cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Achieving energy security and energy independence through renewables in the EU
Creators: name: Engelmayer, Marie-Theres
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: treated waste water
subject: agriculture
subject: irrigation
subject: water scarcity
subject: food security
subject: climate change
subject: treated waste water
subject: agriculture
subject: irrigation
subject: water scarcity
subject: food security
subject: climate change

description: 53% percent of the energy consumed within the European Union is imported. In other words, more than half of the energy we consume to enable our societys modern life, has to be imported. Our computers, our phones, our elevators, our trading system run on energy, which the European Union imports. These imports from a few foreign states led to a high degree of dependency with a high price: Every day the European Union pays around one billion Euros for the imports. Regarding the background of always faster spinning geopolitics and a changing global hegemony, stakeholders, politicians and executives became aware of the importance of energy security and energy independence. Renewable energies became the core element to achieve these two targets, as their characteristics fit the dimensions of energy security and energy independence. Hence, legal framework within the European Union was created to achieve legally binding targets of a 20% share of RES of the final energy consumption within the European Union by 2020, and 32% by 2030. This master thesis tries to explain how renewable energies contribute positively to achieving these two targets as well as shedding light on the emerging challenges and potential problems, which might emerge when integrating renewable energies into the grid and the urge to adapt to the new category of technology. Firstly, renewable energies contribute to energy security and independency as their fuel is present everywhere although with varying potential within the European Union. Hence, with the deployment of the renewable energy sources within the European territory, the energy dependency would sink drastically. Secondly, renewable energy technologies bring an energy generation mix along, which creates a broader spectrum of energy sources, that creates stability. However, the main characteristics of renewable energy sources are a high degree of unpredictability and volatility. This is the Achilless heel to energy security. But with new and innovative technology, such as better forecast systems, real-time grid management and furthermore better transmission lines, this weakness-gap can be closed. Nowadays, the deployment of renewable energy sources is slowed down by long lasting legal processes. Experts urge stakeholders to draft a speeded-up process, to keep the pace of the energy transition high. This also includes fair mediation processes to balance out interests as well as one-step procedures.
Additional file 1 of Frizzled related protein deficiency impairs muscle strength, gait and calpain 3 levels
Creators: name: Casas-Fraile, Leire
name: Cornelis, Frederique M.
name: Costamagna, Domiziana
name: Rico, Anabel
name: Duelen, Robin
name: Sampaolesi, Maurilio M.
name: Munain, Adolfo López De
name: Lories, Rik J.
name: Amets Sáenz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Human Tissue Samples. Table S2. Custom-designed SYBR green panel’s gene selection (Bio-Rad).
c-axis transport and phenomenology of the pseudo-gap state in $Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+δ}$
Creators: name: Giura, M.
name: Fastampa, R.
name: Sarti, S.
name: Silva, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure and analyze the resistivity of $Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+δ}$ crystals for different doping $δ$. We obtain the fraction of carrier $η(T,δ) = n_g/n_{TOT}$ that do not participate to the c-axis conductivity. All the curves $η(T,δ)$ collapse onto a universal curve when plotted against a reduced temperature $x=[T-Θ(δ)]/Δ^{*}(δ)$. We find that at the superconducting transition $n_g$ is doping independent. We also show that a magnetic field up to 14 T does not affect the degree of localization in the (a,b) planes but widens the temperature range of the x-scaling by suppressing the superconducting phase coherence.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys.Rev.B
Auswirkungen überregional aktiver Investoren in der Landwirtschaft auf ländliche Räume : Ergebnisse aus zwei Fallstudien
Creators: name: Laschewski, Lutz
name: Tietz, Andreas
name: Laschewski, Lutz
name: Tietz, Andreas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Agrarstruktur
subject: Investoren
subject: Bodeneigentum
subject: agricultural structure
subject: investors
subject: land tenure

description: This report summarises results of the research project “Impacts of transregionally active investors in agriculture on rural areas”. Therein, a case study methodology was developed for analysing the implications of these investors on the farms taken over, on rural economy and employment, and on environment and quality of life in the affected communities. This approach has been tested and refined in two East German regions. In the result sections, agriholdings are introduced as key units of decision-making, and different types of agriholdings are described. Reasons for the emergence of agriholdings are identified, as well as motives for selling agricultural businesses in the case study regions. In order to analyse the effects of transregionally active investors on farmland ownership and land management we establish a regional “consolidated agrarian structure”, which differs considerably from official agricultural statistics. We were unable to identify measurable impacts of farm takeovers on local employment or tax revenues. In the surveyed period, the structural change in agriculture is already too far advanced. Thus, the agricultural sector did contribute little to stabilization of the rural economy in the last decade. In general, the emergence of agriholdings is reinforcing the growing distance between agricultural holdings and the rural population.
