cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Organic farming and fair trade in developing country as a new agribusiness paradigm: Evidence from Mali
Creators: name: Sinaba, Famory
name: Dessein, Joost
name: Lauwers, Ludwig H.
name: Bastiaensen, Johan
name: Teme, Bino
name: Sinaba, Famory
name: Dessein, Joost
name: Lauwers, Ludwig H.
name: Bastiaensen, Johan
name: Teme, Bino
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: organic farming
subject: Fair Trade
subject: smallholders
subject: North-South trade
subject: Certificates
subject: Labels
subject: Global markets
subject: Value chains
subject: certification scheme
subject: local institution

description: Organic farming and fair trade certified chains have emerged in West-Africa since the 1990s in answer to new alternative markets in developed countries. These chains, involving actors from North and South, are seen as an opportunity to sustainably valorise the small peasants agriculture in Africa and include the smallholders in global markets. Certification and labelling systems accompany these chains in developed countries. The aim of this article is to analyze the challenges for smallholders of this new North- South trade regime established by certificates and labels. This article uses the theory of Global Value Chains as theoretical framework. The empirical framework consists of four cases (organic sesame; organic- fair sesame; fair cotton and organicfair cotton) in Mali and in Belgium and France. It focuses on data that are gathered during our inquiry based on a questionnaire with the chains stakeholders in the south and in the north. The chains upstream inquiry was conducted in Mali with individuals producers, producers organizations, exporters; and the downstream inquiry was conducted in Belgium and France with European importers, distributors and certifications bodies. The results show that the new North- South regime established by organic and fair certificates and labels has a potential impact on the negotiation power and value distribution between chain participants. Lack of adequate local institutions in Southern countries, and increasing complexity of the “cahiers de charges” imposed by the North however may cause exclusion of many smallholders in these new North-South trade networks.
title: Jiu jitsu as a lived body: A triadic composition of embodied practice
Creators: name: Eadie, Rod
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390101
subject: Creative arts, media and communication curriculum and pedagogy

description: Jiu jitsu, also known as Brazilian jiu jitsu (BJJ), having evolved from judo, is an embodied practice comprising a diversity of individuals. While self-defence and sport together create a vitality of practice that most participants can enjoy, this research looks beyond this enjoyment to understand how the formation of jiu jitsuans (or practitioners) creates a rich tapestry of aesthetic perspective that helps to unlock the self within a dojo community of practice. The aim of this research is to consider a much broader practice of jiu jitsu and the breadth of space that it occupies in a participant’s self-improvement, and, how participants might construe an image of self within a community of practice. While using a multiple methodology, qualitative approach engaging Participatory Action Research, and Grounded Theory, this thesis argues that for jiu jitsu to effect change within the practitioner’s life, it cannot be discovered from afar, it must be found within the practice, and not as a practice that merely instrumentalises the body for competing objectives. Thus, jiu jitsu is re-considered as a lived body, a body consciousness that cannot be fully objectified. Embodiment of jiu jitsu is conceptualised as a compositional work of the participant (subject) at work in the dojo (studio), and this research investigates those experiences and complex stages of transition. Through coding and categorising data sets collected from participants in a small regional dojo in New South Wales, I have re-calibrated the original triadic theory and symbol used by Jigorō Kano and Helio Gracie to produce my model of the Triadic Composition of Embodied Practice. This research addresses a gap in the knowledge of martial arts practice, that a unified and cohesive practice of mind, body, and soul is the embodied narrative of the jiu jitsuan. The findings illuminate a paradigmatic shift from a two-dimensional perspective of the body as object and instrument, to reveal that the embodied practice of jiu jitsu is never separate from body consciousness. I anticipate that this work will contribute to the intellectual contribution to the theoretical knowledge of embodied practice and martial arts studies.
Fermentable sugars from pyrolysis oil : extraction and hydrolysis of levoglucosan
Creators: name: Bennett, Nicole Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Fermentable sugar obtained from lignocellulosic material exhibits great potential as a renewable feedstock for the production of bio-ethanol. One potentially viable source of fermentable sugars is pyrolysis oil, also commonly called bio-oil. Depending on the type of lignocellulosic material used and the operating conditions for the process of pyrolysis, bio-oil can contain up to 33 wt% (Li and Zhang, 2004) of 1,6-anhydro-β-D-glucopyranose (levoglucosan, LG), an anhydrosugar that can be readily hydrolyzed to glucose. This research investigated and improved the extraction of levoglucosan from bio-oil via phase separation, the acid-hydrolysis of the. levoglucosan once in the aqueous phase into glucose, and the subsequent fermentation of the glucose into ethanol using a Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast strain, T2. Maximum levoglucosan extraction (7.8 wt% of the initial bio-oil) occurred when minimal amounts of water were used; optimally, at the point of phase separation. For the bio-oil used in this study, phase separation occurred when the total water in the solution equalled 41 wt% of the bio-oil. Extraction was improved when the temperature of the bio-oil was raised (34°C) and effective mixing was applied. Hydrolysis yields greater than 100% (based on levoglucosan) occurred at high temperatures (130°C), strong sulphuric acid concentrations (0.5M) and short reactions times (20 minutes). Temperature exhibited the most significant effect on the yield; yet a strong interactive effect between temperature and time due to sugar degradation at temperatures at or above 130°C prohibits the use of higher temperatures. The initial levoglucosan concentration in the aqueous phase also demonstrated a significant effect on the hydrolysis yield. As is, the hydrolysate was too toxic for yeast growth and fermentation due to the presence of inhibitory compounds such as organic acids and sugar degradation products. However, theoretical fermentation yields were made possible for hydrolysate fractions of up to 20% by using micro-aerophilic conditions and high yeast inoculums (1 g/L in vial). Fermentation rates of 0.40 g/L hr were observed under these conditions.
Additional file 3 of Impact of child emotional and behavioural difficulties on educational outcomes of primary school children in Ethiopia: a population-based cohort study
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Habtamu
name: Girmay Medhin
name: Tomlinson, Mark
name: Alem, Atalay
name: Prince, Martin
name: Hanlon, Charlotte
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Difference beteen those children who do and do not have educational information at T1 (n = 1957).
title: Advanced butterfly
Creators: name: Samitz, Tobias
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Butterfly option
subject: Futures
subject: Butterfly Option
subject: Futures

