cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Land Rights and Farm Investment Ghana: The Missing Link in the Operationalisation of Tenure Security
Creators: name: Ayamga, Michael
name: Dzanku, Fred
name: Ayamga, Michael
name: Dzanku, Fred
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: Land management reform has re-emerged as a priority for many African countries and strongly supported by so-called development partners. This time round, a more nuanced theme combining the classic goals of enhancing tenure security, improving investment and productivity of land with those of poverty reduction and equity in land access. Many continue to question the neo-classical premise which perceives customary systems to not provide the necessary security to promote agricultural investment and productivity due to the lack of clearly defined private and enforceable property rights. Given the variety of methods used measuring land tenure security it would be useful to examine how the different measures of tenure security influence the outcomes of interest within the premise of the neo-classical hypothesis. This paper examines how diffrent methods of quantifying and measuring tenure security influence farm investment. We use data from 11 districts located in 4 agro-ecological zones of Ghana to analyse the land tenure security-farm investment nexus and how different measures of tenure security influenced household land improvement investment decision making.
Assessment of Metal Silo Business Up-Take among the CIMMYT-Trained Artisans in Kenya
Creators: name: Ndegwa, Michael K.
name: De Groote, Hugo
name: Gitonga, Zachary M.
name: Ndegwa, Michael K.
name: De Groote, Hugo
name: Gitonga, Zachary M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: artisan training
subject: metal silo business

description: This paper establishes level of up-take of the business opportunities provided by the metal silos technology among the artisans who were trained on how to make metal silos. It also assesses the factors that determine the practice of the metal silo business among the trained artisans. A third of the artisans takes orders directly from individual farmers, grain traders, institutions, etc and makes metal silos at their own workshops, a third does not engage in metal silos business at all while a third is normally hired by the first category. The likelihood to make metal silos either at own workshop or as a hired artisan reduces with age while the same increases with years of experience in technical work. The likelihood to make silos at own workshops also increases with ownership of a workshop before training, running a workshop as the primary occupation and metal work as the main professional training for the artisans.
Construction and Operating Costs for Whitetail Deer Farms
Creators: name: DeVuyst, Eric
name: DeVuyst, Eric
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: whitetail deer farming
subject: Directors for Whitetails of Oklahoma

description: Commercial whitetail deer farming is a growing industry in the U.S. The size of operations ranges from a few head to hundreds. Management ranges from small, part-time farmers to professionally-managed operations. There is, however, a lack of published information documenting investment costs, operating costs, cash flow, and profitability of whitetail deer enterprises. This article provides that information. Based on interviews with the Board of Directors for Whitetails of Oklahoma, small and mid-sized farms are modeled, providing construction and operating costs for both. Projected cash flow budgets and net present values under various sale price assumptions are also reported. The likelihood of profitability is directly tied to the sale price of bucks. At prices less than $2,750 for a smaller-sized farms and $3,000 for mid-sized farms, profitability is highly unlikely.
Probing the Phase Diagram of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d with Tunneling Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Ozyuzer, L.
name: Zasadzinski, J. F.
name: Gray, K. E.
name: Hinks, D. G.
name: Miyakawa, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tunneling measurements are performed on Ca-rich single crystals of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d (Bi2212), with various oxygen doping levels, using a novel point contact method. At 4.2 K, SIN and SIS tunnel junctions are obtained with well-defined quasiparticle peaks, robust dip and hump features and in some cases Josephson currents. The doping dependence of tunneling conductances of Ca-rich Bi2212 are analyzed and compared to stoichiometric Bi2212. A similar profile of energy gap vs. doping concentration is found although the Ca-rich samples have a slighly smaller optimum Tc and therefore smaller gap values for any doping level. The evolution of tunneling conductance peak height to background ratios with hole concentration are compared. For a given doping level, the Ca-rich spectra showed more broadened features compared to the stoichiometric counterparts, most likely due to increased disorder from the excess Ca. Comparison of the dip and hump features has provided some potential insights into their origins.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures; presented at the Applied Superconductivity Conference (August 4-9, 2002) in Houston, TX; to be published in IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond
Financing Herd Rebuilding After the 2011 Drought
Creators: name: Doye, Damona
name: DeVuyst, Eric
name: Sahs, Roger
name: Peel, Derrell
name: Doye, Damona
name: DeVuyst, Eric
name: Sahs, Roger
name: Peel, Derrell
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: heifer retention
subject: cow-calf producers
subject: rebuilding herds
subject: drought conditions

