cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sustainability initiatives and experiences in the Sicilian wine industry
Creators: name: Borsellino, Valeria
name: Asciuto, Antonio
name: D’Acquisto, Marcello
name: Di Franco, Caterina
name: Migliore, Giuseppina
name: Schimmenti, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2016

description: The Italian wine sector shows an increasing interest towards sustainability issues. As a result, a wide number of programs and initiatives concerning environmental, social and economic sustainability has been developed in recent years. The aim of this manuscript is to describe the adaptation of the Sicilian wine sector to the new scenario of sustainable productions. To this purpose a direct survey of 5 Sicilian wineries involved in two different sustainability programs, SOStain and Magis, was carried out. The findings of the study reveal that the sustainability path undertaken by the wineries analyzed has led to management awareness that company activities can ensure social and human benefits, as well as fulfill environmental and economic objectives in the long term.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 71 No 1 (2016)
Intrinsic alignments of galaxies in the Horizon-AGN cosmological hydrodynamical simulation
Creators: name: Chisari, Nora Elisa
name: Codis, Sandrine
name: Laigle, Clotilde
name: Dubois, Yohan
name: Pichon, Christophe
name: Devriendt, Julien
name: Slyz, Adrianne
name: Miller, Lance
name: Gavazzi, Raphael
name: Benabed, Karim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intrinsic alignments of galaxies are recognised as a contaminant to weak gravitational lensing measurements. In this work, we study the alignment of galaxy shapes and spins at low redshift ($z\sim 0.5$) in Horizon-AGN, an adaptive-mesh-refinement hydrodynamical cosmological simulation box of 100 Mpc/h a side with AGN feedback implementation. We find that spheroidal galaxies in the simulation show a tendency to be aligned radially towards over-densities in the dark matter density field and other spheroidals. This trend is in agreement with observations, but the amplitude of the signal depends strongly on how shapes are measured and how galaxies are selected in the simulation. Disc galaxies show a tendency to be oriented tangentially around spheroidals in three-dimensions. While this signal seems suppressed in projection, this does not guarantee that disc alignments can be safely ignored in future weak lensing surveys. The shape alignments of luminous galaxies in Horizon-AGN are in agreement with observations and other simulation works, but we find less alignment for lower luminosity populations. We also characterize the systematics of galaxy shapes in the simulation and show that they can be safely neglected when measuring the correlation of the density field and galaxy ellipticities.
description: 20 pages, 23 figures
Cross-hemispheric dopamine projections have functional significance
Creators: name: Wightman, R. Mark
name: Takmakov, Pavel
name: Bass, Caroline E.
name: Fox, Megan E.
name: Budygin, Evgeny A.
name: Mikhailova, Maria A.
name: Gainetdinov, Raul R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Decades of research have described dopamine’s importance in reward-seeking behavior and motor control. Although numerous investigations have focused on dopamine’s mechanisms in modulating behavior, the long-standing belief that dopamine neurons project solely unilaterally has limited the exploration of interhemispheric dopamine signaling. Here we resolve disparate descriptions of unilateral vs. bilateral projections by reporting that dopamine neurons can release dopamine in the contralateral hemisphere. Using voltammetry in awake and anesthetized rats, we reveal an unprecedented synchrony of dopamine fluctuations between hemispheres. Via stimulation with amphetamine, we demonstrate functional cross-hemispheric projections in a hemiparkinsonian model. This previously undescribed capacity for interhemispheric dopamine signaling can precipitate new areas of inquiry. Future work may exploit properties of bilateral dopamine release to improve treatments for Parkinson’s disease, including deep brain stimulation.
The use of plastome data to infer phylogenies, systematics and biogeography of Vochysiaceae
Creators: name: Pereira Gonçalves, Deise Josely
name: 0000-0002-5218-7351
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2019
Subjects: Evolution
Botany
Neotropics
Angiosperms
Phylogenetic inference

