cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Confidence in the Beef Production System as a Key Factor to Mitigate the Impact of BSE on Beef Consumption
Creators: name: Barrena Figueroa, Ramo
name: Sanchez Garcia, Mercedes
name: Gracia, Azucena
name: Gil, Jose Maria
name: Barrena Figueroa, Ramo
name: Sanchez Garcia, Mercedes
name: Gracia, Azucena
name: Gil, Jose Maria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food confidence
subject: consumer behaviour
subject: structural equation modelling
subject: beef sector
subject: quality label

description: Recent food scares in the food market has caused a reduction in consumer's confidence in the food system that it has induced a significant reduction in consumption in a sector, the beef sector that was already characterized by a saturated trend in quantity terms. In this context, all participants in the beef production system are facing to a great challenge, to retrieve consumer's confidence in the food chain and to mitigate the reduction in beef consumption. The aim of the paper is to analyse the impact of consumer's confidence in the food system as well as other factors on the explanation of food consumption reduction. A structural modelling approach has been used to analyse factors affecting the reduction in beef consumption in two different regions characterised by different production systems and different marketing strategies (PGI beef label). Results indicate that main factor explaining the reduction in beef consumption is the confidence in the beef and a positive relation has been found. Moreover, confidence in a product is directly related to the perceived quality offered by farmers and other decision makers on the beef chain, and to the consumer involvement with the product. Therefore, the main implication is that participants in the food chain has to develop adequate communication strategies such as quality labelling in order to increase consumers perceive quality because, higher quality perception will recover consumers' confidence in beef, and therefore, it will mitigate beef consumption reduction.
Designing Surface Charge Patterns for Shape Control of Deformable Nanoparticles
Creators: name: Brunk, Nicholas E.
name: Kadupitiya, JCS
name: Jadhao, Vikram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Designing reconfigurable materials based on deformable nanoparticles (NPs) hinges on an understanding of the energetically-favored shapes these NPs can adopt. Using simulations, we show that hollow, deformable patchy NPs tailored with surface charge patterns such as Janus patches, stripes, and polyhedrally-distributed patches differently adapt their shape in response to changes in patterns and ionic strength, transforming into capsules, hemispheres, variably-dimpled bowls, and polyhedra. The links between anisotropy in NP surface charge, shape, and the elastic energy density are discussed.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Counting function for a sphere of anisotropic quartz
Creators: name: Sondergaard, N.
name: Guhr, T.
name: Oxborrow, M.
name: Schaadt, K.
name: Ellegaard, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the leading Weyl term of the counting function for a mono-crystalline quartz sphere. In contrast to other studies of counting functions, the anisotropy of quartz is a crucial element in our investigation. Hence, we do not obtain a simple analytical form, but we carry out a numerical evaluation. To this end we employ the Radon transform representation of the Green's function. We compare our result to a previously measured unique data set of several tens of thousands of resonances.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures
Term Structure of Volatility and Price Jumps in Agricultural Markets - Evidence from Option Data
Creators: name: Koekebakker, Steen
name: Lien, Gudbrand D.
name: Koekebakker, Steen
name: Lien, Gudbrand D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Option pricing
subject: Futures
subject: Term structure of volatility
subject: Jump-diffusion
subject: Agricultural markets

description: Empirical evidence suggests that agricultural futures price movements have fat-tailed distributions and exhibit sudden and unexpected price jumps. There is also evidence that the volatility of futures prices contains a term structure depending on both calendar-time and time to maturity. This paper extends Bates (1991) jump-diffusion option pricing model by including both seasonal and maturity effects in volatility. An in-sample fit to market option prices on wheat futures shows that our model outperforms previous models considered in the literature. A numerical example illustrates the economic significance of our results for option valuation.
Blue Straggler Populations of Seven Open Clusters with Gaia DR2
Creators: name: Vaidya, Kaushar
name: Rao, Khushboo K.
