cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Verso una nuova narrazione di genere nell'INFN_ sponsorship, mentoring e leadership inclusiva
Creators: name: Pellizzoni, Sabina
name: Masullo, Maria Rosaria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Il Gender Mentoring Programme (GMP) INFN ha evidenziato la complessità delle sfide affrontate dalle giovani ricercatrici nel mondo scientifico, dominato da strutture che, pur apparendo neutrali, perpetuano una visione androcentrica. Le donne sono spesso "over-mentored and under-sponsored" (Ibarra & al. 2010), ricevendo eccessiva guida senza il sostegno concreto per avanzare nelle carriere. La sponsorship, se non gestita criticamente, rischia di rafforzare un modello di leadership aggressivo e basato su schemi patriarcali, che ostacola l’equità di genere.

Il peer mentoring, all’interno delle rispettive coorti mentee e mentori, si è rivelato una risorsa essenziale per sviluppare una leadership collaborativa, non aggressiva, capace di decostruire i pregiudizi e le strutture di potere tradizionali. Il GMP ha creato spazi di consapevolezza critica, aiutando mentee e mentori a riconoscere i bias di genere e promuovendo una cultura più inclusiva. Affinché il cambiamento sia duraturo, è necessario affrontare le disuguaglianze istituzionali e rivedere i criteri di valutazione del merito, dando valore a metriche qualitative e costruendo nuove narrative.

Le reti formali e informali create all'interno del GMP rappresentano uno strumento cruciale per

promuovere la visibilità e l’inclusione delle donne nelle istituzioni scientifiche, favorendo opportunità di carriera. Sostenere pratiche di leadership inclusive può trasformare le istituzioni accademiche, rendendole più eque e diversificate.
Leptotyphlus villacidrinus Fancello & Hernando & Leo 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Fancello, Luca
name: Hernando, Carles
name: Leo, Piero
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Leptotyphlus
Leptotyphlus villacidrinus

description: Leptotyphlus villacidrinus sp. nov.
(Figs 15, 21–23)
Species known only from the study area and described above.
description: Published as part of Fancello, Luca, Hernando, Carles & Leo, Piero, 2009, The endogean beetle fauna of the Marganai-Oridda-Valle del Leni area (SW Sardinia), with description of seven new species of Staphylinidae Leptotyphlinae (Coleoptera) *, pp. 317-338 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 332
MOESM7 of Genetic and metabolic signatures of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica associated with animal sources at the pangenomic scale
Creators: name: Nova, Meryl Vila
name: Kévin Durimel
name: Kévin La
name: Felten, Arnaud
name: Bessières, Philippe
name: Michel-Yves Mistou
name: Mariadassou, Mahendra
name: Radomski, Nicolas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 7. Quantile-Quantile (QQ) plots from microbial GWAS aiming to identify polygenicity during associations of accessory genes and coregenome variants excluding homologous recombination events of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovars (n = 440) with avian (A), bovine (B), swine (C) and fish (D) sources. The samples were assigned to potential mono- and multi-animal sources based on a curated and synthetic version of Enterobase. The absence of GEMMA convergence is represented by a cross. The red line (i.e. - log10(observed p-values) = - log10(expected p-values)) corresponds to the reference line reflecting the level of population structure correction.
Equivalences between triangle and range query problems
Creators: name: Duraj, Lech
name: Kleiner, Krzysztof
name: Polak, Adam
name: Williams, Virginia Vassilevska
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We define a natural class of range query problems, and prove that all problems within this class have the same time complexity (up to polylogarithmic factors). The equivalence is very general, and even applies to online algorithms. This allows us to obtain new improved algorithms for all of the problems in the class. We then focus on the special case of the problems when the queries are offline and the number of queries is linear. We show that our range query problems are runtime-equivalent (up to polylogarithmic factors) to counting for each edge $e$ in an $m$-edge graph the number of triangles through $e$. This natural triangle problem can be solved using the best known triangle counting algorithm, running in $O(m^{2ω/(ω+1)}) \leq O(m^{1.41})$ time. Moreover, if $ω=2$, the $O(m^{2ω/(ω+1)})$ running time is known to be tight (within $m^{o(1)}$ factors) under the 3SUM Hypothesis. In this case, our equivalence settles the complexity of the range query problems. Our problems constitute the first equivalence class with this peculiar running time bound. To better understand the complexity of these problems, we also provide a deeper insight into the family of triangle problems, in particular showing black-box reductions between triangle listing and per-edge triangle detection and counting. As a byproduct of our reductions, we obtain a simple triangle listing algorithm matching the state-of-the-art for all regimes of the number of triangles. We also give some not necessarily tight, but still surprising reductions from variants of matrix products, such as the $(\min,\max)$-product.
title: Vestibular Stimulation in Post-Stroke Visual Disorders
Creators: name: Wheeler, Charlotte
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide and survivors often suffer from disorders of the visual system, which include both visual neglect and hemianopia. The first section of this work focuses on the former. Several studies have investigated different forms of vestibular stimulation as a potential therapy for neglect. However, this evidence is yet to be systematically reviewed, a gap in the literature which this thesis aims to fill. Nine studies addressing this topic are evaluated, with results revealing mixed evidence of low quality as to the efficacy of the stimulation. Better quality evidence, which more thoughtfully considers the many complexities of neglect and its assessment needs to be conducted. By addressing the inconsistencies found, future research should be able to achieve results in which we can have greater confidence, subsequently advancing the search for a more effective treatment for the condition. A second purpose of the thesis is to present theoretical justification and research methods for a novel intervention for individuals suffering from hemianopia. The treatment is based on the principles of multisensory integration and involves combining visual training with galvanic vestibular stimulation. Unfortunately, no data are available for this experiment due to the COVID-19 outbreak, but anticipated outcomes are provided.
Moral Realism – Time To Relax?
Creators: name: Boeddeling, Annika
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: metaethics
moral realism
metaphysics
expressivism
non-naturalism
relaxed realism

