cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Factors Influencing Growth of Dairy Product Manufacturing in the United States
Creators: name: Asiseh, Fafanyo
name: Devadoss, Stephen
name: Bolotova, Yuliya
name: Foltz, John C.
name: Haggerty, Robert J.
name: Asiseh, Fafanyo
name: Devadoss, Stephen
name: Bolotova, Yuliya
name: Foltz, John C.
name: Haggerty, Robert J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: dairy product manufacturing
subject: growth
subject: United States

description: The paper analyzes factors influencing the growth of the number of dairy product manufacturing establishments in the United States. We hypothesize that the growth pattern is affected by the size of the establishments. The empirical findings presented in the paper suggest that the growth of the number of small-size dairy product manufacturing establishments is strongly affected by the proximity of both input and output markets as well as by the presence of competition from medium-large-size establishments. In contrast, the growth of the number of medium-large-size establishments is affected by the proximity of the input market and the absence of competition from small-size establishments. The proximity of the output market does not seem to have a strong effect on the growth of the number of medium-large-size establishments.
description: www.ifama.org
Economic Analysis of Options for Food Aid Policy in Honduras
Creators: name: Boland, Michael A.
name: Brautigam, Alena
name: Boland, Michael A.
name: Brautigam, Alena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: economics
subject: food policy
subject: Latin America
subject: nutrition

description: This research uses data from a nutrition program implemented by Land O’ Lakes International Agriculture division through the U.S. Agency for International Development and funded by the Millennium Challenge Account. The combination of foods in this program includes a tortilla, cheese, and milk. The United Nations World Food Programme provides rice and beans in Honduras. The two programs (and their combination) serve as a basis for better understanding the mix of foods in a low cost diet and the food policy options for food aid in Honduras. This research is of interest to managers of agricultural and food firms since they are heavily involved in the supply chain for distribution of US food aid.
description: www.ifama.org
Italian Consumer Attitudes Toward Products for Well-being: The Functional Foods Market
Creators: name: Annunziata, Azzurra
name: Vecchio, Riccardo
name: Annunziata, Azzurra
name: Vecchio, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Functional foods
subject: Italian consumers
subject: Market segmentation

description: The current paper investigates the factors which influence Italian consumers’ behaviour towards functional food products and verifies the opportunities for further expansion of these products through a survey with a sample of 340 consumers responsible for family shopping. Findings show that there is a large number of factors that influence consumer purchasing behaviour. The empirical analysis emphasizes that, although Italian consumers are rather confused on the exact meaning of the term functional foods, their high interest on the bond between diet and health can be a potential element for the development of the demand of these food products. The work also provides a segmentation of the sample to verify the existence of homogeneous groups of consumers characterized by a different propensity towards functional foods.
description: www.ifama.org
Additional file 1 of Cancer rates not explained by smoking: a county-level analysis
Creators: name: Myers, Douglas J.
name: Hoppin, Polly
name: Jacobs, Molly
name: Clapp, Richard
name: Kriebel, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Saturation effects in pp scattering in the impact-parameter representation
Creators: name: Selyugin, O. V.
name: Cudell, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of unitarity is considered in different approaches to saturation in impact-parameter space. The energy and momentum-transfer dependence of the total and differential cross sections and of the ratio of the real to imaginary parts of the scattering amplitude are obtained in a model that includes soft and hard pomeron contributions, coupled to hadrons via the electromagnetic form factor. It is shown that the hard pomeron may significantly contribute to soft physics at the LHC. A similar conclusion can also be reached in the framework of non-linear approaches to unitarisation of the BFKL pomeron.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, uses espcrc2.sty. Contribution to ``Diffraction 2004'', International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics, Cala Gonone, Sardinia, September 18-23, 2004
Revisores/as en Abierto: La Rúbrica de Evaluación de la Revisión
Creators: name: Foster, Antoinette
name: Hindle, Samantha
name: Murphy, Katrina
name: Saderi, Daniela
name: Juan, Bizzotto
name: Ranea-Robles, Pablo
name: Ruiz, María Sol
name: Fairhurst, Vanessa
name: Park, Grace
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Peer Review

description: La Rúbrica de Evaluación de Revisión está dirigida a cualquier persona que esté evaluando la revisión de un manuscrito de investigación. Esto puede incluir a un docente en el contexto de la capacitación en revisión por pares, un par que ayude al autor de la revisión a evaluar su revisión o incluso al propio autor de la revisión para autoevaluar su propia revisión. La rúbrica consta de 10 afirmaciones para las cuales se le pide al evaluador que proporcione una puntuación y un comentario escrito para ayudar a mejorar la revisión.

