cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On a bound of Garcia and Voloch for the number of points of a Fermat curve over a prime field
Creators: name: Mattarei, Sandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G20; 14G15

description: In 1988 Garcia and Voloch proved the upper bound 4n^{4/3}(p-1)^{2/3} for the number of solutions over a prime finite field F_p of the Fermat equation x^n+y^n=a, where a \in F_p^* and n \ge 2 is a divisor of p-1 such that (n-1/2)^4 \ge p-1. This is better than Weil's bound p+1+(n-1)(n-2)p^{1/2} in the stated range. By refining Garcia and Voloch's proof we show that the constant 4 in their bound can be replaced by 3\cdot 2^{-2/3}.
description: 4 pages
Additional file 1 of Waist circumference prediction for epidemiological research using gradient boosted trees
Creators: name: Weihong Zhou
name: Eckler, Spencer
name: Barszczyk, Andrew
name: Waese-Perlman, Alex
name: Yingjie Wang
name: Xiaoping Gu
name: Feng, Zhong-Ping
name: Yuzhu Peng
name: Lee, Kang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Training and testing statistics for sex-aggregated XGBoost model.
Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts
Creators: name: Karlan, Dean S.
name: Zinman, Jonathan
name: Karlan, Dean S.
name: Zinman, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: Expanding credit access is a key ingredient of development strategies worldwide. Microfinance practitioners, policymakers, and donors have ambitious goals for expanding access, and seek efficient methods for implementing and evaluating expansion. There is less consensus on the role of consumer credit in expansion initiatives. Some microfinance institutions are moving beyond entrepreneurial credit and offering consumer loans. But many practitioners and policymakers are skeptical about "unproductive" lending. These concerns are fueled by academic work highlighting behavioral biases that may induce consumers to over borrow. We estimate the impacts of a consumer credit supply expansion using a field experiment and follow-up data collection. A South African lender relaxed its risk assessment criteria by encouraging its loan officers to approve randomly selected marginal rejected applications. We estimate the resulting impacts using new survey data on applicant households and administrative data on loan repayment, as well as public credit reports one and two years later. We find that the marginal loans produced significant benefits for borrowers across a wide range economic and well-being outcomes. We also find some evidence that the marginal loans were profitable for the Lender. The results suggest that consumer credit expansions can be welfare-improving.
The Basic Public Finance of Public-Private Partnerships
Creators: name: Engel, Eduardo M.R.A.
name: Fischer, Ronald
name: Galetovic, Alexander
name: Engel, Eduardo M.R.A.
name: Fischer, Ronald
name: Galetovic, Alexander
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: Public-private partnerships (PPPs) cannot be justified because they free public funds. When PPPs are desirable because the private sector is more efficient, the contract that optimally trades demand risk, user-fee distortions and the opportunity cost of public funds is characterized by a minimum revenue guarantee and a cap on the firm's revenues. Yet income guarantees and revenue sharing arrangements observed in practice differ fundamentally from those suggested by the optimal contract. The optimal contract can be implemented via a competitive auction with realistic informational requirements; and risk allocation under the optimal contract suggests that PPPs are closer to public provision than to privatization.
Entry, Exit, and Structural Change in Pennsylvania's Dairy Sector
Creators: name: Stokes, Jeffrey R.
name: Stokes, Jeffrey R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: dairy
subject: maximum entropy
subject: farm size
subject: Markov chain
subject: simulation

description: Data on the number of Pennsylvania dairy farms by size category are analyzed in a Markov chain setting to determine factors affecting entry, exit, expansion, and contraction within the sector. Milk prices, milk price volatility, land prices, policy, and cow productivity all impact structural change in Pennsylvania's dairy sector. Stochastic simulation analysis suggests that the number of dairy farms in Pennsylvania will likely fall by only 2.0 percent to 2.5 percent annually over the next 20 years, indicating that dairy farming in Pennsylvania is likely to be a significant enterprise for the state in the foreseeable future.
When to Get In and Out of Dairy Farming: A Real Option Analysis
Creators: name: Tauer, Loren W.
name: Tauer, Loren W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: dairy farming
subject: entry-exit
subject: investment
subject: real options

description: The Dixit entry/exit real option model was applied to the entry/exit decisions of New York dairy farmers. For the cost structure of a 500-cow farm, the entry milk price is $17.52 per hundredweight (cwt) and the exit milk price is $10.84. For the 50-cow farm cost structure, the entry price is higher at $23.71 per cwt, and the exit price is also higher at $13.48. If infinite numbers of representative farms enter and exit at these prices, the price of milk should range between $13.48 and $17.52 per cwt.
Behavioral Economics, Food Assistance, and Obesity
Creators: name: Just, David R.
name: Just, David R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: food assistance
subject: behavioral economics
subject: food insecurity
subject: obesity

