cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ANALYSIS OF FOOD LABELS FOR AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
Creators: name: Mclennon, Everald
name: Harrison, R. Wes
name: Mclennon, Everald
name: Harrison, R. Wes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Conjoint analysis is used to measure consumer preferences for alternative biotech labeling formats. The study found that consumers overwhelmingly support mandatory labeling of biotech foods. Results also showed that the preferred labeling format is a text disclosure that describes the benefits of biotechnology in combination with a biotech logo.
USING DATA MINING TO DETECT ANOMALOUS PRODUCER BEHAVIOR: AN ANALYSIS OF SOYBEAN PRODUCTION AND THE FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE PROGRAM
Creators: name: Olson, Stacey
name: Little, Bertis B.
name: Lovell, Ashley C.
name: Olson, Stacey
name: Little, Bertis B.
name: Lovell, Ashley C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: The analysis was conducted on the USDA's Risk Management Agency insurance data and NRCS Land Resource Regions from 1994 - 2001 to assist RMA in improving program integrity. The objective is to develop a data-mining algorithm that identifies anomalous producers and counties within LRRs based upon the percentage of acres harvested.
HEALTH VALUE IN FOOD SAFETY SURVEILLANCE INITIATIVES
Creators: name: Amanor-Boadu, Vincent
name: Mowat, David
name: Boland, Michael A.
name: Amanor-Boadu, Vincent
name: Mowat, David
name: Boland, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Recognizing the increasing concern about the potential health effects of genetically modified foods, this research provides a framework for economic value of monitoring genetically modified food for their potential long-term human health effects. This is with the view of helping policy makers improve resource allocation decisions in the face of competing public health initiatives. Using a hypothetical population exposed to a hypothetical product, we estimate the health value associated with a post-market surveillance initiative. The analysis indicate that the principal challenge confronting decision makers in the implementation of post-market surveillance initiatives is prioritising products for monitoring given the uncertainty associated with outcomes and effects.
Einige Bemerkungen zur Geschichte des Karmel
Creators: name: Stummer, F.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 27 Nr. 1 (1930): Oriens christianus, Band 27, Heft 1
THE ECONOMIC FACTORS INFLUENCING PRODUCERS' DEMAND FOR FARM MANAGERS
Creators: name: Vergara, Oscar
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Knight, Thomas O.
name: Patrick, George F.
name: Baquet, Alan E.
name: Vergara, Oscar
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Knight, Thomas O.
name: Patrick, George F.
name: Baquet, Alan E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Results from a Tobit model showed a complementary relationship between marketing inputs and the decision to hire farm managers. According to the results, as farmers increase expenditure on marketing consultants and information systems, their expenditure on farm managers increase as well.
PER UNIT COSTS TO OWN AND OPERATE FARM MACHINERY
Creators: name: Beaton, Aaron J.
name: Dhuyvetter, Kevin C.
name: Kastens, Terry L.
name: Beaton, Aaron J.
name: Dhuyvetter, Kevin C.
name: Kastens, Terry L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Entropy and jackknife estimation procedures were used to find that custom rates are 20.3% lower than the true cost to own and operate machinery for an average size Kansas farm. A method was then developed to estimate a farms total machinery costs with which to benchmark machinery costs.
Primordial magnetic seed field amplification by gravitational waves
Creators: name: Betschart, Gerold
name: Zunckel, Caroline
name: Dunsby, Peter
name: Marklund, Mattias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using second-order gauge-invariant perturbation theory, a self-consistent framework describing the non-linear coupling between gravitational waves and a large-scale homogeneous magnetic field is presented. It is shown how this coupling may be used to amplify seed magnetic fields to strengths needed to support the galactic dynamo. In situations where the gravitational wave background is described by an `almost' Friedmann-Lema{î}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology we find that the magnitude of the original magnetic field is amplified by an amount proportional to the magnitude of the gravitational wave induced shear anisotropy and the square of the field's initial co-moving scale. We apply this mechanism to the case where the seed field and gravitational wave background are produced during inflation and find that the magnitude of the gravitational boost depends significantly on the manner in which the estimate of the shear anisotropy at the end of inflation is calculated. Assuming a seed field of $10^{-34}$ $\rm{G}$ spanning a comoving scale of about $10 \rm{kpc}$ today, the shear anisotropy at the end of inflation must be at least as large as $10^{-40}$ in order to obtain a generated magnetic field of the same order of magnitude as the original seed. Moreover, contrasting the weak field approximation to our gauge-invariant approach, we find that while both methods agree in the limit of high conductivity, their corresponding solutions are otherwise only compatible in the limit of infinitely long-wavelength gravitational waves.
description: Matches published version
Rhinodrilus Perrier 1872
Creators: name: Sousa, Sandriel Costa
name: Sousa, Anny Mykaelly De
name: Hernández-García, Luis Manuel
name: Gualter, Regia Maria Reis
name: Rousseau, Guillaume Xavier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Haplotaxida
Glossoscolecidae
Rhinodrilus

description: Genus Rhinodrilus Perrier, 1872
 Diagnosis. Setae in eight longitudinal lines, one or more lines may be irregular in the posterior region of the body. Intraclitellar tubercula pubertatis rarely absent. Gizzard in VI. Three pairs of calciferous glands in VII–IX. Subneural vessel present. Short seminal vesicles. Intraclitellar male pores. Spermathecae present (Righi 1985).
