cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ehrlich-Schwoebel Effect for Organic Molecules: Direct Calculation of the Step Edge Barrier using Empirical Potentials
Creators: name: Fendrich, Markus
name: Krug, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The step edge barrier of a prototypical organic semiconductor molecule, 3,4,9,10-perylene-tetracaboxylic-dianhydride (PTCDA) has been analysed by means of calculations based on emperical potentials. The minimum energy path (MEP) has been calculated for a single molecule on a substrate of three molecular layers between equivalent minimum energy positions within two neighboring unit cells. To determine the step edge barrier, we have calculated the MEP over a step to a fourth layer of molecules. We found energy barriers of E_D= 80 meV for in-layer diffusion and E_S = 750 meV for step crossing, indicating a strong Ehrlich-Schwoebel effect for PTCDA.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Symmetry breaking patterns for two coupled complex scalar fields at finite temperature and in an external magnetic field
Creators: name: Farias, R. L. S.
name: Ramos, Rudnei O.
name: Rosa, Dérick S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model of two coupled complex scalar fields is studied at finite temperature and under an external magnetic field. The results are obtained in the context of the nonperturbative method of the optimized perturbation theory and contrasted with those obtained in perturbation theory and in the one-loop approximation. The emergence of phenomena related to inverse symmetry breaking and symmetry nonrestoration are analyzed.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures. Replaced with version matching the published one
The Creation of a Farm Management Database and a National Farm Management Framework to Identify the Gaps in Farm Business Management Resources
Creators: name: Garven & Associates
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management

description: In order to better understand the need for future farm management resource development needs and to ensure that shrinking development dollars are being efficiently used, the Canadian Farm Business Management Council (CFBMC) has created two important assessment tools:
• a National Database of Farm Management Resources and,
• a National Framework for Farm Management Practices, outlining farm manager performance objectives.
By using these two important resources, a Resource Gap Analysis has been conducted to determine where future development dollars should be targeted. The performance objectives outlined within the Framework have been compared to the current farm management resources developed and available throughout the country. These resources, nearly 2,000 in total, are listed within the database. As a result of this comparative analysis, the resource development gaps have been identified.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Odontobatrachus arndti Barej, Schmitz, Penner, Doumbia, Sandberger-Loua, Emmrich, Adeba, and Rodel 2015
Creators: name: Kanga, Kouassi Philippe
name: Kouamé, N'Goran Germain
name: Zogbassé, Parfait
name: Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès
name: Agoh, Konan Laurent
name: Kouamé, Akoua Michèle
name: Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N.
name: Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice
name: Gourène, Germain
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Odontobatrachidae
Odontobatrachus
Odontobatrachus arndti

