cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Best Practices for Alchemical Free Energy Calculations
Creators: name: Mey, Antonia S. J. S.
name: Allen, Bryce
name: Macdonald, Hannah E. Bruce
name: Chodera, John D.
name: Kuhn, Maximilian
name: Michel, Julien
name: Mobley, David L.
name: Naden, Levi N.
name: Prasad, Samarjeet
name: Rizzi, Andrea
name: Scheen, Jenke
name: Shirts, Michael R.
name: Tresadern, Gary
name: Xu, Huafeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Alchemical free energy calculations are a useful tool for predicting free energy differences associated with the transfer of molecules from one environment to another. The hallmark of these methods is the use of "bridging" potential energy functions representing \emph{alchemical} intermediate states that cannot exist as real chemical species. The data collected from these bridging alchemical thermodynamic states allows the efficient computation of transfer free energies (or differences in transfer free energies) with orders of magnitude less simulation time than simulating the transfer process directly. While these methods are highly flexible, care must be taken in avoiding common pitfalls to ensure that computed free energy differences can be robust and reproducible for the chosen force field, and that appropriate corrections are included to permit direct comparison with experimental data. In this paper, we review current best practices for several popular application domains of alchemical free energy calculations, including relative and absolute small molecule binding free energy calculations to biomolecular targets.
description: 48 pages, 14 figures
ROLE OF AGRICULTURE AND MULTIFUNCTIONAL RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN SERBIA
Creators: name: Bogdanov, Natalija
name: Vasiljevic, Zorica
name: Bogdanov, Natalija
name: Vasiljevic, Zorica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: agriculture
subject: rural areas
subject: multifunctional development
subject: Serbia

description: Serbia is mostly rural country, as three fourth of its territory make rural areas, while almost half population is living in rural areas. Serbian agriculture is the sector which is very important for the total economy of the country in respect of resources, participation in GDP, employment as well as importance for rural areas and population. This is the only sector in Serbian economy that shows positive foreign trade balance in the recent several years. There are potentials for development of agrarian entrepreneurship on one hand, but on the other, there are constraints in existence of great number of small family farms whereas the huge share could not have commercial profile and could not live only from agricultural activities. The concept of multifunctional development of agriculture and rural areas is still present mostly in scientific and political sphere without clear explanation or interpretation as well as mechanisms of implementation. Serbia’s rural space is heterogenic and devastated in different extent, and therefore extremely complicated for planning of multifunctional development.
Additional file 2 of A comprehensive overview of the cystic fibrosis on the island of São Miguel (Azores, Portugal)
Creators: name: Rosa, Joana
name: Gaspar-Silva, Patrícia
name: Pacheco, Paula
name: Silva, Conceição
name: Branco, Cláudia C.
name: Vieira, Barbara S.
name: Carreiro, Alexandra
name: Gonçalves, Juan
name: Mota-Vieira, Luisa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Additional demographic, clinical characteristics and genetic data of each CF patient.
Modeling Genetic Networks from Clonal Analysis
Creators: name: Nagarajan, Radhakrishnan
name: Aubin, Jane E.
name: Peterson, Charlotte A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In this report a systematic approach is used to determine the approximate genetic network and robust dependencies underlying differentiation. The data considered is in the form of a binary matrix and represent the expression of the nine genes across the ninety-nine colonies. The report is divided into two parts: the first part identifies significant pair-wise dependencies from the given binary matrix using linear correlation and mutual information. A new method is proposed to determine statistically significant dependencies estimated using the mutual information measure. In the second, a Bayesian approach is used to obtain an approximate description (equivalence class) of network structures. The robustness of linear correlation, mutual information and the equivalence class of networks is investigated with perturbation and decreasing colony number. Perturbation of the data was achieved by generating bootstrap realizations. The results are refined with biological knowledge. It was found that certain dependencies in the network are immune to perturbation and decreasing colony number and may represent robust features, inherent in the differentiation program of osteoblast progenitor cells. The methods to be discussed are generic in nature and not restricted to the experimental paradigm addressed in this study.
description: 59 pahes, 11 figures, 3 tables
Towards Particle-Resolved Accuracy in Euler-Lagrange Simulations of Multiphase Flow Using Machine Learning and Pairwise Interaction Extended Point-particle (PIEP) Approximation
Creators: name: Balachandar, S.
name: Moore, W. C.
name: Akiki, G.
