cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Agricultural Contracts and Alternative Marketing Options: A Matching Analysis
Creators: name: Katchova, Ani L.
name: Katchova, Ani L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: agricultural prices
subject: alternative marketing options
subject: local competition
subject: marketing contracts
subject: production contracts
subject: propensity score matching

description: The increasing use of agricultural contracts and processor concentration raises concerns that processors may offer lower contract prices in absence of local competition. This study examines the price competitiveness of marketing and production contracts depending on the availability of alternative marketing options. A propensity score matching method is used to compare prices using contract data from a farm-level national survey. The results show that the absence of other contractors or spot markets in producers’ areas does not lead to statistically significant price differences in agricultural contracts for most commodities, providing evidence that most agricultural processors do not exercise market power by reducing prices when other local buyers are not available.
Halyzia tschitscherini Semenow 1895
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Halyzia
Halyzia tschitscherini

description: 57. tschitscherini Semenow, 1895
Distribution: India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand); Pakistan; Afghanistan; Tibet (Pamir); Turkestan.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 281, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
A Multi-Period Analysis of Two Common Livestock Management Strategies Given Fluctuating Precipitation and Variable Prices
Creators: name: Ritten, John P.
name: Frasier, W. Marshall
name: Bastian, Christopher T.
name: Paisley, Steven I.
name: Smith, Michael A.
name: Mooney, Sian
name: Ritten, John P.
name: Frasier, W. Marshall
name: Bastian, Christopher T.
name: Paisley, Steven I.
name: Smith, Michael A.
name: Mooney, Sian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Drought management
subject: mathematical programming
subject: herd liquidation
subject: price cycle
subject: cattle management

description: Many areas of the US recently endured a severe drought and management strategies to cope with the lack of forage production varied. A multi-period mathematical model is presented that estimates the outcomes of two common producer responses to changes in precipitation, partial liquidation and purchasing hay, given fluctuating cattle prices over a long term planning horizon. Results were further summarized with regression analysis and selected elasticities were calculated to reflect the sensitivity of outcomes to variability in precipitation and livestock prices. Although little impact was seen from utilizing additional hay as a strategy during drought, producers who follow this strategy are in a position to market more animals immediately post drought in general, resulting in better long run financial outcomes. Elasticity estimates suggest that profitability is more sensitive to variability in prices but that optimal choices of management strategies are more sensitive to variability in precipitation.
Interaction studies of a heavy-light meson-baryon system
Creators: name: Cook, M. S.
name: Fiebig, H. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study time correlation functions of operators representing heavy-light K-Lambda like systems at various relative distances r. The heavy quarks, one in each hadron, are treated as static. An anisotropic and asymmetric lattice is used with Wilson fermions. Our goal is to extract an adiabatic potential and thus learn about the physics of the five-quark system viewed as an hadronic molecule.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, APS revtex4 documentclass, contribution to Lattice 2005
Additional file 1 of A group- and smartphone-based psychological intervention to increase and maintain physical activity in patients with musculoskeletal conditions: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (“MoVo-App”)
Creators: name: Jiaxi Lin
name: Wurst, Ramona
name: Paganini, Sarah
name: Hohberg, Vivien
name: Kinkel, Stephan
name: Göhner, Wiebke
name: Ramsenthaler, Christina
name: Fuchs, Reinhard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT 2013 Checklist: Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents*.
Histopathological classifications of celiac disease : an update
Creators: name: Belkacem, Oussama
name: Bacha, Dhouha
name: Mestiri, Sarra
name: Lahmer, Ahlem
name: Hmissa, Sihem
name: Ennaifer, Rym
name: Ben Slama, Sana
Publisher: name: Biomedicine & Healthcare Research
Year: 2023

