cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rooibos Ltd: Turning Indigenous Products into Business Opportunities
Creators: name: Vink, Nick
name: Bergh, Martin
name: Novak, Barbara M.
name: Vink, Nick
name: Bergh, Martin
name: Novak, Barbara M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Indigenous products
subject: Rooibos tea
subject: cyclical production
subject: intellectual property

description: Rooibos Ltd is the largest processor of Rooibos tea, and currently has a turnover of more than R250 million per year, experiencing strong turnover and export growth over the past few years. The production of the tea is a cyclical process, which creates unique challenges to the company. Key success factors include strong upstream and downstream contractual relationships, ethical stewardship of the product, employees and the environment, and technological leadership. Because production is cyclical, success requires a long term vision, while finances need to be managed within the constraints of this long term cycle. Key lessons are to protect your intellectual property; decide whether you have the potential to be a large business or to remain a medium sized business; understand your industry and your strengths and weaknesses; and strive to be the best supplier of product and the best service provider.
description: The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete library visit: www.ifama.org
Heat transfer analysis in an uncoiled model of the cochlea during magnetic cochlear implant surgery
Creators: name: Esmailie, Fateme
name: Francoeur, Mathieu
name: Ameel, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic cochlear implant surgery requires removal of a magnet via a heating process after implant insertion, which may cause thermal trauma within the ear. Intra-cochlear heat transfer analysis is required to ensure that the magnet removal phase is thermally safe. The objective of this work is to determine the safe range of input power density to detach the magnet without causing thermal trauma in the ear, and to analyze the effectiveness of natural convection with respect to conduction for removing the excess heat. A finite element model of an uncoiled cochlea, which is verified and validated, is applied to determine the range of maximum safe input power density to detach a 1-mm-long, 0.5-mm-diameter cylindrical magnet from the cochlear implant electrode array tip. It is shown that heat dissipation in the cochlea is primarily mediated by conduction through the electrode array. The electrode array simultaneously reduces natural convection due to the no-slip boundary condition on its surface and increases axial conduction in the cochlea. It is concluded that natural convection heat transfer in a cochlea during robotic cochlear implant surgery can be neglected. It is found that thermal trauma is avoided by applying a power density from $2.265 \times 10^7$ W/m$^3$ for 114 s to $6.6\times10^7$ W/m$^3$ for 9 s resulting in a maximum temperature increase of 6$^\circ$C on the magnet boundary.
description: 30 pages, 11 figures
A Tale of Force: Examining Factors that Influence Police Officer Use of Force
Creators: name: Preito-Hodge, Kayla
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: Police officer use of force in the United States is a growing concern to the American people. Although not based on solid empirical evidence, President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing proposed several policies that address violent policing and the use of excessive force. In this study, I examine the relationship between policy recommendations and variations across police departments in their reported use of force.
This study draws on measures of use of force, community policing, education, and officer demographics from the 2013 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey, combined with county-level demographic information from the American Community Survey, and information on local crime rates from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report. Cross-sectional findings reveal that more college-educated officers are associated with lower counts of use of force, that officer diversity is not strongly related to use of force, and that most community policing indicators are associated with higher counts in use of force.
Restructuring Controllers to Accommodate Plant Nonlinearities
Creators: name: Sahare, Kushal
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: This thesis explores the possibility of controller restructuring for improved closed-loop performance of nonlinear plants using a gradient based method of symbolic adaptation- Model Structure Adaptation Method (MSAM). The adaptation method starts with a controller which is a linear controller designed according to the linearized model of the nonlinear plant. This controller is then restructured into a series of nonlinear candidate controllers and adapted iteratively toward a desired closed-loop response. The noted feature of the adaptation method is its ability to quantify structural perturbations to the controllers. This quantification is important in scaling the structural Jacobian that is used in gradient-based adaptation of the candidate controllers. To investigate this, two nonlinear plants with unknown nonlinearities viz., nonlinear valve and nonlinear inverted pendulum are chosen. Furthermore, the properties of restructured controllers obtained for two systems, stability, effect of measurement noise, reachability, scalability and algorithmic issues of MSAM are studied and compared with the starting controller.
Translating Arab Cuisine into English: 101 Recipes
Creators: name: Salih, Paiman
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: This thesis provides a practical translation of 101 Arabic recipes selected from three cookbooks by the distinguished Egyptian chef and author Osama El-Sayed, plus a long introduction discussing the history of Arab cuisine including cultural and linguistic factors and the translation strategies employed. The cookbooks are entitled Bil Hanna Wa Shiffa, (With Joy and Good Health) 2001; Maa Osama… Atyab, ‘With Osama, Food is more Delicious’[1], 2007; and Al-Halawiyat Al-Sharqiy, (Sweets of Arabia) 2010. I argue that food plays a defining role in shaping a culture and its identity. In general, Arabic recipes have been translated and many gaps exist in terms of adequate cooking terms and processes in English. This study attempts to reduce cross-cultural barriers by translating recipes both well-known Arabic dishes as well as lesser known dishes that also represent values, customs, and traditions important to Arabic language and culture. The study adopts terminology from Venuti’s dichotomy in translation, “foreignization” vs. “domestication” and draws upon both depending upon the circumstances and availability of adequate terms and expressions in English. After following a blended translations strategy, results show that out of 101 recipes, 35 are fully domesticated, 15 fully foriegnized, 19 partially domesticated and partially foreignized, and 32 foreignized with domesticated translations also provided. The last factor in determining the final version was a process of taste-testing. Each step of the translated recipe carefully “proofed” to ensure the edibility and overall quality of the dishes, showing that anyone who can read English can prepare any of the translated texts even with a humble knowledge of cooking.
[1] This title, ‘With Osama, Food is more Delicious’ is my own English translation of the Arabic original Maa Osama…Atyab. The two other books have been published with their English on the Chef Osama El-Sayed’s main website. More details can be found in the following chapters.
Recent KTEV Results
Creators: name: Kessler, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Preliminary KTEV results are presented based on the 1997 data set, and include an improved measurement of Re(e'/e), CPT tests, and precise measurements of Tau_S and Delta M.
description: Proceedings for Lepton Photon 2001
On explicit formulae of LMOV invariants
Creators: name: Zhu, Shengmao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We started a program to study the open string integrality invariants (LMOV invariants) for toric Calabi-Yau 3-folds with Aganagic-Vafa brane (AV-brane) several years ago. This paper is devoted to the case of resolved conifold with one out AV-brane in any integer framing $τ$, which is the large $N$ duality of Chern-Simons theory for a framed unknot with integer framing $τ$ in $S^3$. By using the methods from string dualities, we compute several explicit formulae of the corresponding LMOV invariants for this special model, whose integrality properties have been proved in a separated paper.
description: This article contains the first part of our previous preprint arXiv:1611.06506
The association between the severity and duration of acute kidney injury and new-onset chronic kidney disease after cardiac surgery: Statistical analysis plan
Creators: name: Kim, Won Ho
name: Lim, Young-Jin
name: Jae-Hyon Bahk
name: Lee, Kook Hyun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Anesthesiology
subject: 110312 Nephrology and Urology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cardiology

description: This is a statistical analysis plan for a retrospective observational cohort study.
Tocopherol regeneration by phospholipids in soybean oil-in-water emulsions: effect of tocopherol homologue and emulsifier type
Creators: name: Samdani, Gautam
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: Phospholipids can regenerate oxidized tocopherols and help delay lipid oxidation. The impact of emulsifier type, tocopherol homologue and phospholipid head group on tocopherol-phospholipid interaction was investigated in this study.
Three µmol tocopherol/kg emulsion and 15.0µmol/kg emulsion of PE or PS were dissolved in oil and emulsions were prepared. Tween 20 or bovine serum albumin(BSA) was used as emulsifier and the continuous phase contained 10mM imidazole/acetate buffer at pH 7. Lipid hydroperoxides and hexanal were measured as lipid oxidation products and the lag phase was determined. With Tween 20 as the emulsifier, α and δ-tocopherol had a hexanal lag phase of 2 and 4 days respectively. PE and PS both extended the lag phase to 7 and 10 days respectively in presence of δ-tocopherol. Whereas, PS extended the lag phase to 6 days and PE could not exhibit any synergism with α-tocopherol. With BSA as the emulsifier, α and δ-tocopherol had a lag phase of 4 days. PE and PS extended the lag phase to 11 days and 10 days respectively in presence of δ-tocopherol and to 7 and 8 days respectively in presence of α-tocopherol. PE and PS both exhibited synergism with mixed tocopherol and the extent of synergism was in less than δ-tocopherol but more than α-tocopherol.
Phospholipids could potentially be used with tocopherols to improve the oxidative stability of emulsions. PE was more effective with BSA whereas PS was equally effective with both emulsifiers.
