cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modular invariance, modular identities and supersingular j-invariants
Creators: name: Milas, Antun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: To every $k$-dimensional modular invariant vector space we associate a modular form on $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ of weight $2k$. We explore number theoretic properties of this form and find a sufficient condition for its vanishing which yields modular identities (e.g., Ramanujan-Watson's modular identities). Furthermore, we focus on a family of modular invariant spaces coming from suitable two-dimensional spaces via the symmetric power construction. In particular, we consider a two-dimensional space spanned by graded dimensions of certain level one modules for the affine Kac-Moody Lie algebra of type $D_4^{(1)}$. In this case, the reduction modulo prime $p=2k+3 \geq 5$ of the modular form associated to the $k$-th symmetric power classifies supersingular elliptic curves in characteristic $p$. This construction also gives a new interpretation of certain modular forms studied by Kaneko and Zagier.
description: Final version, 16 pages, AMS-LaTeX
Durabilité des systèmes de production des petits ruminants: Une approche de santé animale–marketing
Creators: name: Lokman, Zaibet
name: Lokman, Zaibet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Environmental Economics and Policy
Farm Management
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Food Security and Poverty
Health Economics and Policy
Livestock Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: L’objectif de ce papier est d’identifier les contraintes de commercialisation des petits ruminants sur le marché aux bestiaux. Ces contraintes sont particulièrement prononcées chez les petits éleveurs. Notre recherche met en évidence la relation entre les caractéristiques de cette catégorie d’éleveurs et le choix du lieu de commercialisation (marché, sur la route ou à la ferme). Ce choix est lié aussi aux coûts de transaction qui se manifestent sur le marché mais aussi à l’état de santé du cheptel. La décision de ne pas se rendre sur le marché est supposée influencer négativement la continuité de cette activité et par conséquent la durabilité de d’élevage chez les petits éleveurs. Parmi les facteurs trouvés favoriser la chance de se rendre sur le marché il y a la possession de moyen de transport et la fréquence de visites vétérinaires. La santé animale est déterminante aussi bien pour la productivité (problème d’avortement, par exemple) que la commercialisation.
3D characterisation of individual grains of coexisting high-pressure H2O ice phases by time-domain Brillouin scattering
Creators: name: Sandeep, Sathyan
name: Thréard, Théo
name: Savi, Elton De Lima
name: Chigarev, Nikolay
name: Bulou, Alain
name: Tournat, Vincent
name: Zerr, Andreas
name: Gusev, Vitalyi E.
name: Raetz, Samuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time-domain Brillouin scattering uses ultrashort laser pulses to generate coherent acoustic pulses of picoseconds duration in a solid sample and to follow their propagation in order to image material inhomogeneities with sub-optical depth resolution. The width of the acoustic pulse limits the spatial resolution of the technique along the direction of the pulse propagation to less than several tens of nanometres. Thus, the time-domain Brillouin scattering outperforms axial resolution of the classical frequency-domain Brillouin scattering microscopy, which uses continuous lasers and thermal phonons and which spatial resolution is controlled by light focusing. The technique benefits from the application of the coherent acoustic phonons, and its application has exciting perspectives for the nanoscale imaging in biomedical and material sciences. In this study, we report on the application of the time-domain Brillouin scattering to the 3D imaging of a polycrystal of water ice containing two high-pressure phases. The imaging, accomplished via a simultaneous detection of quasi-longitudinal and quasi-shear waves, provided the opportunity to identify the phase for individual grains and evaluate their crystallographic orientation. Monitoring the propagation of the acoustic waves in two neighbouring grains simultaneously provided an additional mean for the localisation of the grain boundaries.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures
The quest for cosmic ray protons in galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Pfrommer, Christoph
name: Ensslin, Torsten A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There have been many speculations about the presence of cosmic ray protons (CRps) in galaxy clusters over the past two decades. However, no direct evidence such as the characteristic gamma-ray signature of decaying pions has been found so far. These pions would be a direct tracer of hadronic CRp interactions with the ambient thermal gas also yielding observable synchrotron and inverse Compton emission by additionally produced secondary electrons. The obvious question concerns the type of galaxy clusters most likely to yield a signal: Particularly suited sites should be cluster cooling cores due to their high gas and magnetic energy densities. We studied a nearby sample of clusters evincing cooling cores in order to place stringent limits on the cluster CRp population by using non-detections of EGRET. In this context, we examined the possibility of a hadronic origin of Coma-sized radio halos as well as radio mini-halos. Especially for mini-halos, strong clues are provided by the very plausible small amount of required CRp energy density and a matching radio profile. Introducing the hadronic minimum energy criterion, we show that the energetically favored CRp energy density is constrained to 2% +/- 1% of the thermal energy density in Perseus. We also studied the CRp population within the cooling core region of Virgo using the TeV gamma-ray detection of M 87 by HEGRA. Both the expected radial gamma-ray profile and the required amount of CRp support this hadronic scenario.
