cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The 2011 Surplus in Smallholder Maize Production in Zambia: Drivers, Beneficiaries, & Implications for Agricultural & Poverty Reduction Policies
Creators: name: Mason, Nicole M.
name: Burke, William J.
name: Shipekesa, Arthur M.
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Mason, Nicole M.
name: Burke, William J.
name: Shipekesa, Arthur M.
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: maize
subject: Zambia
subject: poverty

description: In 2011, Zambia recorded its second consecutive record-breaking maize harvest, and aggregate maize production levels in 2011 were more than double the average level from 2006 to 2008. The expansion in maize production over the period corresponds with the scaling up of the Government of the Republic of Zambia's (GRZ) two flagship agricultural sector programmes. These are: (i) maize purchases at pan-territorial, above-market prices through the Food Reserve Agency (FRA); and (ii) subsidized fertilizer distribution through the Fertilizer Support Programme and its successor, the Farmer Input Support Programme (FSP/FISP). More than 90% of GRZ funding for Poverty Reduction Programmes is devoted to the FRA and FSP/FISP, yet there has been no major reduction in rural poverty rates in Zambia since 2004.
Meteorus brevicauda Thomson 1895
Creators: name: Stigenberg, Julia
name: Ronquist, Fredrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Meteorus
Meteorus brevicauda

description: Meteorus brevicauda Thomson
Fig. 88
 Meteorus brevicauda Thomson, 1895:2165. Lectotype ♀, Sweden (MZLU, Lund - examined)
 Meteorus thuringiacus Schmiedeknecht, 1897:190. Syntypes ♀, Germany (lost). Synonymized by Huddleston 1980:23.
 Meteorus mongolicus Fahringer, 1935:10. Holotype ♀, China: S. Kansu (Hummel) (NHRS Stockholm)—examined. Synonymized by Huddleston 1980:23.
 Diagnosis: Meteorus brevicauda is a very small species and is easily distinguished amongst the other small species based on the shape of the clypeus (as wide as the face) and mandibles (large, stout and not twisted). M. micropilosus have a small, square clypeus and slightly twisted but stout mandibles. M. punctifrons is distinguished by the presence of punctures on the frons, which lack in M. brevicauda. M. breviantennatus have a wide clypeus similar to that of M. brevicauda, but it can easily be distinguished from the latter by having a longer ovipositor (twice the length of petiolar tergum in the former, 1.5 times petiolar tergum in the latter).
 Studied material: ~ 10 specimens.
 Description: Size about 3mm. Antennal articles 24–27, articles slightly longer than broad. Ocelli small, OOL=3. Eyes not strongly protuberant, slightly converging. Malar space very short. Face rather flat and about 2 times as broad as high. Clypeus large, flat and as wide as face. Tentorial pits large. Mandibles large, stout and not twisted. Precoxal sulcus foveolate. Propodeum short with distinct carinae. Petiolar tergum with distinct dorsal pits and glymmae. Ovipositor short, about 1.5 times the length of petiolar tergum. Legs short, the hind coxa smooth, punctuate; tarsal claws with no basal lobe but slightly swollen at the base. Colour generally black except antennae at base, clypeus, mandibles and prothorax ventrally testaceous, legs yellow. Fore wing vein m-cu antefurcal.
 Distribution: Palearctic. Country records: Austria; Bulgaria; China; Finland; Germany; Hungary; Italy; Lithuania; Poland; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom.
 Biology: Meteorus brevicauda parasitizes on the leaf-feeding larvae of Zeugophora subspinosa (Fabricius) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) (Shaw, 1988).
description: Published as part of Stigenberg, Julia & Ronquist, Fredrik, 2011, Revision of the Western Palearctic Meteorini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with a molecular characterization of hidden Fennoscandian species diversity 3084, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 3084 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3084.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5244448
Spherical ansatz for parameter-space metrics
Creators: name: Allen, Bruce
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fundamental quantity in signal analysis is the metric $g_{ab}$ on parameter space, which quantifies the fractional "mismatch" $m$ between two (time- or frequency-domain) waveforms. When searching for weak gravitational-wave or electromagnetic signals from sources with unknown parameters $λ$ (masses, sky locations, frequencies, etc.) the metric can be used to create and/or characterize "template banks". These are grids of points in parameter space; the metric is used to ensure that the points are correctly separated from one another. For small coordinate separations $dλ^a$ between two points in parameter space, the traditional ansatz for the mismatch is a quadratic form $m=g_{ab} dλ^a dλ^b$. This is a good approximation for small separations but at large separations it diverges, whereas the actual mismatch is bounded. Here we introduce and discuss a simple "spherical" ansatz for the mismatch $m=\sin^2(\sqrt{g_{ab} dλ^a dλ^b})$. This agrees with the metric ansatz for small separations, but we show that in simple cases it provides a better (and bounded) approximation for large separations, and argue that this is also true in the generic case. This ansatz should provide a more accurate approximation of the mismatch for semi-coherent searches, and may also be of use when creating grids for hierarchical searches that (in some stages) operate at relatively large mismatch.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, will be submitted to PRD
Quality and shelf-life improvement of fresh strawberry (Fragaria sp. ‘Holibrite’) using Aloe vera coating during storage in a tropical environment
Creators: name: Universitas Gadjah Mada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 70302 Agronomy
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 70307 Crop and Pasture Post Harvest Technologies (incl. Transportation and Storage)

