cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Diffuse Lyman-alpha Halos around ~300 Spectroscopically Confirmed Lyman-alpha Emitters at z ~ 5.7
Creators: name: Wu, Jin
name: Jiang, Linhua
name: Ning, Yuanhang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection of diffuse Lyman-alpha halos (LAHs) around star-forming galaxies at $z \sim 5.7$ by stacking 310 spectroscopically confirmed Lyman-alpha (LAEs). The majority of the LAEs are identified from our spectroscopic survey of galaxies at $z>5.5$. They are all located in well-studied fields with deep narrowband and broadband imaging data. We combine the LAE sample and its subsamples in the narrowband NB816 (i.e., the Lyman-alpha band) and $z$ band (i.e., the continuum band). By comparing the stacked objects with their corresponding point spread functions, we clearly detect extended LAHs around these LAEs. We perform sophisticated simulations and analyses on statistical and systematic errors, and confirm that the detected halos are not caused by errors. The scale lengths of the LAHs, when described by a double-component model, range from 1.2 to 5.3 kpc with a typical value of $\sim$2 kpc. The LAH sizes from our sample are in agreement with those of individual LAEs at the similar redshift measured by VLT/MUSE, but are relatively smaller than those of photometrically selected LAEs in previous studies. We also find that LAEs with higher Lyman-alpha luminosities, higher UV continuum luminosities or smaller Lyman-alpha equivalent widths tend to have larger LAH sizes. Our results are consistent with a scenario that LAHs originate from the scattered light of the central galaxies by H I gas in the circumgalactic medium.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ (18 pages; 10 figures)
Tilapia Fry and Fingerling Production in Small Tanks
Creators: name: Rakocy, James E.
name: Nair, Ayyappan
name: Rakocy, James E.
name: Nair, Ayyappan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: tilapia
subject: hatchery systems
subject: aquaculture

description: Two experiments were conducted co evaluate the use of small tanks as a hatchery for the production of tilapia fry and fingerlings. The effect of stocking density of brood fish on fry production was evaluated using a sex ratio of four females to one male. Brood fish (Tilapia aurea) were stocked at rates of 2.7, 5.4 and 8.1 Fish/m2 in nylon spawning nets (hapas) suspended in tanks. Fry were collected seven times at 2-week intervals. Mean fry production was 12.2, 15.1 and 23.8/m2/hapa/day or 5.3, 3.9 and 3.8/female/day, respectively. The fry were stocked at races of 26, 52, 78, 104, 130 and 155/m2 to determine the optimum rate for fingerling production. The fry were fed four times daily for 63 days. The daily feeding rate was 15% of initial body weight for three weeks followed by weekly adjustments to 5%. Predation by dragonfly larvae caused wide variation in survival (23-88%). Fry at the 26/m2 rate grew fastest, averaging 2.3 g with 37% survival. 13.5% actual feeding rate and 2.3 feed conversion ratio. Fry at the 104/m2 rate weighed 1.2 g with 88% survival, 6% actual feeding rate and 0.75 feed conversion ratio. The data indicates that the daily feeding rate should be higher than 5% of body weight for maximum growth but should not exceed 40 kg/ha/day in small static tanks.
Yield, Agronomic Characteristics and Variability of 'Regular Maricongo' and 'Dwarf Plaintains' (Musa AAB) Using Tissue-Cultured Plantlets in St. Croix, USVI
Creators: name: Ramcharan, C.
name: Gonzalez, A.
name: Ramcharan, C.
name: Gonzalez, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Overall genetic reversion of "Regular Maricongo' and 'Dwarf Plantain' using tissue-cultured plantlets was 29% both in the 1st ratoon and plant crop. Of this percentage the 'Regular Maricongo (Horn) Plantain' showed a 21% reversion to the 'Congo' or 'Tall French Plantain.' Variability in the dwarf clones was greater with J8% reversion to the 'Dwarf French'('Plátano congo enano'). The latter cultivar is unique to this area since there are no reports of its widespread occurrence in the Caribbean so far. The variant 'Dwarf French' type gave a yield of 46 tons/ha or 226,460 fruits/ha with an average of 130 fingers and 9 hands per fruit bunch. The 'Regular Maricongo' or 'Horn Plantain' yielded 14.4 tons/ha or about 61,841 fruits/ha. The Dwarf French types were the shortest plants (1.95 m) and had the thickest pseudostems (19.05 cm diam,). However, both French types, Tall' and 'Dwarf apparently needed more days to flower and for maturity of bunch. The mutant 'Dwarf French Plantain,' an apparently new cultivar produced in this trial, seems to be well adapted to local conditions. Further ratoon crops are being closely monitored for yield, variability and agronomic characteristics.
