cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigation of solid acid catalyst functionalization for the production of biodiesel
Creators: name: Nash, Elliot James
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The adoption of biodiesel as an alternative fuel is gaining momentum despite its large production cost and the competition with agricultural crops for land. To resolve both of these drawbacks, waste vegetable oils can be used as a feedstock for biodiesel production. However, waste vegetable oils generate by-products that create the need for more complicated synthesis procedures to deal with. Solid acid catalysts have demonstrated the ability to simplify this procedure into one reaction and separation procedure. However, the most efficient way to develop a solid acid catalyst has yet to be determined. The primary objectives of this thesis are to: continue the development of a solid acid catalyst for use in the UBC biodiesel project: investigate the effect of different functionalization methods on the development of the acid density of the catalyst; and analyze the effect of functionalization steps on the esterification activity of the catalyst. The acid catalysts were produced by increasing the surface area and porosity of biochar through chemical activation with potassium hydroxide. Then the catalyst was functionalized by contacting the biochar with fuming sulfuric acid, either by direct contact (BC-A-LS), vapour phase contact (BC-A-VS), or ozonating the biochar (BC-A-O). These procedures increase the acid density of the biochar to between 0.22-0.7 mmoll/g. The functionalized biochars were tested for their ability to esterify free fatty acids (oleic acid) with methanol. Esterification of the fatty acids was conducted over 10 hours with a 10:1 methanol to oleic acid ratio. BC-A (activated but non-functionalized biochar), BC-A-O, BC-A-LS, and BC-A-VS had oleic acid conversion of 7.3%, 24.3%, 28.3% and 42.9%, respectively. A positive relationship between acid density and catalytic activity was demonstrated by the collected data, but further conclusions from the data have been limited by the errors associated with the conversions. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Art Now '74 : Biennale or Banality?
Creators: name: Krause, Christina K
name: Garrard, Mary D.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Research paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis option
Additional file 11 of Persistent DNA damage triggers activation of the integrated stress response to promote cell survival under nutrient restriction
Creators: name: Clementi, Elena
name: Inglin, Larissa
name: Beebe, Erin
name: Gsell, Corina
name: Garajova, Zuzana
name: Markkanen, Enni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 11: Table S3. List of primary antibodies used.
Feasibility assessment for an AMS new SUB no packaging demo restaurant : "The Palate"
Creators: name: Kam, Joanne
name: Leung, Alan
name: Mawji, Mashael
name: Read, Nicole
name: Sousa, Caitlin
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The UBC food and waste systems are components of a greater global system focused on reducing the adverse environmental impacts of our consumption habits. The numerous ways UBC may address sustainability issues are found in varied institutional policies that focus on areas ranging from agriculture to CO₂ emissions. The UBC AMS Lighter Footprint Strategy outlines many of these policies, one of which aims to create a zero waste system by targeting the waste produced by disposable food containers. The New Student Union Building will be introducing a new food outlet called “The Palate”, which will operate as a bring-your-own-container (BYOC) food outlet that will not offer disposable containers to patrons. A program currently run by UBC food services known as the “Eco-To Go” program is under consideration for implementation in the New SUB to increase student participation and to compliment future BYOC food outlets such as The Palate. Our project group conducted a feasibility analysis of The Palate in the SUB using in-person surveys that were comprised of 22 questions related to the present Eco-To Go program and the concept of a BYOC program. Our sample included 244 participants over a three-day sampling period using a random (it was not a random sample) convenience sample. Our results indicated that bringing reusable containers to purchase food on campus was an inconvenience to SUB users. However, with the introduction of the Eco-To Go program in the SUB, 81% of participants indicated they would join and use the program. Thus, we concluded that the Eco-To Go program addresses the inconvenience of bringing one’s own container to campus and is integral to the success of future BYOC food outlets. Our recommendations highlight the importance of appropriate marketing so that the UBC community is more informed about food services that are aimed at increasing sustainability. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Dephasing-rephasing dynamics of one-dimensional tunneling quasicondensates
Creators: name: Tononi, Andrea
name: Toigo, Flavio
name: Wimberger, Sandro
name: Cappellaro, Alberto
name: Salasnich, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum tunneling of two one-dimensional quasi-condensates made of alkali-metal atoms, considering two different tunneling configurations: side-by-side and head-to-tail. After deriving the quasiparticle excitation spectrum, we discuss the dynamics of the relative phase following a sudden coupling of the independent subsystems. In particular, we calculate the coherence factor of the system, which, due to the nonzero tunneling amplitude, it exhibits dephasing-rephasing oscillations instead of pure dephasing. These oscillations are enhanced by a higher tunneling energy, and by higher system densities. Our predictions provide a benchmark for future experiments at temperatures below $T \lesssim 5 \, \mbox{nK}$.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
ABC Analysis in Inventory Control - The Issue of Stability
Creators: name: Dunsmuir, W. T. M.