description: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, eine Anlagemethode basierend auf Finanzderivaten zu analysieren, zu optimieren und abschließend zu testen. Grundbaustein dieser Strategie ist dabei ein Butterfly, also eine Kombination aus einem long Put, einem short Put, einem short Call, sowie einem lang Call. Diese Optionskombination wird durch geschickten Einsatz von short und long Futures verbessert, wobei diverse beispielhafte Szenarien herangezogen werden, um diese Vorgehensweise zu erläutern. Zur Optimierung dieser Methode wird die entsprechende Wahl der Parameter mittels Simulation optimiert. Abschließend wird die optimierte Anlagestrategie unter Verwendung von historischen S&P 500 Tickdaten getestet und ausgewertet.
description: This Thesis is aiming to analyse, optimise and backtest an investment strategy based on derivative financial instruments. The basic building block of this strategy is a butterfly, which is a combination of a long put, a short put, a short call and a long call. This combination of options is enhanced by skillful use of short and long futures, using various exemplary scenarios to explain this approach. To optimise this method, the appropriate choice of parameters is optimised by means of simulation. Finally, the optimised investment strategy is tested and evaluated using historical S&P 500 tick data.
Additional file 1 of Comparative transcriptomics of wild and commercial Citrus during early ripening reveals how domestication shaped fruit gene expression
Creators: name: Borredá, Carles
name: Perez-Roman, Estela
name: Talon, Manuel
name: Terol, Javier
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Hierarchical clustering analysis. Hierarchical clustering of a) flavedo and b) pulp samples according to RNA-seq data. CHP: C. maxima, DIA: C. medica, EUR: C. limon, SCM: C. reticulata, SSO: C. aurantium, SWO: C. sinensis, WLM: C. deliciosa. Figure S2. Differentially expressed genes involved in carotenoid biosynthetic pathway. DEGs found in flavedo (a) and pulp (b) are shown independently. Each bar represents the expression log2 fold change comparing red samples (wild and domesticated mandarin, sweet and sour orange) against the yellow samples (lemon, citron and pummelo). Only genes with a log2 fold change > 1, s-value
Heterogeneous reactions between nitrate radicals + organic coatings and nitrate radicals + soot
Creators: name: Mak, Jackson
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The reactive uptake of nitrate radicals (NO3) by self-assembled monolayers (SAM) and methane soot was investigated using a flow tube reactor coupled to a chemical ionization mass spectrometer (CIMS) as the detector. The detection of NO3 was accomplished by using I⁻ as the reagent ion, and the rate constant for the reaction of N03 + I⁻ was determined to be (6.5 ± 5.0) x 10⁻¹⁰ cm³ • molecule⁻¹ • s⁻¹. The performance of the experimental approach was evaluated by measuring the rate constant for the bimolecular reaction between NO3 and NO. The rate constant for this reaction was determined to be (2.7 + 0.2) x 10⁻¹¹ cm³ - molecule⁻¹ -s⁻¹, which is in excellent agreement with the literature data. Self-assembled monolayers were used as proxies for organic aerosols. The reactive uptake coefficients were determined to be (8 ± 3) x 10⁻⁴ for octadecanethiol (ODT) on gold and (1.3 + 0.2) x 10⁻³ for octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) on glass. Although calculations show the loss of NO3 to organic coatings is of minor importance as a sink of NO3 , they do, however, suggest NO3 is as efficient as OH in processing surfaces of saturated hydrocarbons. In addition, the surface of an OTS monolayer was probed with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy prior to and following exposure to NO3. The spectra indicate there was no fragmentation of the monolayer. Heterogeneous reactions between NO3 and methane soot were investigated. From the experimental results, a lower limit of 0.03 was determined for the reactive uptake coefficient for this reaction. Calculations show the depletion of NO3 by soot may be an important NO3 sink in the atmosphere in urban areas. Furthermore, infrared (IR) absorption spectra show significant changes to the soot surface after exposure to NO3. Functional groups such as epoxides, carbonyls, organic nitrites and nitrates were observed after treatment.
Cyrtopodion gastropholis
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gekkonidae
Cyrtopodion
Cyrtopodion gastropholis

