range of alternatives including wheat production for grain only, owned stocker cattle grazing, and wheat pasture leasing can be evaluated by the program.
Ochterus louisiadae Baehr 1990
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Carapezza, Attilio
name: Jindra, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Ochteridae
Ochterus
Ochterus louisiadae

description: Ochterus louisiadae Baehr, 1990
 Ochterus louisiadae Baehr, 1990b: 451, 453, 455–459, 461, 470 –471 (key to species, description, illustrations). HOLOTYPE:, Papua New Guinea: Rossel Island: ʻSE: Louisiade Archipelago, Yela I., Wo Po River, 400 m’ (BMNH).
 Ochterus louisiadae: CHEN et al. (2005): 413 (checklist).
  Distribution. Australian Region:  Papua New Guinea: Louisiade Archipelago (BAEHR 1990b, CHEN et al. 2005).
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 23-64 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3879659
A solid-state NMR three-qubit homonuclear system for quantum information processing: control and characterization
Creators: name: Baugh, Jonathan
name: Moussa, Osama
name: Ryan, Colm A.
name: Laflamme, Raymond
name: Ramanathan, Chandrasekhar
name: Havel, Timothy F.
name: Cory, David G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A three-qubit 13C solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) system for quantum information processing, based on the malonic acid molecule, is used to demonstrate high-fidelity universal quantum control via strongly-modulating radio-frequency pulses. This control is achieved in the strong-coupling regime, in which the timescales of selective qubit addressing and of two-qubit interactions are comparable.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, submitted to PRA; revised version has significant changes to section V, minor changes throughout, and added several references
Factorization and polarization in two charmed-meson B decays
Creators: name: Chen, Chuan-Hung
name: Geng, Chao-Qiang
name: Wei, Zheng-Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a comprehensive test of factorization in the heavy-heavy $B$ decays motivated by the recent experimental data from BELLE and BABAR collaborations. The penguin effects are not negligible in the B decays with two pseudoscalar mesons. The direct CP asymmetries are found to be a few percent. We give estimates on the weak annihilation contributions by analogy to the observed annihilation-dominated processes. The $N_c$ insensitivity of branching ratios indicates that the soft final state interactions are not dominant. We also study the polarizations in $B\to D^*D_{(s)}^*$ decays. The power law shows that the transverse perpendicular polarization fraction is small. The effects of the heavy quark symmetry breaking caused by the perturbative QCD and power corrections on the transverse polarization are also investigated.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure, published version, one reference added
A.H.S. Megaw-E. J. W. Hawkins, The Church of the Panagia Kanakariá at Lythrankomi in Cyprus
Creators: name: Wessel, Klaus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 63 (1979): Oriens christianus, Band 63
Split Computing for Complex Object Detectors: Challenges and Preliminary Results
Creators: name: Matsubara, Yoshitomo
name: Levorato, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Following the trends of mobile and edge computing for DNN models, an intermediate option, split computing, has been attracting attentions from the research community. Previous studies empirically showed that while mobile and edge computing often would be the best options in terms of total inference time, there are some scenarios where split computing methods can achieve shorter inference time. All the proposed split computing approaches, however, focus on image classification tasks, and most are assessed with small datasets that are far from the practical scenarios. In this paper, we discuss the challenges in developing split computing methods for powerful R-CNN object detectors trained on a large dataset, COCO 2017. We extensively analyze the object detectors in terms of layer-wise tensor size and model size, and show that naive split computing methods would not reduce inference time. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to inject small bottlenecks to such object detectors and unveil the potential of a split computing approach. The source code and trained models' weights used in this study are available at https://github.com/yoshitomo-matsubara/hnd-ghnd-object-detectors .
description: Accepted to EMDL '20 (4th International Workshop on Embedded and Mobile Deep Learning) co-located with ACM MobiCom 2020
AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF DONATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION IN CANADA
Creators: name: Yen, Steven T.
name: Boxall, Peter C.
name: Adamowicz, Wiktor L.
name: Yen, Steven T.
name: Boxall, Peter C.
name: Adamowicz, Wiktor L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: As provincial governments in Canada trim budgets, fewer funds are available for environmental conservation programs. Many jurisdictions are letting private interests and/or users of the resource base help fund conservation projects. Thus funding for conservation is becoming more dependent on donations to environmental causes either through direct giving of funds or through memberships in organizations. This study explores some determinants of private contributions to environmental conservation activities through an econometric analysis of donations and memberships relating to wildlife habitat protection and enhancement. We use data from a 1991 survey conducted in the three prairie provinces that provides information on donation behavior, income, wildlife-related activity, household compositions, and a variety of other factors. A double-hurdle econometric model is used to allow independent variables to have different effects on the probability of donations and the level of donations. Our empirical results suggest that changes in the economy will be important to donation behavior. Declines in participation and recruitment in hunting will also have impacts on donations to conservation causes, but these impacts, although significant, may not be as large. However, consumptive and nonconsumptive activities may be influenced by management agencies and used to bolster environmental donations.
