cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Effects of Agro-clusters on Rural Poverty:A Spatial Perspective for West Java of Indonesia
Creators: name: Wardhana, Dadan
name: Ihle, Rico
name: Heijman, Wim
name: Wardhana, Dadan
name: Ihle, Rico
name: Heijman, Wim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: agricultural production
subject: spatial concentration
subject: spatial dependence
subject: clusters

description: The agricultural sector plays an important role for rural economies. However, rural populations still face poverty as one main issue threating livelihoods. Regional concentration and specialization in agricultural production and processing is referred to as agro-clusters. These clusters might generate income possibilities so that rural poverty may be reduced. We empirically analyse this question by applying spatial econometric models because neighbouring regional economies are likely to influence each other. The analysis focuses on the 545 sub-districts of the West Java province of Indonesia where about 10% of the population live in poverty. Concentration of agricultural employment is found to have significant effects on poverty reduction in the sub-district as well as its neighbouring regions. Specialisation in agricultural output is also found to cause lower poverty rates. This implies that the government should support the regional specialization in agriculture. Based on the identification of the comparative advantage of each sub-district, the government should establish regional production nuclei in agriculture in order to boost the specialization. Care has to be taken of the spillover effects the policies will have for surrounding areas.
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-10-28)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Security of quantum key distribution with imperfect devices
Creators: name: Gottesman, Daniel
name: Lo, Hoi-Kwong
name: Lütkenhaus, Norbert
name: Preskill, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove the security of the Bennett-Brassard (BB84) quantum key distribution protocol in the case where the source and detector are under the limited control of an adversary. Our proof applies when both the source and the detector have small basis-dependent flaws, as is typical in practical implementations of the protocol. We derive a general lower bound on the asymptotic key generation rate for weakly basis-dependent eavesdropping attacks, and also estimate the rate in some special cases: sources that emit weak coherent states with random phases, detectors with basis-dependent efficiency, and misaligned sources and detectors.
description: 22 pages. (v3): Minor changes. (v2): Extensively revised and expanded. New results include a security proof for generic small flaws in the source and the detector
Kinematics of the Pencil Nebula (RCW 37) and its association with the young Vela supernova remnant RX J0852.0-4622
Creators: name: Redman, M. P.
name: Meaburn, J.
name: Bryce, M.
name: Harman, D. J.
name: O'Brien, T. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The association between the Pencil nebula (RCW 37, NGC 2736), the Vela X-ray fragment D/D' and the recently discovered new X-ray supernova remnant (RX J0852.0-4622) in Vela is investigated. Recently published Chandra images of D/D' are compared with optical images of RCW 37 and confirm the close association of the two objects. New optical line profiles of RCW 37 from an extended slit position passing through this unusual optical nebula are presented. They reveal a partial velocity ellipse with expansion velocities of around 120 km/s. Various scenarios for the origin of the nebula are considered and the evidence of a link with RX J0852.0-4622 is reviewed. A funnel of gas similar to those in the Crab and DEM34a SNRs is not ruled out but a more plausible explanation may be that a `wavy sheet' is responsible. We suggest that RX J0852.0-4622 is located within the older larger Vela SNR and that some of the X-ray gas from RX J0852.0-4622 has collided with the dense HI wall of the older remnant. This gives rise to the morphology and velocity structure of the optical emission and explains the unusual X-ray emission from this portion of the supernova remnant. If our hypothesis is correct, a distance prediction of 250 +/- 30 pc can be made, based on recent measurements of the distance to the old Vela SNR. This is at the lower end of the range of distances quoted in the literature would confirm unusual nature of this young nearby supernova remnant.
description: MNRAS 6 pages, 5 figures
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-08-09)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Phase diagram of self-attracting systems
Creators: name: Chavanis, P. H.