description: The drought of 2011 forced many cow-calf producers in the U.S. Southern Plains to liquidate cow herds. Rebuilding cow herds poses financial challenges for many, perhaps most, producers. While liquidation strategies varied between individuals, producers who completely liquidated breeding herds will likely face significant cash flow challenges to rebuilding. Here, we develop and analyze three rebuilding strategies, including slow-rebuilding using summer stockers, fast-rebuilding by purchasing bred cows or cow-calf pairs, and cow leasing with heifer retention. Our analyses indicate that rebuilding appears to be financially feasible for producers with healthy pre-drought financial positions.
title: Determinants of Borrowing Limits on Credit Cards
Creators: name: Dey, Shubhasis
name: Mumy, Gene
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2005

description: The difference between actual borrowings and borrowing limits alone generates information asymmetry in the credit card market. This information asymmetry can make the market incomplete and create ex post misallocations. Households that are denied credit could well turn out to be ex post less risky than some credit card holders who borrow large portions of their borrowing limits. Using data from the U.S. Survey of Consumer Finances, the authors find a positive relationship between borrower quality and borrowing limits, controlling for banks' selection of credit card holders and the endogeneity of interest rates. Their estimation reveals how interest rates have a negative influence on the optimal borrowing limits offered by banks.
description: La différence entre le montant des limites de crédit accordées et le montant effectif des emprunts suffit à créer sur le marché des cartes de crédit une asymétrie d'information. Cette asymétrie peut rendre ce marché incomplet et produire, a posteriori, une mauvaise allocation des ressources. Il se pourrait fort bien, en effet, que les ménages qui se voient refuser un prêt représentent un risque moins élevé que certains détenteurs de cartes qui font largement appel à leur ligne de crédit. À partir des données de l'enquête menée par la Réserve fédérale américaine sur les finances des consommateurs, les auteurs concluent à une corrélation positive entre la solvabilité de l'emprunteur et la limite de crédit, une fois pris en compte l'endogénéité des taux débiteurs et les effets de la sélection par les banques des détenteurs de cartes. D'après leurs estimations, le niveau optimal des limites de crédit consenties varie en fonction inverse des taux d'intérêt.
Knowledge, Adoption and Use Intensity of Improved Maize Technologies in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Jaleta, Moti
name: Yirga, Chilot
name: Kassie, Menale
name: De Groote, Hugo
name: Shiferaw, Bekele
name: Jaleta, Moti
name: Yirga, Chilot
name: Kassie, Menale
name: De Groote, Hugo
name: Shiferaw, Bekele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: maize
subject: improved variety
subject: knowledge
subject: adoption
subject: seed use
subject: Ethiopia

description: Since the beginning of 1970’s, more than 40 improved maize varieties have been released and disseminated to maize potential areas in Ethiopia. Using cross-sectional survey data collected in 2011 from 39 districts in five Regional States, this paper examines smallholder farmers’ knowledge, adoption and intensity of use of improved maize varieties in the country. Poisson, binary and multinomial Probit, Tobit and Heckman’s selection models are used in explaining determinants of maize variety knowledge, adoption, intensity of maize area under improved varieties at a household level, and type of maize seed used at plot level. Results show that household characteristics, availability of family labor, wealth status, social networks, and access to credit to buy seed and fertilizer, better soil fertility and depth, market opportunities (number of traders known in villages) affect the number of improved maize varieties known to farmers, their adoption and intensity of farm area allocated to improved varieties, and the use of freshly purchased hybrid and/or OPV maize varieties. Generally, institutional arrangements that strengthen farmers’ access to input and output markets and accumulation of wealth could enhance the knowledge and use of improved maize technologies for better productivity and household income.
Additional file 1 of Pain management in inflammatory bowel disease: feasibility of an online therapist-supported CBT-based self-management intervention
Creators: name: Sweeney, Louise
name: Moss-Morris, Rona
name: Wladyslawa Czuber-Dochan
name: Norton, Christine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. “Red Flags” checklist to identify pain likely attributed to medical causes/IBD flare. Supplementary Table 2. Topic guide for nested qualitative interviews post-intervention. Supplementary Table 3. Questionnaire items representing seven components of acceptability based on theoretical framework by Sekhon et al. [29]. Supplementary Table 4. Baseline pain, quality of life, psychological factors and disease activity scores for total sample (n = 20)
Empirical Analysis of the Environmental Benefits of Compliance with GLOBALGAP Standards Among Smallholder Farmers in Eastern and Central Kenya: An Environmental Valuation Approach
Creators: name: Karira, Wanderi J.
name: Mburu, John I.
name: Guthiga, Paul M.
name: Karira, Wanderi J.
name: Mburu, John I.
name: Guthiga, Paul M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Increasing calls for an African green revolution are being made so that Africa can increase its food production; thus enhancing its ability to feed its high population while exploiting emerging opportunities in developed country markets. This will involve an increased use of agro-chemicals. Use of agro-chemicals by sometimes lowly educated farmers in developing countries is associated with health and environmental degradation risks. Health risks to consumers manifest themselves through high levels of pesticide residues in food commodities; this led to development of the mandatory GLOBALGAP standards. Though primarily focused on consumer interests, compliance with GLOBALGAP standards is increasingly being associated with farmer level benefits. Besides conferring market access; studies show the existence of quantifiable health benefits which accrue to GLOBALGAP compliant farmers. Studies also allude to existence of environmental benefits of compliance. Through data obtained from farmers in Eastern and Central Kenya, this paper uses Contingent Valuation Approach to estimate the economic value of changes in soil quality to empirically analyze the environmental benefits of compliance with GLOBALGAP standards. Further, factors (including compliance) influencing the economic value of changes in soil quality are analyzed. Compliance is found to have quantifiable environmental benefits to smallholder farmers as seen by the higher economic value of changes in soil quality and the positive and significant influence of compliance on the economic value of changes in soil quality. Agri-regulation is thus a useful tool that can be applied to enhance sustainability in Africa’s increasingly intensive agriculture.
The Perfect Storm: A Case Study Illustrating How a Series of Events Led One Farm Operator to Develop a Risk Management Plan that Includes a Lender’s Perspective
Creators: name: Barnard, Freddie L.
name: Yeager, Elizabeth
name: Barnard, Freddie L.
name: Yeager, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: risk management plan

