cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Comparative Advantages of Cross-strait Aquatic Products Trade and Zhoushan Countermeasures
Creators: name: Zhang, Yan-Ru
name: Zhang, Yan-Ru
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Comparative advantage
subject: Aquatic products trade
subject: Cooperation modality
subject: International comparativeness
subject: China

description: In the initial stage, the status quo of aquatic products industry in Taiwan and Zhoushan is analyzed. The aquatic products industry in Taiwan is characterized by high input, high output, advanced fishery import and export trade, refined and specialized fishery organizations and the dominant role played by the government. However, in Zhoushan, there are many problems in the development of aquatic products industry, featuring weak brand consciousness, inadequate famous brand and pillar industries, frequently restricted by green trade barrier and disordered competition of aquatic products market. The comparative advantages of aquatic products Cross-Straits are measured by using revealed comparative advantage index (RCA) and trade specialized index (TSC), the results show that the aquatic products in both the mainland and Taiwan have certain market share and competitiveness. The revealed comparative advantage index （RCA）of Taiwan’ aquatic products is higher than that in the mainland, while the RCA index in the mainland and Taiwan all shows descending trend; the trade specialized index(TSC) cross straits is positive, which indicates specialized export, but this specialization also shows descending trend. Taiwan has advanced aquaculture technology and the mainland owns cheap labor cost and low price, but due to the limited resources in the Taiwan Island and the backward processing technology of aquatic products in the mainland, the comparativeness of aquatic products in the mainland and Taiwan has slid slightly. Therefore, I probe into the cooperation modality between Zhoushan and Taiwan in terms of mutual investment in aquatic industry, exchange and training for personnel cross straits and establishing experimental point of aquatic industry of the Zhoushan Island and Taiwan Island. Besides, countermeasures for enhancing the international comparativeness of aquatic industry in Zhoushan Island are put forward.
Novel cosmological and black hole solutions in Einstein and higher-derivative gravity in two dimensions
Creators: name: Nojiri, Shin'ichi
name: Odintsov, Sergei D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider cosmological and black hole solutions in the Einstein and higher-derivative gravity in two dimensions where the theory is formulated first in $D$ dimensions. In the limit that $D$ tends to $2$ with simultaneous singular rescaling of the scalar curvature coupling constant as $1/(D-2)$, we get the novel Einstein and higher-derivative gravity. Due to non-trivial contribution of scalar curvature which is topological invariant in exactly two dimensions to gravitational equations in the two-dimensional limit one gets novel cosmological and black hole solutions.In particular, the de Sitter and radiation-dominated universe and the Schwarzschild-de Sitter and Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter black hole solutions are obtained and their properties are discussed.
description: LaTeX 7 pages, to appear in EPL, references are added
Additional file 2 of Identification of genes and miRNA associated with idiopathic recurrent pregnancy loss: an exploratory data mining study
Creators: name: Bahia, Wael
name: Soltani, Ismael
name: Abidi, Anouar
name: Haddad, Anis
name: Ferchichi, Salima
name: Menif, Samia
name: Almawi, Wassim Y.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Accession Number of Identified miRNA.
Tuning of the Gap in a Laughlin-Bychkov-Rashba Incompressible Liquid
Creators: name: Califano, Marco
name: Chakraborty, Tapash
name: Pietiläinen, and Pekka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on our investigation of the influence of Bychkov-Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) on the incompressible Laughlin state. We find that experimentally obtainable values of the spin-orbit coupling strength can induce as much as a 25% increase in the quasiparticle-quasihole gap Eg at low magnetic fields in InAs, thereby increasing the stability of the liquid state. The SOI-modulated enhancement of Eg is also significant for filling factors 1/5 and 1/7, where the FQH state is usually weak. This raises the intriguing possibility of tuning, via the SO coupling strength, the liquid to solid transition to much lower densities.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Reconfigurable electro-optic frequency shifter
Creators: name: Hu, Yaowen
name: Yu, Mengjie
name: Zhu, Di
name: Sinclair, Neil
name: Shams-Ansari, Amirhassan
name: Shao, Linbo
name: Holzgrafe, Jeffrey
name: Puma, Eric
name: Zhang, Mian
name: Loncar, Marko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we demonstrate an on-chip electro-optic frequency shifter that is precisely controlled using only a single-tone microwave signal. This is accomplished by engineering the density of states of, and coupling between, optical modes in ultra-low loss electro-optic waveguides and resonators realized in lithium niobate nanophotonics. Our device provides frequency shifts as high as 28 GHz with measured shift efficiencies of ~99% and insertion loss of <0.5 dB. Importantly, the device can be reconfigured as a tunable frequency-domain beam splitter, in which the splitting ratio and splitting frequency are controlled by microwave power and frequency, respectively. Using the device, we also demonstrate (non-blocking) frequency routing through an efficient exchange of information between two distinct frequency channels, i.e. swap operation. Finally, we show that our scheme can be scaled to achieve cascaded frequency shifts beyond 100 GHz. Our device could become an essential building-block for future high-speed and large-scale classical information processors as well as emerging frequency-domain photonic quantum computers.
