cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Structural, orbital, and magnetic order in vanadium spinels
Creators: name: Tchernyshyov, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vanadium spinels (ZnV_2O_4, MgV_2O_4, and CdV_2O_4) exhibit a sequence of structural and magnetic phase transitions, reflecting the interplay of lattice, orbital, and spin degrees of freedom. We offer a theoretical model taking into account the relativistic spin-orbit interaction, collective Jahn-Teller effect, and spin frustration. Below the structural transition, vanadium ions exhibit ferroorbital order and the magnet is best viewed as two sets of antiferromagnetic chains with a single-ion Ising anisotropy. Magnetic order, parametrized by two Ising variables, appears at a tetracritical point.
description: v3: streamlined introduction
A Low Cost Irrigation System with Raspberry Pi – Own Design and Statistical Evaluation of Efficiency
Creators: name: Koprda, Š.
name: Magdin, M.
name: Vanek, E.
name: Balog, Z.
name: Koprda, Š.
name: Magdin, M.
name: Vanek, E.
name: Balog, Z.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Smart irrigation system
subject: raspberry
subject: smartphone
subject: statistical analyze

description: Nowadays is automation a permanent part of ordinary households and subject to constant evolution. Standard of home automation is a smart (intelligent) home that meets the requirements of the owner and gives him considerable comfort. To the offer of solutions, the intelligent home includes, are control of lighting and temperature, camera system or irrigation system. Technologies of an irrigation system are being developed with an emphasis on smart management of water, advanced features and remote control of the irrigation system. The aim of this paper is to point out the new trends in irrigation systems. In this paper, we describe our own design, implementation and statistical evaluation of low-cost solutions for a smart irrigation system. This is a higher level of automation through intelligent devices with the requirements for user experience and quality of life. This device is according to our design and subsequent testing able to autonomously control three independent irrigation areas and the user experience is ensured by using the web interface (application runs on smartphones with system Android).
Women’s Comics in Russia: Initiated by Manga
Creators: name: Magera Yulia Aleksandrovna
name: Tarasyuk Yuliya Borisovna
Publisher: name: Russian Japanology Review
Year: 2021
Subjects: manga
Russian comics
female comics
feminism
female characters

description: In the USSR, like in many other countries, comics were mostly seen as light reading material and published in children’s magazines. When a comics market formed in Russia during the 1990s, it consisted mainly of translated American and European children’s comics, but first comics-only magazines aimed at teenagers and adults also appeared at that time (KOM, Veles, Muha, etc.). These magazines presented works made by men and for men, usually containing sexualized images of women. There were no famous women among Russian comic artists during the 1990s, as female authors usually assisted their husbands or were known as part of comics artists duos. An example of the latter is Natalia Snegireva, who created “Keshka”, a children’s comics series about a cat, together with her husband Andrey. Another person is Svetlana Sorokina, who helped her husband Evgeny as a colorist and then designed book covers for the Russian edition of “ElfQuest” by Wendy and Richard Piny. The turning point for female comics artists in Russia came in the early 2000s with the growing popularity of Japanese manga and the spread of the Internet. Due to these factors, young women published comics in new magazines aimed at both children and teenagers (Klassnyi zhurnal, Yula, etc.) and at anime fans (Poppuri anime, Anime Guide, etc.). For example, Lina and Kotyonok (“The Kitten”) by Enji were a romance and fantasy comics series with a girl as protagonist; Rytsari radugi (“The Knights of the Rainbow”) from Yula magazine examined “girl power” through the friendship between girls and magic adventures of Russian middle school students. Female artists who adopted the style of Japanese manga were not the only ones to open the door for new themes in comics and imagine girls as heroines, but their work definitely encouraged young girls to draw comics by themselves and participate in Russian comics festivals. This article examines the role of manga, shōjo manga (comics for girls) in particular, for the birth of women’s comics in Russia and feminist themes. Its influence on the growth of women in comics both as readers and artists, the appearance of manga-inspired comics which address issues such as women’s body and trauma Kniga tela (“The Book of Body”) or Razdelenie (“Partition”) by Yuliya Nikitina; lesbian romance Klub by Anna Rud’; life of a young woman during the siege of Leningrad Survilo by Olga Lavrentieva. Besides representational contents, the birth of feminist fanzines such as those by Nika Vodvud and group “FemInfoteka” are also noteworthy.
Interaction between the U.S. intelligence community and the private sector in sharing cyber threat intelligence
Creators: name: Yatagan, Cem
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research investigates cyber threat intelligence sharing between the U.S. Intelligence Community and the private sector in response to the question, “How important is cyber threat intelligence-sharing among the factors in determining the successful defense against an attempted cyber incident?” The approach to the problem employs two methods: (1) A qualitative analysis of cyber threat intelligence sharing policies and practices; and (2) the comparative case study and process-tracing methods, which illustrate the flow of cyber threat intelligence sharing—or its absence. Documentary sources used in this analysis have been collected from declassified government documents and publicly available reports, policy statements, and media reporting. There is also a small, but relevant, academic literature that traces the patterns and problems of intelligence sharing. Threat actors jeopardize the security of the public-private entities and U.S. national security by using cyber elements. Therefore, the research claims that intelligence sharing between the IC and PS is a crucial component of how successful a cyber defense against threat actors will be before the attack as protection, during the attack as response, and after the attack as recovery. The chance of successful defense which includes prevention, detection or timely response in a cyber incident will significantly increase as the amount and quality of timely, accurate, and actionable intelligence shared through appropriate means increases.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH JUDICIAL PRECEDENTS
Creators: name: FLAVIO DE ARAUJO
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The judicial precedents, as set out in article 927 of the Code of Civil Procedure, impose the need observance of the superior court judges, both in the persuasive perspective as in the binding. For the application of the judicial precedent in the public administration, in an extra-procedural field, a bridge shaped by the constitutional text must be established that gives rise to the use of judicial precedents in the daily life of the public administration, so that this way the integration of the law between the powers is achieved. Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.
Interaction between the U.S. intelligence community and the private sector in sharing cyber threat intelligence
Creators: name: Yatagan, Cem
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023