name: Ispolatov, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phase diagram of microcanonical ensembles of self-attracting particles is studied for two types of short-range potential regularizations: self-gravitating fermions and classical particles interacting via attractive soft $-(r^2+r_0^2)^{-1/2}$ Coulomb potential. When the range of regularization is sufficiently short, the self-attracting systems exhibit gravitational or collapse-like transition. As the fermionic degeneracy or the softness radius increases, the gravitational phase transition crosses over to a normal first-order phase transition, becomes second-order at a critical point, and finally disappears. Applicability of a commonly used saddle-point or mean-field approximation and importance of metastable states is discussed.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures
A Study on Inter-Block Level Regional Disparity Analysis of Uttar Dinajpur District, West Bengal, India
Creators: name: Goutam, Mandal
name: Bose Arghadeep
name: Indrajit, Roy Chowdhury
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Regional Disparity
Human Development
Exploratory Factor Analysis
Importance Performance Analysis

description: Regional disparity is an integral feature of India’s socio-economic development. As the extent of our country is so large that equal developments in every corner of the country in terms of economic, social, infrastructural etc. quite challenging and far from the reality. The district Uttar Dinajpur located in the eastern part of the country and like other district of North Bengal (including Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Coochbehar, Uttar Dinajpur, Dakshin Dinajpur and Malda) has been poorly placed in comparison to the state of West Bengal, in terms of Human Development Indicators: low literacy level, poor condition in sanitation, and partly availability of electricity and safe drinking water etc. Research on regional disparity is essential for addressing the lacuna in the planning process of development (Sen, 2001). In the present study, an analysis has been made in terms of the interblock inequality in socio-economic and infrastructural development of Uttar Dinajpur district. For this purpose, 15 indicators have been selected and these further categorizes into 4 dimensions based on their characteristics. The study is associated with Importance performance analysis, Exploratory Factor Analysis for measuring inter-block disparity within the district.
Plane symmetric analogue of NUT space
Creators: name: Nouri-Zonoz, Mohammad
name: Tavanfar, Ali Reza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article on the basis of a new definition of spacetime symmetry, which is in accordance with the symmetry of the curvature invariants, we investigate exact vacuum solutions of Einstein field equations corresponding to both static and stationary plane symmetric spacetimes using the concepts of the (1+3)-decomposition or threading formalism. Demanding the presence of a plane symmetric gravitomagnetic field we find a family of two parameter (m and l) solutions, every member of which being the plane symmetric analogue of NUT space.
description: 16 pages, REVTex format, typos corrected,reference added and a conclusion corrected
Influence of Pulicaria jaubertii addition as medicinal plant on growth indicators, antibody titers, immune-related gene expression, microbiota activity and intestinal histomorphology of male broilers
Creators: name: Al-Baadani, Hani H.
name: Alharthi, Abdulrahman S.
name: Alhotan, Rashed A.
name: Aboragah, Ahmad A.
name: Al-Abdullatif, Abdulaziz A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: The study investigated the effects of dietary addition with PJ on the growth performance, immune response, and gut health of male broilers in the early phase. Four hundred and eighty-one-day- old male broilers (Ross 308) were randomly assigned to four dietary treatments (control, T1–T3) with 20 cages per treatment (6 chicks per cage). Diets T1–T3 contained 0.3%, 0.6% and 0.9% PJ powder, respectively. The present study included chicken’s performance indicators and analysis of serum antibody titers, SCFAs and target genes of the microbiota, immune response and morphological parameters of the small intestine. The results showed that broilers fed the PJ diets had higher body weight, daily weight gain and improved feed conversion ratio. The dietary supplementation affected beneficial bacteria such as Lactobacillus spp. and Bifidobacterial spp. and possibly reduced some harmful bacteria. Increased villus height and surface area in the small intestine by PJ powder. The PJ powder increased antibodies against infectious bursal disease at specific doses. Expression of some immunity genes indicates potential immune stimulation at higher PJ levels. Increased expression of genes related to mucosal immunity. These results suggest that PJ powder may promote broiler growth performance, gut health and possibly targeted immune responses.
