cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigation of Factors Influencing the Technical Efficiency of Agricultural Producers Participating in Farm Credit Programs: The Case of Greece
Creators: name: Rezitis, Anthony N.
name: Tsiboukas, Kostas
name: Tsoukalas, Stauros
name: Rezitis, Anthony N.
name: Tsiboukas, Kostas
name: Tsoukalas, Stauros
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: farm credit program
subject: stochastic frontier
subject: technical efficiency

description: This study investigates a number of factors influencing technical efficiency of Greek farms participating in the 1994 European Union (EU) farm credit program. Technical efficiency measures are obtained within the framework of a parametric stochastic frontier. Factors showing a positive effect on technical efficiency are value of liabilities, number of hours of mechanical operation, large land size, and rental land, whereas those showing a negative effect are value of EU product subsidies, value of off-farm family income, and hired labor. The value of investments incurred by farms because of their participation in the 1994 farm credit program does not show any significant effect on technical efficiency. The predicted levels of technical efficiency indicate that the average technical efficiency of farms 3 years after participating in the 1994 farm credit program is lower than the average technical efficiency of the same farms the year before participating in the program. Thus, the program has failed to increase the efficiency of farms.
THE ROLE OF ISLAMIC KNOWLEDGE IN UNDERSTANDING THE TRADITIONS OF SPIRITUALITY, CULTURE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PEOPLE OF CENTRAL ASIA
Creators: name: Kholmatova, B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The role and importance of Islamic knowledge in understanding the traditions of the formation and development of the spirituality, culture and development of the peoples of Central Asia is incomparable. In this matter, without knowing the essence of Sufism, it is impossible to know the qualitative changes of Eastern social development. Islamic mysticism has its own history, process of formation and improvement, and the historical and cultural foundations of its development are also distinguished by their own characteristics.
Detection and Mapping of Terrestrial Oil Spill Impact Using Remote Sensing Data in Combination with Machine Learning Methods. A Case Site within the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria.
Creators: name: Ozigis, Mohammed S. J.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this novel research, the use of optical and SAR images for separate and joint investigations were explored, with the aid of machine learning classifiers for detecting hydrocarbon spill impact on cropland, grassland and dense forested vegetation types. Optical image spectral bands across the Visible, Near-Infrared and Shortwave-Infrared spectrum, various vegetation health indices (including NDVI, NDWI, LAI and SAVI) and SAR derived variables (including backscatter, coherence and textural variables) were used to detect and map oil spill sites within cropland, grassland and TCA vegetation types. Results generally showed that the integration of multi-frequency L, C and X band SAR in the wet (summer) season yielded the best overall classification accuracy in discrimination of polluted and oil-free vegetation types. An overall accuracy (OA) of 82.3%, 66.67% and 70.93% were obtained for Cropland, Grassland and Tree Cover Areas (TCA) vegetation types, respectively. The accuracies recorded were significantly better (P>0.05) than when the spill was classified using optical imagery only and when integrated optical and SAR image variables are classified. These results were further corroborated by the multi-temporal Sentinel – 1 backscatter analysis, which showed that mean backscatter difference between polluted and oil-free cropland and grassland vegetation are significantly different (P>0.05) in the wet season than in the dry season. Furthermore, the new fuzzy forest method used for multi-frequency (C and X band) SAR and Optical variable reduction was able to achieve a good result in addressing high dimensionality in cropland and grassland vegetation. This research demonstrates that SAR based monitoring of petroleum hydrocarbon impacts on vegetation is feasible and has high potential for oil pipeline monitoring and facility management. The research also presented a new paradigm into terrestrial oil spill detection, which largely can replace the use of optical data.
Chaotic particle motion around a homogeneous circular ring
Creators: name: Igata, Takahisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider test particle motion in a gravitational field generated by a homogeneous circular ring placed in $n$-dimensional Euclidean space. We observe that there exist no stable stationary orbits in $n=6, 7, \ldots, 10$ but exist in $n=3, 4, 5$ and clarify the regions in which they appear. In $n=3$, we show that the separation of variables of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation does not occur though we find no signs of chaos for stable bound orbits. Since the system is integrable in $n=4$, no chaos appears. In $n=5$, we find some chaotic stable bound orbits. Therefore, this system is nonintegrable at least in $n=5$ and suggests that the timelike geodesic system in the corresponding black ring spacetimes is nonintegrable.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor revision, add references; v3: published version
Vespertilionidae Gray 1821
Creators: name: Srinivasulu, Chelmala
name: Srinivasulu, Aditya
name: Srinivasulu, Bhargavi
name: Gopi, Asad
name: Dar, Tauseef Hamid
name: Bates, Paul J. J.
name: Rossiter, Stephen J.
name: Jones, Gareth
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae

description: Family Vespertilionidae Gray, 1821   The family Vespertilionidae was the most species-rich group with six species — including two endemic subspecies — recorded from the Andaman Islands. Hesperoptenus tickelli, Tylonycteris pachypus and T. robustula are the forest-dwelling species. Tylonycteris species are bamboo-dependent and have been observed in forests with lush growth of bamboo. Pipistrellus coromandra occurs in forested tracts, while P. javanicus camortae was recorded mostly in human-dominated habitats and sometimes in the forested tracts. Myotis horsfieldii dryas was recorded only in forests and was found roosting in caves and tree hollows.
description: Published as part of Srinivasulu, Chelmala, Srinivasulu, Aditya, Srinivasulu, Bhargavi, Gopi, Asad, Dar, Tauseef Hamid, Bates, Paul J. J., Rossiter, Stephen J. & Jones, Gareth, 2017, Recent surveys of bats from the Andaman Islands, India: diversity, distribution, and echolocation characteristics, pp. 419-437 in Acta Chiropterologica 19 (2) on page 431, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2017.19.2.018, http://zenodo.org/record/3942489
Blogpost Database
Creators: name: Guarneros-Meza, Valeria
name: Zaremberg, Gisela
Publisher: name: De Montfort University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160605 Environmental Politics
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified

description: The first results obtained from a newspaper review database (Jan 2006-Jan2019) are presented addressing the trade offs that communities in conflict with the extractive industry in Mexico encounter.
Oligopsony/Oligopoly Power and Factor Market Performance: The Case of U.S. Old Newspapers
Creators: name: Hervani, Aref A.
name: Hervani, Aref A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: buyer and seller market shares
subject: mandated recycling programs
subject: minimum content standards
subject: oligopsony

description: This paper derives price-cost margins for the old newspaper (ONP) input market for newsprint manufacture and then examines the effects of two government policies and two variables measuring the market performances of ONP input and newsprint output on the oligopsonist’s ONP price-cost margins. In the wastepaper recycling market in particular, the ONP input market has not been successful in using the ONP generated. The outcomes of the study are that various degrees of price distortions existed in the ONP input markets in four regions of the United States during 1972-1995. Demand-side policy had a positive effect and supply-side policy had a negative effect on ONP price-cost margins in all regions.
อาเบะโนมิกส์กับการเปลี่ยนรูปรัฐญี่ปุ่น
Creators: name: เอกสิทธิ์ หนุนภักดี
Publisher: name: สมาคมญี่ปุ่นศึกษาแห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2016
Subjects: อาเบะโนมิกส์
การขยายตัวทางเศรษฐกิจ
คนงาน
รัฐตลาด
ญี่ปุ่น

description: วารสารเครือข่ายญี่ปุ่นศึกษา, 6, 2, 96-108
The Basic Reproductive Number of Ebola and the Effects of Public Health Measures: The Cases of Congo and Uganda
Creators: name: Chowell, Gerardo
name: Hengartner, Nick W.
name: Castillo-Chavez, Carlos
name: Fenimore, Paul W.
name: Hyman, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Despite improved control measures, Ebola remains a serious public health risk in African regions where recurrent outbreaks have been observed since the initial epidemic in 1976. Using epidemic modeling and data from two well-documented Ebola outbreaks (Congo 1995 and Uganda 2000), we estimate the number of secondary cases generated by an index case in the absence of control interventions ($R_0$). Our estimate of $R_0$ is 1.83 (SD 0.06) for Congo (1995) and 1.34 (SD 0.03) for Uganda (2000). We model the course of the outbreaks via an SEIR (susceptible-exposed-infectious-removed) epidemic model that includes a smooth transition in the transmission rate after control interventions are put in place. We perform an uncertainty analysis of the basic reproductive number $R_0$ to quantify its sensitivity to other disease-related parameters. We also analyze the sensitivity of the final epidemic size to the time interventions begin and provide a distribution for the final epidemic size. The control measures implemented during these two outbreaks (including education and contact tracing followed by quarantine) reduce the final epidemic size by a factor of 2 relative the final size with a two-week delay in their implementation.
description: 27 pages, 7 figures
Risk Management Education: An Examination of Crop Producers' Participation in Recent Programs and of Their Desire for Additional Training
Creators: name: Knight, Thomas O.
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Patrick, George F.
name: Baquet, Alan E.
name: Knight, Thomas O.
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Patrick, George F.
name: Baquet, Alan E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: commodity futures
subject: commodity options
subject: crop insurance
subject: forward contracting
subject: risk management