Esta rúbrica de evaluación de la revisión es parte de un conjunto de herramientas desarrollado en el contexto de los revisores abiertos de PREreview. Las otras dos guías publicadas en el conjunto de herramientas son la Guía de reflexión Sobre Sesgos y la Guía del Revisor/a.

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The Review Assessment Rubric is meant for anyone who is evaluating a research manuscript’s review. This may include a teacher in the context of peer review training, a peer helping the review author evaluate their review, or even the review author themselves to self-evaluate their own review. The rubric comprises 10 statements for which the evaluator is asked to provide a score and a written comment to help improve the review.

This Review Assessment Rubric is part of a toolkit developed in the context of PREreview Open Reviewers. The other two guides published in the toolkit (in English) are the Bias Reflection Guide and the Reviewer Guide.
Transnational political activity and host state policy : Canada’s Sikh and Tamil diasporas
Creators: name: Hoskins, Chad
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study examines the political activity of two prominent diaspora groups in Canada - the Sikhs and the Tamils. The principal research questions that are explored are: a) why do some diaspora groups engage in sustained and prolonged political endeavors to influence homeland politics, and b) why has diasporic political activity so often emerged from Canada? Situated against diaspora formations based exclusively on religious, economic, or ideological goals, this study finds that "stateless" diasporas are more likely to become involved in protracted political struggles to shape homeland events. These findings result from an interconnected set of factors that influence core identity constructions in diaspora populations. Identity is linked closely with homeland territory and with homeland conditions, particularly conflict. Identity is also impacted by conditions in the host country, especially with regard to asylum/immigration policy, official multiculturalism, intelligence, and the ability to impact host country politics. This study concludes that identity (re)construction in the diaspora is based on a combination of primordial (territory, race, language, religion), instrumental (position in host country, diaspora elite interests), and socially constructed (homeland myths) factors. The type of political activity that emerges from diaspora populations with a base in Canada can best be explained by the Transnational Advocacy Network (TAN) model. Despite some essential differences between ethno-national diaspora networks and advocacy groups, the model helps to predict when political diasporas will engage in direct confrontational political action with homeland authorities and when they may turn to national governments, international agencies, and NGOs. A comparison of Sikh and Tamil groups helps elicit some of the major variables that dictate certain forms of transnational political behaviour. Some of these include funding opportunities, military capacity, position in the host society, and the relative strength of the homeland government. The conclusion reflects on the relevance of this study and provides a look forward to some of the important policy implications.
Additional file 1 of The effectiveness of peer and community health worker-led self-management support programs for improving diabetes health-related outcomes in adults in low- and-middle-income countries: a systematic review
Creators: name: Werfalli, Mahmoud
name: Raubenheimer, Peter J.
name: Engel, Mark
name: Musekiwa, Alfred
name: Bobrow, Kirsten
name: Nasheeta Peer
name: Hoegfeldt, Cecilia
name: Kalula, Sebastiana
name: Kengne, Andre Pascal
name: Levitt, Naomi S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Pubmed search strategy.
Leisure Survey, 1983
Creators: name: United Media Enterprises
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: National adult sample: Hours for leisure (7); feeling rushed (1); extra time (1); wasted free time (1); type of person (1); agreement toward various leisure statements (9); volunteer activity participation (2); types of volunteer activity (1); frequency of various leisure activities (39); favorite leisure activity (1); frequency of religious activities (7); importance of leisure aspects (9); purpose of leisure activity (5); interference with leisure time (2); frequency of leisure obstacles (6); access to a car (1); price of gasoline (1); area of outdoor recreation (1); preferred amount of social interaction (1); desired alone time (1); evenings per week at home (1); relationship status (1); leisure time with partner (1); frequency of activities with partner (10); importance of various relationship types (5); activities to meet new people (2); satisfaction with various life aspects (6); time enjoyed (1); ownership of electronics (7); magazine subscriptions (2); days per week reading newspaper (2); time looking at various newspaper sections (19); accuracy of newspaper information (1); importance of various newspaper functions (7); equal newspaper coverage (2); newspaper subscription (3); pleasure from newspaper reading (1); days per week television watching (1); TV watching and multitasking (1); hours per day television watching (1); planned program watching (1); source of programming information (1); frequency of watching various TV programs (13); adequacy of time watching TV (1); cable TV ownership (1); additional cable channels (1); reason for watching cable TV (1); future services of cable TV (2); amount of children (3); adequacy of time with children (1); frequency of activities with children (7); limiting time watching TV (2); importance of children reading newspaper (2); child's personal TV set (1). Teen Sample: Family wellness (1); direction of country (1); parents with children working (2); stay-at-home parent (2); effect of both parents working on teenagers (1); reasons for effect on teenagers (17); effect of both parents working on children (1); reasons for effect on children (16); agreement on various statements (10); work preference (1); homemaking advantages (1); reasons for homemaking advantages (34); who works around the house (1); future plans (5); education pressure based on gender (1); job pressure based on gender (1); equality of responsibilities (1); reasons for equality of responsibilities (15); child care services (6); current care at home (1); previous care at home when younger (1); adequacy of time with mother (1); adequacy of time with father (1); frequency of activities with family (4); spending more time with family (31); enough time alone (1); family member to make decisions (3); involvement in family decisions (1); parents' work situation (1); living situation (1); harder working parent (1); happier parent (1); happier parent (1); reason for one parent household (1); mother's work status (1); respondent's age when mother began work (1).
Uma análise das capacidades tecnológicas da agroindústria canavieira em Minas Gerais
Creators: name: Shikida, Pery Francisco Assis
name: Azevedo, Paulo Furquim De
name: Vian, Carlos Eduardo De Freitas
name: Shikida, Pery Francisco Assis
name: Azevedo, Paulo Furquim De
name: Vian, Carlos Eduardo De Freitas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Dynamics
subject: Technology
subject: Sugar
subject: Ethanol

