cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
AN EVALUATION OF RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR DAIRY FARMS
Creators: name: Bosch, Darrell J.
name: Johnson, Christian J.
name: Bosch, Darrell J.
name: Johnson, Christian J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Variability in feed prices and crop yields are important sources of risk to dairy farmers. A simulation model of a representative dairy farm was used to evaluate crop insurance and hedging as risk management strategies. These strategies lowered expected net returns but also reduced risk. The preferred set of strategies at lower levels of risk aversion included hedging and crop insurance, although a base scenario in which no risk management strategies were employed was also efficient. The preferred strategy at higher levels of risk aversion was a combination of crop insurance and hedging.
WKB estimate of bilayer graphene's magic twist angles
Creators: name: Ren, Yafei
name: Gao, Qiang
name: MacDonald, A. H.
name: Niu, Qian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene bilayers exhibit zero-energy flat bands at a discrete series of magic twist angles. In the absence of intra-sublattice inter-layer hopping, zero-energy states satisfy a Dirac equation with a non-abelian SU(2) gauge potential that cannot be diagonalized globally. We develop a semiclassical WKB approximation scheme for this Dirac equation by introducing a dimensionless Planck's constant proportional to the twist angle, solving the linearized Dirac equation around AB and BA turning points, and connecting Airy function solutions via bulk WKB wavefunctions. We find zero energy solutions at a discrete set of values of the dimensionless Planck's constant, which we obtain analytically. Our analytic flat band twist angles correspond closely to those determined numerically in previous work.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, Comments are welcome
Scaling of Entanglement Entropy in the Random Singlet Phase
Creators: name: Laflorencie, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present numerical evidences for the logarithmic scaling of the entanglement entropy in critical random spin chains. Very large scale exact diagonalizations performed at the critical XX point up to L=2000 spins 1/2 lead to a perfect agreement with recent real-space renormalization-group predictions of Refael and Moore [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 93}, 260602 (2004)] for the logarithmic scaling of the entanglement entropy in the Random Singlet Phase with an effective central charge ${\tilde{c}}=c\times \ln 2$. Moreover we provide the first visual proof of the existence the Random Singlet Phase thanks to the quantum entanglement concept.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Breakfast habits of adolescents : towards meaningful lessons
Creators: name: Engelsjord, Lynn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Purpose: This study examines the influences and reasons that contribute to the breakfast habits of adolescents, aged 13-14 years. Methodology: Eighty-two boys and seventy-one girls completed a questionnaire that inquired about their breakfast eating habits. Statistical analysis was conducted to find frequency counts and cross tabulations between factors that influence eating habits. From this group of 153 students, seventeen students participated in individual taperecorded interviews that discussed their typical breakfast habits. Influences and reasons for the breakfast habits were discussed. Meanings for breakfast, health and nutrition were discussed as well. Findings: From the questionnaire, 130 students (69 boys and 61 girls) reported having breakfast on the questionnaire day, and 70.6% of the students reported having breakfast almost always during the week. The breakfast eaters reported making breakfasts that consist of cereal and milk and the interviewed students had similar habits. Presence of another person did not influence the variety of food consumed. A significant difference was noted when the breakfast was selected and prepared by mothers, when the number of food groups increased to three, usually through the addition of the meat and alternative group. The mothers most often made breakfast for their sons. Fathers had a low involvement. The interviewed students talked about quick, convenient weekday breakfasts and more elaborate family breakfasts on the weekend. Fifteen of the students thought of their diets as healthy but reported that they could improve them. Students reported what breakfast means to them by describing traditional breakfast foods. The foods described also matched their favourite breakfasts and their weekday breakfast. Students talked about general health and nutrition ideas such as variety and moderation, and healthy and unhealthy foods. Students expressed that the advantages of breakfast eating outweighed the disadvantages and they expressed that they would continue to eat breakfast in the future. Conclusion: Students are making breakfasts that are quick and convenient on weekdays that usually consist of cereal and milk. Weekend breakfasts usually contained more food groups and are shared with family and friends. The main influence on their breakfast is who selects and prepares their breakfast. Students stated that the advantages of breakfast eating outweigh the disadvantages. Students suggested that food is associated with age or stage and has different meanings at these different times.
Additional file 3 of Investigation of the effects of P1 on HC-pro-mediated gene silencing suppression through genetics and omics approaches
Creators: name: Sin-Fen Hu
name: Wei, Wei-Lun
name: Syuan-Fei Hong
name: Ru-Ying Fang
name: Hsin-Yi Wu
name: Pin-Chun Lin
name: Sanobar, Neda
name: Wang, Hsin-Ping
name: Sulistio, Margo
name: Chun-Ta Wu
name: Hsiao-Feng Lo
name: Lin, Shih-Shun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. Critical genes in Col-0 vs. P1/HCR network.