description: Risk management education has been a focus of U.S. farm policy since 1996. In support of significant ongoing United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) educational efforts, this study examines agricultural producers’ educational needs and interests. Data obtained through a survey of crop producers are used in probit models examining interest in additional training in five areas including forward contracting, futures and options, crop yield insurance, crop revenue insurance, and financial management. The study results should be useful in determining appropriate risk management education program content and in indentifying and tailoring to specific target audiences.
Emotional Video to Audio Transformation Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks and a Neuro-Fuzzy System
Creators: name: Sergio, Gwenaelle Cunha
name: Lee, Minho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Generating music with emotion similar to that of an input video is a very relevant issue nowadays. Video content creators and automatic movie directors benefit from maintaining their viewers engaged, which can be facilitated by producing novel material eliciting stronger emotions in them. Moreover, there's currently a demand for more empathetic computers to aid humans in applications such as augmenting the perception ability of visually and/or hearing impaired people. Current approaches overlook the video's emotional characteristics in the music generation step, only consider static images instead of videos, are unable to generate novel music, and require a high level of human effort and skills. In this study, we propose a novel hybrid deep neural network that uses an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System to predict a video's emotion from its visual features and a deep Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network to generate its corresponding audio signals with similar emotional inkling. The former is able to appropriately model emotions due to its fuzzy properties, and the latter is able to model data with dynamic time properties well due to the availability of the previous hidden state information. The novelty of our proposed method lies in the extraction of visual emotional features in order to transform them into audio signals with corresponding emotional aspects for users. Quantitative experiments show low mean absolute errors of 0.217 and 0.255 in the Lindsey and DEAP datasets respectively, and similar global features in the spectrograms. This indicates that our model is able to appropriately perform domain transformation between visual and audio features. Based on experimental results, our model can effectively generate audio that matches the scene eliciting a similar emotion from the viewer in both datasets, and music generated by our model is also chosen more often.
description: Published (https://www.hindawi.com/journals/mpe/2020/8478527/)
บทวิจารณ์หนังสือเรื่อง Japan's ASEAN Policy: In Search of Proactive Multilateralism
Creators: name: ศิริพร วัชชวัลคุ
Publisher: name: สมาคมญี่ปุ่นศึกษาแห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2016
Subjects: -

description: วารสารเครือข่ายญี่ปุ่นศึกษา, 6, 2, 109-112
High-frequency oscillations in low-dimensional conductors and semiconductor superlattices induced by current in stack direction
Creators: name: Artemenko, S. N.
name: Remizov, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A narrow energy band of the electronic spectrum in some direction in low-dimensional crystals may lead to a negative differential conductance and N-shaped I-V curve that results in an instability of the uniform stationary state. A well-known stable solution for such a system is a state with electric field domain. We have found a uniform stable solution in the region of negative differential conductance. This solution describes uniform high-frequency voltage oscillations. Frequency of the oscillation is determined by antenna properties of the system. The results are applicable also to semiconductor superlattices.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
IMPACTS OF POLICY REFORM ON HILL FARM INCOMES IN UK
Creators: name: Acs, Szvetlana
name: Dallimer, Martin
name: Hanley, Nick
name: Armsworth, Paul R.
name: Acs, Szvetlana
name: Dallimer, Martin
name: Hanley, Nick
name: Armsworth, Paul R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: changes in subsidies
subject: risk
subject: survey
subject: farmers’ reaction

