cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Women’s Empowerment and the Adoption of Improved Maize Varieties: Evidence from Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania
Creators: name: Seymour, Greg
name: Doss, Cheryl
name: Marenya, Paswel
name: Meinzen-Dick, Ruth
name: Passarelli, Simone
name: Seymour, Greg
name: Doss, Cheryl
name: Marenya, Paswel
name: Meinzen-Dick, Ruth
name: Passarelli, Simone
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: gender
subject: women's empowerment
subject: technology adoption

description: Despite recent evidence that decisions about technology adoption often involve input from both men and women, the literature on technology adoption rarely considers gender and intrahousehold issues. In this paper, we use survey data from Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania to investigate the influence of women’s empowerment on the adoption of improved maize varieties (IMVs). While our results are mixed as to whether or not women’s empowerment is positively correlated with higher rates of adoption, we find overwhelmingly that women’s empowerment is positively correlated with greater participation by women in decisions about the adoption of IMVs, the acquisition of credit for the purchase of IMVs, and the acquisition of extension services related to IMVs.
The Current Performance of the Third Interplanetary Network
Creators: name: Hurley, K.
name: Cline, T.
name: Mitrofanov, I.
name: Mazets, E.
name: Golenetskii, S.
name: Frontera, F.
name: Montanari, E.
name: Guidorzi, C.
name: Feroci, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 3rd Interplanetary Network (IPN) has been operating since April 2001 with two distant spacecraft, Ulysses and Mars Odyssey, and numerous near-Earth spacecraft, such as BeppoSAX, Wind, and HETE-II. Mars Odyssey is presently in orbit about Mars, and the network has detected approximately 30 cosmic, SGR, and solar bursts. We discuss the results obtained to date and use them to predict the future performance of the network.
description: To appear in the proceedings of the conference on Gamma-Ray Bursts and Afterglow Astronomy 2001: A Workshop Celebrating the First Year of the HETE Mission, to be published by AIP
Effective Field Theory of Loop Quantum Cosmology
Creators: name: Bojowald, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum cosmology is traditionally formulated in a minisuperspace setting, implicitly averaging fields over space to obtain homogeneous models. For universal reasons related to the uncertainty principle, quantum corrections then depend on the size of the averaging volume. In minisuperspace truncations, the value of this volume remains an arbitrary parameter devoid of physical meaning, but in an effective field theory it is identified with the infrared scale of inhomogeneous modes. Moreover, the infrared scale is running during gravitational collapse, when regions in which homogeneity remains approximately valid shrink to increasingly smaller co-moving sizes. Conceptual implications of this infrared renormalization for perturbative inhomogeneity in quantum cosmology are presented here, mainly for the example of loop quantum cosmology. Several claims made in this framework are altered by infrared renormalization.
description: 21 pages, invited contribution to special issue "Loop Quantum Gravity and Non-Perturbative Approaches to Quantum Cosmology"
Solving the strong CP problem with supersymmetry
Creators: name: Hiller, G.
name: Schmaltz, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new solution to the strong CP problem based on supersymmetric non-renormalization theorems. CP is broken spontaneously and it's breaking is communicated to the MSSM by radiative corrections. The strong CP phase is protected by a susy non-renormalization theorem and remains exactly zero while loops can generate a large CKM phase from wave function renormalization. We present a concrete model as an example but stress that our framework is general. We also discuss constraints on susy breaking and point out experimental signatures.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, references added
Desmin is essential for the structure and function of the sinoatrial node; analysis of desmin-deficient arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy animal model
Creators: name: Mavroidis, Manolis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: materials and methods
Gromilus clarulus
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Gromilus
Gromilus clarulus

description: Gromilus clarulus (Broun, 1917)
 Clypeorhynchus clarulus Broun, 1917: 431 (type locality: New Zealand: Mount Dick, 1200 feet; type material: S: 2 BMNH).
 Gromilus clarulus; Kuschel, 1964: 459.
 Distribution. New Zealand (Schenkling and Marshall, 1929).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Additional file 1 of Towards an ICF-based self-report questionnaire for people with skeletal dysplasia to study health, functioning, disability and accessibility
Creators: name: Anttila, Heidi
name: Tallqvist, Susanna
name: Muñoz, Minna
name: Leppäjoki-Tiistola, Sanna
name: Mäkitie, Outi
name: Hiekkala, Sinikka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Number of items and item sources of the questionnaire for people with skeletal dysplasias.
THE BIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF KAOLIN GEOPHAGIA
Creators: name: Alexander, Deloris
name: Richardson, Desire
name: Odom, Lakisha
name: Cromwell, Kara
name: Grant, DeJuana
name: Myers, Micoya
name: Cadet, Eddy
name: Mahama, Hamid
name: Rangari, Vijaya
name: Pace, Ralphenia
name: Ankumah, Ramble
name: Kpomblekou-A, Kokoasse
name: Fluker, Curtis
name: Alexander, Deloris
name: Richardson, Desire
name: Odom, Lakisha
name: Cromwell, Kara
name: Grant, DeJuana
name: Myers, Micoya
name: Cadet, Eddy
name: Mahama, Hamid
name: Rangari, Vijaya
name: Pace, Ralphenia
name: Ankumah, Ramble
name: Kpomblekou-A, Kokoasse
name: Fluker, Curtis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Kaolin
subject: Pica
subject: Geophagia
subject: Hematology
subject: Composition