description: This research investigates cyber threat intelligence sharing between the U.S. Intelligence Community and the private sector in response to the question, “How important is cyber threat intelligence-sharing among the factors in determining the successful defense against an attempted cyber incident?” The approach to the problem employs two methods: (1) A qualitative analysis of cyber threat intelligence sharing policies and practices; and (2) the comparative case study and process-tracing methods, which illustrate the flow of cyber threat intelligence sharing—or its absence. Documentary sources used in this analysis have been collected from declassified government documents and publicly available reports, policy statements, and media reporting. There is also a small, but relevant, academic literature that traces the patterns and problems of intelligence sharing. Threat actors jeopardize the security of the public-private entities and U.S. national security by using cyber elements. Therefore, the research claims that intelligence sharing between the IC and PS is a crucial component of how successful a cyber defense against threat actors will be before the attack as protection, during the attack as response, and after the attack as recovery. The chance of successful defense which includes prevention, detection or timely response in a cyber incident will significantly increase as the amount and quality of timely, accurate, and actionable intelligence shared through appropriate means increases.
The Great Escape: Tunneling out of Microstate Geometries
Creators: name: Bena, Iosif
name: Eperon, Felicity
name: Heidmann, Pierre
name: Warner, Nicholas P.
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 compute the quasi-normal frequencies of scalars in asymptotically-flat microstate geometries that have the same charge as a D1-D5-P black hole, but whose long BTZ-like throat ends in a smooth cap. In general the wave equation is not separable, but we find a class of geometries in which the non-separable term is negligible and we can compute the quasi-normal frequencies using WKB methods. We argue that our results are a universal property of all microstate geometries with deeply-capped BTZ throats. These throats generate large redshifts, which lead to exceptionally-low-energy states with extremely long decay times, set by the central charge of the dual CFT to the power of twice the dimension of the operator dual to the mode. While these decay times are extremely long, we also argue that the energy decay is bounded, at large $t$, by $(log~t)^{-2}$ and is comparable with the behavior of ultracompact stars, as one should expect for microstate geometries.
description: 63 pages, 7 figures, v3: minor edits, published version
title: 01_0577
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Deviations from Berry--Robnik Distribution Caused by Spectral Accumulation
Creators: name: Makino, H.
name: Tasaki, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By extending the Berry--Robnik approach for the nearly integrable quantum systems,\cite{[1]} we propose one possible scenario of the energy level spacing distribution that deviates from the Berry--Robnik distribution. The result described in this paper implies that deviations from the Berry--Robnik distribution would arise when energy level components show strong accumulation, and otherwise, the level spacing distribution agrees with the Berry--Robnik distribution.
description: 4 pages
Neopolystoma orbiculare
Creators: name: Mendoza-Garfias, Berenit
name: García-Prieto, Luis
name: León, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Monogenea
Polystomatidea
Polystomatidae
Neopolystoma
Neopolystoma orbiculare