description: No abstract available.
description: Biomedicine & Healthcare Research, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): First Issue
Leveraging Historical Interaction Data for Improving Conversational Recommender System
Creators: name: Zhou, Kun
name: Zhao, Wayne Xin
name: Wang, Hui
name: Wang, Sirui
name: Zhang, Fuzheng
name: Wang, Zhongyuan
name: Wen, Ji-Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, conversational recommender system (CRS) has become an emerging and practical research topic. Most of the existing CRS methods focus on learning effective preference representations for users from conversation data alone. While, we take a new perspective to leverage historical interaction data for improving CRS. For this purpose, we propose a novel pre-training approach to integrating both item-based preference sequence (from historical interaction data) and attribute-based preference sequence (from conversation data) via pre-training methods. We carefully design two pre-training tasks to enhance information fusion between item- and attribute-based preference. To improve the learning performance, we further develop an effective negative sample generator which can produce high-quality negative samples. Experiment results on two real-world datasets have demonstrated the effectiveness of our approach for improving CRS.
description: Accepted as CIKM short paper
Are Two Economic Instruments Better Than One? Combining Taxes and Quotas under Political Lobbying
Creators: name: Finkelshtain, Israel
name: Kan, Iddo
name: Kislev, Yoav
name: Finkelshtain, Israel
name: Kan, Iddo
name: Kislev, Yoav
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Political Economy
subject: Natural Resources
subject: Water

description: Direct commands, market based, or combined, whichever is the government's mean of intervention, is expected to raise political lobbying and pressure. This study offers a political-economic model of an industry, which is regulated by an integrated system of both direct and market based policies. The model is used for a normative theoretical analysis and as a basis for a structural econometric framework. Exploiting a unique data set that describes the regulations of irrigation water in Israel during the mid eighties by means of quotas and prices, the political and technological parameters of the model are structurally estimated and used to assess the relative efficiency of quotas, prices and integrated regulation regimes.
Additional file 1 of Responding to health needs of women, children and adolescents within Syria during conflict: intervention coverage, challenges and adaptations
Creators: name: Chaza Akik
name: Semaan, Aline
name: Shaker-Berbari, Linda
name: Jamaluddine, Zeina
name: Saad, Ghada E.
name: Lopes, Katherine
name: Constantin, Joanne
name: Abdulkarim Ekzayez
name: Singh, Neha S.
name: Blanchet, Karl
name: DeJong, Jocelyn
name: Ghattas, Hala
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Desk review findings.
Harmonia andamanensis Poorani 2023, sp. n.
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Harmonia
Harmonia andamanensis

description: 58. andamanensis sp. n.
Distribution: India (Endemic to Andamans).
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 281, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
NuTeV Anomaly & Strange-Antistrange Asymmetry
Creators: name: Ma, Bo-Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NuTeV Collaboration reported a value of $\sin^{2}θ_{w}$ measured in neutrino-nucleon deep inelastic scattering, and found that the value is three standard deviations from the world average value of other electroweak measurements. If this result cannot be explained within conventional physics, it must imply some novel physics beyond the standard model. We report the correction from the asymmetric strange-antistrange sea by using both the light-cone baryon-meson fluctuation model and the chiral quark model, and show that a significant part of the NuTeV anomaly can be explained by the strange-antistrange asymmetry.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. Talk at ICHEP04, August 16-22, 2004, Beijing, China
Does Rural Household Income Depend on Neighboring Communities? Evidence from Israel
Creators: name: Kimhi, Ayal
name: Kimhi, Ayal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Consumer/Household Economics

description: In Israel, rural communities are those with up to 2000 residents, and rural areas include only rural communities. This paper explores the dependence of rural incomes on nearby urban areas. This dependence is mostly implied by rural-to-urban or urban-to-rural selective migration (or both). Migration flows can be affected by differential wages, housing costs and other amenities, and by commuting costs and costs of migration. An income generating equation, that includes characteristics of nearby urban communities as well as other spatial indicators among the explanatory variables, is estimated for rural households in Moshav villages using 2006 survey data. The results show that the population of nearby urban communities is significantly associated with rural household per-capita income. In particular, the urban population within 10 km is positively associated with per-capita income, while the urban population within 10 to 40 km is negatively associated with per-capita income. These opposite effects suggest that commuting costs are among the major determinants of the direction of the net migration of high-income households. Surprisingly, other spatial variables, including average per-capita income in nearby urban communities, do not affect rural income significantly.
An Optimal Size for Rural Tourism Villages with Agglomeration and Club-Good Effects
Creators: name: Tchetchik, Anat
name: Fleischer, Aliza
name: Finkelshtain, Israel
name: Tchetchik, Anat
name: Fleischer, Aliza
name: Finkelshtain, Israel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
International Development
Political Economy