description: Odontobatrachus arndti Barej, Schmitz, Penner, Doumbia, Sandberger-Loua, Emmrich, Adeba, and Rödel, 2015
Arndt’s Toothed Frog
Material: Three females, NGK-Nimba 0244, NGK-Nimba 0245, NGK-Nimba 0246, and two males, NGK-Nimba 0247 (Fig. 11A), NGK-Nimba 0248.
Comments: Odontobatrachus arndti is a torrent-frog living in primary and slightly degraded forests, known from Mount Sangbé and Mounts Nimba (Barej et al. 2015; Channing and Rödel 2019). We found a few populations of O. arndti along cascades of streams in forested ravines edged by savannah (07°35.233’N, 008°25.190’W; 847 m asl). These frogs were found to be very abundant along a very torrent stream (07°34.652’N, 008°24.966’W; 716 m asl). In a lower part of the forest, an additional site was along a wide torrent stream with a gravel bottom and blocks of granite rock (07°33.121’N, 008°25.036’W; 422 m asl). The recorded males exhibited huge bright orange femoral glands. They measured 45.1‒52.5 mm (N = 8); the female SUL ranged from 43.5‒60.5 mm (N = 10), thus the sizes of both sexes are within the known range of the species (Barej et al. 2015). At all sites, the majority of frogs were close to the rocky streams, however, a few females perched on trees close to the streams. These records are the second for Ivory Coast.
description: Published as part of Kanga, Kouassi Philippe, Kouamé, N'Goran Germain, Zogbassé, Parfait, Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès, Agoh, Konan Laurent, Kouamé, Akoua Michèle, Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N., Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice, Gourène, Germain & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains, pp. 71-107 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) (e 275) 15 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122
Computer Assisted Learning - Using New Technology in Farm Management Teaching
Creators: name: Jones, E.M.
name: Cain, P.J.
name: Heath, S.B.
name: Bright, G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Teachers of farm management are, like others, faced with the problem of improving the quality of teaching with falling staff resources. Computer assisted learning (CAL), when sensitively implemented, can enhance the learning experience without increasing staff input. The development of CAL modules, however, requires very high initial investment, often beyond the means of individual institutions, and is often more widely adopted if developed co-operatively. This paper discusses the place of CAL in farm management teaching and describes a CAL module for whole farm budgeting. Budget Builder has been developed by a consortium of farm management lecturers and a software development team. It has a tutorial component explaining the budgeting concepts and a modelling component in which the user is guided through the construction of a spreadsheet-based farm budget. Both tutorial and model are delivered at two different levels of complexity. A ‘'Help” facility contains information on spreadsheet techniques, budgeting terms and agricultural terminology and husbandry. The module can be used as a stand-alone teaching resource or for support or revision purposes and has an integral student exercise. It is currently under evaluation in UK universities as one of a suite of agriculturally related CAL modules and has shown promising preliminary results.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Biometrical analysis of pathogenicity in the Ustilago hordei--Hordeum vulgare host-parasite system
Creators: name: Pope, David D.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This study involves a measure of the variability of descendants from a cross between Ustilago hordei race 7 and race 11, on two varieties of barley, Trebi and Odessa. Components of variability were defined, statistically described and compared. Biometrical analyses uncovered the action of significant additive and non-additive genetic effects. Differential interactions between treatments and varieties revealed the existence of at least one virulence gene. Specific polygenes and the virulence gene were found to produce significant interactions with different environmental conditions. Homogeneity of variance of the genetic components of the F2 from three randomly chosen F1 dikaryotic lines demonstrated the highly homozygous condition of the parental teliospores. Covariance - variance regression analysis was used to study the dominance and epistatic differences between treatment dikaryons. There is evidence for ambidirectional dominance. The number of effective factors operating against the varieties, Trebi and Odessa, were estimated to be between 4-6 and 1-2 respectively.
Computerised Efficiency Analysis in Farm Business Advisory
Creators: name: Lund, Mogens
name: Andersen, Henning
name: Orum, Jens Erik
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Danish research and extension organisations have developed a computerised system for the comparative analysis of farmers' past production economic performance. The analysis can be considered a sort of benchmarking whereby individual farmers are compared to similar farmers selected from a central database containing nearly 15,000 Danish farm accounts. This paper gives a description of the new management system and provides some user experiences and ideas for future developments.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Phrynobatrachus alleni Parker 1936
Creators: name: Kanga, Kouassi Philippe
name: Kouamé, N'Goran Germain
name: Zogbassé, Parfait
name: Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès
name: Agoh, Konan Laurent
name: Kouamé, Akoua Michèle
name: Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N.
name: Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice
name: Gourène, Germain
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Phrynobatrachidae
Phrynobatrachus
Phrynobatrachus alleni

description: Phrynobatrachus alleni Parker, 1936
Allen’s Puddle Frog
Material: Male, NGK-Nimba 0010 (Fig. 11C).
Comments: During the rainy season, we found a yellow Phrynobatrachus alleni male (18.5 mm) in breeding condition, among leaf litter on the forest floor, in a patch of dense forest, crossed by a small stream (07°32.993’N, 008°24.753’W; 425 m asl). Rödel (2003) reported from nearby Mount Sangbé that breeding P. alleni became completely yellow. The yellow color may disappear within minutes when the frogs are disturbed. In Taï National Park, breeding P. alleni males where never observed to be completely yellow (M.-O. Rödel, unpub. data).
description: Published as part of Kanga, Kouassi Philippe, Kouamé, N'Goran Germain, Zogbassé, Parfait, Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès, Agoh, Konan Laurent, Kouamé, Akoua Michèle, Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N., Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice, Gourène, Germain & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains, pp. 71-107 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) (e 275) 15 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122
Assisting Texas Ranchers in Integrated Management Information System Development and Use
Creators: name: McGrann, James M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The management requirements for business oriented, Texas ranchers to make a living is helped by their Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) and ability to utilize information in decision making. The IMIS provides production, financial, and marketing information that facilitates the evaluation and monitoring of alternatives using the integrated systems approach. This paper describes ranching in Texas, the IMIS, and approaches used by Extension management economists to assist Texas ranchers in developing and using their IMIS.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Dynamical tunneling in molecules: Quantum routes to energy flow
Creators: name: Keshavamurthy, Srihari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamical tunneling, introduced in the molecular context, is more than two decades old and refers to phenomena that are classically forbidden but allowed by quantum mechanics. On the other hand the phenomenon of intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR) has occupied a central place in the field of chemical physics for a much longer period of time. Although the two phenomena seem to be unrelated several studies indicate that dynamical tunneling, in terms of its mechanism and timescales, can have important implications for IVR. Examples include the observation of local mode doublets, clustering of rotational energy levels, and extremely narrow vibrational features in high resolution molecular spectra. Both the phenomena are strongly influenced by the nature of the underlying classical phase space. This work reviews the current state of understanding of dynamical tunneling from the phase space perspective and the consequences for intramolecular vibrational energy flow in polyatomic molecules.
description: 37 pages and 23 figures (low resolution); Int. Rev. Phys. Chem. (Review to appear in Oct. 2007)
Assessment of Farm Business Health and Long-Run Forward Planning: Experiences with the Top Management Farm Business Simulation Model
Creators: name: Schoney, R.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management

