cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A systematic review of improper eye drop application and role of pharmacists for patient education
Creators: name: Al-Taie, Anmar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: The application of eye drop is encountered with many technique errors, which can lead to decreased therapeutic response and treatment failure. Community pharmacists can play a pivotal role in providing appropriate knowledge and counselling services for the proper and effective use of eye drop. The aim of this systematic review was to assess the most important aspects of technique errors regarding eye drop application, along with the important role and impact of community pharmacist-led interventions towards the provision of patient education and counselling regarding the proper application of this topical preparation in clinical practice. PRISMA criteria were used to conduct a systematic search on the administration of eye drop through different databases, including Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed between the years 1990 and 2023. A total of 22 articles were included in this study. Nearly three-quarters of the studies discussed the improper technique and non-adherence for eye drop instillation (77.3%). Five studies discussed the interventions by health care professionals for proper eye drop instillation technique (22.7%). Two studies discussed the intervention by community pharmacist in patient education and improved training on the correct instillation of eye drop. There are different aspects of application errors encountered by patients while using eye drop, particularly in glaucoma elderly patients, and polypharmacy. These application errors could lead to a diverse range of complications, such as poor medication, ocular infections, increased health care expenses, reduced treatment effectiveness, and lower health outcomes. There is a potential role of pharmacist-led interventions in minimising procedures associated with improper technique and application of eye drops to avoid decreased therapeutic response and treatment failure.
Additional file 1 of Altitude effects of localized source currents on magnetotelluric responses
Creators: name: Sato, Shinya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. This additional file contains MT responses at periods of 20 s (Figs. S1–S4) and 200 s (Figs. S5–S8)obtained with resistivity values of 100 and 500 Ωm.
Resource Use Efficiency of Millet/Cowpea Intercropping in Niger State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Jirgi, A.J.
name: Ogundeji, Abiodun A.
name: Viljoen, Machiel F.
name: Adiele, M.A.
name: Jirgi, A.J.
name: Ogundeji, Abiodun A.
name: Viljoen, Machiel F.
name: Adiele, M.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The study examined the profitability and resources-use efficiency of millet/cowpea mixed farmers production in Niger state Nigeria. The primary data for the study was obtained using structured questionnaire administered to 80 randomly sampled farmers in Kotangora Local Government Area of Niger State. Farm budgeting technique and exponential production function were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the estimated gross margin, net farm income, gross ratio, operating ratio and returns on investment are N57,542.42 per hectare, N54,240.40 per hectare, 0.37, 0.31 and 2.15. The regression result shows that seed and family labour were statistically significant at 1% level of probability, while farm size and hired labour were statistically significant at 5% level of probability. The allocative efficiency results show that seeds, family labour and agrochemicals were under-utilized. Farm size and hired labour were over-utilized. Efficiency and productivity could be improved if the farmers use more seed, family labour, agrochemicals, less of hired labour and land.
Solitary routes to chimera state
Creators: name: Schülen, Leonhard
name: Gerdes, Alexander
name: Wolfrum, Matthias
name: Zakharova, Anna
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Coherence/incoherence patterns
subject: coupled oscillator systems
subject: 89.75.Fb
subject: 05.45.Xt

description: We show how solitary states in a system of globally coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators can lead to the emergence of chimera states. By a numerical bifurcation analysis of a suitable reduced system in the thermodynamic limit we demonstrate how solitary states, after emerging from the synchronous state, become chaotic in a period-doubling cascade. Subsequently, states with a single chaotic oscillator give rise to states with an increasing number of incoherent chaotic oscillators. In large systems, these chimera states show extensive chaos. We demonstrate the coexistence of many of such chaotic attractors with different Lyapunov dimensions, due to different numbers of incoherent oscillators.