description: Hill farming in UK is experiencing very difficult economic circumstances and many farmers rely on subsidies provided by the government for a large fraction of their income. The Peak District National Park is used as a case study to examine how farmers might respond to current policy changes – in particular, the move from area- and headage-based payments to the Single Farm Payment. The objective of this paper is thus to develop production models that predict how farmers will respond to changing policy framework conditions. For this purpose socio-economic surveys were carried out on 44 sample farms. Based on these surveys six representative farm linear programming models was developed, which represent typical farm types in the uplands in the Peak District. These models are used to calculate the effect of different policies, carried out under CAP reform, on incomes, land use and the intensity of production. In this study the focus is on typical sheep and beef farm type, the most common in this region.
FEATURES OF MODERN DIPLOMATIC SERVICE AS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY OF THE STATE
Creators: name: Vasikhov, Akmal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The relevance of the study of modern diplomatic service lies in view of the constantly changing trends in the development of world politics and international relations. At the moment, the modern political environment is constantly changing, including the increasing role of non-state actors, changes in the global economy and the emergence of new challenges such as cybersecurity and climate change. The purpose of the research in this scientific article is to reveal the main features of the modern diplomatic service as an important component of the diplomatic activity of the state.
Oxide Variability Analysis Exploiting Greens Function Simulations
Creators: name: Ahsin Murtaza Bughio, Junaid Iqbal
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: FinFET variability
Solid State Electronics
Greens function
Modeling and simulations
Process variations
Nano-electronic devices
Physics based simulations.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 12, 3, 12A3A: 1-7
Discovery of an X-ray Nova in M31
Creators: name: Williams, Benjamin F.
name: Garcia, Michael R.
name: Kong, Albert K. H.
name: Primini, Frank A.
name: Murray, Stephen S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have obtained snapshot images of an X-ray nova in M31 from Chandra ACIS-I and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The Chandra position of the X-ray nova was R.A.=00:44:06.68 +/- 1.74", Dec.=+41:12:20.0 +/- 2.31". A follow-up HST observation 24 days later revealed a source at R.A.=00:44:06.81, Dec.=+41:12:24.0 that was B=25.75 +/- 0.05. This optical source faded to B=27.1 +/- 0.1 in 3 months. During this time period, the X-ray flux decayed linearly from (3.6 +/- 0.2) X 10^{-4} to
description: 20 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
New X-shaped bulge photometric model as a tool for measuring B/PS bulges and their X-structures in photometric studies
Creators: name: Smirnov, Anton A.
name: Savchenko, Sergey S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent orbital studies of 3D bar structure in various numerical and analytical models show that X-structures that reside in boxy/peanut-shaped (B/PS) bulges are not delineated by some specific type of orbits, but are natural parts of them and formed by the same orbits that constitute such bulges. This implies that to accurately account for B/PS bulges and their X-structures in photometric studies, one needs the photometric model of B/PS bulge that includes an X-structure as its natural part. To find such a model, we considered a self-consistent numerical galaxy model where a typical B/PS bulge arises. Using spectral characteristics of particle-"stars", we decomposed the galaxy model onto the bar and non-bar components. We used the extracted 3D bar component to find an appropriate B/PS bulge photometric model, which can account for X-structures residing in such bulges. The resulted B/PS bulge photometric model has a truncated 2D Sersic profile with truncations introduced above (in the upper half-plane) and below (in the bottom half-plane) the rays of X-structures. We applied this model to represent B/PS bulges of various numerical models and some real galaxies. The comparison with previous works revealed that there are systematic shifts between the X-structure parameters of the same galaxies measured within the different approaches. We found that the geometric parameters of X-structures of real and modelled galaxies are consistent with each other if we measure them using our new model.
description: Accepted in MNRAS
Signalling Quality: An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Regulator Quality Ratings for Care Homes
Creators: name: Shahzad, Muhammad W.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: When making a choice regarding care homes, potential service users or their family members face problems associated with information asymmetry. Given the credence nature of care home services, many aspects of quality cannot be assessed prior to use. In the absence of a mechanism to assess service quality two main problems can arise. First, users are not able to distinguish between good-quality providers and poor-quality providers, and second, providers of good-quality services are unable to credibly provide accurate information to users to distinguish them from poor-quality providers. In such a situation, both users and providers of high-quality services will welcome measures or effective ‘signals’ that would allow them to differentiate service quality. In England, this role is fulfilled by the Care Quality Commission, through inspections and provision of quality ratings. Quality ratings produced by the regulator have a dual purpose. They provide information about quality for potential stakeholders who may be interested in using the service and they provide feedback for care home service providers to encourage service quality improvement. If quality ratings are to effectively remove problems of information asymmetry, they must be effective in both purposes. Using signalling theory as the basis for a range of quantitative methods, this research assesses the effectiveness of quality ratings provided by the regulator for all care homes, as market signals of quality. Based on the assessment of the three dimensions of an effective signal (signal cost, signal observability and signal consistency), the study finds that regulator quality ratings may not be an effective market signal. Whilst the study finds that quality ratings of some service providers improves after inspection, no improvements are made by a greater number of care homes. Furthermore, the study also finds a positive association between quality ratings and demand for care home places, however, the evidence also suggests that changes in demand are caused mostly by the regulator’s own enforcement actions. In addition to having some issues with internal consistency between quality ratings and inspection reports, evidence suggests that regulator quality ratings are mainly fulfilling the role of a feedback signal for regulatory scrutiny. There is a need for the regulator to consider the informational gain from its quality ratings for potential service users of care homes. If service users are to benefit from quality ratings and inspection reports, these must be internally consistent and easily understandable by those accessing the information.
Higher-form symmetries and 3-group in axion electrodynamics
Creators: name: Hidaka, Yoshimasa
name: Nitta, Muneto
name: Yokokura, Ryo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study higher-form symmetries in a low-energy effective theory of a massless axion coupled with a photon in $(3+1)$ dimensions. It is shown that the higher-form symmetries of this system are accompanied by a semistrict 3-group (2-crossed module) structure, which can be found by the correlation functions of symmetry generators of the higher-form symmetries. We argue that the Witten effect and anomalous Hall effect in the axion electrodynamics can be described in terms of 3-group transformations.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor revisions, references added; v3: minor revisions, published version with more references
Ab initio calculation of the 4He(e,e'd)d reaction
Creators: name: Andreasi, D.
name: Quaglioni, S.
name: Efros, V. D.
name: Leidemann, W.
name: Orlandini, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two-body knock-out reaction 4He(e,e'd)d is calculated at various momentum transfers. The full four-nucleon dynamics is taken into account microscopically both in the initial and the final states. As NN interaction the central MT-I/III potential is used. The calculation shows a strong reduction of the coincidence cross section due to the final state interaction. Nonetheless the theoretical results exhibit a considerable overestimation of the experimental cross section at lower momentum transfer. Comparisons with other, less complete, calculations suggest that consideration of a more realistic ground state might not be sufficient for a good agreement with experiment, rather a more realistic final state interaction could play an essential role.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
SOME PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Bielik, Peter
name: Rajcaniova, Miroslava
name: Bielik, Peter
name: Rajcaniova, Miroslava
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm Management
subject: agriculture
subject: economic and social development
subject: transformation process