description: As farms become larger and more capital intensive, long-run forward planning and risk assessment become increasingly more important. The Top Management Farm Business Simulator is designed to assist producers in assessing the profitability and risk of alternative farm business opportunities. This is done in three steps: prognosis, diagnosis and prescription. Prognosis is based on projecting business income, cash flows and net worth over periods of up to 15 years. Farm business health is assessed based on the ability of the firm to generate positive cash flows and a reasonable return to equity within an acceptable level of risk. Diagnosis is based on the comparison of firm cost efficiency and financial structure to peer performance benchmarks. Prescriptive analysis is based on the comparison of the risk-return efficiency of the base scenario to up to seven business alternatives. Risk efficiency tests include first and second degree stochastic dominance and stochastic dominance with respect to a function.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Coexistence of $s$- and $d$-wave gaps due to pair-hopping and exchange interactions
Creators: name: Koikegami, Shigeru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I investigate the superconductivity of the three-band $t$-$J$-$U$ model derived from the three-band Hubbard model using the Schrieffer-Wolff transformation. My model is designed considering the hole-doped high-$T_{\mathrm{c}}$ superconducting cup-rate. The model does not exclude the double occupancy of Cu sites by $d$ electrons, and there is a pair-hopping interaction between the $d$ and $p$ bands together with the exchange interaction. I analyse the superconducting transition temperature, electronic state, and superconducting gap function based on strong coupling theory and find that the superconductivity emerges due to the pair-hopping and exchange interactions via the Suhl-Kondo mechanism. In the superconducting state, the extended $s$- and $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave superconducting gaps coexist, where both charge fluctuations and $d$-$p$ band hybridization are key ingredients.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures
Implementation of an Economic Lifetime Net Merit for the Dual-Purpose German Black Pied Cattle Breed
Creators: name: Meier, Saskia
name: Arends, Danny
name: Korkuć, Paula
name: Kipp, Sandra
name: Segelke, Dierck
name: Filler, Günther
name: Brockmann, Gudrun A
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: economic breeding value
subject: dual-purpose
subject: endangered breed
subject: beef
subject: carcass weight
subject: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Recently, a Total Merit Index (RZ€) has been developed for German Holstein dairy cattle on the basis of margin in Euro. Our aim was to adjust this lifetime net merit for the dual-purpose German Black Pied cattle breed (DSN) accounting for beef production in addition to milk performance and fitness traits. We used the estimated breeding values of DSN sires and developed a breeding value for carcass weight and quality. Furthermore, we adjusted the German Holstein marginal profits per standard deviation, which are used to calculate the estimated breeding values, to DSN-specific values. The DSN Net Merit is the sum of the three sub-indices DSN Net Milk, DSN Net Fitness, and DSN Net Beef, which contribute to the DSN Net Merit with 52.84%, 43.43%, and 3.73%, respectively. The DSN Net Merit that was calculated for 33 DSN sires ranged between EUR −1114 and +709. The DSN Net Merit strongly correlates with the Total Merit Index. The implementation of the DSN Net Merit is useful for selection and mating decisions. Especially, the sub-index DSN Net Beef, which does not correlate with existing breeding values, can be used to maintain the dual-purpose character of DSN while modestly improving milk yield. The approach can be easily adapted to other dual-purpose breeds.
The Uptake of Internet-Based Communication Technologies in UK Farm Management
Creators: name: Warren, M.F.
name: Stone, M.A.
name: Soffe, R.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The results are presented of two surveys of actual and potential use of new communication technologies (with special reference to those based on the internet) in UK farming: one in the South West of England, characterised by family farms and pastoral enterprises, and the other in the Eastern counties, associated more with large farms and arable farming. Conclusions are drawn concerning conditions for increased exploitation of the Internet in agriculture, and recommendations made for overcoming some barriers. The paper also reports on the establishment of a trial within a farmers' production/marketing group, comparing experiences of a group of internet users with a similar-sized group of non-users, and monitoring the pattern of use of the technology within the user-group.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
The trace formula for quantum graphs with general self adjoint boundary conditions
Creators: name: Bolte, Jens
name: Endres, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider compact metric graphs with an arbitrary self adjoint realisation of the differential Laplacian. After discussing spectral properties of Laplacians, we prove several versions of trace formulae, relating Laplace spectra to sums over periodic orbits on the graph. This includes trace formulae with, respectively, absolutely and conditionally convergent periodic orbit sums; the convergence depending on properties of the test functions used. We also prove a trace formula for the heat kernel and provide small-$t$ asymptotics for the trace of the heat kernel.
description: 36 pages; improved, final version to appear in Ann. H. Poincare
Entrepreneurial Training for Farm Women and Farm Management Teams
Creators: name: Garven & Associates
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Durinl997, the Canadian Farm Business Management Council, (CFBMC) in cooperation with Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan Inc. (W.E.) supported the development and piloting of a self-study entrepreneurial training program. The objective of this project was to develop a self-study resource kit of materials for farm business managers (specifically farm women and their management partners), which would focus on training for entrepreneurial thinking and management skills. The participants would have access to the support services of a training coach throughout the program. The materials were developed to provide farm managers with an opportunity to explore entrepreneurial initiatives before they were required to make an investment of significant time or resources. The program, encompassing six instructional modules, covers the topics of:
• self-assessment,
• opportunity identification,
• marketing,
• finance and budgeting,
• feasibility and profitability,
• future strategies / business planning
This presentation will outline the methods used to prepare and pilot the training program. The outcome of the pilot project will be presented highlighting the project's benefits and outcomes for those who participated in the program.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Phrynobatrachus annulatus Perret 1966
Creators: name: Kanga, Kouassi Philippe
name: Kouamé, N'Goran Germain
name: Zogbassé, Parfait
name: Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès
name: Agoh, Konan Laurent
name: Kouamé, Akoua Michèle
name: Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N.
name: Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice
name: Gourène, Germain
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Phrynobatrachidae
Phrynobatrachus
Phrynobatrachus annulatus