description: Neopolystoma orbiculare (Stunkard, 1916)
 Polystoma orbiculare Stunkard, 1916: 23.
 Polystoma oblongum Leidy, 1888: 127.
 Polystoma troosti MacCallum, 1919: 107.
 Polystoma inerme MacCallum, 1919: 109.
 Polystoma elegans MacCallum, 1919: 112.
 Polystoma spinulosum MacCallum, 1919: 113.
 Polystoma aspidonectis MacCallum, 1919: 117.
 Polystoma floridanum Stunkard, 1924: 100.
 Neopolystoma orbiculare – Price 1939a: 87.
 HOSTS. — Te s tudinea; Urinary bladder.
 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. — Oaxaca. Tuxtepec: Kinosternon leucostomum (Zerecero 1948).
 Tamaulipas. Río Tamesi: Trachemys scripta (Lamothe-Argumedo 1972).
SPECIMENS IN COLLECTIONS. — CNHE (123, 135).
description: Published as part of Mendoza-Garfias, Berenit, García-Prieto, Luis & León, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De, 2017, Checklist of the Monogenea (Platyhelminthes) parasitic in Mexican aquatic vertebrates, pp. 501-598 in Zoosystema 39 (4) on page 558, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n4a5, http://zenodo.org/record/4578694
Farms Productivity Developments Based on Malmquist Production Indices
Creators: name: Kostlivý, V.
name: Fuksová, Z.
name: Dubec, J.
name: Kostlivý, V.
name: Fuksová, Z.
name: Dubec, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Crop and animal production
subject: efficiency
subject: total factor productivity
subject: organic and conventional farming

description: The aim of the article was to evaluate production efficiency changes of agricultural enterprises specialized in livestock production and identify its determinants. The total factor productivity (TFP) was used to analyse the changes as determined by the DEA Malmquist index. Evaluated sample contained panel data of 440 farms (114 organic and 326 conventional) based on FADN survey in the period 2011 - 2015. The results showed very little difference in technical efficiency between groups and relatively negligible changes over the time. About 69% of organic farms reached the productivity growth with the change in TFP of 3.17%. A total of 59% of conventional farms were managed with increasing productivity and the TFP change by 1.48%. Differences between groups were given mainly by Utilized agricultural area per farm, level of Total production, Livestock output, sum of Current subsidies per hectare, and by FNVA / AWU.
CRASH: a Radiative Transfer Scheme
Creators: name: Maselli, A.
name: Ferrara, A.
name: Ciardi, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a largely improved version of CRASH, a 3-D radiative transfer code that treats the effects of ionizing radiation propagating through a given inhomogeneous H/He cosmological density field, on the physical conditions of the gas. The code, based on a Monte Carlo technique, self-consistently calculates the time evolution of gas temperature and ionization fractions due to an arbitrary number of point/extended sources and/or diffuse background radiation with given spectra. In addition, the effects of diffuse ionizing radiation following recombinations of ionized atoms have been included. After a complete description of the numerical scheme, to demonstrate the performances, accuracy, convergency and robustness of the code we present four different test cases designed to investigate specific aspects of radiative transfer: (i) pure hydrogen isothermal Stromgren sphere; (ii) realistic Stromgren spheres; (iii) multiple overlapping point sources, and (iv) shadowing of background radiation by an intervening optically thick layer. When possible, detailed quantitative comparison of the results against either analytical solutions or 1-D standard photoionization codes has been made showing a good level of agreement. For more complicated tests the code yields physically plausible results, which could be eventually checked only by comparison with other similar codes. Finally, we briefly discuss future possible developments and cosmological applications of the code.
description: 17 pages, 14 figures, accepted for pubblication in MNRAS, high res figures available at http://www.arcetri.astro.it/science/cosmology/IGM/radtrans.html
title: Factors associated with the presentation of persisting Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms in people who have sustained traumatic spinal cord injuries
Creators: name: Agar, Elenor
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2002

description: Objectives: This study aimed to investigate factors associated with persistent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in people with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). In the context of a cognitive model, it sought to determine how influential cognitive appraisals were in predicting persistent PTSD when compared to other known predictor variables in the literature such as injury severity, gender, previous psychiatric history and social support. Design: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey that examined concurrent predictors of PTSD symptoms and diagnosis primarily using multiple regression analyses. Method: A sample of 50 inpatients receiving rehabilitation for SCI who were 3-24 months post- injury were interviewed using a series of standardised measures of PTSD symptoms and diagnosis, post-traumatic cognitive appraisals, social support, and injury severity. Results: For PTSD symptoms, significant relationships were found for greater injury severity, lower satisfaction with social support and more negative cognitions. PTSD diagnosis was only related to cognitive variables. Negative cognitions were found to predict variance in PTS symptoms over and above the non-cognitive variables although gender and injury severity were also predictors. The only significant predictor of PTSD diagnosis was the cognitive subscale' negative cognitions about the self. Conclusions: Cognitive appraisals were found to be important predictors of persisting PTSD in an SCI population. This supports the cognitive model of PTSD and the development of cognitive therapies for PTSD in this population. Future research directions are discussed.
Testing the suitability of metallic iron for environmental remediation: Discoloration of methylene blue in column studies
Creators: name: Btatkeu, K.B.D.
name: Miyajima, K.
name: Noubactep, C.
name: Caré, S.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2013

