cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Curly : a new hair defect mutation in the SELH/bc mouse strain
Creators: name: Taylor, Lydia Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The curly mutation (cur) is an autosomal recessive mutation that arose spontaneously on the inbred strain SELH/Bc. This study included the characterization of the curly phenotype and the mapping of the curly mutation in order to report this mutation, evaluate its importance as an animal model for human genetic disorders and possibly contribute towards understanding the mechanism of mutation in the SELH strain. This mutation is one of the eight single locus, spontaneous mutations that have arisen on the SELH strain indicating that this strain has an elevated mutation rate. This mutant has a waved and ruffled coat, crimped and broken vibrissae, and in later life may develop curled toe nails and hair loss at the eyes, nose, ears and tail tips. The curly mutation was mapped to the distal end of chromosome 11 via PCR amplification of informative SSLP's using 32 homozygous curly F2's from curly SELH stock outcrossed to the normal inbred strain LM/Bc. Based on recombination breakpoints in individual affected F2 genotypes, the region containing the curly mutation was narrowed to between D11Mit14 and D11Mit10, an approximately 6 cM interval. This placed the curly mutation in a region of the genome known to contain several dominant hair defect mutations, epidermal regulatory genes and keratin (the main structural protein of epidermal, nail and hair cells) genes. A second outcross of curly SELH to the AXB-10/Pgn normal inbred strain was undertaken to further refine this region containing the curly mutation and to map curly relative to the keratin genes. Based on recombination breakpoints in individual affected F2s (n = 71) in this cross, the curly mutation was mapped between D11Mit14 and D11Mit360, an approximately 4 cM region. No recombinants were found between the curly mutation and two markers from within candidate keratin genes, KHA1 and Krtl9.
Effectiveness of Green-Extension Systems at High-Speed Intersections
Creators: name: Zegeer, Charles V.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of green-extension systems (GES) for reducing the dilemma-zone problem associated with the amber phase of traffic signals at high-speed intersections. Reactions of 2,100 drivers were noted during the amber phase at nine intersections, and the dilemma-zone distances with respect to the stop bar were determined.  Before-and-after studies made at three green-extension sites showed a 54-percent reduction in total accidents and a 75-percent reduction in rear-end accidents after GES installation. Accident severity was unaffected.  Conflict, volume, delay, and speed data were taken before and after GES installation at two sites. A 62-percent reduction in yellow-phase conflicts was noted after green extension was provided, and conflict rates decreased significantly at both sites. No significant change was found in vehicle delay due to green extension.  Expected present-worth benefits due to GES installations were found to range from $29,000 to $420,000, depending on the history of rear-end accidents. Benefit-cost ratios ranged from 6 to 70.
Additional file 1 of Comparison of novel rapid diagnostic of blood culture identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing by Accelerate Pheno system and BioFire FilmArray Blood Culture Identification and BioFire FilmArray Blood Culture Identification 2 panels
Creators: name: Sze, Dorothy T. T.
name: Lau, Candy C. Y.
name: Chan, Tsz-Ming
name: Ma, Edmond S. K.
name: Tang, Bone S. F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1.
Taub-NUT solutions in conformal electrodynamics
Creators: name: Bordo, Alvaro Ballon
name: Kubiznak, David
name: Perche, Tales Rick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a novel charged Taub-NUT spacetime, providing a first non-trivial example of a self-gravitating solution to the recently proposed ModMax theory, the most general (1-parametric) theory of non-linear electrodynamics that is characterized by both the conformal symmetry and the $SO(2)$ duality-rotation invariance. The spacetime features non-trivial magnetic fields, in their presence the non-linearity of the field becomes apparent and the solution is distinguished from that of the Maxwell theory. Thermodynamics of the new solution, the charged black hole limit of vanishing NUT parameter, and the self-dual solutions are also briefly discussed.
description: 7 pages, version 2: added a discussion regarding self-dual solutions
Computer Storage of Traffic Volume Data
Creators: name: Virgin, Marvin
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: LOADVOL is a program developed to assimilate raw traffic volume data into a more readily usable form. Several identifying parameters are added to enhance the clarity and to extend the utility of the data base.  Criteria were set to detect possibly erroneous traffic count data. LOADVOL detects and replaces "erroneous" data with simulated data. LOADVOL produces cards which contain the orignal data which are replaced. Thus, the original data can be reviewed, and it can be ascertained whether it is erroneous or was affected by a special event, holiday, location, traffic recorder malfunction, or some other occurrence.  UPDATE, a second program, was developed to allow the replacement of original or simulated volumes with other volumes determined by the user to be more accurate.
Screened Casimir forces
Creators: name: Tomas, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that a very recently obtained formula for the force on a slab in a material planar cavity based on the calculation of the vacuum Lorentz force [C. Raabe and D.-G. Welsch, Phys. Rev. A 71, 013814 (2005)] describes a (medium) screened Casimir force and, in addition to it, a medium-assisted force. The latter force also describes the force on the cavity medium. For dilute media, it implies the atom-mirror interaction of the Casimir-Polder type at large and of the Coulomb type at small atom-mirror distances of which the sign is insensitive to the polarizability type (electric or magnetic) of the atom.
description: RevTeX 4, 4 pages, 1 eps figure
Parallel selective nuclear spin addressing for fast high-fidelity quantum gates
Creators: name: Tratzmiller, Benedikt
name: Haase, Jan F.
name: Wang, Zhenyu
