cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fasano Symbiosis Applied to the Gallium Anomaly
Creators: name: Fasano, Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Quantum physics
subject: Particle physics
subject: Atomic physics
subject: Mathematical physics

description: The Fasano Symbiosis Theory finds practical application in addressing issues such as the gallium anomaly. This anomaly refers to a deficit of detected neutrinos compared to theoretical predictions. By modulating the wavelength of neutrinos due to external energy perturbations, the theory provides an explanation for the reduced number of neutrinos detected.

In our study, detailed simulations have shown that increasing neutrino energy leads to a modulation of their wavelength, which influences the detection rate. Additionally, by varying parameters such as neutrino mass, the solar magnetic field, and the distance from the detector, it has been demonstrated that the Fasano Symbiosis Theory offers a coherent explanation for neutrino oscillations into non-detectable states (sterile neutrinos).

The results of these simulations are reported in the Results section, with particular attention to the effects of:

Energy modulation,

Neutrino mass variation,

Influence of the solar magnetic field,

Distance from the detector.
The VLT SINFONI Mg ii Program for Line Emitters (SIMPLE) II: background quasars probing z $\sim$ 1 galactic winds
Creators: name: Schroetter, Ilane
name: Bouché, Nicolas
name: Péroux, Céline
name: Murphy, Michael T.
name: Contini, Thierry
name: Finley, Hayley
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 85A05

description: The physical properties of galactic winds are of paramount importance for our understanding of galaxy formation. Fortunately, they can be constrained using background quasars passing near star-forming galaxies (SFGs). From the 14 quasar$-$galaxy pairs in our VLT/SINFONI Mgii Program for Line Emitters (SIMPLE) sample, we reobserved the 10 brightest galaxies in H$_α$ with the VLT/SINFONI with 0.7" seeing and the corresponding quasar with the VLT/UVES spectrograph. Applying geometrical arguments to these ten pairs, we find that four are likely probing galactic outflows, three are likely probing extended gaseous disks, and the remaining three are not classifiable because they are viewed face-on. In this paper we present a detailed comparison between the line-of-sight kinematics and the host galaxy emission kinematics for the pairs suitable for wind studies. We find that the kinematic profile shapes (asymmetries) can be well reproduced by a purely geometrical wind model with a constant wind speed, except for one pair (towards J2357$-$2736) that has the smallest impact parameter b = 6 kpc and requires an accelerated wind flow. Globally, the outflow speeds are $\sim$ 100 km/s and the mass ejection rates (or $\dot M _{\rm out}$) in the gas traced by the low-ionization species are similar to the star formation rate (SFR), meaning that the mass loading factor, $η$ = $\dot M _{\rm out}$/SFR, is $\sim$1.0. The outflow speeds are also smaller than the local escape velocity, which implies that the outflows do not escape the galaxy halo and are likely to fall back into the interstellar medium.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures
Market connectedness in the US beef supply chain
Creators: name: Fousekis, Panos
name: Tzaferi, Dimitra
name: Fousekis, Panos
name: Tzaferi, Dimitra
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: market connectedness
subject: price spillovers
subject: US beef industry

description: This work investigates market connectedness in the US beef industry using alternative measures of spillovers and information about prices at the farm, the wholesale, and the retail level over 1990 to 2019. The empirical results suggest that connectedness in the system of markets farm and wholesale is stronger relative to that of wholesale and retail. They also imply that, although there are statistically significant price spillovers both upstream and downstream, the spillovers from farm to wholesale level and from wholesale to the retail level tend to exceed those in the opposite directions.
The proportion of failures of the Hasse norm principle
Creators: name: Browning, Tim
name: Newton, Rachel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G35, 11R37, 12G05, 14G05

description: For any number field we calculate the exact proportion of rational numbers which are everywhere locally a norm but not globally a norm from the number field.
description: 12 pages
Optimization of fertilization recommendation in Greek rice fields using precision agriculture
Creators: name: Iatrou, Miltiadis
name: Karydas, Christos
name: Iatrou, George
name: Zartaloudis, Zois
name: Kravvas, Kostas
name: Mourelatos, Spiros
name: Iatrou, Miltiadis
name: Karydas, Christos
name: Iatrou, George
name: Zartaloudis, Zois
name: Kravvas, Kostas
name: Mourelatos, Spiros
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: precision agriculture
subject: rice
subject: fertilization
subject: soil analysis
subject: satellite images
subject: yield maps