description: Cyrtopodion gastropholis (Werner, 1917)
 Gymnodactylus gastropholis Werner, 1917: 194.
COMMON NAME. — Fars Spider Gecko.
HOLOTYPE. — ZFMK 27095.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Fars Province.
 DISTRIBUTION. — Anderson (1999) stated that it is known only from the holotype and five paratypes from the coastal plain of the Persian Gulf in Fars Province. According to Smid et al. (2014) it is distributed in Bushehr, Hormozgan, Fars, and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad Provinces.
HABITAT. — Anderson (1999) collected a single specimen in a mudbrick building that was constructed as a shelter over a well which was located at the margin of the coastal plain.
IUCN. — Data deficient.
 REFERENCES. — Werner (1917); Anderson (1999); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2011b); Smid et al. (2014).
REMARKS
 According to Ahmadzadeh et al. (2011b) a close relationship is suggested between this species and C. kiabii Ahmadzadeh, Flecks, Torki & Böhme, 2011.
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 512, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795
Additional file 1 of Impact of child emotional and behavioural difficulties on educational outcomes of primary school children in Ethiopia: a population-based cohort study
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Habtamu
name: Girmay Medhin
name: Tomlinson, Mark
name: Alem, Atalay
name: Prince, Martin
name: Hanlon, Charlotte
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Assessments time-points and outcome measures.
title: Intra- and extracellular stimulation of spiking bipolar cells on macaque's retina
Creators: name: Sajedi, Sogand Sadat
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: retina
subject: simulation
subject: bipolar cell
subject: electrical stimulation

description: This study aims to investigate the behaviour of an ON (cone) diuse bipolar cell DB4 of the macaque retina with intra and extra-stimulations applied and recorded in dierent parts of the cell. The simulation of the cell is achieved by applying the Hodgkin-Huxley multi-compartment model and employing the Backward Euler solver through Python (Version 2.7). In the end, a channel noise is added to compute more realistic responses and has been compared with the previous results. Results of the intracellular stimulation show how the electrode position and the waveform is essential in order to get a proper response from the cell. A rectangular pulse is found stronger than a sinusoidal pulse with the same amplitude of 50 pA. The electrode position in sodium band and terminal caused stronger responses in contrast to soma and dendrite. Most spikes are found in frequencies between 20 to 60 HZ.
The economic sustainability of cropping systems in Indian Punjab: A farmers' perspective
Creators: name: Singh, Sukhwinder
name: Park, Julian R.
name: Litten-Brown, Jennie
name: Singh, Sukhwinder
name: Park, Julian R.
name: Litten-Brown, Jennie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: agriculture
subject: cropping systems
subject: Punjab
subject: sustainability