description: This dissertation comprises three chapters that explored relevant questions in modern biology and biodiversity in order to understand better the tree of life and the patterns and processes that affect diversity. The first chapter is an analytical approach to the use of plastid genes in phylogenetic analyses. The study system was the rosid clade, which comprises a third of all species of flowering plants. Analyses indicated that phylogenetic signal varies across plastid genes and that the exploration of different frameworks of phylogenetic inference, including the multispecies coalescent method, can be used to explore regions of the tree that may be controversial. Among the samples used in this chapter, there were species representing genera of Vochysiaceae. The second chapter investigated the systematics and historical biogeography of Vochysiaceae. Due to a sparse fossil record available for Vochysiaceae, analyses were performed at the ordinal level using fossils from other myrtalean families to date the phylogeny. Two analyses of historical biogeography were performed at the ordinal (global scale) and at family level focusing on the Neotropical Vochysiaceae (continental scale). The most recent common ancestor of Vochysiaceae occurred in both Africa and South America when they were contiguous during the Cretaceous and after the separation of the continents the lineage experienced an intense reduction in range. The Cerrado was recovered as the ancestral range for almost all extant genera of South American Vochysiaceae, with the exception of Vochysia for which the Amazon was the ancestral area. The third chapter focused on Vochysia itself, the largest genus of Vochysiaceae and presented a comprehensive investigation of the systematics, historical biogeography, and diversification dynamics. The historical biogeography considered Neotropical biomes at a fine scale compared to the areas used in the second chapter and corroborated the findings from the second chapter. Within Vochysia there were multiple independent events of colonization to biomes that surround the Amazon and multiple events of habitat switches, whereas switches in habit and hydrologic regimes were less frequent. There was one shift of diversification in Vochysiaceae in the lineage that gave rise to most extant Vochysia species.
Estimation of grip pattern using reinforcement learning for prosthetic arm
Creators: name: James, Alice
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: When an arm or any other limb is severed or lost, a prosthetic device, also known as a prosthesis, can aid rehabilitation. Given the upper-limb prosthesis contributes to the rehabilitation of motor abilities, tactile sensations are lost in an amputee who uses his or her hands for grip control. Thus, the result is a common assumption that restoring force input will help in the regulation of prosthetic grasping force. This project introduces a measuring system implementing neural network to enhance the detection for dynamic motions of the five fingers in real-time. The prosthetic limb was made by utilizing 3D printing technology, which results in a low-cost, efficient solution that can be tailored to the size, form, and colour preferences of each user. The system uses the microprocessor Raspberry-pi as the central unit to enable the machine learning models. A vision-based analysis was used to collect data using neural network hand landmarks to discern between distinct grip patterns that will help the prosthesis. A machine learning (ML) pipeline is used in the computer vision hand landmark approach. This includes models like BlazePalm, which utilised a single image to derive twenty-one 3D landmarks in a bounding box of a hand. Tactile input, in addition to visual data, is the most effective way of relaying information about grip action. Here under the conditions, the hand landmark comparison algorithms, as well as the pressure data from the tactile sensors on the prosthetic arm, revealed unique patterns that may be used to discern different grab actions. This comparison data is trained using neural network models to predict the hand grasp and reach motions. This system is further proposed to be integrated to an EEG headset, wherein the prosthetic arm will predict hand reach and grasp patterns enabled with Reinforcement learning using the signal feedback along with the tactile feedback.
Photometric Classification of QSOs with Machine Learning Techniques
Creators: name: Sánchez, Néstor
name: Arroquia-Cuadros, Benjamín
name: Gómez, Vicent
name: Blay, Pere
name: Martínez-Badenes, Vicent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: galaxies: general
quasars: general
catalogs
methods: statistical
surveys

description: With the advent of wide-area photometric surveys and the large amount of available data, the use of machine learning techniques is becoming more and more frequent to classify stars, galaxies and QSOs. In this work we investigate the performance of random forest in classifying QSOs using photometry of the 20 contiguous, equal-width, -nonoverlapping, medium-bands filters of the ALHAMBRA Survey. We systematically analyse the effects of the main free parameters on the final classification results and the advantages and limitations of using ALHAMBRA photometry in comparison to other surveys like Sloan (SDSS). The best performance is obtained when using colours from the ALHAMBRA survey.
Antioxidant activity of caffeic acid: thermodynamic and kinetic aspects on the oxidative degradation pathway
Creators: name: Purushothaman, Aiswarya
name: Babu, Smrithi S.
name: Naroth, Surya
name: Janardanan, Deepa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Caffeic acid is a phenolic secondary metabolite from plants, which is known for its antioxidant properties. The effective mitigation of methanol-induced oxidative stress by caffeic acid depends on the direct radical scavenging as well as the formation of new metabolites via oxidative degradation. Herein, thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of the oxidative degradation pathway of caffeic acid in the presence of radical CH3O• and its isomer, •CH2OH are discussed for the first time, employing density functional theory (DFT). The direct radical scavenging activity of caffeic acid against these radicals is verified via hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) and radical adduct formation (RAF) mechanisms. HAT is predicted to be more feasible than RAF mechanism as per the computed data. Additionally, energetic details of the proposed oxidative degradation pathway of radical adduct intermediates toward the formation of a cyclic metabolite is analyzed. Kinetic studies indicated a significant tunneling contribution to the H abstraction pathways having high activation barriers. Further, our results imply that the newly formed metabolites exhibit comparable antioxidant activity with that of caffeic acid.
Additional file 1 of Cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination in Latin America and the Caribbean: an analysis in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru
Creators: name: Augustovski, Federico
name: Bardach, Ariel
name: Santoro, Adrián
name: Rodriguez-Cairoli, Federico
name: López-Osornio, Alejandro
name: Argento, Fernando
name: Havela, Maissa
name: Blumenfeld, Alejandro
name: Ballivian, Jamile
name: Solioz, Germán
name: Capula, Analía
name: López, Analía
name: Cejas, Cintia
name: Savedoff, William
name: Palacios, Alfredo
name: Rubinstein, Adolfo
name: Pichon-Riviere, Andrés
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Effectiveness/efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines applied in each country, Literature search on epidemiological parameters, Transmission dynamic parameters, General population baseline utility values per-country, Disutility value per disease state, Economic evaluation disaggregated results by country, Deterministic sensitivity analysis, Model calibration, Interactive online CEA model, Advisory board, References.
What is behind the Italian coffee import? Investigating the most relevant dynamics
Creators: name: Cardoso, Bárbara Françoise
name: Bentivoglio, Deborah
name: Giampietri, Elisa
name: Assis Shikida, Pery Francisco
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2016