NONMARKET VALUE OF WESTERN VALLEY RANCHLAND USING CONTINGENT VALUATION
Creators: name: Rosenberger, Randall S.
name: Walsh, Richard G.
name: Rosenberger, Randall S.
name: Walsh, Richard G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: With the irreversible loss of agricultural land to develop uses in certain areas, there is increased concern that land be preserved for posterity's sake. We estimate the nonmarket value of a ranchland protection program in the Yampa River Valley in Routt County, Colorado, including the Steamboat Springs resort. The case study builds on previous land preservation studies by adding several preferences indicators. We find that local residents' willingness to pay is substantial, but insufficient, to justify protecting the existing quantity of valley ranchland in the study area.
Controlled Creation and Decay of Singly-Quantized Vortices in a Polar Magnetic Phase
Creators: name: Xiao, Y.
name: Borgh, M. O.
name: Weiss, L. S.
name: Blinova, A.
name: Ruostekoski, J.
name: Hall, D. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally and theoretically explore the creation and time evolution of vortex lines in the polar magnetic phase of a trapped spin-1 $^{87}$Rb Bose-Einstein condensate. A process of phase-imprinting a nonsingular vortex, its decay into a pair of singular spinor vortices, and a rapid exchange of magnetic phases creates a pair of three-dimensional, singular singly-quantized vortex lines with core regions that are filled with atoms in the ferromagnetic phase. Atomic interactions guide the subsequent vortex dynamics, leading to core structures that suggest the decay of the singly-quantized vortices into half-quantum vortices.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Foreign-related commercial disputes resolution in China after WTO
Creators: name: Zhang, Jida
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis will discuss the WTO's DSU system and examines the influence of the WTO's transparency principle and ruled-based dispute settlement system on future dispute resolution within China. Due to the risk of commercial disputes, foreign business people are anxious that they be resolved swiftly and efficiently. There are two general options when it comes to dispute settlement: resolving them "within China" or "outside of China". The three ways to resolve a commercial dispute "within China" are negotiation (or mediation), arbitration and litigation. The major reforms of the dispute resolution system brought about by the WTO accession are the application of WTO principles in "within China" resolution methods and the creation of an "outside of China" resolution method, the WTO dispute-resolution mechanism. The terms and conditions of WTO agreement reflect the demands of legal globalization. However, globalization of law is a common challenge. It should be channeled or managed cooperatively by all countries. What China hopes to achieve through the WTO accession is to develop a justice and flexible dispute resolution system in an increasingly interconnected world, and China can only do this with the co-operation and support of the global community, governments and companies.
PESTICIDE USE AND REGULATION: MAKING ECONOMIC SENSE OUT OF AN EXTERNALITY AND REGULATION NIGHTMARE
Creators: name: Zilberman, David
name: Millock, Katti
name: Zilberman, David
name: Millock, Katti
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: This article argues that the existing maze of pesticide policies reflects the multidimensionality of side effects of pesticide use that cannot be addressed by uniform policies. Pesticide policies will improve as (a) economic literacy among natural scientists and policymakers increases; (b) economic models of pesticide use and agricultural production in general better incorporate biological consideration; (c) benefit-cost criteria are introduced to determine regulations of pesticide, and (d) policies are enacted that take advantage of new information technologies and enable increased reporting of pesticide use. Moving from bans toward financial incentives and flexible policies that will allow chemical use where the benefit-cost ratios are high will improve resource allocations.
Interpretable Contextual Team-aware Item Recommendation: Application in Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Games
Creators: name: Villa, Andrés
name: Araujo, Vladimir
name: Cattan, Francisca
name: Parra, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The video game industry has adopted recommendation systems to boost users interest with a focus on game sales. Other exciting applications within video games are those that help the player make decisions that would maximize their playing experience, which is a desirable feature in real-time strategy video games such as Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) like as DotA and LoL. Among these tasks, the recommendation of items is challenging, given both the contextual nature of the game and how it exposes the dependence on the formation of each team. Existing works on this topic do not take advantage of all the available contextual match data and dismiss potentially valuable information. To address this problem we develop TTIR, a contextual recommender model derived from the Transformer neural architecture that suggests a set of items to every team member, based on the contexts of teams and roles that describe the match. TTIR outperforms several approaches and provides interpretable recommendations through visualization of attention weights. Our evaluation indicates that both the Transformer architecture and the contextual information are essential to get the best results for this item recommendation task. Furthermore, a preliminary user survey indicates the usefulness of attention weights for explaining recommendations as well as ideas for future work. The code and dataset are available at: https://github.com/ojedaf/IC-TIR-Lol.