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-10-29)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-10-30)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
On the calculation of ohmic losses at the metallic surface with sharp edges
Creators: name: Dykhne, A. M.
name: Kaganova, I. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the applicability of the perturbation theory in electrodynamic problems where the local Leontovich (the impedance) boundary conditions are used to calculate the ohmic losses at the metallic surface. As an example, we examine a periodic grating formed from semi- infinite rectangular plates exposed to the s-polarized electromagnetic wave. Two different ways for calculation of the ohmic losses are presented: (i) the calculation of the reflection coefficient obtained with the aid of the perturbation theory (the impedance is the small parameter) and (ii) the direct calculation of the energy flux through the metallic surface, when to get the answer only the tangential magnetic field at the surface of a perfect conductor of the same geometry has to be known. The results (i) and (ii) differ noticeably. The same difficulty is inherent in all the problems where the metallic surface has rectangular grooves. We show that the standard first order perturbation theory is not applicable since beginning from a number n even the first corrections to the modal functions $ϕ_{n}$ used to calculate the fields, are of the same order as the zero order modal functions (the impedance is equal to zero). Basing on the energy conservation law we show that the accurate value for the ohmic losses is obtained with the aid of the approach (ii).
description: 16 pages, 4 ps-files
title: Parental care and cooperation in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides
Creators: name: Lambert, Georgia Alice
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Nicrophorus vespilloides
subject: burying beetle
subject: parental care
subject: food deprivation
subject: level of care
subject: reproductive potential
subject: uniparental care
subject: biparental care
subject: nutritional state

description: In species that provide parental care, individuals must choose how to split their resources between caring for their current offspring and investing in their own reproductive potential. These decisions are made based on factors that shift the balance of costs and benefits associated with allocating resources to current or future reproduction. For parents providing uniparental care such factors relate to the value of the current brood and the likelihood of future reproduction. Females and males that cooperate to provide biparental care, must also consider factors that may influence the contribution of their partner. In this thesis, I explore what affects the level of care parents provide for their offspring and how females and males that provide biparental care balance their relative contribution in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. I focus on four factors: previous reproductive allocation, nutritional state, social environment, and synchrony in the onset of care. First, I found that females provided the same level of care to a subsequent brood regardless of previous reproductive allocation and resource access, which suggests that neither affected future ability to provide care. Next, I found that females adjusted their level of care in response to both their own nutritional state and that of their partner and that these decisions were independent of their partner’s contribution, while males only responded to the contribution of their partner. Then, I found that parents provided a similar level of care regardless of the presence of female or male intruders. Finally, I found that males provided more care when the female and male started providing care asynchronously in comparison to when they started synchronously while females provided a similar level of care regardless.
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-10-31)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-11-01)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Modeling the emission line sequence of H II galaxies
Creators: name: Stasinska, G.
name: Izotov, Y. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a sample of unprecedented size (about 400 objects) of H II galaxies in which the oxygen abundances have been obtained using the temperature derived from the [OIII] 4363/5007 line ratio, we confirm that the H II galaxies form a very narrow sequence in many diagrams relating line ratios and Hbeta equivalent width. We divide our sample in three metallicity bins, each of which is compared with sequences of photoionization models for evolving starbursts with corresponding metallicity. Our aim is to find under what conditions a theoretical sequence can reproduce all the observed trends. Taking into account the presence of an older, non-ionizing stellar population, for which independent indications exist, we find that the simple model of an adiabatic expanding bubble reproduces the observational diagrams very well if account is taken of an aperture correction and the covering factor is assumed to decrease with time exponentially with an e-folding time of 3 Myr. We find that the He II 4686 nebular line emission occurs too frequently and in too wide a range of EW(Hbeta) to be attributable to either the hard radiation field from Wolf-Rayet stars or the X-rays produced by the latest stellar generation. Assuming that the He II 4686 line is due to photoionization by a hot plasma at a temperature of 10^6 K, a total X-ray luminosity of 10^40 - 4x10^40 erg/s is required for at least half of the sources. We find evidence for self-enrichment in nitrogen on a time scale of several Myr, and argue for a possible self-enrichment in oxygen as well.
description: 15 pages, 6 Postscript figures, to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Self-assembly of Nanometer-scale Magnetic Dots with Narrow Size Distributions on an Insulating Substrate
Creators: name: Gai, Zheng
name: Wu, Biao
name: Pierce, J. P.
name: Farnan, G. A.
