cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Innovation and Plights of Farmland Property Rights System Reform in Chongqing Municipality
Creators: name: Zheng, Cai-Gui
name: Zhang, Xiao-Cheng
name: He, Jiang-Hua
name: Li, Ji-Zhuang
name: Liang, Qi-Xue
name: Zheng, Cai-Gui
name: Zhang, Xiao-Cheng
name: He, Jiang-Hua
name: Li, Ji-Zhuang
name: Liang, Qi-Xue
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farmland property rights
subject: Participatory rural appraisal method
subject: Stock purchasing of contractual management rights
subject: Mortgage of contractual management rights
subject: China

description: Based on the background of national urban and rural comprehensive reform pilot area, the introduction of the profiles of research region and the data obtained by on-the-spot interview survey, the innovative models of farmland property rights system reform in Chongqing are introduced by applying participatory rural appraisal methods and examples. The innovative models cover buying shares of contract management rights, transforming from rural residents to urban residents and mortgaging contract management rights. The plights exist in the reform are analyzed, among which the plights of buying shares of contract management rights are introduced from the following five aspects: the conflict with the present land contract laws, the possible new round of massive scale land loses, the confounded functions of government and enterprise caused by risk transference and the difficulties of handling assets when the contract management rights expired. Besides, the plights of the transforming from rural residents to urban residents are analyzed from four aspects, which include the particularity of reform, high financial pressure, emergence of interbedded people and difficulties of payoff of village-based companies. From the facets of limited mortgage area, risks of reimbursing the loan, legal risks of mortgage. The results show that the stock purchasing model of contractual management rights reveals the capital value of land and it is of theoretical and practical significance in law and economics. However, the social security system is not perfect, so the stock purchasing model of contractual management rights can not be expended. In addition, the participation of more famers and the expansion of enterprises are limited. The land comprehensive reform model of transforming from rural residents to urban residents is of positive significance to the comprehensive exploration of farmland property system reform, but this kind of model should based on strong economy. The stock purchasing model of contractual management rights is of significance to perfect the contractual management rights, but it is conflict with the existing laws and financial systems.
Ferromagnetic fluctuation and possible triplet superconductivity in Na_xCoO_2*yH_2O: Fluctuation-exchange study of multi-orbital Hubbard model
Creators: name: Mochizuki, Masahito
name: Yanase, Youichi
name: Ogata, Masao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin and charge fluctuations and superconductivity in a recently discovered superconductor Na_xCoO_2*yH_2O are studied based on a multi-orbital Hubbard model. Tight-binding parameters are determined to reproduce the LDA band dispersions with the Fermi surface, which consist of a large cylindrical one around the Gamma-point and six hole pockets near the K-points. By applying the fluctuation-exchange (FLEX) approximation, we show that the Hund's-rule coupling between the Co t2g orbitals causes ferromagnetic (FM) spin fluctuation. Triplet f_{y(y^2-3x^2)}-wave and p-wave pairings are favored by this FM fluctuation on the hole-pocket band. We propose that, in Na_xCoO_2*yH_2O, the Co t2g orbitals and inter-orbital Hund's-rule coupling play important roles on the triplet pairing, and this compound can be a first example of the triplet superconductor in which the orbital degrees of freedom play substantial roles.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 4 of Protist enteroparasites in wild boar (Sus scrofa ferus) and black Iberian pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) in southern Spain: a protective effect on hepatitis E acquisition?
Creators: name: Rivero-Juarez, Antonio
name: Dashti, Alejandro
name: López-López, Pedro
name: Muadica, Aly Salimo
name: Risalde, Maria De Los Angeles
name: Köster, Pamela C.
name: Machuca, Isabel
name: Bailo, Begoña
name: Mingo, Marta Hernández De
name: Dacal, Elena
name: García-Bocanegra, Ignacio
name: Saugar, José M.
name: Calero-Bernal, Rafael
name: González-Barrio, David
name: Rivero, Antonio
name: Briz, Verónica
name: Carmena, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Diversity and frequency of Blastocystis sp. subtypes and 18S alleles identified in the present study.
Additional file 9 of An educational pathway and teaching materials for first aid training of children in sub-Saharan Africa based on the best available evidence
Creators: name: Buck, Emmy De
name: Laermans, Jorien
name: Anne-Catherine Vanhove
name: Dockx, Kim
name: Vandekerckhove, Philippe
name: Geduld, Heike
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 9. Evidence-based educational pathway on first aid for sub-Saharan Africa 221
Countermeasures and Investigation of Land Circulation in Less Developed Agricultural Area of Henan Province, China
Creators: name: Li, Cong-Guo
name: Li, Cong-Guo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Less developed area
subject: Land circulation
subject: Present situation investigation
subject: Henan Province
subject: China

