cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ο ρυθμιστικός ρόλος των συνεταιρισμών στην εμπορία των γεωργικών εφοδίων στους παραγωγούς του νομού Πέλλας
Creators: name: Κουτρουμπέλης Δημήτριος Χρήστου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Συνεταιρισμοί
Γεωργικά εφόδια
Παραγωγοί
Cooperatives
Agricultural supplies
Farmers

description: Η συνεταιριστική δράση, παρά τα μεγάλα και σοβαρά προβλήματα που αντιμετωπίζει, συνεχίζει να αποτελεί διέξοδο του προβλήματος της διάθεσης των γεωργικών εφοδίων στους παραγωγούς. Η ανάγκη της επιβίωσης οδηγεί τους παραγωγούς στην δημιουργία συνεταιρισμών προκειμένου να αποκτήσουν ακόμη μεγαλύτερη διαπραγματευτική δύναμη στην εμπορία των προϊόντων τους αλλά και στα γεωργικά εφόδια που πρέπει να εφοδιαστούν, γεγονός που αποτελεί μερικούς από τούς κύριους λόγους που γίνονται μέλη στους συνεταιρισμούς. Τα οικονομικά προβλήματα λόγω κακοδιαχείρισης που αντιμετώπισαν και αντιμετωπίζουν οι συνεταιρισμοί γενικότερα αποτέλεσαν και αποτελούν την κύρια αιτία που οι παραγωγοί στρέφονται πλέον στην προμήθεια των γεωργικών εφοδίων στους εμπόρους γεωπόνους για την προμήθεια των γεωργικών εφοδίων τους. Αυτό έχει σαν αποτέλεσμα οι συνεταιρισμοί στο κομμάτι αυτό να χάνουν όσο περνούν τα χρόνια την αίγλη τους και την διαπραγματευτική τους δύναμη απέναντι στις εταιρείες που προμηθεύουν τα γεωργικά εφόδια. Στην παρούσα μελέτη γίνεται μία προσπάθεια να μελετηθεί ο ρυθμιστικός ρόλος των Συνεταιρισμών στην εμπορία των γεωργικών εφοδίων αλλά και να παρουσιαστεί η πραγματική εικόνα της κατάστασης αλλά και τι πιστεύουν τα μέλη των συνεταιρισμών για τους ίδιους τους συνεταιρισμούς
description: Cooperative action, despite the great and serious problems it faces, continues to be a way out of the problem of disposing of agricultural supplies to producers. The need for survival leads producers to set up cooperatives to gain even greater bargaining power in marketing their products and the agricultural supplies to be supplied, which is one of the main reasons they become members of cooperatives. The financial problems due to mismanagement faced by cooperatives in general have been and are the main reason why producers now turn to the supply of agricultural supplies to agronomists for the supply of their agricultural supplies. This results in the cooperatives in this part losing as the years go by their glamor and bargaining power towards the companies that supply the agricultural supplies. In the present study an attempt is made to study the regulatory role of the Cooperatives in the marketing of agricultural supplies but also to present the real picture of the situation and what the members of the cooperatives think about the cooperatives themselves
On a modified-Lorentz-transformation based gravity model confirming basic GRT experiments
Creators: name: Broekaert, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Implementing Poincaré's `geometric conventionalism' a scalar Lorentz-covariant gravity model is obtained based on gravitationally modified Lorentz transformations (or GMLT). The modification essentially consists of an appropriate space-time and momentum-energy scaling ("normalization") relative to a nondynamical flat background geometry according to an isotropic, nonsingular gravitational `affecting' function Phi(r). Elimination of the gravitationally `unaffected' S_0 perspective by local composition of space-time GMLT recovers the local Minkowskian metric and thus preserves the invariance of the locally observed velocity of light. The associated energy-momentum GMLT provides a covariant Hamiltonian description for test particles and photons which, in a static gravitational field configuration, endorses the four `basic' experiments for testing General Relativity Theory: gravitational i) deflection of light, ii) precession of perihelia, iii) delay of radar echo, iv) shift of spectral lines. The model recovers the Lagrangian of the Lorentz-Poincaré gravity model by Torgny Sjödin and integrates elements of the precursor gravitational theories, with spatially Variable Speed of Light (VSL) by Einstein and Abraham, and gravitationally variable mass by Nordström.
description: v1: 14 pages, extended version of conf. paper PIRT VIII, London, 2002. v2: section added on effective tensorial rank, references added, appendix added, WEP issue deleted, abstract and other parts rewritten, same results (to appear in Found. Phys.)
The interactions between renewable energy consumption and economic growth in the Mercosur countries
Creators: name: Matheus Koengkan
name: Fuinhas, José Alberto
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The relationship between the consumption of renewable energy, economic growth, and globalisation is investigated. Data for five Mercosur countries in the period between 1980 and 2014 and the PVAR methodology are used. The estimated model and the results of a Granger causality Wald test indicate that a bidirectional relationship exists between the consumption of energy (from both renewable and fossil sources) and economic growth, and suggest that the assessed countries’ economic growth is dependent on fossil fuels. There is also evidence of substitutability in the consumption of energy from renewable and fossil sources in periods of drought, and that the process of globalisation has a positive indirect influence on the Mercosur countries’ consumption of renewable energy.
Non-convex Feedback Optimization with Input and Output Constraints
Creators: name: Häberle, Verena
name: Hauswirth, Adrian
name: Ortmann, Lukas
name: Bolognani, Saverio
name: Dörfler, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we present a novel control scheme for feedback optimization. That is, we propose a discrete-time controller that can steer the steady state of a physical plant to the solution of a constrained optimization problem without numerically solving the problem. Our controller can be interpreted as a discretization of a continuous-time projected gradient flow. Compared to other schemes used for feedback optimization, such as saddle-point flows or inexact penalty methods, our algorithm combines several desirable properties: It asymptotically enforces constraints on the plant steady-state outputs, and temporary constraint violations can be easily quantified. Our algorithm requires only reduced model information in the form of steady-state input-output sensitivities of the plant. Further, as we prove in this paper, global convergence is guaranteed even for non-convex problems. Finally, our algorithm is straightforward to tune, since the step-size is the only tuning parameter.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Missing unaccompanied migrant minors in the EU and the need for a homogenous legal framework
Creators: name: Brantl, Isabelle
name: Prof. Dr. Barbara Klein
name: Toscano, Federica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: missing children
unaccompanied migrant minors
legal framework