description: This thesis critically assesses ‘relaxed realism’ – a group of views that have entered the metaethical debate recently (Dworkin, 1996; Kramer, 2009; Parfit, 2011; Scanlon, 2014). Relaxed realism promises a novel perspective on our normative practice. In particular, it aims for a view that is genuinely distinct from traditional non-naturalism on the one hand, and sophisticated forms of expressivism on the other. This thesis calls into question whether such an aspiration can be met. The approach is twofold. First, the thesis argues that relaxed realism can meet various of its objectives better by relying on theoretical resources that expressivism offers. To argue for this claim, it discusses three challenges that relaxed realism should be able to meet according to its own objectives. With regards to each challenge, it then shows that as it stands relaxed realist views fail to adequately respond to it. Finally, the thesis suggests that relaxed realism can better respond to the respective challenges – and hence, better meet their own objectives – by endorsing certain expressivist resources. Second, the thesis argues that relaxed realism is an inherently unstable view. It does so by raising a dilemma. Either relaxed realism fails to establish the desired difference to expressivism or it succeeds, but at the expense of erasing the difference to traditional non-naturalism. The conclusion of the thesis is critical: the relaxed realist aspiration for a novel take on our normative practice – distinct from both traditional non-naturalism and expressivism – remains unmet.
Lifshitz tails for the fractional Anderson model
Creators: name: Gebert, Martin
name: Rojas-Molina, Constanza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the $d$-dimensional fractional Anderson model $(-Δ)^α+ V_ω$ on $\ell^2(\mathbb Z^d)$ where $0
description: Lower bound on matrix elements of d dimensional fractional discrete Laplacian added
Analysis of Child Labour among Rural Household of Oyo State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Idowu, Alao Bashir
name: Amos, Olasore Abiodun
name: Olabisi, Aremu Adeola
name: Idowu, Alao Bashir
name: Amos, Olasore Abiodun
name: Olabisi, Aremu Adeola
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Analysis
subject: Child labour
subject: Rural
subject: Household
subject: Oyo State

description: This study is on analysis of child labour determinants among the farming households of Oyo State, Nigeria. Data for the study were obtained from 120 respondents from the target group using a three-stage sampling procedure and analyzed using descriptive statistics and logistic model. Results showed that 85% of the respondents are male. The mean age of the respondent is 58 years 74.16% of them are married. Religions of the respondent are 40%, 53.33%, and 6.67% for Christianity, Islam and traditional religions respectively. 43.33% of the households have no formal education. The average household size is 11. The average farm size of the respondent is 9.12ha. The mean income per household is less than N150 ($1) per day. Age of the household head and the farm size were significant at 5%. Age of household head, household size and number of male child in the house respectively have positive coefficients. Gender of household head, educational level, number of female child and household income has negative coefficients. This implies that as these variables increase child labour will reduce.
Analysis of Social Capital’s Effect on Income of Poor Households: A Case Study in Sichuan Province
Creators: name: SUN, Lu
name: LIU, Junwen
name: CHEN, Baofeng
name: SUN, Lu
name: LIU, Junwen
name: CHEN, Baofeng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Social capital
subject: Poverty
subject: Income
subject: Production function
subject: Factor analysis