description: The objective of this research was to evaluate the correlation between rice yield and soil properties for improving fertilizer recommendations. This was achieved through the application of a new precision agriculture methodology on a large experimental setup of about 115 ha in Chalastra, Greece. The methodology uses multispectral satellite images acquired during the previous cropping season for the delineation of preliminary zones, inside of which representative soil samples are extracted and analyzed and fertilizer recommendations are formulated per zone. The spatial distribution of yield performances was recorded with a yield mapper mounted on the harvester. As a result of the zone-based applications in the 2017 cropping season, the grower realized 15% increase in yield compared to the mean of the previous decade’s yields, while the fertilizer inputs were reduced by 20%. Moreover, it was showed that the nitrogen added with the basal fertilization and soil magnesium were the major contributors of yield differences, whereas phosphorus and potassium needs were covered with the applied fertilization.
SN 2013dx associated with GRB 130702A: a detailed photometric and spectroscopic monitoring and a study of the environment
Creators: name: D'Elia, V.
name: Pian, E.
name: Melandri, A.
name: D'Avanzo, P.
name: Della Valle, M.
name: Mazzali, P. A.
name: Piranomonte, S.
name: Tagliaferri, G.
name: Antonelli, L. A.
name: Bufano, F.
name: Covino, S.
name: Fugazza, D.
name: Malesani, D.
name: Moller, P.
name: Palazzi, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and broad-line, type Ic supernovae (SNe) are strongly connected. We aim at characterizing SN 2013dx, associated with GRB\,130702A, through sensitive and extensive ground-based observational campaigns in the optical-IR band. We monitored the field of the Swift GRB 130702A (redshift z = 0.145) using the 8.2-m VLT, the 3.6-m TNG and the 0.6-m REM telescopes during the time interval between 4 and 40 days after the burst. Photometric and spectroscopic observations revealed the presence of the associated Type Ic SN 2013dx. Our multi-band photometry allowed the construction of a bolometric light curve.} The bolometric light curve of SN 2013dx resembles that of 2003dh (associated with GRB 030329), but is ~10% faster and ~25% dimmer. From this we infer a synthesized 56Ni mass of ~0.2 solar masses. The multi-epoch optical spectroscopy shows that the SN 2013dx behavior is best matched by SN 1998bw, among the other well-known low-redshift SNe associated with GRBs and XRFs, and by SN 2010ah, an energetic Type Ic SN not associated with any GRB. The photospheric velocity of the ejected material declines from ~2.7X10^4 km/s at 8 rest frame days from the explosion, to ~3.5X10^3 km/s at 40 days. These values are extremely close to those of SN1998bw and 2010ah. We deduce for SN 2013dx a kinetic energy of ~35X10^51 erg, and an ejected mass of ~7 solar masses. This suggests that the progenitor of SN2013dx had a mass of ~25 solar masses, i.e., 15-20% less massive than that of SN 1998bw. Finally, we performed a study of the SN 2013dx environment, through spectroscopy of the closeby galaxies. 9 out of the 14 inspected galaxies lie within 0.03 in redshift from z=0.145, indicating that the host of GRB 130702A/SN 2013dx belongs to a group of galaxies, an unprecedented finding for a GRB-associated SN and, to our knowledge, for long GRBs in general.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Greek farmers' ICT skills and the intra-rural digital divide formation
Creators: name: Botsiou, Maria
name: Dagdilelis, Vassilios
name: Koutsou, Stavriani
name: Botsiou, Maria
name: Dagdilelis, Vassilios
name: Koutsou, Stavriani
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: digital divide
subject: intra-rural digital divide
subject: ICT skills
subject: digital maturity
subject: Greece
subject: factor analysis
subject: two-step cluster analysis

description: The phenomenon of the digital divide is one of the main study objects in contemporary societies. This paper focuses on the intra-rural digital divide, presenting a typology based on empirical data retrieved from two Greek Regional Units in a sample of 339 farmers. A scale of 23 ICT skills performed to detect the cognitive and technical ICT skills of the farmers. The Exploratory Factor Analysis demonstrates a solution of 5 skill groups. Considering the factor scores and the farmers' socio-demographic characteristics, a Two-Step Cluster Analysis is carried out, releasing three types of digital maturity. Nonfamiliar with ICTs are the “Digitally Ignorant” farmers, who are low educated, relatively old in age and full-time farmers. Assuming that several innovations in the agricultural sector require increased ICT skills, “Digitally Matures” is potentially the most innovative; however, they are not primarily farmers, a fact that limits this possibility. We argue that human resource development policies in the agricultural sector should focus on “Digitally Teens” as their main occupation is being farmers and their ICT skills could be encouraged through training.
A GAIN MUST LIE WHERE IT FALLS: MATCHING TAX WITH ECONOMICS IN SUBCHAPTER K
Creators: name: Zuo, Zhiyuan
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Tax Law
Year: 2020