description: Large capital requirements needed for many agricultural businesses to operate result in many relying on borrowed funds. Fixed repayment commitments combined with a leveraged financial condition and volatile commodity prices result in increased emphasis on managing risks. Deterioration in the financial condition of an agricultural business is used to illustrate development of a risk management plan by a farm manager and his lender. The case study approach is used to initiate discussion, generate ideas from readers, and provide an example that can be used by those who teach farm management, risk management, and/ or financial management.
title: Recent Developments in Self-Employment in Canada
Creators: name: Kamhi, Nadja
name: Leung, Danny
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2005

description: The authors document the recent evolution of the self-employment rate in Canada. Between 1987 and 1998, the self-employment rate rose 3.5 percentage points from 13.8 per cent to 17.3 per cent. In contrast, over the 1999 to 2002 period, the self-employment rate fell by 1.9 percentage points, returning the self-employment rate in 2002 to a level only 0.2 percentage points higher than in 1992. The authors explore the possible explanations for this reversal. They describe trends in self-employment by age, gender, and types of self-employment, and then decompose the changes in the self-employment rate into the fraction due to shifts in the industrial structure and the proportion due to changes within each industry. The authors also examine the role of the business cycle and other macroeconomic factors, such as tax rates.
description: Les auteurs étudient l'évolution récente de la proportion des travailleurs autonomes au Canada. Entre 1987 et 1998, cette proportion a progressé de 3,5 points de pourcentage et est passée de 13,8 % à 17,3 %. De 1999 à 2002, par contre, elle a baissé de 1,9 point de pourcentage, de sorte qu'en 2002, elle ne dépassait plus que de 0,2 point le niveau de 1992. Les auteurs explorent les causes possibles de ce retournement. Ils examinent les tendances par tranche d'âge, sexe et catégorie de travailleurs autonomes, avant de faire ressortir l'influence des transformations de la structure sectorielle de l'emploi et l'incidence des changements observés au sein de chaque branche d'activité. Le rôle du cycle économique et d'autres facteurs macroéconomiques comme la fiscalité est aussi analysé.
Measuring cross-sections of high-energy neutrinos with FASERν at the LHC
Creators: name: Takubo, Yosuke
name: Collaboration, On Behalf Of FASER
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: neutrino - cross sections

description: Parallel Contributed Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: on behalf of FASER Collaboration Heising-Simons Foundation, Simon Foundation
Quantum Phase Diagram for Homogeneous Bose-Einstein Condensate
Creators: name: Kleinert, Hagen
name: Schmidt, Sebastian
name: Pelster, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the quantum phase transition for a homogeneous Bose gas in the plane of s-wave scattering length a_s and temperature T. This is done by improving a one-loop result near the interaction-free Bose-Einstein critical temperature T_c^{(0)} with the help of recent high-loop results on the shift of the critical temperature due to a weak atomic repulsion using variational perturbation theory. The quantum phase diagram shows a nose above T_c^{(0)}, so that we predict the existence of a reentrant transition above T_c^{(0)}, where an increasing repulsion leads to the formation of a condensate.
description: Author Information under http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/institution.html . Latest update of paper (including all PS fonts) at http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/349
Additional file 1 of Construction and comprehensive characterization of an EcLDCc-CatIB set—varying linkers and aggregation inducing tags
Creators: name: Küsters, Kira
name: Pohl, Martina
name: Krauss, Ulrich
name: Ölçücü, Gizem
name: Albert, Sandor
name: Jaeger, Karl-Erich
name: Wiechert, Wolfgang
name: Oldiges, Marco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1. Additional tables and figure.
Quantum differentiability on quantum tori
Creators: name: McDonald, Edward
name: Sukochev, Fedor
name: Xiong, Xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Primary: 46G05. Secondary: 47L10, 58B34

