cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Increasing Crop Output through Improved Technology Adoption: The Fadama III Approach in Delta State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Chukwuji, Christopher Okeleke
name: Chukwuji, Christopher Okeleke
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Technology adoption
subject: Fadama III
subject: Crop output
subject: Delta State
subject: Nigeria

description: The study focused on increasing crop output through improved technology adoption: the Fadama III approach in Delta State, Nigeria. The study which took place between June 2012 and February, 2013 used stratified random sampling technique to select 340 respondents (made up of 279 Fadama users and 61 non-users). Data which came from primary source was generated through structured questionnaire and analysis was achieved by both descriptive and inferential statistics. It was shown that the rates of adoption of these technologies vary but they generally range from about 11% for Irrigation practices to about 51% for use of improved crop cultivars. The mean rate of adoption of all arable crops technologies was about 43%. Results also show that Fadama users significantly had higher mean percentage increase in yield of about 21% than non-Fadama users who recorded only a mean of about 15% increase. The variables that significantly affected rate of adoption were, Farming experience, Farm size Non-farm incomes, access to advisory services and cost of technology adoption, all of which except the last positively influenced rate of adoption. Among the constraints to adoption of technologies, cost of adoption, lack of knowledge of improved technologies, complexity of available technologies and late delivery of required improved technologies were most serious. Among other recommendations it was suggested that governments should intensify efforts to the promotion of the more adoption of proven technologies through the provision of credits in order to increase productivity.
Changes in Climatic Factors Influencing the Growth Period of Corn in Fengjie County
Creators: name: Mao, Xiaozhen
name: Mou, Xinli
name: Ma, Chen
name: Huang, Jiang
name: Yuan, Lin
name: Mao, Xiaozhen
name: Mou, Xinli
name: Ma, Chen
name: Huang, Jiang
name: Yuan, Lin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Fengjie
subject: Corn
subject: Growth period
subject: Temperature
subject: Precipitation

description: Under the background of global climate change, we analyze the change tendency of average temperature and amount of precipitation influencing the corn's growth period. The results show that from March to August, the monthly temperatures show an upward trend, but the rise is different in different months, and the maximum temperature rise is in May. Precipitation in different months has different trends. Climate change brings about favorable conditions at high altitudes in Fengjie, reduces production due to the temperature drop after the beginning of autumn, and increases the pressure on the corn supply.
Optimal rotation with differently-discounted benefit streams
Creators: name: Price, C.
name: Price, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Production Economics
subject: differential discount rates
subject: optimal rotation

description: The case is often now made that discount rates should decline with time. Underlying reasons include that some kinds benefit (or cost) might be discounted at a lower rate than that used for others : in particular, that rates for carbon values and environmental amenities might be less than that for timber. A lengthening sequence of rotations then arises, whether the benefits are consumptive ones realised at the rotation end, or non-consumptive ones whose annual value increases through the rotation. A timber discount rate lower than that for non-consumptive benefits leads to a shortening sequence of rotations. The results differ importantly from those of discounting at a reducing rate through time.
One of Possible Applications of High-Tc Superconductors
Creators: name: Nikulov, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Possible application of a result contradicting to the second law of thermodynamics is announced. According to this result the chaotic energy of thermal fluctuation can be transformed in electric energy of direct current in an inhomogeneous superconducting ring. Although the power of this transformation is very weak this effect has optimistic perspective of wide application because useful energy can be obtained from heat energy in the equilibrium state. It is explain why the second law can be broken in some quantum systems. In the last years some authors have concluded almost at once on violation of the second law in different quantum systems: A.E.Allahverdyan and Th.M.Nieuwenhuizen, PRL 85, 1799 (2000); cond-mat/0011389; V.Capec and J.Bok Czech. J. of Phys. 49, 1645 (1999); cond-mat/0012056; Physica A 290, 379 (2001); D. Sheehan, Phys. Plasmas 2 (6), 1893 (1995); Phys. Rev.E 61, 4662 (2000); P. Weiss, Science News, 158, 234 (2000).
description: 5 pages, 0 figures, Talk presented on NATO Advanced Research Workshop "SUPERMATerials", Giens Peninsula - Hyeres, France, September 19-23, 1999
The operational advantages provided by non-classical teleportation
Creators: name: Lipka-Bartosik, Patryk
name: Skrzypczyk, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The standard benchmark for teleportation is the average fidelity of teleportation and according to this benchmark not all states are useful for teleportation. It was recently shown however that all entangled states lead to non-classical teleportation, with there being no classical scheme able to reproduce the states teleported to Bob. Here we study the operational significance of this result. On the one hand we demonstrate that every entangled state is useful for teleportation if a generalization of the average fidelity of teleportation is considered which concerns teleporting quantum correlations. On the other hand, we show the strength of a particular entangled state and entangled measurement for teleportation -- as quantified by the robustness of teleportation -- precisely characterizes their ability to offer an advantage in the task of subchannel discrimination with side information. This connection allows us to prove that every entangled state outperforms all separable states when acting as a quantum memory in this discrimination task. Finally, within the context of a resource theory of teleportation, we show that the two operational tasks considered provide complete sets of monotones for two partial orders based upon the notion of teleportation simulation, one classical, and one quantum.
description: 5+12 pages, 1 figure
Table DR1. Weathering history and landscape evolution of Western Ghats (India) from 40Ar/39 Ar dating of supergene K–Mn oxides
Creators: name: A. Jean
name: A. Beauvais
name: D. Chardon
name: N. Arnaud
name: M. Jayananda
name: P.E. Mathe
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Field characteristics of the five Mn ore deposits and description of eleven samples collected in these deposits with cryptomelane grains picked in these samples. Mineral identification was performed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) on the thirty-height selected grains.
Perceptions of tree disease mitigation: what are people willing to pay for, and what do they actually get?
Creators: name: Price, C.
name: Price, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: tree diseases
subject: landscape
subject: economic valuation