description: Society suffers efficiency costs when tax and economics are mismatched. This principle is illustrated by the tax neutrality doctrines that are the cornerstone of the U.S. international tax system and by the BEPS’s efforts to combat arbitrary income shifting. While society has an interest in maximizing pre-tax income from all economic activities, self-interested taxpayers seek only to maximize their after-tax income. A sound, non-arbitrary tax policy must thus incentivize taxpayers to maximize both their pre-tax and after-tax income. This Note provides a novel efficiency analysis of the rules under Subchapter K and reveals the efficiency costs that arise when arbitrary tax liabilities sever the positive connection between pre-tax and after-tax income. It applies the insight gained from the efficiency analysis to the Treasury’s various flawed efforts under Subchapter K to match tax with economics, including the Substantial Economic Effect (SEE) safe harbor and doctrines under section 704(c). The Article then explores alternatives to the Treasury’s “one-size-fits-all” solution, focusing on a detailed analysis of the economic effect equivalence (EEE) test and so-called target allocations. After revealing the tension between target allocations and some of the fundamental principles of section 704 regulations, the Article presents a solution to the long-debated capital shift problem inherent in target allocations.
description: Columbia Journal of Tax Law, Vol 11 No 1 (2019): Winter 2019
Impacts of Food Consumption Lifestyle on the Expenditure for the Processed Food: Using Cluster Analysis and Matching Method
Creators: name: Park, Misung
name: Park, Misung
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food-related lifestyle
subject: processed food expenditure
subject: factor analysis

description: This paper analyzes the impacts of food consumption lifestyle on the expenditure for the processed food. By factor and cluster analyses, food consumption lifestyles are classified into five different types; convenience-pursuing, new product-pursuing, homemade food-pursuing, brand-pursuing and wellbeing-pursuing are those identified lifestyles. In assessing the influence of lifestyle on food expenditure, we employ propensity score matching (PSM) in order to control the selection bias and endogeneity problem. The results of PSM analysis indicate that the expenditure on processed food of the consumers pursuing homemade food is 4,006~4,933 won lower than that of other types of consumers per visit of shopping. The expenditure on processed food of the consumers pursuing convenience is estimated to be 3,053~4,195 won higher than that of other types of consumers.
Radio Evidence for AGN Activity: Relativistic as Tracers of SMBHs
Creators: name: Kellermann, K. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although the radio emission from most quasars appears to be associated with star forming activity in the host galaxy, about ten percent of optically selected quasars have very luminous relativistic jets apparently powered by a SMBH which is located at the base of the jet. When these jets are pointed close to the line of sight their apparent luminosity is enhanced by Doppler boosting and appears highly variable. High resolution radio interferometry shows directly the outflow of relativistic plasma jets from the SMBH. Apparent transverse velocities in these so called blazars are typically about 7c but reach as much as 50c indicating true velocities within one percent of the speed of light. The jets appear to be collimated and accelerated in regions as much as a hundred parsecs downstream from the SMBH. Measurements made with Earth to space interferometers indicate apparent brightness temperatures of about 10E14 K or more. This is well in excess of the limits imposed by inverse Compton cooling. The modest Doppler factors deduced from the observed ejection speeds appear to be inadequate to explain the high observed brightness temperatures in terms of relativistic boosting.
description: To be published in the Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 312, Star Clusters and Black Holes in Galaxies and Across Cosmic Time, Fukun Li ed
STATE INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX CONFORMITY IN PRACTICE: EVIDENCE FROM THE TAX CUTS & JOBS ACT
Creators: name: Monahan, Amy B.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Tax Law
Year: 2020