description: Looking from the existing research, improving the social capital of the poverty population is an effective way to promote the population quality and the income growth of the poor people. Based on the existing research, with the rural poor households in Sichuan Liangshan as the research object, this article used factor analysis to measure social capital stock, and then analyzed the influence of social capital on the income of the poor peasant households in that region, through the reconstructed production function. The results show that the poor households’ social capital has a significant impact on their income level, and the effect degree varies in different income levels.
Supplementary Methods, Results, Figures S1-S5 from The positive-negative mode link between brain connectivity, demographics and behaviour: a pre-registered replication of Smith et al. (2015)
Creators: name: Goyal, Nikhil
name: Moraczewski, Dustin
name: Bandettini, Peter A.
name: Finn, Emily S.
name: Thomas, Adam G.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: Neuroscience
Computational Biology

description: Figures for Modes 3 & 4, Unthresholded positive-negative axis, and details on the HCP-trained ICA-FIX pipeline.
Studies on the Development of Walnut Industry in Shangluo City based on SWOT
Creators: name: ZHANG, Yan
name: HONG, Xikun
name: ZHANG, Yan
name: HONG, Xikun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Shangluo City
subject: Walnut industry
subject: SWOT analysis

description: The walnut industry in Shangluo City is evaluated based on SWOT. The internal advantage, disadvantage, external opportunities and threats to the walnut industry are found out. In the end, suggestions towards the development of walnut industry in Shangluo City are put forward.
MOESM1 of Immunostimulatory RNA leads to functional reprogramming of myeloid-derived suppressor cells in pancreatic cancer
Creators: name: Metzger, Philipp
name: Kirchleitner, Sabrina
name: Kluge, Michael
name: Koenig, Lars
name: Hรถrth, Christine
name: Rambuscheck, Carlotta
name: Bรถhmer, Daniel
name: Ahlfeld, Julia
name: Kobold, Sebastian
name: Friedel, Caroline
name: Endres, Stefan
name: Schnurr, Max
name: Duewell, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Gating strategy for the identification of MDSC populations. Figure S2. Poly(I:C)c reduces macrophage frequency and activates macrophages, cDC, B and NK cells. Figure S3. Poly(I:C)c triggers transcriptional reprogramming of MDSC. Figure S4. Significantly regulated genes in PMN- and M-MDSC upon poly(I:C)c therapy.
The Relation between Financial Expenditure for Agriculture (FEA) and Per Capita Net Income of Farmers (PCIF): A Case Study of Jiangsu Province
Creators: name: ZHANG, Qian
name: ZHANG, Qian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Financial expenditure for agriculture (FEA)
subject: Per capita net income of farmers (PCIF)
subject: Software R

description: Agricultural development is indispensible to financial support. On the basis of data of the financial expenditure for agriculture (FEA) and per capita net income of farmers (PCIF) of Jiangsu Province in 1990-2012, with the aid of software R, this paper established the linear regression model for the relation between financial expenditure for agriculture and per capita net income of farmers through the function lm. Using the function summary, this paper obtained the summary statistical data, and made diagnostic check of regression model from image command plot and variance analysis table. Finally, it came up with pertinent recommendations including increasing financial expenditure for agriculture, optimizing expenditure structure, and balancing regional development.
A Comparison of Mental Health, Food Insecurity, and Diet Quality Indicators between Foreign-Born Immigrants of Canada and Native-Born Canadians
Creators: name: Davison, Karen M.
name: Lovedeep Gondara
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Because successful integration post-immigration is critical to Canada’s population health, national data were analyzed to examine mental health, food insecurity (Household Food Security Survey Module), and diet quality (e.g., nutrient intakes) between foreign-born immigrants and native-born Canadians. After controlling for sociodemographic and health covariates, immigrants were more likely to report poor mental health, food insecurity, and poor diet quality (ORs 1.038–1.080); consume less carbohydrates, vitamin B1, and iron (ORs 0.814–0.996); and have higher intakes of fat, fiber, and vitamins B6 and B9 (ORs 1.003–1.420; all p’s<0.05). These results can help to advance policy developments to help mitigate the ‘healthy immigrant effect’.
Spatial Management to Enhance Tourism Industrial Ecology and Natural Resources Conservation: A Case Study of Kakas Sub-district, Lake Tondano, North Sulawesi
Creators: name: Wowiling, Steiva A. S.
name: Bisri, Mohammad
name: Husain, Jailani
name: Hakim, Luchman
name: Wowiling, Steiva A. S.
name: Bisri, Mohammad
name: Husain, Jailani
name: Hakim, Luchman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Spatial mapping
subject: Sustainable and competitive tourism
subject: Lake Conservation
subject: North Sulawesi

