cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Africa’s Debt: Who Owes Whom?
Creators: name: Boyce, James K.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2002

description: Sub-Saharan Africa includes 34 of the 42 countries classified as “Heavily Indebted Poor Countries” by the World Bank.  The debt burden forces these countries to divert scarce resources from basic necessities, such as health and education, into debt service.  Despite bearing these heavy social costs, African countries cannot keep up with the payments, and so they become ever more indebted.
Additional file 1 of An isothermal CRISPR- based lateral flow assay for detection of Neisseria meningitidis
Creators: name: Huyen, Dao Thi
name: Reboud, Julien
name: Quyen, Dao Thanh
name: Cooper, Jonathan M.
name: Velavan, Thirumalaisamy P.
name: Trung, Ngo Tat
name: Song, Le Huu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Competitive effects on mercury removal by an agricultural waste: application to synthetic and natural spiked waters
Creators: name: Rocha, Luciana S.
name: Lopes, Cláudia B.
name: Henriques, Bruno
name: Tavares, Daniela S.
name: J.A. Borges
name: Duarte, Armando C.
name: Pereira, Eduarda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: In this work, the efficiency of a local and highly available agricultural waste, the raw rice husk, was used to remove mercury (Hg) from synthetic and natural waters, spiked with concentrations that reflect the contamination problems found in the environment. Different operating conditions were tested, including initial pH, ionic strength, the presence of co-ions (cadmium) and organic matter. The sorption efficiency of rice husk was slightly affected by the presence H+ ions (pH range between 3 and 9), but in the presence of NaNO3 and NaCl electrolytes and in binary solutions containing Cd2+ and Hg2+, the sorption efficiency was dependent on the nature and levels of the interfering ion and on the initial concentration of Hg2+ used. Nevertheless, in a situation of equilibrium the effect of those ions was negligible and the removal efficiency ranged between 82% and 94% and between 90% and 96% for an initial Hg2+ concentration of 0.05 mg L−1 and 0.50 mg L−1, respectively. In more complex matrices, i.e. in the presence of humic substances and in natural river waters, the speciation and dynamics of Hg was changed and a fraction of the metal becomes unavailable in solution. Even then, the values obtained for Hg removal were satisfactory, i.e. between 59% and 76% and 81% and 85% for an initial concentration of Hg2+ of 0.05 and 0.50 mg L−1, respectively.
A Schema Framework for Graph Event Data
Creators: name: Esser, Stefan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: process mining
event logs
labeled property graphs
graph database

description: Master thesis report. Process event data contains events related to various entities of a process. These multi-dimensional
 event data, generated by information systems, serve as source for the retrieval of event logs for
 process mining techniques. The sequential event logs used in process mining today are bound to
 a single case notion for their events to relate. This means that we are forced to flatten the data
 into a single-dimensional format by dropping/ignoring information about further related entities
 when creating event logs. Many processes cannot be fully captured by such a data structure.
 Even though relational databases can be used to store these multi-dimensional event data
 existing query languages do not support querying for paths of temporal relations of events, especially
 across multiple entities. Property graphs support storing and querying such data, but
 there is no common understanding of how event data is systematically encoded in property graphs
 and how such a data model can formally be de ned such that structural and behavioral rules on
 the data can be governed. Because no standard property graph schema definition exists, we first
 introduce a schema language to describe the global data structure of graph databases with event
 data. We furthermore define property graph-based templates to encode the fundamental event
 log concepts. To enable the definition of integrity constraints, i.e. structural and behavioral rules,
 on instance level, we introduce a technique that is based on local patterns (sub-graphs) of the
 global schema to de ne rules within that limited scope. A set of templates for such local patterns
 has been developed and successfully tested in six case studies on ve di erent event logs data
 sets. Furthermore, we provide basic means to validate the compliance of a graph instance with
 event data to such a schema structure. Python and Cypher templates have been developed for
 the creation of the six di erent graph event logs. These graph event logs and their creation script
 templates are the direct results of our case studies and thus can serve as baseline for new research
 question that arose from the different design artifacts of this thesis.
Who Lives on the Wrong Side of the Environmental Tracks? Evidence from the EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Model
Creators: name: Ash, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2002

description: This study analyzes the social and economic correlates of air pollution exposure in
U.S. cities using a unique dataset created as a by-product of the EPA’s Risk-Screening
Environmental Indicators model and finds evidence of disproportionate exposure to
environmental hazards in communities with higher concentrations of lower-income people and
people of color. We improve on previous studies of environmental inequality in three ways.
First, where previous studies focus on the proximity to point sources and the total mass of
pollutants released, our measure of toxic exposure reflects atmospheric dispersion and chemical
toxicity. Second, we analyze the data at a fine level of geographic resolution. Third, we control
for substantial regional variations in pollution, allowing us to identify exposure differences both
within cities and between cities. We combine 1998 data on toxicity-adjusted exposure to air
pollution with 1990 Census block group data for urbanized areas. We find that blacks tend to
live both in more polluted cities in the U.S. and in more polluted neighborhoods within cities.
Hispanics live in less polluted cities on average, but they live in more polluted areas within cities.
We find an extremely consistent income-pollution gradient, with lower income people
significantly more exposed. Our findings highlight the importance of controlling for interregional
variation in pollution levels in studies of the demographic correlates of pollution.
Agricultural Globalization in Developing Countries: Rules, Rationales and Results
Creators: name: Rao, J. Mohan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2002

