cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Status of the Inclusion of Socio-Economic Considerations in Biosafety Regulations and Biotechnology Decision Making Processes in Southern and East Africa: Practical Implications and Consequences for Innovation GovernanceThe Status of the Inclusion of Socio-Economic Considerations in Biosafety Regulations and Biotechnology Decision Making Processes in Southern and East Africa: Practical Implications and Consequences for Innovation Governance
Creators: name: Falck-Zepeda, Jose
name: Mnyulwa, Doreen
name: Mulenga, Dorothy
name: Gouse, Marnus
name: Masanganise, Patricia
name: Falck-Zepeda, Jose
name: Mnyulwa, Doreen
name: Mulenga, Dorothy
name: Gouse, Marnus
name: Masanganise, Patricia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Development
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: biosafety
subject: biotechnology
subject: socio-economic assessment
subject: regulation
subject: Southern Africa
subject: Eastern Africa
subject: developing countries

description: The paper discusses the current status of the inclusion of socio-economic considerations into biosafety and biotechnology decision making processes, laws and regulations in Botswana, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya and South Africa. The discussion includes relevant issues related to the biosafety and socio-economic assessment processes while comparing and contrasting national regulatory developments with obligations subscribed by parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in Southern and Eastern Africa. The paper also discusses the conceptual issues related to socio-economic assessments relevant to biosafety regulatory procedures including those considered in ex ante assessments for regulatory approval procedures and ex post for post-release monitoring or conventional technology evaluator procedures. The paper discusses practical considerations for the inclusion of socio-economics in biosafety regulatory processes including inclusion options, scope, timing, implementing body, methods, decision making rules and standards, and integration of technical biosafety research and socio-economic into a cogent decision making process. The paper concludes with a discussion of potential implications and positive and negative consequences from the inclusion of socio-economic considerations in biosafety decision making and for the governance of biotechnology innovations in developing countries.
Exploring anomalous couplings in Higgs boson pair production through shape analysis
Creators: name: Capozi, Matteo
name: Heinrich, Gudrun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We classify shapes of Higgs boson pair invariant mass distributions $m_{hh}$, calculated at NLO with full top quark mass dependence, and visualise how distinct classes of shapes relate to the underlying coupling parameter space. Our study is based on a five-dimensional parameter space relevant for Higgs boson pair production in a non-linear Effective Field Theory framework. We use two approaches: an analysis based on predefined shape types and a classification into shape clusters based on unsupervised learning. We find that our method based on unsupervised learning is able to capture shape features very well and therefore allows a more detailed study of the impact of anomalous couplings on the $m_{hh}$ shape compared to more conventional approaches to a shape analysis.
description: 34 pages, 19 figures, benchmark points added, replaced by published version
TARGETS AND MANDATES: LESSONS LEARNED FROM EU AND US BIOFUEL ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS
Creators: name: Ziolkowska, Jadwiga
name: Meyers, William H.
name: Meyer, Seth D.
name: Ziolkowska, Jadwiga
name: Meyers, William H.
name: Meyer, Seth D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: biofuels
subject: climate change
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: EU targets
subject: US mandates

description: The US and the EU have taken different paths in the design and implementation of biofuel support and enforcement measures. In the EU, indicative targets have been defined for biofuels, but a strict enforcement mechanism does not exist in practice. Also, mandatory targets have been approved voluntarily by several EU Member States. US biofuel policy has specified targets in absolute quantities rather than in percentages of use, as was done in the EU. Because of this quantitative target and the fact that enforcement is through a mandate rather than a less binding target, enforcement is assured but implementation problems arise (e.g., “blend wall”) that may not occur in the EU system. In this paper, we provide an analytical discussion on lessons learned from the current and previous EU and US biofuel enforcement mechanisms and consider the possibilities, opportunities and challenges for future policy development in both economies.
Improving Relation Extraction with Knowledge-attention
Creators: name: Li, Pengfei
name: Mao, Kezhi
name: Yang, Xuefeng
name: Li, Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While attention mechanisms have been proven to be effective in many NLP tasks, majority of them are data-driven. We propose a novel knowledge-attention encoder which incorporates prior knowledge from external lexical resources into deep neural networks for relation extraction task. Furthermore, we present three effective ways of integrating knowledge-attention with self-attention to maximize the utilization of both knowledge and data. The proposed relation extraction system is end-to-end and fully attention-based. Experiment results show that the proposed knowledge-attention mechanism has complementary strengths with self-attention, and our integrated models outperform existing CNN, RNN, and self-attention based models. State-of-the-art performance is achieved on TACRED, a complex and large-scale relation extraction dataset.
description: Paper presented at 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2019)
A CGE Analysis of Economy-wide Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Morocco
Creators: name: Ouraich, Ismail
name: Tyner, Wallace E.
name: Ouraich, Ismail
name: Tyner, Wallace E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: CGE models
subject: agricultural policy
subject: adaptation
subject: climate change
subject: SRES scenarios