description: 5 pages, 8 figures, to appear in a dedicated issue of the Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society (JKAS). Proceedings of the "International Conference on Cosmic Rays and Magnetic Fields in Large Scale Structure", Busan, Korea, 2004
Scale invariant energy smoothing estimates for the Schrödinger Equation with small Magnetic Potential
Creators: name: Georgiev, Vladimir
name: Tarulli, Mirko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q55, 35J10, 35Q40

description: We consider some scale invariant generalizations of the smoothing estimates for the free Schrödnger equation obtained by Kenig, Ponce and Vega. Applying these estimates and using appropriate commutator estimates, we obtain similar scale invariant smoothing estimates for perturbed Schrödnger equation with small magnetic potential.
The power of place, the problem of time : a study of history and Aboriginal collective identity
Creators: name: Carlson, Keith Thor
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation historicizes and explains the tensions that arose between localized and regionally dispersed expressions of group affiliation and political authority among the indigenous people of the Lower Fraser River watershed after European contact. It accomplishes this by directly engaging indigenous historiography and epistemology. The period examined covers the late eighteenth century, just prior to the first smallpox epidemic, through to 1906 when a delegation of Salish men met with King Edward in London on behalf of all the Native people of British Columbia. I argue that Aboriginal collective identity and political authority are and were situationally constructed products of complicated negotiations among indigenous people and between Natives and newcomers. Multiple options were always available and the various expressions that shared identity assumed never were the only ones possible. Consequently, among the local indigenous population, history has always been regarded as an important arbitrator of identity and disagreements over competing historical interpretations highly contentious. To a greater extent than has been appreciated, changes in the way Native collective affiliations have been constituted have been informed by reference to ancient sacred stories and an ongoing process of interpreting past precedence. They are also intimately linked to migrations. Over time and across geography, different indigenous people have used these stories to different ends. Gendered and class-based distinctions in the way these narratives have been applied to either the creation of innovative collective identities or to the defense of older expressions reveal the tensions within Aboriginal society and between Natives and newcomers that arose as indigenous people struggled to make sense of a rapidly changing colonial world. The uncertainty following pivotal historical events allowed these submerged tensions to assume more public forms. Examined here are the important identity shaping historical events and migrations that indigenous historiography has emphasized: Creation, the Great Flood, the 1780 smallpox epidemic, the establishment of local Hudson's Bay trading posts in 1827 and 1846, the 1858 goldrush, the imposition of colonial reserves, the banning of the potlatch, the 1884 hostile incursions into Canadian Native communities of an American lynch mob, and the government policy to transform Salish fishermen into western-style farmers. Ultimately, Western ideologies, colonial authority and global economic forces are considered as forces acting within indigenous society, and not merely as exogenous powers acting upon
title: Karrierehindernis Geschlecht? Zum Verbleib von Frauen in der Hochschulmedizin
Creators: name: Hendrix, Ulla
name: Mauer, Heike
name: Niegel, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Frauen
subject: Geschlechterdiskriminierung
subject: Hochschule
subject: Hochschulmedizin
subject: Medizin
subject: Universitätsklinik
subject: Wissenschaftskarriere
subject: ddc:303

description: Dieser Beitrag untersucht, warum Frauen nur selten Professorinnen in der Hochschulmedizin werden, obwohl Medizinstudentinnen mittlerweile deutlich in der Mehrheit sind. Anhand einer Online-Befragung von Assistenzärzt_innen sowie von Interviews mit Akteur_innen in Schlüsselpositionen der Universitätskliniken und medizinischen Fakultäten in NRW werden zwei zentrale Erklärungsansätze aus dem Feld herausgearbeitet: die Annahme, dass die mangelnde Vereinbarkeit von Hochschulmedizin und Familie für den geringen Frauenanteil auf den Professuren verantwortlich ist (1), sowie die Vermutung, dass Frauen wissenschaftliche Karriereambitionen durch falsche Strategien nicht realisieren können (2). Beide Erklärungsansätze operieren jedoch mit essentialistischen Geschlechterbildern, die für die Aufrechterhaltung ungleicher Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Hochschulmedizin zentral sind.