name: Plenio, Martin B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to their long coherence times, nuclear spins have gained considerable attention as physical qubits. Two-qubit gates between nuclear spins of distinct resonance frequencies can be mediated by electron spins, usually employing a sequence of electron-nuclear gates. Here we present a different approach inspired by, but not limited to, NV centers in diamond and discuss possible applications. To this end we generalize external electron spin control sequences for nuclear spin initialization and hyperpolarization to achieve the simultaneous control of distinct nuclear spins via an electron spin. This approach results in efficient entangling gates that, compared to standard techniques, reduce the gate time by more than 50% when the gate time is limited by off-resonant coupling to other spins, and by up to 22% when the gate time is limited by small electron-nuclear coupling.
description: 9+4 pages, 4+2 figures
Traffic Conflicts as a Diagnostic Tool in Highway Safety
Creators: name: Zegeer, Charles V.
name: Deen, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Because of the shortcomings in accident data, such as incomplete reporting and inaccurate information on accident reports, a need was found for indicators of accident potential. Nearly half of the 209 locations identified in Kentucky as hazardous by accident criteria were found to be falsely identified due to random accident occurrences. Accident repeatability from one year to the next was found to be poor at 60 intersections (r = 0.64) and 170 spot locations (r = 0.59). Up to two years of accident data were found to be necessary to obtain a reliable base of accident data.  Conflict counts were conducted at five intersections in Central Kentucky to determine characteristics of conflict data. Good reliability was found between observers in simultaneous counts of conflicts and weaves with r-values as high as 0.93. Traffic volumes accounted for only about 30 percent of the variation in numbers of conflicts. Conflict numbers, types, and rates were found to be very repeatable at one intersection. A revised procedure for collecting data in Kentucky, which increased the sample size and reduced the required manpower, was described. Modified data sheets were also developed for signalized and unsignalized intersections.  Results from evaluations of safety improvements in Kentucky using conflicts, erratic meanuevers, and accidents were summarized. Reductions in accidents (85 percent) and conflicts (81 percent) were found at intersections where left-turn signal phasing was added. Installation of green-phase extension resulted in conflict and accident reductions of 62 and 54 percent, respectively, at several high-speed intersections. Erratic maneuvers were reduced by 27 percent after installing raised pavement markers at five freeway lane-drop locations. Procedures for intersection analysis using conflict diagrams were described. Conflict counts were recommended during routine inspections of suspected hazardous locations.
The Economic Effects of New Product Beef Promotion in Guatemala
Creators: name: Leister, Amanda M.
name: Capps, Oral
name: Rosson, C. Parr
name: Leister, Amanda M.
name: Capps, Oral
name: Rosson, C. Parr
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The implementation of the Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) has expanded trade opportunities for U.S. agricultural producers. U.S. beef is an important product affected by the agreement, and the United States Meat Export Federation (USMEF) invested in a new product promotion program to increase exports of U.S. beef to Guatemala. Consumer responsiveness and the effectiveness of the U.S. branded beef promotion program are analyzed in this study. Demand responses to promotion activities that launched three new U.S. beef value cuts in Guatemala’s Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional (HRI) sector were estimated by applying the Parks Model of Generalized Least Squares regression to pooled, time-series and cross sectional data. Results show a negative relationship between own price and sales quantity, while the effect of advertising on quantity sold is positive. Demand for the U.S. beef value cuts increased as a result of the promotion, although the costs of the promotion program exceeded the additional revenue generated as a result of promotion activities.
Additional file 1 of The role of health beliefs and health literacy in women's health promoting behaviours based on the health belief model: a descriptive study
Creators: name: Ghorbani-Dehbalaei, Mahla
name: Loripoor, Marzeyeh
name: Nasirzadeh, Mostafa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
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. Specifications of the questionnaire used in the research.
title: Traffic Conflicts, Erratic Maneuvers, and Near-Miss Accidents:
title: State-of-the-Art
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Zegeer, Charles V.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Definitions are given for the various types of traffic conflicts, erratic maneuvers, and near-miss accidents. The General Motors technique for observation of traffic conflicts is summarized. Procedures used by several highway agencies for collecting conflict data are also detailed. Criteria which have been used to identify hazardous intersections using traffic conflict data are summarized. Methods and examples of evaluating safety improvements are detailed. Relationships between conflicts and accidents found by others were given.  The procedure for observing traffic conflicts on freeway ramps is described. Definitions are given for erratic maneuvers at lane drops, gore areas, and intersections. Results from studies which utilized counts of erratic vehicle maneuvers are mentioned. The concept of near-miss accidents and the time-to-accident concept, as currently used, are explained. Advantages and limitations are given for the use of conflicts, erratic maneuvers, and near-miss accidents in identifying hazardous sites and evaluating safety improvements.
Interactions between Explicit and Implicit Contracting: Evidence from California Agriculture
Creators: name: Hueth, Brent
name: Ligon, Ethan
name: Melkonyan, Tigran A.
name: Hueth, Brent
name: Ligon, Ethan
name: Melkonyan, Tigran A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Agribusiness
Farm Management