description: Nearly every state incorporates the federal tax code into its individual income tax system. This widespread incorporation has many supporters and has been justified on the basis that it is necessary in order for states to have a simple and efficient tax system. This article explores the practical effects and dynamics of state tax conformity through a novel examination of how states that tightly conformed to the federal individual income tax responded to the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act which, for these states, would have both raised state taxes and changed the distribution of state tax burdens. The study reinforces concerns raised in both the theoretical and economic literature regarding conformity’s enhancement of revenue volatility and likelihood of distorting state legislative decision-making, while adding several new observations of conformity’s impact. The study illustrates that conformity imposes significant time constraints on state legislatures, conformity causes not only revenue shocks, but tax policy shocks, and even where state revenue is kept constant following a federal change, conformity may cause relative state tax burdens to change. Based on these findings, the article concludes by offering suggestions for how states can move past the idea that extensive conformity with the federal tax code is required and instead design an individual income tax system that is simple, efficient, and enhances a citizen’s relationship to the state.
description: Columbia Journal of Tax Law, Vol 11 No 1 (2019): Winter 2019
The Road to Quasars
Creators: name: Kellermann, K. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although the extragalactic nature of 3C 48 and other quasi stellar radio sources was discussed as early as 1960 by John Bolton and others, it was rejected largely because of preconceived ideas about what appeared to be unrealistically high radio and optical luminosities. Not until the 1962 occultations of the strong radio source 3C 273 at Parkes, which led Maarten Schmidt to identify 3C 273 with an apparent stellar object at a redshift of 0.16, was the true nature understood. Successive radio and optical measurements quickly led to the identification of other quasars with increasingly large redshifts and the general, although for some decades not universal, acceptance of quasars as the very luminous nuclei of galaxies. Curiously, 3C 273, which is one of the strongest extragalactic sources in the sky, was first cataloged in 1959 and the magnitude 13 optical counterpart was observed at least as early as 1887. Since 1960, much fainter optical counterparts were being routinely identified using accurate radio interferometer positions which were measured primarily at the Caltech Owens Valley Radio Observatory. However, 3C 273 eluded identification until the series of lunar occultation observations led by Cyril Hazard. Although an accurate radio position had been obtained earlier with the OVRO interferometer, inexplicably 3C 273 was initially misidentified with a faint galaxy located about an arc minute away from the true quasar position.
description: To be published in the Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 313, Extragalactic jets from every angle, F. Massaro, C.C. Cheung, E. Lopez, A. Siemiginowska, eds
Life history patterns of modern and fossil Mercenaria spp. from warm vs. cold climates
Creators: name: Surge, D.
name: Turek, S.
name: Moss, D.K.
name: Palmer, K.L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Recent work projects significant increases in sea surface temperature by the end of the 21st century. The biological consequences of such temperature increases are poorly understood. Study designs using a conservation paleobiology approach combined with sclerochronology methods can provide a powerful framework in which to assess these consequences. This study focuses on the ecological and economically important hard clam, Mercenaria, from modern and fossil settings that grew during climates that were warmer than or comparable to today. We compared lifespans and growth rates (von Bertalanffy k) of modern Mercenaria spp. populations to those from the Mid Pliocene Warm Period (MPWP) and early Pleistocene to better understand the influences of temperature on life history. We found that growth rates tend to increase with increasing temperature both through space and time. However, the relationship between lifespan and climate state is not as clear. Further, we observe that mid-to high-latitude individuals seem to be more impacted by changes in climate state than low latitude individuals. We suggest in response to increased seawater temperatures, mid- and high-latitude individuals might experience significant shifts towards faster growth rates whereas low latitude individuals might not see as much change. These findings provide insight to how growth rates and lifespans of Mercenaria might shift in response to future increases in seawater temperature. Understanding such impacts are critical for the development of management strategies and policies for future environmental change.
title: Increasing Renewable Energy Integration in European Islands with Storage Stakes
title: A Case Study of Evia, Greece
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Papastefanakis, Nikolaos
name: Selosse, Sandrine
name: Maïzi, Nadia
Publisher: name: Chair Prospective Modeling for sustainable development
Year: 2023

description: Prospective modelling is a valuable mathematical tool for supporting long-term strategic planning in the face of un-certainties associated with future events. This analysis is conducted by defining potential future trajectories – sce-narios, with the goal of exploring possible energy futures. The TIMES model is a partial equilibrium linear program-ming optimization tool that ensures the supply-demand equilibrium. This model identifies future expansion in-vestments that are required in the power system to meet forecasted demand while adhering to techno-economic and environmental constraints, all at the lowest possible cost. The energy systems prospective modelling results of the two demonstration sites (Procida and Hinnoya) showed that the proposed solutions of the GIFT project that offer flexibility and grid congestion relief, they promote also the further use of RES. More information about the mo-delling and the results can be found in Deliverable 2.4 (Chlela et al., 2021)
Green products: digital marketing and consumer behavior for sustainability
Creators: name: Tsekouropoulos, Georgios
name: Koliouska, Christiana
name: Theocharis, Dimitrios
name: Andreopoulou, Zacharoula
name: Tsekouropoulos, Georgios
name: Koliouska, Christiana
name: Theocharis, Dimitrios
name: Andreopoulou, Zacharoula
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: online consumer behavior
subject: online shopping process
subject: green products
subject: digital marketing
subject: sustainability