PACE solver description: KaPoCE: A heuristic cluster editing algorithm
Creators: name: Bläsius, Thomas
name: Gottesbüren, Lars
name: Heuer, Tobias
name: Weyand, Christopher
name: Fischbeck, Philipp
name: Hamann, Michael
name: Spinner, Jonas
name: Wilhelm, Marcus
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH (Schloss Dagstuhl)
Year: 2021

description: The cluster editing problem is to transform an input graph into a cluster graph by performing a minimum number of edge editing operations. A cluster graph is a graph where each connected component is a clique. An edit operation can be either adding a new edge or removing an existing edge. In this write-up we outline the core techniques used in the heuristic cluster editing algorithm of the Karlsruhe and Potsdam Cluster Editing (KaPoCE) framework, submitted to the heuristic track of the 2021 PACE challenge.
Financing agricultural inputs in Northern Togo through an inventory credit system: an economic analysis of institutional response
Creators: name: Konlambigue, Abdou
name: Konlambigue, Abdou
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Financing
subject: agricultural inputs
subject: inventory credit
subject: Togo

description: Agricultural intensification is widely seen as a condition sine-qua-non for enhanced food security and as a major driver for overall economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In this process, the financial system has an important role to play, especially to finance agricultural inputs. However in SSA, the financial institutions initiated by governments and donors have in general not lived up to the expectations, in particular not for the agricultural sector, because of inappropriate design and weaknesses in implementation. Even the microfinance institutions which were supposed to support the small-scale farmers have deflected for their goals due to the risks that the agricultural sector represents. To date, the economic research tends to concentrate on the mechanisms that secure the credit of microfinance institutions. However, the effective implementation of new mechanisms to secure credit appears more difficult than foreseen, as the decision making processes involved are complex and constrained by the lack of information. This paper argues that sustainable agricultural financing needs alternative schemes that secure both the credit of financial institutions and farmers’ income. It will also be shown how the new institutional economics perspective can be used to analyze and guide decision-making with respect to alternative schemes for agricultural financing. This paper which is based on quantitative and qualitative data presents the case of the inventory credit scheme on maize to facilitate access to agricultural inputs in Savannah region of Togo. In conclusion, some research areas will be indicated to improve our understanding of the inventory credit system.
title: Queering and diversifying gender in equality work at European higher education institutions
Creators: name: Mense, Lisa
name: Sera, Stephanie
name: Vader, Sarah
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: EU political system
subject: gender equality
subject: Gleichberechtigung
subject: higher education
subject: non-discrimination
subject: queer
subject: ddc:370

description: Against the background of recent changes to EU legislation to meet the demands and needs of LGBTIQ* communities, the authors seek to situate a queered and diversified understanding of gender firmly at the centre of the gender equality discourse in higher education (HE). Based on case examples, the legal and discursive status quo in German and Dutch HE institutions as well as actors’ motivations, challenges and opportunities are examined through a queer lens. The results highlight how differently EU legislation is transposed into national law. They also show that change is currently driven by highly motivated individual actors, be they students, gender equality and diversity officers, or individual institutions. We argue that queering and diversifying should be understood and used as modes to reflect on and analyse the processes that lead to heteronormative understandings of gender in HE and to develop strategies that take the complexities of gendered identities and discrimination into account.