description: Phrynobatrachus annulatus Perret, 1966
Ringed Puddle Frog
Material: Two females, NGK-Nimba 0091 (Fig. 11D), NGK-Nimba 0094.
Comments: Phrynobatrachus annulatus is a forest-dwelling leaf litter frog, which has a patchy distribution in forests from south-eastern Guinea, eastern Liberia, western Ivory Coast, and western Ghana (Ernst and Rödel 2006; Hillers and Rödel 2007; Rödel et al. 2005; Rödel and Glos 2019). In Ivory Coast, the species was reported from Taï National Park (e.g., Ernst and Rödel 2006; Hillers et al. 2008c), and the Mabi-Yaya Forest Reserve (Gongomin et al. 2019). We found two young females of P. annulatus (14.0 and 20.2 mm) in a site with high canopy forest on the slopes of a large granite inselberg. The dry forest ground was covered with multiple layers of leaf litter, but the undergrowth was sparse (07°34.364’N, 008°24.746’W; 643 m asl). Drier parts of the forest along slopes of inselbergs also comprise the usual habitat where this species was recorded in Taï National Park (M.-O. Rödel, unpub. data).
description: Published as part of Kanga, Kouassi Philippe, Kouamé, N'Goran Germain, Zogbassé, Parfait, Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès, Agoh, Konan Laurent, Kouamé, Akoua Michèle, Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N., Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice, Gourène, Germain & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains, pp. 71-107 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) (e 275) 15 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122
Phrynobatrachus francisci Boulenger 1912
Creators: name: Kanga, Kouassi Philippe
name: Kouamé, N'Goran Germain
name: Zogbassé, Parfait
name: Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès
name: Agoh, Konan Laurent
name: Kouamé, Akoua Michèle
name: Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N.
name: Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice
name: Gourène, Germain
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Phrynobatrachidae
Phrynobatrachus
Phrynobatrachus francisci

description: Phrynobatrachus francisci Boulenger, 1912
Francisc’s Puddle Frog
Material: Two females, NGK-Nimba 0092 (Fig. 11 E), NGK-Nimba 0093.
Comments: Phrynobatrachus francisci occurs in moist Guinea savannah and drier Sudanese savannah, from Senegal to Nigeria (Rödel 2000; Channing and Rödel 2019). We found the species in the rainy season, among dense herbaceous vegetation at the edge of a puddle (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl). Two females (20.5–22.0 mm) were caught in the Yéalé village during late afternoon (1618 h GMT).
description: Published as part of Kanga, Kouassi Philippe, Kouamé, N'Goran Germain, Zogbassé, Parfait, Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès, Agoh, Konan Laurent, Kouamé, Akoua Michèle, Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N., Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice, Gourène, Germain & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains, pp. 71-107 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) (e 275) 15 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122
Stein's method for discrete Gibbs measures
Creators: name: Eichelsbacher, Peter
name: Reinert, Gesine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60E05 (Primary); 60F05, 60E15, 82B05 (Secondary)