description: Fresh strawberry (Fragaria sp. ‘Holibrite’) sharply decrease their quality and also have a short shelf-life in a tropical environment conditions. The coating method using Aloe vera was applied to strawberry fruit to preserve their quality and increase their shelf life. Aloe vera is used as a biopolymer coating to cover strawberry fruit skin with standard formulation as gel coating. Different maturity levels of strawberry fruits were used and the quality parameters of fresh strawberry assayed were weight loss percentage, skin texture, water content, titratable acidity, vitamin C and total soluble solid content. Storage temperatures were set at 4°C with RH 62% and 10°C with RH 68% and then compared with the sample at room temperature as control for tropical environment. All quality parameters of strawberry fruit coated using Aloe vera could be kept stable at controlled temperature storage. Moreover, the shelf life of strawberry fruit under controlled storage temperatures was longer than those at tropical environment conditions. Aloe vera coating can preserve quality conditions and increase shelf life of strawberry fruit in a tropical controlled storage temperature and at room temperature.
n-Hexane Insoluble Fraction of Plantago lanceolata Exerts Anti-Inflammatory Activity in Mice by Inhibiting Cyclooxygenase-2 and Reducing Chemokines Levels
Creators: name: Universitas Gadjah Mada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Inflammation is involved in the progression of many disorders, such as tumors, arthritis,
gastritis, and atherosclerosis. Thus, the development of new agents targeting inflammation is still
challenging. Medicinal plants have been used traditionally to treat various diseases including
inflammation. A previous study has indicated that dichloromethane extract of P. lanceolata
leaves exerts anti-inflammatory activity in an in vitro model. Here, we examined the in vivo
anti-inflammatory activities of a n-hexane insoluble fraction of P. lanceolata leaves dichloromethane
extract (HIFPL). We first evaluated its potency to reduce paw edema induced by carrageenan,
and the expression of the proinflammatory enzyme, cyclooxygenase (COX)-2, in mice. The efficacy of
HIFPL to inhibit COX-2 was also evaluated in an in vitro enzymatic assay. We further studied the
effect of HIFPL on leukocytes migration in mice induced by thioglycollate. The level of chemokines
facilitating the migration of leukocytes was also measured. We found that HIFPL (40, 80, 160 mg/kg)
demonstrated anti-inflammatory activities in mice. The HIFPL reduced the volume of paw edema and
COX-2 expression. However, HIFPL acts as an unselective COX-2 inhibitor as it inhibited COX-1 with
a slightly higher potency. Interestingly, HIFPL strongly inhibited leukocyte migration by reducing
the level of chemokines, Interleukine-8 (IL-8) and Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1).
Charged Particle Fluctuation as Signal of the Dynamics in Heavy Ion Processes
Creators: name: Bopp, Fritz W.
name: Ranft, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the dispersion of the charges in a central rapidity box according to the Dual Parton Model with the predictions of statistical models. Significant deviations are found in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. Hence the charged particle fluctuations should provide a clear signal of the dynamics of heavy ion processes. They should allow to directly measure the degree of thermalization in a quantitative way.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, to be published in EJPC
Dairy Farm Management, Business Summary, New York State, 1998
Creators: name: Knoblauch, Wayne A.
name: Putnam, Linda D.
name: Karszes, Jason
name: Knoblauch, Wayne A.
name: Putnam, Linda D.
name: Karszes, Jason
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Business and financial records from 305 New York dairy farm businesses are summarized and analyzed. This analysis demonstrates the use of cash accounting and accrual adjustments to measure farm profitability, cash flow, financial performance, and costs of producing milk. Traditional methods of analyzing dairy farm businesses are combined with improved evaluation techniques to show the relationship between good management performance and financial success. The farms in the project averaged 210 cows per farm and 20,900 pounds of milk sold per cow in 1998, which are above the average size and management level of all New York dairy farms. Net farm income excluding appreciation, which is the return to the operator's labor, management, capital, and other unpaid family labor, averaged $132,705 per farm. The rate of return including appreciation to all capital invested in the farm business averaged 11.5 percent in 1998. Differences in profitability between farms continue to widen. The top 10 percent of farms average net farm income excluding appreciation was $558,217, while the lowest 10 percent was a negative $2,216. Rates of return on equity with appreciation ranged from 66 percent to negative 11 percent from the highest 10 percent to the lowest 10 percent of farms. Farms adopting bovine somatotropin (bST) experienced greater increases in milk production, had larger herds and were more profitable than farms not adopting bST. Farms adopting rotational grazing generally produced less milk per cow than non-grazing farms, but had somewhat lower costs of production and higher profitability. However, one should not conclude that adoption of these technologies alone were responsible for differences in performance. Large freestall farms averaged the highest milk output per cow and per worker, the lowest total cost of production and investment per cow, and the greatest returns to labor, management and capital. Farms milking three times a day (3X) were larger, produced more milk per cow and were more profitable than herds milking two times per day (2X). Operating cost per cwt. of milk was $0.31/cwt. higher for 3X than 2X milking herds.
Zero Mach Number Limit of the Compressible Primitive Equations: Well-Prepared Initial Data
Creators: name: Liu, Xin
name: Titi, Edriss S.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article