AGRICULTURE TO INSTREAM WATER TRANSFERS UNDER UNCERTAIN WATER AVAILABILITY: A CASE STUDY OF THE DESCHUTES RIVER, OREGON
Creators: name: Turner, Brenda
name: Perry, Gregory M.
name: Turner, Brenda
name: Perry, Gregory M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Prior appropriations of river flows (primarily to agriculture) have greatly reduced flow in many Oregon streams, causing major changes in stream ecosystems. This study focuses on trade-offs between instream and agricultural uses for the two largest irrigation districts in Oregon's Deschutes River basin. Both short- and long-term water lease strategies are examined, as are requirements now in place that water leases be accompanied by fallowing land formerly served by the leased water. The low-cost strategies combine canal lining with reductions in farmer's per acre water use. Short-term leases are less costly than long-term leases
FARMERS' PREFERENCES FOR CROP CONTRACTS
Creators: name: Lajili, Kaouthar
name: Barry, Peter J.
name: Sonka, Steven T.
name: Mahoney, Joseph T.
name: Lajili, Kaouthar
name: Barry, Peter J.
name: Sonka, Steven T.
name: Mahoney, Joseph T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management

description: An empirical approach combining elements of principal-agent theory and transaction cost economics is used to determine farmers' preferences for contract terms in crop production. The approach is tested by asking grain farmers to rank contract choices and specify price premiums in simulated case situations. The statistical results indicate that farmers' preferences for rates of cost sharing, price premiums, and financing arrangements are significantly influenced by asset specialization and uncertainty associated with the case situations, and by selected business and personal characteristics.
HE 0141-3932: a bright QSO with an unusual emission line spectrum and associated absorption
Creators: name: Reimers, D.
name: Janknecht, E.
name: Fechner, C.
name: Agafonova, I. I.
name: Levshakov, S. A.
name: Lopez, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HE 0141-3932 (zem = 1.80) is a bright blue radio-quite quasar with an unusually weak Ly-alpha emission line. Large redshift differences (Delta z = 0.05) are observed between high ionization and low ionization emission lines. Absorption systems identified at zabs = 1.78, 1.71, and 1.68 show mild oversolar metallicities (Z ~= 1-2Zsolar) and can be attributed to the associated gas clouds ejected from the circumnuclear region. The joint analysis of the emission and absorption lines leads to the conclusion that this quasar is seen almost pole-on. Its apparent luminosity may be Doppler boosted by ~10 times. The absorbing gas shows a high abundance of Fe, Mg and Al ([Fe, Mg, Al/C] ~= 0.15 +/- 0.10) along with underabundance of N ([N/C] <= -0.5). This abundance pattern is at variance with current chemical evolution models of QSOs predicting [N/C] >= 0$ and [Fe/C] < 0 at Z ~ Zsolar.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Higgs decay to fermion pairs at NLO in SMEFT
Creators: name: Cullen, Jonathan M.
name: Pecjak, Benjamin D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The calculation of next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative corrections at fixed operator dimension in Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) has been a topic of much recent interest. In this paper we obtain the NLO corrections from dimension-6 operators to the Higgs boson decays $h\to f\bar{f}$, where the fermions $f \in \{μ,τ,c\}$. This extends previous results for $h\to b\bar{b}$ to all phenomenologically relevant Higgs boson decays into fermions, and provides the basis for future precision analyses of these decays within effective field theory. We point out the benefits of studying ratios of decay rates into different fermions in SMEFT, the most surprising of which is enhanced sensitivity to anomalous $hγγ$ and $hgg$ couplings induced by flavor-universal SMEFT operators, especially in scenarios where flavor-dependent Wilson coefficients are constrained by Minimal Flavor Violation.
description: 28 pages
Ochterus luzonicus Gapud 2003
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Carapezza, Attilio
name: Jindra, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Ochteridae
Ochterus
Ochterus luzonicus

description: Ochterus luzonicus Gapud, 2003
 Ochterus baltazarae (partim, paratypes of Zambales form): GAPUD & SAN VALENTIN (1977): 280, 282–283, 296–298 (diagnosis, illustrations).
 Ochterus luzonicus Gapud, 2003: 100 –103, 107. HOLOTYPE:, Philippines: Luzon: ‘ La Union: Bacnotan, Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University’ (VPGP).
 Ochterus luzonicus: CHEN et al. (2005): 413 (checklist).
