cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Deportability and Kombinowanie in Canada: A Critical Ethnographic Study of ‘Irregular’ Migrant Subjectivities
Creators: name: Ellis, Basia D.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Anthropology--Cultural
subject: Ethnic and Racial Studies
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: irregular migration
subject: illegal migration
subject: cultural psychology
subject: critical ethnography
subject: critical psychology
subject: subjectivity
subject: deportability

description: This project critically analyzes how the daily lives of ‘irregular’ migrants in Canada are socially produced and navigated. Building on the recent work of critical migration scholars, I study ‘illegalization’ as an exploitative sociopolitical process produced not only by laws but also state and non-state agents who draw upon legal and illegal practices to achieve their aims. Deportability is defined as the palpable sociopolitical condition generated by ‘illegalization,’ and a chief disciplinary tactic that renders migrants vulnerable and exploitable as cheap laborers for capital. While deportation studies are growing around the world, so far little is known about the daily experiences of ‘illegalized’ migrants and the subjective life produced under deportable conditions; this is especially the case in Canada, where research on ‘illegalization’ is in its early stages. This study takes a cultural psychological perspective and employs critical ethnographic methods to study the subjectivities of Polish ‘illegal’ migrants living in Toronto and Mississauga, Canada. Specifically, I examine the mixed and contradictory contexts faced by these migrants as well as how migrants interpret and navigate their unequal conditions to build their lives as non-status residents. Analyses of both interview and participant observations reveal how ‘illegal’ migrants experience systematic fears, threats, and concerns, which motivate them to develop kombinowanie and other psychological and social tactics conducive for surviving their unequal conditions. I adopt a trajectory approach to map these developments in lived time and show how various sociopolitical imperatives coalesce to generate vulnerable subjects who suffer from an adverse psychosocial condition; namely, chronic deportability. I differentiate chronic deportability from acute moments of deportability to expose the psychosocial dynamics of deportable life and trace how migrant ‘illegalization’ functions via various gradations of fear produced in recurring, cyclical forms. While the major findings confirm that deportability operates to exploit migrants who choose to work in unequal conditions, I show how migrants are not unilaterally determined by the demands of deportation regimes. Specifically, the final chapter draws upon critical psychological research to examine how migrants express more subtle, psychological forms of resistance that undermine the impositions of deportability and may lead to broader sociopolitical transformations.
Lattices of minimum covolume in Chevalley groups over local fields of positive characteristic
Creators: name: Golsefidy, Alireza Salehi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E40, 11E57

description: In this article, we show that if G is a simply connected Chevalley group of either classical type of rank bigger than 1 or type E6, and q > 9 is a power of a prime number p > 5, then G = G(F_q((1/t))), up to an automorphism, has a unique lattice of minimum covolume, which is G(F_q[t]).
Democratic Streets (and Cities)
Creators: name: Paba, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti
Year: 2017