description: Some places in Henan Province are investigated by using sample surveys and interviews. Result shows that land circulation in less developed agricultural area of Henan Province has the characteristics of small scale, single form， short period, and circulation land in economic core region. Problems in land circulation are as follows: slow transfer of rural surplus labor force, hard implementation of fundamental land circulation, complicated mentality towards rural land circulation, many misgivings about land circulation, the unformed social service system of land circulation, and imperfect agricultural risk prevention mechanism for circulated land use. Based on the characteristics of land circulation, suggestions for promoting the land circulation of less developed agricultural areas are put forward in order to solve the problems in land circulation and to lay the foundation for effective implementation of land circulation, such as speeding up the development of urbanization, developing the circulation of collective land, effectively implementing the laws and regulations of rural collective land circulation, transferring land according to law, establishing market mechanism of agricultural land circulation, promoting the agricultural industrialization, establishing market mechanism of agricultural land circulation, promoting the agricultural industrialization, energetically readjusting rural industrial structure, and developing economy with local characteristics.
Radiative transfer in decomposed domains
Creators: name: Heinemann, T.
name: Dobler, W.
name: Nordlund, A.
name: Brandenburg, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An efficient algorithm for calculating radiative transfer on massively parallel computers using domain decomposition is presented. The integral formulation of the transfer equation is used to divide the problem into a local but compute-intensive part for calculating the intensity and optical depth integrals, and a nonlocal part for communicating the intensity between adjacent processors. The waiting time of idle processors during the nonlocal communication part does not have a severe impact on the scaling. The wall clock time thus scales nearly linearly with the inverse number of processors.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; substantial improvements; recommended for publication in A&A
Assessment on the Eco-environment and the Land Use Based on the Ecosystem Service Value —A Case of Guangdong Province, China
Creators: name: Zhou, Chang-Ping
name: Zhou, Chang-Ping
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Land-use change
subject: Ecosystem service value
subject: Guangdong Province
subject: China

description: Based on the previous research and the 1996 and 2008 land use change survey, land use type of Guangdong Province is divided into 10 types of farmland, garden plot, woodland, grassland, residential points and other construction sites, traffic and transmission land, land for water conservancy facilities, wetland, water area, and land hard to be utilized. Then, area change and annual changing rate of land use type in Guangdong Province are calculated by the analysis method of land use change. Based on this, ecosystem service value assessment method is used to discuss the variation of ecosystem service value in Guangdong Province. Result shows that ecosystem service value of land use shows a decreasing trend in Guangdong Province, having reduced from 635036 billion yuan in the year 1996 to 632394 billion yuan in the year 2008. Ecosystem service value has reduced by 2642 billion yuan, a reduction rate of only 0.4161%. Farmland, woodland, grassland, wetland, land for water conservancy facilities, and unused land have all reduced. But garden plot, traffic and transmission land, water area, and residential point and other construction site have increased. The major characteristics of land use change the years 1996-2008 in Guangdong Province are the internal adjustment of agricultural structure and the increase of construction land. Land use change and adjustment direction are basically rational and the ecological environment is stable.
Additional file 1 of Effects of MP-AzeFlu enhanced by activation of bitter taste receptor TAS2R
Creators: name: Ekstedt, Sandra
name: Georén, Susanna Kumlien
name: Cardell, Lars Olaf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary method.
Determinants of Credit Constraint Conditions and Production Efficiency Among Farming Households in Southwestern Nigeria
Creators: name: Omonona, Bolarin T.
name: Lawal, Justina Oluwayemisi
name: Oyinlana, A.O.
name: Omonona, Bolarin T.
name: Lawal, Justina Oluwayemisi
name: Oyinlana, A.O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Credit constraint
subject: Production efficiency
subject: Farming households
subject: stochastic frontier
subject: Nigeria