Recovering Joint Probability of Discrete Random Variables from Pairwise Marginals
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Shahana
name: Fu, Xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Learning the joint probability of random variables (RVs) is the cornerstone of statistical signal processing and machine learning. However, direct nonparametric estimation for high-dimensional joint probability is in general impossible, due to the curse of dimensionality. Recent work has proposed to recover the joint probability mass function (PMF) of an arbitrary number of RVs from three-dimensional marginals, leveraging the algebraic properties of low-rank tensor decomposition and the (unknown) dependence among the RVs. Nonetheless, accurately estimating three-dimensional marginals can still be costly in terms of sample complexity, affecting the performance of this line of work in practice in the sample-starved regime. Using three-dimensional marginals also involves challenging tensor decomposition problems whose tractability is unclear. This work puts forth a new framework for learning the joint PMF using only pairwise marginals, which naturally enjoys a lower sample complexity relative to the third-order ones. A coupled nonnegative matrix factorization (CNMF) framework is developed, and its joint PMF recovery guarantees under various conditions are analyzed. Our method also features a Gram--Schmidt (GS)-like algorithm that exhibits competitive runtime performance. The algorithm is shown to provably recover the joint PMF up to bounded error in finite iterations, under reasonable conditions. It is also shown that a recently proposed economical expectation maximization (EM) algorithm guarantees to improve upon the GS-like algorithm's output, thereby further lifting up the accuracy and efficiency. Real-data experiments are employed to showcase the effectiveness.
Profitability analysis of different reproduction methods with Dohne Merinos
Creators: name: Henning, Janus I.F.
name: Mare, Frikkie A.
name: Willemse, B.J.
name: Henning, Janus I.F.
name: Mare, Frikkie A.
name: Willemse, B.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: The management of new technology for farming is important, as it has an influence on the profitability of the farm. With the development of new technology, new breeding methods have been developed and have an influence on the profitability on a sheep farm. This article studies the difference in gross margins for three kinds of reproduction methods with sheep namely: Conventional, Artificial Insemination and Cervical Insemination. Four different scenarios have been developed and for each of the scenarios the gross margins have been calculated, according to the assumptions made in the scenario. This resulted in the comparison of the new breeding technology against the conventional technology, taking into account the all the different factors. It was found that with the use of new breeding technological methods in sheep (A.I. and C.I.) a producer can increase the profitability of his herd, despite the higher capital investment required.
Rapid rotation of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a harmonic plus quartic trap
Creators: name: Fetter, Alexander L.
name: Jackson, B.
name: Stringari, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A two-dimensional rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensate in an anharmonic trap with quadratic and quartic radial confinement is studied analytically with the Thomas-Fermi approximation and numerically with the full time-independent Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The quartic trap potential allows the rotation speed $Ω$ to exceed the radial harmonic frequency $ω_\perp$. In the regime $Ω\gtrsim ω_\perp$, the condensate contains a dense vortex array (approximated as solid-body rotation for the analytical studies). At a critical angular velocity $Ω_h$, a central hole appears in the condensate. Numerical studies confirm the predicted value of $Ω_h$, even for interaction parameters that are not in the Thomas-Fermi limit. The behavior is also investigated at larger angular velocities, where the system is expected to undergo a transition to a giant vortex (with pure irrotational flow).
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
title: 02_0365
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
The intermediate-age open clusters Ruprecht 4, Ruprecht 7 and Pismis 15
Creators: name: Carraro, Giovanni
name: Geisler, Doug
name: Baume, Gustavo
name: Vazquez, Ruben
name: Moitinho, Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on $BVI$ CCD photometry to $V=22.0$ for 3 fields centered on the region of the Galactic star clusters Ruprecht~4, Ruprecht~7 and Pismis~15 and on 3 displaced control fields. Ruprecht~4 and Pismis~15 have never been studied before, and we provide for the first time estimates of their fundamental parameters, namely, radial extent, age, distance and reddening. Ruprecht~7 (Berkeley~33) however was studied by Mazur et al. (1993). We find that the three clusters are all of intermediate age (0.8-1.3 Gyr), and with a metallicity close to or lower than solar.
description: 8 pages, 12 eps figures, in press in MNRAS
A Consumer-oriented Study of the South African Beef Value Chain
Creators: name: Labuschagne, Anita
name: Louw, Andre
name: Ndanga, Leah Z.B.
