cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
UNE ALTERNATIVE A UNE REPONSE TECHNIQUE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT : LE CAS DU SUIVI DE LA GESTION QUOTIDIENNE DE DEUX ASSOCIATIONS DE PRODUCTEURS : SEDPA ET NPPA
AN ALTERNATIVE FOR A TECHNICAL ANSWER FOR DEVELOPMENT : THE FOLLOW-UP OF THE DAILY MANAGEMENT OF TWO PRODUCERS ASSOCIATIONS
Creators: name: Genthon, Michel
name: Genthon, Michel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Development

description: Dans cet article, est justifié et présenté le travail réalisé par la Coopération Française en Dominique avec deux associations de producteurs. La justification d'un tel travail dépasse le classique argument de la délégation des tâches de la vulgarisation aux associations de producteurs. Il s'agit ici d'organisations spécifiques par l'engagement de leurs membres, auxquels on a souhaité donner un véritable rôle dans le développement agricole du pays. Dans les deux exemples étudiés ici on voit que le suivi de ces associations consiste en un dosage délicat de formation d'individus, de conseils de gestion, et parfois d'inten/ention directe. Les étapes à franchir qui d'un groupe non structuré mènent à une association efficace, capable de fonctionner de façon autonome doivent être soigneusement planifiées, l'association étant impliquée au pius haut point dans cet exercice. A défaut, on s'expose à des crises de développement qui peuvent être fatales à l'association. S'il peut être parfois nécessaire d'intervenir de façon directe dans leur gestion afin de conserver certains intérêts économiques, il faut s'assurer du caractère transitoire êt exceptionnel de cette intervention, et qu'elle ait bien été comprise comme telle par l'association. ----- In this paper, the work done by the French Cooperation (FTC) with two producers asociations is justified and presented. The justification of such a work goes beyond the classic argument of the task delegation of extension to the producers associations. Here the matter is about organization specific by the involvement of their members whom it has been whished to give a true role in the agricultural development of the country. In the two examples studied here, it is seen that the follow-up of these associations is a delicate proportioning of people training, management advising and sometimes of direct intervention The steps to go through and which from a non structured group leads to an efficient association, able to work by itself, have to be carefully planned, the association being very deeply implicated in this exercise. If not, there is a risk of development crises which may be disastrous for the association. If sometimes it may necessary to intervene directly in their management in order to preserve some economic interest, it is necessary to make sure the transitory and exceptional character of this intervention and that it has been understood as such by the association.
Jaggedness of Path Integral Trajectories
Creators: name: Bogojevic, Aleksandar
name: Balaz, Antun
name: Belic, Aleksandar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We define and investigate the properties of the jaggedness of path integral trajectories. The new quantity is shown to be scale invariant and to satisfy a self-averaging property. Jaggedness allows for a classification of path integral trajectories according to their relevance. We show that in the continuum limit the only paths that are not of measure zero are those with jaggedness 1/2, i.e. belonging to the same equivalence class as random walks. The set of relevant trajectories is thus narrowed down to a specific subset of non-differentiable paths. For numerical calculations, we show that jaggedness represents an important practical criterion for assessing the quality of trajectory generating algorithms. We illustrate the obtained results with Monte Carlo simulations of several different models.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, uses elsart.cls
The contribution of the banking system to monetary equilibrium and economic stability: Italian experience
Creators: name: MENICHELLA, D.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italy, banking system, history, Central Bank, inflation, monetary policy
subject: E31, E52, E58, G21

description: The present article by Dr. Menichella, Governor of the Bank of Italy, refers to four historical episodes in Italian banking. Two of them - the boom of the 1880s followed by the crisis of the 1890s and the inflation of 1924-26 - go back to the time when Italy had not yet unified the note-issuing privilege or established a single Central Bank. The third episode is the inflation of 1946-47 and the manner in which the authorities succeeded in bringing it to an end without incurring the heavy and long drawn-out deflation reaction which had followed earlier inflationary processes. Finally, he turns to the less stormy events of the last few years. Dr. Menichella's analysis of these episodes is richly illustrative of the breadth of vision that must guide the banker, and more especially the Central banker, in the exercise of his art. Past experience provides, nonetheless, certain more specific lessons concerning a number of principles on which the Governor lays special analysis. The application of such principals has formed an essential part of recent monetary policy in Italy, as is shown in a rapid sketch of the experience of the last ten years. Reference is given to two auxiliary weapons that have strengthened the Bank's position on particular occasion. The first is the power which the Bank of Italy has, as the executive organ of the Interministerial Credit Committee, of expressing its views on the opportune of granting permission for new capital issues. The second is the authorisation which a commercial bank is obliged to seek from the Bank before it can extend credit beyond a certain amount (a fixed percentage of its capital and reserves) to a single customer. JEL: E31, E52, E58, G21
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 9, N. 36-37 (1956)
Fundamental shadow links realized as links in $S^3$
Creators: name: Kumar, Sanjay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57M27, 57M50