description: DOI:10.3220/REP1598343204000
Influence of high magnetic fields on superconducting transition of one-dimensional Nb and MoGe nanowires
Creators: name: Rogachev, A.
name: Bollinger, A. T.
name: Bezryadin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of strong magnetic field on superconducting Nb and MoGe nanowires with diameter $\sim10$ nm have been studied. We have found that the Langer-Ambegaokar-McCumber-Halperin (LAMH) theory of thermally activated phase slips is applicable in a wide range of magnetic fields and describes well the temperature dependence of the wire resistance, over eleven orders of magnitude. The field dependence of the critical temperature, $T_{c}$, extracted from the LAMH fits is in good quantitative agreement with the theory of pair-breaking perturbations that takes into account both spin and orbital contributions. The extracted spin-orbit scattering time agrees with an estimate $τ_{so}\simeq τ(\hbar c/ Ze^{2})^{4}$, where $τ$ is the elastic scattering time and $Z$ is the atomic number.
description: accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Time-Aware Music Recommender Systems: Modeling the Evolution of Implicit User Preferences and User Listening Habits in A Collaborative Filtering Approach
Creators: name: Sánchez-Moreno, Diego
name: Zheng, Yong
name: Moreno-García, María N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Online streaming services have become the most popular way of listening to music. The majority of these services are endowed with recommendation mechanisms that help users to discover songs and artists that may interest them from the vast amount of music available. However, many are not reliable as they may not take into account contextual aspects or the ever-evolving user behavior. Therefore, it is necessary to develop systems that consider these aspects. In the field of music, time is one of the most important factors influencing user preferences and managing its effects, and is the motivation behind the work presented in this paper. Here, the temporal information regarding when songs are played is examined. The purpose is to model both the evolution of user preferences in the form of evolving implicit ratings and user listening behavior. In the collaborative filtering method proposed in this work, daily listening habits are captured in order to characterize users and provide them with more reliable recommendations. The results of the validation prove that this approach outperforms other methods in generating both context-aware and context-free recommendations
Approach-avoidance goals and psychological well-being, health, and interpersonal relationship outcomes across Euro-Canadian, Japanese, and Mexican cultures
Creators: name: Takagi, Kaori
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Japanese, Euro-Canadian, and Mexican university students listed their personal goals and completed questionnaires on their psychological well-being, health, and interpersonal relationship status at Time 1 (the beginning of the semester) and at Time 2 (the end of the semester). The relationships between the kinds of goals they listed (i.e., approach or avoidance) and their well-being, health, and interpersonal relationship status were assessed to investigate the moderating role of culture among these relationships. The regression analyses revealed marginal and significant interaction effects of culture and avoidance goals on psychological well-being, health, and interpersonal relationship outcomes at Time 2. The results offer support for the hypothesis: Compared with Canadians, Mexicans, and especially Japanese are less likely to experience adverse effects in the areas of well-being, health, and interpersonal relationship associated with avoidance goals.
A character approach to directed genus distribution of graphs: the bipartite single-black-vertex case
Creators: name: Chen, Yichao
name: Fang, Wenjie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given an Eulerian digraph, we consider the genus distribution of its face-oriented embeddings. We prove that such distribution is log-concave for two families of Eulerian digraphs, thus giving a positive answer for these families to a question asked in Bonnington, Conder, Morton and McKenna (2002). Our proof uses real-rooted polynomials and the representation theory of the symmetric group $\mathbb{S}_n$. The result is also extended to some factorizations of the identity in $\mathbb{S}_n$ that are rotation systems of some families of one-face constellations.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, submitted
Assessing structural change in agriculture with a parametric Markov chain model. Illustrative applications to EU-15 and the USA
Creators: name: Piet, Laurent
name: Piet, Laurent
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agribusiness
Farm Management

description: The Markov chain model (MCM) has become a popular tool in the agricultural economics literature to explain the past evolution of and simulate the future developments in the number and size distribution of farms. In this paper, I show that the way MCMs have been implemented by agricultural economists so far suffers from the fact that transition probabilities are estimated as almost independent variables (up to adding-up to unity constraints). The alternative parametric MCM I propose addresses the deriving issues since (i) it is parsimonious in terms of parameters; (ii) it can be estimated with simple econometric techniques; (iii) it reveals detailed information on the structural change processes at hand. Applying it to experimentally controlled data with noise shows that the proposed model behaves well and competes with the traditional approach without any significant shortcoming. Two illustrative empirical applications, one using data from the EU-15 Farm Accounting Data Network (FADN) and the other using data from the USA Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS), reveal the rich information that can be derived regarding the economic size changes experienced annually by farms in both regions.