description: Kaolin geophagia is associated with the relief of gastrointestinal distress, but it may also cause adverse health effects on the body. This study was designed to: assess kaolin composition; test if 129SvEv mice would consume kaolin and determine the consequences of consumption; and assess rotational stress modulation of consumption. Thirteen kaolin samples were purchased from Alabama and Georgia stores. Chemical and physical properties were characterized for each sample using a Munsell chart, pH meter, Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy, Visible Near-InfraRed Spectra, and Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometry. Kaolin was then given to mice as food supplements and consumption was determined by weight/volume consumed and recorded in 12 hour intervals. Soil physical/chemical, mouse hematological, blood chemical and kaolin consumption data suggested that kaolin contained various elements, and geophagia was not exacerbated by rotational stress.
Inflation, holography, and the choice of vacuum in de Sitter space
Creators: name: Danielsson, Ulf H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A family of de Sitter vacua introduced in hep-th/0203198 as plausible initial conditions for inflation, are discussed from the point of view of de Sitter holography. The vacua are argued to be physically acceptable and the inflationary picture provides a physical interpretation of a subfamily of de Sitter invariant vacua. Some speculations on the issue of vacuum choice and the connection between the CMBR and holography are also provided.
description: 16 pages. v2: references added and improved discussion about consistency of vacua
Supersaturating drug delivery system of fixed drug combination: sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim
Creators: name: Mendes, Cassiana
name: Valentini, Giuliana
name: Rengifo, Andrés Felipe Chamorro
name: Pinto, Juliana M. O.
name: Silva, Marcos A. S.
name: Parize, Alexandre L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Background: The drug supersaturation in the intestinal lumen for few hours could result in high bioavailability. The goal of this study was the development of a supersaturating drug delivery system containing sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim at fixed dose combination (sulfamethoxazole:trimethoprim 5:1 w/w). Methods: The amorphous solid dispersions were formed at three different proportions containing 30, 50 and 70% of Eudragit EPO in the formulation. Results: The supersaturation state is formed by the amorphous drugs produced by spray drying technique, and the maintenance of this state is due to the chemical interactions between the drugs and the polymer selected, which was observed in the fluorescence interaction studies realized between the drugs and the polymer. The Formulation containing 70% of the polymer was able to produce and maintain the supersaturated state of both drugs for 24 h. Solid state characterization demonstrated the amorphization of the drugs in the solid dispersion and indicated the hydrogen bond formation responsible for the improvement in the apparent solubility. This formulation presented an improved antibacterial activity when compared to the combination of the drugs. Conclusion: For the first time, a supersaturating drug delivery system was developed to the complementary antibacterial drugs. This ternary formulation is a powerful alternative to improve oral absorption of recognized safety drugs, reducing the dose and consequently the antibiotic resistance emergence.
Understanding the lattice thermal conductivity of SrTiO3 from an ab initio perspective
Creators: name: Fumega, Adolfo O.
name: Fu, Yuhao
name: Pardo, Victor
name: Singh, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed analysis of the structure dependence of the lattice thermal conductivity of SrTiO3. We have used both ab initio Molecular Dynamic simulations and Density Functional Theory calculations to decouple the effect of different structural distortions on the thermal conductivity. We have identified two main mechanisms for tuning the thermal conductivity when a distortion is applied. First, the modification of the acoustic-modes energy dispersion when a change in the lattice parameters is imposed and second, the low energy polar modes. In particular and counterintuitively, we have found that an increase in the angle of the oxygen octahedral rotations increases the thermal conductivity due to its coupling to these polar modes.
PARTNERSHIP OF TRADE AND MANUFACTURERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRADEMARKS
Creators: name: Sokolov Miladinovic, Svetlana
name: Cuzovic, Djordje
name: Sokolov Miladinovic, Svetlana
name: Cuzovic, Djordje
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: trade
subject: manufacturers
subject: partnership
subject: trademark