New and Expanding Firms Provide New Jobs in Rural Georgia
Creators: name: Schaub, James D.
name: Schaub, James D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: New jobs in an agricultural area of southern Georgia were created in about equal numbers by new and existing establishments between 1976 and 1981. Most of the new jobs were in service establishments paying lower than average wages. Large establishments were more important sources of new Jobs than small ones. The findings presented here are based on one of a series of case studies by USDA’s Economic Development Division on employment growth in selected rural areas.
Testing the Performance of Banana Cropping Systems on Farmers' Holdings in the Windward Islands
Creators: name: Rao, M.M.
name: Murray, H.
name: Edmunds, J.E.
name: Rao, M.M.
name: Murray, H.
name: Edmunds, J.E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Banana
subject: Cropping Systems
subject: Production environment
subject: Food crops

description: On-farm trials, involving intercropping of banana with cowpeas (Vigna unquiculata), dasheen (Colocasia antiquorum), groundnuts (Arachis hypogaea), maize (Zea mays), eddoe (Colocasia esculenta), tannia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium), snapbeans (Phaseolus vulgaris) and their mixtures, were initiated in four different production environments in the Windward Islands. At each site, the existing farmers' intercropping practice was included as control. The results indicate that the cropping systems did not significantly influence the yield (except in Experiment 2), cropping cycle and nutrient concentrations of banana. The cropping systems, Banana + 2 Tannia + 3 Snapbeans, was economically superior (154%) to the control (B + IT) in Grenada. Inclusion of cowpeas in the mixture reduced the yield of dasheen and eddoe considerably.
Effects of Radial Distances on Small-scale Magnetic Flux Ropes in the Solar Wind
Creators: name: Chen, Yu
name: Hu, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small-scale magnetic flux ropes (SFRs), in the solar wind, have been studied for decades. Statistical analysis utilizing various in situ spacecraft measurements is the main observational approach which helps investigate the generation and evolution of these small-scale structures. Based on the Grad-Shafranov (GS) reconstruction technique, we use the automated detection algorithm to build the databases of these small-scale structures via various spacecraft measurements at different heliocentric distances. We present the SFR properties including the magnetic field and plasma parameters at different radial distances from the sun near the ecliptic plane. It is found that the event occurrence rate is still in the order of a few hundreds per month, the duration and scale size distributions follow power laws, and the flux rope axis orientations are approximately centered around the local Parker spiral directions. In general, most SFR properties exhibit radial decays. In addition, with various databases established, we derive scaling laws for the changes of average field magnitude, event counts, and SFR scale sizes, with respect to the radial distances, ranging from $\sim$ 0.3 au for Helios to $\sim$ 7 au for the Voyager spacecraft. The implications of our results for comparisons with the relevant theoretical works and for the application to the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission are discussed.
description: Accepted by ApJ (22 March)
PREGNANT WOMEN'S ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY: APPLICATION UNDER THE ROME STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Creators: name: Shoaibi, Halla
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems

description: Israel’s occupation regime and subsequent closure apparatus in Palestine manifests in numerous ways. In a span of seven years, Israeli military authorities delayed pregnant Palestinian women at checkpoints at an annual rate of ten percent, resulting in sixty-nine cases of birth en route to hospitals, with thirty-five infant and five maternal deaths. This dissertation tracks the historical development of childbirth and maternity health care services in Palestine, and discusses the effect of the Palestinian political context on the health of pregnant women. It goes on to establish that as a result of Israeli closure policies, restrictions placed on pregnant women’s access to health care constitutes a war crime of outrage upon personal dignity, as defined by Article 8(2)(b)xxi of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. While a number of births and deaths have been documented, many others have gone unnoticed. Existing reports fail to note any prior or post-traumatic stress disorders faced by pregnant Palestinian women as a result of this commonly occurring humiliating and degrading treatment. Moreover, national and international laws still remain unclear on the consequences and penalties of such acts. Between 2005 and 2009, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights issued several resolutions addressing the issue of Palestinian pregnant women giving birth at Israeli checkpoints. The United Nation’s concern regarding this issue is an indicator of the gravity of this problem. However, no legal recourse has been employed to attain justice for the women whose dignity has been violated or for the infants they lost. Given the inactivity of Israeli and Palestinian national judicial systems, this dissertation provides an international framework for adjudicating Israeli restrictions placed on the movement of pregnant Palestinian women.
Additional file 6 of Equity, acceptability and feasibility of using polyunsaturated fatty acids in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a rapid systematic review
Creators: name: D’Alò, Gian Loreto
name: Crescenzo, Franco De
name: Minozzi, Silvia
name: Morgano, Gian Paolo
name: Mitrova, Zuzana
name: Scattoni, Maria Luisa
name: Amato, Laura
name: Davoli, Marina
name: Schünemann, Holger J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6. Risk of bias summary for included randomized controlled trials.
