cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Defining persistent critical illness based on growth trajectories in patients with sepsis
Creators: name: Zhongheng Zhang
name: Kwok Ho
name: Hongqiu Gu
name: Yucai Hong
name: Yunsong Yu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Table S1. Fixed effects in the longitudinal 5-class model. Table S2. Predictive performance of acute and antecedent models as represented by AUCs for the day 1, 2, 7, 14 and 21. Table S3. The differences of baseline variables across the 5 classes. Table S4. Binary logistic regression model using antecedent variables to predict mortality. Table S5. Binary logistic regression model using acute variables to predict mortality. Table S6. Comparisons between PCI versus non-PCI groups in the overall population. Figure S1. Missing value in the study. Figure S2. Sensitivity analysis in patients with pulmonary infection. Figure S3. Sensitivity analysis in non-surgical patients.
PEtab -- interoperable specification of parameter estimation problems in systems biology
Creators: name: Schmiester, Leonard
name: Schälte, Yannik
name: Bergmann, Frank T.
name: Camba, Tacio
name: Dudkin, Erika
name: Egert, Janine
name: Fröhlich, Fabian
name: Fuhrmann, Lara
name: Hauber, Adrian L.
name: Kemmer, Svenja
name: Lakrisenko, Polina
name: Loos, Carolin
name: Merkt, Simon
name: Müller, Wolfgang
name: Pathirana, Dilan
name: Raimúndez, Elba
name: Refisch, Lukas
name: Rosenblatt, Marcus
name: Stapor, Paul L.
name: Städter, Philipp
name: Wang, Dantong
name: Wieland, Franz-Georg
name: Banga, Julio R.
name: Timmer, Jens
name: Villaverde, Alejandro F.
name: Sahle, Sven
name: Kreutz, Clemens
name: Hasenauer, Jan
name: Weindl, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Reproducibility and reusability of the results of data-based modeling studies are essential. Yet, there has been -- so far -- no broadly supported format for the specification of parameter estimation problems in systems biology. Here, we introduce PEtab, a format which facilitates the specification of parameter estimation problems using Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) models and a set of tab-separated value files describing the observation model and experimental data as well as parameters to be estimated. We already implemented PEtab support into eight well-established model simulation and parameter estimation toolboxes with hundreds of users in total. We provide a Python library for validation and modification of a PEtab problem and currently 20 example parameter estimation problems based on recent studies. Specifications of PEtab, the PEtab Python library, as well as links to examples, and all supporting software tools are available at https://github.com/PEtab-dev/PEtab, a snapshot is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3732958. All original content is available under permissive licenses.
Calls to Farmers about Rice Seeds in Eastern India: Who Pays for the Calls?
Creators: name: Pede, V.
name: Yamano, T.
name: Veettil, P.C.
name: Gupta, I.
name: Pede, V.
name: Yamano, T.
name: Veettil, P.C.
name: Gupta, I.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Mobile Phones
subject: Technology Diffusion
subject: Rice
subject: Variety Replacement
subject: India

description: We use a survey of 6,927 rice farmers, conducted in 2015, in eastern India and examine how rice farmers use mobile phones to obtain information about rice varieties. We find that about 10% of sample farmers in eastern Uttar Pradesh received phone calls from seed firms, extension agencies, NGOs, and local seed dealers about rice varieties. More than half the calls were made to registered farmers with charges. Farmers located farther away from the nearest market were more likely pay for such calls. Furthermore, we find that about 26% of the farmers with paid calls purchased seeds of at least one rice variety that they never planted before, while the same percentage was less than 16% among farmers who did not receive calls about rice varieties.
Carbon Dimer in Silicon Cage: A Class of Highly Stable Silicon Carbide Clusters
Creators: name: Huda, M. N.
name: Ray, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A class of silicon carbide cage clusters with two carbon atoms inside the silicon cage and with high stabilities are presented. The theoretical formalism used is Hartree-Fock theory followed by second order many body perturbation theory to account for correlation effects and geometry optimizations at the second order perturbation theory level are performed without any symmetry constraints. The smallest "cage" is found to be a silicon cube with the carbon dimer inside the cube. Based on the simultaneous criteria of high binding energy, high vertical ionization potential, high homo-lumo gap, and low electron affinity, Si_14C_2 with a close fullerene like structure, is predicted to be a particularly stable cluster both al all-electron and at pseudopotential level of calculations. The C-C bond lengths and the HOMO-LUMO gaps of the clusters are both found to oscillate with the cluster size.