description: Food for all continues to be a key issue, especially in the developing world where every fifth person is chronically undernourished. India, a fast growing developing country has also experienced serious food shortages for example in the mid 1960s. Punjab, a small northern Indian state has developed, particularly since the Green Revolution in the mid 1960s, to be a key agricultural area producing 13% of the food grains of India. Increased productivity brought economic benefits to farmers and led to the establishment of Wheat-Rice Cropping Pattern (WRCP) as the main agricultural system of Punjab which more recently has become reliant on underground water resources, agricultural machinery, chemical fertilisers and pesticides. More recently stagnating yields and increased cost of cultivation of WRCP have squeezed the net farm profitability. However, the WRCP has been, and remains the first choice of farmers, because of its comparative economic advantage, assured marketing and stable productivity level. This paper compares the economic sustainability of WRCP to that of other alternative cropping patterns in Punjab and answers the question “Why farmers continue with the WRCP despite various crop diversification efforts in the past”. Interviews with 120 farmers across Punjab illustrated the economic and risk advantages of WRCP over other potential cropping patterns and concludes that if cropping systems in Punjab are to become more environmentally sustainable then policy makers will need to put mechanisms in place which either encourage a more sustainable WRCP or provide the basis for the growth of alternative, less environmentally damaging cropping systems.
Neutrinos in curved spacetimes: particle mixing and flavor oscillations
Creators: name: Capolupo, Antonio
name: Lambiase, Gaetano
name: Quaranta, Aniello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a quantum field theoretical approach to the vacuum neutrino oscillations in curved space, we analyze the non--trivial interplay between quantum field mixing and field quantization in curved space and derive new oscillation formulae. We compute the formulae explicitly in the spatially flat FLRW metrics for universes dominated by a cosmological constant and by radiation. We evaluate the transition probabilities in the Schwarzschild black hole metric, and we show that the Hawking radiation affects the oscillations of neutrinos. We show that our results are consistent with those of previous analyses when the quantum mechanical limit is considered.
description: 13 pages, no figures
Comparative assessment of three common algorithms for estimating the variance of the area under the nonparametric receiver operating characteristic curve
Creators: name: Cleves, Mario A.
name: Cleves, Mario A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve
subject: trapezoidal rule
subject: sensitivity
subject: specificity
subject: discriminatory accuracy
subject: predictive power

description: The area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is often used to summarize and compare the discriminatory accuracy of a diagnostic test or modality, and to evaluate the predictive power of statistical models for binary outcomes. Parametric maximum likelihood methods for fitting of the ROC curve provide direct estimates of the area under the ROC curve and its variance. Nonparametric methods, on the other hand, provide estimates of the area under the ROC curve, but do not directly estimate its variance. Three algorithms for computing the variance for the area under the nonparametric ROC curve are commonly used, although ambiguity exists about their behavior under diverse study conditions. Using simulated data, we found similar asymptotic performance between these algorithms when the diagnostic test produces results on a continuous scale, but found notable differences in small samples, and when the diagnostic test yields results on a discrete diagnostic scale.
Generalised dual Seidel switching and Deza graphs with strongly regular children
Creators: name: Kabanov, Vladislav V.
name: Konstantinova, Elena V.
name: Shalaginov, Leonid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C50, 05E10, 15A18

description: A Deza graph G with parameters (n,k,b,a) is a k-regular graph with n vertices such that any two distinct vertices have b or a common neighbours, where b >= a. The children G_A and G_B of a Deza graph G are defined on the vertex set of G such that every two distinct vertices are adjacent in G_A or G_B if and only if they have a or b common neighbours, respectively. In this paper we present a general approach to dual Seidel switching and investigate Deza graphs whose children are strongly regular graphs.
description: 8 pages
Additional file 2 of Impact of child emotional and behavioural difficulties on educational outcomes of primary school children in Ethiopia: a population-based cohort study
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Habtamu
name: Girmay Medhin
name: Tomlinson, Mark
name: Alem, Atalay
name: Prince, Martin
name: Hanlon, Charlotte
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Difference beteen those children who remain and lost to follow-up from T0 to T1 (n = 2090).
Relationship of Development and Fiscal Indicators with Agricultural Producer Support in the OECD Economies
Creators: name: Siudek, Tomasz
name: Zawojska, Aldona
name: Siudek, Tomasz
name: Zawojska, Aldona
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: producer support estimate
subject: high-income countries
subject: macroeconomics
subject: public finance