description: A new method to correlate intrinsic reactivity and treatability efficiency of metallic iron (Fe0) was evaluated. A 2.0 mg L-1 methylene blue (MB) solution was used in gravity fed column experiments. The intrinsic reactivity of nine Fe0 materials (ten samples) was characterized using the EDTA test. Three commercial Fe0 materials ZVI1 (0.40 - 0.80 mm), ZVI9 (0.50 mm) and ZVI10 (0.45 - 0.55 mm) were tested in column experiments. A layer containing 100 g of Fe0 was sandwiched between 19.0 to 20.0 cm upper coarse sand (1.6 - 2.0 mm) and 8.0 cm lower fine sand (0.25 - 0.30 mm). 500 mL of the MB solution was daily filtered through each column for one month. Effluent solutions were characterized for MB and Fe concentrations. The columns were also characterized by the evolution of the hydraulic conductivity (k values). Results showed (i) quantitative MB removal (> 88 %) and (ii) limited Fe release for all three columns. After about 25 days, the Fe levels were constantly less than 1.0 mg L-1. The most significant difference was observed in the evolution of the k value and was attributed to the different material sorting. Less sorted ZVI1 exhibited the lowest initial k value (8.0 vs 43.0 mm min-1 for ZVI9 and ZVI10) and most significant permeability loss. Results confirmed the usefulness of the tested protocol as a reliable method to assess the efficiency of Fe0 materials in short term column experiments. Well-sorted Fe0 materials are recommended for long term efficient Fe0 filtration systems.
Arctic Futures 2050 Conference Report.pdf
Creators: name: Fisher, Andrea M.
name: Kelly, Brendan P.
name: Kling, George W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: A report of an international conference in which Arctic scientists, Indigenous People, and policy makers considered environmental research needs in a rapidly changing Arctic. Includes video links to all presentations and panels.
Splitting hairs of the three charge black hole
Creators: name: Bena, Iosif
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the large radius limit of the metric of three charge supertubes and three charge BPS black rings by using the fact that supertubes preserve the same supersymmetries as their component branes. Our solutions reproduce a few of the properties of three charge supertubes found recently using the Born Infeld description. Moreover, we find that these solutions pass a number of rather nontrivial tests which they should pass if they are to describe some of the hair of three charge black holes and three charge black rings.
description: 15 pages, LaTeX, v2 minor corrections
Quantum trajectories for the realistic measurement of a solid-state charge qubit
Creators: name: Oxtoby, Neil P.
name: Warszawski, P.
name: Wiseman, H. M.
name: Sun, He-Bi
name: Polkinghorne, R. E. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new model for the continuous measurement of a coupled quantum dot charge qubit. We model the effects of a realistic measurement, namely adding noise to, and filtering, the current through the detector. This is achieved by embedding the detector in an equivalent circuit for measurement. Our aim is to describe the evolution of the qubit state conditioned on the macroscopic output of the external circuit. We achieve this by generalizing a recently developed quantum trajectory theory for realistic photodetectors [P. Warszawski, H. M. Wiseman and H. Mabuchi, Phys. Rev. A_65_ 023802 (2002)] to treat solid-state detectors. This yields stochastic equations whose (numerical) solutions are the ``realistic quantum trajectories'' of the conditioned qubit state. We derive our general theory in the context of a low transparency quantum point contact. Areas of application for our theory and its relation to previous work are discussed.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures. Shorter, significantly modified, updated version
Neodiplorchis scaphiopi Yamaguti 1963
Creators: name: Mendoza-Garfias, Berenit
name: García-Prieto, Luis
name: León, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Monogenea
Polystomatidea
Polystomatidae
Neodiplorchis
Neodiplorchis scaphiopi

description: Neodiplorchis scaphiopi (Rodgers, 1941)
 Diplorchis scaphiopi Rodgers, 1941: 153.
 Neodiplorchis scaphiopi – Yamaguti 1963: 294.
HOSTS. — Anura larvae (urinary bladder); Anura adult (urinary bladder).
 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. — Estado de México. Capulhuac: Spea hammondii (Anura larvae,Lamothe-Argumedo 1973a) (Anura adult, Lamothe-Argumedo 1973b).
 SPECIMENS IN COLLECTIONS. — Anura larvae, CNHE (3052), Anura adult, CNHE (136).
description: Published as part of Mendoza-Garfias, Berenit, García-Prieto, Luis & León, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De, 2017, Checklist of the Monogenea (Platyhelminthes) parasitic in Mexican aquatic vertebrates, pp. 501-598 in Zoosystema 39 (4) on page 558, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n4a5, http://zenodo.org/record/4578694
User Stories as Actives for Game Development
Creators: name: Schetinger, Victor
name: Pozzer, Cesar
name: Fontoura, Lisandra Manzoni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Despite the lack of research in project management and software engineering for game development, recent studies have already proven that agile methodologies are very adequate for this purpose. The focus on individuals, communication and reactive iterations such as described by SCRUM and Extreme Programming are very fitting to game development scenarios, where multi-disciplinary teams are frequent and requirements can be very subjective. To further support these methodologies, this work proposes a new purpose to user stories, an already common practice in agile development. By using user stories in addition to minimum set of key information dubbed the ”three Rs”: related, responsible and result; this paper describes a flexible form of documentation, that can aggregate
value to the project and provide an easy channel of communication between involved parties.
Marble bowing: comparative studies of three different public building facades
Creators: name: Siegesmund, S.
name: Ruedrich, J.
name: Koch, A.
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2008