description: Sustaining and improving production efficiency of resource poor smallholder farmers under the existing credit constraint conditions require the improvement of access to credit facilities and other factors involved. The study examined the factors influencing credit constraint (CC) and production efficiency of farming households in Oyo State, Nigeria. Primary data was randomly collected using structured questionnaire from 120 mixed farmers in the study area. Data was analyzed using descriptive analysis, probit regression and stochastic frontier analysis. The results shows that 79.2 percent of the respondents were credit constrained and this has negative influence on their production efficiency as credit constrained farming households (CCFH) were found to be less efficient with mean efficiency of 0.721 than unconstrained farming households with 0.913. Age, gender, education, and dependency ratio of farmers are significant variables that influenced credit constraint conditions of the farmers while the maximum likelihood estimate of the production frontier revealed that farm size, labour and quantity of agro-chemical used are positively and significantly related to the production efficiency of farmers. Given the largest proportion of CCFHs among farming population in South-Western Nigerian, this gap implies considerable potential loss in output due to inefficient production. Improving credit access of farming households in general but more particularly the CCFHs is desirable for higher production efficiency.
Bose-Einstein droplet in free space
Creators: name: Saito, Hiroki
name: Ueda, Masahito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a droplet of a Bose-Einstein condensate can be dynamically stabilized in free space by rapid oscillations of interatomic interactions between attractive and repulsive through, e.g., the Feshbach resonance. Energy dissipation, which is present in realistic situations, is found to play a crucial role to suppress dynamical instabilities inherent in nonlinear nonequilibrium systems.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Collective Excitations and Nonequilibrium Phase Transition in Dissipative Fermionic Superfluids
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Kazuki
name: Nakagawa, Masaya
name: Tsuji, Naoto
name: Ueda, Masahito
name: Kawakami, Norio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We predict a new mechanism to induce collective excitations and a nonequilibrium phase transition of fermionic superfluids via a sudden switch-on of two-body loss, for which we extend the BCS theory to fully incorporate a change in particle number. We find that a sudden switch-on of dissipation induces an amplitude oscillation of the superfluid order parameter accompanied by a chirped phase rotation as a consequence of particle loss. We demonstrate that when dissipation is introduced to one of the two superfluids coupled via a Josephson junction, it gives rise to a nonequilibrium dynamical phase transition characterized by the vanishing dc Josephson current. The dissipation-induced collective modes and nonequilibrium phase transition can be realized with ultracold fermionic atoms subject to inelastic collisions.
description: 8 + 9 pages, 7 figures, To appear in Physical Review Letters
Horticultural Households Profit Optimization and the Efficiency of Labour Contract Choice
Creators: name: Ndoye Niane, Aifa Fatimata
name: Burger, Kees
name: Bulte, Erwin H.
name: Ndoye Niane, Aifa Fatimata
name: Burger, Kees
name: Bulte, Erwin H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: land tenancy
subject: labour
subject: sharecropping
subject: wage
subject: contract
subject: supervision
subject: household
subject: profit optimization
subject: efficient
subject: irrigation equipment
subject: horticulture
subject: Senegal