description: We provide a full characterisation of quantum differentiability (in the sense of Connes) on quantum tori. We also prove a quantum integration formula which differs substantially from the commutative case.
description: Published online in Comm. Math. Phys
An Assessment of the Economics of Cassava Processing in Kwara State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Muhammad-Lawal, A.
name: Omotesho, O. A.
name: Oyedemi, F. A.
name: Muhammad-Lawal, A.
name: Omotesho, O. A.
name: Oyedemi, F. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Cassava processing
subject: gross margin
subject: likert-type scale
subject: Kwara State
subject: Nigeria

description: This study was carried out to examine returns to cassava processing in Kwara State. The specific objectives are to identify the various products from cassava in the study area; estimate costs and returns to cassava processing; and identify constraints to cassava processing and marketing. A four-stage random sampling technique was employed to obtain primary data from 118 respondents used for the study. Descriptive statistics, Likert-type scale were used to analyze the data used for this study. It was observed that majority of the processors were females (88.1%) with an average age of 32 years, mostly with one form of education or the other (60.20%). The study revealed that four cassava products namely garri, flour (lafun), fufu and starch were the major products from cassava processing in the. Analysis of the costs and returns revealed that processing cassava to garri gave the highest Gross Margin even though processing cassava to all the four products was profitable. Furthermore, the constraints experienced by processors in carrying out their activities and marketing their various products include poor road network, high transport cost, drudgery due to poor access to equipment, inadequate capital and weather related factors relating to sun-drying of cassava products during rainy season. of various degrees. The study therefore recommends the need for processors to have access to infrastructural facilities and improved processing technology to enable them take advantage of the emerging market-oriented cassava products so as to improve their means of livelihoods.
Sasaki-Ricci flow equation on five-dimensional Sasaki-Einstein space $Y^{p,q}$
Creators: name: Visinescu, Mihai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the transverse Kähler-Ricci flow equation on Sasaki-Ein\-stein space $Y^{p,q}$. Explicit solutions are produced representing new five-dimensional Sasaki structures. Solutions which do not modify the transverse metric preserve the Sasaki-Einstein feature of the contact structure. If the transverse metric is altered, the deformed metrics remain Sasaki, but not Einstein.
description: 12 pages
Characteristic Angles in the Wetting of an Angular Region: Deposit Growth
Creators: name: Popov, Yuri O.
name: Witten, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As was shown in an earlier paper [1], solids dispersed in a drying drop migrate to the (pinned) contact line. This migration is caused by outward flows driven by the loss of the solvent due to evaporation and by geometrical constraint that the drop maintains an equilibrium surface shape with a fixed boundary. Here, in continuation of our earlier paper [2], we theoretically investigate the evaporation rate, the flow field and the rate of growth of the deposit patterns in a drop over an angular sector on a plane substrate. Asymptotic power laws near the vertex (as distance to the vertex goes to zero) are obtained. A hydrodynamic model of fluid flow near the singularity of the vertex is developed and the velocity field is obtained. The rate of the deposit growth near the contact line is found in two time regimes. The deposited mass falls off as a weak power Gamma of distance close to the vertex and as a stronger power Beta of distance further from the vertex. The power Gamma depends only slightly on the opening angle Alpha and stays between roughly -1/3 and 0. The power Beta varies from -1 to 0 as the opening angle increases from 0 to 180 degrees. At a given distance from the vertex, the deposited mass grows faster and faster with time, with the greatest increase in the growth rate occurring at the early stages of the drying process.
description: v1: 36 pages, 21 figures, LaTeX; submitted to Physical Review E; v2: minor additions to Abstract and Introduction
Search for Non­-Standard Neutrino Interactions with Borexino Phase II
Creators: name: Formozov, Andrey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Solar neutrinos, Non-Standard Interactions, BSM