description: The paper seeks to quantify the effects of macro development and fiscal indicators on the agricultural producer support in the OECD countries during the period 1986-2009. The study is complementary to the body of microeconomic research that highlights the importance of support to agriculture industry. Data were obtained from the OECD’s Producer and Consumer Support Estimates database and the World Bank’s Word Development Indicators 2010 database. Producer Support Estimate (expressed in absolute value, in percent of total farm receipts - %PSE and per 1 ha of agricultural land) was taken as the dependent variable, whereas selected indicators describing performance of the economies were the independent variables. Simple linear regression analysis was conducted and resulted in many significant associations. In the period analyzed, there was a wide gap between the most and least supporting countries in terms of average %PSE and PSE per ha as well as substantial differences in degree of their inter-temporal variation occurred. Regression findings reveal, among others, that when countries were becoming richer, the %PSE was generally decreasing. Conflicting results were obtained for relationship between the %PSE and unemployment as in some countries it was negative, while in the others positive. Expansionary fiscal policy exerted opposite effects on the PSE in different countries.
Introducing Representations of Facial Affect in Automated Multimodal Deception Detection
Creators: name: Mathur, Leena
name: Matarić, Maja J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automated deception detection systems can enhance health, justice, and security in society by helping humans detect deceivers in high-stakes situations across medical and legal domains, among others. This paper presents a novel analysis of the discriminative power of dimensional representations of facial affect for automated deception detection, along with interpretable features from visual, vocal, and verbal modalities. We used a video dataset of people communicating truthfully or deceptively in real-world, high-stakes courtroom situations. We leveraged recent advances in automated emotion recognition in-the-wild by implementing a state-of-the-art deep neural network trained on the Aff-Wild database to extract continuous representations of facial valence and facial arousal from speakers. We experimented with unimodal Support Vector Machines (SVM) and SVM-based multimodal fusion methods to identify effective features, modalities, and modeling approaches for detecting deception. Unimodal models trained on facial affect achieved an AUC of 80%, and facial affect contributed towards the highest-performing multimodal approach (adaptive boosting) that achieved an AUC of 91% when tested on speakers who were not part of training sets. This approach achieved a higher AUC than existing automated machine learning approaches that used interpretable visual, vocal, and verbal features to detect deception in this dataset, but did not use facial affect. Across all videos, deceptive and truthful speakers exhibited significant differences in facial valence and facial arousal, contributing computational support to existing psychological theories on affect and deception. The demonstrated importance of facial affect in our models informs and motivates the future development of automated, affect-aware machine learning approaches for modeling and detecting deception and other social behaviors in-the-wild.
description: 10 pages, Accepted at ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), October 2020
A Risk Assessment Model on Pine Wood Nematode in the EU
Creators: name: Soliman, T.
name: Hengeveld, G.M.
name: Robinet, C.
name: Mourits, Monique
name: Van Der Werf, Wopke
name: Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M.
name: Soliman, T.
name: Hengeveld, G.M.
name: Robinet, C.
name: Mourits, Monique
name: Van Der Werf, Wopke
name: Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Risk assessment
subject: pine wood nematode
subject: economic analysis
subject: EU

description: Pine wood nematode, B. xylophilus poses a serious threat for the European forest industry. This study applies a quantitative risk assessment to analyze the risk of pine wood nematode in the EU, by estimating the reduction expected within forestry stock available for wood supply and its downstream roundwood market. Spatial analysis is used to join information on climate suitability, host distribution, pest spread and value of assets. Economic impacts are presented spatially on a NUTS-2 scale based on partial budgeting technique and for the EU as a whole based on partial equilibrium modeling. Results highlight the Southern regions of Europe as high risk areas with a total impact on available forestry stock of 19,000 M € after 20 years of an outbreak and no regulatory control measures. Welfare analysis of the roundwood market, in which its production represents 2,5% of forestry stock, demonstrates the ability of the producers to pass most of the negative impact to the consumers by charging higher prices. Reduction in social welfare estimated at 2,043 M €, where consumer surplus decreased by 2,622 M € and net producer surplus, affected and non-affected producers, increased by 579 M €.
Ionization fronts in negative corona discharges
Creators: name: Arrayas, Manuel
name: Fontelos, Marco A.
name: Trueba, Jose L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we use a hydrodynamic minimal streamer model to study negative corona discharge. By reformulating the model in terms of a quantity called shielding factor, we deduce laws for the evolution in time of both the radius and the intensity of ionization fronts. We also compute the evolution of the front thickness under the conditions for which it diffuses due to the geometry of the problem and show its self-similar character.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
title: Pricing of Asian options in the rough Bergomi model
Creators: name: Tomas, Anto
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: rough volatility
subject: Monte Carlo
subject: rough Bergomi model
subject: Asian option

description: The goal of this thesis is to study the functional central limit theorems, especially the extension of Donskers approximation of Brownian motion the so-called rough Donsker (rDonsker) theorem, which helps us approximate the fractional Brownian motion essential for further implementations of rough volatility models. Furthermore, based on the results of those convergence theorems, the numerical implementation of rough Donsker volatility model is presented and its results are discussed.
Cyrtopodion sistanensis Nazarov & Rajabizadeh 2007
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gekkonidae
Cyrtopodion
Cyrtopodion sistanensis