name: Shu, Dajun
name: Wang, Mu
name: Zhang, Zhenyu
name: Shen, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The self-assembly of iron dots on the insulating surface of NaCl(001) is investigated experimentally and theoretically. Under proper growth conditions, nanometer-scale magnetic iron dots with remarkably narrow size distributions can be achieved in the absence of a wetting layer Furthermore, both the vertical and lateral sizes of the dots can be tuned with the iron dosage without introducing apparent size broadening, even though the clustering is clearly in the strong coarsening regime. These observations are interpreted using a phenomenological mean-field theory, in which a coverage-dependent optimal dot size is selected by strain-mediated dot-dot interactions.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: Survey of Leisure Walking Behaviours and Activity Tracking Use: Emerging Themes and Design Considerations
Creators: name: Williams, James
name: Pinchin, James
name: Hazzard, Adrian
name: Priestnall, Gary
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2021
Subjects: mobile activity tracking
walking behaviour
mobile geospatial computing

description: Published in “Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS 2021)”, edited by Anahid Basiri, Georg Gartner and Haosheng Huang, LBS 2021, 24-25 November 2021, Glasgow, UK/online.
description: In this paper we present a work in progress analysis of a leisure walking behaviour survey that focuses on walkers’ habits and experiences. We are specifically interested in the use of mobile tracking applications in this context to help design and deploy future technologies that can better support engaging leisure walks through synthesising previous behaviours and experiences. This survey collected 329 responses relating to selfreported walking behaviour patterns and mobile activity tracker use. In the emerging analysis we identified design considerations for future walkingfocused applications, emphasizing the subjective and personal nature of walking routes.
Temperature-dependent $H_{c2}$ anisotropy in MgB$_2$ as inferred from measurements on polycrystals
Creators: name: Bud'ko, Sergey L.
name: Canfield, Paul C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present data on temperature-dependent anisotropy of the upper critical field of MgB$_2$ obtained from the analysis of measurements on high purity, low resistivity polycrystals. The anisotropy decreases in a monotonic fashion with increase of temperature.
On the Equivalence between Positional Node Embeddings and Structural Graph Representations
Creators: name: Srinivasan, Balasubramaniam
name: Ribeiro, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work provides the first unifying theoretical framework for node (positional) embeddings and structural graph representations, bridging methods like matrix factorization and graph neural networks. Using invariant theory, we show that the relationship between structural representations and node embeddings is analogous to that of a distribution and its samples. We prove that all tasks that can be performed by node embeddings can also be performed by structural representations and vice-versa. We also show that the concept of transductive and inductive learning is unrelated to node embeddings and graph representations, clearing another source of confusion in the literature. Finally, we introduce new practical guidelines to generating and using node embeddings, which fixes significant shortcomings of standard operating procedures used today.
description: This version corrects some typos in the definition of \Sigma, it should be \Sigma_n. Code available at https://github.com/PurdueMINDS/Equivalence
title: Lettres de Jacques Leibowitch au Figaro
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111131383210
description: created: start=1998-12-17;end=1999-01-04
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-11-02)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
The Future Prospect of PV and CSP Solar Technologies: An Expert Elicitation Survey
Creators: name: Bosetti, Valentina
name: Catenacci, Michela
name: Fiorese, Giulia
name: Verdolini, Elena
name: Bosetti, Valentina
name: Catenacci, Michela
name: Fiorese, Giulia
name: Verdolini, Elena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Expert Elicitation
subject: Research
subject: Development and Demonstration
subject: Solar Technologies

description: In this paper we present and discuss the results of an expert elicitation survey on solar technologies. Sixteen leading European experts from the academic world, the private sector and international institutions took part in this expert elicitation survey on Photovoltaic (PV) and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technologies. The survey collected probabilistic information on (1) how Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) investments will impact the future costs of solar technologies and (2) the potential for solar technology deployment both in OECD and non-OECD countries. Understanding the technological progress and the potential of solar PV and CPS technologies is crucial to draft appropriate energy policies. The results presented in this paper are thus relevant for the policy making process and can be used as better input data in integrated assessment and energy models.