Greeting Behavior in Tiger Salamaders (Ambystoma mavortium mavortium)
Creators: name: Chernoff, Ellen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Agonistic (aggressive) and placatory (peace-keeping) interactions, as well as courtship behavior, have been described for Ambystomatid (mole) salamanders. There are field and laboratory studies on the courtship behavior of tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum, Ambystoma mavortium subspecies), and some on territorial and denning habits, but peer-reviewed studies on interactions are largely lacking beyond the larval stages. Here, more anecdotal observations are described showing a sequence of visual gestures and interactions between metamorphosed juvenile and adult tiger salamanders that have the appearance of a formal greeting. This paper documents this photographically, addresses changes in “greeting” behavior with time and examines traces of this behavior in the salamander courtship and neuroendocrinology literature. Though the focus is on tiger salamanders, literature on other Ambystomatid salamander species is utilized as well as information from non-Ambystomatid species where information on tiger salamanders or any Ambystomatidae is lacking.
Factors Affecting Teacher Quality Development in Baidoa.
Creators: name: Said, Abdirahman Abdullahi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Affecting Teacher
Quality Development
Teacher Quality Development

description: After Somali republic government led by Siyad Bare collapse in 1991, government institutions have not been functioning since then. Education was among the institutions which significantly damaged due to lack of financial, professional support while the country was undergoing civil war which looted public property.

Since then, private associations have been formed by different educational actors to run the country with education service though it was not up to standard not as reliable as government system and there may be credential questions may be asked. These private actors include FENPS, F-PENS and others.

After reformation of Somalia transition government in Arta in 2000, the government have undergone difficulties and challenges to stood strongly. In 2014/2015 the federal ministry of education started uniform national exam for form 4 students and giving recognized certificate. Since then, the system was getting stronger day after day and the government have been trying to get funds for developing education system, but the need was so huge to cover till now. For matter of wisely utilization of the little resource available the government was mainly focusing go back to school slogan regardless of quality and availing space and essentials teaching and learning materials.
Harnessing the Power of Africa's Sun to Produce Healthy Products for International Markets: The Case of Fruits of the Nile (FON), Uganda
Creators: name: Yamoah, Fred
name: Brett, Adam
name: Morris, Ian
name: Yamoah, Fred
name: Brett, Adam
name: Morris, Ian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: solar technology
subject: producer cooperatives
subject: healthy dried fruits
subject: strategic partnerships
subject: international markets

description: FON is a Ugandan company which trains farmers to cultivate Fair trade and grow organic fresh fruits. They developed a simple low-tech solar drying technology and sell dried fruits internationally, and in doing so have improved skills and incomes along the supply chain. Annual exports amount to 100 tones bought from 120 primary producer groups, grown by about 700 farmers. Producer groups are given hygiene, drying and business training, and farmers are given cultivation training. The company’s current challenge is to improve production quality in the context of ever rising competition and requirements from European buyers.
description: The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete library visit: www.ifama.org
D-->PV decays with final state interactions
Creators: name: Li, Jing-Wu
name: Yang, Mao-Zhi
name: Du, Dong-Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ one-particle-exchange method to study D-->PV decays in D-->K ρ, πK*, πρprocesses. Taking into account a strong phase and considering nonfactorizable effect, we can get good results consistent with the experimental data. Nonfactorizable effect is not always large, but in some cases, the nonfactorizable effect is nececcesary to accommodate the experimental data. Strong phase is approximately SU(3) flavour symmetric.
description: 14 pages, LaTex, to be submitted to Eur.Phys.J.C
Minimal quantum viscosity from fundamental physical constants
Creators: name: Trachenko, K.
name: Brazhkin, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Viscosity of fluids is strongly system-dependent, varies across many orders of magnitude and depends on molecular interactions and structure in a complex way not amenable to first-principles theories. Despite the variations and theoretical difficulties, we find a new quantity setting the minimal kinematic viscosity of fluids: $ν_m=\frac{1}{4π}\frac{\hbar}{\sqrt{m_em}}$, where $m_e$ and $m$ are electron and molecule masses. We subsequently introduce a new property, the "elementary" viscosity $ι$ with the lower bound set by fundamental physical constants and notably involving the proton-to-electron mass ratio: $ι_m=\frac{\hbar}{4π}\left({\frac{m_p}{m_e}}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}}$, where $m_p$ is the proton mass. We discuss the connection of our result to the bound found by Kovtun, Son and Starinets in strongly-interacting field theories.