name: Snyder, R. D.
name: Dunsmuir, W. T. M.
name: Snyder, R. D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Production Economics
subject: Inventory control
subject: ABC analysis

description: The role of ABC analysis in inventory management is questioned. It is suggested that in some applications, particularly in the management of spare parts inventories, there is often insufficient stability in usage patterns to make ABC analysis a worthwhile approach.
Social Policy Trends: The Holidays and Social Policy Issues
Creators: name: Kneebone, Ronald
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2021

description: Most social trends show little in the way of monthly variation. Rates of poverty and measures of inequality show little in the way of variation from one month to another. However, some issues of concern to social policy advocates, researchers, and governments take a noticeable turn during the holiday season. Favourable breaks in these trends remind us that the choices we make, when coordinated and acted upon simultaneously, can have noticeable effects on the lives of individuals and families in need.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol. 14 No. 1 (2021)
Non-Euclidean Newtonian Cosmology
Creators: name: Barrow, John D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate and solve the problem of Newtonian cosmology under the assumption that the absolute space of Newton is non-Euclidean. In particular, we focus on the negatively-curved hyperbolic space, H3. We point out the inequivalence between the curvature term that arises in the Friedmann equation in Newtonian cosmology in Euclidean space and the role of curvature in the H3 space. We find the generalisation of the inverse-square law and the solutions of the Newtonian cosmology that follow from it. We find the generalisations of the Euclidean Michell 'black hole' in H3 and show that it leads to different maximum force and area results to those we have found in general relativity. We show how to add the counterpart of the cosmological constant to the gravitational potential in H3 and explore the solutions and asymptotes of the cosmological models that result. We also discuss the problems of introducing compact topologies in Newtonian cosmologies with non-negative spatial curvature.
description: 11 pages, no figures
Bandwidth comparison of photonic crystal fibers and conventional single-mode fibers
Creators: name: Nielsen, M. D.
name: Folkenberg, J. R.
name: Mortensen, N. A.
name: Bjarklev, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally compare the optical bandwidth of a conventional single-mode fiber (SMF) with 3 different photonic crystal fibers (PCF) all optimized for visible applications. The spectral attenuation, single-turn bend loss, and mode-field diameters (MFD) are measured and the PCF is found to have a significantly larger bandwidth than the SMF for an identical MFD. It is shown how this advantage can be utilized for realizing a larger MFD for the PCF while maintaining a bending resistant fiber.
description: 6 pages including 3 figures. Accepted for Optics Express
Can the COVID-19 epidemic be controlled on the basis of daily test reports?
Creators: name: Casella, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper studies if and to which extent COVID-19 epidemics can be controlled by authorities taking decisions on public health measures on the basis of daily reports of swab test results, active cases and total cases. A suitably simplified process model is derived to support the controllability analysis, highlighting the presence of very significant time delay; the model is validated with data from several outbreaks. The analysis shows that suppression strategies can be effective if strong enough and enacted early on. It also shows how mitigation strategies can fail because of the combination of delay, unstable dynamics, and uncertainty in the feedback loop; approximate conditions based on the theory of limitation of linear control are given for feedback control to be feasible.
description: 6 pages double-column + 2 pages of supplementary material. 6-page paper published on IEEE Control Systems Letters which has strict page limit and does not accept supplementary material. Paper currently published on IEEE Control Systems Letters Early Access (see DOI)
ARE SOUTH AFRICAN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMISTS ADEQUATELY SKILLED TO FACE FUTURE CHALLENGES?
IS SUID-AFRIKAANSE LANDBOU-EKONOME TOEREIKEND OPGELEI OM TOEKOMSTIGE UITDAGINGS DIE HOOF TE BIED?