description: This paper aims to provide a descriptive and analytical account of the extent to
which agriculture in the developing economies has become integrated with external markets.
For most developing economies (DEs), the 1980s were a time of crisis when liberal reforms,
including domestic and external liberalization of agriculture, were also initiated. This was
followed by the coming into force of the Agreement on Agriculture under WTO aegis. The
evidence on trade flows does indicate increased agricultural globalization in developing
economies (DEs) following these regime shifts. But increased trade flows have not been
accompanied by relative price convergence as between the DEs and the advanced economies
(AEs) suggesting both that the policy shifts have been asymmetric and that significant parts of
agricultural trade between North and South remain complementary rather than, as is often
assumed, competitive. Moreover, the “fallacy of composition”, implicit in any global imposition
of trade liberalization and not confined to primary products as such, also seems to have been at
work for most of the period. At the same time, the threat of higher consumer prices (especially
for the poor and vulnerable in both importing and exporting DEs) looms large. Its impact will be
felt as and when production and export subsidies in the AEs are dismantled. Meanwhile, the
regime shifts seem to have induced, on the one hand, excessive faith in the efficacy of
agricultural prices to produce agricultural supply response and, on the other, reduced fiscal and
organizational capacities to provide public agricultural inputs and services. These conclusions
are consonant with a structuralist understanding of global trade and production possibilities that
DEs confront.
Inequality and Environmental Protection
Creators: name: Boyce, James K.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: Social and economic inequalities can influence both the distribution of the
costs and benefits from environmental degradation and the extent of environmental
protection. When those who benefit from environmentally degrading economic activities
are powerful relative to those who bear the costs, environmental protection is generally
weaker than when the reverse is true. This can lead to environmental inequalities along
lines of class, race, ethnicity, gender, and age. At the same time, inequalities may affect
the overall extent of environmental quality. There are good theoretical reasons to expect
inequalities to reduce environmental protection and exacerbate environmental
degradation. The available empirical evidence generally is consistent with this
expectation.
International Price-Fixing Cartels and Developing Countries: A Discussion of Effects and Policy Remedies
Creators: name: Levenstein, Margaret
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: The U.S. and E.U. have recently increased prosecution of international cartels; few developing
countries have similar enforcement. If these cartels have significant effects on developing
economies, the lack of antitrust enforcement is a problem. Geographically limited prosecutions
may not provide sufficient disincentives to deter collusion that generates global rents.
Prosecutions of international cartels by industrialized countries opens markets to developing
country producers, but integration may be undermined if cartels create durable barriers to entry.
Western governments are also susceptible to manipulation by cartel members asking for antidumping
duties. Thus, developing countries may need their own antitrust enforcement. A recent
ruling of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals creates the possibility that developing country
consumers may be able to exact remedies in U.S. courts.
Drawing on three detailed case studies and 42 recent prosecutions of international cartels, we
discuss the effects on developing country producers, either as competitors or co-conspirators, and
the effects on developing country consumers. Using trade data, we quantify the order of
magnitude of the effect on developing country consumers. In 1997, the latest year for which we
have trade data, developing countries imported $54.7 billion of goods from 19 industries with a
price-fixing conspiracy during the 1990s. These imports represented 5.2% of total imports and
1.2% of GDP in developing countries.
A More or Less Unequal World? World Income Distribution in the 20th Century
Creators: name: Sutcliffe, Bob
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: Statistical studies are hardly needed to prove the existence of immense material inequality between human beings. It is evident to anyone who walks down the street in most major cities or watches a television newscast which jumps from images of famine in Angola to the business or the football transfer news. This article takes the existence of great inequality as given but discusses the various ways in which that inequality can be and is measured and surveys evidence about how inequality on a world scale has evolved during the last century and especially since 1980.
Competitive effects on mercury removal by an agricultural waste: application to synthetic and natural spiked waters
Creators: name: Rocha, Luciana S.
name: Lopes, Cláudia B.
name: Henriques, Bruno
name: Tavares, Daniela S.
name: J.A. Borges
name: Duarte, Armando C.
name: Pereira, Eduarda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: In this work, the efficiency of a local and highly available agricultural waste, the raw rice husk, was used to remove mercury (Hg) from synthetic and natural waters, spiked with concentrations that reflect the contamination problems found in the environment. Different operating conditions were tested, including initial pH, ionic strength, the presence of co-ions (cadmium) and organic matter. The sorption efficiency of rice husk was slightly affected by the presence H+ ions (pH range between 3 and 9), but in the presence of NaNO3 and NaCl electrolytes and in binary solutions containing Cd2+ and Hg2+, the sorption efficiency was dependent on the nature and levels of the interfering ion and on the initial concentration of Hg2+ used. Nevertheless, in a situation of equilibrium the effect of those ions was negligible and the removal efficiency ranged between 82% and 94% and between 90% and 96% for an initial Hg2+ concentration of 0.05 mg L−1 and 0.50 mg L−1, respectively. In more complex matrices, i.e. in the presence of humic substances and in natural river waters, the speciation and dynamics of Hg was changed and a fraction of the metal becomes unavailable in solution. Even then, the values obtained for Hg removal were satisfactory, i.e. between 59% and 76% and 81% and 85% for an initial concentration of Hg2+ of 0.05 and 0.50 mg L−1, respectively.
Making choices from the choices we have: The contextual embeddedness of occupational choice. Faire des choix parmi les choix qui s’offrent à nous : L’enchâssement contextuel à des choix occupationnels. Un article de Karen Whalley Hammell, publié en 2020
Creators: name: Lavigne, Cassandre
Publisher: name: Communauté pour l’Avancement de la Recherche Appliquée Francophone en Ergothérapie (CARAFE)
Year: 2024