description: After the US and Germany, Italy is the third world’s largest importer of green coffee, above all from Brazil, Vietnam and India, being also the second roasted coffee producer, exporter and consumer in EU, after Germany. Given the importance of coffee import in Italy, this paper applies the gravity model to investigate the influence of the main variables affecting the Italian coffee import. In particular, the aim of this paper is to identify the most influent factors determining the level of import flows between Italy and its 11 main coffee export partners. Our results show that the exporters’ GDP, their coffee production, the distance between the Italian capital town and those of the other partners, and finally the continental territorial boundary affect the Italian coffee import, as well as the tradition to drink coffee and the consumers’ demand for quality.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 71 No 1 (2016)
Photometric Classification of QSOs with Machine Learning Techniques
Creators: name: Sánchez, Néstor
name: Arroquia-Cuadros, Benjamín
name: Gómez, Vicent
name: Blay, Pere
name: Martínez-Badénez, Vicent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: galaxies: general
quasars: general
catalogs
methods: statistical
surveys

description: With the advent of wide-area photometric surveys and the large amount of available data, the use of machine learning techniques is becoming more and more frequent to classify stars, galaxies and QSOs. In this work we investigate the performance of random forest in classifying QSOs using photometry of the 20 contiguous, equal-width, -nonoverlapping, medium-bands filters of the ALHAMBRA Survey. We systematically analyse the effects of the main free parameters on the final classification results and the advantages and limitations of using ALHAMBRA photometry in comparison to other surveys like Sloan (SDSS). The best performance is obtained when using colours from the ALHAMBRA survey.
Cytosine deamination and the precipitous decline of spontaneous mutation during Earth's history
Creators: name: Swanstrom, Ronald
name: Zhou, Shuntai
name: Wolfenden, Richard
name: Crayle, Jesse
name: Lewis, Charles A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Cytosine deamination appears to be largely responsible for spontaneous mutations in the modern world. Because of its sensitivity to temperature (Q10 = 4), that reaction would have furnished a mechanism for rapid evolution on a warm earth. As the temperature fell from 100° to 25 °C, the rate of cytosine-based mutation would have fallen by a factor of more than 4,000, with a corresponding increase in the stability of genetic information. Other potentially mutagenic events are known to be even more sensitive to temperature, and would presumably have led to an even steeper decline in the rate of spontaneous mutation as the earth cooled.
Developing a lifestyle intervention to reduce postpartum weight retention
Creators: name: MAKAMA, MAUREEN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Behavioural epidemiology
Public health not elsewhere classified
Women's studies (incl. girls' studies)
Health and community services
Health promotion