Creators: name: Sartorius Von Bach, H. J.
name: Sartorius Von Bach, H. J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Labor and Human Capital

description: The agricultural science establishment experiences growing pressure from an unimpressed public. Like other agricultural scientists, agricultural economists must determine how to face future challenges. The profession's playing field has changed. Agricultural economists appear not to be open minded, adaptable and willing to push the boundaries of their discipline to be able to cope with secondary activities. An increasing number of limitations hampers the effectiveness of the profession and this may signal a need for curriculum revision. Departments of Agricultural Economics should recognise the importance of producing economically literate graduates who can function and perform in external environments. Curricular change must incorporate the inclusion of imaginative ideas development that will be able to connect economic rationality with changing perceptions. Services of academic institutions should involve inter alia, focusing their traditional efforts also on non-traditional markets; this provides some challenges of its own.
Quantum probes for universal gravity corrections
Creators: name: Candeloro, Alessandro
name: Boschi, Cristian Degli Esposti
name: Paris, Matteo G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address estimation of the minimum length arising from gravitational theories. In particular, we provide bounds on precision and assess the use of quantum probes to enhance the estimation performances. At first, we review the concept of minimum length and show how it induces a perturbative term appearing in the Hamiltonian of any quantum system, which is proportional to a parameter depending on the minimum length. We then systematically study the effects of this perturbation on different state preparations for several 1-dimensional systems, and we evaluate the Quantum Fisher Information in order to find the ultimate bounds to the precision of any estimation procedure. Eventually, we investigate the role of dimensionality by analysing the use of two-dimensional square well and harmonic oscillator systems to probe the minimal length. Our results show that quantum probes are convenient resources, providing potential enhancement in precision. Additionally, our results provide a set of guidelines to design possible future experiments to detect minimal length.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
DECENTRALIZATION: TOWARD A REVITALIZED STRATEGY FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Creators: name: Parker, Andrew N.
name: Kirsten, Johann
name: Parker, Andrew N.
name: Kirsten, Johann
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Despite recognition of the need for special strategies to address the widespread incidence of rural poverty in developing countries, initiatives aimed at bringing about a transformation of the rural standard of living have not had a consistent impact on reducing poverty. The failure of the most recent of these interventions-integrated rural development-has left a policy vacuum as donors and countries struggle to find new ways to reduce rural poverty. Recent initiatives designed to put in place decentralized mechanisms for rural development offer possibilities for building on the essential principles of integrated rural development while avoiding problems associated with an over-centralization of functions and responsibilities. This paper examines the potential role for decentralization in designing improved rural development programs. Some of the recent efforts to implement programs of decentralized rural development are described and analyzed. The paper concludes that although decentralization initiatives have a long history, much more needs to be understood with respect to the various components of decentralization if sound advice is to be given to policy-makers. A conceptual model is suggested that incorporates the essential elements of decentralization processes and relates them to rural development outcomes.
Five Policy Recommendations for the Canadian Federal Government to Accelerate the Growth and Impact of Digital Health
Creators: name: Jamieson, Trevor
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2021

description: Digital health has become an increasingly essential component of a high-performing health system. Changes to health care delivery during COVID-19 highlighted the need to enable digital health and modernize health information systems. Canada needs a national approach to digital health to enable our health care system to operate effectively in the 21stcentury. The current siloed approach limits the ability of patients to benefit from digital health and of health institutions to integrate digital tools. A unified approach to digital health will enable Canada to offer a health care system commensurate with the expectations of all Canadians. This paper details five policy positions to promote this unified, digital health infrastructure in Canada. • Patient Data Access is Essential: Patients should own their own data. They must be given access to their data upon request in a computable format, without charge or delay. • Data Movement and Data Sharing is Imperative: Digital data sharing is both a key component of digital health and a crucial enabler of digital health, but it is currently poorly supported. Canada must develop a uniform data interoperability strategy aligned with international standards. • Digital Health is Care: The provision of digital health is now embedded in our health care delivery. Canada must formalize the inclusion of digital health as an essential element of our public health system. • Digital Health must be Inclusive: All Canadians are entitled to an equal opportunity to participate in digital health. • A Federal Approach is Critical: We need a national, collaborative approach to solve the innovation drag caused by our approaches to evaluation, procurement, and privacy/security. Our current siloed approach disadvantages the Canadian health care system, the Canadian population, and Canadian industry. We suggest tangible next steps that leverage data to improve care, promote digital health care for those who need it most, and help Canada become a world leader in digital health innovation that directly benefits Canadian residents and grows our digital health industry.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol. 14 No. 1 (2021)
Control of photon correlations in type II parametric down-conversion
Creators: name: Andrews, R.