Three-level rate equations in cold, disordered Rydberg gases
Creators: name: Skannrup, R. V.
name: van Weerden, T.
name: van der Werf, Y.
name: Johri, T.
name: Vredenbregt, E. J. D.
name: Kokkelmans, S. J. J. M. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated formation of structures of Rydberg atoms excited from a disordered gas of ultracold atoms, using rate equations for two-photon Rydberg excitation in a single atom without eliminating the intermediate state. We have explored the validity range of these rate equations and defined a simple measure to determine, whether our model is applicable for a given set of laser parameters. We have applied these rate equations in Monte Carlo simulations of ultracold gases, for different laser beam profiles, and compared these simulations to experimental observations and find a general agreement.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
On the Feasibility of Battery-Less LoRaWAN Communications using Energy Harvesting
Creators: name: Delgado, Carmen
name: Sanz, Jos é María
name: Famaey, Jeroen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: From the outset, batteries have been the main power source for the Internet of Things (IoT). However, replacing and disposing of billions of dead batteries per year is costly in terms of maintenance and ecologically irresponsible. Since batteries are one of the greatest threats to a sustainable IoT, battery-less devices are the solution to this problem. These devices run on long-lived capacitors charged using various forms of energy harvesting, which results in intermittent on-off device behaviour. In this work, we model this intermittent battery-less behaviour for LoRaWAN devices. This model allows us to characterize the performance with the aim to determine under which conditions a LoRaWAN device can work without batteries, and how its parameters should be configured. Results show that the reliability directly depends on device configurations (i.e., capacitor size, turn-on voltage threshold), application behaviour (i.e., transmission interval, packet size) and environmental conditions (i.e., energy harvesting rate).
Additional file 3 of Childhood tuberculosis treatment outcome and its association with HIV co-infection in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Getaneh Belay
name: Chalachew Wubneh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Searching terms used for Google Scholar.
Griffiths phase in diluted magnetic semiconductors
Creators: name: Galitski, Victor
name: Kaminski, A.
name: Sarma, S. Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of disorder in the vicinity of the ferromagnetic transition in a diluted magnetic semiconductor in the strongly localized regime. We derive an effective polaron Hamiltonian, which leads to the Griffiths phase above the ferromagnetic transition point. The Griffiths-McCoy effects yield non-perturbative contributions to the dynamic susceptibility. We explicitly derive the long-time susceptibility, which has a pseudo-scaling form, with the dynamic critical exponent being expressed through the percolation indices.
description: 4 pages, final version as published
Designing Stories : A Narrative-Driven Design Process for Architecture
Creators: name: Lum, Theresa
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: This thesis proposes that narrative can bring richness and depth to a architectural project, and that there are unexplored ways that narrative can be used in the design process. I suggest that drawing from the discipline of film production design, which is a process that is already centered on storytelling, can offer a new working method for architecture. Using production design as a template for the design process allows narrative to be the foundation of a design, creating a new lens through which to see storytelling in architecture. In production design, the script is the client – the design is completely centered on storytelling, with each design tool being used to help tell a story. Key to designing a film’s story is the process of world building. This process begins with the creation of mood and the development of characters, using tools such as colour, light, scale and pattern. In architecture, narrative is often used to frame a project or to describe how a project operates, but is not at the core of the design process, guiding the design decisions, as is the case with production design. Through an investigation into how the process of production design can be translated into an architectural project, this thesis expands the conversation between narrative and architecture, and the relationship between architecture and film. This project uses the production designer’s narrative tools – namely world building, mood and character – to weave multiple storylines through a site, allowing these stories to shape the design and shift the perception of the resulting built forms. The site chosen for this exploration is Cooper’s Green Park in Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia. In the following design process, I use the design of five architectural interventions to support three different stories, in a way that can be changeable from one narrative to the next. Through the architecture, this project creates moments that highlight the narratives’ story worlds – their mood and their characters. We experience and frame our lives in stories, and architecture will always be part of those stories. I believe it is worth exploring new ways of developing architecture through narrative.