Empirical Study on the Impact of Rural Labor Force Flow on the Price of Agricultural Products- A Method Based on VEC Model
Creators: name: Wen, Li
name: Wen, Li
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural labor force flow
subject: Price of agricultural products
subject: VEC model
subject: Vocational education
subject: China

description: Based on the research introduction of domestic and foreign scholars, dynamic equilibrium between the rural labor force flow and the price of agricultural product is analyzed by VEC model, according to the data of the rural labor force flow and the price of agricultural products in the years 1990-2007. Chow’s breakpoint test is used to measure the stage characteristics of the impact of rural labor force flow on the price of agricultural product. Result shows that there is a long-term and stationary relationship between the flow quantity of rural labor force and the price of agricultural product. Rural labor force flow, as an exogenous force, affects the agricultural production, and further influences the price fluctuation of agricultural products. Impact of rural labor force flow on the price of agricultural product is from weak to strong, then grows gradually weaker, and reaches its peak value at the year 1998. With the development of rural society and economy and the market process, rural labor force flow endogenously affects the price of agricultural product, which has periodic characteristics. In order to achieve a dual stabilization of the rural labor force flow and the price of agricultural products, the following countermeasures are put forward: vigorously developing vocational education, increasing the support for agricultural production, and making active employment measures.
Decoding the fine flavour properties of dark chocolates
Creators: name: Ullrich, L.
name: Casty, B.
name: André, A.
name: Hühn, T.
name: Steinhaus, M.
name: Chetschik, I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The demand of consumers for high quality chocolate, organic cocoa and bean-to-bar products is increasing. This led to a higher share of fine or flavour cocoa and a higher production of bean-to-bar chocolates that are made of cocoa beans of defined variety and origin. These chocolates differentiate themselves from the mass market products by their unique flavour properties. The diversity of cocoa flavours is well described on a sensory level. On the molecular level, the flavour of cocoa and chocolate has generally been well studied and different types of off-flavours have already been elucidated on the molecular level. However, the molecular background of specific fine flavour attributes such as fruity, floral, and cocoa-like is still not fully understood.
Therefore, the aim of this investigation was to decode specific fine flavour properties of dark chocolates. For this reason, chocolates made from reference liquors of the Cocoa of Excellence Programme were analysed for their molecular composition. The liquors were very distinct in certain flavour attributes and referenced with flavour properties such as fruity, floral, or cocoa-like. After the screening for odour-active molecules by means of aroma extract dilution analysis (AEDA), selected flavour compounds were quantified in the chocolates with the overall aim to decode the fine flavour properties on the molecular level. 
In summary, acidic and fruity flavour notes were associated with high dose over threshold factors (DoT factors) of acetic acid and fruity smelling esters with the main contribution of ethyl 2-methylbutanaote, ethyl 3-methylbutanoate, and 3-methylbutyl acetate. Cocoa-like and roasty flavour notes were associated with high DoT factors of 2-methylbutanal, 3-methylbutanal, 4-hydroxy-2,5-dimethylfuran-3(2H)-one, and dimethyltrisulfane. The floral and astringent flavour properties were linked to high DoT factors of (−)-epicatechin, procyanidin B2, procyanidin C1, and 2-phenylethan-1-ol. The acquired knowledge of the molecular background of specific cocoa fine flavour attributes provides a basis for future quality assessment of cocoa and chocolate and the development of standardised training samples for sensory evaluation of cocoa products. 