description: Stein's method provides a way of bounding the distance of a probability distribution to a target distribution $μ$. Here we develop Stein's method for the class of discrete Gibbs measures with a density $e^V$, where $V$ is the energy function. Using size bias couplings, we treat an example of Gibbs convergence for strongly correlated random variables due to Chayes and Klein [Helv. Phys. Acta 67 (1994) 30--42]. We obtain estimates of the approximation to a grand-canonical Gibbs ensemble. As side results, we slightly improve on the Barbour, Holst and Janson [Poisson Approximation (1992)] bounds for Poisson approximation to the sum of independent indicators, and in the case of the geometric distribution we derive better nonuniform Stein bounds than Brown and Xia [Ann. Probab. 29 (2001) 1373--1403].
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/07-AAP0498 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Influence of cardiac motion on porcine AV node for the non-invasive treatment of atrial fibrillation with a scanned carbon ion beam
Creators: name: Constantinescu, A.
name: Lehmann, H. I.
name: Graeff, Christian
name: Packer, D.
name: Durante, M.
name: Bert, C.
Publisher: name: GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
Year: 2014
Subjects: Physics

description: GSI Scientific Report 2013 - GSI Report 2014-1
Nucleosynthetic signatures of primordial origin around supermassive black holes
Creators: name: Sanderbeck, Phoebe Upton
name: Bird, Simeon
name: Haiman, Zoltan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If primordial black holes (PBHs) seeded the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of high-redshift quasars, then the gas surrounding these black holes may reveal nucleosynthetic clues to their primordial origins. We present predictions of altered primordial abundances around PBHs massive enough to seed SMBHs at z~6-7.5. We find that if PBHs with initial masses of ~10^5 M$_{\odot}$ are responsible for such SMBHs, they may produce primordial Deuterium and Helium fractions enhanced by >~ 10%, and Lithium abundance depleted by >~10%, at distances of up to ~ a comoving kiloparsec away from the black hole after decoupling. We estimate that ~ 10^8 M$_{\odot}$ of gas is enhanced (or depleted) by at least one percent. Evidence of these modified primordial Deuterium, Helium, and Lithium abundances could still be present if this circum-PBH gas remains unaccreted by the SMBH and in or near the host galaxies of high-redshift quasars. Measuring the abundance anomalies will be challenging, but could offer a novel way to reveal the primordial origin of such SMBH seeds.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Is There Room for People in Farm Management Education?
Creators: name: Jeffrey, Scott R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: This paper examines aspects of business management related to people; specifically human resource management and organizational behaviour. While usually a part of curricula for general business management programs, they are often overlooked or not emphasized within conventional farm management education. Human resource management and organizational behaviour are discussed in terms of their relevance to farm management education. Finally, the paper concludes with some suggestions concerning possible methods of delivery for these topics.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Phrynobatrachus fraterculus
Creators: name: Kanga, Kouassi Philippe
name: Kouamé, N'Goran Germain
name: Zogbassé, Parfait
name: Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès
name: Agoh, Konan Laurent
name: Kouamé, Akoua Michèle
name: Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N.
name: Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice
name: Gourène, Germain
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Phrynobatrachidae
Phrynobatrachus
Phrynobatrachus fraterculus

description: Phrynobatrachus fraterculus (Chabanaud, 1921)
Brother’s Puddle Frog
Material: Female, NGK-Nimba 072 (Fig. 11F).
Comments: Phrynobatrachus fraterculus is known to inhabit degraded forest and forest edges in the western part of the Upper Guinea forest region (Guibé and Lamotte 1963; Rödel and Bangoura 2004; Rödel and Glos 2019). A female (24.0 mm) was found in leaf litter near a shallow creek in a small clearing (07°33.121’N, 008°25.036’W; 422 m asl). In Ivory Coast, the species had been recorded previously in the Taï National Park (Ernst and Rödel 2006; Hillers et al. 2008c).
description: Published as part of Kanga, Kouassi Philippe, Kouamé, N'Goran Germain, Zogbassé, Parfait, Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès, Agoh, Konan Laurent, Kouamé, Akoua Michèle, Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N., Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice, Gourène, Germain & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains, pp. 71-107 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) (e 275) 15 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122
title: Efficient Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalyst by Incorporation of Nickel into Nanoscale Dicobalt Boride
Creators: name: Schuch, Jona
name: Klemenz, Sebastian
name: Schuldt, Patrick
name: Zieschang, Anne‐Marie
name: Dolique, Stephanie
name: Connor, Paula
name: Kaiser, Bernhard
name: Kramm, Ulrike I.
name: Albert, Barbara
name: Jaegermann, Wolfram
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2023