title: Chapter 27 (environment and climate change) of the Serbian accession process to the European Union: Challenges and the way forward
Creators: name: Halamová, Petronela
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Serbia
subject: EU accession
subject: environmental policy
subject: EU acquis
subject: climate change
subject: Serbia
subject: EU accession
subject: environmental policy
subject: EU acquis
subject: climate change

description: The multifaceted character of the environment is undoubtable. Its ongoing exploitation and degradation account for an ecological imbalance and puts the lives of humans at risk. The European Union has reflected this axiom in its environmental policy, to which any aspiring member state must adhere to. Bequeathed with the environmental ghosts of the past, Serbia is faced with a difficult task of meeting the environmental standards prescribed by the European Union. Analysis shows that air pollution, sometimes referred to as a silent killer, presents a large risk to public health in Serbia. Water quality is affected by the sector fragmentation and waste management lacks systematisation and strategy, just like Serbian international environmental obligations. To improve the organisation of the environmental sector, environmental protection must be prioritized, technical and administrative capacities strengthen, effective financing imposed, governance harmonised, and the awareness of the public raised. These points will not just lead to a better state of the environmental protection, but also raise overall preparedness of Serbia to join the European Union. Strong environmental protection is crucial to strengthen citizen participation, safeguard their rights, enhance international cooperation, and offer economic benefits and those are values that any candidate country to the European Union must subscribe to.
D-Brane Dynamics in Dp-Brane Background
Creators: name: Panigrahi, Kamal L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using Dirac-Born-Infeld action we study the real time dynamics of D-branes in the vicinity of a stack of Dp-branes where the role of the tachyon of the open string models is played by the radial mode on the D-branes. We examine the behaviour of the tachyon potential and study the hamiltonian formulation and classical solutions of such systems. We also study the homogeneous solutions of the classical equations of motion in these cases.
description: 14 pages, minor modifications, to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Selected Science Opportunities for the EicC
Creators: name: Chen, Xurong
name: Guo, Feng-Kun
name: Roberts, Craig D.
name: Wang, Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An electron ion collider has been proposed in China (EicC). It is anticipated that the facility would provide polarised electrons, protons and ion beams, in collisions with large centre-of-mass energy. This discussion highlights its potential to address issues that are central to understanding the emergence of mass within the Standard Model, using examples that range from the exploration of light-meson structure, through measurements of near-threshold heavy-quarkonia production, and on to studies of the spectrum of exotic hadrons.
description: 37 pages, 16 figures. Invited contribution to the Few-Body Systems special issue: "New Trends in Hadron Physics: a Few-Body Perspective"
title: Spatial Data Management and Numerical Modelling: Demonstrating the Application of the QGIS-Integrated FREEWAT Platform at 13 Case Studies for Tackling Groundwater Resource Management
Creators: name: De Filippis, Giovanna
name: Pouliaris, Christos
name: Kahuda, Daniel
name: Vasile, Teodora Alexandra
name: Manea, Valentina Adriana
name: Zaun, Florian
name: Panteleit, Björn
name: Dadaser-Celik, Filiz
name: Positano, Pio
name: Nannucci, Marco Saulo
name: Grodzynskyi, Mykhailo
name: Marandi, Andres
name: Sapiano, Manuel
name: Kopač, Irena
name: Kallioras, Andreas
name: Cannata, Massimiliano
name: Filiali-Meknassi, Youssef
name: Foglia, Laura
name: Borsi, Iacopo
name: Rossetto, Rudy
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Because of the spatial nature of groundwater-related data and their time component, effective groundwater management requires the application of methods pertaining to the Information and Communication Technologies sector, such as spatial data management and distributed numerical modelling. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the QGIS-integrated FREEWAT platform and an approach combining spatial data management and numerical models to target groundwater management issues. FREEWAT is a free and open source platform integrated in a Geographic Information System environment and embedding tools for pre- and post-processing of spatial data and integrating numerical codes for the simulation of the hydrological cycle, with a main focus on groundwater. To this aim, this paper briefly presents the FREEWAT platform, introduces the FREEWAT approach, and showcases 13 case studies in European and non-European countries where the FREEWAT platform was applied. Application of the FREEWAT platform to real-world case studies is presented for targeting management of coastal aquifers, ground- and surface-water interaction, climate change impacts, management of transboundary aquifers, rural water management and protection of groundwater-dependent ecosystems. In this sense, compared to other existing software suites, FREEWAT allows data analysis and visualization to accomplish each step of the modelling workflow, i.e., from data analytics, to conceptual model definition, to numerical modelling and reporting of results. The presented experiences demonstrate that improved access to data and the portability of models and models’ results can help to promote water sustainability from the local- to the basin-scale. Furthermore, FREEWAT may represent a valuable tool to target the objective of increasing the capabilities of public authorities and private companies to manage groundwater resources by means of up-to-date, robust, well-documented and reliable software, without entailing the need of costly licensing, nowadays seldom affordable by public water authorities. Based on the strengths highlighted, the FREEWAT platform is a powerful tool for groundwater resources management, and for data collection, sharing, implementation and comparison of scenarios, for supporting planning and decision-making.
