cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Radiality Constraints for Resilient Reconfiguration of Distribution Systems: Formulation and Application to Microgrid Formation
Creators: name: Lei, Shunbo
name: Chen, Chen
name: Song, Yue
name: Hou, Yunhe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Network reconfiguration is an effective strategy for different purposes of distribution systems (DSs), e.g., resilience enhancement. In particular, DS automation, distributed generation integration and microgrid (MG) technology development, etc., are empowering much more flexible reconfiguration and operation of the system, e.g., DSs or MGs with flexible boundaries. However, the formulation of DS reconfiguration-related optimization problems to include those new flexibilities is non-trivial, especially for the issue of topology, which has to be radial. That is, existing methods of formulating radiality constraints can cause underutilization of DS flexibilities. Thus, this work proposes a new method for radiality constraints formulation fully enabling the topological and some other related flexibilities of DSs, so that the reconfiguration-related optimization problems can have extended feasibility and enhanced optimality. Graph-theoretic supports are provided to certify its theoretical validity. As integer variables are involved, we also analyze the tightness and compactness issues. The proposed radiality constraints are specifically applied to post-disaster MG formation, which is involved in many DS resilience-oriented service restoration and/or infrastructure recovery problems. The resulting new MG formation model, which allows more flexible merge and/or separation of sub-grids, etc., establishes superiority over the models in the literature. Case studies are conducted on two test systems.
Xyela alpigena
Creators: name: Blank, Stephan M.
name: Shinohara, Akihiko
name: Altenhofer, Ewald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Xyelidae
Xyela
Xyela alpigena

description: Xyela alpigena group
 Diagnosis. Ovipositor sheath usually straight, wedge-shaped, black, ventral edge more or less white, basal half diamond-shaped in cross-section, with narrowly rounded tip (Figs 90, 97–102), sensilla field in obliquely lateral position with 7–9 setae (Fig. 91); valvula 2 with irregularly spaced groups of sensilla campaniformia surrounded by dense sclerotization protruding roundly from dorsal edge of valvula 2 (Fig. 122); basal and medial lobe of penis valve protruding above level of distal lobe, basal lobe rounded on upper edge and slightly protruding above medial lobe, lateral lamella usually narrow with proximal and distal edges s-shaped (Figs 3, 129–134).
 Species included. Xyela alpigena and X. peuce in the West Palearctic and X. kamtshatica, X. koraiensis, X. sibiricae and X. ussuriensis in the East Palearctic.
description: Published as part of Blank, Stephan M., Shinohara, Akihiko & Altenhofer, Ewald, 2013,  The Eurasian species of  Xyela  (Hymenoptera, Xyelidae): taxonomy, host plants and distribution , pp. 1-106 in Zootaxa 3629 (1) on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3629.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5261330
Stilicoderus japonicus SHIBATA 1968
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stilicoderus
Stilicoderus japonicus

description: Stilicoderus japonicus SHIBATA, 1968
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Bhutan: 13, 1♀, Gaylegphug Province, Gaylephug, 250 m, 7- 10.VII.1990, leg. Holzschuh (NHMW, cAss). China: 13, Sichuan, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Yinchanggou village env., Panda valley, 30°58'N, 103°07'E, 2120 m, 24.VI.2014, leg. Hájek & Růžička (NMP).
 C o m m e n t: The vast distribution of S. japonicus ranges from West Bengal (North India) to Japan; for a distribution map see ASSING (2013). The above material from Bhutan represents a new country record.
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2017, On Stilicoderus VI. Two new species from South Vietnam and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 369-376 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 49 (1) on page 370, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5357056
Projection on higher Landau levels and non-commutative geometry
Creators: name: Macris, Nicolas
name: Ouvry, Stephane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The projection of a two dimensional planar system on the higher Landau levels of an external magnetic field is formulated in the language of the non commutative plane and leads to a new class of star products.
description: 12 pages, latex, corrected version
Additional file 8: of Genome-wide analysis of cotton C2H2-zinc finger transcription factor family and their expression analysis during fiber development
Creators: name: Haron Salih
name: Magwanga Odongo
name: Wenfang Gong
name: Shoupu He
name: Xiongming Du
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Table S4. Multiple sequence alignment of upland cotton C2H2-zinc finger proteins for each group. (PDF 494 kb)
Callable Floating Coupon Note Valuation
Creators: name: Lee, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: floating coupon note, callable floating coupon note, callable floating rate note

description: A floating coupon note is a very flexible and generic funding product. The issuer pays the buyer periodic floating coupons based on a spread-adjusted reference rate, such as LIBOR. The buyer pays an upfront fee to the issuer. Also, the buyer pays the issuer a notional amount at inception and the issuer returns it upon cancellation or maturity of the deal.
description: https://ia801407.us.archive.org/33/items/fi-callable-frn-18/FiCallableFrn-18.pdf
Stereodynamical control of a quantum scattering resonance in cold molecular collisions
Creators: name: Jambrina, Pablo G.
name: Croft, James F. E.
name: Guo, Hua
name: Brouard, Mark
name: Balakrishnan, Naduvalath
name: Aoiz, F. Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cold collisions of light molecules are often dominated by a single partial wave resonance. For the rotational quenching of HD(v=1,j=2) by collisions with ground state para-H2, the process is dominated by a single L=2 partial wave resonance centered around 0.1 K. Here, we show that this resonance can be switched on or off simply by appropriate alignment of the HD rotational angular momentum relative to the initial velocity vector, thereby enabling complete control of the collision outcome.
Electronic supplementary material from Adaptive, caste-specific changes to recombination rates in a thelytokous honeybee population
Creators: name: Oldroyd, Benjamin P.
name: Yagound, Boris
name: Allsopp, Michael H.
name: Holmes, Michael J.
name: Buchmann, Gabrielle
name: Zayed, Amro
name: Beekman, Madeleine
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Includes supplementary methods, tables and figures
Fast instability indicator in few dimensional dynamical systems
Creators: name: Cipriani, Piero
name: Di Bari, Maria Teresa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the tools of Differential Geometry, we define a new <> chaoticity indicator, able to detect dynamical instability of trajectories much more effectively, (i.e. "quickly") than the usual tools, like Lyapunov Characteristic Numbers (LCN's) or Poincare` Surface of Section. Moreover, at variance with other "fast" indicators proposed in the Literature, it gives informations about the asymptotic behaviour of trajectories, though being local in phase-space. Furthermore, it detects the chaotic or regular nature of geodesics without any reference to a given perturbation and it allows also to discriminate between different regimes (and possibly sources) of chaos in distinct regions of phase-space.
description: 5 pages with EPS figures embedded. Short Version, to appear in the Proceedings of the 9th Marcel Grossmann Meeting. (World Scientific). E-mail: piero.cipriani@roma1.infn.it
Fertilizer subsidy and agricultural productivity in Senegal
Creators: name: Seck, Abdoulaye
name: Seck, Abdoulaye
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Fertilizer subsidy
subject: efficiency
subject: Senegal

description: In a consistent effort to raise productivity and unlock the unrivaled economic and social potentials of the agricultural sector, the Senegalese government, as many of its African counterparts, has designed and implemented heavy subsidy programs, some of which targeting the use of inputs. This paper assesses the potential impact of fertilizer subsidy on farmers' productivity. Using a farm-level survey data from the Senegal River Valley, the paper develops a two-part methodology: first the data envelopment analysis is used to generate efficiency scores, and then the latter is related to the subsidy program using an endogenous treatment-regression model that accounts for potential endogeneity and self-selectivity issues. The results indicate that the subsidy programs seem to be working, as they appear to be associated with increased efficiency. The results also suggest ways to improve the effectiveness of the subsidy program as well as additional policy options to further unlock the agricultural potentials.
Reflectionless analytic difference operators II. Relations to soliton systems
Creators: name: Ruijsenaars, Simon N. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the second part of a series of papers dealing with an extensive class of analytic difference operators admitting reflectionless eigenfunctions. In the first part, the pertinent difference operators and their reflectionless eigenfunctions are constructed from given ``spectral data'', in analogy with the IST for reflectionless Schrödinger and Jacobi operators. In the present paper, we introduce a suitable time dependence in the data, arriving at explicit solutions to a nonlocal evolution equation of Toda type, which may be viewed as an analog of the KdV and Toda lattice equations for the latter operators. As a corollary, we reobtain various known results concerning reflectionless Schrödinger and Jacobi operators. Exploiting a reparametrization in terms of relativistic Calogero--Moser systems, we also present a detailed study of $N$-soliton solutions to our nonlocal evolution equation.
Gender appropriateness of field days in knowledge generation and adoption of push-pull technology in eastern Africa
Creators: name: Murage, A.W.
name: Pittchar, J.O.
name: Midega, C.A.O.
name: Onyango, C.O.
name: Pickett, J.A.
name: Khan, Z.R.
name: Murage, A.W.
name: Pittchar, J.O.
name: Midega, C.A.O.
name: Onyango, C.O.
name: Pickett, J.A.
name: Khan, Z.R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Gender-appropriateness
subject: Field days
subject: Knowledge accumulation
subject: Adoption

description: Women are taking over the Agriculture sector in sub-Saharan Africa and policies that enhance their empowerment in farming would have positive gains in enhancing food security and transforming lives. Adoption studies have identified gender as one of the factors that determine technology uptake, and this has been linked to women’s access to farming information or lack of it. Technology scaling up systems should utilize pathways that are compatible with the needs of rural women who have to juggle farming with other household chores. Unfortunately, there has been limited effort to evaluate the suitability of the information pathways used to specific gender. This study evaluates the appropriateness of field days with respect to gender of the participants. A total of 2,615 participants were interviewed out of 6,221 who attended field days in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The determinants of level knowledge level gained and willingness to adopt was evaluated using an ordered probit and logit model. Our findings shows that majority of the participants were women (51.3%), middle aged (40-45 years) and with primary level education (54.1% women). The model results shows that women farmers understood more about push-pull (coefficient of ordered probit = -0.112) and were more willing to adopt push-pull (coefficient of logit = -0.367). Age, education, being a push-pull farmer, perception of Striga severity and having a mobile phone were also significant. Our findings demonstrate that field days are appropriate for training farmers especially women who are often disadvantaged in information access.
The Enhanced Sensitivity of the Transmission Phase of a Quantum Dot to Kondo Correlations
Creators: name: Silvestrov, P. G.
name: Imry, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The strong sensitivity of the transmission phase through a quantum dot embedded into one arm of a two-wave Aharonov-Bohm interferometer to the Kondo effect is explained. The enhancement takes place because of the buildup of the exchange scattering on the dot due to Kondo correlations even much above $T_{K}$. The enhanced exchange competes with the potential scattering, which is always weak. Both cases of the Anderson impurity model and a multilevel quantum dot are considered. In the latter case in addition to the description of peculiar phase behavior a mechanism leading to ferromagnetic Kondo coupling in quantum dots is proposed.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 6: of The JAK2/STAT3/CCND2 Axis promotes colorectal Cancer stem cell persistence and radioresistance
Creators: name: Park, So-Yeon
name: Choong-Jae Lee
name: Jang-Hyun Choi
name: Jee-Heun Kim
name: Kim, Ji-Won
name: Kim, Ji-Young
name: Jeong-Seok Nam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Figure S5. (A) The efficiencies of three siCCND2 sequences were evaluated by real-time qPCR analysis (left) and Western blot analysis (right). (B) The selected efficient siRNA sequence was confirmed in the LoVo cell line by real-time qPCR analysis (left) and Western blot analysis (right). (C) The MTT assay was performed to assess cell viability. HCT116 cells transfected with siRNA sequence #2 were seeded in 96-well plates after being subjected to various doses of radiation. Cell viability was quantified after 72 h of incubation. (D) Effect of CCND2 knockdown on the apoptotic cell population (Annexin V+) in HCT116 cells at 24 h after radiation treatment (2 Gy). (E) Sphere-formation assay was performed to estimate the CCND2 knockdown effect on sphere-forming efficiency before and after radiation treatment in HCT116 cells. (F) The radiation-induced CD44v6+ cell population was measured by FACS analysis 24 h after radiation under CCND2 knockdown conditions. Bar graphs represent the mean Âą SD (n = 3), and statistical analysis was performed by one-way ANOVA with Dunnettâ s multiple comparison; *, **, and *** indicate p < 0.05, p < 0.01, and p <0.001, respectively. (PDF 265 kb)
Perturbative Computation of Glueball Superpotentials
Creators: name: Dijkgraaf, R.
name: Grisaru, M. T.
name: Lam, C. S.
name: Vafa, C.
name: Zanon, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using N=1 superspace techniques in four dimensions we show how to perturbatively compute the superpotential generated for the glueball superfield upon integrating out massive charged fields. The technique applies to arbitrary gauge groups and representations. Moreover we show that for U(N) gauge theories admitting a large N expansion the computation dramatically simplifies and we prove the validity of the recently proposed recipe for computation of this quantity in terms of planar diagrams of matrix integrals.
description: 15 Pages, 2 Figures
Stilicoderus parvus CAMERON 1936
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stilicoderus
Stilicoderus parvus

description: Stilicoderus parvus CAMERON, 1936
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Indonesia: 4 exs., Jawa Berat, Mount Halimun, 19-25.VIII.2009, leg. Majer (cAss).
 C o m m e n t: The known distribution of S. parvus ranges from Thailand across Sumatra to Java.
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2017, On Stilicoderus VI. Two new species from South Vietnam and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 369-376 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 49 (1) on page 370, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5357056
The QUEST-La Silla AGN Variability Survey: selection of AGN candidates through optical variability
Creators: name: Sánchez-Sáez, P.
name: Lira, P.
name: Cartier, R.
name: Miranda, N.
name: Ho, L. C.
name: Arévalo, P.
name: Bauer, F. E.
name: Coppi, P.
name: Yovaniniz, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used data from the QUEST-La Silla Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) variability survey to construct light curves for 208,583 sources over $\sim 70$ deg$^2$, with a a limiting magnitude $r \sim 21$. Each light curve has at least 40 epochs and a length of $\geq 200$ days. We implemented a Random Forest algorithm to classify our objects as either AGN or non-AGN according to their variability features and optical colors, excluding morphology cuts. We tested three classifiers, one that only includes variability features (RF1), one that includes variability features and also $r-i$ and $i-z$ colors (RF2), and one that includes variability features and also $g-r$, $r-i$, and $i-z$ colors (RF3). We obtained a sample of high probability candidates (hp-AGN) for each classifier, with 5,941 candidates for RF1, 5,252 candidates for RF2, and 4,482 candidates for RF3. We divided each sample according to their $g-r$ colors, defining blue ($g-r\leq 0.6$) and red sub-samples ($g-r>0.6$). We find that most of the candidates known from the literature belong to the blue sub-samples, which is not necessarily surprising given that, unlike for many literature studies, we do not cut our sample to point-like objects. This means that we can select AGN that have a significant contribution from redshifted starlight in their host galaxies. In order to test the efficiency of our technique we performed spectroscopic follow-up, confirming the AGN nature of 44 among 54 observed sources (81.5\% of efficiency). From the campaign we concluded that RF2 provides the purest sample of AGN candidates.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Additional file 7: of The JAK2/STAT3/CCND2 Axis promotes colorectal Cancer stem cell persistence and radioresistance
Creators: name: Park, So-Yeon
name: Choong-Jae Lee
name: Jang-Hyun Choi
name: Jee-Heun Kim
name: Kim, Ji-Won
name: Kim, Ji-Young
name: Jeong-Seok Nam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Figure S6. (A) A significantly positive correlation between JAK2 and CCND2 was observed in various cancers, including breast (GSE3494), lung (GSE19804), melanoma (GSE65904) and renal (GSE2712) cancer. (B) shCTRL- or shJAK2 vector-transfected HCT116 cells were injected into the tail veins of mice. At 28 days after the injection, metastatic nodules on the lungs were visualized and counted by India ink staining. The dots represent the number of metastatic nodules from each mouse, and the lines show the mean ± SEM (n = 9/group). (C) Predicted binding sites of AP-1, c-Jun and c-Fos on the JAK2 promoter region according to ALLGEN PROMO database version 3.0.2. (D) Effects of CCND2 knockdown on mRNA levels of various radioresistance genes. Bar graphs represent the mean ± SD (n = 3), and statistical analysis was performed by one-way ANOVA with Dunnett’s multiple comparison; *, **, and *** indicate p < 0.05, p < 0.01, and p < 0.001, respectively. (PDF 410 kb)
On the Algebraic Bethe Ansatz for XXX spin chain: creation operators "beyond the equator"
Creators: name: Kovalsky, A. E.
name: Pronko, G. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Considering the XXX spin-1/2 chain in the framework of the Algebraic Bethe Ansatz (ABA) we make the following short comment: the product of the creation operators corresponding to the recently found solution of the Bethe equations "on the wrong side of the equator" (hep-th/9808153) is just zero (not only its action on the pseudovacuum).
description: LaTeX, 4 pages
First integrals and parametric solutions for equations integrable through Lie symmetries
Creators: name: Géronimi, Claude
name: Leach, Peter
name: Feix, Marc R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present here the explicit parametric solutions of second order differential equations invariant under time translation and rescaling and third order differential equations invariant under time translation and the two homogeneity symmetries. The computation of first integrals gives in the most general case, the parametric form of the general solution. For some polynomial functions we obtain a time parametrisation quadrature which can be solved in terms of ``known'' functions.
La maestra muchachita
Creators: name: Pérez-González, A- Beatriz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Profesión docente.
Experiencias y métodos.
Franuismo. Transición

description: Visión de la profesión docente desde la experiencia. Magisterio en España desde el franquismo a la Transición política y económica.
Comparing Participation in Nutrient Trading by Livestock Operations to Crop Producers in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Creators: name: Sneeringer, Stacy
name: Sneeringer, Stacy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Livestock
subject: nutrients
subject: nutrient trading
subject: water quality trading
subject: Chesapeake Bay
subject: total maximum daily load
subject: TMDL

description: Despite decades of nutrient-runoff reduction efforts via regulation, financial and technical assistance, and education, manure remains a significant contributor to Chesapeake Bay nutrient loadings. In the Bay watershed, animal feeding operations (AFOs; livestock operations that confine animals) are responsible for the majority of acreage onto which manure is applied, and over a quarter of these operations produce more manure nutrients than they can use on the farm. An alternative method of reducing discharges from livestock operations may be to involve them in nutrient trading, in which producers sell representations of their pollution reductions as credits. Past analysis of farmer participation in nutrient trading has focused almost exclusively on crop producers. In contrast to crop-only producers, livestock producers face regulations that require them to meet nutrient application standards on their farms, and they have added costs of manure shipping to meet those standards. Therefore, they may be less likely to participate in nutrient trading than crop-only producers. An analysis of producer-participation decisions reveals that those producing more manure nutrients than can be applied on their farms are especially unlikely to participate in nutrient trading based on reductions in nutrient applications to cropland. Since these operations already have relatively little cropland, they can generate relatively few credits from pollution reductions.
Farm Profits and Adoption of Precision Agriculture
Creators: name: Schimmelpfennig, David
name: Schimmelpfennig, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Crop production information technologies
subject: precision agriculture
subject: variable-rate technology
subject: soil tests
subject: global positioning system maps
subject: guidance systems.

description: Precision agriculture (PA) and its suite of information technologies—such as soil and yield mapping using a global positioning system (GPS), GPS tractor guidance systems, and variable-rate input application—allow farm operators to fine-tune their production practices. Access to detailed, within-field information can decrease input costs and increase yields. USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Survey shows that these PA technologies were used on roughly 30 to 50 percent of U.S. corn and soybean acres in 2010-12. Previous studies suggest that use of PA is associated with higher profits under certain conditions, but aggregate estimates of these gains have not been available. In this report, a treatment-effects model is developed to estimate factors associated with PA technology adoption rates and the impacts of adoption on profits. Labor and machinery used in production and certain farm characteristics, like farm size, are associated with adoption as well as with two profit measures, net returns and operating profits. The impact of these PA technologies on profits for U.S. corn producers is positive, but small.
Implications to CMB from Model Independent evolution of w and Late Time Phase Transition
Creators: name: de la Macorra, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present model independent determination of the CMB from any kind of fluid that has an equation of state taking four different values. The first region has $w=1/3$, the second $w=1$, the third $w=-1$ while the last one has $-1
description: LaTeX, 24 pages, 7 figures
Modelling the Socialization of Creative Agents in a Master-Apprentice Setting: The Case of Movie Title Puns
Creators: name: Hämäläinen, Mika
name: Alnajjar, Khalid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents work on modelling the social psychological aspect of socialization in the case of a computationally creative master-apprentice system. In each master-apprentice pair, the master, a genetic algorithm, is seen as a parent for its apprentice, which is an NMT based sequence-to-sequence model. The effect of different parenting styles on the creative output of each pair is in the focus of this study. This approach brings a novel view point to computational social creativity, which has mainly focused in the past on computationally creative agents being on a socially equal level, whereas our approach studies the phenomenon in the context of a social hierarchy.
Federal Crop Insurance Options for Upland Cotton Farmers and Their Revenue Effects
Creators: name: Hungerford, Ashley
name: O'Donoghue, Erik
name: Hungerford, Ashley
name: O'Donoghue, Erik
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Cotton
subject: crop insurance
subject: Stacked Income Protection Plan
subject: Supplemental Coverage
subject: 2014 Farm Act

description: The Agricultural Act of 2014 introduced two new crop insurance programs for upland cotton: the Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) and the Stacked Income Protection Plan (STAX). SCO and STAX are known as “shallow loss” programs because they typically have lower deductibles and do not compensate for the bigger losses that other Federal crop insurance programs cover. This report examines the structures of SCO and STAX and how these programs interact with Revenue Protection, a preexisting crop insurance policy. It provides estimates of the contribution of SCO and STAX to revenue and downside risk reduction for upland cotton producers in various counties, revealing how risk reduction differs across counties with different inherent revenue risk caused by regional variations in yield. The report describes 2015 enrollment in STAX and SCO and finds that STAX enrollment is tied to the market share of cotton in a given county.
Spatial solitons in a medium composed of self-focusing and self-defocusing layers
Creators: name: Atai, Javid
name: Malomed, Boris A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a model combining Kerr nonlinearity with a periodically changing sign ("nonlinearity management") and a Bragg grating (BG). The main result, obtained by means of systematic simulations, is presented in the form of a soliton's stability diagram on the parameter plane of the model; the diagram turns out to be a universal one, as it practically does not depend on the soliton's power. Moreover, simulations of the nonlinear Schroedinger (NLS) model subjected to the same "nonlinearity management" demonstrate that the same diagram determines the stability of the NLS solitons, unless they are very narrow. The stability region of very narrow NLS solitons is much smaller, and soliton splitting is readily observed in that case. The universal diagram shows that a minimum non-zero average value of the Kerr coefficient is necessary for the existence of stable solitons. Interactions between identical solitons with an initial phase difference between them are simulated too in the BG model, resulting in generation of stable moving solitons. A strong spontaneous symmetry breaking is observed in the case when in-phase solitons pass through each other due to attraction between them.
description: a latex text file and 9 eps files with figures. Physics Letters A, in press
Willingness to Invest in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Greece
Creators: name: Kontogeorgos, Achilleas
name: Chatzitheodoridis, Fotois
name: Theodossiou, George
name: Kontogeorgos, Achilleas
name: Chatzitheodoridis, Fotois
name: Theodossiou, George
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Development
subject: agricultural cooperatives
subject: investment willingness
subject: strategic management
subject: logistic regression analysis
subject: Greece

description: This paper uses logistic regression to analyze the characteristics that determine Greek farmers’ willingness to invest in agricultural cooperatives. The data are from a field survey of 235 Greek farmers – members of agricultural cooperatives in Thessaly and Western Macedonia regions. Although Greek farmers are commonly members of agricultural cooperatives, the majority are inactive. Therefore, it is important to identify motives that can increase farmers’ commitment to the cooperative. In this paper, investment in cooperatives, which is vital for their sustainability, is assumed as an indicator of farmers’ commitment to the cooperative. The regression results demonstrate that education, urban residence, participation in the cooperative’s administrative procedures, as well as the farmers’ perceptions of possible future strategies and previous managerial failures can positively affect members’ decision to invest in the cooperative, confirming three of our initial hypotheses. On the other hand, the hypotheses that the existence of a successor in the farm and large farm size positively affect farmers’ willingness to invest in the cooperative were rejected.
Adaptation of South African Wine Cooperatives to Challenging Business Environments
Creators: name: Ewert, Joachim
name: Hanf, Jon H.
name: Schweichert, Erik
name: Ewert, Joachim
name: Hanf, Jon H.
name: Schweichert, Erik
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Agribusiness
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: After more than seven decades of regulation and protection, South African wine cooperatives were brutally exposed to the market and international competition in the early 1990s. How did they respond to these new challenging environments? In a number of case studies we show that although the wine cooperatives share a general thrust of technical modernisation and upgrading, they also diverge considerably in their organizational innovation, strategy and business models. In their adaptation, the wine cooperatives were aided by the fact that they possessed features of “new generation cooperatives” and the space granted by legislation, putting them in a position to go beyond the latter. It remains to be seen whether these organizational innovations are sufficient to meet the next big challenge, namely to get off the bulk wine trajectory and “move up the value chain”.
Role of Farmers' Cooperative Societies in Rural Development in Nigeria
Creators: name: Nlerum, Franklin E.
name: Ogu, Patience I.
name: Nlerum, Franklin E.
name: Ogu, Patience I.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm Management
subject: farmers
subject: cooperative
subject: society
subject: rural development
subject: Okrika
subject: Nigeria.

description: The study determines the role of farmers’ cooperative societies in rural development in Okrika Local Government Area (LGA) in Rivers State, Nigeria. A structured survey was conducted on a random sample of 105 farmers. Almost 90% of the respondents were members of farmers’ cooperative societies, with the highest participation (61%) registered in fishermen cooperatives. Financial assistance was the main benefit derived from membership in farmers’ cooperative societies, while fostering unity in the solution of problems was the main role of farmers’ cooperatives in rural development : both issues were identified by 100% of respondents. Additional roles included mobilization of people to participate in other rural projects and training of leaders for rural enterprises (about 75% of the respondents for each issue). Provision of agricultural extension services and strengthening of rural industries were identified as least satisfactory in the cooperative’s range of activities. The study accordingly recommends to put more effort in improvement of extension services and strengthening of rural based industries by farmers’ cooperatives.
Changes in a Kibbutz Plant's Life Cycle Induced by Cultural Change
Creators: name: Moskovich, Yaffa
name: Achouch, Yuval
name: Moskovich, Yaffa
name: Achouch, Yuval
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: organizational life cycle
subject: kibbutz industry
subject: social change
subject: organizational culture transformation

description: This is an organizational life cycle case study of a kibbutz industrial plant and its cultural features. The plant began as a new enterprise, in a new area of manufacturing magnets. Gradually, the plant evolved and grew, but socialist management problems and environmental competition interfered with its existence. The plant passed into a decline stage, and finally was shut down and acquired by a new private owner. The life cycle changes were accompanied by major changes in the plant’s organizational culture. From a socialist entity based on democratic values, it transformed into a hierarchic organization with social stratification.
Quasi-linear Stokes phenomenon for the second Painlevé transcendent
Creators: name: Its, A. R.
name: Kapaev, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Riemann-Hilbert approach, we study the quasi-linear Stokes phenomenon for the second Painlevé equation $y_{xx}=2y^3+xy-α$. The precise description of the exponentially small jump in the dominant solution approaching $α/x$ as $|x|\to\infty$ is given. For the asymptotic power expansion of the dominant solution, the coefficient asymptotics is found.
description: 19 pages, LaTeX
Atheta (Dimetrota) hansseni STRAND 1943
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
name: Vogel, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Atheta
Atheta hansseni

description: Atheta (Dimetrota) hansseni STRAND, 1943
 Atheta brachati ASSING, 2013: 115 f.; nov.syn.
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Armenia:13, ca. 50 km NW Sisian, Jermuk, 39°50'N, 45°40'E, 2110 m, oak forest, litter and roots sifted, 3.VII.2016, leg. Assing (cAss); 13, same data, but 12.VII.2016 (cAss).
 C o m m e n t: The original description of A. brachati is based on a male holotype and a male paratype from Bolu Province, Turkey. A revision of the types revealed that they are conspecific with A. hansseni.
 Atheta hansseni is closely allied to A. cadaverina, the type species of Dimetrota, whereas it is clearly not closely related to the new species assigned to this subgenus above, which belong to Dimetrota sensu BRUNDIN (1954).
The two males listed above represent the first records from Armenia.
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker & Vogel, Jürgen, 2017, On some Athetini from Armenia and adjacent regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), pp. 341-368 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 49 (1) on page 352, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5357030
Strong Soret effect in one dimension
Creators: name: Garriga, Adan
name: Kurchan, Jorge
name: Ritort, Felix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a one-dimensional gas of two kinds of particles with different masses interacting through short range interactions. The system exhibits an extreme form of the Soret effect: when the ends of the system are in contact with thermal baths of different temperatures, there is complete separation of the species. We show how this separation can be well described in the Boltzmann approximation and discuss the origin of this odd behavior.
description: 10 pages, REVTeX, 9 eps figures
title: High-resolution respirometry for chloroplast and mitochondrial bioenergetics in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ― towards biotechnology exploitations
Creators: name: Huete-Ortega, Maria
Publisher: name: MitoFit Preprint Archives
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Chloroplast and mitochondrial bioenergetic control of algal growth and metabolite production is necessary to maintain metabolic integrity. In contrast to mammalian cells, algal mitochondria express alternative oxidases (AOX), which divert electron transfer from coenzyme Q (Q) away from cytochrome c oxidase (Complex IV, CIV) [1]. In algae, therefore, we distinguish between respiration through the Q-AOX and Q-CIV branches of the electron transfer system. A better understanding of the contribution of both branches to mitochondrial dark respiration is required to optimize algal biomass and metabolite production for biotechnological purposes. High-resolution respirometry (HRR; Oroboros O2k) is widely used to assess mitochondrial respiration and other bioenergetic parameters in the biomedical field of mitochondrial and cell research [2]. In our interdisciplinary study, we introduced a new method of studying oxygen kinetics [3] for the partitioning of dark respiration between the Q-AOX and Q-CIV branches in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii grown for biomass and lipid production [4]. This method is based on the distinct oxygen affinities of these enzymes. In addition, the multimodal approach of the Oroboros O2k was extended using the novel PhotoBiology-Module of the NextGen-O2k for determining the maximum light-saturated and inorganic carbon-saturated photosynthesis rates [5,6]. This methodology allows for increasing our current knowledge of the bioenergetics of chloroplasts and mitochondria, which is of particular importance for biotechnological exploitations. This communication is part of the NextGen-O2k project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the grant agreement No 859770.
DNA BARCODING FOR TARGETING INVASIVE SPECIES AND NATURAL CONTROL AGENTS IN THE CARIBBEAN
Creators: name: Galindo-Cardona, A.
name: Rodrigues, J.C.V.
name: Galindo-Cardona, A.
name: Rodrigues, J.C.V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: DNA barcoding
subject: molecular marker
subject: biological control
subject: invasive arthropods

description: The development of DNA barcoding for species identification is a broad tool that has been emphasized in the recent decade. Since the 1980's, the increase of trade and exchange of goods has raised the number of invasive species reported. The new invaders are threatening the development of a sustainable agriculture, the preservation of natural habitats and raising the costs for urban landscaping. Molecular barcoding is part of an innovative approach to accurately identify and fingerprint life species. Barcoding methods are a valuable application for both pest ecology and biocontrol agents. Several universal mitochondrial and nuclear molecular markers of conservative regions such as Cytochrome Oxidase I (COI) and Internal transcribed spacer (ITS) have been used in barcoding for fingerprinting both pests and their natural enemies and have demonstrated high replication of results. Moreover, the development of new molecular markers targeting important arthropod and microorganism species has elucidated their taxonomic status. The objectives at the Center of Excellence for Quarantine and Invasive Species (CEQIS) laboratory are to generate and apply DNA barcoding tools and to build an integrative database of pests and beneficial organisms within the Caribbean and track their pathways. Current work at the laboratory addresses the identification of parasitoid communities associated to whiteflies in Solanaceae, Leguminosae and alternate host plants. Plant host species are also identified by both classic morphology and DNA barcoding. Barcoding clarifies discrepancies between morphological and molecular identification. Molecular approaches used clarify the taxonomy of the parasitoid complex associated to the Harrisia cactus mealybug, Hypogeococcus pungens. So far, other biological control agents have been targeted for barcoding at the CEQIS and include mites, coleopteran and coccinellid.
Phenomenological Analysis of Charmless Decays Bs->PP,PV with QCD Factorization
Creators: name: Sun, Junfeng
name: Zhu, Guohuai
name: Du, Dongsheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculated the CP averaged branching ratios and CP-violating asymmetries of two-body charmless hadronic Bs->PP,PV decays with the QCDF approach, including the contributions from the chirally enhanced power corrections and weak annihilations. Only several decay modes, such as Bs -> K^(*)K, K^(*{\pm})π^{\mp}, K^{\pm}ρ^{\mp}, η^(')η^('), have large branching ratios, which may be observed in the near future. The penguin-to-tree ratio P_{ππ}/T_{ππ} and a bound on angle $γ$ are given.
description: 40 pages, 3 figures, RevTex4
The dynamics of rings around Centaurs and Trans-Neptunian Objects
Creators: name: Sicardy, Bruno
name: Renner, Stefan
name: Leiva, Rodrigo
name: Roques, Françoise
name: Moutamid, Maryame El
name: Santos-Sanz, Pablo
name: Desmars, Josselin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since 2013, dense and narrow rings are known around the small Centaur object Chariklo and the dwarf planet Haumea. Dense material has also been detected around the Centaur Chiron, although its nature is debated. This is the first time ever that rings are observed elsewhere than around the giant planets, suggesting that those features are more common than previously thought. The origins of those rings remain unclear. In particular, it is not known if the same generic process can explain the presence of material around Chariklo, Chiron, Haumea, or if each object has a very different history. Nonetheless, a specific aspect of small bodies is that they may possess a non-axisymmetric shape (topographic features and or elongation) that are essentially absent in giant planets. This creates strong resonances between the spin rate of the object and the mean motion of ring particles. In particular, Lindblad-type resonances tend to clear the region around the corotation (or synchronous) orbit, where the particles orbital period matches that of the body. Whatever the origin of the ring is, modest topographic features or elongations of Chariklo and Haumea explain why their rings should be found beyond the outermost 1/2 resonance, where the particles complete one revolution while the body completes two rotations. Comparison of the resonant locations relative to the Roche limit of the body shows that fast rotators are favored for being surrounded by rings. We discuss in more details the phase portraits of the 1/2 and 1/3 resonances, and the consequences of a ring presence on satellite formation.
description: Chapter to be published in the book "The Transneptunian Solar System", Dina Prialnik, Maria Antonietta Barucci, Leslie Young Eds. Elsevier
anesthetic: nested sampling visualisation
Creators: name: Handley, Will
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: anesthetic is a Python package for processing nested sampling runs, and will be useful for any scientist or statistician who uses nested sampling software. anesthetic unifies many existing tools and techniques in an extensible framework that is intuitive for users familiar with the standard Python packages, namely NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib and pandas.
description: 4 pages, 1 Figure
منابع صوتی در محیط های زیست دریایی پتانسیل اثرگذاری بر جوامع حیوانات آبزی
Creators: name: Sabet, Saeed Shafiei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: روند افزایشی آلاینده های ناشی از فعالیت های انسانی