name: Agarwal, Manan
name: Bhattacharya, Souradeep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Blue straggler stars (BSS) are well studied in globular clusters but their systematic study with secure membership determination is lacking in open clusters. We use Gaia DR2 data to determine accurate stellar membership for four intermediate-age open clusters, Melotte 66, NGC 2158, NGC 2506 and NGC 6819, and three old open clusters, Berkeley 39, NGC 188 and NGC 6791, to subsequently study their BSS populations. The BSS radial distributions of five clusters, Melotte 66, NGC 188, NGC 2158, NGC 2506, and NGC 6791, show bimodal distributions, placing them with Family II globular clusters which are of intermediate dynamical ages. The location of minima, $r_\mathrm{min}$, in the bimodal BSS radial distributions, varies from 1.5$r_c$ to 4.0$r_c$, where $r_c$ is the core radius of the clusters. We find a positive correlation between $r_\mathrm{min}$ and $N_{\mathrm{relax}}$, the ratio of cluster age to the current central relaxation time of the cluster. We further report that this correlation is consistent in its slope, within the errors, to the slope of the globular cluster correlation between the same quantities, but with a slightly higher intercept. This is the first example in open clusters that shows BSS radial distributions as efficient probes of dynamical age. The BSS radial distributions of the remaining two clusters, Berkeley 39 and NGC 6819, are flat. The estimated $N_{\mathrm{relax}}$ values of these two clusters, however, indicate that they are dynamically evolved. Berkeley 39 especially has its entire BSS population completely segregated to the inner regions of the cluster.
description: 22 pages, 15 figures, 5 tables, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Criticality of the random-site Ising model: Metropolis, Swendsen-Wang and Wolff Monte Carlo algorithms
Creators: name: Ivaneyko, D.
name: Ilnytskyi, J.
name: Berche, B.
name: Holovatch, Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply numerical simulations to study the criticality of the 3D Ising model with random site quenched dilution. The emphasis is given to the issues not being discussed in detail before. In particular, we attempt a comparison of different Monte Carlo techniques, discussing regions of their applicability and advantages/disadvantages depending on the aim of a particular simulation set. Moreover, besides evaluation of the critical indices we estimate the universal ratio $Γ^+/Γ^-$ for the magnetic susceptibility critical amplitudes. Our estimate $Γ^+/Γ^- = 1.67 \pm 0.15$ is in a good agreement with the recent MC analysis of the random-bond Ising model giving further support that both random-site and random-bond dilutions lead to the same universality class.
Additional file 6 of Targeting CK2 mediated signaling to impair/tackle SARS-CoV-2 infection: a computational biology approach
Creators: name: Miranda, Jamilet
name: Bringas, Ricardo
name: Fernandez-de-Cossio, Jorge
name: Perera-Negrin, Yasser
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6: Table S4. Human phenotype enrichment results.
Ground State of v=1 Bilayer Quantum Hall Systems
Creators: name: Shibata, Naokazu
name: Yoshioka, Daijiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ground-state wave function and the energy gap are calculated for various layer separations d and for up to 24 electrons by the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method. Two-particle distribution function and excitonic correlation function are calculated from the ground-state wave function, and the evolution of the ground state with increasing d is analyzed. The results indicate that the transition is continuous. A smooth crossover of the ground state is found at around d/l ~ 1.6 from the excitonic character at small d/l to the independent Fermi-liquid character at large d/l, where l is the magnetic length.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, to appear in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Vol.75, No.4 (2006)
The Tariff-only Import Regime for Bananas in the European Union: Setting the Tariff at Right Level is Impossible Mission
Creators: name: Guyomard, Herve
name: Le Mouel, Chantal
name: Levert, Fabrice
name: Guyomard, Herve
name: Le Mouel, Chantal
name: Levert, Fabrice
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Tariff-rate quota
subject: tariff
subject: bananas
subject: European Union
subject: World Trade Organisation
subject: Most Favoured Nation
subject: African
subject: Caribbean and Pacific countries

description: On 29 November 2005, the European Union (EU) unilaterally introduced a tariff of ~176 per tonne to apply from 1 January 2006 to bananas imported from countries enjoying the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status. The new EU trade policy includes a duty-free annual import quota of 775,000 tonnes for bananas originating from African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states. This regime replaces the very complex and highly contested tariff-rate quota policy in place in the EU between 1993 and 2005. However, the banana international trade war very likely has not come to an end. Several Latin American countries have announced their intention to challenge the new EU trade policy by initiating a new WTO complaint. In this paper, we first propose an analysis of the two WTO arbitration awards that ruled against the initial EU tariff proposals. We show that the arbitrators' awards are incomplete notably because they do not explain why CIF (Cost, Insurance and Freight) import unit values in the EU-15 from MFN suppliers are much higher than FOB (Free on Board) export unit values in corresponding MFN countries adjusted by all relevant costs that should theoretically be added to transform FOB into CIF prices. One plausible explanation to this apparent paradox is that reported CIF prices include at least part of quota rents generated by the tariff-rate quota policy. On this basis, we analyse the impacts of different MFN tariff levels on EU banana imports under contrasting hypotheses regarding, first whether the price gap between CIF and FOB unit values does include at least part of quota rents, second whether banana exports to the EU from Western African ACP countries were constrained under the previous regime where a specific import quota were reserved to ACP countries. We also analyse the consequences of an "augmented" tariff-only import regime including a MFN tariff and a duty-free import quota for ACP bananas.