name: Labuschagne, Anita
name: Louw, Andre
name: Ndanga, Leah Z.B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: South African beef
subject: supply chain

description: The South African beef industry, like many other South African supply chains, is challenged by the increased complexity and demand brought about by globalization, increased volumes and competition, shortage of skilled staff and pressures to meet changing customer needs. The power has shifted from the supply side to the consumer. The consumer has been empowered by greater knowledge. Consumer needs are changing. A combination of these two facts implies that not only the retailer, but also the supply chain as a whole must make sure that it is aligned to deliver customer value, in order to ensure sustainable competitiveness and survival, manage risks and ensure acceptable returns. Competition today is based on competing supply chains. The focus of this study is to define the South African consumer and their needs, so that the beef industry and in particular the supply chain participants, are able to identify opportunities to improve the delivery of customer value. This study attempts to determine the extent to which the South African consumer needs and demands regarding beef have changed, and whether the beef value chain is positioned to meet these changes. The supply chain concept, market orientation, meat quality and consumer food trends form the theoretical framework of this study; an industry analysis provides the context in which agri-businesses function; a network analysis provides a better understanding of the roles and value-adding activities that are delivered by chain participants; and an analysis of the South African consumer establishes the composition of the market, consumer needs and disposable income issues that are critical to finding the optimal solution that is sustainable enough to meet the changing environment. Although the industry has a good status, good management practices can further increase consumer confidence in beef.
Einführung des cloudbasierten Bibliothekssystems Alma in Berlin – ein Erfahrungsbericht
Creators: name: Dartsch, Maria
name: Dulski, Sebastian
name: Engels, Frauke
name: Gran, Meike
name: Kende, Jiri
name: Lohrum, Stefan
name: Porth, Robert
name: Ristau, Ute
name: Rüter, Christian
name: Sabisch, Andreas
name: Stumm, Birgit
name: Taylor, Viola
name: Voß, Michael
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Alma
subject: cloudbasierte Bibliothekssysteme
subject: Berliner Universitätsbibliotheken
subject: cloud-based library systems
subject: Berlin University Libraries
subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften
subject: 600 Technik, Technologie

description: Die enge Zusammenarbeit der vier Berliner Universitätsbibliotheken [Freie Universität Berlin (FU), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), Technische Universität Berlin (TU), Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK)] reicht weit zurück. Bereits vor der Jahrtausendwende haben die Berliner Universitätsbibliotheken (UBs) gemeinsam das Bibliothekssystem Aleph 500 ausgewählt und implementiert, danach folgten weitere Systeme – das Linking System SFX, die Digitale Bibliothek MetaLib und das Bibliotheksportal Primo. Es war daher folgerichtig und selbstverständlich, dass auch die Auswahl und Implementierung eines neuen Bibliothekssystems in enger Abstimmung und Zusammenarbeit erfolgte. Die Erfahrungen bei Vertragsverhandlungen und Implementierung von Alma sind Gegenstand des folgenden Berichtes.
description: As regards implementing new library technology, the Berlin University libraries have been working closely together for more than 20 years. It was the case for the implementation of the legacy system Aleph 500, the linking system SFX, the digital library MetaLib and the library portal Primo, and therefore it was a matter of course to continue the close cooperation during the implementation of the new cloud-based library system, too. The experience gained during the contract negotiations and the implementation project, and lessons learned are the focus of this report.
Quadrupolar interactions in heavy fermion metal YbRh2Si2
Creators: name: Radwanski, R. J.