A Methodology for Assessing National Sustainable Development Strategies
Creators: name: Cherp, Aleg
name: George, Clive
name: Kirkpatrick, Colin
name: Cherp, Aleg
name: George, Clive
name: Kirkpatrick, Colin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: sustainable development
subject: strategic planning
subject: national sustainable development strategies
subject: transition countries

description: At the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, governments undertook to develop and adopt national sustainable development strategies as a key component of implementing the goals of Agenda 21. Only partial progress was reported at the 2002 World Summit in Johannesburg, with uncertainty as to the effectiveness of those strategies that had been introduced. This paper describes a methodology for assessing a country's progress in implementing a national sustainable development strategy for (NSDS) and for identifying potential areas for improvement. Five key principles of sustainable development and strategic planning are identified, and a set of assessment criteria are proposed for each principle. The results of applying the methodology in two Eastern European countries, Belarus and Slovakia, are reported. These case studies suggest that the proposed NSDS assessment methodology has considerable potential for strengthening sustainability planning at the national level. The effectiveness of the NSDS assessment methodology in strengthening national processes for sustainable development and strategic planning will also require greater transparency and accountability in governance practices. This suggests that progress in improving the quality of NSDS processes is likely to be conditional on broader considerations of institutional building and governance reform.
Towards A Framework for Assessing Empowerment
Creators: name: Mosedale, Sarah
name: Mosedale, Sarah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: International Development
Labor and Human Capital

description: When policymakers and practitioners decide that "empowerment" - usually of women or the poor - is a development goal what do they mean? And how do they determine the extent to which it has been achieved? Despite empowerment having become a widely used term in this context there is no accepted method for measuring and tracking changes. Presumably if we want to see people empowered we consider them to be currently dis-empowered i.e. disadvantaged by the way power relations presently shape their choices, opportunities and well-being. If this is what we mean then we would benefit from being better informed about the debates which have shaped and refined the concept of power and its operation. Many sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists have discussed power but little of this debate appears to have percolated into development studies. Therefore in this paper I briefly review how the concept of power was debated and refined during the second half of the twentieth century and discuss how power relations might be described and evaluated in a particular context. I then consider how the empowerment of women has been discussed within development studies and make some suggestions as to how it might be assessed.
Monomiality principle, Sheffer-type polynomials and the normal ordering problem
Creators: name: Penson, K A
name: Blasiak, P
name: Dattoli, G
name: Duchamp, G H E
name: Horzela, A
name: Solomon, A I
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve the boson normal ordering problem for $(q(a^†)a+v(a^†))^n$ with arbitrary functions $q(x)$ and $v(x)$ and integer $n$, where $a$ and $a^†$ are boson annihilation and creation operators, satisfying $[a,a^†]=1$. This consequently provides the solution for the exponential $e^{λ(q(a^†)a+v(a^†))}$ generalizing the shift operator. In the course of these considerations we define and explore the monomiality principle and find its representations. We exploit the properties of Sheffer-type polynomials which constitute the inherent structure of this problem. In the end we give some examples illustrating the utility of the method and point out the relation to combinatorial structures.
description: Presented at the 8'th International School of Theoretical Physics "Symmetry and Structural Properties of Condensed Matter " (SSPCM 2005), Myczkowce, Poland. 13 pages, 31 references
Finite groups with some restriction on the vanishing set
Creators: name: Madanha, Sesuai Y.
name: Rodrigues, Bernardo G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20C15

description: Let $ x $ be an element of a finite group $ G $ and denote the order of $ x $ by $ \mathrm{ord}(x) $. We consider a finite group $ G $ such that $ \gcd(\mathrm{ord}(x),\mathrm{ord}(y))\leqslant 2 $ for any two vanishing elements $ x $ and $ y $ contained in distinct conjugacy classes. We show that such a group $ G $ is solvable. When $ G $ with the property above is supersolvable, we show that $ G $ has a normal metabelian $ 2 $-complement.
description: 9 pages
Glaciozyma M. Groenew. & Q. M. Wang 2020, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Li, A. - H.
name: Yuan, F. - X.
name: Groenewald, M.
name: Bensch, K.
name: Yurkov, A. M.
name: Li, K.
name: Han, P. - J.
name: Guo, L. - D.
name: Aime, M. C.
name: Sampaio, J. P.
name: Jindamorakot, S.
name: Turchetti, B.
name: Inacio, J.
name: Fungsin, B.
name: Wang, Q. - M.
name: Bai, F. - Y.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Microbotryomycetes
Kriegeriales
Camptobasidiaceae
Glaciozyma

description: Glaciozyma Turchetti, Connell, Thomas-Hall & Boekhout ex M. Groenew. & Q.M. Wang, gen. nov. MycoBank MB831869.