description: Funder: Einstein Stiftung Berlin; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006188
description: Funder: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100005851
description: Abstract: This work concerns the zero Mach number limit of the compressible primitive equations. The primitive equations with the incompressibility condition are identified as the limiting equations. The convergence with well-prepared initial data (i.e., initial data without acoustic oscillations) is rigorously justified, and the convergence rate is shown to be of order O(ε), as ε→0+, where ε represents the Mach number. As a byproduct, we construct a class of global solutions to the compressible primitive equations, which are close to the incompressible flows.
Context aware quantum simulation of a matrix stored in quantum memory
Creators: name: Daskin, Ammar
name: Bian, Teng
name: Xia, Rongxin
name: Kais, Sabre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper a storage method and a context-aware circuit simulation idea are presented for the sum of block diagonal matrices. Using the design technique for a generalized circuit for the Hamiltonian dynamics through the truncated series, we generalize the idea to (0-1) matrices and discuss the generalization for the real matrices. The presented circuit requires $O(n)$ number of quantum gates and yields the correct output with the success probability depending on the number of elements: for matrices with $poly(n)$, the success probability is $1/poly(n)$. Since the operations on the circuit are controlled by the data itself, the circuit can be considered as a context aware computing gadget. In addition, it can be used in variational quantum eigensolver and in the simulation of molecular Hamiltonians.
Vergleichende Untersuchung des Wilhelmsbrunnens in Cannstatt, der Inselquelle und des Berger Sprudels
Creators: name: Sigwart, Georg Karl Ludwig
Publisher: name: - NO PUBLISHER DEFINED -
Year: 1859

description: Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg : zugl. Jahrbuch d. Staatlichen Museums für Naturkunde in Stuttgart
description: Bd. 15-16, 1859-1860
Hydrodynamics of a particle model in contact with stochastic reservoirs
Creators: name: Tkachov, Pasha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82C22, 60K35, 35K20, 35K55, 35Q82

description: We consider an exclusion process with finite-range interactions in the microscopic interval $[0,N]$. The process is coupled with the simple symmetric exclusion processes in the intervals $[-N,-1]$ and $[N+1,2N]$, which simulate reservoirs. We show that the empirical densities of the processes speeded up by the factor $N^2$ converge to solutions of parabolic partial differential equations inside the intervals $[-N,-1]$, $[0,N]$, $[N+1,2N]$. Since the total number of particles is preserved by the evolution, we obtain the Neumann boundary conditions on the external boundaries $x=-N$, $x=2N$ of the reservoirs. Finally, a system of Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions is derived at the interior boundaries $x=0$, $x=N$ of the reservoirs.
The dimension of the boundary of a Liouville quantum gravity metric ball
Creators: name: Gwynne, Ewain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Let $γ\in (0,2)$, let $h$ be the planar Gaussian free field, and consider the $γ$-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) metric associated with $h$. We show that the essential supremum of the Hausdorff dimension of the boundary of a $γ$-LQG metric ball with respect to the Euclidean (resp. $γ$-LQG) metric is $2 - \fracγ{d_γ}\left(\frac{2}γ + \fracγ{2} \right) + \frac{γ^2}{2d_γ^2}$ (resp. $d_γ-1$), where $d_γ$ is the Hausdorff dimension of the whole plane with respect to the $γ$-LQG metric. For $γ= \sqrt{8/3}$, in which case $d_{\sqrt{8/3}}=4$, we get that the essential supremum of Euclidean (resp. $\sqrt{8/3}$-LQG) dimension of a $\sqrt{8/3}$-LQG ball boundary is $5/4$ (resp. $3$). We also compute the essential suprema of the Euclidean and $γ$-LQG Hausdorff dimensions of the intersection of a $γ$-LQG ball boundary with the set of metric $α$-thick points of the field $h$ for each $α\in \mathbb R$. Our results show that the set of $γ/d_γ$-thick points on the ball boundary has full Euclidean dimension and the set of $γ$-thick points on the ball boundary has full $γ$-LQG dimension.
description: 63 pages, 5 figures; final version, to appear in CMP
SPATIAL VARIATIONS IN WORK PARTICIPATION RATE IN HIMACHAL PRADESH: A DISTRICT  LEVEL STUDY
Creators: name: Rajiv Sindhu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description:               Work participation is an important indicator for understanding the socio-economic development of various segments of the population of a country. It is the interest of the society to make full and most effective use of its human resources. The full benefit of development of development can only be realized with people’s participation and the economic role of women cannot be isolated from the total framework of development. In the present paper an attempt has been made to study spatial variations in work participation in the state of Himachal Pradesh. The district wise secondary data of working population and total population have been collected from Census of India, 2011. District wise percentage of total workers to total population by gender have been calculated by field calculator using QGIS and presented in tabular form and choropleth maps. The study reveals that total work participation rate on an average in 2001 was 49.20 percent which has increased to 51.85 percent in 2011. The male work participation rate was 54.62 percent in 2001 which has increased to 58.69 percent in 2011. Similarly the female work participation rate has increased from 43.67 to 44.82 percent during the same period. The study also shows that during 2011 there is a considerable spatial variation in the male and female work participation rate being highest in Kinnaur district and lowest in Una district in both cases.
Farm Size and the Distribution of Farm Numbers
Creators: name: Boxley, Robert F.
name: Boxley, Robert F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Farms
subject: distribution by size
subject: Gini ratio.