description: The main objective of the current study is to present the potential of digital marketing for green products and especially, to contribute on knowledge regarding the factors that affect online consumer behavior towards green sustainable products. Moreover, the primary research is going to identify the most important factors during the online shopping process, as well as, the existence of statistically significant relationships between the variables of the research and specifically the intention to buy online green products, the factors of perceived value (quality, emotional, price and social), the brand consciousness of customers and consumers’ attitude toward green products. A primary quantitative research has been conducted in order to answer on specific research hypothesis that have been stated in the methodology chapter. The main findings of the research illustrate that there are positive relationships between the intention to buy online green sustainable products, the factors of perceived value (quality, emotional, price and social), the brand consciousness of online customers and consumers’ attitude toward green products, and with some of the demographic variables.
Development and Measurement of the Index of Agrifood Consumer Competency Index
Creators: name: Lee, Kyeiim
name: Lee, Kyeiim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: agrifood consumption competency index
subject: agrifood consumer policy

description: The purpose of this study is to develop an ‘Agrifood Consumption Competency Index’ with the reference of the ‘Consumer Competency Index’ & ‘Consumer Market Performance Indicator’ calculation methodology then measure the ‘Agrifood Consumption Competency Index’ by a consumer survey. Agrifood consumption goes through a series of steps starting from the selection of the product, purchase, eating and leading to nutrition ingestion. Accordingly, the ‘Agrifood Consumption Competency Index’ is classified into the ‘Agrifood Purchase Competency Index’, ‘Eating Habit Competency Index’ and ‘Agrifood Damage Relief Competency Index’. The result came out each for the ‘Agrifood Purchase Competency Index’ from 6.4 points to 6.6 points, the ‘Eating Habit Competency Index’ 7.3 points and the ‘Agrifood Damage Relief Competency Index’ 5.0 points of ideal condition total 10 points. By combining the weight of each classification, the total result ranged from 6.2 points to 6.5 points.
Combining regional estimation and historical floods: a multivariate semi-parametric peaks-over-threshold model with censored data
Creators: name: Sabourin, Anne
name: Renard, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 86A05 (primary), 62P12 (secondary)

description: The estimation of extreme flood quantiles is challenging due to the relative scarcity of extreme data compared to typical target return periods. Several approaches have been developed over the years to face this challenge, including regional estimation and the use of historical flood data. This paper investigates the combination of both approaches using a multivariate peaks-over-threshold model, that allows estimating altogether the intersite dependence structure and the marginal distributions at each site. The joint distribution of extremes at several sites is constructed using a semi-parametric Dirichlet Mixture model. The existence of partially missing and censored observations (historical data) is accounted for within a data augmentation scheme. This model is applied to a case study involving four catchments in Southern France, for which historical data are available since 1604. The comparison of marginal estimates from four versions of the model (with or without regionalizing the shape parameter; using or ignoring historical floods) highlights significant differences in terms of return level estimates. Moreover, the availability of historical data on several nearby catchments allows investigating the asymptotic dependence properties of extreme floods. Catchments display a a significant amount of asymptotic dependence, calling for adapted multivariate statistical models.
Study of azimuthal correlations between D mesons and charged particles with the ALICE experiment
Creators: name: Colamaria, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A study of azimuthal correlations between D$^0$, D$^+$, and D$^{*+}$ and charged particles in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV and p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV is presented. D mesons were reconstructed from their hadronic decays at central rapidity ($|y| < 0.5$) in the transverse momentum range $3 \leq p_{\rm T}^{\rm D} \leq 16$ GeV/$c$ and they were correlated with charged particles reconstructed in the pseudorapidity range $|η| < 0.8$. Perspectives for the measurement in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 5.5 TeV after the ALICE upgrade are presented as well.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures (5 panels), Proceedings for the Hot Quarks 2014 Workshop (Las Negras, Spain, 21-28/09/2014)
Feasibility of recruiting in prisons during a randomized controlled trial with people with serious mental illness
Creators: name: Givens, Ashley
name: Parisi, Anna
name: Phillips, Jonathan
name: Dohler, Ehren
name: Wilson, Amy Blank
name: Villodas, Melissa L.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2022