description: While there is mixed evidence of the impact of food assistance programs on obesity, there is general agreement that the food-insecure are at higher risk of obesity and obesity-related diseases. Food assistance programs, originally designed to overcome a lack of available food, now need to confront a very different problem: how to provide for the food-insecure while encouraging healthy lifestyles. This paper examines the potential to address these competing needs using traditional economic policies (manipulating information or prices) versus policies engaging behavioral economics and psychology.
Heteragrion denisye Vilela, Koroiva & Guillermo-Ferreira 2019
Creators: name: Vilela, Diogo Silva
name: Lencioni, Frederico A. A.
name: Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A.
name: Ware, Jessica L.
name: Bispo, Pitágoras C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Megapodagrionidae
Heteragrion
Heteragrion denisye

description: Heteragrion denisye Vilela, Koroiva & Guillermo-Ferreira, 2019
(Figs. 30a–d)
[Key locator: Key to Group A species, couplet 11 (10’)]
 Heteragrion denisye: Vilela et al. 2019b: 589–594 (description of ♁ from Minas Gerais state; diagnosis and comparison with the original description of H. obsoletum and H. cyane);— Cezário & Guillermo-Ferreira 2021: 78–86 (comparison with H. gorbi and other Heteragrion “blue species”).
 Material examined. 1♁ (HOLOTYPE) BRAZIL, Minas Gerais state, São Roque de Minas, Serra da Canastra National Park, 25.x.2018, (-20.2323, -46.6085, 1305 m asl), D.S. Vilela, R. Koroiva, V. Nobrega & M. Lera leg., LESTES.
 Known distribution. Brazil (Western Minas Gerais state).
 Diagnosis and remarks. Known only from the male holotype, H. denisye is one of the “blue species” of Group A, along with H. cyane and H. gorbi. This paucity of individuals caused it to be assessed as Data Deficient in the IUCN Red List, pending further search of specimens at the type location to evaluate its actual conservation status (Lozano 2022). The taxonomic placement of H. denisye was extensively discussed in Vilela et al. (2019b) and the following character combination distinguishes this species from the remainder of Group A species: ML ridge almost reaching its apex (Fig. 30c); ML formed by a broad plate (Fig. 30d); ML apex bilobate, both lobes rounded (Fig. 30c).
description: Published as part of Vilela, Diogo Silva, Lencioni, Frederico A. A., Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A., Ware, Jessica L. & Bispo, Pitágoras C., 2023, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Heteragrion Selys, 1862 (Zygoptera: Heteragrionidae): male morphology, new species and illustrated key, pp. 1-96 in Zootaxa 5356 (1) on pages 45-46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5356.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10008529
A Stochastic Frontier Approach for Measuring Technical Efficiencies of Date Farms in Southern Tunisia
Creators: name: Belloumi, Mounir
name: Matoussi, Mohamed Salah
name: Belloumi, Mounir
name: Matoussi, Mohamed Salah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: salinization
subject: private and GIC systems
subject: technical efficiency
subject: Nefzaoua oases
subject: date production
subject: groundwater management

description: The main objective of this research is to compare estimates of technical efficiency obtained from the stochastic frontier approach for two samples of farmers of private and water user associations in the Nefzaoua Oases region (Tunisia), which are characterized by a severe scarcity of water and especially a high degree of salinity. Technical inefficiency effects are modeled as a function of farm-specific socioeconomic factors. Results suggest that both systems are technically inefficient. On average, the private system is found to be slightly more efficient than the associative one. Date yield could be explained mainly by four variables: water quantity applied per palm tree, labor per palm tree, phosphate per palm tree, and water salinity. Output elasticities of all inputs are found to be positive and significant except for the farmyard manure. Water salinity has a considerable negative impact on date productivity. For the technical inefficiency model, none of the socioeconomic variables seem to matter.
Computation of Poincare-Betti series for monomial rings
Creators: name: Johansson, Mikael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13D07 (Primary); 13-04 (Secondary)

description: The multigraded Poincare-Betti series P_R^k(x_1,...,x_n; t) of a monomial ring k[x_1,...,x_n]/ on a finite number of monomial generators has the form (1+tx_1)(1+tx_2)...(1+tx_n)/b_(R,k)(x_1,...,x_n; t), where b_(R,k)(x_1,...,x_n;t) is a polynomial depending only on the monomial set M and the characteristic of the field k. I present a computer program designed to calculate the polynomial b_(R,k) for a given field characteristic and a given set of monomial generators.
description: 8 pages, prepared for the School and Workshop on Algebraic geometry and statistics at Politecnico Torino in September 2004
Additional file 2 of Waist circumference prediction for epidemiological research using gradient boosted trees
Creators: name: Weihong Zhou
name: Eckler, Spencer
name: Barszczyk, Andrew
name: Waese-Perlman, Alex
name: Yingjie Wang
name: Xiaoping Gu
name: Feng, Zhong-Ping
name: Yuzhu Peng
name: Lee, Kang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplemental Figure 1. Example of one decision tree (out of 1000) in the first iteration of the gender-aggregated XGBoostmodel. Nodes contain cut-offs for the variable of interest and leaves contain output values.
Import Demand for Quality in the Japanese Beef Market
Creators: name: Miljkovic, Dragan
name: Jin, Hyun Joung
name: Miljkovic, Dragan
name: Jin, Hyun Joung
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: ad valorem tariff
subject: beef imports
subject: Japan
subject: quality
subject: trade liberalization