name: Joseph, A. T.
name: Pike, E. R.
name: Sarkar, Sarben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we describe theoretically quantum control of temporal correlations of entangled photons produced by collinear type II spontaneous parametric down-conversion. We examine the effect of spectral phase modulation of the signal or idler photons arriving at a 50/50 beam splitter on the temporal shape of the entangled-photon wave packet . The coincidence count rate is calculated analytically for photon pairs in terms of the modulation depth applied to either the signal or idler beam with a spectral phase filter. It is found that the two-photon coincidence rate can be controlled by varying the modulation depth of the spectral filter.
Additional file 1 of Sample size calculation in randomised phase II selection trials using a margin of practical equivalence
Creators: name: Hakim-Moulay Dehbi
name: Hackshaw, Allan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Sample size calculation in randomised phase II selection trials using a margin of practical equivalence.
The production of isolated photons in PbPb and pp collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.02 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transverse energy ($E_\mathrm{T}^γ$) spectra of photons isolated from other particles are measured using proton-proton (pp) and lead-lead (PbPb) collisions at the LHC at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.02 TeV with integrated luminosities of 27.4 pb$^{-1}$and 404 $μ$b$^{-1}$ for pp and PbPb data, respectively. The results are presented for photons with 25 $
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/HIN-18-016 (CMS Public Pages)
Marc Chagall : Evolution of Fantasy in Early Portraiture
Creators: name: Madden, Louise M
name: Shaffer, Robert
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Research paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis option
Nuclear shadowing and extraction of F_2p-F_2n at small x from deuteron collider data
Creators: name: Frankfurt, L.
name: Guzey, V.
name: Strikman, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that leading twist nuclear shadowing leads to large corrections for the extraction of the neutron structure function F_2n from the future deuteron collider data both in the inclusive and in the tagged structure function modes. We suggest several strategies to address the extraction of F_2n and to measure at the same time the effect of nuclear shadowing via the measurement of the distortion of the proton spectator spectrum in the semi-inclusive e D \to e^{\prime}pX process.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, RevTex4. The final version published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 202001 (2003)
SAVINGS MOBILIZATION IN RURAL AREAS LESSONS : FROM EXPERIENCE
BESPARINGSMOBILISERING IN LANDELIKE GEBIEDE: LESSE UIT ONDERVINDING
Creators: name: Spio, Kojo
name: Groenewald, Jan A.
name: Coetzee, Gerhard A.
name: Spio, Kojo
name: Groenewald, Jan A.
name: Coetzee, Gerhard A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Two myths or assumptions led to neglect of mobilization of savings in the rural areas. These myths seem to dissipate with time. The first myth is the asswnption of pervasive rural undersavings; the second is the asswnption that demand for financial savings instrwnents is low. A large amount of empirical evidence from Asian, Latin American and some African countries suggest that the rigid notion of low or zero savings capacity of poor rural households does not hold true. This paper looks at the old approach of rural finance, argwnents for and against rural savings mobilization, bottlenecks and conditions for effective savings mobilization in rural areas.