Quantum spin fluctuations in the dipolar Heisenberg-like rare earth pyrochlores
Creators: name: Del Maestro, Adrian G.
name: Gingras, Michel J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic pyrochlore oxide materials of general chemical formula R2Ti2O7 and R2Sn2O7 (R = rare earth) display a host of interesting physical behaviours depending on the flavour of rare earth ion. These properties depend on the value of the total magnetic moment, the crystal field interactions at each rare earth site and the complex interplay between magnetic exchange and long-range dipole-dipole interactions. This work focuses on the low temperature physics of the dipolar isotropic frustrated antiferromagnetic pyrochlore materials. Candidate magnetic ground states are numerically determined at zero temperature and the role of quantum spin fluctuations around these states are studied using a Holstein-Primakoff spin wave expansion to order 1/S. The results indicate the strong stability of the proposed classical ground states against quantum fluctuations. The inclusion of long range dipole interactions causes a restoration of symmetry and a suppression of the observed anisotropy gap leading to an increase in quantum fluctuations in the ground state when compared to a model with truncated dipole interactions. The system retains most of its classical character and there is little deviation from the fully ordered moment at zero temperature.
description: Latex2e, 18 pages, 4 figures, IOP format
title: Applications of Box Jenkins Transfer function methods to identify seasonal and longer term trends in Marine time series
Creators: name: Bruun, John
name: Somerfield, Paul
name: Allen, Icarus
Publisher: name: ASC 2012 - Theme session R
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.We present the uses of time-series methodologies to help identify & quantify dynamics, interactions and longer term signals in Ocean scale biogeochemical marine ecosystems. In particular we focus on the Box Jenkins Transfer Function (BJTF) model, which is a general statistical time series approach based on an Observation = System + Noise representation. This model enables robust statistical identification of the underlying System using both time and frequency domain tools, using methods that utilise data and the knowledge of underlying dynamic structures effectively. In particular BJTF helps measure: 1) seasonal and decadal variability and the structure of underlying trends, 2) non-linear structure present in the System, 3) the influence of multiple drivers on biological response, 4) intrinsic memory that is present in the System and 5) coherency of multiple series at different frequencies. This tool also provides a systematic statistical methodology to quantify the influence of interventions, extremely rare events and step changes such as a regime change. This methodology is being applied in current GreenSeas analyses. Specifically the GreenSeas Analysis Framework (GSAF) provides a platform from which to create 30+ year time-series that combine knowledge from three types of marine measurement: 1) biogeochemical numerical models, 2) remote sensing satellite observation and 3) from in-situ sampling. The GSAF maps the combined knowledge onto the in-situ transect sampling locations. We show examples of how the BJTF statistical tools can be utilised in environmental and marine systems with both simulated case studies and case studies from current GreenSeas Atlantic research.
Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, R/12531, fol. 29v-33v, traduction française (Gregorius Digital E1-1)
Creators: name: :Unkn
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Ce document PDF est une traduction française de l'exemplaire Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, R/12531, fol. 29v-33v, de l’édition espagnole « El Patrañuelo », Valence, Juan Mey, 1567, contient le récit du Bon Pécheur et est édité dans le cadre du projet Gregorius Digital sous le sigle E1-1 (dir. Peter Andersen – ARCHE UMR 3400 – Université de Strasbourg)
Flavour Changing Neutral Currents in Intersecting Brane Models
Creators: name: Abel, S.
name: Masip, M.
name: Santiago, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Intersecting D-brane models provide an attractive explanation of family replication in the context of string theory. We show, however, that the localization of fermion families at different brane intersections in the extra dimensions introduces flavour changing neutral currents mediated by the Kaluza-Klein excitations of the gauge fields. This is a generic feature in these models, and it implies stringent bounds on the mass of the lightest Kaluza-Klein modes (becoming severe when the compactification radii are larger than the string length). We present the full string calculation of four-fermion interactions in models with intersecting D-branes, recovering the field theory result. This reveals other stringy sources of flavour violation, which give bounds that are complementary to the KK bounds (i.e. they become severe when the compactification radii are comparable to the string length). Taken together these bounds imply that the string scale is larger than $M_s\gtrsim 10^2$ TeV, implying that non-supersymmetric cases are phenomenologically disfavoured.
