cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility from an Islamic Perspective
Creators: name: Sayedahmed, Nael Y. M.
name: Abuznaid, Samir A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified

description: Businesses aim to generate profits and long term wealth for the owners. However, that does not mean they can do whatever it takes to get the maximum profits. Businesses have other secondary purposes including providing goods and services, creating employment and gain maximum profits for its stakeholders including employees, customers, and the community at large. To examine the problems associated with balancing profit-motivated activities and meeting needs and expectations of stakeholders, the current study aims at explaining the concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development from an Islamic perspective. The paper employs a grounded theory approach to phenomenological investigation based upon review of published literature in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development from Islamic perspectives. Qur’anic quotes and Ahadith (sayings and practices of Prophet Muhammad PBUH) are heavily used to describe best and explain the concepts. In addition, Muslim scholars and Imams have been consulted on some issues for better definitions of Islamic terms and concepts.
Methods for Constraining Fine Structure Constant Evolution with OH Microwave Transitions
Creators: name: Darling, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the constraints that OH microwave transitions in megamasers and molecular absorbers at cosmological distances may place on the evolution of the fine structure constant alpha=e^2/(hbar c). The centimeter OH transitions are a combination of hyperfine splitting and lambda-doubling that can constrain the cosmic evolution of alpha from a single species, avoiding systematic errors in alpha measurements from multiple species which may have relative velocity offsets. The most promising method compares the 18 and 6 cm OH lines, includes a calibration of systematic errors, and offers multiple determinations of alpha in a single object. Comparisons of OH lines to the HI 21 cm line and CO rotational transitions also show promise.
description: RevTeX, 4 pages, 1 figure, accepted by Physical Review Letters
U.S. Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States, March/April, 1987
Creators: name: Warden, Thomas
name: Warden, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: U.S. agricultural imports
subject: U.S. agricultural exports
subject: World market share
subject: Agricultural
subject: Foreign
subject: Supplies
subject: Domestic
subject: Imports
subject: Dollar
subject: Foreign trade
subject: Export
subject: Prices

description: U.S. agricultural exports fell to $12.1 billion in the first 5 months of fiscal year (FY) 1987, 5 percent below those of the same months of 1986. Reduced demand, the falling value of the dollar, and higher seasonal domestic supplies held U.S. agricultural imports in the first 5 months of FY 1987 at their year-earlier level of $8.6 billion. Sharply lower coffee values, following a year of record-high prices for short Brazilian supplies, dominated February's price change. California maintained its position as leading export State in FY 1986 because of continued declines in exports from large grain-producing States and a stronger horticultural sector. The United States, France, and The Netherlands remained the top three agricultural exporters during 1979-85.
Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States, May/June 1987
Creators: name: Warden, Thomas A.
name: Warden, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Exports
subject: Markets
subject: Imports
subject: Prices
subject: Foreign trade
subject: Agriculture
subject: Data
subject: U.S. agricultural exports
subject: Agricultural imports
subject: Preliminary data
subject: Overseas sales

description: U.S. agricultural exports in the first 7 months of fiscal year CFY) 1987, a transition , year, reached 75 million tons, slightly exceeding volume for the same period of 1986. Imports during the first 7 months of FI 1987 totaled $12.4 billion 1 percent above the record high of the same months of 1986. Grain prices rose with dry U.S. weather, concern for inflation, and renewed overseas sales, but commodity prices remained low compared with years past. Preliminary data show that concessional agricultural exports under U.S. Government-financed programs in calendar year 1986 fell about 30 percent, in volume to 5.8 million tons. Japan has remained the leading market for U.S. agricultural exports for the last 5 years CFY 1982-86), followed by the Netherlands, USSR, Canada, Mexico, South Korea, and Taiwan. Major markets for agricultural imports remained essentially the same in 1976-85.