description: Sans résumé.
Capital Flows, Capital Account Regimes, and Foreign Exchange Rate Regimes in Africa
Creators: name: Ndikumana, Léonce
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: This study examines capital flows and shifts in capital account and exchange rate
regimes in African countries over the past two decades. The evidence shows that official
lending to Africa has declined while the volume of private capital flows remains low and
significantly below the levels observed in other developing regions. Private capital
inflows to Africa are limited due to several factors, including the weakness of the
macroeconomic environment, underdeveloped financial systems, high country risk, and
exchange rate misalignments. The focus of policy reforms must be on alleviating these
constraints in order to attract more foreign capital and overcome the shortage of
development financing.
Many African countries have pursued reforms aimed at liberalizing their capital
account and exchange rate regimes. However, liberalization has not been accompanied
by systematic gains income growth, price stability, and trade performance. African
countries must pay serious attention to the scope, speed, and sequencing of capital
account liberalization to minimize potential adverse effects of openness. It is desirable
for countries to maintain selective discretionary control over capital movements and
exchange rate markets in order to hedge against adverse shocks to the economy and to
maintain macroeconomic and financial stability. To attract foreign capital, any move
toward capital account openness and exchange rate liberalization must be supported by
reforms aimed at improving credibility of macroeconomic policy and establishing an
investment-friendly environment. These reforms will not only attract foreign capital but
also encourage domestic investment.
An important aspect of capital movements in Africa is the high level of capital
flight. There is an urgent need for policies to stem further hemorrage of capital from
Africa and induce the repatriation of private capital held abroad. This will require not
only improvement of the macroeconomic conditions to ameliorate incentives for
domestic investment, but also reform of the political and legal systems to improve
accountability and credibility of economic policy.
Grape downy mildew in India I. Foliar, floral and fruit infections
Creators: name: Srinivasan, N.
name: Jeyarajan, R.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2016