description: This paper aims to appraise the technological capabilities of sugarcane agro-industry in Minas Gerais State, that has the second largest area planted with sugarcane in Brazil, that is 679.000 ha. A field research survey with sugar and ethanol mills provides the primary data for assessing technological capabilities. The theoretical approach used was the technological capabilities matrix, which is based in Lall (1992), being this matrix divided into three specifications: basic (simple routine), intermediate (adaptive duplicative) and advanced (innovative risky). As a main finding, this sugarcane agro-industry, technically qualified and with low cost, presents a reasonable domain of basic and intermediate technological capabilities. However, the advanced technological capabilities are still lagging behind the technological frontier.
Additional file 2 of The effectiveness of peer and community health worker-led self-management support programs for improving diabetes health-related outcomes in adults in low- and-middle-income countries: a systematic review
Creators: name: Werfalli, Mahmoud
name: Raubenheimer, Peter J.
name: Engel, Mark
name: Musekiwa, Alfred
name: Bobrow, Kirsten
name: Nasheeta Peer
name: Hoegfeldt, Cecilia
name: Kalula, Sebastiana
name: Kengne, Andre Pascal
name: Levitt, Naomi S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Cochrane risk of bias tool.
Pricing and operational efficiencies in the livestock feed market in Ondo State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Oguntade, Adegboyega E.
name: Mafimisebi, Taiwo Ejiola
name: Oguntade, Adegboyega E.
name: Mafimisebi, Taiwo Ejiola
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Poultry feed
subject: Operational
subject: Pricing efficiency
subject: Marketing costs
subject: Nigeria

description: The Nigerian commercial poultry sector is dependent on commercial feeds. Evaluation of the operational and pricing efficiencies of poultry feed marketing is essential for improving efficiencies in the feed industry and lowering the price of poultry products. A multistage sampling technique was used to select the firms studied. Tools used to analyze data collected included index of pricing and operational efficiencies; and regression analysis. The firms studied handled about N251,870,000 of feed per annum, had an annual Inventory Carrying Cost (ICC) of N4,587,762 and an average ICC of N114,694 per firm. The Marketing Costs (MC) for all the firms was N16,813,860 per annum while the average MC was N420,347. Major contributors to ICC were storage; handling and security costs while storage, transportation and capital costs were major contributors to MC. Efforts to minimize costs should therefore be focused at reducing transportation costs and optimal utilization of storage space. The Average Marketing Costs (AMC) declined with increase in quantity marketed (QM) while unit profit increased with QM. Firms therefore need to increase QM. Marketing Margin (MM) and MC were significantly different from each other. Also, QM was a significant explanatory variable of MM, implying that there was no pricing efficiency in the market. Relative efficiency increased with QM, suggesting that firms should strive to increase the quantity of feed marketed. The major contribution of this study is that it provides information on the components of marketing costs and size economies in the poultry feed industry in Ondo State, Nigeria.
QCD Saturation Equations including Dipole-Dipole Correlation
Creators: name: Janik, R. A.
name: Peschanski, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive two coupled non-linear evolution equations corresponding to the truncation of the Balitsky infinite hierarchy of saturation equations after inclusion of dipole-dipole correlations, i.e. one step beyond the Balitsky-Kovchegov (BK) equation. We exhibit an exact solution for maximal correlation which still satisfies the same asymptotic geometric scaling as BK but with the S-matrix going to 1/2 (instead of 0) in the full saturation region.
description: 4 pages, no figure. Comment, references and acknowledgment added
Additional file 1 of Towards reduction in bias in epidemic curves due to outcome misclassification through Bayesian analysis of time-series of laboratory test results: case study of COVID-19 in Alberta, Canada and Philadelphia, USA
Creators: name: Burstyn, Igor
name: Goldstein, Neal D.
name: Gustafson, Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Statistics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Territorializando la producción ecológica. Acciones colectivas y políticas públicas en Andalucía
Creators: name: Lozano, C.
name: Aguilar, E.
name: Lozano, C.
name: Aguilar, E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Agricultura Ecológica
subject: Sistemas Agroalimentarios Localizados
subject: Andalucía