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-11-03)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Dynamical generation of Majorana edge correlations in a ramped Kitaev chain coupled to nonthermal dissipative channels
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Souvik
name: Bhattacharjee, Sourav
name: Dutta, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We quantitatively study the out-of-equilibrium edge-Majorana correlation in a linearly ramped one-dimensional Kitaev chain of finite length in a dissipative environment. The chemical potential is dynamically ramped to drive the chain from its topologically trivial to nontrivial phase in the presence of couplings to nonthermal Markovian baths. We consider two distinctive situations: In the first situation, the bath is quasilocal in the site basis (local in quasiparticle basis) while in the other it is local. Following a Lindbladian approach, we compute the early time dynamics as well as the asymptotic behavior of the edge-Majorana correlation to probe the interplay between two competing timescales - one due to the coherent ramping while the other to the dissipative coupling. For the quasilocal bath, we establish that there is a steady generation of Majorana correlations in asymptotic time and the presence of an optimal ramping time which facilitates a quicker approach to the topological steady state. In the second scenario, we analyze the action of a local particle-loss type of bath in which we have established the existence of an optimal ramping time which results from the competing dynamics between the unitary ramp and the dissipative coupling. While the defect generated by the former decays exponentially with increasing ramp duration, the later scales linearly with the same. This linear scaling is further established through a perturbation theory formulated using the nondimensionalized coupling to the bath as a small parameter.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, published version
Trapping atoms in the vacuum field of a cavity
Creators: name: Schoen, C.
name: Cirac, J. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this work is to find ways to trap an atom in a cavity. In contrast to other approaches we propose a method where the cavity is basically in the vacuum state and the atom in the ground state. The idea is to induce a spatial dependent AC Stark shift by irradiating the atom with a weak laser field, so that the atom experiences a trapping force. The main feature of our setup is that dissipation can be strongly suppressed. We estimate the lifetime of the atom as well as the trapping potential parameters and compare our estimations with numerical simulations.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Assessing the Economic Impacts of Climate Change. An Updated CGE Point of View
Creators: name: Bosello, Francesco
name: Eboli, Fabio
name: Pierfederici, Roberta
name: Bosello, Francesco
name: Eboli, Fabio
name: Pierfederici, Roberta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Computable General Equilibrium Modeling
subject: Impact Assessment
subject: Climate Change

description: The present research describes a climate change integrated impact assessment exercise, whose economic evaluation is based on a CGE approach and modeling effort. Input to the CGE model comes from a wide although still partial set of up-to-date bottom-up impact studies. Estimates indicate that a temperature increase of 1.92°C compared to pre-industrial levels in 2050 could lead to global GDP losses of approximately 0.5% compared to a hypothetical scenario where no climate change is assumed to occur. Northern Europe is expected to benefit from the evaluated temperature increase (+0.18%), while Southern and Eastern Europe are expected to suffer from the climate change scenario under analysis (-0.15% and -0.21% respectively). Most vulnerable countries are the less developed regions, such as South Asia, South-East Asia, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. In these regions the most exposed sector is agriculture, and the impact on crop productivity is by far the most important source of damages. It is worth noting that the general equilibrium estimates tend to be lower, in absolute terms, than the bottom-up, partial equilibrium estimates. The difference is to be attributed to the effect of market-driven adaptation. This partly reduces the direct impacts of temperature increases, leading to lower damage estimates. Nonetheless these remain positive and substantive in some regions. Accordingly, market-driven adaptation cannot be the solution to the climate change problem.
Desmodus rotundus
Creators: name: Bezerra, Alexandra M. R.
name: Marinho-Filho, Jader
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Phyllostomidae
Desmodus
Desmodus rotundus

description: Desmodus rotundus (Geoffroy St.-Hilaire 1810)
 Distribution. From Mexico southward Central and South America to northern Argentina, northwestern Chile, and Uruguay. This species is found in almost all Brazilian states, except in Rio Grande do Norte and Tocantins states (Peracchi et al. 2006).
 Habitat. Restricted to warmer climates, it occurs in a large variety of habitats, roosting in places as caves, human buildings, hollow trees, and drain pipes (Greenhall et al. 1983; Reis et al. 2007). All specimens were collected in a pasture field near to limestone outcrops (14 o 30’ 25.4” S, 46 o 43’ 51.5” W) in Alvorada do Norte, GO.