description: With almost 20.000 unaccompanied migrant minors registered in the EU in2018 alone (cf. EUROSTAT 2019) and high numbers of missing incidents among this specific group, the measures to safeguard these children within the EU should be scrutinized. Additionally, unaccompanied migrant minors have an increased vulnerability due totheir lack of a social network and guardians at their location while simultaneously relying on personal networks for information in the migration decision-making process. Consequently, children in migrationare more likely tofall prey to human trafficking or sexual abuse, which is assumed to be one of the reasons for the high rate of missing persons cases among unaccompanied migrant minors in shelters. One crucial element in state intervention in missing children cases in the legal framework that these interventions are placed within. For the EU, in cases of missing unaccompanied migrant minors, a vastly heterogeneous image has arisen. This white paper will thus attempt to analyse the current legal situation and make recommendations on potential improvements to support the interests of the children rather than those of the nation states.
description: whitepaper
Ο ρόλος της διατροφής στην πρόγνωση των φλεγμονωδών νόσων του εντέρου στα παιδιά
Creators: name: Μπόνιου Ιωάννα Δημητρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Ιδιοπαθής φλεγμονώδης νόσο του εντέρου ,ΙΦΝΕ
Νόσος του Crohn
Ελκώδης κολίτιδα
παιδιά
μεσογειακή διατροφή
Inflammatory bowel disease, IBD
children
Chron's disease
ulcerative colitis
mediterranean diet

description: Ο σκοπός της παρούσας μελέτης είναι η μελέτη του ρόλου της διατροφής στην πρόγνωση των φλεγμονωδών νόσων του εντέρου στα παιδιά, και συγκεκριμένα, η διερεύνηση της επίδρασης μίας παρέμβασης διατροφής στη συμμόρφωση στη μεσογειακή διατροφή και στην κλινική πορεία της νόσου. Η παρούσα μελέτη είναι μία προοπτική μελέτη παρέμβασης διατροφής στην οποία συμπεριλήφθηκαν 22 παιδιά με ΙΦΝΕ, τα οποία παρακολουθούνται από τις Α’ και Γ’ Παιδιατρικές Κλινικές ΑΠΘ. Ανασκοπήθηκαν τα ιστορικά και καταγράφηκαν στοιχεία όπως η ηλικία, το φύλο, ο τύπος της ΙΦΝΕ και σωματομετρικά δεδομένα. Η συμμόρφωση στη μεσογειακή διατροφή εκτιμήθηκε με το kidmed score. Η ενεργότητα της νόσου εκτιμήθηκε με το προσδιορισμό του PUCAI/PCDAI score και τη διενέργεια αιματολογικών και βιοχημικών εξετάσεων πριν και μετά την παρέμβαση
description: The aim of this study is to analyse the role the diet plays in the prognosis of inflammatory bowel disease in children, and more specifically, to explore the impact of a dietary intervention to the adherence to the mediterranean diet and to the clinical course of the disease. This study is a prospective study of dietary intervention in which 22 children with IBD were included, who are monitored by the A and C Pediatric Clinics of AUTh. Historical data were reviewed and information such as age, sex, type of IBD and somatometric data were recorded. Adherence to the mediterranean diet was assessed by kidmed score. Disease activity was measured by the PUCAI score specifications, along with the perfoming of hematological and biochemical tests before and after the intervention
Electron-phonon interaction and coupled phonon--plasmon modes
Creators: name: Falkovsky, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The theory of Raman scattering by the electron--phonon coupled system in metals and heavily doped semiconductors is developed taking into account the Coulomb screening and the electron--phonon deformation interaction. The Boltzmann equation for carriers is applied. Phonon frequencies and optic coupling constants are renormalized due to interactions with carriers. The $k-$dependent semiclassical dielectric function is involved instead of the Lindhard-Mermin expression. The results of calculations are presented for various values of carrier concentration and electron-phonon coupling constant.
description: 28, 13 figures
Ecosystem services in the proposed national park reserve for the South Okanagan : Lower Similkameen region
Creators: name: Echeverri Ochoa, Alejandra
name: McGlenn, Stephen
name: Mill, Sian
name: Wong, Janson
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The South Okanagan-Lower Similkameen region of British Columbia is one of the most biologically diverse areas in Canada hosting ca. 55 endangered and threatened species. A National Park Reserve has been proposed for this area but it has been highly opposed. We conducted a spatial analysis and a literature review in order to evaluate the costs and benefits of establishing a national park in the region. Using an ecosystem services framework, we developed four management scenarios and found that the area provides ecosystem services that would be much more enhanced in the timeframe of 50 years if it becomes a national park reserve. Establishing a national park enhances habitat quality that is crucial for endangered species’ long-term survival. In addition, we found that the region acts as an important carbon sink that could potentially help the provincial and federal governments meet their greenhouse gas reduction strategies. The area provides water-related ecosystem services, and provides cultural, recreational and spiritual services for local residents and First Nations. We propose a set of recommendations directed towards the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) in its campaign for the establishment of the park; our aim is to better inform a decision for the establishment of the park based on the ecosystem services provided in the region. In particular, we highlight the importance of consultation and collaboration with local stakeholders, especially First Nations and local ranchers, in the deliberation for the decision to establish a park in the region.
Young Consumers’ Attitudes on Price and Promotion of Milk and Dairy Products
Stavovi mladih potrošača o cijeni i promociji mlijeka i mliječnih proizvoda
Creators: name: Kristić, Jelena
name: Fosić, Ivana
name: Crnčan, Ana
name: Kristić, Jelena
name: Fosić, Ivana
name: Crnčan, Ana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: milk
subject: dairy products
subject: price
subject: promotion
subject: buyers’ loyalty

