cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
PR - SUPPORTING FUTURE FARMING SYSTEMS AT SUB-NATIONAL LEVEL IN THE FACE OF THE 4th INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Creators: name: Troskie, Dirk
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: 4th Industrial Revolution
subject: agricultural policy response
subject: sub-national

description: Although consensus is still to be reached on its name, it is commonly accepted that economic, social and political systems will be disrupted by the so-called â€œ4th Industrial Revolutionâ€. Furthermore, it is expected that farming may carry the brunt of this disruption. It can be argued that autonomous vehicles, 3D printing, advance robotics, new materials, digital as well as biological developments are some of the key drivers which will lead to this disruption and potential impacts will be found in the economic, employment, workplace, business, crime, government and conflict spheres of society. In this paper these drivers and impacts were described in a sub-national context; The Agricultural Sector of the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Although the Provincial Department of Agricultureâ€™s support of the Sector has been developed over time and is based on well considered logic, it is important to debate the question whether this logic will remain relevant over the next decade. To this end the Department is currently developing a plan of action to maximise the positive and minimise the negative impacts of the 4th Industrial Revolution.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
title: Handling Class Imbalance Using Swarm Intelligence Techniques, Hybrid Data and Algorithmic Level Solutions
Creators: name: Alhakbani, Haya
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2019

description: This research focuses mainly on the binary class imbalance problem in data mining. It investigates the use of combined approaches of data and algorithmic level solutions. Moreover, it examines the use of swarm intelligence and population-based techniques to combat the class imbalance problem at all levels, including at the data, algorithmic, and feature level. It also introduces various solutions to the class imbalance problem, in which swarm intelligence techniques like Stochastic Diffusion Search (SDS) and Dispersive Flies Optimisation (DFO) are used. The algorithms were evaluated using experiments on imbalanced datasets, in which the Support Vector Machine (SVM) was used as a classifier. SDS was used to perform informed undersampling of the majority class to balance the dataset. The results indicate that this algorithm improves the classifier performance and can be used on imbalanced datasets. Moreover, SDS was extended further to perform feature selection on high dimensional datasets. Experimental results show that SDS can be used to perform feature selection and improve the classifier performance on imbalanced datasets. Further experiments evaluated DFO as an algorithmic level solution to optimise the SVM kernel parameters when learning from imbalanced datasets. Based on the promising results of DFO in these experiments, the novel approach was extended further to provide a hybrid algorithm that simultaneously optimises the kernel parameters and performs feature selection.
Ernst Jünger’s Ethopoietic Authorship
Creators: name: Bosincu, Mario
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

Ernst Jünger’s conception of authorship was closely related to a mode of writing designed to transform the reader’s mode of being. In the first phase of his literary activity, his war diaries were intended to teach readers the behaviour patterns enabling them to cope with the dangerous technology irrupting into their life sphere. In Der Arbeiter, he made use of political myths to induce readers to reshape themselves into the cogs of a totalitarian state machinery. After the Second World War, Jünger provided the readers of his books with ancient spiritual exercises in order that they might work on themselves and thereby attain the selfhood which would allow them to resist technological threats.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Jenseits des Sichtbaren
Creators: name: Di Noi, Barbara
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

In Rilke’s novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge, the Parisian scene is conceived as a stage; the main character has been considered as the author’s alter ego or Doppelgänger, who is going to face the most alienating and fearful aspects of the modern metropole. Rilke’s project involves a new use of sight and perception in which the boundary between the inner and outer world is continuously crossed so that Malte – and the reader at the same time – starts to doubt the traditional categories of acknowledgement. Despite all negative aspects of this split scene of modernity, characterised by forgetfulness and alienation, Malte is very likely to eventually die, completely forgotten by his ghostly family – this loss of individuality and possession is also able to enhance a kind of negative capability, representing the condition to make a new start, e.g. a lyrical program expressing the paradox of Life, where life seems to be no longer possible. The formal fragmentation of Rilke’s novel and its lack of traditional unity reflect the split scene of the subject, thus foreshadowing the clash between sign and meaning, between angel and puppet, which will be put on stage in the crucial passage of the Fourth Elegy, where the I is depicted as a spectator in front of the curtain of his own heart.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
PR - ECONOMIC DEPRECIATION: EVIDENCE OF CHANGE FROM HIGH MARGIN TO LOW MARGIN PERIODS
Creators: name: Ward, Barry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: depreciation
subject: economic
subject: machinery