description: The incidence and intensity of downy mildew on "Anab-e-Shahi" grapevine were recorded on leaves of six ages as indicated by colours. Red and green with orange leaves did not show symptoms of the disease. The rate of disease development was highest in agathia-green and viridian-green leaves. The time taken for reaching grade 3 from grade 2 was shorter than the time taken for development to grade 2 from grade 1. The incubation periods were 18 and 14 days in red and green with orange leaves, respectively. But in older leaves it was only 10 days. In leaves of all colours the stomatal pore was broader than the width of the germ tube of the pathogen. Upon artificial inoculation inflorescences as weil as clusters with mustard seed-sized (2.00 mm) and pea-sized (6.5 mm) berries became infected whereas older bunches with neem-sized (12.5 mm) and mature berries were not infected. Complete shed of infected flowers and mustard seed-sized berries and a drop of 53.1 per cent of pea-sized berries were noticed. Der falsche Rebenmehltau in Indien I. Befall von Blättern, Blüten und Beeren Bei der Rebensorte Anab-e-Shahi wurden Auftreten und Intensität des Befalls durch Plasmopara viticola an sechs durch ihre Färbung gekennzeichneten Blattstadien verfolgt. Rote und grün-orange gefärbte Blätter zeigten keine Krankheitssymptome. Agathia- und chromgrüne Blätter erkrankten am häufigsten. Der Übergang von Parasitierungsgrad 1 nach 2 dauerte länger als von 2 nach 3 (1 = bis zu 25%, 2 = 26-50%, 3 = über 50% der Blattfläche von Myzel bedeckt). Bei den roten und grün-orange gefärbten Blättern betrug die Inkubationszeit 18 bzw. 14 Tage, bei älteren Blättern dagegen nur noch 10 Tage. Die Weite der Spaltöffnungen war bei allen Blattstadien größer als der Durchmesser des Sporenkeimschlauches. Nach künstlicher Infektion wurden sowohl Infloreszenzen wie Trauben mit 2,0 mm und 6,5 mm großen Beeren befallen, während ältere Trauben mit 12,5 mm großen sowie mit reifen Beeren nicht erkrankten. Infizierte Blüten verrieselten vollständig; bei einer Größe von 2,0 mm fielen 53,1% der Beeren ab.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 15 No. 2 (1976): Vitis
Performance and dynamic characteristics of microbial communities in an internal circulation reactor for treating brewery wastewater
Creators: name: Xu, Fu
name: Heng-Feng Miao
name: Huang, Zhen-Xing
name: Ren, Hong-Yan
name: Zhao, Ming-Xing
name: Ruan, Wen-Quan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: A laboratory-scale internal circulation (IC) anaerobic reactor fed with brewery wastewater was operated at 35°C±1°C. The influent was pumped into the bottom of the IC reactor by a pulse pump, whereas the effluent was drawn from the upper outlet and allowed to flow into the effluent tank. The biogas volume was recorded using a gas container connected to a biogas metre. The results indicated that the maximum organic loading rate (OLR) of the IC reactor was 19.5 kg chemical oxygen demand (COD)/m 3/day; at which point, the dominant archaeal populations found in the sludge using the polymerase chain reaction with denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis were Methanosaeta species. The COD removal efficiencies of the reactor exceeded 85%, with a maximum specific methane production rate of 210 mL CH4/g volatile suspended solids (VSS)/day and a coenzyme F420 content of 0.16 μmol/g VSS, respectively. The main archaeal species in the sludge samples at different OLRs varied greatly, as compared with the organisms in the inoculated sludge. The dominant archaeal species in the treated sludge at low OLRs were Methanosarcina species, whereas those at high OLRs were Methanosaeta species.
Ultrastructure of pollen of Vitis vinifera L. cv. "Picolit giallo" and its behaviour in experiments of self- and cross-pollination
Creators: name: Lombardo, Giuliana
name: Carraro, Luisa
name: Cargnello, G.
name: Bassi, Maria
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2016

description: The ultrastructure of the pollen and stigma of Vitis vinifera L. cv. "Picolit giallo" was studied by scanning and transmission electron microscopy, with the aim of finding out if they presented abnormalities which could account far the low procluctivity of this vine variety. The pollen protoplast has a normai aspect, but its wall is continuous and does not present furrows and germinative pores as pollen grains generally do. The stigma appeared normai. The presence of an uninterrupted wall most probably constitutes an obstacle to pollen germination and is likely to be one of the causes of the low fertilization incidence of "Picolit giallo". This hypothesis is supported also by the results of the experiments of self- and cross-pollination, because Picolit pollen always failed to germinate, even if put on stigmas of other vine varieties, while the pollen of these varieties germinated regularly when put on Picolit stigmas. Die Feinstruktur der Pollenkörner von Vitis vinifera L. cv. Picolit giallo und ihr Verhalten bei Versuchen zur Selbst- und Fremdbestäubung Die Vitis-vinifera-Sorte Pìcolit giallo liefert nur geringe Erträge. Um hierfür verantwortliche Abnormitäten aufzufinden, wurde die Feinstruktur von Pollenkörnern und Narbe mit Hilfe der Raster- und Transmissionselektronenmikroskopie untersucht. Der Protoplast der Pollenkörner wirkt normal, aber die Pollenwand ist von kontinuierlicher Beschaffenheit und zeigt keine Furchen oder Keimporen wie bei typischen Pollenkörnern. Die Narbe macht einen normalen Eindruck. Sehr wahrscheinlich verhindert die nicht unterbrochene Pollenwand die Pollenkeimung und ist somit eine mögliche Ursache der geringen Fertilität von Picolit giallo. Diese Vermutung wird durch Versuche zur Selbst- und Fremdbestäubung gestützt, wobei Picolit-Pollen nie keimte, auch dann nicht, wenn er auf Narben anderer Rebensorten gebracht wurde; umgekehrt keimte der Pollen solcher Sorten regelmäßig, wenn er auf Picolit-Narben übertragen wurde.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 15 No. 2 (1976): Vitis
Rentier Incomes and Financial Crises: An Empirical Examination of Trends and Cycles in Some OECD Countries
Creators: name: Epstein, Gerald
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: We present new estimates of the rentier share of national income for OECD countries for the
years between 1960 and 2000. For most countries, the rentier share of income significantly
increased during the last several decades, starting in the early 1980's and coinciding with the
shift to neo-liberal monetary and financial policies initiated by Margaret Thatcher and Paul
Volcker. There is no evidence of a negative correlation between rentier shares and non-financial
corporate shares of income. However, rentier shares do decline in those semi-industrialized
countries that experienced financial crises. These findings are consistent with the view that
financial liberalization has been associated with the increased power of an international rentier
class, whose interests are aligned with those of non-financial corporations in the richer countries,
but whose interests conflict with rentiers in developing countries that experience financial crises.
Equilibria, kinetics, and spectroscopic analyses on the uptake of aqueous arsenite by two-line ferrihydrite
Creators: name: Kim, Soon-Oh
name: Lee, Woo Chun
name: Cho, Hyen Goo
name: Byung-Tae Lee
name: Pyeong-Koo Lee
name: Choi, Sun Hee
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: Arsenite sorption from aqueous solutions was investigated using two-line ferrihydrite at room temperature, as a function of solution pH and arsenite loading. The isotherms, pH envelopes, and kinetics of arsenite sorption were characterized and its mechanism was elucidated via X-ray absorption spectroscopic studies. Arsenite sorption showed only slight pH dependence with a sorption maximum centered around pH 8.0. The Langmuir isotherm is most appropriate for arsenite sorption over the wide range of pH, indicating the homogenous and monolayer sorption of arsenite. The kinetic study demonstrated that arsenite sorption onto two-line ferrihydrite is considerably fast and the equilibrium is achieved within the reaction time of 3 h. X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectroscopy elucidated a slight change in oxidation state of arsenite for the initial concentration of 13.35 mM at pH 4. The extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy results indicate that types of surface complexes of arsenite appeared to be very similar to those proposed by the previous studies in that the bidentate binuclear corner-sharing (2C) complex is predominant at all the surface loadings. However, our EXAFS results suggest that regardless of pH, the mixed complexes of 2C and bidentate mononuclear edge-sharing surface complex (2E) as well as the 2C complex are favoured at low and intermediate surface loadings, but only the 2C complex is dominant at high surface loading. Overall, the EXAFS results support the efficient removal of arsenite by the two-line ferrihydrite through the formation of highly stable inner-sphere surface complexes, such as 2C complex.
Quel imaginaire pour la recherche ? Et pour quel futur ? Un appel à produire des utopies
Creators: name: Kühne, Nicolas
name: Stucki, Virginie
name: Gecaj, Marion
name: Bertrand, Romain
name: Margot-Cattin, Isabel
Publisher: name: Communauté pour l’Avancement de la Recherche Appliquée Francophone en Ergothérapie (CARAFE)
Year: 2024