description: Price and promotion, as elements of marketing, are very important tools for product positioning and differentiating it from the competition. In order for them to be effective, producers should know the purchasing and eating habits of both their consumers and potential buyers. In order to determine consumer attitudes on the importance of price and promotional elements of milk and dairy products, and to identify possible differences in their attitudes with regard to different demographic variables, a survey of 1,157 respondents was conducted. The results showed that prices (M = 3.36) and promotion of milk and dairy products (M = 3.34) are equally important to the consumers. The price of milk is more important to the consumers of UHT milk (p<0.05) and the consumers with lower monthly household income (p<0.000) than it is to the consumers of fresh milk. Both consumers of fresh milk (p<0.01) and those who solely work in the agricultural domain (p = 0.012) agree more with the claim of loyalty to just one particular product brand. Respondents from rural areas agree more with the claim that the prices of milk by domestic producers are significantly lower than those by the foreign ones (p = 0.011)
title: Childhood and the law.
Creators: name: Fitz, John
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1986

description: Minority and infancy are technical legal terms signifying legal subjects and statuses which are non-adult, less than 'full' legal persons because they are below the age of minority. How the law creates and sustains differences between the category adult and non-adult, between adulthood and childhood, how age divisions are made concrete and socially significant through the differential distribution of legal rights, protections, capacities and disabilities, provides the focal point of this work. Drawing on recent theories of ideology, subjectivity and discourse analysis, we explore how the law, in defining subjects capable of participating in the law-making process, responsible enough to be governed by its rules, and with the attributes to initiate legal actions, can also, by a process of exclusion, constitute the subjectivity of 'the child'. The age lines bounding the child from the adult are arbitrary and historically transitory, they also apply differentially across genders. They are extremely useful because they tell us a great deal about the legal assumptions made about the rationality, responsibility and competence of children. When we begin to link age lines, with cognition/competence and legal capacity/disability across different branches of the law, we are offered a variety of definitions as to what is to count as adult and minor. The differing ages at which certain rights, obligations and responsibilities may be assumed provides us with the means of identifying the particular social relations and interests which each branch of the law privileges and preserves. To this end, we explore in turn; the legal conception of infancy and minority, conceptions of consent and discretion and the effect of the age of majority; the system of inheritance as a process by which family statuses (crucially adults and minors) are preserved and reproduced over time; the social relations guardianship and parenthood and family membership and how these have become an intimate concern of the judiciary and the state; finally, the process by which children were made no longer subject to the full sanctions of the criminal law. These aspects of inter-generational relations are discussed within the context of the English legal system.
Annex 1.pdf
Creators: name: B Gowthamghosh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This interview guide used in the key informant interviews conducted for the study looking at the linkages of PLHIV to social protection schemes in Rajasthan,India during 2019.
Discrete quantum modes of the Dirac field in $AdS_{d+1}$ backgrounds
Creators: name: Cotaescu, Ion I
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the free Dirac equation in spherically symmetric static backgrounds of any dimensions can be put in a simple form using a special version of Cartesian gauge in Cartesian coordinates. This is manifestly covariant under the transformations of the isometry group so that the generalized spherical coordinates can be separated in terms of angular spinors like in the flat case, obtaining a pair of radial equations. In this approach the equation of the free field Dirac in $AdS_{d+1}$ backgrounds is analytically solved obtaining the formula of the energy levels and the corresponding normalized eigenspinors.
description: 18 pages, Latex. Submitted to Phys.Rev. D
Superconducting properties of high-entropy-alloy tellurides M-Te (M: Ag, In, Cd, Sn, Sb, Pb, Bi) with a NaCl-type structure
Creators: name: Kasem, Md. Riad
name: Hoshi, Kazuhisa
name: Jha, Rajveer
name: Katsuno, Masayoshi
name: Yamashita, Aichi
name: Goto, Yosuke
name: Matsuda, Tatsuma D.
name: Aoki, Yuji
name: Mizuguchi, Yoshikazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-entropy-alloy-type tellurides M-Te, which contain five different metals of M = Ag, In, Cd, Sn, Sb, Pb, and Bi, were synthesized using high pressure synthesis. Structural characterization revealed that all the obtained samples have a cubic NaCl-type structure. Six samples, namely AgCdSnSbPbTe5, AgInSnSbPbTe5, AgCdInSnSbTe5, AgCdSnPbBiTe5, AgCdInPbBiTe5, and AgCdInSnBiTe5 showed superconductivity. The highest transition temperature (Tc) among those samples was 1.4 K for AgInSnSbPbTe5. A sample of AgCdInSbPbTe5 showed a semiconductor-like transport behavior. From the relationship between Tc and lattice constant, it was found that a higher Tc is observed for a telluride with a larger lattice constant.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Attitudes about Entrepreneurial Activity of Women and Men with Regard to Selected Demographic Variables
Stavovi o poduzetničkom djelovanju žena i muškaraca s obzirom na odabrane demografske varijable
Creators: name: Kristić, Jelena
name: Deže, Jadranka
name: Fosić, Ivana
name: Crnčan, Ana
name: Kristić, Jelena
name: Deže, Jadranka
name: Fosić, Ivana
name: Crnčan, Ana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: women entrepreneurial activity
subject: men entrepreneurial activity
subject: student population
subject: demographic variables