name: Liu, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study presents two different machine learning approaches for the modeling of hydrodynamic force on particles in a particle-laden multiphase flow. Results from particle-resolved direct numerical simulations (PR-DNS) of flow over a random array of stationary particles for eight combinations of particle Reynolds number ($Re$) and volume fraction ($ϕ$) are used in the development of the models. The first approach follows a two step process. In the first flow prediction step, the perturbation flow due to a particle is obtained as an axisymmetric superposable wake using linear regression. In the second force prediction step, the force on a particle is evaluated in terms of the perturbation flow induced by all its neighbors using the generalized Faxén form of the force expression. In the second approach, the force data on all the particles from the PR-DNS simulations is used to develop an artificial neural network (ANN) model for direct prediction of force on a particle. Due to the unavoidable limitation on the number of fully resolved particles in the PR-DNS simulations, direct force prediction with the ANN model tends to over-fit the data and performs poorly in the prediction of test data. In contrast, due to the millions of grid points used in the PR-DNS simulations, accurate flow prediction is possible, which then allows accurate prediction of particle force. This hybridization of multiphase physics and machine learning is particularly important, since it blends the strength of each, and the resulting pairwise interaction extended point-particle (PIEP) model cannot be developed by either physics or machine learning alone.
Effective potential (in)stability and lower bounds on the scalar (Higgs) mass
Creators: name: Branchina, Vincenzo
name: Faivre, Hugo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is widely believed that the top loop corrections to the Higgs effective potential destabilise the electroweak (EW) vacuum and that, imposing stability, lower bounds on the Higgs mass can be derived. With the help of a scalar-Yukawa model, we show that this apparent instability is due to the extrapolation of the potential into a region where it is no longer valid. Stability turns out to be an intrinsic property of the theory (rather than an additional constraint to be imposed on it). However, lower bounds for the Higgs mass can still be derived with the help of a criterium dictated by the properties of the potential itself. If the scale of new physics lies in the Tev region, sizeable differences with the usual bounds are found. Finally, our results exclude the alternative meta-stability scenario, according to which we might be living in a sufficiently long lived meta-stable EW vacuum.
description: 38 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 8 of Duration of antibiotic therapy in critically ill patients: a randomized controlled trial of a clinical and C-reactive protein-based protocol versus an evidence-based best practice strategy without biomarkers
Creators: name: Borges, Isabela
name: Carneiro, Rafael
name: Bergo, Rafael
name: Martins, Larissa
name: Colosimo, Enrico
name: Oliveira, Carolina
name: Saturnino, Saulo
name: Andrade, Marcus Vinícius
name: Ravetti, Cecilia
name: Vandack Nobre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 8. Duration of antibiotic therapy for the index infectious episode: analysis per protocol and other subgroups.
IDeF-X ASIC for Cd(Zn)Te spectro-imaging systems
Creators: name: Limousin, O.
name: Gevin, O.
name: Lugiez, F.
name: Chipaux, R.
name: Delagnes, E.
name: Dirks, B.
name: Horeau, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Joint progresses in Cd(Zn)Te detectors, microelectronics and interconnection technologies open the way for a new generation of instruments for physics and astrophysics applications in the energy range from 1 to 1000 keV. Even working between -20 and 20 degrees Celsius, these instruments will offer high spatial resolution (pixel size ranging from 300 x 300 square micrometers to few square millimeters), high spectral response and high detection efficiency. To reach these goals, reliable, highly integrated, low noise and low power consumption electronics is mandatory. Our group is currently developing a new ASIC detector front-end named IDeF-X, for modular spectro-imaging system based on the use of Cd(Zn)Te detectors. We present here the first version of IDeF-X which consists in a set of ten low noise charge sensitive preamplifiers (CSA). It has been processed with the standard AMS 0.35 micrometer CMOS technology. The CSA are designed to be DC coupled to detectors having a low dark current at room temperature. The various preamps implemented are optimized for detector capacitances ranging from 0.5 up to 30 pF.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures, IEEE NSS-MIC conference in Rome 2004, submitted to IEEE TNS, correction in unit of figure 8
METHODOLOGICAL AND INTEGRATION ASPECTS OF ABC-METHOD APPLICATION IN TRADE ORGANIZATIONS
Creators: name: Guzaliya, Klychova
name: Ilya, Bagaev
name: Guzaliya, Klychova
name: Ilya, Bagaev
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: ABC-method
subject: ABB-method
subject: allocation of costs
subject: managerial accounting

description: In conditions of declining consumer demand and deficit of credit resources more and more managers of Russian companies think of necessity of introducing effective methods and systems of cost management. One of the most relevant is method of “Activity Based Costing” (ABC-method). Since, in western experts’ opinion sectors of service and trade are adjusted to use of ABC-method even more than production, we should refer once more to the main methodological and integration aspects of ABC-method application and consider it from position of trade organization.