description: Este trabajo analiza una experiencia de territorialización de la producción ecológica en la comarca de la Sierra de Segura (Andalucía, España) y plantea la posibilidad de hablar de un SIAL “Agricultura ecológica-Sierra de Segura”. De una forma más concreta, estudia cómo se han desarrollado diversas estrategias colectivas para dotar de arraigo a esta actividad y para vincular esta certificación genérica a las características naturales, pero también socioculturales de la zona. En este trabajo se analizarán las formas de coordinación territorial y las redes establecidas entre los diferentes actores del SIAL, las acciones colectivas estructurales y funcionales que se han ido desarrollando en el territorio, la incidencia de las políticas públicas en el desarrollo del SIAL, así como las relaciones que estos actores han establecido con las instituciones del entorno. El trabajo se sustenta en una metodología fundamentalmente cualitativa a partir de la aplicación combinada de un conjunto de técnicas de investigación: la observación participante, las entrevistas abiertas y el análisis de fuentes documentales. Como conclusión podemos apuntar que las interacciones establecidas entre los integrantes del sector, las instituciones comarcales y regionales, y otros miembros de la sociedad local, han ido constituyendo dinámicas comunes que, si consiguen mantenerse en el tiempo y alcanzar una mínima viabilidad, nos permitirán hablar de la existencia de un SIAL “Agricultura Ecológica-Sierra de Segura”.
Theory of ARPES in Graphene-Based Moiré Superlattices
Creators: name: Zhu, Jihang
name: Shi, Jingtian
name: MacDonald, Allan H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene-based moiré superlattices are now established as an interesting platform for strongly-correlated many-electron physics, and have so far been characterized mainly by transport and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements. Motivated by recent experimental progress, we present a theoretical model study whose aim is to assess the potential of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) to resolve some of the many open issues in these systems. The theory is developed specifically for graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (G/hBN) and twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) moiré superlattices, but is readily generalized to any system with active degrees of freedom in graphene sheets.
Continuous extremal optimization for Lennard-Jones Clusters
Creators: name: Zhou, Tao
name: Bai, Wen-Jie
name: Cheng, Long-Jiu
name: Wang, Bing-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we explore a general-purpose heuristic algorithm for finding high-quality solutions to continuous optimization problems. The method, called continuous extremal optimization(CEO), can be considered as an extension of extremal optimization(EO) and is consisted of two components, one is with responsibility for global searching and the other is with responsibility for local searching. With only one adjustable parameter, the CEO's performance proves competitive with more elaborate stochastic optimization procedures. We demonstrate it on a well known continuous optimization problem: the Lennerd-Jones clusters optimization problem.
description: 5 pages and 3 figures
Conformación de la agroindustria del amaranto en Santiago Tulyehualco, Xochimilco, México. Elementos que han permitido la transformación productiva y social en las familias rurales.
Creators: name: Manzo, Ramos F.
name: Lopez-Ornelas, G.
name: Manzo, Ramos F.
name: Lopez-Ornelas, G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Agroindustria
subject: familia rural.