description: Entrepreneurial activity of women and men should be balanced and equally valued. In Croatia participation of men in entrepreneurial activities is two times greater than participation of women, although this gap has slowly been decreasing (though not sufficiently). In order to determine the attitudes about entrepreneurial activities of women and men and to identify differences in attitudes of respondents with regard to their area of living, an indicative survey was conducted on a sample of 1,157 respondents of student population which represents pool of potential future entrepreneurial activity initiators. The results showed that there are differences in the attitudes of respondents from urban areas who agreed more with the claim that entrepreneurship is a male activity (p<0.026) and that men are better in noticing business opportunities (p<0.000). Rural respondents agreed more with the claim that women can have both a successful career and a quality family life (p<0.019).
title: COBOL report program generation by macro processor
Creators: name: Stevens, Sheila
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1981

description: The research described is directed towards the development of an interactive COBOL program generator. This aims to simplify computer usage and contribute to the more effective use of computer resources, by alleviating the burdensome, time-consuming and error-prone activity of programming. The work is based on PG/1, an existing macro processor, and in particular considers the generation of report programs. The problems of program generation by macro processor are first explored using Filetab, an existing report specification language,' and avoiding the interactive aspect. This establishes the feasibility of generating COBOL programs but identifies shortcomings in the macro processor facilities. Enhancements to the macro processor are defined and the PG/2 version is created for use. The development of an interactive self-instructional COBOL report program generator for the casual user is chosen as the area for deeper investigation. From a consideration of data bases and query languages it is concluded that a relational view of the data forms the most natural basis for a computer-dominated, non-procedural report-specifying dialogue with a casual user. A design study for an interactive self-teaching COBOL report program generator^ based on the PG/2 macro processor and offering some of the benefits of a Relational Data base Management System, is described. The validation of the user's responses is a major undertaking and leads to a large system. Details of the macros implementing selected features are presented. It is concluded that program generation appears efficient but may be of even greater use to a professional programmer than to the non-specialist user. The PG/2 macro processor, although not an ideal tool for COBOL program generation, serves to identify the characteristics of an appropriate tool. There is potential for extending and adapting the techniques used to other applications.
An Introduction to Quantum Order, String-net Condensation, and Emergence of Light and Fermions
Creators: name: Wen, Xiao-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review some recent work on new states of matter. Those states cannot be described symmetry breaking and hence contain a new kind of order -- quantum order. Some quantum orders are shown to be closely related to string-net condensations. Those quantum orders lead to an emergence of gauge bosons and fermions from pure bosonic models.
description: 16 pages. Homepage http://dao.mit.edu/~wen
Old - CD
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Software Visualization
Empirical
Technological
3D
Virtual Reality
web
Experiment
software evolution
city metaphor
codecity
reverse engineering

description: The files attached contain the reproduction/replication package for the article "CodeCity: On-Screen or in Virtual Reality?". IMPORTANT: The name of the tool and the author have been anonymized due to the double-blind. All the references related to the approach presented show the name `BrowserViz`. Please, unzip the zip file and follow the README.md file
Foreign Trade of Agri-Food Products Before and After EU Membership
Vanjskotrgovinska razmjena poljoprivredno-prehrambenih proizvoda prije i nakon pristupanja Republike Hrvatske Europskoj uniji
Creators: name: Kovačićek, Tihana
name: Ćućuz, Dominic
name: Rogelj, Mateja Jež
name: Hadelan, Lari
name: Mikuš, Ornella
name: Kovačićek, Tihana
name: Ćućuz, Dominic
name: Rogelj, Mateja Jež
name: Hadelan, Lari
name: Mikuš, Ornella
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: EU
subject: CEFTA
subject: Croatia
subject: foreign trade
subject: agri-food products

description: The paper analyzes Croatia’s foreign trade of agri-food products before and after EU membership. In the period from 2010 to 2016 Croatia recorded foreign trade deficit of agri-food products. Prior to joining the EU, the most important market in foreign trade was CEFTA, and after the entry it was the EU market. Prior to Croatia’s accession to the EU, the most important trade partners, in terms of trade value, were markets of CEFTA parties, and after Croatia’s accession, the EU market. Before and after accession to the EU, Croatia’s most important trade partners were Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany and Italy, although the importance of Bosnia and Herzegovina was reduced by Croatia's accession to the EU. In terms of trade value, the most important agri-food products in foreign trade are fresh pork, sugar, fish, chocolate and products containing cocoa, as well as bakery and confectionery products.
Potentials of Low-cost Mini-UAVs
Creators: name: Bareth, Georg
name: Bolten, Andreas
name: Bendig, Juliane
Publisher: name: Geographisches Institut der Universität zu Köln - Kölner Geographische Arbeiten
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Other
subject: None
subject: UAV
subject: Sensor
subject: Imaging
subject: Remote Sensing

description: The trend to minimize electronic devices also accounts for sensing and sensor technologies. In combination with the developments in the construction of low-weight unmanned airborne vehicles (UAVs), this enabled in the last years a new research and application field of low-cost and low-weight UAVs carrying all kind of sensors such as multi-spectral, hyperspectral, laserscanning, microwave, and thermal imaging devices. In the same period, the demand for local high resolution data in a spatial, temporal, and spectral context increased exponentially for all kinds of applications. Low-cost and low-weight UAVs can exactly acquire such data. Hence, it is no surprise that the deployment of Mini-UAVs in the field of environmental monitoring, agriculture, facility management and many more is growing fast.
description: Proceedings on the Workshop of Remote Sensing Methods for Change Detection and Process Modelling, 18-19 November 2010, University of Cologne, Germany, Kölner Geographische Arbeiten, 92, pp. 1-8
Recent Methodological Advances in Panel Data Collection, Analysis, and Application
Creators: name: Wolbring, Tobias
name: Zinn, Sabine
Publisher: name: Survey Research Methods
Year: 2021

description: SRM wants to publish a Special Issue on "Recent Methodological Advances in Panel Data Collection, Analysis, and Application". This call for papers expands on the papers searched and the policies used.
description: Survey Research Methods, Vol 15 No 1 (2021)
Ο Πόλεμος στον Ἀγαμέμνονα του Αισχύλου
Creators: name: Σκούμβρος, Τσαμπίκος Νικήτα
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Πόλεμος
Βία
Δικαιοσύνη
War
Violence
Justice

description: Ο πόλεμος και, ευρύτερα, η βία με τις διάφορες όψεις της έχουν αδιάλειπτη παρουσία στον αισχύλειο Ἀγαμέμνονα. Η «ἀνὰ χεῖρας» εργασία εστιάζεται σε αυτή την πτυχή. Μέσω σύντομων αναφορών, υπενθυμίζεται ότι η δυναστεία του ομώνυμου ήρωα έχει στοιχειώσει από τις καταστροφικές προγονικές επιλογές, τα πάθη και τις αντιμαχίες, «ἀρχῆς γενομένης» ήδη από τον Τάνταλο. Η Κλυταιμνήστρα και ο εραστής της Αίγισθος ραδιουργούν εναντίον του άνακτος, ο οποίος γυρίζει στο Άργος έπειτα από δέκα έτη λυσσωδών εχθροπραξιών. Η θυσία της Ιφιγένειας και οι μετά την άλωση της Τροίας κτηνωδίες εντείνουν το δυσανάσχετο κλίμα. Ο Χορός είναι μονίμως ανήσυχος, ενώ η Κασσάνδρα φρίττει τόσο για τα «praeterita», όσο και για τα «futura». Το έργο τελειώνει. Οι θεατές αναμένουν την —αιματηρή, επίσης—επάνοδο του Ορέστη
description: War and, more generally, violence with its various aspects are continually and unrelentingly present in the Aeschylean Agamemnon. The current essay focuses on this side of the tragedy. Through brief references, we are reminded that the eponymous hero’s dynasty has already been haunted by the fatal ancestral choices, the spite, and the feuds, beginning already with the myth of the great-grandfather, Tantalus. Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus conspire against the monarch, who returns to Argos after ten years of fierce engagements. Iphigenia’s sacrifice and the after the subjugation of Troy atrocities exacerbate the insufferable atmosphere. The Chorus is constantly agitated, while Cassandra is appalled both by the past events and by the impending developments. The play reaches its endpoint. The audience awaits the —smeared with further bloodshed— homecoming of Orestes
Do Consumers in Croatia Read Labels on Fresh Vegetables?
Čitaju li hrvatski potrošači deklaracije uz svježe povrće?
Creators: name: Stupnišek, Ivan
name: Cerjak, Marija
name: Stupnišek, Ivan
name: Cerjak, Marija
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: consumers
subject: fresh vegetables
subject: vegetable attributes
subject: labels