description: Cyrtopodion sistanensis Nazarov & Rajabizadeh, 2007
 Cyrtopodion sistanensis Nazarov & Rajabizadeh, 2007: 138.
COMMON NAME. — Sistan Bent-toed Gecko.
HOLOTYPE. — ZMMU R-12390.
TYPE LOCALITY. — 90 km West of Zahedan, Nosratabad, 29°50’N, 59°53’E, Sistan and Baluchestan Province.
DISTRIBUTION. — Nazarov and Rajabizadeh found the species in the type locality and in 100 km North, North West of Iranshehr, near Bazman. And it is possible to be found in the central provinces of Iran and bordering regions of Pakistan.
HABITAT. — It inhabits dry low clay incline with poor bushy plants typical for Southern Iran. The habitat is different in Bazman and represented by a more humid valley with rather dense shrub cover.
IUCN. — Least concern.
REFERENCE. — Nazarov & Rajabizadeh (2007).
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 513, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795
Universal Route for the Emergence of Exceptional Points in PT-Symmetric Metamaterials with Unfolding Spectral Symmetries
Creators: name: Fang, Yanghao
name: Kottos, Tsampikos
name: Thevamaran, Ramathasan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a class of Parity-Time symmetric elastodynamic metamaterials (Ed-MetaMater) whose Hermitian counterpart exhibits a frequency spectrum with unfolding (fractal) symmetries. Our study reveals a scale-free formation of exceptional points (EP) whose density is dictated by the fractal dimension of their Hermitian spectra. Demonstrated in a quasi-periodic Aubry-Harper, a geometric H-tree-fractal, and an aperiodic Fibonacci Ed-MetaMater, the universal route for EP-formation is established via a coupled mode theory model with controllable fractal spectrum. This universality will enable the rational design of novel Ed-MetaMater for hypersensitive sensing and elastic wave control.
Universal compressive characterization of quantum dynamics
Creators: name: Kim, Yosep
name: Teo, Yong Siah
name: Ahn, Daekun
name: Im, Dong-Gil
name: Cho, Young-Wook
name: Leuchs, Gerd
name: Sanchez-Soto, Luis L.
name: Jeong, Hyunseok
name: Kim, Yoon-Ho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent quantum technologies utilize complex multidimensional processes that govern the dynamics of quantum systems. We develop an adaptive diagonal-element-probing compression technique that feasibly characterizes any unknown quantum processes using much fewer measurements compared to conventional methods. This technique utilizes compressive projective measurements that are generalizable to arbitrary number of subsystems. Both numerical analysis and experimental results with unitary gates demonstrate low measurement costs, of order $O(d^2)$ for $d$-dimensional systems, and robustness against statistical noise. Our work potentially paves the way for a reliable and highly compressive characterization of general quantum devices.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Synthesis and characterization of new π-conjugated molecules and polymers containing phosphorus
Creators: name: Wright, Vincent Arthur
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In this thesis, the synthesis and characterization of a new class of π-conjugated polymers is reported. In these new macromolecules, poly(p-phenylenephosphaalkene)s, the main chain consists of alternating aromatic rings and P=C groups. Several model compounds (Ph-P=C(OSiMe₃)-Mes, Ph-P=C(OSiMe₃)-C₆Me₄-C(OSiMe₃)=P-Ph, Mes-C(OSiMe₃)=P-C₆H₄-P=C(OSiMe₃)-Mes) are reported for comparison to the polymer. This comparison illustrates that the polymer exhibits a degree of extended π-conjugation throughout the backbone of the material. The effects of using thiophene (Tp) as an aromatic spacer in a poly(p-thienylenephosphaalkene) are investigated, and reveal an increase in the UV/Vis maximum absorbance compared to phenylene systems. Two compounds (Tp-P=C(OSiMe₃)-Mes, Mes-C(OSiMe₃)=P-Tp-P=C(OSiMe₃)-Mes) are described as model compounds for the polymer. Mes-P=C(OSiMe₃)-Tp shows a significant increase in the UV/Vis maximum absorance wavelength compared to the conformational isomer discussed above. If the sterically demanding substituent resides on the phosphorus atom of the phosphaalkene bond in phenylene systems, a single isomer of the phosphaalkene forms selectively. Solid state structures of Mes-P=C(OSiMe₃)-Ph, Mes-P=C(OSiMe₃)-C₆H₄-C(OSiMe₃)=P-Mes, and Ph-C(OSiMe₃)=P-C₆Me₄-P=C(OSiMe₃)-Ph were determined. The corresponding polymer was synthesized and characterized. Due to the synthetic route to the P=C bond which forms a siloxy group, these compounds are quite sensitive to protonolysis. Preliminary results towards preparing more robust poly(p-phenylenephosphaalkene)s are discussed.
ChatGPT and Grok3: A Comparative Analysis of Response Quality in Cognitive Psychology and Conspiracy Discourse
Creators: name: Lehti, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 500311
subject: Philosophical psychology (incl. moral psychology and philosophy of action)
classificationCode: 500312
subject: Philosophy of cognition