description: Matches the published version
Rural-Urban Migration, Welfare and Employment : Comparing Results from Thailand and Vietnam
Creators: name: Grote, Ulrike
name: Waibel, Hermann
name: Grote, Ulrike
name: Waibel, Hermann
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Migration
subject: poverty
subject: livelihoods
subject: employment quality
subject: Vietnam
subject: Thailand

description: This paper compares empirical findings on the motivation and welfare impacts of ruralurban migration from two comprehensive case studies conducted in Thailand and Vietnam. The results are based on panel data of around 4,000 rural households and tracking surveys of close to 1,000 migrants. The studies find outcomes depending on the development status of the country. Rural outmigration is mostly considered as a livelihood support strategy of rural households. Given the scarcity of employment opportunities in the rural areas, migrants see themselves forced to look for jobs in the cities. Interestingly, most migrants perceive themselves to be better off in the cities. The rural households left behind benefit from migration as the remittances tend to have positive income growth effects. The research confirms the calls for improved social protection for migrants in urban areas and for quality schooling in the rural areas.
Assessment of Water Rights and Irrigation Pricing Reforms in Heihe River Basin in China
Creators: name: Sun, Tianhe
name: Wang, Jinxia
name: Huang, Qiuqiong
name: Li, Yanrong
name: Sun, Tianhe
name: Wang, Jinxia
name: Huang, Qiuqiong
name: Li, Yanrong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: water rights reform
subject: irrigation pricing reform
subject: irrigation application
subject: Zhangye City in Heihe River Basin
subject: China

description: The purpose of this paper is to understand the progress of water rights and irrigation pricing reform in Heihe River Basin (HRB) and their influence on irrigation application. The data came from a village and household level survey conducted in 2009 and 2014 in five counties in Zhangye City, HRB. The main component of reforming water rights was issuing water certificates to individual farmers. However, the share of villages that have done so dropped from 70% in 2004 to 28% in 2014. Water pricing reform raised the price of water. For the pricing of surface water, which consists of an area-based fee and a volumetric price, the volumetric price was increased. Econometric results show that amending water rights substantially reduced irrigation application in the early stage of reform (by 2009) but not in the later phase (by 2014). In contrast, higher water prices lowered irrigation applications significantly at both the early and later stages. Further analysis indicates that due to ineffective implementation, high cost of implementation due to large number of farmers, variations in water supply from year to year, and small farm sizes, little benefit is gained from trading. All of these factors played a role in the failure of water rights reforms.
Climate change and maize yield: Do the autonomous adaptation practices have effect on maize yield?
Creators: name: MAHAMA, Tiah Abdul-Kabiru
name: MAHARJAN, Kashav Lall
name: MAHAMA, Tiah Abdul-Kabiru
name: MAHARJAN, Kashav Lall
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Climate change
subject: autonomous adaptation
subject: maladaptation
subject: mixed design
subject: maize yield

description: Climate change acts as a threat multiplier and partly accounts for the level of poverty among farmers. Effective adaption is required with the anticipated further change in climate. However, the judgment of people on climate change is sometimes wrong, which could affect adaptation. Also, adaptation practices could actually constitute maladaptation, which many researchers have not focused on. This study therefore focused on a sample of 299 cereal crop farmers to assess their perception of climate change, their adaptation practices and the effect of these practices on maize yield. The study employs the concurrent mixed research design where methods of agreement are used to analyze qualitative information and the multivariable least square technique, complemented with a score matching technique, is used to analyze quantitative information. The analysis shows that there is an adaptation deficit with the current yield of maize falling below potential levels. Majority of the farmers have positive perception of climate change and are aware of the reversed causality between climate change and farming activities. We observed that adaptation to climate change is widespread; practices such as the intensive use of agro-chemicals, expansion of cultivated lands and adoption of improved cultivars were commonplace. However, not all of these practices have positive relationship with maize yield. Expenditure on agrochemicals, application of manure and introduction of new cultivars are significantly associated with higher maize yield alongside other socioeconomic factors of the farmer. We conclude that sustainable use of agrochemicals should be encouraged since unsustainable use has consequence on nature and the future of the climate. Alternatively, manure application should be encouraged. Finally, we observed that planned adaptation services need to be pursued by government to facilitate autonomous adaptation practices of the farmer.