description: The case of reduction in ad valorem tariffs as a trade liberalization policy is considered in this article. It is shown that the reduction leads to a higher quality of imports, ceteris paribus. This hypothesis was tested on the case of Japanese beef imports from the United States and Australia. U.S. beef, according to the results of Gallup surveys, is considered by Japanese consumers to be a high quality product, while Australian beef is considered to be a low quality product. Empirical results support the hypothesis. Moreover, the recent domination of U.S. beef in the Japanese market is further explained by increasingly more efficient U.S. beef production relative to Australian production and a strong income effect, where an increase in per capita income leads to more demand for higher quality products.
Phase-slip flux qubits
Creators: name: Mooij, J. E.
name: Harmans, C. J. P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In thin superconducting wires, phase-slip by thermal activation near the critical temperature is a well-known effect. It has recently become clear that phase-slip by quantum tunnelling through the energy barrier can also have a significant rate at low temperatures. In this paper it is suggested that quantum phase-slip can be used to realize a superconducting quantum bit without Josephson junctions. A loop containing a nanofabricated very thin wire is biased with an externally applied magnetic flux of half a flux quantum, resulting in two states with opposite circulating current and equal energy. Quantum phase-slip should provide coherent coupling between these two macroscopic states. Numbers are given for a wire of amorphous niobium-silicon that can be fabricated with advanced electron beam lithography.
description: Submitted to New Journal of Physics, special issue solid state quantum information
Heteragrion freddiemercuryi : Lencioni 2013
Creators: name: Vilela, Diogo Silva
name: Lencioni, Frederico A. A.
name: Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A.
name: Ware, Jessica L.
name: Bispo, Pitágoras C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Megapodagrionidae
Heteragrion
Heteragrion freddiemercuryi

description: Heteragrion freddiemercuryi Lencioni, 2013
(Figs. 35a–d)
[Key locator: Key to Group A species, couplet 28’]
 Heteragrion freddiemercuryi: Lencioni 2013: 15 (description of ♁ from São Paulo state, Brazil; diagnosis, distribution and comparison with other species; figs. 26, 38a–c, 58a, 76);— Lencioni 2017: 145–146 (general taxonomic information; distribution; figs. 69–70);—Ávila-Jr. et al. 2020: 121–130 (comparison with H. itacolomii; table 1; figs. 5c–d);— Araújo & Pinto 2021: 6 (recorded for Paraná state).
 Material examined. 1♁ (HOLOTYPE) BRAZIL, São Paulo state, Itatins, Estação Ecológica Juréia, 9.iii.2000, (-24.3800, -47.0777, 10m asl), F.A.A. Lencioni leg., FAAL; 1♁ (PARATYPE) same data as holotype, but ABMM.
 Known distribution. Brazil (São Paulo and Paraná states).
 Diagnosis and remarks. Last collected in the year 2000, this rare species is assessed as Data Deficient in the IUCN Red List, pending additional collections to assess its actual status (Vilela & Guillermo-Ferreira 2021e). Morphologically close to H. flavovittatum and H. itacolomii, the following character combination distinguishes H. freddiemercuryi from these and the remainder of Group A species: upper plate small, slightly concave at its middle, bearing a posterior row of strong teeth (Fig. 35c), ridge fused with ML up to 1/2 of lower plate (Fig. 35d); ML apex squared, slightly angled medially (Fig. 35c).
description: Published as part of Vilela, Diogo Silva, Lencioni, Frederico A. A., Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A., Ware, Jessica L. & Bispo, Pitágoras C., 2023, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Heteragrion Selys, 1862 (Zygoptera: Heteragrionidae): male morphology, new species and illustrated key, pp. 1-96 in Zootaxa 5356 (1) on pages 51-52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5356.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10008529
Heft den Menschen glauben Band 1: Vom Zeugnis der Christen - eine Ermutigung
Creators: name: Jung, August
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 29 Nr. 2 (1980): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 29, Heft 2
Disentangling QCD and New Physics in $D^+\toπ^+\ell^+\ell^-$
Creators: name: Bharucha, Aoife
name: Boito, Diogo
name: Méaux, Cédric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider the decay $D^+\toπ^+\ell^+\ell^-$, addressing in particular the resonance contributions as well as the relatively large contributions from the weak annihilation diagrams. For the weak annihilation diagrams we include known results from QCD factorisation at low $q^2$ and at high $q^2$, adapting the existing calculation for $B$ decays in the Operator Product Expansion. The hadronic resonance contributions are obtained through a dispersion relation, modelling the spectral functions as towers of Regge-like resonances in each channel, as suggested by Shifman, imposing the partonic behaviour in the deep Euclidean. The parameters of the model are extracted using $e^+e^-\to{\rm (hadrons)}$ and $τ\to {\rm (hadrons)}+ν_τ$ data as well as the branching ratios for the resonant decays $D^+\toπ^+\,R\,(R\to\ell^+\ell^-)$, with $R=ρ$, $ω$, and $ϕ$. We perform a thorough error analysis, and present our results for the Standard Model differential branching ratio as a function of $q^2$. Focusing then on the observables $F_H$ and $A_{\rm FB}$, we consider the sensitivity of this channel to effects of physics beyond the Standard Model, both in a model independent way and for the case of leptoquarks.
description: 43 pages, 11 figures, 9 Tables; v2: version published in JHEP
Heteragrion gorbi : Cezario & Guillermo-Ferreira 2021
Creators: name: Vilela, Diogo Silva
name: Lencioni, Frederico A. A.
name: Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A.
name: Ware, Jessica L.
name: Bispo, Pitágoras C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Megapodagrionidae
Heteragrion
Heteragrion gorbi