description: Since this isn’t a standard paper and mostly involves AI responding to a few of my written passages, I’ve formatted it differently. It started with a simple curiosity. What would a research-grade AI do if I gave it some of my writing, untouched? What happened surprised me. ChatGPT offered insights that cut through with a clarity I hadn’t expected, and that, along with another reason caused the experiment.I’ve often struggled to express how academia, for all its claims to open inquiry, can be just as closed off as rigid doctrine. ChatGPT managed to present it in way that was much more efficient than my own writing. So credit is due, because what it reflected back wasn’t just insightful. It was necessary to say, and it was worth sharing.This paper exists for more than one reason. One part stands in for older work of mine, and the other is written in protest. It replaces that older work as a response to algorithmic suppression. That context matters.
Hogyan érvényesítheti az alkotmány a föld közfunkcióit?
Creators: name: Tanka, Endre
name: Tanka, Endre
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: értékalapú birtokpolitika
subject: fenntarthatóság
subject: köztulajdon
subject: a termőföld nemzeti vagyon minősége
subject: value-based land estate policy
subject: sustainability
subject: public goods
subject: arable land as a national asset

description: A történelmi korszakváltás a fenntarthatóság egyik létfeltételévé teszi, hogy a birtokrendben az állam közhatalmi beavatkozással érvényesítse a föld társadalom- és gazdaságszervező közfunkcióit. Ennek jogi pillére olyan alkotmányos intézmény lehet, amely a Magyar Állam területét alkotó termőföldet tulajdoni formájától függetlenül a nemzet vagyonának minősíti. Az állam az államterületét alkotó, földre fennálló alkotmányos önrendelkezési joga alapján valamennyi jogalanyra kiterjedően szabályozza és közérdekből korlátozhatja a termőföld-tulajdonszerzés és a földhasználat feltételeit. Magyarország a földmoratórium uniós meghosszabbításával a közérdekű birtokpolitika megvalósítására további három évet nyert, és a föld nemzeti vagyonná minősítése alapján alkothatja meg a mezőgazdasági üzemszabályozást és az új értékelveket érvényesítő földvédelmi törvényt. ---------------------------------------------- Our changing era makes it indispensable to sustainability that governments employ statutory instruments to ensure that the structure of land ownership supports the public functions of land as a basis for the organisation of the society and economy. The appropriate legal pillar for this purpose could be a constitutional arrangement by which land comprising the territory of the State of Hungary is deemed a national asset regardless of the form of its ownership. On the basis of its constitutional right of self-determination with regard to the land comprising its territory, the state sets forth regulations on land acquisition and land use and may impose restrictions on the same to protect public interests. Now that the EU has extended the land purchase ban applicable to foreigners, three more years are available to develop a land estate policy serving public interest; the quality of land as a national asset could be the basis on which the policy regulating agricultural businesses is developed, as well as a land protection act which enforces the new values.
Additional file 1 of Dual effect of TAT functionalized DHAH lipid nanoparticles with neurotrophic factors in human BBB and microglia cultures
Creators: name: Hernando, Sara
name: Nikolakopoulou, Polyxeni
name: Voulgaris, Dimitrios
name: Hernandez, Rosa Maria
name: Igartua, Manoli
name: Herland, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: File 1. Methods. File 2. Summary of the reagent used in this research article. File 3. Composition of the different type of NLCs and doses tested in HMC3 microglia cell line. File 4. Taqman assay ID. File 5. Barrier integrity post-NLC exposure. File 6. NLC incubation-working concentrations set in AlamarBlue assay- in HMC3 microglia cell line. File 7. HMC3 cell viability after exposure to LPS or NLC (Miglyol-NLC, DHAH89 NLC, DHAH-NLC-GDNF, DHAH-NLC-VEGF in working concentrations). File 8. Gene expression analysis (RT-qPCR). File 9. Gene expression analysis (RT-qPCR). File 10. Cytokine secretion analysis (U-PLEX Assay) assay values. File 11. NLC permeability across the human BBB.
Twirling DNA Rings - Swimming Nanomotors Ready for a Kickstart
Creators: name: Kulic, Igor M.
name: Thaokar, Rochish
name: Schiessel, Helmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a rotary DNA nanomachine that shows a continuous rotation with a frequency of 10^2 -10^4 Hz. This motor consists of a DNA ring whose elastic features are tuned such that it can be externally driven via a periodic temperature change. As a result the ring propels itself through the fluid with a speed up to microns per second.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Evolutionary correlation of water-related traits between different structures of Dendrobium plants
Creators: name: Sun, Mei
name: Feng, Chun-Hui
name: Liu, Zhen-Ya
name: Tian, Kun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The phylogram of 19 Dendrobium species. The phylogenetic tree was cited from Sun et al. 2014. Target species in this study were marked by boxes.
An extension which is relatively twofold mixing but not threefold mixing
Creators: name: De La Rue, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37A25