Additional file 1 of Human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes stimulate cutaneous wound healing mediates through TGF-β/Smad signaling pathway
Creators: name: Tiechao Jiang
name: Zhongyu Wang
name: Sun, Ji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers used for qRT-PCR.
title: Climate migration under the aspect of the water-fenergy-food nexus
Creators: name: Eckelhart, Stefanie
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: water-energy-food nexus
subject: climate migration
subject: sub-Saharan Africa
subject: agriculture

description: The Water-Energy-Food Nexus is facing challenges on a global scale. Resources are increasingly asked for due to an increasing number of population and changing environmental conditions. Focusing on the interlinkage of the Water-Food Nexus it becomes clear that agriculture is responsible for the major part of water usage in this sector but challenges and agricultural dependency differ when comparing various geographical regions and changing environmental conditions thereby affect countries differently. The economies of some countries in sub-Saharan Africa rely to over half of their GDP on their agricultural output. Lacking water resources, rainfed agriculture and missing irrigation systems provide additional challenges to the region. Crop failures therefore endanger food security as well as the maintenance of a reliable income and due to this may lead in increased migration. Predicted climatic conditions provide the basis for a simulation, where the effect of a temperature increase on a specific crop sort is analysed and the effects of climate change on the most popular crop species are analysed. Possible climate migration streams, as a result of these developments, are determined based on already existing migration flows and predicted direction trends. Political measures already emplaced and possible instruments to mitigate and counteract these developments are further discussed. Focusing on slow-onset changes, the thesis concludes that challenges in the water-food nexus, especially in the agricultural sector, significantly influence climate migration leading to increased population movements within the own country and geographical area.
On the safety of vulnerable road users by cyclist orientation detection using Deep Learning
Creators: name: Garcia-Venegas, Marichelo
name: Mercado-Ravell, Diego A.
name: Carballo-Monsivais, Carlos A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this work, orientation detection using Deep Learning is acknowledged for a particularly vulnerable class of road users,the cyclists. Knowing the cyclists' orientation is of great relevance since it provides a good notion about their future trajectory, which is crucial to avoid accidents in the context of intelligent transportation systems. Using Transfer Learning with pre-trained models and TensorFlow, we present a performance comparison between the main algorithms reported in the literature for object detection,such as SSD, Faster R-CNN and R-FCN along with MobilenetV2, InceptionV2, ResNet50, ResNet101 feature extractors. Moreover, we propose multi-class detection with eight different classes according to orientations. To do so, we introduce a new dataset called "Detect-Bike", containing 20,229 cyclist instances over 11,103 images, which has been labeled based on cyclist's orientation. Then, the same Deep Learning methods used for detection are trained to determine the target's heading. Our experimental results and vast evaluation showed satisfactory performance of all of the studied methods for the cyclists and their orientation detection, especially using Faster R-CNN with ResNet50 proved to be precise but significantly slower. Meanwhile, SSD using InceptionV2 provided good trade-off between precision and execution time, and is to be preferred for real-time embedded applications.
description: "This paper is a preprint of a paper submitted to IET Intelligent Transport Systems. If accepted, the copy of record will be available at the IET Digital Library"
A simple method for the determination of the structure of ultrashort relativistic electron bunches
Creators: name: Saldin, E. L.
name: Schneidmiller, E. A.