For description see Extremophiles 15 (5): 579 (2011).
 Type species: Glaciozyma antarctica (Fell, Statzell, I.L. Hunter & Phaff) M. Groenew. & Q.M. Wang.
 Synonym: Glaciozyma Turchetti, Connell, Thomas-Hall & Boekhout, Extremophiles 15 (5): 579 (2011), nom. inval., Art. 40.1, see Arts 6.3, 12.1 (Melbourne).
description: Published as part of Li, A. - H., Yuan, F. - X., Groenewald, M., Bensch, K., Yurkov, A. M., Li, K., Han, P. - J., Guo, L. - D., Aime, M. C., Sampaio, J. P., Jindamorakot, S., Turchetti, B., Inacio, J., Fungsin, B., Wang, Q. - M. & Bai, F. - Y., 2020, Diversity and phylogeny of basidiomycetous yeasts from plant leaves and soil: Proposal of two new orders, three new families, eight new genera and one hundred and seven new species, pp. 17-140 in Studies In Mycology 96 on page 133, DOI: 10.1016/j.simyco.2020.01.002, http://zenodo.org/record/10497182
[Letter from Morten Pedersen Porsild]
Creators: name: Porsild, Morten Pedersen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1905

description: Expresses gratitude for three papers: 1. Die Lithothamnien des Adriatischen Meeres und Marokkos, 2. Algologiske Notiser, 3. Two new Lithothamnia.
Enhancing the Contribution of Trade Liberalisation in Environmental Services to Sustainable Development
Creators: name: Kirkpatrick, Colin
name: George, Clive
name: Scrieciu, Silviu Serban
name: Kirkpatrick, Colin
name: George, Clive
name: Scrieciu, Silviu Serban
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Total solutions
subject: Channel management
subject: Channel relationships
subject: Relationship management

description: In the last decade, a fundamental phenomenon came to the fore in the business environment: more and more companies are offering total solutions to their customer instead of standardized products or services. Although this trend has already been studied extensively in literature, little has been said about the impact of this phenomenon on the supplier's channel management. This article develops propositions concerning the influence of a total solutions strategy on a company's channel management, rooted on an extensive literature review and case-based research in the Belgian industrial market.
[Letter from Ethel Sarel Gepp Barton]
Creators: name: Barton, Ethel Sarel Gepp
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1905

description: Expresses gratitude for three papers: 1. Die Lithothamnien des Adriatischen Meeres und Marokkos, 2. Algologiske Notiser, 3. Two new Lithothamnia.
Counterions at Charged Cylinders: Criticality and universality beyond mean-field
Creators: name: Naji, Ali
name: Netz, Roland R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The counterion-condensation transition at charged cylinders is studied using Monte-Carlo simulation methods. Employing logarithmically rescaled radial coordinates, large system sizes are tractable and the critical behavior is determined by a combined finite-size and finite-ion-number analysis. Critical counterion localization exponents are introduced and found to be in accord with mean-field theory both in 2 and 3 dimensions. In 3D the heat capacity shows a universal jump at the transition, while in 2D, it consists of discrete peaks where single counterions successively condense.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (2005)
Yielding and bifurcated aging in nanofibrillar networks
Creators: name: Poling-Skutvik, Ryan
name: McEvoy, Eoin
name: Shenoy, Vivek
name: Osuji, Chinedum O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The yielding of disordered materials is a complex transition involving significant changes of the material's microstructure and dynamics. After yielding, many soft materials recover their quiescent properties over time as they age. There remains, however, a lack of understanding of the nature of this recovery. Here, we elucidate the mechanisms by which fibrillar networks restore their ability to support stress after yielding. Crucially, we observe that the aging response bifurcates around a critical stress $σ_\mathrm{c}$, which is equivalent to the material yield stress. After an initial yielding event, fibrillar networks subsequently yield faster and at lower magnitudes of stress. For stresses $σ σ_\mathrm{c}$, the yield time instead plateaus at a finite value because the developed network density is insufficient to support the applied stress. We quantitatively relate the yielding and aging behavior of the network to the competition between stress-induced disentanglement and dynamic fluctuations of the fibrils rebuilding the network. The bifurcation in the material response around $σ_c$ provides a new possibility to more rigorously localize the yield stress in disordered materials with time-dependent behavior.