Additional file 7 of Duration of antibiotic therapy in critically ill patients: a randomized controlled trial of a clinical and C-reactive protein-based protocol versus an evidence-based best practice strategy without biomarkers
Creators: name: Borges, Isabela
name: Carneiro, Rafael
name: Bergo, Rafael
name: Martins, Larissa
name: Colosimo, Enrico
name: Oliveira, Carolina
name: Saturnino, Saulo
name: Andrade, Marcus Vinícius
name: Ravetti, Cecilia
name: Vandack Nobre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 7. Workflow of interventions and outcomes.
QCD corrections to vector boson fusion processes
Creators: name: Figy, T.
name: Oleari, C.
name: Zeppenfeld, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NLO QCD corrections to H, W and Z production via vector boson fusion have recently been calculated in the form of flexible parton level Monte Carlo programs. This allows for the calculation of distributions and cross sections with cuts at NLO accuracy. Some features of the calculation, as well as results for the LHC, are reviewed.
description: 1 style file, 1 latex file, 5 figures, Contribution to the Proceedings of "Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory, 2004", Zinnowitz, Usedom Island, Germany, April, 2004
Physical characteristics of Nitinat Lake, 2003
Creators: name: Lamont, Grant
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Nitinat Lake is a long, narrow, and strongly salt-stratified fjord-lake located on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It is connected to the ocean by a 3km long natural channel, only 2.5m deep at low normal tides that limits exchange between the 203m deep lake and the Pacific Ocean. Lake-water may be grouped into two distinct bodies: a weakly stratified bottom layer containing seawater, and a strongly stratified surface layer containing brackish water. The permanently anoxic bottom layer has high concentrations of hydrogen sulphide and a long residence time. At rest, the interface between these two bodies of water ranges from 5m to 15m in depth depending upon location and season. Surface layer salinity was found to correlated well with precipitation in the watershed. The lake contains several large salmon runs and is home to the largest salmon hatchery in Canada, rearing over 40 million fry annually. Upwelling events of anoxic water are potentially catastrophic for fish hatchery operations such as fish harvesting and juvenile releases, highlighting the need to better understand the physical mechanisms that lead to upwelling. Meteorological, CTD, and thermistor chain data were used to study wind forcing of the interface. If was found that predictions of interface deflections based upon linear theory of surface stress response for a two-body lake were in reasonable agreement with observed data. However, spatial variations in lake properties appear to be the result of tidal exchanges between the lake and the ocean, with anoxic water commonly found at shallower depths at the inland end of the lake than the ocean end. This spatial variation of properties adversely affects linear theory predictions, and further understanding of tidal exchanges and internal lake dynamics are required in order to better predict upwelling of anoxic water at this time.
How Local and Seasonal is the Consumption of Soft Fruits in Scotland?
Creators: name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Leat, Philip M.K.
name: Kupiec-Teahan, Beata
name: Lamprinopoulou-Kranis, Chrysa
name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Leat, Philip M.K.
name: Kupiec-Teahan, Beata
name: Lamprinopoulou-Kranis, Chrysa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Scotland agriculture
subject: soft fruits
subject: agricultural marketing

description: The main implication of the food miles indicator is that in order to protect the environment consumers should purchase food locally and seasonal. However, something that it is missing in all discussions is the evidence about how bad or good - in terms of locality and seasonality- is the actual consumption of food. This is probably due to the fact that food consumption statistics are available as aggregated annual data. In this paper we analyse the purchases of food, in particular the purchases of soft fruits in Scotland, which not only have marked production seasonality but also are imported from the rest of the UK and from abroad. For the analysis we use the Kantar Worldpanel dataset for the period 2006 until 2009. The results indicate that Scottish soft fruit covers a relatively small segment of the market and therefore eat locally would imply reduce significantly the consumption of soft fruit, even during the Scottish produce season. As regards the consumption seasonality, the purchases of soft fruit, particularly strawberry, seem to be seasonal despite the possibility of getting out-of-season imported soft fruit.