Accretion of Ornamental Equatorial Ridges on Pan, Atlas and Daphnis
Creators: name: Quillen, Alice C.
name: Zaidouni, Fatima
name: Nakajima, Miki
name: Wright, Esteban
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore scenarios for the accretion of ornamental ridges on Saturn's moons Pan, Atlas, and Daphnis from material in Saturn's rings. Accretion of complex shaped ridges from ring material should be possible when the torque from accreted material does not exceed the tidal torque from Saturn that ordinarily maintains tidal lock. This gives a limit on the maximum accretion rate and the minimum duration for equatorial ridge growth. We explore the longitude distribution of ridges accreted from ring material, initially in circular orbits, onto a moon that is on a circular, inclined or eccentric orbit. Sloped and lobed ridges can be accreted if the moon tidally realigns during accretion due to its change in shape or because the disk edge surface density profile allows ring material originating at different initial semi-major axes to impact the moon at different locations on its equatorial ridge. We find that accretion from an asymmetric gap might account for a depression on Atlas's equatorial ridge. Accretion from an asymmetric gap at orbital eccentricity similar to the Hill eccentricity, might allow accretion of multiple lobes, as seen on Pan. Two possibly connected scenarios are promising for growth of ornamental equatorial ridges. The moon migrates through the ring, narrowing its gap and facilitating accretion. The moon's orbital eccentricity could increase due to orbital resonance with another moon, pushing it into its gap edges and facilitating accretion.
Polarization modulation instability in liquid crystals with spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking
Creators: name: Vaupotic, Natasa
name: Copic, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theoretical model which describes the polarization modulated and layer undulated structure of the B7 phase and gives the phase transition from the synclinic ferroelectric B2 phase to the B7 phase as observed experimentally. The system is driven into the modulated phase due to the coupling between the polarization splay and the tilt of the molecules with respect to the smectic layer normal. The modulation wavelength and the width of the wall between two domains of opposite chirality are estimated.
description: 4 pages, 3 fugures
Supplementary Figure 2 from Long-read sequencing reveals atypical mitochondrial genome structure in a New Zealand marine isopod
Creators: name: Pearman, William S.
name: Wells, Sarah J.
name: Dale, James
name: Silander, Olin K.
name: Freed, Nikki E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Supplementary Figure 2: The dotplot used to identify the primary mitochondrial unit, the green line indicates a relationship between the forward strand and itself, while the red line indicates the relationship between forward strand and the reverse strand. The black line indicates the section that was extracted and considered the primary mitochondrial unit, inclusive of any unique sequences found within the genome – this is why the red lines do not equal the length of the green line.
Determination of the phase coherence length of PdCoO$_2$ nanostructures
Creators: name: Harada, T.
name: Bredol, P.
name: Inoue, H.
name: Ito, S.
name: Mannhart, J.
name: Tsukazaki, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two-dimensional layered compound PdCoO$_2$ is one of the best oxide conductors, providing an intriguing research arena opened by the long mean free path and the very high mobility of ~51000 cm2/Vs. These properties turn PdCoO$_2$ into a candidate material for nanoscale quantum devices. By exploring universal conductance fluctuations originating at nanoscale PdCoO$_2$ Hall-bar devices, we determined the phase coherence length of electron transport in c-axis oriented PdCoO$_2$ thin films to equal ~100 nm. The weak temperature dependence of the measured phase coherence length suggests that defect scattering at twin boundaries in the PdCoO$_2$ thin film governs phase breaking. These results suggest that phase coherent devices can be achieved by realizing the devices smaller than the size of twin domains, via refined microfabrication and suppression of twin boundaries.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Integrating Small Scale Farmers into Bread Wheat Marketing Chain through Contract Farming in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Getaneh, Wubalem
name: Bekabil, Fufa
name: Getaneh, Wubalem
name: Bekabil, Fufa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Contract farming participation
subject: Gross margin and Treatment effect model

description: The treatment effect censored regression model results of this study showed that educational level, value of agricultural equipment and number of oxen owned affected the participation decisions of the farmers in bread wheat contract farming significantly. The most important factors that determine gross margin obtained from bread wheat production were contract farming experience, the number of oxen owned and participation in contract farming. However, technical efficiency differences and management practices followed were not the reasons for differences in gross margin between the participant and non-participant farmers.