Keywords: molecular flavour compositions, stable isotopically substituted odorants, dark chocolates, sensory references, fine flavour properties
A framework for assessing the performance of sustainable technologies for building projects
Creators: name: Nelms, Cheryl Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The building industry has attempted to reduce the impact of the design, construction and operation of buildings by replacing traditional technologies with sustainable technologies that have a reduced ecological, health and environmental life cycle impact. At present, the performance of sustainable technologies in buildings is generally not assessed holistically, but rather from a primarily single-issue perspective, e.g., only financially or only environmentally. Such an approach is limited in that it ignores the interaction of the technologies within the physical facility itself as expressed through life cycle costs, the impact on the surrounding environment, design objectives of the project and its stakeholders whose value systems may conflict. The primary goal of this work is to improve the understanding and decision making capabilities of the building industry and government when faced with decisions regarding investment and policy regarding sustainable building technologies. A secondary goal is to identify knowledge gaps in our understanding of sustainable technologies. The thesis explores the unique characteristics of the building sector in terms of the stakeholders involved, the construction process, and the operation and maintenance of a building. The unique characteristics of the building sector influence the industry motivation towards sustainable construction, and thus sustainable construction, the characteristics of sustainable buildings and selected sustainable technologies are also described. The main barriers to improving the environmental performance of the building sector and incentives for the adoption of sustainable construction practices are introduced, and the value systems of various stakeholders involved in a construction project and the motivation for the adoption of sustainable technologies are discussed. An analytical framework is developed herein for the selection of appropriate sustainable technologies in buildings and for assisting policy makers develop meaningful sustainable technology regulation, policy and incentives. Rooftop garden technology is used to demonstrate the application of the framework in hypothetical building examples. Benefits of the framework include a means to promote dialogue among stakeholders to reflect the diverse value systems involved in a building project and a logical structure for applying sustainability concepts and for assessing the relevance of technology to the project context, construction process and final product.
Uncertainty Matters: Stable Conclusions Under Unstable Assessment of Fairness Results
Creators: name: Barrainkua, Ainhize
name: Gordaliza, Paula
name: Lozano, Jose A.
name: Quadrianto, Novi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: AbstractRecent studies highlight the effectiveness ofBayesian methods in assessing algorithm performance, particularly in fairness and biasevaluation. We present Uncertainty Matters,a multi-objective uncertainty-aware algorithmic comparison framework. In fairnessfocused scenarios, it models sensitive groupconfusion matrices using Bayesian updatesand facilitates joint comparison of performance (e.g., accuracy) and fairness metrics(e.g., true positive rate parity). Our approach works seamlessly with common evaluation methods like K-fold cross-validation,effectively addressing dependencies amongthe K posterior metric distributions. The integration of correlated information is carriedout through a procedure tailored to the classifier's complexity. Experiments demonstratethat the insights derived from algorithmiccomparisons employing the Uncertainty Matters approach are more informative, reliable,and less influenced by particular data partitions. C
Large Neutrino Magnetic Moments in the Light of Recent Experiments
Creators: name: Babu, K. S.
name: Jana, Sudip
name: Lindner, Manfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The excess in electron recoil events reported recently by the XENON1T experiment may be interpreted as evidence for a sizable transition magnetic moment $μ_{ν_eν_μ}$ of Majorana neutrinos. We show the consistency of this scenario when a single component transition magnetic moment takes values $μ_{ν_eν_μ} \in(1.65 - 3.42) \times 10^{-11} μ_B$. Such a large value typically leads to unacceptably large neutrino masses. In this paper we show that new leptonic symmetries can solve this problem and demonstrate this with several examples. We first revive and then propose a simplified model based on $SU(2)_H$ horizontal symmetry. Owing to the difference in their Lorentz structures, in the $SU(2)_H$ symmetric limit, $m_ν$ vanishes while $μ_{ν_eν_μ}$ is nonzero. Our simplified model is based on an approximate $SU(2)_H$, which we also generalize to a three family $SU(3)_H$-symmetry. Collider and low energy tests of these models are analyzed. We have also analyzed implications of the XENON1T data for the Zee model and its extensions which naturally generate a large $μ_{ν_eν_μ}$ with suppressed $m_ν$ via a spin symmetry mechanism, but found that the induced $μ_{ν_eν_μ}$ is not large enough to explain recent data. Finally, we suggest a mechanism to evade stringent astrophysical limits on neutrino magnetic moments arising from stellar evolution by inducing a medium-dependent mass for the neutrino.
description: 40 pages + references, 19 figures, matches published version
Implementation Effect of Farmland Protection in Urumqi—Changji Economic Zone, China
Creators: name: Li, Jiang-Nan
name: Li, Jiang-Nan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farmland protection
subject: Implementation effect
subject: Urumqi—Changji Economic Zone
subject: China

description: A multi-level evaluation index system is established with farmland protection as the target layer, farmland quantity, farmland quality and farmland sustainable development as the criterion layer. And the index layer includes the quantity change of farmland, per capita farmland area, multiple cropping index, total grain yield, unit grain yield, per capita grain security coefficient, and unit machinery dynamical input. Both expert evaluation method and factor analysis method are used to determine the weight of index. According to the data in farmland area, grain yield and economic development in Urumqi—Changji Economic Zone in the years 1996-2007, a comprehensive evaluation model of intensive farmland use in Urumqi—Changji Economic Zone is established after data standardization. The overall implementation effect of farmland protection policy is analyzed by integrating the farmland quantity, farmland quality and sustainable development. Result shows that implementation effect of farmland protection shows an upward trend in general in Urumqi—Changji Economic Zone in the years 1996-2007, with a fluctuation in the years 2000-2003 and a stable rising phase from 2004 till now. The maximum value is 0.779 in the year 2007; the minimum value is 0.242 in the year 1996; and the mean value in the years 1996-2007 is 0.454. Farmland protection at first strictly controls the farmland quantity, then pays attention to farmland quality, and finally focuses on the sustainable use of farmland.