description: Helping to sustain a viable rural sector, rural tourism enjoys public support in many countries. We claim that due to club-good and agglomeration externalities in the rural accommodation market, public support should be integrated in a broader local development policy that regulates the number of accommodation units in a locality. To demonstrate this we extended an equilibrium model that accounts for product differentiation and oligopolistic competition to address club-good and agglomeration effects and applied it to data collected in north Israel. We show that under the prevailing regulation, the number of units is by far higher than the social optimum.
Counterfactual Predictions under Runtime Confounding
Creators: name: Coston, Amanda
name: Kennedy, Edward H.
name: Chouldechova, Alexandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Algorithms are commonly used to predict outcomes under a particular decision or intervention, such as predicting whether an offender will succeed on parole if placed under minimal supervision. Generally, to learn such counterfactual prediction models from observational data on historical decisions and corresponding outcomes, one must measure all factors that jointly affect the outcomes and the decision taken. Motivated by decision support applications, we study the counterfactual prediction task in the setting where all relevant factors are captured in the historical data, but it is either undesirable or impermissible to use some such factors in the prediction model. We refer to this setting as runtime confounding. We propose a doubly-robust procedure for learning counterfactual prediction models in this setting. Our theoretical analysis and experimental results suggest that our method often outperforms competing approaches. We also present a validation procedure for evaluating the performance of counterfactual prediction methods.
Land Use, Production Growth, and the Institutional Environment of Smallholders: Evidence from Burkinabe Cotton Farmers
Creators: name: Kaminski, Jonathan
name: Thomas, Alban
name: Kaminski, Jonathan
name: Thomas, Alban
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Burkina Faso
subject: Cotton
subject: Land Use
subject: Commodity Reform
subject: Institutional Arrangements

description: The cotton boom in Burkina Faso consisted of a growth in cotton land shares together with an overall increase in total cultivated land. This paper examines the impact of institutional changes in the cotton sector on the evolution of smallholders’ land-use decisions. The empirical analysis is supported by a structural model that takes into account the specific institutional features of the Burkinabè cotton sector and builds upon household level data collected in rural Burkina Faso. We attribute most of the change in land use to the newly established institutional arrangements between producers and stakeholders, mechanization, and slackening of the food security constraint.
(No) where to go : street-involved queer, lesbian, and bisexual young women and ’relations of ruling’
Creators: name: Bentley, Erin A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This research examines the experiences of five lesbian and / or bisexual young women who are or have been homeless and / or street involved in BC ' s Lower Mainland. Following key informant interviews with these young women, I combine an intersectional analysis of gender, 'race', class, sexuality, and whiteness with an adapted version of Dorothy Smith's institutional ethnography in order to critically interrogate the institutional relations determining their experiences with homes and families; public schools; and social service enclaves. The young women's narratives disrupt mainstream, 'common sense' notions that position homes and families as sites of unconditional love, support, and safety. In addition, their stories reveal a key disjuncture between so-called family values, and the norms that families value vis-à-vis their queer members. Issues of gender, 'race', sexuality, whiteness, and heterosexism inflect the young women's experiences of home and family. Their stories of becoming homeless expose that the ideologically unified duality of home and family has far more to do with (re)producing heteronormativity and nuclearity than idealized relations of mutuality and stability. Exploring the young women's experiences within schools demonstrates that there is a highly coordinated elision of queer genders and sexualities from the discursive and material landscapes of this institution. In addition, overt homophobia and heterosexism within schools remains unchallenged due to the uncritical acceptance and reproduction of heteronormativity. The narratives of these young women expose the persistent entrenchment of an institutionally violent atmosphere for queer youth. Indeed, those interview subjects who approached teachers, counselors, and administrators for help were positioned as problems for the school and its staff. Similarly, my informants' discussions of their encounters with youth housing, BC Benefits, police, mental health care, and addictions services demonstrate that that their age, gender, class and sexualities converged with the material conditions of homelessness to constitute multiple barriers in accessing existing services. Their narratives reveal that, not only are there insufficient services available to homeless youth in the Lower Mainland; but also that existing services reproduce gender-, 'race'-, class-, and sexually-inflected norms and values in carrying out service delivery. These determinants of service provision are further complicated by assumptions regarding who is or is not deserving of social service assistance.
Harmonia axyridis
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Harmonia
Harmonia axyridis