description: Some problems found in stated preference approaches to environmental valuation are particularly serious in valuing tree disease. Respondents seem to include regulating and supporting service values, which they are ill-qualified to do. Cultural service values for respondents are distorted by the questionnaire itself, making them invalid for the population over whom valuations are aggregated. The element of citizen valuation can be captured in contingent referenda, but this too tends to include inappropriate elements. More reliable benefit estimates are derivable from actual day-to-day purchase of cultural services, transferred to the context of tree disease.
Synthèse non quadratique H$\infty$ de contrôleurs décentralisés pour un ensemble de descripteurs flous T-S interconnectés
Creators: name: Jabri, Dalel
name: Guelton, Kevin
name: Manamanni, Noureddine
name: Abdelkrim, Mohammed Naceur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper deals with the non-quadratic decentralized stabilization of a set of n Takagi-Sugeno descriptors. To ensure the stability of the whole closed-loop dynamics and to minimize interconnection effects between subsystems, the main result allows designing a network of non Parallel Distributed Compensation control laws via a H $\infty$ criterion. Sufficient conditions, obtained from a non quadratic fuzzy Lyapunov approach, are provided in terms of Linear Matrix Inequalities. Finally, a numerical example illustrates the efficiency of the proposed decentralized control approach.
description: in French
How the X-ray spectrum of a Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy may be reflection dominated
Creators: name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Ballantyne, D. R.
name: Merloni, A.
name: Vaughan, S.
name: Iwasawa, K.
name: Boller, Th.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model for the inner regions of accretion flows is presented where, due to disc instabilities, cold and dense material is clumped into deep sheets or rings. Surrounding these density enhancements is hot, tenuous gas where coronal dissipation processes occur. We expect this situation to be most relevant when the accretion rate is close to Eddington and the disc is radiation-pressure dominated, and so may apply to Narrow-Line Seyfert~1 (NLS1) galaxies. In this scenario, the hard X-ray source is obscured for most observers, and so the detected X-ray emission would be dominated by reflection off the walls of the sheets. A simple Comptonization calculation shows that the large photon-indices characteristic of NLS1s would be a natural outcome of two reprocessors closely surrounding the hard X-ray source. We test this model by fitting the XMM-Newton spectrum of the NLS1 1H 0707-495 between 0.5 and 11 keV with reflection dominated ionized disc models. A very good fit is found with three different reflectors each subject to the same Γ=2.35 power-law. An iron overabundance is still required to fit the sharp drop in the spectrum at around 7 keV. We note that even a small corrugation of the accretion disc may result in Γ> 2 and a strong reflection component in the observed spectrum. Therefore, this model may also explain the strength and the variability characteristics of the MCG-6-30-15 Fe K line. The idea needs to be tested with further broadband XMM-Newton observations of NLS1s.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted by MNRAS Letters
Eikonal black hole ringings in generalized energy-momentum squared gravity
Creators: name: Chen, Che-Yu
name: Chen, Pisin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the scope of black hole spectroscopy, several attempts have been made in the past decades in order to test black holes or gravitational theories via black hole quasinormal modes. In the eikonal approximation, the quasinormal modes are generically associated with the photon ring of the black hole. This correspondence is valid for most cases in general relativity, but may not be true in other theories of gravity. In this paper, we consider the generalized energy-momentum squared gravity in which matter fields are non-minimally coupled to geometry. We investigate the axial perturbations of the charged black holes in this model, without assuming any explicit expression of the action functional. After obtaining the modified Klein-Gordon equation and the modified Maxwell equations, we perturb the gravitational equations and the modified Maxwell equations to derive the coupled master equations of the axial perturbations. In the presence of the non-minimal coupling between matter and geometry, the correspondence between the eikonal quasinormal modes and the photon ring is not satisfied in general. Also, the two coupled fields of the axial perturbations are found to propagate independently and they do not share the same quasinormal frequencies in the eikonal limit.
description: 11 pages. Updated to match the published version
Macrocera vittata Meigen 1830
Creators: name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Keroplatidae
Macrocera
Macrocera vittata

