cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Vermarkten Winzergenossenschaften weniger erfolgreich als andere Unternehmensformen? Hedonische Preisanalysen im Modellvergleich
Creators: name: Hansen, Rebecca
name: Hess, Sebastian
name: Hansen, Rebecca
name: Hess, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Winzergenossenschaften
subject: Hedonische Preisanalyse
subject: Endogenität
subject: IV Schätzung

description: Genossenschaften sind eine im Agrarsektor weit verbreitete, solidarische Unternehmensform, deren ökonomische Effizienz in der Literatur kontrovers diskutiert wird. Für die Preisbildung bei deutschen Weinen wird anhand hedonischer Preisanalysen untersucht, ob Winzergenossenschaften systematisch niedrigere Preise erzielen, niedrigere Qualitätssegmente bedienen oder sogar erfolgreicher sein können als andere Unternehmensformen. Gegenüber früheren Untersuchungen wird die endogene Bedeutung der Qualitätsbewertung in Weinführern im Zusammenhang mit winzerspezifischen und regionalen Reputationseffekten analysiert. Neben herkömmlichen OLS und 2SLS Schätzungen werden dazu auch IV Modelle mit intern und/oder extern generierten Instrumentenvariablen geschätzt, um dem latenten Konstrukt von Qualität und Reputation gerecht zu werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass vor allem die Bewertung durch etablierte Weinführer einen Einfluss auf die Preissetzung nimmt und hiervon auch Winzergenossenschaften profitieren können, während sich die Organisationsform eines Winzerunternehmens nicht systematisch auf den Preis auswirkt.
Impact of research investment on Cassava production technologies in India
Creators: name: Srinivas, Tavva
name: Srinivas, Tavva
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: cassava
subject: economic surplus
subject: impact assessment
subject: India
subject: production technologies

description: The present study was an ex-post assessment done to validate past funding on cassava research, based on economic surplus approach. Though cassava was introduced as a food crop in Kerala, India from Brazil, it has changed its status to commercial crop at present in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh states. This was made possible due to intensive research and development efforts of different R&D organizations. Cassava technologies developed enabled in sustaining the crop in the country with the world’s highest productivity. All the cassava production technologies considered in the study resulted in an economic surplus of Rs.3585.87 million in the target domain covering Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Consumers and producers benefited to the tune of Rs.2090.64 million and Rs.1495.23 million respectively. Net present value of economic gains was estimated to be Rs.3548.76 million. Present value of research investment on cassava production technologies was Rs.37.11 million resulting in benefit cost ratio of 96.63:1 with a high internal rate of return of 104 per cent. Thus the study indicated that the research investments incurred on cassava production technologies development was highly economical and provided evidence to the policy makers that supporting the research investment on underground, under exploited tropical root crops like cassava is an economically viable proposition.
Alien Nation
Creators: name: Hoole, Adam
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: Can we (re)write our own subjectivity? What is lost in translation when we attempt to remake ourselves through speech acts? These questions are perhaps the most unsolvable and fundamental to inquiries into the operations of subjectivity. Nevertheless, they are questions I am to encounter and explore in this paper through a singular case study of the Manus Island Regional Processing Center. Founded in 2001, the Manus Island Processing Center served as a place for Australia to indefinitely detain refugees off-shore. The Processing Center was also a contentious site of violence and protest, of stillness and chaos, of love and despair. The Manus refugees were engaged in a daily effort to translate and tell their experiences to bring about an end to their detention. Using an extensive archive of primary sources from the island, including government documents, video, pictures, diaries, and notes, I aim to examine how the Manus refugees attempt to translate their subject position to an Australian audience. I explore how these speech acts are co-opted or interpellated by the dominate discourses they enter into dialogue with, and the translational problematics that arise when trying to tell one’s own subjectivity differently.
Generating Anthropomorphic Phantoms Using Fully Unsupervised Deformable Image Registration with Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Chen, Junyu
name: Li, Ye
name: Du, Yong
name: Frey, Eric C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Objectives: Computerized phantoms play an essential role in various applications of medical imaging research. Although the existing computerized phantoms can model anatomical variations through organ and phantom scaling, this does not provide a way to fully reproduce anatomical variations seen in humans. However, having a population of phantoms that models the variations in patient anatomy and, in nuclear medicine, uptake realization is essential for comprehensive validation and training. In this work, we present a novel image registration method for creating highly anatomically detailed anthropomorphic phantoms from a single digital phantom. Methods: We propose a deep-learning-based registration algorithm to predict deformation parameters for warping an XCAT phantom to a patient CT scan. This proposed algorithm optimizes a novel SSIM-based objective function for a given image pair independently of the training data and thus is truly and fully unsupervised. We evaluate the proposed method on a publicly available low-dose CT dataset from TCIA. Results: The performance of the proposed model was compared with that of several state-of-the-art methods, and outperformed them by more than 8%, measured by the SSIM and less than 30%, by the MSE. Conclusion: A deep-learning-based unsupervised registration method was developed to create anthropomorphic phantoms while providing "gold-standard" anatomies that can be used as the basis for modeling organ properties. Significance: Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The resulting anthropomorphic phantom is highly realistic. Combined with realistic simulations of the image formation process, the generated phantoms could serve in many applications of medical imaging research.
Determinants of Regional Raw Milk Prices in Russia
Creators: name: Kresova, Svetlana
name: Hess, Sebastian
name: Kresova, Svetlana
name: Hess, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Development
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: milk price
subject: Russia
subject: machine learning
subject: random forest

description: Drivers of regional milk price differences across Russian regions are difficult to determine due to limited data availability and restrictions on data collection. In this study, official data from Russian regions for the period from 2013 to 2018 was analysed based on 18 predictor variables in order to explain the regional raw milk price. Due to various data-based restrictions, the use of conventional panel regression models was limited and the analysis was therefore performed based on a Random Forest (RF) machine learning algorithm. Model training and hyperparameter optimization was performed on the training data set with time folds cross-validation. The findings of the study showed that the RF algorithm has a good predictive performance in the test data set even with the default RF values. Finally, the RF variable importance showed that income, gross regional product, livestock density, and milk yield are the four most important variables for explaining the variation in regional milk prices.
Categorizing Abortions By Safety Category: A Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling Approach
Creators: name: Kang, Zhenning
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: Since 1990s, World Health Organization defines abortion as safe if it was done with a recommended method that was appropriate to the pregnancy duration and if the person providing the abortion was trained. In this study, we used a three-tiered categorization on abortion safety. Abortion is less safe if the pregnancy was terminated either by untrained individuals or under dangerous methods, and least safe if neither of the two criteria was met. We included all available empirical data on abortion methods, providers, and settings, and factors affecting safety as covariates to estimate the global, regional, and sub regional distributions of abortion by safety categories for the period 2010-2014.
We applied a Bayesian hierarchical model with two regression submodels to estimate abortion safety. One submodel estimated safe proportions and the other one divided unsafe into less safe and least safe proportions. Country intercepts were included in both submodels and estimated using hierarchical models. Data sources were assigned varying levels of uncertainty or treated as minima or maxima to reflect quality of reporting. We constructed 90% highest density intervals as credible intervals to reflect uncertainty in final outcomes. We carried out model selection using information criteria. We examined model validation and carried out various checks to verify the sensitivity of reporting to prior distributions used and outlying countries. We found that the model was reasonably well calibrated and subregional estimates were not sensitive to outlying observations or prior choice.
Of the 55· 7 million abortions that occurred worldwide each year between 2010–14, we estimated that 30·6 million (54·9%, 90% uncertainty interval 49·9–59·4) were safe, 17·1 million (30·7%, 25·5–35·6) were less safe, and 8·0 million (14·4%, 11·5–18·1) were least safe. The proportion of unsafe abortions was significantly higher in developing countries than developed countries, and significantly higher in countries with highly restrictive abortion laws than in those with less restrictive laws. In-depth assessments of data quality and factors affecting abortion safety in outlying countries may result in further model improvements.
Direct payments and on-farm employment: evidence from a spatial regression discontinuity design
Creators: name: Zimmert, Franziska
name: Zorn, Alexander
name: Zimmert, Franziska
name: Zorn, Alexander
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Political Economy
subject: Research Methods / Statistical Methods
subject: direct payments
subject: on-farm employment
subject: dairy farming
subject: spatial regression discontinuity design
subject: Switzerland

description: Direct payments are regarded as a suitable instrument to safeguard jobs in the agricultural sector. However, empirical findings to date do not unambiguously support this expectation. We further empirically investigate this research question on dairy farms under weak identifying assumptions using a spatial regression discontinuity design. The Swiss direct payments system creates a discontinuous jump near the border of agricultural production zones for the amount of public subsidies a farm receives. We find that an additional CHF 50,000 can generate a job for a female family worker in the dairy sector. Male employment is not affected. These results show that direct payments can safeguard traditional family farming.
Stacking Models for Nearly Optimal Link Prediction in Complex Networks
Creators: name: Ghasemian, Amir
name: Hosseinmardi, Homa
name: Galstyan, Aram
name: Airoldi, Edoardo M.
name: Clauset, Aaron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Most real-world networks are incompletely observed. Algorithms that can accurately predict which links are missing can dramatically speedup the collection of network data and improve the validity of network models. Many algorithms now exist for predicting missing links, given a partially observed network, but it has remained unknown whether a single best predictor exists, how link predictability varies across methods and networks from different domains, and how close to optimality current methods are. We answer these questions by systematically evaluating 203 individual link predictor algorithms, representing three popular families of methods, applied to a large corpus of 548 structurally diverse networks from six scientific domains. We first show that individual algorithms exhibit a broad diversity of prediction errors, such that no one predictor or family is best, or worst, across all realistic inputs. We then exploit this diversity via meta-learning to construct a series of "stacked" models that combine predictors into a single algorithm. Applied to a broad range of synthetic networks, for which we may analytically calculate optimal performance, these stacked models achieve optimal or nearly optimal levels of accuracy. Applied to real-world networks, stacked models are also superior, but their accuracy varies strongly by domain, suggesting that link prediction may be fundamentally easier in social networks than in biological or technological networks. These results indicate that the state-of-the-art for link prediction comes from combining individual algorithms, which achieves nearly optimal predictions. We close with a brief discussion of limitations and opportunities for further improvement of these results.
description: 30 pages, 9 figures, 22 tables
Young Physicists' Forum
Creators: name: Adams, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Young Physicists' Forum was an opportunity for the younger members of the particle-physics community to gather at Snowmass 2001 and to study and debate major issues that face the field over the next twenty years. Discussions were organized around three major topics: outreach and education, the impact of globalization, and building a robust and balanced field. We report on the results of these discussions, as presented on July 17, 2001.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, uses RevTeX4, submitted to Snowmass 2001 proceedings
Additional file 11 of Integrated analysis of tRNA-derived small RNAs in proliferative human aortic smooth muscle cells
Creators: name: Zhao, Jian-Zhi
name: Li, Qi-Yao
name: Lin, Jia-Jie
name: Yang, Li-Yun
name: Du, Mei-Yang
name: Wang, Yu
name: Liu, Ke-Xin
name: Jiang, Ze-An
name: Li, Huan-Huan
name: Wang, Si-Fan
name: Sun, Bo
name: Mu, Shi-Qing
name: Li, Bin
name: Liu, Kun
name: Gong, Miao
name: Sun, Shao-Guang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 11: Figure S6. Original images for blots in Fig. 4.
Threshold effects and Planck scale Lorentz violation: combined constraints from high energy astrophysics
Creators: name: Jacobson, T.
name: Liberati, S.
name: Mattingly, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent work has shown that dispersion relations with Planck scale Lorentz violation can produce observable effects at energies many orders of magnitude below the Planck energy M. This opens a window on physics that may reveal quantum gravity phenomena. It has already constrained the possibility of Planck scale Lorentz violation, which is suggested by some approaches to quantum gravity. In this work we carry out a systematic analysis of reaction thresholds, allowing unequal deformation parameters for different particle dispersion relations. The thresholds are found to have some unusual properties compared with standard ones, such as asymmetric momenta for pair creation and upper thresholds. The results are used together with high energy observational data to determine combined constraints. We focus on the case of photons and electrons, using vacuum Cerenkov, photon decay, and photon annihilation processes to determine order unity constraints on the parameters controlling O(E/M) Lorentz violation. Interesting constraints for protons (with photons or pions) are obtained even at O((E/M)^2), using the absence of vacuum Cerenkov and the observed GZK cutoff for ultra high energy cosmic rays. A strong Cerenkov limit using atmospheric PeV neutrinos is possible for O(E/M) deformations provided the rate is high enough. If detected, ultra high energy cosmological neutrinos might yield limits at or even beyond O((E/M)^2).
description: 35 pages, 13 Figures, RevTex4. Version published in PRD. Expanded introduction, updated discussion of possible constraint if GZK cutoff is confirmed. Corrected typos. Added and updated references
The External Health-Care Cost of Obesity in the United States
Creators: name: Parks, Joanna C.
name: Alston, Julian M.
name: Okrent, Abigail M.
name: Parks, Joanna C.
name: Alston, Julian M.
name: Okrent, Abigail M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Over the past five decades in the United States both total medical expenditures and the proportion of medical expenditures financed with public funds have increased significantly. A substantial increase in the prevalence of obesity has contributed to this growth. In this study we measure the external cost of obesity, in the form of publicly funded health-care expenditures, and how this cost changes when the distribution of obesity in the population changes. We use a continuous measure of obesity, BMI, rather than discrete BMI categories to represent the distribution of obesity and changes in it. We predict that a one-unit increase in BMI for every adult in the United States would increase annual public medical expenditures by $7.2 billion. This estimated public cost equates to an average marginal cost of $32 per year per adult for a one-unit increase in BMI for each adult in the U.S. population. Separately, we estimate that if every U.S. adult who is now obese (BMI 30) had a BMI of 25 instead, annual public medical expenditures would decline by $166.8 billion (in constant 2009$), or 15.3% of annual public medical expenditures in 2009. Assuming a socially optimal BMI of no more than 25, we estimate that the prevalence of obesity in 2009 resulted in a deadweight loss of $144 billion in 2009.
Mikromarktstrukturen der Rohmilchautomaten in Deutschland
Creators: name: Labohm, Katharina
name: Baaken, Dominik
name: Hess, Sebastian
name: Labohm, Katharina
name: Baaken, Dominik
name: Hess, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Rohmilchausgabeautomaten
subject: Direktvermarktung
subject: Mikromarktstrukturen
subject: Potenziale

description: Milcherzeuger*innen in Deutschland versuchen immer häufiger, sich über alternative Verkaufswege vor Niedrigpreisphasen auf dem Rohmilchmarkt zu schützen. In den letzten Jahren sind viele Betriebe in die Direktvermarktung ab Hof eingestiegen und verkaufen dort ihre Rohmilch über Verkaufsautomaten („Milchtankstellen“). Bisher liegen keine Studien vor, die sich mit dem ökonomischen Potenzial dieses Absatzweges beschäftigt haben. Vor diesem Hintergrund fand eine deutschlandweite Befragung mit 154 Automatenbetreiber*innen statt, in der erstmals Faktoren im Mikromarktumfeld der Betriebe untersucht wurden, um entscheidende Absatzfaktoren zu identifizieren. Betriebliche, soziodemographische und automatenspezifische Faktoren wurden empirisch im Hinblick auf ihren Zusammenhang mit dem Milchabsatz pro Automat überprüft. Die Ergebnisse weisen einen signifikant positiven Zusammenhang zwischen der Bevölkerungsdichte des Einzugsgebiets und der Höhe des Rohmilchabsatzes auf; die umliegende Verkehrsstruktur kann diese Beziehung ebenfalls positiv beeinflussen. Außerdem zeigt sich, dass beim Erwerb von Milch ab Hof keine Präferenz für biologisch produzierte Milch vorliegt und sich der Verkauf weiterer Hofprodukte positiv auf den Absatz des Rohmilchautomaten auswirkt.
Blow up of fractional Schrödinger equations on manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature
Creators: name: Zhang, Huali
name: Zhao, Shiliang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A01

description: In this paper, the well-posedness of Cauchy's problem of fractional Schrödinger equations with a power type nonlinearity on $n$-dimensional manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature is studied. Under suitable volume conditions, the local solution with initial data in $H^{[\frac{n}{2}]+1}$ will blow up in finite time no matter how small the initial data is, which follows from a new weight function and ODE inequalities. Moreover, the upper-bound of the lifespan can be estimated.
description: 15 pages. Welcome all comments
Measurement of the rate of nu_e + d --> p + p + e^- interactions produced by 8B solar neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Creators: name: SNO Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar neutrinos from the decay of $^8$B have been detected at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) via the charged current (CC) reaction on deuterium and by the elastic scattering (ES) of electrons. The CC reaction is sensitive exclusively to nu_e's, while the ES reaction also has a small sensitivity to nu_mu's and nu_tau's. The flux of nu_e's from ^8B decay measured by the CC reaction rate is ϕ^CC(nu_e) = 1.75 +/- 0.07 (stat)+0.12/-0.11 (sys.) +/- 0.05(theor) x 10^6 /cm^2 s. Assuming no flavor transformation, the flux inferred from the ES reaction rate is ϕ^ES(nu_x) = 2.39+/-0.34 (stat.)+0.16}/-0.14 (sys) x 10^6 /cm^2 s. Comparison of ϕ^CC(nu_e) to the Super-Kamiokande Collaboration's precision value of ϕ^ES(ν_x) yields a 3.3 sigma difference, providing evidence that there is a non-electron flavor active neutrino component in the solar flux. The total flux of active ^8B neutrinos is thus determined to be 5.44 +/-0.99 x 10^6/cm^2 s, in close agreement with the predictions of solar models.
description: 6 pages (LaTex), 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Letters
Additional file 13 of Integrated analysis of tRNA-derived small RNAs in proliferative human aortic smooth muscle cells
Creators: name: Zhao, Jian-Zhi
name: Li, Qi-Yao
name: Lin, Jia-Jie
name: Yang, Li-Yun
name: Du, Mei-Yang
name: Wang, Yu
name: Liu, Ke-Xin
name: Jiang, Ze-An
name: Li, Huan-Huan
name: Wang, Si-Fan
name: Sun, Bo
name: Mu, Shi-Qing
name: Li, Bin
name: Liu, Kun
name: Gong, Miao
name: Sun, Shao-Guang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 13: Figure S8. Original images for blots in Fig. S1A.
Gate Leakage Suppression and Breakdown Voltage Enhancement in p-GaN HEMTs using Metal/Graphene Gates
Creators: name: Zhou, Guangnan
name: Wan, Zeyu
name: Yang, Gaiying
name: Jiang, Yang
name: Sokolovskij, Robert
name: Yu, Hongyu
name: Guangrui
name: Xia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, single-layer intrinsic and fluorinated graphene were investigated as gate insertion layers in normally-OFF p-GaN gate HEMTs, which wraps around the bottom of the gate forming Ti/graphene/p-GaN at the bottom and Ti/graphene/ SiNx on the two sides. Compared to the Au/Ti/p-GaN HEMTs without graphene, the insertion of graphene can increase the ION/IOFF ratios by a factor of 50, increase the VTH by 0.30 V and reduce the off-state gate leakage by 50 times. Additionally, this novel gate structure has better thermal stability. After thermal annealing at 350 °C, gate breakdown voltage holds at 12.1 V, which is first reported for Schottky gate p-GaN HEMTs. This is considered to be a result of the 0.24 eV increase in Schottky barrier height and the better quality of the Ti/graphene/p-GaN and Ti/graphene/SiNx interfaces. This approach is very effective in improving the Ion/Iff ratio and gate BV of normally-OFF GaN HEMTs.
Pholcus bidentatus Zhu, Zhang, Zhang & Chen 2005
Creators: name: Zhang, Feng
name: Zhu, Ming-Sheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Pholcus
Pholcus bidentatus

description: Pholcus bidentatus Zhu, Zhang, Zhang & Chen, 2005
(Fig. 4)
 Pholcus bidentatus Zhu, Zhang, Zhang & Chen 2005: 490, f. 1A–F.
 Diagnosis. Similar to P. gui and especially P. kimi, but can be distinguished from the latter by the appendix with two thorn-shaped small apophyses (Fig. 4E); by the shape of tip of the procursus (Figs. 4E–F); and by the almost rectangular pore plates (Fig. 4C).
 Redescription. Male (a paratype), total length 5.9: cephalothorax 1.5 long, 1.6 wide; abdomen 4.4 long, 1.1 wide. Leg I: 44.9 (10.9+0.7+10.8+19.9+2.6), tibia II: 7.4, tibia III: 5.4, tibia IV: 7.2; Tibia I L/D: 60. Carapace short, broad and almost circular, ochre, with brown butterfly-shaped marks narrowly connecting to ocular area. Cephalic region raised, without brown central marks, ocular area dark yellow. Clypeus 0.46, slightly ochre, with yellow marks. Distance AME–AME 0.05. Diameter AME 0.09, ALE 0.17, PME 0.15, PLE 0.16. Chelicerae with pair of black apophyses distally and two pairs of unsclerotized round apophyses proximolaterally. Labium and endites yellow. Sternum light black, without marking. Femora, patellae and tibiae ochre, with dark rings, metatarsi and tarsi brown. Palps as in Figs. 4E and 4F, bulb with a cleavershaped uncus, appendix with two thorn-shaped projections centrally. Palpal tarsal organ capsulate, on conical projection of cymbium (Fig. 4F).
 Variation. Tibia I in other male paratypes: 9.5–11.0 (mean 10.5). Body length in other male paratypes: 5.2–6.8.
Female: in general very similar to male. Total body length 6.6–7.5. Female (holotype), total length 7.2: cephalothorax 1.6 long, 1.8 wide; abdomen 5.6 long, 1.4 wide. Tibia I 10.2; in other paratypes females: 9.3–11.2 (mean 10.3). Prosoma shape as in Fig 4A. Distance AME–AME 0.05. Diameter AME 0.10, ALE 0.21, PME 0.15, PLE 0.19. Abdomen cylindrical, pale ochre, dorsum with numerous blackish markings as in Fig. 4A. Venter pale brown. Epigynum roughly triangular as in Fig. 4B, with a small knob-shaped apophysis on the top. Dorsal view as in Fig. 4C, with a pair of almost rectangular pore plates.
 Distribution. Guizhou, Sichuan.
 Material examined. CHINA: Guizhou: Daozhen County, Dashahe Natural Reserve, August 26, 2004, leg. Z. S. Zhang, female holotype, 1♂, 1♀ paratypes (MHBU); Xishui County, July 26, 2004, leg. H. M. Chen, 7♂, 9♀ paratypes (MHBU). Sichuan: Hejiang County, Zihuai Town, July 30, 2003, leg. J. X. Zhang, 1♂, 2♀ (MHBU); Mt. Emei, Temple Fuhu, July 27, 2003, leg. J. X. Zhang, 3♀ assigned tentatively (MHBU).
description: Published as part of Zhang, Feng & Zhu, Ming-Sheng, 2009, A review of the genus Pholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China, pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 2037 (1) on pages 15-18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2235.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5317608
Developmental Exposure to Xenoestrogens: Effects on the Mouse Mammary Gland Development and Response to Estrogen
Creators: name: Kolla, Durga
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: Humans experience ubiquitous exposures to estrogenic environmental chemicals from food, personal care products, and other industrial and consumer goods. Bisphenol A (BPA), a well-studied xenoestrogen, is known to alter development of estrogen-sensitive organs including the brain, reproductive tract, and mammary gland. Bisphenol S (BPS), which has a similar chemical structure to BPA, is also used in many consumer products, but its effects on estrogen-sensitive organs in mammals has not been thoroughly examined. In our study, pregnant CD-1 mice were orally exposed to BPS or ethinyl estradiol (EE2, a positive control for estrogenicity) from gestational day 9 through postnatal day (PND) 2, the period when many estrogen-sensitive organs are developing. After weaning, the offspring were administered either oil (vehicle) or an estrogen challenge (1 μg EE2/kg/day) for ten days starting at PND21 (prior to puberty), PND80 (early adulthood), or PND260 (later adulthood). Timing of puberty was evaluated in females by noting the date on which vaginal opening occurred. After the 10 day estrogen challenge, we evaluated the response of endocrine sensitive organs through measurements of organ weight, tissue morphology, and gene expression in both males and females. We observed dose- and sex-specific effects of BPS and EE2 treatment, as well as alterations in the responses of males and females to the estrogen challenge. This study sheds light on the effects of low dose xenoestrogen exposures on estrogen-sensitive organs including the reproductive tract and mammary gland. Furthermore, it improves our understanding of the influence of environmental chemicals on secular trends of earlier age of puberty in girls reported over the past few decades.
Potential of Using ICT Tools for Crop Diseases Management among Heterogenous Farmers in Rwanda
Creators: name: Kabirigi, Michel
name: Sun, Zhanli
name: Hermans, Frans
name: Kabirigi, Michel
name: Sun, Zhanli
name: Hermans, Frans
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community / Rural / Urban Development
subject: Mobile phone-based extension
subject: Farm diversity
subject: Banana production systems

description: Social interactions among farmers, extension agents, and government officials play a critical role in knowledge development and exchange, uptake of new practices, collective decision-making in agricultural practices. Smartphones and new communication tools are likely to transform the way information exchange and social interactions take place. However, how these ICT developments will influence the communication and social interactions among farmers, and the decision-making of farmers are intriguing questions, yet to be studied. Thus, this study aims to evaluate the use and experience of ICT of banana growers in Rwanda within the context of establishing an effective method for prevention and control of Banana Xanthomas Wilt (BXW), an infectious plant disease. Specifically, we want to assess whether farm clusters associate with the different behaviors and perceptions of the use of ICT. A structured questionnaire was used to collect household information from banana growers (n=690) in 8 representative districts. A combination of principal component analysis and cluster analysis was used to develop a farmer typology of banana growers. Three types of banana growers were identified, namely, i) Beer banana farmers, ii) Livestock-based farmers, and iii) Cooking banana farmers. We then conducted a statistical analysis to regress the use of ICT on the farmer typology and other socioeconomic control variables. Results showed that cooking banana-based farmers are more likely to own a smartphone and perceive ICT as very useful in effective control of BXW whereas beer banana farmers are less likely to own a smartphone, and they tend to perceive ICT as irrelevant in controlling BXW. Beer banana farmers are mainly limited by not knowing how to use these services which are associated with their low level of literacy while Livestock farmers prefer to get information from other sources. The studied farmers provide the potential for using ICT (Mobile based) extension services however beer banana farmers, less likely to own smartphones, are limited to few options.
Localization and pattern formation in Wigner representation via multiresolution
Creators: name: Fedorova, Antonina N.
name: Zeitlin, Michael G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an application of variational-wavelet analysis to quasiclassical calculations of solutions of Wigner equations related to nonlinear (polynomial) dynamical problems. (Naive) deformation quantization, multiresolution representations and variational approach are the key points. Numerical calculations demonstrates pattern formation from localized eigenmodes and transition from chaotic to localized (waveleton) types of behaviour.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, espcrc2.sty, Presented at VIII International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, Section III "Simulations and Computations in Theoretical Physics and Phenomenology", ACAT'2002, June 24-28, 2002, Moscow
MOESM2 of Potential risk factors and triggers for back pain in children and young adults. A scoping review, part II: unclear or mixed types of back pain
Creators: name: Beynon, Amber
name: Hebert, Jeffrey
name: Lebouef-Yde, Charlotte
name: Walker, Bruce
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. PROSPECTIVE STUDIES reporting factors that are longitudinally associated with back pain. Table summarising each included prospective study.
Pholcus jixianensis Zhu & Yu 1983
Creators: name: Zhang, Feng
name: Zhu, Ming-Sheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Pholcus
Pholcus jixianensis

description: Pholcus jixianensis Zhu & Yu, 1983
(Fig. 19)
 Pholcus jixianensis Zhu & Yu, 1983, in Zhu, Mao & Yu 1983: 136, f. 2a–h.
 Diagnosis. Similar to P. suizhongicus, but can be distinguished from it by the shape of the tip of the procursus (Figs. 19E–F), by the short thumb-shaped appendix (Fig. 19E); and by the longer ventral apophysis of the trochanter (Fig. 19C).
 Redescription. Male: A specimen measured (‘allotype’, data copied from Zhu, Mao and Yu 1983), total length 5.0: cephalothorax 1.6 long, 1.6 wide; abdomen 3.4 long, 1.6 wide. Leg I: 40.9 (9.4+12.5+16.5+2.5). Carapace short, broad and almost circular, ochre, with brown mark broadly connecting to ocular area. Cephalic region raised, with brown central marks, ocular area dark yellow. Clypeus slightly ochre, with yellow marks. Chelicerae with pair of black apophyses distally and pair of unsclerotized rounded apophyses proximolaterally. Labium and endites yellow. Sternum slightly ochre, with some regular yellow marks on it. Femora, patellae and tibiae ochre, with dark rings, metatarsi and tarsi brown. Abdomen cylindrical, pale ochre, dorsum with pairs of brown spots on it. Venter pale brown, without marks. Palps as in Figs. 19E and 19F, bulb with ear-shaped uncus and a small thumb-shaped appendix. Procursus as in Fig. 19D.
Female: in general very similar to male. A specimen measured (holotype, data copied from Zhu, Mao and Yu 1983), total length 5.3: cephalothorax 1.8 long, 1.8 wide; abdomen 3.5 long, 1.45 wide. Epigynum roughly rectangular as in Fig. 19A, with a small knob-shaped apophysis centrally. Dorsal view as in Fig. 19B, with a door-like sclerotized arch anteriorly and a pair of pine-cone pore plates.
 Distribution. Known from type locality only.
 Material. Types. Female holotype, male ‘allotype’ (labeled 82001), collected under a stone near the river, Lianhe Village, Ji County, Tianjin Municipality, China, July 30, 1982, leg. Z. X. Yu (BMU); 4♂, 3♀ paratypes, same data as holotype (TPPS).
 Material examined. CHINA: Tianjin: Ji County, July 30, 1982, leg. Z. X. Yu, only right palp of male and epigynum (from female holotype and male ‘allotype’).
description: Published as part of Zhang, Feng & Zhu, Ming-Sheng, 2009, A review of the genus Pholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China, pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 2037 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2235.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5317608
Impact of Oyster Mushroom Mycelium on the Growth of Kale and Forage Radish
Creators: name: Lilly, Levi
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: Saprophytic fungi can be paired with companion crops in interplant systems to increase production efficiency. However, fungal species/strain, substrate, and inoculation rate can affect the growth of companion crops. This project investigated the viability of open-field mushroom production by interplanting three strains of Pleurotus ostreatus (Elm A, Elm B, and 8801) with kale (B. oleracea var. acephala) and forage radish (Raphanus raphanistrub sub. sativus), and measured the effect of interplanting on plant yield over two field seasons. In the field, Elm A showed an increase in plant yield at a low inoculation rate and decrease in plant yield at a high inoculation rate, compared to the untreated. Conversely, 8801 showed a reduction in plant yield at high and low inoculation rates in the field. Elm B at a high rate showed a reduction in plant yield both in the field and greenhouse. Kale was grown in hydroponics with fungal secretions added at a range of concentrations (10, 100, 1,000 and 10,000 ppm). Elm A showed an overall increase in plant yield in hydroponics, and Elm B showed an overall decrease in plant yield, compared to the untreated. Mushroom production was low in field plots and was not a commercially viable option. Pleurotus ostreatus interplanting methods with companion crops need improvement to make this a commercially viable practice.
A Q study on changes in food choices and consumption during the Covid-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Lankheit, Sophie
name: Hempel, Corinna
name: Lankheit, Sophie
name: Hempel, Corinna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption / Nutrition / Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods / Statistical Methods
subject: COVID-19
subject: food choices
subject: food consumption
subject: consumer viewpoints
subject: Q study approach

description: Through the application of a Q methodological approach, this study captures consumers’ viewpoints on grocery shopping, food preparation, and food consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns of public life that were implemented along with social distancing guidelines shifted consumption from outside to inside consumers’ homes and interrupted consumers’ routines. Various changes in consumer behavior occurred, such as hoarding, buying more local food, and preparing meals at home. Since there is still a lack of socio-economic research on factors influencing changes in consumer behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study provides a basis for further research by analyzing consumers’ beliefs in a holistic manner. Four viewpoints on the changes in consumer behavior during the pandemic are identified, varying in their focus on food preparation, grocery shopping, the risk of infection, or conscious consumption. The findings suggest that the pandemic has changed the mindset of only some consumers towards more sustainable consumption practices, although it is often considered as a catalyst for sustainable behavior. To encourage further development in this respect, policies and marketing activities should be aimed at beliefs already held by consumers. Messages should thus be designed with the identified viewpoints in mind.
Human and Climate Change Influences on Black (Diceros bicornis) and White (Ceratotherium simum) Rhinos in Southern Africa
Creators: name: Mamba, Hlelolwenkhosi S.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Rhinos are iconic species of ecological and economic importance in Africa. They represent their range states’ rich natural heritage. White rhinos, currently estimated at approximately 20, 000 animals, recovered from near extinction after heavy poaching and habitat destruction decimated numbers to 50 individuals in the 20th century. Between 1970 and 1992, black rhino numbers suffered a 96% reduction in Africa. Today, black rhino numbers are estimated between 5, 000 and 5, 500 individuals. Black and white rhinos are currently classified in IUCN’s Red List as Critically Endangered, and Near Threatened respectively. Very few studies investigate the potential effects of climate change on rhinos. Investigations on the cooperative impacts of anthropogenic activities and natural processes on the species are non-existent. We conducted a literature review to assess the status of rhino conservation. Potential climate change effects on the species’ probability of occurrence in five study parks in Africa were assessed using two IPCC-AR5 scenarios; RCPs, 4.5 and 8.5. Human influences on rhinos we evaluated based on urban expansion forecasted for the year 2030. Perceptions of communities surrounding Hlane Royal National Park in Swaziland towards rhino conservation were collected using questionnaires. Most of the interviewed community members expressed pro rhino conservation attitudes and interest in the prevention of poaching. We expect the changing climate to have negative effects on the occurrence probability of rhinos. Forecasts show urban land-cover expanding into areas surrounding rhino habitats by 2030. This could have implications in the creation of corridors to facilitate the dispersal of the species.
Results on CP Violation from the NA48 experiment at CERN
Creators: name: Iconomidou-Fayard, Lydia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article the current status and latest results of the NA48 experiment at CERN are given. We present in more details the analysis performed for the Re(e'/e) measurement with the combined statistics accumulated during the 1998 and 1999 data periods. Reviewing the NA48 rare decay program, we select to underline the new results on the branching ratio and the A_v factor for the decay KL->pi0gg and the KL->pi+pi-e+e- CP violating decay. This article is the contribution to the Proceedings of the Lepton-Photon Conference held in Roma, July 23-29 2001.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures, contribution to the Lepton-Photon 2001 Conference Proceedings -new
Regionale Milchmengenprognose: Regressionsmodelle und Maschinelles Lernen im Vergleich
Creators: name: Baaken, Dominik
name: Hess, Sebastian
name: Baaken, Dominik
name: Hess, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Research Methods / Statistical Methods
subject: Milchmarkt
subject: Milchproduktion
subject: Vorhersagemodelle
subject: Maschinelles Lernen

description: Prognose-Instrumente für das regionale Milchaufkommen werden seit dem Wegfall der europäischen Milchquoten im Jahr 2015 seitens der Marktteilnehmer vermehrt nachgefragt, aber existieren bisher nicht. Bestehende Ansätze zur Milchmengenprognose basieren meist auf der Vorhersage der Laktationskurve einzelner Milchkühe. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden sechs Modellansätze aus verschiedenen Bereichen des Maschinellen Lernens (ML) und der linearen Regression (OLS) miteinander verglichen. Für die Ansätze werden unterschiedliche Variablenblöcke miteinander kombiniert, um zeitliche Trends, direkte und indirekte Wettereffekte, sowie das Preisgeschehen in die Vorhersage mit einzubeziehen. Für einen Vorhersagezeitraum von 21 Monaten kann für die einbezogenen landwirtschaftlichen Betriebe aus Niedersachsen ein maximales Bestimmtheitsmaß von 0,92 durch ML-Methoden und maximal 0,77 durch OLS Regressionen erzielt werden. Im Vergleich der ML-Algorithmen untereinander tritt ein Unterschied der Modelle vor allem im Hinblick auf die Trainingsgeschwindigkeiten zu Tage.
Additional file 3 of Integrated analysis of tRNA-derived small RNAs in proliferative human aortic smooth muscle cells
Creators: name: Zhao, Jian-Zhi
name: Li, Qi-Yao
name: Lin, Jia-Jie
name: Yang, Li-Yun
name: Du, Mei-Yang
name: Wang, Yu
name: Liu, Ke-Xin
name: Jiang, Ze-An
name: Li, Huan-Huan
name: Wang, Si-Fan
name: Sun, Bo
name: Mu, Shi-Qing
name: Li, Bin
name: Liu, Kun
name: Gong, Miao
name: Sun, Shao-Guang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. The target DEmRNAs list of tsRNAs.
Inferring symbolic dynamics of chaotic flows from persistence
Creators: name: Yalnız, Gökhan
name: Budanur, Nazmi Burak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce "state space persistence analysis" for deducing the symbolic dynamics of time series data obtained from high-dimensional chaotic attractors. To this end, we adapt a topological data analysis technique known as persistent homology for the characterization of state space projections of chaotic trajectories and periodic orbits. By comparing the shapes along a chaotic trajectory to those of the periodic orbits, state space persistence analysis quantifies the shape similarity of chaotic trajectory segments and the periodic orbits. We demonstrate the method by applying it to the three-dimensional Rössler system and a thirty-dimensional discretization of the Kuramoto--Sivashinsky partial differential equation in $(1+1)$ dimensions.
description: Manuscript submitted to Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science