description: Slovak Republic was among ten new members joining European Union in May 2004. Since then the EU accession has influenced the social and economic aspects of life in the country and still continues to do so. The main purpose of this article is to present several problem areas of socio-economic development of Slovak agriculture. In details, we will focus to the position of agriculture in the National economy, development trends of Slovak Agriculture and transformation process, entrepreneurial structure and use of land, economic situation in Agriculture and the development of selected socio-economic indicators in agriculture. Finally, we will mention about the present situation and priorities of the Slovak Agricultural Policy.
Experimental Evidence for Crossed Andreev Reflection
Creators: name: Beckmann, D.
name: Löhneysen, H. v.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on electronic transport properties of mesoscopic superconductor-ferromagnet spin-valve structures. Two ferromagnetic iron leads form planar tunnel contacts to a superconducting aluminum wire, where the distance of the two contacts is of the order of the coherence length of the aluminum. We observe a negative non-local resistance which can be explained by crossed Andreev reflection, a process where an electron incident from one of the leads gets reflected as a hole into the other, thereby creating a pair of spatially separated, entangled particles.
description: LT24 conference proceeding, 2 pages, 2 figures
article-1519.pdf
Creators: name: KUMAR RAMCHANDANI
name: KINJAL JETHWANI
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In behavioral finance, emotional and visceral factors are often considered important determinants of asset pricing. This study examines the relationship between Indian cricket team’s performance in one day international cricket matches and returns of the Indian stock market. The main conclusion of the study is that there exists an asymmetric relationship between the performance of the Indian cricket team and stock market returns. It is found that win & loss by the Indian cricket team has statistically significant impact on stock market returns.
Bludau, Aug.: Die ersten Gegner der Johannesschriften
Creators: name: Franses, Desiderius
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 25 Nr. 1 (1928): Oriens christianus, Band 25/26, Heft 1
Blogpost Capulalpam
Creators: name: Wong, Marcela Torres
Publisher: name: De Montfort University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 50209 Natural Resource Management
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 50205 Environmental Management

description: The blogpost examines the different legal frameworks that impact the local governance of local municipalities in Oaxaca. and shows how one indigenous community was able to take advantage of plural and contradictory state legalities to halt gold mining.
Quality and governance mode choice: a transaction cost approach to the wine industry
Creators: name: Fernandez-Olmos, Marta
name: Rosell-Martinez, Jorge
name: Espitia-Escuer, Manuel Antonio
name: Fernandez-Olmos, Marta
name: Rosell-Martinez, Jorge
name: Espitia-Escuer, Manuel Antonio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: quality
subject: governance mode choice
subject: transaction cost