The Relativistic Quantum Motions
Creators: name: Djama, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the relativistic quantum stationary Hamilton-Jacobi equation within the framework of the equivalence postulate, and grounding oneself on both relativistic and quantum Lagrangians, we construct a Lagrangian of a relativistic quantum system in one dimension and derive a third order equation of motion representing a first integral of the relativistic quantum Newton's law. Then, we plot the relativistic quantum trajectories of a particle moving under the constant and the linear potentials. We establish the existence of nodes and link them to the de Broglie's wavelength.
description: Latex, 18 pages, 3 eps figures
A Study on the Countermeasures of Modern Agricultural Development from a Perspective of E-Commerce --A Case of Suzhou, China
Creators: name: Sun, Xun-Wen
name: Sun, Xun-Wen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Modern agriculture
subject: Agricultural e-commerce
subject: Agricultural e-commerce model
subject: E-commerce talents
subject: China

description: Based on the fact that E-commerce promotes the development of modern agriculture, the paper summarizes the present situation of agricultural E-commerce through related materials. Taking Suzhou city as an example, the paper analyzes the features of modern agriculture. And the modern agriculture is characterized with apparent industrialization and scale requirements, the branded and particular agriculture has more advantages, leisure agriculture is the very special one. In order to upgrade the degree of agricultural industrialization of Suzhou, promote the communication of agricultural information and sales of products and lower the risks of agricultural production, the E-commerce countermeasures of modern agriculture have been put forward. Firstly, strengthen the network construction of agricultural information. Secondly, carry out the agricultural e-commerce business by B2B model. Thirdly, construct the e-commerce platform of leisure agriculture. Fourthly, construct the e-commerce platform of modern agriculture. Fifthly, perfect the logistics distribution network of agricultural products of Suzhou. The last point is that accelerate the e-commerce training of farmers and the introduction of talents.
Inflation and String Cosmology
Creators: name: Linde, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After 25 years of its existence, inflationary theory gradually becomes the standard cosmological paradigm. However, we still do not know which of the many versions of inflationary cosmology will be favored by the future observational data. Moreover, it may be quite nontrivial to obtain a natural realization of inflationary theory in the context of the ever changing theory of all fundamental interactions. In this paper I will describe the history and the present status of inflationary cosmology, including recent attempts to implement inflation in the context of string theory.
description: 40 pages, 9 figures, an extended version of my talks at the SLAC Summer School "Nature's Greatest Puzzles," at the conference Cosmo04 in Toronto, at the VI Mexican School on Gravitation, and at the XXII Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics in 2004
The Relevance of Information Sources on Adoption of Precision Farming Technologies by Cotton Producers
Creators: name: Garcia-Jimenez, Carlos I.
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
name: Lambert, Dayton M.
name: Velandia, Margarita M.
name: Rejesus, Roderick M.
name: Segarra, Eduardo
name: Garcia-Jimenez, Carlos I.
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
name: Lambert, Dayton M.
name: Velandia, Margarita M.
name: Rejesus, Roderick M.
name: Segarra, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: strategic communication
subject: competitiveness
subject: extension
subject: economics of information
subject: technology diffusion
subject: technology supply
subject: communication methods
subject: knowledge management

description: The effectiveness of sources of information on adoption of precision farming technologies (PFT) by US cotton producers is evaluated. The conceptual framework considers information flows as production inputs with derived demand from the demand for PFT’s and output. By using multivariate probit regression, it’s found that the use of university publications and attendance to events organized by universities had more consistent and significant positive effects on adoption of PFT’s. Information from farm dealers impacted significantly the adoption of zone soil sampling technologies and soil survey maps. In conclusion, sources of information have positive and asymmetric effects on adoption of PFT’s.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 02/16/11.
Additional file 1 of Identification of genes and miRNA associated with idiopathic recurrent pregnancy loss: an exploratory data mining study
Creators: name: Bahia, Wael
name: Soltani, Ismael
name: Abidi, Anouar
name: Haddad, Anis
name: Ferchichi, Salima
name: Menif, Samia
name: Almawi, Wassim Y.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Data banks/repositories corresponding to datasets analyzed in this study.