name: Yurkov, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we propose a new method for measurements of the longitudinal profile of 100 femtosecond electron bunches for X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs). The method is simply the combination of two well-known techniques, which where not previously combined to our knowledge. We use seed 10-ps 1047 nm quantum laser to produce exact optical replica of ultrafast electron bunches. The replica is generated in apparatus which consists of an input undulator (energy modulator), and the short output undulator (radiator) separated by a dispersion section. The radiation in the output undulator is excited by the electron bunch modulated at the optical wavelength and rapidly reaches 100 MW-level peak power. We then use the now-standard method of ultrashort laser pulse-shape measurement, a tandem combination of autocorrelator and spectrum (FROG -- frequency resolved optical gating). The FROG trace of the optical replica of electron bunch gives accurate and rapid electron bunch shape measurements in a way similar to a femtosecond oscilloscope. Real-time single-shot measurements of the electron bunch structure could provide significant information about physical mechanisms responsible for generation ultrashort electron bunches in bunch compressors. The big advantage of proposed technique is that it can be used to determine the slice energy spread and emittance in multishot measurements. It is possible to measure bunch structure completely, that is to measure peak current, energy spread and transverse emittance as a function of time. We illustrate with numerical examples the potential of the proposed method for electron beam diagnostics at the European X-ray FEL.
description: 41 pages, 18 figures
title: Характеристика медиаторов и модуляторов, их биологическая роль в функционировании нервной системы
Creators: name: Бонь, Елизавета
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Медиаторные вещества в нервной системе делятся на две большие группы — нейромедиаторы, осуществляющие передачу сигнала в синапсе, и нейромодуляторы, регулирующие передачу сигнала. Нейромедиаторы разделяют на аминокислоты (глицин, глутамат и аспартат) и биогенные амины. Нейромодуляторы, в свою очередь, подразделяются на четыре большие группы: нейропептиды (эндорфин, мет-энкефалин, кальцитонин, вещество Р), производные жирных кислот (эйкозаноиды и арахидоновая кислота), пурины и пиримидины (внеклеточные АТФ, АДФ, аденин) и газообразные вещества (NO, CO и H2S).
Asymmetric Price Transmission in Food Supply Chains: Impulse Response Analysis by Local Projections
Creators: name: Kuiper, Erno
name: Bunte, Frank H.J.
name: Kuiper, Erno
name: Bunte, Frank H.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: In this paper we set out Jorda’s (2005) method of local projections by which nonlinear impulse responses can be computed without the need to specify and estimate the underlying nonlinear dynamic system. The method is used to compute price reaction functions that show how the prices of the different stages in the supply chain dynamically respond to one another and whether or not these responses reveal any asymmetric patterns. Empirical applications for the US pork-meat and broiler composite chains illustrate the convenience of the method.
Additional file 1 of How do guideline developers identify, incorporate and report patient preferences? An international cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Blackwood, Jayden
name: Armstrong, Melissa J.
name: Schaefer, Corinna
name: Graham, Ian D.
name: Knaapen, Loes
name: Straus, Sharon E.
name: Urquhart, Robin
name: Gagliardi, Anna R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional File 1. Survey on identifying, incorporating and reporting patient preferences in clinical practice guidelines. Survey used to collect data
title: Эффективность озонотерапии в лечении эндотоксикоза у больных с гнойно-деструктивными заболеваниями легких и плевры
Creators: name: Абдукаримова, Эркия
name: Дахер, Рами
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Проведен анализ результатов лечения 101 больного с гнойно-деструктивными заболеваниями легких и плевры в зависимости от проведения озонотерапии. С учетом этого больных разделили на 2 группы. В I группу вошли 50 больных с гнойно-деструктивными заболеваниями легких и плевры, которым проводилась стандартная антибиотикотерапия и хирургическое лечение. Хирургическое лечение предусматривало торакотомию, плеврэктомию и по показаниям — лобэктомию. Из них у 19 (38,0%) больных были выявлены абсцессы доли легкого, а у 31 (62,0%) — эмпиема плевры. Во II группе у 51 больного в сочетании с традиционной антибиотикотерапией и оперативным лечением дополнительно проводились локальная и общая (внутривенные инфузии) озонотерапия. Из них у 16 (31,4%) был диагностирован абсцесс доли легкого, а у остальных 35 (68,6%) — эмпиема плевры. Критериями для анализа являлись динамика показателей перикисного окисления липидов и антиоксидантной активности плазмы крови, а также молекул средней массы, отражающих состояние эндогенной интоксикации при поступлении и ее изменение в процессе проводимого лечения.
Relaxation methods for optimal control problems
Creators: name: Papageorgiou, Nikolaos S.
name: Rădulescu, Vicenţiu D.
name: Repovš, Dušan D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 49J20, Secondary: 34A60

description: We consider a nonlinear optimal control problem with dynamics described by a differential inclusion involving a maximal monotone map $A:\mathbb{R}^N\rightarrow2^{\mathbb{R}^N}$. We do not assume that $D(A)=\mathbb{R}^N$, incorporating in this way systems with unilateral constraints in our framework. We present two relaxation methods. The first one is an outgrowth of the reduction method from the existence theory, while the second method uses Young measures. We show that the two relaxation methods are equivalent and admissible.
A new econometric test for asymmetric price adjustment by cointegration vector restrictions with an application to the U.S. and Dutch pork chains
Creators: name: Kuiper, W. Erno
name: Pennings, Joost M.E.
name: Verhees, Frans J.H.M.
name: Kuiper, W. Erno
name: Pennings, Joost M.E.
name: Verhees, Frans J.H.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agribusiness
Livestock Production/Industries

description: A new test of asymmetric price adjustment is proposed on the basis of the super-consistent cointegrating vector estimator in the Johansen (1995) cointegrating procedure. The super-consistency makes the test robust to misspecifications in the short-run model. Application of the test to the price spreads in the Dutch and U.S. pork chains reveals that in the Netherlands wholesalers might obtain extra price margin as a consequence of asymmetric price adjustment vis-à-vis the farmers.
A policy analysis of forest carbon offset system alternatives for Japan
Creators: name: Takahashi, Shingo
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Forest resources provide us with various kinds of environmental benefits^ water purification, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration among others. Enhancing sustainable forest management and avoiding deforestation have become increasingly important in the context of global warming issues. The Kyoto Protocol (KP) was established for abatement of climate change in 1997, and came into effect in February 2005. Annex I countries will have to reduce their Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to meet their assigned targets. Japan will also have to reduce its GHG emissions by 6% below the 1990 levels by 2010. In order to meet the Kyoto target, additional policy countermeasures need to be implemented in Japan. Under the KP, Japan is allowed to figure in a 3.9% emission reduction (l3Mton-C: 47.7Mton-C02e) for a potential increase in the carbon storage (carbon sink) associated with forests, which is achievable through changes in forest management. Hence, increasing carbon storage through forest management has become an increasingly important issue in Japan. Forest degradation is another important issue in the Japanese forest sector. The Japanese forest sector has been in a long-term slump since the 1970s. The domestic timber prices have remained low because of the massive supply of low-price imported timber. It is obvious that additional policy measures need to be implemented for the forest sector to recover from the long slump. Creating a carbon offset system is considered one potential policy countermeasure to address both these issues. In this research, based on three case study results, a policy analysis regarding the introduction of a forest carbon offset system in Japan is conducted. Policy variables associated with the introduction of a carbon offset system are identified, and possible policy alternatives are discussed. Finally, the best policy option suggested for Japan is one that starts with the "Rigid and conservative" strategy, estabhshing a rigid system at the initial stage, and that gradually adds flexible mechanisms to provide economic incentives to stakeholders. In conclusion, several policy recommendations for introducing a carbon offset system in Japan are discussed.
title: Проблема дифференциальной диагностики обсессивно-компульсивного расстройства и шизофрении
Creators: name: Глущенко, Вита
name: Нумерицкая, Катерина
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Проанализированы данные медицинских карт пациентов, обратившихся за консультацией к психотерапевту в Новгородский клинический специализированный центр психиатрии. Установлено, что в клинической практике дифференцировать шизофрению и обсессивно-компульсивное расстройство в некоторых случаях затруднительно, так как у пациента могут наблюдаться как эго-синтонные, так и эго-дистонические мысли. Клинические симптомы обсессивно-компульсивного расстройства дифференцировались с признаками шизофрении с учетом общих генетических локусов при аффективном расстройстве и шизофрении. Обсуждены патогенетические и патофизиологические механизмы формирования обссесивно-компульсивной симптоматики. Проанализированы различные терапевтические стратегии, при которых учитывается подход с редуцированием эмоции за счет обстоятельств, их вызывающих, или за счет прямого влияния на эмоции. В первом случае используются психотерапевтические мероприятия, а во втором — фармакотерапия, что и послужило основной гипотезой в формировании комплексного метода реабилитации на основе рациональной фармакотерапии, действующей на значимую эмоцию.