description: Women may retain some weight after having children. Lifestyle intervention programs that include diet and physical activity can support weight management. However, mothers may have limited time to commit to intensive lifestyle interventions that produce the best weight loss outcomes, due to demands including raising children and managing the household. This thesis investigated strategies to improve the engagement of women with young children in lifestyle interventions to reduce weight retention and improve health and wellbeing. Integrating interventions into existing services such as mothers’ groups has the potential to improve the reach and engagement of mothers.
Nonparametric time series forecasting with dynamic updating
Creators: name: Shang, Han Lin
name: Hyndman, Rob J
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Econometric and statistical methods
Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: We present a nonparametric method to forecast a seasonal univariate time series, and propose four dynamic updating methods to improve point forecast accuracy. Our methods consider a seasonal univariate time series as a functional time series. We propose first to reduce the dimensionality by applying functional principal component analysis to the historical observations, and then to use univariate time series forecasting and functional principal component regression techniques. When data in the most recent year are partially observed, we improve point forecast accuracy using dynamic updating methods. We also introduce a nonparametric approach to construct prediction intervals of updated forecasts, and compare the empirical coverage probability with an existing parametric method. Our approaches are data-driven and computationally fast, and hence they are feasible to be applied in real time high frequency dynamic updating. The methods are demonstrated using monthly sea surface temperatures from 1950 to 2008.
Price rigidity in food retail sector: the retailers’ strategy for pasta
Creators: name: Cacchiarelli, Luca
name: Sorrentino, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2016

description: In the Italian agro-food industry pasta represents a strategic product since Italy has the peculiarity of being, at the same time, the main producer and consumer of pasta. In the last years, Italian food retailing, as in all developed countries, has experienced some developments. This work, which represents a preliminary study on the Italian pasta market, focuses on how national and private label brands are positioned in the different segments of the Italian pasta markets. A way to reach such goal is to investigate on retail price and price promotions in Italy and 4 Italian macro-regional areas. The average prices show that at the national level different market segments exist with three national brands positioned at the highest level, following by an intermediate segment in which we find brand leader (Barilla) which competes with private label brands. The private labels products, which present a regular price lower than national brands, are sold without promotions. the frequency of price promotions concerns mainly the brands positioned in the higher market segment and the market leader. Finally, there is a moderate there is a relevant degree of heterogeneity in the results across the selected regional areas.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 71 No 1 (2016): Vol 71, No 1 (Suppl.) (2016)
Physical environment of massive star-forming region W42
Creators: name: Dewangan, L. K.
name: Luna, A.
name: Ojha, D. K.
name: Anandarao, B. G.
name: Mallick, K. K.
name: Mayya, Y. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of multi-wavelength observations from various datasets and Galactic plane surveys to study the star formation process in the W42 complex. A bipolar appearance of W42 complex is evident due to the ionizing feedback from the O5-O6 type star in a medium that is highly inhomogeneous. The VLT/NACO adaptive-optics K and L' images (resolutions ~0".2-0".1) resolved this ionizing source into multiple point-like sources below ~5000 AU scale. The position angle ~15 deg of W42 molecular cloud is consistent with the H-band starlight mean polarization angle which in turn is close to the Galactic magnetic field, suggesting the influence of Galactic field on the evolution of the W42 molecular cloud. Herschel sub-millimeter data analysis reveals three clumps located along the waist axis of the bipolar nebula, with the peak column densities of ~3-5 x10^{22} cm^{-2} corresponding to visual extinctions of AV ~32-53.5 mag. The Herschel temperature map traces a temperature gradient in W42, revealing regions of 20 K, 25 K, and 30-36 K. Herschel maps reveal embedded filaments (length ~1-3 pc) which appear to be radially pointed to the denser clump associated with the O5-O6 star, forming a hub-filament system. 512 candidate young stellar objects (YSOs) are identified in the complex, ~40% of which are present in clusters distributed mainly within the molecular cloud including the Herschel filaments. Our datasets suggest that the YSO clusters including the massive stars are located at the junction of the filaments, similar to those seen in Rosette Molecular Cloud.
description: 27 pages, 16 figures, 1 table, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Decay of an active GPCR: Conformational dynamics govern agonist rebinding and persistence of an active, yet empty, receptor state
Creators: name: Janz, Jay M.
name: Fay, Jonathan F.
name: Schafer, Christopher T.
name: Farrens, David L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) represent a major pharmaceutical drug target. However, one exception has been the visual photoreceptor rhodopsin, long considered “different” due to its covalently bound, light-sensitive retinal ligands. Here we demonstrate that, in contrast to prior assumptions, release of the agonist all-trans retinal (ATR) is not an irreversible process. Instead, during decay of the active species, ATR can rebind any rhodopsin remaining in an active-like conformation, and this active-like state can transiently persist even after agonist dissociation. These insights demonstrate rhodopsin behaves like other diffusible ligand-binding GPCRs and raise the possibility of treating rhodopsin by pharmaceutical agents.
Horizontal price transmission in the European sugar sector
Creators: name: Aragrande, Maurizio
name: Bruni, Mauro
name: Gentile, Enrica
name: Loi, Alberico
name: Esposti, Roberto
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2016