Distribution of the local density of states, reflection coefficient and Wigner delay time in absorbing ergodic systems at the point of chiral symmetry
Creators: name: Fyodorov, Yan V.
name: Ossipov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Employing the chiral Unitary Ensemble of random matrices we calculate the probability distribution of the local density of states for zero-dimensional ("quantum chaotic") two-sublattice systems at the point of chiral symmetry E=0 and in the presence of uniform absorption. The obtained result can be used to find the distributions of the reflection coefficent and of the Wigner time delay for such systems.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Social Impediments to the Cultivation of Trees in Jamaica
Creators: name: Rashford, John H.
name: Rashford, John H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Farm Management

description: Small farmers in Jamaica have a distinct attitude toward the cultivation of trees in contrast to the growing of herbs, vines and shrubs. Their attitude toward trees is directly related to property relations as these are embodied in different forms of control over land. It is well-known that tenant cultivators do nor in general plant or "save" trees. This is a significant fact. A decision not to grow trees eliminates many useful plants from cultivation irrespective of their actual domestic and commercial value. The full consequences of this is, of course, dependent on the social importance of trees to Jamaicans. This paper seeks to show the importance of trees to Jamaicans and to indicate the social reasons why small farmers choose not to plant them and to destroy wild seedlings that spring up in their fields.
Melanotus bajulus
Creators: name: Nasserzadeh, Hiva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Melanotus
Melanotus bajulus

description: Melanotus bajulus (Erichson, 1841)
(Map 6)
 Material examined (HMIM). Azarbaijan-e Sharghi province: 4exs.: Arasbaran ProtectedArea, Kaleybar, Barzandigh to Peygham rd., 5 km W Peygham, N38°45’30.3”, E46°57’28.4”, 1621 m, 25.VI.2015, leg. H. Nasserzadeh; 1 ex.: Arasbaran Protected Area, nr. Vinagh, N38°59’56.6”, E46°51’45.4”, 23.VI.2015, leg. Nasserzadeh, Hajesmailian, Montreuil (Light trap)
 Climate types. Semi-arid, cold winters and warm summers.
description: Published as part of Nasserzadeh, Hiva, 2021, A study of the click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of northwestern Iran with three new species Reitterelater prosternalis sp. n., Melanotus borumandi sp. n. and M. kurdestanicus sp. n., pp. 338-368 in Zootaxa 4941 (3) on page 348, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4595227
Computation of Extremum Singular Values and the Strong H-infinity Norm of SISO Time-Delay Systems
Creators: name: Gumussoy, Suat
name: Michiels, Wim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We consider the computation of H-infinity norms for Single-Input-Single-Output (SISO) time-delay systems, which are described by delay differential algebraic equations. Unlike the iterative level set methods in the literature, we present a novel numerical method to compute the H-infinity norm. This method requires solving one eigenvalue problem of at most twice the size of the eigenvalue problem in every iteration of a level set method, but in practice often considerably lower. We first show that the computation of extrema of the transfer function can be turned into the computation of the imaginary axis zeros of a transcendental function. We compute these zeros by a predictor-corrector type algorithm. It is known that the H-infinity norm of delay differential algebraic systems, which can model both retarded and neutral type systems, might be sensitive with respect to arbitrarily small delay perturbations. This recently led to the concept of strong H-infinity norms, which explicitly take into account such small delay perturbations. We present a direct numerical method to compute the strong H-infinity norm of SISO time-delay systems. Our algorithm is applicable to the closed-loop system of interconnections (series, parallel, feedback, junctions) of time-delay systems and/or controllers.
Additional file 5 of Equity, acceptability and feasibility of using polyunsaturated fatty acids in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a rapid systematic review
Creators: name: D’Alò, Gian Loreto
name: Crescenzo, Franco De
name: Minozzi, Silvia
name: Morgano, Gian Paolo
name: Mitrova, Zuzana
name: Scattoni, Maria Luisa
name: Amato, Laura
name: Davoli, Marina
name: Schünemann, Holger J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5. ROBINS-I for included before-after studies.