 Type species. Rhinodrilus paradoxus Perrier, 1872
description: Published as part of Sousa, Sandriel Costa, Sousa, Anny Mykaelly De, Hernández-García, Luis Manuel, Gualter, Regia Maria Reis & Rousseau, Guillaume Xavier, 2020, A new earthworm species of the genus Rhinodrilus (Rhinodrilidae, Clitellata) and new records of earthworms species from the Amazon-Cerrado-Caatinga transition in the State of Maranhão, Brazil, pp. 169-174 in Zootaxa 4810 (1) on page 170, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4810.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/3937029
PROPOSED TOBACCO QUOTA BUYOUT LEGISLATION: EFFECTS ON TENNESSEE TOBACCO FARMS
Creators: name: Tiller, Kelly
name: Brown, Jennifer
name: Tiller, Kelly
name: Brown, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Interest in a tobacco quota buyout is at an all time high with several tobacco quota buyout and transition bills before Congress. This paper reviews major elements of buyout proposals and estimates the economic impacts of proposed buyout legislation on four representative Tennessee tobacco farms.
An Experimental Investigation of Micro- and Macrocracking Mechanisms in Rocks by Freeze‒Thaw Cycling
Creators: name: Maji, Vikram
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The fracture of rock during freezing and thawing poses a serious threat to rock slope stability and represents an important geohazard in cold regions. However, mechanistic understanding of microcracking processes, controls and rates, and the transition from micro- to macrocracking during freeze‒thaw is limited. To investigate the mechanisms of cracking, two physical modelling experiments supplemented by compressive tests were performed on specimens of chalk and sandstone, monitoring and imaging micro- and macroscale deformation due to freeze‒thaw cycling. The microscale experiment repeatedly scanned two water-saturated specimens 20 mm in diameter and 30 mm high, subject to downward freezing in a climate cabinet. Successive microcomputed tomography (μ-CT) images quantified the progressive development of structure and strain during 20 freeze‒thaw cycles. The macroscale experiment imposed 12 bidirectional (upward and downward) freezing cycles on three 300 mm cubic blocks over the course of 315 days, simulating an active layer above permafrost. Eight acoustic emission sensors recorded the timing, location and energy released during microcracking events, while rock temperature, surface heave and settlement, and subsurface strain were monitored continuously. The microscale experiment generated different probability functions that correlate points, clusters and linear movements of the progressive fracture phase extracted from scanned images and showed dominantly vertical rather than horizontal microcrack growth. The macroscale experiment brecciated a chalk block near modal depths of the 0oC isotherm during thaw, and indicated high tensional activity and limited shearing. Ice segregation during thawing produced more microcracking events than volumetric expansion produced during freezing. A statistical model is proposed that distinguishes the mechanism of fracture propagation during freezing and thawing.
gDLS*: Generalized Pose-and-Scale Estimation Given Scale and Gravity Priors
Creators: name: Fragoso, Victor
name: DeGol, Joseph
name: Hua, Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many real-world applications in augmented reality (AR), 3D mapping, and robotics require both fast and accurate estimation of camera poses and scales from multiple images captured by multiple cameras or a single moving camera. Achieving high speed and maintaining high accuracy in a pose-and-scale estimator are often conflicting goals. To simultaneously achieve both, we exploit a priori knowledge about the solution space. We present gDLS*, a generalized-camera-model pose-and-scale estimator that utilizes rotation and scale priors. gDLS* allows an application to flexibly weigh the contribution of each prior, which is important since priors often come from noisy sensors. Compared to state-of-the-art generalized-pose-and-scale estimators (e.g., gDLS), our experiments on both synthetic and real data consistently demonstrate that gDLS* accelerates the estimation process and improves scale and pose accuracy.