description: Trademarks are increasingly gaining in importance in modern business conditions, as evidenced by an increased market share of products with the trademark in some countries. Development of trademarks requires cooperation between manufacturers and trade. The research subject of this paper focuses on trademarks, as a result of a partnership between trade and manufacturers. The starting hypothesis in this paper is that the development of a trademark has its advantages both for manufacturers and for the trade. This hypothesis will be tested on the basis of available theoretical and empirical data on the development of trademarks, through a partnership between trade and manufacturers.
The role of intercalated discs for the structure and function of the sinoatrial node in a cardiomyopathy animal model
Creators: name: Mavroidis, Manolis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: materials and methods
Perturbative expansions in QCD and analytic properties of alpha_s
Creators: name: Simonov, Yu. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that analytic properties of standard QCD perturbation theory contradict known spectral properties,and contain in particular IR generated ghost poles and cuts. As an outcome the rigorous background perturbation theory is developed and its analytic properties are shown to be in agreement with general requirements. In a limiting case of large Nc, when QCD amplitudes contain only pole singularities, the strong coupling constant alpha_s(Q) is shown to be also meromorfic function of external momenta. Some simple models and examples are given when nonperturbative beta function and alpha_s(Q) can be written explicitly. General form of amplitudes at large Nc is given in the framework of background perturbation theory and its correspondence with standard perturbation theory at large momenta is demonstrated in the example of e^+e^- annihilation. For time-like momenta the background coupling constant differs drastically from the standard one but the background series averaged over energy intervals has the same (AF) asymptotics at large momenta as in the standard perturbation theory.
description: 38 pages, no figures
LEADERSHIP ROLE IN CERTAIN PHASES OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PROCESSES
Creators: name: Micic, Radmila
name: Micic, Radmila
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: leadership
subject: style of leadership
subject: knowledge management

description: Leader has a crucial role in the process оf knowledge management. In order to be successful, leader has to possess qualities and skills that create the conditions for creating, sharing and use of knowledge in organizations. However, apart from the creation, transfer and use of knowledge, it is essential that it promotes and creates new knowledge that will contribute to creating value for the organization. The aim of this work is to point out the necessity of knowledge management, and to suggest the styles of leadership at various stages of knowledge management. The research is of theoretical nature and method of analysis will be used. In this paper we will firstly describe leadership styles. Then we will expose phase of the process of knowledge management. Finally, we describe the role of the leader in the individual stages of the process of knowledge management. By analyzing the styles of leadership and phases of knowledge management process, we have found that the roles and tasks of leaders differ in the stages. Therefore, it is necessary to apply different leadership styles. According to this, different stages of the process of knowledge imply different styles of leadership.
Comparative functional and spectroscopic analysis of spent hen meat hydrolysate by individual and combined treatment of microbial proteases
Creators: name: Kumar, Deepak
name: Jyoti, Aakash
name: Tarafdar, Ayon
name: Kumar, Aman
name: Badgujar, Prarabdh C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Simultaneous (Sm) and sequential (Sq) use of microbial proteases for the hydrolysis of spent hen/chicken meat from antioxidant potential perspective is relatively unexplored and requires attention. In this work, meat was hydrolyzed using Flavourzyme (Fz) and Alcalase (Ac), each at 1, 2, and 3% for 6 h as well as using both enzymes (at 2% each) in Sm and Sq treatment. Maximum attained %DPPH-RSA (Fz:68.25; Ac:77.18; Sm:59.82; and Sq:65.97) and FRAP (mM TEAC/g) values (Fz:3.77; Ac:2.56; Sm:2.54; and Sq:3.37) were measured as a function of hydrolysis time. The highest (23.38%) and lowest (10.68%) degree of hydrolysis (DH) was obtained with 3% Ac and 1% Fz, respectively. FTIR spectroscopy clearly revealed changes in the secondary structure of proteins. SDS PAGE profiling of hydrolysates showed that Fz produces low molecular weight peptides (2–75 kDa) as compared to Ac or its combination with Ac. As per the results of this study, Sq enzyme treatment is recommended for preparing spent hen meat hydrolysate with higher functional attributes for possible use as functional food/nutraceutical.
Static properties of chiral models with SU(3) group structure
Creators: name: Hong, Soon-Tae
name: Park, Young-Jai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the strangeness in the framework of chiral models, such as the Skyrmion, MIT bag, chiral bag and superqualiton models, with SU(3) flavor group structure. We review the recent progresses in both the theoretical paradigm and experimental verification for strange hadron physics, and in particular the SAMPLE experiment results on the proton strange form factor. We study the color flavor locking phase in the color superconducting quark matter at high density, which might exist in the core of neutron stars, in the soliton-like superqualiton description. We explain the difficulties encountered in the application of the standard Dirac quantization to the Skyrmion and superqualiton models and treat the geometrical constraints of these soliton models properly to yield the relevant mass spectrum including the Weyl ordering corrections and the BRST symmetry structures.
description: 112 pages, 6 figures, revised
Bringing competition to urban water supply
Creators: name: Sibly, Hugh
name: Tooth, Richard
name: Sibly, Hugh
name: Tooth, Richard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: urban water
subject: water utilities
subject: efficient water pricing
subject: market power mitigation
subject: introducing competition

