cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE IN CHINA AND THE FACTORS AFFECTING ORGANIC FARMING
Creators: name: Xie, Yumei
name: Zhao, Hailei
name: Pawlak, Karolina
name: Gao, Yun
name: Xie, Yumei
name: Zhao, Hailei
name: Pawlak, Karolina
name: Gao, Yun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: organic agriculture
subject: infl uential factors in organic farming
subject: government policy

description: The aim of the paper. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the impact of factors determining the transition to organic farming and provide some recommendations for government’s policy relating to organic farming. Material and research method. An analysis was based on questionnaire survey on the willingness of organic farming by small farmers in the province of Jiangsu. Binary logistic regression model was used in the research. Concluding remarks. Five factors affecting organic agricultural production were discovered: farmers’ age, risk preferences, labour costs, expected benefi ts and the environment. On this ground, the authors suggest, that Chinese government should adopt policies assisting farmers in the transition to organic farming for the sustainable development of China’s organic agriculture. Cooperation of farmers’ cooperatives and research institutions to improve organic farming techniques should also be promoted.
How to cite and reference
Creators: name: Wright, Sophie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Did you know that marks given for doing your reference list, citations and footnotes correctly are some of the easiest marks to get? It’s true, but they are also some of the easiest marks to lose!
Multiphase modeling of precipitation-induced membrane formation
Creators: name: Eastham, P. S.
name: Moore, M. N. J.
name: Cogan, N. G.
name: Wang, Q.
name: Steinbock, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate a model for the dynamic growth of a membrane developing in a flow as the result of a precipitation reaction, a situation inspired by recent microfluidic experiments. The precipitating solid introduces additional forces on the fluid and eventually forms a membrane that is fixed in the flow due to adhesion with a substrate. A key challenge is that the location of the immobile membrane is unknown $\textit{a priori}$. To model this situation, we use a multiphase framework with fluid and membrane phases; the aqueous chemicals exist as scalar fields that react within the fluid to induce phase change. To verify that the model exhibits desired fluid-structure behaviors, we make a few simplifying assumptions to obtain a reduced form of the equations that is amenable to exact solution. This analysis demonstrates no-slip behavior on the developing membrane without $\textit{a priori}$ assumptions on its location. The model has applications towards precipitate reactions where the precipitate greatly affects the surrounding flow, a situation appearing in many laboratory and geophysical contexts including the hydrothermal vent theory for the origin of life. More generally, this model can be used to address fluid-structure interaction problems that feature the dynamic generation of structures.
USE OF CHOSEN DISCRIMINATION MODELS IN THE ASSESSMENT OF BANKRUPTCY RISK IN MEAT PROCESSING ENTERPRISES
Creators: name: Zielińska-Chmielewska, Anna
name: Zielińska-Chmielewska, Anna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: bankruptcy
subject: discrimination analysis
subject: prognosis of bankruptcy risk
subject: assessment of enterprise’s fi nancial condition
subject: meat processing
subject: Poland

description: The aim of the study is to assess the fi nancial situation from the point of view of the bankruptcy risk of selected meat processing enterprises in Poland, such as: PKM Duda S.A., Indykpol S.A., Pamapol S.A. and Tarczyński S.A. For the analysis, 750 fi nancial data were collected, by means of which fi ve fi nancial variables in the fi rst model, four variables – in the second, the fourth and the fi fth model and six variables in the second model, were generated. The main criteria for the selection of the companies for testing were: carrying out the main business in the area of meat processing (companies belonging to group 15.11 according to the PKD classifi cation), legal status: limited liability company or joint stock company, which employs more than 50 people, and the availability of fi nancial data. The analysis shows that all surveyed meat industry companies were in a very good fi nancial situation. In 2008–2009 and 2012–2013 the most diffi cult fi nancial situation and, consequently, the greatest threat of bankruptcy, was faced by Pamapol S.A. Extremely sensitive to the deteriorating situation of surveyed companies, and thus to the most common threat of bankruptcy, proved to be: D. Wierzby model (for all companies), in 2009 and Pamapol S.A. (in 2008) and D. Hadasik model (Pamapol S.A. in the years 2008–2009)
Kelvin-Helmholtz billows above Richardson number $1/4$
Creators: name: Parker, J. P.
name: Caulfield, C. P.
name: Kerswell, R. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamical system of a forced stratified mixing layer at finite Reynolds number $Re$, and Prandtl number $Pr=1$. We consider a hyperbolic tangent background velocity profile in the two cases of hyperbolic tangent and uniform background buoyancy stratifications. The system is forced in such a way that these background profiles are a steady solution of the governing equations. As is well-known, if the minimum gradient Richardson number of the flow, $Ri_m$, is less than a certain critical value $Ri_c$, the flow is linearly unstable to Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in both cases. Using Newton-Krylov iteration, we find steady, two-dimensional, finite amplitude elliptical vortex structures, i.e. `Kelvin-Helmholtz billows', existing above $Ri_c$. Bifurcation diagrams are produced using branch continuation, and we explore how these diagrams change with varying $Re$. In particular, when $Re$ is sufficiently high we find that finite amplitude Kelvin-Helmholtz billows exist at $Ri_m>1/4$, where the flow is linearly stable by the Miles-Howard theorem. For the uniform background stratification, we give a simple explanation of the dynamical system, showing the dynamics can be understood on a two-dimensional manifold embedded in state space, and demonstrate the cases in which the system is bistable. In the case of a hyperbolic tangent stratification, we also describe a new, slow-growing, linear instability of the background profiles at finite $Re$, which complicates the dynamics.
Additional file 1 of Association of number of siblings, birth order, and thinness in 3- to 12-year-old children: a population-based cross-sectional study in Shanghai, China
Creators: name: Yu, Tingting
name: Chen, Chang
name: Jin, Zhijuan
name: Yang, You
name: Jiang, Yanrui
name: Hong, Li
name: Yu, Xiaodan
name: Mei, Hao
name: Jiang, Fan
name: Huang, Hong
name: Liu, Shijian
name: Jin, Xingming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Mental Health
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table A1. Multinomial logistical regression of sibship size or structure for thinness. Table A2. Interaction effect between sibship size or structure and sex for thinness by using multinomial logistical regression.
Local Primitive Causality and the Common Cause Principle in Quantum Field Theory
Creators: name: Redei, Miklos
name: Summers, Stephen J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If \{A(V)\} is a net of local von Neumann algebras satisfying standard axioms of algebraic relativistic quantum field theory and V_1 and V_2 are spacelike separated spacetime regions, then the system (A(V_1),A(V_2),ϕ) is said to satisfy the Weak Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle iff for every pair of projections A \in A(V_1), B \in A(V_2) correlated in the normal state ϕthere exists a projection C belonging to a von Neumann algebra associated with a spacetime region V contained in the union of the backward light cones of V_1 and V_2 and disjoint from both V_1 and V_2, a projection having the properties of a Reichenbachian common cause of the correlation between A and B. It is shown that if the net has the local primitive causality property then every local system (A(V_1),A(V_2),ϕ) with a locally normal and locally faithful state ϕand open bounded V_1 and V_2 satisfies the Weak Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle.
description: 14 pages, Latex
Phalacridae Leach 1815
Creators: name: Gimmel, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Phalacridae

description: Key to Phalacridae of Socotra Island   1. Elytron with nine distinct, nearly complete striae (Fig. 11); frontoclypeus not emarginate above antennal base..................................................... Pseudolibrus gestroi Flach, 1889
– Elytron with one or two incomplete striae near suture, remainder of elytron smooth (Figs. 1, 6); frontoclypeus with small emargination above antennal base................................. 2
 2. Elytron with one stria near suture (Fig. 1); antenna with four-segmented club (Fig. 5); metatarsus exceedingly long and slender (Fig. 4)........................................................................................................................................  Olibrosoma eudaimonarabiana sp. nov.
 – Elytron with two striae near suture (Fig. 6); antenna with three-segmented club (Fig. 10); metatarsus not notably longer than other tarsi (Fig. 9).........  Olibrus socotranus sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Gimmel, Matthew L., 2012, Phalacridae of Socotra Island (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea), pp. 233-240 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 on page 234, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5354313
TURFGRASS GROWTH AND SOIL WATER STATUS IN RESPONSE TO BIOCHAR APPLICATION
Creators: name: Belle, Graham H.
name: Lopez, Francis B.
name: Belle, Graham H.
name: Lopez, Francis B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: green cover
subject: image analysis
subject: greenness index

description: Much research attention is currently focused on biochar (charcoal) as a soil amendment for enhancing plant growth while providing a mechanism for carbon sequestration. The extensive porous structure of charcoal can serve to increase mineral nutrient retention, microbial activity and water status in the soil medium for very long periods. Such effects can conceivably reduce the application frequency of fertilizers and irrigation water resulting in reduced costs along with environmental benefits. This is likely to be especially beneficial for turfgrass on rapid-draining sports fields, where maintenance costs can be considerable. Responses to the application of locally-sourced biochar (produced by traditional methods from local feedstock) were investigated for turfgrass (Zoysia japonica Steud., ‘El Toro’) grown in pots under field conditions. Observations on turf growth and soil water status were made for varying biochar application rates (0 - 20%, v/v of soil medium) using two types of biochar (plain, enriched), five application methods and three sand/soil potting mixtures. Enriched biochar was treated with compost tea from chicken manure during the production process. Enriched biochar enhanced turfgrass growth and soil moisture status when applied soon after product preparation but not after 6 months of dry storage. Effects of biochar application rates were observed only after 7 months of incubation in the soil medium, with increased turfgrass height at application rates of 4% or higher and optimum clippings dry mass production at 12% biochar. Soil incorporation appeared to work better than surface application of wet or dry biochar. Newly applied biochar had no significant effects on early turfgrass establishment in varying sand/soil potting mixtures. Biochar produced with traditional low-level technology appears to show potential as an organic input for sustainable production provided that there is an adequate soil incubation period.
Ecdysanthera tournieri Pierre
Creators: name: Middleton, David J.
name: Regalado Jr, Jacinto C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Ecdysanthera
Ecdysanthera tournieri

description: Ecdysanthera tournieri Pierre
Rev. Cult. Colon. 11: 228 (1902).
LECTOTYPE. — Tournier in Pierre 6613 (P), Laos, Xieng Khouang, Moung Son, designated by Middleton, Blumea 41: 111 (1996).
description: Published as part of Middleton, David J. & Regalado Jr, Jacinto C., 2005, Nomenclatural notes on species of Apocynaceae described from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, pp. 291-308 in Adansonia (3) (3) 27 (2) on page 297, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5186636
AN EVALUATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING THE CO2- C SINK STRENGTH OF AG-LIME ADDED TO TWO TRINIDAD ACID SOILS
Creators: name: Bramble, De Shorn
name: Gouveia, Gregory
name: Bramble, De Shorn
name: Gouveia, Gregory
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: carbon dioxide (CO2)
subject: carbon sequestration
subject: ag-lime
subject: biochar
subject: poultry litter
subject: climate change
subject: acid soils

description: The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory guidelines recognizes that CO2 is not always the end product of ag-lime dissolution in soils and now allows countries to report on their own emission factors once it is supported by sound research findings. This study was therefore established to assess the effects of additions of organic amendments (biochar and poultry litter) and ammonium N on the magnitude of the CO2 flux and the carbon sequestration potential of ag-lime when added to two diverse soils (a peaty clay and a sand). The soil treatments with the equivalent of 80g oven dry soil (ODS) were incubated in modified 500 mL mason jars. At each measurement, the alkali-trap attached to the cover was installed ensuring proper sealing of the jar opening and left for 24 hrs to absorb the CO2 emitted from the soil. Fluxes were measured at days 1, 3, 6, 9, 10, 15, 18, 21, 24, 28 and, 31, and all soil treatments were initially brought to 100% field capacity and rewetted three times thereafter. Analysis of the data showed that soil type, organic matter and ag-lime additions had a significant effect (P<0.05) on CO2 emissions. The effect of time was significant on the rates of CO2 emissions, showing a decline in the emission rate from an overall mean of 33.8 mg CO2/kgODS/hr at day 1 down to 1.98 mg CO2/kgODS/hr. The peaty clay fluxes were consistently higher than those from the sand, and soils treated with poultry litter were also statistically (P<0.05) consistently higher than those with biochar and no organic matter additions. Given that ag-lime addition to soil is known to have a priming effect on organic matter decomposition, evidence for carbon sequestration was seen with both soils; whereby the increase in CO2 emissions following the addition of ag-lime was much lower in the presence of poultry litter compared to soils with biochar and no organic matter addition.
Visualising Data From Dolphin Observations Through Adaptively Ordered Space-time Matrices. GeoComputation 2019
Creators: name: Rodda, Judy
name: Moore, Antoni
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Spatio-temporal visualisations (e.g. space-time cube) offer a method to observe interactions andpatterns that may not be apparent in a traditional two-dimensional view. Yet the mapping of such timeseries data can still easily lead to visual clutter, leading to the development of abstracting REMO(Relative Motion) and ARM (Adaptive Relative Motion) techniques. ARM uses greedy or simulatedannealing algorithms to optimally reorder object-time matrices from an arbitrary object order at eachtime interval to one that keeps geographically proximal objects close to each other in columns andacross rows in the matrix (effectively applying a travelling salesperson algorithm to traverse objectlocations for a given time). Testing each algorithm on eight seasons worth of space-time data for anendemic species of New Zealand dolphin in a large southern bay revealed better results for the greedyalgorithm. However, given the pronounced orientation of the data (close to the SW-facing shoreline ofthe bay), testing on more area filling data is required. Nevertheless, these results demonstrateencouraging advances into algorithm-derived perceptive rationales of dolphin movements acrossspace and time.
Comparison of Phase Boundaries between Kagome and Honeycomb Superconducting Wire Networks
Creators: name: Xiao, Yi
name: Huse, David A.
name: Chaikin, Paul M.
name: Higgins, Mark J.
name: Bhattacharya, Shobo
name: Spencer, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure resistively the mean-field superconducting-normal phase boundaries of both kagome and honeycomb wire networks immersed in a transverse magnetic field. In addition to their agreement with theory about the overall shapes of phase diagrams, they show striking one-to-one correspondence between the cusps in the honeycomb and kagome phase boundaries. This correspondence is due to their geometric arrangements and agrees with Lin and Nori's recent calculation. We also find that for the frustrated honeycomb network at f=1/2, the current patterns in the superconducting phase differ between the low-temperature London regime and the higher-temperature Ginzburg-Landau regime near T_c.
description: 7 pp., including 5 figures
INFLUENCE OF EXTENDED REFRIGERATION ON PEA SEED VIABILITY
Creators: name: Dennery, Shamali
name: Geiger, Thomas
name: Zimmerman, Thomas W.
name: Dennery, Shamali
name: Geiger, Thomas
name: Zimmerman, Thomas W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Peas are a commercially grown vegetable that is nutritious in providing the human body with various minerals, vitamins and anti-oxidants. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of refrigerated storage on snap peas (Pisum savitum) and snow peas (Pisum macrocarpon) seed viability after four years. A germination viability test was conducted using six varieties which were replicated in petri-dishes with each treatment containing 50 seeds. Results indicated that the four year of refrigeration significantly reduced the seed viability of the snap pea varieties ‘Super Sugar Snap’ (23%), ‘Sugar Sprint’ (35%), and ‘Cascadia’ (24%). There was no change in the germination rate for the snow pea varieties “Little Sweetie” and ‘Oregon Giant. The “Mammoth Melting Sugar” snow pea variety had an increased rate of germination by 15% indicating a possible after-ripening. Refrigerating seed for four years can be used to maintain seed viability for the selected snow peas varieties but not for the selected snap peas. This research was supported by USDA-Hatch and USDA-NIFA-Insular Tropical Grant funds.
Understanding population fluctuations through volunteered geographic information and novel indicators: The experience of Rakiura, Stewart Island, New Zealand. GeoComputation 2019
Creators: name: Darling, Mathew
name: Adams, Ben
name: Orchiston, Caroline
name: Wilson, Thomas
name: Bradley, Brendon
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: In an era of heterogeneous data; novel methods and volunteered geographic information provide opportunities to understand how people interact with a place. However, it is not enough to simply have such heterogeneous data, instead an understanding of its usability and reliabilityneeds to be undertaken. Here, we draw upon the case study of Rakiura, Stewart Island where manifested passenger numbers across the Foveaux Strait are known. We have built a population model to ground truth such novel indicators. In our preliminary study, we find that a number ofindicators offer the opportunity to understand fluctuations in populations. Some indicators (such as wastewater volumes) can suggest relative changes in populations in a raw form. While other indicators (such as Tripadvisor reviews or Instagram posts) require further data enrichment toget insights into population fluctuations. This research forms part of a larger research project looking to test and apply such novel indicators to inform disaster risk assessments.
Ervatamia laxiflora Pichon
Creators: name: Middleton, David J.
name: Regalado Jr, Jacinto C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Ervatamia
Ervatamia laxiflora

description: Ervatamia laxiflora Pichon
See Tabernaemontana jasminiflora Pitard.
description: Published as part of Middleton, David J. & Regalado Jr, Jacinto C., 2005, Nomenclatural notes on species of Apocynaceae described from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, pp. 291-308 in Adansonia (3) (3) 27 (2) on page 297, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5186636
O(1) loop model with different boundary conditions and symmetry classes of alternating-sign matrices
Creators: name: Razumov, A. V.
name: Stroganov, Yu. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This work as an extension of our recent paper where we have found a numerical evidence for the fact that the numbers of the states of the fully packed loop (FPL) model with fixed link-patterns coincide with the components of the ground state vector of the dense O(1) loop model for periodic boundary conditions and an even number of sites. Here we give two new conjectures related to different boundary conditions. Namely, we suggest that the numbers of the half-turn symmetric states of the FPL model with fixed link-patterns coincide with the components of the ground state vector of the dense O(1) loop model for periodic boundary conditions and an odd number of sites and that the corresponding numbers of the vertically symmetric states describe the case of the open boundary conditions and an even number of sites.
description: LaTeX2e, 7 pages
Ervatamia pallida Pierre ex Spire
Creators: name: Middleton, David J.
name: Regalado Jr, Jacinto C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Ervatamia
Ervatamia pallida

description: Ervatamia pallida Pierre ex Spire
Caoutchouc Indo-Chine: 141 (1906).
LECTOTYPE. — Spire 27 (K), Laos, Khammouane, designated here.
description: Published as part of Middleton, David J. & Regalado Jr, Jacinto C., 2005, Nomenclatural notes on species of Apocynaceae described from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, pp. 291-308 in Adansonia (3) (3) 27 (2) on page 297, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5186636
Activity Change Index (ACI) – new aspects of indoor mobility identified from GPS and lifelogging data
Creators: name: Sila-Nowicka, Katarzyna
name: Piyashimita Thakuriah
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Global Positioning System (GPS) technology has changed the world. We now rely on it to navigate our vehicles, source real-time information about chosen locations and to track our movements. GPS is, however, principally limited to receiving signals outdoors and therefore not able to provide reliable information about indoor movements. This paper examines patterns of indoor physical activity and sedentary behaviour using a combination of lifelogging and GPS movement data to develop an index for capturing activity changes. In our preliminary analysis, we explore possible associations between people’s indoor physical activity levels and their socio-demographic characteristics.
Entropic effects on the structure of Lennard-Jones clusters
Creators: name: Doye, Jonathan P. K.
name: Calvo, Florent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine in detail the causes of the structural transitions that occur for those small Lennard-Jones clusters that have a non-icosahedral global minima. Based on the principles learned from these examples we develop a method to construct structural phase diagrams that show in a coarse-grained manner how the equilibrium structure of large clusters depends on both size and temperature. The method can be augmented to account for anharmonicity and quantum effects. Our results illustrate that the vibrational entropy can play a crucial role in determining the equilibrium structure of a cluster.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures
Non-integrable dimer models: universality and scaling relations
Creators: name: Giuliani, Alessandro
name: Toninelli, Fabio Lucio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the last few years, the methods of constructive Fermionic Renormalization Group have been successfully applied to the study of the scaling limit of several two-dimensional statistical mechanics models at the critical point, including: weakly non-integrable 2D Ising models, Ashkin-Teller, 8-Vertex, and close-packed interacting dimer models. In this note, we will focus on the illustrative example of the interacting dimer model and review some of the universality results derived in this context. In particular, we will discuss the massless Gaussian free field (GFF) behavior of the height fluctuations. It turns out that GFF behavior is connected with a remarkable identity (`Haldane' or 'Kadanoff relation') between an amplitude and an anomalous critical exponent, characterizing the large distance behavior of the dimer-dimer correlations.
description: to appear on J. Math. Phys., special volume dedicated to the ICMP 2018. 23 pages, 3 figures
On lower semicontinuous multifunctions in quasi-uniform and vector spaces
Creators: name: Spakowski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54C60, 54E15, 46A16

description: Given a cover $\mathcal{B}$ of a quasi-uniform space $Y$ we introduce a concept of lower semicontinuity for multifunctions $F:X\to 2^Y$, called $\mathcal{B}$-lsc. In this way, we get a common description of Vietoris-lsc, Hausdorff-lsc, and bounded-Hausdorff-lsc as well. Further, we examine set-theoretical and vector operations on such multifunctions. We also point out that the convex hull of Hausdorff-lsc multifunctions need not to be Hausdorff-lsc except the case where the range space is locally convex.
description: 11 pages
Quantitative Analysis of Contribution of Industrial Structure to Economic Growth in Jiangsu Province
Creators: name: Zhu, Zhi-Guo
name: Shi, Chang-Liang
name: Zhang, Guan-Kun
name: Pei, Yang-Shuo
name: Zhang, Da-Hong
name: Zhu, Zhi-Guo
name: Shi, Chang-Liang
name: Zhang, Guan-Kun
name: Pei, Yang-Shuo
name: Zhang, Da-Hong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Industry structure
subject: Economy growth
subject: Shift-share analysis
subject: China

description: The industrial structure in Jiangsu Province realizes the transformation from ' secondary industry-primary industry-tertiary industry to " tertiary industry-secondary industry-primary industry. However, the effectiveness of this model of industry-dominate industrial structure and the role of industrial structure pattern in promoting regional economic growth are yet to be researched. By using shift-share analysis method, we judge the importance of factors of industrial structure in regional economic growth of Jiangsu Province, and point out that factors of industrial structure are not the dominant forces in economic growth of Jiangsu Province; among the contributions of three industries to economic growth of Jiangsu Province, the contribution of the primary industry is greatest, followed by the contribution of secondary industry and the contribution of tertiary industry successively; real estate industry makes the greatest contribution to economic growth of Jiangsu Province; financial industry and construction industry make relatively small contributions; the potential of industry needs to be further developed. In the process of economic development of Jiangsu Province, the industrial structure is yet to be further optimized so as to give play to the role of industry in promoting the development of Jiangsu province.
A Note on String Excitations and the Higuchi Bound
Creators: name: Lust, Dieter
name: Palti, Eran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this brief note we consider the interaction between high spin excitations in string theory along the Regge trajectory and the Higuchi bound in de Sitter space. There is always a point along the Regge trajectory where the Higuchi bound is violated. However, this point precisely coincides with a string whose length is of order the de Sitter Hubble scale. String theory therefore manifests no immediate inconsistency as long as the string scale $M_s$ is above the Hubble scale $H$. However, an implication is that the Regge trajectory must be significantly modified at some ultraviolet scale. Insisting that this modification should occur no earlier than the Planck scale would lead to a bound on the string scale of $M_s > \sqrt{H M_p}$.
description: 3 pages
Using movement parameters to infer dynamic interactions between moving object pairs
Creators: name: Miller, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: ‘Interactions’ between and among moving objects occur across widely varying spatial and temporal scales and are an important component for understanding spatial behaviours such as mating, predation, and territoriality as well as phenomena resulting from these behaviours such as disease spread. ‘Dynamic interactions’ refer to interactions that are defined based on proximity in both space and time and while social network analysis can be applicable for studying interactions among human individuals as well as among animal individuals, a ‘dyad’ (comprised of two individuals) is more often used as the unit for studying interactions between animal individuals. The two main approaches of quantifying dynamic interactions between two individuals involve treating the locations as discrete points or examining the paths that are inferred as trajectories between subsequent points. In this research I present results that use a hybrid approach of quantifying interactions using spatiotemporal point proximity and comparing movement path parameters to infer interaction behaviors. This new method is applied to thirteen black-backed jackal dyads in Etosha National Park, Namibia.
Berosus Leach 1817
Creators: name: Seidel, Matthias
name: Sýkora, Vít
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
name: Fikáček, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydrophilidae
Berosus

description: Key to adults of the New Zealand species of Berosus
See also Table 1 for the summary of diagnostic characters and their comparison among species.
1 Pronotum with large rectangular dark spot covering nearly whole surface, basal half of femora black, elytral apices simple and closing tightly, small species (3.5–4.8 mm)................................................................. 2
– Pronotum with large rectangular dark spot narrowing anteriorly, basal half of femora yellow, elytral apices expanded and leaving a gap, large species (4.4–6.0 mm)................................................................................. 3
 2 Aedeagus small, with straight parameres in lateral view, median lobe wide and nearly reaching parameral apices. Female with apical abdominal emargination rectangular............. B. pallidipennis (Sharp, 1884)
 – Aedeagus medium-sized, with slightly bent parameres in lateral view, median lobe narrow and much shorter than parameres. Female with apical abdominal emargination semicircular........................  B. maru sp. nov.
 3 Aedeagus medium-sized, with strongly bent parameres in lateral view, median lobe narrow and much shorter than parameres. Female with apical abdominal emargination semicircular........  B. halasi sp. nov.
 – Aedeagus large, with straight parameres in lateral view, median lobe narrow and much shorter than parameres. Female with apical abdominal emargination rectangular.............................  B. muellerorum sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Seidel, Matthias, Sýkora, Vít, Leschen, Richard A. B. & Fikáček, Martin, 2021, A review of the New Zealand Berosus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) with descriptions of three new species, pp. 243-252 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 61 (1) on page 251, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2021.014, http://zenodo.org/record/5354355
k-Means Aperture Optimization Applied to Kepler K2 Time Series Photometry of Titan
Creators: name: Parker, Alex H.
name: Hörst, Sarah M.
name: Ryan, Erin L.
name: Howett, Carly J. A
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the Kepler K2 time series of Titan, we present an aperture optimization technique for extracting photometry of saturated moving targets with high temporally- and spatially-varying backgrounds. Our approach uses $k$-means clustering to identify interleaved families of images with similar Point-Spread Function and saturation properties, optimizes apertures for each family independently, then merges the time series through a normalization procedure. By applying $k$-means aperture optimization to the K2 Titan data, we achieve $\leq$0.33% photometric scatter in spite of background levels varying from 15% to 60% of the target's flux. We find no compelling evidence for signals attributable to atmospheric variation on the timescales sampled by these observations. We explore other potential applications of the $k$-means aperture optimization technique, including testing its performance on a saturated K2 eclipsing binary star. We conclude with a discussion of the potential for future continuous high-precision photometry campaigns for revealing the dynamical properties of Titan's atmosphere.
description: Accepted for publication in PASP. 16 pages, 6 figures
Nitrate alleviates ammonium toxicity in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) by regulating tricarboxylic acid cycle and reducing rhizospheric acidification and oxidative damage
Creators: name: Du, Wanying
name: Zhang, Yunxiu
name: Si, Jisheng
name: Zhang, Yan
name: Fan, Shoujin
name: Xia, Haiyong
name: Kong, Lingan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Ammonium (NH4+) is one of the most important nutrients required by plants. However, a high concentration of NH4+ as the sole nitrogen source suppresses plant growth. Although nitrate (NO3−) can alleviate NH4+ toxicity, the mechanisms underlying this ability have not been fully elucidated. In this study, wheat plants were cultivated in hydroponic solution with 7.5 mM NO3− (control), 7.5 mM NH4+ (sole ammonium, SA) or 7.5 mM NH4+ plus 1.0 mM NO3− (ammonium and nitrate, AN). The results showed that compared with the control, the SA treatment significantly decreased root growth, protein content and the concentrations of most intermediates and the activity of enzymes from the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. Moreover, increased the activity of plasma membrane H+-ATPase and the rate of H+ efflux along roots, caused solution acidification, and increased the activity of mitochondrial respiratory chain complexes I–IV and the contents of protein-bound carbonyls and malondialdehyde in roots. SA treatment induced ultrastructure disruption and reduced the viability of root cells. Compared with the SA treatment, the AN treatment increased root growth, protein content, the concentrations of most intermediates and the activity of enzymes from the TCA cycle. Furthermore, AN treatment decreased the rate of H+ efflux, retarded medium acidification, decreased protein carbonylation and lipid peroxidation in roots and relieved ultrastructure disruption and increased the viability of root cells. Taken together, these results indicate that NO3–-dependent alleviation of NH4+ toxicity in wheat seedlings is closely associated with physiological processes that mediate TCA cycle, relieve rhizospheric acidification and decrease the production of ROS and oxidative damage.
A Measurement of the Weak Pseudosclar Coupling by Radiative Muon Capture in Hydrogen
Creators: name: McDonald, Steven Campbell
Publisher: name: TRIUMF
Year: 2019

description: This thesis reports the first measurement of the radiative muon capture photon energy spectrum from hydrogen, performed at TRIUMF. The partial branching ratio for photons greater than 58 Me V is measured using a large solid-angle photon pair spectrometer. With this measurement, the strength of the weak pseudoscalar coupling, gp, of the weak hadronic current for the nucleon has been obtained. This was determined by comparing the measured photon rate with the most recent relativistic calculation of Fearing and Beder which included the affect of the Δ(1232) nucleon resonance in the process. When a muon is captured by a proton at densities of liquid hydrogn, it occurs predominantly from one of two states, the ortho molecular state and the para molecular state. The muon capture probability varies considerably between the two, with the ortho state the dominant. At present there is some contention over the rate of transfer between these two states, this rate, λ₀p, can effect the total rate of capture. This rate must be known for an accurate determination of gp· Consequently, two values of gp have been obtained. One, using the measured ortho to para transition rate, λ₀p = 4.1 x 10⁴ giving a value of gp = 11.2 ± 2.5, approximately 34% higher then the Goldberger-Treiman prediction. The corresponding partial branching ratio for photons greater than 58 MeV was measured to be 1.80 ± 0.3 x 10-⁸. The second value was obtained using the theoretical prediction for the transfer rate to the ground para state, λ₀p = 7.1 x 10⁴. This gives a value of gp = 10.5 ± 2.2 with the equivalent partial branching ratio of 1.82 ± 0.3 x 10-⁸, 26% larger than the PCAC prediction.
Plasma living in a curved surface at some special temperature
Creators: name: Fantoni, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The simplest statistical mechanics model of a Coulomb plasma in two spatial dimensions admits an exact analytic solution at some special temperature in several (curved) surfaces. We present in a unifying perspective these solutions for the (non-quantum) plasma, made of point particles carrying an absolute charge $e$, in thermal equilibrium at a temperature $T=e^2/2k_B$, with $k_B$ Boltzmann's constant, discussing the importance of having an exact solution, the role of the curvature of the surface, and the densities of the plasma.
description: 78 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0806.1075
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion, and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Sacramento River Butte City Bridge Replacement Reinitiation 2021.
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2021

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2021-00556
The Difficulties and Countermeasures of Migrant Workers Returning Home to Start Business of Shaanxi
Creators: name: Li, Chen-Xi
name: Yan, Yu-Jie
name: Li, Chen-Xi
name: Yan, Yu-Jie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Shaanxi
subject: Migrant workers returning home
subject: Starting a business
subject: Policies and countermeasures
subject: China

description: The paper discloses me current situation of migrant workers returning home to start business by making a survey of the total number of returning migrant workers. The paper also points out the main difficulties the migrant workers who returning home to start business facing. The first is the old fashioned and backward concepts of development in some local departments; the second is lacking of powerful supports of policies; the third is the still bad environment to start business: the fourth is the lower qualities of people who are going to start business. Based on these situations, the official policies are put forward to encourage and support migrant workers to return home to start business. Such as strategies activating migrant workers to return home to start business should be positively operated; the management services should be further Standardized and the environment should be perfected for starting business; the programs and items to start business by migrant workers returning home should be guided and favored; beneficial tax policies should be improved further; financial services should be further perfected; the land using problems of migrant workers should be firstly solved; the demonstration project of migrant workers returning back to start business should be continuously carried on; the Organizing and leading jobs for starting business of migrant workers should be further strengthened.
Analysis of the Dynamic Relationship among Financial Fund for Agriculture, Agricultural Output Value and Farmers' income
Creators: name: Tian, Cui-Jie
name: Tian, Cui-Jie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Fiscal fund for agriculture
subject: Agricultural output value
subject: Farmers' income
subject: Co-integration test
subject: Impulse response function
subject: Variance decomposition
subject: China

description: By using the methods of co-integration, impulse response function and variance decomposition, I conduct the empirical research on the dynamic relationship among China's financial fund for agriculture, agricultural output value, and farmers' income from the year 1978 to the year 2009. The results indicate that me government’s financial fund for agriculture plays the significant role in promoting agricultural output Value and farmers' income in the long run, but this role of promoting is not prominent in the short run; in the mean time, agricultural output value plays insignificant role in promoting farmers' income and the governments financial fund for agriculture; farmers' income plays the significant role in promoting agricultural output value and the governments financial fund for agriculture.