description: We examine interactions among explicit and implicit contracting practices for a sample of 385 intermediaries in California fruit and vegetable markets. Explicit practices are measured with an indicator for the existence of a formal contract, and with indicators for various contract specifications (e.g., target delivery date, volume, acreage). Implicit practices are measured directly with a question about the existence of an “implicit understanding,” and indirectly with questions about the extent of informal involvement in farm-level decision making. Firms that manufacture processed foods, and that grow in house a portion of their total farm input, are significantly more likely to report use of explicit and implicit contracting practices. Additionally, unobserved factors that influence the use of explicit and implicit contracting are positively correlated. These findings suggest a complementary relationship between formal and informal contracts.
LABOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE IN THE KANSAS FARM SECTOR: A TRIPARTITE DECOMPOSITION USING THE DEA APPROACH
Creators: name: Mugera, Amin W.
name: Langemeier, Michael R.
name: Mugera, Amin W.
name: Langemeier, Michael R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: labor productivity
subject: growth
subject: technological catch-up
subject: technological change
subject: capital deepening

description: The objective of this paper is to analyze sources of labor productivity growth in the Kansas farm sector over the period 1993-2006 for a sample of 668 farms. The nonparametric production frontier method is used to decompose labor productivity growth into three components: (1) technological catch-up, (2) technological change, and (3) capital deepening. Kernel estimation methods are used to analyze the evolution of the entire distribution of labor productivity in the sample period. We find that labor productivity is primarily driven by capital deepening. On average, capital deepening is the main source of convergence in productivity and technical change is a source of divergence. We find little evidence of technological catch-up. The impact of the three components of labor productivity varies by farm size.
Relativistic time-dependent quantum dynamics across supercritical barriers for Klein-Gordon and Dirac particles
Creators: name: Alkhateeb, M.
name: de la Cal, X. Gutierrez
name: Pons, M.
name: Sokolovski, D.
name: Matzkin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate wavepacket dynamics across supercritical barriers for the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations. Our treatment is based on a multiple scattering expansion (MSE). For spin-0 particles, the MSE diverges, rendering invalid the use of the usual connection formulas for the scattering basis functions. In a time-dependent formulation, the divergent character of the MSE naturally accounts for charge creation at the barrier boundaries. In the Dirac case, the MSE converges and no charge is created. We show that this time-dependent charge behavior dynamics can adequately explain the Klein paradox in a first quantized setting. We further compare our semi-analytical wavepacket approach to exact finite-difference solutions of the relativistic wave equations.
description: Some text moved from main body to Appendices; close to published version
ASCA Observations of OAO 1657-415 and its Dust-Scattered X-Ray Halo
Creators: name: Audley, Michael D.
name: Nagase, Fumiaki
name: Mitsuda, Kazuhisa
name: Angelini, Lorella
name: Kelley, Richard L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on two ASCA observations of the high-mass X-ray binary pulsar OAO 1657-415. A short observation near mid-eclipse caught the source in a low-intensity state, with a weak continuum and iron emission dominated by the 6.4-keV fluorescent line. A later, longer observation found the source in a high-intensity state and covered the uneclipsed through mid-eclipse phases. In the high-intensity state, the non-eclipse spectrum has an absorbed continuum component due to scattering by material near the pulsar and 80 per cent of the fluorescent iron emission comes from less than 19 lt-sec away from the pulsar. We find a dust-scattered X-ray halo whose intensity decays through the eclipse. We use this halo to estimate the distance to the source as 7.1 +/- 1.3 kpc.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Exact Tunneling Solutions in Multi-Field Potentials
Creators: name: Konstandin, Thomas
name: Espinosa, Jose Ramon
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: gravitation, correction
field theory, scalar
tunneling
holography
decay rate
analytic properties
benchmark
multiple field
parametric