description: Strong returns for US Midwestern field crops from 2006 to 2012 together with favorable tax incentives (bonus depreciation and Section 179 expensing) led to strong demand for new and used farm machinery and equipment over this period. The subsequent period (2013 to present) of lower crop prices and profit margins has led to relatively weaker demand and lower market values for used farm machinery and equipment. These lower market values for farm machinery and equipment sales and trade-ins have created a higher rate of effective economic depreciation for this machinery and equipment compared to the previous high profit period. An analysis of farm machinery and equipment sales data from the online used farm equipment sales platform, Machinery Pete, allows us to examine the change in resale prices of used farm equipment over the period of profit margin change from 2002 through 2015. Change in resale price per unit and price per-hour-of-use of eight tractor models over this time series shows a change in economic depreciation. Farm machinery and equipment were found to have a lower resale value per unit and per-hour-of-use and therefore higher effective economic depreciation in the period of lower profit margins from 2013 through 2015.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
BIOMINING: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF INNOVATIVE BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE EXTRACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION
Creators: name: Maaz A. Ali *1,2, Quasir Rafique 2
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: As global demand for minerals rises and high-grade ore deposits diminish, the mining industry grapples with the challenge of exploiting low-grade and refractory mineral ores to meet escalating needs. In response, a paradigm shift towards environmental sustainability has catalyzed significant advancements in biotechnology applications across various mining processes. This review explores the transformative role of microbial biotechnology in mineral beneficiation and metal extraction, with a primary emphasis on the bioleaching of gold and copper.

The paper navigates through the intricate realm of bioleaching, highlighting the application of bio-flux for both primary and secondary treatments of copper ores, showcasing its promising extraction outcomes and potential to mitigate passivation during leaching processes. The exploration extends to the treatment of refractory gold ores, unveiling the efficacy of high aeration stirred tank reactors in bolstering gold recovery rates.

Unraveling the complex interplay of microorganisms in bioleaching processes, this paper offers insights into the types of microorganisms pivotal to the extraction efficiency of gold and copper. Moreover, it underscores the significance of microbial involvement in controlling the mining environment, particularly through the destruction of cyanide and the prevention of acid mine drainage.

In essence, this comprehensive review illuminates the multifaceted contributions of biotechnology to the mining industry, not only as an efficient means of mineral extraction but also as a pivotal force in mitigating environmental challenges associated with mining operations. The findings underscore the transformative potential of biotechnological interventions, propelling the industry toward sustainable and environmentally conscious practices.
Snapshots: Fotografische Spuren in Félix Vallottons Roman La vie meurtrière
Creators: name: Kuwalewski, Anna
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The transformation of narrative techniques in works from the nineteenth to the twentieth century clearly shows the existence of some forms of interaction between literature and photography. This interaction defines ‘The Photographic’ as a Denkfigur of linguistic mediality, as the analysis of the exemplary novel La vie meurtrière (1907/08) by the writer-artist Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) reveals. His écriture can be associated with the semiotic properties of the technical medium of photography. The author aspires to leave a photographic ‘trace’ throughout his novel by attempting to appropriate techniques such as the snapshot. In this way, the text creates a medial simulation, which generates breaches between the visible and the invisible, thereby dealing with the linguistic representation of mental, ‘non-representable’ images.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
PR - EQUESTRIAN ACTIVITIES AND RISK ANALYSIS AT THE FARM LEVEL
Creators: name: Zgajnar, Jaka
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: riding school
subject: livery
subject: risk modelling

description: This paper deals with equestrian-farm planning problem under stochastic conditions caused by price and cost risk. Exposition to risk and eventual efficiency on risk reduction in horse industry is studied on a hypothetical farm oriented in horseback riding, livery and breeding. We analyse how different set of those activities on a holding could influence risk management and especially where the main challenges are in production planning in the sense of optimal allocation of resources as well as which activities to select to (i) reduce risk or (ii) at given level of risk achieve better economic result. For this purpose module-tool has been developed based on linear and quadratic risk programming approaches. Linear program serves to prepare optimal production plan maximizing expected gross margin, assuming that farmer is risk averse, while the second approach is based on E-V efficient rule, minimizing total variance as a measure of risk. Results point on important set of activities in horseback riding schools that besides significant improvement of gross margins reduce total risk at farm level.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
“Támbico pilar”: A Precolumbian Eco in Calderón de la Barca?
Creators: name: Sánchez Jiménez, Antonio
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