Determinants and Welfare Impacts of Export Crop Cultivation - Empirical Evidence from Ghana
Creators: name: Kuhlgatz, Christian
name: Abdulai, Awudu
name: Kuhlgatz, Christian
name: Abdulai, Awudu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Export crops
subject: Farm households
subject: Household welfare
subject: Poverty
subject: Generalized propensity score

description: This paper investigates the determinants of farm households‟ participation in export cropping and the impact of export cropping on household welfare, using cross-sectional data obtained from the Ghanaian living standards survey 2005-6. Given the problem of selectivity bias that arise when households self-select into export cropping, we employ the full information maximum likelihood approach to analyze the participation decision, and generalized propensity matching approach to examine the welfare impacts of participation. The empirical results indicate that farmers facing lower transport costs and having better access to credit facilities are more likely to participate in export cropping. Estimates of the welfare impacts of export cropping generally reveal a positive relationship between engagement in export cropping and farm household welfare. However, a consideration of the impact of extent of export cropping shows a non-linear relationship with household welfare indicators, with per capita expenditures rising and poverty declining only at higher levels of export specialization.
Feeding and feedback from little monsters: AGN in dwarf galaxies
Creators: name: Mezcua, M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detecting the seed black holes from which quasars formed is extremely challenging; however, those seeds that did not grow into supermassive should be found as intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) of 100-10$^5$ M$_{\odot}$ in local dwarf galaxies. The use of deep multiwavelength surveys has revealed that a population of actively accreting IMBHs (low-mass AGN) exists in dwarf galaxies at least out to $z\sim$3. The black hole occupation fraction of these galaxies suggests that the early Universe seed black holes formed from direct collapse of gas, which is reinforced by the possible flattening of the black hole-galaxy scaling relations at the low-mass end. This scenario is however challenged by the finding that AGN feedback can have a strong impact on dwarf galaxies, which implies that low-mass AGN in dwarf galaxies might not be the untouched relics of the early seed black holes. This has important implications for seed black hole formation models.
description: Proceedings of the IAU Symposium No. 359: Galaxy evolution and feedback across different environments. Editors: T. Storchi-Bergmann, R. Overzier, W. Forman \& R. Riffel
Lattice supersymmetry, superfields and renormalization
Creators: name: Giedt, Joel
name: Poppitz, Erich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Euclidean lattice formulations of non-gauge supersymmetric models with up to four supercharges in various dimensions. We formulate the conditions under which the interacting lattice theory can exactly preserve one or more nilpotent anticommuting supersymmetries. We introduce a superfield formalism, which allows the enumeration of all possible lattice supersymmetry invariants. We use it to discuss the formulation of Q-exact lattice actions and their renormalization in a general manner. In some examples, one exact supersymmetry guarantees finiteness of the continuum limit of the lattice theory. As a consequence, we show that the desired quantum continuum limit is obtained without fine tuning for these models. Finally, we discuss the implications and possible further applications of our results to the study of gauge and non-gauge models.
description: 44 pages, 1 figure
PHANGS CO kinematics: disk orientations and rotation curves at 150 pc resolution
Creators: name: Lang, Philipp
name: Meidt, Sharon E.
name: Rosolowsky, Erik
name: Nofech, Joseph
name: Schinnerer, Eva
name: Leroy, Adam K.
name: Emsellem, Eric
name: Pessa, Ismael
name: Glover, Simon C. O.
name: Groves, Brent
name: Hughes, Annie
name: Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik
name: Querejeta, Miguel
name: Schruba, Andreas
name: Bigiel, Frank
name: Blanc, Guillermo A.
name: Chevance, Melanie
name: Colombo, Dario
name: Faesi, Christopher
name: Henshaw, Jonathan D.
name: Herrera, Cinthya N.
name: Liu, Daizhong
name: Pety, Jerome
name: Puschnig, Johannes
name: Saito, Toshiki
name: Sun, Jiayi
name: Usero, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present kinematic orientations and high resolution (150 pc) rotation curves for 67 main sequence star-forming galaxies surveyed in CO (2-1) emission by PHANGS-ALMA. Our measurements are based on the application of a new fitting method tailored to CO velocity fields. Our approach identifies an optimal global orientation as a way to reduce the impact of non-axisymmetric (bar and spiral) features and the uneven spatial sampling characteristic of CO emission in the inner regions of nearby galaxies. The method performs especially well when applied to the large number of independent lines-of-sight contained in the PHANGS CO velocity fields mapped at 1'' resolution. The high resolution rotation curves fitted to these data are sensitive probes of mass distribution in the inner regions of these galaxies. We use the inner slope as well as the amplitude of our fitted rotation curves to demonstrate that CO is a reliable global dynamical mass tracer. From the consistency between photometric orientations from the literature and kinematic orientations determined with our method, we infer that the shapes of stellar disks in the mass range of log($\rm M_{\star}(M_{\odot})$)=9.0-10.9 probed by our sample are very close to circular and have uniform thickness.