Observation of Gamma Rays from the Galactic Center with the MAGIC Telescope
Creators: name: Albert, J.
name: collaboration, MAGIC
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the Galactic Center has been reported to be a source of very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays by the VERITAS, CANGAROO and HESS experiments. The energy spectra as measured by these experiments show substantial differences. In this Letter we present MAGIC observations of the Galactic Center, resulting in the detection of a differential gamma-ray flux consistent with a steady, hard-slope power law, described as dN/(dA dt dE) = (2.9+/-0.6)*10^{-12} (E/TeV)^{-2.2+/-0.2} cm^{-2}s^{-1}TeV^{-1}. The gamma-ray source is centered at (Ra, Dec)=(17h 45m 20s, -29deg 2'. This result confirms the previous measurements by the HESS experiment and indicates a steady source of TeV gamma-rays. We briefly describe the observational technique used, the procedure implemented for the data analysis, and discuss the results in the perspective of different models proposed for the acceleration of the VHE gamma-rays.
description: ApJL submitted
Análisis econométrico de la heterogeneidad de las preferencias de los individuos: aplicación a la valoración económica de la conservación del paisaje agrícola de montaña
Creators: name: Colombo, Sergio
name: Hanley, Nick
name: Colombo, Sergio
name: Hanley, Nick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Heterogeneity
subject: Heterogeneidad
subject: modelos de clases latentes
subject: modelos de heterogeneidad de la varianza
subject: modelos de parámetros aleatorios
subject: paisaje de montaña
subject: latent class models
subject: covariance heterogeneity models
subject: random parameter models
subject: uphill landscape

description: The need to account for respondents’ preference heterogeneity in stated choice models has motivated researchers to apply random parameter logit and latent class models. In this paper we compare these three alternative ways of incorporating preference heterogeneity in stated choice models and evaluate how the choice of model affects welfare estimates in a given empirical application. Finally, we discuss what criteria to follow to decide which approach is most appropriate. RESUMEN - La necesidad de incorporar la heterogeneidad en las preferencias de los individuos en los modelos de elección discreta ha llevado a los investigadores a emplear siempre más frecuentemente modelos de parámetros aleatorios o de clases latentes. En este artículo se comparan tres diferentes alternativas de incorporar la heterogeneidad de las preferencias en los modelos de elección discreta y se determina el efecto que éstos tienen en la estimación de las medidas de bienestar para la conservación del paisaje de montaña. Por último se propone unos criterios a seguir para determinar que enfoque es más apropiado.
Island formation and dynamics of gold clusters on amorphous carbon films
Creators: name: Werner, Ralph
name: Wanner, Matthias
name: Schneider, Guenter
name: Gerthsen, Dagmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Samples of Au clusters deposited by laser ablation on an amorphous-carbon substrate are investigated. After a few months storage at room temperature the initially statistically distributed clusters are found to be collected in agglomerates consisting of larger clusters embedded in an Au film typically covering areas of size 25$\times$70 nm$^2$. The Au film is determined to be probably 4 to 8 monolayers but at most 7 nm thick. Evidence is found that a number of clusters consisting of less then 50 atoms are pinned at intrusions of the substrate. These results were derived using high resolution transmission electron microscopy and off-axis holography measurements to characterize the agglomerates as well as the substrate. Monte Carlo simulations were performed to model the film formation process. To this end the substrate-Au interaction was determined using density functional calculations (GGA) while the Au-Au interaction was modeled with effective many body Gupta potentials. The film formation can be understood as diffusion and fusion of clusters of intermediate ($50< N < 300$ atoms) size. Larger clusters are more stable at room temperature and remain adsorbed on the Au film.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures. v2: experimental reproducibility emphasized, theoretical details added, minor changes
Strong-coupling effects in the relaxation dynamics of ultracold neutral plasmas
Creators: name: Pohl, T.
name: Pattard, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a hybrid molecular dynamics approach for the description of ultracold neutral plasmas, based on an adiabatic treatment of the electron gas and a full molecular dynamics simulation of the ions, which allows us to follow the long-time evolution of the plasma including the effect of the strongly coupled ion motion. The plasma shows a rather complex relaxation behavior, connected with temporal as well as spatial oscillations of the ion temperature. Furthermore, additional laser cooling of the ions during the plasma evolution drastically modifies the expansion dynamics, so that crystallization of the ion component can occur in this nonequilibrium system, leading to lattice-like structures or even long-range order resulting in concentric shells.
Dynamic Factor Demands for Aggregate Southeastern United States Agriculture
Creators: name: Taylor, Timothy G.
name: Monson, Michael J.
name: Taylor, Timothy G.
name: Monson, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Farm Management

description: A four equation input demand system for aggregate Southeastern United States agriculture consistent with dynamic optimizing behavior is specified and estimated. Labor and materials are considered as variable inputs while land and capital are treated as quasi-fixed inputs. It is found that the adjustment rates for capital and land differ considerably and are interdependent. Further, the data appear consistent with the existence of an aggregate production technology and the hypothesized optimizing behavior.
