cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nutrition Intake of Children at the Caribou Child Care Centre
Creators: name: Au, Elaine
name: Barnett, Megan
name: Kitts, Dustin
name: Wu, Michelle
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Our case study specifically looked at improving the nutritional quality of the snacks served at the Caribou Child Care Center following the steps of the NCP. We used a combination of the results from the nutrition questionnaire prepared by FNH 370 students and direct observations to do our dietary and ecological assessment. Although we noted that fruits were provided on a daily basis, we found that most of the common snacks that they served including pasta, pizza, rice and cereal were disproportionately high in carbohydrates compared to proteins and fats. According to the AMDR values for the two age groups at this child care center, about one-third and one-fifth of their daily calories should come from fats and proteins respectively. In order to ensure that more sources of fats and proteins are included, we proposed the practice of weekly meal planning. Through our ecological assessment, we recognized that the staff at this child care center had varying levels of nutrition education and value convenience so we designed a simple dietary guide with suggestions on how to increase the protein and fat content in snacks that they commonly serve as well as new snack ideas. To monitor the progress of implementing weekly meal plans with the use of our dietary guide, we would initially compile three day food records monthly for the initial six months. To assess the overall impact of the intervention plan, a food frequency questionnaire with less than 50 items will be administered every four months and validated with either a 24-hour recall or a three day food record. While we acknowledge that there were many limitations to our nutrition assessment including not obtaining information on the meals consumed outside of the child care center, inter-individual variability of intake and not knowing why weekly meal planning is not implemented at this center, we believe that increased mindfulness of macronutrient distributions when planning snacks will be a positive step towards improving the nutritional quality of snacks served. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Numerical 3D constraints on convective eddy time-correlations : consequences for stochastic excitation of solar p modes
Creators: name: Samadi, R.
name: Nordlund, A.
name: Stein, R. F.
name: Goupil, M. J.
name: Roxburgh, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A 3D simulation of the upper part of the solar convective zone is used to obtain information on the frequency component, chi_k, of the correlation product of the turbulent velocity field. This component plays an important role in the stochastic excitation of acoustic oscillations. A time analysis of the solar simulation shows that a gaussian function does not correctly reproduce the nu-dependency of chi_k inferred from the 3D simuation in the frequency range where the acoustic energy injected into the solar p modes is important (nu ~ 2 - 4 mHz). The nu-dependency of chi_k is fitted with different analytical functions which can then conveniently be used to compute the acoustic energy supply rate P injected into the solar radial oscillations. With constraints from a 3D simulation, adjustment of free parameters to solar data is no longer necessary and is not performed here. The result is compared with solar seismic data. Computed values of P obtained with the analytical function which fits best chi_k are found ~ 2.7 times larger than those obtained with the gaussian model and reproduce better the solar seismic observations. This non-gaussian description also leads to a Reynolds stress contribution of the same order as the one arising from the advection of the turbulent fluctuations of entropy by the turbulent motions. Some discrepancy between observed and computed P values still exist at high frequency and possible causes for this discrepancy are discussed.
description: 11 pages; 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Financial Stimulus And Performance of the Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS) in Nigeria
Creators: name: Olomola, A.
name: Olomola, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: This study sought to determine the impact of the financial capital intervention (stimulus to the banking sector) on credit flow to the agricultural sector using random-effects Tobit econometric technique and proffer suggestions for improved participation of the banking sector in agricultural financing in Nigeria. The results show that loan supply is higher for banks that are younger and bigger in size and that it is significantly higher under the commercial agricultural credit scheme (CACS) than before; implying that the financial stimulus have elicited significantly positive response from the commercial banks. Prior to CACS rising borrowers risk was associated with higher probability of loan supply whereas under CACS risk-taking by commercial banks has been moderated due to regulatory interventions by the CBN including intensive monitoring and enforcement of operational guidelines. Commercial banks do not increase agricultural lending due to higher leverage, greater liquidity and wider network of branches. They do so because of access to off-balance sheet resources. If their performance must increase as expected, public spending on infrastructural development must also increase. And to sustain the CACS, tapping alternative sources of funds such as the pension fund, accumulated funds in CACS repayment account, sugar levy account etc. is strongly recommended. Acknowledgement : Grateful acknowledgement is due to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for its financial support for this study. The administrative support of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in granting access to the required data is highly appreciated. In particular, I owe a debt of gratitude to the officials of the Development Finance Deparment of the CBN and Agricultural Finance Departments of the Deposit Money Banks for their cooperation during the data collection exercise for this study.
Observational Properties of Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Giovannini, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Parsec scale jet properties are shortly presented and discussed. Observational data are used to derive constraints on the jet velocity and orientation, the presence of velocity structures, and the connection between the pc and kpc scale. Two peculiar sources with limb-brightened jets: 1144+35 and Mkn 501 are discussed in detail.
description: 13 pages with 7 figures. To appear in "Virtual Astrophysical Jets" APSS, Kluwer Academic Publisher - Massaglia, Bodo, Rossi eds - in press
Rhizoprionodon porosus
Creators: name: Smith-Vaniz, William F.
name: Jelks, Howard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Carcharhiniformes
Carcharhinidae
Rhizoprionodon
Rhizoprionodon porosus

description: * Rhizoprionodon porosus (Poey 1861) — Caribbean Sharpnose Shark
 Justification: Although Clavijo et al. (1980) did not list this species, it undoubtedly occurs in St. Croix. Randall (1968, fig. 4) documented it from St. John.
Distribution: Compagno (1984b) WA (BA, GA, VI, LA, WC, nSA, sSA).
 Remarks: Campagno (1984b) stated that R. porosus is found close inshore on insular shelves of the Caribbean and is one of the commonest inshore sharks.
 SPHYRNIDAE —hammerhead sharks (2 species)
description: Published as part of Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2014, Marine and inland fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands: an annotated checklist, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 3803 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3803.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4917823
Non-additivity in classical-quantum wiretap channels
Creators: name: Tikku, Arkin
name: Berta, Mario
name: Renes, Joseph M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to Csiszar and Koerner, the private capacity of classical wiretap channels has a single-letter characterization in terms of the private information. For quantum wiretap channels, however, it is known that regularization of the private information is necessary to reach the capacity. Here, we study hybrid classical-quantum wiretap channels in order to resolve to what extent quantum effects are needed to witness non-additivity phenomena in quantum Shannon theory. For wiretap channels with quantum inputs but classical outputs, we prove that the characterization of the capacity in terms of the private information stays single-letter. Hence, entangled input states are of no asymptotic advantage in this setting. For wiretap channels with classical inputs, we show by means of explicit examples that the private information already becomes non-additive when either one of the two receivers becomes quantum (with the other receiver staying classical). This gives non-additivity examples that are not caused by entanglement and illustrates that quantum adversaries are strictly different from classical adversaries in the wiretap model.
description: v2: updates from review process; 13 pages, 4 figures v1: 8+6 pages, 2 figures
BUDGET STRUCTURE, BUDGET CONTROL AND PROGRAM CONTROL: A STUDY WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE FINANCING OF CERTAIN BUSINESS-TYPE ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Creators: name: Miller, Clifford John
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 19-11, page: 3007.
Carcharhinus leucas
Creators: name: Smith-Vaniz, William F.
name: Jelks, Howard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Carcharhiniformes
Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus
Carcharhinus leucas

description: Carcharhinus leucas (Müller and Henle 1839) —Bull Shark
 Justification: Listed as "occasional" by Clavijo et al. (1980:4).
Distribution: Compagno (1984b), circumtropical, WA (FL, GOM, BA, GA, VI, LA, WC, nSA, sSA), EA, IWP, EP.
description: Published as part of Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2014, Marine and inland fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands: an annotated checklist, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 3803 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3803.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4917823
Model order reduction for parametric high dimensional models in the analysis of financial risk
Creators: name: Binder, Andreas
name: Jadhav, Onkar
name: Mehrmann, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35L10, 65M06, 91G30, 91G60, 91G80

description: This paper presents a model order reduction (MOR) approach for high dimensional problems in the analysis of financial risk. To understand the financial risks and possible outcomes, we have to perform several thousand simulations of the underlying product. These simulations are expensive and create a need for efficient computational performance. Thus, to tackle this problem, we establish a MOR approach based on a proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method. The study involves the computations of high dimensional parametric convection-diffusion reaction partial differential equations (PDEs). POD requires to solve the high dimensional model at some parameter values to generate a reduced-order basis. We propose an adaptive greedy sampling technique based on surrogate modeling for the selection of the sample parameter set that is analyzed, implemented, and tested on the industrial data. The results obtained for the numerical example of a floater with cap and floor under the Hull-White model indicate that the MOR approach works well for short-rate models.
description: 39 pages, 10 figures
THE UNITED STATES AND NON-SELF-GOVERNING AREAS: A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED NATIONS UNDER CHAPTER XIOF THE CHARTER
Creators: name: Morales-Yordan, Jorge
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 19-11, page: 3005.
Economic Evaluation of Protected Cultivation Technology (PCT) for Horticulture Crops.
Creators: name: Gamanagatti, P.
name: Patil, B.
name: Gamanagatti, P.
name: Patil, B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Protected Cultivation Technology (PCT) is used to protect plants from adverse climatic conditions. The economics of PCT was evaluated for the year 2013-14 using 90 PCT farmers i.e. thirty farmers each from Rose, Gerbera and Capsicum. The per hectare establishment cost was seen high in Rose i.e. $ 175,217 followed by Gerbera ($ 155,211) and Capsicum ($ 123,689). The cost C of Rose was $ 142144 followed by Gerbera ($ 92,427) and Capsicum ($ 24,765). The subsidy amount share to the total establishment cost was 28.92, 31.21 and 40.81, per cent for Rose, Gerbera and Capsicum respectively.While yield obtained from PCT crops were 88.97 and 47.99 lakh numbers/ha in Rose and Gerbera. Whereas 82,655 kgs of Capsicum yield was obtained. The gross return received from PCT crops was seen high in Rose i.e. $ 475,582 /ha, followed by Gerbera ($ 210,048) and Capsicum ($ 46,269). In all PCT farms, B:C ratio was more than unity and IRR ranged from 16 to 45 per cent which revealed that cultivation of crops under PCT is profitable. Hence, Govt. needs to encourage developing PCT structures using indigenous technologies with low cost materials viz. quality galvanized iron pipes and plant material. Acknowledgement : I would like to extend thanks to the many people, in many cities, who so generously contributed to the work presented in this paper. Special mention goes to my enthusiastic supervisor, Dr. B.L.Patil My PhD has been an amazing experience and I thank Jim wholeheartedly, not only for his tremendous academic support, but also for giving me support for compleation of this research paper. Finally, but by no means least, thanks go to mum and Sisters for almost unbelievable support. They are the most important people in my world and I dedicate this research paper to them.
DEVALUATION AND THE BRITISH DOLLAR GAP IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD (1946-1955)
Creators: name: Brodsky, Nathan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 3502
subject: Banking, finance and investment
classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 20-02, page: 5490.
Simulation of Wilson fermion at finite isospin density
Creators: name: Nakamura, A.
name: Takaishi, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For QCD with Wilson fermions at isospin chemical potential we study the finite phase transition on an $8^3\times4$ lattice at $κ=0.15$. We use two gauge actions: Wilson action and DBW2 action. Both actions give the same results. The phase diagram is qualitatively similar to the one obtained for QCD at small baryon chemical potential. We also calculate the number density for various isospin chemical potentials.
description: 3 pages, 5 figures, Lattice2003(nonzero)
Sphyrna lewini
Creators: name: Smith-Vaniz, William F.
name: Jelks, Howard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Carcharhiniformes
Sphyrnidae
Sphyrna
Sphyrna lewini

description: * Sphyrna lewini  (Griffith and Smith 1834) — Scalloped Hammerhead
Justification: Listed as part of Bigeye Scad by-catch (Tobias, 1991:91).
Distribution: Circumtropical, Compagno (1984b) WA (BD, FL, GOM, BA, GA, VI, LA, WC, nSA, sSA), EA, IWP, EP.
description: Published as part of Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2014, Marine and inland fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands: an annotated checklist, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 3803 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3803.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4917823
Uncertainties of the CJK 5 Flavour LO Parton Distributions in the Real Photon
Creators: name: Jankowski, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radiatively generated, LO quark (u,d,s,c,b) and gluon densities in the real, unpolarized photon, calculated in the CJK model being an improved realization of the CJKL approach, have been recently presented. The results were obtained through a global fit to the experimental F2^gamma data. In this paper we present, obtained for the very first time in the photon case, an estimate of the uncertainties of the CJK parton distributions due to the experimental errors. The analysis is based on the Hessian method which was recently applied in the proton parton structure analysis. Sets of test parametrizations are given for the CJK model. They allow for calculation of its best fit parton distributions along with F2^gamma and for computation of uncertainties of any physical value depending on the real photon parton densities. We test the applicability of the approach by comparing uncertainties of example cross-sections calculated in the Hessian and Lagrange methods. Moreover, we present a detailed analysis of the chi^2 of the CJK fit and its relation to the data. We show that large chi^2/DOF of the fit is due to only a few of the experimental measurements. By excluding them chi^2/DOF approx 1 can be obtained.
description: 28 pages, 8 eps figures, 2 Latex figures; FORTRAN programs available at http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~pjank/param.html; table 10, figure 10 and section 6 corrected
Exploring the effects of increasing underutilized crops on consumers diets: The case of millet in Uganda
Creators: name: Revoredo-Giha, C.
name: Akaichi, F.
name: Toma, L.
name: Revoredo-Giha, C.
name: Akaichi, F.
name: Toma, L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Known in the literature as neglected, underutilized or orphan crops, they have been cited as having the potential to improve food security; however, the literature also highlighted that consumers in developing countries are increasingly abandoning their traditional diets, where those crops are part of and replacing them by western diets. In that context, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the implications of expanding the consumption of neglected crops on current diets by considering consumers preferences and uses a modified version of the microeconomic consumer problem, which was augmented with linear constraints using generalized rationing theory. The method was applied to the consumption of millet by three Ugandan socioeconomic groups: rural, urban-poor and urban-affluent. The results indicate that millet can contribute to improve the intake of macronutrients and some micronutrients. However, the results also show that under the current preferences increasing substantially the quantity of millet in the diet will require a significant reduction of its price and the net impact on nutrition, as measure by the mean adequacy ratio, will be only slightly positive for the rural and urban-poor households; this points out the importance of work encouraging consumers appreciation for millet as part of the everyday diet. Acknowledgement : This paper derives from the project 2017-2019 project Formulating Value Chains for Orphan Crops in Africa funded by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council - Global Challenges Research Fund (BBSRC-GCRF), Foundation Awards for Global Agriculture and Food Systems. In addition, part of the methods used derived from work as part of the 2016-2020 Scottish Government Strategic Research Programme, Theme 3: Food and Health.
Does HBT Measure the Freeze-out Source Distribution?
Creators: name: Wong, Cheuk-Yin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is generally assumed that as a result of multiple scattering, the source distribution measured in HBT interferometry corresponds to a chaotic source at freeze-out. This assumption is subject to question as effects of multiple scattering in HBT measurements must be investigated within a quantum-mechanical framework. Applying the Glauber multiple scattering theory at high energies and the optical model at lower energies, we find that multiple scattering leads to an effective HBT density distribution that depends on the initial chaotic source distribution with an absorption.
description: 4 pages, talk presented at QM2004 Conference, January 11-17, 2004, Oakland, California, USA, to be published in the Proceedings
Resilient farm technologies in achieving sustainable development: Performance and Adoption of SRI under multiple constraints in Odisha, India
Creators: name: Behura, D.
name: Haldar, S.
name: Pal, A.
name: Behura, D.
name: Haldar, S.
name: Pal, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Rice yield underperformance coupled with production instability in Odisha is primarily due to low irrigation potential, the spatiotemporal disparity in rainfall pattern and relentless confrontation with biotic and abiotic stresses. System of rice intensification (SRI) was introduced in the state during early 2000 with the promises of higher production horizon. However, the present scenario of patchy adoption pattern has necessitated comprehensive study on dynamics and determinants of adoption of SRI. Increased SRI area allocation is observed at the expense of reduced number of adopting farmers. Economic scarcity of skilled labour, difficulties in transplantation and mechanical weeding, low irrigation potential and poor on-farm water management were major constraints as experienced by SRI adopters as well as dropouts. Farmers compliance in following different resilient SRI components that also varied spatiotemporally has resulted in realized incremental yield. Irrespective of severe drought during 2015-16, SRI yielded significantly higher than conventional one with a considerable decline in hazardous and environment polluting chemicals usage. Probit analysis indicated that active social involvements of NGOs, on-farm training and demonstrations, and realized incremental rice income influenced SRI adoption. Further SRI area expansion hindered mainly because of infeasible land topography, area saturation and lack of farmers interest. Acknowledgement : Authors acknowledge Tata Trusts for funding this study under Systematic Approach to Research and Adoption of SRI (SARAS) project in East and North East India
Spontaneously Broken 3d Hietarinta/Maxwell Chern-Simons Theory and Minimal Massive Gravity
Creators: name: Chernyavsky, Dmitry
name: Deger, Nihat Sadik
name: Sorokin, Dmitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that minimal massive 3d gravity (MMG), as well as the topological massive gravity, are particular cases of a more general `minimal massive gravity' theory (with a single massive propagating mode) arising upon spontaneous breaking of a local symmetry in a Chern-Simons gravity based on a Hietarinta or Maxwell algebra. Similar to the MMG case, the requirements that the propagating massive mode is neither tachyon nor ghost and that the central charges of an asymptotic algebra associated with a boundary CFT are positive, impose restrictions on the range of the parameters of the theory.
description: 30 pages, v.2: typos corrected comments and references added
The impact of land degradation on agricultural profits and poverty in Central Asia
Creators: name: Mirzabaev, A.
name: Strokov, A.
name: Krasilnikov, P.
name: Mirzabaev, A.
name: Strokov, A.
name: Krasilnikov, P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Land degradation is a critical challenge to sustainable development in Central Asia. The study found that land degradation over the previous three decades may have been responsible for about 27% losses in agricultural profits in the region during the 2009-2010 cropping season compared with the case without land degradation. Middle- and richer tercile of agricultural households lost a higher share of their farm profits due to land degradation, 30% and 34%, respectively. There was not a significant impact of land degradation on the farm profits of the poorest tercile. The poor agricultural households have a stronger dependence on land for their livelihoods, hence; have a stronger incentive to take a better care of land. The results corroborated this: the poor households applied, on average, 25% more sustainable land management practices than the richest group, and almost twice more than the middle group. The poor have higher incentives to manage their land sustainably if institutional and economic settings allow them to do so. Among such institutional factors, the study found that increasing crop diversification, securing land tenure and providing a better access to markets significantly contributed to higher farm profits among poor agricultural households in Central Asia. Acknowledgement : We thank the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, for the support in the development of the methodological framework in this paper. The analysis and literature review in the paper were supported by Russian Science Foundation, project ? 14-38-00023. We are highly grateful to the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) for the survey data and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for funding the survey.
PBE-CC: Congestion Control via Endpoint-Centric, Physical-Layer Bandwidth Measurements
Creators: name: Xie, Yaxiong
name: Yi, Fan
name: Jamieson, Kyle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Wireless networks are becoming ever more sophisticated and overcrowded, imposing the most delay, jitter, and throughput damage to end-to-end network flows in today's internet. We therefore argue for fine-grained mobile endpoint-based wireless measurements to inform a precise congestion control algorithm through a well-defined API to the mobile's wireless physical layer. Our proposed congestion control algorithm is based on Physical-Layer Bandwidth measurements taken at the Endpoint (PBE-CC), and captures the latest 5G New Radio innovations that increase wireless capacity, yet create abrupt rises and falls in available wireless capacity that the PBE-CC sender can react to precisely and very rapidly. We implement a proof-of-concept prototype of the PBE measurement module on software-defined radios and the PBE sender and receiver in C. An extensive performance evaluation compares PBE-CC head to head against the leading cellular-aware and wireless-oblivious congestion control protocols proposed in the research community and in deployment, in mobile and static mobile scenarios, and over busy and quiet networks. Results show 6.3% higher average throughput than BBR, while simultaneously reducing 95th percentile delay by 1.8x.
Conanthalictus nigricans Timberlake 1961
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Conanthalictus nigricans Timberlake, 1961 **
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ Riverside, California, USA; April 22, 1927]
This species represents a new record for Mexico. The MABC team collected specimens in the Coastal Sage Matorral near Ensenada City and Guadalupe Valley in April, and May 2022. See fig. 189.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 273, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Eclipsing Binary Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Creators: name: Wyrzykowski, L.
name: Udalski, A.
name: Kubiak, M.
name: Szymanski, M.
name: Zebrun, K.
name: Soszynski, I.
name: Wozniak, P. R.
name: Pietrzynski, G.
name: Szewczyk, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the catalog of 2580 eclipsing binary stars detected in 4.6 square degree area of the central parts of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The photometric data were collected during the second phase of the OGLE microlensing search from 1997 to 2000. The eclipsing objects were selected with the automatic search algorithm based on an artificial neural network. Basic statistics of eclipsing stars are presented. Also, the list of 36 candidates of detached eclipsing binaries for spectroscopic study and for precise LMC distance determination is provided. The full catalog is accessible from the OGLE Internet archive.
description: 20 pages. Figures 2,4 and 6 included in 'jpg' format. Only one Appendix D included (two pages in 'jpg' format). Full resolution pages of all Appendixes (A-D) and photometric data presented in the paper are available from the OGLE Internet archive: http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~ogle or its US mirror http://bulge.princeton.edu/~ogle
A STUDY OF THE USE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCEPTS, APPROACHES AND METHODS BY PASTORAL COUNSELORS
Creators: name: Cannon, W. John
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 20-02, page: 7480.
An Economic Assessment of the Freeze on Program Yields
Creators: name: Hertel, Thomas W.
name: Tsigas, Marinos E.
name: Preckel, Paul V.
name: Hertel, Thomas W.
name: Tsigas, Marinos E.
name: Preckel, Paul V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Program payment yields
subject: wheat program
subject: policy modeling

description: This paper analyzes the economic consequences of the freeze on program payment ields which was introduced in the Food Security Act of 1985. It appears that this policy change reduced variable in ut usage in wheat production, while raising market prices and net returns...] Estimates for a hypothetical 1991 crop year indicate that unfreezing program payment yields would have the opposite effect of raising variable input usage and output, while depressing prices and net returns. A preferable alternative for adjusting program yields would be to index them. This option would raise net returns while avoiding the negative environmental consequences associated with unfreezing program payment yields.
Conanthalictus wilmattae Cockerell 1936
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Conanthalictus wilmattae Cockerell, 1936
[Holotype: AMNH; ♀ Tub Spring near Borrego, California, USA; March 21, 1935]
This species inhabits the CFP, and the Sonora, and Mojave deserts. In BC, it has only been collected in 1973 in Sierra San Pedro Mártir with vouchered specimens in EMEC (GBIF 2023). See fig. 189.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 273, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Accretion and Outflow in the AGN and Starburst of NGC 5135
Creators: name: Levenson, N. A.
name: Weaver, K. A.
name: Heckman, T. M.
name: Awaki, H.
name: Terashima, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of the Seyfert 2 and starburst galaxy NGC 5135 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory demonstrate that both of these phenomena contribute significantly to its X-ray emission. We spatially isolate the active galactic nucleus (AGN) and demonstrate that it is entirely obscured by column density N_H > 10^{24} cm^{-2}, detectable in the Chandra bandpass only as a strongly reprocessed, weak continuum and a prominent iron K alpha emission line with equivalent width of 2.4 keV. Most of the soft X-ray emission, both near the AGN and extending over several-kpc spatial scales, is collisionally-excited plasma. We attribute this thermal emission to stellar processes. The AGN dominates the X-ray emission only at energies above 4 keV. In the spectral energy distribution that extends to far-infrared wavelengths, nearly all of the emergent luminosity below 10 keV is attributable to star formation, not the AGN.
description: To appear in ApJ; 13 pages, 12 figures
IDENTIFICAÇÃO DO TIPO DE MATERIAL POR SISTEMA DE VIBRAÇÃO EM BARRA FIXA-FIXA
Creators: name: Bentes, Flavio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Este trabalho se resume na elaboração de um modelo de vibração composto de um sistema em barra fixa-fixa, com geometria especificada e com carga na sua parte central, de tal forma que seja possível determinar o módulo de elasticidade e, consequentemente, o tipo de material, a partir de simulações realizadas. Espera-se introduzir, a partir de conceitos de resistência dos materiais e vibrações mecânicas, uma metodologia que possa ser utilizada para melhor identificação de materiais.
„Revolutionäres 1868“? Africanus Horton, ein moderner afrikanischer Denker
Creators: name: Sonderegger, Arno
Publisher: name: Stichproben - Vienna Journal of African Studies
Year: 2021

description: Dieser Beitrag führt den westafrikanischen Arzt und Autor Africanus Horton (1835–1883) als einen modernen politischen Denker vor Augen. Er verfolgte außerordentlich aufmerksam die Untersuchung konkreter Verhältnisse und Situationen in Westafrika, und er bezog zwischen 1865 und 1870 klar Stellung zu den im Wandel begriffenen euroafrikanischen Beziehungen, die zunehmend in die Fänge einer »kolonialen Moderne« zu geraten drohten. Mit seinem Buch West African Countries and Peoples schaltete sich Africanus Horton 1868 explizit und gewichtig in die zeitgenössische Debatte ein. Zu deren drei konstitutiven Elementen – Kolonialismus, Kapitalismus und Rassismus – finden sich kluge, definitiv »moderne« und gelegentlich gar »revolutionär« anmutende Bemerkungen in dem Werk. Der Beitrag arbeitet das politische Denken von Africanus Horton heraus, eingebettet in eine Darstellung seiner Lebens- und Zeitumstände und eine Diskussion des Begriffs »Moderne«, und trifft eine abschließende Einschätzung der Wirkung und Relevanz seines Denkens.
Targeting Aid to Distressed Rural Areas: Indicators of Fiscal and Community Well-Being
Creators: name: Reeder, Richard J.
name: Reeder, Richard J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Fiscal indicators
subject: socioeconomic indicators
subject: targeting
subject: fiscal stress
subject: fiscal capacity
subject: community distress
subject: rural development

description: Improving the targeting of aid programs is a high priority among Federal and State policymakers. Commonly used indicators of fiscal and community well-being, such as unemployment, tax effort, and population size, disproportionately favor urban over rural areas. More care in the selection of targeting indicators would improve program efficiency and equity. Greater attention to program details, such as matching requirements, technical assistance, and the statistical properties of the targeting indicators, would also help tailor programs to rural conditions. Use of fiscal capacity indicators, such as per capita income, would keep program costs down by targeting aid to rural areas that cannot afford to help themselves.
Multi-Spacecraft Observations of a New Double-Shock Type of High-Latitude ICME Driven by Interactions with two Solar Winds
Creators: name: Maunder, Megan
name: Foullon, Claire
name: Forsyth, Robert
name: Davies, Emma
name: Barnes, David
name: Davies, Jackie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and their interplanetary counterparts (ICMEs) are key drivers of space weather throughout the heliosphere. Observational studies are used to understand their evolution and for developing existing models and theory in space weather forecasting. Motivated by the future exploration of the solar high-latitudes by Solar Orbiter and complimented by Parker Solar Probe, we aim to contribute to the understanding of high-latitude CMEs as they develop into ICMEs. We examine a high-latitude CME and its subsequent ICME using data from STEREO, Ulysses, and near-Earth spacecraft. We apply a triangulation method to the remote-sensing images from the twin STEREO spacecraft and conduct a multi-spacecraft analysis using the in-situ Ulysses, STEREO, and near-Earth spacecraft data. The Ulysses observations, supported by the other spacecraft, provides a clear picture of the ICME geometry and structure: a shock, followed by a sheath region, and a magnetic flux rope followed by a high-speed stream. This ICME differs from the known ‘over-expanding’ types observed in the high-latitudes by the Ulysses mission, in that it straddles a region between the slow and fast solar winds which in itself drives a shock. The ICME has also been distorted by its interaction with the surrounding complex solar wind environment, the particularly near Earth and the multi-spacecraft observations presented were key to disentangling this event from the surrounding features in the solar wind.
U.S. Milk Markets Under Alternative Federal Order Pricing Policies
Creators: name: McDowell, Howard
name: Fleming, Ann
name: Spinelli, Felix
name: McDowell, Howard
name: Fleming, Ann
name: Spinelli, Felix
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Milk
subject: dairy
subject: marketing orders

description: Federal milk marketing orders regulate about 80 percent of the Grade A milk marketed and about 70 percent of all milk marketed in the United States. The orders regulate fluid milk markets through classified pricing and pooling of revenues, and affect consumer and producer milk prices, interregional marketing patterns, and U.S. Government purchases of surplus dairy products. This study compares the U.S. milk markets under 1988 provisions against three alternative policies using an interregional trade model comprising 15 regions. The three policies--minimal regulation, multiple-base pricing, and multiple-base pricing with reconstitution--allow market forces to have greater effect on prices and marketing patterns. Minimal regulation allows market conditions to determine any Grade A price differential above manufacturing milk prices. Multiple-base pricing replaces the single-base (central Wisconsin) with price basing in all regions with sufficient fluid milk supplies. Reconstitution is simulated by modifying multiple-base pricing with the possibility of shipping fresh milk concentrates for reconstituting into fresh fluid products without penalty.
Dasyatis americana Hildebrand and Schroeder 1928
Creators: name: Smith-Vaniz, William F.
name: Jelks, Howard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Dasyatidae
Dasyatis
Dasyatis americana

description: Dasyatis americana Hildebrand and Schroeder 1928 — Southern Stingray
 Justification: ZMUC P.08125 (1, disc width 238 mm), St. Croix, 1896; observed in Tague Bay (Mateo and Tobias, 2001:213); on-line photographs available (Pittman et al., 2008); many sight records in addition to REEF (61/96).
Distribution: WA (FL, GOM, BA, GA, VI, WC, nSA, sSA), EA.
 MYLIOBATIDAE —eagle rays (2 species)
description: Published as part of Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2014, Marine and inland fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands: an annotated checklist, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 3803 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3803.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4917823
Infrastructure Investment and Economic Development: Rural Strategies for the 1990's
Creators: name: Agriculture And Rural Economy Division
name: Agriculture And Rural Economy Division
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Transportation
subject: telecommunications
subject: water supply
subject: wastewater
subject: rural development
subject: infrastructure
subject: economic development

description: This report examines the effects of investment in transportation, telecommunications, and water a d wastewater infrastructure on improving the economies of rural America. The authors leave the reader with a healthy degree of skepticism about the possibility of the direct stimulation of economic development across the spectrum of rural communities through just any infrastructure investments. On the other hand, they agree that certain carefully selected infrastructure investments may often have good economic development payoffs, when these investments are made in places with the other prerequisites for development.
Financial Market Intervention as a Rural Development Strategy
Creators: name: Agriculture And Rural Economy Division
name: Agriculture And Rural Economy Division
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Rural development
subject: rural financial markets
subject: government credit programs
subject: rural business
subject: rural governments
subject: rural development policy

description: The Federal Government is involved in rural financial markets in a number of ways to ensure the safety and soundness of the financial services delivery system, to correct private financial market failures, and to further a variety of policy objectives that are only coincidentally related to rural financial markets themselves. This report is concerned with the usefulness of Federal intervention in rural financial markets as a mechanism for fostering rural development. The chapters in this report describe the financial system serving rural America, assess the adequacy of this system at meeting the financial needs of rural businesses and governments, and examine the effectiveness of previous Federal "credit" programs of special concern to rural America.
Effect of Genetic and Lifestyle Risk Factors on the Association Between Body Mass Index and Personal History of Breast and Ovarian Cancer in the Bright Pink Population
Creators: name: Chen, Ailynna
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: body mass index
subject: breast cancer
subject: ovarian cancer
subject: genetic risk
subject: bright pink
subject: Breast Neoplasms
subject: Ovarian Neoplasms
subject: Risk Factors
subject: Genetic Predisposition to Disease
subject: Body Mass Index
subject: United States

description: Objective: To investigate the effect modification by genetic and potential lifestyle risk factors on the association between BMI and breast and ovarian cancers diagnosed among women 20-40 years of age.Methods: We conducted a case-control analysis with 1511 breast cancer cases and 6044 controls and 1267 ovarian cancer cases and 5068 controls between 20-40 years of age. The study population and data were obtained from the Bright Pink, a national non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention and early detection of breast and ovarian cancer in young women. Cases and controls were frequency matched by age category. The association between BMI and Breast and ovarian cancers were modelled separately using logistic regression. Effect modification by hereditary gene mutations and behavioral factors including physical activity, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption and oral contraceptive use were evaluated in each of the final models at the 0.10 significance level.Results: Compared to the normal weight group, the underweight group had more breast cancer diagnoses (OR adjusted 95% CI=1.31 [1.05, 1.64]) while the obese group had less (OR adjusted 95% CI=0.82 [0.70, 0.96]). Only women the underweight group were significantly more likely to have a personal history of ovarian cancer compared to the normal weight group (OR adjusted 95% CI=1.69 [1.32, 2.15]). Physical activity, alcohol consumption, and smoking were found to be effect modifiers in the associations between BMI and breast and ovarian cancers. Being underweight was related to increased personal history of breast and ovarian cancers among women who exercised regularly, were current smokers, or had >1 drink per day while the magnitude of association was attenuated among women who did not engage in these health behaviors.Discussion: Our study supports recent findings of BMI as a protective factor for premenopausal breast cancer in literature. Interaction between BMI and several behavioral factors suggest young, underweight women may have higher susceptibility to carcinogenic effects of environmental exposures in breast and ovarian cancer development. The results of this case-control analysis are subject to potential recall bias and reverse causality. Future prospective studies are needed to verify these findings.