description: The veneer cladding of the Oeconomicum (OEC, Göttingen), the State Theatre of Darmstadt (STD, Darmstadt) and of the State and University Library (SUB, Göttingen) is characterised by pronounced bowing after a short time of exposure. Direct comparison of bowing data related to measurements from 2000 to 2003 at the SUB clearly show that the amplitude in bowing had significantly increased. The bowing is different in intensity and orientation (concave, convex). The cladding material (Peccia marble, Rosa Estremoz marble and Carrara marble) are different in lattice preferred orientation, grain size distribution and grain interlocking. Depending on the bowing, panels may show cracks mostly initiated at the dowels. The percentage of visible cracks and breakouts increases with the amplitude of bowing except for the STD. Repetitive heatingcooling under dry conditions leads to considerable inelastic residual strain only after the first or second thermal cycle. The residual strain continuously increases again if water is present, whereby the moisture content after a thermal cycle has a certain impact on the decay rate. The water-enhanced thermal dilatation strongly correlates with the deterioration rate obtained from the laboratory bow test. Detailed petrophysical investigations provide evidence that with increasing bowing a decrease of mechanical properties (flexural strength or breaking load at dowel hole) occur. Marble degradation is also connected with the increase in porosity and a general shift of the maximum pore radii to larger pore sizes...
Reform Raises Efficiency of Tea Estates in India
Creators: name: Maity, S.
name: Maity, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Stochastic Production Frontier
subject: Technical Efficiency
subject: Tea Gardens
subject: Panel Data
subject: Farm-heterogeneity

description: This study compares the performance of the tea industry of Assam and West Bengal of India between two time stretches each spanning over six years; one ending in 2006-07 - the pre-reform regime - and the other beginning in the next year- the post-reform regime. The basic question addressed is whether reform policy led to improvement in technical efficiency of the tea industries of these states. The study uses stochastic frontier approach and introduces heterogeneity of tea gardens. Consideration of both Assam and West Bengal tea gardens adds unique flavour to this study. The study the study concludes that rehabilitation package of Indian government in the form of reform has paid off even within the existing framework of the tea gardens.
Statistical Feature Ranking and Fuzzy Supervised Learning Approach in Modeling Regional Rainfall Prediction Systems
Creators: name: Sudha, M.
name: Subbu, K.
name: Sudha, M.
name: Subbu, K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Short-range rainfall prediction
subject: statistical feature ranking
subject: fuzzy rule induction
subject: prediction accuracy

description: Rainfall prediction is an essential and challenging task in hydro-meteorology. Most of the existing weather dataset used for prediction consists of observatory record of several atmospheric parameters. Identifying the significant parameters from irrelevant and redundant parameter set for weather prediction is important because irrelevant parameters may decrease the prediction accuracy. The main intent of this research is to identify the influencing weather parameters for improving daily rainfall forecast efficiency. A parameter selection module identifies the significant parameter based on information gain based feature ranking. Fuzzy supervised learning module evaluates the performance of fuzzy classifiers before and after parameter selection. In the evaluation phase, learning techniques was analyzed in terms of Accuracy Rate (AcR), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) and Misclassification Rate (McR). Experimental results revealed that, parameter subset selection has significantly improved the performance of the learning techniques. The investigation results identified minimum temperature, relative humidity and evapotranspiration as influencing weather parameters for rainfall prediction. Empirical results revealed Fuzzy Unordered Rule Induction Algorithm (FURIA) as a suitable rainfall prediction approach. This fuzzy model achieved an enhanced accuracy rate of 84.10% after parameter selection with nominal misclassification rate of 0.1590%.
Development of a multi-channel power supply for silicon photo-multipliers used with inorganic scintillators
Creators: name: Javakhishvili, Otari
name: Keshelashvili, Irakli
name: Mchedlishvili, David
name: Gagoshidze, Mikael
name: Hahnraths, Tanja
name: Kacharava, Andro
name: Metreveli, Zaza
name: Mueller, Fabian
name: Sefzick, Thomas
name: ShergelaShvili, Dimitri
name: Soltner, Helmut
name: Stroeher, Hans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The motivation of the current R&D project is based upon the requirements of the JEDI international collaboration aiming to measure Electric Dipole Moments (EDMs) of charged particles in storage rings. One of the most important elements of such an experiment will be a specially designed polarimeter with the detection system based on a modular inorganic scintillator (LYSO crystal) calorimeter. The calorimeter modules are read out by Silicon Photo Multipliers (SiPMs). This paper describes the development of a multi-channel power supply for the polarimeter modules, providing very stable and clean bias voltages for SiPMs. In order to ensure the best possible performance of SiPMs in conjunction with the crystal-based calorimeter modules and to guarantee the required level of calorimeter stability, several quality requirements have to be met by the power supply. Additionally, it is required to provide features including remote control via the network, ramping of the output voltage, measuring and sending the information about its output voltages and currents, etc. The obtained results demonstrate that the goals for the JEDI polarimeter are met. The developed hardware will be useful in other fields of fundamental and applied research, medical diagnostic techniques and industry, where SiPMs are used.
Polystomoides Ward 1917
Creators: name: Mendoza-Garfias, Berenit
name: García-Prieto, Luis
name: León, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Monogenea
Polystomatidea
Polystomatidae
Polystomoides

