cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Water market institutions: lessons from Colorado
Creators: name: Nieuwoudt, W. Lieb
name: Nieuwoudt, W. Lieb
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Important water issues in South Africa relate to equity, efficiency of use, quality (return flow pollution) and instream uses such as the environment. Farmers in South Africa pay water rates whether or not water is used and water is not volumetric priced. Water markets can attach an opportunity cost price and scarcity value to water. Opportunity cost pricing by the state has received no support in the international economic literature largely because of estimation problems. Water markets have started to emerge in the Lower Orange River and in the Fish and Sunday's rivers in the Eastern Cape in South Africa but there are two reasons why agricultural water markets do not release water in South Africa. The first reason is that the only water trades that have taken place in these rivers are between non-users of water and intensive users. It may take time before all sleeper rights (water not used) are activated which is also the case in Australia. Secondly, irrigation farmers in South Africa along the Orange and Sunday’s rivers are permitted to irrigate a larger area if they adopt water saving technology such as drip irrigation. Although this water saving technologies will reduce water application per ha, the consumptive use of water per ha may not decrease and will increase if a larger area can be irrigated. Agricultural water markets are thus increasing the use of water and not promoting its conservation. It is thus recommended that transfers should be based on consumptive use if return flow is significant.
Additional file 3 of Physician preferences for non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer treatment
Creators: name: Srinivas, Sandy
name: Ateesha F. Mohamed
name: Sreevalsa Appukkuttan
name: Botteman, Marc
name: Xinyi Ng
name: Joshi, Namita
name: Horodniceanu, Erica
name: A. Reginald Waldeck
name: Simmons, Stacey J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Sample Size Considerations in Discrete Choice Experiments
A dark clue to seesaw and leptogenesis in a pseudo-Dirac singlet doublet scenario with (non)standard cosmology
Creators: name: Konar, Partha
name: Mukherjee, Ananya
name: Saha, Abhijit Kumar
name: Show, Sudipta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an appealing alternative scenario of leptogenesis assisted by dark sector which leads to the baryon asymmetry of the Universe satisfying all theoretical and experimental constraints. The dark sector carries a non minimal set up of singlet doublet fermionic dark matter extended with copies of a real singlet scalar field. A small Majorana mass term for the singlet dark fermion, in addition to the typical Dirac term, provides the more favourable dark matter of pseudo-Dirac type, capable of escaping the direct search. Such a construction also offers a formidable scope to radiative generation of active neutrino masses. In the presence of a (non)standard thermal history of the Universe, we perform the detailed dark matter phenomenology adopting the suitable benchmark scenarios, consistent with direct detection and neutrino oscillations data. Besides, we have demonstrated that the singlet scalars can go through CP-violating out of equilibrium decay, producing an ample amount of lepton asymmetry. Such an asymmetry then gets converted into the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe through the non-perturbative sphaleron processes owing to the presence of the alternative cosmological background considered here. Unconventional thermal history of the Universe can thus aspire to lend a critical role both in the context of dark matter as well as in realizing baryogenesis
description: 33 pages, clarifications added at many places, results unchanged, version accepted for publication in JHEP
Improving the provision of financial services to micro-entrepreneurs, emerging farmers and agribusiness: Lessons from Kwazulu-Natal
Creators: name: Kuhn, M.E.
name: Darroch, Mark A.G.
name: Ortmann, Gerald F.
name: Graham, Douglas H.
name: Kuhn, M.E.
name: Darroch, Mark A.G.
name: Ortmann, Gerald F.
name: Graham, Douglas H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: Three development finance institutions (DFIs) which operate in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province were assessed in 1996/97 to see how they could improve financial viability and outreach to emerging farmers, agribusiness and micro-entrepreneurs. Improved service quality and emphasis on mobilising savings would help clients and enable the DFIs to diversify their portfolios. Better access to branches and lower loan approval times (improved screening and administrative procedures) could also lower client transaction costs. Charging a suitable interest rate spread is necessary but not sufficient for lenders to achieve subsidy independence. Reducing arrears through stricter loan contract enforcement (borrower accountability for loan repayment, lower collateral specific risks, secure and transferable collateral) will also promote financial viability. Providing both savings and loan services together would reduce borrower access costs, and allow savings to serve as a form of collateral and borrower information for lenders.