Additional file 1 of Transnationalism and care of migrant families during pregnancy, postpartum and early-childhood: an integrative review
Creators: name: Merry, Lisa
name: Villadsen, Sarah Fredsted
name: Veronik Sicard
name: Lewis-Hibbert, Naomie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Database search results.
Detection of antiskyrmions by topological Hall effect in Heusler compounds
Creators: name: Kumar, Vivek
name: Kumar, Nitesh
name: Reehuis, Manfred
name: Gayles, Jacob
name: Sukhanov, A. S.
name: Hoser, Andreas
name: Damay, Françoise
name: Shekhar, Chandra
name: Adler, Peter
name: Felser, Claudia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heusler compounds having $\textit{D}$${}_{2d}$ crystal symmetry gained much attention recently due to the stabilization of a vortex-like spin texture called antiskyrmions in thin lamellae of Mn${}_{1.4}$Pt${}_{0.9}$Pd${}_{0.1}$Sn as reported in the work of Nayak $\textit{et al.}$ [Nature (London) 548, 561 (2017)]. Here we show that bulk Mn${}_{1.4}$Pt${}_{0.9}$Pd${}_{0.1}$Sn undergoes a spin-reorientation transition from a collinear ferromagnetic to a noncollinear configuration of Mn moments below 135 K, which is accompanied by the emergence of a topological Hall effect. We tune the topological Hall effect in Pd and Rh substituted Mn${}_{1.4}$PtSn Heusler compounds by changing the intrinsic magnetic properties and spin textures. A unique feature of the present system is the observation of a zero-field topological Hall resistivity with a sign change which indicates the robust formation of antiskyrmions.
Worldline approach to vector and antisymmetric tensor fields II
Creators: name: Bastianelli, Fiorenzo
name: Benincasa, Paolo
name: Giombi, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the worldline description of vector and antisymmetric tensor fields coupled to gravity to the massive case. In particular, we derive a worldline path integral representation for the one-loop effective action of a massive antisymmetric tensor field of rank p (a massive p-form) whose dynamics is dictated by a standard Proca-like lagrangian coupled to a background metric. This effective action can be computed in a proper time expansion to obtain the corresponding Seeley-DeWitt coefficients a0, a1, a2. The worldline approach immediately shows that these coefficients are derived from the massless ones by the simple shift D -> D+1, where D is the spacetime dimension. Also, the worldline representation makes it simple to derive exact duality relations. Finally, we use such a representation to calculate the one-loop contribution to the graviton self-energy due to both massless and massive antisymmetric tensor fields of arbitrary rank, generalizing results already known for the massless spin 1 field (the photon).
description: 23 pages, 3 figures
Weather Risk and the Off-­Farm Labor Supply of Agricultural Households in India
Creators: name: Ito, Takahiro
name: Kurosaki, Takashi
name: Ito, Takahiro
name: Kurosaki, Takashi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: covariate risk
subject: nonfarm employment
subject: selfemployment
subject: food security
subject: India

description: As one of the measures to smooth income, this paper focuses on the diversification of labor allocation across activities. A key feature of this paper is that it pays particular attention to differences in the covariance between weather risk and agricultural wages and between weather risk and nonagricultural wages. We estimate a multivariate tobit model of labor allocation using household data from rural areas of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. The regression results show that the share of the off­farm labor supply increases with the weather risk, and the increase is much larger in the case of nonagricultural wage work than in the case of agricultural wage work. Simulation results based on the regression estimates show that the sectoral difference is substantial, implying that empirical and theoretical studies on farmers' labor supply response to risk should distinguish between the types of off-­farm work involved.