Tomomyza Wiedemann 1820
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Tomomyza

description: Tomomyza Wiedemann
 Tomomyza Wiedemann, 1820: 9.
description: Published as part of Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1149 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Entangled photon-pair generation in periodically-poled thin-film lithium niobate waveguides
Creators: name: Zhao, Jie
name: Ma, Chaoxuan
name: Rüsing, Michael
name: Mookherjea, Shayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements of time-frequency entangled photon pairs and heralded single photons at telecommunications wavelengths, generated using a periodically-poled, lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) waveguide pumped optically by a diode laser. We achieve a high Coincidences-to-Accidentals Ratio (CAR) at high pair brightness, a low value of the conditional self-correlation function [$g^{(2)}$(0)], and high two-photon energy-time Franson interferometric visibility, which demonstrate the high quality of the entangled photon pairs and heralded single photons.
Bidding for Seed Price via Mobile Phone: A Case of Submergence-tolerant Rice in Northern Bangladesh
Creators: name: Yamano, T.
name: Bhandari, H.
name: Malabayabas, M.L
name: Habib, M.A.
name: Das, S.K.
name: Yamano, T.
name: Bhandari, H.
name: Malabayabas, M.L
name: Habib, M.A.
name: Das, S.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Bidding
subject: Mobile Phone
subject: Flood-tolerant rice
subject: Bangladesh

description: We conducted a bidding survey by calling 461 farmers on their mobile phones and asked their bidding prices for a 10 kg bag of two submergence-tolerant rice varieties. We delivered seed bags to farmers whose bidding price was higher than a pre-fixed price. The sample farmers were selected from panel data conducted in 2013 and 2015. We found that farmers who experienced floods in 2015 bid for a higher price for Swarna-Sub1, one of the two submergence-tolerant rice varieties. The farmers who had indicated shortage of Swarna-Sub1 seeds in the 2015 survey were more likely to participate in bidding for Swarna-Sub1. Regarding the bidding process, the timing of phone bidding mattered. Farmers participated in phone bidding more in the morning, on holidays, and later in the planting season. The results in the paper suggest a possible use of mobile phones for marketing new rice varieties and other agricultural inputs.
title: An Investigation into the Factors Influencing Infant Mortality in Cholsey Sub-District, Berkshire, 1892-1900
Creators: name: Buckingham, Patricia Ann
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1999

description: The recorded decline in Infant Mortality Rates from the mid nineteenth Century onwards has been attributed to factors such as improved environmental conditions, health education, and even improvements in climate. By undertaking a small area study of infant mortality rates of villages in the Sub-District of Cholsey in Berkshire for the period 1892-1900 these issues are examined in order to shed light on the factors influencing infant mortality in this particular area. The basis of this study are Vaccination Birth Registers, little known primary sources containing standard information about all births registered in the area and deaths of infants who died before vaccination could take place. These registers, together with Parish Burial Registers, Medical Officer of Health reports, maps, a school log and other primary sources were used to construct a picture of conditions prevailing in this area for this period and they also provide a valuable insight into how vaccination was administered at a local level. Cholsey Sub-District was chosen because Vaccination Birth registers were available and it was an area containing a diversity of environments and populations, ranging from very rural villages to rapidly expanding communities based round the industrial trades offered by a railway works. This diversity offered the opportunity to discover any significant differences in environment and to investigate whether these impacted on infant mortality rates. The period was chosen because of the wide range of evidence available and by keeping the time span relatively short a more in-depth analysis of the sources could be made. Aspects looked at include environmental conditions such as public water supplies and sanitation, seasonality, class and occupation, which have all been cited by researchers such as Szreter (1988,1991,1994), Williams (1992), Graham (1994), and Garrett and Reid (1995), as factors influencing infant mortality rates.
Agricultural Reforms, Land Distribution, and Non-Sugar Agricultural Production in Cuba
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Corzo, Mario A.
name: Gonzalez-Corzo, Mario A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Agricultural reforms
subject: Cuban agriculture
subject: Cuban economy
subject: transition economies

description: Since 2007, the Cuban government has introduced a series of agricultural reforms to increase non-sugar agricultural production and reduce the country’s dependency on food and agricultural imports. The most important agricultural reforms implemented in Cuba (so far) include: (a) increases in the prices paid by the state for selected agricultural products, (b) restructuring the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAGRI) and the Ministry of the Sugar Industry (MINAZ), (c) a new agricultural tax system, (d) the authorisation of direct sales and commercialisation of selected agricultural products, (e) micro-credits extended by stateowned banks to private farmers and usufructuaries, and (f) the expansion of usufruct farming. These reforms have contributed to the redistribution of Cuba’s agricultural land from the state to the non-state sector, notable reductions in idle (non-productive) agricultural land, and mixed results in terms of agricultural output. However, they have not been able to sufficiently incentivise output and reduce the country’s high dependency on agricultural and food imports to satisfy the needs of its population. Achieving these long-desired objectives requires the implementation of more profound structural reforms in this vital sector of the Cuban economy.
Selecting optimal multistep predictors for autoregressive processes of unknown order
Creators: name: Ing, Ching-Kang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62M20 (Primary) 62M10, 60F15. (Secondary)

description: We consider the problem of choosing the optimal (in the sense of mean-squared prediction error) multistep predictor for an autoregressive (AR) process of finite but unknown order. If a working AR model (which is possibly misspecified) is adopted for multistep predictions, then two competing types of multistep predictors (i.e., plug-in and direct predictors) can be obtained from this model. We provide some interesting examples to show that when both plug-in and direct predictors are considered, the optimal multistep prediction results cannot be guaranteed by correctly identifying the underlying model's order. This finding challenges the traditional model (order) selection criteria, which usually aim to choose the order of the true model. A new prediction selection criterion, which attempts to seek the best combination of the prediction order and the prediction method, is proposed to rectify this difficulty. When the underlying model is stationary, the validity of the proposed criterion is justified theoretically.
Additional file 1 of Childhood tuberculosis treatment outcome and its association with HIV co-infection in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Getaneh Belay
name: Chalachew Wubneh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. The PRISMA guideline.
Anthrax Scopoli 1763
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Anthrax

description: Anthrax Scopoli
 Anthrax Scopoli, 1763: 358.
description: Published as part of Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1149 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Mergeable weighted majority games and characterizations of some power indices
Creators: name: Armijos-Toro, Livino M.
name: Alonso-Meijide, José M.
name: Mosquera, Manuel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we introduce a notion of mergeable weighted majority games with the aim of providing the first characterization of the Colomer-Martínez power index (Colomer and Martínez in J Theor Polit 7(1):41-63, 1995). Furthermore, we define and characterize a new power index for the family of weighted majority games that combines ideas of the Public Good (Holler in Polit Stud 30(2):262-271, 1982) and Colomer-Martínez power indices. Finally, we analyze the National Assembly of Ecuador using these and some other well-known power indices.
description: This article was published on April 15, 2023 in Open Access in the journal Annals of Operations Research
Additional file 2 of Childhood tuberculosis treatment outcome and its association with HIV co-infection in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Getaneh Belay
name: Chalachew Wubneh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. The searching terms for PubMed and web of science.
Linear in temperature resistivity in the limit of zero temperature from the time reparameterization soft mode
Creators: name: Guo, Haoyu
name: Gu, Yingfei
name: Sachdev, Subir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most puzzling aspect of the 'strange metal' behavior of correlated electron compounds is that the linear in temperature resistivity often extends down to low temperatures, lower than natural microscopic energy scales. We consider recently proposed deconfined critical points (or phases) in models of electrons in large dimension lattices with random nearest-neighbor exchange interactions. The criticality is in the class of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models, and exhibits a time reparameterization soft mode representing gravity in dual holographic theories. We compute the low temperature resistivity in a large $M$ limit of models with SU($M$) spin symmetry, and find that the dominant temperature dependence arises from this soft mode. The resistivity is linear in temperature down to zero temperature at the critical point, with a co-efficient universally proportional to the product of the residual resistivity and the co-efficient of the linear in temperature specific heat. We argue that the time reparameterization soft mode offers a promising and generic mechanism for resolving the strange metal puzzle.
description: 35 pages, 4 figures
Investigation of the Spin Density Wave in NaxCoO2
Creators: name: Wooldridge, J.
name: Paul, D. McK
name: Balakrishnan, G.