description: 59. axyridis (Pallas, 1773)
Distribution: India (West Bengal); Nepal; China; Taiwan; Japan; Deliberatedly introduced in or accidentally spread to several countries in Europe, North America, South America, Central America, South Africa, New Zealand, Israel, etc.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 281, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Observed Effects of a Changing Step-Edge Density on Thin-Film Growth Dynamics
Creators: name: Fleet, Aaron
name: Dale, Darren
name: Suzuki, Y.
name: Brock, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We grew SrTiO3 on SrTiO3 [001] by pulsed laser deposition, while observing x-ray diffraction at the (0 0 .5) position. The drop dI in the x-ray intensity following a laser pulse contains information about plume-surface interactions. Kinematic theory predicts dI/I = -4sigma(1-sigma), so that dI/I depends only on the amount of deposited material sigma. In contrast, we observed experimentally that |dI/I| < 4sigma(1-sigma), and that dI/I depends on the phase of x-ray growth oscillations. The combined results suggest a fast smoothing mechanism that depends on surface step-edge density.
description: 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Neuroanatomical underpinnings of autism symptomatology in carriers and non-carriers of the 22q11.2 microdeletion
Creators: name: Gudbrandsen, Maria
name: Bletsch, Anke
name: Mann, Caroline
name: Daly, Eileen
name: Murphy, Clodagh M.
name: Stoencheva, Vladimira
name: Blackmore, Charlotte E.
name: Rogdaki, Maria
name: Kushan, Leila
name: Bearden, Carrie E.
name: Murphy, Declan G. M.
name: Craig, Michael C.
name: Ecker, Christine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Methods. 1. Participant Demographics and Exclusion Criteria. 2. Calculation of ADOS Calibrated Severity Score (CSS). 3. MRI Data Quality Assessment, Exclusion of Scans, and Manual Edits. 4. Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA). 5. Robustness of the results across feature selection algorithms. Supplementary Tables S1. Post-hoc multiple comparisons of means. Supplementary Table S2. Sample demographics after matching for age and gender. Supplementary Table S3. Clusters with significantly increased and decreased cortical volume (CV), surface area (SA), and cortical thickness (CT) for the main effect of 22q11.2DS. Supplementary Table S4. Clusters with significantly increased and decreased cortical volume (CV), surface area (SA), and cortical thickness (CT) for the main effect of ASD. Supplementary Table S5. Clusters with a significant 22q11.2DS-by-ASD interaction effect in cortical volume (CV) and surface area (SA). Supplementary Figure S1. Between-group comparison for 22q11.2DS compared to typically developing Controls. Supplementary Figure S2. Between-group comparison for idiopathic ASD compared to typically developing Controls. Supplementary Figure S3. Un-thresholded Results for the Categorical Analyses. Supplementary Figure S4. Effect Sizes for Categorial results. Supplementary Figure S5. (In)Homogeneity of Variance between idiopathic ASD and 22q11.ASD individuals. Supplementary Figure S6. Categorical analyses corrected for age and gender. Supplementary Figure S7. Schematic Overview of the Methodology behind the Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA). Supplementary Figure S8. Reliability of the results across feature selection algorithms. Supplementary Figure S9. Boxplots for the significant 22q11.2DS-by-ASD Interaction Clusters. Supplementary Figure S10. Categorical 22q11.2DS-by-ASD Interaction Effect when covarying for repetitive symptoms. Supplementary Figure S11. Distribution of SRS subdomain and total scores across groups
Inferring Hidden Symmetries of Exotic Magnets from Detecting Explicit Order Parameters
Creators: name: Rao, Nihal
name: Liu, Ke
name: Pollet, Lode
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An unconventional magnet may be mapped onto a simple ferromagnet by the existence of a high-symmetry point. Knowledge of conventional ferromagnetic systems may then be carried over to provide insight into more complex orders. Here we demonstrate how an unsupervised and interpretable machine-learning approach can be used to search for potential high-symmetry points in unconventional magnets without any prior knowledge of the system. The method is applied to the classical Heisenberg-Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice, where our machine learns the transformations that manifest its hidden $O(3)$ symmetry, without using data of these high-symmetry points. Moreover, we clarify that, in contrast to the stripy and zigzag orders, a set of $D_2$ and $D_{2h}$ ordering matrices provides a more complete description of the magnetization in the Heisenberg-Kitaev model. In addition, our machine also learns the local constraints at the phase boundaries, which manifest a subdimensional symmetry. This paper highlights the importance of explicit order parameters to many-body spin systems and the property of interpretability for the physical application of machine-learning techniques.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures, 1 table; corrected SSF, extended discussion and new contents added, published
Many-Impurity Effects in Fourier Transform Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Kodra, O.
name: Atkinson, W. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fourier transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy (FTSTS) is a useful technique for extracting details of the momentum-resolved electronic band structure from inhomogeneities in the local density of states due to disorder-related quasiparticle scattering. To a large extent, current understanding of FTSTS is based on models of Friedel oscillations near isolated impurities. Here, a framework for understanding many-impurity effects is developed based on a systematic treatment of the variance Delta rho^2(q,omega) of the Fourier transformed local density of states rho(q,ω). One important consequence of this work is a demonstration that the poor signal-to-noise ratio inherent in rho(q,omega) due to randomness in impurity positions can be eliminated by configuration averaging Delta rho^2(q,omega). Furthermore, we develop a diagrammatic perturbation theory for Delta rho^2(q,omega) and show that an important bulk quantity, the mean-free-path, can be extracted from FTSTS experiments.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures. A version of the paper with high resolution, colour figures is available at http://www.trentu.ca/physics/batkinson/FTSTS.ps.gz minor revisions in response to refree report + figure 5 is modified
“Smart is not Equal to Technology”
Creators: name: Pratama, Arif Budy
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: In 2017, the Indonesian government launched the ‘100 Smart Cities’ initiative to mark the rise of smart city concepts in urban development. Rather than replicating what has been done by developed countries, Indonesia has experienced somewhat different pathways in developing its smart cities. This piece records an expert interview with Suhono Harso Supangkat, a professor of information technology at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and one of the pioneers of Indonesia’s smart cities program. He leads the Smart City and Community Innovation Center (SCCIC), which facilitates cities’ implementations of smart solutions to urban problems. He advises and assists many government agencies and industries, especially on information technology regulations and governance. He has also developed the Indonesian Smart City Rating (RKCI), which aims to survey and map Indonesian smart city development; it has been published every two years since 2015. This interview was conducted in Indonesian on 10 September 2020 via telephone call. For the purposes of this paper, the interview transcript was translated by the author. The interview relates to the emergence, prospects, and challenges of Indonesian smart cities and their development.
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, ONLINE FIRST
The Burkinabe Cotton Story 1999-2007: Sustainable Success of Sub-Saharan Mirage?
Creators: name: Kaminski, Jonathan
name: Headey, Derek D.
name: Bernard, Tanguy
name: Kaminski, Jonathan
name: Headey, Derek D.
name: Bernard, Tanguy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Burkina Faso
subject: Cotton
subject: Poverty Reduction
subject: Counterfactual analysis
subject: Production Growth
subject: Political Sustainability