description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 71 No 1 (2016): Vol 71, No 1 (Suppl.) (2016)
RESISTIRE Factsheet: Education: Developing Resilient Education Systems
Creators: name: Tzanakou, Charoula
name: Still, Alexis
name: Rossetti, Federica
name: Sandström, Lina
name: Delaney, Caitriona
name: Strid, Sofia
name: Callerstig, Anne-Charlott
name: Kerremans, Aart
name: Tanwar, Jagriti
name: Clavero, Sara
name: Henry, Sean
name: Cacace, Marina
name: Aglietti, Klaudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Recovery Policy
Policy recommendations
gender+
COVID-19
vulnerable groups
inequalities
education system

description: The sudden closure of educational facilities upended the lives of young people, their families, and educators, who were forced to move quickly from traditional onsite teaching to online education. This prolonged suspension of conventional education posed a number of new challenges for students, parents and teaching staff. Students who were already marginalised prior to the pandemic, due to various gender+ vulnerabilities, experienced further detrimental impacts on their educational progress. The experience gained from the global education crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic should be used to develop more resilient education systems that can ensure a balance between the digital and physical space and guarantee that no one is left behind. The insights provided below are developed on the basis of findings from quantitative and qualitative evidence, participatory workshops, and an analysis of National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) and other COVID-19 recovery policies.
From controversy to precision on the sigma meson: a review on the status of the non-ordinary $f_0(500)$ resonance
Creators: name: Pelaez, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence and properties of the sigma meson have been controversial for almost six decades, despite playing a central role in the spontaneous chiral symmetry of QCD or in the nucleon-nucleon attraction. This controversy has also been fed by the strong indications that it is not an ordinary quark-antiquark meson. Here we review both the recent and old experimental data and the model independent dispersive formalisms which have provided precise determinations of its mass and width, finally settling the controversy and leading to its new name: $f_0(500)$. We then provide a rather conservative average of the most recent and advanced dispersive determinations of its pole position $\sqrt{s_σ}=449^{+22}_{-16}-i(275\pm12)$. In addition, after comprehensive introductions, we will review within the modern perspective of effective theories and dispersion theory, its relation to chiral symmetry, unitarization techniques, its quark mass dependence, popular models, as well as the recent strong evidence, obtained from the QCD $1/N_c$ expansion or Regge theory, for its non ordinary nature in terms of quarks and gluons.
description: 170 pages, 39 figures. Final version to appear in Physics Reports. Improved discussions in several sections. New subsection on the sigma and conformal symmetry. Typos corrected and references added
Forecasting Intraday Time Series with Multiple Seasonal Cycles Using Parsimonious Seasonal Exponential Smoothing
Creators: name: Taylor, James W.
name: Snyder, Ralph D.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Econometric and statistical methods
Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: This paper concerns the forecasting of seasonal intraday time series. An extension of Holt-Winters exponential smoothing has been proposed that smoothes an intraday cycle and an intraweek cycle. A recently proposed exponential smoothing method involves smoothing a different intraday cycle for each distinct type of day of the week. Similar days are allocated identical intraday cycles. A limitation is that the method allows only whole days to be treated as identical. We introduce an exponential smoothing formulation that allows parts of different days of the week to be treated as identical. The result is a method that involves the smoothing and initialisation of fewer terms than the other two exponential smoothing methods. We evaluate forecasting up to a day ahead using two empirical studies. For electricity load data, the new method compares well with a range of alternatives. The second study involves a series of arrivals at a call centre that is open for a shorter duration at the weekends than on weekdays. By contrast with the previously proposed exponential smoothing methods, our new method can model in a straightforward way this situation, where the number of periods on each day of the week is not the same.
Roster of Civilian Conservation Corps Camp F-30-A, Company 1826-V
Creators: name: Hunt, Sharon E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps

description: The New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) program provided jobs for young, unemployed men who worked on projects to conserve the nation's natural resources. The individuals who were part of the CCC were housed in camps run by the U.S. Army. This publication contains a short description of the CCC, a roster of the individuals (Company 1826-V) who served in the Madera Canyon, Arizona, CCC camp (Camp F-30-A), and photos of their work.
Disentangling Mass and Mixing Hierarchies
Creators: name: Knapen, Simon
name: Robinson, Dean J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a fully perturbative mechanism that naturally generates mass hierarchies for the Standard Model (SM) fermions in a flavor-blind sector. The dynamics generating the mass hierarchies can therefore be independent from the source of flavor violation, and hence this dynamics may operate at a much lower scale. This mechanism works by dynamically enforcing simultaneous diagonalization - alignment - among a set of flavor-breaking spurions, as well as generating highly singular spectra for them. It also has general applications in model building beyond the SM, wherever alignment between exotic and SM sources of flavor violation is desired.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, journal version
Defects in lysosomal maturation facilitate the activation of innate sensors in systemic lupus erythematosus
Creators: name: Jacobson, Ken
name: Costello, M. Joseph
name: Monteith, Andrew J.
name: Scott, Eric
name: Kang, Sunah
name: Vilen, Barbara J.
name: Rajfur, Zenon
name: Hillman, Kai
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Activation of innate sensors by self-antigen contributes to autoimmunity, although how intracellular sensors are chronically exposed to self-antigen has remained unknown. Here, we identify a previously unidentified defect in which lupus-prone macrophages fail to mature the lysosome, promoting the accumulation of apoptotic debris-containing IgG–immune complexes (IgG-ICs). Interestingly, macrophages from other autoimmune diseases accumulate IgG-ICs, indicating that lysosomal defects may underlie multiple autoimmune diseases. Furthermore, the prolonged intracellular residency chronically activates Toll-like receptors and permeabilizes the phagolysosomal membrane, allowing activation of cytosolic sensors. These findings identify lysosomal maturation as a unique defect in MRL/lpr mice that impacts multiple events known to underlie SLE, including pathogenic cytokine secretion.
The role of Producer Organisations in the vegetable value chain: an application to the red chicory from Veneto
Creators: name: Nucera, Maria
name: Ferrari, Giovanna Maria
name: Finizia, Antonella
name: Merciai, Stefano
name: Sorrentino, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2016

description: This paper is about agricultural value chain and aims at evaluating the impact of Producer Organizations (POs) on a vegetable value chain. In particular, the objective of this study is to compare added value distribution among players in the vegetable sectors in different supply chain scenarios, i.e. supply chain with a PO as intermediary and supply chain with a wholesaler as intermediary. We will focus on an empirical application of ISMEA value chain to the supply chain of two vegetables: the “Radicchio rosso di Treviso tardivo IGP” and its equivalent not certified product, the “spadone” chicory, which are both produced in the Veneto region only. The case study evidence suggests that POs allow farmers to reach a greater benefit, compared to ordinary supply chain, even if such efficiencies could have been higher. Since the substantial review and reduction of direct support to agricultural income, the tools improving supply concentration appear as the few tools, which can enable a return to profitability, as well as efficiency of the supply chains themselves.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 71 No 1 (2016): Vol 71, No 1 (Suppl.) (2016)
The improvement in the international competitiveness of the Polish food sector and its support with public funds during Poland’s membership in the EU
Creators: name: Szczepaniak, Iwona
name: Tereszczuk, Mirosława
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2016

description: Poland’s accession to the European Union (EU) meant not only active inclusion into the EU structures, but also the strengthening of internal forces, so that it could cope with the global competition and protect itself against its negative effects. In order to be a full partner, especially for the EU Member States, and to be able to develop, Poland – as the national economy – obviously, must be competitive in the international market. Due to this approach to the issues of competition and competitiveness, the major objective of the studies carried out at the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics – National Research Institute (IAFE- NRI) was to assess the international competitive position of the Polish food sector and to verify a thesis that the competitiveness of this sector during Poland’s membership in the EU has improved.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 71 No 1 (2016): Vol 71, No 1 (Suppl.) (2016)
Direct observation of light-driven, concerted electron–proton transfer
Creators: name: Thompson, David W.
name: Papanikolas, John M.
name: Dongare, Prateek
name: Brennaman, M. Kyle
name: Gagliardi, Christopher J.
name: Meyer, Thomas J.
name: Wang, Li
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Concerted proton-coupled electron transfer (EPT) reactions in which both electrons and protons transfer in tandem are at the heart of many chemical and biological conversions including photosystem II. We report here the direct observation of absorption bands arising from photoEPT transitions, in this case, in H-bonded complexes between N-methyl-4,4′-bipyridinium cation and biologically relevant donors including tyrosine. The importance of these observations follows from the earlier experimental observations by Taube and coworkers on intervalence transfer in mixed-valence complexes. The observation of these photoEPT transitions and the appearance of reactive radical products also points to a possible, if inefficient, role in DNA photodamage and, possibly, in the formation of reactive oxygen intermediates.
Effects of land related factors on child labour in agriculture: evidences from Peru
Creators: name: De Gaetano, Marco
name: Caracciolo, Francesco
name: Cembalo, Luigi
name: Carillo, Maria Rosaria
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2016