description: Recently, transition metal borides attracted increased attention as electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction. Here, we show how the incorporation of nickel into nanoscale dicobalt boride results in an improvement of the activity and stability of the catalyst in alkaline electrolytes. The borides are obtained by a one‐step solution synthesis, calcined, and characterized by X‐ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy. For (Co₁₋ₓNiₓ)₂B (x=0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, and 0.5), (Co₀.₉Ni₀.₁)₂B shows the best performance with an overpotential of η=371 mV at 10 mA cm⁻² in 1 M KOH. Normalization to the electrochemical surface area shows a clear dependence on the activity with rising nickel content. X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy reveals that the catalyst is modified under reaction conditions and indicates that CoOOH and Ni(OH)₂ are formed as active surface species. Flame atomic absorption spectroscopy (F‐AAS) measurements show that no cobalt is dissolved during the electrochemical investigations, but the nickel concentration is increased on the surface of the catalyst as follows from XPS measurements after the electrochemical investigation.
Star formation in Perseus: III. Outflows
Creators: name: Hatchell, J.
name: Fuller, G. A.
name: Richer, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a search for outflows towards 51 submillimetre cores in Perseus. With consistently derived outflow properties from a large homogeneous dataset within one molecular cloud we can investigate further the mass dependence and time evolution of protostellar mass loss. Of the 51 cores, 37 show broad linewings indicative of molecular outflows. In 13 cases, the linewings could be due to confusion with neighbouring flows but 9 of those sources also have near-infrared detections confirming their protostellar nature. The total fraction of protostars in our sample is 65%. All but four outflow detections are confirmed as protostellar by Spitzer IR detections and only one Spitzer source has no outflow, showing that outflow maps at this sensitivity are equally good at identifying protostars as Spitzer. Outflow momentum flux correlates both with source luminosity and with core mass but there is considerable scatter even within this one cloud despite the homogeneous dataset. We fail to confirm the result of Bontemps et al. (1996) that Class I sources show lower momentum fluxes on average than Class 0 sources, with a KS test showing a significant probability that the momentum fluxes for both Class 0s and Class Is are drawn from the same distribution. We find that outflow power may not show a simple decline between the Class 0 to Class I stages. Our sample includes low momentum flux, low-luminosity Class 0 sources, possibly at a very early evolutionary stage. If the only mass loss from the core were due to outflows, cores would last for 10^5-10^8 years, longer than current estimates of 1.5-4 x 10^5 years for the mean lifetime for the embedded phase. Additional mechanisms for removing mass from protostellar cores may be necessary.
description: 26 pages, 21 figures. Version with full colour figures from http://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/hatchell/RecentPapers/hatchell07_outflows.pdf
Phrynobatrachus guineensis Guibe and Lamotte 1962
Creators: name: Kanga, Kouassi Philippe
name: Kouamé, N'Goran Germain
name: Zogbassé, Parfait
name: Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès
name: Agoh, Konan Laurent
name: Kouamé, Akoua Michèle
name: Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N.
name: Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice
name: Gourène, Germain
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Phrynobatrachidae
Phrynobatrachus
Phrynobatrachus guineensis