description: Like many other African countries in the 1980s, Burkina Faso was urged to engage in a far-reaching liberalization of its state-led cotton sector. Yet unlike most of its neighbors, the Burkinabè government rejected both the status quo and wholesale liberalization, and instead embarked on a more gradual and sequenced reform path characterized by institutional innovations and partial privatization. Whether the reforms contained genuinely successful elements is therefore an important question, but also a difficult one given the absence of a counterfactual, the confounding influence of exogenous shocks and the recent financial troubles of the sector. To unravel this puzzle, this paper reviews existing evidence linking the reforms to various outcomes, but also develops a novel counterfactual analysis to more rigorously assess the impacts of these reforms. Our analysis shows that while many elements of the reform process did achieve important economic objectives, return migration from Cote d’Ivoire explains a third of production growth, financial elements of the reforms were not fully sustainable, and institutional arrangements failed to fully empower cotton farmers. This provides both positive and negative lessons for other would-be cotton reformers.
Additional file 1 of Molecular mechanisms of coronary disease revealed using quantitative trait loci for TCF21 binding, chromatin accessibility, and chromosomal looping
Creators: name: Quanyi Zhao
name: Dacre, Michael
name: Nguyen, Trieu
name: Milos Pjanic
name: Boxiang Liu
name: Dharini Iyer
name: Cheng, Paul
name: Wirka, Robert
name: Juyong Brian Kim
name: Fraser, Hunter B.
name: Quertermous, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental figures and related figure legends.
Exploring Leptonic CP Violation with Combined Analysis of Reactor and Neutrino Superbeam Experiments
Creators: name: Sugiyama, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the possibility to find the leptonic CP-violation by combining the reactor experiment with the superbeam experiment without antineutrino superbeam. We show also how much the sensitivity on CP-violating phase delta is affected by the fact that we have not known the sign of Delta m^2_31.
description: 4 pages, 5 eps-files, ws-procs10x7.cls, talk at the 32nd International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP04), Aug. 16-22, 2004, Beijing, China
Capital Use Intensity and Productivity Biases
Creators: name: Andersen, Matthew A.
name: Alston, Julian M.
name: Pardey, Philip G.
name: Andersen, Matthew A.
name: Alston, Julian M.
name: Pardey, Philip G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: U.S. agriculture
subject: pro-cyclical productivity
subject: capital utilization
subject: primal productivity bias