Recoil Polarization Measurements for Neutral Pion Electroproduction at Q^2=1 (GeV/c)^2 Near the Delta Resonance
Creators: name: Kelly, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measured angular distributions of differential cross section, beam analyzing power, and recoil polarization for neutral pion electroproduction at Q^2 = 1.0 (GeV/c)^2 in 10 bins of W across the Delta resonance. A total of 16 independent response functions were extracted, of which 12 were observed for the first time. Comparisons with recent model calculations show that response functions governed by real parts of interference products are determined relatively well near 1.232 GeV, but variations among models is large for response functions governed by imaginary parts and for both increases rapidly with W. We performed a nearly model-independent multipole analysis that adjusts complex multipoles with high partial waves constrained by baseline models. Parabolic fits to the W dependence of the multipole analysis around the Delta mass gives values for SMR = (-6.61 +/- 0.18)% and EMR = (-2.87 +/- 0.19)% that are distinctly larger than those from Legendre analysis of the same data. Similarly, the multipole analysis gives Re(S0+/M1+) = (+7.1 +/- 0.8)% at W=1.232 GeV, consistent with recent models, while the traditional Legendre analysis gives the opposite sign because its truncation errors are quite severe. Finally, using a unitary isobar model (UIM), we find that excitation of the Roper resonance is dominantly longitudinal with S1/2 = (0.05 +/- 0.01) GeV^(-1/2) at Q^2=1. The ReS0+ and ReE0+ multipoles favor pseudovector coupling over pseudoscalar coupling or a recently proposed mixed-coupling scheme, but the UIM does not reproduce the imaginary parts of 0+ multipoles well.
description: 60 pages, 54 figures
The effect of policy on the Southern African Valencia industry
Creators: name: Joubert, Christo J.
name: Van Schalkwyk, Herman D.
name: Joubert, Christo J.
name: Van Schalkwyk, Herman D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries

description: The policy analysis matrix (PAM) was used in this study to determine the definable impact of policies on the Southern African Valencia industry. By using a PAM the effects of divergences between private and social values of revenue, tradable inputs, domestic inputs and profits are determined. With the calculation of the private cost coefficient, domestic resource cost coefficient, nominal protection coefficients on tradable outputs and inputs, effective protection coefficient, profitability coefficient and the producer subsidy ratio the effect that government policies had on the Southern African Valencia industry was highlighted. The results show distortions in the market, comparative advantages and the sensitivity of the industry.
Business orientation and the food security status of small scale producers in the Venda region, South Africa
Creators: name: Le Roy, L.J.P.
name: Van Rooyen, C.J.
name: D'Haese, Luc
name: De Winter, A.
name: Le Roy, L.J.P.
name: Van Rooyen, C.J.
name: D'Haese, Luc
name: De Winter, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agribusiness
Food Security and Poverty

description: Questions addressed in this paper are: How to determine the food status of rural households; and does an agribusiness orientation enhance the food security status of farm families. A study was conducted on two groups of small scale black farmers in the Venda region: one group, agribusiness directed and generally more progressive towards technology, produces mangos and other subtropical fruits (cash crop farmers); the other group concentrates on locally consumed and sold vegetables (food crop farmers). Their food status was quantitatively determined by means of household energy, protein and fat balances and food security determinants were identified. More than 80% of the households had a negative balance for energy, protein or fat. Business orientation and farming type in this particular case study does not influence the energy, protein and fat coverage significantly. The marginal nature of farming by these small holders could explain this finding. Significant predictors of food security status were rather factors such as the household size and the availability of outside sources of income and cash to spend on food.
Additional file 1 of Physician preferences for non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer treatment
Creators: name: Srinivas, Sandy
name: Ateesha F. Mohamed
name: Sreevalsa Appukkuttan
name: Botteman, Marc
name: Xinyi Ng
name: Joshi, Namita
name: Horodniceanu, Erica
name: A. Reginald Waldeck
name: Simmons, Stacey J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Appendix Table 1. Labels and Descriptions Used for Efficacy Attributes and Levels
Bogoliubov-Fermi Surfaces in Noncentrosymmetric Multicomponent Superconductors
Creators: name: Link, Julia M.
name: Herbut, Igor F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that when the time reversal symmetry is broken in a multicomponent superconducting condensate without inversion symmetry the resulting Bogoliubov quasiparticles generically exhibit mini-Bogoliubov-Fermi (BF) surfaces, for small superconducting order parameter. The absence of inversion symmetry makes the BF surfaces stable with respect to weak perturbations. With sufficient increase of the order parameter, however, the Bogoliubov-Fermi surface may disappear through a Lifshitz transition, and the spectrum this way become fully gapped. Our demonstration is based on the computation of the effective Hamiltonian for the bands near the normal Fermi surface by the integration over high-energy states. Exceptions to the rule, and experimental consequences are briefly discussed.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures; greatly extended supplemental material, new and updated references, additional explanations in the text
The scientific payload of the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT)
Creators: name: Ben-Ami, Sagi
name: Shvartzvald, Yossi
name: Waxman, Eli
name: Netzer, Udi
name: Yaniv, Yoram
name: Algranatti, Viktor M.