description: In agriculture, the coexistence of different forms of land tenancy or labour contract has been explained so far by several theories related to Marshallian inefficiency, incentives, risk sharing, and transaction costs, including supervision costs. These theories and the empirical evidences have greatly contributed to explain the reasons behind land tenancy or labour contract choice. This study follows up on this. Moreover, it intends to take a further step by focusing particularly on the production technologies at plot level, and by designing and testing a theoretical model based on household profit optimization. This model will take into account the supervision costs of labour (i) to compare optimum profit derived from plots based on household labour, a sharecropping labour contract, and a wage labour contract, controlling for irrigation equipment (ii) to test the efficiency of the labour contract choice using data from Senegal’s horticultural zone. As expected, the production elasticity of labour decreases when improved irrigation equipment like a motor pump is used. The technology displays an increasing return to scale on plots without a motor pump and a constant return to scale on plots irrigated with a motor pump. While on plots without a motor pump the sharecropping contract is the efficient labour contract choice, leading to a higher optimum profit for the household, on plots irrigated with a motor pump, the wage contract is the best labour contract choice. Consequently, we can conclude from this finding that the use of a motor pump drives out the sharecropping contract in favour of household labour and the wage labour contract.
Generation of Multi-atom Dicke States with Quasi-unit Probability through the Detection of Cavity Decay
Creators: name: Xiao, Yun-Feng
name: Han, Zheng-Fu
name: Gao, Jie
name: Guo, Guang-Can
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme to create universal Dicke states of n largely detuned atoms through detecting the leaky photons from an optical cavity. The generation of entangled states in our scheme has quasi-unit success probability, so it has potential practicability based on current or near coming laboratory cavity QED technology.
description: 2 figures
Testing models of supermassive black hole seed formation through gravity waves
Creators: name: Koushiappas, Savvas M.
name: Zentner, Andrew R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the gravitational wave background produced from the formation and assembly of supermassive black holes within the cosmological paradigm of hierarchical structure formation. In particular, we focus on a supermassive black hole formation scenario in which the present-day population of supermassive black holes is built from high-mass seed black holes and we compute the concomitant spectrum of gravitational radiation produced by mergers of the seed black holes. We find that this scenario predicts a large, gravitational wave background that should be resolved into individual sources with space interferometers such as the proposed Laser Interferometric Space Antenna (LISA). The number of inspiral, merger and ringdown events above a signal to noise ratio of 5 that result from massive black hole seeds is of order 10^3. This prediction is robust and insensitive to several of the details of the model. We conclude that an interferometer such as LISA will be able to effectively rule out or confirm a class of models where supermassive black holes grow from high-mass seed black holes and may be able to place strong limits on the role of mergers as a channel for supermassive black hole growth. Supermassive black hole seeds likely form in the earliest proto-galactic structures at high redshift and the masses of supermassive black holes are known to be strongly correlated with the potentials of the spheroids in which they reside, therefore these results imply that space interferometers can be used as a powerful probe of the physics of galaxy formation and proto-galaxy formation at very high redshift.
description: Replaced to match version accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
HIV negative gay men’s experiences of barebacking in casual sexual relationships
Creators: name: Bayzand, Laurence John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the phenomenon of unprotected anal intercourse, or barebacking, among HIV negative gay men. There currently exists scant literature, particularly that of a qualitative nature, relative to barebacking behaviour. A qualitative phenomenological methodology was chosen to explore the meaning and experience of gay men who bareback so that the voices of these men could come forth and be heard. The research consisted of interviews with 6 participants: four Caucasian men, and two Asian men. The men ranged in age between 24 and 55 years. All six of the men acknowledged that they barebacked in casual, non-primary, relationships. The main question the participants were asked to consider was: What is the meaning and experience for you, of barebacking in your casual sexual relationships? The participants were invited to discuss their experiences as i f they were telling a story, with a beginning, a middle, and an end. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed in accordance with an abbreviated version of Colaizzi's (1978) model of phenomenological data analysis. This model served as a guideline for the identification of the five themes that emerged through the analysis. In no particular order, the themes that were experienced were: (a) Sense of Increased Intimacy/Connection; (b) Burden of safer Sex; (c) Sense of Enhanced Sexual Pleasure, Excitement, and Empowerment; (d) Sense of Powerlessness; and (e) Awareness of Responsibility to Self. These themes are discussed in terms of their implications for future research and counselling.
Market Integration with Transaction Costs in Developing Country Staple Food Markets: the Case of the Malawi Maize market
Creators: name: Zant, Wouter
name: Zant, Wouter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: food markets
subject: transaction costs
subject: trade
subject: market integration
subject: Parity Bound Model
subject: Malawi
subject: Africa

description: We investigate measurement of market integration of staple food markets in developing countries. The analysis takes the Parity Bound Model as starting point and modifies this model by parameterizing and estimating transaction costs. The specification of transaction costs takes account of transport costs, fixed source costs, fixed destination costs, ad valorem taxes & levies and seasonality an is implemented on the basis of a specific sub-sample of price differentials. Price differentials combined with predicted transaction costs enable the measurement of market integration for each location and each period. The proposed method is applied to the Malawi maize market with monthly data from June 1999 to October 2009 for 26 districts. This period covers two major food shortages (2001-2003 and 2005-2006) as well as the impact of the global rise in food prices in 2008. Predicted transaction costs are shown to be in the same order of magnitude as survey observations of transaction costs of domestic maize trade in Malawi. The evidence indicates that markets are particularly well integrated during food shortages and substantially less in periods without food shortage. However, this result is largely due to high transaction costs during food shortages that make trade economically unattractive. Market integration develops markedly different between regions and districts: various districts in the south show signs of barriers to trade while districts in the north suffer from frequent high transaction costs. Low levels of market integration observed outside periods of food shortages, as well as high transaction costs during food shortages both suggest that trading infrastructure is not sufficiently developed.
Temperature Dependence of the Tunneling Amplitude between Quantum Hall Edges
Creators: name: D'Agosta, Roberto
name: Vignale, Giovanni
name: Raimondi, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experiments have studied the tunneling current between the edges of a fractional quantum Hall liquid as a function of temperature and voltage. The results of the experiment are puzzling because at "high" temperature (600-900 mK) the behavior of the tunneling conductance is consistent with the theory of tunneling between chiral Luttinger liquids, but at low temperature it strongly deviates from that prediction dropping to zero with decreasing temperature. In this paper we suggest a possible explanation of this behavior in terms of the strong temperature dependence of the tunneling amplitude.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, RevTex 4, submitted to PRL
Economic Impact of Climate Change on Irrigated Rice Agriculture in Nigeria
Creators: name: Ajetomobi, Joshua Olusegun
name: Abidun, Ajiboye
name: Hassan, Rashid M.
name: Ajetomobi, Joshua Olusegun
name: Abidun, Ajiboye
name: Hassan, Rashid M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Climate change
subject: Irrigation
subject: Net Revenue
subject: Nigeria

description: This study employed the Ricardian approach to test the relative importance of climate normals (average long-term temperature and precipitation) in explaining net revenue from Nigerian rice agriculture under irrigation and dry land conditions. A survey was done by interviewing 1200 rice farmers from 20 rice producing states in Nigeria. The states covered all the six geopolitical zones in the country. The results showed that increase in temperature will reduce net revenue for dry land rice farms while net revenue rises with increase in temperature for irrigated rice farms. Precipitation had similar effects on rice net revenue. Increase in precipitation will cause reduction in revenue for dry land rice farms whereas it will cause increase in revenue for irrigated farms. The results clearly demonstrate irrigation as a significant techniques used by the farmers to adapt to the climate change. Other adaptation options include Keeping of livestock, engaging in off farm works and the use of different market channels.
The use of participatory processes in wide-scale dissemination of micro dosing and conservation agriculture in Zimbabwe
Creators: name: Pedzisa, Tarisayi
name: Minde, Isaac J.
name: Twomlow, Steve
name: Pedzisa, Tarisayi
name: Minde, Isaac J.
name: Twomlow, Steve
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Participatory approach
subject: technology
subject: dissemination
subject: adoption
subject: transfer

description: Participatory technology development has been used for quite some time. However, little is known about how farmers perceive participatory methods and processes. Understanding farmers’ concerns about the participatory process can be an important starting point and can further the ultimate aim of encouraging sustained technology adoption. An ex-post participatory technology development and transfer evaluation was carried out in Zimbabwe in 2006/07 involving 231 farmers. It was revealed that use of demonstration trials encouraged the most participation and subsequent adoption and adaptation of the technologies to suit specific needs. The participatory nature of the process encouraged greater knowledge sharing among farmers and gave them more confidence in the technology. In order to increase the gains of the participatory process, feedback loops should be built in to allow improvements and modifications to be made to the techniques being promoted.
title: Mostaza Blanca :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: White Mustard
Group identity.
New Varieties of Plants

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
Analysis of the galaxy size versus stellar mass relation
Creators: name: Almeida, J. Sanchez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scatter in the galaxy size versus stellar mass (Mstar) relation gets largely reduced when, rather than the half-mass radius Re, the size at a fixed surface density is used. Here we address why this happens. We show how a reduction is to be expected because any two galaxies with the same Mstar have at least one radius with identical surface density, where the galaxies have identical size. However, the reason why the scatter is reduced to the observed level is not trivial, and we pin it down to the galaxy surface density profiles approximately following Sersic profiles with their Re and Sersic index (n) anti-correlated (i.e., given Mstar, n increases when Re decreases). Our analytical results describe very well the behavior of the observed galaxies as portrayed in the NASA Sloan Atlas (NSA), which contains more than half a million local objects with 7 < log(Mstar/Msun) < 11.5. The comparison with NSA galaxies also allows us to find the optimal values for the mass surface density (2.4m0.9p1.3 Msun/pc2) and surface brightness (r-band 24.7pm0.5 mag/arcsec2) that minimize the scatter, although the actual values depend somehow on the subset of NSA galaxies used for optimization. The physical reason for the existence of optimal values is unknown but, as Trujillo+20 point out, they are close to the gas surface density threshold to form stars and thus may trace the physical end of a galaxy. Our NSA-based size--mass relation agrees with theirs on the slope as well as on the magnitude of the scatter. As a by-product of the narrowness of the size--mass relation (only 0.06 dex), we propose to use the size of a galaxy to measure its stellar mass. In terms of observing time, it is not more demanding than the usual photometric techniques and may present practical advantages in particular cases.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 11 figures. 12 pages
How Best to Target the Poor? An operational targeting of the poor using indicator-based proxy means tests
Creators: name: Houssou, Nazaire
name: Zeller, Manfred
name: Alcaraz V., Gabriela
name: Johannsen, Julia
name: Schwarze, Stefan
name: Houssou, Nazaire
name: Zeller, Manfred
name: Alcaraz V., Gabriela
name: Johannsen, Julia
name: Schwarze, Stefan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Uganda
subject: poverty assessment
subject: targeting
subject: proxy means tests
subject: validations
subject: bootstrap

description: This paper seeks to answer an operational development question: how best to target the poor? In their endeavor, policy makers, program managers, and development practitioners face the daily challenge of targeting policies, projects, and services at the poorer strata of the population. This is also the case for microfinance institutions that seek to estimate the poverty outreach among their clients. This paper addresses these challenges. Using household survey data from Uganda, we estimate four alternative models for improving the identification of the poor in the country. Furthermore, we analyze the model sensitivity to different poverty lines and test their validity using bootstrapped simulation methods. While there is bound to be some errors, no indicator being perfectly correlated with poverty, the models developed achieve fairly accurate out-of-sample predictions of absolute poverty. Furthermore, findings suggest that the estimation method is not relevant for developing a fairly accurate model for targeting the poor. The models developed are potentially useful tools for the development community in Uganda. This research can also be applied in other developing countries.
How Christian religious/spiritual faith helps and hinders counsellors’ empathy towards clients
Creators: name: Morrison, Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The relationship between Christian religion and spirituality and the empathy of counsellors was investigated. The study examined this relationship by using the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) to investigate how religion and spirituality helps and hinders empathy towards clients. Twelve counsellors identified 241 helping and 25 hindering incidents that formed 14. helping and 3 hindering categories. The following helping categories had the highest participation: relationship to faith leading directly/naturally to an empathic relationship with the client, connecting to the spiritual in the counselling relationship or the client, and drawing on religious values of compassion, mercy, arid acceptance. The most highly endorsed hindering category was client's actions are contrary to the counsellor's belief system. Nine checks supported the credibility and trustworthiness of the interviews, incidents, and category system. Important meta-themes observed in the category structure as informing empathy were: following biblical instructions/examples, the experience of one's spirituality, and common culture/life experiences.
Compétitivité de la filière riz local au Togo: Une évaluation du taux de protection nominale, effective et du coût en ressource domestique
Creators: name: Tabone, Kperim
name: Koffi-Tessio, Egnonto M.
name: Diagne, Aliou
name: Tabone, Kperim
name: Koffi-Tessio, Egnonto M.
name: Diagne, Aliou
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Policy Analysis Matrix (MAP) rice
subject: quality
subject: competitiveness

description: The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors which influence the competitiveness of local rice in Togo in order to contribute to a better formulation of a rice policy. This analysis was done by a characterization of the actual situation of the local production and by the evaluation of the incentives of the state pricing policy as well as the production’s competitiveness. The approach of the Policy Analysis Matrix (MAP) or reference price was used. The analysis of the results shows, on the one hand, that the production of local rice in Togo exhibits a comparative advantage compared to imported rice and, on the other hand, that the public interventions favour the local production. Indeed, the local production benefits from an implicit protection even if this protection influences slightly rice imports. These results also indicate also that local rice is not competitive compared to the imported rice from the price point of view. It is one of the major weaknesses of local rice apart from its poor quality. The major asset is the financial and economic profitability of the local production.
Remodeling of biological tissue: Mechanically induced reorientation of a transversely isotropic chain network
Creators: name: Kuhl, E.
name: Garikipati, K.
name: Arruda, E. M.
name: Grosh, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A new class of micromechanically motivated chain network models for soft biological tissues is presented. On the microlevel, it is based on the statistics of long chain molecules. A wormlike chain model is applied to capture the behavior of the collagen microfibrils. On the macrolevel, the network of collagen chains is represented by a transversely isotropic eight chain unit cell introducing one characteristic material axis. Biomechanically induced remodeling is captured by allowing for a continuous reorientation of the predominant unit cell axis driven by a biomechanical stimulus. To this end, we adopt the gradual alignment of the unit cell axis with the direction of maximum principal strain. The evolution of the unit cell axis' orientation is governed by a first-order rate equation. For the temporal discretization of the remodeling rate equation, we suggest an exponential update scheme of Euler-Rodrigues type. For the spatial discretization, a finite element strategy is applied which introduces the current individual cell orientation as an internal variable on the integration point level. Selected model problems are analyzed to illustrate the basic features of the new model. Finally, the presented approach is applied to the biomechanically relevant boundary value problem of an in vitro engineered functional tendon construct.
description: LaTeX2e, 19 pages, 9 figures
Conflict Analysis in the Kanjuruhan Football Match Riot in Indonesia
Creators: name: Akbar, Muhammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440402
subject: Humanitarian disasters, conflict and peacebuilding
classificationCode: 440999
subject: Social work not elsewhere classified

description: This research was motivated by the riots that occurred at Kanjuruhan Malang Stadium when Arema Malang and Persebaya Surabaya were brought together. The defeat experienced by Arema disappointed Aremania fans so many Aremania took to the field and caused conditions at the stadium to become unconducive. Police officers fired tear gas to stop the action of fans, but it only caused the riots to escalate. This research uses the library study method by looking for various references and data sources from official internet pages and scientific journals. The focus of this research is to analyze the Kanjuruhan riots based on the conflict resolution approach stages, namely, conflict events, conflict triggers, causes of conflict, conflict impacts, and conflict resolution. The results of this study suggest that riots in Kanjuruhan can be analyzed based on a conflict resolution approach by considering various existing aspects
Additional file 3 of Protist enteroparasites in wild boar (Sus scrofa ferus) and black Iberian pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) in southern Spain: a protective effect on hepatitis E acquisition?
Creators: name: Rivero-Juarez, Antonio
name: Dashti, Alejandro
name: López-López, Pedro
name: Muadica, Aly Salimo
name: Risalde, Maria De Los Angeles
name: Köster, Pamela C.
name: Machuca, Isabel
name: Bailo, Begoña
name: Mingo, Marta Hernández De
name: Dacal, Elena
name: García-Bocanegra, Ignacio
name: Saugar, José M.
name: Calero-Bernal, Rafael
name: González-Barrio, David
name: Rivero, Antonio
name: Briz, Verónica
name: Carmena, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Diversity, frequency, and main molecular features of Cryptosporidium isolates at the SSU rRNA loci in swine samples. GenBank accession numbers of representative sequences are provided. Novel genotypes are underlined.
Asymptotic approximation of degenerate fiber integrals
Creators: name: Camus, Brice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study asymptotics of fiber integrals depending on a large parameter. When the critical fiber is singular, full-asymptotic expansions are established in two different cases : local extremum and isolated real principal type singularities. The main coefficients are computed and invariantly expressed. In the most singular cases it is shown that the leading term of the expansion is related to invariant measures on the spherical blow-up of the singularity. The results can be applied to certain degenerate oscillatory integrals which occur in spectral analysis and quantum mechanics.
description: 22 pages, perhaps to be revised
Additional file 7 of An educational pathway and teaching materials for first aid training of children in sub-Saharan Africa based on the best available evidence
Creators: name: Buck, Emmy De
name: Laermans, Jorien
name: Anne-Catherine Vanhove
name: Dockx, Kim
name: Vandekerckhove, Philippe
name: Geduld, Heike
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 7. Characteristics of included studies, synthesis of findings, risk of bias and certainty of evidence for research question 1
Large Scale Clustering of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars: Impact of the Baryon Density and the Cosmological Constant
Creators: name: Yahata, Kazuhiro
name: Suto, Yasushi
name: Kayo, Issha
name: Matsubara, Takahiko
name: Connolly, Andrew
name: Berk, Daniel Vanden
name: Sheth, Ravi
name: Szapudi, Istvan
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Bahcall, Neta
name: Brinkmann, Jon
name: Csabai, Istvan
name: Fan, Xiaohui
name: Loveday, Jon
name: Szalay, Alexander S.
name: York, Donald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first result of the clustering analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasars. We compute the two-point correlation function (2PCF) of SDSS quasars in redshift space at $8h^{-1}{\rm Mpc} < s < 500h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$, with particular attention to its baryonic signature. Our sample consists of 19986 quasars extracted from the SDSS Data Release 4 (DR4). The redshift range of the sample is $0.72 \le z \le 2.24$ (the mean redshift is $\bar z = 1.46$) and the reddening-corrected $i$-band apparent magnitude range is $15.0 \le m_{i,{\rm rc}} \le 19.1$. Due to the relatively low number density of the quasar sample, the bump in the power spectrum due to the baryon density, $Ω_{\rm b}$, is not clearly visible. The effect of the baryon density is, however, to distort the overall shape of the 2PCF.The degree of distortion makes it an interesting alternate measure of the baryonic signature. Assuming a scale-independent linear bias and the spatially flat universe, i.e., $Ω_{\rm b} + Ω_{\rm d} + Ω_Λ=1$, where $Ω_{\rm d}$ and $Ω_Λ$ denote the density parameters of dark matter and the cosmological constant, we combine the observed quasar 2PCF and the predicted matter 2PCF to put constraints on $Ω_{\rm b}$ and $Ω_Λ$. Our result is fitted as $0.80- 2.8Ω_{\rm b} < Ω_Λ< 0.90 - 1.4Ω_{\rm b}$ at the 2$σ$ confidence level, which is consistent with results from other cosmological observations such as WMAP. (abridged)
description: 26 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for publication in the PASJ
ЖИНОЯТ ИШИНИ СУДДА ЮРИТИШ БОСҚИЧИДА АДВОКАТЛАР   ФАОЛИЯТИНИ ТАКОМИЛЛАШТИРИШ МАСАЛАЛАРИ
Creators: name: Шерзод Мадиев, адвокат, Бухоро шаҳри
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Мазкур мақолада жиноят ишини судда кўрилиши жараёнида адвокатлар фаолиятини ошириш масаласи кўтарилган

   Калит сўзлар: адвокат, адвокатура, жиноят иши, суд жараёни, қонун
Financial costs and benefits of investing in domesticated “Sonkyi” (Allanblackia spp) in the forest region of Southern Ghana
Creators: name: Egyir, Irene Susana
name: Kwadzo, George Tsey-Mensah
name: Egyir, Irene Susana
name: Kwadzo, George Tsey-Mensah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Allanblackia
subject: tree crop
subject: financial benefit-cost analysis
subject: viability
subject: profitability

description: The integration of “Sonkyi” Allanblackia spp into cocoa farming systems has been initiated in Southern Ghana. Currently, it is a collection activity although its domestication is being championed by Unilever R&D Netherlands in collaboration with the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana. Feasibility studies suggest that the venture is viable for farmers if the financial support assurances by Uniliver would be sustained. It is important to assess the feasibility of ‘no support’ so that those private sector entrepreneurs who want to venture into this activity would understand the real cost and return issues. This paper presents the results of a financial cost-benefit appraisal of AB investment in the Western Region of Ghana. Using alternate viability measures, i.e. Net Present Value (NPV), Benefit-cost ratio (BCR) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) the results show that the benefits to be derived from the AB investment are quite high; the IRRs range from 26% to 40%. The findings of the study suggest that AB production is a financially viable investment; the only challenge will be how to sustain the sole buyer demand and adequate prices.
How a National Carbon Policy Could Affect Grain Variety Selection: The Case of Rice in Arkansas
Creators: name: McFadden, Brandon R.
name: Nalley, Lawton Lanier
name: Popp, Michael P.
name: McFadden, Brandon R.
name: Nalley, Lawton Lanier
name: Popp, Michael P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Rice
subject: Carbon Policy
subject: Cap and Trade
subject: Carbon Offset

description: This study conducts a life cycle assessment (LCA) of carbon emissions and estimates the carbon sequestered in 14 commonly sown rice varieties across the Arkansas Delta. Given the uncertainty regarding future carbon legislation, and increased consumer and industry demand for “greener” products, this study estimates how potential carbon policies would affect rice cultivar selection Hybrid rice varieties, given their higher yield and higher yield per unit of green house gas (GHG) emission, are better positioned to take advantage of any increase in consumer demand for “greener” products and/or absorb any government policy better than conventional rice cultivars.
Additional file 8 of An educational pathway and teaching materials for first aid training of children in sub-Saharan Africa based on the best available evidence
Creators: name: Buck, Emmy De
name: Laermans, Jorien
name: Anne-Catherine Vanhove
name: Dockx, Kim
name: Vandekerckhove, Philippe
name: Geduld, Heike
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 8. Characteristics of included studies, synthesis of findings, risk of bias and certainty of evidence for research question 2
Spike sorting pipeline for the International Brain Laboratory
Creators: name: Laboratory, International Brain
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320999
subject: Neurosciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 400607
subject: Signal processing

description: In this article, we document our current spike sorting processing pipeline, including several modifications that enable more scalable and robust processing. We also document our newly developed tools for visualizing and quality-scoring the output of each stage of the processing pipeline. We close by discussing known issues in our pipeline that present opportunities for further improvements.
NATIONAL IMPACTS OF CHANGES IN LIVESTOCK DISEASE SURVEILLANCE
Creators: name: Hillberg Seitzinger, Ann
name: Paarlberg, Philip L.
name: Mathews, Kenneth H.
name: Hillberg Seitzinger, Ann
name: Paarlberg, Philip L.
name: Mathews, Kenneth H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: livestock disease
subject: surveillance
subject: economics

description: This research estimates the U.S. economic welfare effects of livestock disease surveillance. One type of surveillance considers livestock diseases already in the United States. Annual national economic welfare increases $1.4 billion on average compared with a Federal surveillance budget for endemic diseases of $300 million annually. Other surveillance deals with reducing the risk of foreign animal diseases entering and becoming established. The estimated annual gain to producers from surveillance for foreign animal diseases is $401 million dollars. Consumers experience additional benefits of $170 million annually. Total annual benefits are $571 million versus a foreign animal disease surveillance budget of $165 million.