description: Heteragrion gorbi Cezário & Guillermo-Ferreira, 2021
(Figs. 36a–e)
[Key locator: Key to Group A species, couplet 11’]
description: Published as part of Vilela, Diogo Silva, Lencioni, Frederico A. A., Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A., Ware, Jessica L. & Bispo, Pitágoras C., 2023, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Heteragrion Selys, 1862 (Zygoptera: Heteragrionidae): male morphology, new species and illustrated key, pp. 1-96 in Zootaxa 5356 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5356.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10008529
An Experimental Investigation of Consumer Willingness to Pay for Non-GM Foods When an Organic Option Is Present
Creators: name: Bernard, John C.
name: Zhang, Chao
name: Gifford, Katie
name: Bernard, John C.
name: Zhang, Chao
name: Gifford, Katie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: auction experiments
subject: GM foods
subject: organic foods
subject: willingness to pay

description: This research compared bids that consumers placed on non genetically modified (GM), organic, and conventional versions of food products in order to determine if the organic market well serves those seeking to avoid GM foods. Auction experiments using potato chips, tortilla chips, and milk chocolate were conducted with 79 subjects. Bids were modeled as a function of consumer demographics using a heteroskedastic tobit regression model. Results with the non-GM attribute nested into the organic characteristic showed that the latter's marginal effects were insignificant. This suggested the potential to further develop non-GM products for consumers not willing to pay extra for the remaining organic attributes.
Final Performance Report on Experimental Use of Thermoplastic Pavement-Striping Materials
Creators: name: Rahal, Assaf S.
name: Hughes, Ronald D.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This study was undertaken in order to: 1) evaluate the performance of thermoplastic striping materials, 2) compare their performance on both portland cement concrete and bituminous concrete pavements to that of conventional traffic paints, and 3) to evaluate the economics of thermoplastics in terms of cost per mile per day of useful life. The performance of two brands of thermoplastic striping materials and conventional traffic paints applied at nine test sites in both rural and urban areas is reported herein. Application procedures, site locations, repair histories and materials specifications are included. Accumulative costs for each material at all sites for a seven-year period are summarized in Table 4.  The performance of thermoplastics placed on bituminous concrete was superior to that placed on portland cement concrete pavements. Epoxy primers were of aid in providing adherence of thermoplastics to portland cement concrete pavements; however, the epoxies were not capable of penetrating surface laitance. Visibility of the thermoplastic stripes decreased with age due to accumulation of road scum.
The effect of feeding hay containing high levels of molybdenum on reproduction in beef heifers
Creators: name: Stephens, Lisa Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The effects of feeding hay containing high levels of molybdenum on reproduction in beef heifers were investigated. Sixty Hereford and Hereford-cross beef heifers, approximately 6 months of age, were randomly assigned to one of five treatment groups: Treatment 1 (TR1): 1 mg/kg Mo, 16 mg/kg Cu; TR2: 6-8 mg/kg Mo, 16 mg/kg Cu; TR3: 6-8 mg/kg Mo, 6-8 mg/kg Cu; TR4: 30-40 mg/kg Mo, 60-80 mg/kg Cu; and TR5: 50-67 mg/kg Mo, 115-134 mg/kg Cu. Three main areas of reproduction were investigated: onset of puberty, estrous cycle characteristics and fertility (including pregnancy and post-partum reproduction). Onset of puberty was assessed through twice monthly ultrasound examinations to determine the presence of the first corpus luteum (CL) and blood sampling to measure the associated increase in progesterone (P4) levels (>1 ng/ml). There were no statistically significant differences between the treatment groups. Once the heifers were known to be cycling, estrus was synchronized to allow for comparisons between the length of the estrous cycle, diameters of the dominant follicle and CL and maximum P4 levels. There were no statistically significant differences except for cycle length in which mean cycle length in TR4 was significantly shorter than TR1 (p<0.05), although still within the normal range. Fertility was assessed by comparing conception rates after artificial insemination. There were no significant differences in conception rates, number of inseminations required for pregnancy, gestation length, calving rate or calf birth weight between the treatment groups. Four weeks after calving, weekly ultrasound examinations were done and blood samples were taken to determine the presence of the first post-partum CL and associated P4 levels to determine the length of the post-partum anestrus period. There were no statistically significant differences between the treatment groups. After the resumption of estrous cycles, superovulation and embryo recovery were used to assess post-partum fertility. There were no significant differences in superovulatory response, ova recovery or embryo quality between the groups. On three occasions during the study, liver biopsies and blood samples were taken to monitor Mo and Cu concentrations. Although there were significant differences between the treatment groups, the levels of Mo and Cu appeared to reflect the intake level of each group. There did not appear to be any interactions between Mo and Cu. Only when an ancillary experiment was done in which heifers were fed inorganic Mo and additional S were any symptoms of molybdenosis encountered. Therefore, it is concluded that high Mo hay can safely be fed to beef heifers without any adverse effects on reproduction. [Scientific formulae used in this abstract could not be reproduced.]
Heteragrion gorbi : Cezario & Guillermo-Ferreira 2021
Creators: name: Vilela, Diogo Silva
name: Lencioni, Frederico A. A.
name: Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A.
name: Ware, Jessica L.
name: Bispo, Pitágoras C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Megapodagrionidae
Heteragrion
Heteragrion gorbi