Three Policy Pathways for Federal Health Care Funding in Canada
Creators: name: Tombe, Trevor
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2021

description: Federal health care funding has long been a source of policy debate in this country, a situation exacerbated recently by the COVID-19 pandemic and the calls by premiers for a massive expansion of the Canada Health Transfer. In this paper, after briefly reviewing the evolution of federal health care funding in Canada since the 1950s, we formulate three potential policy pathways federal policymakers might consider in order to improve health care funding in the country. The first pathway is the status quo, which simply preserves the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) as is. Explaining what the status quo entails is important to gauge the potential impact of the two other pathways we formulate, which depart from the status quo in a significant manner: first, the implementation of demographic adjustments that add to CHT as populations age; and second, the creation of a joint federal-provincial-territorial taxation regime. While the second pathway would constitute a form incremental change, the third one would be transformative in nature and, therefore, more challenging to implement, which is not a reason to exclude it for consideration, especially if we take a more long-term view of potential policy change in fiscal federalism. These three potential pathways should allow policymakers to consider how to adapt to changing circumstances while addressing the concerns of citizens and the demands of provincial/territorial governments. We do not support one or another of these policy pathways; instead, we explain what they are and what impact they could have, leaving the reader decide what option they prefer.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol. 14 No. 1 (2021)
Northern and Arctic Security and Sovereignty: Challenges and Opportunities for a Northern Corridor
Creators: name: Lackenbauer, P. Whitney
name: Koch, Katharina
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2021

description: Key Messages • Key issues related to Canada’s security and defence agenda, which involve critical and essential infrastructure development, must be considered in the development and implementation of a Canadian Northern Corridor (CNC). • Canada’s northern and Arctic security and defence agenda is related to several key policy domains that are relevant from a CNC perspective. These include infrastructure development, climate change, Indigenous sovereignty and natural resource development. • A CNC will gain international attention and be internationally recognized as a strategy for Canada to assert its sovereignty over its Arctic territory, including the internationally disputed Northwest Passage. • The CNC advocates for the inclusion and participation of Indigenous communities. Thus, Indigenous Peoples will also carry a significant role in the monitoring and surveillance of accessibility within and to the North, improved through enhanced infrastructure development. • Canada’s investments in Arctic defence infrastructure are modest compared to those of its Russian and American neighbours. A CNC, potentially adding strategically important infrastructure in the Canadian North, will directly tie into the discourse of Arctic security and power relations. • In addition to natural disasters, the Canadian North is at significant risk of human-made disasters that pose serious prospective challenges for northerners and for federal and territorial governments. The CNC will likely foster the development of surveillance and monitoring assets. • The CNC rights-of-way could trigger security concerns regarding the impact of foreign investment as a security threat, especially if natural resource development is coupled with the development of strategic transportation hubs, such as ports along the coast of the Arctic Ocean. • CNC transportation infrastructure would also become a part of Canada’s defence strategy as it forms a potential key asset in the defence and safeguarding of Canada’s northern and Arctic regions. • Future research should identify the role of dual-use infrastructure (infrastructure that satisfies both military and civilian purposes) in the CNC context and also examine to what extent security and defence stakeholders should be involved in the CNC’s planning and implementation.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol. 14 No. 1 (2021)
CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR OF NEWLY URBANISED LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES ON THE CAPE FLATS
VERBRUIKERSGEDRAG VAN DIE PASVERSTEDELIKDE LAFANKOMSTE GEMEENSKAPPE OP DIE KAAPSE VLAKTE
Creators: name: Myburgh, A. S.
name: Myburgh, A. S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Crop Production/Industries

description: The foodways of the urban poor are unique and knowledge about it is needed to direct food production, marketing activities and government decisions. Consumers in these communities have very specific product and quality preferences that are explicitly motivated. Their environment gives rise to a purchasing behaviour that is well catered for by informal traders. A few salient results of a study on the fruit and vegetable consumption behaviour of communities on the Cape Flats are presented.
Scalar Hair of Global Defect and Black Brane World
Creators: name: Kim, Yoonbai
name: Park, Dong Hyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a complex scalar field in (p+3)-dimensional bulk with a negative cosmological constant and study global vortices in two extra-dimensions. We reexamine carefully the coupled scalar and Einstein equations, and show that the boundary value of scalar amplitude at infinity of the extra-dimensions should be smaller than vacuum expectation value. The brane world has a cigar-like geometry with an exponentially decaying warp factor and a flat thick p-brane is embedded. Since a coordinate transformation identifies the obtained brane world as a black p-brane world bounded by a horizon, this strange boundary condition of the scalar amplitude is understood as existence of a short scalar hair.
description: 26 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 10 of Persistent DNA damage triggers activation of the integrated stress response to promote cell survival under nutrient restriction
Creators: name: Clementi, Elena
name: Inglin, Larissa
name: Beebe, Erin
name: Gsell, Corina
name: Garajova, Zuzana
name: Markkanen, Enni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10: Table S2. List of primers used for qRT-PCR.
Crinum angustifolium Houtt.
Creators: name: Wijnands, Dirk Onno
name: Heniger, Johannes
name: Veldkamp, Jan Frederik
name: Fumeaux, Nicolas
name: Callmander, Martin W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Amaryllidaceae
Crinum
Crinum angustifolium

description: 37. Crinum angustifolium Houtt.,
Nat. Hist. II(12): Aanwyz. Plaat. [2], 165, tab. 81, fig. 3. 1780.