description: The Borexino detector measures solar neutrino fluxes via neutrino-electron elastic scattering. Observed spectra are determined by the solar-νe survival probability Pee(E), and the chiral couplings of the neutrino and electron. Some theories of physics beyond the Standard Model postulate the existence of Non-Standard Interactions (NSI's) which modify the chiral couplings and Pee(E). In this work, we search for such NSI's, in particularly neutral-current-like interactions that modify the νe−e and ντ−e couplings, using Borexino Phase II data. Standard Solar Model predictions of the solar neutrino fluxes for both high- and low-metallicity assumptions are considered. No indication of new physics is found at the level of sensitivity of the detector and constraints on the parameters of the NSI's are placed. In addition, with the same dataset the value of sin2θW is obtained with a precision comparable to that achieved in reactor antineutrino experiments.
description: A.F. acknowledges the support provided by UHH and RFBR grant 16-02-01026.
title: State Dependence in Fundamentals and Preferences Explains Risk-Aversion Puzzle
Creators: name: Chabi-Yo, Fousseni
name: Garcia, René
name: Renault, Eric
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2005

description: The authors examine the ability of economic models with regime shifts to rationalize and explain the risk-aversion and pricing-kernel puzzles put forward in Jackwerth (2000). They build an economy where investors' preferences or economic fundamentals are state-dependent, and simulate prices for a market index and European options on that index. Based on the original nonparametric methodology, the risk-aversion and pricing-kernel functions obtained across wealth states with these artificial data exhibit the same puzzles found with the actual data, but within each regime the puzzles disappear. This suggests that state dependence potentially explains the puzzles.
description: Les auteurs présentent un modèle économique à changement de régime qui permet de reproduire les énigmes relatives à l'aversion pour le risque et au facteur d'actualisation stochastique mises en évidence par Jackwerth (2000). Ils construisent un modèle où les préférences des investisseurs et leur consommation dépendent d'une variable d'état qui suit un processus de type markovien à deux régimes et génèrent une série de prix d'options d'achat européennes. Au moyen de la méthodologie d'estimation non paramétrique proposée par Jackwerth, ils déduisent des fonctions d'aversion absolue pour le risque et d'actualisation stochastique pour chaque valeur de la richesse. Ces fonctions présentent les mêmes anomalies que celles obtenues par Jackwerth à partir des données réelles. Lorsque la même méthodologie est appliquée à chaque état de l'économie, les anomalies disparaissent. D'après ces résultats, l'existence de changements de régime dans l'économie pourrait expliquer ces deux énigmes.
Euclid and the challange of neutrino mass detection
Creators: name: Archidiacono, Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Theory and Cosmology - Non Standard Interactions and Cosmology

description: Parallel Contributed Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
Weak Turbulent Kolmogorov Spectrum for Surface Gravity Waves
Creators: name: Dyachenko, A. I.
name: Korotkevich, A. O.
name: Zakharov, V. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the long-time evolution of gravity waves on deep water exited by the stochastic external force concentrated in moderately small wave numbers. We numerically implement the primitive Euler equations for the potential flow of an ideal fluid with free surface written in canonical variables, using expansion of the Hamiltonian in powers of nonlinearity of up to fourth order terms. We show that due to nonlinear interaction processes a stationary energy spectrum close to $|k| \sim k^{-7/2}$ is formed. The observed spectrum can be interpreted as a weak-turbulent Kolmogorov spectrum for a direct cascade of energy.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 7: of Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screening in gastrointestinal stromal tumor with Imatinib resistance
Creators: name: Cao, Jie
name: Wei, Jianchang
name: Yang, Ping
name: Zhang, Tong
name: Chen, Zhuanpeng
name: He, Feng
name: Wei, Fang
name: Chen, Huacui
name: Hu, He
name: Zhong, Junbin
name: Yang, Zhi
name: Cai, Wensong
name: Li, Wanglin
name: Wang, Qiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S5. Detailed information of GO analysis for the selected 20 genes. (DOCX 13Â kb)
Symmachia probetor
Creators: name: Leite, Luis Anderson Ribeiro
name: Fernando
name: Mielke, Hendrik
name: Martins, Mirna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lycaenidae
Symmachia
Symmachia probetor

description: Symmachia probetor (Stoll, 1782)
(Fig. 7-8, 39, 42)
 A single damaged male was collected at the hilltop at 14:00h flying about five meters from the ground and apparently competing for territory with S. estellina Gallard, 2008 in a small patch of sun. The time of sampling differs from records mentioned by Gallard (2008) for this species in French Guiana.
 Although superficially similar, there are a number of characteristics of the wing shape, pattern, and male genitalia that seem to distinguish S. probetor and S. estellina: the forewing of S. probetor is rounded at the apex and convex at the outer margin and there is no white or translucent spots close to the curve of the costal margin, which is weakly developed when compared to S. estellina (Fig. 39-40). These characteristics can be observed in the type illustration of S. probetor given by Stoll (1782). The male genitalia of S. probetor is generally larger, the saccus is shorter and the posterior margin of the tegumen is more projected and bilobed medially in dorsal view. Perhaps most conspicuously, the cornuti are undeveloped in S. probetor (Fig. 42) but developed in S. estellina (Fig. 43) (S. probetor, n=2; S. estellina, n=6).
 We think there is possibly a complex of several similar looking species lumped under S. probetor, with some of the recognized subspecies and synonyms perhaps corresponding to valid species, in addition to the possibility of undescribed taxa.
description: Published as part of Leite, Luis Anderson Ribeiro, Fernando, Mielke, Hendrik & Martins, Mirna, 2012, An annotated list of Symmachia Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Symmachiini) from Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Acre, Brazil, with the description of a new species, pp. 1-11 in Insecta Mundi 2012 (249) on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5174672
title: An Evaluation of Core Inflation Measures
Creators: name: Armour, Jamie
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2006

