cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Branes in JT (super)gravity from group theory
Creators: name: Belaey, Andreas
name: Mariani, Francesca
name: Mertens, Thomas G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this work, we revisit the end-of-the-world (EOW) brane amplitudes in JT gravity from a BF gauge theoretic perspective. Observing and identifying the correct group theoretic ingredient for a closed EOW brane as a discrete series character, we use the group theory framework as a guide towards formulating the analogous supersymmetric problem. We compute these amplitudes explicitly in the supersymmetric generalizations of JT gravity ($\mathcal{N}=1,2,4$), motivated by the prospective of possibly finite amplitudes. In the process, we develop some of the representation theory of OSp$(2\vert 2,\mathbb{R})$ and PSU($1,1\vert 2)$, relevant for the $\mathcal{N}=2$ and $\mathcal{N}=4$ cases.
description: 68 pages, v2: references added, matches published version
title: TCOET: Queer theory, pornography, science fiction
Creators: name: Zubillaga, Luciano
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: This thesis examines the encounter between experimental film, queer theory, pornography and science fiction, through my practice-as-research films collectively known as The Church of Expanded Telepathy (TCOET). These films are Kokakolachickenwings (2015), Superhomosexuals (2016), Paradise Lost + David's Sling (2016), Me gustas tú (2016), Take Me To Church (2016), TCOET # 7 (2017) and Succulent humans # 3 (2019). I conceived TCOET and the term "expanded telepathy" on the occasion of the conference "From Humanism to Post and Transhumanism" held at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea, 2015.The tendencies of the world to seek completion and order are expressed as a force of oppression in TCOET. This research begins with the proposition that the destabilisation of binary, gendered, logocentric thought in the enactments of queer theory requires new critical attention to the notion of telepathy, one which defines telepathy not as the transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction, but as a transformative relation between bodies.Following this direction, one of the main focuses of my research lies in arguing that TCOET audiovisual works have a refractive telepathic capacity to articulate forms of queer theory and politics that go beyond the oppressive heteronormal regime of the body enframed by individualist metaphysics. The central question about the efficacy of the films comprising TCOET as a platform for queer theory and politics required re-examining and reformulating the notion of expanded telepathy in relation to pornography and science fiction with the aim to fabricate a queer body and set in motion new forms of envisaging audiovisual practices.
First-principles studies of spin-phonon coupling in Cr2Ge2Te6 monolayer
Creators: name: Zhang, B. H.
name: Hou, Y. S.
name: Wang, Z.
name: Wu, R. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform systematic first-principles calculations to investigate the spin-phonon coupling (SPC) of Cr2Ge2Te6 (CGT) monolayer (ML). It is found that the Eg phonon mode at 211.8 cm^{-1} may have a SPC as large as 3.19 cm^{-1}, as it directly alters the superexchange interaction along the Cr-Te-Cr pathway. Furthermore, the strength of SPC of the CGT ML can be further enhanced by an in-plane compressive strain. These results provide useful insights for the understanding of SPC in novel two-dimensional magnetic semiconductors and may guide the design of spintronic and spin Seebeck materials and devices.
description: 14 pages and 4 figures
Welfare Impacts of Climate Shocks: Evidence from Uganda
Creators: name: Asfaw, Solomon
name: Mortari, Andrea Piano
name: Arslan, Aslihan
name: Karfakis, Panagiotis
name: Lipper, Leslie
name: Asfaw, Solomon
name: Mortari, Andrea Piano
name: Arslan, Aslihan
name: Karfakis, Panagiotis
name: Lipper, Leslie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Climate shock
subject: welfare
subject: Uganda
subject: Africa

description: This paper evaluates the effects of weather/climate shocks on household welfare using a nationally representative panel data from Uganda together with a set of novel climate variation indicators. Where the effect of climate/weather variability has a significantly negative effect on household welfare, we further test the hypotheses that policy-relevant mechanisms can be effective means of mitigating the negative welfare effects. In general we obtain very few significant results with respect to climate/weather shock variables which might point towards a consumption and income smoothing behavior by the households, whose welfare level is not affected by the weather shocks. With regards to the different shocks definition, the reference period used to define the shock does not matter since the coefficients and the signs do not change with the reference period. Different policy action variables have also heterogeneous impact across different outcome variables in terms of mitigating the negative impact of climate/weather shocks.