description: We analyze the relationship between product quality and governance mode choice using the results of a survey of DOC Rioja wineries. Wineries that produce high-quality wines are more likely to vertically integrate than are wineries that produce low-quality wines. Consistent with Transaction Cost Economics, we find evidence that asset specificity and uncertainty are important determinants of vertical integration. Finally, the size of the winery is also an important factor that affects governance mode choice in viticulture.
Blogpost Oaxaca: Capulalpam and Natividad
Creators: name: Jimenez, Adrian
Publisher: name: De Montfort University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The blogpost looks at the very different experiences of two neighbouring communities. Capulalpam successfully fought against a forestry company and a mine. Adjoining Natividad fought with its neighbour rather than the companies and looked to the mine to solve its problems.
Panel Data Estimation Techniques for Farm-level Data Model
Creators: name: Platoni, Silvia
name: Sckokai, Paolo
name: Moro, Daniele
name: Platoni, Silvia
name: Sckokai, Paolo
name: Moro, Daniele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural policy
subject: Panel data
subject: Systems of equations

description: Econometric models wishing to estimate relevant parameters for agricultural policy analysis are increasingly relying on unbalanced panels of farm-level data. Since in the agricultural economics literature such models have often been estimated through simplified approaches, in this paper we try to verify whether the adoption of more sophisticated panel data techniques may impact the estimation results. For this reason, the policy model by Moro and Sckokai (1999) has been reestimated using techniques recently developed in the econometric literature. The preliminary results show a strong impact on the estimations. This seems to suggest that the adoption of proper panel-data techniques is likely to be very important in order to obtain reliable estimates of some key policy parameters.
Challenges and perspectives for new material solutions in batteries
Creators: name: Pellegrini, Vittorio
name: Bodoardo, Silvia
name: Brandell, Daniel
name: Edström, Kristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: A.m
subject: miscellaneous

description: We outline main challenges for future research in batteries, particularly, addressing the urgent needs of developing new environmentally friendly material solutions to enhance the energy density and safety of these storage devices. This will require embracing a multidisciplinary approach encompassing traditional electrochemistry and experimental solid-state physics, multiscale computational modelling, materials synthesis, and advanced characterization and testing
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
The evolution of farm size distribution: revisiting the Markov chain model
Creators: name: Piet, Laurent
name: Piet, Laurent
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Farm size distribution
subject: Gibrat’s law
subject: Markov Chain Model