Hunting ghosts: the iconic stellar stream(s) around NG5907 under scrutiny
Creators: name: Müller, Oliver
name: Vudragović, Ana
name: Bílek, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stellar streams are regarded as crucial objects to test galaxy formation models, with their morphology tracing the underlying potentials and their occurrence tracking the assembly history of the galaxies. The existence of one of the most iconic stellar streams, the double loop around NGC5907, has recently been questioned by new observations with the Dragonfly telescope. This new work only finds parts of the stream, even though they reach a 1 sigma surface brightness limit of 30.3 mag per sq. arcsec in the g-band. Using 7.2 hours of Luminance L-band imaging with the Milanković 1.4 meter telescope, we have re-observed the putative double loop part to confirm or reject this assessment. We do not find signs of the double loop, but see only a single, knee-shaped stellar stream. Comparing our to the data by the Dragonfly team, we find the same features. Our observations reach a 1 sigma surface brightness limit of 29.7 mag per sq. arcsec in the g-band. These findings emphasize the need for independent confirmation of detections of very low-surface brightness features.
description: accepted for publication in A&A Letters, 5 pages, 3 figures
Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States, July/August 1987
Creators: name: Warden, Thomas A.
name: Warden, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Agriculture
subject: Exports
subject: Imports
subject: Products
subject: Programs
subject: Foreign trade
subject: Commodity Credit Corporation
subject: Export credit programs

description: U.S. agricultural exports rose to $21 billion in the first 9 months of fiscal year (FY) i 1987, 1 percent more than those of the same period in FY 1986. U.S. agricultural imports ~. totaled $15.8 billion during the first 9 months of FY 1987, slightly below the record high level for the same period in FY 1986. Prices for soybeans, soybean meal, wheat, cotton, cocoa and rubber increased during 1987, and by June surpassed year-earlier levels. In FY 1986, shipments of U.S. agricultural products through the Commodity Credit Corporation's (CCC) export credit programs fell to $2.4 billion, 14 percent below year-earlier levels.
A Reproducible Analysis of RSSI Fingerprinting for Outdoor Localization Using Sigfox: Preprocessing and Hyperparameter Tuning
Creators: name: Anagnostopoulos, Grigorios G.
name: Kalousis, Alexandros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fingerprinting techniques, which are a common method for indoor localization, have been recently applied with success into outdoor settings. Particularly, the communication signals of Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) such as Sigfox, have been used for localization. In this rather recent field of study, not many publicly available datasets, which would facilitate the consistent comparison of different positioning systems, exist so far. In the current study, a published dataset of RSSI measurements on a Sigfox network deployed in Antwerp, Belgium is used to analyse the appropriate selection of preprocessing steps and to tune the hyperparameters of a kNN fingerprinting method. Initially, the tuning of hyperparameter k for a variety of distance metrics, and the selection of efficient data transformation schemes, proposed by relevant works, is presented. In addition, accuracy improvements are achieved in this study, by a detailed examination of the appropriate adjustment of the parameters of the data transformation schemes tested, and of the handling of out of range values. With the appropriate tuning of these factors, the achieved mean localization error was 298 meters, and the median error was 109 meters. To facilitate the reproducibility of tests and comparability of results, the code and train/validation/test split used in this study are available.
description: Preprint of a paper to be presented in IPIN2019
New challenges for Romanian agriculture – Organic farming
Creators: name: Voilcilas, Dan Marius
name: Voilcilas, Dan Marius
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: organic farming
subject: transition
subject: Romania

description: The paper presents the evolution of the organic farming in Romania, the general background, the legislation bearing on it, the institutions created to coordinate this activity, the rules that should be observed for a product to be labelled as organic, opportunities for Romanian farmers, the new challenges in the fi led, tendencies and traditions. All these are analyzed in close relation with the evolution in the world and indicate the place of Romania in this competition.
Magnetic Fields and Ionized Gas in the Local Group Irregular Galaxies IC10 and NGC6822
Creators: name: Chyzy, K. T.
name: Knapik, J.
name: Bomans, D. J.
name: Klein, U.
name: Beck, R.
name: Soida, M.
name: Urbanik, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed a high-sensitivity search for galaxy-scale magnetic fields by radio polarimetry at 10.45GHz and 4.85GHz with the Effelsberg 100m radio telescope, accompanied by Halpha imaging, for the two Local Group irregular galaxies IC10 and NGC6822. Their star-forming bodies are small and rotate slowly. IC10 is known to have a very high star-forming activity, resembling blue compact dwarfs, while NGC6822 has a low overall star-formation level. Despite very different current star formation rates, our Halpha imaging revealed a large web of diffuse Halpha filaments and shells in both IC10 and NGC6822. Some of them extend far away from the galaxy's main body. The total power emission of both objects shows bright peaks either at the positions of optically strong star-forming clumps (IC10) or individual HII regions or supernova remnants (NGC6822). However, in both cases we detect a smoothly distributed, extended component. In IC10 we found clear evidence for the presence of a diffuse, mostly random magnetic field of ~14muG strength, probably generated by a fluctuation dynamo. One of the Halpha-emitting filaments appears to be associated with enhanced magnetic fields. We also rediscuss the reddening of IC10 and its implications for its distance. In the case of NGC6822 we found only very weak evidence for nonthermal emission, except perhaps for some regions associated with local gas compression. We detect in both galaxies small spots of polarized emission, indicative of regular fields (~3muG), at least partly associated with local compressional phenomena.