name: Ropka, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the experimentally revealed by Sichelschmidt et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 156401, g tensor, g_perpendicular=3.561 and g_parallel=0.17, at 5 K by means of crystal field interactions of the 4f13 configuration of the Yb3+ ion of YbRh2Si2 in a slightly orthorhombically distorted tetragonal crystal field. We have shown that the temperature dependence of the quadrupolar interactions Q(T) of the Yb nucleous will help to distinguish between Gamma_7 and Gamma_6 ground state. For the Gamma_7 ground state Q(T) is expected to exhibits an anomalous dependence. Keywords: heavy fermion, crystal field, quadrupolar moment,YbRh2Si2
description: 2 pages LaTeX(Elsevier Science class), 1 figure
An OLAP-based PM prototype for cost control and manpower allocation
Creators: name: Nie, Hao (Howard)
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In the past decades great efforts have been made in applying Information Technology (IT) in the construction industry. The existing IT-integrated PM tools seem to be helpful to improve the efficiency of a single project control task, such as scheduling, but they lack a level of integration and coordination that can help manage construction projects from multiple perspectives in a unified manner. Although the OLAP (On Line Analytical Processing) technology has been widely used for business management, known as "Business Intelligence" (Bl), it has not been well adopted by the construction industry in the project management domain. The main objective of this thesis research is to test and evaluate whether the fast growing OLAP technology can facilitate project management in the construction industry, at least in some selected aspects. A Web-based, OLAP-integrated PM prototype was established to do the testing and evaluation. A data warehouse with multidimensional data structure was established in Microsoft Access, followed by the design and processing of OLAP cubes through Microsoft SQL Sever Analysis Services. The Microsoft Bl Portal was utilized as the front-end OLAP solution for multidimensional data representation and analysis. Two OLAP cubes were developed in the prototype for project cost control and manpower allocation analysis respectively, and the testing and evaluation was carried out by combining the OLAP features with several realistic project management scenarios. The thesis concludes that the OLAP technology does offer potential improvements to project management, but a great deal of future work is needed to extend the prototype to a well-rounded system. The benefits of this OLAP-base PM prototype, along with its shortcomings and limitations, are summarized at the end of the thesis. Also included is the discussion and suggestion of the future research work in this area.
Additional file 3 of Duration of antibiotic therapy in critically ill patients: a randomized controlled trial of a clinical and C-reactive protein-based protocol versus an evidence-based best practice strategy without biomarkers
Creators: name: Borges, Isabela
name: Carneiro, Rafael
name: Bergo, Rafael
name: Martins, Larissa
name: Colosimo, Enrico
name: Oliveira, Carolina
name: Saturnino, Saulo
name: Andrade, Marcus Vinícius
name: Ravetti, Cecilia
name: Vandack Nobre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3. Sample size calculation.
Forward-backward equations for nonlinear propagation in axially-invariant optical systems
Creators: name: Ferrando, Albert
name: Zacares, Mario
name: de Cordoba, Pedro Fernandez
name: Binosi, Daniele
name: Montero, Alvaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel general framework to deal with forward and backward components of the electromagnetic field in axially-invariant nonlinear optical systems, which include those having any type of linear or nonlinear transverse inhomogeneities. With a minimum amount of approximations, we obtain a system of two first-order equations for forward and backward components explicitly showing the nonlinear couplings among them. The modal approach used allows for an effective reduction of the dimensionality of the original problem from 3+1 (three spatial dimensions plus one time dimension) to 1+1 (one spatial dimension plus one frequency dimension). The new equations can be written in a spinor Dirac-like form, out of which conserved quantities can be calculated in an elegant manner. Finally, these new equations inherently incorporate spatio-temporal couplings, so that they can be easily particularized to deal with purely temporal or purely spatial effects. Nonlinear forward pulse propagation and non-paraxial evolution of spatial structures are analyzed as examples.
description: 11 pages
Observable form of pulses emitted from relativistic collapsing objects
Creators: name: Frolov, V. P.
name: Lee, H. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we discuss observable characteristics of the radiation emitted from a surface of a collapsing object. We study a simplified model in which a radiation of massless particles has a sharp in time profile and it happens at the surface at the same moment of comoving time. Since the radiating surface has finite size the observed radiation will occur during some finite time. Its redshift and bending angle are affected by the strong gravitational field. We obtain a simple expression for the observed flux of the radiation as a function of time. To find an explicit expression for the flux we develop an analytical approximation for the bending angle and time delay for null rays emitted by a collapsing surface. In the case of the bending angle this approximation is an improved version of the earlier proposed Beloborodov-Leahy-approximation. For rays emitted at $R > 2R_g$ the accuracy of the proposed improved approximations for the bending angle and time delay is of order (or less) than 2-3%. By using this approximation we obtain an approximate analytical expression for the observed flux and study its properties.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures;Typos in equations and refrences are corrected. No change in the results and discussions
On a Classification of Irreducible Almost Commutative Geometries III
Creators: name: Jureit, Jan-Hendrik
name: Schucker, Thomas
name: Stephan, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend a classification of irreducible, almost commutative geometries whose spectral action is dynamically non-degenerate to internal algebras that have four simple summands.
description: 10 pages LaTeX, 2 figures
Additional file 4 of Duration of antibiotic therapy in critically ill patients: a randomized controlled trial of a clinical and C-reactive protein-based protocol versus an evidence-based best practice strategy without biomarkers
Creators: name: Borges, Isabela
name: Carneiro, Rafael
name: Bergo, Rafael
name: Martins, Larissa
name: Colosimo, Enrico
name: Oliveira, Carolina
name: Saturnino, Saulo
name: Andrade, Marcus Vinícius
name: Ravetti, Cecilia
name: Vandack Nobre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 4. Definitions of the response variables.
Spatial patterns and scale freedom in a Prisoner's Dilemma cellular automata with Pavlovian strategies
Creators: name: Fort, H.
name: Viola, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A cellular automaton in which cells represent agents playing the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game following the simple "win-stay, loose-shift" strategy is studied. Individuals with binary behavior, such as they can either cooperate (C) or defect (D), play repeatedly with their neighbors (Von Neumann's and Moore's neighborhoods). Their utilities in each round of the game are given by a rescaled payoff matrix described by a single parameter Tau, which measures the ratio of 'temptation to defect' to 'reward for cooperation'. Depending on the region of the parameter space Tau, the system self-organizes - after a transient - into dynamical equilibrium states characterized by different definite fractions of C agents (2 states for the Von Neumann neighborhood and 4 for Moore neighborhood). For some ranges of Tau the cluster size distributions, the power spectrums P(f) and the perimeter-area curves follow power-law scalings. Percolation below threshold is also found for D agent clusters. We also analyze the asynchronous dynamics version of this model and compare results.
description: Accepted for publication in JSTAT
Costs and Returns Analysis for South Carolina Shrimp Trawlers
Creators: name: Henry, Mark S.
name: Ferreira, Wilder N.
name: Barkley, David L.
name: Henry, Mark S.
name: Ferreira, Wilder N.
name: Barkley, David L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This document provides an explanation on how shrimp trawler owners/operators can analyze the effects of changing costs and ex-vessel prices on the profitability of operating a shrimp trawler. An Excel spreadsheet is provided with sample boat costs and revenues. The spreadsheet allows the trawler owner/operator to enter costs and revenues data for their own vessel. This can be used to estimate average costs of landing a pound of shrimp by the vessel owner/operator and the profit (loss) per pound of landed shrimp. As input costs vary for key items like fuel, ice, BRDS, etc, the trawler owner can estimate the impact of these input costs on the total average cost of landing a pound of shrimp. Similarly, as the ex-vessel (landed) price for a pound of shrimp changes, the vessel owner/operator can estimate the impact of these price changes on the profitability of operating the trawler.
Predicting spike times of a detailed conductance-based neuron model driven by stochastic spike arrival
Creators: name: Jolivet, Renaud
name: Gerstner, Wulfram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Reduced models of neuronal activity such as Integrate-and-Fire models allow a description of neuronal dynamics in simple, intuitive terms and are easy to simulate numerically. We present a method to fit an Integrate-and-Fire-type model of neuronal activity, namely a modified version of the Spike Response Model, to a detailed Hodgkin-Huxley-type neuron model driven by stochastic spike arrival. In the Hogkin-Huxley model, spike arrival at the synapse is modeled by a change of synaptic conductance. For such conductance spike input, more than 70% of the postsynaptic action potentials can be predicted with the correct timing by the Integrate-and-Fire-type model. The modified Spike Response Model is based upon a linearized theory of conductance-driven Integrate-and-Fire neuron.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures
The SMEs Performance by the New Technologies Application: The Case of Olive-Oil in Puglia
Creators: name: De Felice, Annunziata
name: Martucci, Isabella
name: De Felice, Annunziata
name: Martucci, Isabella
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: SMEs Performance
subject: ICT
subject: Olive-Oil of Puglia
subject: Local system
subject: Knowledge
subject: E-Commerce

description: Since the facility for exchanging information and sharing knowledge increases both the competitiveness of companies and worker productivity, the opportunities that information and communication technology (ICT) offers for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) cannot be neglected. From the SMEs, operating in traditional sectors, generally located in the South, we have selected those in the olive-oil sector, to measure the use of ICT and, in particularly, the development of E-commerce. The aim of this paper is to show the application and development of Internet and E-Commerce in the olive-oil sector of Puglia and to verify if companies are creating new network-like relations which can from a local productive system. In the first part theoretical aspects of competitive advantages from the New Technologies adoption are analyzed; in the second the results of a descriptive analysis based on a data-set of information at the firm level built up integrating interviews and balance sheets are discussed.