Lectotypus (designated here by Callmander): INDONESIA. Java: Anon. s.n. (G-PREL [G00818104]!) (Fig. 3).
= Polianthes tuberosa L., Sp. Pl.: 316. 1753.
Notes. – A single element of original material is in the Java herbarium in G-PREL. This collection is a good match for the plate and is designated here as the lectotype (Fig. 3).
description: Published as part of Wijnands, Dirk Onno, Heniger, Johannes, Veldkamp, Jan Frederik, Fumeaux, Nicolas & Callmander, Martin W., 2017, The botanical legacy of Martinus Houttuyn (1720 - 1798) in Geneva, pp. 155-198 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 173, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a11, http://zenodo.org/record/5721887
PRODUCTIVITY AND "LIFE LINE" CONSIDERATIONS FOR RURAL WATER SUPPLY POLICY: AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC VIEW POINT
PRODUK11WITEITS- EN OORLEWINGSOORWEGINGS VIR LANDELIKE WATER VOORSIENINGSBELEID: 'N LANDBOU-EKONOMIESE STANDPUNT
Creators: name: Van Rooyen, Johan
name: Van Rooyen, Johan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Productivity Analysis
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Water is both an economic input and a basic requirement to sustain life. Efficiency and equity considerations are therefore central to water supply and allocation. In South Africa the distribution of water resources is presently also under discussion. Eight principles are proposed in the White Paper on Water Supply and Sanitation Policy. These principles, although comprehensive, however lacks cohesiveness to guide the apparent conflict between efficiency and equity considerations. A policy framework to reconcile this conflict is developed in this paper.
Value-Based Mental Health Services for Youth and Families: The Role of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Youth Mental Health Services
Creators: name: Amarbayan, Megan Mungunzul
name: Carpenter, Travis
name: Hebert, Michele
name: Santana, Maria
name: Zwicker, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2021

description: In Alberta, the responsibility for youth mental-health is shared among three separate government ministries, compounding the challenge of determining the value of services delivered, especially from the youth’s own perspective. As a result, Alberta’s ability to measure service quality at the systems level is limited. Yet, given the short-term and long-term effects of poor mental health on youth, families, and society, there are clinical, moral, and economic imperatives for ensuring that all services provided are of the highest value possible. Currently, Alberta is limited to estimating value mainly through quantitative measures focused on the cost of service delivery. However, value-based health-care services are measured as quality or outcomes for persons receiving health services in relation to the costs of delivering those services. One approach is to measure outcomes of youth receiving mental-health services from their own perspective to achieve value-based measurement of youth mental-health services. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are questionnaires filled out by the persons receiving mental-health services themselves, and assess their self-reported health and well-being. PROMs have been shown to be important in evaluating the value of health-care services both at the individual and systems level. At the individual level, PROMs allow patients and health-care providers to track progress over time. At the systems level, PROMs data can be compiled to evaluate trends between different sites or different health-care services or treatments over time, to help improve quality. Policy-makers can use these comparisons to help pinpoint which services offer the most value. Given resource constraints, implementing PROMs province-wide in Alberta can improve the value of youth mental-health services at a time when they have become a matter of great urgency. Improving the quality and outcomes for youth and their families in the short term will deliver positive socioeconomic impacts in the future.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol. 14 No. 1 (2021)
Black Holes at Future Colliders and in Cosmic Rays
Creators: name: Landsberg, Greg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most dramatic consequences of low-scale (~1 TeV) quantum gravity would be copious production of mini black holes at future accelerators and in ultra-high-energy cosmic ray interactions. Hawking radiation of these black holes is constrained mainly to our (3+1)-dimensional world and results in their rapid evaporation. We review selected topics in the mini-black-hole phenomenology, such as production rates at colliders and in cosmic rays, Hawking radiation as a sensitive probe of the dimensionality of extra space, as well as an exciting possibility of finding new physics in the decays of black holes.