description: We use purely topological tools to construct several infinite families of hyperbolic links in the 3-sphere that satisfy the Turaev-Viro invariant volume conjecture posed by Chen and Yang. To show that our links satisfy the volume conjecture, we prove that each has complement homeomorphic to the complement of a fundamental shadow link. These are links in connected sums of copies of $S^2 \times S^1$ for which the conjecture is known due to Belletti, Detcherry, Kalfagianni, and Yang. Our methods also verify the conjecture for several hyperbolic links with crossing number less than twelve. In addition, we show that every link in the $3$-sphere is a sublink of a link that satisfies the conjecture. As an application of our results, we extend the class of known examples that satisfy the AMU conjecture on quantum representations of surface mapping class groups. For example, we give explicit elements in the mapping class group of a genus $g$ surface with four boundary components for any $g$. For this, we use techniques developed by Detcherry and Kalfagianni which relate the Turaev-Viro invariant volume conjecture to the AMU conjecture.
description: 30 pages, 15 figures, revisions following referee suggestions including remark 3.4 and additional details to arguments of Theorems 3.9 and 4.1. To appear in Algebraic and Geometric Topology
Intermediate symmetric construction of transformation between anyon and Gentile statistics
Creators: name: Shen, Yao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gentile statistics describes fractional statistical systems in the occupation number representation. Anyon statistics researches those systems in the winding number representation. Both of them are intermediate statistics between Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics. The second quantization of Gentile statistics shows a lot of advantages. According to the symmetry requirement of the wave function, we give the general construction of transformation between anyon and Gentile statistics. In other words, we introduce the second quantization form of anyons in a easy way. Basic relations of second quantization operators, the coherent state and Berry phase are also discussed.
TECHNOLOGICAL IMPERATIVES AND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATIO N IN THE CARIBBEAN ISSUES AND ALTERNATIVES FOR THE 1990'S
IMPERATIFS TECHNOLOGIQUES ETORGANISATION DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE DANS LA CARAÏBE ABOUTISSEMENT ET ALTERNATIVES POUR LES ANNEES 1990
Creators: name: Trigo, Eduardo J.
name: Lindarte, Eduardo
name: Trigo, Eduardo J.
name: Lindarte, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Development
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Technological change constitutes one of the critical elements for agricultural development and economic growth. In the Caribbean the importance of. technology is enhanced by the limited availability of good quality natural resources which make technological intensification the only credible strategy for increased agricultural production and productivity. However, these prospect have to be confronted with a number of specific institutional constraints that significantly limit the potential impact of technology. These problems are mainly related to the small size of the countries which makes uneconomical the development of full scale R&D Systems. It is possible to completely solve the small country problem and its impact on the effectiveness of R & D Systems. But a number of policy and organizational alternatives can be implemented to diminish its implications. Among them are the concentration of efforts to optimize the impact of available resources ; better coordination of research and technology transfer activities ; improving private sector participation in R & D activities ; and horizontal cooperation and the networking of research activities. ----- Le changement technologique constitue un des éléments critiques du développement agricole et de la croissance économique. Dans la Caraïbe l'importance de la technologie est accrue par la disponibilité limitée de ressources naturelles de qualité qui fait de l'intensification technologique la seule stratégie crédible pour augmenter la production agricole et la productivité. , Toutefois, ces perspectives doivent être confrontés à un certain nombre de contraintes institutionnelles spécifiques qui limitent significativement l'impact potentiel de la technologie Les problèmes sont principalement liés à la taille réduite des pays concernés, qui fait qu'il n'est pas économiquement possible de développer un système complet de Recherche et Développement. Il est impossible de résoudre complètement le problème de la taille du pays et son impact sur l'efficacité du système de Recherche et Développement. Mais un nombre de politiques organisationnelles alternatives peuvent être appliquées pour diminuer son impact. Parmi elles, la concentration des efforts pour optimiser l'impact des ressources disponibles ; la meilleure coordination des activités de recherche et de transfert de technologie ; l'augmentation des capacités nationales pour l'accès aux aides extérieures ; l'accroissement de la participation du secteur privé dans la R et D ; la collaboration horizontale et la mise en réseau des activités de recherche.
Mortgage finance and construction in the American economy since the end of the war
Creators: name: STOLPER, W.F.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: United States, mortgage finance system, monetary policy, mortgage credit
subject: G21, E51, E52,