name: Gal-Yam, Avishay
name: Lapid, Ofer
name: Ofek, Eran
name: Topaz, Jeremy
name: Arcavi, Iair
name: Asif, Arooj
name: Azaria, Shlomi
name: Bahalul, Eran
name: Barschke, Merlin F.
name: Bastian-Querner, Benjamin
name: Berge, David
name: Berlea, Vlad D.
name: Buhler, Rolf
name: Dittmar, Louise
name: Gelman, Anatoly
name: Giavitto, Gianluca
name: Guttman, Or
name: Crespo, Juan M. Haces
name: Heilbrunn, Daniel
name: Kachergincky, Arik
name: Kaipachery, Nirmal
name: Kowalski, Marek
name: Kulkarni, Shrinivasrao R.
name: Kumar, Shashank
name: Kusters, Daniel
name: Liran, Tuvia
name: Miron-Salomon, Yonit
name: Mor, Zohar
name: Nir, Aharon
name: Nitzan, Gadi
name: Philipp, Sebastian
name: Porelli, Andrea
name: Sagiv, Ilan
name: Schliwinski, Julian
name: Sprecher, Tuvia
name: De Simone, Nicola
name: Stern, Nir
name: Stone, Nicholas C.
name: Trakhtenbrot, Benny
name: Vasilev, Mikhail
name: Watson, Jason J.
name: Zappon, Francesco
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2023

description: The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) is a space-borne near UV telescope with an unprecedented large field of view (200 sq. deg.). The mission, led by the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Israel Space Agency in collaboration with DESY (Helmholtz association, Germany) and NASA (USA), is fully funded and expected to be launched to a geostationary transfer orbit in Q2/3 of 2025. With a grasp 300 times larger than GALEX, the most sensitive UV satellite to date, ULTRASAT will revolutionize our understanding of the hot transient universe, as well as of flaring galactic sources. We describe the mission payload, the optical design and the choice of materials allowing us to achieve a point spread function of ~10arcsec across the FoV, and the detector assembly. We detail the mitigation techniques implemented to suppress out-of-band flux and reduce stray light, detector properties including measured quantum efficiency of scout (prototype) detectors, and expected performance (limiting magnitude) for various objects.
Additional file 2 of Physician preferences for non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer treatment
Creators: name: Srinivas, Sandy
name: Ateesha F. Mohamed
name: Sreevalsa Appukkuttan
name: Botteman, Marc
name: Xinyi Ng
name: Joshi, Namita
name: Horodniceanu, Erica
name: A. Reginald Waldeck
name: Simmons, Stacey J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Appendix Table 2. Labels and Descriptions Used for Risk (Adverse Event) Attributes and Levels
Formation aux systèmes d'enseignement "bilingues"
Creators: name: Adrada Rafael, Cristina
name: Baelo Álvarez, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This comprehensive document provides an in-depth examination of training in bilingual education systems, particularly emphasising shared experiences and lessons learned. It delves into practical strategies and best practices for globalising education, highlighting the significance of intercultural understanding and international collaboration in creating successful bilingual educational programs. Case studies and concrete examples are incorporated to showcase how diverse institutions and programs have successfully addressed the task of integrating cultural and international perspectives into their educational offerings, aiming to promote high-quality and relevant education in today's interconnected world.
Copying the "Old Masters" : Wilkie Collins, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the transatlantic politics of art
Creators: name: Shin, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In "Copying the 'Old Masters': Wilkie Collins, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Transatlantic Politics of Art," I explore the depiction of the copying of the "Old Masters" in Collins's "A Rogue's Life", "Hide and Seek", and Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun", and attempt to position these representations within a wider transatlantic field of power. I take up questions of originality and imitation, tradition and innovation, the authentic and the fake, cultural maturity and immaturity, the Old World and the New, and map the ways that the tensions and unresolved relations between originals and copies within the space of the text reflect a larger struggle in which economic, cultural, and symbolic power are fundamentally at stake. In my introduction I set forth my argument and provide a critical context for my reading of these three works. I also offer a close reading of Collins's "Considerations on the Copyright Question, Addressed to an American Friend," in order to demonstrate the rhetorical coding of relations of power and the way that texts often exceed authorial control. Each of my three chapters then explores a specific text and locates it within a transatlantic framework. The first chapter considers "A Rogue's Life" in relation to British accusations of American "piracy," while the second explores "Hide and Seek" and argues that the novel can be read as reflecting a concern over the growing American literary "canon." The third chapter brings together the issues of copyright and literary tradition through an analysis of "The Marble Faun". I conclude this study with a postscript that positions these texts and my discussion of the transatlantic field of power within the context of representational shifts that were taking place during the nineteenth century. I argue that the impossibility of drawing clear distinctions and constructing strict dichotomies in Hawthorne's novel reflects a far wider condition of instability in which traditional relations of power, whether between originals and copies, the Old Masters and the modern masters, or the Old World and the New, were being reconfigured, tested, and reformed within the fictional space of representation.