description: In the first issue of its new series, Contesti takes up the topic of democratic streets, and more in general the right to the city, with reference to the concepts of urban democracy, social self-organization practices, spatial survival and social resilience tactics, and research on experiences of social re-appropriation of the city (self-produced urban planning, interactive practices to transform the urban space). Some of these topics are focused on in the following points, both in general and with regard to the articles hosted in the journal.
description: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti, No. 1-2 (2016)
Cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks
Creators: name: Kaligineedi, Praveen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Radio spectrum is a very scarce and important resource for wireless communication systems. However, a recent study conducted by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) found that most of the currently allocated radio spectrum is not efficiently utilized by the licensed primary users. Granting opportunistic access of the spectrum to unlicensed secondary users has been suggested as a possible way to improve the utilization of the radio spectrum. Cognitive Radio (CR) is an emerging technology that would allow an unlicensed (cognitive) radio to sense and efficiently use any available spectrum at a given time. Reliable detection of the primary users is an important task for CR systems. Cooperation among a few sensors can offer significant gains in the performance of the CR spectrum sensing system by countering shadow-fading effects. In this thesis, we consider a parallel fusion based cooperative sensing network, in which the sensors send their sensing information to an access point, which makes the final decision regarding presence or absence of the primary signal. We assume that energy detection is used at each sensor. Presence of few malicious users sending false sensing data can severely degrade the performance of such a cooperative sensing system. In this thesis, we investigate schemes to identify malicious users based on outlier detection techniques. We take into consideration constraints imposed by the CR scenario, such as limited information about the primary signal propagation environment and small sensing data sample size. Considering partial knowledge of the primary user activity, we propose a novel method to identify malicious users. We further propose malicious user detection schemes that take into consideration the spatial location of the sensors. We then investigate efficient sensor allocation and quantization techniques for a CR network operating in multiple primary bands. We explore different methods to assign CR sensors to various primary bands. We then study efficient single-bit quantization schemes at the sensors. We show that the optimal quantization scheme is, in general, non-convex and propose a suboptimal solution based on a convex restriction of the original problem. We compare the performance of the proposed schemes using simulations.
Relativistic entanglement in single-particle quantum states using Non-Linear entanglement witnesses
Creators: name: Jafarizadeh, M. A.
name: Mahdian, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, the spin-momentum correlation of one massive spin-1/2 and spin-1 particle states, which are made based on projection of a relativistic spin operator into timelike direction is investigated. It is shown that by using Non-Linear entanglement witnesses (NLEWs), the effect of Lorentz transformation would decrease both the amount and the region of entanglement.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures; to be published in Quantum Inf Process, 10.1007/s11128-011-0289-z (2011)
Characterizing Near-Infrared Sky Brightness in the Canadian High Arctic
Creators: name: Sivanandam, Suresh
name: Graham, James R.
name: Abraham, Roberto
name: Tekatch, Anthony
name: Steinbring, Eric
name: Ngan, Wayne
name: Welch, Doug L.
name: Law, Nicholas M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first measurements of the near-infrared (NIR), specifically the J-band, sky background in the Canadian High Arctic. There has been considerable recent interest in the development of an astronomical observatory in Ellesmere Island; initial site testing has shown promise for a world-class site. Encouragement for our study came from sky background measurements on the high Antarctic glacial plateau in winter that showed markedly lower NIR emission when compared to good mid-latitude astronomical sites due to reduced emission from OH airglow lines. This is possibly a Polar effect and may also be present in the High Arctic. To test this hypothesis, we carried out an experiment which measured the the J-band sky brightness in the High Arctic during winter. We constructed a zenith-pointing, J-band photometer, and installed it at the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) near Eureka, Nunavut (latitude: 80 degrees N). We present the design of our photometer and our results from our short PEARL observing campaign in February 2012. Taken over a period of four days, our measurements indicate that the J-band sky brightness varies between 15.5-15.9 mag arcsec^2, with a measurement uncertainty of 0.15 mag dominated entirely by systematic errors present in our radiometric calibration. On our best night, we measured a fairly consistent sky brightness of 15.8 +/- 0.15 mag arcsec^2. This is not corrected for atmospheric extinction, which is typically <0.1 mag in the J-band on a good night. The measured sky brightness is comparable to an excellent mid-latitude site, but is not as dark as claimed by the Antarctic measurements. We discuss possible explanations of why we do not see as dark skies as in the Antarctic. Future winter-long sky brightness measurements are anticipated to obtain the necessary statistics to make a proper comparison with the Antarctic measurements.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2012
Minimization of the Switching Time of a Synthetic Free Layer in Thermally Assisted Spin Torque Switching
Creators: name: Taniguchi, Tomohiro
name: Imamura, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically studied the thermally assisted spin torque switching of a synthetic free layer and showed that the switching time is minimized if the condition H_J=|H_s|/(2 alpha) is satisfied, where H_J, H_s and alpha are the coupling field of two ferromagnetic layers, the amplitude of the spin torque, and the Gilbert damping constant. We also showed that the coupling field of the synthetic free layer can be determined from the resonance frequencies of the spin-torque diode effect.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures
El duelo en la infancia: ¿Qué hacer cuando es un niño el que ha sufrido la pérdida y no pregunta qué ha pasado?
Creators: name: Guillén, Elena
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 8 (2019): enero-febrero-marzo
Tendency to occupy a statistically dominant spatial state of the flow as a driving force for turbulent transition
Creators: name: Chekmarev, Sergei F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple analytical model for a turbulent flow is proposed, which considers the flow as a collection of localized spatial structures that are composed of elementary "cells" in which the state of the particles (atoms or molecules) is uncertain. The Reynolds number is associated with the ratio between the total phase volume for the system and that for the elementary cell. Calculating the statistical weights of the collections of the localized structures, it is shown that as the Reynolds number increases, the elementary cells group into the localized structures, which successfully explains the onset of turbulence and some other characteristic properties of turbulent flows. It is also shown that the basic assumptions underlying the model are involved in the derivation of the Navier-Stokes equation, which suggests that the driving force for the turbulent transition described with the hydrodynamic equations is essentially the same as in the present model, i.e. the tendency of the system to occupy a statistically dominant state plays a key role. The instability of the flow can then be a mechanism to initiate the structural rearrangement of the flow to find this state.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, and Supplementary Material (2 pages, 3 figures), to be submitted to "Foundations of Physics". arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1102.5157
Poorer, but richer. An ecosystem services account for Campania, Calabria and Sicily
Creators: name: La Notte, Alessandra
name: Maes, Joachim
name: Vallecillo, Sara
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2020