Learning from Online Regrets: From Deleted Posts to Risk Awareness in Social Network Sites
Creators: name: Ferreyra, Nicolas E. Diaz
name: Meis, Rene
name: Heisel, Maritta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Social Network Sites (SNSs) like Facebook or Instagram are spaces where people expose their lives to wide and diverse audiences. This practice can lead to unwanted incidents such as reputation damage, job loss or harassment when pieces of private information reach unintended recipients. As a consequence, users often regret to have posted private information in these platforms and proceed to delete such content after having a negative experience. Risk awareness is a strategy that can be used to persuade users towards safer privacy decisions. However, many risk awareness technologies for SNSs assume that information about risks is retrieved and measured by an expert in the field. Consequently, risk estimation is an activity that is often passed over despite its importance. In this work we introduce an approach that employs deleted posts as risk information vehicles to measure the frequency and consequence level of self-disclosure patterns in SNSs. In this method, consequence is reported by the users through an ordinal scale and used later on to compute a risk criticality index. We thereupon show how this index can serve in the design of adaptive privacy nudges for SNSs.
Mass of the B_c Meson in Three-Flavor Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Allison, Ian F.
name: Davies, Christine T. H.
name: Gray, Alan
name: Kronfeld, Andreas S.
name: Mackenzie, Paul B.
name: Simone, James N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use lattice QCD to predict the mass of the $B_c$ meson. We use the MILC Collaboration's ensembles of lattice gauge fields, which have a quark sea with two flavors much lighter than a third. Our final result is $m_{B_c}=6304\pm12^{+18}_{- 0} MeV$. The first error bar is a sum in quadrature of statistical and systematic uncertainties, and the second is an estimate of heavy-quark discretization effects.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures; shorten to fit in PRL; published version
Rapid assessment of soil health in cocoa landscapes around Téné Forest Reserve, Middle-West Côte d'Ivoire
Creators: name: Ngbala, Fulbert
name: Tondoh, Ebagnerin Jérôme
name: Baidai, Yannick
name: Lokossoué, Kouassy Richmond
name: Kouassi, Jean-Luc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The study was conducted within and around the Classified Forest of Téné in the middle-west region of Côte d'Ivoire, with the aim of providing guidance for interventions that focus on developing resilient cocoa-forest landscapes. Two specific landscapes, Mafia and Petit Bouaké, were selected for analysis. These landscapes are located in settlements where cocoa growers reside, close to Goulikao in the Oumé district. The selected landscapes shared similar land-use patterns, including secondary forests, 26-year-old cocoa plantations, 13-year-old teak plantations, and recurrent fallow-maize fields of 5-year-old. To assess soil health, several key metrics were measured at three different soil depths: 0-10 cm, 10-20 cm, and 20-30 cm. The metrics included soil organic carbon (SOC), pH-H20, and Mean Weight Diameter (MWD). The following key findings were observed: (i) most sampling plots exhibited SOC concentrations below the sustainable threshold of 20 kg ha-1 required for cocoa farming when the soil pH values fell within the suitable range of 5.5-7.5 ; (ii) SOC concentrations and stocks can serve as indicators of soil health deterioration in the top 10 cm of soil within cocoa landscapes, due to their sensitivity to land-use changes and MWD can be used as an indicator in the depth increments of 10-20 cm and 20-30 cm ; (iii) apart from maize fields, which are recognized as the most degraded system within the landscape, soil health can be restored over a decade or more beneath teak and cocoa plantations ; (iv) teak plantations demonstrated a potential soil organic storage rate of +0.476 Mg C ha-1 yr-1 in the top 30 cm, supporting the validity of the 4 per 1,000 theory. Therefore, teak plantations can be recommended as a land-use option to combat global warming. In cocoa orchards, the carbon storage capacity varied from +0.16 to +0.54 Mg C ha-1 yr-1, with an overall carbon storage rate of +0.094 Mg C ha-1 yr-1 in the top 30 cm of soil. This finding highlights the potential of cocoa agroforestry to enhance SOC storage and suggests its use as a viable option for mitigating CO2 emissions, as advocated by the Paris Agreement (COP 21). Implementing good agricultural practices that focus on improved soil health, in conjunction with cocoa agroforestry that integrates farmer-preferred trees, should form the foundation of a new cocoa cropping model in the areas surrounding forest reserves.
Keywords: Carbon sequestration, 4 per 1000 initiative, soil degradation, resilience, tree-based systems
Analytic solutions of a two-fluid hydrodynamic model
Creators: name: Barna, I. F.
name: László, Mátyás
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a one dimensional flow described with the non-compressible coupled Euler and non-compressible Navier-Stokes equations in Cartesian coordinate systems. We couple the two fluids through the continuity equation where different void fractions can be considered. The well-known self-similar Ansatz was applied and analytic solutions were derived for both velocity and pressure field as well. The solutions can be expressed with the error functions.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of DAMEfinder: a method to detect differential allele-specific methylation
Creators: name: Orjuela, Stephany
name: Machlab, Dania
name: Menigatti, Mirco
name: Marra, Giancarlo
name: Robinson, Mark D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures.