description: The tunneling potential formalism makes it easy to construct exact solutions to the vacuum decay problem in potentials with multiple fields. While some exact solutions for single-field decays were known, we present the first nontrivial analytic examples with two and three scalar fields, and show how the method can be generalized to include gravitational corrections. Our results illuminate some analytic properties of the tunneling potential functions and can have a number of uses, among others: to serve as simple approximations to realistic potentials; to learn about parametric dependencies of decay rates; to check conjectures on vacuum decay; as benchmarks for multi-field numerical codes; or to study holographic interpretations of vacuum decay.
Self-consistent ladder D$Γ$A approach
Creators: name: Kaufmann, Josef
name: Eckhardt, Christian
name: Pickem, Matthias
name: Kitatani, Motoharu
name: Kauch, Anna
name: Held, Karsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present and implement a self-consistent D$Γ$A approach for multi-orbital models and ab initio materials calculations. It is applied to the one-band Hubbard model at various interaction strengths with and without doping, to the two-band Hubbard model with two largely different bandwidths, and to SrVO$_3$. The self-energy feedback reduces critical temperatures compared to dynamical mean-field theory, even to zero temperature in two-dimensions. Compared to a one-shot, non-self-consistent calculation the non-local correlations are significantly reduced when they are strong. In case non-local correlations are weak to moderate as for SrVO$_3$, one-shot calculations are sufficient.
description: 21 Pages, 20 Figures
Freyer, Thomas, Pneumatologie als Strukturprinzip der Dogmatik
Creators: name: Berkhof, Hendrikus
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 32 Nr. 3 (1983): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 32, Heft 3
Changes in Manure Management in the Hog Sector
Creators: name: Key, Nigel D.
name: McBride, William D.
name: Ribaudo, Marc
name: Key, Nigel D.
name: McBride, William D.
name: Ribaudo, Marc
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: hog production
subject: manure management
subject: structural change
subject: environmental regulation

description: In recent years, structural changes in the hog sector, including increasing farm size and regional shifts in production, have altered manure management practices. Over the same period, changes to the Clean Water Act, new state regulations, and increasing local conflicts over odor have influenced manure management decisions. This study uses data from two national surveys of hog farmers to examine how hog manure management practices vary with the scale of production and how these practices evolved between 1998 and 2004. The findings provide insights into the effects of structural changes and recent policies on manure management technologies and practices, the use of nutrient management plans, and manure application rates.
Additional file 1 of Frequencies of emergency department use and hospitalization comparing patients with different types of substance or polysubstance-related disorders
Creators: name: Armoon, Bahram
name: Grenier, Guy
name: Cao, Zhirong
name: Huỳnh, Christophe
name: Fleury, Marie-Josée
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Codes for substance-related disorders (SRD), mental disorders (MD) and chronic physical illnesses according to the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth or Tenth revisions.a
title: Webbasierte Entwicklungsumgebung für den Einstieg in die WebGL-Programmierung mit automatischer Aufgabenüberprüfung
Creators: name: Warmbold, Wiebke
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 004 Informatik

description: In der Arbeit wird untersucht, wie der Einstieg in die WebGL-Programmierung erleichtert werden kann. Dafür wurde eine bestehende Entwicklungsumgebung um möglichst hilfreiche Fehlermeldungen erweitert. Außerdem gibt das System Rückmeldungen, wenn eine gegebene Übungsaufgabe nicht richtig oder unvollständig gelöst wurde. Hierzu werden neben dem Vergleich von bestehenden Hilfen für den Einstieg in WebGL, auch verschiedene Fehlerszenarien definiert und näher untersucht. Auf dieser Grundlage werden Anforderungen an die Anwendung gestellt und daraufhin umgesetzt.
Do Decoupled Payments Stimulate Production? Estimating the Effect on Program Crop Acreage Using Matching
Creators: name: Key, Nigel D.
name: Roberts, Robert J.
name: Key, Nigel D.
name: Roberts, Robert J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: decoupled payments
subject: supply response
subject: government payments
subject: program crops
subject: trade policy