description: In this paper, a continuous version of the Markov Chain Model (MCM) is proposed to project the number and the population structure of farms. It is then applied to the population of professional French farms. Rather than working directly with transition probabilities as in the traditional, discontinuous, MCM, this approach relies on the close but not identical concept of growth rate probabilities and exploits the Gibrat’s law of proportionate effects which appears to be supported by the French data. It is shown that the proposed continuous MCM is a more general approach, since it enables to derive more in-depth detail on the distribution of the projected population and the traditional MCM transition probability matrix can be easily reconstructed from the estimated growth rate probabilities. Though the continuous MCM is presented in this paper in a stationary framework, it should be possible to develop a non-stationary version in a similar way traditional MCMs are now made non-stationary.
Bottom Up Meets Heterotic Strings
Creators: name: Forste, Stefan
name: Wingerter, Akin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk we argue that a certain class of heterotic orbifolds can be the underlying fundamental theory for recently studied field theory GUTs. In addition we demonstrate that symmetric heterotic Z2 times Z2 orbifolds can give rise to three generation models if quantised Wilson lines are switched on.
description: Based on talks given by A. Wingerter at String Phenomenology 2004, Ann Arbor, 1--6 August 2004, and by S. Forste at the 37th International Symposium Ahrenshoop on the Theory of Elementary Particles, Berlin, 23--27 August 2004
Modulation of insulinotropic hormone bioactivity with a focus on clucose-dependent insulinotropic polipeptide (GIP) and its receptor
Creators: name: Hinke, Simon Amadeus
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Insulin secretory responses to oral glucose are compromised in type 2 diabetes. GIP receptor desensitization and internalization were studied as possible mechanisms for the blunted responsiveness to GIP in the human disease, employing in vitro cellular models. Using clonal insulin producing tumour cells (βTC-3) and rat GIP receptor transfected CHO-K1 cells, it was possible to characterize important aspects of receptor regulation. GIP receptor desensitization appeared to be slower than for other related receptors, and the rate appeared to parallel receptor internalization. Phosphorylation of receptor carboxyl terminal serine residues was implicated in both processes. Using co-transfection techniques and pharmacological agents, it was possible to partially delineate cellular proteins involved in GIP receptor desensitization and internalization. Dipeptidyl peptidase IV cleaves dipeptides from the N-termini of GIP, GLP-1 and glucagon, all of which are insulinotropic peptides involved in glucose homeostasis. Using cells transfected with the cognate receptors for these hormones, it was possible to demonstrate the importance of this enzyme in the modulation of hormone bioactivity. Structure-activity relationships for the peptides were designed to characterize the N-terminally truncated peptides, as well as design enzyme resistant molecules predicted to have superagonist activity in vivo. Such analogues with enhanced bioactivity may have a use in the treatment of diabetic states (GIP and GLP-1) or cardiovascular complications (glucagon). In vivo bioassay of these peptides confirmed their increased potency and highlighted their therapeutic potential. Additionally, fragment analysis was performed on GIP in an attempt to minimize the bioactive domain of the molecule, thus generating small molecular weight GIP receptor agonists.
Cubic equations for the hyperelliptic locus
Creators: name: Grushevsky, Samuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We discuss the conjecture of Buchstaber and Krichever that their multi-dimensional vector addition formula for Baker-Akhiezer functions characterizes Jacobians among principally polarized abelian varieties, and prove that it is indeed a weak characterization, i.e. that it is true up to additional components, or true precisely under a general position assumption. We also show that this addition formula is equivalent to Gunning's multisecant formula for the Kummer variety. We then use Buchstaber-Krichever's computation of the coefficients in the addition formula to obtain cubic relations among theta functions, which (weakly) characterize the locus of hyperelliptic Jacobians among irreducible abelian varieties. In genus 3 our equations are equivalent to the vanishing of one theta-null, and thus are known classically by work of Mumford and Poor, but already for genus 4 they appear to be new.
Agriculture, Population, Land and Water Scarcity in a Changing World – The Role of Irrigation
Creators: name: Sauer, Timm
name: Havlik, Petr
name: Schneider, Uwe A.
name: Kindermann, Georg E.
name: Obersteiner, Michael
name: Sauer, Timm
name: Havlik, Petr
name: Schneider, Uwe A.
name: Kindermann, Georg E.
name: Obersteiner, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Irrigation
subject: Food supply
subject: Integrated assessment
subject: Water use intensity
subject: Agricultural adaptation
subject: Land scarcity
subject: Partial equilibrium model

description: Fertile land and fresh water constitute two of the most fundamental resources for food production. These resources are affected by environmental, political, economic, and technical developments. Regional impacts may transmit to the world through increased trade. With a global forest and agricultural sector model, we quantify the impacts of increased demand for food due to population growth and economic development on potential land and water use. In particular, we investigate producer adaptation regarding crop and irrigation choice, agricultural market adjustments, and changes in the values of land and water.
Chaotic dynamics of three-dimensional Hénon maps that originate from a homoclinic bifurcation
Creators: name: Gonchenko, S. V.
name: Meiss, J. D.
name: Ovsyannikov, I. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study bifurcations of a three-dimensional diffeomorphism, $g_0$, that has a quadratic homoclinic tangency to a saddle-focus fixed point with multipliers $(λe^{i\vphi}, λe^{-i\vphi}, γ)$, where $0
description: laTeX, 25 pages, 6 eps figures
Detailed 3D structure of OrionA in dust with Gaia DR2
Creators: name: Kh., Sara Rezaei
name: Bailer-Jones, Coryn A. L.
name: Soler, Juan D.
name: Zari, Eleonora
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The unprecedented astrometry from Gaia DR2 provides us with an opportunity to study in detail molecular clouds in the solar neighbourhood. Extracting the wealth of information in these data remains a challenge, however. We have further improved our Gaussian Processes-based, three-dimensional dust mapping technique to allow us to study molecular clouds in more detail. These improvements include a significantly better scaling of the computational cost with the number of stars, and taking into account distance uncertainties to individual stars. Using Gaia DR2 astrometry together with 2MASS and WISE photometry for 30 000 stars, we infer the distribution of dust out to 600 pc in the direction of the Orion A molecular cloud. We identify a bubble-like structure in front of Orion A, centred at a distance of about 350 pc from the Sun. The main Orion A structure is visible at slightly larger distances, and we clearly see a tail extending over 100 pc that is curved and slightly inclined to the line-of-sight. The location of our foreground structure coincides with 5-10 Myr old stellar populations, suggesting a star formation episode that predates that of the Orion Nebula Cluster itself. We identify also the main structure of the Orion B molecular cloud, and in addition discover a background component to this at a distance of about 460 pc from the Sun. Finally, we associate our dust components at different distances with the plane-of-the-sky magnetic field orientation as mapped by Planck. This provides valuable information for modelling the magnetic field in 3D around star forming regions.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 9 pages, 12 figures
Immigrants in their Homeland: The Story of the Marginalized Sabahan Bajau Laut Palauh or Sea Gipsies
Creators: name: Ating, Rashid
name: Kim T. Lalisan, April
name: Reyes, Victor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390107
subject: Humanities and social sciences curriculum and pedagogy (excl. economics, business and management)
classificationCode: 460105
subject: Applications in social sciences and education