The Physics of Flavor - Challenge for the Future
Creators: name: Fritzsch, Harald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the summary talk for the theoretical part of ICFP03. The contents of the talk are reviewed and a general outlook is given.
description: 7 pages, Korea Meeting ICFP03
Are weighted games sufficiently good for binary voting?
Creators: name: Kurz, Sascha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Theoretical Economics (econ.TH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 91B12, 91A12

description: Binary yes-no decisions in a legislative committee or a shareholder meeting are commonly modeled as a weighted game. However, there are noteworthy exceptions. E.g., the voting rules of the European Council according to the Treaty of Lisbon use a more complicated construction. Here we want to study the question if we lose much from a practical point of view, if we restrict ourselves to weighted games. To this end, we invoke power indices that measure the influence of a member in binary decision committees. More precisely, we compare the achievable power distributions of weighted games with those from a reasonable superset of weighted games. It turns out that the deviation is relatively small.
description: 7 pages, 2 tables; typos corrected
title: Jean-Claude Melchior
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques (1942-2020)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: 1 fichier (1 page)
Tipping Points and Ambiguity in the Economics of Climate Change
Creators: name: Lemoine, Derek M.
name: Traeger, Christian P.
name: Lemoine, Derek M.
name: Traeger, Christian P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: threshold
subject: climate
subject: integrated assessment
subject: regime shift
subject: ambiguity
subject: uncertainty
subject: dynamic programming
subject: social cost of carbon
subject: tipping point
subject: carbon tax

description: We model optimal policy when the probability of a tipping point, the welfare change due to a tipping point, and knowledge about a tipping point's trigger all depend on the policy path. Analytic results demonstrate how optimal policy depends on the ability to affect both the probability of a tipping point and also welfare in a post-threshold world. Simulations with a numerical climate-economy model show that possible tipping points in the climate system increase the optimal near-term carbon tax by up to 45% in base case specifications. The resulting policy paths lower peak warming by up to 0.5 degrees C compared to a model without possible tipping points. Different types of tipping points have qualitatively different effects on policy, demonstrating the importance of explicitly modeling tipping points' effects on system dynamics. Aversion to ambiguity in the threshold's distribution can amplify or dampen the effect of tipping points on optimal policy, but in our numerical model, ambiguity aversion increases the optimal carbon tax.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper Feb 13, 2012 available at http://purl.umn.edu/120349
Additional file 1 of Interactions between serum urate-associated genetic variants and sex on gout risk: analysis of the UK Biobank
Creators: name: Narang, Ravi K.
name: Topless, Ruth
name: Cadzow, Murray
name: Gamble, Greg
name: Stamp, Lisa K.
name: Merriman, Tony R.
name: Dalbeth, Nicola
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Table S1. Genotype frequencies of 30 serum urate-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms according to group overall and sex. Table S2. Frequencies and association analysis of 30 serum urate-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms for gout in all patients. Table S3. Frequencies and association analysis of 30 serum urate-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms for gout. Table S4. Association and interaction between serum urate-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms and sex for gout risk, excluding pre-menopausal women. Table S5. Association and interaction between serum urate-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms and sex for gout risk according to the number of effect alleles. (DOCX 62 kb)
Affine embeddings of homogeneous spaces
Creators: name: Arzhantsev, Ivan V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13A50; 14L30; 14M17; 14R20

description: Let G be a reductive algebraic group and H a closed subgroup of G. An affine embedding of the homogeneous space G/H is an affine G-variety with an open G-orbit isomorphic to G/H. We start with some basic properties of affine embeddings and consider the cases, where the theory is well-developed: toric varieties, normal SL(2)-embeddings, S-varieties, and algebraic monoids. We discuss connections between the theory of affine embeddings and Hilbert's 14th Problem via a theorem of Grosshans. We characterize affine homogeneous spaces G/H such that any affine embedding of G/H contains a finite number of G-orbits. The maximal value of modality over all affine embeddings of a given affine homogeneous space is computed and the group of equivariant automorphisms of an embedding is studied. As applications of the theory, we describe invariant algebras on homogeneous spaces of a compact Lie group and G-algebras with finitely generated invariant subalgebras.
description: 40 pages, 72 references, to appear in the LMS Lecture Notes Series
Additional file 1 of Using soil bacterial communities to predict physico-chemical variables and soil quality
Creators: name: Syrie M. Hermans
name: Buckley, Hannah L.
name: Case, Bradley S.
name: Curran-Cournane, Fiona
name: Taylor, Matthew
name: Lear, Gavin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Additional information.