description: Size-of-farm data for 1964 were fitted to the function In Y =In a·bX Results showed that the percentage distribution of farms by size classes tends to follow the distribution of an inverse exponential function. Furthermore, empirical size distributions seem to have an underlying stability across time and geographic areas. These features have several applications, one of which is prediction of future size distributions of farms. A method of making such a prediction is illustrated with census data on farm numbers in 1935 and 1964.
Thermal-optical analysis of polymer–liquid crystal microfibers
Creators: name: Universitas Gadjah Mada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 20599 Optical Physics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the analysis of optically responsive microfibers with uniaxially ordered liquid crystal (LC) molecules at their cores is discussed. LC microfibers were electrospun from a solution of poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) and N-(4-methoxybenzylidene)-4'-butylaniline (MBBA) using absolute alcohol as a solvent. Two parallel copper (Cu) collectors were used to obtain ordered fibers. The microfibers with oriented LC molecules were well fabricated at a voltage of 5 kV. A thermal-optical analysis revealed that the fibers were responsive to temperature. The rise of temperature from nematic to isotropic phase of LC decreased the LC intensity under a polarized optical microscope (POM).
In Utero Gene Therapy (IUGT) Using GLOBE Lentiviral Vector Phenotypically Corrects the Heterozygous Humanised Mouse Model and Its Progress Can Be Monitored Using MRI Techniques
Creators: name: Shangaris, Panicos
name: Loukogeorgakis, Stavros P.
name: Subramaniam, Sindhu
name: Flouri, Christina
name: Jackson, Laurence H.
name: Wang, Wei
name: Blundell, Michael P.
name: Liu, Shanrun
name: Eaton, Simon
name: Bakhamis, Nahla
name: Ramachandra, Durrgah Latchumi
name: Maghsoudlou, Panayiotis
name: Urbani, Luca
name: Waddington, Simon N.
name: Eddaoudi, Ayad
name: Archer, Joy
name: Antoniou, Michael N.
name: Stuckey, Daniel J.
name: Schmidt, Manfred
name: Thrasher, Adrian J.
name: Ryan, Thomas M.
name: De Coppi, Paolo
name: David, Anna L.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article
/631/208/199
/692/308/1426
/692/308/575
/631/136/232/1473/1542
/42
/42/41
/59
/59/57
/38
/13
/13/100
article

description: Funder: UK Thalassaemia Society
description: Abstract: In utero gene therapy (IUGT) to the fetal hematopoietic compartment could be used to treat congenital blood disorders such as β-thalassemia. A humanised mouse model of β-thalassemia was used, in which heterozygous animals are anaemic with splenomegaly and extramedullary hematopoiesis. Intrahepatic in utero injections of a β globin-expressing lentiviral vector (GLOBE), were performed in fetuses at E13.5 of gestation. We analysed animals at 12 and 32 weeks of age, for vector copy number in bone marrow, peripheral blood liver and spleen and we performed integration site analysis. Compared to noninjected heterozygous animals IUGT normalised blood haemoglobin levels and spleen weight. Integration site analysis showed polyclonality. The left ventricular ejection fraction measured using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in treated heterozygous animals was similar to that of normal non-β-thalassemic mice but significantly higher than untreated heterozygous thalassemia mice suggesting that IUGT ameliorated poor cardiac function. GLOBE LV-mediated IUGT normalised the haematological and anatomical phenotype in a heterozygous humanised model of β-thalassemia.
A Numerical Model for the Analysis of Rapid Landslide Motion
Creators: name: Universitas Gadjah Mada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 10301 Numerical Analysis
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: When the safety factor of natural or artificial
slopes reaches critical value of 1.0, the increment of
triggering factors, i.e. precipitation, rise of groundwater
level, earthquake, and slope interference may prompt
slope failure. Considering the impacts and damages
possibly caused by rapid landslides, it is important to
predict its runout distance, velocity, moving volume,
and coverage area. A numerical model was developed
to calculate the rapid landslide motion and applied to 26
cases of landslides and 6 cases of debris flows, with
volume ranging from less than 100 m3 up to
3.5 9 109 m3. This quasi-three-dimensional model
used the Navier–Stokes equation as the governing
equation of motion and Coulomb’s resistance rule along
the sliding surface to compute runout distance and
coverage area corresponding with the real rheological
conditions in the field. Due to the influence of dynamic
conditions and excess pore water pressure, the internal
friction of the sliding mass and the sliding surface are
much smaller than the internal friction obtained by
static soil tests. Themoving volume affects the dynamic
coefficient of friction and the velocity, whereas a small
volume landslide occurs at a higher value of dynamic
coefficient of friction and yields lower velocity. In
addition, a landslide with a gentler slope occurs at a
lower value of dynamic coefficient of friction, where in
the case of the debris flow, it tends to have an even lower
dynamic friction compared to landslide. This numerical
model can be used to simulate the motion of rapid
landslides with potentially long run-out in order to
support hazard and risk assessment of landslides.
The Influence of the Common Agricultural Policy and Heterogeneous Land Quality on Land Rent and Land Allocation
Creators: name: Feichtinger, Paul
name: Salhofer, Klaus
name: Feichtinger, Paul
name: Salhofer, Klaus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: CAP
subject: Land quality
subject: Land rent
subject: Land allocation

description: Against the background of the current discussion about the EU’s common agricultural policy (CAP) after 2013, the question of the impact of government support on land prices is crucially important. Validation of the CAP’s success also hinges on a proper assessment of a choice of policy instruments. This study therefore has the objective of investigating on a theoretical basis the effects of different government support measures on land rental prices and land allocation. The different measures under consideration are the price support, area payments and decoupled single farm payments (SFPs) of the CAP. Our approach evaluates the potential impact of each measure based on a Ricardian land rent model with heterogeneous land quality and multiple land uses. We start with a simple model of one output and two inputs, where a Cobb-Douglas production technology is assumed between the two factors of land and non-land inputs. In a second step, an outside option is introduced. This outside option, as opposed to land use of the Ricardian type, is independent of land quality. The results show that area payments and SFPs become fully capitalised into land rents, whereas in a price support scheme the capitalisation depends on per-acreage productivity. Moreover, in a price support scheme and a historical model, the capitalisation is positively influenced by land quality. Both area payments and price supports influence land allocation across different uses compared with no subsidies, where the shift tends to be larger in an area payment scheme than in a price support scheme. By contrast, SFPs do not influence land allocation.
Origin of anomalously long interatomic distances in suspended gold chains
Creators: name: Legoas, Sergio B.
name: Galvao, Douglas S.
name: Rodrigues, Varlei
name: Ugarte, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of long bonds in gold atom chains has represented a challenge for physical interpretation. In fact, interatomic distances frequently attain 3.0-3.6 A values and, distances as large as 5.0 A may be seldom observed. Here, we studied gold chains by transmission electron microscopy and performed theoretical calculations using cluster ab initio density functional formalism. We show that the insertion of two carbon atoms is required to account for the longest bonds, while distances above 3 A may be due to a mixture of clean and one C atom contaminated bonds.
description: 4 pages, 4 Postscript figures, to be published in Physical Review Letters
The design of steep slopes constructed from cohesive fill and a geogrid.
Creators: name: Naughton, Patrick
name: R Jewell
name: G Kempton
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 120402 Engineering Design Knowledge
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 120403 Engineering Design Methods
subject: 120404 Engineering Systems Design

description: The shear strength and consolidation properties of compacted cohesive fills are reviewed and are found to vary greatly between different soil types. Recent research on dissipating excess pore water pressure in steep slopes constructed from cohesive fill is also reviewed. A simple and practical design method for constructing steep slopes from cohesive fill is proposed. The design method estimates both the time to dissipate excess pore water pressures and the magnitude of the resultant settlements. It also estimated the required transmissivity required by the drainage elements. Guidance is also given on controlling seepage into the reinforced soil block.
Paolo Bernabò's grosse orientalische Menagerie
Creators: name: Martens, Georg von
Publisher: name: - NO PUBLISHER DEFINED -
Year: 1859