description: The author provides a statistical evaluation of various measures of core inflation for Canada. The criteria used to evaluate the measures are lack of bias, low variability relative to total CPI inflation, and ability to forecast actual and trend total CPI inflation. The author uses the same methodology as Hogan, Johnson, and Laflèche (2001) and thus provides updated empirical results. The findings are that most traditional measures of core inflation are unbiased and all continue to be less volatile than total inflation. They nevertheless display some volatility and have limited predictive ability. Overall, CPIW seems to have a slight advantage over the other measures, but the differences across measures are not large. (CPIW uses all components of total CPI but adjusts the weight of each component by a factor that is inversely proportional to the component's variability.) Compared with the results of Hogan, Johnson, and Laflèche, CPIW's relative performance has improved. The distribution of price changes for 54 CPI subcomponents is also examined, and substantial increases in both the skewness and kurtosis of this distribution since 1998 are found.
description: L'auteure évalue statistiquement diverses mesures de l'inflation fondamentale au Canada au regard de trois critères : absence de biais, faible variabilité par rapport à l'inflation globale (mesurée par l'indice des prix à la consommation [IPC] global) et capacité de prévision de l'évolution effective et tendancielle de l'inflation globale. Elle a recours à la méthode de Hogan, Johnson et Laflèche (2001) et met à jour leurs résultats empiriques. L'auteure conclut que les mesures usuelles de l'inflation fondamentale ne comportent pour la plupart pas de biais et demeurent toutes moins volatiles que celle de l'inflation globale. Elles affichent néanmoins une certaine volatilité, et leur capacité de prévision est limitée. La mesure IPCP semble l'emporter de peu sur les autres, mais les différences entre elles ne sont pas très marquées. (La mesure IPCP englobe toutes les composantes de l'IPC global, mais la pondération de chacune d'elles est multipliée par un coefficient qui est inversement proportionnel à la variabilité de la composante.) La performance relative d'IPCP s'est améliorée depuis l'étude de Hogan, Johnson et Laflèche. La distribution des variations de prix de 54 sous-composantes de l'IPC est également examinée. Son asymétrie et son aplatissement se sont nettement accentués depuis 1998.
Different thermodynamic pathways to the solvation free energy of a spherical cavity in a hard sphere fluid
Creators: name: Chen, Yng-gwei
name: Weeks, John D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper determines the excess free energy associated with the formation of a spherical cavity in a hard sphere fluid. The solvation free energy can be calculated by integration of the structural changes induced by inserting the cavity using a number of different exact thermodynamic pathways. We consider three such pathways, including a new density route derived here. Structural information about the nonuniform hard sphere fluid in the presence of a general external field is given by the recently developed hydrostatic linear response (HLR) integral equation. Use of the HLR results in the different pathways gives a generally accurate determination of the solvation free energy for cavities over a wide range of sizes, from zero to infinity. Results for a related method, the Gaussian Field Model, are also discussed.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures; submitted to J. Chem. Phys
Symmachia estellina Gallard 2008
Creators: name: Leite, Luis Anderson Ribeiro
name: Fernando
name: Mielke, Hendrik
name: Martins, Mirna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lycaenidae
Symmachia
Symmachia estellina

description: Symmachia estellina Gallard, 2008
(Fig. 9-10, 40, 43)
 Two males were collected on the same day apparently competing for territory in a small patch of sun with S. probetor, and were not observed on subsequent days. The determination of the species was made by comparison with the work of Gallard (2008), who described the taxon based on specimens from French Guiana, although Gallard did not illustrate male genitalia in the description. Given that the Serra do Divisor and French Guiana are both part of the Amazonian biogeographic region it seems likely that these specimens from the two localities are conspecific. The characteristic shape and pattern of the forewing and the male genitalia, above cited to distinguish this species from S. probetor, seem to be surprisingly stable in a series of 17 males and 21 females studied by Gallard (2008) and 6 males and 3 females available to us for study at DZUP. Additionally, after the examination of large series of specimens of both S. estellina and S. probetor, Gallard (2008) did not find a single intermediate specimens between these two sympatric species.
description: Published as part of Leite, Luis Anderson Ribeiro, Fernando, Mielke, Hendrik & Martins, Mirna, 2012, An annotated list of Symmachia Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Symmachiini) from Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Acre, Brazil, with the description of a new species, pp. 1-11 in Insecta Mundi 2012 (249) on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5174672
Breaking isotropy in the early Universe with neutrino oscillations
Creators: name: Hansen, Rasmus S. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Theory and Cosmology - Non Standard Interactions and Cosmology