Ordered field valued continuous functions with countable range
Creators: name: Acharyya, Sudip Kumar
name: Ray, Atasi Deb
name: Nandi, Pratip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a Hausdorff zero-dimensional topological space $X$ and a totally ordered field $F$ with interval topology, let $C_c(X,F)$ be the ring of all $F-$valued continuous functions on $X$ with countable range. It is proved that if $F$ is either an uncountable field or countable subfield of $\mathbb{R}$, then the structure space of $C_c(X,F)$ is $β_0X$, the Banaschewski Compactification of $X$. The ideals $\{O^{p,F}_c:p\in β_0X\}$ in $C_c(X,F)$ are introduced as modified countable analogue of the ideals $\{O^p:p\inβX\}$ in $C(X)$. It is realized that $C_c(X,F)\cap C_K(X,F)=\bigcap_{p\inβ_0X\texttt{\textbackslash}X} O^{p,F}_c$, this may be called a countable analogue of the well-known formula $C_K(X)=\bigcap_{p\inβX\texttt{\textbackslash}X}O^p$ in $C(X)$. Furthermore, it is shown that the hypothesis $C_c(X,F)$ is a Von-Neumann regular ring is equivalent to amongst others the condition that $X$ is a $P-$space.
Atomically straight steps on vicinal Si (111) surfaces prepared by step-parallel current in the kink-up direction
Creators: name: Yoshida, S.
name: Sekiguchi, T.
name: Itoh, K. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that annealing of a vicinal Si(111) surface at about 800 C with a direct current in the direction that ascends the kinks enhances the formation of atomically straight step edges over micrometer lengths, while annealing with a current in the opposite direction does not. Every straight step edge has the same atomic configuration U(2,0), which is useful as a template for the formation of a variety of nanostructures. A phenomenological model based on electromigration of charged mobile atoms explains the observed current-polarity dependent behavior.
description: Accepted for publication in Appl. Phys. Lett. Numbers of pages and figures are 12 and 4, respectively
Additional file 2 of Effects of neurohormonal antagonists on blood pressure in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF): a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Guggilla, Rama Krishna
name: Sowa, Pawel Mateusz
name: Jamiolkowski, Jacek
name: Siamala Sinnadurai
name: Amin, Adnan
name: Kaminski, Karol Adam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 2. MEDLINE (PubMed) search strategy.
Poverty Comparisons with Endogenous Absolute Poverty Lines
Creators: name: Simler, Kenneth R.
name: Arndt, Channing
name: Simler, Kenneth R.
name: Arndt, Channing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: poverty measurement
subject: bootstrap
subject: Mozambique

description: The objective of measuring poverty is usually to make comparisons over time or between two or more groups. Comm on statistical inference methods are used to determine whether an apparent difference in measured poverty is statistically significant. Studies of relative poverty have long recognized that when the poverty line is calculated from sample survey data, both the variance of the poverty line and the variance of the welfare metric contribute to the variance of the poverty estimate. In contrast, studies using absolute poverty lines have ignored the poverty line variance, even when the poverty lines are estimated from sample survey data. Including the poverty line variance could either reduce or increase the precision of poverty estimates, depending on the s pecific characteristics of the data. This paper presents a general procedure for estimating the standard error of poverty measures when th e poverty line is estimated from survey data. Based on bootstrap methods, the approach can be used for a wide range of poverty measures and methods for estimating poverty lines. The method is applied to recent household survey data from Mozambique. When the sampling variance of the poverty line is taken into account, the estimated standard errors of the headcount and the poverty gap at the national level increase by 27 and 29 percent respectively.
Additional file 1 of High natural PHA production from acetate in Cobetia sp. MC34 and Cobetia marina DSM 4741T and in silico analyses of the genus specific PhaC2 polymerase variant
Creators: name: Christensen, Mikkel
name: Jablonski, Piotr
name: Altermark, Bjørn
name: Irgum, Knut
name: Hansen, Hilde
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Tolerance- and requirement to sodium chloride in MMCY media supplemented with 2 % glucose at 30 °C, 200 rpm, shows highest specific growth rate in the range of 1-4 % for both strains (n = 6). Figure S2. Representative raw FTIR spectra for Cobetia sp. MC34 (blue) and Cobetia marina DSM4741T (orange) grown in MMCY and MMCY_2 media supplemented with 1.5 % glycerol, 4 % glucose, 4 % fructose or 20 g/l acetate + 8 mM sodium valerate (n = 1). Figure S3. Growth curves measured by optical density (OD600nm) for the strains Cobetia sp. MC34 (blue) and Cobetia marina DSM 4741T (orange) grown in MMCY media supplemented with 40 g/l glucose or fructose, respectively. The carbonyl-ester to amide band I-ester ratio obtained by FTIR is visualized as sphere area and indicate putative PHA production, which was determined at the end of the experiment by chloroform extraction and GC/MS quantification. Error bars represent standard deviation of OD600nm (n = 6). Table S1. List of Halomonadacea sequences used to construct the 16S- and ANI trees, and information about the strains. Table S2. Amino acid sequence similarities of the transporters, enzymes, transcriptional regulators and carbonosome proteins involved in PHA synthesis from acetate. Table S3. Fatty acid biosynthesis (FAS) and fatty acid degradation (ß-oxidation) genes found in Cobetia sp. MC34, derived from the genome annotation.