description: Polystomoides sp.§
HOSTS. — Testudinea; Intestine (?).
 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. — Coahuila. Cuatro Ciénagas: Terrapene coahuila (Guajardo-Martínez 1984).
SPECIMENS IN COLLECTIONS. — None.
description: Published as part of Mendoza-Garfias, Berenit, García-Prieto, Luis & León, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De, 2017, Checklist of the Monogenea (Platyhelminthes) parasitic in Mexican aquatic vertebrates, pp. 501-598 in Zoosystema 39 (4) on page 559, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n4a5, http://zenodo.org/record/4578694
Impact of Contract Farming with Farmer Organizations on Farmers’ Income: A Case Study of Reasmey Stung Sen Agricultural Development Cooperative in Cambodia
Creators: name: Sokchea, An
name: Culas, Richard J.
name: Sokchea, An
name: Culas, Richard J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: International Development
subject: Contract farming
subject: Farmers Organization
subject: income
subject: credit
subject: inclusion
subject: Cambodia

description: This study examines the impact of contract farming with Farmer Organizations on farmers’ income. Contract farming with farmer organizations is a smallholder farmer-inclusive contract farming system. Field surveys were conducted in August 2010 with 75 farmers (including 39 contract farmers) in Kampong Thom province, Cambodia. The analysis—i.e., using a treatment effects model—indicates that contract farming with farmer organizations significantly raises farmers’ income. The econometric model and qualitative data show that the contract farming can attribute to an increase of farming productivity, quality of produce and farming cost efficiency.
Confronting ‘chaos’ : A qualitative study assessing public health officials’ perceptions of the factors affecting Tanzania’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Creators: name: Yamanis, Thespina
name: Carlitz, Ruth
name: Gonyea, Olivia
name: Skaff, Sophia
name: Kisanga, Nelson
name: Mollel, Henry
Publisher: name: BMJ Publishing Group
Year: 2023