description: This paper proposes a market-based reform that would introduce competition into the provision of urban water. This proposal calls for a decoupling of infrastructure control and ownership of water whereby the property rights to water would be transferred to private hands. The proposal involves periodically allocation (e.g. by auction) of existing water stock held in urban catchments to virtual suppliers who then compete in providing bulk water. This change when coupled with effective third party access and retail competition would lead to a competitive market for the provision of urban water. The approach aims to address concerns over inefficient pricing and infrastructure provision under the current arrangement.
Microhabitat temperature data from Rapid induction of the heat hardening response in an Arctic insect
Creators: name: Sørensen, Mathias Hamann
name: Kristensen, Torsten Nygaard
name: Lauritzen, Jannik Mørk Skovgaard
name: Noer, Natasja Krog
name: Høye, Toke Thomas
name: Bahrndorff, Simon
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology

description: The ability to cope with increasing and more variable temperatures, due to predicted climate changes, through plastic and/or evolutionary responses will be crucial for the persistence of Arctic species. Here, we investigate plasticity of heat tolerance of the Greenlandic seed bug Nysius groenlandicus, which inhabits areas with widely fluctuating temperatures. We test the heat tolerance and hardening capacity (plasticity) of N. groenlandicus using both static (heat knock down time, HKDT) and dynamic (critical thermal maximum, CTmax) assays. We find that N. groenlandicus is able to tolerate short-term exposure to temperatures up to almost 50°C and that it can quickly increase heat resistance following heat hardening. Furthermore, we find that this hardening response is reversible within hours after hardening. These findings contrast with common observations from temperate and tropical insects and suggest high thermal plasticity in some Arctic insects which enables them to cope with extreme temperature variability in their habitats.
On the Hurwitz zeta function with an application to the beta-exponential distribution
Creators: name: Arbel, Julyan
name: Marchal, Olivier
name: Nipoti, Bernardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Other Statistics (stat.OT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We prove a monotonicity property of the Hurwitz zeta function which, in turn, translates into a chain of inequalities for polygamma functions of different orders. We provide a probabilistic interpretation of our result by exploiting a connection between Hurwitz zeta function and the cumulants of the beta-exponential distribution.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
One dimensional potentials in q space
Creators: name: Alavi, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the one dimensional potentials in q space and the new features that arise. In particular we show that the probability of tunneling of a particle through a barrier or potential step is less than the one of the same particle with the same energy in ordinary space which is somehow unexpected. We also show that the tunneling time for a particle in q space is less than the one of the same particle in ordinary space.
description: 10 pages, LaTeX2e, no figure
A series of theoretical studies on phosphorescent materials based on deep red/near-infrared iridium complex with low-efficiency roll-off performance
Creators: name: Ji, Ye
name: Guo, Xi-Lian
name: Yang, Jia-Yu
name: Zhang, Hai-Han
name: Liu, Xu-Hui
name: Song, Ming-Xing
name: Qin, Zheng-Kun
name: Wang, Jia
name: Bai, Fu-Quan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have been widely used in various fields such as sensors. In this article, we designed six novel heterocyclic Ir(III) complexes: (CFM)2Ir(acac) (named 1 in this paper), (TTIQ)2Ir(acac) (named 2), (CFM)2Ir(tmd) (named 3), (TTIQ)2Ir(tmd) (named 4), (CFM)2Ir(pic) (named 5) and (TTIQ)2Ir(pic) (named 6). The six iridium (III) complexes were calculated using Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT). We studied the bands of the lowest-lying absorptions and lowest energy emissions of complexes 1–6. In addition, we also explored their spectral properties, frontier Molecular Orbital theory(FMO) and spin-orbital coupling value(SOC). Where acac is represented as pentane-2, 4-dione; tmd as 2,2,6,6-tetramethylheptane-3,5-dione; pic as pyridine-2-carboxylate; TTIQ as 1-{thieno[3,2-b]thiophen-2-yl}isoquinoline; CFM as 2-(4-fluorobrobenyl)-4-methylpyridine. A series of heteroleptic cyclometalated Ir (III) complexes, which are used for OLED application, were investigated by DFT and TD-DFT method. The frontier molecular orbital character and charge transfer character shown that they have the advantages of low efficiency roll-off properties, which is a ‘stumbling block’ in the process of OLED solid-lighting’s development. Namely, means the materials will play an important role in the journey development of OLED.
Peculiar Index Relations, 2D TQFT, and Universality of SUSY Enhancement
Creators: name: Buican, Matthew
name: Li, Linfeng
name: Nishinaka, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study certain exactly marginal gaugings involving arbitrary numbers of Argyres-Douglas (AD) theories and show that the resulting Schur indices are related to those of certain Lagrangian theories of class $\mathcal{S}$ via simple transformations. By writing these quantities in the language of 2D topological quantum field theory (TQFT), we easily read off the $S$-duality action on the flavor symmetries of the AD quivers and also find expressions for the Schur indices of various classes of exotic AD theories appearing in different decoupling limits. The TQFT expressions for these latter theories are related by simple transformations to the corresponding quantities for certain well-known isolated theories with regular punctures (e.g., the Minahan-Nemeschansky $E_6$ theory and various generalizations). We then reinterpret the TQFT expressions for the indices of our AD theories in terms of the topology of the corresponding 3D mirror quivers, and we show that our isolated AD theories generically admit renormalization group (RG) flows to interacting superconformal field theories (SCFTs) with thirty-two (Poincaré plus special) supercharges. Motivated by these examples, we argue that, in a sense we make precise, the existence of RG flows to interacting SCFTs with thirty-two supercharges is generic in a far larger class of 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs arising from compactifications of the 6D $(2,0)$ theory on surfaces with irregular singularities.
description: 52 pages and 21 figures;
A Local Foods System Glossary: A Rose by Any Other Name
Creators: name: Holcomb, Rodney B.
name: Bendfeldt, Eric
name: Lelekacs, Joanna
name: Velandia, Margarita
name: Woods, Timothy A.
name: Goodwin, H.L.
name: Rainey, Ronald L.
name: Holcomb, Rodney B.
name: Bendfeldt, Eric
name: Lelekacs, Joanna
name: Velandia, Margarita
name: Woods, Timothy A.
name: Goodwin, H.L.
name: Rainey, Ronald L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: local food
subject: value chain
subject: geo-proximity

description: This paper attempts to map the various aspects of “local food” and in doing so provide some common ground and a glossary of terminology related to local food systems. It is hoped that this effort will better assist consumers, producers, government entities, NGOs, and land-grant universities identify gaps in local food information and opportunities for educational programs related to local food systems.
Treating to target in psoriatic arthritis: assessing real-world outcomes and optimising therapeutic strategy for adults with psoriatic arthritis—study protocol for the MONITOR-PsA study, a trials within cohorts study design
Creators: name: Rombach, Ines
name: Tillett, William
name: Jadon, Deepak
name: Tucker, Laura
name: Watson, Marion
name: Francis, Anne
name: Sinomati, Yvonne
name: Eldridge, Lucy
name: Dritsaki, Melina
name: Dutton, Susan J.
name: Al-Mossawi, Hussein
name: Gullick, Nicola
name: Thompson, Ben
name: Coates, Laura C.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Study Protocol
Psoriatic arthritis
Treat-to-target
TWiCs
Trials within cohorts
Cohort multiple RCT or cmRCT

description: Abstract: Background: The Tight Control of psoriatic arthritis (TICOPA) trial confirmed improved clinical outcomes with a treat to target (T2T) strategy in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). This consisted of 4-weekly review and escalation of ‘step up’ therapy (single disease modifying therapy (DMARD), combination DMARDs and then biologics) based on remission criteria. Based on this, a T2T approach is supported by European PsA treatment recommendations. However, it is not commonly implemented in routine care primarily due to feasibility and cost concerns. In the TICOPA trial, the same treatment regime was used for all participants regardless of their disease profile. Despite the recognition of PsA as a highly heterogeneous condition, no studies have tailored which drugs are used depending on disease severity. The cohort will establish real world outcomes for the T2T approach in PsA and also form the basis of a trials within cohorts (TWiCs) design to test alternative therapeutic approaches within embedded clinical trials providing an evidence base for treatment strategy in PsA. Methods: The Multicentre Observational Initiative in Treat to target Outcomes in Psoriatic Arthritis (MONITOR-PsA) cohort will apply a T2T approach within routine care. It will recruit newly diagnosed adult patients with PsA starting systemic therapies. The cohort is observational allowing routine therapeutic care within NHS clinics but a T2T approach will be supported when monitoring treatment within the cohort. Eligible participants will be adults (≥18 years) with active PsA with ≥ 1 tender or swollen joints or enthesis who have not previously had treatment with DMARDs for articular disease. Discussion: This study is the first TWiC designed to support a fully powered randomised drug trial. The results from the observational cohort will be compared with those observed in the TICOPA trial investigating the clinical effectiveness and health care costs of the pragmatic T2T approach. Nested trials will provide definitive RCT evidence establishing the optimal management of PsA within the T2T approach. The TWiCs design allows robust generalizability to routine healthcare, avoids disappointment bias, aids recruitment and in future will allow assessment of longer-term outcomes. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03531073. Retrospectively registered on 21 May 2018.
Double crossed products of locally compact quantum groups
Creators: name: Baaj, Saad
name: Vaes, Stefaan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a matched pair of locally compact quantum groups, we construct the double crossed product as a locally compact quantum group. This construction generalizes Drinfeld's quantum double construction. We study C*-algebraic properties of these double crossed products and several links between double crossed products and bicrossed products. In an appendix, we study the Radon-Nikodym derivative of a weight under a quantum group action, following Yamanouchi and obtain, as a corollary, a new characterization of closed quantum subgroups.
description: 29 pages, LaTeX
Gromilus cockaynei
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Gromilus
Gromilus cockaynei