Energy Efficiency Analysis and Modeling the Relationship between Energy Inputs and Wheat Yield in Iran
Creators: name: Kardoni, Fakher
name: Ahmadi, Majid Jami-Al
name: Bakhshi, Mohammad Reza
name: Kardoni, Fakher
name: Ahmadi, Majid Jami-Al
name: Bakhshi, Mohammad Reza
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Wheat
subject: Energy efficiency
subject: Input-output
subject: Econometric analysis

description: Wheat is the dominant cereal crop constituting the first staple food in Iran. This paper studies the energy consumption patterns and the relationship between energy inputs and yield for Wheat production in Iranian agriculture during the period 1986 – 2008. The results indicated that total energy inputs in irrigated and dryland wheat production increased from 29.01 and 9.81 GJ ha -1 in 1986 to 44.67 and 12.35 GJ ha -1 in 2008, respectively. Similarly, total output energy rose from 28.87 and 10.43 GJ ha -1 in 1986 to 58.53 and 15.77 GJ ha -1 in 2008, in the same period. Energy efficiency indicators, input– output ratio, energy productivity, and net energy have improved over the examined period. The results also revealed that non- renewable, direct, and indirect energy forms had a positive impact on the output level. Moreover, the regression results showed the significant effect of irrigation water and seed energies in irrigated wheat and human labor and fertilizer in dryland wheat on crop yield. Results of this study indicated that improvement of fertilizer efficiency and reduction of fuel consumption by modifying tillage, harvest method, and other agronomic operations can significantly affect the energy efficiency of wheat production in Iran.
Additional file 11 of Whole-genome genotyping and resequencing reveal the association of a deletion in the complex interferon alpha gene cluster with hypothyroidism in dogs
Creators: name: Bianchi, Matteo
name: Rafati, Nima
name: Karlsson, Åsa
name: Murén, Eva
name: Carl-Johan Rubin
name: Sundberg, Katarina
name: Andersson, Göran
name: Kämpe, Olle
name: Hedhammar, Åke
name: Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin
name: Pielberg, Gerli Rosengren
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 11: Table S5. Association P-value, number of imputed genotypes, number of detected protective and risk alleles both in cases (n = 71) and controls (n = 36) for the GWAS top SNP, fine mapping top SNP and the deletion associated with protection to hypothyroidism (DELETION).
Melanotus fraseri Platia & Schimmel 1993
Creators: name: Nasserzadeh, Hiva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Melanotus
Melanotus fraseri

description: Melanotus fraseri Platia & Schimmel, 1993
(Map 6)
 Material examined (HMIM). Kordestan province: 3 exs.: Marivan, Zarivar Wildlife Sanctuary, Tefli valley to Sardush rd., ca. 1 km E Sardush village, N35°32’33.3”, E46°05’01.5”, 1400 m, 22.VIII.2017, leg. H. Nasserzadeh (Light trap).
 Climate types. Sub-humid, cold winters and warm summers.
description: Published as part of Nasserzadeh, Hiva, 2021, A study of the click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of northwestern Iran with three new species Reitterelater prosternalis sp. n., Melanotus borumandi sp. n. and M. kurdestanicus sp. n., pp. 338-368 in Zootaxa 4941 (3) on page 352, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4595227
Cyclic Fluctuations, Climatic Changes and Role of Noise in Planktonic Foraminifera in the Mediterranean Sea
Creators: name: Caruso, A.
name: Gargano, M. E.
name: Valenti, D.
name: Fiasconaro, A.
name: Spagnolo, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The study of Planktonic Foraminifera abundances permits to obtain climatic curves on the basis of percentage ratio between tropical and temperate/polar forms. Climatic changes were controlled by several phenomena as: (i) Milankovitch's cycles, produced by variations of astronomical parameters such as precession, obliquity and eccentricity; (ii) continental geodynamic evolution and orogenic belt; (iii) variations of atmospheric and oceanic currents; (iv) volcanic eruptions; (v) meteor impacts. But while astronomical parameters have a quasi-regular periodicity, the other phenomena can be considered as "noise signal" in natural systems. The interplay between cyclical astronomical variations, the "noise signal" and the intrinsic nonlinearity of the ecologic system produces strong glacial or interglacial period according to the stochastic resonance phenomenon.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
American Inventions
Creators: name: Tokaz, Derek
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: If necessity is the mother of invention, then when all necessities are removed through abundant resources and security, invention comes to a standstill. Characters struggle to invent themselves and find purpose in contemporary upper-class America, while navigating an absurdist world of wealth, corruption, and inept self-promotion.
Perfect Fluid Cosmological Models with time-varying Constants
Creators: name: Belinchón, José Antonio
name: Chakrabarty, Indrajit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study in detail a perfect fluid cosmological model with time-varying "constants" using dimensional analysis and the symmetry method. We examine the case of variable "constants" in detail without considering the perfect fluid model as a limiting case of a model with a causal bulk viscous fluid as discussed in a recent paper. We obtain some new solutions through the Lie method and show that when matter creation is considered, these solutions are physically relevant.
description: 20 pages, RevTeX4
Evaluation of two-loop self-energy basis integrals using differential equations
Creators: name: Martin, Stephen P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I study the Feynman integrals needed to compute two-loop self-energy functions for general masses and external momenta. A convenient basis for these functions consists of the four integrals obtained at the end of Tarasov's recurrence relation algorithm. The basis functions are modified here to include one-loop and two-loop counterterms to render them finite; this simplifies the presentation of results in practical applications. I find the derivatives of these basis functions with respect to all squared-mass arguments, the renormalization scale, and the external momentum invariant, and express the results algebraically in terms of the basis. This allows all necessary two-loop self-energy integrals to be efficiently computed numerically using the differential equation in the external momentum invariant. I also use the differential equations method to derive analytic forms for various special cases, including a four-propagator integral with three distinct non-zero masses.