description: Measures of productivity growth are often pro-cyclical. This paper focuses on measurement errors in capital inputs, associated with unobserved variations in capital utilization rates, as an explanation for the existence of pro-cyclical patterns in measures of productivity. Recently constructed national and state-specific indexes of inputs, outputs, and productivity in U.S. agriculture for 1949–2002 are used to estimate production functions that include proxy variables for changes in the utilization of durable inputs. The proxy variables include an index of farmers’ terms of trade and an index of local seasonal growing conditions. We find that utilization responses by farmers are significant and bias measures of productivity growth in a pro-cyclical pattern. We quantify the bias, adjust the measures of productivity for the estimated utilization responses, and compare the adjusted and conventional measures.
description: This is a substantially revised version of “Capital Use Intensity and Productivity Biases.” Andersen, Matt A.; Alston, Julian M.; Pardey, Philip G., St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics; University of Minnesota, International Science and Technology Practice and Policy (InSTePP), 2007. (Staff paper P07-06; InSTePP paper 07-02)
Deriving approximate functionals with asymptotics
Creators: name: Burke, Kieron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern density functional approximations achieve moderate accuracy at low computational cost for many electronic structure calculations. Some background is given relating the gradient expansion of density functional theory to the WKB expansion in one dimension, and modern approaches to asymptotic expansions. A mathematical framework for analyzing asymptotic behavior for the sums of energies unites both corrections to the gradient expansion of DFT and hyperasymptotics of sums. Simple examples are given for the model problem of orbital-free DFT in one dimension. In some cases, errors can be made as small as 10$^{-32}$ Hartree suggesting that, if these new ingredients can be applied, they might produce approximate functionals that are much more accurate than those in current use. A variation of the Euler-Maclaurin formula generalizes previous results.
description: Submitted to Faraday Discussions for the Developments in DFT conference, Sept 2, 2020
Harmonia dimidiata
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Harmonia
Harmonia dimidiata

description: 60. dimidiata (Fabricius, 1781)
Distribution: India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim, Tripura, West Bengal); Pakistan; Bhutan; Nepal; Vietnam; Japan; China; Taiwan; Introduced into and established in North America and Far Eastern Russia.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 282, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Regional employment impacts of Common Agricultural Policy measures in Eastern Germany: A difference-in-differences approach
Creators: name: Petrick, Martin
name: Zier, Patrick
name: Petrick, Martin
name: Zier, Patrick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Impact analysis
subject: Agricultural employment
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: Decoupling