description: Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg : zugl. Jahrbuch d. Staatlichen Museums für Naturkunde in Stuttgart
description: Bd. 15-16, 1859-1860
The Fornax 3D project: Thick disks in a cluster environment
Creators: name: Pinna, F.
name: Falcón-Barroso, J.
name: Martig, M.
name: Coccato, L.
name: Corsini, E. M.
name: de Zeeuw, P. T.
name: Gadotti, D. A.
name: Iodice, E.
name: Leaman, R.
name: Lyubenova, M.
name: Martín-Navarro, I.
name: Morelli, L.
name: Sarzi, M.
name: van de Ven, G.
name: Viaene, S.
name: McDermid, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used deep MUSE observations to perform a stellar-kinematic and population analysis of FCC 153 and FCC 177, two edge-on S0 galaxies in the Fornax cluster. The geometrical definition of the different structural components of these two galaxies allows us to describe the nature of their thick disks. These are both old, relatively metal poor and [Mg/Fe]-enhanced, and their star formation history (SFH) reveals a minor younger component whose chemical properties suggest its later accretion. Moreover, the outer regions of these geometrically defined thick disks show higher values of metallicity and lower values of [Mg/Fe]. These stars probably formed in the thin-disk region and they were dynamically heated to form the flares present in these two galaxies. We propose different formation scenarios for the three populations of these thick disks: in-situ formation, accretion and disk heating. A clear distinction in age is found between the metal poor and [Mg/Fe]-enhanced thick disks (old, $\sim 12-13$ Gyr), and the metal rich and less [Mg/Fe]-enhanced thin disks (young, $\sim 4-5$ Gyr). These two galaxies show signs of relatively recent star formation in their thin disks and nuclear regions. While the thin disks show more continuous SFHs, the nuclei display a rather bursty SFH. These two galaxies are located outside of the densest region of the Fornax cluster where FCC 170 resides. This other edge-on S0 galaxy was studied by \citet{Pinna2019}. We compare and discuss our results with this previous study. The differences between these three galaxies, at different distances from the cluster center, suggest that the environment can have a strong effect on the galaxy evolutionary path.
description: 24 pages, 18 figures
A Neural Network Approach to Identify the Peritumoral Invasive Areas in Glioblastoma Patients by Using MR Radiomics
Creators: name: Yan, Jiun-Lin
name: Li, Chao
name: Van Der Hoorn, Anouk
name: Boonzaier, Natalie R.
name: Matys, Tomasz
name: Price, Stephen J.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/631/67/2321
/631/67/1922
/692/617/375/1922
article

description: Abstract: The challenge in the treatment of glioblastoma is the failure to identify the cancer invasive area outside the contrast-enhancing tumour which leads to the high local progression rate. Our study aims to identify its progression from the preoperative MR radiomics. 57 newly diagnosed cerebral glioblastoma patients were included. All patients received 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) fluorescence guidance surgery and postoperative temozolomide concomitant chemoradiotherapy. Preoperative 3 T MRI data including structure MR, perfusion MR, and DTI were obtained. Voxel-based radiomics features extracted from 37 patients were used in the convolutional neural network to train and as internal validation. Another 20 patients of the cohort were tested blindly as external validation. Our results showed that the peritumoural progression areas had higher signal intensity in FLAIR (p = 0.02), rCBV (p = 0.038), and T1C (p = 0.0004), and lower intensity in ADC (p = 0.029) and DTI-p (p = 0.001) compared to non-progression area. The identification of the peritumoural progression area was done by using a supervised convolutional neural network. There was an overall accuracy of 92.6% in the training set and 78.5% in the validation set. Multimodal MR radiomics can demonstrate distinct characteristics in areas of potential progression on preoperative MRI.
Multipoint study of successive coronal mass ejections driving moderate disturbances at 1 AU
Creators: name: Palmerio, Erika
name: Scolini, Camilla
name: Barnes, David
name: Magdalenić, Jasmina
name: West, Matthew J.
name: Zhukov, Andrei N.
name: Rodriguez, Luciano
name: Mierla, Marilena
name: Good, Simon W.
name: Morosan, Diana E.
name: Kilpua, Emilia K. J.
name: Pomoell, Jens
name: Poedts, Stefaan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse in this work the propagation and geoeffectiveness of four successive coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that erupted from the Sun during 21--23 May 2013 and that were detected in interplanetary space by the Wind and/or STEREO-A spacecraft. All these CMEs featured critical aspects for understanding so-called "problem space weather storms" at Earth. In the first three events a limb CMEs resulted in moderately geoeffective in-situ structures at their target location in terms of the disturbance storm time (Dst) index (either measured or estimated). The fourth CME, which also caused a moderate geomagnetic response, erupted from close to the disc centre as seen from Earth, but it was not visible in coronagraph images from the spacecraft along the Sun--Earth line and appeared narrow and faint from off-angle viewpoints. Making the correct connection between CMEs at the Sun and their in-situ counterparts is often difficult for problem storms. We investigate these four CMEs using multiwavelength and multipoint remote-sensing observations (extreme ultraviolet, white light, and radio), aided by 3D heliospheric modelling, in order to follow their propagation in the corona and in interplanetary space and to assess their impact at 1 AU. Finally, we emphasise the difficulties in forecasting moderate space weather effects provoked by problematic and ambiguous events and the importance of multispacecraft data for observing and modelling problem storms.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Rising temperatures advance the main flight period of Bombus bumblebees in agricultural landscapes of the Central European Plain
Creators: name: Pawlikowski, Tadeusz
name: Sparks, Tim H.
name: Olszewski, Piotr
name: Pawlikowski, Krzysztof
name: Rutkowski, Lucjan
name: Jakubowski, Rafał
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Original Article
bumblebee
Bombus
climate
agriculture
phenology