description: Phrynobatrachus guineensis Guibé and Lamotte, 1962
Guinea Puddle Frog
Material: Male, NGK-Nimba 0034 (Fig. 11G).
Comments: Phrynobatrachus guineensis is the only known West African member of its genus that uses water-filled tree holes as breeding sites (Rödel 1998; Rödel et al. 2004; Rudolf and Rödel 2007). A breeding male (15.5 mm) was found in a water-filled tree hole in a patch of dense forest (07°34.696’N, 008°25.015’W; 717 m asl).
description: Published as part of Kanga, Kouassi Philippe, Kouamé, N'Goran Germain, Zogbassé, Parfait, Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès, Agoh, Konan Laurent, Kouamé, Akoua Michèle, Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N., Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice, Gourène, Germain & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains, pp. 71-107 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) (e 275) 15 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122
A Humanistic Approach to Change in Agriculture
Creators: name: Letts, M.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Australian farmers are feeling the effect of declining onfarm terms of trade along with their international cousins. The tendency of policy makers and program managers to jump to 'management skills training' as the solution to this problem threatens farmers already suffering from low selfesteem. Self esteem lowered by the diminished value of agriculture to the national economy, inability to maintain a comfortable lifestyle for their families and accusations of environmental vandalism. A humanistic approach to facilitating change through learning has been developed in Australia. It uses whole systems business planning as its learning structure and adult learning practices in its delivery.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Search for Majoron-emitting modes of $^{136}$Xe double beta decay with the complete EXO-200 dataset
Creators: name: Kharusi, S. Al
name: Anton, G.
name: Badhrees, I.
name: Barbeau, P. S.
name: Beck, D.
name: Belov, V.
name: Bhatta, T.
name: Breidenbach, M.
name: Brunner, T.
name: Cao, G. F.
name: Cen, W. R.
name: Chambers, C.
name: Cleveland, B.
name: Coon, M.
name: Craycraft, A.
name: Daniels, T.
name: Darroch, L.
name: Daugherty, S. J.
name: Davis, J.
name: Delaquis, S.
name: Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, A.
name: DeVoe, R.
name: Dilling, J.
name: Dolgolenko, A.
name: Dolinski, M. J.
name: Echevers, J.
name: Fairbank, W.
name: Fairbank, D.
name: Farine, J.
name: Feyzbakhsh, S.
name: Fierlinger, P.
name: Fudenberg, D.
name: Gautam, P.
name: Gornea, R.
name: Gratta, G.
name: Hall, C.
name: Hansen, E. V.
name: Hoessl, J.
name: Hufschmidt, P.
name: Hughes, M.
name: Iverson, A.
name: Jamil, A.
name: Jessiman, C.
name: Jewell, M. J.
name: Johnson, A.
name: Karelin, A.
name: Kaufman, L. J.
name: Koffas, T.
name: Krucken, R.
name: Kuchenkov, A.
name: Kumar, K. S.
name: Lan, Y.
name: Larson, A.
name: Lenardo, B. G.
name: Leonard, D. S.
name: Li, G. S.
name: Li, S.
name: Li, Z.
name: Licciardi, C.
name: Lin, Y. H.
name: MacLellan, R.
name: McElroy, T.
name: Michel, T.
name: Mong, B.
name: Moore, D. C.
name: Murray, K.
name: Njoya, O.
name: Nusair, O.
name: Odian, A.
name: Ostrovskiy, I.
name: Perna, A.
name: Piepke, A.
name: Pocar, A.
name: Retiere, F.
name: Robinson, A. L.
name: Rowson, P. C.
name: Rudde, D.
name: Runge, J.
name: Schmidt, S.
name: Sinclair, D.
name: Skarpaas, K.
name: Soma, A. K.
name: Stekhanov, V.
name: Tarka, M.
name: Thibado, S.
name: Todd, J.
name: Tolba, T.
name: Totev, T. I.
name: Tsang, R.
name: Veenstra, B.
name: Veeraraghavan, V.
name: Vogel, P.
name: Vuilleumier, J. -L.
name: Wagenpfeil, M.
name: Watkins, J.
name: Weber, M.
name: Wen, L. J.
name: Wichoski, U.
name: Wrede, G.
name: Wu, S. X.
name: Xia, Q.
name: Yahne, D. R.
name: Yang, L.
name: Yen, Y. -R.
name: Zeldovich, O. Ya.
name: Ziegler, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for Majoron-emitting modes of the neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{136}$Xe is performed with the full EXO-200 dataset. This dataset consists of a total $^{136}$Xe exposure of 234.1 kg$\cdot$yr, and includes data with detector upgrades that have improved the energy threshold relative to previous searches. A lower limit of T$_{1/2}^{\rm{^{136}Xe}}>$4.3$\cdot$10$^{24}$ yr at 90\% C.L. on the half-life of the spectral index $n=1$ Majoron decay was obtained, a factor of 3.6 more stringent than the previous limit from EXO-200, corresponding to a constraint on the Majoron-neutrino coupling constant of $|\langle g_{ee}^{M}\rangle|$$
title: Changing young people's attitudes towards effective contraception using mobile phone messaging
Creators: name: McCarthy, OL
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2019

description: Background: This thesis involved the development and evaluation of a contraceptive behavioural intervention delivered by mobile phone for young people in Tajikistan, Palestine and Bolivia. Methods: The intervention was developed using behavioral science and evaluated by randomised controlled trial in each country. Outcome data were self-reported at four months. The primary outcome was acceptability of at least one method of effective contraception (N = 570 in Palestine and Tajikistan). In Bolivia, a co-primary outcome was use of effective contraception (N = 1310). Secondary and process outcome data were collected. I conducted a post-hoc change from baseline to follow-up analysis in Tajikistan and Bolivia. Interviews with trial participants were also conducted. Results: Intervention development: the results of the intervention development were similar across the countries. The interventions consist of short messages delivered over four months and include the same ten behaviour change methods. Tajikistan trial: 573 were enrolled and 82% (n = 472) completed follow-up. Intervention content was included on the app, causing contamination. Acceptability: 66% intervention vs 64% control; adjusted OR 1.21 95% CI .80-1.83, p = 0.36. Increase in acceptability from baseline to follow-up: 2% to 65%, p < 0.001. Palestine trial: 578 were enrolled and 80% (n = 464) completed follow-up. Acceptability: 31% intervention vs 17% control; adjusted OR 2.34, 95% CI 1.48-3.68, p < 0.001. Bolivia trial: 640 were enrolled and 67% (n = 429) completed follow-up. Use: 37% intervention vs 33% control; adjusted OR 1.19, 95% CI .80-1.77, p = 0.40. Acceptability: 71.92% intervention vs 62.56% control; adjusted OR 1.49, 95% CI .98-2.28, p = 0.06. Increase in acceptability from baseline to follow-up: 9% to 67%, p < 0.001. Interviews: interviewees highly valued the intervention. Conclusion: The interventions were well-specified, theory-based and tailored to each country. It is likely that the intervention delivered by short messages improves attitudes towards effective contraception.
Phrynobatrachus gutturosus Guttural Puddle Frog
Creators: name: Kanga, Kouassi Philippe
name: Kouamé, N'Goran Germain
name: Zogbassé, Parfait
name: Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès
name: Agoh, Konan Laurent
name: Kouamé, Akoua Michèle
name: Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N.
name: Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice
name: Gourène, Germain
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Phrynobatrachidae
Phrynobatrachus
Phrynobatrachus gutturosus