description: Description to be added
Universality in the triton charge form factor
Creators: name: Platter, L.
name: Hammer, H. -W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the three-nucleon system within an effective theory with contact interactions at leading order in the large scattering length. We calculate the charge form factor of the triton at low momentum transfer and extract the triton charge radius. At this order, no two-body currents contribute and the calculation can be performed in the impulse approximation. We also comment on the power counting for higher orders. The requirement of a three-body force for renormalization of the three-nucleon system explains the previously observed correlation between the triton binding energy and charge radius for different model potentials.
description: 11 pages, 2 eps figures, revtex4, version to appear in Nucl. Phys. A
Observational Properties Of Puffy Accretion Disc
Creators: name: Lančová, Debora
name: Wielgus, Maciek
name: Straub, Odele
name: Kluźniak, Włodek
name: Narayan, Ramesh
name: Abarca, David
name: Török, Gabriel
name: Abramowicz, Marek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: We have performed a general relativistic radiative magnetohydrodynamics (GRRMHD) simulations of a stable accretion disc around a stellar-mass black hole (BH) with sub-Eddington mass accretion rates. The numerical solutions revealed an elevated vertical structure - above a dense geometrically thin core of dimensionless thickness hρ/r ∼ 0.1, resembling a classic thin accretion disc, a puffed-up, optically and geometrically thick layer of lower density and hτ/r ∼ 1.0 is formed. We refer to this solution as the Puffy disc. We discuss the observational properties of a puffy discs, in particular the geometrical obscuration at higher observing inclinations of the inner area by the puffed-up region, and collimation of radiation along the accretion disc spin axis. These effects may explain the apparent super-Eddington luminosity of some ultraluminous X-ray binaries. We also present synthetic spectra of puffy discs, and show that they are qualitatively similar to Comptonized thin disc spectra. We demonstrate that the existing XSPEC spectral models provide good fits to synthetic spectra of puffy discs but cannot correctly recover the input luminosity, nor the black hole spin. We suggest that puffy discs may correspond to X-ray binary systems in the intermediate spectral state with luminosities above 0.3 of the Eddington luminosity.
description: {"references": ["M. Wielgus, D. Lan\u010dov\u00e1, O. Straub, W. Klu\u017aniak, R. Narayan, D. Abarca, F. H. Vincent, A. R\u00f3\u017ca\u0144ska, and M. Abramowicz , 2022, MNRAS", "D. Lan\u010dov\u00e1, D. Abarca, W. Klu\u017cniak, M. Wielgus, A. S\u0105dowski, R. Narayan, J. Schee, G. T\u00f6r\u00f6k & M. Abramowicz, 2019, ApJ, 884, L37", "A. S\u0105dowski, Narayan, R., Tchekhovskoy, A., & Zhu, Y., 2013a MNRAS, 429, 3533", "A. S\u0105dowski, 2016, MNRAS, 459, 4367"]}
Neothoracocotyle acanthocybii
Creators: name: Mendoza-Garfias, Berenit
name: García-Prieto, Luis
name: León, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Monogenea
Mazocraeidea
Neothoracocotylidae
Neothoracocotyle
Neothoracocotyle acanthocybii

description: Neothoracocotyle acanthocybii (Meserve, 1938) ǂ
 Gotocotyla acanthocybii Meserve, 1938: 53.
 Neothoracocotyle coryphaenae Yamaguti, 1938: 203-256.
 Neothoracocotyle acanthocybii – Hargis 1956a: 40.
HOSTS. — Actinopterygii (gills).
 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. — Baja California Sur. Cabo San Lucas: Acanthocybium solandri (Payne 1991).
SPECIMENS IN COLLECTIONS. — None.
 Scomberocotyle scomberomori (Koratha, 1955) (Fig. 6E)
 Heteraxine scomberomori Koratha, 1955: 266.
 Scomberocotyle scomberomori – Hargis 1956a: 31.
HOSTS. — Actinopterygii (gills).
 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. — Campeche. Ciudad del Carmen: Scomberomorus sp. (Bravo-Hollis 1984a).
 Jalisco. Bahía de Chamela: Scomberomorus sierra (Pérez-Ponce de León et al. 1999)**.
 Sonora. Bahía Cholla: Scomberomorus concolor, S. sierra (Hayward & Rohde 1999b).
 Veracruz. Laguna de Sontecomapan: Scomberomorus maculatus (Bravo-Hollis 1984a).
 SPECIMENS IN COLLECTIONS. — CNHE (14, 251, 3064); USNM (216696, 348306).
description: Published as part of Mendoza-Garfias, Berenit, García-Prieto, Luis & León, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De, 2017, Checklist of the Monogenea (Platyhelminthes) parasitic in Mexican aquatic vertebrates, pp. 501-598 in Zoosystema 39 (4) on page 562, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n4a5, http://zenodo.org/record/4578694
Towards a holistic framework for impact assessment of agricultural research for development – understanding complexity in remote, culturally diverse regions of Vietnam
Creators: name: Nguyen, Huu Nhuan
name: Van De Fliert, Elske
name: Nicetic, Oleg
name: Nguyen, Huu Nhuan
name: Van De Fliert, Elske
name: Nicetic, Oleg
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
International Development
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Since the late 1990s, there has been a great deal of investment by both the Vietnamese government and international development agencies in the economic development of the Northwest Highlands of Vietnam, a highly diverse region experiencing variable stages of transition towards more market-oriented development and social change. A shift towards a research for development approach, targeting the immediate use of research outputs for development purposes, became more visible especially since the late 2000s. It is important to understand the contribution of agricultural research toward rural development, not only in terms of knowing the extent and sustainability of the impacts achieved but also for informing appropriate agricultural policies and research for development strategies in the future. However, the impact assessment of existing agricultural research for development (AR4D) initiatives in the highlands of Vietnam remains problematic considering both the formulation of suitable objectives and the selection of appropriate methods that match those objectives. This paper describes the results of a study that aimed to review and analyse the theories and practice of AR4D impact assessment approaches and the merits and limitations of such approaches to AR4D in the Northwest Highlands of Vietnam. The study employed documentary research, focus group discussions with farmers and in-depth interviews with key informants, while thematic analysis was used for data analysis. The study concludes that a holistic approach towards impact assessment is best suited to an economically and culturally diverse region such as the Northwest Highlands of Vietnam, and suggests a framework for impact assessment that is based on a comprehensive livelihoods perspective.
Policy Options to Improve the Performance of Housewives’ Groups in the Cottage Food Industry in Thailand
Creators: name: Villanoa, Renato A.
name: Khrueathaib, Phanin
name: Fleming, Euan
name: Villanoa, Renato A.
name: Khrueathaib, Phanin
name: Fleming, Euan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
International Development