description: 17. Macrocera vittata Meigen, 1830
 Literature records. Sardinia (Chandler 2004a).
 Material examined. T4 28.V.1981 1 ♀. T5 5.VI.1981 1 ♀ (both det. N. Caspers).
 Chorotype. Type 4 [2.01 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. European, widespread and frequent.
 Italian distribution. Northern mainland, Sardinia and Sicily (Chandler 2004a).
 Notes. Chandler (2004a) recorded this species from Sardinia based on the specimens cited above. The Sicilian record by Chandler (2004a) refers to 1 ♂ from 7 km north-west of Francavilla [di Sicilia, Messina province], 14.V.1981, 1 ♂ from same locality, 21.V.1981 and 1 ♂ from north of Petralia, 17.V.1981, leg. H. Malicky, ZSM (det. N. Caspers). That from the Italian mainland was based on material from Aosta (leg. L. Matile, MNHN).
description: Published as part of Chandler, Peter J., 2009, The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species * in Zootaxa 2318
Full list of critical instructions from Perspective-taking across cultures: shared biases in Taiwanese and British adults
Creators: name: J. Jessica Wang
name: Tseng, Philip
name: Juan, Chi-Hung
name: Frisson, Steven
name: Apperly, Ian A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Critical instructions in English and Mandarin
Designed analogues of the aplyronines for use in antibody-drug conjugates
Creators: name: Porter, Rachel Jayne
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: antibody drug conjugates
total synthesis
natural products

description: The aplyronines are a family of structurally complex marine macrolides, isolated from the sea hare Aplysia kurodai, that exhibit picomolar growth inhibitory activity in the NCI 60 cell line panel. An unprecedented heterotrimeric complex has been observed to form between aplyronine A and actin and tubulin together, resulting in disruption of cytoskeletal dynamics and subsequent cell death. This novel mode of action, coupled with their exquisite biological activity, renders the aplyronines compelling candidates for incorporation as payloads into antibody-drug conjugates provided the supply problem can be solved. Guided by structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies, a highly convergent route towards novel and simplified aplyronine structures has been designed. Routes to these function- oriented analogues should be more streamlined and efficient due to judicious structural editing, whilst functionality and potency are retained. Chapter 1 introduces marine natural products and illustrates their therapeutic potential alongside the challenges associated with these highly complex structures. The aplyronine family of natural products is introduced and a function-oriented approach towards analogue design is presented. The avenue of targeted therapies is discussed, with particular focus on the field of antibody–drug conjugates. Chapter 2 outlines the synthesis of our key simplified fragments. Significant optimisation efforts towards the synthesis of the side chain ketone are discussed, together with the synthesis of the northern fragment. Chapter 3 outlines two complementary fragment coupling strategies to access our designed analogues. Contrasting to the established sequence, an alternate approach is examined in which the southern and side chain fragments are first connected before the northern piece is appended. The strengths and shortcomings of each route are reviewed. Chapter 4 culminates in endgame manipulations to generate a range of simplified analogues and details their initial biological evaluation. Preliminary investigations into linker strategies using a quaternary amine approach are investigated. Chapter 5 summarises this work and presents suggestions for future directions of this research for the purpose of developing antibody–drug conjugates.
title: Introduction_Nouveau manuel complet de l'accordeur et du réparateur de pianos
Creators: name: AmateurS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Introduction
description: ID_PARA_00891
Fitted models for outputs from the director task from Perspective-taking across cultures: shared biases in Taiwanese and British adults
Creators: name: J. Jessica Wang
name: Tseng, Philip
name: Juan, Chi-Hung
name: Frisson, Steven
name: Apperly, Ian A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Slopes and intercepts fitted in the final models
Observations on CICES-based classification of ecosystem services in Finland
Creators: name: Saastamoinen, Olli
name: Saastamoinen, Olli
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Some aspects of past development are outlined in regard to the identification and classification of nature’s benefits nowadays conceptualized as ecosystem services. The knowledge about the multitude and diversity of the useful benefits has grown tremendously and yet a large part of biodiversity is still unknown. The conclusion is that the variety and complexity of ecosystem goods and services can only be properly categorized and managed by using hierarchical classifications. The Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES) represents the most concentrated effort to develop hierarchic, systematic and multipurpose classification for ecosystem services. CICES has been applied for the classification of the services of major inland ecosystems of Finland: forests, agricultural fields, peatland and freshwaters. The major observations has been that the flexibility, which the hierarchic system provides for moving towards more detailed classification levels is really a needed advantage and was used in the classifications done. Sample examples from the expanded classification are given besides other observations. The results of the classification efforts, which are reported elsewhere, are first applications of CICES in the boreal ecosystems.
Boletina basalis
Creators: name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Boletina
Boletina basalis