description: Lakes throughout the world recently are facing serious problem which lead to its extinction. Integrating conservation and tourism in lakes and it surrounding area offer new opportunities for environment, development and economic growth in harmony. The aim of the research is to identify spatial composition of an area adjacent to Lake Tondano as a basic model of tourism industrial ecology. The study was set up at Kakas as one of the villages which is located adjacent to Lake Tondano. The result of the study shows that the model area adjacent to Lake Tondano acting as a sustainable rural destination consists of several land uses, including shrubs, paddy field, orchards, traditional plantation, and settlement with a total area of c.a. 27.80 km2. Based on its characteristic, tourism in the study site should be projected in a form of rural tourism. There are natural and cultural capitals found in the study area, and their existence principally represents the potential resources for tourism development. These potential attractions are spatially distributed in three areas, which can be linked through a triangle diamond model to meet a sustainable and competitive tourism industrial area. The opportunities of such concept also come to the existence of a corridor which is able to link each point area to become a single and integrative tourism destination. Challenges for the tourism industrial ecology in Kakas, however, lie on its ability to optimize resources, while at the same time minimize potential negative impacts to the environment, especially Lake Tondano.
The Effects of Thermonuclear Reaction Rate Variations on Nova Nucleosynthesis: A Sensitivity Study
Creators: name: Iliadis, Christian
name: Champagne, Art
name: Jose, Jordi
name: Starrfield, Sumner
name: Tupper, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of thermonuclear reaction rate uncertainties on nova nucleosynthesis. One-zone nucleosynthesis calculations have been performed by adopting temperature-density-time profiles of the hottest hydrogen-burning zone (i.e., the region in which most of the nucleosynthesis takes place). We obtain our profiles from 7 different, recently published, hydrodynamic nova simulations covering peak temperatures in the range from Tpeak=0.145-0.418 GK. For each of these profiles, we individually varied the rates of 175 reactions within their associated errors and analyzed the resulting abundance changes of 142 isotopes in the mass range below A=40. In total, we performed 7350 nuclear reaction network calculations. We use the most recent thermonuclear reaction rate evaluations for the mass ranges A=1-20 and A=20-40. For the theoretical astrophysicist, our results indicate the extent to which nova nucleosynthesis calculations depend on presently uncertain nuclear physics input, while for the experimental nuclear physicist our results represent at least a qualitative guide for future measurements at stable and radioactive ion beam facilities. We find that present reaction rate estimates are reliable for predictions of Li, Be, C and N abundances in nova nucleosynthesis. However, rate uncertainties of several reactions have to be reduced significantly in order to predict more reliable O, F, Ne, Na, Mg, Al, Si, S, Cl and Ar abundances. Results are presented in tabular form for each adopted nova simulation.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Suppl. Series
Reinforcement Learning and Reward Estimation for Dialogue Policy Optimisation
Creators: name: Su, Pei-Hao
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Spoken Dialogue Systems
Gaussian Processes
Neural Network
Policy Optimisation
On-line Learning
Reward Estimation
Reward Shaping
Active Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Deep Learning
Deep Reinforcement Learning
Reward Learning

description: Modelling dialogue management as a reinforcement learning task enables a system to learn to act optimally by maximising a reward function. This reward function is designed to induce the system behaviour required for goal-oriented applications, which usually means fulfilling the user’s goal as efficiently as possible. However, in real-world spoken dialogue systems, the reward is hard to measure, because the goal of the conversation is often known only to the user. Certainly, the system can ask the user if the goal has been satisfied, but this can be intrusive. Furthermore, in practice, the reliability of the user’s response has been found to be highly variable. In addition, due to the sparsity of the reward signal and the large search space, reinforcement learning-based dialogue policy optimisation is often slow. This thesis presents several approaches to address these problems. To better evaluate a dialogue for policy optimisation, two methods are proposed. First, a recurrent neural network-based predictor pre-trained from off-line data is proposed to estimate task success during subsequent on-line dialogue policy learning to avoid noisy user ratings and problems related to not knowing the user’s goal. Second, an on-line learning framework is described where a dialogue policy is jointly trained alongside a reward function modelled as a Gaussian process with active learning. This mitigates the noisiness of user ratings and minimises user intrusion. It is shown that both off-line and on-line methods achieve practical policy learning in real-world applications, while the latter provides a more general joint learning system directly from users. To enhance the policy learning speed, the use of reward shaping is explored and shown to be effective and complementary to the core policy learning algorithm. Furthermore, as deep reinforcement learning methods have the potential to scale to very large tasks, this thesis also investigates the application to dialogue systems. Two sample-efficient algorithms, trust region actor-critic with experience replay (TRACER) and episodic natural actor-critic with experience replay (eNACER), are introduced. In addition, a corpus of demonstration data is utilised to pre-train the models prior to on-line reinforcement learning to handle the cold start problem. Combining these two methods, a practical approach is demonstrated to effectively learn deep reinforcement learning-based dialogue policies in a task-oriented information seeking domain. Overall, this thesis provides solutions which allow truly on-line and continuous policy learning in spoken dialogue systems.
description: Taiwan Cambridge Scholarship
Chemical potential response of pseudoscalar meson masses in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model
Creators: name: Miyamura, O.
name: Choe, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model we study chemical potential response of the pion and kaon masses as a function of temperature and chemical potential, i.e., dm/dμ(T, μ). First, we obtain the responses assuming the vector-axial vector coupling is zero (g_V=0). Then, we include a non-zero g_V and study the effects of g_V on the responses. We find that the behavior of dm/dμfor the pion is quite different from that for the kaon. It means that dm/dμis much dependent on the mass difference between the two quarks, i.e., the u and s quarks (or even between the u and d quarks). Our results may give a clue to future studies of dm/dμon the lattice.
description: Lattice2001(hightemp), 3 pages, 2 figs; figs changed
Some combinatorial results on smooth permutations
Creators: name: Gilboa, Shoni
name: Lapid, Erez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that any smooth permutation $σ\in S_n$ is characterized by the set ${\mathbf{C}}(σ)$ of transpositions and $3$-cycles in the Bruhat interval $(S_n)_{\leqσ}$, and that $σ$ is the product (in a certain order) of the transpositions in ${\mathbf{C}}(σ)$. We also characterize the image of the map $σ\mapsto{\mathbf{C}}(σ)$. As an application, we show that $σ$ is smooth if and only if the intersection of $(S_n)_{\leqσ}$ with every conjugate of a parabolic subgroup of $S_n$ admits a maximum. This also gives another approach for enumerating smooth permutations and subclasses thereof. Finally, we relate covexillary permutations to smooth ones and rephrase the results in terms of the (co)essential set in the sense of Fulton.
A Survey Report on Sugarcane Production in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 2013
Creators: name: LI, Xiang
name: LI, Yangrui
name: DENG, Yuchi
name: WANG, Lunwang
name: YANG, Liu
name: HUANG, Weihua
name: LIANG, Qiang
name: ZHANG, Ronghua
name: LU, Guoying
name: HAN, Shijian
name: LIU, Pingwu
name: LI, Changning
name: YANG, Cuifang
name: LI, Xiang
name: LI, Yangrui
name: DENG, Yuchi
name: WANG, Lunwang
name: YANG, Liu
name: HUANG, Weihua
name: LIANG, Qiang
name: ZHANG, Ronghua
name: LU, Guoying
name: HAN, Shijian
name: LIU, Pingwu
name: LI, Changning
name: YANG, Cuifang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Sugarcane
subject: Varieties
subject: Growth of the seedlings
subject: Plant crop
subject: Ratoon cane

description: In order to fully understand sugarcane production in Guangxi in 2013, the sample survey combined with data collection and field survey was carried out in sugarcane production areas in Nanning, Hechi, Liuzhou, Chongzuo, Baise and Laibin from May 28 to June 36 in 2013. It was found that the sugarcane growing area in Guangxi in 2013 declined compared with that in 2012; the rate of emergence remained the same as previous year, and as for the plant number of plant crop and ratoon crop per hectare, there was a decline of 4000 and 2000 seedlings respectively compared with the figure in 2012; borer damage rate declined on the whole while the incidence of sugarcane smut increased. Due to the growth in the cost of planting, the growers were less enthusiastic for management. According to the findings, the fertilization and sugarcane field management should be accelerated; borer prevention work was also required, so as to reduce borer damage and dieback rate; the planting structure of varieties had to be adjusted and the cultivated area of "Guitang" as a fine sugarcane variety should also be enlarged; meanwhile other active measures needed to be taken to prevent and control the outburst of pest attack in local areas.
Natural Inflation, Planck Scale Physics and Oscillating Primordial Spectrum
Creators: name: Wang, Xiulian
name: Feng, Bo
name: Li, Mingzhe
name: Chen, Xue-Lei
name: Zhang, Xinmin
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: In the ``natural inflation'' model, the inflaton potential is periodic. We show that Planck scale physics may induce corrections to the inflaton potential, which is also periodic with a greater frequency. Such high frequency corrections produce oscillating features in the primordial fluctuation power spectrum, which are not entirely excluded by the current observations and may be detectable in high precision data of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy and large scale structure (LSS) observations.
description: 20 pages, 11 figures. To appear in Int J Mod. Phys. D
The Regulation and Development of the British Moneylending and Pawnbroking Markets, 1870-2016.
Creators: name: McMahon, Craig M.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Consumer Credit
Non-bank Financial Institutions
Financial Exclusion
Payday lending
Pawnbroking
Regulation of high-cost credit

description: This thesis examines the regulation and development of the moneylending and pawnbroking markets in Britain since the 1870s. The six regulatory episodes examined illustrate how the role of state intervention in these markets has been debated, and how it has evolved. The thesis asks: what were the motivations for reform, which market features were regulators most concerned with, and what were their proposed solutions? It demonstrates how majority and minority viewpoints have informed regulation and documents the often-conflicting expectations of how regulation was meant to influence lending decisions, borrower outcomes and poverty. By identifying the primary motivating factors behind regulation, the study answers why and how some policymakers sought to restrict low-income borrowers from gaining access to credit. It finds that policymakers have shifted their focus from market competition and freedom of consumer choice towards financial inclusion and poverty reduction. The result is a better understanding of the regulation and development of two credit products that were, and remain, vital to the working class. This research shows that the motivations for reform have varied over time. In 1872, 1900, 1927, 2006 and after the Great Recession, policymakers sought to restrict ‘illegitimate, evil and predatory’ small loan lenders, who were accused of exacerbating the conditions of the poor. In 1974, policymakers sought enhanced regulation such as information disclosure to increase market competition and decrease the cost of borrowing. In 2014, the FCA believed that the payday loan market still lacked price competition and implemented price controls as a corrective measure. Less varied were the issues of concern and proposed solutions. This research identifies five main areas of regulatory concern: the high cost of loans, advertising, the use of an annual percentage rate (APR), the legitimacy of moneylenders and pawnbrokers in the financial system and regulatory enforcement. It identifies three main policy responses: price controls, information disclosure and licensing. By analysing the motivations, debated issues and proposed solutions, this research examines wider questions concerning freedom of contract, borrower rationality, bargaining inequity, market segmentation and credit rationing. It contributes to the scholarly and policy dialogue on price controls, information disclosure and the development of non-bank lending. This research also provides new perspectives on the Victorian poverty debate and the modern financial inclusion agenda as they relate to the interaction between regulation, high-cost credit and poverty.
Aharonov-Bohm interferometry with quantum dots: scattering approach versus tunneling picture
Creators: name: Kubala, Björn
name: König, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the question of how to model electron transport through closed Aharonov-Bohm interferometers which contain quantum dots. By explicitly studying interferometers with one and two quantum dots, we establish the connection between a tunneling-Hamiltonian formulation on the one hand and a scattering-matrix approach on the other hand. We prove that, under certain circumstances, both approaches are equivalent, i.e., both types of models can describe the same experimental setups. Furthermore, we analyze how the interplay of the Aharonov-Bohm phase and the orbital phase associated with the lengths of the interferometers' arms affect transport properties.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, published version
title: Lettres de Jacques Leibowitch au Professeur A. Gérard Saimot (Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard)
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-2019311113393096
description: created: start=1991-01-21;end=1997-06-17
MOESM5 of Genetic and metabolic signatures of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica associated with animal sources at the pangenomic scale
Creators: name: Nova, Meryl Vila
name: Kévin Durimel
name: Kévin La
name: Felten, Arnaud
name: Bessières, Philippe
name: Michel-Yves Mistou
name: Mariadassou, Mahendra
name: Radomski, Nicolas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5. Topology differences of phylogenomic trees of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovars (n = 440). The phylogenomic trees were reconstructed by maximum likelihood selecting the most appropriated models of evolution and checking ultrafast bootstrap convergences (i.e. IQ-Tree). The compared approaches ‘variants’ and ‘genes’ correspond to phylogenomic reconstructions based on pseudogenomes from variant calling analysis (i.e. iVARCall2) including (A) or excluding (B) recombination events (i.e. ClonalFrameML), and concatenated orthologous genes (C) from pangenome analysis (i.e. Roary), respectively. These graphical representations were produced with the cophylo function of the ‘phytools’ R package. Most of the branches of the trees (i.e. 85, 55 and 77% for approaches A, B and C, respectively) are supported by bootstrap values higher than 90% and the corresponding newick files are accessible under request.
MOESM6 of Genetic and metabolic signatures of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica associated with animal sources at the pangenomic scale
Creators: name: Nova, Meryl Vila
name: Kévin Durimel
name: Kévin La
name: Felten, Arnaud
name: Bessières, Philippe
name: Michel-Yves Mistou
name: Mariadassou, Mahendra
name: Radomski, Nicolas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6. Quantile-Quantile (QQ) plots from microbial GWAS aiming to identify polygenicity during associations of accessory genes and coregenome variants including homologous recombination events of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovars (n = 440) with avian (A), bovine (B), swine (C) and fish (D) sources. The samples were assigned to potential mono- and multi-animal sources based on a curated and synthetic version of Enterobase. The absence of GEMMA convergence is represented by a cross. The red line (i.e. - log10(observed p-values) = - log10(expected p-values)) corresponds to the reference line reflecting the level of population structure correction.
MOESM3 of Development and validation of a Bayesian survival model for inclusion body myositis
Creators: name: Capkun, Gorana
name: Schmidt, Jens
name: Shubhro Ghosh
name: Sharma, Harsh
name: Obadia, Thomas
name: Vera, Ana
name: Risson, Valery
name: Amzal, Billy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Codes for analysis (R software) (DOCX 32 kb)
Exact hydrodynamic attractor of an ultrarelativistic gas of hard spheres
Creators: name: Denicol, Gabriel S.
name: Noronha, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the general analytical solution of the viscous hydrodynamic equations for an ultrarelativistic gas of hard spheres undergoing Bjorken expansion, taking into account effects from particle number conservation, and use it to analytically determine its attractor at late times. Differently than all the cases considered before involving rapidly expanding fluids, in this example the gradient expansion converges. We exactly determine the hydrodynamic attractor of this system when its microscopic dynamics is modeled by the Boltzmann equation with a fully nonlinear collision kernel. The exact late time attractor of this system can be reasonably described by hydrodynamics even when the gradients are large.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures; version accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Colonies of threaded rings in excitable media
Creators: name: Maucher, Fabian
name: Sutcliffe, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A thring is a recent addition to the zoo of spiral wave phenomena found in excitable media and consists of a scroll ring that is threaded by a pair of counter-rotating scroll waves. This arrangement behaves like a particle that swims through the medium. Here, we present the first results on the dynamics, interaction and collective behaviour of several thrings via numerical simulation of the reaction-diffusion equations that model thrings created in chemical experiments. We reveal an attraction between two thrings that leads to a stable bound pair that thwarts their individual locomotion. Furthermore, such a pair emits waves at a higher frequency than a single thring, which protects the pair from the advances of any other thring and rules out the formation of a triplet bound state. As a result, the long-term evolution of a colony of thrings ultimately yields an unusual frozen nonequilibrium state consisting of a collection of pairs accompanied by isolated thrings that are inhibited from further motion by the waves emanating from the pairs.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. v2: published version
Not-so-innocent bystanders? Investigating non-antigen specific CD8+ T cell activation in autoimmune prognosis
Creators: name: Pecchia-Bekkum, Annika Gabriel
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: CD8+ T cells
Autoimmune disease
T cell exhaustion
Bystander activation
Prognosis

description: Clinical outcome in patients with the same diagnosis of immune disease varies substantially. Understanding the biology of prognosis could greatly improve treatment options for patients suffering from more severe forms and reduce treatment-related side effects for those on a milder disease course. Previously, the Smith Laboratory identified a novel gene expression signature in T cells predictive of clinical outcome in anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies-associated vasculitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis that is not associated with diagnosis. Two modules (corresponding to sets of co-correlated genes) contained within the CD4+ and CD8+ T cell populations correlated with prognosis: a milder disease course is associated with a characteristic transcriptional signature of CD8+ T cell exhaustion (defined as the progressive loss of effector function in the presence of persistent antigen) and poor outcome associated with CD4+ T cell co-stimulation. Preliminary work by Smith laboratory members (McKinney and Kent) shows that genes associated with bystander activation (BA), the non-TCR-specific activation of T cells were enriched in patients with relapsing disease. Therefore, non-antigen-specific (“bystander”) cells may be playing an important role in prognosis. I sought to address the mechanism underlying BA and gain greater insight into its mechanism of action and possible ways to modulate a BA response. I investigated the transcriptomes and phenotypes of BA cells within two model systems. Using these systems, I explored to what degree the 1) identity of the bystander, 2) identity of the TCR-activated cell, and 3) chosen stimulus affected a bystander response. These data demonstrated that BA response are heterogeneous, occur primarily in memory phenotype cells, and involve cytokine-cytokine receptor signalling. Most importantly, these BA cells appear phenotypically and transcriptionally similar to TA cells and may reflect the manner in which TCR-activation occurs, thus suggesting why the prognostic signature is observed in bulk CD8+ T cells. An in vivo human vaccination experiment generated an analogous, but non-identical BA signature. Enrichment of these condition-specific transcriptomes within disease cohorts led to the identification of possible models of disease for downstream analysis. My thesis demonstrated that BA is a complex and context-dependent phenomenon relevant to disease prognosis.
description: My PhD was funded by the Gates Cambridge Trust.
Dolichosoma Stephens
Creators: name: Liberti, Gianfranco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melyridae
Dolichosoma

description: Key to species of genus Dolichosoma Stephens
 1. Elytron with weak longitudinal striae and a sharp apex. Pronotum usually without black setae laterally. Length 4.0–6.0 mm .......................................................................................................................................................... lineare - Elytron without visible striae and with a rounded apex. Pronotum usually with some (5–10) black setae laterally. Length 4.0– 5.8 mm ............................................................................................................................................... simile
description: Published as part of Liberti, Gianfranco, 2009, Improved Strategies for Branching on General Disjunctions, pp. 339-385 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 349, DOI: 10.1184/r1/6705962.v1, http://zenodo.org/record/5307249
Effect of information content on the choice among
Creators: name: Eyvindson, Kyle
name: Hujala, Teppo
name: Kangas, Annika
name: Kurttila, Mikko
name: Eyvindson, Kyle
name: Hujala, Teppo
name: Kangas, Annika
name: Kurttila, Mikko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: decision criteria
subject: decision support
subject: forest planning
subject: multicriteria decision support (MCDS)

description: Multi-criteria decision support (MCDS) tools assist the decision-maker (DM) in selecting an appropriate forest plan among specified alternatives. The selection of appropriate criteria to compare the alternatives is related to the scales of planning and the availability of appropriate inventory data. Anyhow, the criteria should reflect the DM’s objectives and address the production possibilities of the forestry unit at hand. The objectives of this study is to determine if DMs are able to identify/construct similar preferences for the forest with varying levels of information regarding the plans, and to determine if the identified preferences result in the selection of the same forest plan. A group of forest sciences students were chosen as testees. A representative sized forest tract from a forest managed by Metsähallitus was used as a case “holding” providing semi-authentic data. The MESTA internet application was used to guide participants into selecting a single forest plan, depending on the criteria presented to the participant. Results of a systematic experiment showed that approximately half of the participants selected the same forest plan in two out of three different decision scenarios. This result suggests one carefully pre-defined default set of criteria, but it also calls for further study.
How forest knowledge is used in forest planning
Creators: name: Nilsson, Malin
name: Eriksson, Ljusk Ola
name: Nilsson, Malin
name: Eriksson, Ljusk Ola
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Forest planning
subject: knowledge management
subject: knowledge
subject: information.

description: A company needs to know what it knows and how to take care of this knowledge. The way forest knowledge is handled within a forest company is a means to turn knowledge into a source of competitive advantage. Forest data and its information are important parts of the forest planning. The aim of this study is to describe and analyze how forest knowledge is used for timber production planning in a large forest owning company in Sweden. The study is conducted as a case study at Sveaskog - the largest forest owning company in Sweden. Concepts and theories from knowledge management are used. The study is limited to present the forest planning process from the long term felling strategy until the stands are transferred to the tract bank. Interviews with key persons within the organization were used to capture how forest knowledge is used. The information is presented through the four knowledge management processes: creation, storageretrieving, transferring and applying. The planning system relies to a great extent on codified knowledge realized through a push strategy. It appears that the system works as a consistent whole.