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Creators: name: โชษิตา มณีใส
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2007
Subjects: -

description: วรรณวิทัศน์, 7, พฤศจิกายน, 153-167
Supplementary Statistics and Figures from Light pollution affects West Nile virus exposure risk across Florida
Creators: name: Kernbach, Meredith E.
name: Martin, Lynn B.
name: Unnasch, Thomas R.
name: Hall, Richard J.
name: Rays H. Y. Jiang
name: Francis, Clinton D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) present global health threats, and their emergences are often linked to anthropogenic change. Artificial light at night (ALAN) is one form of anthropogenic change that spans beyond urban boundaries and may be relevant to EIDs through its influence on the behaviour and physiology of hosts and/or vectors. Although West Nile virus (WNV) emergence has been described as peri-urban, we hypothesized that exposure risk could also be influenced by ALAN in particular, which is testable by comparing the effects of ALAN on prevalence while controlling for other aspects of urbanization. By modelling WNV exposure among sentinel chickens in Florida, we found strong support for a nonlinear relationship between ALAN and WNV exposure risk in chickens with peak WNV risk occurring at low ALAN levels. Although our goal was not to discern how ALAN affected WNV relative to other factors, effects of ALAN on WNV exposure were stronger than other known drivers of risk (i.e. impervious surface, human population density). Ambient temperature in the month prior to sampling, but no other considered variables, strongly influenced WNV risk. These results indicate that ALAN may contribute to spatio-temporal changes in WNV risk, justifying future investigations of ALAN on other vector-borne parasites.
TweetsCOV19 -- A Knowledge Base of Semantically Annotated Tweets about the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Dimitrov, Dimitar
name: Baran, Erdal
name: Fafalios, Pavlos
name: Yu, Ran
name: Zhu, Xiaofei
name: Zloch, Matthäus
name: Dietze, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Publicly available social media archives facilitate research in the social sciences and provide corpora for training and testing a wide range of machine learning and natural language processing methods. With respect to the recent outbreak of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), online discourse on Twitter reflects public opinion and perception related to the pandemic itself as well as mitigating measures and their societal impact. Understanding such discourse, its evolution, and interdependencies with real-world events or (mis)information can foster valuable insights. On the other hand, such corpora are crucial facilitators for computational methods addressing tasks such as sentiment analysis, event detection, or entity recognition. However, obtaining, archiving, and semantically annotating large amounts of tweets is costly. In this paper, we describe TweetsCOV19, a publicly available knowledge base of currently more than 8 million tweets, spanning October 2019 - April 2020. Metadata about the tweets as well as extracted entities, hashtags, user mentions, sentiments, and URLs are exposed using established RDF/S vocabularies, providing an unprecedented knowledge base for a range of knowledge discovery tasks. Next to a description of the dataset and its extraction and annotation process, we present an initial analysis and use cases of the corpus.
Why are Latin Americans so unhappy about reforms?
Creators: name: Panizza, Ugo
name: Yanez, Monica
name: Panizza, Ugo
name: Yanez, Monica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: political economy
subject: reforms
subject: crisis
subject: Latin America

description: This paper uses opinion surveys to document discontent with the pro-market reforms implemented by most Latin American countries during the 1990s. The paper also explores four possible sets of explanations for this discontent: (i) a general drift of the populace’s political views to the left; (ii) an increase in political activism by those who oppose reforms; (iii) a decline in the people’s trust of political actors; and (iv) the economic crisis. The paper’s principal finding is that the macroeconomic situation plays an important role in explaining the dissatisfaction with the reform process.
Anisotropic thermal emission from magnetized neutron stars
Creators: name: Perez-Azorin, J. F.
name: Miralles, J. A.
name: Pons, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal emission from isolated neutron stars is not well understood. The X-ray spectrum is very close to a blackbody but there is a systematic optical excess flux with respect to the extrapolation to low energy of the best blackbody fit. This fact, in combination with the observed pulsations in the X-ray flux, can be explained by anisotropies in the surface temperature distribution.We study the thermal emission from neutron stars with strong magnetic fields in order to explain the origin of the anisotropy. We find (numerically) stationary solutions in axial symmetry of the heat transportequations in the neutron star crust and the condensed envelope. The anisotropy in the conductivity tensor is included consistently. The presence of magnetic fields of the expected strength leads to anisotropy in the surface temperature. Models with toroidal components similar to or larger than the poloidal field reproduce qualitatively the observed spectral properties and variability of isolated neutron stars. Our models also predict spectral features at energies between 0.2 and 0.6 keV.
description: 18 pages, 19 figures, version accepted for publication in A&A
The X-ray Emissions from the M87 Jet: Diagnostics and Physical Interpretation
Creators: name: Perlman, Eric S.