title: Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen im Lebenszusammenhang – eine geschlechtersoziologische Perspektivenerweiterung am Beispiel von Für- und Selbstsorgearrangements prekär Beschäftigter
Creators: name: Motakef, Mona
name: Bringmann, Julia
name: Wimbauer, Christine
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Anerkennung
subject: Arbeitsgesellschaft
subject: Care
subject: Fürsorge
subject: Gerechtigkeit
subject: Prekäre Beschäftigung
subject: Selbstsorge
subject: ddc:300

description: Fragen der Un-/Gerechtigkeit v. a. in der Erwerbssphäre sind (wieder) auf die politische Agenda gerückt. Ausgehend von der geschlechtersoziologischen Kritik an einem engen Arbeitsbegriff plädieren wir dafür, Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen im Lebenszusammenhang zu betrachten. Wir fragen, welche Missstände aus einer Perspektive des Lebenszusammenhangs als ungerecht erfahren werden, basierend auf narrativen Interviews mit prekär Beschäftigten, die wir in einem hermeneutischen Auswertungsprozess interpretierten. Wir rekonstruieren, welche Missstände die Befragten als nicht erfüllte Gerechtigkeitsansprüche erheben und welche nur als nicht erfüllte Wünsche, wobei wir Sorgearrangements ins Zentrum stellen. Anhand dreier Fallbeispiele zeigen wir, dass nur Fürsorge normative Kraft entfalten kann, während zur Einforderung angemessener Bedingungen zur Selbstsorge meist normative Rahmen fehlen. Fürsorge ist zudem vergeschlechtlicht und aus dem Anspruch, gute Pflege zu leisten, kann selbstdestruktives Potenzial erwachsen. Gesellschaftspolitisch ist zu fragen, wie normative Rahmen für angemessene Selbstsorge und gerechte Bedingungen für selbstsorgsame Pflege von Anderen etabliert werden können.
Cereal Marketing and Household Market Participation in Ethiopia: The Case of Teff, Wheat and Rice
Creators: name: Gebremedhin, Berhanu
name: Hoekstra, Dirk
name: Gebremedhin, Berhanu
name: Hoekstra, Dirk
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Teff, wheat and rice are becoming important market oriented crops in Ethiopia. This study aims at analyzing the market participation of farm households, market actors, market channels and determinants of household market participation for these crops. Results are based on analysis of data collected from community and household surveys in three districts in three regional states of the country in 2005. Analysis of descriptive information and econometric analysis are used. About 65 - 77% of households produce these market oriented commodities, on about 27 – 44% of the total cultivated area. About 47 – 60% of the produce of these market oriented commodities is sold. The important market places for producers of these commodities are the district town markets and markets located at the peasant associations. Markets in other district towns or regional markets are not important for producers. Wholesalers and retailers are the most important buyers from producers. Average distance to market places for these commodities is about two walking hours. Econometric analyses showed that access to markets as measured by distance to market places does not have effect on market orientation of households in the study area. We find evidence of an U-shaped relationship between age of household head and market orientation of households in the cereal crops. Availability of cultivated land, traction power and household labor supply are important factors that induces households to be market oriented. The resource poverty of female headed households seems to detract from market orientation. While household size tends to favor food security objectives, number of dependents is associated with market orientation. Our results imply that improvements of markets to benefit producers need to be targeted at the district level. Improving the operations of factor markets of land, traction and farm labor could contribute to enhancing market orientation of farm households. Special attention is needed to female headed households to induce them to be market oriented.
The impact of China’s SO2 emission trading system on industrial total factor productivity: evidence from industrial sub-sectors at the provincial level
Creators: name: Xu, Fang
name: Li, Zuhan
name: Liu, Qiumei
name: Zhou, Di
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Much attention has been devoted to the economic benefits of emission trading systems (ETSs), but research concerning the SO2 ETS in China is scarce. We examine China’s SO2 ETS in 2007 from the perspective of industrial sub-sectors and employ the difference-in-difference-in-difference (DDD) model to test whether the SO2 ETS can promote industrial total factor productivity (TFP). We identify whether it is the average effect or the dynamic effect of the SO2 ETS that can improve industrial TFP. The heterogeneity test results indicate that this policy has diverse influence in different regions and industries, and the effect is better in pollution-intensive industries. We also find that the policy enhances industrial TFP by promoting efficient technological innovation and capital allocation. Our findings provide evidence that supports the Porter Hypothesis and a guide for the industrialization of developing countries. Chinese policymakers should strengthen environmental enforcement, set quotas accordingly, and encourage technological innovation to improve industrial TFP.