District-level Spatial Analysis of Migration Flows in Ghana: Determinants and Implications for Policy
Creators: name: Tsegai, Daniel W.
name: Le, Quang Bao
name: Tsegai, Daniel W.
name: Le, Quang Bao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Gross migration
subject: Net migration
subject: Inter-district migration flows
subject: spatial analysis
subject: Ghana
subject: Africa

description: The present study investigates the determinants of inter-district migration flows over the 1995-2000 period in Ghana. A combination of socio-economic, natural and spatial ‘district-level’ attributes are considered as potential variables explaining the direction of migration flows. In addition to the ‘net’ migration model, ‘in’ and ‘out’ migration models are also employed within the context of the gravity model. Results in the three models consistently show that people move out of districts with less employment and choose districts with high employment rate as destinations. While shorter distance to roads encourages out-migration, districts with better water access seem to attract migrants. Generally, people move out of predominantly agrarian districts to relatively more urbanized districts.
Xanthochorema bifurcatum Schmid 1989
Creators: name: Johanson, Kjell Arne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Hydrobiosidae
Xanthochorema
Xanthochorema bifurcatum

description:  Xanthochorema bifurcatum Schmid, 1989 New records: 1 male: NEW CALEDONIA, Province Sud, Rivière Bleue, 22 °05.705'S, 166 ° 38.225 'E, stony river bank, 282 m, Malaise trap, 13­16.xi. 2001 [Johanson, Pape & Viklund].
description: Published as part of Johanson, Kjell Arne, 2002, A new species of the New Caledonian endemic genus Xanthochorema Kimmins, 1953 (Insecta: Trichoptera: Hydrobiosidae), pp. 1-6 in Zootaxa 42 on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619850
description: {"references": ["Schmid, F. (1989) Les Hydrobiosides (Trichoptera, Annulipalpia). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie, 59 (Supplement), 1 - 154."]}
Macroeconomic Effects of the Stock Management for Irrigation and Drainage Facilities in Japan: Application of Recursive- Dynamic CGE model
Creators: name: Kunimitsu, Yoji
name: Kunimitsu, Yoji
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Production Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Computable General Equilibrium Model
subject: Recursive dynamic model
subject: Consumers’ surplus
subject: Cost-benefit ratio

description: The stock management of irrigation and drainage facilities was macro-economically evaluated. The recursive-dynamic CGE model was developed and used for policy simulation. Results demonstrated that effects of activity spread to other industries and total benefit calculated by the consumers’ surplus change was more than the total costs.
ARCO AÓRTICO DIREITO ASSOCIADO A DIVERTÍCULO DE KOMMERELL DE ARTÉRIA SUBCLÁVIA ESQUERDA ABERRANTE
Creators: name: Catarino, Joana
name: Alves, Gonçalo
name: Gonçalves, Frederico
name: Ferreira, Rita
name: Camacho, Nelson
name: Correia, Ricardo
name: Bento, Rita
name: Ferreira, Maria Emília
Publisher: name: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular
Year: 2019

description: Introdução: A presença de um arco aórtico direito é um defeito congénito da aorta raro e, em metade dos casos está associado a uma subclávia esquerda aberrante, que pode desenvolver uma dilatação aneurismática (divertículo de Kommerell). Existem aproximadamente cerca de 50 casos descritos na literatura, com várias abordagens cirúrgicas possíveis. Os autores descrevem um caso de arco aórtico direito associado a divertículo de Kommerell de artéria subclávia esquerda aberrante corrigido através de uma solução híbrida. Caso clínico: Doente de 51 anos, sexo feminino, com antecedentes pessoais de hipertensão arterial, hérnia discal cervical (com indicação cirúrgica) e histerectomia. O angio TC mostrou arco aórtico direito, associado a uma artéria subclávia esquerda aberrante com divertículo de Kommerell de 30mm, com ligeira compressão esofágica, sem sintomas associados. A doente foi proposta para tratamento cirúrgico através de uma abordagem híbrida. O período pós-operatório decorreu sem complicações e a doente teve alta ao terceiro dia. Conclusão: Uma abordagem híbrida pode oferecer uma opção eficaz e menos invasiva para o tratamento de aneurismas resultantes de uma artéria subclávia esquerda aberrante. No entanto, outcomes a longo prazo ainda não são conhecidos e como tal um follow-up apertado é fulcral.
description: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular, Vol 15 No 1 (2019): March
Limits on variations in fundamental constants from 21-cm and ultraviolet quasar absorption lines
Creators: name: Tzanavaris, P.
name: Webb, J. K.
name: Murphy, M. T.
name: Flambaum, V. V.