A Methodology for Assessing the Effectiveness of National Sustainable Development Strategies
Creators: name: George, Clive
name: Kirkpatrick, Colin
name: George, Clive
name: Kirkpatrick, Colin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: At the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, governments undertook to develop and adopt national sustainable development strategies, as a key component of implementing the goals of Agenda 21. Only partial progress was reported at the 2002 World Summit in Johannesburg, with uncertainty in the effectiveness of those strategies which had been introduced. This paper describes a methodology for assessing the extent to which a country may be considered to have implemented an effective sustainable development strategy, with the prime aim of identifying weaknesses that need to be addressed. The methodology concentrates on evaluating those strategic planning processes that are operational in a country, taking into account any existing overall strategy document related to sustainable development, but not relying on it. It is intended to be used in three main ways: independent evaluation; evaluation by government as part of an improvement programme; and, ultimately, within an internationally agreed and verified mechanism for monitoring and accelerating the implementation of sustainable development strategies. To date, the methodology has been tested only in semi-independent evaluations, as described in a companion paper.
Georg Graf et sa "Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur" à l'occasion du quarantième anniversaire de sa mort
Creators: name: Breydy, Michel
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 79 (1995): Oriens christianus, Band 79
Assessing the Economic Impacts of Incorporating Romania's Agricultural and Food Sectors into EU's Customs Union: An Applied General Equilibrium Approach
Creators: name: Scrieciu, Silviu Serban
name: Scrieciu, Silviu Serban
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: EU enlargement
subject: Customs union
subject: Agriculture
subject: Romania
subject: AGE modelling

description: Joining the European Union club implies, among many other policy changes, full integration of Romania's economy into EU's customs union. This is expected to have significant implications for domestic farmers and food processors. The paper constructs a single-country Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) model to investigate the impact of tariff border adjustments on changes in relative prices, production and trade patterns associated with fifteen local agro-food activities. Moreover, the modelling work identifies those agro-food sectors that have the potential to benefit the most from EU enlargement in terms of output effects given that Romanian producers are capable of fully responding to the incentives provided with integration. These mainly include (bovine) live animals and meat products, sugar, and cereal grains. Agro-food trade with EU intensifies in particular for those commodities for which trade restrictions are still substantial prior to accession. However, the magnitude of changes is relatively small due to the weak integration of domestic agro-food sectors into international trade structures. The AGE model also predicts static welfare gains of 0.65 percent of GDP equivalent variation. These seem to be more associated with better access to EU markets and increased export prices, and less with the preferential unilateral elimination of tariffs or their adjustment to EU's external levels. The model assumptions are highly theoretical and the model structure does not reflect with fidelity the workings of an economy in transition. Nonetheless, it does represent a solid base upon which further improvements could be added and structural transitional issues could be attached to more accurately predict potential outcomes.
The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Reveals A High Mass and a Low Obliquity for the Young Neptune K2-25b
Creators: name: Stefansson, Gudmundur
name: Mahadevan, Suvrath
name: Maney, Marissa
name: Ninan, Joe P.
name: Robertson, Paul
name: Rajagopal, Jayadev
name: Haase, Flynn
name: Allen, Lori
name: Ford, Eric B.
name: Winn, Joshua
name: Wolfgang, Angie
name: Dawson, Rebekah I.
name: Wisniewski, John
name: Bender, Chad F.
name: Cañas, Caleb
name: Cochran, William
name: Diddams, Scott A.
name: Fredrick, Connor
name: Halverson, Samuel
name: Hearty, Fred
name: Hebb, Leslie
name: Kanodia, Shubham
name: Levi, Eric
name: Metcalf, Andrew J.
name: Monson, Andrew
name: Ramsey, Lawrence
name: Roy, Arpita
name: Schwab, Christian
name: Terrien, Ryan
name: Wright, Jason T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using radial-velocity data from the Habitable-zone Planet Finder, we have measured the mass of the Neptune-sized planet K2-25b, as well as the obliquity of its M4.5-dwarf host star in the 600-800MYr Hyades cluster. This is one of the youngest planetary systems for which both of these quantities have been measured, and one of the very few M dwarfs with a measured obliquity. Based on a joint analysis of the radial velocity data, time-series photometry from the K2 mission, and new transit light curves obtained with diffuser-assisted photometry, the planet's radius and mass are $3.44\pm 0.12 \mathrm{R_\oplus}$ and $24.5_{-5.2}^{+5.7} \mathrm{M_\oplus}$. These properties are compatible with a rocky core enshrouded by a thin hydrogen-helium atmosphere (5% by mass). We measure an orbital eccentricity of $e=0.43 \pm 0.05$. The sky-projected stellar obliquity is $λ=3 \pm 16^{\circ}$, compatible with spin-orbit alignment, in contrast to other "hot Neptunes" that have been studied around older stars.