description: A significant share of supplied vegetables in Croatian market is imported, and very often these products are of lower quality and prices when compared to domestic vegetables. Therefore, in order to be competitive, domestic producers have to adjust their offer to consumers' needs and wishes, which means they have to know behaviour and attitudes of their consumers. The aim of this paper is to determine consumers’ buying behaviour, which vegetable attributes are perceived as most important and whether Croatian consumers read labels which accompany fresh vegetable and how much do they trust them. A survey was conducted on a sample of 417 consumers of fresh vegetables in the Republic of Croatia. Research results showed that majority of consumers buy fresh vegetables in supermarkets and in city markets, with almost half of them purchasing vegetables mostly only in one sales channel. The most important vegetable attributes are vegetable quality and origin but also labels that guarantee origin and quality. Most of the respondents read fresh vegetable labels frequently or occasionally. However, consumers are not very satisfied with the existing labels and they do not particularly trust the information they contain. The obtained results can be used by producers and traders to develop labelling and positioning strategy for domestic vegetables.
Set-theoretic solutions of the Pentagon Equation
Creators: name: Colazzo, Ilaria
name: Jespers, Eric
name: Kubat, Lukasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16T25, 16T20, 16S36, 16S37, 20M25

description: A set-theoretic solution of the Pentagon Equation on a non-empty set $S$ is a map $s\colon S^2\to S^2$ such that $s_{23}s_{13}s_{12}=s_{12}s_{23}$, where $s_{12}=s\times\mathrm{id}$, $s_{23}=\mathrm{id}\times s$ and $s_{13}=(τ\times\mathrm{id})(\mathrm{id}\times s)(τ\times\mathrm{id})$ are mappings from $S^3$ to itself and $τ\colon S^2\to S^2$ is the flip map, i.e., $τ(x,y) =(y,x)$. We give a description of all involutive solutions, i.e., $s^2=\mathrm{id}$. It is shown that such solutions are determined by a factorization of $S$ as direct product $X\times A \times G$ and a map $σ\colon A\to\mathrm{Sym}(X)$, where $X$ is a non-empty set and $A,G$ are elementary abelian $2$-groups. Isomorphic solutions are determined by the cardinalities of $A$, $G$ and $X$, i.e., the map $σ$ is irrelevant. In particular, if $S$ is finite of cardinality $2^n(2m+1)$ for some $n,m\geq 0$ then, on $S$, there are precisely $\binom{n+2}{2}$ non-isomorphic solutions of the Pentagon Equation.
description: accepted for publication in Communication in Mathematical Physics. 16 pages
Optimization as a result of the interplay between dynamics and structure
Creators: name: Llas, Mateu
name: Gleiser, Pablo M.
name: Diaz-Guilera, Albert
name: Perez, Conrad J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we study the interplay between the dynamics of a model of diffusion governed by a mechanism of imitation and its underlying structure. The dynamics of the model can be quantified by a macroscopic observable which permits the characterization of an optimal regime. We show that dynamics and underlying network cannot be considered as separated ingredients in order to achieve an optimal behavior.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Physica A
A direct kinematical derivation of the relativistic Sagnac effect for light or matter beams
Creators: name: Rizzi, Guido
name: Ruggiero, Matteo Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Sagnac time delay and the corresponding Sagnac phase shift, for relativistic matter and electromagnetic beams counter-propagating in a rotating interferometer, are deduced on the ground of relativistic kinematics. This purely kinematical approach allows to explain the ''universality'' of the effect, namely the fact that the Sagnac time difference does not depend on the physical nature of the interfering beams. The only prime requirement is that the counter-propagating beams have the same velocity with respect to any Einstein synchronized local co-moving inertial frame.
description: 10 pages, 1 EPS figure, to appear in General Relativity and Gravitation
Exploring the Morphology and Origins of the 4C 38.41 Jet
Creators: name: Algaba, Juan Carlos
name: Rani, Bindu
name: Lee, Sang-Sung
name: Kino, Motoki
name: Park, Jongho
name: Kim, Jae-Young
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the properties of the innermost jet of the flat spectrum radio quasar 1633+382 (4C~38.41) based on VLBI data from the radio monitoring observations of the Boston University VLBI program at 43~GHz. Analysis of the components suggests a semi-parabolic jet geometry with jet radius $R$ following the relation $R\propto r^{0.7}$ with distance $r$, with indications of a jet geometry break towards a conical geometry. Brightness temperature falls with distance following $T_B\propto r^{-2.1}$. Combining this information, magnetic field and electron densities are found to fall along the jet as $B\propto r^{-1.5}$ and $n\propto r^{-1.1}$ respectively, suggesting that the magnetic configuration in the jet may be dominated by the poloidal component. Our analysis of the jet structure suggests that the innermost jet regions do not follow a ballistic trajectory and, instead, match a sinusoidal morphology which could be due to jet precession from a helical pattern or Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Η χρήση ένοπλης βίας στη Βόρεια Συρία από την Τουρκία και η προσπάθεια νομιμοποίησής της
Creators: name: Σταματίδης, Γεώργιος Παύλου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Χρήση ένοπλης βίας
Τουρκία
Συρία
Use of armed force
Turkey
Syria