description: Heteragrion gorbi: Cezário & Guillermo-Ferreira 2021: 78–86 (description and diagnosis of ♁ and ♀; figs. 1–5).
 Material examined. 2♁♁ (PARATYPES) BRAZIL, São Paulo, São Carlos, Cerrado UFSCar, Espraiado, 29.ix.2020, (-21.9815, -47.8739, 845 m asl), Cezário & Guillermo-Ferreira, leg., LESTES.
 Known distribution. Brazil (Center-Eastern São Paulo state).
 Diagnosis and remarks. Heteragrion gorbi is one of the “blue species” of Group A, along with H. cyane and H. denisye, being very close morphologically to the latter (Cezário & Guillermo-Ferreira 2021). The following character combination distinguishes this species from the remainder of Group A species: ML ridge almost reaching its apex; ML apex bilobate, anterior lobe with acute tip (Fig. 36c–d).
description: Published as part of Vilela, Diogo Silva, Lencioni, Frederico A. A., Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A., Ware, Jessica L. & Bispo, Pitágoras C., 2023, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Heteragrion Selys, 1862 (Zygoptera: Heteragrionidae): male morphology, new species and illustrated key, pp. 1-96 in Zootaxa 5356 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5356.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10008529
Distribution of winners in truel games
Creators: name: Toral, R.
name: Amengual, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present a detailed analysis using the Markov chain theory of some versions of the truel game in which three players try to eliminate each other in a series of one-to-one competitions, using the rules of the game. Besides reproducing some known expressions for the winning probability of each player, including the equilibrium points, we give expressions for the actual distribution of winners in a truel competition.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures. Conference proceeding
Consumer Preferences for Locally Made Specialty Food Products Across Northern New England
Creators: name: Giraud, Kelly L.
name: Bond, Craig A.
name: Bond, Jennifer Keeling
name: Giraud, Kelly L.
name: Bond, Craig A.
name: Bond, Jennifer Keeling
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: local specialty foods
subject: willingness to pay
subject: contingent valuation

description: Does willingness to pay a premium for local specialty food products differ between consumers in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont? Two food categories are investigated: low-end ($5) and high-end ($20) products. Premia estimates are compared across states and across base prices within states using dichotomous choice contingent valuation methods. Results suggest that the three states of northern New England have many similarities, including comparable price premia for the lower-priced good. However, there is some evidence that the premium for the higher-priced good is greater for the pooled Vermont and Maine treatment than for the New Hampshire treatment. Vermont and New Hampshire residents are willing to pay a higher premium for a $20 than for a $5 food item, while the evidence suggests that Maine residents are not.
Statistical Quality Control of Highway Construction and Materials
Creators: name: Venable, J. B.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The objective of this report is to review existing local practices used in establishing and enforcing highway specifications and construction processes and to compare these practices. With procedures based on statistical quality control concepts. In order that statistical quality control concepts may be properly used where applicable, the first part of this report considers the general theory underlying the use of statistical control methods and the development of different types. Of acceptance plans which may be used in the highway construction industry. The second portion of the report is concerned with analyzing and comparing Kentucky's current specification requirements with typical quality control requirements established using basic statistical theory. Specifications used by some other agencies which are based on statistical principles are presented to illustrate the use being made of this type of acceptance plan. Historical data compiled for various contract items used in highway construction in Kentucky are also presented as background information useful for establishing statistically derived specifications in the future.
Heteragrion itacolomii Avila, Lencioni & Carneiro 2020
Creators: name: Vilela, Diogo Silva
name: Lencioni, Frederico A. A.
name: Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A.
name: Ware, Jessica L.
name: Bispo, Pitágoras C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Megapodagrionidae
Heteragrion
Heteragrion itacolomii

description: Heteragrion itacolomii Ávila-Jr., Lencioni & Carneiro, 2020
(Figs. 43a–e)
[Key locator: Key to Group A species, couplet 25 (24)]
 Heteragrion itacolomii: Ávila-Jr. et al. 2020: 121–130 (description and diagnosis of ♁ and ♀; comparison with H. freddiemercuryi; figs. 1–7, 9–10);— Stefani-Santos et al. 2021: 188 (comparison with the ♀ of H. mantiqueirae).
 Material examined. 1♁, 1♀ (HOLOTYPE and ALLOTYPE) BRAZIL, Minas Gerais, Ouro Preto, Parque Estadual do Itacolomi, Trilha da Lagoa, 23.xii.2018 (female collected on 20.iii.2019), (-20.4325, -43.5075, 1350 m asl), W.F. Ávila-Jr. leg., ABMM.
 Known distribution. Brazil (Southern Minas Gerais state).
 Diagnosis and remarks. The following character combination distinguishes this species from the remainder of Group A species (morphologically close to H. freddiemercuryi and H. brianmayi): BP forming a greatly expanded concavity (Fig. 43c); upper plate narrow, longer than wide (Fig. 43c–e); ML ridge not centered (Figs. 43d–e).
description: Published as part of Vilela, Diogo Silva, Lencioni, Frederico A. A., Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A., Ware, Jessica L. & Bispo, Pitágoras C., 2023, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Heteragrion Selys, 1862 (Zygoptera: Heteragrionidae): male morphology, new species and illustrated key, pp. 1-96 in Zootaxa 5356 (1) on page 62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5356.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10008529
What if a specific neutrinoless double beta decay is absent
Creators: name: Asaka, Takehiko
name: Ishida, Hiroyuki
name: Tanaka, Kazuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the seesaw model with two right-handed neutrinos $N_1$ and $N_2$ which masses are hierarchical, and investigate their contribution to the neutrinoless double beta ($0 νββ$) decay. Although the lepton number is broken by the Majorana masses of right-handed neutrinos, such decay processes can be absent in some cases. We present a possibility where the lighter $N_1$ gives a destructive contribution to that of active neutrinos by choosing the specific mixing elements of $N_1$, while $N_2$ is sufficiently heavy not to contribute to the $0 νββ$ decay. In this case the mixing elements of $N_1$ in the charged current interaction are determined by its mass and the Majorana phase of active neutrinos. We then study the impacts of such a possibility on the direct search for $N_1$. In addition, we discuss the consequence of the case when the $0 νββ$ decay in one specific nucleus is absent.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures; v2: version accepted by PTEP
Replication of Eye-Bars and Measurement of Losses in Cross Section Due to Corrosion
Creators: name: Rahal, Assaf S.
name: Philpot, J. R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Recent availability of high pressure water blasters made it possible to remove rust accumulated between the eye-bars near pin connections on the Central Bridge (Figure 1) over the Ohio River at Newport. Previously, they had never been thoroughly cleaned. Cleaning of two connections on a trial basis enabled an inspection between the bars. It was apparent then that the deterioration was critical enough to necessitate examination of the several bar groups and to accurately measure their least cross sections.  The Research Division undertook the task of replicating and measuring the bars. Figures 2 and 3 show one set of bars before and after cleaning. Considerable difficulty was encountered in making moldings or impressions because the space between the two center bars, referred to here as 1, 2, 3 and 4 (Figure 4), varied between one-quarter and one-half inch. Thin sheet metal forms (Figure 5) were used to fit around each section. These forms were then tied in place (Figure 6) and sealed around the edges with paraffin to prevent liquid leakage. A two-component compound, referred to as Sika-Flex, was used to rill these forms and provide a negative molding. Sika-Flex is a liquid joint filler which hardens into a rubbery type of material after mixing --- thereby retaining the exact shape of the bar sections after removal. Wire mesh was used inside the forms around the bars to prevent stretching or deformation of the Sika-Flex mold. Figures 7 and 8 show the forms installed.  The forms were removed after several hours of curing and taken to the laboratory where hydrostone was used to make an exact positive casting of the bar sections (Figure 9). Thereafter, each of these replicates was measured at three or four places where the least section was thought to be. A contour gauge was used to transfer these cross sections onto paper and then the area was measured with a planimeter. This method is believed to be reasonably accurate. The percent loss of section in each bar was calculated in reference to the original section taken from calculations made previously by the Maintenance Division.  A key for identifying the bars as listed is provided in Figure 10. Attached are copies of the measured sections of the respective bars listed in Table 1.
Electron Spin Resonance in sine-Gordon spin chains in the perturbative spinon regime
Creators: name: Zvyagin, S. A.
name: Kolezhuk, A. K.
name: Krzystek, J.
name: Feyerherm, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the low-temperature multi-frequency ESR studies of copper pyrimidine dinitrate, a spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chain with alternating $g$-tensor and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, allowing us to test a new theoretical concept proposed recently by Oshikawa and Affleck [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 5136 (1999)]. Their theory, based on bosonization and the self-energy formalism, can be applied for precise calculation of ESR parameters of $S=1/2$ antiferromagnetic chains in the perturbative spinon regime. Excellent quantitative agreement between the theoretical predictions and experiment is obtained.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
THE CORN PRODUCTION SECTOR OF THAILAND WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CORN EXPORTS
Creators: name: Jongputisiri, Panida
name: Jongputisiri, Panida
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1970
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
International Relations/Trade

description: The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to systematically examine the present organization in the marketing of corn in Thailand; and second, to compare and contrast the present situation with a proposed system of marketing. This research will involve a brief study of the situation as it existed in the past, an understanding of the nature and mechanics of the present system, and finally, an assessment of the direction in which the present system seems to be headed thus making it possible to set forth possible implications for corn exports policies for both government and the private business sector.
Additional file 1 of The importance of CDC27 in cancer: molecular pathology and clinical aspects
Creators: name: Kazemi-Sefat, Golnaz Ensieh
name: Keramatipour, Mohammad
name: Talebi, Saeed
name: Kavousi, Kaveh
name: Sajed, Roya
name: Kazemi-Sefat, Nazanin Atieh
name: Mousavizadeh, Kazem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Protein sequence in exons and TPR motifs of CDC27. CDC27 has 19 exons with 14 TPR motifs which are located in two TPR domains. Aminoacid numbers are according to the longest isoform with 830 aminoacids. Six yellow highlighted aminoacids in brackets (at the junction of exon 8 and exon 9) are the difference between the main CDC27 isoform with 824 aminoacids and the second important functional CDC27 isoform with 830 aminoacids. Different exons are colored alternately blue and black. Red colored aminoacids at exon junctions are coded by a codon which has nucleotides on both exons. Purple highlighted aminoacids are common phosphorylation sites in the CDC27 protein which all of them are located between two TPR domains. The structure of the APC3 is consisted of 14 units of the TPR motif, which are organised as follows: dimerization domain (TPR 1 to TPR 7), IR tail binding domain (TPR 8 to TPR 11), and C-terminal domain (TPR 12 to TPR 14).
MPEC 2024-T222 : 2024 TP8
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 TP8

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Development of Specifications for Reflex-Reflective Materials
Creators: name: Rizenbergs, Rolands L.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Evolutionary changes in highway design, automobiles and retro-reflective products prompted Kentucky to undertake a study to update specification requirements for signing materials, delineators and coating compounds. The study was primarily concerned with geometric relationships between the driver, headlamps and traffic signs; investigation of reflectivity, color, durability and other properties of available reflective materials; adoption of testing apparatus to measure material properties; and development of test procedures.  A review of specific sign viewing conditions on the road indicated the appropriateness of reflectivity testing at 0.5-degrees and 0.2-degrees angles of divergence. These angles, however, limit examination of materials at viewing distances in excess of 300 feet to the sign. Selection of a maximum angle of incidence of 30 degrees was found to be more than adequate to insure the performance even in the most extreme situations of sign viewing. An ESNA reflex-photometer was found to be an acceptable tool for reflectivity testing. The adoption of the device, however, required substitution of associated instrumentation and development of testing procedures. The photometric measurements were correlated with conventional tunnel photometers. The data on some color materials compared favorably and on others differed significantly, but the data could be corrected to yield comparable values.  Color requirements for commonly used sign sheeting materials were defined in terms at CIE chromaticity coordinate limits. A colorimeter was acquired to serve as a quality control tool for specific materials. To enhance nighttime reflectance of highway signs under wet conditions, sign materials were required to exhibit smooth, flat surfaces. A glossmeter was adopted for testing surface sheen of materials to insure the desired texture. Accelerated weathering tests were conducted on various brand-name retro-reflective materials. An 800-hour weatherometer test was judged to be sufficient for durability testing of sign sheeting and coating compounds and that they should retain 80% of minimum specified reflectivity.  A revised specification for reflex-reflective materials was prepared. The document was deliberately designed as a general specification and includes only those features which were judged most essential from the standpoint of material identification, classification and insuring adequate in-service performance of materials used in highway signs, reflectors used in traffic delineators, and coating compounds applied to structures for safety purposes.
Heteragrion johndeaconi : Lencioni 2013
Creators: name: Vilela, Diogo Silva
name: Lencioni, Frederico A. A.
name: Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A.
name: Ware, Jessica L.
name: Bispo, Pitágoras C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Megapodagrionidae
Heteragrion
Heteragrion johndeaconi

description: Heteragrion johndeaconi Lencioni, 2013
(Figs. 44a–d)
[Key locator: Key to Group A species, couplet 28 (26’)]
 Heteragrion johndeaconi: Lencioni 2013: 18–19 (description and diagnosis of ♁ and ♀; comparison with H. freddiemercuryi, H. brianmayi and H. rogertaylori; figs. 29, 39d–f, 44d–f, 49e–f, 59c–d, 76).
 Material examined. 1♁ (HOLOTYPE) BRAZIL, Goiás state, Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Córrego João de Melo, 18.vi.2008, (-14.1819, -47.6433, 1198m asl), M.C. Almeida & S.L. Dutra leg., FAAL.
 Known distribution. Brazil (Northeastern Goiás state).
 Diagnosis and remarks. Little is known of this species other than its morphology; for this it has been assessed as Data Deficient in the IUCN Red List (Vilela & Guillermo-Ferreira 2021f). The following character combination distinguishes this species from the remainder of Group A species: upper plate small, rounded, bearing a posterior row of small teeth, not centered (Fig. 44c); broadly developed BP ventral concavity; in lateral view, BP very broad, tapering towards the apex, ML visible (Fig. 44d); ML apex roughly squared (Fig. 44c).
description: Published as part of Vilela, Diogo Silva, Lencioni, Frederico A. A., Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A., Ware, Jessica L. & Bispo, Pitágoras C., 2023, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Heteragrion Selys, 1862 (Zygoptera: Heteragrionidae): male morphology, new species and illustrated key, pp. 1-96 in Zootaxa 5356 (1) on pages 62-63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5356.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10008529
The Gemini Deep Deep Survey. VII. The Redshift Evolution of the Mass-Metallicity Relation
Creators: name: Savaglio, S.
name: Glazebrook, K.
name: Borgne, D. Le
name: Juneau, S.
name: Abraham, R.
name: Chen, H. -W.
name: Crampton, D.
name: McCarthy, P.
name: Carlberg, R.
name: Marzke, R.
name: Roth, K.
name: Jorgensen, I.
name: Murowinski, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the mass-metallicity (M-Z) relation using galaxies at 0.4
description: ApJ in press
N=2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills and the Quantum Hall Effect
Creators: name: Dolan, Brian P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is argued that there are strong similarities between the infra-red physics of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills and that of the quantum Hall effect, both systems exhibit a hierarchy of vacua with a sub-group of the modular group mapping between them. The scaling flow for pure SU(2) N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills in 4-dimensions is re-examined and an earlier suggestion in the literature, that was singular at strong coupling, is modified to a form that is well behaved at both weak and strong coupling and describes the crossover in an analytic fashion. Similarities between the phase diagram and the flow of SUSY Yang-Mills and that of the quantum Hall effect are then described, with the Hall conductivity in the latter playing the role of the theta-parameter in the former. Hall plateaux, with odd denominator filling fractions, are analogous to fixed points at strong coupling in N=2 SUSY Yang-Mills, where the massless degrees of freedom carry an odd monopole charge.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, typeset in LaTeX, notation changed slightly, references added
Development of an Electronic Means of Weighing Vehicles in Motion
Creators: name: Carr, Ben W.
name: Rizenbergs, Rolands L.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: An in-stream weighing platform was designed and installed in the eastbound lane of I 64 and 75 near Lexington, Kentucky. The broken-bridge scale platform was designed with the outer edges of the two sections supported on hinges and contiguous edges supported by two 20,000-pound capacity load cells. The assembled scale measures 4'-6" x 10'-1/2" with a total weight of about 2,000 pounds.  The electronics developed for the system included digitizing circuitry which processed the load cell signals and recorded the data on digital magnetic tape. Computer processing of the field data produced tabular information on vehicle speed, axle spacing, number of axles, vehicle classification, time of day, and weight for each vehicle, as well as voluminous statistical data such as average daily traffic and equivalent axleloads.  Conceptually, the system was good, but numerous electronic and mechanical problems compounded to render the present system inoperative. Future dynamic weighing system designs should consider portable, lightweight scales and electronic instrumentation suitable for mounting in a vehicle, thus providing a flexible data-gathering system that will be more readily maintainable. Immediate data output in the field would be highly desirable.