 Voucher specimens. 10 females – CHUNB 1146, 1151, 1152, 1166, 1177, 1262, 1271, 1273, 1275, and 1276; 11 males – CHUNB 1150, 1162, 1163, 1164, 1165, 1167, 1263, 1264, 1270, 1272, and 1274.
description: Published as part of Bezerra, Alexandra M. R. & Marinho-Filho, Jader, 2010, Bats of the Paranã River Valley, Tocantins and Goiás states, Central Brazil, pp. 41-56 in Zootaxa 2725 on page 45
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-11-04)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Heating of Heavy Ions in Low-beta Compressible Turbulence
Creators: name: Fu, Xiangrong
name: Guo, Fan
name: Li, Hui
name: Li, Xiaocan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Enhancement of minor ions such as $^3$He and heavy ions in flare-associated solar energetic particle (SEP) events remains one of the major puzzles in heliophysics. In this work, we use 3D hybrid simulations (kinetic protons and fluid electrons) to investigate particle energization in a turbulent low-beta environment similar to solar flares. It is shown that in this regime the injected large-amplitude Alfvén waves develop into compressible and anisotropic turbulence, which efficiently heats thermal ions of different species. We find that temperature increase of heavy ions is inversely proportional to the charge to mass ratio, which is consistent with observations of impulsive SEP events. Further analysis reveals that ions are energized by interacting with nearly perpendicular magnetosonic waves near proton inertial scale.
Correlating galaxy morphologies and spectra in the 2dFGRS
Creators: name: Madgwick, Darren S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The correlation between a galaxy's morphology and its observed optical spectrum is investigated. As an example, 4000 galaxies from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, which possess both good quality spectra and have visually determined morphologies are analysed. Of particular use is the separation of Early and Late type galaxies present in a redshift survey since these can then be used in their respective redshift-independent distance estimators (Dn-sigma and Tully-Fisher). It is determined that galaxies in this sample can be relatively successfully separated into these two types by the use of various statistical methods. These methods are briefly outlined in this paper and are also compared to the default 2dFGRS spectral classification (eta). In addition it is found that the 4000Ang break in the spectrum is the best discriminant in determining its morphological type.
description: LaTex, 12 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Future paths for the ‘exploitative segregation of plant roots’ model
Creators: name: Cabal, Ciro
name: Martinez-Garcia, Ricardo
name: De Castro, Aurora
name: Valladares, Fernando
name: Pacala, Stephen W.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: The exploitative segregation of plant roots (ESPR) is a theory that uses a game-theoretical model to predict plant root foraging behavior in space. The original model returns the optimal root distribution assuming exploitative competition between a pair of identical plants in soils with homogeneous resource dynamics. In this short communication, we explore avenues to develop this model further. We discuss: (i) the response of single plants to soil heterogeneity; (ii) the variability of the plant response under uneven competition scenarios; (iii) the importance of accounting for the constraints and limitations to root growth that may be imposed from the plant shoot; (iv) the importance of root functional traits to predict root foraging behavior; (v) potential model extensions to investigate facilitation by incorporating facilitative traits to roots, and (vi) the possibility of allowing plants to tune their response by accounting for non-self and non-kin root recognition. For each case, we introduce the topic briefly and present possible ways to encode those ingredients in the mathematical equations of the ESPR model, providing preliminary results when possible.
A snapshot of Western Balkan’s agriculture from the perspective of EU accession
Creators: name: Mizik, Tamas
name: Mizik, Tamas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Western Balkans
subject: state of agriculture
subject: trade balance
subject: production structure

description: The Western Balkan countries can be characterised by their shared goal, which is rapid accession to the EU. Agriculture is an important element to achieving this goal. The role of agriculture differs widely among the analysed countries but is more important than the average of the EU. This study gives a comprehensive overview of the most important agricultural indicators. These indicators give a precise picture of the sector’s relevance, production structure, efficiency and international relations. After demonstrating changes in input use, production structure, prices and agricultural policies, the next section identifies some of its reasons. The analysis concentrates on the newest available data. Serbia is the leading producer and the only net exporter of agricultural goods in the region. Nevertheless, the current situation is endangered by several issues, such as unbalanced sectoral production, fragmented production structure, relatively low yields, unfavourable export composition, poor food hygiene and quality control, which indicate that painful and hard actions are needed.