description: Politicians and farm lobbyists frequently use the argument that agricultural policy is necessary to safeguard jobs in agriculture. We explore whether this is true by conducting an econometric ex-post evaluation of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the three East German States Brandenburg, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt. Whereas previous studies have employed descriptive statistics or qualitative methods and have looked at single policy instruments in isolation, we apply a difference-in-differences estimator to analyse the employment effects of the entire portfolio of CAP measures simultaneously. Based on panel data at the county level, we find that investment aids and transfers to less favoured areas had a zero marginal employment effect. We present evidence that full decoupling of direct payments in 2005 led to labour shedding, as it made transfer payments independent of factor allocation. Spending on modern technologies in processing and marketing and measures aimed at the development of rural areas led to job losses in agriculture. Agri-environmental measures, on the other hand, kept labour intensive technologies in production or induced them. This analysis calls into question whether an expansion of existing second pillar measures is a reasonable way to use funds modulated away from the first pillar.
Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods: Traits, Labels and Diverse Information
Creators: name: Huffman, Wallace E.
name: Huffman, Wallace E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: New experimental economic methods are described and used to assess consumers' willingness to pay for food products that might be made from new transgenic and intragenic genetically modified (GM) traits. Participants in auctions are randomly chosen adult consumers in major US metropolitan areas and not college students. Food labels are kept simple and focus on key attributes of experimental goods. Diverse private information from the agricultural biotech industry (largely Monsanto and Syngenta), environmental groups (largely Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth) and independent third-party information is used to construct the information treatments. Food labels and information treatments are randomized, which is a deviation from traditional lab methods. Auctions are best described as sealed bid random n-th price and not the standard Vickery 2nd price auctions. I show that participants in these experiments respond to both food labels and information treatments, but no single type of information is dominant.
Additional file 2 of Prednisolone versus placebo addition in the treatment of patients with recent-onset psychotic disorder: a trial design
Creators: name: Nasib, Lyliana G.
name: Sommer, Iris E.
name: Rossum, Inge Winter-Van
name: Vries, Jacqueline De
name: Shiral S. Gangadin
name: Oomen, Priscilla P.
name: Judge, Gurmeet
name: Blom, Renske E.
name: Luykx, Jurjen J.
name: Beveren, Nico J. M. Van
name: Veen, Natalie D.
name: Kroken, Rune A.
name: Johnsen, Erik L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Brain imaging (optional part of the study in Norway).
Pharmacology of the isolated mouse middle cerebral artery
Creators: name: Bai, Ni
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Cerebral arteries play an important role in the regulation of cerebral blood flow through autoregulation to supply oxygen and nutrients for the brain and neurons. Although investigation of the activity of cerebral blood vessels has a long and distinguished history, there exists a deficit in the pharmacology of the isolated mouse cerebrovascular system. In this thesis, we designed protocols to determine whether the mouse middle cerebral artery (MCA) possessed similar properties with respect to myogenic control and responsiveness to vasoconstrictors and vasodilators. We found that the intrinsic tone of the mouse MCA was evoked at low pressures with no significant additional constriction occurring at higher pressures (>50mmHg). Inhibition of nitric oxide (NO) and endothelin-1 (ET-1) altered the extent of pressure-induced myogenic tone. Unlike the general insensitivity of cerebral arteries to adrenergic receptor stimulation in most other species, the mouse M C A constricted to ocadrenergic receptor activation. Interestingly, 5-HT and histamine, which are potent vasomotor factors, did not elicit any effect on the mouse MCA. In summary, the mouse MCA has a pharmacological profile that is distinct from other species, including humans; however, similar to findings in other cerebral arteries, the mouse MCA shows intracellular sensitization to Ca²⁺ following receptor activation. Mouse is the most commonly used species for constructing a genetically modified model to explore the intricacies of cerebrovasculature system; therefore, our study provides pertinent input for the further characterization of the pathophysiology and dysfunction in cerebral vasculature.
An All-Sky Survey for the Detection of Transiting Extrasolar Planets and for Permanent Variable Star Tracking
Creators: name: Deeg, Hans J.
name: Alonso, Roi
name: Belmonte, Juan A.
name: Alsubai, Khalid
name: Horne, Keith
name: Doyle, Laurance R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An overview is given of the Permanent All Sky Survey (PASS) project. The primary goal of PASS is the detection of all transiting giant planets in the entire sky, complete for stellar systems of magnitudes ~ 5.5-10.5. Since the sample stars are fairly bright and relatively close, planets detected by PASS would be ideally suited for any follow-up study with ground- or space-based instrumentation. The survey would also allow the pursuit of a variety of work on temporal astronomical phenomena of any kind, and is intended to lead to a permanent all-sky tracking of variable stars with high temporal resolution. The instrument consists of arrays of CCD cameras with wide-field optics that cover the entire sky visible from their observing locations. Calculations of the instrument's noise sources and subsequent simulations indicate that the proposed design is able to achieve the prime objective of a full-sky survey for transits. An equation for the signal-to-noise ratio from photometry of unguided stellar images is given in the appendix, together with equations for the detection probability of planetary transits based on the observational coverage and the instrument's duty cycle.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures, accepted by PASP
Additional file 2 of Drug dosing in the critically ill obese patient—a focus on sedation, analgesia, and delirium
Creators: name: Erstad, Brian L.
name: Barletta, Jeffrey F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Clinical and pharmacokinetic studies involving sedatives.
Components of Grain Futures Price Volatility
Creators: name: Karali, Berna
name: Thurman, Walter N.
name: Karali, Berna
name: Thurman, Walter N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: futures markets
subject: Samuelson effect
subject: seasonality
subject: time to maturity
subject: volatility