description: 18. Boletina basalis (Meigen, 1818)
 Leia basalis Meigen, 1818
 Literature records. Sardinia (Chandler 2008).
 Material examined. SAR1 17.XII.04–4.I.05 2 ♂♂
 Chorotype. Type 4 [2.01 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. European.
 Italian distribution. Northern mainland (Dahl et al. 1995; Chandler 2008; Kurina 2008) and Sardinia.
description: Published as part of Chandler, Peter J., 2009, The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species * in Zootaxa 2318
An exact algorithm for three-flavor QCD with $O(a)$-improved Wilson fermions
Creators: name: JLQCD Collaboration
name: Aoki, S.
name: Burkhalter, R.
name: Fukugita, M.
name: Hashimoto, S.
name: Ishikawa, K-I.
name: Ishizuka, N.
name: Iwasaki, Y.
name: Kanaya, K.
name: Kaneko, T.
name: Kuramashi, Y.
name: Okawa, M.
name: Onogi, T.
name: Tominaga, S.
name: Tsutsui, N.
name: Ukawa, A.
name: Yamada, N.
name: Yoshie, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an exact dynamical QCD simulation algorithm for the $O(a)$-improved Wilson fermion with odd number of flavors. Our algorithm is an extension of the non-Hermitian polynomials HMC algorithm proposed by Takaishi and de Forcrand previously. In our algorithm, the systematic errors caused by the polynomial approximation of the inverse of Dirac operator is removed by a noisy-Metropolis test. For one flavor quark it is achieved by taking the square root of the correction matrix explicitly. We test our algorithm for the case of $N_f=1+1$ on a moderately large lattice size ($16^3\times48$). The $N_f=2+1$ case is also investigated.
description: Lattice 2001 (algorithm), 3 pages, LaTeX2e with espcrc2.sty
Boletina gripha Dziedzicki 1885
Creators: name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Boletina
Boletina gripha

description: 19. Boletina gripha Dziedzicki, 1885 *
 Material examined. S1 21.III–4.IV.06 ♂♂ ♀, 4–18.IV.06 2 ♂♂, 18.IV–2.V.06 ♂♂ ♀, 2–16.V.06 ♂♂ ♀, 16–30.V.06 ♂♂, 3–17.X.06 ♂♂, 17–31.X.06 ♂♂ ♀. S2 21.III–4.IV.06 ♂♂ ♀, 4–18.IV.06 ♂♂ ♀, 18.IV– 2.V.06 ♂♂ ♀, 2–16.V.06 ♂♂, 3–17.X.06 ♀, 17–31.X.06 ♂♂ ♀. S3 21.III–4.IV.06 ♂♂ ♀, 4–18.IV.06 ♂♂ ♀, 17–31.X.06 ♂♂ ♀. SAR1 29.IX–21.X.03 2 ♂♂ 1 ♀, 21.X–17.XI.03 ♂♂ ♀, 12.XII.03–8.I.04 ♂♂, 8– 21.I.04 ♂♂ ♀, 21.I–16.II.04 ♂♂ ♀, 16.II–15.VI.04 ♂♂ ♀, 15–30.VI.04 ♂♂ ♀, 5–22.XI.04 ♂♂ ♀, 22.XI–17.XII.04 ♂♂ ♀, 17.XII.04–4.I.05 2 ♂♂, 4.I–18.I.05 3 ♂♂ 7 ♀, 18.I–1.III.05 ♂♂ ♀, 1.III–29.IV.05 ♂♂ ♀, 29.IV–20.V.05 ♂♂ ♀, 20.V–16.VI.05 ♂♂, 13–30.IX.05 1 ♂ 1 ♀, 30.IX–17.X.05 8 ♂♂ 17 ♀, 17.X–3.XI.05 8 ♂♂ 4 ♀, 3–16.XI.05 2 ♂♂ 9 ♀, 16.XI–2.XII.05 2 ♂♂ 6 ♀, 2–16.XII.05 2 ♂♂ 2 ♀, 16.XII.05–3.I.06 11 ♂♂. U5 23.XI.05 1 ♂ 1 ♀.
 Chorotype. Type 2 [1.02 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. Palaearctic, including Atlantic Islands.
 Italian distribution. Northern mainland (Chandler 2004a) and Sardinia.
 Notes. The Italian mainland record by Chandler (2004a) was based on material from Aosta, leg. L. Matile (MNHN).
description: Published as part of Chandler, Peter J., 2009, The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species * in Zootaxa 2318
Trial sequence for the level-1 visual perspective-taking task from Perspective-taking across cultures: shared biases in Taiwanese and British adults
Creators: name: J. Jessica Wang
name: Tseng, Philip
name: Juan, Chi-Hung
name: Frisson, Steven
name: Apperly, Ian A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Sequence and timing of trials
Irreducible Nonsurjective Endomorphisms of $F_n$ are Hyperbolic
Creators: name: Mutanguha, Jean Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65, 20E05, 20E08, 20F67