description: accepted for publication in AA, 13 pages including 10 figures, high-res version at http://www.oa.uj.edu.pl/~chris/publ/ic10.ps.gz
MOESM1 of Genotypes and phenotypes of resistance in Ecuadorian Plasmodium falciparum
Creators: name: Valenzuela, Gabriela
name: L. Castro
name: Valencia-Zamora, Julio
name: Vera-Arias, Claudia
name: Rohrbach, Petra
name: Fabián Sáenz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers and conditions used for amplification of drug resistance markers.
Confirmation of solar-like oscillations in eta Bootis
Creators: name: Kjeldsen, H.
name: Bedding, T. R.
name: Baldry, I. K.
name: Bruntt, H.
name: Butler, R. P.
name: Fischer, D. A.
name: Frandsen, S.
name: Gates, E. L.
name: Grundahl, F.
name: Lang, K.
name: Marcy, G. W.
name: Misch, A.
name: Vogt, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtained time-series spectroscopy of the G0 subgiant eta Boo in an attempt to confirm the solar-like oscillations reported by Kjeldsen et al. (1995). We recorded 1843 spectra over six consecutive nights with the Nordic Optical Telescope, which we used to measure equivalent widths of strong temperature-sensitive lines. We also measured velocities from 1989 spectra obtained through an iodine reference cell at Lick Observatory over 56 nights that were badly affected by weather. Our analysis also included velocity measurements published by Brown et al. (1997) and the original equivalent-width measurements by Kjeldsen et al. (1995). All four data sets show power excesses consistent with oscillations, although with a range of amplitudes that presumably reflects the stochastic nature of the excitation. The highest peaks show regularity with a large separation of Delta nu = 40.4 microHz and we identify 21 oscillation frequencies from the combined data.
description: 18 pages, LaTeX with figures. Accepted for publication by AJ
KIC 4142768: An Evolved Gamma Doradus/Delta Scuti Hybrid Pulsating Eclipsing Binary with Tidally Excited Oscillations
Creators: name: Guo, Zhao
name: Fuller, Jim
name: Shporer, Avi
name: Li, Gang
name: Hambleton, Kelly
name: Manuel, Joseph
name: Murphy, Simon
name: Isaacson, Howard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the characterization of KIC 4142768, an eclipsing binary with two evolved A-type stars in an eccentric orbit with a period of 14 days. We measure the fundamental parameters of the two components ($M_1=2.05M_{\odot}, R_1=2.96R_{\odot}$ and $M_2=2.05M_{\odot}, R_2=2.51R_{\odot}$) by combining {\it Kepler} photometry and spectra from {\it Keck} HIRES. The measured surface rotation rates are only one-fifth of the pseudo-synchronous rate of the eccentric orbit. Fourier spectrum of the light curve reveals hybrid pulsations of $δ$ Scuti and $γ$ Doradus type, with pulsation frequencies at about $15-18$ day$^{-1}$ for p modes and about $0.2-1.2$ day$^{-1}$ for low-frequency g modes. Some of the g modes are exact orbital harmonics and are likely tidally excited. Their pulsation amplitudes and phases both agree with predictions from the linear tidal theory for $l=2, m=2$ prograde modes. We examine the period spacing patterns in the free oscillating g modes and identify them mostly as prograde sectoral dipole modes. The unstable frequency range and frequency spacing of p modes and the inferred asymptotic g-mode period spacings both agree with the stellar model for the primary star evolved to a late stage of the main sequence. The inferred rotation rate of the convective core boundary is very slow, similar to the small surface rotation rate inferred from the spectroscopy. The measured surface and near-core rotation rates provide constraints for testing the mechanism of angular momentum transfer and tidal synchronization in evolved eccentric binary star systems.
description: ApJ, accepted
A New Keynesian Model with Wealth in the Utility Function
Creators: name: Michaillat, Pascal
name: Saez, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: This paper extends the New Keynesian model by introducing wealth, in the form of government bonds, into the utility function. The extension modifies the Euler equation: in steady state the real interest rate is negatively related to consumption instead of being constant, equal to the time discount rate. Thus, when the marginal utility of wealth is large enough, the dynamical system representing the equilibrium is a source not only in normal times but also at the zero lower bound. This property eliminates the zero-lower-bound anomalies of the New Keynesian model, such as explosive output and inflation, and forward-guidance puzzle.