description: This study uses matching to evaluate the effect of decoupled payments on the acreage response of Iowa farmers who were in business in 1997 and 2002. Using farm-level panel data from the U.S. Agricultural Census, we examine whether farmers receiving high levels of 1997 agricultural payments per acre had a greater increase in program crop acreage between 1997 and 2002 than farmers receiving low levels of payments. The panel data set allows for conditioning current acreage on past individual acreage and operator characteristics. The large and exhaustive sample allows for comparisons across similar farms. The matching methodology avoids distributional and functional form assumptions about the relationship between the treatment and outcome. Results are consistent with other recent empirical estimates that suggest small but statistically significant effects of decoupled payments on production.
title: Prümi lepingu ja otsuse rakendamisest
Creators: name: Marnot, Diana
Publisher: name: Tallinn: Sisekaitseakadeemia
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 5
subject: FOS: Social sciences

description: See kirjutis annab tutvustava ülevaate Prümi lepingu loomisest, toimimisest ja sellele osaks saanud mõningasest kriitikast. Vajadus sõlmida Prümi leping tulenes Schengeni ja Euroopa Liidu (EL) laienemise järel Euroopa riikide sisepiiride kontrolli järkjärgulisest kadumisest. Kontrolli kadumise tõttu tekkisid rahvusvahelise kuritegevusega seotud probleemid ja Euroopa riikidel tekkis vajadus tihendada riikidevahelist koostööd, et võidelda terrorismi, piiriülese kuritegevuse ja ebaseadusliku sisserändega. Kuritegude lahendamise hõlbustamiseks oli vaja võimaldada Euroopa õiguskaitseorganitel tõhusalt jagada naaberriikidega kurijategijate DNA ja daktüloskoopilisi ehk sõrmejälgede andmeid ning sõidukite registreerimisnumbreid. Prümi konventsiooniga (edaspidi Prümi leping) loodi selleks vajalikud õiguslikud mehhanismid ja digitaalne taristu.

 Võtmesõnad/Keywords: piiriülene koostöö; biomeetria; biomeetriline tuvastamine; piirikontroll; andmeside; julgeolek; cross-border cooperation; biometrics; biometric identification; border control; data communication; security
description: Sissejuhatus ; Prümi lepingu loomine ; Prümi võrgustiku toimimine ; Prümi otsuse kriitika ; Prümi süsteemi arendamine näotuvastussüsteemi kasutuselevõtuks ; Kokkuvõte
Updated Co-creation, Dissemination and Exploitation Strategy
Creators: name: Kotler, Adrienne
name: Mischkowski, Niklas
name: Krajewska, Olga
name: Sheridan, Louise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The co-creation, dissemination and exploitation strategy of SONNET describes how the knowledge and experience of consortium partners will be used for communicating about the project, disseminating its results to a wide range of audiences, and ensuring that the resulting ideas, methods and recommendations are taken up and continued to be used after the project ends (exploitation). Communication and dissemination activities (WP7) will be carried out from the very beginning (M1, June 2019) to the end of the project (M36, May 2022). As such, an initial draft of this strategy was already under development in June 2019; what follows is a mid-term update of the overall co-creation, dissemination and exploitation strategy (D7.2). This update considers changing landscapes, what has been achieved in this work package so far, and plans to enable SONNET to reach its co-creation, dissemination and exploitation targets moving forward. The development of the strategy is led by ICLEI Europe, with the help of all partners. It will be updated systematically to ensure its continued alignment with the evolving SONNET project.
Local Monopsony Power in the Market for Broilers - Evidence from a Farm Survey
Creators: name: Key, Nigel D.
name: MacDonald, James M.
name: Key, Nigel D.
name: MacDonald, James M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: poultry
subject: broilers
subject: market power
subject: monopsony
subject: production contracts

description: The exercise of monopsony power by broiler processing firms is plausible because production occurs within localized complexes, which limits the number of integrators with whom growers can contract. In addition, growers face distinct hold-up risks as broiler production requires a substantial investment in specific assets and most production contracts do not involve long-term purchasing commitments by integrators. This paper provides an initial exploration of the links between the local concentration of broiler integrators and grower compensation under production contracts using data from the 2006 broiler version of USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Survey. Results of this preliminary study, which accounts for characteristics of the operation and specific features of the production contract, suggest a small but economically meaningful effect of concentration on grower concentration. Limitations of the current analysis and future possible model extensions are discussed.
Additional file 2 of Frequencies of emergency department use and hospitalization comparing patients with different types of substance or polysubstance-related disorders
Creators: name: Armoon, Bahram
name: Grenier, Guy
name: Cao, Zhirong
name: Huỳnh, Christophe
name: Fleury, Marie-Josée
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2 Predicted counts for each type of substance-related disorder (SRD), controlling for all other variables in the final negative binomial regression model (n = 22,484).
Innovation, Integration and Product Proliferation - Empirical Evidence for the Agri-Food Industry
Creators: name: Karantininis, Kostas
name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Furtan, William Hartley
name: Karantininis, Kostas
name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Furtan, William Hartley
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Innovation
subject: Vertical Integration
subject: Product Proliferation
subject: Agribusiness

description: While mergers, both horizontal and vertical, have been shaping the landscape of the agri-food industry in Europe, the implications of the changing market structure on the level of innovation has not been studied yet. In this paper we deal with the link between innovation and market structure using the empirical example of the Danish agri-food industry. The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First we test for the importance of vertical integration on innovation. While there exist several studies on this linkage, to our knowledge, this is the first that deals with the agri-food industry. Secondly, we examine both product proliferation and innovation. To our knowledge, there are no other similar studies that examine both aspects using the same data set. We follow the hypothesis put forward by Armour and Teece (1980) that vertical integration enhances technological innovation, mainly because vertical integration may resolve hold-up problems. Our paper is related also to recent work by Weiss and Witkopp (2005) on the German food industry, although their work is mostly related to the role of the retail sector. We are able to examine both innovation (measured as investment on R&D) as well as product proliferation (measured as number of new products). We also examine the effects of network relationships and the importance of countervailing power. We use data from an extensive survey of 444 Danish firms over two years, 2000 and 2005 to estimate two different models: a bootstrapped zero-inflated Poisson regression and a robust Heckman sample selection model. The results verify the hypotheses formulated for both models with various degrees of significance.
Additional file 1 of Can adults with cerebral palsy perform and benefit from ballistic strength training to improve walking outcomes? A mixed methods feasibility study
Creators: name: Gjesdal, Beate Eltarvåg
name: Mæland, Silje
name: Williams, Gavin
name: Aaslund, Mona Kristin
name: Rygh, Cecilie Brekke
name: Cumming, Kristoffer Toldnes
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Interview guide, Training log, Home-based training and other training.
Exact local Whittle estimation of fractional integration
Creators: name: Shimotsu, Katsumi
name: Phillips, Peter C. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62M10. (Primary)

description: An exact form of the local Whittle likelihood is studied with the intent of developing a general-purpose estimation procedure for the memory parameter (d) that does not rely on tapering or differencing prefilters. The resulting exact local Whittle estimator is shown to be consistent and to have the same N(0,{1/4}) limit distribution for all values of d if the optimization covers an interval of width less than {9/2} and the initial value of the process is known.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053605000000309 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Impact of LHCb 13 TeV $W$ and $Z$ pseudo-data on the Parton Distribution Functions
Creators: name: Deng, Qilin
name: Han, Qundong
name: Yin, Hang
name: Dulat, Sayipjamal
name: Hou, Tie-Jiun
name: Yuan, C. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the potential of the LHCb 13 TeV single $W^{\pm}$ and $Z$ boson pseudo-data for constraining the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton. As an example, we demonstrate the sensitivity of the LHCb 13 TeV data, collected with integrated luminosities of 5 fb$^{-1}$ and 300 fb$^{-1}$, to reducing the PDF uncertainty bands of the CT14HERA2 PDFs, using the error PDF updating package {\sc ePump}. The sensitivities of various experimental observables are compared. Generally, sizable reductions in PDF uncertainties can be observed in the 300 fb$^{-1}$ data sample, particularly in the small-$x$ region. The double-differential cross section measurement of $Z$ boson $p_T$ and rapidity can greatly reduce the uncertainty bands of $u$ and $d$ quarks in almost the whole $x$ range, as compared to various single observable measurements.
description: 25 pages, 13 figures
Bayesian Estimation of a Censored AIDS Model for Whole Grain Products
Creators: name: Ishdorj, Ariun
name: Jensen, Helen H.
name: Ishdorj, Ariun
name: Jensen, Helen H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: AIDS model
subject: Bayesian econometrics
subject: censored
subject: cereals
subject: whole grains

description: When using household-level data in examining consumer's demand it is common to find that consumers purchase only a subset of the available goods, setting the demand for the remaining goods to zero. Ignoring such censoring of the dependent variables in the estimation can lead to biased parameter estimates. In this paper we investigate the household's demand for six types of whole grain and non-whole grain breakfast cereals and products using a censored Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) and estimate the parameters of the demand system via Bayesian methods. Using 2006 ACNielsen Homescan data we find that demand for whole grain and non-whole grain ready-to-eat cereals is less responsive to changes in prices; demand for whole-grain bars and non-whole grain hot cereals is relatively price sensitive. The elasticity estimates show that whole grain ready-to-eat cereals and whole grain bars have relatively higher expenditure elasticities than is the case for the other goods.
Simulating intergalactic gas for DESI-like small scale Lymanα forest observations
Creators: name: Walther, Michael
name: Armengaud, Eric
name: Ravoux, Corentin
name: Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie
name: Yèche, Christophe
name: Lukić, Zarija
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of the Ly$α$ forest based on large numbers of quasar spectra from sky surveys such as SDSS/eBOSS accurately probe the distribution of matter on small scales and thus provide important constraints on several ingredients of the cosmological model. A main summary statistic derived from those measurements is the one-dimensional power spectrum, P1D, of the Ly$α$ absorption. However, model predictions for P1D rely on expensive hydrodynamical simulations of the intergalactic medium, which was the limiting factor in previous analyses. Datasets from upcoming surveys such as DESI will push observational accuracy near the 1%-level and probe even smaller scales. This observational push mandate seven more accurate simulations as well as more careful exploration of parameter space. In this work we evaluate the robustness and accuracy of simulations and the statistical framework used to constrain cosmological parameters. We present a comparison between the grid-based simulation code Nyx and SPH-based code Gadget in the context ofP1D. In addition, we perform resolution and box-size convergence tests using Nyx code. We use a Gaussian process emulation scheme to reduce the number of simulations required for exploration of parameter space without sacrificing the model accuracy. We demonstrate the ability to produce unbiased parameter constraints in an end-to-end inference test using mock eBOSS- and DESI-like data, and we advocate for the usage of adaptive sampling schemes as opposed to using a fixed Latin hypercube design.
description: 36 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in JCAP
Constraints, gauge symmetries, and noncommutative gravity in two dimensions
Creators: name: Vassilevich, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After an introduction into the subject we show how one constructs a canonical formalism in space-time noncommutative theories which allows to define the notion of first-class constraints and to analyse gauge symmetries. We use this formalism to perform a noncommutative deformation of two-dimensional string gravity (also known as Witten black hole).
description: Based on lectures given at IFSAP-2004 (St.Petersburg), to be submitted to Theor. Math. Phys., dedicated to Yu.V.Novozhilov on the occasion of his 80th birthday
Alternative suburban storm water management : Cranston, Calgary, Alberta
Creators: name: Wei, Gillian Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The alterations in the site layout design and economic cost implications of implementing storm water best management practices or BMPs on a suburban site in Calgary, Alberta were compared to the traditional suburban layout and storm water management used in new developments. The most suitable BMPs for the site were selected after analysis of the site's climate, topography, soil type and hydrology. An alternative site layout that integrated the BMPs into the community's design and function was proposed for comparison to the conventional site layout. The alternative site design and storm water management plan proposed for Cranston made extensive use of dry swales, pervious surfaces, and permanent wet ponds. The open space design sought to connect the suburb to the larger regional landscape and to create a distinct community identity based on landscape type while also functioning as part of the storm water management system. In comparison with the conventional site design, the alternative design reduced impervious surfaces by 3.5% or 5.1 hectares of the total site, while public open space increased by approximately 6% or 7.69 hectares. The number of house lots in each design was kept relatively even, with the alternative plan having a higher density due to a lower net developable area. Infrastructure capital costs of the alternative plan were found to be slightly lower than the conventional plan due to the reduction in paved surfaces such as roads and curbs and gutters. These findings imply that the monetary costs of implementing alternative storm water management techniques are comparable to the conventional storm water systems. However, the ultimate benefits of storm water BMPs are realized in the local ecology and the regional landscape as a whole.
Multipole expansion at the level of the action in d-dimensions
Creators: name: Amalberti, Loris
name: Larrouturou, Francois
name: Yang, Zixin
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: expansion, multipole
tensor, Weyl
space-time, dimension
dimension, 3
regularization, dimensional
gravitational radiation, flux
gravitational radiation, emission
gravitation
effective field theory
duality
overlap
effective action

description: In this paper we study the multipole expansion of the long-wavelength effective action for ra-diative sources in (d+1) spacetime dimensions. We present detailed expressions for the multipolemoments for the case of scalar-, electromagnetic-, and (linearized) gravitational-wave emission. Forelectromagnetism and gravity, we derive expressions for the odd-parity, magnetic-type momentsas SO(d) duals of the ones traditionally used in the literature. The d-dimensional case features anovel set of ‘Weyl-type’ moments, coupling to the spatial part of the Weyl tensor, which are absentin three dimensions. Agreement is found in the overlap with previous known results, notably inthe d → 3 limit. Due to its reliance on dimensional regularization, the results presented here playa crucial role for the further development of the Effective Field Theory approach to gravitationaldynamics, and in particular for the computation of the gravitational-wave flux, starting at thethird post-Newtonian order.
Supertubes versus superconducting tubes
Creators: name: Cordero, Ruben
name: Rojas, Efrain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we show the relationship between cylindrical D2-branes and cylindrical superconducting membranes described by a generic effective action at the bosonic level. In the first case the extended objects considered, arose as blown up type IIA superstrings to D2-branes, named supertubes. In the second one, the cosmological objects arose from some sort of field theories. The Dirac-Born-Infeld action describing supertubes is shown to be equivalent to the generic effective action describing superconducting membranes via a special transformation.
description: Version with minor text changes with respect to the already published
Development of a Farm Management Tool for the Brazilian Conditions
Creators: name: Veloso, R.F.
name: Fernandes, Cunha M.F.B.
name: Chaib Filho, H.
name: Neto, J.S. Madeira
name: Silva, F.A.B.
name: Lobo, Y.M.P.
name: Veloso, R.F.
name: Fernandes, Cunha M.F.B.
name: Chaib Filho, H.
name: Neto, J.S. Madeira
name: Silva, F.A.B.
name: Lobo, Y.M.P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Family farm system
subject: Microsoft ACCESS application
subject: managerial information
subject: cost accounting

description: This paper presents results of a managerial information system prototype developed for modern agriculturalists in the Brazilian Cerrado´s Region. It follows a case study approach. One medium scale (422 hectares) of operation was envisioned, archetypical accounting framework was established, aiming to provide better data and information to support farm management decisions. The system has proved to be useful in examining decision making at farm level and in ex ante evaluations of changes in farm-level input use, output and profitability in response to price, policy, and/or technology changes. Data entry was done in ACCESS for user friendliness and global availability; presentational materials were prepared in ACCESS and in EXCEL.
Grammatical elicitation: Subject and object exhaustive focus
Creators: name: Calmo Jerónimo, Brenda
name: Lemon, Tyler
name: Michael, Lev
name: Dos Santos, Wesley
name: Clem, Emily
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: mvj

description: Testing the syntax as well as the behavior of possible focus marker 'noq' and 'noqa'
Strategies to Control Classical Swine Fever: Cost and Risk Perspectives
Creators: name: Mangen, Marie-Josee J.
name: Burrell, Alison M.
name: Nielen, Michel W.F.
name: Mangen, Marie-Josee J.
name: Burrell, Alison M.
name: Nielen, Michel W.F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Classical Swine Fever epidemics
subject: pig population density
subject: animal transport
subject: emergency vaccination
subject: preventive slaughter
subject: the Netherlands

description: The paper examines the importance of pig population density in the area of an outbreak of CSF for the spread of the disease and the choice of control measures. A sector-level market and trade model and a spatial, stochastic, dynamic epidemiological simulation model for the Netherlands were used. Outbreaks in sparsely and densely populated areas were compared under four different control strategies and with two alternative trade assumptions. Results indicate that the control strategy required by current EU legislation is enough to eradicate an epidemic starting in an area with sparse pig population. By contrast, additional control measures are necessary if the outbreak begins in an area with high pig population density. The economic consequences of using preventive slaughter rather than emergency vaccination as an additional control measure depend strongly on the reactions of trading partners. Reducing the number of animal movements significantly reduces the size and length of epidemics in areas with high pig density.
Adjustments to Changing Economic Conditions in Norwegian Dairy Farming
Creators: name: Flaten, Ola
name: Flaten, Ola
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Farm Management

description: LP models of Norwegian dairy farms are designed to evaluate the impact of changes in prices and subsidies on production systems and on profitability at the farm level. At 1999-prices, producing a fixed milk quota with low to moderate yielding cows (6000 to 6600 kg milk annually) is most profitable. Silage offered ad libitum is profitable. A three cut harvesting system is more profitable than two cuts. Changes in the milk price have no effects on production. If forage crops is the only possible land use, increased area payments have no effects on production. If non-forage crops are also grown, increased area payments for forage crops result in a higher proportion of the land being used for temporary grass (ley) and in cheaper forage, making higher silage intake per cow profitable. Higher intake of silage achieved through supplementing less concentrates, results in lower milk yield per cow. By increasing headage payments, milk yield falls, as it is optimal to have more cows to produce the same quota output. Reduced product and concentrate prices combined with higher area and headage payments result in more cows and lower yields. Silage offered in a fixed ration is the most profitable option and the level of concentrates per cow is high. More land is then used for permanent pastures and less for non-forage.