description: The article is devoted to the examination of the radical changes which have taken place during the last twenty years in the American system of mortgage finance, of the importance of the new system as a factor helping to induce the building boom, of its implications for monetary policy, and of its significance on the social plane. It is well-known that the repercussions of the great depression were aggravated by the inherent "instability" of the structure of American mortgage debt. But it was out of the depths of the depression that was born that long-range legislation which, going beyond the bounds of a simple "rescue operation" developed a series of entirely new institutions. In short, the joint effect of the new institutions was to promote far-reaching changes in mortgage credit. With the sharp reduction in the risk of illiquidity and loss, mortgage credit came to form a larger part of the normal activities not merely of Life Insurance Companies but even of commercial banks. The changed character and organisation of the market meant that the door to building finance was opened even to the lower-income groups, since the reduction in interest rates, the higher loan-to-value ratios, and the lengthening of the period of repayment, combined as the author says, "to bring the monthly charge of buying a house well below the monthly rental". Finally, the author stresses the point that the various forms of government intervention, and the activities of the new Federal institutions, besides broadening the dimensions of the mortgage market, have helped link it up more closely with other compartments of the money and capital market. JEL: G21, E51, E52
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 9, N. 36-37 (1956)
title: An examination of perpetrator explanations for sexual abuse of young children in South Africa
Creators: name: Lekalakala, Esther Kgauhelo
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: South Africa is alleged to have the highest rate of sexual abuse per capita among 49 other countries. These statistics and media reports have sparked debates about what could account for the sexual abuse of children under the age of six including babies. Speculations about what would account for this allegedly high incidence have used patriarchy, poverty, HIV / AIDS and the 'virgin myth'. To date not enough research has been completed to clarify or test the various theories that abound in the country. This thesis explores one element of the problem - how perpetrators make sense of sexual acts with young children in South Africa. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 27 incarcerated sex offenders aged between 16 and 86, all convicted for sexual abuse of children aged six years and below. The perpetrators in this study do not use the virgin cleansing myth as an explanation for the sexual abuse of young children. Instead the interviews tell a story of how childhood adversities, socio-cultural factors including patriarchal notions of manhood, particularly the perpetrators' beliefs about sexual entitlement, are used to explain the sexual abuse of young children. Interviewee narratives also suggest the democratisation of South Africa has led to feelings of disempowerment in these men and restricted their access to sex and this is used justify sexual abuse of young children. Although there were assertions that sexual gratification motivated the abuse, the findings suggest that perpetrators were mostly motivated by the need for the acquisition of power to target young children for sex.
Review of Introduction to Time Series Using Stata by Sean Becketti
Creators: name: Masterov, Dimitriy V.
name: Masterov, Dimitriy V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: book review, time series, forecasting, filtering