Additional file 6: of Genes related to mitochondrial functions are differentially expressed in phosphine-resistant and -susceptible Tribolium castaneum
Creators: name: Oppert, Brenda
name: Guedes, Raul
name: Aikins, Michael
name: Perkin, Lindsey
name: Zhaorigetu Chen
name: Phillips, Thomas
name: Zhu, Kun
name: Opit, George
name: Hoon, Kelly
name: Yongming Sun
name: Meredith, Gavin
name: Bramlett, Kelli
name: Hernandez, Natalie
name: Sanderson, Brian
name: Taylor, Madison
name: Dhingra, Dalia
name: Blakey, Brandon
name: MarcĂŠ Lorenzen
name: Folukemi Adedipe
name: Arthur, Frank
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Multiple sequence alignment of RNA-Seq transcriptome data from phosphine-susceptible (TcPhosSusUxp_DLD, TcPhosSusExp_DLD) and -resistant (TcPhosResUxp_DLD, TcPhosResExp_DLD) T. castaneum to DLD mRNA from other strains. QTC sequences corresponded to gi|399108165|gb|JX434604.1| (QTC4); gi|399108167|gb|JX434605.1| (QTC931); gi|399108169|gb|JX434606.1| (QTC1012); and gi|399108171|gb|JX434607.1| (QTC1389) [10]. R = purine (A or G); M = Amino (A or C); S = Strong (G or C); Y = pyrimidine (C or T); - = deletion; lower case letters indicate polymorphism (most common nucleotide shown).Â Shaded are recognition sequences for restriction enzymes that may be used to detect resistance, and sites are identified by arrows. (PDF 100 kb)
Responses among substance abuse treatment providers to the opioid epidemic in the USA: Variations in buprenorphine and methadone treatment by geography, operational, and payment characteristics, 2007-16
Creators: name: Yang, Justin C.
name: Roman-Urrestarazu, Andres
name: Brayne, Carol
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research Article
subject: Medicine and health sciences
subject: Social sciences
subject: FOS: Social sciences
subject: Research and analysis methods

description: Objective: To identify the geographic, organisational, and payment correlates of buprenorphine and methadone treatment among substance abuse treatment (SAT) providers. Methods: Secondary analyses of the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (NSSATS) from 2007–16 were conducted. We provide bivariate descriptive statistics regarding substance abuse treatment services which offered buprenorphine and methadone treatment from 2007–16. Using multiple logistic regression, we regressed geographic, organisational, and payment correlates on buprenorphine and methadone treatment. Results: Buprenorphine is increasingly offered at SAT facilities though uptake remains comparatively low outside of the northeast. SAT facilities run by tribal governments or Indian Health Service which offer buprenorphine remain low compared to privately operated SAT facilities (AOR = 0.528). The odds of offering buprenorphine among facilities offering free or no charge treatment (AOR = 0.838) or a sliding fee scale (AOR = 0.464) was lower. SAT facilities accepting Medicaid payments showed higher odds of offering methadone treatment (AOR = 2.035). Conclusions: Greater attention towards the disparities in provision of opioid agonist therapies is warranted, especially towards the reasons why uptake has been moderate among civilian providers. Additionally, the care needs of Native Americans facing opioid-related use disorders bears further scrutiny.
Folding Langmuir Monolayers
Creators: name: Lu, Weixing
name: Knobler, Charles M.
name: Bruinsma, Robijn F.
name: Dennin, Michael
name: Twardos, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The maximum pressure a two-dimensional surfactant monolayer is able to withstand is limited by the collapse instability towards formation of three-dimensional material. We propose a new description for reversible collapse based on a mathematical analogy between the formation of folds in surfactant monolayers and the formation of Griffith Cracks in solid plates under stress. The description, which is tested in a combined microscopy and rheology study of the collapse of a single-phase Langmuir monolayer of 2-hydroxy-tetracosanoic acid (2-OH TCA), provides a connection between the in-plane rheology of LM's and reversible folding.
Theory and Design of Multifunctional Space-Time Metasurfaces
Creators: name: Wang, Xuchen
name: Diaz-Rubio, Ana
name: Li, Huanan
name: Tretyakov, Sergei A.
name: Alu, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Integrating multiple functionalities into a single metasurface is becoming of great interest for future intelligent communication systems. While such devices have been extensively explored for reciprocal functionalities, in this work, we integrate a wide variety of nonreciprocal applications into a single platform. The proposed structure is based on spatiotemporally modulated impedance sheets supported by a grounded dielectric substrate. We show that, by engineering the excitation of evanescent modes, nonreciprocal interactions with impinging waves can be configured at will. We demonstrate a plethora of nonreciprocal components such as wave isolators, phase shifters, and circulators, on the same metasurface. This platform allows switching between different functionalities only by modifying the pumping signals (harmonic or non-harmonic), without changing the main body of the metasurface structure. This solution opens the door for future real-time reconfigurable and environment-adaptive nonreciprocal wave controllers.