The role of agricultural economics in agribusiness management
Creators: name: Hudson, Rex
name: Hudson, Rex
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agribusiness
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: The 1999 F.R. Tomlinson Commemorative Lecture was delivered on Friday, 23 April 1999 at the Rob Roy Hotel at Botha’s Hill near Durban.
Additional file 2 of Neuroanatomy and behavior in mice with a haploinsufficiency of AT-rich interactive domain 1B (ARID1B) throughout development
Creators: name: Ellegood, J.
name: S. P. Petkova
name: A. Kinman
name: L. R. Qiu
name: A. Adhikari
name: A. A. Wade
name: D. Fernandes
name: Z. Lindenmaier
name: A. Creighton
name: L. M. J. Nutter
name: A. S. Nord
name: J. L. Silverman
name: J. P. Lerch
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Summary table for the behavioural statistics.
On the optimality of joint periodic and extraordinary dividend strategies
Creators: name: Avanzi, Benjamin
name: Lau, Hayden
name: Wong, Bernard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 93E20, 91G70, 62P05, 91B30

description: In this paper, we model the cash surplus (or equity) of a risky business with a Brownian motion. Owners can take cash out of the surplus in the form of "dividends", subject to transaction costs. However, if the surplus hits 0 then ruin occurs and the business cannot operate any more. We consider two types of dividend distributions: (i) periodic, regular ones (that is, dividends can be paid only at countable many points in time, according to a specific arrival process); and (ii) extraordinary dividend payments that can be made immediately at any time (that is, the dividend decision time space is continuous and matches that of the surplus process). Both types of dividends attract proportional transaction costs, and extraordinary distributions also attracts fixed transaction costs, a realistic feature. A dividend strategy that involves both types of distributions (periodic and extraordinary) is qualified as "hybrid". We determine which strategies (either periodic, immediate, or hybrid) are optimal, that is, we show which are the strategies that maximise the expected present value of dividends paid until ruin, net of transaction costs. Sometimes, a liquidation strategy (which pays out all monies and stops the process) is optimal. Which strategy is optimal depends on the profitability of the business, and the level of (proportional and fixed) transaction costs. Results are illustrated.
An atom interferometer enabled by spontaneous decay
Creators: name: Cornelussen, R. A.
name: Spreeuw, R. J. C.
name: Heuvell, H. B. van Linden van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the question whether Michelson type interferometry is possible if the role of the beam splitter is played by a spontaneous process. This question arises from an inspection of trajectories of atoms bouncing inelastically from an evanescent-wave (EW) mirror. Each final velocity can be reached via two possible paths, with a {\it spontaneous} Raman transition occurring either during the ingoing or the outgoing part of the trajectory. At first sight, one might expect that the spontaneous character of the Raman transfer would destroy the coherence and thus the interference. We investigated this problem by numerically solving the Schrödinger equation and applying a Monte-Carlo wave-function approach. We find interference fringes in velocity space, even when random photon recoils are taken into account.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, we clarified the semiclassical interpretation of Fig. 3
Increasing Food-Safety Protection: Fresh Apple Markets in China
Creators: name: Gao, Lili
name: Thornsbury, Suzanne
name: Gao, Lili
name: Thornsbury, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Food-safety concerns have a highly visible impact on current U.S.-China agricultural trade. Initial concerns over melamine in imported pet and animal feed have spread to other products, and traditional made-in-China “cheap” goods are drawing great safety attention from U.S. customers and regulators. At the same time, China has raised concerns over U.S. products as diverse as orange pulp, health supplements, and pistachio nuts. Ultimately, the impact of food-safety regulation will be determined not only by regulatory content but also by administrative and structural characteristics of supply chains. This paper uses fresh apple markets in China as an example to illustrate the complexity of managing interactions among these three factors.
An Institutional Framework for Meeting International Food-Safety Market Standards from a Developing-Country Perspective
Creators: name: Gupta, Kriti Bardhan
name: Saghaian, Sayed H.
name: Gupta, Kriti Bardhan
name: Saghaian, Sayed H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: This paper examines problems being faced by agribusiness firms in developing countries in meeting the food-safety standards imposed by importing countries in their respective markets. Based on existing institutional frameworks in developing countries such as India, it is suggested that in order to meet the prescribed standards in international markets there is a need to establish inter-linkages across different institutions not only within developing countries but also with respected international standard-setting organizations for better and smoother implementation of WTO measures related to international food-safety market standards.