Utilization of Modified Lecithin to Control Lipid Oxidation in Bulk Oils
Creators: name: Shanbhag, Anuj
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: Lipid oxidation is a major challenge faced by the food industry since it causes loss of quality in lipid containing foods which results in a decrease of shelf life. In order to delay the oxidation in lipids, food industries make use of antioxidants such as EDTA (ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid), BHA (tbutyl-4-hydroxyanisole), BHT (t-butyl-4-hydroxytoluene), and TBHQ (tert-butyl-hydroxyquinone). However, these antioxidants are chemically synthesized and consumers desire simpler and cleaner labels without artificially synthesized antioxidants. Also, artificially synthesized antioxidants such as t-butyl-4-hydroxyanisole (BHA) can cause cancer in humans. Previous studies have shown that phospholipids such as phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylcholine (PC) affect the activity of nonpolar antioxidants such as -tocopherol in bulk oils. PE when added to stripped soybean oil containing 100 M of -tocopherol was able to improve oxidative stability of the oil. However, PC decreased the activity of -tocopherol or had no effect. HPLC demonstrated that tocopherols were regenerated by PE which explains its synergism with - tocopherol. This study evaluated the effect of -tocopherol with varying levels of PE in stripped soybean oil. vi Additionally, antioxidant activity of -tocopherol has been shown to increase with increasing PE/PC ratio in lecithin. This study also examined the possibility of converting PC to PE in egg lecithin which will can be further used with -tocopherol. The enzyme phospholipase D was used for the conversion since it has been shown to have transphosphatidylation activity with phospholipids. The synergism of the modified lecithin with -tocopherol was analyzed in stripped soybean oil as well as in commercially refined oils. KEYWORDS: phospholipid, antioxidant, lipid oxidation, tocopherols, lecithin.
Parhydraenopsis Perkins 2009
Creators: name: Perkins, Philip D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydraenidae
Parhydraenopsis

description: Key to species of Parhydraenopsis
 1 Elytra comparatively narrow, width/length ratio ca. 0.66; pronotum less explanate; smaller species, length ca. 2.12 mm; aedeagus as illustrated (Figs. 82, 83)........................................................................................... simiensis n. sp.
- Elytra broader, width/length ratio ca. 0.72–0.74; metaventral disc with shallow median elongate impression; larger species, length ca. 2.34–2.38 mm................................................................................................................................. 2
 2 Legs longer and pronotum less explanate, metatibia+metatarsus length subequal width of pronotum; maxillary palpi comparatively longer, palpus length/head width ratio ca. 0.57; aedeagus as illustrated (Figs. 78, 80)......................... ....................................................................................................................................................... cooperi (Orchymont)
 - Legs shorter and pronotum more explanate, metatibia+metatarsus length much less than width of pronotum; maxillary palpi comparatively shorter, palpus length/head width ratio ca. 0.42; aedeagus as illustrated (Figs. 79, 81) ......................................................................................................................................................................... alta n. sp.
description: Published as part of Perkins, Philip D., 2009, Revisions of the genera Parhydraena Orchymont, Protozantaena Perkins, Decarthrocerus Orchymont, and Parhydraenopsis nomen novum, aquatic and humicolous beetles from Africa and Madagascar, and comparative morphology of the tribe Parhydraenini (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae), pp. 1-119 in Zootaxa 2038 on page 13
Prospects for the measurement of Bs oscillations with the ATLAS detector at LHC
Creators: name: Epp, B.
name: Ghete, V. M.
name: Nairz, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The capabilities of the ATLAS detector to measure the $B_{s}^{0}$ oscillations in proton-proton interactions at the Large Hadron Collider were evaluated. $B_{s}^{0}$ candidates in the $D_{s}^{-} π^{+}$ and $D_{s}^{-} a_{1}^{+}$ decay modes from semileptonic exclusive events were fully simulated and reconstructed, using a detailed detector description. The sensitivity and the expected accuracy for the measurement of the oscillation frequency were derived from unbinned maximum likelihood amplitude fits as functions of the integrated luminosity. A detailed treatment of the systematic uncertainties was performed. The dependence of the measurement sensitivity on various parameters was also evaluated.