description: Previously, Reynolds showed that any irreducible nonsurjective endomorphism can be represented by an irreducible immersion on a finite graph. We give a new proof of this and also show a partial converse holds when the immersion has connected Whitehead graphs with no cut vertices. The next result is a characterization of finitely generated subgroups of the free group that are invariant under an irreducible nonsurjective endomorphism. Consequently, irreducible nonsurjective endomorphisms are fully irreducible. The characterization and Reynolds' theorem imply that the mapping torus of an irreducible nonsurjective endomorphism is word-hyperbolic.
description: v1: 19 pages, 1 figure. v2: 20 pages, 1 figure. Theorem 4.5 (now 4.6) as previously stated has a counterexample (Example 4.7). We added an extra hypothesis in the statement and adapted the proof accordingly. Consequently, we had to remove the algorithm described at the end of Section 4. Finally, Corollary 4.6 is now Corollary 5.6. v3: Fixed broken references
Market analysis of harvesting services engaged by private forest owners in Sweden
Creators: name: Staal Wästerlund, D.
name: Kronholm, T.
name: Staal Wästerlund, D.
name: Kronholm, T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: timber procurement
subject: customer relations
subject: harvesting services
subject: loyalty

description: The forest industry in several Nordic countries is heavily dependent on the timber supply of the nonindustrial private forest owners. This study focused on the behaviour of forest owners on the timber market when they chose a timber procurement organization. The study was made with a survey among forest owners that during the year 2011 notified the Swedish Forest Agency that a final felling would be performed on their forest property by way of their timber procurer. The survey was answered by 418 forest owners (79% male and 21% female). It was found that there was no difference in age distribution between the forest owners in the sample compared to the total age distribution of forest owners in Sweden. Harvesting was more common on large properties. Half of the forest owners had made timber deals with other timber procurement organizations before. Earlier research suggested that forest owners do not analyse the market, but this study suggest that a change may have occurred. Although a majority of the timber deals were made on the initiative of the forest owner, 17.2% of the deals were based on a tender of the forest owner and this concerned mainly large timber deals. One in four of the forest owners experienced problems, mainly related to how the harvesting operation was performed. Female forest owners, absentee owners and share owners experienced significantly more problems. The results indicate that the forest industry may need to intensify their efforts to learn and understand forest owners better, especially with the new generation forest owners, to maintain their level of timber procurement from the private forest sector.
title: Avant-propos_La Photographie en plein air, excursionniste et instantanée
Creators: name: AmateurS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Avant-propos
description: ID_PARA_00764
Decoupling and lepton flavor violation in extra dimension
Creators: name: Haba, Naoyuki
name: Maru, Nobuhito
name: Nakamura, Noboru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the fermion mass hierarchy and the flavor mixings in the fat brane scenario of five dimensional SUSY theory. The decoupling solution of the sfermion mass spectrum can be realized by introducing the vector-like mirror fields in an extra dimension. In this scenario, both the left- and right-handed sleptons can have sizable flavor mixings. We point out that this sizable flavor mixings can induce the suitable magnitude of the muon anomalous magnetic moment ($g_μ-2$) within the experimental bounds of lepton flavor violating processes.
description: 10 pages, LaTex
Fitted models for outputs from the visual perspective-taking task from Perspective-taking across cultures: shared biases in Taiwanese and British adults
Creators: name: J. Jessica Wang
name: Tseng, Philip
name: Juan, Chi-Hung
name: Frisson, Steven
name: Apperly, Ian A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Slopes and intercepts fitted in the final models
Theory of diffraction for 2D photonic crystals with a boundary
Creators: name: Felbacq, D.
name: Centeno, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend a modal theory of diffraction by a set of parallel fibers to deal with the case of a hard boundary: that is a structure made for instance of air-holes inside a dielectric matrix. Numerical examples are given concerning some resonant phenomena.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, 1 table
Multilevel and multifidelity uncertainty quantification for cardiovascular hemodynamics
Creators: name: Fleeter, Casey M.
name: Geraci, Gianluca
name: Schiavazzi, Daniele E.
name: Kahn, Andrew M.
name: Marsden, Alison L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Standard approaches for uncertainty quantification in cardiovascular modeling pose challenges due to the large number of uncertain inputs and the significant computational cost of realistic three-dimensional simulations. We propose an efficient uncertainty quantification framework utilizing a multilevel multifidelity Monte Carlo estimator to improve the accuracy of hemodynamic quantities of interest while maintaining reasonable computational cost. This is achieved by leveraging three cardiovascular model fidelities, each with varying spatial resolution to rigorously quantify the variability in hemodynamic outputs. We employ two low-fidelity models to construct several different estimators. Our goal is to investigate and compare the efficiency of estimators built from combinations of these low-fidelity and high-fidelity models. We demonstrate this framework on healthy and diseased models of aortic and coronary anatomy, including uncertainties in material property and boundary condition parameters. We seek to demonstrate that for this application it is possible to accelerate the convergence of the estimators by utilizing a MLMF paradigm. Therefore, we compare our approach to Monte Carlo and multilevel Monte Carlo estimators based only on three-dimensional simulations. We demonstrate significant reduction in total computational cost with the MLMF estimators. We also examine the differing properties of the MLMF estimators in healthy versus diseased models, as well as global versus local quantities of interest. As expected, global quantities and healthy models show larger reductions than local quantities and diseased model, as the latter rely more heavily on the highest fidelity model evaluations. In all cases, our workflow coupling Dakota's MLMF estimators with the SimVascular cardiovascular modeling framework makes uncertainty quantification feasible for constrained computational budgets.
Kaempferia Sp. Extracts as UV Protecting and Antioxidant Agents in Sunscreen
Creators: name: Jukreera Panyakaew
name: Sirinrat Chalom
name: Siriwoot Sookkhee
name: Aroonchai Saiai
name: Nopakarn Chandet
name: Puttinan Meepowpan
name: Praput Thavornyutikarn
name: Pitchaya Mungkornasawakul
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: The ethanolic rhizome extracts of Kaempferia species (K. angustiflora, K. elegans, K. galanga-1, K. galanga-2, K. galanga-3, K. marginata, K. parviflora, K. pulchra, and K. rotunda) were evaluated for their UV protective and antioxidant properties. The effective extracts K. elegans, K. galanga-1, and K. parviflora were further isolated and 18 pure compounds were obtained. Flavokawain B (1), a chalcone found in K. elegans, exhibited the most effective UVA and UVB protection, and were more potent than commercial sunscreens. Compound 1 demonstrated the highest antioxidant activities in ABTS, DPPH, and FRAP assays. Abbreviations: ABTS: 2,2´-azino-bis-3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfonic acid; DPPH (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl); FRAP: ferric reducing antioxidant power; UV: Ultraviolet; UVA: Ultraviolet A; UVB: Ultraviolet B
Four-Body Effects in Globular Cluster Black Hole Coalescence
Creators: name: Miller, M. Coleman
name: Hamilton, Douglas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the high density cores of globular clusters, multibody interactions are expected to be common, with the result that black holes in binaries are hardened by interactions. It was shown by Sigurdsson & Hernquist (1993) and others that 10 solar mass black holes interacting exclusively by three-body encounters do not merge in the clusters themselves, because recoil kicks the binaries out of the clusters before the binaries are tight enough to merge. Here we consider a new mechanism, involving four-body encounters. Numerical simulations by a number of authors suggest that roughly 20-50% of binary-binary encounters will eject one star but leave behind a stable hierarchical triple. If the orbital plane of the inner binary is strongly tilted with respect to the orbital plane of the outer object, a secular Kozai resonance, first investigated in the context of asteroids in the Solar System, can increase the eccentricity of the inner body significantly. We show that in a substantial fraction of cases the eccentricity is driven to a high enough value that the inner binary will merge by gravitational radiation, without a strong accompanying kick. Thus the merged object remains in the cluster; depending on the binary fraction of black holes and the inclination distribution of newly-formed hierarchical triples, this mechanism may allow massive black holes to accumulate through successive mergers in the cores of globular clusters. It may also increase the likelihood that stellar-mass black holes in globular clusters will be detectable by their gravitational radiation.
description: Submitted to ApJ Letters (includes emulateapj.sty)
title: Futures of Gaddis Studies: Visions for the Next 100 Years
Creators: name: Zeidler, Anja
name: LeClair, Tom
name: Alberts, Crystal
name: Comnes, Gregory
name: Conley, Tim
name: Félix, Brigitte
name: Harding, Victoria
name: Shavers, Rone
name: Tabbi, Joseph
Publisher: name: Electronic Book Review
Year: 2024