description: BACKGROUND: Successful participant recruitment is vital to the feasibly of intervention research. In the behavioral and social sciences, intervention researchers face a myriad of recruitment barriers, many of which stem from working in real-world settings and among hard-to-access populations. Optimizing recruitment efforts requires being intentional about study planning and resource allocation, carefully documenting the outcomes of recruitment efforts, and developing and implementing procedures and strategies to overcome anticipated recruitment barriers. METHODS: The current article presents recruitment flowcharts to illustrate (a) the multistep recruitment process and (b) the points of potential participant attrition during recruitment from a two-phase group-based intervention study conducted among individuals with serious mental illness incarcerated in a state prison system in the U.S. In addition, qualitative methods are used to examine strategies employed during the study to support recruitment efforts. RESULTS: Despite challenges, this study was able to achieve recruitment goals. Analyses found the majority of potential participant attrition occurred prior to informed consent, highlighting the need for studies to track recruitment efforts in more detail than is currently recommended by commonly used guidelines. Strategies to optimize recruitment efforts included maximizing recruiter availability, developing a responsive communication approach, demonstrating respect for facility procedures and operations, and ensuring peak preparedness. CONCLUSION: Careful documentation of recruitment efforts and the early deployment of recruitment strategies is vital to the feasibility of intervention studies conducted in real-world settings with hard-to-access populations. The publication of recruitment procedures and outcomes can help future researchers anticipate recruitment challenges and inform recruitment goals, timelines, and strategies.
Farmers' responses to stressors of an agri-food system: a Greek case study
Creators: name: Theocharidis, Dimitris
name: Karanikolas, Pavlos
name: Tsiboukas, Konstantinos
name: Theocharidis, Dimitris
name: Karanikolas, Pavlos
name: Tsiboukas, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: agri-food system
subject: vulnerability
subject: stressors
subject: cooperatives
subject: Greece

description: This study aims to explore the diverse reactions of farmers to two major stressors of the citrus agri-food system in the region of Ileia, in Southwestern Greece, with a special focus on farmers’ institutional affiliation with local collectivities. These stressors are the economic crisis that burst out in Greece at 2009/2010 and an insect outbreak, which has seriously damaged citrus groves in this region after 2013. The study draws on an analysis of the ways these stressors impact on the functioning of the system, as well as a thorough techno-economic analysis at the farm level, with data from a representative sample of 55 farms specializing in citrus fruit production. Both stressors have had serious impacts on the examined system. The analysis shows that although sample farmers were exposed to the stressors with a time difference of two years, they showed varying degrees of sensitivity, owing basically to the different strategies they followed. Through appropriately coordinated actions, farmers’ integration into collective structures can secure successful responses to systems’ stressors. Thus, they showed varying adaptive capacities to the stressors, attaining, at least in the case of one cooperative, to address effectively the sources of vulnerability.
Physical Health Problems Among People With Severe Mental Illnesses: Race, Gender, and Implications for Practice
Creators: name: Wilson, Amy Blank
name: Van Deinse, Tonya B.
name: Cuddeback, Gary S.
name: Givens, Ashley D.
name: Murray-Lichtman, Andrea
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2021

description: BACKGROUND: Individuals with severe mental illnesses experience high rates of chronic health conditions; however, the extent to which risk of chronic physical health problems varies by race and gender among these individuals is understudied. AIMS: This study examines variations in health problems by race and gender among individuals with severe mental illnesses. METHOD: Administrative data, which included blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) values, were obtained from 603 individuals with serious mental illnesses who received integrated health and behavioral health services from a large mental health agency in the Midwest. Bivariate and multivariate statistical models were used to examine variation in physical health problems by race and gender. RESULTS: Compared with men, women with severe mental illnesses were more likely to have BMI levels indicating obesity or morbid obesity (p < .001). Compared with White participants, Black participants were less likely to have high HbA1c levels (p < .001) but were more likely to have high blood pressure (p < .001). Among race and gender groups, Black women were more likely to have high BMI (p < .05), Black men were more likely to have high blood pressure (p < .001), and White men were more likely to have high HbA1c levels (p < .01) when holding constant all other variables. CONCLUSIONS: There is evidence that types and severity of physical health problems among individuals with severe mental illnesses varies by race and gender. Replication of these results and more research is needed to ensure that health-related education and integrated health and behavioral health interventions meet the needs of individuals with serious mental illnesses.
Effect of Electromagnetic Pulse Transverse Inhomogeneity on the Ion Acceleration by Radiation Pressure
Creators: name: Lezhnin, K. V.
name: Kamenets, F. F.
name: Beskin, V. S.
name: Kando, M.
name: Esirkepov, T. Zh.
name: Bulanov, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the ion acceleration by radiation pressure a transverse inhomogeneity of the electromagnetic pulse results in the displacement of the irradiated target in the off-axis direction limiting achievable ion energy. This effect is described analytically within the framework of the thin foil target model and with the particle-in-cell simulations showing that the maximum energy of accelerated ions decreases while the displacement from the axis of the target initial position increases. The results obtained can be applied for optimization of the ion acceleration by the laser radiation pressure with the mass limited targets.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
A Study on the Characteristics of Women Returning to Rural Areas and Their Settlement from the Gender Perspective
Creators: name: Jinyang, Myongsuk
name: Jinyang, Myongsuk
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: women returning to rural areas
subject: gender
subject: feminism