Efficiency in Magnocellular Processing: A Common Deficit in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Creators: name: Brown, Alyse Christine
name: Peters, Jessica Lee
name: Parsons, Carl
name: Crewther, David Philip
name: Crewther, Sheila Gillard
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Human Neuroscience
magnocellular
flicker fusion
neurodevelopmental disorders
visual processing
autism spectrum disorder
dyslexia
ADHD

description: Several neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) including Developmental Dyslexia (DD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), but not Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), are reported to show deficits in global motion processing. Such behavioral deficits have been linked to a temporal processing deficiency. However, to date, there have been few studies assessing the temporal processing efficiency of the Magnocellular M pathways through temporal modulation. Hence, we measured achromatic flicker fusion thresholds at high and low contrast in nonselective samples of NDDs and neurotypicals (mean age 10, range 7–12 years, n = 71) individually, and group matched, for both chronological age and nonverbal intelligence. Autistic tendencies were also measured using the Autism-Spectrum Quotient questionnaire as high AQ scores have previously been associated with the greater physiological amplitude of M-generated nonlinearities. The NDD participants presented with singular or comorbid combinations of DD, ASD, and ADHD. The results showed that ASD and DD, including those with comorbid ADHD, demonstrated significantly lower flicker fusion thresholds (FFTs) than their matched controls. Participants with a singular diagnosis of ADHD did not differ from controls in the FFTs. Overall, the entire NDD plus control populations showed a significant negative correlation between FFT and AQ scores (r = −0.269, p < 0.02 n = 71). In conclusion, this study presents evidence showing that a temporally inefficient M pathway could be the unifying network at fault across the NDDs and particularly in ASD and DD diagnoses, but not in singular diagnosis of ADHD.
Interpolation Constraints for Computing Worst-Case Bounds in Performance Estimation Problems
Creators: name: Rubbens, Anne
name: Bousselmi, Nizar
name: Colla, Sebastien
name: Hendrickx, Julien M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Performance Estimation Problem (PEP) approach consists in computing worst-case performance bounds on optimization algorithms by solving an optimization problem: one maximizes an error criterion over all initial conditions allowed and all functions in a given class of interest. The maximal value is then a worst-case bound, and the maximizer provides an example reaching that worst case. This approach was introduced for optimization algorithms but could in principle be applied to many other contexts involving worst-case bounds. The key challenge is the representation of infinite-dimensional objects involved in these optimization problems such as functions, and complex or non-convex objects as linear operators and their powers, networks in decentralized optimization etc. This challenge can be resolved by interpolation constraints, which allow representing the effect of these objects on vectors of interest, rather than the whole object, leading to tractable finite dimensional problems. We review several recent interpolation results and their implications in obtaining of worst-case bounds via PEP.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, Tutorial session at IEEE CDC 2023
Additional file 4: Table S2. of Genes related to mitochondrial functions are differentially expressed in phosphine-resistant and -susceptible Tribolium castaneum
Creators: name: Oppert, Brenda
name: Guedes, Raul
name: Aikins, Michael
name: Perkin, Lindsey
name: Zhaorigetu Chen
name: Phillips, Thomas
name: Zhu, Kun
name: Opit, George
name: Hoon, Kelly
name: Yongming Sun
name: Meredith, Gavin
name: Bramlett, Kelli
name: Hernandez, Natalie
name: Sanderson, Brian
name: Taylor, Madison
name: Dhingra, Dalia
name: Blakey, Brandon
name: Marcé Lorenzen
name: Folukemi Adedipe
name: Arthur, Frank
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Comparison of relative transcript expression among all four treatment groups (resistant exposed – Rexp; resistant unexposed – Ruxp; susceptible exposed – Sexp; susceptible unexposed – Suxp) in which expression was down-regulated in resistant compared to susceptible adults exposed to phosphine, using F-test (ANOVA, p<0.05, P=p values, FDR [25]), LG=linkage group (chromosome). Color codes: orange – cytochrome P450; blue – carbohydrate-related; yellow – protease-related; green – mitochondrial; grey – chitin/cuticle-related; beige - solute transporter.