Pseudo-Newtonian Potentials to Describe the Temporal Effects on Relativistic Accretion Disks around Rotating Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
name: Misra, Ranjeev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two pseudo-Newtonian potentials, which approximate the angular and epicyclic frequencies of the relativistic accretion disk around rotating (and counter rotating) compact objects, are presented. One of them, the Logarithmically Modified Potential, is a better approximation for the frequencies while the other, the Second-order Expanded potential, also reproduces the specific energy for circular orbits in close agreement with the General Relativistic values. These potentials may be included in time dependent hydrodynamical simulations to study the temporal behavior of such accretion disks.
description: 9 Latex pages including 5 figures and 1 table; Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Bee Natural Uganda: Unlocking the Potential of Smallholder Farmers in the West Nile
Creators: name: Lynch, Margaret
name: Mabaya, Edward
name: Bussiere, Elena
name: Willigerd, Matthew
name: Lynch, Margaret
name: Mabaya, Edward
name: Bussiere, Elena
name: Willigerd, Matthew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: woman-owned business
subject: Uganda
subject: apiculture
subject: honey
subject: SME

description: Bee Natural Uganda, Ltd. (BNU) is the largest producer of quality honey and honey products in Uganda, selling 61 tonnes of honey in 2012 with an average growth in sales of 20% per year. BNU’s unique business model follows their honey from the hives of smallholder farmers trained by BNU to a state of the art processing facility in Arua, West Nile, Uganda. The company attributes its success to this model, which allows employees to continue checking the quality of their product at every step leading to the sale of BNU’s products. In a highly competitive honey market, this consistency in quality has set BNU high above their competition. As Bee Natural Uganda looks to the future, management must develop a strategy to overcome the challenges associated with continued growth and unmet demand in Uganda and the East Africa region.
description: The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete library visit: www.ifama.org
Energy of fermionic ground states with low-entanglement single-reference expansions, and tensor-based strong-coupling extensions of the coupled-cluster method
Creators: name: Bergeron, Dominic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a fermionic system for which there exist a single-reference configuration-interaction (CI) expansion of the ground state wave function that converges, albeit not necessarily rapidly, with respect to excitation number. We show that, if the coefficients of Slater determinants (SD) with $l\leq k$ excitations can be defined with a number of free parameters $N_{\leq k}$ bounded polynomially in $k$, the ground state energy $E$ only depends on a small fraction of all the wave function parameters, and is the solution of equations of the coupled-cluster (CC) form. This generalizes the standard CC method, for which $N_{\leq k}$ is bounded by a constant. Based on that result and low-rank tensor decompositions (LRTD), we discuss two possible extensions of the CC approach for wave functions with general polynomial bound for $N_{\leq k}$. First, one can use LRTD to represent the amplitudes of the CC cluster operator $T$ which, unlike in the CC case, is not truncated with respect to excitation number, and the energy and tensor parameters are given by a LRTD-adapted version of standard CC equations. Second, the LRTD can also be used to directly parametrize the CI coefficients, which involves different equations of the CC form. We derive those equations for up to quadruple-excitation coefficients, using a different type of excitation operator in the CC wave function ansatz, and a Hamiltonian representation in terms of excited particle and hole operators. We complete the proposed CC extensions by constructing compact tensor representations of coefficients, or $T$-amplitudes, using superpositions of tree tensor networks which take into account different possible types of entanglement between excited particles and holes. Finally, we discuss why the proposed extensions are theoretically applicable at larger coupling strengths than those treatable by the standard CC method.
description: 39 pages (18+7+14), 4 figures
Additional file 1 of MiR-146a-5p, targeting ErbB4, promotes 3T3-L1 preadipocyte differentiation through the ERK1/2/PPAR-γ signaling pathway
Creators: name: Wang, Yifen
name: Zhang, Jie
name: Chu, Xueru
name: Wang, Mengke
name: Xin, Yongning
name: Liu, Shousheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Ele Agbe in Search of a New Light in Ghana’s Shea Sector
Creators: name: Abban, Rita
name: Omta, S.W.F.
name: Aheto, John B.K.
name: Scholten, Victor
name: Abban, Rita
name: Omta, S.W.F.
name: Aheto, John B.K.
name: Scholten, Victor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Ele Agbe
subject: SME
subject: networks
subject: shea supply chain
subject: exports

description: Ele Agbe is a Ghanaian phrase meaning “God is alive.” Founded as a small and medium enterprise (SME), in Ghana in 1996, Ele Agbe Company is currently a dynamic business operating in the downstream shea export sector. Demand for shea is increasing for skin and hair products on the foreign market. Ele Agbe’s artisans use traditional Ghanaian tools and methods, and the highest quality materials available, including unique scents. The protected knowledge build up of unique scents in its shea product mix has given Ele Agbe its trade secret. At Ele Agbe, artisans pass on their skills to younger generations, conducting workshops for school groups and accepting apprentices from throughout Ghana. The business is confronted with challenges partly as a result of non-existent working policy for shea and breaks or gaps in the shea supply chain preventing it from achieving full potential. The company needs to consider how to improve on its’ firm and business networks given its internal and external environment in order to expand.