description: To appear in Proc. International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, EPS 2003, Aachen, Germany (July 17-23, 2003). 5 pages, 3 figures
The Calydonian Boar Hunt at the Walters Art Gallery
Creators: name: Naron, Jacqueline Nast
name: Turak, Theodore
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Research paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis option
IMPACTS OF, AND FARMER RESPONSES TO, BANANA INDUSTRY DEREGULATION EVIDENCE FROM LOWER SOUTH COAST BANANA FARMERS
IMPAK VAN, EN BOERE SE RE4KSIE OP DEREGUIASIE VAN DIE PIESANGBEDRYF: ONDERVINDING VAN PIESANGBOERE VAN DIE lAER SUIDKUS
Creators: name: Kuhn, M. E.
name: Darroch, M. A. G.
name: Ortmann, G. F.
name: Kuhn, M. E.
name: Darroch, M. A. G.
name: Ortmann, G. F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries

description: A survey of28 banana growers on the Lower South Coast (LSC) of KwaZulu-Natal showed that Banana Industry deregulation led to increased price variability and farm financial stress. This made farmers more aware of the need to improve their marketing skills, consider product diversification and improve fiuit quality. Respondents rated their willingness to take marketing risk as low relative to other fanners. Discriminant analysis identified growers who were more likely to be affected by the abolition of the Banana Board as those who (1) previously marketed most of their quality fiuit through the Board, (2) were less willing to take production risks, (3) were not sole owners of their fann business, (4) perceived the marketing potential on the LSC to be poor, and (5) had relatively high debt-asset ratios. After the Board was abolished, most fanners still chose not to market the fiuit themselves (due to relatively high opportunity cost of their time and low rating in product marketing skills relative to other fanners), but rather used marketing agents. Faced with increased price risk, farmers improved their market bargaining power with the agents by voluntarily fanning a private CO-Operative, which also provided them with more market information and
Mode-space-compatible inelastic scattering in atomistic nonequilibrium Green's function implementations
Creators: name: Lemus, Daniel A.
name: Charles, James
name: Kubis, Tillmann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method is often used to predict transport in atomistically resolved nanodevices and yields an immense numerical load when inelastic scattering on phonons is included. To ease this load, this work extends the atomistic mode space approach of Ref. [1] to include inelastic scattering on optical and acoustic phonons in silicon nanowires. This work also includes the exact calculation of the real part of retarded scattering self-energies in the reduced basis representation using the Kramers-Kronig relations. The inclusion of the Kramers-Kronig relation for the real part of the retarded scattering self-energy increases the impact of scattering. Virtually perfect agreement with results of the original representation is achieved with matrix rank reductions of more than 97%. Time-to-solution improvements of more than 200$\times$ and peak memory reductions of more than 7$\times$ are shown. This allows for the solution of electron transport scattered on phonons in atomically resolved nanowires with cross-sections larger than 5 nm $\times$ 5 nm.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
'N VLOEDSKADESIMULASIEMODEL VIR DIE HERBEPLANNING/ - STRUKTURERING VAN 'N VLOEDVLAKTE
A FLOOD DAMAGE SIMULA11ON MODEL FOR THE REPLANMNGIRESCHEDULA11ON OF A FLOOD PLAN
Creators: name: Du Plessis, L. A.
name: Viljoen, M. F.
name: Du Plessis, L. A.
name: Viljoen, M. F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: In South Africa a start was made, during research into the effects of floods during the seventies to developing a set of flood damage functions based on actual floods. Required follow-up research was not continued during the eighties. For various reasons flood damage, based on actual floods, is underestimated and/or overestimated; a second method for estimating potential flood damages, namely the g ante approach, was followed to compile loss functions based on patential floods. With relationships between the money value of direct flood damage to a damaged item (damage when an item was in physical contact with flood waters) and one or more characteristics of the flood, eg. depth of flood waters, duration of flooding, and the momentum flux of the flood waters, the money value of the direct damage that will be caused by floods of different sizes can be estimated before floods actually occur. This fonns an integral part of flood damage simulation models. A geographic infomiation system (GJS) approach was followed to develop a flood damage simulation model consisting of several interconnected data bases. The GJS model remders ot possible to estimate flood damage from three viewpoints (local, regional and national). Visual representations of the area, two- or three-dimensional, can be obtained on screen or 011 maps. In addition, the advantages of different combinations of flood control and flood damage control measures can be estimated by the GIS model, for example land use management, flood protection, dam management and flood insurance.