This short article analyses an apparent hapax (“támbico pilar”) in an auto sacramental by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La cena del rey Baltasar (c. 1630-1635). After presenting the passage and the critics’ opinion on the subject, this essay contextualises the phrase and formulates a hypothesis to clarify the passage by using, among other arguments, other seventeenth-century printed texts.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Diaphragm as an anatomic surrogate for lung tumor motion
Creators: name: Cervino, Laura I.
name: Chao, Alvin. K. Y.
name: Sandhu, Ajay
name: Jiang, Steve B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lung tumor motion due to respiration poses a challenge in the application of modern three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy. Direct tracking of the lung tumor during radiation therapy is very difficult without implanted fiducial markers. Indirect tracking relies on the correlation of the tumor's motion and the surrogate's motion. The present paper presents an analysis of the correlation between the tumor motion and the diaphragm motion in order to evaluate the potential use of diaphragm as a surrogate for tumor motion. We have analyzed the correlation between diaphragm motion and superior-inferior lung tumor motion in 32 fluoroscopic image sequences from 10 lung cancer patients. A simple linear model and a more complex linear model that accounts for phase delays between the two motions have been used. Results show that the diaphragm is a good surrogate for tumor motion prediction for most patients, resulting in an average correlation factor of 0.94 and 0.98 with each model respectively. The model that accounts for delays leads to an average localization prediction error of 0.8mm and an error at the 95% confidence level of 2.1mm. However, for one patient studied, the correlation is much weaker compared to other patients. This indicates that, before using diaphragm for lung tumor prediction, the correlation should be examined on a patient-by-patient basis.
description: Accepted by Physics in Medicine and Biology
Emergent Haldane Model and Photon-Valley Locking in Chiral Cavities
Creators: name: Yang, Liu
name: Jiang, Qing-Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The realization of Haldane's topological graphene model in practical materials has presented significant challenges. Here, we propose achieving this model by embedding graphene in chiral cavities, using the asymptotically decoupled framework detailed in Ref. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 153603 (2021)]. Additionally, we introduce an equilibrium strategy for achieving valley polarization in this system with C2-symmetry breaking. Through numerical methods, we quantify the locking of photon numbers with Bloch electrons and calculate the topology-induced imbalance of valley photons. Furthermore, we elucidate that topological phase transition is characterized by the sign change of photon numbers during interband excitation. These findings underscore the remarkable potential of utilizing cavity quantum fluctuations to engineer electronic and photonic properties specific to valleys and topologies, particularly within the realm of strong light-matter coupling.
LOOKING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE IN TOURIST DESTINATIONS
Creators: name: Boyra Amposta, Josep
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2009