description: 17 pages, LaTeX, uses revtex4 and axodraw.sty
Lattice dynamics and mixing of polar phonons in the rare-earth orthoferrite TbFeO$_{3}$
Creators: name: Dubrovin, R. M.
name: Roginskii, E. M.
name: Chernyshev, V. A.
name: Novikova, N. N.
name: Elistratova, M. A.
name: Eliseyev, I. A.
name: Smirnov, A. N.
name: Brulev, A. I.
name: Boldyrev, K. N.
name: Davydov, V. Yu.
name: Mikhaylovskiy, R. V.
name: Kalashnikova, A. M.
name: Pisarev, R. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rare-earth orthoferrites are a promising platform for antiferromagnetic spintronics with a rich variety of terahertz spin and lattice dynamics phenomena. For instance, it has been experimentally demonstrated that the light-driven optical phonons can coherently manipulate macroscopic magnetic states via nonlinear magnetophononic effects. Here using TbFeO$_{3}$ as an example, we reveal the origin of the mode mixing between the LO and TO phonons, which is important for understanding of nonlinear phononics. We performed a comprehensive study of the lattice dynamics of the TbFeO$_{3}$ single crystal by polarized infrared and Raman scattering spectroscopic techniques, and experimentally obtained and carefully analyzed the spectra of anisotropic complex dielectric functions in the far-infrared spectral range. This allowed us to reliably identify the symmetries and parameters of most infrared- and Raman-active phonons. Next, the experimental studies were supplemented by the lattice dynamics calculations which allowed us to propose the normal mode assignments. We reveal that the relation between LO and TO polar phonons is complex and does not strictly follow the ``LO-TO rule'' due to the strong mode mixing. We further analyze how displacements of different ions contribute to phonon modes and reveal that magnetic Fe ions are not involved in Raman-active phonons, thus shedding light on a lack of spin phonon coupling for such phonons. The obtained results establish a solid basis for further in-depth experimental research in the field of nonlinear phononics and magnetophononics in rare-earth orthoferrites.
description: 23 pages, 15 figures, 6 tables
Factors Affecting Risk Management among Women Rice Farmers in Sari, Iran
Creators: name: Langerodi, Mehdi Charmchian
name: Langerodi, Mehdi Charmchian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Risk management
subject: Paddy farmers
subject: Borrowing resources
subject: Sari

description: The present study investigated factors affecting risk management by women rice farmers in the township of Sari in Iran. The statistical population comprised 1677 women who cultivate rice in Sari; 248 women were selected for the study using stratified random sampling. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics with SPSSWin16 software. The Chronbach’s alpha was 0.84 and the ordinal theta was 0.89. It was found that the women rice farmers were more willing to consult with agricultural experts, were aware of appropriate planting and harvesting times and used collaborative rice farming, such as for planting, in their risk management. Risk management among women rice cultivators in Sari County was influenced by numerous factors. It was found that 29.3% of the variance in risk management by the women was determined by the extent of financial difficulty, their education levels and borrowing resources.
Estimation of Water Demand of Agriculture Sector by Water-Yield Function (Case Study: Sistan Province)
Creators: name: Moghadam, Zahra Ghaffari
name: Moghadam, Zahra Ghaffari
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Barley
subject: Demand function
subject: Profit function
subject: Water-yield production function
subject: Wheat

description: In this study, yield-water and profit function was used to obtain water demand function in agriculture sector. The results showed that the ratio of actual to potential Evapotranspiration had positive, significant effect on the ratio of actual to potential yield for wheat and barley. Also, square ratio of actual to potential Evapotranspiration had negative, significant relationship. After estimation of product function, water demand function for agriculture sector was obtained by profit function. Price elasticity of water demand for agriculture was -1.10 being less than -1 and showing that price policies can be an important factor in the control of non-optimum use of their valuable inputs.
Melanotus fulvus Reitter 1891
Creators: name: Nasserzadeh, Hiva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Melanotus
Melanotus fulvus

description: Melanotus fulvus Reitter, 1891
(Map 6)
 Material examined (HMIM). Kordestan province: 2 exs.: Kusalan va Shaho Protected Area, Sarvabad, Tarkhanabad village, N35°18’30.0” E46°22’47.8”, 1233 m, 30.VI.2015, leg. H. Nasserzadeh (bait trape, rotten banana); 1 ex. Marivan, Zarivar Wildlife Sanctuary, N35°32’ E46°08’, 1300 m, 21.VIII.2017, leg. H. Nasserzadeh.