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας διατριβής ήταν η μελέτη της χρήσης ένοπλης βίας στη Βόρεια Συρία από την Τουρκία και της προσπάθειας νομιμοποίησής της. Αρχικά, παρουσιάστηκε η κατάσταση στη Συρία από το 2000 έως το 2011, έτος κατά το οποίο ξέσπασε ο συριακός εμφύλιος πόλεμος. Επίσης, εξετάστηκαν οι στάσεις που τήρησαν οι Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής και η Ρωσία στον συριακό εμφύλιο, καθώς και οι σχέσεις Τουρκίας και Συρίας πριν και κατά τη διάρκεια του εμφυλίου. Στη συνέχεια, αναλύθηκαν οι σχέσεις της Τουρκίας με τους Κούρδους ως κύρια αιτία της χρήσης ένοπλης βίας από την Τουρκία στη Βόρεια Συρία. Επιπροσθέτως, παρατέθηκαν οι επιχειρήσεις «Ασπίδα του Ευφράτη», «Κλάδος Ελαίας», «Πηγή Ειρήνης» και «Εαρινή Ασπίδα» που διεξήγαγε η Τουρκία στη Βόρεια Συρία. Βασικότερο σημείο της εν λόγω διατριβής ήταν η παρουσίαση των νομικών επιχειρημάτων που χρησιμοποίησε η Τουρκία, για να επιτύχει τη νομιμοποίηση της χρήσης ένοπλης βίας στη Βόρεια Συρία και η αναλυτική κριτική αυτών των επιχειρημάτων. Ειδικότερα, τα δύο κύρια επιχειρήματα της Τουρκίας που αναλύθηκαν είναι το δικαίωμα νόμιμης άμυνας και η καταπολέμηση της τρομοκρατίας. Στο τελευταίο τμήμα της διατριβής έγινε αναφορά στις διεθνείς αντιδράσεις. Συγκεκριμένα, τονίστηκαν οι αντιδράσεις του ΟΗΕ, του ΝΑΤΟ, της ΕΕ και του Αραβικού Συνδέσμου, αλλά και κρατών και η στάση του καθενός υπέρ ή κατά της Τουρκίας
description: The aim of the present thesis was the study of the use of armed force in Northern Syria by Turkey and the attempt for its legalization. First of all, the situation in Syria from 2000 to 2011, year in which the Syrian civil war broke out, was presented. Furthermore, the attitudes of the United States of America and Russia towards the Syrian civil war and the relations between Turkey and Syria before and during the civil war were examined. Then, Turkey’s relations with the Kurds were analyzed as the main reason for Turkey’s use of force in Northern Syria. In addition, the operations “Euphrates Shield”, “Olive Branch”, “Peace Spring” and “Spring Shield” carried out by Turkey in Northern Syria were detailed. The main point of this thesis was the presentation of the legal arguments used by Turkey to achieve the legalization of the use of armed force in Northern Syria and the detailed critique of these arguments. In particular, the two main arguments of Turkey analyzed are the right of self-defence and the fight against terrorism. In the last section of this thesis, reference was made to the international reactions. More specifically, the reactions of the UN, NATO, the EU, the Arab League and states and the attitude of each for or against Turkey were highlighted
Elementos estructurales de la familia y su tipología
Creators: name: Rodas, Jhon Jairo Mosquera
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: El presente estudio plantea una descripción general sobre las características de la familia, su tipología y las formas de interacción que se dan en la sociedad los retos que se presentan hoy a nivel social y familiar y todo lo que esto connota para el desarrollo de las relaciones al interior de este núcleo social que es necesario investigar en relación a los nuevos roles que se presentan en las nuevas formas de organización familiar.
Online Business in Agritourism
On-line poslovanje u agroturizmu
Creators: name: Sudarić, Tihana
name: Sudarić, Tihana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: agritourist
subject: online business
subject: internet
subject: social network

description: Online business in agritourism is mostly done via internet which means it entails both many opportunities and challenges. Explaining the role and the specificity of agritourism is much easier and more efficient through the web and social networks. The aim of this paper is to emphasize the importance of online business in agritourism, and this does not just involve advertising and communication, but also market research, competition, mutual cooperation, banking business, knowledge and skills through online tools (online lifelong education). An empirical study was carried out in order to determine how consumers perceive online activity of agritourism (N:101). Established hypotheses were confirmed: agritourism is not sufficiently promoted through internet and social networks (H1), internet and social networks could influence consumers’ knowledge of products and services in agritourism (H2), and older age groups are mostly not informed via internet H3).
Impact of ELM control techniques on tungsten sputtering in the DIII-D divertor and extrapolations to ITER
Creators: name: Abrams, T.
name: Unterberg, E. A.
name: Rudakov, D. L.
name: Leonard, A. W.
name: Schmitz, O.
name: Shiraki, D.
name: Baylor, L. R.
name: Stangeby, P. C.
name: Thomas, D. M.
name: Wang, H. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The free-streaming plus recycling model (FSRM) has recently been developed to understand and predict tungsten gross erosion rates from the divertor during edge localized modes (ELMs). In this work, the FSRM was tested against experimental measurements of W sputtering during ELMs, conducted via fast WI spectroscopy. Good agreement is observed using a variety of controlling techniques, including gas puffing, neutral beam heating, and plasma shaping to modify the pedestal stability boundary and thus the ELM behavior. ELM mitigation by pellet pacing was observed to strongly reduce W sputtering by flushing C impurities from the pedestal and reducing the divertor target electron temperature. No reduction of W sputtering was observed during the application of resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs), in contrast to the prediction of the FSRM. Potential sources of this discrepancy are discussed. Finally, the framework of the FSRM is utilized to predict intra-ELM W sputtering rates in ITER. It is concluded that W erosion during ELMs in ITER will be caused mainly by free-streaming fuel ions, but free-streaming seeded impurities (N or Ne) may increase the erosion rate significantly if present in the pedestal at even the 1% level. Impurity recycling is not expected to cause significant W erosion in ITER due to the very low target electron temperature.
Embates subulirostris Prena 2005, sp. n.
Creators: name: Prena, Jens
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Embates
Embates subulirostris