description: This paper analyzes several factors of environmental change that affect a tourist destination along its cycle of evolution identifying for this purpose some of the existing interdependent bonds within the conceptualization of a tourism/environment system. A tourist municipality case study illustrates the impact of environmental change on the local tourist competitiveness to focus afterward on management practices responses aimed at minimizing the negative impact on the environment resulting from the local tourist activity itself. Finally, a series of conclusions derived from the analysis conducted are presented.
description: tourismos, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2009)
Stable Fractional Vortices in the Cyclic States of Bose-Einstein Condensates
Creators: name: Huhtamäki, J. A. M.
name: Simula, T. P.
name: Kobayashi, M.
name: Machida, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose methods to create fractional vortices in the cyclic state of an F = 2 spinor Bose-Einstein condensate by manipulating its internal spin structure using pulsed microwave and laser fields. The stability of such vortices is studied as a function of the rotation frequency of the confining harmonic trap both in pancake and cigar shaped condensates. We find a range of parameters for which the so-called 1/3-vortex state is energetically favorable. Such fractional vortices could be created in condensates of 87Rb atoms using current experimental techniques facilitating probing of topological defects with non-Abelian statistics.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
An empirical investigation of pay and employee satisfaction
Creators: name: Mathieson, William Duncan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Compensation costs are among the most significant expenses incurred by organizations. To date, the theory and research on the effectiveness of financial compensation has been limited and has largely been based on subhuman species and on nonrepresentative subjects acting in simulated environments. There have been few tests of the theory in operating organizations. Management approaches to compensation have not been evaluated in terms of higher need satisfaction, need desire, general satisfaction, feelings of equity, job involvement, nor intrinsic motivation. This exploratory study investigated these relationships and examined the interrelationship of factors proposed by E.E. Lawler in a model of the determinants of pay satisfaction. Data was gathered by questionnaire from 15 junior management and supervisory level employees in one organization. Salary satisfaction was significantly correlated with opportunities for personal growth and development and with self-fulfillment. Satisfaction with salary was not significantly correlated with general satisfaction. The results indicated that if a salary administration program is to be effective, it must be manageable and understandable to the employees. Employees expect to receive feedback and when they do not they are critical of their supervisors. Similarly, employees expect that when they receive praise from their supervisors for performance well done, it will be translated into salary increases. Where this does not occur, employees are dissatisfied. In evaluating the equitability of their salaries, participants considered not only their absolute pay levels, but also the relative levels of input and outcome of comparison persons. The results did not support Lawler's hypothesis that female employees would be more satisfied with their salaries than male employees. Data on general satisfaction contradicted Herzberg's dual-theory constructs. Job involvement factors were found to be highly intercorrelated supporting Lawler's conception of a job involvement factor. The data did not, however, support the existence of an intrinsic motivation factor. Data on need fulfillment and need desire were inconclusive.
Efficient nonlinear genotype-to-phenotype prediction for heel bone mineral density
Creators: name: Medvedev, Aleksandr
name: Nabieva, Elena
name: Satyarth Mishra Sharma
name: Yarotsky, Dmitry
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: For a long time, linear models have been a standard for genotype-to-phenotype predictions. In recent years, thanks to initiatives such as UK Biobank, the amount of data available to researchers has increased substantially, opening the way to constructing and reliably testing complex nonlinear models. The important current open problems are the size of the nonlinear part of heritability and the optimal architecture of predictive models capable of revealing this nonlinear heritability. In the present work, we explore the applicability of nonlinear methods to prediction of heel bone mineral density -- an important risk factor for fractures and the defining feature of osteoporosis.
We compare a panel of linear and nonlinear methods, and find that some nonlinear methods can produce significantly more accurate predictions than standard linear methods such as LASSO. In particular, gradient boosted decision trees implemented in the library XGBoost explain up to 32% of bone density variance on the UK Biobank dataset, while LASSO explains only up to 27% of variance. Moreover, the nonlinearity revealed by XGBoost appears to be rather complex in the sense that the achieved gain in accuracy cannot be alternatively obtained by some common "weakly nonlinear" models, such as linear models with a nonlinear transformation of the output or shallow neural networks with a small number of hidden neurons.
Effect of Different Face Masks on Speech and Singing: Self-Perception and Acoustic Analysis
Creators: name: Pillot-Loiseau, Claire
name: Harmegnies, Bernard
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The aim of this preliminary study is to better understand the effects of transparent, surgical, cloth, KN95 (FFP2), and singer’s face masks on speech and singing in French. A survey gathered self-perception, and a local and global acoustic analysis of conversational, loud spoken and sung productions by the same individual were conducted. According to the 303 subjects surveyed, plosive consonants seem to be produced with the greatest difficulty. Consonants requiring lip involvement seem to be the most affected. The transparent and KN95 (FFP2) masks attenuate the intensity of all the consonants and spoken utterances as a whole, unlike the singer’s mask.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
PR - DAIRY FARM SUCCESSION: RURAL PROFESSIONALSâ€™ SKILLS REQUIREMENTS AND TRAINING NEEDS
Creators: name: Dooley, Anne Elizabeth
name: McCarthy, Iona Anne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Family business
subject: rural professional
subject: farm advisor

description: Family farm business succession planning can be complex since every situation and family differs, and emotive issues can eventuate. Farm succession planning generally involves input from a range of rural professional from different fields, such as accountants, lawyers, bankers and farm consultants, who work as a team to provide knowledge and skills from their respective fields. A case study with six rural professionals was conducted to seek information on farm succession consultancy. This paper reports on the rural professionalsâ€™ views on knowledge and skills required for succession planning consultancy, gaps in skills and knowledge, and training opportunities. Developing succession consulting process skills is more challenging than advancing the technical skills that RPs already have expertise in. Findings show that there are limited formal opportunities for succession advisors to learn the process skills required for succession consulting and these are largely acquired through experience. Those rural professionals who had been mentored found this was particularly helpful for developing these skills. In contrast, rural professionals identified that technical skills, and opportunities to develop and update these, are available from their professional organisations and other sources. Skills requirements, and available opportunities and resources are identified, and opportunities for further training suggested.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
LOW COST INFERENTIAL FORECASTING AND TOURISM DEMAND IN ACCOMMODATION INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Psillakis, Zaharias
name: Panagopoulos, Alkiviadis
name: Kanellopoulos, Dimitris
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2009

