cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dimensions of Intergenerational Farm Business Transfers in Canada, England, the USA and Japan
Creators: name: Uchiyama, Tomohiro
name: Lobley, Matt
name: Errington, Andrew
name: Yanagimura, Shunsuke
name: Uchiyama, Tomohiro
name: Lobley, Matt
name: Errington, Andrew
name: Yanagimura, Shunsuke
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: farm family business
subject: succession
subject: retirement
subject: intangible assets
subject: managerial skills
subject: routes to succession
subject: delegation

description: Despite widespread concern that fewer and fewer individuals wish to enter farming as a career, intergenerational succession remains an important objective for many farm businesses. Indeed, it can be argued that intergenerational transfer represents a fundamental aspect of the social sustainability of family farming. Previous research has frequently focused on the transfer of physical assets, while less attention has been devoted to the transfer of the intangible assets of the farm business such as managerial skills and farm-specific knowledge. This paper focuses on the succession process after a successor has been identified and analyses patterns of behaviour regarding the delegation of management responsibility. Data from the international comparative studies is used to compare the main routes to succession in four countries and identifies how different routes to succession can influence the delegation of managerial responsibility. In doing so, the paper reflects on the ‘farmer's boy' problem and considers the implications for the successful transfer and survivability of the farm business.
Kissrhizoecus Kozar & Konczne Benedicty 2005
Creators: name: Hodgson, Chris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pseudococcidae
Kissrhizoecus

description: KISSRHIZOECUS Kozár & Konczné Benedicty (2005)
 Kissrhizoecus Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2005: 142.
 Type species: Kissrhizoecus hungaricus Kozár & Konczné Benedicty (2005) by original designation.
description: Published as part of Hodgson, Chris, 2012, Comparison of the morphology of the adult males of the rhizoecine, phenacoccine and pseudococcine mealybugs (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea), with the recognition of the family Rhizoecidae Williams 3291, pp. 1-79 in Zootaxa 3291 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3291.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5250048
title: Integrating Digital Health and Behaviour Change Following Bariatric Surgery
Creators: name: Wright, Charlene A
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: bariatric surgery
subject: digital health
subject: behaviour change

description: The overarching purpose of this PhD research program was to explore ways in which behaviour change theory and digital health following bariatric surgery can be used to inform future interventions aimed at improving the health outcomes of bariatric patients. This is important as solutions are needed for individuals who have undergone bariatric surgery to help support weight maintenance postoperatively. The thesis progressed from identifying target behaviours to identifying theoretical domains and behaviour change techniques and, finally, implementing an intervention that could be evaluated in a non-randomised feasibility study. Six main aims drove this PhD program of research to achieve the overarching purpose. Aim One identified the target behaviours that need to be performed after bariatric surgery, the effect of behavioural non-adherence on weight regain, and barriers to behaviour change. Aim Two was to choose a theoretical framework to guide the PhD research program. Aim Three identified current intervention components in the literature by determining behaviour change theories and techniques used to inform nutrition interventions for adults undergoing bariatric surgery. Aim Four explored patient barriers to and determined current technology use for accessing bariatric surgery services and health information and explored the acceptability of digital health in bariatric surgery using the theoretical domains framework. Aim Five identified the various modalities of digital health and evaluated the effectiveness of digital health on bariatric surgery postoperative outcomes. Aim Six assessed the feasibility, acceptability, cost, and potential effect on weight of a digital health solution in bariatric surgery with potential for scale-up. The PhD research program adopted a robust methodology, including two comprehensive systematic literature reviews, a mixed-methods study, and a non-randomised feasibility study, all aimed at gaining insights for the development of digital health interventions targeted at improving the health outcomes of bariatric patients. The thesis followed a multi-stage approach guided by the French et al. (2012) model (French model) and the theoretical domains framework, ensuring a thorough process for developing and evaluating a digital health intervention in bariatric surgery. [...]
Group development and group maturity when building agile teams: A qualitative and quantitative investigation at eight large companies
Creators: name: Gren, Lucas
name: Torkar, Richard
name: Feldt, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The agile approach to projects focuses more on close-knit teams than traditional waterfall projects, which means that aspects of group maturity become even more important. This psychological aspect is not much researched in connection to the building of an "agile team." The purpose of this study is to investigate how building agile teams is connected to a group development model taken from social psychology. We conducted ten semi-structured interviews with coaches, Scrum Masters, and managers responsible for the agile process from seven different companies, and collected survey data from 66 group-members from four companies (a total of eight different companies). The survey included an agile measurement tool and the one part of the Group Development Questionnaire. The results show that the practitioners define group developmental aspects as key factors to a successful agile transition. Also, the quantitative measurement of agility was significantly correlated to the group maturity measurement. We conclude that adding these psychological aspects to the description of the "agile team" could increase the understanding of agility and partly help define an "agile team." We propose that future work should develop specific guidelines for how software development teams at different maturity levels might adopt agile principles and practices differently.
Numerical investigation of a ductile connection to improve structural robusyness in fire
Creators: name: Liu, Yu
name: Huang, Shan-Shan
name: Burgess, Ian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400507
subject: Fire safety engineering
classificationCode: 400510
subject: Structural engineering

description: A novel steel connection with high axial and rotational ductility has been proposed with the objective to improve the performance of steel-framed buildings in fire. A series of sub-frame models with this ductile connection have been built using Abaqus to study the influence of the characteristics of the part of the connection between the fin-plate which connects to the beam web and face-plate which connects to the column face on the overall connection behaviour. Measures to improve the bolt pull-out failure mode of the connection have also been tested using the Abaqus models, including adding a strengthening plate to the face-plate and increasing the connection thickness.
S-Branes, Negative Tension Branes and Cosmology
Creators: name: Quevedo, F.
name: Tasinato, G.
name: Zavala, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general class of solutions of string background equations is studied and its physical interpretations are presented. These solutions correspond to generalizations of the standard black p-brane solutions to surfaces with curvature k=-1,0. The relation with the recently introduced S-branes is provided. The mass, charge, entropy and Hawking temperature are computed, illustrating the interpretation in terms of negative tension branes. Their cosmological interpretation is discussed as well as their potential instability under small perturbations.
description: 10 pages. Talks given at: SUSY'02, ``the 10th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions'', DESY, Hamburg, Germany, 17-23 June 2002, and ``The 1st International Conference on String Phenomenology'', Oxford, July 6 - 11, 2002. References added
Dynamics of Slaughter Weight Response to Market Price Changes for Japanese Beef Cattle
Creators: name: Chitose, Atsushi
name: Weaver, Robert D.
name: Chitose, Atsushi
name: Weaver, Robert D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Japanese beef market behavior
subject: optimal slaughter weight responses
subject: dynamic optimization problem
subject: time series analysis
subject: unit root tests with seasonality and structural break
subject: vector error correction model
subject: long-run and short-run relationships

description: The objective of this paper is to investigate the dynamics of the slaughter weight of Japanese beef cattle. We extend the theory of and provide empirical results for the dynamics of slaughter weight. Our theoretical analysis shows that optimal slaughter weight increases with an increase in the price of either feeder calves or the flow output while it decreases with an increase in either feed price or interest rate. Slaughter weight response to beef price depends on the sex of the animal. An increase in beef price is found to reduce slaughter weight of steers (male animals with no flow output); however, the result for slaughter weight of female animals is ambiguous. Our time series analysis for the Japanese beef sector (1975-1999) finds evidence of long-run relationships between the average slaughter weight and prices (except for interest rate), consistent with theoretical response patterns. However, the empirical results indicate that no specific relationships exist between the average beef slaughter weight and prices in the short-run.
Post-fire tensile behavior of Hole-anchored Bolts Bolted T-stub connection
Creators: name: Wang, Peijun
name: You, Yang
name: Liu, Mei
name: Liu, Fangzhou
name: Zhang, Wenchao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400507
subject: Fire safety engineering
classificationCode: 400510
subject: Structural engineering

description: A test was designed and conducted to investigate the post-fire tensile behavior of the novel Hole-anchored Bolt (HB) bolted T-stub connection. The HB was anchored by the bolt hole with internal threads, for which the HB could be installed from one-side and is very suitable for the installation of the closed-section steel component. The full-period test method was used to consider the influence of load level and the fire temperature on the residual mechanical behavior of the HB bolted connection, including the failure mode, the failure stage, and the resistance. The diameter of the HB and the thickness of the bolt hole decided the failure mode of the connection. Fire temperature and the load level had little influence on the failure mode but had obvious impact on the failure stage of the connection. The T-stubs that not fail in fire still have good load carrying capacity after cooling down. The un-failed T-stubs could recover at least 87.1% of their yielding load and 80.9% of their ultimate load under post-fire circumstances.
Pre-inflation and Trans-Planckian Censorship
Creators: name: Cai, Yong
name: Piao, Yun-Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the implication of Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC) for the initial state of primordial perturbations. It is possible to set the state of perturbation modes in the infinite past as the Minkowski vacuum, only if the pre-inflationary era is past-complete. We calculate the evolution of the perturbation modes in such a pre-inflationary era and show that at the beginning of inflation the perturbation modes with wavelengths much shorter than the Hubble scale (but still larger than the Planck length scale) will behave as they are in the Bunch-Davis state. Therefore, a past-complete pre-inflationary evolution may automatically prepare the initial state required for the inflationary perturbations at the CMB window while obeying the TCC.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures; references added; updated to match published version
Empirical Evaluation of Performance and Effect of Currency Devaluation with Special Reference to Export and Import under Policy Reforms on Sri Lanka's Agriculture
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, Mitoshi
name: Sanker, M. S. SriGowri
name: Yamaguchi, Mitoshi
name: Sanker, M. S. SriGowri
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: general equilibrium growth accounting
subject: exchange rate
subject: domestic food production sector
subject: policy reform
subject: Sri Lanka's economy
subject: push-pull effect

description: In this paper an empirical evaluation of the performance of Sri Lanka's agricultural sector under policy reforms with respect to the exchange rate implications is made. By the policy reforms, the exchange rate reforms made considerable impact on the agriculture exports, input and food imports and economic development. In our general equilibrium growth accounting approach, the real contributions of agricultural exports, food imports and fertilizer price reveal that without the exchange rate reform the contributions would have been really detrimental to the agricultural production as well as to the economy of Sri Lanka. In this way, Sri Lanka's policy reform had a positive effect on the economy through the exchange rate reform, although it had negative impact on the domestic food production sector and related small farmers. Further analysis on the contributions of technical changes in agriculture and non-agriculture supports the push-pull effect concept in both sectors in this paper.
Additional file 1 of Effects of empagliflozin on serum uric acid level of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta‐analysis
Creators: name: You, Yinyuan
name: Zhao, Yu
name: Chen, Mujuan
name: Pan, Ying
name: Luo, Zhenhui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. MeSH terms with Boolean operators.
Rest frame vacuum of the Dirac field on spatially flat FLRW spacetimes
Creators: name: Cotaescu, Ion I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In quantum theory of the free Dirac field on spatially flat FLRW spacetimes we introduce a new type of vacuum able to separate the positive and negative frequencies in the rest frames. This is refereed as the rest frame vacuum shoving that this differs from the adiabatic vacuum apart from the Minkowski spacetime where these two vacua coincide.
description: 5 pages, no figures
Local Economic Development and Sustainable Global Development: Food Security and Food Sovereignty
Creators: name: Carvalho, Bernardo Reynolds Pacheco De
name: Carvalho, Bernardo Reynolds Pacheco De
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agribusiness
Food Security and Poverty
International Development

description: In this paper the author argues that sustainable development starts always solving the basic needs, mainly food needs and food security concerns of any community. Those concerns are key stones for any social‐economic development process, and need to be addressed in terms of guarantees in time and through time. Security concerns at several levels should be on the agenda, but food is a necessary condition to address the other dimensions of the human security concerns. The actual food system today represents one of the big achievements of the human community, at global/world level, in terms of solving the global needs in food, but it is still far away from solving the human needs at local community level and individual level where many problems are present. For example, hunger in the last 20‐30 years have been always between 800 million persons and 1 billion, and malnutrition is now even with bigger numbers, with estimations for obesity above 1,2 billion persons. The main argument of the paper is around the understanding that global sustainable development can only be achieved with local economic development, and it will be used the food system analysis to provide evidences on that matter. However this view cannot be confused with an inward perspective and it will be shown that improvements in trade flows are also important moves in most cases, regarding economic development and quality of life. Food security concerns and food sovereignty are both key dimensions to be analyzed in any food system, but both concepts have a lot in common, and can be seen as convergent in many dimensions. Two case studies will be used to provide support to the discussion, (one European Country and an African Country), showing that human welfare and food nutrition can be improved through time, where the food production system play an important role, but also trade, and where local economic development does not mean necessarily lower dependency from abroad. Policy and economic development experts should be able to address and provide solutions to improve welfare, food security and food sovereignty, preserving and improving equilibrium with nature, autonomy, freedom of choice, less vulnerability of the systems and, at the same time, taking full advantage of the international relations and trade opportunities.
Deformations des extensions larges de faisceaux
Creators: name: Drezet, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14D20, 14B12

description: Let X be a projective smooth irreducible polarized variety over the field of complex numbers. Typical examples of wide extensions are vector bundles E that have a subsheaf F whose slope is much bigger than the slope of E/F, and such that F and E/F are stable. We study the deformations of such bundles. The case of unstable rank 2 bundles has been considered by S.A. Stromme on P_2, and by C. Banica on P_3. We build moduli spaces of wide extensions, and if the dimension of X is greater than 2, it may even happen that we obtain fine moduli spaces.
description: LaTeX2e, 97 pages in French with 6 figures
Graduate Students’ Opinions about Entrepreneurship as an Employment Opportunity
Creators: name: Juračak, Josip
name: Tica, Marko
name: Juračak, Josip
name: Tica, Marko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: entrepreneurship
subject: self-employment
subject: students
subject: theory of planned behaviour

description: One of the most unwanted and unavoidable consequences of the economic recession is the high rate of unemployment. Graduate students in Croatia are faced with lack of employment possibilities, and for some of them the self-employment looks like a good solution. In this paper, we investigate attitudes and intentions of graduate students at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture regarding to selfemployment. Most of the surveyed students are in the age between 21 and 25 years, and they have already got some kind of knowledge about entrepreneurship during the formal education. In addition, majority of them have the experience of part-time jobs. The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) model was used to find out to which extent students’ attitudes and experience influence their expressed self-employment intentions. The results revealed that Zagreb students’ scores are close but somewhat lower than the same scores found in the comparable study from Australia. This goes for the investigated variables: (1) previous entrepreneurial experience (PEE), perceived desirability of selfemployment (PDSE), perceived entrepreneurial self-efficacy (PESE) and self-employment intentions (SEI). It was found that the score on the PEE is significantly related to scores on the PDSE (p=0.000), and PESE (p=0.000), which means that the experience positively influence respondents’ attitudes on self-employment and self-efficacy. There is also a statistically significant difference in the on the SEI with respect to the PDSE (ANOVA F=9.804, p=0.000): respondents that consider self-employment more desirable expressed higher intention to perform it. The PDSE was found as the most influencing model variable in regards to the self-employment intention. The results points out the importance of previous experience, role models and positive attitudes towards self-employment in the process of the entrepreneurship development in young, educated population.
ML based reconstruction of long-term global terrestrial water storage anomalies from observed, satellite and land-surface model data
Creators: name: Mandal, Nehar
name: Das, Prabal
name: Chanda, Kironmala
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 370704
subject: Surface water hydrology

description: # The file 'Mississippi_JPL_grids.csv' contains the latitude and longitude coordinates of all JPL mascon grid points within the Mississippi River basin.
# In the 'Model_Input' folder, the grid-wise file serves as the input and target dataset necessary for running the machine learning models for a specific grid.
# The grid-wise file in the 'BN_Predictors' folder comprises optimal predictors identified by the Bayesian Network (BN) for a specific grid.
# For very few grids BN is not identifying any predictors or only one predictor. Grids with zero or one optimal predictor identified by BN are trained using all 15 potential predictors ('P', 'T', 'NOAH_TWSA', 'CLSM_TWSA', 'DMI', 'NAO', 'ONI', 'P1', 'T1', 'NOAH_TWSA_1', 'CLSM_TWSA_1', 'P2', 'T2', 'NOAH_TWSA_2', 'CLSM_TWSA_2').
# 'BNML_TWSA_Forecast.nc' contains grid-wise forecast time series
# 'BNML_TWSA_Hindcast.nc' contains grid-wise hindcast time series
Note: The presented dataset is published at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.25376695 and updates will be published when needed.
The Fate of Dark Energy
Creators: name: Frampton, Paul H.
name: Takahashi, Tomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By studying the present cosmological data, particularly on CMB, SNeIA and LSS, we find that the future fate of the universe, for simple linear models of the dark energy equation-of-state, can vary between the extremes of (I) a divergence of the scale factor in as little as 7 Gyr; (II) an infinite lifetime of the universe with dark energy dominant for all future time; (III) a disappearing dark energy where the universe asymptotes as $t \to \infty$ to $a(t) \sim t^{2/3}$ {\it i.e.} matter domination. Our dreadful conclusion is that no amount of data from our past light-cone can select between these future scenarios.
description: 10 pages LaTeX including 4 eps figures. Minor corrections in text
Entropy stable reduced order modeling of nonlinear conservation laws
Creators: name: Chan, Jesse
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Reduced order models of nonlinear conservation laws in fluid dynamics do not typically inherit stability properties of the full order model. We introduce projection-based hyper-reduced models of nonlinear conservation laws which are globally conservative and inherit a semi-discrete entropy inequality independently of the choice of basis and choice of parameters.
description: Accepted to JCP
When Innovation Meets Tradition: The Case of “Riso & Rane” Rural District in Lombardy Region
Creators: name: Ferrazzi, Giovanni
name: Ventura, Vera
name: Ratti, Sabrina
name: Balzaretti, Claudia
name: Ferrazzi, Giovanni
name: Ventura, Vera
name: Ratti, Sabrina
name: Balzaretti, Claudia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Innovation
subject: Rural District
subject: Supply chain

description: Lombardy, with 87.393 hectares of rice is one of the leader region for this production in Italy and in the European Union (EU) too. This area is characterized by a strong connection with tradition both in terms of agricultural landscape and food culture. Nevertheless, during the last decade, farmers faced increasing competitiveness issues, mostly related to EU subsidies losses, market prices and the technical constraints of the traditional rice supply chain: provider of technical means, farmers, brokers and rice mill. In this scenario, the “Riso e Rane” Rural District (R&RD) supports farmers in improving competitiveness through innovation. The aim of the paper is to investigate the innovation in the rice supply chain related to the specific action of R&RD, that accounts for 60 farms. Starting from the direct survey carried out on the district productive structures, we investigate the farms' degree of innovation related to the adoption of a new model of supply chain. The case study areas is characterized by rice that represents the most important culture with 2.773 hectares (more than 58% of the district Utilized Agricultural Area (UAA)). In 2012, R&RD won a regional project titled “Buono, Sano e Vicino” with the aim to help local rice farmers developing an alternative supply chain in which the district grow into the local actor to increase farmers bargaining power and promotes new market strategies. To make this the attention was focused on one of the most important variety of Italian rice: Carnaroli. The main results of the study showed that the project was able to innovate the traditional supply chain in all the four innovation areas according to OECD (2005): product, process, market and organization. In conclusion, our results suggest that the R&RD is able to respond to farmers necessities in term of market competitiveness and to improve the sustainability of local food system.
Additional file 1 of Changing trends in clinical research literature on PubMed database from 1991 to 2020
Creators: name: Zhao, Xiyi
name: Jiang, Hao
name: Yin, Jianyun
name: Liu, Hongchao
name: Zhu, Ruifang
name: Mei, Shencong
name: Zhu, Chang-tai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Developmental Biology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Statistical data of literatures for original studies. Table S2. Statistical data of secondary literatures. Table S3. Growth rate of original studies. Table S4. Growth rate of secondary literatures.
Pseudorhizoecus Green 1933
Creators: name: Hodgson, Chris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pseudococcidae
Pseudorhizoecus

description: PSEUDORHIZOECUS Green (1933)
 Pseudorhizoecus Green, 1933: 55.
 Type species: Pseudorhizoecus proximus Green (1933).
description: Published as part of Hodgson, Chris, 2012, Comparison of the morphology of the adult males of the rhizoecine, phenacoccine and pseudococcine mealybugs (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea), with the recognition of the family Rhizoecidae Williams 3291, pp. 1-79 in Zootaxa 3291 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3291.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5250048
Generating Entangled Two-Photon States with Coincident Frequencies
Creators: name: Giovannetti, Vittorio
name: Maccone, Lorenzo
name: Shapiro, Jeffrey H.
name: Wong, Franco N. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that parametric downconversion, with a short-duration pump pulse and a long nonlinear crystal that is appropriately phase matched, can produce a frequency-entangled biphoton state whose individual photons are coincident in frequency. Quantum interference experiments which distinguish this state from the familiar time-coincident biphoton state are described.
description: Revised version (a typo was corrected) as published on PRL
eFLEET-POBEG: Madrid districts merged tabular datasets (2023 & 2024 Q1)
Creators: name: Ruiz de Gauna, David Eneko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400703
subject: Autonomous vehicle systems
classificationCode: 460903
subject: Information modelling, management and ontologies
classificationCode: 460304
subject: Computer vision
classificationCode: 350902
subject: Intelligent mobility
classificationCode: 460407
subject: System and network security
classificationCode: 401101
subject: Air pollution modelling and control

description: Madrid districts merged datasets (2023) generated in eFLEET-POBEG framework:

 -Madrid Central: District 1 -Salamanca: District 4
An Adaptation-Mitigation Game: Does Adaptation Promote Participation in International Environmental Agreements?
Creators: name: Borrero, Miguel Borrero
name: Rubio, Santiago J.
name: Borrero, Miguel Borrero
name: Rubio, Santiago J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Environmental Agreements
subject: Adaptation-Mitigation Game
subject: Vulnerability
subject: Effectiveness of Adaptation
subject: Complete Agreement
subject: Adaptation Agreement

description: This paper studies how the investment in adaptation can influence the participation in an international environmental agreement (IEA) when countries decide in adaptation before they choose their levels of emissions. Two types of agreements are studied, a complete agreement for which countries coordinate their decisions on adaptation and emissions, and an adaptation agreement for which there is only coordination when countries decide their levels of adaptation. In both cases, we assume that the degree of effectiveness of adaptation is bounded from above, in order words, adaptation can alleviate the environmental problem, but it cannot solve it by itself leading the vulnerability of the country to almost zero. Our results show that the grand coalition could be stable for both types of agreement, but for extremely high degrees of effectiveness of adaptation. If this condition is not satisfied, the model predicts low levels of membership. The standard result of three countries for the complete agreement. For the adaptation agreement participation can be higher than three, but not higher than six countries. In any case, we can conclude that under reasonable values for the degree of effectiveness of adaptation, in our model adaptation does not promote participation in an IEA.
"Good Robot!": Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Step Visual Tasks with Sim to Real Transfer
Creators: name: Hundt, Andrew
name: Killeen, Benjamin
name: Greene, Nicholas
name: Wu, Hongtao
name: Kwon, Heeyeon
name: Paxton, Chris
name: Hager, Gregory D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Current Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms struggle with long-horizon tasks where time can be wasted exploring dead ends and task progress may be easily reversed. We develop the SPOT framework, which explores within action safety zones, learns about unsafe regions without exploring them, and prioritizes experiences that reverse earlier progress to learn with remarkable efficiency. The SPOT framework successfully completes simulated trials of a variety of tasks, improving a baseline trial success rate from 13% to 100% when stacking 4 cubes, from 13% to 99% when creating rows of 4 cubes, and from 84% to 95% when clearing toys arranged in adversarial patterns. Efficiency with respect to actions per trial typically improves by 30% or more, while training takes just 1-20k actions, depending on the task. Furthermore, we demonstrate direct sim to real transfer. We are able to create real stacks in 100% of trials with 61% efficiency and real rows in 100% of trials with 59% efficiency by directly loading the simulation-trained model on the real robot with no additional real-world fine-tuning. To our knowledge, this is the first instance of reinforcement learning with successful sim to real transfer applied to long term multi-step tasks such as block-stacking and row-making with consideration of progress reversal. Code is available at https://github.com/jhu-lcsr/good_robot .
description: Accepted to the journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and to be presented at IROS 2020. This is a minor update to v3. 8 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, 1 algorithm. Code is available at https://github.com/jhu-lcsr/good_robot and a video overview is at https://youtu.be/MbCuEZadkIw
The Evolution of Nova V382 Vel 1999
Creators: name: Della Valle, M.
name: Pasquini, L.
name: Daou, D.
name: Williams, R. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results of spectroscopic observations of V382 Vel (Nova Vel 1999) carried out at La Silla between 5 and 498 days after maximum light (23 May 1999, V(max) $\sim 2.3\pm 0.1$). The analysis of the photometric and spectroscopic evolution shows this object to be a {\sl fast nova} belonging to the Fe II {\sl broad} spectroscopic class. A distance of 1.7 kpc ($\pm 20%$) is derived from the maximum magnitude vs. rate of decline relationship after correcting for the small reddening toward the nova, E(B--V)$\lsim 0.10$. From the measured H$α$ flux and the associated rate of expansion we derive an approximate mass for the ejected shell, M$_{env}\lsim 10^{-5}$ M$_\odot$. We have also observed during the early decline a broad, short-lived ($\lsim$ 10 days) feature at 6705-6715 Åfor which several identifications are possible, one of which is the lithium doublet at 6708 Åand which could place an empirical limit on the lithium production that might occur during the outburst of a {\sl fast nova}. The high luminosity at maximum, M$_v=-8.9$, and the relatively small height above the galactic plane ($z\lsim 160$pc) suggest that V382 Vel originated from a massive white dwarf, likely in the mass range 1.1--1.2 M$_\odot$.
description: 13 pages + 9 plots(gif). Accepted by A&A
Trajectories of agricultural modernization and rural resilience: Some first insights derived from case studies in 14 countries
Creators: name: Knickel, Karlheinz
name: Knickel, Karlheinz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: trajectories
subject: agricultural modernization

description: In this paper, alternative trajectories of agricultural modernization and rural resilience are explored based on case studies in 14 countries. The analysis is to support discussions about the further development of agriculture at a time when the agricultural sector must respond to an increasing scarcity of natural resources, challenges like climate change, urbanization, demographic change, food security, consumer demands, distributional issues in food value chains and changing urban-rural relations. The discussion relates different trajectories of agricultural modernization to the multiple mechanisms underlying rural prosperity and resilience. The mainstream capital-intensive and technology-driven model of agricultural modernization is contrasted with more incremental, socially embedded and localised forms of development. Potential synergies between different modes of farm ‘modernization’, resilience and sustainable rural development are highlighted and a different future-oriented understanding of the term ‘modernization’ explored. The basis for the analysis are case studies in 14 countries (including Turkey and Israel). The key question asked is how actors are connecting economic, social and natural systems in the different cases and how the connections made (or not) point to different ideas about modernization. The conclusions focus on some current information needs of policy-makers: the links between different forms of farm modernization, rural development and resilience, and the implications for agricultural knowledge systems and the new European Innovation Partnerships. It is emphasized that local capacities for transdisciplinary research need to be strengthened and that more attention should be paid to addressing modernization potentials that are less mainstream. The paper seeks to foster discussions that help overcome simplistic viewpoints of what ‘modernization’ entails. It is based on an earlier review paper by Knickel, Zemeckis and Tisenkopfs (2014).
Generalized Logarithmic Equation of State in Classical and Loop Quantum Cosmology Dark Energy-Dark Matter Coupled Systems
Creators: name: Oikonomou, V. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we shall study the phase space of a coupled dark energy-dark matter fluids system, in which the dark energy has a generalized logarithmic corrected equation of state. Particularly, the equation of state for the dark energy will contain a logarithmic function of the dark energy density $ρ_d$ and will also have quadratic and Chaplygin gas-like terms, expressed in terms of $ρ_d$. We shall use the dynamical system approach in order to study the cosmological dynamics, and by appropriately choosing the dynamical system variables, we shall construct an autonomous dynamical system. The study will be performed in the context of classical and loop quantum cosmology, and the focus is on finding stable de Sitter attractors. As we demonstrate, in both the classical and loop quantum cosmology cases, there exist stable de Sitter attractors in the phase space, with the loop quantum cosmology case though having a wider range of the free parameter values for which the stable de Sitter attractors may occur. It is emphasized that the use of a generalized dark energy equation of state makes possible the existence of de Sitter attractors, which were absent in the case that a simple logarithmic term constitutes the dark energy equation of state.
description: AoP Accepted
Thick Domain Walls and Charged Dilaton Black Holes
Creators: name: Moderski, R.
name: Rogatko, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a black hole domain wall system in dilaton gravity which is the low-energy limit of the superstring theory. We solve numerically equations of motion for real self-interacting scalar field and justify the existence of static axisymmetric field configuration representing the thick domain wall in the background of a charged dilaton black hole. It was also confirmed that the extreme dilaton black hole always expelled the domain wall.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures; to be published in Phys. Rev. D15
Rhizoecus Kunckel d'Herculais 1878
Creators: name: Hodgson, Chris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pseudococcidae
Rhizoecus

description: RHIZOECUS Künckel d'Herculais (1878)
 Rhizoecus Künckel d'Herculais 1878: 163.
 Type species: Rhizoecus falcifer Künckel d'Herculais by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Hodgson, Chris, 2012, Comparison of the morphology of the adult males of the rhizoecine, phenacoccine and pseudococcine mealybugs (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea), with the recognition of the family Rhizoecidae Williams 3291, pp. 1-79 in Zootaxa 3291 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3291.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5250048
Ten Years Later: a Comparison between the Results of Early Simulation Scenarios and the Sustainability of a Small‐Scale Agro‐Industry Development Program
Creators: name: Fernandes, Aline R.
name: Da Silva, Carlos Arthur B.
name: Fernandes, Aline R.
name: Da Silva, Carlos Arthur B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: system dynamics
subject: food processing
subject: agro industry
subject: small and medium enterprises – SME
subject: rural nonfarm
subject: economy ‐ RNFE

description: Agro‐industrialization promotion is a policy option to aggregate value to a primary product and increase revenues for small farmers. However, experience has shown the vulnerability of small‐scale agro‐industries (SSAI) when facing a competitive environment with technological, institutional and managerial bottlenecks. A system dynamics model was built to simulate the financial behavior of agrifood processing enterprises promoted by Brazilian SSAI development programs after the mid 1990’s. Ten years after the modeling exercise, an assessment of selected enterprises supported by distinct programs largely confirmed the simulation results. Modelling suggested conditions for long‐term SSAI sustainability were corroborated and the importance of the promotion programs was further evidenced.
Investigating Push and Pull Factors of Tourists Visiting Bali as a World Tourism Destination
Creators: name: I Nengah Subadra
name: I Ketut Sutapa,
name: I Wayan Arta Artana
name: L.K. Herindiyah Kartika Yuni
name: Sudiarta, Made
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150604 Tourism Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150603 Tourism Management

description: This research investigates tourists’ motivations visiting Bali – a world tourism destination which specifically explored from the push and pull factors of the tourists spending their holidays on the island.
When size matters: subshifts and their related tiling spaces
Creators: name: Clark, Alex
name: Sadun, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 52C23, 37A25, 37A30, 37A10, 37B10

description: We investigate the dynamics of substitution subshifts and their associated tiling spaces. For a given subshift, the associated tiling spaces are all homeomorphic, but their dynamical properties may differ. We give criteria for such a tiling space to be weakly mixing, and for the dynamics of two such spaces to be topologically conjugate.
description: Updated 2018 to version published in 2003. 14 pages, no figures, LaTeX
Producing competent vocational higher education graduates - evidence from Tourism Institute of Triatma Jaya
Creators: name: Sudiarta, Made
name: I Nengah Subadra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150603 Tourism Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This article investigates the roles of Tourism Institute of Triatma Jaya as one of vocational higher educations in Bali in creating competent graduates that meet qualifications required for ASEAN Economic Community standard.
Exact results for accepting probabilities of quantum automata
Creators: name: Ambainis, Andris
name: Kikusts, Arnolds
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the properties of Kondacs-Watrous model of quantum finite automata (QFA) is that the probability of the correct answer for a QFA cannot be amplified arbitrarily. In this paper, we determine the maximum probabilities achieved by QFAs for several languages. In particular, we show that any language that is not recognized by an RFA (reversible finite automaton) can be recognized by a QFA with probability at most 0.7726...
description: 26 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Theoretical Computer Science (earlier version at STACS'01)
On the connection between sliding friction and phonon lifetimes: Thermostat induced thermolubricity effects in molecular dynamics simulations
Creators: name: Vink, Richard L. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A typical nanotribology simulation setup is the semi-infinite substrate, featuring a sliding bead on top, and with the lower substrate layers thermostatted to control temperature. A challenge is dealing with phonons that backreflect from the substrate lower boundary, as these will artificially reduce the friction FR acting on the sliding bead. One proposed solution is to use a Langevin thermostat, operating at temperature TLAN, and with the corresponding damping parameter, GAMMA, optimally tuned such that FR is maximized [Benassi etal, PHYSREVB, V82, P081401, 2010]. In this paper, the method is revisited, and related to the substrate phonon lifetime, the substrate temperature TSUB, and the sliding speed. At low sliding speed, where the time between stick-slip events is large compared to the phonon lifetime, we do not observe much dependence of FR on GAMMA, and here thermostat tuning is not required. At high sliding speed, upon varying GAMMA, we confirm the aforementioned friction maximum, but also observe a pronounced minimum in TSUB, which here deviates from TLAN. For substrate particle interactions that are strongly anharmonic, the variation of FR with GAMMA can be understood as a manifestation of thermolubricity, backreflections being essentially unimportant. In contrast, for harmonic interactions, where phonon lifetimes become very long, FR is strongly affected by backreflecting phonons, though not enough to overturn thermolubricity.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Challenges to Sustainable Rural Development in Russia: Social Issues and Regional Divergences
Creators: name: Lisova, Olga
name: Erokhin, Vasily
name: Ivolga, Anna
name: Lisova, Olga
name: Erokhin, Vasily
name: Ivolga, Anna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: sustainable rural development
subject: region
subject: rural areas
subject: income level
subject: employment
subject: diversification
subject: urban agglomeration

description: Paper aims at investigation of contemporary approaches to sustainable rural development in Russia. It includes the overview of current experiences in rural development, analysis of major economic and social indicators of rural areas in comparison with urban ones. Analysis included the set of indicators such as number of rural people, number of rural settlements, rates of births and mortalities, natural and migration increases and declines of population, rates of employment and unemployment, average monthly nominal per capita wages, and level of the subsistence minimum. Indicators have been measured separately for rural and urban areas; regions have been grouped in relation to the particular indicator. The research is concluded by discovery of growth points for rural development and a set of recommendations on perspective measures of state and local policies in rural areas, directed on increase of living standards of rural population and retention of labour resources in their traditional rural areas of inhabitation.