description: Gromilus cockaynei (Broun, 1905)
 Hycanus cockaynei Broun, 1905: 546 (type locality: New Zealand: Auckland Islands; type material: H: BMNH); Gourlay, 1950: 196 (= G. insularis).
 Hycanus frontalis Broun, 1909: 116 (type locality: New Zealand: Auckland Islands, Enderby Island; type material: H: BMNH); Gourlay, 1950: 197 (= Steriphus veneris).
 Gromilus frontalis; Kuschel, 1964: 466; Kuschel, 1971: 254 (= G. cockaynei).
 Gromilus cockaynei; Kuschel, 1971: 254.
 Distribution. New Zealand: Auckland Islands (Kuschel, 1964, 1971).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Additional file 1 of Impacts of patient and family engagement in hospital planning and improvement: qualitative interviews with patient/family advisors and hospital staff
Creators: name: Anderson, Natalie N
name: Dong, Kelly
name: Baker, G. Ross
name: Moody, Lesley
name: Scane, Kerseri
name: Urquhart, Robin
name: Wodchis, Walter P
name: Gagliardi, Anna R
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1.
The Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect: simulation and observation
Creators: name: Zhang, Pengjie
name: Pen, Ue-Li
name: Wang, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (SZ effect) is a complete probe of ionized baryons, the majority of which are likely hiding in the intergalactic medium. We ran a $512^3$ $Λ$CDM simulation using a moving mesh hydro code to compute the statistics of the thermal and kinetic SZ effect such as the power spectra and measures of non-Gaussianity. The thermal SZ power spectrum has a very broad peak at multipole $l\sim 2000-10^4$ with temperature fluctuations $ΔT \sim 15μ$K. The power spectrum is consistent with available observations and suggests a high $σ_8\simeq 1.0$ and a possible role of non-gravitational heating. The non-Gaussianity is significant and increases the cosmic variance of the power spectrum by a factor of $\sim 5$ for $l<6000$. We explore optimal driftscan survey strategies for the AMIBA CMB interferometer and their dependence on cosmology. For SZ power spectrum estimation, we find that the optimal sky coverage for a 1000 hours of integration time is several hundred square degrees. One achieves an accuracy better than 40% in the SZ measurement of power spectrum and an accuracy better than 20% in the cross correlation with Sloan galaxies for $2000
description: 34 pages, 20 figures. Submitted to ApJ. Simulation maps have been replaced by high resolution images. For higher resolution color images, please download from http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~zhangpj/research/SZ/ We corrected a bug in our analysis. the SZ power spectrum decreases 50% and y parameter decrease 25%
Economic Threshold for Dynamically Optimal Late Blight Management
Creators: name: Liu, Yangxuan
name: Langemeier, Michael
name: Gramig, Benjamin
name: Preckel, Paul
name: Small, Ian
name: Joseph, Laura
name: Fry, William
name: Liu, Yangxuan
name: Langemeier, Michael
name: Gramig, Benjamin
name: Preckel, Paul
name: Small, Ian
name: Joseph, Laura
name: Fry, William
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Economic threshold
subject: stochastic optimization
subject: precision farming
subject: disease management
subject: late blight