description: This paper establishes a low cost inferential model that allows reliable time series forecasts. The model provides a naive unique computationally straightforward approach based on widely-used additive models. It refers to the decomposition of every time series value in “random” components, which are compounded to constitute a “Fibonacci type” predictor random variable. The expected value of this predictor gives a forecast of a future time series value. The standard deviation of the predictor serves to construct a prediction interval at a predefined confidence level. The major features of our model are: forecasting accuracy, simplicity of the implementation technique, generic usefulness, and extremely low cost effort. These features enable our model to be adopted by tourism practitioners on various types of forecasting demands. In this paper, we present an application study to forecast tourism demand that exists in the Greek accommodation industry (i.e. in Greece and in the broad region of Athens). In the application study, two independent approaches have been adopted. In the first approach we implemented our model, and in the second approach we implemented the well-known Box-Jenkins method.
description: tourismos, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2009)
«Siftlikom msg f tel opostitha hna rj3 l history»: mescolanze di codice nella comunicazione mediale in Marocco
Creators: name: Tamburini, Elena
name: Iannàccaro, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

Based on first-hand collected data, the article analyses a number of code-switching occurrences in multilingual chats among a community of English teachers in the Fes-Meknes region of Morocco. The data are compared with the results of a perceptual questionnaire on linguistic self-assessments and also take into account the orthographic aspect of the messages. The complex sociolinguistic framework of the area vividly emerges, as well as the real and perceived status of the varieties and the relationships between codes. The result is a coherent combination of Standard Arabic, dialectal Arabic, French and English.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Uncertainty quantification for data-driven weather models
Creators: name: Bülte, Christopher
name: Horat, Nina
name: Quinting, Julian
name: Lerch, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Artificial intelligence (AI)-based data-driven weather forecasting models have experienced rapid progress over the last years. Recent studies, with models trained on reanalysis data, achieve impressive results and demonstrate substantial improvements over state-of-the-art physics-based numerical weather prediction models across a range of variables and evaluation metrics. Beyond improved predictions, the main advantages of data-driven weather models are their substantially lower computational costs and the faster generation of forecasts, once a model has been trained. However, most efforts in data-driven weather forecasting have been limited to deterministic, point-valued predictions, making it impossible to quantify forecast uncertainties, which is crucial in research and for optimal decision making in applications. Our overarching aim is to systematically study and compare uncertainty quantification methods to generate probabilistic weather forecasts from a state-of-the-art deterministic data-driven weather model, Pangu-Weather. Specifically, we compare approaches for quantifying forecast uncertainty based on generating ensemble forecasts via perturbations to the initial conditions, with the use of statistical and machine learning methods for post-hoc uncertainty quantification. In a case study on medium-range forecasts of selected weather variables over Europe, the probabilistic forecasts obtained by using the Pangu-Weather model in concert with uncertainty quantification methods show promising results and provide improvements over ensemble forecasts from the physics-based ensemble weather model of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts for lead times of up to 5 days.
Eight-Dimensional Mid-Infrared/Optical Bayesian Quasar Selection
Creators: name: Richards, Gordon T.
name: Deo, Rajesh P.
name: Lacy, Mark
name: Myers, Adam D.
name: Nichol, Robert C.
name: Zakamska, Nadia L.
name: Brunner, Robert J.
name: Brandt, W. N.
name: Gray, Alexander G.
name: Parejko, John K.
name: Ptak, Andrew
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa J.
name: Szalay, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the multidimensional, multiwavelength selection of quasars from mid-IR (MIR) plus optical data, specifically from Spitzer-IRAC and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We apply modern statistical techniques to combined Spitzer MIR and SDSS optical data, allowing up to 8-D color selection of quasars. Using a Bayesian selection method, we catalog 5546 quasar candidates to an 8.0 um depth of 56 uJy over an area of ~24 sq. deg; ~70% of these candidates are not identified by applying the same Bayesian algorithm to 4-color SDSS optical data alone. Our selection recovers 97.7% of known type 1 quasars in this area and greatly improves the effectiveness of identifying 3.5
description: 49 pages, 14 figures, 7 tables. AJ, accepted
PR - ENVISAGING FUTURE DAIRY FARM SYSTEMS
Creators: name: Dooley, Anne
name: Apparao, Meka
name: McCarthy, Iona
name: Shadbolt, Nicola
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: dairying
subject: farm systems
subject: future

description: Designing future farming systems which are resilient in an increasingly volatile and uncertain environment which is likely to differ considerably from that of today is challenging. This study is Phase 2 of a three phase project investigating future dairy farm systems in New Zealand. In Phase 1 (Scenario Planning Phase), three possible, plausible future scenarios plus a base scenario were developed. This Phase 2 study used farmer and industry workshops to conceptualise dairy farm systems for the three futuristic scenarios, with workshop participants working in groups using mental models to do this. Diverse farm systems were developed with some overlap between the systems in the different scenarios. The farm systems developed for the consumer-driven scenario and the highly regulatory scenario had similarities, but there was very little overlap between these two farm systems and the farm system for the third scenario (political chaos with trade dictated by governments). Farm systems were most diverse under the consumer scenario and least diverse under the political chaos scenario. The identification and description of these future farm systems will inform Phase 3 of this project (Quantitative Modelling Phase). The approach used to identify and describe conceptual models of future farm systems was useful.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
L1 Interference in Interlanguage Pragmatics
Creators: name: Artoni, Daniele
name: Rylova, Anastastasiia
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

Within the field of Second Language Acquisition, a growing interest has been devoted to interlanguage pragmatics, in particular how L2 speakers use the linguistic means by which a given language conveys politeness. Being the speech act of ‘request’ one of the most frequent and salient Face Threatening Acts, the current study investigates whether and to what extent L2 learners of Russian and Italian transfer their L1 pragmatic strategies into their L2 when required to perform a request. Qualitative and quantitative analysis has been conducted on data collected among (i) N=9 Russian L1 learners of Italian L2 via role plays and (ii) N=38 Italian L1 learners of Russian L2 via discourse completion tasks. In particular, we will compare L1 and L2 production of head acts, modification, and orientedness.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
THE TOURISM-LED GROWTH HYPOTHESIS: EMPIERICAL EVIDENCE FROM COLOMBIA
Creators: name: Brida, Juan Gabriel
name: Pereyra, Juan
name: Risso, Winston Adrian
name: Such Devesa, Maria Jesus
name: Zapata Aguirre, Sandra
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study is to investigate the contribution of tourism to economic growth in Colombia. First, we perform an ex-post analysis and quantify the contribution of the tourism to economic growth from the early 90’s until 2006 by disaggregating growth of real GDP per capita into economic growth generated by tourism and by other industries. Second, we analyze if international tourism is a strategic factor for long-run economic growth for Colombia. This believes that tourism can cause long-run economic growth it is known in the literature as the tourism-led growth hypothesis. The hypothesis is tested empirically by using the cointegration test by Johansen and the Granger Causality test. We find empirical evidence for one cointegrated vector among real GDP per capita, Colombian tourism expenditures and real exchange rates, where the latter two variables are weakly exogenous to the model. The Granger causality test suggests that causality in this model goes from tourism expenditures to real GDP per capita.
description: tourismos, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2009)
PR - ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FORAGE SYSTEMS DESIGNED TO INTENSIFY BEEF PRODUCTION
Creators: name: Doye, Damona
name: McGee, Adam
name: Lalman, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: cow/calf
subject: stocker
subject: systems

description: Intensified livestock production systems have the potential to produce more beef per acre. However, these systems may be more costly and not necessarily more profitable, making them less sustainable from an economic perspective. Ongoing experiments are being conducted to evaluate the productivity differences between an extensive system using native rangeland exclusively and an intensive system that incorporates winter and summer annual forages produced on cropland. Data from these experiments are used to estimate economic returns for different production stages (cow/calf, stocker, hay) and the system. For the two years analyzed, the intensive system generated substantially more profit at the cow/calf stage in year two, leading to more profit on average for the two years for this phase. The stocker phase contributed much less to system net returns than the cow/calf enterprise in either system but was more profitable in both years for the extensive system. Hay production in the intensive system in year two was not profitable. Average net income for the two systems was similar for the two years, with the extensive system generating slightly more returns to risk and management.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Gargela xanthocasis Meyrick 1897
Creators: name: Song, Shimei
name: Chen, Fuqiang
name: Wu, Chunsheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Gargela
Gargela xanthocasis

description: Gargela xanthocasis (Meyrick, 1897)
Figs. 1, 13
Mixophyla xanthocasis Meyrick, 1897, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1897: 81, pl. A. fig. 8. Type-locality: Sangir. Mixophyla xanthocasis: Hampson, 1897, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1897: 135; Hampson, 1899, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 12: 700, fig.1: 8.
Gargela xanthocasis: Inoue, 1982, Moths of Japan II: 332, pl.38: 68 (3).
Material examined. IZCAS: 13, Indonesia, Sulawesi Utara, leg. Danau Mooat, 1200m, 1985. XI.9. Distribution. China (S. China, Taiwan); Japan, N.W. Himalayas, Pakistan, Indonesia, New Guinea. Remarks. This species is recorded in south China (Inoue, 1982). We did not get the specimens from China. The distribution of the species is from literatures, we still have doubt for that. The specimen examined is exchanged from the British Museum of Natural History.
description: Published as part of Song, Shimei, Chen, Fuqiang & Wu, Chunsheng, 2009, A review of the genus Gargela Walker in China, with descriptions of ten new species (Lepidoptera: Crambidae, Crambinae), pp. 40-56 in Zootaxa 2090 on page 42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.187477
PR - STATUS AND ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF ANIMAL WELFARE IN DAIRY FARMING
Creators: name: Fuchs, Clemens
name: GÃ¼tschow, Paul
name: Ketelsen, Meike
name: Rose-MeierhÃ¶Fer, Sandra
name: LÃ¶Bel, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Animal welfare
subject: dairy farming
subject: agricultural economics

description: The issue of animal welfare continues to be the focus of attention. There are professional and emotional discussions from many sides. For agriculture, this poses enormous challenges for the future viability of modern animal husbandry. In dairy farming, the focus of the expert discussion should be on the relationship between animal welfare and profitability. Only 21% of the milk cows reach the phase of the highest lactation performance; i.e., a majority of the cows are culled earlier due to diseases, causing high costs. This study presents the first results from the project: â€œAnimal welfare and economic efficiency in the future-oriented dairy farming - evaluation of various actions and their economic impact", using the example of four dairy farms. The analyses show weaknesses in animal welfare in all cases. The most serious deficiencies are in the barn floor and in the condition of the lying cubicles in the barns. This applies to three of the four farms under investigation. In addition, the study reveals that additional cow comfort, such as a paddock and functioning cow brushes, are rarely offered so far. This equipment was not found on any of the participating farms. The results of the cost analysis show that the animal welfare measures can cause a considerable additional cost of up to 10 cents per kg of milk. The investigations will be extended to a further 30 dairy farms in the remaining project term. The aim is to analyse the benefits of the measures concerning animal welfare and the lifetime production of the cows, as well as the marketing of the milk. At least a partial compensation of the rising production costs could be achieved.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Between Time and Discourse
Creators: name: Cognola, Federica
name: Cruschina, Silvio
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

In this article the different functions of Italian poi are described and analysed from a cartographic perspective. We show that in addition to its use as a temporal adverb (after, then), poi can be used as a temporal or logical connective adverb, as a discourse marker and as a modal particle. These functions can be correlated with different positions in the clause and with differences in the internal structure of the element itself. Finally, we identify the syntactic environments and sentence types in which poi occurs in its function as a modal particle, as well as the special interpretations that are associated with its presence.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Novel imprint of a dark photon from the 3-3-1-1 model
Creators: name: Luong, Doan Minh
name: Van Dong, Phung
name: Thao, Nguyen Huy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a dark photon that arises from the UV model based upon $SU(3)_C\otimes SU(3)_L\otimes U(1)_X \otimes U(1)_G$ (3-3-1-1) gauge symmetry, where the last three factors enlarge the electroweak symmetry encompassing electric charge $Q=T_3 - 1/ \sqrt{3}T_8 +X$ and dark charge $D = -2/\sqrt{3} T_8 +G$. It is well-established that this model addresses the questions of family number, neutrino mass, and dark matter. It is shown in this work that if the 3-3-1-1 breaking scale is much bigger than the dark charge breaking scale, the relevant dark gauge boson $Z'$ is uniquely imprinted at TeV, avoiding dangerous FCNC processes, obeying precision electroweak measurements, as well as contributing to collider phenomena, even if no kinetic mixing is presented. The dark matter observables are perhaps governed by the dark charge breaking Higgs field instead of the dark photon.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; A scalar triplet relabelled for clarity
Primary Teacher Trainees’ Intercultural Education
Creators: name: Pavan, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

This study focuses on the importance of strengthening intercultural awareness among future Primary School teachers. Intercultural communicative competence plays a fundamental role in developing an honest and productive dialogue among people, whatever their origin, language or cultural heritage, and prospective teachers will be responsible for training the ‘good interculturalists’ of tomorrow. A survey was conducted among students attending a degree course for Primary Education Teachers to highlight what knowledge, practices and skills they have acquired regarding intercultural competence and whether they are able to deal with and successfully apply the notions of plurilingual and intercultural competence to their teaching practices.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
FreeMe Project - Modelling for optimization of FreeMe processes
Creators: name: Israel Bellanato
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: FreeMe project's 1st internal training: Session1

Contents

1. Multi scale modelling: Background and motivation2. The layers of multi-scale modelling:a) Ab initio DFT modellingb) Molecular Dynamics (MD)c) Coarse-Grained (CG) MDd) Monte Carlo (MC) methode) Continuum models
Der Portulan-Atlas des Battista Agnese
Das Kasseler Prachtexemplar von 1542
Creators: name: Baumgärtner, Ingrid
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 090
subject: 740
subject: 910
subject: Portolan (Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel), 4° Ms. hist. 6

description: Link zur digitalisierten Handschrift 4° Ms. hist. 6: https://orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/image/1337068205746/1/
PR - DIAGNOSING PROBLEMS ON-FARM â€“ PROCESSES USED BY AN EXPERT FARM MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT
Creators: name: Gray, David
name: Kemp, Elizabeth
name: Westbrooke, Victoria
name: Reid, Janet
name: Wood, Brennon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: problem solving
subject: diagnosis
subject: consultancy

description: A major constraint facing the New Zealand consultancy sector is the time and cost of training novice farm management consultants. An industry funded training programme has been developed to improve the proficiency of novice consultants. However, although this programme provides good training in benchmarking and information collection, it provides limited theory about other processes that are required for the effective diagnosis of on-farm problems. To this end, a pilot study was initiated with an expert consultant to investigate their diagnostic processes. This paper reports on some of the processes identified during this study that were important for the diagnosis of on-farm problems during a first visit to a client. The study found that constraining information gathering, triangulation, classification and diagnosis through the use of diagnostic trees were all important processes for the effective diagnosis. This research has demonstrated that the investigation of the consultancy processes of an expert consultant could provide useful theory for training novices.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
PR - RISK SCENARIO PLANNING
Creators: name: Hewlett, John
name: Parsons, Jay
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Risk Analytics
subject: Decision Analysis
subject: Farm Management

description: United States farm policy enacted since 1996 has created a need for agricultural producers to better understand and manage risk. However, risk is a difficult concept to address because the ideas are challenging and the breadth of solutions is wide. Even where the concept is well understood, few have mastery of the tools and skills needed to properly evaluate alternatives. RightRisk has been involved in developing teaching simulations, online courses, and risk decision tools since 2001. The teamâ€™s recently completed Risk Scenario Planning (RSP) tool provides farm and ranch managers much-needed assistance in evaluating risk management alternatives. RSP utilizes a partial budgeting framework to evaluate proposed changes, including: added returns; reduced costs; added costs; or reduced returns. From these, the net financial benefit of making a change may be calculated. While partial budgeting provides a useful approach for evaluating changes, it is not especially helpful in evaluating the impact of any risks that may be involved. The RSP tool offers users a chance to evaluate risk scenarios by varying up to two factors. The RSP tool describes possible outcomes using a cumulative distribution graph that indicates the probability of earning a net return at or below a given value.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Carlo Donà. La fata serpente
Creators: name: Stella, Massimo
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description: Review of Donà, C. (2020). La fata serpente. Indagine su un mito erotico e regale. Roma: WriteUp, 318 pp.
description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
PR - ESTIMATING THE MOST EFFICIENT FARM SIZE FOR CROP PRODUCERS
Creators: name: Ibendahl, Gregory
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Economies of size
subject: Profitability
subject: Efficiency

description: Economic theory suggests that farms will experience increasing economies of size up to some number of hectares. After that, there is likely a range of hectares where economies of size are constant before starting to increase. Finding that range where economies of size are constant will be where firms earn the most profit per hectare and are most likely to survive in the long run. This paper examined the net returns per hectare for over 200 farms in central Kansas. Regression analysis was used to predict the adjusted net farm income per hectare based on either the number of hectares or the log of hectares. The expectation was that there were enough farms examined to show both the increasing and decreasing economies of size. However, the resulting R squared was very low because of a large variability in net returns per hectare for the smaller farms. A linear regression line fit the data just as well as a nonlinear model. This could indicate that most farms in the examination were already at an efficient size.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017