description: Parallel Contributed Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: in collaboration with Shashank Shalgar and Irene Tamborra based on 2012.03948 Co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union
description: {"references": ["based on 2012.03948"]}
Quasiparticle spin susceptibility in heavy-fermion superconductors : An NMR study compared with specific heat results
Creators: name: Tou, Hideki
name: Ishida, Kenji
name: Kitaoka, Yoshio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasi-particle spin susceptibility ($χ^{qp}$) for various heavy-fermion (HF) superconductors are discussed on the basis of the experimental results of electronic specific heat ($γ_{el}$), NMR Knight shift ($K$) and NMR relaxation rate ($1/T_1$) within the framework of the Fermi liquid model for a Kramers doublet crystal electric field (CEF) ground state. $χ^{qp}_γ$ is calculated from the enhanced Sommerfeld coefficient $γ_{el}$ and $χ^{qp}_{T_1}$ from the quasi-particle Korringa relation $T_1T(K^{qp}_{T_1})^2=const.$ via the relation of $χ^{qp}_{T_1}=(N_Aμ_B/A_{hf})K^{qp}_{T_1}$ where $A_{hf}$ is the hyperfine coupling constant, $N_A$ the Abogadoro's number and $μ_B$ the Bohr magneton. For the even-parity (spin-singlet) superconductors CeCu$_2$Si$_2$, CeCoIn$_5$ and UPd$_2$Al$_3$, the fractional decrease in the Knight shift, $δK^{obs}$, below the superconducting transition temperature ($T_c$) is due to the decrease of the spin susceptibility of heavy quasi-particle estimated consistently from $χ^{qp}_γ$ and $χ^{qp}_{T_1}$. This result allows us to conclude that the heavy quasi-particles form the spin-singlet Cooper pairs in CeCu$_2$Si$_2$, CeCoIn$_5$ and UPd$_2$Al$_3$. On the other hand, no reduction in the Knight shift is observed in UPt$_3$ and UNi$_2$Al$_3$, nevertheless the estimated values of $χ^{qp}_γ$ and $χ^{qp}_{T_1}$ are large enough to be probed experimentally. The odd-parity superconductivity is therefore concluded in these compounds. The NMR result provides a convincing way to classify the HF superconductors into either even- or odd- parity paring together with the identification for the gap structure, as long as the system has Kramers degeneracy.
description: 11 pages, 3 tables, 5 figures, RevTex4(LaTex2e)
Extracting physical power plant parameters from historical behaviour
Creators: name: Kraljic, David
name: Troha, Miha
name: Sobocan, Blaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The information needed for fundamental modelling of the power markets -- the efficiency, start-up, fixed, and variable operating costs of each power plant -- is not publicly available. These parameters are usually estimated by considering the type of technology and the age of a power plant. We present a method to extract these parameters for thermal power plants on the British electricity market using only the publicly available data. For each power plant, we solve a bilevel optimisation problem, where the inner level solves the Unit Commitment (UC) problem and outputs the optimal schedule given the prices of fuel, emissions, electricity, and the unknown plant parameters. The outer level then optimises over the plant parameters matching the historical production of each plant as closely as possible.
description: 5 pages, Accepted contribution for The European Energy Market 2019 conference
title: The Welfare Implications of Inflation versus Price-Level Targeting in a Two-Sector, Small Open Economy
Creators: name: Ortega, Eva
name: Rebei, Nooman
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2006

description: The authors analyze the welfare implications of simple monetary policy rules in the context of an estimated model of a small open economy for Canada with traded and non-traded goods, and with sticky prices and wages. They find statistically significant heterogeneity in the degree of price rigidity across sectors. They also find welfare gains in targeting only the non-traded-goods inflation, since prices are found to be more sticky in this production sector, but those gains come at the cost of substantially increased aggregate volatility.