description: This study analyzes the relationships occurring between household characteristics, children individual factors, community/rural context, and their effect on agricultural child labour in Peru. In particular, land related factors were explicitly taken into account. In Peru the majority of child workers are engaged in farming systems characterized by great heterogeneity. Data used in this research derives from the 2013 Peruvian National Household Survey. A child labour supply model shows that a strict relation exists between land related factors and child labour in agriculture, both in terms of its incidence and intensity. Moreover, this relation changes according to land size patterns likely related to different agricultural systems. Policy makers should take in count the complex relationship between land and child labour especially with respect to child labour eradication and other development program that could directly and indirectly increase child productivity in agriculture as well as labour demand and supply.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 71 No 1 (2016): Vol 71, No 1 (Suppl.) (2016)
Value Chain Analysis of Climate-smart Shan Tea Production in the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam
Creators: name: Tran, Tuong
name: Branca, Giacomo
name: Arslan, Aslihan
name: Van Mai, Trinh
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2016

description: Agricultural production in the face of climate change requires a transformation and reorientation in agricultural systems and policy making. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is such a transformative approach that aims to sustainably increase food security, by improving adaptation to climate change and capturing potential mitigation co-benefits. CSA approach goes beyond field level practices and encompasses value chains, food systems as well as enabling environments and policy. This paper provides a site-specific analysis of the contributions of organic and conventional Shan tea value chains (VCs) to CSA objectives by using a interdisciplinary approach. Our findings show that both organic and conventional Shan tea VCs simultaneously contribute to food security and adaptation. Shan tea plays a vital role in securing household income and has a strong potential in helping households to coping with extreme weather events. Potential mitigation options are mainly in the processing stage (GHG emissions from coal burning).
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 71 No 1 (2016): Vol 71, No 1 (Suppl.) (2016)
Simulating Astro-H Observations of Sloshing Gas Motions in the Cores of Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: ZuHone, J.
name: Miller, E.
name: Simionescu, A.
name: Bautz, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Astro-H will be the first X-ray observatory to employ a high-resolution microcalorimeter, capable of measuring the shift and width of individual spectral lines to the precision necessary for estimating the velocity of the diffuse plasma in galaxy clusters. This new capability is expected to bring significant progress in understanding the dynamics, and therefore the physics, of the intracluster medium. However, because this plasma is optically thin, projection effects will be an important complicating factor in interpreting future Astro-H measurements. To study these effects in detail, we performed an analysis of the velocity field from simulations of a galaxy cluster experiencing gas sloshing, and generated synthetic X-ray spectra, convolved with model Astro-H Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS) responses. We find that the sloshing motions produce velocity signatures that will be observable by Astro-H in nearby clusters: the shifting of the line centroid produced by the fast-moving cold gas underneath the front surface, and line broadening produced by the smooth variation of this motion along the line of sight. The line shapes arising from inviscid or strongly viscous simulations are very similar, indicating that placing constraints on the gas viscosity from these measurements will be difficult. Our spectroscopic analysis demonstrates that, for adequate exposures, Astro-H will be able to recover the first two moments of the velocity distribution of these motions accurately, and in some cases multiple velocity components may be discerned. The simulations also confirm the importance of accurate treatment of PSF scattering in the interpretation of Astro-H/SXS spectra of cluster plasmas.
description: 27 pages, 20 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
The assessment of the New CAP Reform: the case study of Tuscany
Creators: name: Casini, Leonardo
name: Pagnotta, Gabriele
name: Scozzafava, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2016

description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 71 No 1 (2016): Vol 71, No 1 (Suppl.) (2016)
Additional file 1 of Cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination in Latin America and the Caribbean: an analysis in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru
Creators: name: Federico, Augustovski
name: Ariel, Bardach
name: Adrián, Santoro
name: Federico, Rodriguez-Cairoli
name: Alejandro, López-Osornio
name: Fernando, Argento
name: Maissa, Havela
name: Alejandro, Blumenfeld
name: Jamile, Ballivian
name: Germán, Solioz
name: Analía, Capula
name: Analía, López
name: Cintia, Cejas
name: William, Savedoff
name: Alfredo, Palacios
name: Adolfo, Rubinstein
name: Andrés, Pichon-Riviere
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Effectiveness/efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines applied in each country, Literature search on epidemiological parameters, Transmission dynamic parameters, General population baseline utility values per-country, Disutility value per disease state, Economic evaluation disaggregated results by country, Deterministic sensitivity analysis, Model calibration, Interactive online CEA model, Advisory board, References.
Evidence-Based Education. Ten points of dispute
Creators: name: Moricca, Camilla
name: Pellegrini, Marta
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2016