name: Lees, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic susceptibility, transport and heat capacity measurements of single crystal NaxCoO2 (x=0.71) are reported. A transition to a spin density wave (SDW) state at Tmag = 22 K is observable in all measurements, except chi(ac) data in which a cusp is observed at 4 K and attributed to a low temperature glassy phase. M(H) loops are hysteretic below 15 K. Both the SDW transition and low temperature hysteresis are only visible along the c-axis. The system also exhibits a substantial (~40%) positive magnetoresistance below this temperature. Calculations of the electronic heat capacity gamma above and below Tmag and the size of the jump in C indicate that the onset of the SDW brings about the opening of gap and the removal of part of the Fermi surface. Reduced in-plane electron-electron scattering counteracts the loss of carriers below the transition and as a result we see a net reduction in resistivity below Tmag. Sodium ordering transitions at higher temperatures are observable as peaks in the heat capacity with a corresponding increase in resistivity.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
The Contribution of Biorefineries to Rural Development: The Case of Employment in Hungary
Creators: name: Heijman, Wim
name: Szabó, Zoltán
name: Veldhuizen, Esther
name: Heijman, Wim
name: Szabó, Zoltán
name: Veldhuizen, Esther
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Biofuels
subject: Biofuel Policies
subject: Ethanol
subject: Rural Development
subject: Input-Output Analysis
subject: Employment

description: Most recent research concerning biofuels focuses on their potential for mitigating climate change, while their rural development dimension is given less prominence. Ongoing policy debates, including EU and US biofuel policies, pay little attention to this feature of the industry. This paper explores the impact of biorefineries on rural development, and employment in particular. It shows that biorefineries can have a considerable economic impact on the regions in which they are located. Embedded in the local social and economic fabric, the paper demonstrates their influence on regional and national labour markets. The case of a bioethanol plant in Hungary and its effect on the rural labour market in two counties of the country is studied by way of an input-output model. The research has found that the operation of a biorefinery stimulates the creation and maintenance of jobs in both farming and service industries. Results suggest that biorefineries are an important driver of rural development and that this aspect of the industry should be given greater weight in formulating biofuel policies.
The Ratio of W + N jets To Z/gamma + N jets As a Precision Test of the Standard Model
Creators: name: Abouzaid, Erin
name: Frisch, Henry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest replacing measurements of the individual cross-sections for the production of W + N jets and Z/gamma + N jets in searches for new high-energy phenomena at hadron colliders by the precision measurement of the ratios (W+0 jet)/(Z+0 jet), (W+1 jet)/(Z+1 jet), (W+2 jets)/(Z+2 jets),... (W+N jets)/(Z+N jets), with N as large as 6 (the number of jets in ttbarH). These ratios can also be formed for the case where one or more of the jets is tagged as a b or c quark. Existing measurements of the individual cross sections for Wenu + N jets at the Tevatron have systematic uncertainties that grow rapidly with N, being dominated by uncertainties in the identification of jets and the jet energy scale. These systematics, and also those associated with the luminosity, parton distribution functions (PDF's), detector acceptance and efficiencies, and systematics of jet finding and b-tagging, are expected to substantially cancel in calculating the ratio of W to Z production in each N-jet channel, allowing a greater sensitivity to new contributions in these channels in Run II at the Tevatron and at the LHC.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, added references
SUSY Normal Scalar Mass Hierarchy Reconciles (g-2), b->s,gamma and Relic Density
Creators: name: Baer, Howard
name: Belyaev, Alexander
name: Krupovnickas, Tadas
name: Mustafayev, Azar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experimental and theoretical determinations of (g-2)_muon, Omega*h^2 and BF(b->s,gamma) place exceedingly tight constraints on the minimal supergravity (mSUGRA) model. We advocate relaxing the generational universality of mSUGRA, so that GUT scale third generation scalar masses are greater than the (degenerate) first and second generation scalar masses (a normal scalar mass hierarchy (NMH)). The non-degeneracy allows for a reconciliation of all the above constraints, and also respects FCNC limits from B_d-B_dbar mixing and b -> s,gamma. The NMH SUGRA model leads to the prediction of relatively light first and second generation sleptons. This yields large rates for multilepton collider signatures at the CERN LHC and also possibly at the Fermilab Tevatron. The spectrum of light sleptons should be accessible to a sqrt{s}=0.5-1TeV linear e^+e^-$ collider.