BANKLARDA XALQARO PUL OʻTKAZMALARI HISOBI VA TAHLILINI TAKOMILLASHTIRISH
Creators: name: Xusainova, Shaxnozaxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Bank tizimi global moliyaviy oqimlarning asosiy vositachisi bo‘lib, xalqaro pul o‘tkazmalari uning muhim tarkibiy qismlaridan biri hisoblanadi. Xalqaro pul o‘tkazmalarining hisobini yuritish va tahlil qilish jarayoni nafaqat moliyaviy shaffoflikni oshirish, balki tranzaksiya xavfsizligini ta’minlash va xizmatlar sifatini yaxshilashga ham xizmat qiladi. Bugungi kunda xalqaro to‘lov operatsiyalarini optimallashtirish, ularni tezkor, ishonchli va arzon amalga oshirish banklar oldidagi ustuvor vazifalardan biri sanaladi.
A Natural Scotogenic Model for Neutrino Mass \& Dark Matter
Creators: name: Ahriche, Amine
name: Jueid, Adil
name: Nasri, Salah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter, we propose an extension of the scotogenic model where singlet Majorana particle can be dark matter (DM) without the need of a highly suppressed scalar coupling of the order $O(10^{-10})$. For that, the SM is extended with three singlet Majorana fermions, an inert scalar doublet, and two (a complex and a real) singlet scalars, with a global $Z_{4}$ symmetry that is spontaneously broken into $Z_{2}$ at a scale higher than the electroweak one by the vev of the complex singlet scalar. In this setup, the smallness of neutrino mass is achieved via the cancellation between three diagrams a la scotogenic, a DM candidate that is viable for a large mass range; and the phenomenology is richer than the minimal scotogenic model.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures & 2 tables. Matches published version
A Pilot Study of Halal Goat-Meat Consumption in Atlanta, Georgia
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Mohammed
name: Liu, Xuanli
name: Nelson, Mack C.
name: Ibrahim, Mohammed
name: Liu, Xuanli
name: Nelson, Mack C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Livestock Production/Industries

description: Atlanta is a relatively large market for goat meat. As in most metropolitan areas around the U.S., goat-meat consumption has grown steadily in Atlanta over the past decade (Northwest Cooperative Development Center 2005; Nettles and Bukenya 2004). This growth is attributed to the influx of immigrants from goat-meat-eating countries into the U.S. over the same period (Gipson 1999). The increase in demand for goat meat has made the U.S. a net importer of competitively priced goat meat from Australia and New Zealand into major U.S cities such as Atlanta (USDA-FAS 2006). The fact that goat-meat imports from Australia have steadily increased over the years makes markets such as Atlanta of particular interest to both Georgia goat-meat suppliers and meat-goat producers. The goat-meat market, however, is highly segmented (Nelson et al. 2004; Mclean-Meyinsse 2003). Recognition of the diversity among Atlanta goat-meat consumers raises interest in identifying preferences of particular segments. One such segment is the Muslim consumer. However, very limited information is available to help assess the preferences of Muslim consumers in the Atlanta goat-meat market. This study focuses on the Muslim segment of actual goat-meat consumers in the metro Atlanta area. Contrary to earlier assertions, we hypothesize that Muslims eat goat-meat for cultural reasons and not for religious reasons. Furthermore, we assert that Muslims are not a single homogenous niche group and should not be treated as such in marketing. Thus this study examines goat-meat consumption patterns among Muslims in metropolitan Atlanta. Insights gained in this study benefit meat-goat producers and consumers in Georgia.
Thermal Physics, Cloud Geometry, and the Stellar IMF
Creators: name: Larson, Richard B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal properties of star-forming clouds have an important influence on how they fragment into stars, and it is suggested in this paper that the low-mass stellar IMF, which appears to be almost universal, is determined largely by the thermal physics of these clouds. In particular, it is suggested that the characteristic stellar mass, a little below one solar mass, is determined by the transition from an initial cooling phase of collapse to a later phase of slowly rising temperature that occurs when the gas becomes thermally coupled to the dust. Numerical simulations support the hypothesis that the Jeans mass at this transition point plays an important role in determining the peak mass of the IMF. A filamentary geometry may also play a key role in the fragmentation process because the isothermal case is a critical one for the collapse of a cylinder: the collapse and fragmentation of a cylinder can continue freely as long as the temperature continues to decrease, but not if it begins to increase. The limited available results on the dependence of the thermal properties of clouds on metallicity do not suggest a strong dependence of the IMF on metallicity, but the far-infrared background radiation in starburst regions and in the early universe may significantly shift the peak mass to higher masses in these situations.