Distinct changes of genomic biases in nucleotide substitution at the time of mammalian radiation
Creators: name: Arndt, Peter F.
name: Petrov, Dmitri A.
name: Hwa, Terence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Differences in the regional substitution patterns in the human genome created patterns of large-scale variation of base composition known as genomic isochores. To gain insight into the origin of the genomic isochores we develop a maximum likelihood approach to determine the history of substitution patterns in the human genome. This approach utilizes the vast amount of repetitive sequence deposited in the human genome over the past ~250 MYR. Using this approach we estimate the frequencies of seven types of substitutions: the four transversions, two transitions, and the methyl-assisted transition of cytosine in CpG. Comparing substitutional patterns in repetitive elements of various ages, we reconstruct the history of the base-substitutional process in the different isochores for the past 250 Myr. At around 90 Myr ago (around the time of the mammalian radiation), we find an abrupt 4- to 8-fold increase of the cytosine transition rate in CpG pairs compared to that of the reptilian ancestor. Further analysis of nucleotide substitutions in regions with different GC-content reveals concurrent changes in the substitutional patterns. While the substitutional pattern was dependent on the regional GC-content in such ways that it preserved the regional GC-content before the mammalian radiation, it lost this dependence afterwards. The substitutional pattern changed from an isochore-preserving to an isochore-degrading one. We conclude that isochores have been established before the radiation of the eutherian mammals and have been subject to the process of homogenization since then.
Comparative Case Study on Institutionalization of Ruling Parties Under Military Authoritarianism: Democratic Republican Party Under Park Chung-Hee Regime in South Korea (1961-1979) and GOLKAR Under Suharto Regime in Indonesia (1966-1998)
Creators: name: Sungdeuk Lee
name: Magenda, Burhan Djabir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: South Korea and Indonesia have experienced similar military political interventions and coups which brought a long military authoritarian regime. Strong military authoritarian regime with their own ruling parties could last for 18 years in South Korea and 32 years in Indonesia. In South Korea, Park Chung-hee Regime ended in 1979 when he was murdered by his subordinates, which was followed by the dissolution of the ruling party, Democratic Republican Party (Jeong, 2009, p. 29). Whereas in Indonesia, the reform movement with socio-political instability by the economic crisis in 1997 resulted the collapse of Suharto's hegemony and authoritarian regime in 1998 while the ruling party, Golkar still exists today. This study aims to find answers to why there have been differences in the end of both parties, related with the political party institutionalization. And this study would like to show that the Democratic Republican Party failed to be institutionalized while the Golkar Party could survive and win the election again. Thus, this study would like to say that the level of institutionalization must be different in the Democratic Republican Party and the Golkar Party.
Helicity-Dependent Angular Distributions in Double-Charged-Pion Photoproduction
Creators: name: Strauch, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-pion photoproduction in the reaction gamma + p -> p + pi^+ + pi^- has been studied at Jefferson Lab Hall B using a circularly-polarized tagged photon beam in the energy range between 0.6 GeV and 2.3 GeV. Owing to the large angular acceptance of the CLAS detector, complete beam-helicity-dependent angular distributions of the final-state particles were measured. The large cross-section asymmetries exhibit strong sensitivity to the kinematics of the reaction and provide valuable information on the reaction dynamics. Preliminary results are presented.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings of 2nd Int. Conf. on Nuclear and Particle Physics with CEBAF at Jefferson Lab, Dubrovnik, 26-31 May 2003, to be published in Fyzika B
Deliverable D3.2 - 6G-SANDBOX Library V1
Creators: name: Mowla, Md Munjure
name: Flizikowski, Adam
name: Kulesza, Piotr
name: Kooshki, Farinaz
name: Gdowski, Robert
name: Luque-Schempp, Francisco
name: García, Rafael
name: Macías, Jesús
name: Torrealba, Arturo Jose
name: Artuñedo Guillén, David
name: Tsolkas, Dimitris
name: Gkatzios, Nikolaos
name: Koumaras, Vaios
name: Theodoropoulos, Georgios
name: Makropoulos, George
name: Koumaras, Harilaos
name: Reyes, Pablo
name: Marín, Hipólito
name: Correal, Alba
name: Yu, Hao
name: Guo, Qize
name: Ming, Zhao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This report outlines the implementations of technology enablers within the 6G-SANDBOX Library, including Open RAN, RIS, NTN, Deterministic Networking with P4 and TSN, as well as XR. In the context of our EU project, the "6G Library V1" deliverable aims to create the foundational version of the 6G Library. This involves explaining the concepts, roles, and implementation of disruptive technologies like Open RAN, RIS, NTN with OpenSAND, Deterministic networking with P4, Time-sensitive networks, and extended reality (XR). The key objective is to outline how these technologies are implemented in the contexts of 6G, emphasizing connectivity with the API, Experimentation automation tools, Trial Networks, and the 6G library repository throughout their lifecycle. The relevant 6G library objects are also mentioned to indicate their useability. An established Library repository will be utilized in the development process, with a concentration on the latest technology components and their integration. A detailed methodology covering the Research Approach, Data Collection, results, and Data Analysis for the pertinent technology components is provided in Section 3. This methodology aligns with the goals of the broader "6G-SANDBOX" project, as explained in Section 3 of Deliverable 2.1. At a higher level, the 6G-SANDBOX facility is envisioned to grow into the complete 6G library, aligning seamlessly with the overarching project objective.
Molecular Gas and the Nuclear Star Cluster in IC342: Sufficient Inflow for Recurring Star Formation Events?
Creators: name: Schinnerer, E.
name: Boeker, T.
name: Meier, D. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high spatial resolution (1.2") mm-interferometric observations of the CO(2-1) line emission in the central 300pc of the late-type spiral galaxy IC342. The data, obtained with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory, allow first-time detection of a molecular gas disk that coincides with the luminous young stellar cluster in the nucleus of IC342. The nuclear CO disk has a diameter of ~30pc and a molecular gas mass of M(H2) ~ 2x10^5 M_sun. It connects via two faint CO bridges to the well-known, 100pc diameter circumnuclear gas ring. Analysis of the gas kinematics shows that the line-of-nodes in the inner 15pc is offset by about 45degree from the major kinematic axis, indicating non-circular motion of the gas within a few parsec of the dynamical center of IC342. Both the morphology and the kinematics of the CO gas indicate ongoing inflow of molecular gas into the central few parsec of IC342. We infer a gas inflow rate between 0.003 and 0.14 M_sun/yr, based on the observed surface density of the nuclear gas disk and estimates of the radial velocities of the surrounding gas. Inflow rates of this order can support repetitive star formation events in the nucleus of IC342 on timescales much smaller than a Hubble time.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, accepted by ApJL
title: Avant-propos_Roger de Piles
Creators: name: AmateurS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021

description: Avant-propos
description: ID_PARA_01107
African Leafy Vegetables and Household Wellbeing in Kenya: A Disaggregation by Gender
Creators: name: Mwaura, S.N.
name: Muluvi, A.S.
name: Mathenge, Mary K.
name: Mwaura, S.N.
name: Muluvi, A.S.
name: Mathenge, Mary K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: African Indigenous Vegetables
subject: probit
subject: ordinary Least Squares

description: The aim of this study was to analyze the contribution of African Leafy Vegetables (ALVs) to household wellbeing by gender. The study was conducted in Kiambu District using multistage sampling technique. Primary data was collected from a sample of 166 small-scale farmers using a structured questionnaire. The findings of the study showed that ALVs is an important contributor to household income. Income, primary occupation of the farmer, distance to market, access to extension services, access to technical support, and distance to piped water source, were found to be important factors influencing production of ALVs by smallholder farmers. The factors determining gross margins of ALVs, for women, included; education, land size, distance to piped water source and technical support for ALVs farming. While the determinants of ALVs gross margins for men included; age of the household head, experience in farming, access to credit, group membership and access to technical support. On the policy front the study recommends the empowerment of the smallholder household, especially the female headed households and the youth, with productive resources such as extension services, technical support and an alternative land tenure system so as to improve their livelihoods.
Explaining Rural Poverty Persistence in Tunisia from the Perspective of Path Dependence Theory
Creators: name: Mkacher, Safa Ben Hadj Mbarek
name: Mkacher, Safa Ben Hadj Mbarek
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Food Security and Poverty

description: Since independence in 1956, Tunisia has experienced a significant reduction of poverty and improvement of social indicators. Yet, regional and socio-economic disparities remain significant. The issue of regional disparities was at the core of the social unrest in the Mid-East regions that are essentially rural regions and have led to the revolution of January 14, 2011. Persistence of poverty among rural population questions rural development policies based on modernization and agricultural development. However, the modernization policy has always favored the exclusion of poor rural population holding small farms. Based on these observations, this paper aims to analyze of rural poverty persistence as “path dependency process”. We first argue that land tenure is a key of the puzzle for examining the interaction between institutional framework regulating agriculture and economic outcomes of different rural social classes. Whereas, land tenure system is a result of agrarian reforms occurred in the 70’s that aimed to clarify private property rights on land. In that perspective, we review historical evidence about institutional reforms of land tenure in Tunisia since independence, and we argue about their consequence in terms of rural development. Thus, during the decade 75-85, big farmers, benefiting from institutional arrangement have developed “learning through institutions” and competitive strategies. The cumulative process would create “institutional path dependency”. that would structure the economic game through time and would result in “economic path dependency”. This framework in terms of path dependency explains not only economic performance of large scale farms but also the trap to poverty of the rural population. Key Words- Rural poverty- land tenure system- agricultural modernization- path dependency- Tunisia.
Additional file 1 of The potential of plant extracts in cell therapy
Creators: name: Li, Caifeng
name: Cui, Zhao
name: Deng, Shiwen
name: Chen, Peng
name: Li, Xianyu
name: Yang, Hongjun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Plant Extracts for the Osteogenesis of MSCs.
A Phase Shift and Sum Method for UWB Radar Imaging in Dispersive Media
Creators: name: Shao, Wenyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A phase shift and sum (PSAS) algorithm to image objects in dispersive media is presented. The algorithm compensates the phase shift of the scattered field from the receiver to the source for each frequency component in an ultrawideband (UWB) and then integrates all the frequency responses. This method resolves the multispeed and multipath issue when UWB signals propagate in dispersive media. In addition, a multipath effect due to refraction on a curved boundary is also explored. By collecting data using a customized microwave measurement system of two different objects placed in a plastic graduated cylinder filled with glycerin, along the measured dielectric parameters of glycerin (a dispersive medium), highquality reconstructed images are formed using PSAS. Quantitative and qualitative comparisons with two other traditional time-shift radar-based microwave imaging algorithms for the same objects under test demonstrate the advantages of PSAS.
description: 10 pages
Supplementary Information from Food discovery is associated with different reliance on social learning and lower cognitive flexibility across environments in a food-caching bird
Creators: name: Heinen, Virginia
name: Pitera, Angela M.
name: Sonnenberg, Benjamin
name: Benedict, Lauren M.
name: Bridge, Eli
name: Farine, Damien R.
name: Pravosudov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Figures and tables not included in the main text
Cropping Intensification and Technical Inefficiency of Maize-Based Farming Households in Southern-Guinea Savanna (SGS) of Nigeria
Creators: name: Salau, S.A.
name: Salau, S.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Maize-based farming households
subject: productivity and technical efficiency

description: Maize is a main staple food in Nigeria, high productivity and efficiency in its production are critical to food security and poverty alleviation in the country. Thus, this paper estimates cropping intensification, the levels of technical efficiency of 252 maize–based farming households in southern-guinea savannah (SGS) of Nigeria and provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of technical inefficiency. Results show that the crop production intensity scores among the farming households ranged between 5.5 and 38.50 with a mean score of 23.13. Technical efficiencies of smallholder maize-based farming households ranged from 0.183 to 0.926 with a mean of 0.478. This result indicated the possibility of improving the efficiency of the sampled farming households by 51.3% with the existing resources and technology. The result of the inefficiency model shows that cropping intensification, farming experience and household size are the significant variables determining technical efficiency of maize-based households. Favourable inputs and output prices of agricultural produce as well as other policies that could facilitate households’ access to agricultural inputs are hereby suggested. Policies aimed at reducing household size should also be vigorously pursued.
Inertial modes of non-stratified superfluid neutron stars
Creators: name: Prix, R.
name: Comer, G. L.
name: Andersson, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results concerning adiabatic inertial-mode oscillations of non-stratified superfluid neutron stars in Newtonian gravity, using the anelastic and slow-rotation approximations. We consider a simple two-fluid model of a superfluid neutron star, where one fluid consists of the superfluid neutrons and the second fluid contains all the comoving constituents (protons, electrons). The two fluids are assumed to be ``free'' in the sense that vortex-mediated forces like mutual friction or pinning are absent, but they can be coupled by the equation of state, in particular by entrainment. The stationary background consists of the two fluids rotating uniformly around the same axis with potentially different rotation rates. We study the special cases of co-rotating backgrounds, vanishing entrainment, and the purely toroidal r-modes, analytically. We calculate numerically the eigenfunctions and frequencies of inertial modes in the general case of non co-rotating backgrounds, and study their dependence on the relative rotation rate and entrainment. In these non-stratified models we find avoided crossings only between associated mode-pairs, eg. an ``ordinary'' mode and its ``superfluid'' counterpart, while other mode-frequencies generally cross as the background parameters are varied. We confirm (for the first time in a mode calculation) the onset of a ``two-stream instability'' at a critical relative background rotation rate, and study some of the properties of this instability for the inertial modes.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, uses mn2e.cls; submitted
Odorrana livida
Creators: name: Rujirawan, Attapol
name: Stuart, Bryan L.
name: Aowphol, Anchalee
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Ranidae
Odorrana
Odorrana livida

description: Odorrana livida (Blyth, 1856)
(Figures 2, 3, 4, 5)
 Polypedates lividus Blyth, 1856: 718
 Odorrana livida Fei, Ye and Huang, 1990: 148.
description: Published as part of Rujirawan, Attapol, Stuart, Bryan L. & Aowphol, Anchalee, 2018, Expanded description of Odorrana livida (Blyth, 1856) with notes on its natural history in Thailand, pp. 1581-1600 in Journal of Natural History 52 (21 - 24) on page 1584, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1481236, http://zenodo.org/record/5174940
MOESM8 of Benefits and harms of medical cannabis: a scoping review of systematic reviews
Creators: name: Pratt, Misty
name: Stevens, Adrienne
name: Micere Thuku
name: Butler, Claire
name: Skidmore, Becky
name: L. Wieland
name: Clemons, Mark
name: Salmaan Kanji
name: Hutton, Brian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 8. AMSTAR Scores by Review.
Economics of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor(L) Moench) Production in Bauchi Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Sani, R.M.
name: Haruna, R.
name: Sirajo, S.
name: Sani, R.M.
name: Haruna, R.
name: Sirajo, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Economics
subject: Sorghum
subject: Production
subject: Bauchi

description: The study was conducted in Bauchi Local Government Area of Bauchi State- Nigeria, to examine the economics of sorghum production. Sixty farmers were randomly chosen and data were collected using a well prepared questionnaire supplemented with oral interview between April and May,2011. The data were analysed using simple descriptive statistics, farm budgeting model and Cobb Douglas production model. The result showed that majority (51%) of the farmers fell between the ranges of 40-49 years, 53% had one form of education or another and 98% of them were married. The result also revealed that farmers in the study areas obtained a net farm income of N 14, 400 per hectare and N 1.79 as return per Naira invested with an operating ratio, gross ratio and fixed ration of 0.47, 0.55 and 0.08 respectively. The regression analysis revealed an R2 value of 64.0% and the coefficients of labour, fertilizer and herbicide were found to be significant (P<0.05) with positive signs, while seed was found to be significant (P<0.05). In conclusion, sorghum has been found to be profitable in the area and therefore may serve as a means of poverty reduction. However, the major constraints identified in sorghum production were high cost of inputs, low prices of produce, inadequate provision of credit and inadequate storage facilities amongst others. Therefore, intervention such as provision of inputs, soft loans, and good storage facilities will go a long way to increase production and profitability.
title: A Within-session Analysis of the Interview Informed Synthesized Contingency Analysis in a University Clinic Setting
Creators: name: Venuto, Jenna M.
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: In this study, a within-session analysis of the interview informed synthesized contingency analysis (IISCA) was conducted to determine if the function of challenging behavior could be determined within the first 5 min test session and the extent that results from the first 5 min test session aligned with results from the full IISCA. An alternating treatment design was used to evaluate differentiated rates of challenging behavior during a full IISCA and the within-session analysis for four clients in a clinic setting. Results indicated that contingencies maintaining challenging behavior could be identified within the first 5 min test session and align with the conclusions from the full IISCA some of the time.
description: © 2021 Jenna M. Venuto
MOESM7 of Benefits and harms of medical cannabis: a scoping review of systematic reviews
Creators: name: Pratt, Misty
name: Stevens, Adrienne
name: Micere Thuku
name: Butler, Claire
name: Skidmore, Becky
name: L. Wieland
name: Clemons, Mark
name: Salmaan Kanji
name: Hutton, Brian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 7. AMSTAR Scoring Outline.
MOESM1 of Exploring health workforce regulation practices and gaps in Ethiopia: a national cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Dejene, Daniel
name: Tegbar Yigzaw
name: Mengistu, Samuel
name: Firew Ayalew
name: Kahsaye, Manuel
name: Damtew Woldemariam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Experiences on CPD, exploring health workforce regulation practices and gaps, Ethiopia, March 2015.
Nonextensive statistical mechanics - Applications to nuclear and high energy physics
Creators: name: Tsallis, C.
name: Borges, Ernesto P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A variety of phenomena in nuclear and high energy physics seemingly do not satisfy the basic hypothesis for possible stationary states to be of the type covered by Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) statistical mechanics. More specifically, the system appears to relax, along time, on macroscopic states which violate the ergodic assumption. Some of these phenomena appear to follow, instead, the prescriptions of nonextensive statistical mechanics. In the same manner that the BG formalism is based on the entropy $S_{BG}=-k \sum_i p_i \ln p_i$, the nonextensive one is based on the form $S_q=k(1-\sum_ip_i^q)/(q-1)$ (with $S_1=S_{BG}$). Typically, the systems following the rules derived from the former exhibit an {\it exponential} relaxation with time toward a stationary state characterized by an {\it exponential} dependence on the energy ({\it thermal equilibrium}), whereas those following the rules derived from the latter are characterized by (asymptotic) {\it power-laws} (both the typical time dependences, and the energy distribution at the stationary state). A brief review of this theory is given here, as well as of some of its applications, such as electron-positron annihilation producing hadronic jets, collisions involving heavy nuclei, the solar neutrino problem, anomalous diffusion of a quark in a quark-gluon plasma, and flux of cosmic rays on Earth. In addition to these points, very recent developments generalizing nonextensive statistical mechanics itself are mentioned.
description: 23 pages including 5 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the Xth International Workshop on Multiparticle Production - Correlations and Fluctuations in QCD (8-15 June 2002, Crete), ed. N. Antoniou (World Scientific, Singapore, 2003). It includes a reply to the criticism expressed in R. Luzzi, A.R. Vasconcellos and J.G. Ramos, Science 298, 1171 (2002)
title: 02_0421
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
First Results from the Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver
Creators: name: Runyan, M. C.
name: Ade, P. A. R.
name: Bock, J. J.
name: Bond, J. R.
name: Cantalupo, C.
name: Contaldi, C. R.
name: Daub, M. D.
name: Goldstein, J. H.
name: Gomez, P. L.
name: Holzapfel, W. L.
name: Kuo, C. L.
name: Lange, A. E.
name: Lueker, M.
name: Newcomb, M.
name: Peterson, J. B.
name: Pogosyan, D.
name: Romer, A. K.
name: Ruhl, J.
name: Torbet, E.
name: Woolsey, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the first science results from the Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver (ACBAR); a multifrequency millimeter-wave receiver optimized for observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in clusters of galaxies. ACBAR was installed on the 2 m Viper telescope at the South Pole in January 2001 and the results presented here incorporate data through July 2002. We present the power spectrum of the CMB at 150 GHz over the range \ell = 150 - 3000 measured by ACBAR as well as estimates for the values of the cosmological parameters within the context of Lambda-CDM models. We find that the inclusion of Omega_Lambda greatly improves the fit to the power spectrum. We also observe a slight excess of small-scale anisotropy at 150 GHz; if interpreted as power from the SZ effect of unresolved clusters, the measured signal is consistent with CBI and BIMA within the context of the SZ power spectrum models tested.
description: To be published in the proceedings of "The Cosmic Microwave Background and its Polarization", New Astronomy Reviews, (eds. S. Hanany and K.A. Olive). 10 pages, 2 figures
MOESM1 of General practitioners’ accounts of negotiating antibiotic prescribing decisions with patients: a qualitative study on what influences antibiotic prescribing in low, medium and high prescribing practices
Creators: name: Zande, Marieke
name: Dembinsky, Melanie
name: Aresi, Giovanni
name: Staa, Tjeerd
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary information to“General practitioners’ accounts of negotiating antibiotic prescribing decisions with patients: a qualitative study on what influences antibiotic prescribing in low, medium and high prescribing practices”.