name: Wilson, Andrew S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reanalyze the deep Chandra observations of the M87 jet, first examined by Wilson & Yang (2002). By employing an analysis chain that includes image deconvolution, knots HST-1 and I are fully separated from adjacent emission. We find slight but significant variations in the spectral shape, with values of $α_x$ ranging from $\sim 1.2-1.6$. We use VLA radio observations, as well as HST imaging and polarimetry data, to examine the jet's broad-band spectrum and inquire as to the nature of particle acceleration in the jet. As shown in previous papers, a simple continuous injection model for synchrotron-emitting knots, in which both the filling factor, $f_{acc}$, of regions within which particles are accelerated and the energy spectrum of the injected particles are constant, cannot account for the X-ray flux or spectrum. Instead, we propose that $f_{acc}$ is a function of position and energy and find that in the inner jet, $f_{acc} \propto E_γ^{-0.4 \pm 0.2} \propto E_e^{-0.2 \pm 0.1}$, and in knots A and B, $f_{acc} \propto E_γ^{-0.7 \pm 0.2} \propto E_e^{-0.35 \pm 0.1}$, where $E_γ$ is the emitted photon energy and and $E_e$ is the emitting electron energy. In this model, the index $p$ of the injected electron energy spectrum ($n(E_{e}) \propto E_{e}^{-p}$) is $p=2.2$ at all locations in the jet, as predicted by models of cosmic ray acceleration by ultrarelativistic shocks. There is a strong correlation between the peaks of X-ray emission and minima of optical percentage polarization, i.e., regions where the jet magnetic field is not ordered. We suggest that the X-ray peaks coincide with shock waves which accelerate the X-ray emitting electrons and cause changes in the direction of the magnetic field; the polarization is thus small because of beam averaging.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ; 21 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables; abstract shortened for astro-ph; Figures 1, 7 and 8 at reduced resolution
Photocurrent in nanostructures with asymmetric antidots
Creators: name: Entin, M. V.
name: Magarill, L. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The steady current induced by electromagnetic field in a 2D system with asymmetric scatterers is studied. The scatterers are assumed to be oriented cuts with one diffusive and another specular sides. Besides, the existence of isotropic impurity scatterers is assumed. This simple model simulates the lattice of half-disk which have been studied numerically recently. The model allows the exact solution in the framework of the kinetic equation. The static current response in the second order of electric field is obtained. The photogalvanic tensor contains both responses to linear and circular polarization of electromagnetic field. The model possesses non-analyticity with regards to the rate of impurity scattering.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
ROLE OF WOMEN IN MANAGING WATER RESOURCES IN INDIA AND AFRICA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Creators: name: SHAHI, SARVESH KUMAR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: LAW WATER WOMEN

description: It has been said that the next wars will be fought over water, due to increasing competition for dwindling water resources. ‘Water’ is the most remarkable substance. We wash in it, fish in it, swim in it, drink it and cook with it, although probably not all at the same time. We are about two-thirds water and require water to live[2] . The Supreme Court in Narmada Bachao Andolan v. Union of India[3] judgment observed that “Water is the basic need for the survival of human beings and is part of the right to life and human rights as enshrined in Article 21 of the Constitution of India and the right to healthy environment and to sustainable development are fundamental human rights implicit in the right to “life”.
Die Evangelienzitate Novatians und das Diatessaron
Creators: name: Baumstark, Anton
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 27 Nr. 1 (1930): Oriens christianus, Band 27, Heft 1
The empirics of the Solow Growth Model: Long-term evidence.
Creators: name: Barossi-Filho, Milton
name: Goncalves Silva, Ricardo
name: Diniz, Eliezer Martins
name: Barossi-Filho, Milton
name: Goncalves Silva, Ricardo
name: Diniz, Eliezer Martins
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Economic growth
subject: panel data
subject: unit root
subject: cointegration and convergence

description: In this paper we reassess the standard Solow growth model, using a dynamic panel data approach. A new methodology is chosen to deal with this problem. First, unit root tests for individual country time series were run. Second, panel data unit root and cointegration tests were performed. Finally, the panel cointegration dynamics is estimated by (DOLS) method. The resulting evidence supports roughly one-third capital share in income, a.