An indirect method for non-contact sensing of robot joint angles using accelerometers with automatic in-situ calibration
Creators: name: Ghassemi, Farhad
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: An indirect, self-calibrating, easy to install, and robust joint angle sensing method is presented in this thesis. The approach is based on the use of a pair of accelerometers placed on each link near the joint axis. Two different methods are described for automatic, in-situ, integrated calibration of the accelerometers, which significantly improve joint angle estimation accuracy. The angle sensing method is suitable for harsh environments and applications where traditional contact-type angle sensors cannot be deployed, or problems are associated with their use. It is believed joint angle sensing in heavy-duty hydraulic manipulators is one of the best applications for this method. A Takeuchi TB035 mini-excavator in the Robotics and Control Laboratory of the University of British Columbia is used in this thesis to evaluate the performance of the developed system. This machine is equipped with digital resolvers at each joint. The outputs of the resolvers are compared to the estimated joint angles in various conditions. According to the experimental results presented in this thesis, the achieved accuracy with the accelerometer-based system is ±1.33% of the full-scale angle (±1.6° in 120°). The performance of the proposed method is also evaluated in position control of the machine and dynamic measuring of its payload. It is shown that the performance of this method is comparable to the performance of the digital resolvers in both tasks.
Additional file 1 of Effects of neurohormonal antagonists on blood pressure in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF): a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Guggilla, Rama Krishna
name: Sowa, Pawel Mateusz
name: Jamiolkowski, Jacek
name: Siamala Sinnadurai
name: Amin, Adnan
name: Kaminski, Karol Adam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA-P checklist.
The Accession of Romania to the European Union - Scenario Analysis for Key Agricultural Crop Markets Using AGMEMOD Model
Creators: name: Gavrilescu, Camelia
name: Gavrilescu, Dinu
name: Kevorchian, Cristian
name: Gavrilescu, Camelia
name: Gavrilescu, Dinu
name: Kevorchian, Cristian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Romania
subject: econometric model
subject: EU accession
subject: cereals
subject: sunflower

description: Aiming the EU accession put new and significant challenges to the candiadte countries' policies, and the problem of the inclusion of their agricultural sectors was among the most difficult ones. AGMEMOD is an econometric model of the EU-25 + 2 candidate countries (Romania and Bulgaria) agricultural sector. This poster presents the baseline and the scenario results for several key agricultural products of Romania's model developed as part of AGMEMOD model. The model is an econometric, dynamic, multi-product partial equilibrium comodity model. The target of this approach is to evaluate the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy reforms upon the country's agricultural sector in perspective of its accession to the EU. The selected commodities are: soft wheat, barley, maize and sunflower. The baseline scenario depicts the results of the agricultural sector in Romania if the country would not join the EU and would continue with its own agricultural policy as applied until now. The main conclusion coming from the analysis of the baseline scenario is that rather few significant changes in the Romanian agricultural production would have occurred, such as mod est positive evolution of production and consumption for wheat and sunflower, and some stagnation in barley and maize. The Accession scenario of the model indicates a significant positive effect upon the wheat, maize and sunflower production. Together with a moderate increase in the consumption, overall some surpluses for export would be available, modest for maize, but significant for sunflower.
Additional file 2 of Impact of the Maternal and Child Health handbook in Angola for improving continuum of care and other maternal and child health indicators: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Olukunmi Omobolanle Balogun
name: Tomo, Caroline Kaori
name: Mochida, Keiji
name: Mikami, Masashi
name: Henda Da Rosa Vasconcelos
name: Neves, Isilda
name: Hiraoka, Hisakazu
name: Aiga, Hirotsugu
name: Rintaro Mori
name: Takehara, Kenji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Items from the World Health Organization Trial Registration Data Set.
CP and T violation in non-perturbative chiral gauge theories
Creators: name: Kerler, Werner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a completely general derivation revealing the precise origin and the quantitative effects of CP and T violations in chiral gauge theories on the lattice.
description: 9 pages
Additional file 1 of Impact of the Maternal and Child Health handbook in Angola for improving continuum of care and other maternal and child health indicators: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Olukunmi Omobolanle Balogun
name: Tomo, Caroline Kaori
name: Mochida, Keiji
name: Mikami, Masashi
name: Henda Da Rosa Vasconcelos
name: Neves, Isilda
name: Hiraoka, Hisakazu
name: Aiga, Hirotsugu
name: Rintaro Mori
name: Takehara, Kenji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT Checklist: Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents.
Thermoelectricity of near-resonant tunnel junctions and their near-Carnot efficiency
Creators: name: Popp, Matthias A.
name: Erpenbeck, André
name: Weber, Heiko B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The resonant tunneling model is the simplest model for describing electronic transport through nanoscale objects like individual molecules. A complete understanding includes not only charge transport but also thermal transport and their intricate interplay. Key linear response observables are the electrical conductance G and the Seebeck coefficient S. Here we present experiments on unspecified resonant tunnel junctions and molecular junctions that uncover correlations between $G$ and $S$, in particular rigid boundaries for $S(G)$. We find that these correlations can be consistently understood by the single-level resonant tunneling model, with excellent match to experiments. In this framework, measuring $I(V)$ and $S$ for a given junction provides access to the full thermoelectric characterization of the electronic system. A remarkable result is that without targeted chemical design, molecular junctions can expose thermoelectric conversion efficiencies which are close to the Carnot limit. This insight allows to provide design rules for optimized thermoelectric efficiency.
Elementary Action of Classical Groups on Unimodular Rows Over Monoid Rings
Creators: name: Basu, Rabeya
name: Mathew, Maria Ann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11E57, 11E70, 13-02, 15A63, 19A13, 19B14, 20M25

description: The elementary action of symplectic and orthogonal groups on unimodular rows of length $2n$ is transitive for $2n \geq \max(4, d+2)$ in the symplectic case, and $2n \geq \max(6, 2d+4)$ in the orthogonal case, over monoid rings $R[M]$, where $R$ is a commutative noetherian ring of dimension $d$, and $M$ is commutative cancellative torsion free monoid. As a consequence, one gets the surjective stabilization bound for the $K_1$ for classical groups. This is an extension of J. Gubeladze's results for linear groups.
description: Transformation Groups (2024)
Additional file 1 of Effectiveness of exercise interventions on mental health and health-related quality of life in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review
Creators: name: Patten, Rhiannon K.
name: Pascoe, Michaela C.
name: Moreno-Asso, Alba
name: Boyle, Russell A.
name: Stepto, Nigel K.
name: Parker, Alexandra G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
Feasibility of the interlock protocol against man-in-the-middle attacks on quantum cryptography
Creators: name: Svozil, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If an eavesdropper succeeds in compromising the quantum as well as the classical channels and mimics the receiver "Bob" for the sender "Alice" and vice versa, one defence strategy is the successive, temporally interlocked partial transmission of the entire encrypted message.
Additional file 3 of Effects of neurohormonal antagonists on blood pressure in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF): a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Guggilla, Rama Krishna
name: Sowa, Pawel Mateusz
name: Jamiolkowski, Jacek
name: Siamala Sinnadurai
name: Amin, Adnan
name: Kaminski, Karol Adam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 3. Draft data extraction form.
Intrinsic characterizations of $C$-realcompact spaces
Creators: name: Acharyya, Sudip Kumar
name: Bharati, Rakesh
name: Ray, Atasi Deb
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: $c$-realcompact spaces are introduced by Karamzadeh and Keshtkar in Quaest. Math. 41(8), 2018, 1135-1167. We offer a characterization of these spaces $X$ via $c$-stable family of closed sets in $X$ by showing that $X$ is $c$-realcompact if and only if each $c$-stable family of closed sets in $X$ with finite intersection property has nonempty intersection. This last condition which makes sense for an arbitrary topological space can be taken as an alternative definition of a $c$-realcompact space. We show that each topological space can be extended as a dense subspace to a $c$-realcompact space with some desired extension property. An allied class of spaces viz $CP$-compact spaces akin to that of $c$-realcompact spaces are introduced. The paper ends after examining how far a known class of $c$-realcompact spaces could be realized as $CP$-compact for appropriately chosen ideal $P$ of closed sets in $X$.
Additional file 2 of Effectiveness of exercise interventions on mental health and health-related quality of life in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review
Creators: name: Patten, Rhiannon K.
name: Pascoe, Michaela C.
name: Moreno-Asso, Alba
name: Boyle, Russell A.
name: Stepto, Nigel K.
name: Parker, Alexandra G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2.
Public Investment Targeting in Rural Central America
Creators: name: Alwang, Jeffrey Roger
name: Jansen, Hans G.P.
name: Alwang, Jeffrey Roger
name: Jansen, Hans G.P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: This paper uses an asset-base framework to analyze the determinants of rural growth and poverty reduction for the three poorest countries in Central America: Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. High inequalities in the distribution of productive assets in all three countries constrain how the poor share in the benefits of growth, even under appropriate policy regimes. Heterogeneous conditions require complementary analysis of spatial determinants of well-being, analysis of household-level assets, and how household livelihood strategies, conditioned on spatial attributes and asset bases, determine well-being outcomes. Using a combination of GIS mapping techniques and quantitative household analysis, we generate a description of rural territories that recognizes the differential effects of policies and asset bundles across space and households. We identify the asset combinations that matter most to raise household well-being and take advantage of poverty-reducing growth. In all three countries, investments have generally been directed toward more favored areas. But area economic potential does not automatically translate into improved well-being for all households. We found a strong overlap between economic potential, poverty rates and poverty densities in Guatemala and Honduras but not in Nicaragua. This implies that while in Guatemala and Honduras public investments may be targeted toward the Western Altiplano and the hillside areas respectively, in Nicaragua high poverty rates but low poverty densities in the Atlantic zone, and somewhat lower poverty rates but high poverty densities near Managua and other urban centers in the Central and Pacific regions, present a trade-off which makes targeting decisions more complicated.
A note on the growth of the dimension in complete simple games
Creators: name: Kurz, Sascha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 91B12, 91A12

description: The remoteness from a simple game to a weighted game can be measured by the concept of the dimension or the more general Boolean dimension. It is known that both notions can be exponential in the number of voters. For complete simple games it was only recently shown that the dimension can also be exponential. Here we show that this is also the case for complete simple games with two types of voters and for the Boolean dimension of general complete simple games, which was posed as an open problem.
description: 9 pages
CO2 Emissions from Central Canadian Agriculture: Meeting Kyoto Targets and Its Implications
Creators: name: Manaloor, Varghese
name: Manaloor, Varghese
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Agriculture sectors dependence on fossil fuel use (both direct and indirect) has increased dramatically over the past decades. Productivity increases have been achieved using technological improvements which use considerable amounts of energy inputs. Concerns about global environmental quality resulted in several countries signing the Kyoto protocol, which came into effect internationally, on February 16, 2005. Canada has made a commitment to the international community to stabilize CO2 emissions at 6 percent below 1990 levels. The target is supposed to be reached by 2008 and maintained through 2012. This paper estimates the CO2 emissions from input use in Central Canadian agriculture. Using elasticity estimates, the amount of price increase needed to achieve Kyoto targets is estimated. A 6 percent reduction from 1990 levels implies that CO2 emissions should be stabilized at 1,424,562 tonnes of carbon. The removal of current provincial farm fuel tax exemption programs will lead to a decrease of only 3.36 percent reduction in CO2 emissions and is estimated to be at 1,726,356 tonnes of carbon. Fuel prices will have to increase almost 85 percent in order to achieve the target reductions under the Kyoto agreement.
