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Size, spillovers and soft budget constraints [PDF]

International Tax and Public Finance, 2008
There is much evidence against the so-called "too big to fail" hypothesis in the case of bailouts to subnational governments. We look at a model where districts of different size provide local public goods with positive spillovers. Matching grants of a central government can induce socially-efficient provision, but districts can still exploit the ...
Crivelli, Ernesto, Staal, Klaas
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Constraints on Finite Soft Supersymmetry-Breaking Terms [PDF]

, 1997
Requiring the soft supersymmetry-breaking (SSB) parameters in finite gauge-Yukawa unified models to be finite up to and including two-loop order, we derive a two-loop sum rule for the soft scalar-masses. It is shown that this sum rule coincides with that
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Region‐to‐Region Unidirectional Connection In Vitro Brain Model for Studying Directional Propagation of Neuropathologies

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A unidirectional cerebral organoid–organoid neural circuit is established using a microfluidic platform, enabling controlled directional propagation of electrical signals, neuroinflammatory cues, and neurodegenerative disease–related proteins between spatially separated organoids.
Kyeong Seob Hwang, Hui‐Wen Liu, Hyogeun Shin, Hyun Wook Kang, Minjin Kang, Jongbaeg Kim, Il‐Joo Cho, Nakwon Choi, Seok Chung, Hong Nam Kim   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Golden‐Ratio–Guided Aperiodic Architected Metamaterials with Simultaneously Enhanced Strength and Toughness

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Guided by the golden ratio, a class of aperiodic architected metamaterials is introduced to address the intrinsic trade‐off between strength and toughness. By unifying local geometric heterogeneity with global order, the golden‐ratio‐guided aperiodic architecture promotes spatial delocalization of damage tolerence regions, leading to more tortuous ...
Junjie Deng, Xinxin Wang, Ruochao Zhao, Zhendong Li, Kai Liu, Ke Yuan, Jia An, Xinwei Li, Chee Kai Chua, Zhonggang Wang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flavour changing neutral currents and CP violating processes in generalized supersymmetric theories

, 1995
We consider supersymmetric extensions of the standard model with general non-universal soft breaking terms. We analyse in a model-independent way the constraints on these terms at the electroweak energy scale coming from gluino mediated flavour (F ...
A Masiero, Aliev, Altarelli, Barbieri, Barbieri, Barbieri, Bertolini, Bertolini, Bertolini, Bertolini, Borzumati, Bouquet, Brignole, Brignole, Campbell, Choudhury, Cremmer, de Carlos, de Carlos, del Aguila, Dine, Donoghue, Dugan, Duncan, Duncan, E Gabrielli, Ellis, Fayet, Franco, Frère, Gabbiani, Gabrielli, Gabrielli, Gerard, Gerard, Gerard, Hagelin, Hagelin, Hall, Hisano, Ibanez, Inami, Kaplunovsky, L Silvestrini, Langacher, Lleyda, Matalliotakis, Nilles, Nir, Olechowski, Polonski   +50 more
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Reconfigurable Magnetic Soft Microrobot for Acoustically Triggered Targeted Bacterial Sterilization

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Reconfigurable magnetic soft microrobots integrate in situ‐grown piezoelectric zinc oxide nanorods that produce reactive oxygen species upon acoustic excitation. Combining magnetically guided transport with thermally induced planar reconfiguration, the microrobots achieve targeted delivery and enhanced bacterial sterilization through efficient on ...
Quan Gao, Fan Li, Jiajie Gao, Elric Zhang, Yingdong Su, Ni Qin, Hao Ye, Josep Puigmartí, Giuseppe Cantarella, Simone Schuerle, Jiang Wu, Bradley J. Nelson, Salvador Pané   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gaussian Process Regression with Soft Equality Constraints

Mathematics
This study introduces a novel Gaussian process (GP) regression framework that probabilistically enforces physical constraints, with a particular focus on equality conditions.
Didem Kochan, Xiu Yang
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Unusual Swelling Behavior of Hydrogels Modified with Spiropyran as Appendage or Crosslinker

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Not so innocent after all—spiropyran crosslinkers in methylenebisacrylamide‐crosslinked poly(acrylamide‐co‐acrylic acid) hydrogels increase crosslinking density, but also, counterintuitively, increase swelling. Charge complexation, cooperative chemo‐mechanical effects, and aggregation may explain these observations.
Michael M. Lerch, Ankita Shastri, Thomas B. H. Schroeder, Amos Meeks, Shucong Li, Anna V. Shneidman, Michael Aizenberg, Joanna Aizenberg   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Semiring-Based Soft Constraints [PDF]

, 2008
The semiring-based formalism to model soft constraint has been introduced in 1995 by Ugo Montanari and the authors of this paper. The idea was to make constraint programming more flexible and widely applicable. We also wanted to define the extension via a general formalism, so that all its instances could inherit its properties and be easily compared ...
BISTARELLI, Stefano, ROSSI, FRANCESCA
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Quality over Quantity in Soft Constraints [PDF]

2014 IEEE 26th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2014
Partial constraint satisfaction and soft constraints enable to deal with over-constrained problems in practice. Constraint relationships have been introduced to provide a qualitative approach to specifying preferences over the constraints that should be satisfied.
Knapp, Alexander, Schiendorfer, Alexander, Reif, Wolfgang   +2 more
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