description: The purpose of this paper is to examine the policy options with the best prospects to improve the performance and competitiveness of housewives’ groups in the cottage food industry in Thailand. The analytical framework is based on an analysis of private and value chain-level net benefits from alternative policy actions and research and training initiatives. Seven candidates for policy implementation with the best prospects for success are examined: industrial policy; improving food quality; branding and labelling; encouraging strategic alliances; increasing the managerial role of members in housewives’ groups; educating members of housewives’ groups and group leaders; and improving the organisational structure of housewives’ groups. A suitable institutional setting is essential for policy success. We describe a chain governor and cooperative research centre for cottage foods that would fit neatly into the existing policy milieu in Thailand. This paper highlights the potential to improve the performance of housewives’ groups and stimulate its growth as a key income-generating activity for rural households in developing countries.
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Creators: name: Adwokat Piotr Sobanski
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 180119 Law and Society
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 180116 International Law (excl. International Trade Law)

description:
 adwokat dr Piotr Sobański Uniwersytet Zielonogórski, Wydział Prawa i Administracji

 „Możliwość dochodzenia reparacji wojennych od Niemiec przed polskimi sądami „ Rozważania zawarte w artykule odnoszą się do uprawnienia Polski do domagania się nadal reparacji od Niemiec oraz możliwości ich dochodzenia poprzez wnoszenie powództw do polskich sądów. W artykule zostało wykazane że immunitet jurysdykcyjny państw obecnie nie ma charakteru bezwzględnego, a państwa naruszające normy ius cogens nie powinny powoływać się na immunitet. Polska nie zrzekła się reparacji związanych z II wojną światową i jest nadal uprawniona do domagania się ich od Niemiec. Roszczenia państwa z tytułu reparacji wojennych nie ulegają przedawnieniu. Możliwe jest dochodzenie reparacji przed polskimi sądami, jeżeli Niemcy odmówią uznania roszczeń reparacyjnych i zablokują dochodzenie tych roszczeń przed niemieckimi sądami. 17 kwietnia 2020 adwokat dr Piotr Sobański Uniwersytet Zielonogórski, Wydział Prawa i Administracji
 piotr.sobanski@adwokatura.pl
Confronting ‘chaos’ : A qualitative study assessing public health officials’ perceptions of the factors affecting Tanzania’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Creators: name: Yamanis, Thespina
name: Carlitz, Ruth
name: Gonyea, Olivia
name: Skaff, Sophia
name: Kisanga, Nelson
name: Mollel, Henry
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Description to be added
Searching for various melting scenarios of 2D crystals
Creators: name: Hua, Peng
name: Han, Yilong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In contrast to three-dimensional (3D) crystals that melt via a first-order transition, two-dimensional (2D) crystals can exhibit various melting scenarios under different temperatures, pressures, and particle interactions, particularly when they can form partially ordered intermediate phases between crystal and liquid. The existing 2D melting theories predict some scenarios, but do not exclude other possibilities. A recent simulation observed five melting scenarios including two new types by tuning the shape of polygonal particles.
Propositional computability logic I
Creators: name: Japaridze, Giorgi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: F.1.1; F.1.2; F.4.1

description: In the same sense as classical logic is a formal theory of truth, the recently initiated approach called computability logic is a formal theory of computability. It understands (interactive) computational problems as games played by a machine against the environment, their computability as existence of a machine that always wins the game, logical operators as operations on computational problems, and validity of a logical formula as being a scheme of "always computable" problems. The present contribution gives a detailed exposition of a soundness and completeness proof for an axiomatization of one of the most basic fragments of computability logic. The logical vocabulary of this fragment contains operators for the so called parallel and choice operations, and its atoms represent elementary problems, i.e. predicates in the standard sense. This article is self-contained as it explains all relevant concepts. While not technically necessary, however, familiarity with the foundational paper "Introduction to computability logic" [Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 123 (2003), pp.1-99] would greatly help the reader in understanding the philosophy, underlying motivations, potential and utility of computability logic, -- the context that determines the value of the present results. Online introduction to the subject is available at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~giorgi/cl.html and http://www.csc.villanova.edu/~japaridz/CL/gsoll.html .
description: To appear in ACM Transactions on Computational Logic