Multicolor photometry of 145 of the HII regions in M33
Creators: name: Jiang, Linhua
name: Ma, Jun
name: Zhou, Xu
name: Chen, Jiansheng
name: Wu, Hong
name: Jiang, Zhaoji
name: Xue, Suijian
name: Zhu, Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is the first in a series presenting CCD multicolor photometry for 145 HII regions, selected from 369 candidate regions from Boulesteix et al. (1974), in the nearby spiral galaxy M33. The observations, which covered the whole area of M33, were carried out by the Beijing Astronomical Observatory 60/90 cm Schmidt Telescope, in 13 intermediate-band filters, covering a range of wavelength from 3800 to 10000 A. This provides a series of maps which can be converted to a multicolor map of M33, in pixels of 1.7''*1.7''. Using aperture photometry we obtain the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for these HII regions. We also give their identification charts. Using the relationship between the BATC intermediate-band system used for the observations and the UBVRI broad-band system, the magnitudes in the B and V bands are then derived. Histograms of the magnitudes in V and in B-V are plotted, and the color-magnitude diagram is also given. The distribution of magnitudes in the V band shows that the apparent magnitude of almost all the regions is brighter than 18, corresponding to an absolute magnitude of -6.62 for an assumed distance modulus of 24.62, which corresponds to a single main sequence O5 star, while the distribution of color shows that the sample is blue, with a mode close to -0.05 as would be expected from a range of typical young clusters.
description: 34 pages, 19 figures including 16 of jpg form, will appear in the December 2002 issue of AJ
Formallia C.A.Viraktamath 2011, gen. nov.
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Formallia

description: Key to species of Formallia gen. nov.
 1. Pronotum coarsely punctate, nearly unspotted; aedeagus with long strap-like preatrium, longer than aedeagal shaft (Fig. 246); hind margin of female seventh sternite slightly convexly produced medially, black in middle (Fig. 249)..................................................................................................... F. longipenis sp. nov.
- Pronotum finely punctate, with definite pattern of dark spots (Fig. 238); preatrium of aedeagus shorter than shaft; female seventh sternite variable................................................................................... 2
 2. Subgenital plates without hair-like setae (Fig. 262); inner arm of style considerably longer than outer arm (Figs 263)............................................................................................ F. longistyla sp. nov.
- Subgenital plate with long hair-like setae (Fig. 267); inner arm of style about as long as or shorter than outer arm (Figs 242, 248)................................................................................................ 3
 3. Male pygofer with caudo-ventral lobe gradually narrowed to form spine-like process (Fig. 266); subgenital plate truncate apically (Fig. 267); style stout with outer arm hooked (Fig. 271); hind margin of female seventh sternite almost straight............................................................................................ F. trunctata sp. nov.
- Caudo-ventral lobe of male pygofer either abruptly narrowed to spine-like process (Fig. 239) or bluntly conical (Fig. 252); subgenital plate and style not as above..................................................................... 4
 4. Male pygofer with caudoventral lobe abruptly narrowed to spine like process (Fig. 239); anal collar process apically broad (Fig. 239); aedeagal shaft not flared near apex (Fig. 241)....................................... F. ishiharai sp. nov.
 - Male pygofer with caudoventral lobe bluntly conical (Fig. 252); anal collar process apically narrowed (Fig. 253); aedeagal shaft with apex flared (Fig. 257)............................................................ F. rugosa sp. nov.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on page 52
Multi-EuP: The Multilingual European Parliament Dataset for Analysis of Bias in Information Retrieval
Creators: name: Yang, Jinrui
name: Baldwin, Timothy
name: Cohn, Trevor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present Multi-EuP, a new multilingual benchmark dataset, comprising 22K multi-lingual documents collected from the European Parliament, spanning 24 languages. This dataset is designed to investigate fairness in a multilingual information retrieval (IR) context to analyze both language and demographic bias in a ranking context. It boasts an authentic multilingual corpus, featuring topics translated into all 24 languages, as well as cross-lingual relevance judgments. Furthermore, it offers rich demographic information associated with its documents, facilitating the study of demographic bias. We report the effectiveness of Multi-EuP for benchmarking both monolingual and multilingual IR. We also conduct a preliminary experiment on language bias caused by the choice of tokenization strategy.
description: Accepted at The 3rd Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL) Workshop (co-located with EMNLP 2023)
Impact of Out-Migration on Agriculture and Women Work Load: An Economic Analysis of Hilly Regions of Uttarakhand India
Creators: name: Bhandari, Gunjan
name: Reddy, B.V. Chinnappa
name: Bhandari, Gunjan
name: Reddy, B.V. Chinnappa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Migration
subject: Remittances
subject: Impact on agriculture
subject: Chow test
subject: Women workload.