description: The demolition of the community's settlement of the Bajau Laut known as sea gypsies, at Semporna, Sabah, was heavily circulated in social media in June this year. This action captured the attention of many people, both local and international. It is worth noting that contradicting statements have been provided by government officials (from the state of Sabah itself) and by the bystanders (members of the general public) on this issue. The contradicting statements began when the bystanders claimed that government officials gave the directive to burn the settlement. On the other side of the coin, government officials claim that the community of Bajau Laut themselves have burned their own houses to gather sympathy from the public. These contradicting statements between the government of Sabah and the general public caused the Bajau Laut issue to remain unresolved. In this era, there are instances where distinguishing between what is true and what is not becomes challenging. Being squeezed into their land, this community has struggled to assert their national identity and human rights, causing them to have impoverished lives. This short storytelling shares the authors' opinion as a Sabahan from the Bajau Ubian tribe that has a relative from the slump/a residential village built near the sea, which has slightly better condition compared to the Bajau Laut. To avoid biases and be critical for this storytelling, the corresponding author's colleague, a non-Sabahan from Johor, who was transferred to Lahad Datu to serve as a doctor for two years, also shared her valuable insights and experiences. It is crucial that we advocate for and support the Bajau Laut community with a sense of urgency to ensure their well-being and rights are protected.
Agglomeration Externalities and Technical Efficiency in Pig Production
Creators: name: Larue, Solene
name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Larue, Solene
name: Latruffe, Laure
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Agglomeration
subject: Externalities
subject: Data Envelopment Analysis

description: The objective of the paper is to assess the effects of agglomeration on technical efficiency of French pig farms. We use a two-stage method to evaluate the effects of agglomeration on technical efficiency. The first stage consists in calculating pig activity’s efficiency scores with the non-parametric method Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The second stage is a truncated regression of these scores on agglomeration variables. Data are for 899 French pig producers in 2004. Results suggest that these farms were as much affected by positive agglomeration externalities (that are knowledge spillovers due to farms’ density, and also arise from farms’ closeness to downstream market) as any other businesses. There was however no evidence of negative externalities in the form of constraints in farmers’ land demand due to legal disposition relating to manure spreading.
Active Perception using Light Curtains for Autonomous Driving
Creators: name: Ancha, Siddharth
name: Raaj, Yaadhav
name: Hu, Peiyun
name: Narasimhan, Srinivasa G.
name: Held, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most real-world 3D sensors such as LiDARs perform fixed scans of the entire environment, while being decoupled from the recognition system that processes the sensor data. In this work, we propose a method for 3D object recognition using light curtains, a resource-efficient controllable sensor that measures depth at user-specified locations in the environment. Crucially, we propose using prediction uncertainty of a deep learning based 3D point cloud detector to guide active perception. Given a neural network's uncertainty, we derive an optimization objective to place light curtains using the principle of maximizing information gain. Then, we develop a novel and efficient optimization algorithm to maximize this objective by encoding the physical constraints of the device into a constraint graph and optimizing with dynamic programming. We show how a 3D detector can be trained to detect objects in a scene by sequentially placing uncertainty-guided light curtains to successively improve detection accuracy. Code and details can be found on the project webpage: http://siddancha.github.io/projects/active-perception-light-curtains.
description: Published at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
Stress Tensor Correlators in the Schwinger-Keldysh Formalism
Creators: name: Ford, L. H.
name: Woodard, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We express stress tensor correlators using the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. The absence of off-diagonal counterterms in this formalism ensures that the +- and -+ correlators are free of primitive divergences. We use dimensional regularization in position space to explicitly check this at one loop order for a massless scalar on a flat space background. We use the same procedure to show that the ++ correlator contains the divergences first computed by `t Hooft and Veltman for the scalar contribution to the graviton self-energy.
description: 14 pages, LaTeX 2epsilon, no figures, revised for publication