Chemical activation of Arabidopsis SnRK2.6 by pladienolide B
Creators: name: Matleena Punkkinen
name: Magdy M. Mahfouz
name: Fujii, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Abscisic acid (ABA) is an important phytohormone mediating osmotic stress responses. SUCROSE NONFERMENTING 1 (SNF1)-RELATED PROTEIN KINASE 2.6 (SnRK2.6, also named OPEN STOMATA1 and SNF1-RELATED KINASE 2E) is central in the ABA signaling pathway; therefore, manipulating its activity may be useful to confer stress tolerance in plants. Pladienolide B (PB) is an mRNA splicing inhibitor and enhances ABA responses. Here, we analyzed the effect of PB on Arabidopsis SnRK2.6. PB enhanced the activity of recombinant SnRK2.6 in vitro through direct physical interaction as predicted by molecular docking simulations followed by mutation experiments and isothermal titration calorimetry. Structural modeling predicted probable interaction sites between PB and SnRK2.6, and experiments with mutated SnRK2.6 revealed that Leu-46 was the most essential amino acid residue for SnRK2.6 activation by PB. This study demonstrates the feasibility of SnRK2.6 chemical manipulation and paves the way for the modification of plant osmotic stress responses.
Numerical studies of the two- and three-dimensional gauge glass at low temperature
Creators: name: Katzgraber, Helmut G.
name: Young, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from Monte Carlo simulations of the two- and three-dimensional gauge glass at low temperature using the parallel tempering Monte Carlo method. Our results in two dimensions strongly support the transition being at T_c=0. A finite-size scaling analysis, which works well only for the larger sizes and lower temperatures, gives the stiffness exponent theta = -0.39 +/- 0.03. In three dimensions we find theta = 0.27 +/- 0.01, compatible with recent results from domain wall renormalization group studies.
description: 7 pages, 10 figures, submitted to PRB
A classical mechanical model of two interacting massless particles in de Sitter space and its quantization
Creators: name: Kanda, Naohiro
name: Okano, Satoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A conformally invariant model of two interacting massless particles in Minkowski space was proposed by Casalbuoni and Gomis [1]. We generalize this model to the case of de Sitter space from the perspective of geodesic distance, in such a way that the resulting, generalized action reduces to the original action in a limit that de Sitter radius goes to infinity. We analyze the Hamiltonian formulation in accordance with Dirac's prescription for constrained Hamiltonian systems and carry out its subsequent canonical quantization in coordinate representation following DeWitt. As the result, we derive a fourth-order differential wave equation for bilocal fields that, in the infinite radius limit, reproduces one obtained in the original model for Minkowski space case.
description: 7pages, main result and overall exposition significantly improved, title changed, references added, version to be published in PLB
Factors of population decline in rural areas and answers given in EU member states’ strategies
Creators: name: Karcagi-Kovats, Andrea
name: Katona-Kovacs, Judit
name: Karcagi-Kovats, Andrea
name: Katona-Kovacs, Judit
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: European Union
subject: rural population decline
subject: strategies
subject: sustainability

description: One of the most pressing phenomena in recent decades in Europe’s rural areas is population decline. This article summarises how the national sustainable development strategies (NSDS) and the national rural development programmes (NRDP) of the European Union (EU) Member States conceptualise processes of depopulation of rural areas. It gives a systematic overview of the main factors of population decline identified in the strategies and programmes and lists the objectives set and measures proposed by these documents. Although the majority of documents identify the depopulation process and all consider it to be a negative phenomenon, there are no commonly accepted objectives or principles regarding the desired extent of demographic changes in rural areas: the aims vary between ‘reducing’, ‘stopping’, ‘stabilising’ and ‘reversing’ the depopulation of rural areas. Most of the measures proposed against the population declined in NRDPs are linked to Axis 3 of the EU rural development pillar. Regarding sustainability, an upcoming question is the ecological consequences of rural depopulation. The authors suggest that rural policies need a stronger theoretical basis to respond this question and that future national sustainable development strategies should pay more attention to the problem.