description: Agriculture is intimately connected with migration and at the primary instance out-migration simply aggravates the problem of agriculture. But migration and remittances can also foster household farm investment and agricultural production. Besides agriculture, male out-migration has a bearing on farm women also due to transfer of responsibilities. The present study has assessed the impact of out-migration on agriculture and workload of women. Primary data were collected from 90 migrant and 60 non-migrant member households in Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand. Regression, conventional economic and tabular analyses were used to analyse the data. None of the migrant households made any attempt to create productive assets on the farm through remittances, though they spent some amount for hiring labour and for purchasing material inputs and cattle feed. In migrant member households a larger percentage of land was kept fallow and the number of livestock was also lower. The magnitude of workload of farm women was more in the case of migrant member households than in non-migrant households due to additional burden of non-households and non-farm works in the absence of male members (migrants).
Intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment using a multi-informant multi-generation family design
Creators: name: Buisman, Renate S. M.
name: Pittner, Katharina
name: Tollenaar, Marieke S.
name: Lindenberg, Jolanda
name: Van Den Berg, Lisa J. M.
name: Compier-De Block, Laura H. C. G.
name: Van Ginkel, Joost R.
name: Alink, Lenneke R. A.
name: Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.
name: Elzinga, Bernet M.
name: Van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research Article
subject: Medicine and health sciences
subject: Social sciences
subject: FOS: Social sciences
subject: Biology and life sciences
subject: Research and analysis methods
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: People and places

description: In the current study a three-generational design was used to investigate intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment (ITCM) using multiple sources of information on child maltreatment: mothers, fathers and children. A total of 395 individuals from 63 families reported on maltreatment. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to combine data from mother, father and child about maltreatment that the child had experienced. This established components reflecting the convergent as well as the unique reports of father, mother and child on the occurrence of maltreatment. Next, we tested ITCM using the multi-informant approach and compared the results to those of two more common approaches: ITCM based on one reporter and ITCM based on different reporters from each generation. Results of our multi-informant approach showed that a component reflecting convergence between mother, father, and child reports explained most of the variance in experienced maltreatment. For abuse, intergenerational transmission was consistently found across approaches. In contrast, intergenerational transmission of neglect was only found using the perspective of a single reporter, indicating that transmission of neglect might be driven by reporter effects. In conclusion, the present results suggest that including multiple informants may be necessary to obtain more valid estimates of ITCM.
Drivers of Market Participation Decisions among Small-scale Farmers in Yam Growing Areas of Nigeria and Ghana
Creators: name: Mignouna, D.B.
name: Abdoulaye, T.
name: Alene, A.
name: Akinola, A.A.
name: Manyong, V.M.
name: Mignouna, D.B.
name: Abdoulaye, T.
name: Alene, A.
name: Akinola, A.A.
name: Manyong, V.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Market participation
subject: Double-Hurdle model
subject: yam
subject: Nigeria
subject: Ghana.

description: Participation in agricultural markets could be the main weapon against hunger to lift millions of poor farmers out of poverty traps. Unfortunately, most of the potential beneficiaries are constrained by several factors in their quest to participate in the yam market. This study, thus, clarified the underpinning drivers of market participation among small-scale farmers in yam belt of West Africa. Using a multistage random sample of 1400 households, the study tests the hypothesis that factors affecting farmers’ decision to participate are not necessarily the same as those affecting the extent of participation. Non-price constraints played a significant role in determining decisions on market participation. Policies that reduce transactions costs and induce farmers to commercialize could be critical alternatives to policies based on price to promote a marketed surplus and the commercialization of agriculture by yam farmers and thereby alleviate poverty.
Determinants of Participation of Women in Self-Help Groups (SGHs) and Credit Delivery from Formal and Informal Sources to BPL Households in Odisha
Creators: name: Shah, Deepak
name: Panigrahi, Sangram
name: Shah, Deepak
name: Panigrahi, Sangram
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Microfinance
subject: Women self-help groups
subject: Formal and informal sources of credit.