description: Accepted for publication in AJ, 31 pages, 14 figures
The Effect of Environmental Regulation on the Locational Choice of Japanese Foreign Direct Investment
Creators: name: Kirkpatrick, Colin
name: Shimamoto, Kenichi
name: Kirkpatrick, Colin
name: Shimamoto, Kenichi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Environmental regulation
subject: foreign direct investment
subject: Japanese multinationals

description: This paper assesses the impact of environmental regulation in host countries on Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) decision-making. It tests the pollution haven hypothesis using data on national environmental regulation standards and Japanese inward FDI in five dirty industries (iron and steel industry, non-ferrous metals industry, chemicals industry, paper and pulp industry, non-metallic products industry). The results do not support the pollution hypothesis. On the contrary, inward Japanese FDI appears to be attracted to countries which have committed themselves to a transparent and stable environment regulatory environment, suggesting that the quality of the regulatory framework in terms of its certainty and transparency has a greater influence on foreign investors' choice of location than the level of the environmental regulatory measures.
Additional file 1 of Musculoskeletal pain distribution in 1,000 Danish schoolchildren aged 8–16 years
Creators: name: Fuglkjær, Signe
name: Vach, Werner
name: Hartvigsen, Jan
name: Dissing, Kristina Boe
name: Junge, Tina
name: Hestbæk, Lise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Illustrations with information about school years 2 and 3.
Theory of hypothetical ferroelectric superlattices incorporating head-to-head and tail-to-tail 180$^\circ$ domain walls
Creators: name: Wu, Xifan
name: Vanderbilt, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While electrical compatibility constraints normally prevent head-to-head (HH) and tail-to-tail (TT) domain walls from forming in ferroelectric materials, we propose that such domain walls could be stabilized by intentional growth of atomic layers in which the cations are substituted from a neighboring column of the periodic table. In particular, we carry out predictive first-principles calculations of superlattices in which Sc, Nb, or other substitutional layers are inserted periodically into PbTiO$_3$. We confirm that this gives rise to a domain structure with the longitudinal component of the polarization alternating from domain to domain, and with the substitutional layers serving as HH and TT domain walls. We also find that a substantial transverse component of the polarization can also be present.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Greens function decomposition for a new rewriting of inverse scattering equations
Creators: name: Bevacqua, Martina T.
name: Isernia, Tommaso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, a new inversion model for 2D microwave imaging is introduced by means of a convenient rewriting of the usual Lippmann Schwinger integral scattering equation. Such model is derived by decomposing the Greens function and the corresponding internal radiation operator in two different contributions. In fact, one of them can be easily computed from the collected scattered data. In case of lossless backgrounds, the resulting model turns out to be more convenient than the traditional one, as it exhibits a lower degree of nonlinearity with respect to parameters embedding the unknown dielectric characteristics. This interesting property suggests its exploitation in the solution of the inverse scattering problem. The achievable performances are tested by comparing the proposed model with the usual one based on the Lippman-Schwinger equation in both cases of linearly approximated and full non-linear frameworks. Both numerical and experimental data are considered.
description: in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2021)
The Potential Value of Agricultural Trade Options
Creators: name: Frechette, Darren L.
name: Frechette, Darren L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: Hedgers located far from organized commodity exchanges suffer a mismatch between their local prices and exchange prices. Futures and options traded on the exchange may still be valuable to distant hedgers, but only to the extent that basis risk is small. Forward contracting allows hedgers to manage risk using a local delivery price, but the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has long banned the sale of off-exchange options, limiting the opportunities available to hedgers. Recently, agricultural trade options (ATOs) have been introduced as over-the-counter option products designed specifically for hedgers. To date, ATOs have found little interest from potential sellers, but the potential demand for these options may be substantial. This study develops a methodology for measuring the potential value of ATOs. It describes and quantifies the demand for corn ATOs by dairy farms in Pennsylvania and estimates the value these farms might place on ATO contracts offered locally.
Setting the Standard for Farmland Preservation: Do Preservation Criteria Motivate Citizen Support for Farmland Preservation?
Creators: name: Deaton, Brady J.
name: Norris, Patricia E.
name: Hoehn, John P.
name: Deaton, Brady J.
name: Norris, Patricia E.
name: Hoehn, John P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: The multifunctional set of services provided by farmland complicates the task of identifying which farmland should be preserved. For this reason many states and local governments establish criteria to rank and select parcels of farmland for protection. This study examines whether criteria commonly used by state programs to guide purchases of agricultural conservation easements influence public demand for farmland preservation. The results provide policy makers with additional information to assess current ranking criteria that set the standard for farmland preservation.
Spectral and morphological properties of quasar hosts in SPH simulations of AGN feeding by mergers
Creators: name: Cattaneo, A.
name: Combes, F.
name: Colombi, S.
name: Bertin, E.
name: Melchior, A. -L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for generating virtual observations from smoothed-particle-hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations. This method includes stellar population synthesis models and the reprocessing of starlight by dust to produce realistic galaxy images. We apply this method and simulate the merging of two identical giant Sa galaxies. The merger remnant is an elliptical galaxy. The merger concentrates the gas content of the two galaxies into the nuclear region. The gas that flows into the nuclear region refuels the central black holes of the merging galaxies. We follow the refuelling of the black holes during the merger semi-analytically. In the simulation presented in this article, the black holes grow from 3 x 10^7 to 1.8X 10^8 Solar masses, with a peak AGN luminosity of M_B ~ -23.7. We study how the morphological and spectral properties of the system evolve during the merger and work out the predictions of this scenario for the properties of host galaxies during the active phase. The peak of AGN activity coincides with the merging of the two galactic nuclei and occurs at a stage when the remnant looks like a lenticular galaxy. The simulation predicts the formation of a circumnuclear starburst ring/dusty torus with an opening angle of 30-40 degrees and made of clouds with n_H=10^24 cm^-2. The average optical depth of the torus is quite high, but the obscuring medium is patchy, so that there still exist lines of sight where the AGN is visible in a nearly edge-on view. For the same reason, there are lines of sight where the AGN is completely obscured in the face-on view.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures
Additional file 2 of Musculoskeletal pain distribution in 1,000 Danish schoolchildren aged 8–16 years
Creators: name: Fuglkjær, Signe
name: Vach, Werner
name: Hartvigsen, Jan
name: Dissing, Kristina Boe
name: Junge, Tina
name: Hestbæk, Lise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Sensitivity analyses of missing data. Primary data: pain defined as at least one pain week in each site during school year 1. n=982, of which 280 children did not report pain. Sensitivity analyses of missing data. Primary data: pain were defined as at least three pain weeks within school year 1. n=982, of which 598 children did not report pain.
The Growing Importance of the Environmental Horticulture Industry in the Agricultural Economy of the Northeastern United States
Creators: name: Shields, Martin
name: Willis, Fern K.
name: Shields, Martin
name: Willis, Fern K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Environmental Economics and Policy

description: This study examines several aspects of the Environmental Horticulture Industry (EHI) in the northeastern United States. First, the EHI is compared to other agricultural sectors in the region. The sector's growth is found to far outpace growth in traditionally important crops and commodities. The study then takes a closer look at the EHI in Pennsylvania, utilizing survey data and the IMPLAN input-output model to estimate the overall economic contributions of the industry to the state's economy. Results suggest that the EHI generates nearly $3.3 billion in value-added and more than 107,000 state jobs through direct, indirect, and induced effects. Finally, survey data are used to identify and discuss important issues that land grant universities throughout the Northeast can address as they seek to strengthen the sector.
037-B327 in M31: Luminous Globular Cluster or Core of a Former Dwarf Spheroidal Companion to M31?
Creators: name: Ma, Jun
name: Bergh, Sidney van den
name: Wu, Hong
name: Yang, Yanbin
name: Zhou, Xu
name: Chen, Jiansheng
name: Wu, Zhenyu
name: Jiang, Zhaoji
name: Wu, Jianghua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 037-B327 is of interest because it is both the most luminous and the most highly reddened cluster known in M31. Deep observations with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope provide photometric data in the F606W band, and also show that this cluster is crossed by a dust lane. We determined the structural parameters of 037-B327 by fitting the observed surface brightness distribution to a King model with r_c=0.72" (=2.69 pc), and r_t=5.87" (=21.93 pc), and a concentration index c=log(r_t/r_c)=0.91. The surface brightness profile appears to be essentially flat within 0.25" of the center and shows no signs of core collapse. Although the dust lane affects the photometry, the King model fits the surface brightness profile well except for the regions badly affected by the dust lane. We also calculate the half-light radius r_h=1.11" (=4.15 pc). Combined with previous photometry, we find that this object falls in the same region of the M_V versus log R_h diagram as do Omega Centauri, M54 and NGC 2419 in the Milky Way and the massive cluster G1 in M31. All four of these objects have been claimed to be the stripped cores of former dwarf galaxies. This suggests that 037-B327 may also be the stripped core of a former dwarf companion to M31.