 Climate types. Semi-arid, cool winters and warm summers.
description: Published as part of Nasserzadeh, Hiva, 2021, A study of the click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of northwestern Iran with three new species Reitterelater prosternalis sp. n., Melanotus borumandi sp. n. and M. kurdestanicus sp. n., pp. 338-368 in Zootaxa 4941 (3) on page 352, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4595227
The Effective Factors In Nutritional Management Knowledge And A Proper Educational Plan For Broiler Farmers, A Case Study in Garmsar Township
Creators: name: Emamzadeh, Ali Nouri
name: Sabouri, Mohammad Sadegh
name: Emamzadeh, Ali Nouri
name: Sabouri, Mohammad Sadegh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Nutritional management knowledge
subject: Appropriate educational program
subject: Broiler farmers
subject: Garmsar

description: The study was conducted to determine the effective factors in nutritional management knowledge and design a proper educational plan for broiler farmers in Garmsar Township. The used methodological approach was descriptive-correlation. Eighty-eight questionnaires were collected and analyzed of 98 broiler farmers active in Garmsar. The content and face validity of the questionnaires and reliability of analysis were respectively specified and calculated according to guide, and Cronbach Alpha coefficient was calculated α=0.86 for the whole using SPSS software. Results indicated that role of extension methods in increasing the knowledge was very low to very high between the different methods. The correlation analysis indicated significant and positive relationships for farm capacity, income level, exhibitive educational methods and survey of modern farms with thefarmers’ knowledge. Results of multiple regression analysis as step by step indicated that two variables of exhibitive and survey educational methods explain significantly 56.2 percentages of the total variance. Therefore, the regression equation was: the plan = 0.664 (Exhibitive method) + 0.292 (Survey method). In conclusion, best educational plan is education of appropriate literatures with emphasis on the priorities via best methods especially exhibitive and survey methods.
The Future of Far-Infrared / Submillimeter Astrophysics with Single-Dish Telescopes
Creators: name: Bradford, C. Matt
name: Zmuidzinas, Jonas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although far-IR -- mm-wave astronomy has now been developing for several decades, access to this portion of the spectrum remains difficult and limited. Relative to their optical-wavelength counterparts, the submillimeter observatories are both small in units of wavelength and hot in units of photon energy, which imposes limits on their angular resolution and sensitivity. Nevertheless, even the modest far-IR and submillimeter observations obtained in the last two decades have revolutionized our understanding the physics and chemistry of the ISM, the formation of stars, and the cosmic history of these processes. The demonstration by COBE that about half of the radiant energy released in the universe since decoupling comes to us in the submm/far--IR has further underscored the scientific necessity of observations in this wavelength regime. The next decade promises even greater discoveries, as new observatories and detectors are still pushing toward fundamental limits. The paper briefly outlines some of the exciting capabilities and scientific roles of new single-dish far--IR -- mm-wave telescopes and their instruments.
description: 8 pages w/ 2 color figures. Proceedings of the 4th Cologne-Bonn-Zermatt Symposium on the Dense ISM in Galaxies
Factors Influencing the Policyholders’ Satisfaction with the Performance of Insurance Fund in the Field of Agricultural Products: the Case of Wheat Growers in Ilam
Creators: name: Mohammadi, Esfandyar
name: Eshraghi, Roya
name: Mohammadi, Esfandyar
name: Eshraghi, Roya
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Agricultural insurance fund
subject: Satisfaction
subject: Policyholders
subject: Ilam Province

description: Since insuring agricultural products is one of the effective instruments for risk management in agricultural sector, it can reduce risk avoidance among farmers and increase their competence in using production factors and, consequently, increases their inclination towards investment in agricultural sectors. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the factors influencing policyholders’ satisfaction with the performance of insurance funds in the field of agricultural products. Statistical population consisted of all farmers (wheat growers) living in Ilam Province who had insured their products in 2014. The population for this search was policyholders of agricultural insurance fund in Ilam Township that amounted to 250 out of which 158 ones were sampled by Morgan’s sampling table and simple random method of sampling. A questionnaire was utilized as a data collection instrument. The reliability and validity of this instrument was verified by the judgments of the experts of Islamic Azad University of Ilam and Cronbach alpha coefficients (estimated to be 0.80). The data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSSwin19 Software Package. It was found out that 68% of variations in policyholders’ satisfaction with the performance of insurance fund in the field of agricultural products were influenced by variables such as orientations towards insuring products, the performance of insurance fund, providing services and facilities by the insurance fund, and the promptness and skill of insurance fund employees.
Homebound
Creators: name: Wade, Jeremy
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: Homebound is a collection of short stories linked by the fictional city of River Ridge, Virginia and the surrounding area. The six stories deal with the effects of leaving River Ridge or coming back after living in the wider world. The stories deal with class, masculinity, and upset expectations.
Magneto-oscillations and anomalous current states in a photo-excited electron gas on liquid helium
Creators: name: Monarkha, Yuriy
name: Konstantinov, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paper reviews a novel class of phenomena observed recently in the two-dimensional (2D) electron system formed on the free surface of liquid helium in the presence of a magnetic field directed normally and exposed to microwave radiation. The distinctive feature of these nonequilibrium phenomena is magnetoconductivity oscillations induced by inter-subband (out-of-plane) and intra-subband (in-plane) microwave excitations. The conductivity magneto-oscillations induced by intra-subband excitation are similar to remarkable microwave-induced resistance oscillations (MIRO) reported for semiconductor heterostructures. Investigations of microwave-induced conductivity oscillations (MICO) on liquid helium helped with understanding of the origin of MIRO. Much stronger microwave-induced conductivity oscillations were observed and well described theoretically for resonant inter-subband microwave excitation. At strong powers, such excitation leads to zero-resistance states (ZRS), the in-plane redistribution of electrons, self-generated audio-frequency oscillations, and incompressible states. These phenomena are caused by unusual current states of the 2D electron system formed under resonant microwave excitation.
description: Review paper: 40 pages, 23 figures
GENDER, SEX WORK, AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A STUDY OF THE LEGAL REFORM OF COMMERCIAL SEX IN CONTEMPORARY TAIWAN
Creators: name: Wang, Yi-Lu
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation discusses the issue of commercial sex in Taiwan. In Today's Taiwan, the only place to conduct legal sexual transaction is in the very few licensed brothels. Even though the Social Maintenance Law (SOMA) allows the local governments to establish red-light district in their territories; however, none of them so far have considered establishing such red-light district. Outside of the red-light district that does not exist and the licensed brothels, Article 80 of SOMA sanctions sex workers and their clients with administrative fines. With almost no place to conduct legal sexual transactions, the sex industry hides in shadows. Murders, exploitations, and trafficking are haunted in this underground industry. In order to protect human rights of sex workers, legal reform is needed. I use this dissertation to argue the current criminalization legal regime should be discarded and commercial sex should be decriminalized in Taiwan. In order to find the best approach that assures human rights of sex workers, I discuss and analyze the policies of the United States (Criminalization Approach and Legalization of brothels), Sweden (Criminalizing clients), the Netherlands (Legalization Approach), and the New Zealand (Decriminalization Approach). I concluded the Decriminalization Approach is so far the best approach to ensure the human rights of sex workers. I argue the Constitutional Court in Taiwan should issue Interpretation to recognize the legal status of sex work and the SOMA should cease to be implemented. Lastly, for establishing the new decriminalization regime, I propose my own suggestions toward the new legislation regulating commercial sex.
On the learning abilities of photonic continuous-variable Born machines
Creators: name: Kolarovszki, Zoltán
name: Nagy, Dániel T. R.
name: Zimborás, Zoltán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper investigates photonic continuous-variable Born machines (CVBMs), which utilize photonic quantum states as resources for continuous probability distributions. Implementing exact gradient descent in the CVBM training process is often infeasible, bringing forward the need to approximate the gradients using an estimator obtained from a smaller number of samples, obtaining a quantum stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method. In this work, the ability to train CVBMs is analyzed using stochastic gradients obtained using relatively few samples from the probability distribution corresponding to homodyne measurement. The main obstacle to this analysis is that classically simulating CVBMs and obtaining samples is a demanding task, while a large number of iterations are needed to achieve convergence. The present research is enabled by a novel strategy to simulate homodyne detections of generic multimode photonic states using a classical computer. With this approach, a more comprehensive study of CVBMs is made possible, and the training of multimode CVBMs is demonstrated with parametric quantum circuits considerably larger than in previous articles. More specifically, we use the proposed algorithm to demonstrate learning of multimode quantum distributions using CVBMs. Moreover, successful CVBM trainings were demonstrated with the use of stochastic gradients.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
Dielectric behavior of Copper Tantalum Oxide
Creators: name: Renner, B.
name: Lunkenheimer, P.
name: Schetter, M.
name: Loidl, A.
name: Reller, A.
name: Ebbinghaus, S. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A thorough investigation of the dielectric properties of Cu2Ta4O12, a material crystallizing in a pseudo-cubic, perovskite-derived structure is presented. We measured the dielectric constant and conductivity of single crystals in an exceptionally broad frequency range up to GHz frequencies and at temperatures from 25 - 500 K. The detected dielectric constant is unusually high (reaching values up to 105) and almost constant in a broad frequency and temperature range. Cu2Ta4O12 possesses a crystal structure similar to CaCu3Ti4O12, the compound for which such an unusually high dielectric constant was first observed. An analysis of the results using a simple equivalent circuit and measurements with different types of contact revealed that extrinsic interfacial polarization effects, derived from surface barrier capacitors are the origin of the observed giant dielectric constants. The intrinsic properties of Cu2Ta4O12 are characterized by a (still relatively high) dielectric constant in the order of 100 and by charge transport via hopping conduction of Anderson-localized charge carriers.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Jouranl of Physical Chemestry
Management Strategies of Perceived Risk Associated with Moringa Products by Consumers in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Ayinde, O.E.
name: Omotesho, K.F.
name: Animashaun, J.O.
name: Ayinde, O.E.
name: Omotesho, K.F.
name: Animashaun, J.O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Management strategies
subject: Perceived risk
subject: Moringa consumption
subject: Consumer behaviour

description: This study focused on examining the management strategies of perceived risk associated with Moringa products by consumers in Ilorin metropolis with view to rank the perceived risk associated with Moringa product; assess the different strategies employed by consumers to manage or cope with the risk and to examine socio-economic determinants of consumers’ consumption behaviour in relation to the perceived risk. Primary data were collected with the aid of a well structured questionnaire from 116 sampled respondents in the study area. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics and the Tobit regression model. The result shows that majority of the consumers consume Moringa powder while none of them consume Moringa oil. It was also discovered that most of the respondents do nothing about the risk associated with Moringa consumption, while some of them reduce the quantity consumed per dose or frequency consumption. Awareness of risk and consumption of Moringa powder were found to have significant effect on consumer attitude towards the perceived risk at (p<0.1). The study therefore recommends the need for more clinical trials that will ascertain the long term health implication of Moringa products consumption and the need for marketing agencies to take advantage of the relative ambivalence to Moringa consumption for more advertorial and promotional campaigns.
Unwinding the relative Tate diagonal
Creators: name: Lawson, Tyler
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that a spectral sequence developed by Lipshitz and Treumann, for application to Heegaard Floer theory, converges to a localized form of topological Hochschild homology with coefficients. This allows us to show that the target of this spectral sequence can be identified with Hochschild homology when the topological Hochschild homology is torsion-free as a module over $\mathrm{THH}_*(\mathbb{F}_2)$, parallel to results of Mathew on degeneration of the Hodge-to-de Rham spectral sequence. To carry this out, we apply work of Nikolaus-Scholze to develop a general Tate diagonal for Hochschild-like diagrams of spectra that respect a decomposition into tensor products. This allows us to discuss the extent to which there can be a Tate diagonal for relative topological Hochschild homology.
description: 30 pages. Comments welcome
GENDER, SEX WORK, AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A STUDY OF THE LEGAL REFORM OF COMMERCIAL SEX IN CONTEMPORARY TAIWAN
Creators: name: Wang, Yi-Lu
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4803
subject: International and comparative law

description: This dissertation discusses the issue of commercial sex in Taiwan. In Today's Taiwan, the only place to conduct legal sexual transaction is in the very few licensed brothels. Even though the Social Maintenance Law (SOMA) allows the local governments to establish red-light district in their territories; however, none of them so far have considered establishing such red-light district. Outside of the red-light district that does not exist and the licensed brothels, Article 80 of SOMA sanctions sex workers and their clients with administrative fines. With almost no place to conduct legal sexual transactions, the sex industry hides in shadows. Murders, exploitations, and trafficking are haunted in this underground industry. In order to protect human rights of sex workers, legal reform is needed. I use this dissertation to argue the current criminalization legal regime should be discarded and commercial sex should be decriminalized in Taiwan. In order to find the best approach that assures human rights of sex workers, I discuss and analyze the policies of the United States (Criminalization Approach and Legalization of brothels), Sweden (Criminalizing clients), the Netherlands (Legalization Approach), and the New Zealand (Decriminalization Approach). I concluded the Decriminalization Approach is so far the best approach to ensure the human rights of sex workers. I argue the Constitutional Court in Taiwan should issue Interpretation to recognize the legal status of sex work and the SOMA should cease to be implemented. Lastly, for establishing the new decriminalization regime, I propose my own suggestions toward the new legislation regulating commercial sex.
Manifestly Lorentz-Invariant Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory
Creators: name: Scherer, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A successful effective field theory program requires besides the most general effective Lagrangian a perturbative expansion scheme for observables in terms of a consistent power counting method. We discuss a renormalization scheme for manifestly Lorentz-invariant baryon chiral perturbation theory generating a simple and consistent power counting for renormalized diagrams. The approach may be used in an iterative procedure to renormalize higher-order loop diagrams and also allows for implementing a consistent power counting when vector mesons are explicitly included.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, invited talk at International Conference on QCD and Hadronic Physics, Beijing, China, 16-20 June 2005