Fast-forward scheme reexamined: Choice of time and quantization
Creators: name: Abe, Sumiyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fast-forward scheme for accelerating time evolution of quantum states through change of time is reexamined. Dirac's homogeneous formalism for classical dynamics and canonical quantization warrant that the Schrödinger equation is covariant under reparametrization of time. From this, it is concluded that the scheme does not attain its objective.
description: 10 pages, no figures. Published version
Farming Systems Diversification in North Konkan Region of Maharashtra — An Economic Analysis
Creators: name: Torane, S.R.
name: Naik, B.K.
name: Kulkarni, V.S.
name: Talathi, J.M.
name: Torane, S.R.
name: Naik, B.K.
name: Kulkarni, V.S.
name: Talathi, J.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farming systems
subject: Agricultural diversification
subject: North Konkan region
subject: Farm economy
subject: SPSS
subject: Crop diversification index

description: The location-specific existing farming systems have been studied for their profitability and extent of diversification in the North Konkan region of Maharashtra. The study is based on the primary data collected from 360 farmers, as well as secondary data on agro-climatic parameters. The study area has been delineated into different clusters/sub- regions using hierarchical agglomerative method. The farming in the North Konkan region has been found highly varied in nature. The enterprises being followed and farm situations are of different nature across different clusters. The farm economy has also depicted a wide variation as per-farm income has been found to range from ` 1135 to ` 218015 across different farming systems. The most profitable farming systems in study area are: (i) Paddy + Irrigated plantation + Betelvines (B:C ratio, 2.02), (ii) Paddy + Pulses + Dairying + Poultry (B: C ratio, 1.74), (iii) Paddy + Vegetables + Dairying ( B:C ratio,1.62), (iv) Paddy + Irrigated plantations + Rainfed plantation + Dairying (B: C ratio,1.57), (v) Irrigated plantations + Dairying (B:C ratio,1.56), and (vi) Paddy + Irrigated plantations + Flowers (B:C ratio,1.42). The diversification has shown a positive co-relation with profitability which underlines the importance of combination of enterprises.
Homological representations of the Iwahori-Hecke algebra
Creators: name: Bigelow, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20C08, 20F36, 57M07

description: Representations of the Iwahori-Hecke algebra of type A_{n-1} are equivalent to representations of the braid group B_n for which the generators satisfy a certain quadratic relation. We show how to construct such representations from the natural action of B_n on the homology of configuration spaces of the punctured disk. We conjecture that all irreducible representations of Hecke_n can be obtained in this way, even for non-generic values of q.
description: Published by Geometry and Topology Monographs at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon7/paper16.abs.html
Lévy walk dynamics in an external harmonic potential
Creators: name: Xu, Pengbo
name: Zhou, Tian
name: Metzler, Ralf
name: Deng, Weihua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Lévy walks (LWs) are spatiotemporally coupled random-walk processes describing superdiffusive heat conduction in solids, propagation of light in disordered optical materials, motion of molecular motors in living cells, or motion of animals, humans, robots, and viruses. We here investigate a key feature of LWs, their response to an external harmonic potential. In this generic setting for confined motion we demonstrate that LWs equilibrate exponentially and may assume a bimodal stationary distribution. We also show that the stationary distribution has a horizontal slope next to a reflecting boundary placed at the origin, in contrast to correlated superdiffusive processes. Our results generalize LWs to confining forces and settle some long-standing puzzles around LWs.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, RevTeX
Brane-bulk energy exchange and cosmological acceleration
Creators: name: Kiritsis, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The consequences for the brane cosmological evolution of energy exchange between the brane and the bulk are analyzed. A rich variety of brane cosmologies is obtained, depending on the precise mechanism of energy transfer, the equation of state of brane-matter and the spatial topology. An accelerating era is generically a feature of the solutions. (Prepared for 36th International Symposium Ahrenshoop on the Theory of Elementary Particles: Recent Developments in String M Theory and Field Theory, Wernsdorf, Germany, 26-30 Aug 2003.)
description: 14 pages, 2 figures, LateX
Economic Benefits and Costs of Jatropha Plantation in North-East India
Creators: name: Goswami, Kishor
name: Saikia, Jitu
name: Choudhury, Hari Kanta
name: Goswami, Kishor
name: Saikia, Jitu
name: Choudhury, Hari Kanta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Jatropha
subject: Bio-fuels
subject: Bio-diesel
subject: North-East India
subject: Cost-benefit analysis

description: Energy security, emissions control and environmental concerns are some of the issues that drive India to search for bio-fuels in general and bio-diesel in particular as an alternative source of energy. The inception of National Biofuel Mission in 2003 has resulted in expansion of jatropha plantations in different states of the country. In North-East India, jatropha plantation was started in 2007, mostly at small farmers’ level with direct and indirect initiatives of the government and the private sector. However, adoption and expansion of jatropha plantation in the rural areas largely depend on profitability from such plantations at farmers’ level. The present study has assessed the profitability of jatropha plantation in four states of North-East India, viz. Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Tripura, through cost-benefit analysis. The study has shown positive returns from the investment on jatropha plantation, making it an economically viable venture for the growers of the region. The investment on such plantation has shown a payback period of five years under the scenario of higher seed yield and accordingly requires adequate state funding support for operation and maintenance of such plantations at least during the initial years.
FIRST SENSORY MAP OF COCOA BEANS THE STATE OF PARÁ, BRAZIL
Creators: name: Mendes, F.A.T.
name: Barista, I.V.
name: Assis, L.F.C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Currently, in the state of Pará, there is an area of approximately 201,000 hectares of cocoa plantations in Agroforest System (147,000 hectares are in production), cultivated by 28,000 farmers and, in year 2021, 133,000 tons of this commodity were produced. This area of cocoa trees is established in 30 municipalities, distributed in five production zones: Southwest Pará, Southeast Pará, Northeast Pará, Tocantins River (island region) and Middle Amazon. These regions, because they have some climatic and soil differences, as well as their planting propagation materials maintain the genetic diversity of the plants, provide interesting differences in their aromas and flavors, opening opportunities for aggregation of values. Thus, knowing the organoleptic constitution of cocoa beans produced in the state of Pará is of fundamental importance for placing them on the international market, especially when it is intended to produce special chocolates. Therefore, obtaining a sensory map of these cocoa beans by region of production will enable a marketing structure capable of positioning the product in a more demanding market. Based on the condition that, in order to produce a quality chocolate, it is necessary that the raw material has good genetics (diversity), proximity to the place of origin of the culture and in the production process, the primary processing of the cocoa beans contemplates the technical rigor in the its main stages (fruits at the point of harvest, good fermentation and natural drying), the first "Sensory Map" of cocoa beans in the state of Pará was established, based on samples that competed for the award for the best beans for chocolate from the state of Pará, during the International Chocolate and Cocoa Festival of the Amazon in 2019, whose responsibility for the evaluations and results was the experts from Ceplac (Neide Alice B M Perira) and the Cocoa Innovation Center (Adriana Cristina R Ferreira).
Agri-food supply chains and sustainability-related issues: evidence from across the Scottish agri-food economy
Creators: name: Leat, Philip M.K.
name: Lamprinopoulou-Kranis, Chrysa
name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Kupiec-Teahan, Beata
name: Leat, Philip M.K.
name: Lamprinopoulou-Kranis, Chrysa
name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Kupiec-Teahan, Beata
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Sustainability
subject: Food
subject: Supply chain

description: This paper examines the influence of agri-food supply chains on the sustainability-related activities and decisions of Scottish farmers, as well as the treatment of sustainability issues by food processors and retailers themselves. It is based on 8 whole chain case studies covering some of Scotland’s major agricultural products. The cases identify differing levels of understanding and activities related to sustainability, but widespread acknowledgement that sustainability involves the development of chains within which all parties can achieve acceptable profits. Indeed, collaborative supply chains, which seek improved economic performance, frequently assist environmental and social sustainability. The main drivers of sustainability are found to be the cost of key inputs, product markets where customers increasingly seek sustainability in products, the ethos and values of the businesses and people involved, and legislation and strategies of industry bodies. At the farm level, many farmers are seeking more sustainable production systems, particularly in economic and environmental terms, but there is a need for greater guidance and assistance. The paper presents a review of several key food supply sustainability issues, the methods and concepts used in compiling and analysing the cases, as well as the principal findings and implications for agri-food supply chain and policy development.
Additional file 5 of Duration of antibiotic therapy in critically ill patients: a randomized controlled trial of a clinical and C-reactive protein-based protocol versus an evidence-based best practice strategy without biomarkers
Creators: name: Borges, Isabela
name: Carneiro, Rafael
name: Bergo, Rafael
name: Martins, Larissa
name: Colosimo, Enrico
name: Oliveira, Carolina
name: Saturnino, Saulo
name: Andrade, Marcus Vinícius
name: Ravetti, Cecilia
name: Vandack Nobre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 5. Serial measurements of C-reactive protein concentrations in both study groups.
The hot core-ultracompact HII connection in G10.47+0.03
Creators: name: Pascucci, I.
name: Apai, D.
name: Henning, Th.
name: Stecklum, B.
name: Brandl, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present infrared imaging and spectroscopic data of the complex massive star-forming region G10.47+0.03. The detection of seven mid-infrared (MIR) sources in our field combined with a sensitive Ks/ISAAC image allows to establish a very accurate astrometry, at the level of 0.3". Two MIR sources are found to be coincident with two ultracompact HII regions (UCHIIs) within our astrometric accuracy. Another MIR source lies very close to three other UCHII regions and to the hot molecular core (HMC) in G10.47+0.03. Spectroscopy of two of the most interesting MIR sources allows to identify the location and spectral type of the ionizing sources. We discuss in detail the relationship between the HMC, the UCHII regions and the nearby MIR source. The nature of the other MIR sources is also investigated.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, Accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics
Additional file 6 of Duration of antibiotic therapy in critically ill patients: a randomized controlled trial of a clinical and C-reactive protein-based protocol versus an evidence-based best practice strategy without biomarkers
Creators: name: Borges, Isabela
name: Carneiro, Rafael
name: Bergo, Rafael
name: Martins, Larissa
name: Colosimo, Enrico
name: Oliveira, Carolina
name: Saturnino, Saulo
name: Andrade, Marcus Vinícius
name: Ravetti, Cecilia
name: Vandack Nobre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 6. Days of antibiotic therapy in the index infection episode according to the inclusion group - Intention-to-treat analysis.
Additional file 1 of A comprehensive overview of the cystic fibrosis on the island of São Miguel (Azores, Portugal)
Creators: name: Rosa, Joana
name: Gaspar-Silva, Patrícia
name: Pacheco, Paula
name: Silva, Conceição
name: Branco, Cláudia C.
name: Vieira, Barbara S.
name: Carreiro, Alexandra
name: Gonçalves, Juan
name: Mota-Vieira, Luisa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers and PCR conditions for genotyping CFTR mutations in the general population of São Miguel.
Incentives for Soil and Water Conservation on Farm in Ravines of Gujarat: Policy Implications for Future Adoption
Creators: name: Pande, V.C.
name: Kurothe, R.S.
name: Singh, H.B.
name: Tiwari, S.P.
name: Pande, V.C.
name: Kurothe, R.S.
name: Singh, H.B.
name: Tiwari, S.P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Soil and water conservation
subject: conservation agriculture
subject: credit worthiness
subject: land tenure
subject: farm investment
subject: Gujarat ravines

description: The issue of incentives has been studied for the adoption of soil and water conservation in the ravines of Gujarat in the context of holistic development of small and marginal farms and their profitability. It is hypothesized that poor economic condition of farmers impedes their ability to make large-scale investment in conservation agriculture, in general and improvement of land, in particular. The study is based on two groups of farms- with and without conservation history. The results have substantiated the argument that under the present price scenario, farm profitability makes the marginal farms susceptible to a vicious poverty circle. The input and output prices prevailing in the region do not favour the farming enterprise. Thus, this policy variable would have little impact on farm profitability and the incentive to adopt conservation on farm. Hence, such farms need an initial dose of state help. This fact has been clearly brought out in the study area. The farms benefiting from past conservation programme of the state government have done better than those who were deprived of it. The former group of farms has been able to lease-in better piece of land and take cash crop to raise their profit level. This has positively affected their investment decisions. While land tenure has shown weak relation with decision of farm investment, farmers’ credit worthiness might play a greater role in helping adoption of conservation on farm. Thus, financial inclusion of these marginal farms could be an important incentive policy variable for adoption of conservation measures in this region.
CONSUMER CLUSTERS AND FOOD SAFETY INFORMATION NEEDS
Creators: name: Hall, Clare
name: Hall, Clare
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: The work presented here was conducted as part of an EU-funded five year project investigating pathogens in the food chain, called "Control and prevention of emerging and future pathogens at cellular and molecular level throughout the food chain". Using a questionnaire, research was carried out with consumers in four countries to investigate food safety information needs and information source preferences. The work combined cluster analysis with a social marketing approach. Cluster analysis revealed that the majority of respondents can be allocated to one of eight clusters based on their information needs relating to food safety behaviour and pathogen knowledge. The respondents associated with each of the clusters can be described in terms of characteristics such as whether they have had any formal food safety education, the frequency with which they discuss food safety issues, their preferences for types of food safety messages, and a range of socio-demographic characteristics. The results provide potentially useful information for bodies designing food safety information dissemination strategies, and provide an approach for providing targeted dissemination programs that are directly connected to information needs.
Influence of voltmeter input impedance on quantum Hall effect measurements
Creators: name: Fischer, F.
name: Grayson, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the influence of voltmeters on measurements of the longitudinal resistance in the quantum Hall effect regime. We show that for typical input resistances for standard digital lock-in amplifiers the longitudinal resistance can show a non-zero minimum which might be mistaken for parallel conduction in the doping layer. In contrast to a real parallel conduction the effect disappears when either the current source and ground contact are swapped or the polarity of the B-field is changed. We discuss the influence of input capacitances and stray capacitances on the measurement. The data demonstrates the influence of the voltmeter input impedance on the longitudinal resistance measurement.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, 1 table Corrected capacitance from 400pF to 4nF
Power loss of hot Dirac fermions in silicene and its near equivalence with graphene
Creators: name: Kubakaddi, S. S.
name: Phuc, Huynh V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The power loss $P$ of hot Dirac fermions through the coupling to the intrinsic intravalley and intervalley acoustic and optical phonons is analytically investigated in silicene as a function of electron temperature $T_e$ and density $n_s$. At very low $T_e$, the power dissipation is found to follow the Bloch-Grüneisen power-law $\propto T_e^4$ and $n_s^{-0.5}$, as in graphene, and for $T_e \lesssim20-30$ K, the power loss is predominantly due to the intravalley acoustic phonon scattering. On the other hand, dispersionless low energy intervalley acoustic phonons begin to dominate the power transfer at temperatures as low as $\sim$$30$ K, and optical phonons dominate at $T_e \gtrsim200$ K, unlike the graphene. The total power loss increases with $T_e$ with a value of $\sim$$10^{10}$ eV/s at $300$ K, which is the same order of magnitude as in graphene. The power loss due to intravalley acoustic phonons increases with $n_s$ at higher $T_e$, whereas due to the intervalley acoustic and optical phonons is found to be independent of $n_s$. Interestingly, the energy relaxation time in silicene is about $4$ times higher than that in graphene. For this reason, silicene may be superior over graphene for its applications in bolometers and calorimeters. Power transfer to the surface optical phonons $P_{\text{SO}}$ is also studied as a function of $T_e$ and $n_s$ for silicene on Al$_2$O$_3$ substrate and it is found to be greater than the intrinsic phonon contribution at higher $T_e$. Substrate engineering is discussed to reduce $P_{\text{SO}}$.
description: 12 pages, 15 figures
Instability and entanglement of the ground state of the Dicke model
Creators: name: Buzek, Vladimir
name: Orszag, Miguel
name: Rosko, Marian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using tools of quantum information theory we show that the ground state of the Dicke model exhibits an infinite sequence of instabilities (quantum-phase-like transitions). These transitions are characterized by abrupt changes of the bi-partite entanglement between atoms at critical values $κ_j$ of the atom-field coupling parameter $κ$ and are accompanied by discontinuities of the first derivative of the energy of the ground state. We show that in a weak-coupling limit ($κ_1\leq κ\leq κ_2$) the Coffman-Kundu-Wootters (CKW) inequalities are saturated which proves that for these values of the coupling no intrinsic multipartite entanglement (neither among the atoms nor between the atoms and the field) is generated by the atom-field interaction. We analyze also the atom-field entanglement and we show that in the strong-coupling limit the field is entangled with the atoms so that the von Neumann entropy of the atomic sample (that serves as a measure of the atom-field entanglement) takes the value $S_A={1/2}\ln (N+1)$. The entangling interaction with atoms leads to a highly sub-Poissonian photon statistics of the field mode.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
In vivo confocal microscopy in ophthalmology: research trends from a bibliometric analysis
Creators: name: Kesimal, Bedia
name: Kocamış, Sücattin İlker
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: In vivo confocal microscopy (IVCM) is a pivotal imaging tool in ophthalmology, enabling the non-invasive, real-time visualisation of corneal microstructures. Its clinical importance lies in its ability to diagnose and monitor a wide range of corneal and ocular surface conditions at a cellular level, enhancing early detection and treatment outcomes. IVCM enables detailed visualisation of corneal structures and has broad applications in diagnosing and managing corneal and ocular surface diseases. Despite its widespread use, no global bibliometric analysis of IVCM research in ophthalmology has been conducted to date. This study aims to bridge this gap by identifying influential articles, authors, institutions, and emerging trends in IVCM research. A bibliometric analysis was conducted using the Web of Science Core Collection database. Articles and reviews in the ophthalmology research area were identified by searching for ‘confocal microscopy’ within titles and author keywords. Sub-analyses focused on corneal nerves and immune cells. Data were visualised using VOSviewer to create overlay visualisation maps, highlighting research trends and connections. A total of 1,389 articles were identified, with 600 published in the last decade. Corneal nerve studies constituted 425 publications, with an h-index of 68 and 38.81 citations per article. Immune cell studies accounted for 182 publications, with an h-index of 36 and 25.79 citations per article. The United States, China, and Italy were the most productive countries, while Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Department of Ophthalmology led institutional output. Emerging keywords included ‘limbal stem cell deficiency’, ‘deep learning’, and ‘artificial intelligence’. This study underscores the increasing impact and versatility of IVCM in ophthalmology. The findings highlight key contributors and trends, providing a roadmap for future research. The integration of artificial intelligence and novel analytical techniques will likely drive further advancements, enhancing the diagnostic and therapeutic potential of IVCM.
The impact of the Single Farm Payments on the Expenditure on Fertilizers and crop protection inputs: a comparative study of the Italian agriculture
Creators: name: Vollaro, Michele
name: Vollaro, Michele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: input use
subject: agricultural intensification
subject: CAP Mid Term Review
subject: Single Farm Payments
subject: cross-compliance.

description: The Health Check (HC) of the European Common Agricultural Policy in 2003 sped up the process of policy reforms toward decoupled payments in order to urge agricultural production to respond to market signals. However, since decoupled payments could generate “coupled” effects on production, it remains questionable how single farm payment (SFP) alters agricultural intensification. Therefore, through a comparative statistical analysis applied on Italian FADN regional data, this paper aims at evaluating whether the HC reform had positive impacts on the aggregate expenditure on fertilizers and crop production inputs. From the results, it is observed that the expansion of profitable crops like vegetables, flowers and vineyards, along with the receipt of SFP increased the expenditure of fertilizers and crop protection inputs. Such findings suggest that the HC reform has been so far effective in terms of aligning agricultural production to markets’ signals, but with the unintended consequence of higher intensification. We deduce that farmers may allocate higher proportions of SFP to purchase fertilizers and crop protection inputs whenever the opportunity of higher profits is found in those cropping activities requiring a higher intensive use of production’ factors.
Quadruply charmed baryons as heavy quark symmetry partners of the $D_{s0}^*(2317)$
Creators: name: Wu, Tian-Wei
name: Liu, Ming-Zhu
name: Geng, Li-Sheng
name: Hiyama, Emiko
name: Valderrama, Manuel Pavon
name: Wang, Wen-Ling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Both unitary chiral theories and lattice QCD simulations show that the $DK$ interaction is attractive and can form a bound state, namely, $D^*_{s0}(2317)$. Assuming the validity of the heavy antiquark-diquark symmetry (HADS), the $Ξ_{cc}\bar{K}$ interaction is the same as the $DK$ interaction, which implies the existence of a $Ξ_{cc}\bar{K}$ bound state with a binding energy of $49-64$ MeV. In this work, we study whether a $Ξ_{cc}Ξ_{cc}\bar{K}$ three-body system binds. The $Ξ_{cc}Ξ_{cc}$ interaction is described by exchanging $π$, $σ$, $ρ$, and $ω$ mesons, with the corresponding couplings related to those of the $NN$ interaction via the quark model. We indeed find a $Ξ_{cc}Ξ_{cc}\bar{K}$ bound state, with quantum numbers $J^P=0^-$, $I=\frac{1}{2}$, $S=1$ and $C=4$, and a binding energy of $80-118$ MeV. It is interesting to note that this system is very similar to the well-known $NN\bar{K}$ system, which has been studied extensively both theoretically and experimentally. Within the same framework, we show the existence of a $NN\bar{K}$ state with a binding energy of $35-43$ MeV, consistent with the results of other theoretical works and experimental data, which serves as a consistency check on the predicted $Ξ_{cc}Ξ_{cc}\bar{K}$ bound state.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures