cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Psychometrische Validierung der deutschen Übersetzung des EPIC-26 als Messinstrument von PROs bei Patienten mit Prostatakarzinom
Creators: name: Sibert, Nora Tabea
name: Dieng, Sebastian
name: Carl, Ernst-Günther
name: Feick, Günter
name: Wesselmann, Simone
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Das Prostatakarzinom (PKa) ist die häufigste Tumorentität des Mannes in Deutschland. Es weist eine vergleichsweise geringe Mortalität sowie eine steigende Überlebensrate auf. Dennoch geht das PKa zum Teil mit schweren Symptomen und Funktionseinschränkungen als Folge[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 18. Deutscher Kongress für Versorgungsforschung (DKVF)
Consumers' purchases of organic meats in Great Britain during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Revoredo Giha, Cesar
name: Gschwandtner, Adelina
name: Revoredo Giha, Cesar
name: Gschwandtner, Adelina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Livestock Production/Industries

description: There is an increasing interest on food production that is more environmentally friendly. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the evolution of purchases of meats (i.e., beef, lamb, pork and poultry) focusing on the organic category and using a unique dataset that allowed us to construct time series data by meat and by income group. This is interesting because of the continue reporting of an increase in the sales of organic products, particularly during the lockdown due to the pandemic, without mentioning anything about the evolution of quantities. Price and quantity indices were constructed for all the meats and they were subject to a trend analysis, which included seasonal components and a dummy variable for the period since March 2020 to test whether the first lockdown period had any effect on the purchases of organic meats. The preliminary results show a negative trend on the quantity demanded for organic beef and also a negative effect for the Covid-19 lockdown. The effect on the other meats (trend or Covid-19) is minimal of inexistent.
Current responsivity of semiconductor superlattice THz-photon detectors
Creators: name: Ignatov, Anatoly A.
name: Jauho, Antti-Pekka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The current responsivity of a semiconductor superlattice THz-photon detector is calculated using an equivalent circuit model which takes into account the finite matching efficiency between a detector antenna and the superlattice in the presence of parasitic losses. Calculations performed for currently available superlattice diodes show that both the magnitudes and the roll-off frequencies of the responsivity are strongly influenced by an excitation of hybrid plasma-Bloch oscillations which are found to be eigenmodes of the system in the THz- frequency band. The expected room temperature values of the responsivity (2-3 A/W in the 1-3 THz-frequency band) range up to several percents of the quantum efficiency $e/\hbarω$ of an ideal superconductor tunnel junction detector. Properly designed semiconductor superlattice detectors may thus demonstrate better room temperature THz-photon responsivity than conventional Schottky junction devices.
description: Revtex file, uses epsf, 11 pages. 11 eps-figures; EPS-files generated by scanner, original higher resolution line drawings available from antti@mic.dtu.dk by regular mail or fax
Ermessensausübung im Spannungsfeld der Mandate: Eine qualitative Forschung in Zürcher Gemeinden, wie Ermessensausübung in der wirtschaftlichen Sozialhilfe zustande kommt.
Creators: name: Müller, Dominique
name: Rossi, Larissa
name: Steiner, Silvia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: In ihrer Bachelorarbeit, Ermessensausübung im Spannungsfeld der Mandate, gehen Dominique Müller, Larissa Rossi und Silvia Steiner der Frage nach, wie Fachpersonen in der wirtschaftlichen Sozialhilfe in der Ermessenausübung vorgehen, was sie leitet, und wie sie ihre Entscheidungen begründen. Der Fragestellung wurde in Form einer qualitativen Sozialforschung und unter Vorlage von Fallvignetten auf den Grund gegangen. Mittels Leitfadeninterviews wurden Expertinnen und Experten der wirtschaftlichen Sozialhilfe in kleinen und mittelgrossen Zürcher Gemeinden befragt. Die Ermessensausübung in der Sozialhilfe ist für die Umsetzung des Individualisierungsgrundsatzes von grosser Bedeutung. Aufgrund der Komplexität des Ermessens sind die Sozialhilfebehörden und die Fachpersonen bei der Anwendung in der Praxis vor Herausforderungen gestellt. Die Gesuchstellenden bilden eine vulnerable Personengruppe, und es steht für sie viel auf dem Spiel. Gleichzeitig ist die Sozialhilfe im öffentlichen Diskurs in der Kritik und es herrscht Spardruck. Ein sorgfältiges Abwägen der Interessen mit Bezug auf die verfassungsmässigen Prinzipien ist daher unerlässlich. Wie die Forschung zeigte, wirken die von den kommunalen Behörden bereitgestellten Handbücher, Richtlinien und Weisungen in der Praxis auf die Ermessensausübung ein. Die Sozialarbeitenden sehen dort faktisch ihren Handlungsspielraum. Mit Blick auf das komplexe juristische Konstrukt der Ermessensausübung greift dies aus Sicht der Autorinnen zu kurz. Diese würden deshalb empfehlen, auf eine genügende Sensibilisierung im Umgang mit dem gegebenen Handlungsspielraum zu achten und Weiterbildungen zu fördern.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa 2019 + Fussnote: Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Sozialarbeit, 2019 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA201909
Geometric Inflation
Creators: name: Arciniega, Gustavo
name: Bueno, Pablo
name: Cano, Pablo A.
name: Edelstein, Jose D.
name: Hennigar, Robie A.
name: Jaime, Luisa G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that the presence of an inflationary epoch is a natural, almost unavoidable, consequence of the existence of a sensible effective action involving an infinite tower of higher-curvature corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert action. No additional fields besides the metric are required. We show that a family of such corrections giving rise to a well-posed cosmological evolution exists and automatically replaces the radiation-dominated early-universe Big Bang by a singularity-free period of exponential growth of the scale factor, which is gracefully connected with standard late-time $Λ$CDM cosmology. The class of higher-curvature theories giving rise to sensible cosmological evolution share additional remarkable properties such as the existence of Schwarzschild-like non-hairy black holes, or the fact that, just like for Einstein gravity, the only degrees of freedom propagated on the vacuum are those of the standard graviton.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
The cost of joining forces: the impact of collective organizations on dairy prices and costs
Creators: name: Vigani, Mauro
name: Curzi, Daniele
name: Vigani, Mauro
name: Curzi, Daniele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Production Economics

description: The progressive reduction of CAP intervention and the abolition of milk quotas in 2015 is provoking a shift in the governance of milk supplies giving a greater role to supply chain arrangements. However, the unbalanced power within the supply chain reduces the negotiating power of individual farmers, exposing them to market risks and unfair trade practices. Collective organizations are considered a viable solution for increasing farmers protection within the supply chain. This paper analyses the impact of supply agreements between dairy farmers and collective organizations on milk prices, production costs and mark-up in England using survey data from 200 dairy farmers in Devon and Somerset. We use a coarsened exact matching model to estimate average treatment effects and logistic regressions to explain the differences in costs, prices and mark-up. Results show that UK farmers selling milk to collective organizations receive 4.4% lower prices and have 17% higher production costs. Farmers selling to collective organizations seek stable market access and protection and at this end they are willing to accept price volatility, higher costs and financial exposure which can be faced through higher predisposition in taking financial risks.
Standard Model Plethystics
Creators: name: Xiao, Yan
name: He, Yang-Hui
name: Matti, Cyril
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the vacuum geometry prescribed by the gauge invariant operators of the MSSM via the Plethystic Programme. This is achieved by using several tricks to perform the highly computationally challenging Molien-Weyl integral, from which we extract the Hilbert series, encoding the invariants of the geometry at all degrees. The fully refined Hilbert series is presented as the explicit sum of 1422 rational functions. We found a good choice of weights to unrefine the Hilbert series into a rational function of a single variable, from which we can read off the dimension and the degree of the vacuum moduli space of the MSSM gauge invariants. All data in Mathematica format are also presented.
description: Typos corrected
Magnetic Field Effects on Neutron Diffraction in the Antiferromagnetic Phase of $UPt_3$
Creators: name: Moreno, Juana
name: Sauls, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss possible magnetic structures in UPt$_3$ based on our analysis of elastic neutron-scattering experiments in high magnetic fields at temperatures $T
description: 5 figures included in the text
Between the trench and the platform. Common and project-specific needs in current archaeological documentation
Creators: name: Derudas, Paola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The adoption of digital tools by archaeologists has revolutionized excavation practices, but challenges remain in effectively integrating 3D capabilities into data management processes. While the archaeological community generally follows common procedures rooted in single-context methodologies, documentation practices vary widely across research projects. These variations stem from established practices, nuanced national and heritage regulations, and inherent logistical considerations unique to each excavation site. This presentation will explore the complexities observed and captured in the trench and with the digital platform when dealing with documentation and data management from different research projects across Europe. It examines how differences in documentation procedures can be traced back to established traditions of practice, specific national and heritage regulations, and logistical constraints inherent in the context of each project. The study of these common and project-specific needs allowed to identify future goals and to highlight the importance of developing fl exible solutions that seamlessly accommodate ad hoc tools while facilitating accessible and versatile data reuse.
How much do we actually care? A study on consumer preference heterogeneity and WTP for farm animal health and welfare in the UK
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Maria
name: Hanley, Nicholas
name: Rodrigues, Maria
name: Hanley, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Consumer/Household Economics

description: Do consumers care about the health of farm animals? We assess the relationship between consumer preferences (N=515), herd sickness levels and farm animal health and welfare (FAHW) by analysing UK consumers purchasing decisions, in the context of two endemic livestock conditions Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) in cattle and lameness in sheep. The analysis uses discrete choice experiments related to four products: beef and milk, and lamb and wool. Our study provides robust evidence that UK consumers care about farm animal health and welfare independently of the sickness level in the herd/flock, when sickness levels do not compromise the safety of the products consumed.
Additional file 3 of MhCLC-c1, a Cl channel c homolog from Malus hupehensis, alleviates NaCl-induced cell death by inhibiting intracellular Cl– accumulation
Creators: name: Song, Jianfei
name: Han, Mengyuan
name: Zhu, Xiaoyue
name: Li, Huan
name: Ning, Yuansheng
name: Zhang, Weiwei
name: Yang, Hongqiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table 1. Primes used for vector construct and gene expression analysis. Table 2. The accession number of all genes.
The "Imagination Gap" in Deploying 3D Models
Creators: name: Poehler, Eric
name: Ellis, Steven
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Since 2019, the Tharros Archaeological Research Project (TARP) has been producing a photogrammetric model of each stratigraphic unit (SU) excavated, including its wider context. Although TARP continues to produce traditional 2D plans of each SU, we believe that the creation of 3D models must now be considered best practice in archaeological field recording. More than merely objects for the archive, however, 3D models have a number of unique affordances for interpreting and sharing contextual information. With the goal of exploring these affordances in mind, the 2024 field season of TARP will seek to 1.) decrease lag between 3D model capture and 3D model production to within twenty-four to forty-eight hours and 2.) share every model (as appropriate) along with its basic contextual information on publicly available online platforms. The purpose of efficiently generating models (1.) is to return each model to the fi eld while excavation is still underway so that this dynamic record of the previous day’s work can be deployed for interpretation and planning, as well as providing a shared environment for discussion, rather than relying on memory and photographs alone. The purpose of publicly sharing these models (2.) is to provide the best immediate information for scholars and institutions, but also to invite the possibility of a close-to-real-time “broadcast” of our investigations for public-facing projects to present to other stakeholders and the wider community. We argue that there is an “imagination gap” in how these powerful instruments can be used while still in the fi eld and how they can be used to educate beyond academia. We are underutilizing the potential of 3D.

Therefore, the 2024 season will implement these accelerated modeling and sharing procedures to test if the forced experience of time in the trench with the models can begin to bridge the imagination gap and find novel uses for 3D models within otherwise traditional excavation and publication workflows. Finally, we are excited to participate in Advanced 3D Archaeological Documentation and Linked Open Data Workshop, where we anticipate receiving feedback on our plans, and especially to learn more about LOD practices for 3D in field archaeology.
title: Entwicklung eines Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREM) zur Erfassung der erlebten Patientenorientierung aus Patientensicht
Creators: name: Zill, Jördis Maria
name: Christalle, Eva
name: Zeh, Stefan
name: Hahlweg, Pola
name: Scholl, Isabelle
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Patientenorientierung gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung in der Versorgungsforschung und Gesundheitspolitik. Studien zu Patientenorientierung zeigen positive Effekte z.B. auf Patientenzufriedenheit und das Wohlbefinden. Eine Voraussetzung zur Umsetzung ist die Messbarkeit von Patientenorientierung.[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 18. Deutscher Kongress für Versorgungsforschung (DKVF)
Why don't we do right? Lessons from dealing with messy data in archaeology and heritage science.
Creators: name: Larsson, Åsa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Archaeology
subject: FAIR principles
subject: Digital Heritage
subject: Digital humanities

description: Archaeologists have generally been quick to adopt new methods and technologies, and digital documentation is no exception. But proficiency in executing a technology is not the same as understanding the underlying principles it is built upon, or how to make the best use of it. Ironically, one of main areas where archaeologists have been filing is in preservation and reusability of the materials they themselves create. Awareness of this fact has increased a lot in the last decade, as have the demands by research funders for data to be made FAIR, yet change is still moving at a very slow pace. Why is that? What is the problem? Drawing upon examples from years of working with messy archaeological documentation data, as well as working with implementing good data practices in archaeology and heritage science, I will highlight some of the challenges faced both on individual and systemic levels. I will also present suggestions for what is needed to overcome these, which includes collaborative efforts from Academia, Government agencies and field archaeologists.
D-branes and constant electro-magnetic backgrounds
Creators: name: Bogaerts, J.
name: Sevrin, A.
name: Troost, J.
name: Troost, W.
name: van der Loo, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We probe the effective worldvolume theory of a set of coinciding D-branes by switching on constant electro-magnetic fields on them. The comparison of the mass spectrum predicted by string theory with the mass spectrum obtained from the effective action provides insights in the structure of the effective theory.
description: LaTeX, 8 pages, contribution to the proceedings of the workshop "The Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions", Berlin, October 2000
Does pesticide use have short term spillover effects? The case of Swiss winter wheat producers
Creators: name: Dakpo, Hervé
name: Mohring, Niklas
name: Finger, Robert
name: Dakpo, Hervé
name: Mohring, Niklas
name: Finger, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis

description: In this study, we empirically estimate the extent of pesticide spillovers on agricultural productivity on a farm-level. As a basis for our empirical analysis, we develop a dynamic damage control specification model of pesticides, where spillovers are associated with the previous period's consumption. We then analytically derive potential spillovers of pesticides on agricultural productivity through effects on the production area, nitrogen fertilizer, and work-machinery productivities and estimate the extent of these effects empirically. To this end, we use a rich farm panel data set on Swiss wheat producers over the period 2009-2015. To account for both pesticide volume and toxicity, a load index is used. Our preliminary results indicate positive short-term spillover effects of the fate toxicity index while the ecotoxicity has a negative spillovers.
Phlegmariurus Holub
Creators: name: Øllgaard, Benjamin
name: Testo, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Lycopodiopsida
Lycopodiales
Lycopodiaceae
Phlegmariurus

description: Phlegmariurus Holub, Preslia 36: 21. 1964.
 — Type: Phlegmariurus phlegmaria (L.) Holub (= Lycopodium phlegmaria L., Sp. Pl. 2: 1101).
Plants epiphytic or terrestrial, pendulous, recurved, erect, or ascending, isotomously branched throughout (Panamanian species). Roots arising from the stem stele, descending through the cortex to the stem base, here emerging as one basal tuft, or, in heteroblastic species emerging along the underside of prostrate shoots. Shoots homophyllous or gradually to abruptly heterophyllous, the constriction of distal divisions of heterophyllous species associated or not with presence of sporangia. Sporophylls and vegetative leaves alike or sporophylls shorter, not peltate, persisting and green after sporangium dehiscence. Sporangia axillary, reniform, isovalvate, with a short slender stalk; sidewalls of sporangium epidermis cells sinuate, thickened and lignified together with the inner walls. Spores foveolate or fossulate. Gametophytes usually subterranean or deep in epiphytic substrate, mycorrhizal, cylindrical with radial or bilateral symmetry, with pluricellular, uniseriate hairs among the gametangia.
 The genus Phlegmariurus is pantropical, with few temperate species, and has perhaps 250 species worldwide, with 31 species known from Panamá. Species diversity worldwide is highest throughout the tropics in evergreen montane forests, and in the wet Andean grass and shrublands in South America. In Panamá, species diversity is strongly concentrated in the Cordillera Talamanca in the western portion of the country (especially Prov. Chiriquí).
 Phlegmariurus chiricanus and P. lancifolius appear to be endemic to Panamá; the former species has been reported from Volcán Turrialba in Costa Rica (Rojas 2005) but we believe these plants to be P. talamancanus. ­­­ Phlegmariurus chamaeleon, P. foliaceus, P. hoffmannii, P. mesoamericanus, P. talamancanus, and P. tubulosus are all restricted to mountainous areas of Costa Rica and Panamá.
 The genus Phlegmariurus until fairly recently was generally included in the genus Huperzia. However, Phlegmariurus is distinct from Huperzia with regard to spore type and the absence of gemmae. The species of Huperzia are entirely terrestrial whereas the majority of Phlegmariurus species are primarily epiphytic, the terrestrial species being derived from epiphytic species (Testo et al., 2018b). No intergeneric hybrids are known (Øllgaard 2012 b, Øllgaard & Windisch 2019).
description: Published as part of Øllgaard, Benjamin & Testo, Weston, 2021, The Lycopodiaceae of Panamá, pp. 1-66 in Phytotaxa 526 (1) on page 5, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.526.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5723180
From field to web in one click: Automated workflows for SfM 3d modelling
Creators: name: Indgjerd, Hallvard Rübner
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Archaeology
subject: Photogrammetry

description: The current contribution presents a working prototype for a fully automated photogrammetry workflow using the python API of Agisoft Metashape, and will discuss the integration of this system with standardised metadata recording for FAIR compatible publication and archiving.

The manual processing steps involved required at different stages of the workflow of SfM software is a major obstacle to achieving large scale photogrammetric recording in the field. The aim of the current project is to create a solution where field personnel can upload imagery and order a model in a single step, and later be able to access the resulting data online. This opens for a much wider adoption of photogrammetric workflows in our field projects. Currently the use of 3d modelling relies on the presence of skilled and interested individuals, and is often not prioritised under the strict budget and time limitations of rescue archaeology.

While tweaking of the settings by skilled professionals can bring out impressive results from even mediocre datasets, this is a challenge to repeatable and standardised data creation. In the proposed automated workflow we try to balance the needs of flexibility and repeatability by recording all settings used in a database, and allowing for easy reuse of those stored parameters.

The computational processing may be local or server based, and has been tested on an HPC cluster at the University of Oslo.
Drawing the shape of AIR: from molecules to skyscape
Creators: name: NURRA, Federico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Archaeology
subject: Digital humanities

description: How is archaeological evidence represented? Since their inception, the disciplines of antiquarianism before and archaeology after have produced multiple forms of representation of archaeological evidence, whether it be a landscape with ruins by Piranesi, a stratigraphic section from a 20th century scientific publication, or an inventory of stratigraphic units in tabular form. In the digital age, archaeological information can be deconstructed down to the smallest component. But how far should we go in deconstructing, and how can we then reassemble the pieces of this puzzle to get an overall view of the “archaeological evidence”? These are the questions we asked ourselves as we defined the conceptual model for the Archaeological Interactive Report (AIR). This contribution is intended to be like a journey from the archaeological site to its documentary deconstruction (site, trench, context, artefact, etc.) and back, building a new landscape of knowledge based on the semantic interaction of minimal elements (archaeological report, narrative, etc.).
title: Die Validierung einer Kurzskala zur Messung der von Patient*innen wahrgenommenen sozialen Unterstützung durch Pflegekräfte (SuPP-N)
Creators: name: Lubasch, Johanna
name: Lee, Susan
name: Pfaff, Holger
name: Ansmann, Lena
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Soziale Unterstützung wird als Unterstützung in emotionaler, informationeller und instrumenteller Form definiert, die dazu beiträgt, Personen in belastenden Situationen zu helfen. Sie hat einen Einfluss auf unterschiedliche Gesundheitsoutcomes, wie zum Beispiel den allgemeinen[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 18. Deutscher Kongress für Versorgungsforschung (DKVF)
A microscopic model for mixed surfactant vesicles
Creators: name: Duque, D.
name: Tarazona, P.
name: Chacon, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A microscopic model which has proven useful in describing amphiphilic aggregates as inhomogeneities of a fluid is extended here to study the case of a two component surfactant mixture. We have chosen an effective interaction between the amphiphiles that mimics the mixture of cationic--anionic surfactants. In agreement with experiments, and other theoretical approaches, we find regions where spherical vesicles are stable, with a well defined radius. The experimental dependence of the radius on the chemical environment is also qualitatively reflected in our model.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Langmuir
Multiple shocks and threats to food security among households in Sub-Saharan Africa. Evidence from Malawi.
Creators: name: McLaughlin, Shannon
name: McLaughlin, Shannon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
Consumer/Household Economics

description: Households in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face multiple threats that undermine their resilience, economic development, and food security. In this article, we use a comprehensive panel dataset of 1889 Malawian households for the years 2010-2017 to study the causal effects of multiple and diverse shocks on household nutrition security metrics. Among other shocks and changes that negatively affect household income we capture the effects of a changing climate. A panel data fixed effect model has been used to ascertain the effect of shocks throughout time on household welfare, controlling for household characteristics, such as gender, total income, crop income and rurality. Results show certain household types, i.e., wealthier households, those owning large livestock, borrowing on credit enable households to foster greater resilience to shocks. Conversely, households involved in agricultural activities and female headed households have greatest vulnerability when exposed to shocks. However, effects differ by shock type. Welfare outcomes have been evaluated using multiple measures of food security; per capita calorie consumption, the food consumption score (FCS) and food expenditures per capita. By determining welfare outcomes using a range of indicators, we attempt to build more precise metrics of food security than those used in previous economic studies.
Sulfated non‑anticoagulant heparin blocks Th2‑induced asthma by modulating the IL‑4/signal transducer and activator of transcription 6/Janus kinase 1 pathway
Creators: name: Ghonim, Mohamed A.
name: Wang, Jeffrey
name: Ibba, Salome V.
name: Luu, Hanh H.
name: Kusma Pyakurel
name: Ilyes Benslimane
name: Mousa, Shaker
name: A. Hamid Boulares
Publisher: name: Health Research Alliance
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110701 Allergy
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: PMC publication
Physics at LHC
Creators: name: Krasnikov, N. V.
name: Matveev, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the physics to be investigated at LHC. We also describe the main parameters of CMS and ATLAS detectors.
description: 82 pages
Lightweight Interactive Proving inside an Automatic Program Verifier
Creators: name: Dailler, Sylvain
name: Marché, Claude
name: Moy, Yannick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Among formal methods, the deductive verification approach allows establishing the strongest possible formal guarantees on critical software. The downside is the cost in terms of human effort required to design adequate formal specifications and to successfully discharge the required proof obligations. To popularize deductive verification in an industrial software development environment, it is essential to provide means to progressively transition from simple and automated approaches to deductive verification. The SPARK environment, for development of critical software written in Ada, goes towards this goal by providing automated tools for formally proving that some code fulfills the requirements expressed in Ada contracts. In a program verifier that makes use of automatic provers to discharge the proof obligations, a need for some additional user interaction with proof tasks shows up: either to help analyzing the reason of a proof failure or, ultimately, to discharge the verification conditions that are out-of-reach of state-of-the-art automatic provers. Adding interactive proof features in SPARK appears to be complicated by the fact that the proof toolchain makes use of the independent, intermediate verification tool Why3, which is generic enough to accept multiple front-ends for different input languages. This paper reports on our approach to extend Why3 with interactive proof features and also with a generic client-server infrastructure allowing integration of proof interaction into an external, front-end graphical user interface such as the one of SPARK.
description: In Proceedings F-IDE 2018, arXiv:1811.09014
Evolving workflows, data migration processes and usability questions
Creators: name: Markos, Katsianis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Archaeology
subject: Digital humanities
subject: 3D GIS

description: Revisiting 3D digital archives can be a challenging process. Within the ARIADNEplus project (2018-2022) the data archive from the excavation of trench 01 of the Paliambela Kolindros archaeological project, compiled between 2000-2008, was re-examined for deposition as a finalized 3D spatial dataset that captures the entire spectrum of the data cycle, from initial fieldwork recording to post-ex stratigraphic analysis and the formulation of an aggregated archaeological narrative. Many questions have risen in the process, including suitable long-term data preservation strategies, data upcycling problems, data standardization issues, semantic mapping procedures, documentation of digital argumentation processes and of course the practical facets of data curation. The presentation will touch upon these issues to highlight lessons learned and open issues in the long-term handling of 3D GIS data, with a view to inform current efforts in consolidating 3D data infrastructures.
Electronic structure of NiS_{1-x}Se_x
Creators: name: Krishnakumar, S. R.
name: Shanthi, N.
name: Mahadevan, Priya
name: Sarma, D. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the electronic structure of the metallic NiS$_{1-x}$Se$_x$ system using various electron spectroscopic techniques. The band structure results do not describe the details of the spectral features in the experimental spectrum, even for this paramagnetic metallic phase. However, a parameterized many-body multi-band model is found to be successful in describing the Ni~2$p$ core level and valence band, within the same model. The asymmetric line shape as well as the weak intensity feature in the Ni~2$p$ core level spectrum has been ascribed to extrinsic loss processes in the system. The presence of satellite features in the valence band spectrum shows the existence of the lower Hubbard band, deep inside the $pd$ metallic regime, consistent with the predictions of the dynamical mean field theory.
description: To be published in Physical Review B, 18 pages and 5 figures
Inclusive Education and Financial Development in Africa
Creators: name: MONGLENGAR NANDINGAR, Serge
name: MAHAMAT MOUSTAPHA, Ibrahim
name: DJIMADOUM, Ngakoutou
name: MOUSSEUKNADJI KOULADOUM, Jean-Claude
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Inclusive education; financial development; Africa; GMM; Financial efficiency

description: The study assesses the effect of inclusive education on the level of financial development in 50 African countries from 2003 to 2020. The study adopts the two-step system GMM as a strategy. The study employs the primary, secondary and tertiary enrolments at the gender parity index as indicators of inclusive education. The study employed inclusive measures of financial development in aspects of financial efficiency measured by the ratio of banks’ credit on deposits, financial depth indicated by liquid liability, banking size indicated by banks’ assets, and the growth in the banking sector’s activities indicated by private domestic credit from financial institutions. The results of the study show that secondary and tertiary enrolments significantly influence financial efficiency, depth, banking size and growth in banking activities, indicating a positive effect of inclusive education on inclusive financial development in Africa. The study recommends policymakers invest more in the knowledge economy to promote digital and mobile banking, which increases the rate of financial inclusion and development in most African countries. Studies have shown that the rate of financial inclusion in Africa has increased in the last two decades because of mobile banking and internet penetration, which can be enhanced through education.
title: Measuring Integrated Care from the Patient’s Perspective: Validation of the German Patient Perspectives of Integrated Care (PPIC-D) Instrument
Creators: name: Feng, You-Shan
name: Kreimeier, Simone
name: Lindena, Gabriele
name: Buchholz, Ines
name: Greiner, Wolfgang
name: Kohlmann, Thomas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: As integrated care (IV) becomes important for modern medicine, measuring how IV impacts patient experiences is crucial. The US-developed “Patient Perceptions of Integrated Care” (PPIC) questionnaire was translated and adapted to the German language and health care context (PPIC-Deutsch,[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 18. Deutscher Kongress für Versorgungsforschung (DKVF)
Price Responsiveness of Rice Farmers and the Effectiveness of Grain Support Policies in China
Creators: name: Jin, Yan
name: Gardebroek, Cornelis
name: Heerink, Nico
name: Jin, Yan
name: Gardebroek, Cornelis
name: Heerink, Nico
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Declining arable land and yield stagnation challenges China to feed its growing population. To increase national food security and farmers’ incomes, China has introduced various grain support policies since 2004. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of price supporting policies on the Chinese rice acreage. To investigate whether these policies were effective given that global rice prices increased after 2004, we perform our empirical analysis in two phases. First, using data on rice prices and acreages, we test whether supply responses of rice farmers have changed since 2004 because price responsiveness is required for the policy to be effective. Second, we perform Monte Carlo simulations to construct counterfactual acreages to assess the impact of the policy. The results show that acreages respond positively to farmers’ expected price for early, middle, and late indica rice. For early and late indica rice, there is a statistically significant positive change in acreage response to expected prices after the policy intervention in 2004 than before. Monte Carlo simulations show that the probability of effective policy for early, middle and late indica is 75.60%, 72.68% and 53.32%, respectively. Therefore, although there is heterogeneity in different rice varieties, the policy is in general effective in increasing rice acreages given that global rice prices increased after 2004.
Casimir Effect for a Dielectric Wedge
Creators: name: Brevik, I.
name: Pettersen, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Casimir effect is considered for a wedge with opening angle $α$, with perfectly conducting walls, when the interior region is filled with an isotropic and nondispersive medium with permittivity $ε$ and permeability $μ$. The electromagnetic energy-momentum tensor in the bulk is calculated, together with the surface stress on the walls. A discussion is given on the possibilities for measuring the influence of the medium, via the Casimir-Polder force.
description: 12 pages, LaTeX. Minor typos corrected. To appear in Annals of Physics 291 (2001) 1 (July issue)
title: Akzeptanz einer webbasierten Depressionsintervention zur Überbrückung der Wartezeit auf ambulante Psychotherapie
Creators: name: Grünzig, Sasha-Denise
name: Bengel, Jürgen
name: Krämer, Lena Violetta
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Patienten warten in Deutschland durchschnittlich fünf Monate auf den Beginn einer ambulanten Psychotherapie. 85% der vorstelligen Patienten berichten depressive Symptome. Web-basierte Interventionen haben sich für die Reduktion depressiver Symptome als wirksam erwiesen und[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 18. Deutscher Kongress für Versorgungsforschung (DKVF)
The importance of nutrition education in achieving food security and adequate nutrition of the poor: Experimental evidence from rural Bangladesh
Creators: name: Tauseef, Salauddin
name: Tauseef, Salauddin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Consumer/Household Economics

description: Nutrition-sensitive social protection that enhances household resources and nutrition knowledge can be an important avenue of addressing food security and nutrition concerns of the poor. This paper studies a cluster randomized intervention of cash and food transfers, with or without nutrition behavioral change communication (BCC), on food security and nutrition outcomes in rural Bangladesh. We find that addition of the BCC to transfers led to the greatest impact on the quantity and quality of food consumed by household members, especially women and children. Addition of BCC also had the greatest impact in reducing the incidence and intensity of deprivations measured using a nutrition-sensitive multidimensional poverty index. Evidence suggests this occurs through the BCC inducing increased consumption of flesh food, egg, dairy, fruits, and vegetables and through investments in housing, sanitation, and assets.
Autonomous Tissue Manipulation via Surgical Robot Using Learning Based Model Predictive Control
Creators: name: Shin, Changyeob
name: Ferguson, Peter Walker
name: Pedram, Sahba Aghajani
name: Ma, Ji
name: Dutson, Erik P.
name: Rosen, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Tissue manipulation is a frequently used fundamental subtask of any surgical procedures, and in some cases it may require the involvement of a surgeon's assistant. The complex dynamics of soft tissue as an unstructured environment is one of the main challenges in any attempt to automate the manipulation of it via a surgical robotic system. Two AI learning based model predictive control algorithms using vision strategies are proposed and studied: (1) reinforcement learning and (2) learning from demonstration. Comparison of the performance of these AI algorithms in a simulation setting indicated that the learning from demonstration algorithm can boost the learning policy by initializing the predicted dynamics with given demonstrations. Furthermore, the learning from demonstration algorithm is implemented on a Raven IV surgical robotic system and successfully demonstrated feasibility of the proposed algorithm using an experimental approach. This study is part of a profound vision in which the role of a surgeon will be redefined as a pure decision maker whereas the vast majority of the manipulation will be conducted autonomously by a surgical robotic system. A supplementary video can be found at: http://bionics.seas.ucla.edu/research/surgeryproject17.html
description: Accepted to ICRA 2019
Optimizing electrochemical treatment of cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins
Creators: name: BELAL ZAID HASSAN BAKHEET
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: 90509 Water Resources Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 90410 Water Treatment Processes
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering
subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: 90403 Chemical Engineering Design
subject: Environmental Chemistry

description: The occurrence of cyanobacterial blooms in several water bodies is a major source of toxic and taste and odorous substance causing serious health and aesthetic problems. Cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins also presented challenges to the conventional water treatment systems, raising the need for innovative water treatment systems to tackle cyanobacterial pollution. This thesis presented an engineering-focused research on optimizing an advanced electrochemical treatment of water containing cyanobacteria. Overall, although more work needs to be done before scaling up of this technology, the findings of this thesis can offer important insights into the feasibility of this technology for cyanobacterial treatment.
The socio-cultural dimension and neighbourhood effects of land use intensity strategies in Swiss grassland systems
Creators: name: Spoerri, Martina
name: El Benni, Nadja
name: Mack, Gabriele
name: Finger, Robert
name: Spoerri, Martina
name: El Benni, Nadja
name: Mack, Gabriele
name: Finger, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: Land Economics/Use
Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The intensity of land use is of vital importance from an agricultural policy perspective, because it determines food production, income opportunities and environmental impacts arising from agriculture. And: space matters, as the provision of ecosystem services and disservices is highly spatially dependent. For example, regional clusters of intensive land use can be a threat to unique local landscapes and ecosystems. Farmers’ decision-making regarding land use intensity and resulting spatial patterns are not well understood. This paper aims to uncover driving forces behind land use intensity strategies, especially exploiting spatial clustering and difference across space and time. We use spatially explicit census data on 2018 for Swiss agriculture and focus on extensification decisions in grassland production. This dataset allows us to account for neighbourhood effects, i.e. spillovers across farms. We use a set of variables controlling for common, measurable conditions, as well as an instrument that controls for regional habits and cultural backgrounds. Within this setup, we identify a significant neighbourhood effect among farmers. Our findings highlight the need for a socio-cultural dimension in agricultural policymaking.
Strange dibaryons in the Skyrme model
Creators: name: Kopeliovich, V. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phenomenological consequences of the existence of different local minima in SU(3) configuration space of B=2 skyrmions are discussed.
description: 6 pages, no figures; the talk at the Workshop on Hypernuclear Physics (25th INS Symposium), December 7-8, Tokyo, Japan. To be published in "Genshikaku Kenkyu" (Nuclear Studies)
Phlegmariurus aqualupianus B. Ollgaard 2012
Creators: name: Øllgaard, Benjamin
name: Testo, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Lycopodiopsida
Lycopodiales
Lycopodiaceae
Phlegmariurus
Phlegmariurus aqualupianus

description: 2. Phlegmariurus aqualupianus (Spring) B. Øllgaard (2012a: 480).
 — Lycopodium aqualupianum Spring (1841: 518).— Urostachys aqualupianus (Spring) Herter (1923: 166).— Huperzia aqualupiana (Spring) Rothmaler (1944: 62). Type:— GUADELOUPE: L’Herminier s.n., 1862 (LG lectotype, designated by Badré (1983: 4); BM, K, P isolectotypes).—Fig. 2
 Plants pendulous, flaccid, 3–4 times dichotomous. Stems stramineous, angular, 15–50 cm long, thin, usually less than 1 mm thick excluding leaves. Shoots heterophyllous, the proximal divisions with wide expanded leaves, the distal divisions abruptly narrowed, with small imbricate leaves. Proximal expanded divisions with uniform leaves, 10–17 mm wide including the leaves, sometimes slightly tapering distally, usually continuously overlapping (pressed). Expanded leaves usually decussate (sometimes in alternating whorls of 3), forming 4(–6) longitudinal rows, regularly inserted, ascending to patent, softy herbaceous, ovate to elliptic-oblong, 6–11 × 2.8–4 mm, slightly apiculate, with decurrent base. Constricted divisions quadrangular, with extensive sterile zones proximally. Leaves of constricted divisions imbricate, regularly decussate, ovate, carinate and usually long-acuminate, 3–4.5 × 1.5 mm. Sporangia ca. 1 mm wide, concealed by sporophyll bases.
 ­­­ Distribution:— Greater and Lesser Antilles, Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil. This is the first record of this species in Mesoamerica/ Panamá.
 ­­­ Habitats:— Epiphytic in wet premontane and cloud forest, 1750 m elev.
 ­­­ Notes:— This species is related to Phlegmariurus ericifolius (C. Presl) B.Øllgaard (Ecuador to Bolivia) and P. dichaeoides. Phlegmariurus ericifolius can usually be distinguished by its narrower, more acute expanded leaves in whorls of 3, while P. aqualupianus usually has ovate, subacute to obtuse, usually decussate expanded leaves.
 ­­­ Specimen­­­studied:­­­Bocas­­­del­­­Toro: La Plata del Cedro, ridgetop, 1750 m elev., Monro & Alfaro 4381 (MO, PMA).
description: Published as part of Øllgaard, Benjamin & Testo, Weston, 2021, The Lycopodiaceae of Panamá, pp. 1-66 in Phytotaxa 526 (1) on pages 9-11, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.526.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5723180