description: In this article, I review Introduction to Time Series Using Stata by Sean Becketti (2013 [Stata Press]).
Additional file 2 of The dynamics of decision-making in weight loss and maintenance: a qualitative enquiry
Creators: name: Poltawski, Leon
name: Beurden, Samantha Barbara Van
name: Morgan-Trimmer, Sarah
name: Greaves, Colin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Interview topic guides.
National Water Commission Agricultural Policy
Creators: name: Linsley, Ray K.
name: Linsley, Ray K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Consideration of alternative future land and water requirements for agriculture suggest that no further expansion of the nation's agricultural plant will be required during the balance of this century to meet domestic food and fiber requirements. Export requirements are less certain but can quite likely be met by our present plant, In any case Federal programs of land reclamation do not seem to be needed and certainly subsidy to increase export production is unwarranted.
description: Proceedings of the Symposium on Water Policies on U.S. Irrigated Agriculture: Are Increased Acreages Needed to Meet Domestic or World Needs? Compiled by Victor A. Koelzer
Vehicle structural design strategies for enhanced safety in side impact collision
Creators: name: Asadkarami, Ali
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: One of the major challenges for automotive engineers is to provide adequate protection to motor vehicle occupants involved in side impact collisions. Although, side impacts are less frequent than frontals, to both the occupant and vehicle designer they are as serious because the number and severity of injuries per accident is greater. The objective of the current research work is to develop an approach to optimize the vehicle structure for side impact collisions and provide recommendations to enhance vehicle structural design. To achieve the above objectives, this research study was broken into five phases: Phase (1) A side impact finite element simulation package was developed as an analysis tool for use in this research. As such, this phase discusses the development and verification of the finite element simulation package based on FMVSS-214 standard compliance test configuration utilizing the LS-DYNA software. This package consists of finite element model of a U.S. Moving Deformable Barrier (MDB), a US Side Impact Dummy (SID) , and a target vehicle (1990 Ford Taurus), Phase (2) The previously developed simulation package was utilized to investigate the effect of the collision parameters on the occupant injury likelihood within this phase, Phase (3) A new criterion was developed and verified which simplifies the numerical analyses such that they are computationally cost effective, Phase (4) The critical vehicle structural components in providing side impact crashworthiness were identified, and the effects of their stiffness on the occupant injury likelihood were investigated within this phase, and Phase (5) The results of the previous phases were utilized in this phase to develop a strategy for optimizing the stiffness of the side structure elements, thus minimizing the injury likelihood. The results of this study demonstrated a successful example of the developed state-of-the-art strategy to optimize the vehicle structure to improve side impact crashworthiness. This new strategy is a significant contribution of this research, and improves upon the current design strategy in two ways: (1) this new approach recognizes the effects of the collision parameters on the occupant injury likelihood and addresses their effect on the optimization of the vehicle structure for side impact collisions, and (2) the developed strategy improves the efficiency of the design analysis tools by utilizing a new developed criterion for assessing the vehicle structural side impact crashworthiness. The development and verification of this criterion is also a significant contribution of this research, which could substantially improve the efficiency of the design process and thus should be of benefit to vehicle designers especially early in the vehicle design process. This work also provides insight information for vehicle regulators by substantiating the relative effect of various key collision parameters on the risk of occupant injury in side impact collisions in North America.
Further considerations on the determinants of the volume of bank deposits
Creators: name: GAMBINO, A.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Bank deposits, level, volume, Central Bank, public behaviour
subject: E51, E58, G02, G21

description: The discussion in previous articles by Schneider and Sayers of the factors that determine the level of bank deposits has brought closer together the conflicting views still held on some aspects of this question. In the present article the author takes this as his starting point for restating and qualifying his views concerning the importance of the influence of the behaviour of the public on the volume of deposits, and the limits of the neutralising powers of the Central Bank. The author concludes by expressing the hope that further investigations may be made of the actual quantitative importance, at different times and in different countries, of the several factors determining the volume of deposits. As an introduction to such enquiries, the author sets forth in a Postscript, some methodological details. In contrast to the practice followed by Schneider in similar studies, he re-emphasises the advisability of including savings and time deposits, in order to obtain a picture of the true magnitude of the influence exerted on the volume of deposits by the public. E51, E58, G02, G21
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 9, N. 36-37 (1956)
The foreign exchange business of the Australian trading banks
Creators: name: ARNDT, H.W.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Australian trading banks, foreign trade, exchange control, competition
subject: F31, G21

description: The role played by the Australian trading banks in financing foreign trade has undergone substantial changes in the last thirty years. The present article examines this evolutionary process. According to the author, during this period the Australian banks "made themselves increasingly independent of London bank intermediaries for foreign (as contrasted with sterling) exchange business, by developing direct correspondent relations with banks in most foreign countries. Since World War II, exchange control has still further strengthened their position by eliminating all legal competition for any ‘outside market' within Australia, which earlier had at times made inroads into their business". Special attention is given to the technical aspects which today characterise the various types of operation carried on by the Australian banks, both in financing oversea trade and the performance of complementary services. JEL: F31, G21
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 9, N. 36-37 (1956)
On the connection between the Schrodinger and the Heisenberg pictures for unbounded operators
Creators: name: de la Madrid, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that the unboundedness of operators in Hilbert space entails domain troubles. It is also well known that most domain troubles can be surmounted by extending the Hilbert space to a rigged Hilbert space. In this note, we point out another of such troubles, namely the correspondence between the Schrodinger and the Heisenberg pictures for unbounded operators, and sketch the solution of this problem within the rigged Hilbert space.
description: 5 pages; contribution to the XXV group theory colloquium, Cocoyoc (Mexico), August 2004
Anti-inflationary measures in Sweden
Creators: name: THUNHOLM, L.E.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Sweden, monetary authorities, monetary policy, inflation, credit rationing
subject: E31, E51, E52, E58

description: The article summarises the measures taken in 1955 by the Swedish authorities as part of a process of revaluation of the instruments of monetary policy and of large recourse to fiscal weapons. The measures included: the raising of the Bank Rate and of the cost of money; credit rationing; and higher taxation bearing more especially on investments. The author believes he is justified in concluding that these new measures were ill-timed (the new restrictive programme was introduced when inflation was already well under way), and that they were unilateral in character (the restrictions affected chiefly private business and were not applied energetically to public expenditure). On the other hand, he considers that for the present it would be premature to give a final appraisal of the dis-inflationary efficacy of the new programme. He does not therefore take account of the results obtained by the very recent enquiry made by the Swedish Joint Stock Companies on the effects of the various anti-inflationary measures on investment plans. JEL: E31, E51, E52, E58
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 9, N. 36-37 (1956)
RECHERCHE-DEVELOPPEMENT EN AMAZONIE : FORMALISATION DU SAVOIR DES AGRICULTEURS
FARMING SYSTEMS RESEARCH IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA : FORMALIZATION OF FARMER'S KNOWLEDGE
Creators: name: Angelo Menezes, Maria De Nazaré
name: Reynal, Vincent De
name: Wambergue, Emmanuel
name: Angelo Menezes, Maria De Nazaré
name: Reynal, Vincent De
name: Wambergue, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Farm Management
International Development
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: La perception empirique qu'ont les agriculteurs de leur milieu peut-être très utilement mise à profit en vue de l'élaboration systématique des connaissances d'une région. Lorsque les agriculteurs sont regroupés dans des organisation professionnelles en situation de partenaires et d'interlocuteurs des spécialistes de ta recherche, ce processus de formalisation du savoir peut se faire rapidement et à peu de frais. Ainsi, en l'espace de quelques mois, et par le biais de stages réunissant des agriculteurs représentant les différentes localités, une information importante a pu être rassemblée sur le milieu physique d'une région de quelque 30 000 km2, dans le sud de l'état du Parà (Brésil), dont on ne possédait jusqu'alors que des cartes de sol et de végétation à l'échelle du millionième. Sont présentés, à titre d'exemple, des résultats concernant le municipe de Sao Joao do Araguaia. Cette méthodologie qui ne dispense pas, bien entendu, des observations directes de vérification et de complément, s'est en fait avérée efficace dans une région pionnière dont l'ancienneté d'occupation ne dépasse pas vingt ans. ----- The empirical perception the farmers have about their environment can be usefully exploited for the systematic elaboration of a region knowledge. When the farmers are regrouped in professional organization as partners and interlocutors of research specialists, this formalization process of knowledge can be fastly and cheaply done. So, within some months and through training periods meeting farmers representing the various localities, an important information could be collected on the physical environment of a 30 000 Km2 region, in the South of Para State (Brazil). Until now, only soil and vegetation maps with a one millionth scale were available for this region. The results concerning the mumcipium (parish) of Sao Joao de Araguaia are presented as an example. This methodology, whish of course does not dispense from direct checking and complementary observations, showed its efficiency in a pioneer region where the occupation lengh is less than twenty years.
Fornicia seyrigi GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Fornicia
Fornicia seyrigi

description: Fornicia seyrigi GRANGER 1949
 Fornicia seyrigi n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 215 (key), 216 (descr. ♀, Madagascar).
 Fornicia seyrigi GRANGER 1949: SHENEFELT 1973: 686 (cat.).
 Fornicia seyrigi GRANGER 1949: PAPP 1980: 305 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Toliara: Bekily.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 143, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Additional file 3 of The dynamics of decision-making in weight loss and maintenance: a qualitative enquiry
Creators: name: Poltawski, Leon
name: Beurden, Samantha Barbara Van
name: Morgan-Trimmer, Sarah
name: Greaves, Colin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Participant data.
Microgaster ambositrensis GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Microgaster
Microgaster ambositrensis