The authors look for the welfare-maximizing specification of an interest rate reaction function that allows for a specific price-level target. They find, however, that, overall, the higher welfare is achieved, given the estimated model for the Canadian economy, with a strict inflation-targeting rule where the central bank reacts to the next period's expected deviation from the inflation target and does not target the output gap.
description: Les auteurs analysent les implications pour le bien-être de règles simples de politique monétaire, en estimant un modèle de petite économie ouverte pour le Canada qui compte deux secteurs (biens échangeables et non échangeables) et où les prix et les salaires sont rigides. Ils observent que le degré de rigidité des prix diffère de façon statistiquement significative entre les deux secteurs. Ils constatent également que la poursuite d'une cible fondée exclusivement sur l'inflation des prix des biens non échangeables permet un gain de bien-être, car les prix de ces biens sont plus rigides que ceux des biens échangeables. Ce gain est toutefois obtenu au prix d'une augmentation substantielle de la volatilité globale.

Les auteurs cherchent à établir s'il existe une spécification de la fonction de réaction aux taux d'intérêt qui admet une cible précise pour le niveau des prix et qui permet de maximiser le bien-être. Ils remarquent cependant que le bien-être s'accroît davantage, dans le modèle estimé de l'économie canadienne, lorsque la banque centrale prend strictement pour cible l'inflation et qu'elle réagit aux écarts qu'elle s'attend à observer par rapport à la cible au cours de la période suivante, sans tenir compte de l'écart de production.
The post-AGB evolution of AGB mass loss variations
Creators: name: Meijerink, Rowin
name: Mellema, Garrelt
name: Simis, Yvonne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new numerical hydrodynamical modelling of the evolution of Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) mass loss fluctuations during the post-AGB/Planetary Nebula phase. These models show that after ionization, the observable effects of the mass loss fluctuations disappear in a few thousand years, consistent with the fact that only few PNe have been found to be surrounded by `rings'. We derive the observational characteristics of these rings, and compare them to reported observations of the rings around NGC 6543, finding a good match of emission properties and line shapes. We predict small variations in the observable electron temperatures.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures, accepted by A&A
Symmachia falcistriga subsp. falcistriga falcistriga Stichel 1910
Creators: name: Leite, Luis Anderson Ribeiro
name: Fernando
name: Mielke, Hendrik
name: Martins, Mirna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lycaenidae
Symmachia
Symmachia falcistriga
Symmachia falcistriga falcistriga stichel, 1910

description: Symmachia falcistriga falcistriga Stichel, 1910
(Fig. 11-12, 44)
 Only two specimens were collected at the hilltop at 10:30h while resting with open wings on the abaxial surface in the leaves of a Lauraceae tree. The two males were also seen engaging in an apparent territorial dispute with S. divisora (see under that species).
description: Published as part of Leite, Luis Anderson Ribeiro, Fernando, Mielke, Hendrik & Martins, Mirna, 2012, An annotated list of Symmachia Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Symmachiini) from Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Acre, Brazil, with the description of a new species, pp. 1-11 in Insecta Mundi 2012 (249) on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5174672
Insulator, conductor and commensurability: a topological approach
Creators: name: Oshikawa, Masaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I discuss a topological relation of the conduction property of a many-particle system on a periodic lattice at zero temperature to the energy spectrum. When the particle number per unit cell is an irreducible fraction $p/q$, an insulator must have $q$ low-lying states of energy $o(1/L)$ in one dimension and of energy $o(1)$ in two dimensions, where $L$ is the linear system size.
description: 4 pages (no figures) in REVTEX; revised version with minor corrections
Additional file 1 of Prognostic significance of concentric left ventricular hypertrophy at peritoneal dialysis initiation
Creators: name: Tomura, Misato
name: Hamasaki, Yoshifumi
name: Komaru, Yohei
name: Miyamoto, Yoshihisa
name: Matsuura, Ryo
name: Matsumoto, Akihiko
name: Doi, Kent
name: Kume, Haruki
name: Nangaku, Masaomi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Patient characteristics of groups included in and excluded from this study (N = 148). Values are expressed as mean ± standard deviation, median [interquartile range] or number [percentage].
Saturation corrections to dilute-dense particle production and azimuthal correlations in the Color Glass Condensate
Creators: name: Schlichting, S.
name: Skokov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a numerical study of higher order saturation corrections to the dilute-dense approximation for multi-particle production in high-energy hadronic collisions in the framework of the Color Glass Condensate. We compare semi-analytical results obtained by performing a leading order expansion in the dilute field of the projectile with numerical simulations of the full Classical Yang-Mills dynamics for a number of phenomenologically relevant observables. By varying the saturation momentum of the target and the projectile, we establish the regime of validity of the dilute-dense approximation and assess the magnitude and basic features of higher order saturation corrections. In particular, we find that dilute-dense approximation faithfully reproduces dense-dense results if restricted to the range of its validity.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures