cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Image-Processing Techniques for the Creation of Presentation-Quality Astronomical Images
Creators: name: Rector, T. A.
name: Levay, Z. G.
name: Frattare, L. M.
name: English, J.
name: Pu'uohau-Pummill, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quality of modern astronomical data, the power of modern computers and the agility of current image-processing software enable the creation of high-quality images in a purely digital form. The combination of these technological advancements has created a new ability to make color astronomical images. And in many ways it has led to a new philosophy towards how to create them. A practical guide is presented on how to generate astronomical images from research data with powerful image-processing programs. These programs use a layering metaphor that allows for an unlimited number of astronomical datasets to be combined in any desired color scheme, creating an immense parameter space to be explored using an iterative approach. Several examples of image creation are presented. A philosophy is also presented on how to use color and composition to create images that simultaneously highlight scientific detail and are aesthetically appealing. This philosophy is necessary because most datasets do not correspond to the wavelength range of sensitivity of the human eye. The use of visual grammar, defined as the elements which affect the interpretation of an image, can maximize the richness and detail in an image while maintaining scientific accuracy. By properly using visual grammar, one can imply qualities that a two-dimensional image intrinsically cannot show, such as depth, motion and energy. In addition, composition can be used to engage viewers and keep them interested for a longer period of time. The use of these techniques can result in a striking image that will effectively convey the science within the image, to scientists and to the public.
description: 104 pages, 38 figures, submitted to AJ
Location Preference for Risk-Averse Dutch Dairy Farmers Immigrating to the United States
Creators: name: Richardson, James W.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Duncan, Anthony
name: Den Besten, Mark
name: Van Hoven, Peter
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Duncan, Anthony
name: Den Besten, Mark
name: Van Hoven, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: dairy relocation
subject: production economics
subject: ranking risky alternatives
subject: risk analysis

description: Increased environmental regulations and a milk quota that restricts growth have increased the interest in immigration to the United States by Dutch dairy farmers. A risk-based economic analysis of 23 representative U.S. dairy farms versus a representative Dutch farm shows that risk-averse Dutch dairy farmers would prefer to liquidate their dairy farms and invest in a large dairy in Idaho or north Texas. The risk ranking suggested that continuing to farm in the Netherlands rather than immigrating to the United States is preferred over only two of the 23 U.S. representative farms analyzed.
Improving inventory management for Methanex
Creators: name: Fenske, Russell Dean
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Methanex is a global leader in the production, distribution and sale of methanol. Their extensive supply chain services customers in all parts of the world. Intimately tied to their ability to service customers is their management of inventory. By storing methanol in regional distribution centers, Methanex is able to limit their global shipping costs by transporting methanol in larger ships, while improving their agility in responding to customer demand. This paper examines the issues surrounding inventory management for Methanex. The goal is to define a methodology to identify target inventory levels for all of their major global inventory storage locations. It also discusses recommendations for changes in current levels of storage capacity. The feasibility of applying standard inventory control approaches such as the EOQ model and the Newsboy model is discussed. Two hybrid approaches involving simulation, combining mathematical techniques and business practices to model the global supply chain, are also discussed. The Waterfront Inventory Simulation Engine (WISE) model is based one of these hybrid approaches. It is a decision support tool that enables the testing and analysis of a myriad of potential sourcing and inventory scenarios. This paper demonstrates that though supply chain planning for Methanex may be complicated and does not lend itself well to the standard inventory control techniques, there are still many ways in which operations research techniques can be used to conduct useful inventory analysis that will improve efficiency and have a positive impact on bottom line results.
Production Efficiency and Diversification in Mexican Coffee-Producing Districts
Creators: name: Vedenov, Dmitry V.
name: Houston, Jack E.
name: Cardenas, Gabriela
name: Vedenov, Dmitry V.
name: Houston, Jack E.
name: Cardenas, Gabriela
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: coffee production
subject: distance function
subject: Mexico
subject: production systems
subject: stochastic frontier
subject: technical efficiency

description: Coffee production system is analyzed for 24 municipios (districts) in Veracruz, Mexico, from 1997 to 2002. A stochastic frontier approach is used to estimate an input distance function and to evaluate production efficiency. Results show the production process to be stable over time despite global price fluctuations. Production of staple crop (corn) with either coffee or other cash crops results in increased efficiency as a result of the economies of complementarity, while production of coffee with other cash crops leads to lower efficiency. Factors contributing to higher efficiency included higher population density, road availability, and higher altitude, typically associated with production of higher-quality coffee.
Production of Axions by Cosmic Magnetic Helicity
Creators: name: Campanelli, L.
name: Giannotti, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of an external magnetic helicity production on the evolution of the cosmic axion field. It is shown that a helicity larger than (few \times 10^{-15} G)^2 Mpc, if produced at temperatures above a few GeV, is in contradiction with the existence of the axion, since it would produce too much of an axion relic abundance.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, major changes in the first part of the paper, reference added, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett
Regional Log Market Integration in New Zealand
Creators: name: Niquidet, Kurt
name: Manley, Bruce
name: Niquidet, Kurt
name: Manley, Bruce
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: log market
subject: co-integration
subject: law of one price

description: In this paper the integration of log prices across four regions in New Zealand was assessed. A time series of prices for six radiata pine (Pinus radiata D. Don) log grades in each of the regions were tested for co-integration using Johansen’s method and Engle-Granger pair wise tests. Prices for export grades display significant integration across regions and generally follow the law of one price. However, markets for domestic grades tend to be regionally segregated. These results are most likely due to the high costs of transporting logs between regions. Future modelling will need to incorporate such transportation costs in order to adequately characterise log markets in the country.
Effective Theory of Freeze-in Dark Matter
Creators: name: Barman, Basabendu
name: Borah, Debasish
name: Roshan, Rishav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a model independent study of freeze-in of massive particle dark matter (DM) by adopting an effective field theory framework. Considering the dark matter to be a gauge singlet Majorana fermion, odd under a stabilising symmetry $Z_2$ under which all standard model (SM) fields are even, we write down all possible DM-SM operators upto and including mass dimension eight. For simplicity of the numerical analysis we restrict ourselves only to the scalar operators in SM as well as in the dark sector. We calculate the DM abundance for each such dimension of operator considering both UV and IR freeze-in contributions which can arise before and after the electroweak symmetry breaking respectively. After constraining the cut-off scale and reheat temperature of the universe from the requirement of correct DM relic abundance, we also study the possibility of connecting the origin of neutrino mass to the same cut-off scale by virtue of lepton number violating Weinberg operators. We thus compare the bounds on such cut-off scale and corresponding reheat temperature required for UV freeze-in from the origin of light neutrino mass as well as from the requirement of correct DM relic abundance. We also briefly comment upon the possibilities of realising such DM-SM effective operators in a UV complete model.
description: 60 pages, 6 tables, 11 figures, added two new sections, accepted for publication in JCAP
Ground States and Defect Energies of the Two-dimensional XY Spin Glass from a Quasi-Exact Algorithm
Creators: name: Weigel, Martin
name: Gingras, Michel J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ a novel algorithm using a quasi-exact embedded-cluster matching technique as minimization method within a genetic algorithm to reliably obtain numerically exact ground states of the Edwards-Anderson XY spin glass model with bimodal coupling distribution for square lattices of up to 28x28 spins. Contrary to previous conjectures, the ground state of each disorder replica is non-degenerate up to a global O(2) rotation. The scaling of spin and chiral defect energies induced by applying several different sets of boundary conditions exhibits strong crossover effects. This suggests that previous calculations have yielded results far from the asymptotic regime. The novel algorithm and the aspect-ratio scaling technique consistently give $θ_s=-0.308(30)$ and $θ_c=-0.114(16)$ for the spin and chiral stiffness exponents, respectively.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX4, v2: slightly shortened version as published
Biological Carbon Sequestration and Carbon Trading Re-visited
Creators: name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: carbon offset credits from biological activities
subject: climate change
subject: duration of carbon sinks

description: Under Kyoto, biological activities that sequester carbon can be used to create CO2 offset credits that could obviate the need for lifestyle-changing reductions in fossil fuel use. Credits are earned by storing carbon in terrestrial ecosystems and wood products, although CO2 emissions are also mitigated by delaying deforestation, which accounts for one-quarter of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. However, non-permanent carbon offsets from biological activities are difficult to compare with each other and with emissions reduction because they differ in how long they prevent CO2 from entering the atmosphere. This is the duration problem; it results in uncertainty and makes it difficult to determine the legitimacy of biological activities in mitigating climate change. While there is not doubt that biological sink activities help mitigate climate change and should not be neglected, in this paper we demonstrate that these activities cannot be included in carbon trading schemes.
Note on de Sitter vacua from perturbative and non-perturbative dynamics in type IIB/F-theory compactifications
Creators: name: Basiouris, Vasileios
name: Leontaris, George K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of the effective scalar potential are studied in the framework of type IIB string theory, taking into account perturbative and non-perturbative corrections. The former modify the Kähler potential and include $α'$ and logarithmic corrections generated when intersecting D7 branes are part of the internal geometric configuration. The latter add exponentially suppressed Kähler moduli dependent terms to the fluxed superpotential. The possibility of partial elimination of such terms which may happen for particular choices of world fluxes is also taken into account. That being the case, a simple set up of three Kähler moduli is considered in the large volume regime, where only one of them is assumed to induce non-perturbative corrections. It is found that the shape of the F-term potential crucially depends on the parametric space associated with the perturbative sector and the volume modulus. De Sitter vacua can be obtained by implementing one of the standard mechanisms, i.e., either relying on D-terms related to $U(1)$ symmetries associated with the $D7$ branes, or introducing $\overline{D3}$ branes. In general it is observed that the combined effects of non-perturbative dynamics and the recently introduced logarithmic corrections lead to an effective scalar potential displaying interesting cosmological and phenomenological properties.
description: Improved version, to appear in PLB. New figures and clarifications added. Misprints corrected
Myrsidea varia Ansari 1956
Creators: name: Naz, Saima
name: Najer, Tomas
name: Gustafsson, Daniel R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phthiraptera
Menoponidae
Myrsidea
Myrsidea varia

description: Myrsidea varia Ansari, 1956
 Myrsidea varia Ansari, 1956f: 172, figs 8a–f.
 Myrsidea varia Ansari, 1956k: 62. Junior primary homonym.
 Current status: Myrsidea varia Ansari, 1956f.
 Type host: Turdus ignobilis debilis Hellmayr.
 Type locality: Huacamayo, Peru.
 Type material: Holotype male and allotype female [slides 69010] deposited in the USNM, from the Carriker collection [slides 4200a and 4200b respectively].
description: Published as part of Naz, Saima, Najer, Tomas & Gustafsson, Daniel R., 2020, An annotated list of the species of lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) described by Mohammad A. - R. Ansari, pp. 401-448 in Zootaxa 4809 (3) on page 414, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4809.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3936752
On Optimal British Columbia Log Export Policy: An Application of Trade Theory
Creators: name: Abbott, Brant
name: Abbott, Brant
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The log export policy suggestion by Dumont and Wright (2006) is critically assessed in an effort to determine if it is based on economic efficiency. The optimal log export policy for British Columbia is derived using two different models. The first model assumes that B.C. is a small open economy, and the second is a two country model that provides B.C. the opportunity to improve its terms of trade. In both cases it is shown that an optimal log export tax when a fixed lumber export tax exists can be characterized as a problem of second best. In that scenario the optimal log export policy is a positive export tax in both models. In the second model a positive export tax is also optimal when there is no lumber export tax, but it is smaller than when the lumber export tax is levied. In comparison to the log export tax recommended by Dumont and Wright (2006), the optimal tax for a small economy is always lower, while it is lower only in certain circumstances for an economy with market power. These results suggest that the Dumont and Wright policy is not efficient.
Quest for Fast Partial Search Algorithm
Creators: name: Korepin, Vladimir
name: Liao, Jinfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum algorithm can find target item in a database faster than any classical. One can trade accuracy for speed and find a part of the database (a block) containing the target item even faster: this is partial search. One can think of partial search in following terms: an exact address of the target item is given by a sequence of many bites, but we want to find only several first bites of the address. We consider different partial search algorithms consisting of a sequence of global and local searches and suggest the optimal one. Global search consists of the standard Grover iterations for the whole database. Local search consists of Grover iterations in each individual block made simultaneously in all blocks. Efficiency of an algorithm is measured by number of queries to the oracle.
description: 11 pages 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Rheumatoid arthritis, as a clinical disease, but not rheumatoid arthritis-associated autoimmunity, is linked to cardiovascular events
Creators: name: Gouze, Hélène
name: Aegerter, Philippe
name: Said-Nahal, Roula
name: Zins, Marie
name: Goldberg, Marcel
name: Morelle, Guillaume
name: Schett, Georg
name: Breban, Maxime
name: D’Agostino, Maria Antonietta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Details on the specifically dedicated questionnaire for RA diagnosis confirmation and questionnaire translated from French.
Taxes Versus Quantities for a Stock Pollutant with Endogenous Abatement Costs and Asymmetric Information
Creators: name: Karp, Larry S.
name: Zhang, Jiangfeng
name: Karp, Larry S.
name: Zhang, Jiangfeng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Pollution control
subject: Investment
subject: Asymmetric information
subject: Rational expectations
subject: Choice of instruments

description: Non-strategic firms with rational expectations make investment and emissions decisions. The investment rule depends on firms’ beliefs about future emissions policies. We compare emissions taxes and quotas when the (strategic) regulator and (nonstrategic) firms have asymmetric information about abatement costs, and all agents use Markov Perfect decision rules. Emissions taxes create a secondary distortion at the investment stage, unless a particular condition holds; emissions quotas do not create a secondary distortion. We solve a linear-quadratic model calibrated to represent the problem of controlling greenhouse gasses. The endogeneity of abatement capital favors taxes, and it increases abatement.
Unambiguous discrimination among quantum operations
Creators: name: Wang, Guoming
name: Ying, Mingsheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the problem of unambiguous discrimination among a given set of quantum operations. The necessary and sufficient condition for them to be unambiguously distinguishable is derived in the cases of single use and multiple uses respectively. For the latter case we explicitly construct the input states and corresponding measurements that accomplish the task. It is found that the introduction of entanglement can improve the discrimination.
description: 5 pages, no figure
Zwei altkoptische Festbrotstempel aus dem Gebiete von Antinoupolis in Oberägypten
Creators: name: Kaufmann, Carl Maria
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 29 (1932): Oriens christianus, Band 29
Additional file 1 of Treatment patterns, healthcare resource utilization, and costs among patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis treated with antifibrotic medications in US-based commercial and Medicare Supplemental claims databases: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Corral, Mitra
name: DeYoung, Kathryn
name: Kong, Amanda M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Demographic and clinical characteristics before and after weighting for patients with index date prior to 10/1/2017.
Parallel, Self Organizing, Consensus Neural Networks
Creators: name: Valafar, Homayoun
name: Valafar, Faramarz
name: Ersoy, Okan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A new neural network architecture (PSCNN) is developed to improve performance and speed of such networks. The architecture has all the advantages of the previous models such as self-organization and possesses some other superior characteristics such as input parallelism and decision making based on consensus. Due to the properties of this network, it was studied with respect to implementation on a Parallel Processor (Ncube Machine) as well as a regular sequential machine. The architecture self organizes its own modules in a way to maximize performance. Since it is completely parallel, both recall and learning procedures are very fast. The performance of the network was compared to the Backpropagation networks in problems of language perception, remote sensing and binary logic (Exclusive-Or). PSCNN showed superior performance in all cases studied.
description: 4 pages
Additional file 1 of Does a home-based interview with a chronically ill patient help medical students become more patient-centred? A randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Harris, Michael
name: Anna-Lea Camenzind
name: Fankhauser, Rita
name: Streit, Sven
name: Hari, Roman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
A Proposal for the Design of the Successor to the Kyoto Protocol
Creators: name: Karp, Larry S.
name: Zhao, Jinhua
name: Karp, Larry S.
name: Zhao, Jinhua
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Kyoto protocol
subject: escape clause
subject: emissions trade
subject: clean development mechanism

description: The successor to the Kyoto Protocol should impose national ceilings on rich countries’ greenhouse gas emissions and promote voluntary abatement by developing countries. Our proposal gives signatories the option of exercising an escape clause that relaxes their requirement to abate. This feature helps to solve the participation and compliance problems that have weakened the Protocol. We support the use of carefully circumscribed trade restrictions in order to reduce the real or perceived problem of carbon leakage.
Additional file 1 of Chemical assessment of the explosive chamber in the projector system of Hayabusa2 for asteroid sampling
Creators: name: Takano, Yoshinori
name: Yamada, Keita
name: Okamoto, Chisato
name: Sawada, Hirotaka
name: Okazaki, Ryuji
name: Sakamoto, Kanako
name: Kebukawa, Yoko
name: Kiryu, Kento
name: Takazo Shibuya
name: Igisu, Motoko
name: Yano, Hajime
name: Tachibana, Shogo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Profiles of cations and anions obtained from the quenched 80 carbonaceous product (w/ and w/o the sabot; sampled from 32.4 mg and 31.3 mg of material, respectively) analyzed by ion chromatography. Abbreviation: 2A2M, 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol; DMA, dimethylamine. Figure S2. Profiles of the major elements obtained from the quenched carbonaceous product (w/ and w/o the sabot) analyzed by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry.
Self-organizing social hierarchies on scale-free networks
Creators: name: Gallos, Lazaros K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we extend the model of Bonabeau et al. in the case of scale-free networks. A sharp transition is observed from an egalitarian to an hierarchical society, with a very low population density threshold. The exact threshold value also depends on the network size. We find that in an hierarchical society the number of individuals with strong winning attitude is much lower than the number of the community members that have a low winning probability.
Controllable Quantum Interference from Two-Photon Scattershot Sources
Creators: name: Guanzon, Joshua J.
name: Lund, Austin P.
name: Ralph, Timothy C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a multi-mode passive linear optical network which emulates the two-photon number statistics of a beam splitter, irrespective on where the two photons enter the network. This is done by firstly defining general properties that the generator of the network matrix must fulfil. We then show that the network's effective transmission coefficient can be freely set to replicate either the absence of coincidence counts (i.e. the Hong-Ou-Mandel dip), or a 100% coincidence rate, as well as all possible two-photon beam splitter statistics between these two extremal points. Finally, we demonstrate that this network, in comparison to simpler systems, provides a better sampling rate and other resource advantages.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures; added references, 2 additional paragraphs (in Section I & IV) and other minor text additions with respect to Sylvester interferometers
Explicit Results for the Anomalous Three Point Function and Non-Renormalization Theorems
Creators: name: Jegerlehner, F.
name: Tarasov, O. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-loop corrections for the correlator of the singlet axial and vector currents in QCD are calculated in the chiral limit for arbitrary momenta. Explicit calculations confirm the non-renormalization theorems derived recently by Vainshtein and Knecht et.al. We find that as in the one-loop case also at the two loops the correlator has only 3 independent form-factors instead of 4. From the explicit results we observe that the two-loop correction to the correlator is equal to the one-loop result times the constant factor C_2(R) alpha_s/pi in the MSbar scheme. This holds for the full correlator, for the anomalous longitudinal as well as for the non- anomalous thansversal amplitudes. The finite overall alpha_s dependent constant has to be normalized away by renormalizing the axial current according to Witten's algebraic/geometrical constraint on the anomalous Ward identity. Our observations, together with known facts, suggest that in perturbation theory the correlator is proportional to the one-loop term to all orders and that the non- renormalization theorem of the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly carries over to the full correlator.
description: 10 pages, 2 Postscript figures, uses axodraw.sty
Additional file 1 of Recurrent pneumonia in a patient with new coronavirus infection after discharge from hospital for insufficient antibody production: a case report
Creators: name: Xiaoxi Zhou
name: Jianfeng Zhou
name: Jianping Zhao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1 Method:Real-Time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assay for SARS-CoV-2; total exon sequencing; Serological determination for SARS-CoV-2-specific IgM and IgG. Supplementary Table 1: Antibody levels of 5 patients with good recovery of COVID-19.
Professionalism, Latent Professionalism and Organizational Demands for Health Care Quality in a Developing Country
Creators: name: Leonard, Kenneth L.
name: Masatu, Melkiory C.
name: Leonard, Kenneth L.
name: Masatu, Melkiory C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: incentives
subject: quality
subject: health care
subject: professionalism
subject: Tanzania

description: Medicine is a professional pursuit, and even in developing countries professionalism should lead at least some practitioners to care for their patients despite the absence of direct incentives to do so. Even if practitioners do not behave as professionals, what is the extent of latent professionalism, in which socialization in the profession conditions health workers to respond to a demand for professionalism even if they do not normally act as professionals? How many health care workers in developing countries act as professionals all the time and what will happen if health services turn toward remuneration schemes in which health workers are paid by the output or outcome? We examine the behavior of 80 practitioners from Arusha region of Tanzania for evidence of latent professionalism, professionalism and responsiveness to extrinsic incentives in the form of organizational demands for high quality care. We show that about 20% of these practitioners act like professionals and almost half of these practice in the public sector. Professional health care workers provide high quality care even when they work in an environment that does not reward this effort, a finding that has important implications for the use of performance–based incentives.
Idle Chatter or Learning? Evidence from Rural Tanzania of Social Learning about Clinicians and the Health System
Creators: name: Adelman, Sarah W.
name: Essam, Timothy M.
name: Leonard, Kenneth L.
name: Adelman, Sarah W.
name: Essam, Timothy M.
name: Leonard, Kenneth L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: learning
subject: health care
subject: trust
subject: social networks

description: We examine data from rural Arusha region in Tanzania in which households are asked to recall the illness episodes of randomly chosen other households in their village. We analyze the probability that a household would be able to recall another illness episode as a function of the characteristics of the illness, the location and type of health care chosen and the outcome experienced. Households are more likely to recall severe illnesses and illnesses for which good quality care is important, illnesses that resulted in visits to hospitals or when the patient was not cured. In addition, households are more likely to recall illnesses that resulted in a visit to a facility where the average tenure of clinicians is less than two years old. The results are consistent with a model in which households deliberately collect information in order to learn about clinicians and facilities in their local area.
Additional file 1 of Socio-demographic characteristics and cognitive performance in oldest old subjects asking for driving license renewal
Creators: name: Bernardelli, Giuseppina
name: Palmina Caruso
name: Travaini, Guido
name: Merzagora, Isabella
name: Gualdi, Francesca
name: Sartori, Raffaela D. G.
name: Mari, Daniela
name: Cesari, Matteo
name: Edefonti, Valeria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. “Socio-demographic characteristics and cognitive performance in oldest old subjects asking for driving license renewal”. Additional information on study design, data collection, and results.
Reconstruction theorem for quantum stochastic processes
Creators: name: Belavkin, V. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Statistically interpretable axioms are formulated that define a quantum stochastic process (QSP) as a causally ordered operator field in an arbitrary space-time region T of an open quantum system under a sequential observation at a discrete space-time localization. It is shown that to every QSP described in the weak sense by a self-consistent system of causally ordered correlation kernels there corresponds a unique, up to unitary equivalence, minimal QSP in the strong sense. It is shown that the proposed QSP construction, which reduces in the case of the linearly ordered discrete T=Z to the construction of the inductive limit of Lindblad's canonical representations, corresponds to Kolmogorov's classical reconstruction if the order on T is ignored and leads to Lewis construction if one uses the system of all (not only causal) correlation kernels, regarding this system as lexicographically preordered on T. The approach presented encompasses both nonrelativistic and relativistic irreversible dynamics of open quantum systems and fields satisfying the conditions of local commutativity and semigroup covariance. Also given are necessary and sufficient conditions of dynamicity (or conditional Markovianity) and regularity, these leading to the properties of complete mixing (relaxation) and ergodicity of the QSP.
description: 20 pages. This paper is translated from: Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, 62 (3) 409 -- 431 (1985) See also related papers at http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/vpb/vpb_research.html
Neomenopon bakttitar Ansari 1951
Creators: name: Naz, Saima
name: Najer, Tomas
name: Gustafsson, Daniel R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phthiraptera
Menoponidae
Neomenopon
Neomenopon bakttitar

description: Neomenopon bakttitar Ansari, 1951
 Neomenopon bakttitar Ansari, 1951: 169, figs 17a–c.
 Current status: Myrsidea bakttitar (Ansari, 1951); Klockenhoff 1973: 405, figs 7–9.
 Type host: Pterocles exustus erlangeri Neumann [in error], it should be Corvus splendens.
 Type locality: Faisalabad [as Lyallpur, Punjab], Pakistan.
 Type material: Holotype female (labelled as “ TYPE ”) and allotype male deposited in the NHML [slide NHML 010661419]. On the reverse of the type slide, another label reads: “= Myrsidea bakttitar (Ansari, 1951) Host: Corvus splendens. See Klockenhoff, 1973: 405 ”.
description: Published as part of Naz, Saima, Najer, Tomas & Gustafsson, Daniel R., 2020, An annotated list of the species of lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) described by Mohammad A. - R. Ansari, pp. 401-448 in Zootaxa 4809 (3) on page 414, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4809.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3936752
Geometric concepts for stellarator permanent magnet arrays
Creators: name: Hammond, K. C.
name: Zhu, C.
name: Brown, T.
name: Corrigan, K.
name: Gates, D. A.
name: Sibilia, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The development of stellarators that use permanent magnet arrays to shape their confining magnetic fields has been a topic of recent interest, but the requirements for how such magnets must be shaped, manufactured, and assembled remain to be determined. To address these open questions, we have performed a study of geometric concepts for magnet arrays with the aid of the newly developed MAGPIE code. A proposed experiment similar to the National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX) is used as a test case. Two classes of magnet geometry are explored: curved bricks that conform to a regular grid in cylindrical coordinates, and hexahedra that conform to the toroidal plasma geometry. In addition, we test constraints on the magnet polarization. While magnet configurations constrained to be polarized normally to a toroidal surface around the plasma are unable to meet the required magnetic field parameters when subject to physical limitations on the strength of present-day magnets, configurations with unconstrained polarizations are shown to satisfy the physics requirements for a targeted plasma.
description: 21 pages, 17 figures
Coherent and incoherent pair creation by a photon in oriented single crystal
Creators: name: Baier, V. N.
name: Katkov, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The new approach is developed for study of electron-positron pair production by a photon in oriented single crystal. It permits indivisible consideration of both coherent and incoherent mechanisms of pair creation and includes the action of field of axis (or plane) as well as the multiple scattering of particles of the created pair (the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM) effect). From obtained integral probability of pair creation, it follows that multiple scattering appears only for relatively low energy of photon, while at higher photon energy the field action excludes the LPM effect. The found results agree quite satisfactory with recent CERN experiment.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Die zwölf Marḳa-Hymnen aus dem "Defter" der samaritanischen Liturgie
Creators: name: Kahle, Paul
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 29 (1932): Oriens christianus, Band 29
Have Pentaquark States Been seen?
Creators: name: Burkert, Volker D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The status of the search for pentaquark baryons is reviewed in light of new results from the first two dedicated experiments from CLAS at Jefferson Lab and of new analyses from several laboratories on the $Theta^+(1540)$. Evidence for and against two heavier pentaquark states is also discussed.
description: Added some references, corrected typos
25 Years of Food Policy Research: Reflections by Per Pinstrup-Anderson
Creators: name: Pinstrup-Andersen, Per
name: Pinstrup-Andersen, Per
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Food Policy Research Institute -- History
subject: Environmental policies
subject: Globalization Food security
subject: Subsidies
subject: Trade
subject: Food policies

description: On the occasion of IFPRI's 25th anniversary, the author has selected a few subjects where the Institute has made an important and recognized contribution to food policy research, either by itself or, more frequently, with others. In each case the topic has broad application and the research includes innovative conclusions or methodology. This has necessarily meant looking more to the past than the present, although in many cases the work is continuing and promises a good deal more, in addition to what has already been achieved. He addresses IFPRI's accomplishments and the influence it has had on the development community’s views on policy issues and the nature of development in general. These areas are discussed: Global Food Trends, Food Subsidies, Markets under Structural Adjustment, Agricultural Linkages, The Bias Against Agriculture, Household Food Security, The Environment, Agricultural Science and Technology Policy, Building Food Policy Research Capacity, Trade and Globalization, and The 2020 Vision Food, Agriculture, and the Environment Initiative, through which IFPRI seeks to refocus attention on current and future challenges in areas such as food security, agricultural development, rural poverty, and environmental protection.
Ketamine disrupts synaptic transmission by interacting at AMPA/Kainate receptor channels in neocortical neurons
Creators: name: Leong, Darrell Andrew
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The dissociative anaesthetic, ketamine, is commonly known as a NMDA receptor channel blocker. However, additional mechanisms of action probably contribute to its various clinical effects. We asked if ketamine influences transmission via AMPA/kainate glutamate receptor channels. Using whole cell patch clamp techniques in brain slices we recorded excitatory postsynaptic potentials, evoked by electrical stimulation of axons in white matter, from pyramidal neurons in the auditory cortex of gerbils. The neurons were layer III-V large pyramidal neurons identified morphologically under an infrared differential interference contrast microscope, and electrophysiologically by virtue of their firing patterns. After blockade of the slow, NMDA receptor mediated EPSP component with APV, ketamine application produced a concentration-dependent reduction in amplitude of fast, CNQX-sensitive EPSPs. IC₅₀ values for ketamine were estimated to range from 7 to 35 μM. The reduction of subthreshold EPSP amplitudes was maintained for a long time following cessation of the ketamine application, but the amplitude recovered when firing was induced in the postsynaptic neuron during the washout period. At concentrations of 25 to 125 μM that led to a reduction of the fast EPSP amplitude ketamine caused an increase in input resistance. At higher concentrations, which ranged from 50 to 250 μM, resistance fell again towards control levels. Ketamine did not increase input resistance after CNQX blockade of AMPA and kainate receptor channels. Thus, ketamine appears to reduce synaptic excitation and membrane conductance by an incomplete blockade of AMPA and/or kainate receptor channels that are constitutively active at a low level in the slice preparation of auditory cortex. After blockade of both the NMDA and AMPA/kainate receptor channels, the membrane responded to application of 100 μM ketamine with an increase in resistance. Therefore, ketamine appears to produce an increase in resting resistance by partial blockade of AMPA/kainate receptor channels (as reported here) as well as NMDA receptor channels (as reported previously). Furthermore, complete blockade of NMDA and AMPA/kainate receptor channels with APV and CNQX revealed a third, yet unidentified ketamine effect associated with a resistance increase. Ketamine concentrations at synapses probably are within the range that attenuates glutamatergic synaptic transmission at AMPA/kainate and NMDA receptor channels during anaesthesia in human patients.
Indagine esplorativa dell’atteggiamento dei consumatori europei verso riso e tapioca biologici importati dalla Tailandia
Creators: name: Canavari, Maurizio
name: Lombardi, Pamela
name: Riedel, Bettina
name: Spadoni, Roberta
name: Canavari, Maurizio
name: Lombardi, Pamela
name: Riedel, Bettina
name: Spadoni, Roberta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: marketing of quality food products
subject: differentiating elements
subject: international trade context
subject: focus group
subject: semantic categories

description: This paper deals with the introduction and promotion of innovative and differentiating products in distribution places geographically far and culturally different by the country of origin/production. In an international trade context, environmental elements (e.g. the introduction of organic agriculture) and the role of the country of origin/production could influence the consumers’ perception of the distribution places. This study is aimed at deepening the knowledge about European consumer attitudes towards Thai organic rice and tapioca imported from Thailand. In particular, the purpose was to explore relevant attributes for the quality product perception, motivations for purchasing, limiting factors, reasonable price brackets, trust elements. In this first phase of research, a qualitative approach was used. Four focus groups in different European countries (Germany, Greece, Italy and Scotland-UK) were administered by one or two investigators each. The participants were recruited using a convenience sampling method, gathering 6-8 persons per focus group). The discussions were recorded, transcribed and analysed through a qualitative approach. Finally, an exhaustive list of semantic categories was created, explained and supported by parts of the discussions. The results show that the participants still do not know much about these products, especially about tapioca. They tend to favour the product’s nutritional aspects, followed by its taste and smell, which in any case were not deemed satisfactory; however, they want also that a series of social and environmental benefits are satisfied. In general, Thai organic rice is perceived as a “different type” of rice and tapioca as a “new product”. The most important critical issues affecting participant’s opinions include: the lack of trust in the certification process by foreign countries and the low attitude towards trying food novelties seemed due to a sense of loyalty to (or affection for) local food traditions. One of the most important trust elements is represented by the brand of the distributor, the producer and the EU and national certification bodies; in particular, participants associate some parameters of guarantee and safety to brand’s name. The information obtained could be useful in further explorations of this topic and it needs to be tested with a quantitative approach in order to obtain an evaluation of the relative importance of the different semantic categories.
Single and double pi^{-}/pi^{+} ratios in heavy-ion reactions as probes of the high-density behavior of the nuclear symmetry energy
Creators: name: Yong, Gao-Chan
name: Li, Bao-An
name: Chen, Lie-Wen
name: Zuo, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on an isospin- and momentum-dependent hadronic transport model IBUU04, effects of the nuclear symmetry energy on the single and double pi^{-}/pi^{+}ratios in central reactions of ^{132}Sn+^{124}Sn and ^{112}Sn+^{112}Sn at a beam energy of 400 MeV/nucleon are studied. It is found that around the Coulomb peak of the single pi^{-}/pi^{+} ratio the double pi^{-}/pi^{+} ratio taken from the two isotopic reactions retains about the same sensitivity to the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy. Because the double pi^{-}/pi^{+}ratio can reduce significantly the systematic errors, it is thus a more effective probe for the high-density behavior of the nuclear symmetry energy.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Physics Review C