description: This paper analyzes the settlement process of women returning to rural areas in a feminist perspective. The first chapter describes how their motivations of moving to rural areas and the settlement process reflect their gender experiences. The second chapter explores how these women develop their economic and social activities in rural communities. This study aims to reveal these women migrants' identities as an active and autonomous agent in rural communities rather than as a complier or victim of the patriarchy system, struggling with double burden from housework and economic activities. This research represents that the motherhood identity is one of the factors considerably empowering the women migrants in their settlement process of rural society. Of course, these women occasionally confront a variety of difficulties caused by conservative and patriarchy gender systems. Nevertheless, most of the women keep making efforts to settle themselves in a rural community by looking for feminine jobs appropriate for the gender sensibility and developing their feminine networks.
What Gets Measured in Reentry Research? A Scoping Review on Community Reentry From Jail and Prison for Persons With Mental Illnesses
Creators: name: Wilson, Amy Blank
name: Kriegel, Liat
name: Barrenger, Stacey L.
name: Canada, Kelli E.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2021

description: Research on reentry for individuals with mental illnesses leaving jails and prisons lacks outcome specificity and standardization needed to advance knowledge about the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions. This scoping review aims to provide clarity about reentry outcomes by: (a) ascertaining what outcomes are a focus in reentry research, (b) explicating how outcomes are defined, and (c) identifying commonalities or gaps in outcomes reported. A search of multiple databases yielded 415 articles for potential inclusion. After independent document review by two of the authors, 61 articles were included in the review. Recidivism was the most used construct, accounting for 58% of total outcomes and 95% of criminal legal outcomes. Behavioral health indicators were reported the second most frequently and other outcomes were rarely reported. Increasing the specificity of commonly used concepts while also expanding the breadth of outcomes considered is needed to build an evidence base this area of research.
Mode-Tracking Based Stationary-Point Optimization
Creators: name: Bergeler, Maike
name: Herrmann, Carmen
name: Reiher, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we present a transition-state optimization protocol based on the Mode-Tracking algorithm [J. Chem. Phys. 118 (2003) 1634]. By calculating only the eigenvector of interest instead of diagonalizing the full Hessian matrix and performing an eigenvector following search based on the selectively calculated vector, we can efficiently optimize transition-state structures. The initial guess structures and eigenvectors are either chosen from a linear interpolation between the reactant and product structures, from a nudged-elastic band search, from a constrained-optimization scan, or from the minimum-energy structures. Alternatively, initial guess vectors based on chemical intuition may be defined. We then iteratively refine the selected vectors by the Davidson subspace iteration technique. This procedure accelerates finding transition states for large molecules of a few hundred atoms. It is also beneficial in cases where the starting structure is very different from the transition-state structure or where the desired vector to follow is not the one with lowest eigenvalue. Explorative studies of reaction pathways are feasible by following manually constructed molecular distortions.
description: 28 pages, 5 figures
Partial Replacement of Mineral-N Fertilizer Using Compost and Biochar to Improve Growth and Yield of Peanut (Arachishypogaea L.) Grown on a Sandy Loam Soil
Creators: name: Fouda, Sarah El-Sayad El-Sayed
name: Mattas, Christos
name: Georgiou, Pantazis
name: Fouda, Sarah El-Sayad El-Sayed
name: Mattas, Christos
name: Georgiou, Pantazis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: biochar
subject: compost
subject: peanut
subject: quality
subject: sandy soil

description: In the 2017 and 2018 summer seasons, two field experiments were conducted at Ismailia Governorate, Egypt, to evaluate the effect of adding organic amendments combined with 50% of the recommended 100 kg ha-1 of mineral-N fertilization Ammonium nitrate (330 g N kg-1 ). The five organic sources were three types of biochar and two types of compost at a rate of 24 Mg ha-1 on peanuts (Arachis hypogaea L. Giza 6) grown on a sandy soil. Available N, P, K, Fe, Mn, and Zn concentrations in the soil after harvest increased due to the additional treatments, and the highest concentrations were due to Compost B (town refuse residues)+50 kg N ha-1 . Electrical Conductivity (EC) and soil pH decreased due to compost addition but slightly increased owing to biochar addition. The highest chlorophyll, protein, and oil contents of 42.8 mg g-1 , 226 g kg-1 , and 448 g kg-1 , respectively, were obtained due to addition of 50 Kg N ha-1 AN + Compost B. Generally, the addition of N fertilization 50 kg N ha-1 combined with compost had a favorable effect in improving soil properties and increasing peanut, oil, protein content and nutrient uptake as compared to other treatments.
Association of chronic diseases with mortality among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 treated with convalescent plasma: Evidence from a single center – Iraq
Creators: name: Shawi, Ameel F. Al
name: Ghazzay, Hazim Ismael
name: Al-koubaisy, Haitham Noaman Eyada
name: Al-Ani, Fatimah
name: Aldouri, Maadh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: General practice
Health care administration
Other health sciences not elsewhere classified
Haematology
Transplantation immunology
Clinical microbiology
Clinical sciences not elsewhere classified
Emergency medicine
Infectious diseases