description: Microgaster ambositrensis GRANGER 1949
 Microgaster ambositrensis n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 220 (key), 222 (fig. 221), 225 (fig. 237), 227 (descr. ♀, Madagascar).
 Microgaster ambositrensis GRANGER 1949: SHENEFELT 1973: 695 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Fianarantsoa: Ambositra.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 144, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Luoghi nello spazio: alcune prime sfide dell’esogeografia di fronte alla presenza e alle attività umane al di fuori della Terra
Creators: name: Casagrande, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2021

description: Over fifty years after the first Lunar landing, the present-day developments in astronautics are presenting humankind with the perspective of expanding its presence and activity beyond the boundaries of planet Earth. If it is true that such presence and activity have been the traditional cores of attention for geography as a scientific discourse, it is reasonable to assume that they will remain so even outside of their originary spatial boundaries. A possible evolution of geography might therefore be what has begun to be called exogeography i.e. the study of dynamics and processes which, after being developed on Earth during the past centuries, are likely to be developed in outer space or other celestial bodies in the future as well. This appears to be the case, since human territorialization processes appear to follow the same general patterns even though their scope and areas of action evolve with time. A reflection on this topic is being started in Italy and some initial steps were taken in recent years. This paper briefly summarizes some perspectives in this field. By reviewing some epistemological statements about geography in classical academic formulations, this work asserts that there is a definite potential of continuity between geographical studies, regardless of their being focused on Earth as a physical context or on other planets or interplanetary space. This is due to the fact that their ultimate objects remain, consistently, human presence and activity in the spaces where they occur.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (2021)
Additional file 1 of The dynamics of decision-making in weight loss and maintenance: a qualitative enquiry
Creators: name: Poltawski, Leon
name: Beurden, Samantha Barbara Van
name: Morgan-Trimmer, Sarah
name: Greaves, Colin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. COREQ checklist for study [17].
Irrigation Without Subsidy
Creators: name: Teerink, John R.
name: Teerink, John R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Proceedings of the Symposium on Water Policies on U.S. Irrigated Agriculture: Are Increased Acreages Needed to Meet Domestic or World Needs? Compiled by Victor A. Koelzer
On the incorporation of curvature effects into the isogeometric analysis of fibre-reinforced solids
Creators: name: Witt, Carina
name: Kaiser, Tobias
name: Menzel, Andreas
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 620
subject: 670
subject: Stoffeigenschaft
subject: Faserverbundwerkstoff
subject: Finite-Elemente-Methode
subject: Simulation
subject: Biegung

description: In the context of engineering on the micro- and nanoscale, size-dependency is an important characteristic of material behaviour. In order to avoid complex experiments and predict size effects in simulations instead, classic continuum approaches are extended by the introduction of a length scale, e.g. through the consideration of gradient contributions. For the particular case of fibre-reinforced materials, such a gradient-enhanced approach can be achieved by introducing the fibre curvature as an additional kinematic quantity. This implies that basis functions with a global continuity higher than C0 are required for a finite element-based approach which accounts for these fibre curvature effects. The present contribution shows that the isogeometric finite element method can provide a framework for the simulation of the respective higher-gradient continua.
description: Proceedings in applied mathematics and mechanics;21(1)
Export incentive measures in Italy
Creators: name: B. R., B. R.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italy, insurance, credit, tax incentives, export development, policy
subject: F13

description: The note examines the modus operandi and the practical results of the insurance, credit, and tax measures introduced in recent years in Italy as a means of aiding the development of exports. These new measures do not mark a revision of Italian commercial policy, which is still aimed at the broadening of international economic cooperation. They "have only reduced the margin of disadvantage between the conditions from which the Italian exporter starts, and those affecting the exporters of other European countries". Nevertheless, the margin is still a wide one with respect to some countries. This is due to a number of reasons which the note examines in detail: the limited range of products on which the facilities are granted; the exclusion from the insurance scheme of some kinds of risk which are amply covered by the legislation of other countries; low percentage of the risk that can be insured; low level of tax rebates, etc. JEL: F13
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 9, N. 36-37 (1956)
StandICT.eu 2026 Open Call 5 Impact Report
Creators: name: Savini, Gianluca
name: Cueter, Nathaniel
name: Giuffrida, Maria
name: Marill, Mona
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The purpose StandICT.eu 2026 is to fund European experts working to support the evolution of international and European standardisation activities and accelerate the EU's amibitious ICT agenda. This open call is the fifth of 9 StandICT.eu 2026 Open Calls. 

In this funding batch, 37 fellowships were selected, with an overall total of €325,544 granted, addressing a range of policy areas, from cybersecurity, AI, and big data, to Smart Cities, Digital product passport, and Metaverse. The report explores the results from the funded experts, showcasing priority outcomes and increasing visbility to inform decision-makers and creators in the ICT community.
Monetary and real factors affecting economic stability. A critique of certain tendencies in modern economic theory
Creators: name: HABERLER, G.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Modern economic theory, cyclical movements, output, employment, real factors, monetary factors, policy, economic instability
subject: E32, E52

description: The article begins with a critical review of the principal explanations given by modern economic theory of cyclical movements in the volume of output and employment. The author then presents his own view concerning the appropriate distribution of emphasis between real and monetary factors. The current popularity of almost purely “real” models of the cycle has, he believes, led to an undervaluation of the significance of monetary factors. Extending this view to the field of policy, he concludes that if, by appropriate institutional reforms and a skilful monetary policy, the “monetary complications” which affect cyclical movements could be avoided, the “real” cycle by itself would not reach serious proportions. The final section reiterates the view that the role of the monetary factor in causing or preventing economic instability may be a decisive one, with the qualification that the real factors and the monetary factors reinforce each other, and that the former may often create the “impulse” to a cumulative process which the “propagation” is largely dependent on the latter. JEL: E32, E52
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 9, N. 38 (1956)
Additional file 4 of Uncovering the mechanism of the effects of Paeoniae Radix Alba on iron-deficiency anaemia through a network pharmacology-based strategy
Creators: name: Ye, Xian-Wen
name: Deng, Ya-Ling
name: Lan-Ting Xia
name: Ren, Hong-Min
name: Zhang, Jin-Lian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4. File for partial targets with components docking.
Microgaster annulata GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Microgaster
Microgaster annulata

description: Microgaster annulata GRANGER 1949
 Microgaster annulatus n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 220 (key), 222 (fig. 223), 228 (fig. 239), 229 (descr. ♀, Madagascar).
 Microgaster annulatus GRANGER 1949: SHENEFELT 1973: 695 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Toliara: Bekily.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 144, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
John Law, banker and economist
Creators: name: GAMBINO, A.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: John Law, contribution to economics, history of economic thought, demand for money, bank credit, power of money
subject: B31, E41

description: The article provides a critical re-examination of John Law’s activities and ideas, in light of a number of attempts that have been made, especially on the Continent, during the last thirty years, sometimes in apologetic vein, to rehabilitate the economist. The author examines the limitations of Law’s contribution to economic doctrine, and concludes that he does not deserve the reputation for originality and fertility which he has often enjoyed. Law’s conceptions were marred by an elementary and fundamental error: the failure to understand the connection between satisfying an additional demand for money and diminishing its value. No less serious were, as the author emphasises, Law’s mistaken notions concerning the limits to the expansion of bank credit. Even if it is possible to find in Law’s conception of the “power” of money something more than the mere naive identification of money with wealth, it would be an exaggeration to credit him with the far more sophisticated, but also more sober notions that in our generation have come to be associated with Keynes. JEL: B31, E41
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 9, N. 38 (1956)
Per una nuova narrazione dei luoghi: proposta di analisi del soundscape del Mercato Albinelli di Modena
Creators: name: Belotti, Sara
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2021

description: Il Mercato Albinelli si trova al centro della città di Modena e ne costituisce un pezzo fondamentale della sua storia. Interessato da un importante rinnovamento a partire dal 2015, con l’inserimento di attività accessorie quali la ristorazione, il Mercato oggi è un luogo di consumo ma altresì un luogo di incontro che mostra interessanti dinamiche interne e di relazione con l’esterno. Per la sua analisi qui si propone un approccio che prende in considerazione il paesaggio sonoro, così come definito da Raymond Murray Schafer, sottolineando l’importanza che il senso dell’udito può avere nell’approfondire la narrazione del luogo. In tale prospettiva si propongono alcuni appunti sonori registrati all’interno della struttura metallica del Mercato al fine di identificare i suoni e i rumori che lo caratterizzano e fornire nuovi spunti per lo studio di questi luoghi.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (2021)
Left-symmetric algebras, or pre-Lie algebras in geometry and physics
Creators: name: Burde, Dietrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this survey article we discuss the origin, theory and applications of left-symmetric algebras (LSAs in short) in geometry in physics. Recently Connes, Kreimer and Kontsevich have introduced LSAs in mathematical physics (QFT and renormalization theory), where the name pre-Lie algebras is used quite often. Already Cayley wrote about such algebras more than hundred years ago. Indeed, LSAs arise in many different areas of mathematics and physics. We attempt to give a survey of the fields where LSAs play an important role. Furthermore we study the algebraic theory of LSAs such as structure theory, radical theory, cohomology theory and the classification of simple LSAs. We also discuss applications to faithful Lie algebra representations.
description: 28 pages, 3 figures
Biomechanical modeling and analysis of manual wheelchair propulsion
Creators: name: Mallakzadeh, Mohammadreza
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Users of manual wheelchairs depend on wheelchairs for most of their daily activities. Manual Wheelchair Propulsion (MWP) is an inefficient and physically straining process, which in the long term can cause injury. However, wheelchair users do benefit greatly from cardiovascular exercise with the use of manual wheelchairs. The first step in improving the low efficiency and/or preventing injuries during MWP is to be able to measure these factors. To do this, we have proposed an Equivalent Biomedical Index (EBI) and two Wheelchair Users' Joint Injury Indices (WUJII and WUJII') for gross mechanical efficiency and injury assessments. We have fabricated and validated an instrumented wheel to measure the user's applied loads on the handrim during MWP as part of the data required for calculating the proposed indices. The wheel system has been verified by using general uncertainty analysis, and its specifications have been determined using both static and dynamic experiments. The results have ensured the reliability of the system. Also, a procedure has been developed to determine the angular position of the contact point between the hand and the handrim by using the applied loads and without the use of cameras. This study also focuses on proposing a novel method to determine the optimum seat position of the wheelchair to minimize the values of the injury indices and/or maximize the value of EBI for each user. Eight male wheelchair user subjects were recruited for the experiments. Statistical analysis showed that horizontal seat position was significantly related to all three indices (p <0.05). The response surfaces of the indices for two users were determined by using the proposed method and a Bivariate Quadratic Function. We developed and elaborated "Method I" for analysis of the dynamics of user joints and to calculate the joint loads as part of the factors required to define the optimum seat position. A 3D rigid-body inverse dynamic method was used to calculate the joint loads. "Method II" for analysis of the kinetics of the upper limbs was developed and validated to simplify the experimental procedure and decrease the required post-processing. Method II showed to be reliable for measuring the joint forces.
IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON GHANA’S AGRICULTURE: A STRUCTURAL RICARDIAN ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Etwire, Prince Maxwell
name: Kahui, Viktoria
name: Fielding, David
name: Etwire, Prince Maxwell
name: Kahui, Viktoria
name: Fielding, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Adaptation, Crop Production, Climate Change, Structural Ricardian Analysis

description: Several techniques have been used in the literature to estimate the economic impact of climate change on agriculture, many of which do not explicitly consider adaptation and thereby tend to produce biased estimates. Using a two-stage optimization procedure known as the structural Ricardian model, we estimate the impact of climate change on crop production by relying on climate, farmer and farm observations from Ghana. We make two contributions to the related literature. First, we estimate the response function between agricultural profits and land tenure system. In addition, we examine the influence of functional form on structural Ricardian estimates. We find that the impact of temperature on crop production is more noticeable than that of rainfall. In addition to climate, soil productivity and land tenure system influence crop selection and profit. Even though functional form does not seem to affect the structural Ricardian estimates, it influences the resulting predictions. Linear and semi-logarithmic specifications tend to simulate larger impacts of climate change as opposed to a Box-Cox transformation.
Cothonaspis Hartig
Creators: name: Yoshimoto, Carl M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1962
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Figitidae
Cothonaspis

description: Genus Cothonaspis Hartig Cothonaspis Hartig, 1839 (1849) IN Germar, Zeitschr. für Ent. 2:186.— Weld, 1952, Cynipoidea 1905-1950, 242. Type: Cothonaspis pentatomus Hartig, designation by Foerster, 1869. Antenna of female 13-segmented; antennal segment 3 slightly shorter than 4; apical segments forming club. Prothorax broadly truncate. Scutellar cup large, ovate, with small pits at lateral margin, cup not reaching as far back as disc; scutellar disc with ridges radiating from cup to margin of rim, punctate-rugose. Wing pubescent, ciliate, radial cell closed; tergite 2 without a hairy ring.
description: Published as part of Carl M. Yoshimoto, 1962, Hymenoptera: Eucoilinae (Cynipoidea), pp. 89-107 in Insects of Micronesia 19 (3) on page 105, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.268892