description: Sans résumé
Untersuchungen zur Umweltabhängigkeit der stomatären Transpiration bei Reben I. Beleuchtungsstärke und Luftfeuchtigkeit
Creators: name: Düring, H.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2016

description: Bei der Sorte Italia wurde unter Klimaschrankbedingungen der Einfluß der Beleuchtungsstärke und der Luftfeuchtigkeit auf die stomatäre Transpiration untersucht. • Eine Verminderung der Beleuchtungsstärke von 6000 lx um 1700 bzw. 2800 lx führte in wenigen Minuten zu einer Erhöhung der diffusiven Resistenz; wurde die Beleuchtungsstärke wieder auf ihre Ausgangswerte erhöht, so reagierten die Stomata mit einer Senkung der diffusiven Resistenz. • Eine Erhöhung der relativen Luftfeuchtigkeit von 51 auf 92% führte bei Wassermangelpflanzen zu einer Abnahme der diffusiven Resistenz, eine Senkung der relativen Luftfeuchtigkeit auf 58% zu einer Erhöhung der diffusiven Resistenz; ausreichend bewässerte Reben zeigten keine Änderung ihrer diffusiven Resistenz. • Die Untersuchungen bestätigen die Vorstellung, daß die stomatäre Regulation nicht der Veränderung eines einzelnen Umweltfaktors zuzuschreiben ist, sondern daß sie aus einer komplexen Interdependenz äußerer und innerer Zustände resultiert. Studies on the environmentally controlled stomatal transpiration in grape vines I. Effects of light intensity and air humidity Growth chamber experiments were carried out to study the influence of light intensity and air humidity on stomatal transpiration of grape vines, var. Italia. • A reduction of light intensity from 6000 to 4300 and 3200 lx, respectively, led to an increase of diffusive resistance in a few minutes; when light intensity was raised again to 6000 lux stomata showed a decrease in their diffusive resistance. • An increase of air humidity from 51 to 92% exerted a decrease of diffusive resistance when grape vines were under water stress, while a decrease of air humidity from 92 to 58% caused an increase of diffusive resistance in stressed plants. Unstressed grape vines showed no alterations of diffusive resistance to changes in air humidity. • The investigations confirm the conception that stomatal regulation cannot be attributed to changes of a single environmental factor, but is the result of a complex interdependance of external and internal factors.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 15 No. 2 (1976): Vitis
Candida albicans biofilm formation on peptide functionalized polydimethylsiloxane
Creators: name: Prijck, Kristof De
name: Smet, Nele De
name: Rymarczyk-Machal, Monika
name: Gonzalez Van Driessche
name: Devreese, Bart
name: Coenye, Tom
name: Schacht, Etienne
name: Nelis, Hans J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2009
Subjects: Marine Biology