description: 19 figures, 36 pages, accepted for publication in ApJ. Table of PHANGS rotation curves available from http://phangs.org/data
title: Non-financial reporting with an emphasis on environmental reporting
Creators: name: Ahmad, Jasmin Mercedes
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Reporting
subject: Non-Financial Reporting
subject: Reporting Guidelines
subject: Emerging Pollutants
subject: Pharmaceutical Industry
subject: Environmental Reporting
subject: Non-Financial Reporting
subject: Reporting Guidelines
subject: Emerging Pollutants
subject: Pharmaceutical Industry

description: The impact on the environment coming from corporate activities increases constantly due to the human demand for growth. The environment and its overall health are extremely hard to measure due to a natural lack of uninterrupted and undisturbed laboratory conditions. In the last years, the strain on a group of corporations intensified not only coming from national but also from international institutions such as the United Nations and its subdivisions or the Global Reporting Initiative. Taking actions and improving the negative trend of more and more pollution can only efficiently be done when there is an appropriate evaluation of the state of the a rt. Particularly in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, the documentation of the hazardous substances is of greatest importance. Therefore, this thesis will analyze the most recent developments of pharmaceutical chemicals in the environment. Moreover, the documentation of methods and substances as well as primary and secondary reactions needs to be supervised and set into a comparable framework. In an international setting, the approach to have international standards can be a positive remark. Consequently, there will be an analysis of how the technical approach of environmental documentation, the environmental reporting developed in a multinational company. This analysis will correspondingly investigate the development of the environmental report in the light of the emerging integrated report.
Rise of the machines? Intraday high-frequency trading patterns of cryptocurrencies
Creators: name: Petukhina, Alla
name: Reule, Raphael C. G.
name: Härdle, Wolfgang Karl
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptocurrency
subject: high-frequency trading
subject: algorithmic trading
subject: liquidity
subject: volatility
subject: FinTech
subject: G02
subject: G11
subject: G12
subject: G14
subject: G15
subject: G23
subject: 332 Finanzwirtschaft

description: This research analyses high-frequency data of the cryptocurrency market in regards to intraday trading patterns related to algorithmic trading and its impact on the European cryptocurrency market. We study trading quantitatives such as returns, traded volumes, volatility periodicity, and provide summary statistics of return correlations to CRIX (CRyptocurrency IndeX), as well as respective overall high-frequency based market statistics with respect to temporal aspects. Our results provide mandatory insight into a market, where the grand scale employment of automated trading algorithms and the extremely rapid execution of trades might seem to be a standard based on media reports. Our findings on intraday momentum of trading patterns lead to a new quantitative view on approaching the predictability of economic value in this new digital market.
Additional file 3 of The burden of adolescent motherhood and health consequences in Nepal
Creators: name: Gurung, Rejina
name: Målqvist, Mats
name: Hong, Zhou
name: Poudel, Pragya Gautam
name: Sunny, Avinash K.
name: Srijana Sharma
name: Mishra, Sangeeta
name: Nisso Nurova
name: KC, Ashish
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. NePeriQIP Client Exit Interview form
Pesticide Reduction Sustainability of Bt Technology in India
Creators: name: Krishna, Vijesh V.
name: Qaim, Matin
name: Krishna, Vijesh V.
name: Qaim, Matin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The primary focus of the study is the changes that occurred in the pesticide-use structure of cotton production sector of India, owing to the diffusion of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) technology. Studies from different countries show that transgenic Bt crops can reduce chemical pesticide use with positive economic, environmental, and health effects. However, most of these studies build on cross-section survey data, so that longer term effects are uncertain. Bt resistance and secondary pest outbreaks may potentially reduce or eliminate the benefits over time, especially in developing countries where refuge strategies are often not implemented. Here, data from a unique panel survey of cotton farmers, conducted in India between 2002 and 2008, show that the Bt pesticide reducing effect has been sustainable. In spite of an increase in pesticide sprays against secondary pests, total pesticide use has decreased significantly over time. Bt has also reduced pesticide applications by non-Bt farmers. These results mitigate the concern that Bt technology would soon become obsolete in small farmer environments. The survey data on actual pesticide use in farmers’ fields complement previous entomological research.