Accessing long timescales in the relaxation dynamics of spins coupled to a conduction-electron system using absorbing boundary conditions
Creators: name: Elbracht, Michael
name: Potthoff, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relaxation time of a classical spin interacting with a large conduction-electron system is computed for a weak magnetic field, which initially drives the spin out of equilibrium. We trace the spin and the conduction-electron dynamics on a time scale, which exceeds the characteristic electronic scale that is set by the inverse nearest-neighbor hopping by more than five orders of magnitude. This is achieved with a novel construction of absorbing boundary conditions, which employs a generalized Lindblad master-equation approach to couple the edge sites of the conduction-electron tight-binding model to an external bath. The failure of the standard Lindblad approach to absorbing boundaries is traced back to artificial excitations initially generated due to the coupling to the bath. This can be cured by introducing Lindblad parameter matrices and by fixing those matrices to perfectly suppress initial-state artifacts as well as reflections of physical excitations propagating to the system boundaries. Numerical results are presented and discussed for generic one-dimensional models of the electronic structure.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, v2 with minor modifications
Supplementary Material - Methods and Results R2 CLEAN from Modelling the maximal active consumption rate and its plasticity in humans—perspectives from hot dog eating competitions
Creators: name: Smoliga, James M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60114 Systems Biology

description: A detailed description of methods and results beyond that included within the main manuscript.
Feshbach spectroscopy of a K-Rb atomic mixture
Creators: name: Ferlaino, Francesca
name: D'Errico, Chiara
name: Roati, Giacomo
name: Zaccanti, Matteo
name: Inguscio, Massimo
name: Modugno, Giovanni
name: Simoni, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform extensive magnetic Feshbach spectroscopy of an ultracold mixture of fermionic 40K and bosonic 87Rb atoms. The magnetic-field locations of 14 interspecies resonances is used to construct a quantum collision model able to predict accurate collisional parameters for all K-Rb isotopic pairs. In particular we determine the interspecies s-wave singlet and triplet scattering lengths for the 40K-87Rb mixture as -111 +/- 5 Bohr and -215 +/- 10 Bohr respectively. We also predict accurate scattering lengths and position of Feshbach resonances for the other K-Rb isotopic pairs. We discuss the consequences of our results for current and future experiments with ultracold K-Rb mixtures.
description: 5 pages, revised version
"This Woman's Work" in a "Man's World": A Feminist Analysis of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002
Creators: name: Sciullo, Nick J.
name: Sciullo, Nick J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Public Economics
subject: Farm Bill
subject: Feminism
subject: Farm Security and Rural Investment Act
subject: 2002
subject: Sciullo
subject: law
subject: womyn
subject: international agriculture
subject: covered commodities

description: Laws often have unintended consequences—consequences that even the most earnest policymakers fail to mull over. Such is the case with the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (hereinafter the 2002 Farm Bill), which, as discussed herein, has negative impacts on many of the world’s farmers. Many criticisms may be leveled at this law with their genesis across the broad spectrum of domestic political theory as well as international relations theory. Some may choose to focus on the disastrous depression of groundnut prices, a major cash crop of Western Africa, which forces Western Africans further into poverty. This argument would build upon post-colonial criticism, an increasingly more popular focus of critical theory. Others may focus on the impact that the 2002 Farm Bill has on domestic farmers, engaging in a ruralism dialogue. Furthermore some may stake a claim against the sugar subsidies of the 2002 Farm Bill because they negatively affect the Everglades, developing an environmentalist argument. Furthermore, a more traditional approach might be to critique the 2002 Farm Bill’s effects on the Brazilian economy. These criticisms, which are in my opinion valid, are well and good, but not enough has been said about the 2002 Farm Bill’s effect on womyn internationally. This paper will discuss the background of the 2002 Farm Bill and its origins in the Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (hereinafter the 1996 Farm Bill). Secondly, a basic discussion of feminist international relations and more generally, feminist legal theory will be invoked to provide a theoretical beacon for the rest of the journey. Thirdly, specific arguments about ecofeminsim and postcolonial feminism are teased out in order to critically investigate the direct and indirect consequences of United States farm policy. Fourthly, the 2002 Farm Bill’s disparate impact on international womyn will be discussed and theories about the need for critical investigation of international law from a feminist perspective will be developed. Next, the impending expiration of the 2002 Farm Bill and the possibilities and problems associated with the pending 2007 Farm Bill will be analyzed to provide a starting point for those interested in affecting agricultural policy and international trade, with emphasis paid to feminist theory. Lastly, the paper will conclude with recommendations for future inquiry and ways in which agricultural policy can be advanced while preserving the value of womyn’s work.
description: Published in Whittier Law Review, v.28, 2006
Can Climate Change Save Lives? A comment on “Economy-wide estimates of the implications of climate change: Human health"
Creators: name: Ackerman, Frank
name: Stanton, Elizabeth A.
name: Ackerman, Frank
name: Stanton, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Environmental Economics and Policy
Health Economics and Policy
International Development
International Relations/Trade
Public Economics
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: In a recent article in this journal, Francesco Bosello, Roberto Roson, and Richard Tol make the surprising prediction that the first stages of global warming will, on balance, save a large number of lives. Bosello et al. fail to substantiate this remarkable estimate, and they make multiple mistaken or misleading assumptions. They rely on research that identifies a simple empirical relationship between temperature and mortality, but ignores the countervailing effect of human adaptation to gradual changes in average temperature. While focusing on small changes in average temperatures, they ignore the important health impacts of extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, floods, and hurricanes. They extrapolate this pattern far beyond the level that is apparently supported by their principal sources, and introduce an arbitrary assumption that may bias the result toward finding benefits from warming.