description: This study evaluates economic thresholds for a new web-based decision support system developed for precision fungicide management for potato production. We extend previous work (Zhang and Swinton, 2009), by developing an intra-seasonal dynamic economic optimization model. This model allows us to evaluate economic thresholds for disease control. The suggested model is applied to the problem of controlling potato late blight disease in 152 locations for 5 major potato producing states in the United States. The empirical results show that the economic thresholds improved disease suppression and farming profit relative to the previous critical thresholds while maintaining fungicide use efficiency.
Planetare Gesundheit – transformative Lehr- und Lernformate zur Klima- und Nachhaltigkeitskrise für Gesundheitsberufe
Creators: name: Wabnitz, Katharina
name: Galle, Sophia
name: Hegge, Louise
name: Masztalerz, Oskar
name: Schwienhorst-Stich, Eva‑Maria
name: Eichinger, Michael
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: In der Diskussion
Lehre
Gesundheitswesen
Klimawandel
Transformation
Nichtschaden
Education
Health system
Climate change
Do no harm

description: Funder: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (1024)
description: Zusammenfassung: Die Dringlichkeit der Klima- und Nachhaltigkeitskrise und ihre Auswirkungen auf die menschliche Gesundheit rücken auch im deutschen Gesundheitswesen zunehmend in den Fokus. Um ein weiteres Fortschreiten der Klima- und Nachhaltigkeitskrise zu verhindern, sind tiefgreifende Transformationsprozesse in allen gesellschaftlichen Sektoren notwendig (z. B. Verkehr, Energieerzeugung, Ernährungssystem). Angehörige der Gesundheitsberufe haben auf Basis ihrer ethischen Verpflichtung des Nichtschadens und ihrer guten Vertrauenswerte in der Gesellschaft das Potenzial, einen wichtigen Beitrag zu den notwendigen Transformationsprozessen zu leisten. Damit sie dieses Potenzial zur Gänze ausschöpfen können, sollten Angehörige der Gesundheitsberufe im Rahmen ihrer Aus‑, Fort- und Weiterbildung bei der Entwicklung von Kompetenzen begleitet werden, die zu transformativem Handeln befähigen. Wir führen in diesem Artikel in das Konzept der planetaren Gesundheit ein, das hierfür sowohl inhaltliche als auch ethische Orientierung gibt. Außerdem geben wir einen Überblick über aktuelle Lehr- und Lernformate und identifizieren Aspekte, die zur Weiterentwicklung der Lehre im Bereich planetare Gesundheit beitragen könnten.
An Analysis of Factors Affecting Bias and Inefficiency in Area Yield Indexes Based on Aggregated Farm Yields
Creators: name: Yehouenou, Lauriane S. M.
name: Barnett, Barry J.
name: Harri, Ardian
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Yehouenou, Lauriane S. M.
name: Barnett, Barry J.
name: Harri, Ardian
name: Coble, Keith H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: crop insurance
subject: estimated county yield
subject: bias

description: The Federal Crop Insurance Products offered for major field crops are either yield-based or revenue-based and offered at either the unit-level (farm or sub-farm) or county-level. The 2014 Farm Bill created the Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) and Stacked Income Protection Plan (STAX) insurance products. These products provide county-level coverage against “shallow-losses” that can be added to the coverage provided by a unit-level yield or revenue insurance product. Historically, county-level insurance products have been based on National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) county yield estimates. However, in recent years NASS has reduced the number of counties for which it reports county yield estimates. As a result, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) is now basing all county-level insurance products (including SCO and STAX) on aggregated (to the county-level) farm-level yield data obtained from unit-level yield and revenue insurance policies sold. This paper analyzes how the performance of county-level insurance products might be impacted by this change. Specifically, the paper analyzes how differences across counties in factors such as unit-level insurance participation, the characteristics of producers purchasing unit-level insurance, and spatial yield correlation affect the performance of county-level insurance products based on aggregated unit-level insurance yield data.
Supplementary document for Tuning the persistent luminescence property of Y3Al2Ga3O12:Ce3+,Yb3+ phosphor by controlling the intrinsic oxygen vacancy concentration - 6056742.pdf
Creators: name: Yang, Ting
name: Jiang, Hongyi
name: Dong, Ye
name: Liu, Shuning
name: Gao, Shuai
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: PLE and PL spectra, PersL decay curves, and TL spectra of the YAGG:Ce annealed in air and H2/Ar; PersL spectra of the YAGG:Ce,Yb annealed in air and H2/Ar measured at 1, 5, and 10 min after excitation; Comparison of the normalized PersL spectra and P
Corn and Rice Yield and Acreage Response to Prices, Policy and Climate Factors in Togo
Creators: name: Manzamasso, Hodjo
name: Acharya, Ram N.
name: Blayney, Don P.
name: Manzamasso, Hodjo
name: Acharya, Ram N.
name: Blayney, Don P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Crop acreage
subject: Crop yield
subject: Producer price
subject: Climate factor
subject: Policy
subject: Togo