description: El presente trabajo versa sobre el desarrollo de la agroindustria del amaranto al sur del Distrito Federal, Ciudad de México. Esta actividad, además de ser de gran importancia económica para la localidad y comunidades vecinas, ya que en ella participan familias enteras, da un elevado sentido de pertenencia y cohesión entre los habitantes. La actividad agroindustrial consta de cuatro procesos: producción primaria, acopio, transformación y comercialización. Las familias amaranteras, que participan en este trabajo, participan en toda la cadena de valor desde hace varias generaciones. El eje de análisis se refiere a los factores que permiten la transformación en estructura y funcionamiento de la unidad de producción campesina hacia unidades agroindustriales. El enfoque que se utilizará para entender los procesos de cambio que se han dado en las unidades de producción rural y que permiten el desarrollo, evolución y consolidación de las estrategias se basa en el modelo de Organizaciones Productivas Familiares Rurales [1]. Dicho modelo separa tres ámbitos presentes e interrelacionados siempre presentes en las unidades: la propiedad, la familia y la actividad productiva agropecuaria. Este modelo nos ofrece argumentos de gran utilidad para entender los procesos de cambio que se gestan en las unidades campesinas, en su transito hacia la nueva cultura empresarial. Para la colección de información se recurrió a la aplicación de entrevistas, estructuradas, semi-estructuradas e historias de vida. Entre los principales hallazgos se puede mencionar: a) el nivel de desarrollo de la unidad de producción está relacionada con el momento en que se encuentre la familia dentro de su ciclo de desarrollo, b) las características personales del matrimonio propietario son determinantes para el cambio productivo implícito en el avance de la unidad y c) el entendimiento de las familias sobre sus necesidades, y la capacidad de gestión y negociación de sus representantes permiten el acceso a recursos que coadyuvan al cambio productivo. La principal conclusión es que el grado de avance de las unidades de producción, está en función del balance logrado por las familias operadoras entre intereses /necesidades y recursos /capacidades.
Theoretical estimate of the probability for macromolecule formation
Creators: name: Mishra, Pramod Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the probability regarding polymerization of a macromolecule which is made of distinct monomers. The lattice model of the random walk has been used to mimic the conformations of an ideal chain in two and three dimensions. It has been shown through analytical estimates that the flexible macromolecules may be easily formed than the stiff macromolecules in two and three dimensions.
description: 08 Pages, 04 Figures and a Table
Thermal transport in the hidden-order state of URu$_{2}$Si$_{2}$
Creators: name: Behnia, K.
name: Bel, R.
name: Kasahara, Y.
name: Nakajima, Y.
name: Jin, H.
name: Aubin, H.
name: Izawa, K.
name: Matsuda, Y.
name: Flouquet, J.
name: Haga, Y.
name: Onuki, Y.
name: Lejay, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of thermal conductivity in the normal state of the heavy-fermion superconductor URu$_{2}$Si$_{2}$. Ordering at 18K leads to a steep increase in thermal conductivity and (in contrast with all other cases of magnetic ordering in heavy-fermion compounds) to an enhancement of the Lorenz number. By linking this observation to several other previously reported features, we conclude that most of the carriers disappear in the ordered state and this leads to a drastic increase in both phononic and electronic mean-free-path.
description: 5 pages including 4 figures
The Casimir Effect and the Quantum Vacuum
Creators: name: Jaffe, R. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In discussions of the cosmological constant, the Casimir effect is often invoked as decisive evidence that the zero point energies of quantum fields are "real''. On the contrary, Casimir effects can be formulated and Casimir forces can be computed without reference to zero point energies. They are relativistic, quantum forces between charges and currents. The Casimir force (per unit area) between parallel plates vanishes as α, the fine structure constant, goes to zero, and the standard result, which appears to be independent of α, corresponds to the α\to\infty limit.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, uses aip class and the package floatftm to float text around figures
THE ROLE OF STAKEHOLDERS' INVOLVEMENT TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION: A CASE STUDY IN THE APULIA REGION
Creators: name: Maraglino, T.
name: Ricco, V.
name: Schiralli, M.
name: Giordano, R.
name: Pappagallo, G.
name: Maraglino, T.
name: Ricco, V.
name: Schiralli, M.
name: Giordano, R.
name: Pappagallo, G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Stakeholder
subject: desertification
subject: decision making process.

description: Drought and desertification are largely considered as the major and most complex natural hazards. This is mainly due to the complexity of the web of impacts that ripple through too many sectors causing serious economic, social and environmental consequences. Hence, a wide range of actors are interested by drought effects. Empirical investigations in scientific literature have highlighted the differences between the stakeholder' perceptions of drought and desertification phenomena and the results of scientific – technical evaluation. There is no unique definition of the problem, but each individual has her/his own perception of drought and desertification, which is influenced by previous drought experiences and the mental models used to analyse these experiences. This could result in ambiguity in the definition of the problem. The ambiguity in drought and desertification definition could have a strong negative impact on the effectiveness of mitigation strategies. For these reasons, the involvement of stakeholder in the decision making process for drought and desertification management since its early stages has played a fundamental role. This work describes the experiences done to support drought and desertification management in the Apulia Region (Southern Italy). The methods and tools adopted in two different phases are described and the lessons learned during the process are discussed. The work is structured as follows: in section 1 there is an introduction and a description of the backgrounds regarding the project and the investigated territory. The objectives of the study and the empirical methodology applied state in section 2. Section 3 presents discussion and suggestion on decision making process. Conclusions and final remarks are proposed in section 4.
The consequences of the bank levy in Poland
Creators: name: Kapuściński, Mariusz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Economics

description: In this study I analyse the effects of a bank levy, as introduced in Poland, on areas which appear to be relevant from the perspective of a central bank. I apply the difference-in-differences method, using bank level panel data. I fnd that the introduction of the bank levy has affected the use of some monetary policy instruments, money market rates and volumes, and deposit and loan rates. However, I find little evidence of its impact on loan volumes, bank proftability, capital and risk-taking. This means that the bank levy has had important implications for monetary policy implementation, interest rate benchmark reform and monetary conditions, but (as yet) less so for financial stability. As an extension of the study I document effects on assets and treasury bond holdings (including their changes at the end of a month), and estimate the impact of bank balance sheet adjustments on government revenues.
Roles of metallothionein and zinc transporters in the homeostasis of histochemically reactive zinc in mice
Creators: name: Hsi, Sharon Wei-Yu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Zinc is an essential trace mineral required for the normal function of many zinc-containing binding proteins. There are two intracellular pools of zinc: the non-exchangeable pool of zinc and the labile intracellular pool of zinc (LIPZ). In animal tissues, LIPZ is known as histochemically reactive zinc. The abundance of LIPZ has been shown to be critical to cellular functions such as cell proliferation and apoptosis. However, the mechanisms involved in LIPZ regulation are not clear. Since both metallothionein (MT) and, to some degree, zinc transporters have been shown to play important roles in zinc homeostasis, we hypothesized that the abundance of histochemically reactive zinc in mice will be homeostatically regulated through the interplay between MT and zinc transporters. The objective was to investigate the role of MT and zinc transporters in the homeostatic regulation of histochemically reactive zinc^ in response to various zinc intakes in mice. Twenty-three-day old metallothionein knockout (MT-KO) and the control metallothionein-wild type (MT-WT) mice were fed low- (2 mg Zn/kg diet), adequate- (30 mg Zn/kg diet), or high-zinc (150 mg Zn/kg diet) diet. MT-WT mice were maintained on their assigned diet for 2, 4, 7, or 21 days, and MT-KO mice were maintained on their assigned diet for 4 days before the liver and small intestine were removed for analyses. In MT-WT mice, body weight gain and feed intake were unaffected by zinc intake, but bone zinc concentration was reduced at low-zinc intake and increased at high-zinc intake. High-zinc intake caused zinc toxicity in MT-KO mice. In MT-WT mice, MT concentrations reflected dietary zinc intake in both the liver and small intestine. The abundance of histochemically reactive zinc in small intestine, but not that in the liver, also reflected zinc intake. The abundance of small intestinal histochemically reactive zinc was higher in MT-WT mice than that in MT-KO mice at each dietary zinc intake. Zinc transporters mRNA levels were generally not affected by dietary zinc intakes in both MT-KO and MT-WT mice. Overall, the data suggested that MT, but not zinc transporters, plays a role in the homeostatic regulation of histochemically reactive zinc in mice.
Territoriality of the agroecological and conventional systems in family farming in Rondônia - the Amazon forest – Brazil.
Creators: name: Gianasi, L.M.
name: Tubaldina, M.A.
name: Gianasi, L.M.
name: Tubaldina, M.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: agroecology
subject: Rondônia–amazon Region
subject: familiar agriculture.

description: This article focuses on one of the themes developed in the Project leader between Fluminense Federal University - UFF (Rio de Janeiro State) and Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG (Minas Gerais State) sponsored by CAPES (Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel). The research is developed in Earth and Society Nucleus - Study Group on Agrarian Geography, Familiar Agriculture and Peasant Culture and the Laboratory of Agrarian Geography and Agriculture Family, linked to the Graduate Program in Geography and the Department of Geography of UFMG and the Research Center for Agricultural-Environmental of the Graduate Program in Geography of UFF. The main project is related with "Family agriculture, environmental sustainability and territoriality in the Amazon". In this paper the proposal is to discuss one part of the global research: “territoriality of the agroecological and conventional systems in family farming in Rondônia - the Amazon forest. This study will present a brief discussion about the qualitative contribution of agroecological systems for the family farmers in the state of Rondônia and their effects on regional-local sustainable development. In the conventional agricultural method it will be presented the evidence of degradation of the environment in some figures. The focus of this paper is on a reinterpretation of family farmers that practice an agro-ecologic agriculture and others in this area. Intend to debate where the agroecological families are located in this territory if has or not a territory of agroecology, how they can survive using this type of agriculture and to show the importance of the commercialization (especially in the trade fair) of this production as a source of economic resources for this families.
Competing Magnetic Phases on a "Kagome Staircase"
Creators: name: Lawes, G.
name: Kenzelmann, M.
name: Rogado, N.
name: Kim, K. H.
name: Jorge, G. A.
name: Cava, R. J.
name: Aharony, A.
name: Entin-Wohlman, O.
name: Harris, A. B.
name: Yildirim, T.
name: Huang, Q. Z.
name: Park, S.
name: Broholm, C.
name: Ramirez, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present thermodynamic and neutron data on Ni_3V_2O_8, a spin-1 system on a kagome staircase. The extreme degeneracy of the kagome antiferromagnet is lifted to produce two incommensurate phases at finite T - one amplitude modulated, the other helical - plus a commensurate canted antiferromagnet for T ->0. The H-T phase diagram is described by a model of competing first and second neighbor interactions with smaller anisotropic terms. Ni_3V_2O_8 thus provides an elegant example of order from sub leading interactions in a highly frustrated system
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 2 of Chromosome aberrations in pressure-induced triploid Atlantic salmon
Creators: name: K. A. Glover
name: Harvey, A. C.
name: T. J. Hansen
name: P. G. Fjelldal
name: F. N. Besnier
name: J. B. Bos
name: F. Ayllon
name: J. B. Taggart
name: M. F. Solberg
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary File 2. R Script.doc, contains the R script used to perform some of the analysis.
Heterogeneity of Members’ Characteristics and Cooperation within Producer Groups Regulating Geographical Indications: The Case of the “Prosciutto di Parma” Consortium
Creators: name: Dentoni, Domenico
name: Menozzi, Davide
name: Capelli, Maria Giacinta
name: Dentoni, Domenico
name: Menozzi, Davide
name: Capelli, Maria Giacinta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Geographical Indications
subject: Collective Action
subject: Group Heterogeneity
subject: Multi-Variate Statistics.

description: Several studies have analyzed the conditions under which geographical indications (GIs), such as the European Protected Designations of Origin (PDOs) and Protected Geographical Indications (PGIs), can represent a profitable market opportunity for agri-food producers. The development of a common set of rules by a group of producers and the governance of the collective brand are key issues to jointly exploit market opportunities through GIs. This paper explores whether heterogeneous characteristics, resources and strategies of individual producers within a PDO Consortium influence their level of agreement on the future of the collective regulation and governance of GIs. We conduct an in-depth study on a representative sample of firms member of the “Prosciutto di Parma” PDO Consortium by integrating a multi-variate statistical analysis with a qualitative description of the vision that companies have for the future of their PDO. From the results of this study, we found confirmation that “Prosciutto di Parma” PDO Consortium members have highly heterogeneous characteristics which lead to significant segmentation in two major groups. The first segment includes a large number of Consortium members, mostly constituted by smaller firms, producing mainly PDO-labeled “Prosciutto di Parma”. The second is composed by a group of larger companies focusing on production of generic hams without the PDO-label. This difference clearly affects the level of agreement on the future regulation of "Prosciutto di Parma" as GI. The first segment advocates for the establishment of a “high-quality” PDO or for a PDO with stricter controls and standards, while the second would prefer that a PGI label was introduced, either in substitution to or parallel with the current PDO. Results, although explorative in nature, show that group heterogeneity influences the level of cooperation among the members of a producer group regulating and governing a PDO. Therefore, this study provides evidence that increasing group heterogeneity may represent a new challenge for the sustainability and profitability of GIs.
Supervision and Source Domain Impact on Representation Learning: A Histopathology Case Study
Creators: name: Sikaroudi, Milad
name: Safarpoor, Amir
name: Ghojogh, Benyamin
name: Shafiei, Sobhan
name: Crowley, Mark
name: Tizhoosh, H. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As many algorithms depend on a suitable representation of data, learning unique features is considered a crucial task. Although supervised techniques using deep neural networks have boosted the performance of representation learning, the need for a large set of labeled data limits the application of such methods. As an example, high-quality delineations of regions of interest in the field of pathology is a tedious and time-consuming task due to the large image dimensions. In this work, we explored the performance of a deep neural network and triplet loss in the area of representation learning. We investigated the notion of similarity and dissimilarity in pathology whole-slide images and compared different setups from unsupervised and semi-supervised to supervised learning in our experiments. Additionally, different approaches were tested, applying few-shot learning on two publicly available pathology image datasets. We achieved high accuracy and generalization when the learned representations were applied to two different pathology datasets.
description: Accepted for presentation at the 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'20)
Quality Agro-Food Districts, typical Products, local Governance
Creators: name: Montresor, Elisa
name: Pecci, Francesco
name: Pontarollo, Nicola
name: Montresor, Elisa
name: Pecci, Francesco
name: Pontarollo, Nicola
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Labor and Human Capital

description: The paper investigates the coexistence of different organisational patterns of local productions and evaluate which local governance may be more appropriate in a globalized agro-food scenery. We analyze, through the spatial analysis tools and the use of suitable indicators at municipality level, some PDO/PGI products in two Italian regions, Veneto and Emilia Romagna, which adopted very different strategies. The regional institutions in Veneto preferred to individualize "from the top" the quality agro-food districts at provincial level. In Emilia Romagna, instead, the policy makers decided to recognize the initiatives from the "bottom", born through various types of agreements. The spatial analysis allows to select the most appropriate indicators in order to identify homogeneous local systems, reducing the complexity of the issues to be addressed in the definition of their geographic boundaries. The results of our analysis allow to evaluate these approaches, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of two different models of the agro-food districts. The purpose of our comparison is not to suggest the best model to be transferred to other regions, but rather to assess whether the regional strategies are appropriate to the specificities of their territories.
Recreational trip timing and duration prediction: A research note
Creators: name: Hailu, Atakelty
name: Gao, Lei
name: Hailu, Atakelty
name: Gao, Lei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: recreational fishing
subject: trip timing
subject: length of recreational trips
subject: tourism simulation
subject: environmental impact management

description: This paper presents models that predict two recreational fishing trip parameters: the length of a trip and the timing of a trip within a year. A discrete choice (logit) model linking the choice of trip timing to calendar events, the demographic characteristics of anglers as well as the nature of the trip is econometrically estimated. A Tobit model is used to evaluate the relationship between fishing trip length and personal and trip characteristics. The results indicate that timing choice and trip length can be explained well in terms of observable personal and trip variables. Knowledge of these relationships is a useful input to tourism/recreational fishing management as well as to the development of tourism/fishing activity simulation models.
Efficient Training of the Memristive Deep Belief Net Immune to Non-Idealities of the Synaptic Devices
Creators: name: Wang, Wei
name: Hoffer, Barak
name: Greenberg-Toledo, Tzofnat
name: Li, Yang
name: Zou, Minhui
name: Herbelin, Eric
name: Ronen, Ronny
name: Xu, Xiaoxin
name: Zhao, Yulin
name: Yang, Jianguo
name: Kvatinsky, Shahar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tunability of conductance states of various emerging non-volatile memristive devices emulates the plasticity of biological synapses, making it promising in the hardware realization of large-scale neuromorphic systems. The inference of the neural network can be greatly accelerated by the vector-matrix multiplication (VMM) performed within a crossbar array of memristive devices in one step. Nevertheless, the implementation of the VMM needs complex peripheral circuits and the complexity further increases since non-idealities of memristive devices prevent precise conductance tuning (especially for the online training) and largely degrade the performance of the deep neural networks (DNNs). Here, we present an efficient online training method of the memristive deep belief net (DBN). The proposed memristive DBN uses stochastically binarized activations, reducing the complexity of peripheral circuits, and uses the contrastive divergence (CD) based gradient descent learning algorithm. The analog VMM and digital CD are performed separately in a mixed-signal hardware arrangement, making the memristive DBN high immune to non-idealities of synaptic devices. The number of write operations on memristive devices is reduced by two orders of magnitude. The recognition accuracy of 95%~97% can be achieved for the MNIST dataset using pulsed synaptic behaviors of various memristive synaptic devices.