description: Funder: Poznan University of Life Sciences
description: Abstract: This study examined shifts over a 35-year period in the phenology of the four most important bumblebee species (Bombus terrestris, B. lapidarius, B. pascuorum and B. hortorum) in Central Europe. The species showed similar temporal trends, significantly advancing components of their main flight period in association with rising temperatures such that, for example, mid-dates of the main flight period advanced by 10–23 days over the study period. Drivers of this change differed between the four species. Trends in, and drivers of, the timing of first queens, first workers and first males were less consistent. Aspects of the phenology of the least common species, B. hortorum, were up to a month earlier than the other species and climatic effects less clear cut. There were some suggestions of differences between species trends. These results stress the importance of considering changes and drivers of change for the Bombus family on a species-specific basis with the need to pay more attention to the life history traits of the study organisms.
Dark Matter Signals on a Laser Interferometer
Creators: name: Tsuchida, Satoshi
name: Kanda, Nobuyuki
name: Itoh, Yousuke
name: Mori, Masaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: WIMPs are promising dark matter candidates. A WIMP occasionally collides with a mirror equipped with interferometric gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and the Einstein Telescope (ET). When WIMPs collide with a mirror of an interferometer, we expect that characteristic motions of the pendulum and mirror are excited, and those signals could be extracted by highly sophisticated sensors developed for gravitational wave detection. We analyze the motions of the pendulum and mirror, and estimate the detectability of these motions. For the "Thin-ET" detector, the signal-to-noise ratio may be $ 1.7 \left( \frac{ m_{\rm{DM}} }{ 100 \rm{GeV} } \right) $, where $ m_{\rm{DM}} $ is the mass of a WIMP. We may set a more strict upper limit on the cross section between a WIMP and a nucleon than the limits obtained by other experiments so far when $ m_{\rm{DM}} $ is approximately lower than 0.2 GeV. We find an order-of-magnitude improvement in the upper limit around $ m_{\rm{DM}} = 0.2 {\rm{GeV}} $.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
Notizen zur Anatomie der Boa constrictor L.
Creators: name: Hering, Eduard
Publisher: name: - NO PUBLISHER DEFINED -
Year: 1859

description: Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg : zugl. Jahrbuch d. Staatlichen Museums für Naturkunde in Stuttgart
description: Bd. 15-16, 1859-1860
On a core instability of 't Hooft Polyakov monopoles
Creators: name: Bais, F. A.
name: Striet, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a core instability of 't Hooft Polyakov monopoles in Alice electrodynamics type of models in which charge conjugation symmetry is gauged. The monopole may deform into a toroidal defect which carries an Alice flux and a (non-localizable) magnetic Cheshire charge.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Brand Name Effect of Organic Farming for Small‐Scale Farms
Creators: name: Liu, Xuanli
name: Ibrahim, Mohamed
name: Liu, Xuanli
name: Ibrahim, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Organic Products
subject: Organic Farming