Towards Tracking Data Flows in Cloud Architectures
Creators: name: Kunz, Immanuel
name: Casola, Valentina
name: Schneider, Angelika
name: Banse, Christian
name: Schütte, Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As cloud services become central in an increasing number of applications, they process and store more personal and business-critical data. At the same time, privacy and compliance regulations such as GDPR, the EU ePrivacy regulation, PCI, and the upcoming EU Cybersecurity Act raise the bar for secure processing and traceability of critical data. Especially the demand to provide information about existing data records of an individual and the ability to delete them on demand is central in privacy regulations. Common to these requirements is that cloud providers must be able to track data as it flows across the different services to ensure that it never moves outside of the legitimate realm, and it is known at all times where a specific copy of a record that belongs to a specific individual or business process is located. However, current cloud architectures do neither provide the means to holistically track data flows across different services nor to enforce policies on data flows. In this paper, we point out the deficits in the data flow tracking functionalities of major cloud providers by means of a set of practical experiments. We then generalize from these experiments introducing a generic architecture that aims at solving the problem of cloud-wide data flow tracking and show how it can be built in a Kubernetes-based prototype implementation.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, 2020 IEEE 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD)
Nonlocal Manipulation of Dimer Motion at Ge(001) Clean Surface via Hot Carriers in the Surface States
Creators: name: Takagi, Yasumasa
name: Yoshimoto, Yoshihide
name: Nakatsuji, Kan
name: Komori, Fumio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlocal one-dimensional motions of a topological defect are induced by electron tunneling through the dangling-bond states on the clean Ge(001) surface using scanning tunneling microscopy below 80 K. The direction of the motion depends both on the energy of the carriers in the surface state and on the distance between the defect and the tunneling point. The results are interpreted using an electronic excitation model by hot carriers injected to the surface states. The critical distance of the motion is anisotropic and consistent with the band structure of the surface states.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Japan
Dislocation interactions in olivine control postseismic creep of the upper mantle
Creators: name: Wallis, David
name: Hansen, Lars N.
name: Wilkinson, Angus J.
name: Lebensohn, Ricardo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Changes in stress applied to mantle rocks, such as those imposed by earthquakes, induce a period of evolution in viscosity and microstructure. This transient creep is often modelled based on stress transfer among slip systems due to grain interactions. However, recent experiments have demonstrated that the intragranular accumulation of stresses among dislocations is the dominant cause of strain hardening in olivine at low temperatures, raising the question of whether the same process contributes to transient creep at higher temperatures. Here, we demonstrate that olivine samples deformed at 25°C or 1150 to 1250°C both contain stress heterogeneities of ~1 GPa that are imparted by dislocations and have correlation lengths of ~1 micrometre. The similar stress distributions formed in both temperature regimes indicate that accumulation of stresses among dislocations also provides a contribution to transient creep at high temperatures. The results motivate a new generation of models that capture these intragranular processes and may refine predictions of evolving mantle viscosity over the earthquake cycle.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Additional file 3 of Effectiveness of exercise interventions on mental health and health-related quality of life in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review
Creators: name: Patten, Rhiannon K.
name: Pascoe, Michaela C.
name: Moreno-Asso, Alba
name: Boyle, Russell A.
name: Stepto, Nigel K.
name: Parker, Alexandra G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3.
Additional file 2 of HaRePo (harm reduction by post): an innovative and effective harm reduction programme for people who use drugs using email, telephone, and post service
Creators: name: Torres-Leguizamon, Magally
name: Reynaud, Emmanuel G.
name: Néfau, Thomas
name: Duplessy, Catherine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Numbers of PWUD benefiting from the program per year (a). Numbers of parcels sent per year (b). Number of HR tools sent per year (c). Figure S2. Number of PWUD per 100,000 habitants benefiting from the program for different density zones. Black circles stand for all the zones, red triangles for zone 1, green crosses for zone 2, deep blue crosses for zone 3 and light blue squares for zone 4. Lines correspond to linear models fitted for each density zones.
The Effects of Trade Liberalization in Textiles and Clothing on the Greek Market for Cotton Yarn: A Multi-Market Analysis
Creators: name: Dimitrios, Dadakas
name: Stelios, Katranidis D.
name: Dimitrios, Dadakas
name: Stelios, Katranidis D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The Round of Uruguay (1987-1995) signaled the end of the Multi Fiber Agreement (MFA) for textiles and clothing. The quota regime, in place since 1974, was decided, according to the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC; 1995), to be gradually eliminated by the year 2005. As a result, prices of cotton yarn in the world markets decreased affecting producers in all cotton yarn exporting countries, including Greece. At the same time, the labor cost in the western industrialized countries remained high, or even increased, exerting further pressure on yarn producers. The present paper examines these changes for the cotton yarn industry in Greece, the sector under consideration in this paper. We use a multi-market partial equilibrium model which allows us to take into account input and output price changes, relevant for the industry under study. Using line integral theory, Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) with restrictions (IZEF) and non-parametric bootstrap we estimate the welfare effects to producers and consumers. Findings show that the gradual elimination of quotas had a substantial negative effect on the welfare of cotton yarn producers while consumers' welfare has been affected in a positive manner.