description: In order to prevent biofilm formation by Candida albicans, several cationic peptides were covalently bound to polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). The salivary peptide histatin 5 and two synthetic variants (Dhvar 4 and Dhvar 5) were used to prepare peptide functionalized PDMS using 4-azido-2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-benzoic acid (AFB) as an interlinkage molecule. In addition, polylysine-, polyarginine-, and polyhistidine-PDMS surfaces were prepared. Dhvar 4 functionalized PDMS yielded the highest reduction of the number of C. albicans biofilm cells in the Modified Robbins Device. Amino acid analysis demonstrated that the amount of peptide immobilized on the modified disks was in the nanomole range. Poly-d-lysine PDMS, in particular the homopeptides with low molecular weight (2500 and 9600) showed the highest activity against C. albicans biofilms, with reductions of 93% and 91%, respectively. The results indicate that the reductions are peptide dependent.
Trends In The Rentier Income Share In OECD Countries, 1960-2000
Creators: name: Power, Dorothy
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: This paper presents the first set of estimates of the rentier share of income for twenty-nine
OECD countries. We define rentier share to mean the income accruing to financial institutions
and the holders of financial assets. The years of coverage vary by country, but span the period
1960-2000. The paper presents the estimates, describes in detail the methods used to construct
the series, and presents comprehensive information on our data sources. In addition, we compare
the trends in rentier shares with the share of income going to non-financial corporations. Overall
we find that the rentier share of income rose in most countries between the 1960's and 1970's on
the one hand, and the 1980's and 1990's, on the other. At the same time, movements in rentier
income over this period vary from country to country, and are quite variable over time. We also
present estimates for rentier shares including capital gains for a subset of countries in the 1980's
and 1990's. Including capital gains substantially alters the trend of rentier shares in the 1990's, in
most cases, causing them to increase.
Induction of inflorescence by CCC application on primary shoots of grapevines
Creators: name: Sugiura, A.
name: Utsunomiya, N.
name: Tomana, T.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2016

description: Repeated CCC application at 500 ppm under the conditions of extended lang days and lower temperature of about 20 °C specifically induced inflorescences in place of tendrils on extending primary shoots of young graftings or cuttings of Muscat of Alexandria grapes. Inflorescence formation in the winter buds was much greater at 30 °C than at 20 °C along the whole shoot. CCC application increased inflorescence formation remarkably at either temperature, the effect being more pronounced at 20 °C. Die Induktion von Infloreszenzen durch Behandlung der Haupttriebe von Reben mit CCC Junge Pfropfreben oder Stecklinge der Sorte Muskat von Alexandria, deren Haupttriebe sich im Streekungswachstum befanden, wurden wiederholt mit 500 ppm CCC behandelt. Hierdurch wurden im ausgedehnten Langtag und in einem niedrigeren Temperaturbereich (ca. 20 °C) anstelle von Ranken speziell Infloreszenzen induziert. Längs des ganzen Triebes wurden in den Winterknospen bei 30 °C (ohne CCC-Behandlung) viel mehr Infloreszenzen angelegt als bei 20 °C. Durch CCC wurde die Infloreszenzbildung in beiden Temperaturbereichen beträchtlich gefördert, wobei für 20 °C eine auffälligere Wirkung festzustellen war.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 15 No. 2 (1976): Vitis
Individual Country Technical notes For: Trends In The Rentier Income Share In OECD Countries, 1960-2000
Creators: name: Power, Dorothy
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: This paper presents individual country notes for the paper "Trends in Rentier Shares in OECD Countries,
1966-2000 (Power, Epstein and Abrena, 2003). Meant for the specialist, these notes explain data sources
and methods for each country in our sample.
Habits: Pragmatist approaches from cognitive science, neuroscience, and social theory. Un livre de Fausto Caruana et Italo Testa, publié en 2020
Creators: name: Sorita, Eric
Publisher: name: Communauté pour l’Avancement de la Recherche Appliquée Francophone en Ergothérapie (CARAFE)
Year: 2024

description: "Habits" is a collective book coordinated by Fausto Caruana and Italo Testa. The overall aim of the book is to revisit the notion of habits in the light of the so-called "pragmatic turn" at the crossroads of cognitive science, neuroscience and social science.
This book, published in English in 2021, is written by 28 authors working in different fields (cognitive sciences, neurosciences, philosophy, human sciences, medicine...) and from numerous universities around the world.
This book is not written by occupational therapists, but it highlights the interest shown by other scientists from the cognitive and medical sciences, neurosciences and human or social sciences in notions that are also part of our approach to occupation.
In the end, the content of this book raises the question of how occupational therapy and occupation science can communicate and share knowledge with these different sciences, based on common conceptual and epistemological foundations.
The New Face of Unequal Exchange: Low-Wage Manufacturing, Commodity Chains, and Global Inequality
Creators: name: Heintz, James
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: The institutional structure of global commodity chains and cross-border
production networks has a profound impact on how the benefits of
globalized production are distributed. This paper engages with this issue
by developing a model that combines the insights of earlier unequal
exchange theorists and new work on global commodity chains to clarify
the distributive dynamics of the expansion of low-wage manufacturing in
the developing world. In this framework, the ability of productivity-led
development to raise employment incomes in low-wage manufacturing is
constrained and depends on how the benefits of productivity improvements
are captured – as lower prices for consumers or higher rents for brandname
multinationals. In contrast, consumption-led growth in relatively
affluent consumer markets will contribute to income convergence when
demand for manufactured consumer imports is sufficiently income elastic.
However, in the long-run, labor market, macroeconomic, and
environmental constraints will likely compromise this form of export-led
employment growth.
Palaeo-ice streams in the north-eastern Laurentide Ice Sheet
Creators: name: Angelis, Hernán De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Physical Geography
subject: 40602 Glaciology

description: This thesis presents a palaeoglaciological study aimed to determine the location, geometry and temporal evolution of palaeo-ice streams of the north-easternmost Laurentide Ice Sheet. The work was accomplished through the geomorphological interpretation of satellite imagery over 3.19 x 106 km2 of the Canadian Arctic, using a glaciological inversion scheme. Ice streams were active in this region during most of the time between the Last Glacial Maximum and the last deglaciation. A web of ice streams and inter-ice stream areas existed. Three major ice stream networks are identified: the M'Clintock Channel, Gulf of Boothia – Lancaster Sound and Hudson Strait. The M'Clintock Channel bears the most complex landform record, comprising three generations of palaeo-ice streams. Their location was weakly controlled by the subglacial topography and their geometry was determined by frozen-bed portions of the ice sheet, thus providing evidence for pure ice streams in the Laurentide Ice Sheet. In contrast, the more pronounced relief of the Gulf of Boothia – Lancaster Sound corridor supported topographically controlled ice streams. The landform record on emerged land along Hudson Strait is insufficient to support the existence of ice streams. It is therefore proposed that ice streams were constrained within the deep parts of the strait while flanked by cold-based zones on the margins. Small transient ice streams on Baffin and Prince of Wales islands drained local remnant ice caps during the collapse of the ice sheet. Analysis of the controls on the location and flow of palaeo-ice streams suggests that the interaction between the subglacial topography and thermal state of the substrate plays a more fundamental role than the geology. It is concluded that the behaviour of ice streams cannot be explained in terms of environmental controls alone, but the complex dynamics of ice stream shear margins and onset zones must be considered.
Citation:De Angelis, Hernán. 2007. "Palaeo-ice streams in the north-eastern Laurentide Ice Sheet." Doctoral dissertation, Stockholms University. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.825392
Informalization, Economic Growth and the Challenge of Creating Viable Labor Standards in Developing Countries
Creators: name: Heintz, James
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: Over recent decades, there has been the substantial rise in the proportion of people
engaged in what is termed informal employment, generating a broad trend toward
“informalization” of labor market conditions in developing countries, even when economic
growth is proceeding. We consider the relationship between the rise of informalization and the
corresponding ascendancy of neoliberal policies in developing countries, focusing in particular on
how the decline in average per capita GDP growth associated with neoliberalism has fostered
informalization. We then explore policy measures for raising the proportion of decent jobs with
core social protections in developing countries—which means, as we argue, reversing the process
of informalization. We examine policy measures in two areas: raising the rate of economic
growth and improving the regulation of labor markets.
Evaluating Living Wage Laws in the United States: Good Intentions and Economic Reality in Conflict?
Creators: name: Pollin, Robert
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: This paper first examines the question “what is a living wage” and
provides a range of specific dollar amounts derived a conceptual assessment of the term. I then
provide a series of cost estimates of living wage laws in various cities. Based on these cost
estimates, I examine a set of alternative adjustments that covered firms could make to absorb
these costs, including raising prices and productivity, redistributing the firm’s income more
equally, laying off employees and relocating out of the area covered by the law. I draw upon both
prospective and retrospective evidence to reach an overall assessment of the benefits of living
wage laws relative to their costs.
Palaeo-ice streams in the north-eastern Laurentide Ice Sheet
Creators: name: Angelis, Hernán De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Physical Geography
subject: 40602 Glaciology