description: 40. Embates subulirostris Prena sp. n.
(Fig. 149–150, 258)
Holotype female, Costa Rica, labeled: “ Costa Rica, PUNTA.: 4/ km S San Vito, Wilson/ Bot. Garden, 1100 m,/ 26.3.2000, leg. Prena ” (INBC).
Paratype 1, female, labeled: “ Costa Rica, San Vito / V­15–1981 / J.E. Wappes ” (CWOB).
Description. Habitus: total length 6.1–6.5 mm (n=2). Color: integument piceous, antenna rufous; basic vestiture moderately dense, light yellow, dorsolateral pronotal vitta vestigial, scales velvety black in heart­shaped elytral macula (Fig. 149); venter with creamy white scales on prosternum and along flank. Head: frontal fovea absent, rostrum slender, awl­shaped, base slightly incrassate (Fig. 150), apex expanded laterally, base subcostate dorsomedially, basolateral margin slightly edged, length of rostrum ♀♀ 1.13–1.15 x (n=2) pronotal length, length of ante­antennal portion 0.45–0.47 x (n=2) total rostral length, dorsal margin of antennal scrobe reaching rostral base before eye; funicular segment 2 slightly longer than 1, club oblong ovate. Pronotum: length 0.97–0.99 x (n=2) maximum width, sides rounded, widest in basal half, anterior portion notably tubulate; disk densely punctate, intervals granulose, subcostate dorsomedially or not. Elytra: length 1.83–1.89 x (n=2) width at humeri, width 1.36–1.38 x (n=2) maximum pronotal width, sides subparallel in basal half, apices rounded conjointly, preapical callus developed, striae fine, punctures indistinct, interstriae flat, 9 costate, 7 subcostate near subapical callus. Legs: slender, tibia nearly straight and parallel­sided, ventral margin with distal cluster of cupreous hairs, tarsal claws flat and approximate at base.
Plant association. Not known.
Distribution. Costa Rica, Pacific side, Fila Costeña (Fig. 258).
Specific epithet. The name is a compound Latin adjective derived from subula (awl) and rostrum.
 Discussion. Embates subulirostris can be recognized within the E. euchasma complex by its dark integument and the slender, awl­shaped rostrum. Its morphometrical data agree with those of the smaller­sized E. oculifer, but deviate significantly from those of the Atlantic sibling species E. euchasma and E. cordiger.
description: Published as part of Prena, Jens, 2005, The Middle American species of Embates Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae), pp. 1-151 in Zootaxa 1100 (1) on pages 1-151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1100.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5051728
Farmers’ Attitudes on Innovations and the Role of Extension Services in Their Introduction
Stavovi poljoprivrednika o inovacijama i ulozi savjetodavne službe u njihovom širenju
Creators: name: Zrakić, Magdalena
name: Lončar, Hrvoje
name: Išasegi, Vedran
name: Rukavina, Matej
name: Đurđica Žutinić
name: Zrakić, Magdalena
name: Lončar, Hrvoje
name: Išasegi, Vedran
name: Rukavina, Matej
name: Đurđica Žutinić
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: innovation
subject: extension service
subject: agriculture
subject: attitudes
subject: survey

description: The objectives of this paper are: (a) to identify farmers' attitudes on innovations in agriculture and whether they introduced innovation in their own farms over the past five years; and (b) to identify how respondents assess the role of agricultural extension service in introducing innovations. The survey was conducted in 2017 on a sample of 64 family farms in the area of three counties. The results showed that most farmers had positive attitudes on technological innovations. More than two thirds believed that there was no progress in agriculture without innovation. Respondents believed that they needed to be better informed about modern technological achievements in agriculture. They had a less positive attitude on the role of the agricultural extension service in the transfer of innovation to farms, although the scientific discourse emphasized its key role in the dissemination and application of innovations.
Search for Cosmic Strings in CMB Anisotropies
Creators: name: Jeong, E.
name: Smoot, G. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have searched the 1st-year WMAP W-Band CMB anisotropy map for evidence of cosmic strings. We have set a limit of $δ= 8 πG μ/ c^2 < 8.2 \times 10^{-6}$ at 95% CL for statistical search for a significant number of strings in the map. We also have set a limit using the uniform distribution of strings model in the WMAP data with $δ= 8 πG μ/ c^2 < 7.34 \times 10^{-5}$ at 95% CL. And the pattern search technique we developed here set a limit $δ= 8 πG μ/ c^2 < 1.54 \times 10^{-5}$ at 95% CL.
description: 10 pages, 8 postscript figures