description: The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete library visit: www.ifama.org
Black Holes at the LHC
Creators: name: Dimopoulos, Savas
name: Landsberg, Greg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If the scale of quantum gravity is near a TeV, the LHC will be producing one black hole (BH) about every second. The BH decays into prompt, hard photons and charged leptons is a clean signature with low background. The absence of significant missing energy allows the reconstruction of the mass of the decaying BH. The correlation between the BH mass and its temperature, deduced from the energy spectrum of the decay products, can test experimentally the higher dimensional Hawking evaporation law. It can also determine the number of large new dimensions and the scale of quantum gravity.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRL. Results presented at the Les Houches Workshop "Physics at the TeV Colliders" (May 30, 2001) and the "Avatars of M-Theory" conference, ITP at Santa Barbara (June 7, 2001), http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/mtheory_c01/dimopoulos
Vitamin D Status and Bone Health Among Young Adult Women
Creators: name: Stone, Caroline
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: Background:
Osteoporosis is estimated to affect 200 million women in the world, affecting 10% of women aged 60, 20% of women aged 70, 40% of women aged 80 and 67% of women aged 90. Osteoporosis is characterized by low bone density and increases the risk for fractured bones; however, it may be prevented with modifiable factors such as supplements, diet, and physical activity. Vitamin D deficiency leads to bone mineral density loss, as Vitamin D3 is responsible for calcium absorption into the bones. Bone consolidation is believed to occur between 20 and 30 years old; thus, attaining peak bone mass is critical during pre-menopause.
Methods:
The relationship between vitamin D and bone mineral density has predominately been studied in postmenopausal populations. Therefore, we examined this association among 18-30 year old participants (n=271) in the cross-sectional UMass Vitamin D Status Study. The modified version of the Harvard Food Frequency Questionnaire was used to assess the average intake of vitamin D foods and supplements. Serum 25(OH)D3 concentrations were assayed from blood samples. Bone mineral content and bone area were measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scan. Bone mineral content (BMC), as measured in grams, provides a measure of bone mass. Bone area (BA), as measured in cm2, reflects a two-dimensional area, which is characterized by the periphery of a bone region. We used multivariable linear regression to model the relationship between bone mineral density and bone area with sources of vitamin D after adjusting for dietary and lifestyle factors.
Results:
In the present study, the mean and standard deviation of vitamin D is 372.7 IU and 285.8 IU, respectively. For vitamin D from supplements, the mean is 140.9 IU with a standard deviation of 232.3 IU. Finally, for vitamin D from food, the mean is 231.8 IU with a standard deviation of 182.0 IU. Compared to reference values of 600 IU, these data are below the recommended daily allowance.
We did not observe an association between total vitamin D or vitamin D from foods sources with either BMC or BA. We also did not observe an association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and BMC or BA.
Conclusion:
Future studies with larger sample sizes are warranted to validate this association among young premenopausal women.
Non Standard $η-η^{\prime}$ mixing and the Nonleptonic B and $Λ_b$ Decays to $η$ and $η^{\prime}$
Creators: name: Datta, Alakabha
name: Lipkin, Harry J.
name: O'Donnell, Patrick J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radial mixing in the pseudoscalar $η-η^{\prime}$ systems can be generated from hyperfine interactions and annihilation terms. For the $η-η^{\prime}$ system we find the effects of radial mixing are appreciable and seriously affect the decay branching ratios for $B \to η(η^{\prime})K(K^*)$, mainly by modifying the $B \to η(η^{\prime})$ form factors. In particular, the effect of radial mixing in conjunction with the interference effects among penguin amplitudes can resolve puzzles in the $B \to η(η^{\prime}) K$ decays. The decay $Λ_b \to Λη(η^{\prime})$ on the other hand is dominated by a single amplitude so that the significant interference effects of B decays are absent here. Moreover, since no $Λ_b \to η(η^{\prime})$ form factors are involved here, the effect of radial mixing is essentially negligible. Hence, unlike the B system, we do not predict a large enhancement of $Λ_b \to Λη^{\prime}$ relative to $Λ_b \to Λη$.
description: Typos corrected, Minor addition of text, Latex, 16 pages, one fig
Verschlechterung der Lebensqualität von Patienten mit Morbus Hodgkin in den folgenden 5 Jahren nach abgeschlossener Therapie : Langzeitdaten aus den Studien HD13, HD14 und HD15
Creators: name: Vordermark, Dirk
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Der stadien- und risikoadaptierte Einsatz multimodaler Therapiekonzepte erzielt beim Morbus Hodgkin bekanntermaßen hohe Heilungsraten. Die Langzeitüberlebenden sind jedoch in vielen Bereichen ihrer Lebensqualität beeinträchtigt. Dies beinhaltet spezifische Symptomkomplexe wie Fatigue, aber auch Probleme bei der sozialen und beruflichen Integration der häufig bei Therapie noch sehr jungen und somit im Langzeitverlauf immer noch jungen Patienten. Die Therapieoptimierungsstudien der Deutschen Hodgkin Studiengruppe (DHSG) zielten auf eine Verbesserung des Profils zwischen onkologischer Tumorkontrolle (z. B. gemessen als progressionsfreies Überleben) und Spätfolgen der Therapie ab, z. B. durch Weiterentwicklung der Chemotherapiekonzepte und Modifikation der Strahlentherapie bezüglich Zielvolumen und Dosierung, teilweise auch durch einen Verzicht auf die Radiotherapie. Aktuell wurde nun ein sehr umfangreicher Datensatz zur Lebensqualität im Langzeitverlauf bis fünf Jahre nach Therapieende aus den Studien HD13, HD14 und HD15 publiziert, der eine differenzierte Betrachtung der Entwicklung definierter Bereiche der Lebensqualität wie auch die Identifikation von Risikofaktoren einschließlich des Zusammenhangs mit einzelnen Therapiekonzepten erlaubt.
QCD Baryogenesis
Creators: name: Croon, Djuna
name: Howard, Jessica N.
name: Ipek, Seyda
name: Tait, Timothy M. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore a simple model which naturally explains the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe. In this model the strong coupling is promoted to a dynamical quantity, which evolves through the vacuum expectation value of a singlet scalar field that mixes with the Higgs field. In the resulting cosmic history, QCD confinement and electroweak symmetry breaking initially occur simultaneously close to the weak scale. The early confinement triggers the axion to roll toward its minimum, which creates a chemical potential between baryons and antibaryons through the interactions of the $η'$ meson, resulting in spontaneous baryogenesis. The electroweak sphalerons are sharply switched off after confinement and the baryon asymmetry is frozen in. Subsequently, evolution of the Higgs vacuum expectation value (which is modified in the confined phase) triggers a relaxation to a Standard Model-like vacuum. We identify viable regions of parameter space, and describe various experimental probes, including current and future collider constraints, and gravitational wave phenomenology.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures. Published version
MOESM1 of The role of cardiac rehabilitation using exercise to decrease natriuretic peptide levels in non-surgical patients: a systematic review
Creators: name: Alphonsus, Christella
name: Pooveshni Govender
name: Reitze Rodseth
name: Biccard, Bruce
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Example of search strategy for the systematic review.
Wild Fruits of Africa: Commercializing Natural Products to Improve Rural Livelihoods in Southern Africa
Creators: name: Mabaya, Edward
name: Jackson, Jose
name: Ruethling, Gretchen
name: Carter, Casandra Marie
name: Castle, Jack
name: Mabaya, Edward
name: Jackson, Jose
name: Ruethling, Gretchen
name: Carter, Casandra Marie
name: Castle, Jack
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: natural food products
subject: social enterprise
subject: Botswana
subject: Marula

description: Wild Fruits of Africa (Pty) Ltd (hereafter referred to as Wild Fruits) is an emerging agribusiness based outside Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. Frank Taylor, the CEO, has spent much of his life researching indigenous plants, and is currently commercializing natural food products made from local fruits. Wild Fruits collects wild fruits harvested by rural villagers who have limited income-generating opportunities. Wild Fruits processes the fruit to make healthy snacks targeting the country’s growing tourism industry. The company is currently marketing and distributing its products to airlines, supermarkets, and safari lodges in Botswana, and is now seeking expansion into regional markets. This case illustrates the challenges and opportunities facing entrepreneurs in a niche market, as well as issues surrounding blended-value businesses in Southern Africa.
description: The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete library visit: www.ifama.org
Investigating saturation effects in ultraperipheral collisions at the LHC with the color dipole model
Creators: name: Sambasivam, Bharath
name: Toll, Tobias
name: Ullrich, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate saturation effects in $ep$ scattering as well as in ultraperipheral $p$A and AA collisions at small $x$ with four variants of the impact parameter dependent color dipole model: with and without gluon saturation and with and without a novel mechanism that suppresses unphysical dipole radii above the confinement scale, a problem not addressed by most implementations. We show that $ep$ scattering at HERA can be very well described by any of the four variants. When going from $ep$ to $e$A scattering, saturation effects are expected to increase as $\sim$A$^{1/3}$. In lieu of an electron-ion collider, we confront the different versions of the dipole model with data recorded in ultraperipheral collisions at the LHC in order to estimate the sensitivity of the data to gluon saturation in the target nuclei. We find that ultraperipheral PbPb collisions indicate strong saturation effects while $p$Pb collisions turn out to not have any discriminating power to distinguish saturation from non-saturation scenarios.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
MOESM2 of The role of cardiac rehabilitation using exercise to decrease natriuretic peptide levels in non-surgical patients: a systematic review
Creators: name: Alphonsus, Christella
name: Pooveshni Govender
name: Reitze Rodseth
name: Biccard, Bruce
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: AMSTAR evaluation of previous systematic reviews.
In Vitro S-Glutathionylation of S-Nitrosoglutathione Reductase from Arabidopsis Thaliana and Phenotype Determination of Sensitive to Formaldehyde 1 Knockout Strains of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Creators: name: Truebridge, Ian
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: Cells are constantly exposed to different stresses – one being redox stress, which is induced by metal, reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species. S-nitrosoglutathione reductase (GSNOR) helps modulate redox stress by two different mechanisms – either by reducing S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) to oxidized glutathione (GSSG) or by oxidizing hydroxymethyl glutathione (HMGSH), a biproduct of glutathione and formaldehyde, to formic acid. GSNO has the potential to posttranslational modify proteins in two different manners, either by S-nitrosation or by S-glutathionylation. Interestingly, GSNOR can be modified by its substrate GSNO, either by S-nitrosation, which has previously been reported, or, as discussed in this thesis, by S-glutathionylation. As S-glutathionylation has been reported to occur through intermediate species, the S-glutathionylation of GSNOR appears to occur though the S-nitrosated intermediate, instead of the most common route of an oxidation pathway. It is hypothesized that the S-glutathionylation, and the overall presence of glutathione, can act as a buffer to regulate the amount of nitrosation that GSNOR experiences, and thus the enzymatic activity. It is has reported that the S-nitrosation occurs on three different non-structural, non-catalytic, solvent-accessible cysteine residues. Experimentation was conducted using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism to determine how those three cysteine residues of the GSNOR homolog Sensitive to Formaldehyde 1 (SFA1) participate in the indirect detoxification of formaldehyde, through the hydroxymethyl glutathione pathway. It has been determined that cysteine 370 is not as important as previously thought, but the other one or two cysteines (either cysteine 10 or 271) do indeed play a role in the detoxification, but further analysis needs to be conducted.
Primordial Tensor Non-Gaussianity from Massive Gravity
Creators: name: Fujita, Tomohiro
name: Mizuno, Shuntaro
name: Mukohyama, Shinji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate tensor bispectrum in a theory of massive tensor gravitons which predicts blue-tilted and largely amplified primordial gravitational waves. We find that a new 3-point interaction can produce a larger tensor bispectrum than the conventional one from general relativity. The bispectrum peaks at the squeezed configuration and its slope towards the squeezed limit is determined by the graviton mass. This squeezed tensor bispectrum may be observed as the quadrupolar modulation of the tensor power spectrum by interferometers.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures
Conflict Resistant Agribusiness in Democratic Republic of Congo
Creators: name: Kibriya, Shahriar R.
name: Partida, Vincente
name: King, Joseph
name: Price, Edwin
name: Kibriya, Shahriar R.
name: Partida, Vincente
name: King, Joseph
name: Price, Edwin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Conflict resistant agribusiness
subject: North Kivu
subject: Chinchona
subject: ESCO Kivu SPRL
subject: supply chain

description: ESCO Kivu SPRL, located in Beni and Butembo North Kivu, is one of the few successful medium sized agribusiness enterprises in the region. ESCO pursues a line of conflict-resistant enterprises: chinchona (quinine), cacao and vanilla. Chinchona is the most conflict resistant product, while cacao is the most profitable. The company operates 26 trucks and 31 small stores, utilizing over 50 agronomists and 16,000 small stakeholder farmers. Farmers receive production support and a 15% premium for quality and exclusivity. ESCO exports cacao to the USA to specialty organic chocolate processors such as Theo’s, in Seattle, USA. Vanilla exports also go to USA buyers assisted by VANEX (Association Vanilla Exporters of Uganda). This study focuses on ESCO’s conflict resistant business strategies in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
description: The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete library visit: www.ifama.org