name: Curran, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasar absorption spectra at 21-cm and UV rest-wavelengths are used to estimate the time variation of x=alpha^2 g_p mu, where alpha is the fine structure constant, g_p the proton g factor, and m_e/m_p=mu the electron/proton mass ratio. Over a redshift range 0.24 ~< z_abs ~< 2.04, _total_weighted=(1.17+-1.01) x 10^-5. A linear fit gives d/dt{x}/x=(-1.43+-1.27) x 10^-15 yr^-1. Two previous results on varying alpha yield the strong limits Delta mu/mu=(2.31+-1.03) x 10^-5 and Delta mu/mu=(1.29+-1.01) x 10^-5. Our sample, 8x larger than any previous, provides the first direct estimate of the intrinsic 21-cm and UV velocity differences ~6 km s^-1.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted on 10 June 2005 for publication in Physical Review Letters. Results unchanged. Minor restructuring of abstract and one reference added. Pages 1-4 identical to accepted version following referees' comments. Pages 5-12 show plots to improve understanding of this work
A contribution to a practical approach to corrosion protection and coating maintenance of steel bridge structures
Creators: name: Chan, Phyllis
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This report summarizes the state-of-the-art practices in corrosion protection coating maintenance in British Columbia and worldwide. Details regarding maintenance policies, maintenance strategies, and maintenance materials are outlined. A computer-based decision making tool used to minimize the cost of coating maintenance for steel bridges is presented in this report. Variations of the model, adapted for specific use, are presented. A maintenance approach with the lowest equivalent uniform annual cost is recommended for each analysis using the model. The analysis may be performed for one bridge structure using deterministic or probabilistic input values or for all bridge structures of a certain inventory using deterministic input values. The variation of the model allowing analysis of the entire bridge inventory will provide an estimation of the annual budgetary requirements for the coating maintenance in a region and will facilitate the prioritization of these coating maintenance projects. From preliminary analyses using the Steel Bridge Coating Maintenance Evaluation Model, it is observed that the most cost efficient approach to coating maintenance is touch-up painting. However, the coating condition of the bridge must be kept high in order for this maintenance strategy to be applicable. Therefore, it might be necessary to temporarily increase the coating maintenance budget in order to improve the average condition. This will allow for a lower annual maintenance cost in the future, resulting in reduction of the total costs over the life-time of the bridges.
Results of the North Dakota Land Valuation Model for the 2010 Agricultural Real Estate Assessment
Creators: name: Aakre, Dwight G.
name: Haugen, Ronald H.
name: Aakre, Dwight G.
name: Haugen, Ronald H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Land valuation
subject: real estate assessment
subject: agricultural land

description: This report summarizes the 2010 results of the North Dakota Land Valuation Model. The model is used annually to estimate average land values by county, based on the value of production from cropland and non-cropland. The county land values developed from this procedure form the basis for the 2010 valuation of agricultural land for real estate tax assessment. The average all agricultural land value from this analysis is multiplied by the total acres of agricultural land on the county abstract to determine each county’s total agricultural land value for taxation purposes. The State Board of Equalization compares this value with the total value assessed to agricultural property in each county. Each county is required by state statute to assess a total value of agricultural property within 5 percent of this value. The average value per acre of all agricultural land in North Dakota increased by 10.6 percent from 2009 to 2010 based on the value of production. The value cropland increased by 11.5 percent and non-cropland value increased by 1.7 percent. The formula capitalization rate was below the minimum set by the State Legislature, therefore the minimum rate of 7.7 percent was used. The majority of the increase in values for cropland and all agricultural land was due to the increased value of crop production. This increase in value of production was due primarily to market price increases that occurred in 2007 and 2008. The change in crop revenue impacted land values from a negative 1.6 percent to an increase of 21.8 percent by county. The capitalization rate change increased land valuations by 3.8 percent in all counties; while the cost of production index decreased land values in all counties by 5.3 percent.
Flavour structure and proton decay in 6D orbifold GUTs
Creators: name: Buchmuller, W.
name: Covi, L.
name: Emmanuel-Costa, D.
name: Wiesenfeldt, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study proton decay in a supersymmetric {\sf SO(10)} gauge theory in six dimensions compactified on an orbifold. The dimension-5 proton decay operators are forbidden by R-symmetry, whereas the dimension-6 operators are enhanced due to the presence of KK towers. Three sequential quark-lepton families are localised at the three orbifold fixed points, where {\sf SO(10)} is broken to its three GUT subgroups. The physical quarks and leptons are mixtures of these brane states and additional bulk zero modes. This leads to a characteristic pattern of branching ratios in proton decay, in particular the suppression of the $p\to \m^+K^0$ mode.
description: 20 pages, 1 figure