description: 12 pages, text only, revised version accepted by MNRAS
On Multiple Semantics for Declarative Database Repairs
Creators: name: Gilad, Amir
name: Deutch, Daniel
name: Roy, Sudeepa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the problem of database repairs through a rule-based framework that we refer to as Delta Rules. Delta Rules are highly expressive and allow specifying complex, cross-relations repair logic associated with Denial Constraints, Causal Rules, and allowing to capture Database Triggers of interest. We show that there are no one-size-fits-all semantics for repairs in this inclusive setting, and we consequently introduce multiple alternative semantics, presenting the case for using each of them. We then study the relationships between the semantics in terms of their output and the complexity of computation. Our results formally establish the tradeoff between the permissiveness of the semantics and its computational complexity. We demonstrate the usefulness of the framework in capturing multiple data repair scenarios for an Academic Search database and the TPC-H databases, showing how using different semantics affects the repair in terms of size and runtime, and examining the relationships between the repairs. We also compare our approach with SQL triggers and a state-of-the-art data repair system.
Nachweis von Nationallizenzen in der Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB) und im Datenbank-Infosystem (DBIS)
Creators: name: Scheuplein, Martin
name: Hutzler, Evelinde
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nationallizenzen, digitale Bibliothek, Datenbank-Infosystem, Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek; national licences, digital library, Database Infosystem, Electronic Journals Library
subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Zusammenfassung:
Die Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg hat für die Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB) und das Datenbank-Infosystem (DBIS) neue Funktionen zum Nachweis und zur effizienten Verwaltung von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft finanzierten Nationallizenzen entwickelt. Im Artikel werden diese neuen Funktionalitäten vorgestellt. Ferner wird die Vorgehensweise für die Verwaltung von Nationallizenzen in beiden Systemen beschrieben.

Abstract:
The University Library of Regensburg has developed new features for the display and administration of the national licences financed by the DFG (German Research Foundation) within the Electronic Journals Library EZB and the Database Infosystem DBIS. We present these new functions in our article. Furthermore, we specify the administrative procedure in both systems for the national licences.
Conformal field theory complexity from Euler-Arnold equations
Creators: name: Flory, Mario
name: Heller, Michal P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Defining complexity in quantum field theory is a difficult task, and the main challenge concerns going beyond free models and associated Gaussian states and operations. One take on this issue is to consider conformal field theories in 1+1 dimensions and our work is a comprehensive study of state and operator complexity in the universal sector of their energy-momentum tensor. The unifying conceptual ideas are Euler-Arnold equations and their integro-differential generalization, which guarantee well-posedness of the optimization problem between two generic states or transformations of interest. The present work provides an in-depth discussion of the results reported in arXiv:2005.02415 and techniques used in their derivation. Among the most important topics we cover are usage of differential regularization, solution of the integro-differential equation describing Fubini-Study state complexity and probing the underlying geometry.
description: 31 pages + appendicies, 2 figures, extended version of arXiv:2005.02415 v2: added references and minor improvements
title: Mutterschutz, Papa-Monat und heteronormative Familienorganisation
Creators: name: Sagmeister, Maria
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Care
subject: Differenz
subject: Heteronormativität, Mutterschutz
subject: Mutterschaft
subject: Väterkarenz, Gleichheit
subject: Vaterschaft
subject: Vereinbarkeit
subject: Vergeschlechtlichte Arbeitsteilung
subject: ddc:300

description: Dieser Beitrag versucht, den Begriff der Heteronormativität für eine Analyse von arbeitsrechtlichen Elternschutzrechten fruchtbar zu machen. Das Recht stellt die Weichen für die innerfamiliäre Aufgabenteilung, in dem es für (Geburts-)Mütter eine obligatorische Erwerbsarbeitsunterbrechung, für Väter und zweite Elternteile hingegen nur freiwillige Zeiten vorsieht. Diese unterschiedliche Behandlung rechtfertigt sich aus den körperlichen Umständen von Geburt, Schwangerschaft und Stillzeit, wirkt sich aber auch auf das Verhältnis der Eltern aus, indem sie geschlechtsspezifisch unterschiedliche Handlungsoptionen bereithält und die Arbeitsteilung mitstrukturiert. Darüber hinaus limitieren außerrechtliche heteronormative Geschlechternormen die Inanspruchnahme freiwilliger Möglichkeiten wie die Elternkarenz durch Väter und legen bestimmte Arrangements – etwa mit dem Verweis auf die Fähigkeit von Frauen zu stillen – näher als andere.
Intergenerational Use of and Attitudes Toward Food Labels in Louisiana
Creators: name: McLean-Meyinsse, Patricia E.
name: Summers, Jock J.
name: McLean-Meyinsse, Patricia E.
name: Summers, Jock J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Results from a random sample of 1,300 households in Louisiana suggest that seniors are the most frequent users of food labels, but they are also more likely to agree that labels are hard to interpret. Consumers in the 18-to-25 age group are more likely to use friends, relatives, and food-company publications as their main sources of nutritional information.
Simulations of laser locking to a LISA arm
Creators: name: Sylvestre, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present detailed numerical simulations of a laser phase stabilization scheme for LISA, where both lasers emitting along one arm are locked to each other. Including the standard secondary noises and spacecraft motions that approximately mimic LISA's orbit, we verify that very stable laser phases can be obtained, and that time delay interferometry can be used to remove the laser phase noise from measurements of gravitational wave strains. Most importantly, we show that this locking scheme can provide significant simplifications over LISA's baseline design in the implementation of time delay interferometry.
description: 7 figures, 8 pages
Quantum droplet in a mixture of Bose-Fermi superfluids
Creators: name: Wang, Jing-Bo
name: Pan, Jian-Song
name: Cui, Xiaoling
name: Yi, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the formation of quantum droplets in the mixture of a single-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), and a two-species Fermi superfluid across a wide Feshbach resonance. With repulsive boson-boson and attractive boson-fermion interactions, we show that quantum droplets can be stabilized by attractive fermion-fermion interactions in the Bardeen-Cooper-Schieffer (BCS) side of the resonance, and can also exist in deep BEC regime under weak boson-fermion interactions. We map out the phase diagram for stable droplets with respect to the boson-boson and boson-fermion interactions, and discuss the role of different types of quantum fluctuations in the relevant regions of the BCS-BEC crossover. Our work reveals the impact of fermion pairing on the formation of quantum droplets in Bose-Fermi mixtures, and provides a useful guide for future experiments.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Completeness in quasi-pseudometric spaces
Creators: name: Cobzaş, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46S99 54E15 54E25 54E50

description: The aim of this paper is to discus the relations between various notions of sequential completeness and the corresponding notions of completeness by nets or by filters in the setting of quasi-metric spaces. We propose a new definition of right $K$-Cauchy net in a quasi-metric space for which the corresponding completeness is equivalent to the sequential completeness. In this way we complete some results of R.~A. Stoltenberg, Proc. London Math. Soc. \textbf{17} (1967), 226--240, and V.~Gregori and J.~Ferrer, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., III Ser., \textbf{49} (1984), 36.
description: 19 p, entirely revised, a new notion of Cauchy net proposed
Ranking Enhanced Dialogue Generation
Creators: name: Hao, Changying
name: Pang, Liang
name: Lan, Yanyan
name: Sun, Fei
name: Guo, Jiafeng
name: Cheng, Xueqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: How to effectively utilize the dialogue history is a crucial problem in multi-turn dialogue generation. Previous works usually employ various neural network architectures (e.g., recurrent neural networks, attention mechanisms, and hierarchical structures) to model the history. However, a recent empirical study by Sankar et al. has shown that these architectures lack the ability of understanding and modeling the dynamics of the dialogue history. For example, the widely used architectures are insensitive to perturbations of the dialogue history, such as words shuffling, utterances missing, and utterances reordering. To tackle this problem, we propose a Ranking Enhanced Dialogue generation framework in this paper. Despite the traditional representation encoder and response generation modules, an additional ranking module is introduced to model the ranking relation between the former utterance and consecutive utterances. Specifically, the former utterance and consecutive utterances are treated as query and corresponding documents, and both local and global ranking losses are designed in the learning process. In this way, the dynamics in the dialogue history can be explicitly captured. To evaluate our proposed models, we conduct extensive experiments on three public datasets, i.e., bAbI, PersonaChat, and JDC. Experimental results show that our models produce better responses in terms of both quantitative measures and human judgments, as compared with the state-of-the-art dialogue generation models. Furthermore, we give some detailed experimental analysis to show where and how the improvements come from.
description: Accepted at CIKM 2020
Eat Your Fruits and Veggies: Who Informs Consumers about Produce Choices and Nutrition?
Creators: name: Nurse-Schorre, Gretchen
name: Thilmany, Dawn D.
name: Keeling Bond, Jennifer J.
name: Bond, Craig A.
name: Bunning, Marisa
name: Nurse-Schorre, Gretchen
name: Thilmany, Dawn D.
name: Keeling Bond, Jennifer J.
name: Bond, Craig A.
name: Bunning, Marisa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Food consumption trends in the U.S. may be affected by and/or contributing to the growth in food- and nutrition-related information channels. Information channels are increasing in number, as are the sources (McCluskey & Swinnnen 2004) that provide information. This paper examines consumer perceptions of the relative desirability of various food and nutrition information sources and education methods as well as the relative credibility of various food and nutrition sources. Using data from a 2006 nationwide consumer survey, comparative summary statistics show significant differences between information delivery methods and sources that consumers use and trust. By understanding how consumers receive and value information we can better target consumer groups.
X-Ray and Optical Flux Anomalies in the Quadruply Lensed QSO 1RXS J1131-1231
Creators: name: Blackburne, Jeffrey A.
name: Pooley, Dave
name: Rappaport, Saul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical and X-ray observations of the quadruply imaged quasar 1RXS J1131-1231 show flux ratio anomalies among the images factors of ~2 in the optical and \~3-9 in X-rays. Temporal variability of the quasar seems an unlikely explanation for the discrepancies between the X-ray and optical flux ratio anomalies. The negative parity of the most affected image and the decreasing trend of the anomalies with wavelength suggest microlensing as a possible explanation; this would imply that the source of optical radiation in RXS J1131 is ~10^4 R_g in size for a black hole mass of ~10^8 M_sun. We also present evidence for different X-ray spectral hardness ratios among the four images.
description: 5 pages, 1 color figure, replaced with version accepted to ApJ
Additional file 3 of Neuroanatomy and behavior in mice with a haploinsufficiency of AT-rich interactive domain 1B (ARID1B) throughout development
Creators: name: Ellegood, J.
name: S. P. Petkova
name: A. Kinman
name: L. R. Qiu
name: A. Adhikari
name: A. A. Wade
name: D. Fernandes
name: Z. Lindenmaier
name: A. Creighton
name: L. M. J. Nutter
name: A. S. Nord
name: J. L. Silverman
name: J. P. Lerch
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Summary table for the supplemental behavioural statistics.
«La (per così dire) energia delle figure»
Creators: name: Rougé, Bertrand
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: What is it that makes an artwork function and present itself as an artwork distinct from non-art? Such is the question of the artwork’s persuasive evidence. Through a re-reading of the rhetorical literature about ekphrasis — enargeia that grounds it and energeia that motivates it — this paper attempts to describe the artwork in its dynamic dimension, as an occasion to move (phora and transitus). The stress is then put on the energetic movement of the «pro ommaton poiein» which is specific of how a figure functions, but it is then demonstrated that this is the movement of the figure per se, dissociable from classic mimesis and its «cinematographical fantasy». A few examples are then analyzed to show how this global theory may encompass trompe-l’œil as well as plasticity, redaymades or abstract art, thus launching a possible «energetics of art».
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2011): Etichettare / Descrivere / Mostrare
Lineshape of harmonic generation on metal nanoparticles and metallic Photonic Crystal slabs
Creators: name: Klein, M. W.
name: Tritschler, T.
name: Wegener, M.
name: Linden, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the linear- and nonlinear-optical lineshapes of metal nanoparticles (theory) and metallic photonic crystal slabs (experiment and theory). For metal nanoparticle ensembles, we show analytically and numerically that femtosecond second- or third-harmonic-generation (THG) experiments together with linear extinction measurements generally do not allow to determine the homogeneous linewidth. This is in contrast to claims of previous work in which we identify a technical mistake. For metallic photonic crystal slabs, we introduce a simple classical model of two coupled Lorentz oscillators, corresponding to the plasmon and waveguide modes. This model describes very well the key experimental features of linear optics, particularly the Fano-like lineshapes. The derived nonlinear-optical THG spectra are shown to depend on the underlying source of the optical nonlinearity. We present corresponding THG experiments with metallic photonic crystal slabs. In contrast to previous work, we spectrally resolve the interferometric THG signal, and we additionally obtain a higher temporal resolution by using 5 fs laser pulses. In the THG spectra, the distinct spectral components exhibit strongly different behaviors versus time delay. The measured spectra agree well with the model calculations.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures (compressed); added minor editorial changes
Convergence in Food Demand and Delivery: Do Middle-Income Countries Follow High-Income Trends?
Creators: name: Regmi, Anita
name: Takeshima, Hiroyuki
name: Unnevehr, Laurian J.
name: Regmi, Anita
name: Takeshima, Hiroyuki
name: Unnevehr, Laurian J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: This study uses food expenditures and food-sales data from 1990 to 2004 to examine whether food-consumption patterns and food-delivery-mechanism trends are converging across 47 high- and middle-income countries. Results point to a high degree of convergence in global food systems. Middle-income countries appear to be following trends in high-income countries. Convergence is apparent in most important food-expenditure categories and in indicators of food-system modernization such as supermarket and fast food sales.