description: We asked our contributors a set of simple questions: what do you think Gaddis Studies has best covered already, what do you think are its prospects for the future, and what future avenues would you like to see explored?
Dense Molecular Gas in Lenticular Galaxies
Creators: name: Kuno, N.
name: Nakai, N.
name: Sorai, K.
name: Nishiyama, K.
name: Vila-Vlaro, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We made CO and HCN simultaneous observations of lenticular galaxies, NGC 404, NGC 3593 and NGC 4293, and detected HCN emission in NGC 3593 and NGC 4293 as well as CO in all the galaxies. The I(HCN)/I(CO) ratios were 0.025+-0.006 and 0.066+-0.005 in NGC 3593 and NGC 4293, respectively, which are comparable to the late-type spiral galaxies. The average of the I(HCN)/I(CO) ratios at the center of 12 nearby spiral galaxies including late-type was 0.055+-0.028. The line profiles of CO and HCN emission showed different shape in both galaxies. The HCN peaks were not at the systemic velocity of these galaxies, while the CO peaks were near the systemic velocity. These results suggest that the fraction of the dense molecular gas is high around the center in these galaxies.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, to be published in PASJ (Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan) Vol.54, No.4
Phytochemicals, Antihemolytic, Anti-inflammatory, Antioxidant, and Antibacterial Activities from Thymus Algeriensis
Creators: name: Mokhtari, Mouna
name: Chabani, Sonia
name: Mouffouk, Soumia
name: Mohamed-Cherif Aberkane
name: Dibi, Ammar
name: Benkhaled, Mohammed
name: Hamada Haba
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: The chemical composition and anti-inflammatory, antihemolytic, antioxidant, and antibacterial activities of solvent extracts of Thymus algeriensis in petroleum ether, chloroform, and n-butanol were evaluated. Ten compounds including four flavonoids, four phenolics, and two triterpenoids were isolated and identified by chromatography and spectroscopy. The n-butanol extract had the greatest antioxidant activity and inhibited hemolysis with a value of IC50 at 322.85 ± 0.87 µg mL−1. The chloroform extract exhibited the highest anti-inflammatory effect with 45.27% inhibition. The extracts demonstrated antibacterial activity against the tested strains.
Ectrepesthoneura gracilis Edwards 1928
Creators: name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Ectrepesthoneura
Ectrepesthoneura gracilis