description: Small-scale farms had been challenged in their survival and development for years after big farms took the dominant position in the US agricultural sector. The trend was reversed in the last decade due to the rapid growth in consumer demand for organic products and the U.S. small farms has been revitalized. This investigation is to evaluate the impacts of organic production in the development of small-scale farms. Through analysis of historical data and production practices, we find that organic products give small-farms some leverage in price negotiation. Organic production provides small farms a chance to differentiate products as local, fresh, and more important organic, which helps them to seize a lucrative market niche that big farm have difficulty in wedging in, therefore, avoids the direct competition with big farms in the conventional marketplaces. USDA data on prices of agricultural products confirmed the impact of organic products in changing the value distribution along the supply chain and in enabling small farms to retain a relatively large value share. A conclusion possibly be reached is that small-scale farms have an effective way to survive through organic production.
Additional file 1: of Mapping and identification of CsUp, a gene encoding an Auxilin-like protein, as a putative candidate gene for the upward-pedicel mutation (up) in cucumber
Creators: name: Sun, Jingxian
name: Xiao, Tingting
name: Nie, Jingtao
name: Chen, Yue
name: Lv, Duo
name: Pan, Ming
name: Gao, Qifan
name: Guo, Chunli
name: Zhang, Leyu
name: He, Huan-Le
name: Lian, Hongli
name: Pan, Junsong
name: Cai, Run
name: Wang, Gang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Figure S1. Seven polymorphic markers between WT and the M DNA pool (PDF 71 kb)
Cap and trade markets for groundwater: Efficiency and distributional effects of the permit allocation mechanism
Creators: name: Gao, Yang
name: Williams, Ryan Blake
name: Mitchell, Donna M.
name: Gao, Yang
name: Williams, Ryan Blake
name: Mitchell, Donna M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Cap and Trade
subject: Water Markets
subject: Groundwater

description: Agricultural production on the Texas High Plains is heavily dependent on the Ogallala Aquifer, which accounts for approximately 95 percent of groundwater pumped. Rapid groundwater depletion has been observed in the Ogallala Aquifer, which is attributed to low recharge rates and high water withdrawals. In an effort to manage this limitedly-renewable water resource, High Plains Water Conservation District (HPWD) No.1 has established a rule to reduce pumping 1.25 acre-feet per acre per year for all groundwater users within HPWD. This research evaluates the efficiency and distributional effects of a “cap and trade” mechanism for the HPWD region under alternative methods of allocating the allowable groundwater use: an equal distribution rule and a uniform percentage reduction rule. Marginal abatement curves are derived from producer profit functions, which include four irrigated and three rain fed crops. Optimal cropping choices, water use, water permit trades, and water permit prices are estimated simultaneously by maximizing producer profits. The relative efficiency of the programs are evaluated by comparing total producer profits. The results shows that the equal distribution cap will result in a more efficient use of groundwater resources, while the uniform percentage reduction cap will result in less wealth redistribution.
Chemische Analyse der Wildbader Thermen
Creators: name: Fehling, Hermann Christian von
Publisher: name: - NO PUBLISHER DEFINED -
Year: 1859

description: Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg : zugl. Jahrbuch d. Staatlichen Museums für Naturkunde in Stuttgart
description: Bd. 15-16, 1859-1860
Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Genetically Engineered Edamame
Creators: name: Wolfe, Elijah
name: Popp, Michael
name: Bazzani, Claudia
name: Nayga Jr, Rudolfo
name: Danforth, Diana
name: Popp, Jennie
name: Chen, Pengyin
name: Seo, Han-Seok
name: Wolfe, Elijah
name: Popp, Michael
name: Bazzani, Claudia
name: Nayga Jr, Rudolfo
name: Danforth, Diana
name: Popp, Jennie
name: Chen, Pengyin
name: Seo, Han-Seok
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Edamame
subject: non-hypothetical experimental auction
subject: sensory test
subject: willingness to pay

description: Soybeans have been a principal commodity crop in Arkansas for decades with approximately 3.2 million acres devoted to its’ production. Soybeans grown in Arkansas and the U.S. are predominantly genetically engineered (GE) as weed control is easier and more economical using this practice. Edamame, green immature soybean harvested near the end of the pod filling stage, has experienced strong sales growth in the U.S. in recent years and Mulberry, Arkansas, is the headquarters of an edamame processing facility. Created in 2012, it is the first at the commercial scale and largest in the US. The technology is available to grow GE edamame, but anticipated consumer resistance to GE edamame has stopped the industry to date to plant and sell GE edamame. With recent discussion about food labeling legislation, requiring foods to display whether a product is GE, the potential opportunity exists to market GE edamame. This study assesses the consumers’ maximum willingness to pay for GE edamame and explores product labeling effects on edamame using a non-hypothetical experimental auction as well as a sensory test to compare GE to conventional edamame using soybeans grown at the University of Arkansas’s Fayetteville Agricultural Experiment Station.
description: Conference Maker ID 199
Passive advection of percolation process: Two-loop approximation
Creators: name: Birnšteinová, Š.
name: Hnatič, M.
name: Lučivjanský, T.
name: Mižišin, L.
name: Škultéty, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paradigmatic model of the directed percolation process is studied near its second order phase transition between an absorbing and an active state. The model is first expressed in a form of Langevin equation and later rewritten into a field-theoretic formulation. The ensuing response functional is then analyzed employing Feynman diagrammatic technique and perturbative renormalization group method. Percolation process is assumed to occur in external velocity field, which has an additional effect on spreading properties. Kraichnan rapid change ensemble is used for generation of velocity fluctuations. The structure of the fixed points structure is obtained within the two-loop approximation.
description: Accepted for publication in Theor. Math. Phys