description: Objective/Background: While there is no universal agreement on the benefits of convalescent plasma (CP) in the treatment of COVID-19 infection, very little is known about whether CP affects the association between chronic diseases and mortality. It is known that chronic diseases are associated with worse outcomes, but it is not clear whether the transfusion of CP impacts this association. This study aims to evaluate this impact considering that few studies have discussed the treatment of COVID-19 patients with CP. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among COVID-19 patients treated with CP at the main hospital for treatment and isolation of COVID-19 in Anbar/Iraq during the period of May to August 2020. A questionnaire on socio-demographic characteristics, smoking, and contact with COVID-19 was conducted. The presence of comorbidity, especially hypertension, heart failure, coronary artery disease, diabetes mellitus, chronic pulmonary diseases, asthma, and the hospital outcome (discharged home alive or cure/death) were included. The Chi-square test (or Fisher's exact test) was used to measure the association between comorbidity with the outcome. Logistic regression was used to assess the main predictors for cure (discharged home alive) and death outcome. Results: The mean age of the subjects was (53.05 ± 15.16), with a higher death rate among the older age group, especially those over 60-year with non-survivors at age of 65 or more. There was a statistically significant association between the presence of comorbidity and the mortality rate (P < 0.001). Subjects with chronic disease had a 5 times higher risk for death due to COVID-19 in comparison to those without the chronic disease (OR = 5.8, C.I. = 2.01-16.96, P = 0.001), hypertension showed the highest predictor (C.I = 1.43- 22.29, p = 0.013). Smoking and gender were not associated with mortality. Conclusion: The present study found a high mortality rate among COVID-19 patients treated with CP, specially for those with age over 60, or with comorbidities.
Thermal relics in cosmology with bulk viscosity
Creators: name: Iorio, A.
name: Lambiase, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we discuss some consequences of cosmological models in which the primordial cosmic matter is described by a relativistic imperfect fluid. The latter takes into account the dissipative effects (bulk viscosity) arising from different cooling rates of the fluid components in the expanding Universe. We discuss, in particular, the effects of the bulk viscosity on Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and on the thermal relic abundance of particles, looking at recent results of PAMELA experiment. The latter has determined an anomalous excess of positron events, that cannot be explained by the conventional cosmology and particle physics.
description: 10 pages
title: Geo-Rectification of Aerial Images for Detecting Changes in Terrain
Creators: name: Vincent, Diana
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2008

description: With increasing terrorist attacks around the world, detection of hidden bombs like IEDs (Improvised Explosive devices) has become very important. The main aim of this thesis is to develop an automatic change detection system to detect changes in terrain. It is mainly used in military applications for protection of military convoys. In order to detect the presence of IED's, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is flown over a proposed convoy route to develop a baseline scene. Prior to the launch of the convoy the UA V is flown again over the same route to detect any significant scene changes that might be able to help with the detection of IEDs. The data collected would be monitored to check for the presence of any explosive devices.

The two main sources of data that have been provided by NASA are the data recorded by the micropilot and the data from the camera that is attached to the UAV. The autopilot used for this research is Micropilot 2028 (MP2028g). The data from the micropilot is downloaded in the form of a telemetry file and is available after the flight is complete. When the UAV is flying at a high altitude, it is subjected to wind gusts and air turbulence. Thus, the UA V experiences some orientation changes with respect to the horizon. Hence, the data needs to be corrected for the various changes that affect the data recorded by the micropilot. Affine transformations are performed on the micropilot data and then, based on certain selection criteria, a few image frames are selected. We then perform various transformations along with interpolation on those selected image frames. The results are then verified based on the differences obtained. Hence, a detection system is implemented that can detect whether an object has been placed in the terrain between flight passes.
Bi-conformal symmetry and static Green functions in the higher-dimensional Reissner-Nordstrom spacetimes
Creators: name: Frolov, Valeri P.
name: Zelnikov, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a static scalar massless field created by a source located near an electrically charged higher dimensional spherically symmetric black hole. We demonstrated that there exist bi-conformal transformations relating static field solutions in the metric with different parameters of the mass M and charge Q. Using this symmetry we obtain the static scalar Green function in the higher dimensional Reissner-Nordstrom spacetimes.
description: 7 pages