European Chemical Policy and the United States: The Impacts of REACH
Creators: name: Ackerman, Frank
name: Stanton, Elizabeth A.
name: Massey, Rachel
name: Ackerman, Frank
name: Stanton, Elizabeth A.
name: Massey, Rachel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Health Economics and Policy
Industrial Organization
International Relations/Trade
Political Economy
Production Economics
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The European Union is moving toward adoption of its new Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) policy, an innovative system of chemicals regulation that will provide crucial information on the safety profile of chemicals used in industry. Chemicals produced elsewhere, such as in the United States, and exported to Europe will have to meet the same standards as chemicals produced within the European Union. What is at stake for the U.S. is substantial: we estimate that chemical exports to Europe that are subject to REACH amount to about $14 billion per year, and are directly and indirectly responsible for 54,000 jobs. Revenues and employment of this magnitude dwarf the costs of compliance with REACH, which will amount to no more than $14 million per year. Even if, as the U.S. chemicals industry has argued, REACH is a needless mistake, it will be far more profitable to pay the modest compliance costs than to lose access to the enormous European market.
Interarm islands in the Milky Way -- the one near the Cygnus spiral arm
Creators: name: Vallée, Jacques P
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study extends to the structure of the Galaxy. Our main goal is to focus on the first spiral arm beyond the Perseus arm, often called the Cygnus arm or the Outer Norma arm, by appraising the distributions of the masers near the Cygnus arm. The method is to employ masers whose trigonometric distances were measured with accuracy. The maser data come from published literature, having been obtained via the existing networks (US VLBA, the Japanese VERA, the European VLBI, and the Australian LBA). The new results for Cygnus are split in two groups: those located near a recent CO fitted global model spiral arm, and those congregating within an interarm island located halfway between the Perseus arm and the Cygnus arm. Next, we compare this island with other similar interarm objects near other spiral arms. Thus we delineate an interarm island (6 x 2 kpc) located between the two long spiral arms (Cygnus and Perseus arms); this is reminiscent of the small Local Orion arm (4 x 2 kpc) found earlier between the Perseus and Sagittarius arms, and of the old Loop (2 x 0.5 kpc) found earlier between the Sagittarius and Scutum arms. Various arm models are compared, based on observational data (masers, HII regions, HI gas, young stars, CO gas).
description: 26 pages; 4 figures; 3 tables; 71 references; 1 equation. Accepted for publication
The Future Role of the U.S. in World Dairy Markets
Creators: name: Dobson, William D.
name: Dobson, William D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: U.S. Dairy Exports
subject: International Dairy Industry

description: U.S. dairy companies became more important exporters beginning in the mid-2000s when international and domestic developments changed the economic environment facing the U.S. dairy industry. This paper looks at five U.S. dairy firms and how their domestic and international strategies will influence the size of the U.S. dairy industry's dairy exports and foreign direct investment in dairy-food businesses.
Embroidering at the edge : Mutwa women and change
Creators: name: Hardy, Michele Arlene
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation examines how a group of rural Muslim women in Western India are negotiating tradition and identity against a backdrop of dramatic change. The Mutwa are a small Muslim naat, an endogamous group claixning common descent. Originally from Sindh, for the past 8-10 generations they have lived in a cluster of villages along the northern frontier of Kutch, adjacent to the Pakistan border. Over the past 40 years, they have been forced to shift from pastoralism to wage labour, a shift that has encouraged the commoditisation of the embroidery traditionally produced by Mutwa women. Where embroidery was an important component of dowry and distinguished Mutwa women at different life cycle stages, more recently it is produced almost completely for outside markets. This research reports on an apprenticeship with Mutwa embroiderers, an approach that compliments recent anthropological work on embodiment (Jackson, 1983), and has been cited as a suitable means of learning the subtle, often unarticulated aspects of craft production (Coy, 1989). Where earlier accounts of folk embroidery have often seen it as tradition bound and without history, by virtue of these mtimate insights, I argue for embroidery as a creative medium women uniquely employ to negotiate change. Similarly, in contrast to early accounts that perceive change, particularly the introduction of new markets, as detrimental to traditional art forms (Graburn, 1976) and women's authority over them (Dhamija, 1989), I demonstrate how Mutwa women's relationship with embroidery has shifted yet introduced new opportunities for enhancing status. I show how Mutwa women are re-inventing embroidery and the meanings associated with them (Hobsbawm & Ranger, 1983) according to an evolving sense" of Mutwa identity and Islamization. This research documents the recent history of change from Mutwa women's point of view. Although Hindu women are well represented ethnographically in India, accounts of Muslim women remain rare—accounts of creative Muslim women subjects even more so. In keeping with contemporary anthropological and feminist research, this work seeks not to recover Mutwa women as subjects, but to examine how they are subjects, differently constituted, and engaging change on their own terms (Rosaldo, 1980; Abu Lughod, 1991; N. Kumar, 1994).
Bioactive metabolites of licorice and thyme as potential inhibitors of Cox1 enzyme of phytopathogens of Capsicum annuum L.: In-silico approaches
Creators: name: Arora, Himanshu
name: Choudhir, Gourav
name: Sengupta, Arunava
name: Sharma, Abhishek
name: Sharma, Satyawati
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (Cox1), a key enzyme, has a crucial role in cellular respiration in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Generally, respiratory inhibitors are considered one of the types of chemical pesticides. Thyme oil and licorice aqueous extract have been reported to have antifungal activities against fungal phytopathogens of Capsicum annuum L., i.e., Colletotrichum capsici, Fusarium oxysporum, and Pythium aphanidermatum. The present study focuses on identifying the key bioactive molecules of thyme and licorice botanicals inhibiting the activity of the Cox1 enzymes of the above mentioned phytopathogens, employing the in-silico approach. From a wide range of bioactive molecules screened, the molecular docking indicated trans-carveol, carvacrol, kaempferol 3-rhamnoside 7-xyloside, kaempferitrin, and astragalin 7-rhamnoside as the potential inhibitors for Cox1 of C. capsici, β-Caryophyllene, Caryophyllene acetate, hispaglabridin A, kaempferol 3-rhamnoside 7-xyloside and licorice glycoside A for Cox1 of F. oxysporum and (+)-Longifolen, Caryophyllene acetate, Hispaglabridin A, Neoliquiritin 2''-apioside and Licorice-saponin A3 for Cox1 of P. aphanidermatum. Most of the top-scoring bioactive molecules exhibited higher binding affinity with the targets than the chemical compound, i.e., carbendazim. Density functional theory (DFT) analysis confirmed the reactivity of the top-docked compounds. Molecular dynamic simulations confirmed the stability of docked complexes when evaluated through multiple descriptors. Additionally, MM/PBSA analysis supported the findings, indicating the spontaneous binding of the enzymes to the screened ligands. ADMET analysis revealed the safety of the selected bioactive compounds. The present findings could be useful in developing biopesticidal formulations as efficient and sustainable alternatives to chemical pesticides. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Invasive Species Control over Space and Time: Miconia calvescens on Oahu, Hawaii
Creators: name: Burnett, Kimberly M.
name: Kaiser, Brooks A.
name: Roumasset, James A.
name: Burnett, Kimberly M.
name: Kaiser, Brooks A.
name: Roumasset, James A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Geographical Information Systems
subject: Hawaii
subject: invasive species
subject: Miconia calvescens
subject: Oahu
subject: spatial analysis
subject: watershed

description: The optimal size and location of an invasive species population depend upon spatially differentiated biological growth, economic costs, and damages. Although largely absent from most economic models, spatial considerations matter because the likelihood and magnitude of the invasion vary spatially and the threatened assets may be unevenly distributed across space. We map the current and future populations of an invasive species, Miconia calvescens, on Oahu, Hawaii, and the potential damages to water quantity, quality, and endangered-species habitat, and weigh these against treatment costs. We find that optimal densities vary from approximately 1% to 18% cover throughout the island.
Constructions of $f(R,G,\mathcal{T})$ Gravity from Some Expansions of the Universe
Creators: name: Debnath, Ujjal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we propose the extended modified gravity theory named as $f(R,G,\mathcal{T})$ gravity where $R$ is the Ricci scalar, $G$ is the Gauss-Bonnet invariant and $\mathcal{T}$ is the trace of the stress-energy tensor. We derive the gravitational field equations in $f(R,G,\mathcal{T})$ gravity by taking least action principle. Next we construct the $f(R,G,\mathcal{T})$ in terms of $R$, $G$ and $\mathcal{T}$ in de Sitter as well as power law expansion. We also construct $f(R,G,\mathcal{T})$ if the expansion follows the finite time future singulary (big rip singularity). We investigate the energy conditions in this modified theory of gravity and examine the validities of all energy conditions. Finally, we analyze the stability of the constructed modified gravity.
description: 19 pages, 18 figures