Additional file 1 of Podoplanin is indispensable for cell motility and platelet-induced epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition-related gene expression in esophagus squamous carcinoma TE11A cells
Creators: name: Watanabe, Nobuo
name: Kidokoro, Masako
name: Tanaka, Makiko
name: Inoue, Shigeaki
name: Tomoatsu Tsuji
name: Akatuska, Hisako
name: Okada, Chisa
name: Iida, Yumi
name: Okada, Yoshinori
name: Suzuki, Yusuke
name: Sato, Takehito
name: Yahata, Takashi
name: Hirayama, Noriaki
name: Nakagawa, Yoshihide
name: Inokuchi, Sadaki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Effect of EGTA on PLT-induced vimentin expression in TE11A cells. TE11A cells at confluence in 24-well plates were treated with platelets (~ 2 × 107/mL) or TGF-β (20 ng/mL), in the presence of the indicated final concentrations of EGTA for 18 h, and vimentin expression was measured by real-time PCR. EGTA was added to the culture just before the addition of platelets or TGF-β. Values are mean ± range of duplicate culture wells from one representative experiment. Fig. S2. Effect of SB431542 on PLT- or TGF-β-induced expression of EMT-related genes in TE11A cells. TE11A cells at confluence in 24-well plates were preincubated with 0.1% DMSO (control) or 5 µM SB431542 for 30 min and then treated with TGF-β (20 ng/mL) or platelets (x1 = ~ 0.7 × 107/mL, ×3 = ~ 2 × 107/mL) plus EGTA (2 mM) for 18 h. The expression of the EMT-related genes, vimentin (A), N-cadherin (B), E-cadherin (C), claudin-1 (D), PDPN (E), and PAI-1 (F) was analyzed by real-time PCR. Values are mean ± range of duplicate culture wells from one representative experiment. Fig. S3. Effect of the PDPN-neutralizing antibody, NZ-1, on PLT-induced expression of EMT-related genes in original TE11 cells. Original TE11 cells at confluence in 24-well plates were preincubated with NZ-1 or control rat IgG2a (each 2 µg/mL) for 30 min and then treated with platelets (~ 2 × 107/mL) plus EGTA (2 mM) for 18 h. The expression levels of the EMT-related genes, vimentin (A), N-cadherin (B), PDPN (C), and PAI-1 (D) was analyzed by real-time PCR. Values are expressed as the mean ± SEM of 4 culture wells from one representative experiment. The platelet-induced increase was normalized by the untreated cells. ***P
Assessing Potential Impact of a Farmer Field School Training on Perennial Crop in Cameroon
Creators: name: Wandji, Njankoua
name: Binam, Nyemeck
name: Sonii, David
name: Mva Mva, Jonas
name: Gockowski, James
name: Wandji, Njankoua
name: Binam, Nyemeck
name: Sonii, David
name: Mva Mva, Jonas
name: Gockowski, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: integrated pest management
subject: farmer field school
subject: adoption rate

description: This study is an attempt of the combination of multiple data sources referring to the same time period and to the same farmer population, it aims at assessing the potential impact of a cocoa Farmer Field School Training on Integrated Pest Management in Cameroon. Using a combination of a latitudinal and a longitudinal comparison, the results indicate that FFS-trained farmers have significantly more knowledge about crop husbandry practices than those in the non-participant comparison group. A 32% production increase and 45% income increase relative to the non-participants was estimated in the latitudinal analysis. The longitudinal comparison is showing significant adoption rates of 94, 93, 90, 66 and 35 % respectively for shade management, phytosanitary harvest, pruning, improved spraying practices and grafting of improved materials. There was a 47 % reduction in the frequency of spraying fungicides and a 17 % reduction in the number of sprayers applied per treatment following the implementation of the training. Labour inputs increased significantly for pruning, phytosanitary harvest, and shade management but decreased for spraying. A partial budget analysis reveals that the IPM practices lowered overall costs of production by 11 % relative to previous practices. The two different analytical tools (longitudinal and latitudinal) are convergent in their results, showing more evidence about the higher potential impact of the farmer field school training on the restructuring process of the cocoa sector in Cameroon
Agriculture and The Challenge to Reduce Poverty in East Africa
Creators: name: Lazaro, Evelyne A.
name: Makindara, Jeremia R.
name: Lazaro, Evelyne A.
name: Makindara, Jeremia R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The three East African (EA) countries Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda have a population of about 95 million people and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of USD 34.2 billion. In recent years efforts has been made among the three East African countries, towards forging economic and regional co-operation by establishing the East African Community (EAC). The premise for economic and regional co-operation has been underpinned for the need for a common market and boost regional trade. The ultimate goal of these efforts is to achieve one of the international development objectives of increasing growth to 7% a year that is required to reduce income poverty. One of the challenges that East African countries need to tackle in the face of globalisation is the ability to participate in international markets. East African countries have to make serious consideration with regards to changing the composition of their exports away from primary products to manufactured exports. Value addition to both agricultural and industrial products is vital to improving the EA economies. This paper examines the composition of East Africa’s economic structure. The aim is to analyse how the economic structure has changed over time, and to assess whether or not East African countries have transformed their agricultural sectors, and what the impact has been on poverty reduction in these economies.
Supplementary Figure 4 from Long-read sequencing reveals atypical mitochondrial genome structure in a New Zealand marine isopod
Creators: name: Pearman, William S.
name: Wells, Sarah J.
name: Dale, James
name: Silander, Olin K.
name: Freed, Nikki E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Supplementary Figure 4 Distribution of read depth across the mitochondrial dimer for both Illumina (A) and Nanopore (B) reads, black arrows indicate positions of the junctions, minimal depth is found at the junctions.
Spectral deconvolution with deep learning: removing the effects of spectral PSF broadening
Creators: name: Molnar, Momchil
name: Reardon, Kevin
name: Osborne, Christopher
name: Milić, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore novel methods of recovering the original spectral line profiles from data obtained by instruments that sample those profiles with an extended or multipeaked spectral transmission profile. The techniques are tested on data obtained at high spatial resolution from the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS) grating spectrograph at the Big Bear Solar Observatory and from the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS) instrument at the Dunn Solar Telescope. The method robustly deconvolves wide spectral transmission profiles for fields of view sampling a variety of solar structures (granulation, plage and pores) with a photometrical precision of less than 1%. The results and fidelity of the method are tested on data from IBIS obtained using several different spectral resolution modes. The method, based on convolutional neural networks (CNN), is extremely fast, performing about $10^5$ deconvolutions per second on a CPU and $10^6$ deconvolutions per second on NVIDIA TITAN RTX GPU for a spectrum with 40 wavelength samples. This approach is applicable for deconvolving large amounts of data from instruments with wide spectral transmission profiles, such as the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF) on the DKI Solar Telescope (DKIST). We also investigate its application to future instruments by recovering spectral line profiles obtained with a theoretical multi-peaked spectral transmission profile. We further discuss the limitations of this deconvolutional approach through the analysis of the dimensionality of the original and multiplexed data.
description: Accepted for publication in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Physics
Neutron spin polarization in strong magnetic fields
Creators: name: Wen, H.
name: Kisslinger, L. S.
name: Greiner, Walter
name: Mao, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of strong magnetic fields on the inner crust of neutron stars are investigated after taking into account the anomalous magnetic moments of nucleons. Energy spectra and wave functions for protons and neutrons in a uniform magnetic field are provided. The particle spin polarizations and the yields of protons and neutrons are calculated in a free Fermi gas model. Obvious spin polarization occurs when $B\geq10^{14}$G for protons and $B\geq10^{17}$G for neutrons, respectively. It is shown that the neutron spin polarization depends solely on the magnetic field strength.
description: Replaced by the revised version; 10 pages, including 3 eps figures
The geography of circular economy: job creation, territorial embeddedness and local public policies
Creators: name: Niang, Amadou
name: Bourdin, Sébastien
name: Torre, André
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology

description: To date, few studies have analysed the geography of the circular economy, especially its contribution to economic activity on a sub-regional scale. In this context, our paper aims to analyse the evolution of employment and activities in the circular economy at the local level in France. For this purpose, we use a database on job creation and companies in the circular economy between 2008 and 2015 and we propose for the first time a study measuring the creation of jobs and companies in the CE. We show that the growth of employment in the circular economy is higher than the growth of total employment. Moreover, we highlight that the number of companies in the circular economy is mainly concentrated in metropolitan areas. We also point out the regional effect of the growth of the circular economy, indicating the territorial embeddedness of this type of activity. Based on this observation, we assume that regional public policies play a significant role in the deployment of a circular economy.