description: LaTex, 26 pages, 12 figures. The version with high resolution figures is available at http://www.hep.fsu.edu/~belyaev/projects/nusugra/nusugra.ps.gz
title: Examination of Combined Rooftop Photovoltaic (PV) and Battery Storage Systems in Turkey: A Technical and Economical Case Study for a State Building
Creators: name: Topcu, Ahmet Eren
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Rooftop photovoltaic
subject: Battery energy storage

description: Turkey is primarily dependent on foreign energy sources to provide its energy supply.To reduce this dependency and create a sustainable energy economy at the point ofenergy supply and demand, it has increased renewable energy investment sconsiderably in recent years. In this context, a rapid acceleration was achieved with the renewable energy support mechanism published in 2010, and there is a great increase in solar and wind energy investments. The principal motivation of this thesis is there are very few studies on the installation of photovoltaic systems in public buildings in Turkey.This study aim is to give insight to decision-makers in case a rooftop solar photovoltaicsystem (RSPV) is installed in the main building of the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Industry and Technology (MoIT) located in the capital city of Turkey, Ankara. Under this target, two different RSPV systems, with and without battery energy storage(BES), were designed and technical and financial analyses of these systems were carried out. According to the data obtained, it was predicted that a Li-ion BES with a maximum capacity of 100 kWh and a photovoltaic system of 99,54 kWp could be designed on the roof of the building.Considering the financial analyses results; under the current feed-in tariff (FiT) scheme, it can be claimed that the RSPV system without a battery represent a more profitable investment compared to the RPSV system combined with BES. However,for investments to be made after 01 July 2021 when the new FiT scheme will comeinto force, it can be predicted that BES combined RSPV systems aiming at self consumption are much more advantageous since the FiT prices are determined inTurkish Lira and are lower than the current electricity market prices.In addition to these issues, it is recommended government should increase the amountof additional contribution to be given if domestic equipment is utilized in the PVinstallations, provide low-interest loans from state-owned banks and reduce the rate of income tax to increase the installation of RSPV systems in public buildings.
Competition Barriers to Paraguayan Beef Exports: An Economic Review
Creators: name: Ramirez Pastore, Carlos Agustin
name: West, Jason
name: Ramirez Pastore, Carlos Agustin
name: West, Jason
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Beef value chain
subject: consumption trends
subject: premium markets
subject: diminished value
subject: Paraguay

description: Paraguay’s beef industry has suffered sustained damage in credibility directly related to meat quality and process hygiene standards over the past two decades. These factors alone, however, are not the primary cause of persistent price discounting in export markets. Paraguay’s direct competitors have suffered similar export restrictions related to quality control but have since recovered to capture their original market share. We find that both a perceived and an actual absence of quality controls over beef production, coupled with the lack of an industry body representing Paraguay’s beef sector, are the major impediments to growth in the export market. The lack of sustained support and marketing of export-quality beef has led to persistent price discounting, despite quality improvements across the supply chain. The capacity to gain international market share remains diminished due to the disaggregated approach in which Paraguayan beef is marketed to foreign buyers. An industry-wide effort to coordinate food safety and quality activities, as well as maintaining certification programmes, market intelligence, export promotion and research and development could offer some degree of competitive advantage to Paraguay’s producers. While the idea of a central industry body has clear advantages, of greater value would be establishing meat quality standards that address the deficiencies in consumption-level responsiveness to meat quality. The establishment of an industry body would need to overcome the hurdles associated with related transaction costs across the alliance.
Quantum Ginzburg-Landau theory of doped Mott insulators
Creators: name: Wang, Qiang-Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We improve a previous theory of doped Mott insulators with duality between pairing and magnetism by a further duality transform. As the result we obtained a quantum Ginzburg-Landau theory describing the Cooper pair condensate and the dual of spin condensate. We address the superconductivity by doping a Mott insulator, which we call Mott superconductivity. Some fingerprints of such novelty in cuprates are the scaling between neutron resonance energy and superfluid density, and the induced {\it quantized} spin moment by vortices or Zn impurity (together with circulating charge supper-current to be checked by experiments).
description: 4 pages, no figures, sequential to cond-mat/0306395