Consumer Behaviour towards Own Label: monitoring the Greek experience
Creators: name: Boutsouki, Christina
name: Zotos, Yorgos
name: Masouti, Zafeiria
name: Boutsouki, Christina
name: Zotos, Yorgos
name: Masouti, Zafeiria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Private label
subject: consumer attitude
subject: Greece
subject: food retailing

description: In Greece, the traditional perceptions of private label were once of low quality, unbranded alternatives, attracting the most cost-conscious consumers. In today’s private label market, however, a different level of products has emerged – the premium “branded” private label product. Based on a consumer survey conducted in Greece, the current study discusses consumer’s attitude and satisfaction with respect to private label products. Frequency of purchase and consumer characteristics are also discussed in light of empirical evidence.
Additional file 1 of Duration of antibiotic therapy in critically ill patients: a randomized controlled trial of a clinical and C-reactive protein-based protocol versus an evidence-based best practice strategy without biomarkers
Creators: name: Borges, Isabela
name: Carneiro, Rafael
name: Bergo, Rafael
name: Martins, Larissa
name: Colosimo, Enrico
name: Oliveira, Carolina
name: Saturnino, Saulo
name: Andrade, Marcus Vinícius
name: Ravetti, Cecilia
name: Vandack Nobre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Inclusion and exclusion criteria.
The Four-Loop QCD Beta-Function and Anomalous Dimensions
Creators: name: Czakon, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The four-loop beta-function of quantum chromodynamics is calculated and agreement is found with the previous result. The anomalous dimensions of the quark-gluon vertex, and quark, gluon and ghost fields are given for a general compact simple Lie group.
description: 14 pages
Additional file 2 of Duration of antibiotic therapy in critically ill patients: a randomized controlled trial of a clinical and C-reactive protein-based protocol versus an evidence-based best practice strategy without biomarkers
Creators: name: Borges, Isabela
name: Carneiro, Rafael
name: Bergo, Rafael
name: Martins, Larissa
name: Colosimo, Enrico
name: Oliveira, Carolina
name: Saturnino, Saulo
name: Andrade, Marcus Vinícius
name: Ravetti, Cecilia
name: Vandack Nobre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2. Antibiotic therapy time provided for the control (best practice) group.
The Relationship between Direct Payments and Efficiency on Swiss Farms
Creators: name: Ferjani, Ali
name: Ferjani, Ali
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Switzerland
subject: farms
subject: direct payments
subject: technical efficiency
subject: DEA.

description: Economic theory suggests several possible mechanisms through which direct government farm payments might influence the efficiency and structural change in agriculture. This study estimates identify the main determinants of efficiency, particularly, what effect farm payments have had on efficiency and farm structure by using a farm-level Tobit model for 1990 to 2001. The results suggest that the inclusion of direct payments does not cause a change in returns to scale of the underlying technology. Nevertheless, results find evidence of effects of direct payments on efficiency. Farms that received greater direct payments were less efficient on aggregate than other farms.
Are there ghosts in the self-accelerating brane universe?