description: Accepted for Publication in ApJ Letter, 4 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Furosemide and spironolactone doses and hyponatremia in patients with heart failure
Creators: name: Velat, Ivan
name: Željko Bušić
name: Paić, Marina Jurić
name: Čulić, Viktor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S.1. Patients taking spironolactone according to dose and coadministration with furosemide. Fig. S.2. Distribution of study patients according to hydrochlorothiazide dose and hyponatremia. Table S.1. Univariate correlations of clinical variables with serum NT-proBNP levels. Table S.2 (Model 1). Multivariate analysis of the predicting association of clinical factors with occurrence of hyponatremia. Table S.3 (Model 2). Multivariate analysis of the predicting association of clinical factors with occurrence of hyponatremia. Table S.4 (Model 1, Model 2). Multivariate analysis of the predicting association of clinical factors with serum NT-proBNP levels.
Droplets of the order parameter in a low density attracting electron system in the presence of a strong random potential
Creators: name: Kagan, M. Yu.
name: Mazur, E. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of a two-dimensional low density (n<<1) electron system with strong onsite Hubbard attraction U>W (W is the bandwidth) in the presence of a strong random potential V uniformly distributed in the range from -V to +V are considered. Electronic hoppings only at neighboring sites on the square lattice are taken into account, thus W=8t. The calculations were carried out for a lattice of 24x24 sites with periodic boundary conditions. In the framework of the Bogoliubov - de Gennes approach we observed an appearance of inhomogeneous states of spatially separated Fermi-Bose mixture of Cooper pairs and unpaired electrons with the formation of bosonic droplets of different size in the matrix of the unpaired normal states We observed a decrease in the droplet size (from larger droplets to individual bielectronic pairs) when we decrease the electron density at fixed values of the Hubbard attraction and random potential. The obtained results are important for the construction of the gross phase diagram and understanding of the nature of the phase transition between superconducting, normal metallic and localized states in quasi-2D (thin) film of a dirty metal. In a more practical sense it is interesting also for the experimental implementation of superconducting qubits on quantum circuits with high impedances in granular superconductors.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures, 30 references
Brownian motion of finite-inertia particles in a simple shear flow
Creators: name: Drossinos, Yannis
name: Reeks, Michael W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simultaneous diffusive and inertial motion of Brownian particles in laminar Couette flow is investigated via Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions to determine the effect of particle inertia on diffusive transport in the long-time. The classical fluctuation dissipation theorem is used to calculate the amplitude of random-force correlations, thereby neglecting corrections of the order of the molecular relaxation time to the inverse shear rate. The analytic, non-perturbative, evaluation of the particle-phase total pressure, which is calculated to be second order in the Stokes number (a dimensionless measure of particle inertia), shows that the particle phase behaves as a non-Newtonian fluid. The generalized Smoluchowski convective-diffusion equation contains a shear-dependent cross derivative term and an additional term along the streamwise direction, quadratic in the particle Stokes number. The long-time diffusion coefficients associated with the particle flux relative to the carrier flow are found to depend on particle inertia such that the streamwise diffusion coefficient becomes negative with increasing Stokes number, whereas one of the cross coefficients is always negative. The total diffusion coefficients measuring the rate of change of particle mean square displacement are always positive as expected from general stability arguments.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Physical Review E
Additional file 1 of Patient satisfaction & use of health care: a cross-sectional study of asylum seekers in the Freiburg initial reception centre
Creators: name: Bockey, Annabelle J.
name: Aleš Janda
name: Braun, Cornelia
name: Anne-Maria Müller
name: Stete, Katarina
name: Kern, Winfried V.
name: Rieg, Siegbert R.
name: Lange, Berit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Health Care Questionnaire.
The Marketing of Milk in the Louisville Area under Federal Regulation
Creators: name: Foelsch, Gertrude G.
name: Foelsch, Gertrude G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1953
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Excerpts from the report Preface: This report is based on one of a series of studies of the operation of Federal milk marketing programs in different, fluid milk markets of the country. The studies have been made by the Research Division of the Dairy Branch, Production and Marketing Administration, U. S. Department of Agriculture. To the producer, the milk distributor, or the consumer seeking to understand the Louisville milk marketing order as a document and to understand the necessity for its various provisions, no amount of description could fully replace the record of experience in developing the order and operating under it. The present report treats thoroughly the regulation of milk marketing in a specific market, both in principle and in detail. With respect to detail, in particular, it differs from other reports in the series, and gives the reader much that otherwise could be based only on experience.