description: The primary objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of market prices, weather, and policy variables on crop yield and acreage response in Togo using panel data estimators. Results show that both input (fertilizer) and output prices have statistically significant and expected effect on corn acreage. Output price also has significant but opposite impact on corn (negative) and rice (positive) yields. As expected, rainfall during planting months has a significant impact on both corn (April) and rice (May) acreage allocations. Similarly, total rainfall during growing season has significantly positive impact on both corn and rice yields. Moreover, recent agricultural policy initiative designed to boost domestic food production has significantly increased corn and rice yields and corn acreage.
FOOD INSECURITY AND TYPES OF DISABILITY
Creators: name: Cho, Seungyeon
name: Ishdorj, Ariun
name: Gregory, Christian
name: Cho, Seungyeon
name: Ishdorj, Ariun
name: Gregory, Christian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Food insecurity
subject: Disability
subject: NHIS

description: One of the factors that affect food security status of the household is the presence of the disabled individual in the household. Existing studies show that types of disability of adults in the household are associated with food insecurity. Using data from 2011-2014 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), we found that severity of vision, physical, and mental disability as well as the multiplicity of the household head’s disability have a significant effect on food insecurity.
Road safety situation of electric bike riders: A cross-sectional study in courier and take-out food delivery population
Creators: name: Wang, Zhuo
name: Neitzel, Richard L.
name: Zheng, Wenlong
name: Wang, Dezheng
name: Xue, Xiaodan
name: Jiang, Guohong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Almost all courier and take-out food delivery riders in China use electric bikes as the main transport mode. This study aims to understand their riding behaviors and road traffic injury information of this population. A cross-sectional field study focused on this population was conducted, including roadside observation and face-to-face retrospective street intercept interviews. Six hundred target delivery riders were observed and 480 were interviewed. The rate of overspeeding was 91.3%, and windshield use during winter was 91.2%. Traffic violation behaviors observed included riding in the motor vehicle lane (32.8%), not waiting behind the white line at a red light (23.3%), and using cell phone when riding (21.2%). Helmet use was significantly more common during the day (73.0%) than at night (64.7%; P = .028). About 46.5% of respondents rode an e-bike more than 8 h per day. In addition, 76.5% of interviewees had been involved in a traffic crash at least once. About 13.9% of crashes happened in motor vehicle lanes and 8.2% on sidewalks. Logistic regression analysis indicated that compared with uninjured riders, injured riders showed significantly greater odds ratios of unsafe behaviors for running red lights (odds ratio [OR] = 1.75) and protective factors for wearing a helmet (OR = 0.56). The courier and take-out food delivery population is a vulnerable occupational group and road traffic injuries related to e-bike use require more attention.
Standard Model Engineering with Intersecting Branes
Creators: name: Ibanez, L. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I briefly describe the recent construction of the first specific string D-brane models yielding just the SM massless fermion spectrum. One of the most remarkable facts predicted by these constructions is that the global symmetries of the SM like Baryon and Lepton numbers as well as the axial $U(1)_A$ are gauged symmetries whose anomalies are cancelled by a Green-Schwarz mechanism only in the case of three quark-lepton generations. Proton stability and the Dirac nature of neutrino masses are thus a prediction of these theories. This is work done in collaboration with Fernando Marchesano and Raul Rabadan.
description: 10 pages, Latex file, no figures. Contribution to the proceedings of SUSY-01, Dubna (Russia), June 2001
Autocatalytic amplification of Alzheimer-associated Aβ42 peptide aggregation in human cerebrospinal fluid
Creators: name: Frankel, Rebecca
name: Törnquist, Mattias
name: Meisl, Georg
name: Hansson, Oskar
name: Andreasson, Ulf
name: Zetterberg, Henrik
name: Blennow, Kaj
name: Frohm, Birgitta
name: Cedervall, Tommy
name: Knowles, Tuomas P. J.
name: Leiding, Thom
name: Linse, Sara
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article
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description: Funder: Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse (Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation); doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004063
description: Funder: Alzheimerfonden; doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100008599
description: Abstract: Alzheimer’s disease is linked to amyloid β (Aβ) peptide aggregation in the brain, and a detailed understanding of the molecular mechanism of Aβ aggregation may lead to improved diagnostics and therapeutics. While previous studies have been performed in pure buffer, we approach the mechanism in vivo using cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). We investigated the aggregation mechanism of Aβ42 in human CSF through kinetic experiments at several Aβ42 monomer concentrations (0.8–10 µM). The data were subjected to global kinetic analysis and found consistent with an aggregation mechanism involving secondary nucleation of monomers on the fibril surface. A mechanism only including primary nucleation was ruled out. We find that the aggregation process is composed of the same microscopic steps in CSF as in pure buffer, but the rate constant of secondary nucleation is decreased. Most importantly, the autocatalytic amplification of aggregate number through catalysis on the fibril surface is prevalent also in CSF.