description: 24. Ectrepesthoneura gracilis Edwards, 1928 *
 Material examined. C70 14.XI.06 1 ♂. S1 21.III–4.IV.06 ♂♂, 4–18.IV.06 ♀, 18.IV–2.V.06 ♂♂ ♀, 17– 31.X.06 ♂♂. S2 21.III–4.IV.06 ♂♂ ♀, 4–18.IV.06 2 ♀, 17–31.X.06 ♂♂ ♀. S3 21.III–4.IV.06 ♀, 4– 18.IV.06 ♀, 18.IV–2.V.06 ♂♂ ♀. SAR1 21.X–17.XI.03 ♂♂ ♀, 12.XII.03–8.I.04 ♂♂ ♀, 8–21.I.04 ♂♂ ♀, 21.I–16.II.04 4 ♂♂ 1 ♀, 16.II–15.VI.04 3 ♂♂ 1 ♀, 15–30.VI.04 ♂♂ ♀, 5–22.XI.04 ♂♂, 22.XI– 17.XII.04 ♂♂ ♀, 17.XII.04–4.I.05 ♂♂ ♀, 4.I–18.I.05 10 ♂♂ 10 ♀, 18.I–1.III.05 6 ♂♂ 11 ♀, 1.III– 29.IV.05 ♂♂, 29.IV–20.V.05 ♂♂ ♀, 30.IX–17.X.05 4 ♂♂ 2 ♀, 17.X–3.XI.05 5 ♂♂ 3 ♀, 3–16.XI.05 4 ♂♂ 1 ♀, 16.XI–2.XII.05 10 ♂♂ 2 ♀, 2–16.XII.05 3 ♂♂ 5 ♀, 16.XII.05–3.I.06 4 ♂♂ 3 ♀. U1 21.XI.05 2 ♀. U2 21.XI.05 1 ♂ 2 ♀. U5 23.XI.05 1 ♂.
 Chorotype. Type 6 [3.02 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. Western Mediterranean: Spain, southern France, Corsica, Malta and Italy.
 Italian distribution. Sicily (Chandler 2004a) and Sardinia.
 Notes. The Sardinian specimens agree better with Corsican material in having only faintly marked wings but occasional examples have markings more approaching those found in Maltese material (Chandler & Gatt 2001). The Sicilian record by Chandler (2004a) refers to 1 ♂ from 7 km north-west of Francavilla [di Sicilia, Messina province], 14.v.1981 (leg. H. Malicky, ZSM; det. N. Caspers).
description: Published as part of Chandler, Peter J., 2009, The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species * in Zootaxa 2318
Noncommutative Cartan C*-subalgebras
Creators: name: Kwasniewski, B. K.
name: Meyer, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L55 (Primary) 20M18, 22A22 (Secondary)

description: We characterise Exel's noncommutative Cartan subalgebras in several ways using uniqueness of conditional expectations, relative commutants, or purely outer inverse semigroup actions. We describe in which sense the crossed product decomposition for a noncommutative Cartan subalgebra is unique. We relate the property of being a noncommutative Cartan subalgebra to aperiodic inclusions and effectivity of dual groupoids. In particular, we extend Renault's characterisation of commutative Cartan subalgebras.
description: This version is accepted for publication in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. Proposition 4.8 is reformulated (due to a previous gap in the proof). As a consequence, we replaced almost faithful by faithful in a few places
Glucuronoxylan Acetylation Patterns and Site-specific Acetyltransferases
Creators: name: Wurman Rodrich, Joel
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Xylan
cell wall
glucuronic acid
acetylation