description: We analyze the determinants of daily futures price volatility in corn, soybeans, wheat, and oats markets from 1986 to 2007. Combining the information from simultaneously traded contracts, a generalized least squares method is implemented that allows us to clearly distinguish among time-to-delivery effects, seasonality, calendar trend, and volatility persistence. We find strong evidence of time-to-delivery (Samuelson) effects and systematic seasonal components with volatility increasing prior to harvest times— an indirect confirmation of the theory of storage.
The Bright Reverse Shock Emission in the Optical Afterglows of Gamma-ray Bursts in a Stratified Medium
Creators: name: Yi, Shuang-Xi
name: Wu, Xue-Feng
name: Zou, Yuan-Chuan
name: Dai, Zi-Gao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reverse shock (RS) model is generally introduced to interpret the optical afterglows with the rapid rising and decaying, such as the early optical afterglow of GRB 990123 (which is also called optical flash). In this paper, we collected 11 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) early optical afterglows, which have such signatures of dominant RS emission. Since the temporal slopes of the optical flashes are determined by both the medium density distribution index $k$ and the electron spectral index $p$, we apply the RS model of the thin shell case to the optical flashes and determine the ambient medium of the progenitors. We find that the $k$ value is in the range of 0 - 1.5. The $k$ value in this paper is consistent with the result in Yi et al. (2013), where the forward shock (FS) model was applied to some onset bumps. However, the method adopted in this paper is only applicable to GRB afterglows with significant sharp rising and decaying RS emission. Our results indicate that the RS model can also be applied to confirm the circumburst medium, further implying that GRBs may have diverse circumburst media.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal; 10 pages, 4 figures and 2 tables
Impacto económico y ambiental de la quesería en el Valle de Tulancingo, Hidalgo (México).
Creators: name: Escoto, Fernando Cervantes
name: Alcantara, Antonio Gomez
name: Cardenas, J. Reyes Altamirano
name: Escoto, Fernando Cervantes
name: Alcantara, Antonio Gomez
name: Cardenas, J. Reyes Altamirano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: queso
subject: beneficio
subject: daño-ambiental

description: La industria quesera es un sector de gran importancia en el sistema alimentario mexicano, considerado estratégico por tres razones: primero, la leche y derivados son alimentos básicos que elevan la calidad de vida de la población que los consume; segundo, por los efectos de dicho sistema en el ingreso y empleo rural; y tercero, por su potencial para articular varios sectores productivos. La presente investigación consistió en analizar la rentabilidad de las empresas queseras y el impacto ambiental que se genera con esta actividad. Desde el punto de vista económico, la quesería del Valle de Tulancingo, Hidalgo resultó ser rentable, el indicador de rentabilidad obtenido resultó positivo, con relación al valor de activos invertidos en maquinaria y equipo, costo de la leche que procesan, costo de mano de obra y costo de servicios. A pesar del aporte de las queserías a la actividad económica de la región, la problemática generada por el lactosuero que es vertido al drenaje, es relevante al constituir una fuente potencial de enfermedades; por lo que, considerar alternativas como la elaboración de bebidas y la deshidratación, les permitiría a los queseros ser más rentables al obtener mayores ingresos, al mismo tiempo que reducen su impacto ambiental.