ANALYSIS OF THE SLOVAK WINE EXPORTS BY GRAVITY MODEL
ANALYZA SOVENSKEHO EXPORTU VINA VYUZITIM GRAVITACHNEHO MODELU
Creators: name: JUDINOVA, Eva
name: ZENTKOVA, Iveta
name: JUDINOVA, Eva
name: ZENTKOVA, Iveta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Financial Economics
subject: foreign trade
subject: determinants of exports
subject: wine
subject: gravity model

description: The focus of the paper is to determine the tendency of development of Slovak wine international trade. The objective of the article is to identify barriers and positive stimulants of wine exports using the gravity model. On the one hand, the basic determinants of gravity model as GDP per capita, number of inhabitants in the import countries and the distance between Slovakia and its business partners are considered as the potential determinants for the Slovak wine export. On the other hand, there are other factors used that come from papers with similar topics and those are production of the domestic country, membership in international and trade organizations, common characteristics of the domestic country and its business partners. Based on the results of this research, variability of dependent variable can be better explained by model with cross-cutting nature than by the panel model. Significant variables behave according to the general presumptions. Membership in the EU, the OECD and the WTO were determined by the model as the factors without significant influence on Slovak wine export. Common characteristics, however, appeared to have positive impact on mutual foreign trade. Furthermore, it was found out that the Slovak wine is seen as an inferior good by the consumers.
Cyperus javanicus Houtt.
Creators: name: Wijnands, Dirk Onno
name: Heniger, Johannes
name: Veldkamp, Jan Frederik
name: Fumeaux, Nicolas
name: Callmander, Martin W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Cyperus
Cyperus javanicus

description: 38. Cyperus javanicus Houtt.,
Nat. Hist. II(13): Aanwyz. Plaat. [1], 67, tab. 88, fig. 1. 1782.
Lectotypus (designated here by Veldkamp): INDONESIA. Java: Anon. s.n. (G-PREL [G00360105]!).
Notes. – A single element of original material is in the Java herbarium in G-PREL. This collection is a good match for the plate and is designated here as the lectotype.
description: Published as part of Wijnands, Dirk Onno, Heniger, Johannes, Veldkamp, Jan Frederik, Fumeaux, Nicolas & Callmander, Martin W., 2017, The botanical legacy of Martinus Houttuyn (1720 - 1798) in Geneva, pp. 155-198 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 173, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a11, http://zenodo.org/record/5721887
Miniature capacitive Faraday force magnetometer for magnetization measurements at low temperatures and high magnetic fields
Creators: name: Blosser, Dominic
name: Facheris, Leonardo
name: Zheludev, Andrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Faraday force magnetometer is presented for measurements of magnetization at temperatures down to 100~mK and in magnetic fields up to 14~T. The specimen is mounted on a flexible cantilever forming a force-sensing capacitor in combination with a fixed back plate. Two different cantilever designs are presented. A torsion resistant cantilever allows to measure magnetization of highly anisotropic single crystal samples. Measurements of the metal organic quantum magnets (C$_5$H$_{12}$N)$_2$CuBr$_4$ (BPCB) and NiCl$_2$$\cdot$4 SC(NH$_2$)$_2$ (DTN) demonstrate the device's capabilities. Routinely, a specimen's magnetic moment is measured with a resolution better than $10^{-7}$ A$\,$m$^2$ ($10^{-4}$ emu). The device in miniaturized to fit is almost any cryostat.
THE ROLE OF RURAL WOMEN IN AG RI CULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA
POSTAVENIE VIDIECKYCH ZIEN V POL'NOHOSPODARSKOM SEKTORE A V ROZVOJI VIDIEKA V EUROPE A V STREDNEJ AZII
Creators: name: KADLECIKOVA, Maria
name: VESELA, Adriana
name: KADLECIKOVA, Maria
name: VESELA, Adriana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: rural development
subject: sustainable agriculture
subject: rural women
subject: gender income gaps
subject: access to resources

description: The gender related issues are very complex. The paper deals with the role of rural women in agriculture and rural development in Europe. Sustainable agriculture, rural development and food security cannot be achieved without the full and equal participation of both women and men in rural areas. Europe and Central Asia are the only regions in the world where agriculture is not the main employer of the rural women as well as the men. The disappearance of the centrally planned economy, continuing social and economic transition, European Union enlargement, Common Agricultural Policy and aligned reforms, globalization, and impact of climate change, have affected rural populations and in particular rural women. The policies and programs to improve women's access to land and assets remain still important.