description: Plant biomass is the biggest source of carbon-based materials for several industries such as food, agriculture, textile, construction, and biofuels, among others. Cellulose and xylan are the two major components of plant biomass, and their intermolecular interactions in the cell wall are crucial for plant growth and industrial use. In eudicots, these interactions are determined by the arrangement of the main substitutions on the xylan backbone, O-acetyl (Ac) and glucuronic acid (GlcA) groups. GUX1, GUX2 and GUX3 are largely responsible for transfer of GlcA decorations, each producing a distinct substitution pattern in regions of the xylan molecule known as compatible or incompatible domains, based on the likely ability of the xylan produced to bind to hydrophilic surfaces of cellulose fibrils. However, the elongation of the xylan backbone, the origin of the GlcA patterning, and the xylan acetylation processes are not fully understood. The xylan backbone is synthesised by two partially redundant Xylan Synthase protein Complexes (XSC). Removing subunits of one XSC causes a reduction in xylan length, and affects the GlcA pattern. Xylan acetylation has also been shown to modulate the GlcA pattern, thus, changes in XSC could also affect the acetylation. In the work described in this thesis, mutants with altered XSC composition and no GlcA on xylan were studied. They showed no detectable changes in xylan acetylation patterns. Therefore, the effect on GlcA patterning can be attributed to the shortening of the xylan backbone. Mainly, every other xylose residue is acetylated, but the pattern in other parts of the molecule is unclear. The xylan compatible and incompatible domains were analysed using a combination of xylan-specific hydrolases, carbohydrate gel electrophoresis and tandem mass-spectrometry. The structures found in the compatible domain were consistent with the reported acetylation pattern, but the incompatible domain exhibited consecutive acetylated xylosyl residues. Arabidopsis mutants for candidate xylan O-acetyltransferases were analysed, and four genes were found to be involved in xylan acetylation. TBL32 and TBL33 were shown to be responsible for the acetylation of xylosyl residues that carry a GlcA. Mutants in TBL3 and TBL28 also affected xylan acetylation, opening opportunities for discovering new xylan acetylation functions.
description: CAMBRIDGE TRUST CONICYT BECAS CHILE
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NEW AND USED TYRES: TYRE LIFE, TREAD DEPTH, AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Creators: name: Taiwo, Semiu Amosun
Publisher: name: ZAP JOURNALS
Year: 2025
Subjects: Comparative; Analysis; Tyre; Tread; Depth, Stress

description: Comparative analysis of new and fairly used tyres is important for evaluating their performance, safety, cost-effectiveness, and environmental impact and to undertake research and development in tyre technology. This study presents a comparative analysis of new and used tyres, focusing on their lifespan, tread depth, and environmental impact. Mathematical models were developed to predict tyre lifespan and environmental impact. Experimental tests were also conducted on several tyre brands available in Nigeria to assess changes in hardness, tensile strength, and impact strength over time. The average values of hardness obtained during the hardness tests for the new tyres for samples A, B, C, D, and E are 66, 70, 68, 60, and 76 and for the fairly used tyres of the same samples for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 years are 79.5, 77, 71.7, 69.2, and 80 respectively. The tensile stresses also obtained range from 7.80 to 8.20 N/mm2. The stresses obtained at 100% and 200% range from 2.77-2.83 N/ mm2 and 5.90 – 5.99 N/mm2, respectively. The strain at break was within 233 to 247%. Results show a decline in the mechanical properties with increased usage, and the models suggest that the tread depth significantly influences the performance, safety, and fuel efficiency
Radiative kinetic simulations of steady-state relativistic plasmoid magnetic reconnection
Creators: name: Ortuño-Macías, José
name: Nalewajko, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of 2D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of relativistic magnetic reconnection (RMR) in electron-positron plasma, including the dynamical influence of the synchrotron radiation process, and integrating the observable emission signatures. The simulations are initiated with a single Harris current layer with a central gap that triggers the RMR process. We achieve a steady-state reconnection with unrestricted outflows by means of open boundary conditions. The radiative cooling efficiency is regulated by the choice of initial plasma temperature Theta. We explore different values of Theta and of the background magnetisation sigma_0. Throughout the simulations, plasmoids are generated in the central region of the layer, and they evolve at different rates, achieving a wide range of sizes. The gaps between plasmoids are filled by smooth relativistic outflows called minijets, whose contribution to the observed radiation is very limited due to their low particle densities. Small-sized plasmoids are rapidly accelerated, however, they have lower contributions to the observed emission, despite stronger relativistic beaming. Large-sized plasmoids are slow, but produce most of the observed synchrotron emission, with major part of their radiation produced within the central cores, the density of which is enhanced by radiative cooling. Synchrotron lightcurves show rapid bright flares that can be identified as originating from mergers between small/fast plasmoids and large/slow targets moving in the same direction. In the high-magnetisation case, the accelerated particles form a broken power-law energy distribution with a soft tail produced by particles accelerated in the minijets.
description: 17 pages, 15 images, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Supplementary information - fish prey energy values during successful foraging, energetics methodology, model averaging, and tagging effects from A bioenergetics approach to understanding sex differences in the foraging behaviour of a sexually monomorphic species
Creators: name: Bennison, Ashley
name: Giménez, Joan
name: Quinn, John L.
name: Green, Jonathan A.
name: Jessopp, Mark
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60104 Cell Metabolism
subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supporting information to go alongside methodologies, analysis, and results