Creators: name: Koyama, Kazuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spectrum of gravitational perturbations about a vacuum de Sitter brane with the induced 4D Einstein-Hilbert term, in a 5D Minkowski spacetime (DGP model). We consider solutions that include a self-accelerating univese, where the accelerating expansion of the universe is realized without introducing a cosmological constant on the brane. The mass of the discrete mode for the spin-2 graviton is calculated for various $Hr_c$, where $H$ is the Hubble parameter and $r_c$ is the cross-over scale determined by the ratio between the 5D Newton constant and the 4D Newton constant. We show that, if we introduce a positive cosmological constant on the brane ($Hr_c >1$), the spin-2 graviton has mass in the range $0 < m^2 < 2H^2$ and there is a normalisable brane fluctuation mode with mass $m^2=2 H^2$. Although the brane fluctuation mode is healthy, the spin-2 graviton has a helicity-0 excitation that is a ghost. If we allow a negative cosmological constant on the brane, the brane bending mode becomes a ghost for $1/2 < Hr_c <1$. This confirms the results obtained by the boundary effective action that there exists a scalar ghost mode for $Hr_c >1/2$. In a self-accelerating universe $Hr_c=1$, the spin-2 graviton has mass $m^2=2H^2$, which is known to be a special case for massive gravitons in de Sitter spacetime where the graviton has no helicity-0 excitation and so no ghost. However, in DGP model, there exists a brane fluctuation mode with the same mass and there arises a mixing between the brane fluctuation mode and the spin-2 graviton. We argue that this mixing presumably gives a ghost in the self-accelerating universe by continuity across $Hr_c=1$, although a careful calculation of the effective action is required to verify this rigorously.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, significant revisions, conclusion on the self- accelerating universe changed
On the remote coherence of polariton condensates in 1D microcavities: a photoluminescence study
Creators: name: Martín, M. D.
name: Rozas, E.
name: Antón, C.
name: Savvidis, P. G.
name: Viña, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this manuscript we will gather clear experimental evidences of remote coherence between two polariton condensate droplets that have never overlapped in real space and discuss how these interferences in momentum space can be used to estimate the critical temperature for the BEC like transition.
Production risks in Bulgarian peanut production
Creators: name: Ligeon, Carel
name: Jolly, Curtis M.
name: Bencheva, Nelly
name: Delikostadinov, Stanko
name: Puppala, Naveen
name: Ligeon, Carel
name: Jolly, Curtis M.
name: Bencheva, Nelly
name: Delikostadinov, Stanko
name: Puppala, Naveen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: As farmers in a transition economy search for new crop enterprises with a potential for income enhancement they are faced with increased risks in the process of resource allocation. It has been noted that biased estimation of production function estimates results from the lack of accountability of risks. Since peanut production in Bulgaria has increased at a varying rate since 1989 it is important that we examine the risks associated with input use. The data for this study were collected from farmers from 18 villages in the southern part of Bulgaria. A total of 205 farmers were surveyed for this study. Peanut yield in Bulgaria is positively related to the quantity of seed used, fungicide, manual labor, investment level and mechanized labor used. Peanut yield is negatively influenced by investment levels but positively by the increase of manual labor. The response of yield to quantity of seed used is elastic, and an addition of a kg of peanut seeds may increase yield by 32kg. However, as the quantity of seeds used per ha increases the risk is expected to increase, hence farmers may be cautious in increasing the quantity of seeds used. Investment capital, manual labor and mechanized labor are positively related to yield and there will be a reduction in yield if the optimal levels of those inputs are surpassed. Thus farmers may increase yield and production by augmenting the seeding rate, other factors remaining constant.
Non-Markovian source term for particle production by a self-interacting scalar field in the large-N approximation
Creators: name: Saradzhev, Fuad M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The particle production in the self-interacting N-component complex scalar field theory is studied at large N. A non-Markovian source term that includes all higher order back-reaction and collision effects is derived. The kinetic amplitudes accounting for the change in the particle number density caused by collisions are obtained. It is shown that the production of particles is symmetric in the momentum space. The problem of renormalization is briefly discussed.
description: minor changes, journal version
title: 02_0644
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Precision tests of fundamental physics with $η$ and $η^\prime$ mesons
Creators: name: Gan, Liping
name: Kubis, Bastian
name: Passemar, Emilie
name: Tulin, Sean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Decays of the neutral and long-lived $η$ and $η'$ mesons provide a unique, flavor-conserving laboratory to test low-energy Quantum Chromodynamics and search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. They have drawn world-wide attention in recent years and have inspired broad experimental programs in different high-intensity-frontier centers. New experimental data will offer critical inputs to precisely determine the light quark mass ratios, $η$-$η'$ mixing parameters, and hadronic contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. At the same time, it will provide a sensitive probe to test potential new physics. This includes searches for hidden photons, light Higgs scalars, and axion-like particles that are complementary to worldwide efforts to detect new light particles below the GeV mass scale, as well as tests of discrete symmetry violation. In this review, we give an update on theoretical developments, discuss the experimental opportunities, and identify future research needed in this field.
description: 124 pages, 43 figures, 12 tables; v2: sections 6.10 and 10.4 added, references updated, version published in Phys. Rept
Public spending composition and public sector efficiency: Implications for growth and poverty reduction in Uganda
Creators: name: Sennoga, Edward B.
name: Matovu, John Mary
name: Sennoga, Edward B.
name: Matovu, John Mary
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Production Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Sennoga
subject: Matovu
subject: EPRC
subject: Public expenditure
subject: Economic growth - Uganda
subject: Poverty reduction
subject: Computable General Equilibrium

description: The paper examines the interrelationships between public spending composition and Uganda's development goals including economic growth and poverty reduction. We utilize a dynamic CGE model to study these interrelationships. This paper demonstrates that public spending composition does indeed influence economic growth and poverty reduction. In particular, this study shows that improved public sector efficiency coupled with re-allocation of public expenditure away from the unproductive sectors such as public administration and security to the productive sectors including agriculture, energy, water and health leads to higher GDP growth rates and accelerates poverty reduction. Moreover, the rate of poverty is faster in rural households relative to the urban households. A major contribution of this paper is that investments in agriculture particularly with a view of promoting value addition and investing in complementary infrastructure including roads and affordable energy contributes to higher economic growth rates and also accelerates the rate of poverty reduction.
Prospects for Detection of Catastrophic Collisions in Debris Disks
Creators: name: Kenyon, Scott J.
name: Bromley, Benjamin C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the prospects for detecting dust from two body collisions during the late stages of planet formation at 1-150 AU. We develop an analytic model to describe the formation of a dusty cloud of debris and use numerical coagulation and n-body calculations to predict observable signals from these events. In a minimum mass solar nebula, collisions of 100-1000 km objects at distances of 3-5 AU or less from the parent star are observable at mid-infrared wavelengths as bright clumps or rings of dust. At 24 microns, the clumps are roughly 0.1-1 mag brighter than emission from dust in the background debris disk. In edge-on systems, dusty clumps produce eclipses with depths of 1.0 mag or less that last for roughly 100 orbital periods. Large-scale surveys for transits from exosolar planets, such as Kepler, can plausibly detect these eclipses and provide important constraints on the terrestrial environment for ages of less than or roughly 100-300 Myr.
description: Astronomical Journal, in press; 23 pages of text, 11 figures, and 1 table
Decentralization and development: Emerging issues from Uganda's experience
Creators: name: Okidi, John A.
name: Guloba, Madina
name: Okidi, John A.
name: Guloba, Madina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Economic development
subject: EPRC
subject: Okidi
subject: Guloba
subject: Fiscal decentralization

description: The current decentralization in Uganda originated in the late 1980s as part of a broader effort to restore state credibility and deepen democracy following several years of political and economic turmoil. Using a detailed legal framework Uganda entrenched political, administrative and fiscal decentralization as a strategy for broad-based growth with poverty reduction. in this paper we review Uganda's decentralization with the objective of highlighting several issues including empowerment of local leaders and residents, experience with local elite capture, improvement of service delivery, promotion of real sector response to improved economic environment, and enhancement of progress towards the MDGs. Our review of the achievements and challenges of Uganda's decentralization illustrates the much discussed issue on the literature that there are levels of decentralization that are consistent with certain levels of economic and democratic development.