description: The study examines the determinants of credit delivery from formal and informal sources to women households who belong to below poverty line (BPL) in Ganjam district of Odisha, apart from analysing determinants of participation of women in self-help groups (SHGs) to avail credit, and identifying the factors influencing loans borrowed by BPL households. The study showed that majority of the households received loans from formal sources for agricultural purposes. However, a lower proportion of SHG members availed insurance services due to their low income. The results of logistic estimates clearly showed that factors such as age, education, number of children of the respondents, status as head of the household, sources of income, caste, informal debt, distance of banks, migration, economic status of households, etc. played a crucial role in determining women’s participation in SHGs to borrow credit. The households also borrowed loans from different informal sources. The reasons for borrowing from informal sources included lack of collateral, faster delivery of credit, easy access without any bank account. Further, the estimated odds ratios with respect to variables like age and marital status of the head of households, caste, location of bank and membership of SHGs also had significant effect on households to avail credit from informal sources. It is to be noted that aside from credit there are numerous other factors that determine the high economic status of households like number of adults living in the house, availability of employment, income of the head of the households, etc. Nevertheless, the credit is the basic lubricant that helps people to live with dignity. The micro finance organisations provide small credit through group approach, which not only helps the financially excluded people in rural areas but also create a ray of hope for better future. This may not be possible in the short period but in the long term, it would definitely help to fulfill their basic requirements in the sustainable manner. The availability of credit is the one end of the spectrum, the other end being extension of training to the clients, availability of raw material and easy access to local markets so as to sell their product at reasonable prices. These facilities will help the clients to get sufficient profit, which in turn would be helpful for the long run survival of their micro enterprisers. Micro finance is not a panacea for poverty reduction, which needs both complementary supply-side and demand-side factors. Supply-side factors such as good infrastructure, entrepreneurial skills, etc. are needed to make micro-enterprises more productive.
Zero-Temperature Phases of the 2D Hubbard-Holstein Model: A Non-Gaussian Exact Diagonalization Study
Creators: name: Wang, Yao
name: Esterlis, Ilya
name: Shi, Tao
name: Cirac, J. Ignacio
name: Demler, Eugene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a numerical method which embeds the variational non-Gaussian wavefunction approach within exact diagonalization, allowing for efficient treatment of correlated systems with both electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions. Using a generalized polaron transformation, we construct a variational wavefunction that absorbs entanglement between electrons and phonons into a variational non-Gaussian transformation; exact diagonalization is then used to treat the electronic part of the wavefunction exactly, thus taking into account high-order correlation effects beyond the Gaussian level. Keeping the full electronic Hilbert space, the complexity is increased only by a polynomial scaling factor relative to the exact diagonalization calculation for pure electrons. As an example, we use this method to study ground-state properties of the two-dimensional Hubbard-Holstein model, providing evidence for the existence of intervening phases between the spin and charge-ordered states. In particular, we find one of the intervening phases has strong charge susceptibility and binding energy, but is distinct from a charge-density-wave ordered state, while the other intervening phase displays superconductivity at weak couplings. This method, as a general framework, can be extended to treat excited states and dynamics, as well as a wide range of systems with both electron-electron and electron-boson interactions.
description: 19 pages, 17 figures
Formallia ishiharai C.A.Viraktamath 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Formallia
Formallia ishiharai

description: Formallia ishiharai sp. nov.
Figs 238–243.
 Color. Pale brown; two small subglobose spots on vertex black. Fuscous markings on pronotum and scutellum as in Fig 238. In one male these markings coalesce making pronotum fuscous with pale brown hind margin; face in male ochraceous; ocelli with ventral brown spot. Females with antennal sockets black. Facial sutures infuscated; obpyriform spot on clypellus and series of submarginal spots on clypeus fuscous; inverted Y on face and area mesad of eyes, orange-yellow; additional fuscous spots on face near eyes or ocelli. Prothoracic and meso thoracic pleura of female darker than in male; Apical half of seventh sternite of female translucent and fuscous.
Ninth tergal and sternal apodemes strongly developed.
 Male genitalia. Spine like process of male pygofer short and directed ventrally. Subgenital plates longer than pygofer, apically pointed. Styles with inner arm longer than outer and apex of inner arm dorsally produced into short spine, corresponding ventral point knob-like; ventral surface of inner arm corrugated. Preatrium of aedeagus somewhat rhomboidal, dorsal apodeme longer than broad, outer margins sinuate and in caudal view about as long as aedeagal shaft; aedeagal shaft with microscopic scale-like sculpture on outer surface (not shown in Fig 241).
 Female genitalia. Hind margin of seventh sternite broadly convex. Ovipositor with 3–4 pairs of setae on mesal margin of pygofer.
 Measurements. Male 5.6 mm long, 1.51 mm wide across eyes. Female 5.7 mm long, 1.5 mm wide across eyes.
 Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, TAIWAN: Arisan, 8.vi.1934 John L. Buys (NMNH). PARATYPES: 1 ♂, same data as holotype except 6.iv.1932 (NMNH); 4 ♂, 6 ♀, Arisan, 2130 m, 19.viii.1947, J.L. Gressitt (BPBM).
 Remarks. F. ishiharai closely resembles F. truncata (see below) in characters of the head, pronoutm and scutellum, but is smaller and more slender. It can be distinguished by the elongate and apically pointed male subgenital plates, short spine-like process of the dorso-caudal margin of pygofer, attenuated extension of dorsal point of the inner arm of the style, preapical gonopore and the characters of the connective. This species is named in honour of the late Dr. Tomotsu Ishihara, well known hemipterist from Japan.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on pages 52-54
Effects of social networks on technical efficiency in smallholder agriculture: The case of cereal producers Tanzania
Creators: name: Muange, Elijah N.
name: Godecke, Theda
name: Schwarze, Stefan
name: Muange, Elijah N.
name: Godecke, Theda
name: Schwarze, Stefan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Improved varieties
subject: social networks
subject: information
subject: technical efficiency
subject: stochastic frontier

description: The use of improved crop varieties is key to increasing food production, but in Sub- Saharan Africa traditional varieties still dominate smallholder farming. Lack of information is a major constraint to the adoption of improved varieties and the role of social networks in their diffusion is increasingly being studied. Social networks can, however, also affect the efficiency with which farmers use these technologies. In this paper we investigate the influence of social networks on technical efficiency of smallholder cereal producers. Using the case of Tanzania, we apply stochastic frontier analysis on data from sorghum and maize producers. Results show that the effects of social networks on efficiency differ by crop. Inter-village networks positively influence technical efficiency of improved sorghum varieties, but have no effect in case of maize. We further find that links to public extension officers increase efficiency of improved maize varieties. Some wider research and policy implications are discussed.
D5.1 Sustainability assessment
Creators: name: Vis, Martijn
name: Davidis, Bas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: cogeneration
CHP
renewable energy
biomass

description: Sustainability means that the needs of the present generation are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Issues concerning greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, carbon stock change and land use change are typically addressed in biomass sustainability schemes. In this report sustainability issues are assessed for five different Smart CHP supply chains by applying the European Renewable Energy Directive (REDII) emission reduction calculation methodology and other sustainability schemes, supplemented of a check of sustainability topics that are not or only partly included in sustainability schemes but play a role in the discussion on sustainability of bioenergy. The sustainability of the following five Smart CHP supply chains from feedstock to end-user have been assessed: ▪ Corn stover (Romania, East EU)
 ▪ Softwood forestry residues (Sweden, North EU)
 ▪ Olive kernel wood (Greece, South EU)
 ▪ Miscanthus (Croatia, Central EU)
 ▪ Pyrolysis oil import scenario (Netherlands, West EU)
Search for new Higgs bosons via same-sign top quark pair production in association with a jet in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search is presented for new Higgs bosons in proton-proton (pp) collision events in which a same-sign top quark pair is produced in association with a jet, via the pp $\to$ tH/A $\to$ t$\mathrm{\bar{t}}$c and pp $\to$ tH/A $\to$ t$\mathrm{\bar{t}}$u processes. Here, H and A represent the extra scalar and pseudoscalar boson, respectively, of the second Higgs doublet in the generalized two-Higgs-doublet model (g2HDM). The search is based on pp collision data collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$. Final states with a same-sign lepton pair in association with jets and missing transverse momentum are considered. New Higgs bosons in the 200-1000 GeV mass range and new Yukawa couplings between 0.1 and 1.0 are targeted in the search, for scenarios in which either H or A appear alone, or in which they coexist and interfere. No significant excess above the standard model prediction is observed. Exclusion limits are derived in the context of the g2HDM.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/TOP-22-010 (CMS Public Pages)
Chandra Observations of Abell 2029: The Dark Matter Profile Down to <0.01 R_vir in an Unusually Relaxed Cluster
Creators: name: Lewis, Aaron D.
name: Buote, David A.
name: Stocke, John T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used a high resolution Chandra observation to examine the core mass distribution of the unusually regular cD cluster Abell 2029. This system is especially well-suited for analysis of its mass distribution under the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium: it exhibits an undisturbed X-ray morphology and a single-phase ICM. We estimate the total mass, and the contributions of the gas and dark matter components from <3 arcsec to ~3 arcmin (<4.4-260 kpc, 0.001-0.1 r_vir). The gas density is well fitted by either a double beta-model, or a ``cusped'' beta-model. The temperature data are increasing, and can be approximated by a power-law, with alpha_T = 0.27+/-0.01. Fitting smooth functions to density and T, we obtain a mass profile, which is remarkably well described down to 0.002 r_vir by the NFW model, for which we measure r_scale = 540+/-90 kpc (~0.2 r_vir) and c = 4.4 +/- 0.9. The mass profile is also approximated by a power-law fit with alpha_m = 1.81+/-0.04 (corresponding to a logarithmic density slope of -1.19+/-0.04). The density profile is too shallow to be fitted with a Moore et al. model. The consistency with NFW at <0.01 r_vir is incompatible with SIDM, and contrasts with the results from rotation curves of LSB and dwarf galaxies. This suggests that while CDM may adequately describe clusters, it does not currently account properly for small halos. Using the cD light, we observe a total M/L_V ~ 12 at r < 20 kpc, rising to > 100 beyond 200 kpc. The consistency with an NFW halo model and the large M/L suggest the cluster is DM-dominated down to
description: ApJ Accepted Version; to appear in 2003 March 20 Issue; 8 pages, emulateapj5, 3 figures (2 color)
Human decision making anticipates future performance in motor learning
Creators: name: Moskowitz, Joshua B.
name: Gale, Daniel J.
name: Gallivan, Jason P.
name: Wolpert, Daniel M.
name: Flanagan, J. Randall
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research Article
subject: Biology and life sciences
subject: Social sciences
subject: FOS: Social sciences
subject: Medicine and health sciences

description: Funder: Royal Society
description: It is well-established that people can factor into account the distribution of their errors in motor performance so as to optimize reward. Here we asked whether, in the context of motor learning where errors decrease across trials, people take into account their future, improved performance so as to make optimal decisions to maximize reward. One group of participants performed a virtual throwing task in which, periodically, they were given the opportunity to select from a set of smaller targets of increasing value. A second group of participants performed a reaching task under a visuomotor rotation in which, after performing a initial set of trials, they selected a reward structure (ratio of points for target hits and misses) for different exploitation horizons (i.e., numbers of trials they might be asked to perform). Because movement errors decreased exponentially across trials in both learning tasks, optimal target selection (task 1) and optimal reward structure selection (task 2) required taking into account future performance. The results from both tasks indicate that people anticipate their future motor performance so as to make decisions that will improve their expected future reward.
Regularized integral equation methods for elastic scattering problems in three dimensions
Creators: name: Bruno, Oscar P.
name: Yin, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper presents novel methodologies for the numerical simulation of scattering of elastic waves by both closed and open surfaces in three-dimensional space. The proposed approach utilizes new integral formulations as well as an extension to the elastic context of the efficient high-order singular-integration methods~\cite{BG18} introduced recently for the acoustic case. In order to obtain formulations leading to iterative solvers (GMRES) which converge in small numbers of iterations we investigate, theoretically and computationally, the character of the spectra of various operators associated with the elastic-wave Calderón relation---including some of their possible compositions and combinations. In particular, by relying on the fact that the eigenvalues of the composite operator $NS$ are bounded away from zero and infinity, new uniquely-solvable, low-GMRES-iteration integral formulation for the closed-surface case are presented. The introduction of corresponding low-GMRES-iteration equations for the open-surface equations additionally requires, for both spectral quality as well as accuracy and efficiency, use of weighted versions of the classical integral operators to match the singularity of the unknown density at edges. Several numerical examples demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed methodology.
description: 27 pages, 14 figures, 3 tables
Electronic structure, magnetism and superconductivity of MgCNi$_{3}$
Creators: name: Dugdale, S. B.
name: Jarlborg, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic structure of the newly discovered superconducting perovskite MgCNi$_3$ is calculated using the LMTO and KKR methods. The states near the Fermi energy are found to be dominated by Ni-d. The Stoner factor is low while the electron-phonon coupling constant is estimated to be about 0.7, which suggests that the material is a conventional type of superconductor where T$_C$ is not affected by magnetic interactions. However, the proximity of the Fermi energy to a large peak in the density of states in conjunction with the reported non-stoichiometry of the compound, has consequences for the stability of the results.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures
Next-to-next-to-leading-order QCD corrections to double $J/ψ$ production at the $B$ factories
Creators: name: Huang, Xu-Dong
name: Gong, Bin
name: Niu, Rui-Chang
name: Yu, Huai-Min
name: Wang, Jian-Xiong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) QCD corrections for the process $e^+e^- \to J/ψ+J/ψ$ at the $B$ factories. By including the NNLO corrections, the cross section turns negative due to the poor convergence of perturbative expansion. Consequently, to obtain a reasonable estimation for the cross section, the square of the amplitude up to NNLO is used. In addition, the contributions from the bottom quark and the light-by-light part, which are usually neglected, are also included. The final cross section is obtained as $1.76^{+2.42}_{-1.66} ~{\rm fb}$ at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=10.58$ GeV. Our result for total cross section and differential cross section could be compared with precise experimental measurement in future at the $B$ factories.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, matches published version