description: The approach called Evidence-Based Education (EBE) has had a very large expansion in recent years and has developed an international debate on potentialities and criticalities of scientific research in education. The paper presents a debate imagined in which ten criticisms that could be addressed to EBE by researchers and teachers are discussed. To these critics it is answered by trying to explain this approach and reflect on aspects that seem to affect its future progress. Evidence-Based Education. Dieci punti di controversia Come è noto, l’orientamento che va sotto il nome di Evidence-Based Education (EBE) ha avuto una fortissima espansione negli ultimi anni e ha sviluppato un forte dibattito internazionale sulle potenzialità e criticità della ricerca scientifica nell’ambito dell’educazione. Nell’intento di contribuire ad una maggiore chiarezza sugli elementi della controversia e sugli equivoci che si possono generare intorno al diffondersi di questo orientamento, questo lavoro ha cercato di sintetizzare in dieci punti i termini essenziali del dibattito in corso. Sono state individuate le critiche più note avanzate all’EBE e ad esse sono state contrapposte le argomentazioni dei suoi fautori.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): The teachers' expertise
Perspectives on a Supersymmetric Extension of the Standard Model with a $Y=0$ Higgs Triplet and a Singlet at the LHC
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Priyotosh
name: Coriano, Claudio
name: Costantini, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a supersymmetric extension of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), called the TNMSSM, containing a $SU(2)$ Higgs triplet $(\hat{T})$ of $Y=0$ hypercharge and a singlet superfields $(\hat{S})$ in the corresponding superpotential. The model can be viewed, equivalently, as an extension of the NMSSM with the addition of a $\hat{T}-\hat{S}$ interaction and of an extra coupling of the triplet to the two Higgs doublets of the NMSSM. In this scenario the Higgs particle spectrum at tree-level gets additional mass contributions from the triplet and singlet scalar components respect to the MSSM, which are particularly enhanced at low $\tanβ$. We calculate the one-loop Higgs masses for the neutral physical Higgs bosons by a Coleman-Weinberg effective potential approach. In particular, we investigate separately the impact of the radiative corrections due to the electroweak, gauge-gaugino-higgsino, fermion-sfermion and Higgs self-interactions to the Higgs masses. Due to the larger number of scalars and of triplet and singlet couplings, the Higgs corrections can be larger than the strong corrections. This reduces the amount of fine-tuning required to fit the recent Higgs data. Using the expressions of the beta-functions of the model, we show that the large triplet singlet coupling remains perturbative up to $\sim10^{8-10}$ GeV. The model is also characterized by a light pseudoscalar in the spectrum, which is a linear combination of the triplet, doublet and singlet CP-odd components. We discuss the production and decay signatures of the Higgs bosons in this model, including scenarios with hidden Higgses, which could be investigated at the LHC in the current run.
description: 39 pages, 37 figures, comments added for the published version
Technology competences, agency and collaborative challenges: from teacher expertise to continuing professional development
Creators: name: Urbani, Chiara
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2016

description: The teacher Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requires today the re-thinking of teachersʼ expertise, in connection to a new definition of professional competence. For example, in the case of technology competences, the continuing training shouldn’t be limited to promoting their learning and practice, however to encourage the re-thinking of the sense and the value of personal agency, that allows to express the competences acquired and link them into an authentic and self-determined dimension. This project research examines the correlation between the pre-school teachers continuing professional development and the agency’s capability processes, trying to define how technologies can affect the professional agency’s qualification. First evidences about the increased value acquired by the extracurricular aspects of networking and governance suggest how teachers’ agency appears focused on interaction with enlarged learning contexts, suggesting the opportunity to invest in socio-relational aspects and integrate them into traditional professional education and training processes. Competenze tecnologiche, agency e sfide collaborative: dall’expertise allo sviluppo professionale docente Lo sviluppo professionale degli insegnanti richiede oggi il ripensamento dellʼexpertise docente nel dialogo con una nuova definizione della competenza professionale. Ad esempio, nel caso delle competenze tecnologiche, la formazione continua non deve limitarsi a promuovere il loro apprendimento ed esercizio, bensì a stimolare il ripensamento del senso e del valore dell’azione, che permette di esprimere pienamente le competenze e ricondurle ad un orizzonte di significazione personale. Il progetto di ricerca sulla correlazione esistente tra lo sviluppo professionale continuo degli insegnanti prescolastici e i processi di capacitazione dellʼazione (agency) permette di formulare alcune ipotesi sulla capacità delle tecnologie di influire sulla qualificazione dell’azione professionale. Le prime evidenze rispetto al crescente valore assunto dalle dimensioni di networking e governance nella professionalità indicano come l’azione docente risulti impegnata ad interagire con i contesti d’apprendimento allargati, segnalando l’opportunità di investire su aspetti socio-relazionali ed integrarli entro i percorsi tradizionali di formazione professionale.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): The teachers' expertise