description: We give an example of a dynamical system which is mixing relative to one of its factors, but for which relative mixing of order three does not hold.
Phase-resolved analyses of mHz quasi-periodic oscillations in 4U 1636-53 using Hilbert-Huang transform
Creators: name: Hsieh, Hung-En
name: Chou, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present phase-resolved spectroscopies based on Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) for millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations (mHz QPOs) in 4U 1636-536. This ~8 mHz QPO can be detected approximately several thousand seconds before a type-I X-ray burst. It was interpreted as marginally stable burning on the neutron-star surface. In this study, we used HHT to analyze the data collected by XMM-Newton between 2007 and 2009. HHT is a powerful tool that enables us to obtain instantaneous frequency, amplitude and phase of non-stationary periodicity phenomena, such as QPOs. With well-defined phases, the oscillation profile of the ~8 mHz QPO for 4U 1636-53 can be precisely revealed. In addition to the oscillation profile, phase-resolved spectra for the complete cycle are constructed. From the correlation between spectral parameters and fluxes, we find that the oscillation is mainly attributed to the variations of emitting area of blackbody radiation in three out of four observations with mHz QPO detections whereas the other one shows concurrent variation of temperature and flux with a constant emitting area. Although the cause of the difference is not clear, it might be related to the spectral state of the source that can be observed from hard color difference in color-color diagram.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables, ApJ, in press
Additional file 10 of Cephalic arch restenosis rates in hemodialysis patients with brachiocephalic fistulae: a retrospective multicenter analysis of 3301 patients
Creators: name: Razdan, Rishi N.
name: Rosenblatt, Melvin
name: Jiao, Yue
name: McLaughlin, Nancy
name: Usvyat, Len A.
name: Sor, Murat
name: Larkin, John W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10. Supplemental figure on distribution of restenosis rates (% decrease in lumen diameter per month) at the cephalic arch after the 3rd index to 4th visits among patients treated with bare metal stent
Spin-dependent resonant tunneling in symmetrical double-barrier structure
Creators: name: Glazov, M. M.
name: Alekseev, P. S.
name: Odnoblyudov, M. A.
name: Chistyakov, V. M.
name: Tarasenko, S. A.
name: Yassievich, I. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theory of resonant spin-dependent tunneling has been developed for symmetrical double-barrier structures grown of non-centrosymmetrical semiconductors. The dependence of the tunneling transparency on the spin orientation and the wave vector of electrons leads to (i) spin polarization of the transmitted carriers in an in-plane electric field, (ii) generation of an in-plane electric current under tunneling of spin-polarized carriers. These effects originated from spin-orbit coupling-induced splitting of the resonant level have been considered for double-barrier tunneling structures.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 11 of Cephalic arch restenosis rates in hemodialysis patients with brachiocephalic fistulae: a retrospective multicenter analysis of 3301 patients
Creators: name: Razdan, Rishi N.
name: Rosenblatt, Melvin
name: Jiao, Yue
name: McLaughlin, Nancy
name: Usvyat, Len A.
name: Sor, Murat
name: Larkin, John W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 11. Supplemental figure on distribution of restenosis rates (% decrease in lumen diameter per month) at the cephalic arch after the 2nd index to 3rd visits among patients treated with stent graft
Assessing Centrality Without Knowing Connections
Creators: name: Roohi, Leyla
name: Rubinstein, Benjamin I. P.
name: Teague, Vanessa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the privacy-preserving computation of node influence in distributed social networks, as measured by egocentric betweenness centrality (EBC). Motivated by modern communication networks spanning multiple providers, we show for the first time how multiple mutually-distrusting parties can successfully compute node EBC while revealing only differentially-private information about their internal network connections. A theoretical utility analysis upper bounds a primary source of private EBC error---private release of ego networks---with high probability. Empirical results demonstrate practical applicability with a low 1.07 relative error achievable at strong privacy budget $ε=0.1$ on a Facebook graph, and insignificant performance degradation as the number of network provider parties grows.
description: Full report of paper appearing in PAKDD2020
Le Tarif Extérieur Commun de la CEDEAO est-il un instrument au service de la diversification des exportations des pays membres?
Creators: name: KOUASSI, Dedje Sylvestre Éric
name: TAPE, Jean Georges Innocent Magloire
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Diversification des exportations ; Tarif extérieur commun (TEC) ; Politique commerciale régionale ; Pays membres de la CEDEAO ; Développement économique

description: Cet article a étudié l’effet de l’intégration régionale sur la diversification des exportations au sein de la CEDEAO. Nous avons estimé une équation de diversification des exportations inspirée de la littérature empirique à partir de la méthode FGLS. Outre, le rôle joué par le niveau de développement, la taille du marché et la capacité productive des pays, l’application du TEC CEDEAO a un effet positif sur la diversification des exportations dans la zone.  Les pays membres de la CEDEAO devraient exploiter la protection que leur accorde le TEC CEDEAO en appliquant des taux proches du taux maximum.