description: Phrynobatrachus gutturosus (Chabanaud, 1921)
Guttural Puddle Frog
Material: Two females, NGK-Nimba 0095 (Fig. 11H), NGK-Nimba 0096, and two males, NGK-Nimba 0097, NGK-Nimba 0098.
Comments: A complex of cryptic West African puddle frogs is currently known under the name Phrynobatrachus gutturosus (Rödel 2000; Zimkus et al. 2010). One species of that complex, P. afiabirago, has been recently described from southern Ghana (Ofori-Boateng et al. 2018). Frogs from this complex became known from primary rainforest to dry savannah habitats (Rödel 2000; Rödel and Spieler 2000; Ernst and Rödel 2006; Nago et al. 2006; Hillers et al. 2008c), and their taxonomic status requires further research. We found P. gutturosus among leaf litter in a cocoa and coffee plantation (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl). The plantation comprised a large pond and was used by people from the Yéalé village to grow rice. Numerous individuals of P. gutturosus were seen after sunset (1830 h GMT). Two females measured 18.5 and 20.0 mm.
description: Published as part of Kanga, Kouassi Philippe, Kouamé, N'Goran Germain, Zogbassé, Parfait, Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès, Agoh, Konan Laurent, Kouamé, Akoua Michèle, Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N., Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice, Gourène, Germain & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains, pp. 71-107 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) (e 275) 15 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122
"corr_xzpt.txt" of "Experimental investigation of transverse spin asymmetries in muon-p SIDIS processes: Collins asymmetries"
Creators: name: COMPASS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2012

description: Correlation matrices
description: CERN-SPS. Measurements of the transverse spin azimuthal asymmetry of charged hadrons produced in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering of a MU+ beam of energy 160 GeV from a transversely polarised ammonia target. This paper reports the Collins asymmetry of the proton extracted in the Bjorken X range 0.003-0.7. Data are given for the 2010 data se over the full kinematic range as well as in restricted ranges. Data are also given in the final tables for the full range using the combined 2007 (PL B692(2010),240) and 2010 data sets. A second paper (CERN-PH-EP-2012-147, arXiv:1205.5122) reports the Sivers asymmetry and is linked below. A link is also given to the correlation matrices between the three variables, X, Z and PT.
Canadian Agriculture Lifetime Leadership Program: Developing Effective Leaders for the Canadian Agri-Food Industry
Creators: name: McLean, Scott
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Industrial Organization
Farm Management

description: The Canadian Farm Business Management Council is launching an ambitious initiative to invest in the human and social capital of the agri-food industry in Canada. The Canadian Agriculture Lifetime Leadership (CALL) Program is selecting thirty men and women from across Canada for an intensive, two-year program of leadership development and networking. The program's content provides advanced knowledge in leadership, politics, international and agricultural issues, while its process encourages networking and the building of leadership skills such as public speaking, issues analysis and decision making. The delivery of the program involves four in-person seminars in different regions of Canada, two study travel seminars within North America, and an innovative, computer-mediated conferencing system. The University of Saskatchewan Extension Division is providing administrative and academic support to program design, implementation and evaluation. The following paper explains the background, objectives, content and delivery strategies of the CALL Program.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Critical temperature of antikaon condensation in nuclear matter
Creators: name: Banik, Sarmistha
name: Greiner, Walter
name: Bandyopadhyay, Debades
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the critical temperature of Bose-Einstein condensation of $K^-$ mesons in neutron star matter. This is studied within the framework of relativistic field theoretical models at finite temperature where nucleon-nucleon and (anti)kaon-nucleon interactions are mediated by the exchange of mesons. The melting of the antikaon condensate is studied for different values of antikaon optical potential depths. We find that the critical temperature of antikaon condensation increases with baryon number density. Further it is noted that the critical temperature is lowered as antikaon optical potential becomes less attractive. We also construct the phase diagram of neutron star matter with $K^-$ condensate.
description: LaTeX; 18 pages including 7 figures; two new figures are added and section III is modified; accepted for publication in Physical Review C