description: This thesis presents a palaeoglaciological study aimed to determine the location, geometry and temporal evolution of palaeo-ice streams of the north-easternmost Laurentide Ice Sheet. The work was accomplished through the geomorphological interpretation of satellite imagery over 3.19 x 106 km2 of the Canadian Arctic, using a glaciological inversion scheme. Ice streams were active in this region during most of the time between the Last Glacial Maximum and the last deglaciation. A web of ice streams and inter-ice stream areas existed. Three major ice stream networks are identified: the M'Clintock Channel, Gulf of Boothia – Lancaster Sound and Hudson Strait. The M'Clintock Channel bears the most complex landform record, comprising three generations of palaeo-ice streams. Their location was weakly controlled by the subglacial topography and their geometry was determined by frozen-bed portions of the ice sheet, thus providing evidence for pure ice streams in the Laurentide Ice Sheet. In contrast, the more pronounced relief of the Gulf of Boothia – Lancaster Sound corridor supported topographically controlled ice streams. The landform record on emerged land along Hudson Strait is insufficient to support the existence of ice streams. It is therefore proposed that ice streams were constrained within the deep parts of the strait while flanked by cold-based zones on the margins. Small transient ice streams on Baffin and Prince of Wales islands drained local remnant ice caps during the collapse of the ice sheet. Analysis of the controls on the location and flow of palaeo-ice streams suggests that the interaction between the subglacial topography and thermal state of the substrate plays a more fundamental role than the geology. It is concluded that the behaviour of ice streams cannot be explained in terms of environmental controls alone, but the complex dynamics of ice stream shear margins and onset zones must be considered.
Citation:De Angelis, Hernán. 2007. "Palaeo-ice streams in the north-eastern Laurentide Ice Sheet." Doctoral dissertation, Stockholms University. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.825392
Alternatives to Inflation Targeting Monetary Policy for Stable and Egalitarian Growth: A Brief Research Summary
Creators: name: Epstein, Gerald
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: Many countries in the developing world have adopted an approach to
monetary policy that focuses on maintaining a low level of inflation, to the
exclusion of other important objectives such as employment generation,
increasing investment or reducing poverty, despite the widespread
evidence that moderate levels of inflation have few or no costs. Some have
even adopted formal “inflation targeting”, an approach which commits the
central bank to hitting a fairly rigid inflation target, often as low as 2%.
However, this focus has led to slower economic growth and lower
employment growth, without succeeding in lowering inflation at a smaller
economic cost than traditional methods of inflation fighting. Clearly, it is
time to find an alternative to inflation targeting.
This paper presents the real targeting approach to monetary policy, which
I argue is superior alternative to the costly and ineffective inflation
targeting approach. Under this real targeting approach, central banks are
given a country appropriate target such as employment growth,
unemployment, real GDP or investment, usually subject to an inflation
constraint. Given these two targets – the real target and the constraint – the
central bank will find multiple tools to reach these targets, designing new
tools and rediscovering old tools such as asset based reserve requirements
and other credit allocation techniques. The real targeting approach might
also be complemented by other policies, such as capital management
techniques to deal with possible capital flight. The real targeting approach
has the potential to make central bank policy more transparent, more
accountable, and more socially useful than most currently existing central
bank structures.
PALAEO-ICE STREAMS IN THE NORTH-EASTERN LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET
Creators: name: Angelis, Hernán De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Physical Geography

description: This thesis presents a palaeoglaciological study aimed to determine the location, geometry and temporal evolution of palaeo-ice streams of the north-easternmost Laurentide Ice Sheet. The work was accomplished through the geomorphological interpretation of satellite imagery over 3.19 x 106 km2 of the Canadian Arctic, using a glaciological inversion scheme. Ice streams were active in this region during most of the time between the Last Glacial Maximum and the last deglaciation. A web of ice streams and inter-ice stream areas existed. Three major ice stream networks are identified: the M'Clintock Channel, Gulf of Boothia – Lancaster Sound and Hudson Strait. The M'Clintock Channel bears the most complex landform record, comprising three generations of palaeo-ice streams. Their location was weakly controlled by the subglacial topography and their geometry was determined by frozen-bed portions of the ice sheet, thus providing evidence for pure ice streams in the Laurentide Ice Sheet. In contrast, the more pronounced relief of the Gulf of Boothia – Lancaster Sound corridor supported topographically controlled ice streams. The landform record on emerged land along Hudson Strait is insufficient to support the existence of ice streams. It is therefore proposed that ice streams were constrained within the deep parts of the strait while flanked by cold-based zones on the margins. Small transient ice streams on Baffin and Prince of Wales islands drained local remnant ice caps during the collapse of the ice sheet. Analysis of the controls on the location and flow of palaeo-ice streams suggests that the interaction between the subglacial topography and thermal state of the substrate plays a more fundamental role than the geology. It is concluded that the behaviour of ice streams cannot be explained in terms of environmental controls alone, but the complex dynamics of ice stream shear margins and onset zones must be considered.
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Creators: name: Regal Keto Shark Tank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Regal Keto Shark Tank
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