Revenue Impacts of MPP Branded Funds: A Firm-Level Analysis
Creators: name: Jensen, Kimberly L.
name: Jakus, Paul M.
name: Davis, George C.
name: Jensen, Kimberly L.
name: Jakus, Paul M.
name: Davis, George C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The USDA's Market Access Program (formerly Market Promotion Program) recently underwent a major change to redirect all branded products export promotion funds to small domestic firms and cooperatives. The redirection responded to criticisms by the General Accounting Office of past allocations of branded products export promotion funds to large, experienced exporters. This study uses a firm-level analysis to examine whether firm size and export experience matter in how effectively firms use the promotion funds to increase their revenues. The results support neither the GAO criticisms nor the recent program redirection.
Consumer Response to Genetically Modified Food Products in Japan
Creators: name: McCluskey, Jill J.
name: Grimsrud, Kristine M.
name: Ouchi, Hiromi
name: Wahl, Thomas I.
name: McCluskey, Jill J.
name: Grimsrud, Kristine M.
name: Ouchi, Hiromi
name: Wahl, Thomas I.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: In Japan, a large U.S. export market, there has been growing public opposition against genetically modified (GM) foods. Using a dichotomous choice contingent valuation method, findings show the discount needed for Japanese Seikyou consumers to purchase GM food products is positively affected (i.e., a greater discount is required) by higher levels of self-reported risk perceptions toward GM food, higher levels of concern about food safety and the environment, higher self-reported knowledge about biotechnology, education levels, and income. Interestingly, gender does not significantly affect the discount needed for GM food. Further, it can be inferred from the results that a transformation of Japanese consumers' perceptions and attitudes is needed for GM food products to successfully enter the Japanese market.
Donsker theorems for diffusions: Necessary and sufficient conditions
Creators: name: van der Vaart, Aad
name: van Zanten, Harry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J60, 60J55, 60F17, 62M05 (Primary)

description: We consider the empirical process G_t of a one-dimensional diffusion with finite speed measure, indexed by a collection of functions F. By the central limit theorem for diffusions, the finite-dimensional distributions of G_t converge weakly to those of a zero-mean Gaussian random process G. We prove that the weak convergence G_t\Rightarrow G takes place in \ell^{\infty}(F) if and only if the limit G exists as a tight, Borel measurable map. The proof relies on majorizing measure techniques for continuous martingales. Applications include the weak convergence of the local time density estimator and the empirical distribution function on the full state space.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117905000000152 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
The constrained dispersionless mKP hierarchy and the dispersionless mKP hierarchy with self-consistent sources
Creators: name: Xiao, Ting
name: Zeng, Yunbo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We first show that the quasiclassical limit of the squared eigenfunction symmetry constraint of the Sato operator for the mKP hierarchy leads to a reduction of the Sato function for the dispersionless mKP hierarchy. The constrained dispersionless mKP hierarchy (cdmKPH) is obtained and it is shown that the (2+1)-dimensional dispersionless mKP hierarchy is decomposed to two (1+1)-dimensional hierarchies of hydrodynamical type. The dispersionless mKP hierarchy with self-consistent sources (dmKPHSCS) together with its associated conservation equations are also constructed. Some solutions of dmKPESCS are obtained by hodograph reduction method.
description: 12 pages. to appear in Phys. Lett. A
The voice of the school advisor : perceptions of their practice
Creators: name: Schmidt, Christina Renee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study explores the role of the school advisor in teacher education. The role of the school advisor has been viewed as problematic because of the ambiguity surrounding the expectations of this position. In fact, 13.7% of the beginning teachers found that uncertain expectations of the school advisor's role were a source of conflict in their practicum (BCCT, 2001, p. 17). This study examines responses to the "Voice of the School Advisor" survey, which asked school advisors to provide perceptions of their role. The qualitative responses provided for these questions were analyzed using comparative analysis (Strauss and Corbin, 1998), where categories are developed from the similarities and differences among responses. Twenty-seven response categories emerged from the advisors' responses to Question (10): What are the three most important things that you try to communicate to your student teachers? Nineteen categories emerged from Questions (17/18): If you were able to change one thing about the way in which UBC organizes its practica, what would it be? Is there anything else you would like to highlight in your work with student teachers? The definition and explanation of these categories presents a colourful and dynamic picture of the advisory role, which is generally found to be professionally satisfying and personally invigorating. Their paramount focus as advisors is to instil practical skills, while at the same time, the main concerns revolve around the way the university addresses these same issues. The identification of advisors' perceptions has implications for pre-service teacher education.