Strategies to Promote Market-Oriented Smallholder Agriculture in Developing Countries: A Case of Kenya
Creators: name: Omiti, John M.
name: Otieno, David Jakinda
name: McCullough, Ellen B.
name: Nyanamba, Timothy O.
name: Omiti, John M.
name: Otieno, David Jakinda
name: McCullough, Ellen B.
name: Nyanamba, Timothy O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Smallholder Agriculture
subject: Market Participation
subject: Commercialization
subject: Kenya

description: Smallholder Agriculture is key to livelihoods of many rural households in developing and transition economies. In Kenya, small farms account for over 75% of total agricultural production and nearly 50% of the marketed output. Despite favourable trends in global development drivers such as rising population, per capita incomes and emerging urban dietary preferences, most smallholder farmers remain poor. This study sought to characterize agricultural commercialization trends, identify and prioritize constraints to participation in markets, analyse determinants of percentage of output sold, and explore strategies to promote market-oriented production. A participatory Rapid Rural Appraisal approach, household survey and a Truncated Regression model were used. A sample of 224 farmers: 76 of them growing maize, 77 involved in horticulture (kales and tomatoes) and 71 practising dairy, were interviewed in one peri-urban and one rural district (Kiambu and Kisii, respectively). Results show that in rural areas, lower levels of output are sold and fewer farmers participate in markets compared to the peri-urban areas. Opportunities for profitable commercial agriculture are observed in growing demand, emerging food preferences and intensive farming. At village-level, market participation is hampered by poor quality and high cost of inputs, high transportation costs, high market charges and unreliable market information. At the household-level, the determinants of percentage of output sold are producer prices, market information arrangement, output, distance to the market, share of non-farm income and gender. Strategies are suggested to improve rural input supply, institutional and regulatory framework, enhance value addition and strengthen market information provision.
The Rise and Fall of Pentaquarks in Experiments
Creators: name: Schumacher, Reinhard A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental evidence for and against the existence of pentaquarks has accumulated rapidly in the last three years. If they exist, they would be dramatic examples of hadronic states beyond our well-tested and successful particle models. The positive evidence suggests existence of baryonic objects with widths of at most a few MeV, some displaying exotic quantum numbers, such as baryons with strangeness $S = +1$. The non-observations of these states have often come from reaction channels very different from the positive evidence channels, making comparisons difficult. The situation has now been largely clarified, however, by high-statistics repetitions of the positive sightings, with the result that none of the positive sightings have been convincingly reproduced. The most recent unconfirmed positive sightings suffer again from low statistics and large backgrounds. It seems that a kind of ``bandwagon'' effect led to the overly-optimistic interpretation of numerous experiments in the earlier reports of exotic pentaquarks.
description: Presented at Particles and Nuclei International Conference (PANIC'05), Santa Fe, N.M. October 28, 2005; 9 pages, 1 figure
Garment Industry and Economic Empowerment: A case study of Swaziland
Creators: name: Panin, Anthony
name: Mthombo, Thabile T.
name: Panin, Anthony
name: Mthombo, Thabile T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Economic Empowerment
subject: Garment
subject: Investors
subject: Swaziland

description: This paper examines the extent to which garment industry in Swaziland has contributed to the economic empowerment of the Swazi people through creation of new jobs and improvement in their overall welfare. In Swaziland as elsewhere in many African countries, unemployment has been and is still a major constraint to the country’s sluggish economic growth. In response to the unemployment situation in the country, Swaziland Investment Promotion Authority (SIPA) was established in 1977 under the Ministry of Enterprise and Employment with the main aim of attracting, encouraging, promoting, and facilitating both local Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) in the country. Among the efforts to entice foreign investors into the country was the construction of several factory shells to be used by would be investors. This initiative led to the influx of garment firms into the country primarily driven by the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). This analysis is based on a survey data of 235 employees randomly selected from five garment firms in the country. Understanding the actual contribution made by the garment industry towards the country’s economy is important for the government for it to reassess its economic policies regarding unemployment and poverty alleviation strategies. The empirical results show that the industry created employment for 64% of the sample, most of them females. It also enhanced the general welfare of the people by improving family expenditures on education, health and ensuring food security. Consequently, it can be concluded that the industry has the potential to contribute significantly to the economic empowerment of the Swazi people.