  Distribution. Oriental Region:  Philippines: Luzon (GAPUD 2003).
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 23-64 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3879659
Action2Motion: Conditioned Generation of 3D Human Motions
Creators: name: Guo, Chuan
name: Zuo, Xinxin
name: Wang, Sen
name: Zou, Shihao
name: Sun, Qingyao
name: Deng, Annan
name: Gong, Minglun
name: Cheng, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Action recognition is a relatively established task, where givenan input sequence of human motion, the goal is to predict its ac-tion category. This paper, on the other hand, considers a relativelynew problem, which could be thought of as an inverse of actionrecognition: given a prescribed action type, we aim to generateplausible human motion sequences in 3D. Importantly, the set ofgenerated motions are expected to maintain itsdiversityto be ableto explore the entire action-conditioned motion space; meanwhile,each sampled sequence faithfully resembles anaturalhuman bodyarticulation dynamics. Motivated by these objectives, we followthe physics law of human kinematics by adopting the Lie Algebratheory to represent thenaturalhuman motions; we also propose atemporal Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) that encourages adiversesampling of the motion space. A new 3D human motion dataset, HumanAct12, is also constructed. Empirical experiments overthree distinct human motion datasets (including ours) demonstratethe effectiveness of our approach.
description: 13 pages, ACM MultiMedia 2020
Additional file 3 of Characterisation of an inflammation-related epigenetic score and its association with cognitive ability
Creators: name: Stevenson, Anna J.
name: McCartney, Daniel L.
name: Hillary, Robert F.
name: Campbell, Archie
name: Morris, Stewart W.
name: Mairead L. Bermingham
name: Walker, Rosie M.
name: Evans, Kathryn L.
name: Boutin, Thibaud S.
name: Hayward, Caroline
name: McRae, Allan F.
name: McColl, Barry W.
name: Spires-Jones, Tara L.
name: McIntosh, Andrew M.
name: Deary, Ian J.
name: Marioni, Riccardo E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. Figure S1. Pearson correlations between serum CRP, the DNAm CRP score and the genetic score. Figure S2. Correlations between individual CpGs comprising the DNAm CRP score and serum CRP in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 and Generation Scotland. Figure S3. Inter-wave Pearson correlations DNAm CRP score and serum CRP in Lothian Birth Cohort 1936.
WHEAT YIELD RESPONSE TO CHANGES IN PRODUCTION PRACTICES INDUCED BY PROGRAM PROVISION
Creators: name: Epplin, Francis M.
name: Epplin, Francis M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Production Economics

description: From 1986 to 1995 the Oklahoma five-year moving average wheat grain yield declined from 32.6 to 26.7 bu./ac. This study was conducted to determine why the state average wheat yield declined. Changes in government program provisions and changes in production practices were investigated. Changes in acreage base and changes in program diversion requirements were associated with changes in planting date and changes in the proportion harvested for grain that had been fall/winter grazed. Yield responded to these induced changes in production practices. Yield was inversely related to the proportion of the state's wheat acres planted prior to 1 October and inversely related to the proportion of acres harvested for grain that had been winter grazed.
Gravitational wave burst vetoes in the LIGO S2 and S3 data analyses
Creators: name: Di Credico, Alessandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The LIGO detectors collected about 4 months of data in 2003-2004 during two science runs, S2 and S3. Several environmental and auxiliary channels that monitor the instruments' physical environment and overall interferometric operation were analyzed in order to establish the quality of the data as well as the presence of transients of non-astrophysical origin. This analysis allowed better understanding of the noise character of the instruments and the establishment of correlations between transients in these channels and the one recording the gravitational wave strain. In this way vetoes for spurious burst were identified. We present the methodology we followed in this analysis and the results from the S2 and S3 veto analysis within the context of the search for gravitational wave bursts.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity for the special issue of the GWDAW9 Proceedings
QCD At Moderately Large Distances
Creators: name: Dokshitzer, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Invited talk at European Workshop on the QCD Structure of the Nucleon (QCD-N\'02), Ferrara, Italy, 3--6 Apr 2002
PANEL ESTIMATORS TO COMBINE REVEALED AND STATED PREFERENCE DICHOTOMOUS CHOICE DATA
Creators: name: Loomis, John B.
name: Loomis, John B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Combining stated and revealed preference data often involved multiple responses from the same individual. Panel estimators are appropriate to jointly model the decision to actually visit at current trip costs, the intention to visit at hypothetically higher trip costs, and the intention to visit at proposed quality levels. To incorporate data on all three choices, the random effects probit model is used to estimate the economic value of changes in instream flow as a covariate in the model and calculating value under alternative flow regimes.