description: Ecosystems deliver value to people and the economy through ecosystem services. The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission has quantified the use of ecosystem services by the main economic sectors and households at EU level. In this paper, we downscaled the extraction of six ecosystem services for three Southern Italy regions in 2012: Campania, Calabria and Sicily. The results show that these regions, that result poorer than the rest of Italy according to a GDP-based indicator, generate higher flows of ecosystem services compared to the national average. The results should be considered as conservative, as many important ecosystem services are unaccounted. This kind of assessment can be useful for a wide range of polices targeting climate change, biodiversity and sustainable agriculture.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 75 No. 2 (2020)
Foro de debate: “Sin pastillas: Mejorando la salud emocional del paciente y del médico”. Resumen de las ponencias.
Creators: name: Mesa Masa, Estrella
name: Rodríguez Díaz, Esther
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 8 (2019): enero-febrero-marzo
Phase diagram of Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with dimensional regularization
Creators: name: Inagaki, T.
name: Kimura, D.
name: Kohyama, H.
name: Kvinikhidze, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the phase diagram on temperature-chemical potential plane in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with the dimensional regularization. While the structure of the resulting diagram shows resemblance to the one in the frequently used cutoff regularization, some results of our study indicate striking difference between these regularizations. The diagram in the dimensional regularization exhibits strong tendency of the first order phase transition.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
Chrysis scutellaris Fabricius 1794
Creators: name: Paukkunen, Juho
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Soon, Villu
name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ødegaard, Frode
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Masaridae
Chrysis
Chrysis scutellaris

description: 38. Chrysis scutellaris Fabricius, 1794
Chrysis scutellaris Fabricius 1794: 458. Holotype ♀; Italy (ZMUC) (examined). Dahlbom 1854: 265, Thomson 1870: 106, Borries 1891: 95, Aurivillius 1911: 11, Tjeder 1954: 64, Noskiewicz & Pulawski 1958: 47, Móczár 1967: 93, Erlandsson 1971: 88, Banaszak 1980: 30, Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 461, Linsenmaier 1997: 98, Cederberg 2000: 177, Soon 2004: 46, Cederberg 2005: 290, Allearter.dk 2010, Cederberg et al. 2010: 353, Orlovskytė et al. 2010: 151, Johansson 2012a: 62, Rosa & Soon 2012, Sörensson et al. 2012, Dyntaxa 2013.
Chrysis segmentata Dahlbom 1829: 9. Holotype ♂; Sweden: Scania: Löderup, Kåseberg (ZMUL). Dahlbom 1831: 29, Zetterstedt 1840: 434.
Distribution. Denmark, Lithuania, Sweden.—Westpalearctic: Europe and North Africa (Linsenmaier 1997, 1999).
Remarks. The species has been found from Denmark (only a few records, Sörensson et al. 2012), Lithuania (only one record from Nida 1971, Orlovskytė et al. 2010) and southern Sweden (Scania, only a few localities, Sörensson et al. 2012). In Sweden, C. scutellaris has been classified as endangered (Cederberg et al. 2010). Tumšs & Maršakovs (1970: 93) and later Soon (2004) and Rosa & Soon (2012) reported the species from Latvia based on two female specimens from Koknese 1.VII.1968. The other specimen was found in Maršakovs’ collection in Riga, and it turned out to belong to C. graelsii. Although the other specimen could not be found, it is probably also misidentified, because Maršakovs made many mistakes in his identifications, and it is likely that both specimens collected from the same locality on the same day and identified in the same way are conspecific.
description: Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433
S-Arithmetic Khintchine-Type Theorem
Creators: name: Mohammadi, Amir
name: Golsefidy, Alireza Salehi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11J83, 11K60

description: In this article we prove a convergence S-arithmetic Khintchine-type theorem for product of non-degenerate v-adic manifolds, where one of them is the Archimedian place.
Cómo reconstruir la vida cuando el corazón falla. Papel del psicólogo clínico en los programas de rehabilitación cardíaca. Trabajo del grupo psicoterapéutico y estudio preliminar de cambio en aceptación, calidad de vida y alexitimia.
Creators: name: García Rubio, María José
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 8 (2019): enero-febrero-marzo
Consumers are unaware about European legislation on communication of the health benefits conveyed by claims. An empirical survey
Creators: name: Di Fonzo, Antonella
name: Liberati, Claudio
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2020

description: This paper investigates how consumers knowledge of the EC list (reg. (EU) 432/2012) can affect their understanding of health claims (HC). Despite the existence of a rigorous regulation on the communication of health benefits attributed to functional foods (reg. (EC) 1924/2006), there are still doubts about the efficacy of legislation. In fact, the information conveyed by HC does not always reach the consumer in a clear and understandable way, making the consumer skeptical. This paper proposes an empirical analysis to verify if this effect could be mitigated in case that the consumer knew the European register of HC. The results show how consumers skepticism is linked to trust and assessment problems that contribute to limit the HC efficacy and provide new elements to improve the health benefits regulation.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 75 No. 1 (2020)
Cluster dynamical mean field theory of quantum phases on a honeycomb lattice
Creators: name: He, Rong-Qiang
name: Lu, Zhong-Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the ground state of the half-filled Hubbard model on a honeycomb lattice by performing the cluster dynamical mean field theory calculations with exact diagonalization on the cluster-impurity solver. Through using elaborate numerical analytic continuation, we identify the existence of a `spin liquid' from the on-site interaction U=0 to $U_c$ (between $4.6t$ and $4.85t$) with a smooth crossover correspondingly from the charge fluctuation dominating phase into the charge correlation dominating phase. The semi-metallic state exits only at U=0. We further find that the magnetic phase transition at $U_c$ from the `spin liquid' to the Néel antiferromagnetic Mott insulating phase is a first-order quantum phase transition. We also show that the charge fluctuation plays a substantial role on keeping the `spin liquid' phase against the emergence of a magnetic order.
description: 5 pages and 8 figures
Readiness Conditions and Transformational Change in a Middle School Setting
Creators: name: Thalheimer, Patrick
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: Education--Administration

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between certain cultural conditions in two middle schools with the occurrence of transformational change. This multiple case study included responses from teachers and administrators at two middle schools research to answer the following research questions: Are there readiness conditions in schools which may contribute to transformational change? If so, what is the nature of those conditions with respect to the concept of transformational change manifest within schools and in the literature? How can readiness conditions contribute to transformational change? Participants in this study included two principals and eleven teachers from two middle schools in a single school division. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with each participant, a questionnaire sent to three superintendents and documents that were provided by one of the schools. Analysis of the data produced seven themes that were correlated with the occurrence of transformational change in the two schools. These included the existence of an approach to decision-making that focussed on perceived student needs, the existence of trust in both colleagues and leaders, organizational, collegial and personal support, alignment of the work in the school, high levels of individual and collective efficacy, a strong sense of community, as well as feelings of resistance. These characteristics were found to be produced by specific behaviours and actions on the part of school district and school-based leaders, as well as the staff themselves. Leadership characteristics and actions included developing a culture of trust by behaving honestly and with integrity, providing support for both professional and personal aspects of teachers’ lives, aligning work expectations and direction as much as possible, supporting the development of individual and collective efficacy through structuring collaborative teams, and supporting efforts to build and maintain a strong sense of community. Teacher behaviour that was seen to be important was a strong focus on the needs of their students and a willingness to work together with their colleagues on behalf of students. Emerging from the findings is a framework for increased understanding of transformational change in middle schools.
A survey on the performance of the Italian brewing companies
Creators: name: Bernetti, Iacopo
name: Alampi Sottini, Veronica
name: Cipollaro, Maria
name: Menghini, Silvio
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2020

description: The paper analyzes the performance of a sample of Italian microbreweries. For small and very small companies, performance analyses represent an important tool for the investigation of both the efficiency and the survival chances of the companies in the medium and long term. The methodology used consists of calculating different profitability and productivity indexes followed by a DEA model for the evaluation of the companies’ efficiency. The results show that the companies operate at significantly low productivity levels and in conditions of technical inefficiency, due to both the inability of the managers to manage the inputs and the fact that companies operate at sub-optimal levels of scale. Lastly, profitability turns to be positive for two out of three indexes examined.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 75 No. 1 (2020)
Relative Permeability of Sand under SAGD Conditions as a Function of Temperature
Creators: name: Zeidani, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Relative Permeability
subject: SAGD Conditions
subject: Function of Temperature

description: Relative permeability plays a significant role in predicting oil rate and estimating the ultimate oil recovery factor. Although it is known that the relative permeability can change with temperature, the same set of relative permeability is often used to predict the reservoir performance regardless of the temperature range involved in the process. This can lead to significant errors when the relative permeability changes appreciably with temperature. A typical Athabasca oil and reservoir sand were used to obtain the experimental data using the unsteady state method. First the SAGD residual oil saturations in presence of hot water and steam were measured at 180, 200, and 220 ºC. Then oil displacement data collected during hot water and steam injection experiments were utilized to construct the relative permeability curves at given operating temperatures. Finally, a series of reservoir simulations were performed to history match the lab experiments and examine the accuracy of inferred relative permeability curves. The experimental results indicate that oil residual saturation decreased as temperature increased. A noticeable change in residual saturation was also observed when phase change occurred from liquid to steam phase at a given temperature. Two correlations have been developed for predicting residual oil saturation as function of temperature for hot water and steam floods. Finally, three sets of relative permeability were developed covering a wide range of SAGD operating conditions.
Fast multi-orbital equation of motion impurity solver for dynamical mean field theory
Creators: name: Feng, Qingguo
name: Oppeneer, P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a fast multi-orbital impurity solver for the dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). Our DMFT solver is based on the equations of motion (EOM) for local Green's functions and constructed by generalizing from the single-orbital case to the multi-orbital case with inclusion of the inter-orbital hybridizations and applying a mean field approximation to the inter-orbital Coulomb interactions. The two-orbital Hubbard model is studied using this impurity solver within a large range of parameters. The Mott metal-insulator transition and the quasiparticle peak are well described. A comparison of the EOM method with the QMC method is made for the two-orbital Hubbard model and a good agreement is obtained. The developed method hence holds promise as a fast DMFT impurity solver in studies of strongly correlated systems.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures
Least Squares and Moments Estimation for Gumbel AR(1) Model
Creators: name: Zhang, Qicheng
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Autoregressive model
subject: Extreme value

description: The Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution in the Extreme Value Theory (EVT) has been widely applied to analyze various extreme values. The Gumbel, one of the three families of GEV, is a light-tailed distribution family. Since the independence among extremes rarely holds in application, dependent models are more practical. This thesis focuses on a temporally dependent model, speci cally the Gumbel autoregressive model of order 1. We proposed a special method of moments estimation for the location and the scale parameters based on a link between Exponential distribution and Gumbel distribution. The existence and uniqueness of the estimates have been proven. Along with the least squares method for the autoregressive coe cient, we investigated the performance of those estimators and compared them with the combination of the Yule-Walker estimator and the ordinary method of moments estimators, which was used in an environmental study conducted by Toulemonde et al.(2010). The average run length (ARL) of the model is studied through simulation. Two examples of real data are used to illustrate our methodology.
Las trayectorias psicológicas postquemaduras. Modelo Bonnano en Unidad de Quemados
Creators: name: Fidel Kinori, Sara Guila
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 8 (2019): enero-febrero-marzo
Asymmetric price transmission in the commercialization of rice in Brazil
Creators: name: Zanin, Vanclei
name: Tonin, Julyerme Matheus
name: Halmenschlager, Vinícius
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2020

description: This paper aims to investigate the presence of price transfer asymmetry (APT) in the rice production chain in Rio Grande do Sul incorporating in the analysis the effects of public policy interventions, specifically the agricultural minimum prices. The results indicate the occurrence of positive APT among all relations analyzed (contemporaneous, lagged or cumulative) in the rice production chain. In general, the industry-producer relationship presented the best adjustment and the existence of positive asymmetry indicates that this market link takes advantage of the direct relationship with the producer to pass through price increases more quickly reductions to its consumers. Finally, it was identified that in periods of market prices below the minimum price, the symmetry was not rejected, indicating its permanence in times of greater government intervention.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 75 No. 1 (2020)
Afrontar la vida tras una lesión medular: diagnóstico, pronóstico y adaptación psicológica en paciente y familiares de personas con lesión medular en la ULM del Hospital Universitario Vall d’Hebrón.
Creators: name: Beneria-Gonzàlez, Anna
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 8 (2019): enero-febrero-marzo
An Interactive Excel File to Estimate Costs of Expanded Testing for COVID-19 by RT-PCR and/or Serologic Tests
Creators: name: Uppal, Aashna
name: Campbell, Jonathon Robert
name: Oxlade, Olivia
name: Fregonese, Federica
name: Bastos, Mayara
name: Lan, Zhiyi
name: Law, Stephanie
name: Oh, Chi Eun
name: Russell, W Alton
name: Sulis, Giorgia
name: Winters, Nicholas
name: Yanes Lane, Mercedes
name: Brisson, Marc
name: Laszlo, Sonia
name: Evans, Timothy Grant
name: Menzies, Dick
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID-19

description: This is an interactive excel file that can be used to estimate the costs of various scenarios of expanded testing for COVID-19. Several sensitivity analyses are possible. Testing is enabled for populations of various size and COVID-19 prevalence. In this version, data is current for Canada and all provinces to July 17, 2020.
CIDE and elasticity oscillation on the ethanol and gasoline market: Brazilian taxation policy under discussion
Creators: name: Margarido, Mario Antonio
name: Dos Santos, Gesmar Rosa
name: De Freitas Vian, Carlos Eduardo
name: Assis Shikida, Pery Francisco
name: Cardoso Bauermann, Bárbara Françoise
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2020

description: The aim of this paper is to identify the path of the gasoline price elasticity, ethanol price elasticity, ethanol-gasoline cross-price elasticity and the gasoline-ethanol cross-price elasticity for the flex-fuel vehicle market, as well as to discuss the taxation policies impact of the Economic Domain Intervention Contribution (CIDE) on the ethanol and gasoline markets. Therefore, it was used the Structural Methodology model, as well as official data from 2003 to 2007. The results show great power of influence of the tax on the gasoline’s price and on the costumer’s choice between ethanol or gasoline. Thus, the CIDE is one of the most important reasons for ethanol consume, contributing to an effective reduction in the green house gases and atmospheric pollutants emissions.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 75 No. 1 (2020)
Height Datum Unification with the Boundary Value Problem Approach
Creators: name: Amjadiparvar, Babak
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geodesy
subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geodetic boundary value problem
subject: Vertical datum unification
subject: Indirect bias term
subject: GOCE
subject: Omission error
subject: Levelling network

description: Two levelling-based vertical datums have been used in North America, namely CGVD28 in Canada and NAVD88 in the USA and Mexico. The unification of these levelling-based vertical datums is of great interest to the scientific and user communities. In this thesis, the geodetic boundary value problem (GBVP) approach is studied as a rigorous method for connecting vertical datums through computed datum offsets from a global equipotential surface defined by means of a GOCE-based geoid. The so-called indirect bias term, the effect of the GOCE geoid omission error, the effect of the systematic levelling datum errors and distortions, and the effect of the data errors on the datum unification are four important factors affecting the practical implementation of this approach. These factors are investigated numerically using the GNSS-levelling and tide gauge stations. The results show that the indirect bias term can be omitted if a GOCE-based global geopotential model is used in geoid computation. The omission of the indirect bias term simplifies the linear system of equations for the estimation of the datum offset. Because of the existing systematic levelling errors and distortions in the Canadian and US levelling networks, the datum offsets are investigated in eight smaller regions along the Canadian and US coastal areas. Using GNSS-levelling stations in the US coastal regions, the mean datum offset can be estimated with a 1 cm error if the GOCE geoid omission error is taken into account using local gravity and topographic information. In the Canadian Atlantic and Pacific regions, the datum offsets can be estimated with 2.3 and 3.5 cm uncertainty, respectively, using GNSS-levelling stations. However, due to the very limited number of tide gauge stations, the datum offset error can reach one decimetre in the Pacific regions. With the available GNSS-levelling stations in Alaska and Mexico, the datum offsets can be estimated with less than 3 cm error. The numerical investigations of this study provide, for the first time, the datum offsets between North American vertical datums and their associated errors with which the offsets can be estimated.
Le strategie di comunicazione nelle politiche di sviluppo rurale. Alcune implicazioni per la valutazione
Creators: name: Carta, Valentina
name: Licciardo, Francesco
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2019

description: Communication is taking on a growing role in European Union policies, especially considering the need to boost transparency and accountability of Operational Programmes. Therefore, the assessment of communication activities has a crucial role in evaluation processes. However, in the last decade few specific evaluations have been carried out in Italian Rural Development Programmes, mostly using desk analysis, customer satisfaction surveys and output indicators. The aim of this study is to review 2007-2013 assessment of communication activities in Italian and European Structural and Investment Funds and to analyse 2014-2020 Italian Communication Plans, to provide useful insights for current evaluations. The analysis suggested the importance of using mixed methods and participatory approaches.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 74 No. 3 (2019)
MIUSCAT: extended MILES spectral coverage. I. Stellar populations synthesis models
Creators: name: Vazdekis, A.
name: Ricciardelli, E.
name: Cenarro, A. J.
name: Rivero-González, J. G.
name: Díaz-García, L. A.
name: Falcón-Barroso, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the spectral range of our stellar population synthesis models based on the MILES and CaT empirical stellar spectral libraries. For this purpose we combine these two libraries with the Indo-U.S. to construct composite stellar spectra to feed our models. The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) computed with these models and the originally published models are combined to construct composite SEDs for single-age, single-metallicity stellar populations (SSPs) covering the range 3465 - 9469Åat moderately high, and uniform, resolution (FWHM=2.51Å). The colours derived from these SSP SEDs provide good fits to Galactic globular cluster data. We find that the colours involving redder filters are very sensitive to the IMF, as well as a number of features and molecular bands throughout the spectra. To illustrate the potential use of these models we focus on the NaI doublet at 8200 Åand with the aid of the newly synthesized SSP model SEDs we define a new IMF-sensitive index that is based on this feature, which overcomes various limitations from previous index definitions for low velocity dispersion stellar systems. We propose an index-index diagram based on this feature and the neighboring CaII triplet at 8600 Å, to constrain the IMF if the age and [Na/Fe] abundance are known. Finally we also show a survey-oriented spectrophotometric application which evidences the accurate flux calibration of these models for carrying out reliable spectral fitting techniques. These models are available through our user-friendly website.
description: 16 pages, 17 figures, 2 tables; MNRAS in press. Model predictions available at our website: http://miles.iac.es
Monitoring biodiversity: challenges in High Nature Value farming identification
Creators: name: Trisorio, Antonella
name: Archinto, Desideria
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2019

description: For its relevance to biodiversity conservation, the preservation and development of High Nature Value farming (HNVf) became one of the strategic priorities of Rural Development Policy. HNVf indicators were therefore included into the Common Monitoring Evaluation Framework. This paper illustrates a method aiming at HNVf identification on the basis of the integration of administrative and territorial data, enriched with qualitative information collected through field survey. By providing a higher level of both territorial detail and HNVf characterisation this method refines previous work undertaken by the Italian Network for Rural Development. Results for a pilot Italian region are described and suitability of the method to assess both other agro-environmental indicators and impact indicators is pointed out
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 74 No. 3 (2019)
Additional file 1 of Exosomes loaded with ultrasmall Pt nanoparticles: a novel low-toxicity alternative to cisplatin
Creators: name: Sancho-Albero, María
name: Martín-Pardillos, Ana
name: Lujan, Lluís
name: Sebastian, Víctor
name: Santamaria, Jesús
name: Martín-Duque, Pilar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures and Table.
Disentangling preferences for olive oil taste and healthiness. An incentivised experiment in Morocco and Tunisia
Creators: name: Piras, Simone
name: Barlagne, Carla
name: Clement, Jesper
name: MOKHTARI, Noureddine
name: THABET, Chokri
name: TURA, MATILDE
name: Williams, Isabel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: extra virgin olive oil
consumer preference
experimental auction
willingness to pay
health nudge
polyphenols
origin

description: Olive oil is a key agri-food product in North African countries, yet local diets have been shifting towards less healthy vegetable oils, often driven by policy incentives. On the one hand, local consumers show limited awareness of the health benefits of olive oil. On the other hand, there is a scarcity of studies on consumers’ preferences for this product, with existing research relying on non-incentivised methods, which are subject to hypothetical bias. We use an experimental auction with tasting and the progressive disclosure of information to comparatively assess consumers’ preferences for national brands of ‘extra virgin’ olive oils in Tunisia and Morocco, two important producing countries of which the latter sees no peer reviewed research on this topic. The oils we consider differ in polyphenol content, which is related to bitterer taste and pungent mouthful sensation – generally disliked according to the extant literature – but also to healthiness. Along the experiment, we provide a health-focused nudge, in the form of information about the polyphenol-taste-healthiness linkage. We collect data from over 200 urban consumers in each country. We find no baseline differences in willingness-to-pay (WTP) depending on taste, polyphenol content, or local origin, which we include as an additional key attribute. However, the nudge increases WTP for bitter/pungent oils compared to sweet ones, with the impact persisting even when consumers experience the taste again. These results suggest that a simple, concise message can incentivise consumption of healthier olive oil in a developing country context. Local producers could leverage this to promote their brands, thus supporting local livelihoods and reducing dependence from imported oils.
Influencia de los factores psiquiátricos y psicosociales en los trastornos funcionales gastrointestinales.
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Urrutia, Amanda
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 8 (2019): enero-febrero-marzo
Data Inference in Cloud Computing and Smart Grids: A Grassmann Manifold Approach
Creators: name: Zhao, Yao
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Grassmann manifold
subject: Data inference
subject: QoS
subject: Smart grids

description: Data inference allows to infer data from a partially revealed data set or to detect corrupted data and recover the original data. In general, to infer missing data or to correct corrupted data is theoretically impossible if given no assumption about the data. Under assumptions about the intrinsic features of the data set, algorithms can be developed to recover missing or corrupted data. We consider data inference problems with a low-rank structure of the data matrix. By exploiting the low-rank feature of the matrix, the data inference problems can be modelled as an L1-norm optimization problem. We propose a framework to solve this kind of problems exploiting optimization theory on Grassmann manifold. We apply this framework to Smart Grid to detect false data injection attack and to predict the QoS of a cloud marketplace. The experiments show our framework achieves a good result under both scenarios.
Conceptualizing the contemporary monster
Creators: name: Dilley, Sherrie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Through the challenges of Donna Haraway and Giorgio Agamben to Michel Foucault's theory of biopolitics I develop a conceptual frame for thinking about the sociological role of monsters in modern society. I argue that Foucault's position on the concept of monsters submerges expressions of liminality and exclusion from western society which are based on the mistaken narrative of how static natural laws and dynamic socio-political laws define the individual. Underneath the contemporary iterations of inclusive abnormality and expressions of repressed human desires, monsters illuminate the contradictory "nature" of such laws, and provide the form in which to debate who – or what – is allowed within the definition of a human individual and, therefore, within the human population.
Identification of High Nature Value Farmland: a methodological proposal
Creators: name: Bozzo, Francesco
name: Fucilli, Vincenzo
name: Petrontino, Alessandro
name: Girone, Stefania
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2019

description: The concept of HNVF raises thanks to the integration of biodiversity theme into the CAP. The precise definition of the topic and the application of a correct identification procedure deeply affect the assessment needs of European RDPs. Nevertheless, the level of HNVF knowledge is rather limited due to a methodological variability and a structural lack of suitable data. The research aims at overtaking HNVF identification difficulties complying with specific Community requirements and the use of an efficient theoretical framework that allows accurate location and monitoring over time. The methodology results in characterization and accurate HNVF map for the Apulia Region that can effectively calibrate the implementation of the regional management policies.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 74 No. 3 (2019)
Adopting irrigation advisory services for water footprint estimation to improving biodiversity conservation: a European survey
Creators: name: Altobelli, Filiberto
name: Del Giudice, Teresa
name: Dalla Marta, Anna
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2019

description: In many European regions the Irrigation Advisory Services (IASs) are adopted by farmers for sustainable irrigation practices. These tools are adequate to facilitate the adoption of environmental certification schemes, such as water footprint, which could improve the sustainability of production processes. As part of a survey conducted on 116 farmers among Italy, Greece and Croatia, it was possible to understand their level of awareness with respect to the certification systems in order to evaluate possible actions to be taken to increase awareness of their use. The results showed that farmers still have a certain unawareness with respect to the true added value, in economic terms.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 74 No. 3 (2019)