description: Climate change is one of the major risks facing developing countries in Africa for which agriculture is a predominant part in the economy. Alterations in rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures will most likely translate into yield reductions in desirable crops (Gommes et al. 2009). The early literature of economic impact assessment of climate change has provided some useful insights on the issue, but remained limited in scope and depth as it focused on highly aggregated unit of analysis (e.g. at the continental or sub-continental levels). Nonetheless, the current trend of the empirical literature on the issue of economic impact assessment of climate change display a shift towards engaging in ‘case-by-case’ analyses at the country and/or sub-country level, especially given the fact that consensus is growing among policymakers on the need to act upon the challenges of climate change, and more importantly due to increased availability of climate projections at finer geographical scales that helps refine the analyses, and improves our ability to capture the intricate linkages that exist between climate change and the economy. This calls for adequate policy responses at the country and regional levels. The present research will focus its attention on Morocco. In this context, the objectives of the analysis is to quantify the economic-wide impacts of climate-driven yield alterations under 3 SRES scenarios (A1b, A2 and B1) using a modified version of IFPRI ’s CGE model, which was upgraded to account for the sub-regional disaggregation adopted in the analysis (Dudu and Cakmak, 2011). This part of the analysis will focus on country-specific economywide impacts driven by productivity shocks on yields for each region. Yield estimates are produced via CliCrop, which simulates yield changes by water basin based.
Flux-mediated optomechanics with a transmon qubit in the single-photon ultrastrong-coupling regime
Creators: name: Kounalakis, Marios
name: Blanter, Yaroslav M.
name: Steele, Gary A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme for controlling a radio-frequency mechanical resonator at the quantum level using a superconducting qubit. The mechanical part of the circuit consists of a suspended micrometer-long beam that is embedded in the loop of a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) and is connected in parallel to a transmon qubit. Using realistic parameters from recent experiments with similar devices, we show that this configuration can enable a tuneable optomechanical interaction in the single-photon ultrastrong-coupling regime, where the radiation-pressure coupling strength is larger than both the transmon decay rate and the mechanical frequency. We investigate the dynamics of the driven system for a range of coupling strengths and find an optimum regime for ground-state cooling, consistent with previous theoretical investigations considering linear cavities. Furthermore, we numerically demonstrate a protocol for generating hybrid discrete- and continuous-variable entanglement as well as mechanical Schrödinger cat states, which can be realised within the current state of the art. Our results demonstrate the possibility of controlling the mechanical motion of massive objects using superconducting qubits at the single-photon level and could enable applications in hybrid quantum technologies as well as fundamental tests of quantum mechanics.
MOESM5 of Potential for non-combustible nicotine products to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in smoking: a systematic review and synthesis of best available evidence
Creators: name: Lucherini, Mark
name: Hill, Sarah
name: Smith, Katherine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. Quality appraisal appendix https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:367c5bca-58a8-4aa8-af45-aa1ea5944077
Characterization of Calcium Carbonate Nanoparticles with Architectural Application for the Consolidation of Pietraforte
Creators: name: Valentini, Federica
name: Pallecchi, Pasquino
name: Relucenti, Michela
name: Donfrancesco, Orlando
name: Sottili, Gianluca
name: Pettiti, Ida
name: Mussi, Valentina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Laboratory-synthesized CaCO3 nanoparticles and their nanodispersion in 1,4-butanediol as a working medium have been first characterized and then tested on the surface of Pietraforte stone that forms the cladding of the bell tower of San Lorenzo. Both CaCO3 nanoparticles and their nanodispersion in 1,4-butanediol were characterized in the church in Florence, Italy by X-ray diffraction, thermal analysis, Raman, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM)/energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy/EDX spectroscopy. The Pietraforte sample surface, before and after CaCO3 nanodispersion treatments, was characterized by comparison of the porosity and specific surface area, capillary absorption, and surface hardness. An ultrastructural morphological investigation by SEM was also carried out, confirming and implementing the effective dynamics of the nanodispersion action. Lastly, differences in stone optical appearance before and after treatment were evaluated by colorimetric measurements. Considering the obtained results of the study, we conclude that CaCO3 nanodispersion in 1,4-butanediol is an effective restorative agent that prevents water infiltration in the stone, reduces stone disruption, and promotes its consolidation without altering its appearance. Finally, the long-lasting stability of the CaCO3 nanodispersion at ambient conditions makes it suitable for production and commercialization.
Natural Population Decrease in the United States
Creators: name: Johnson, Kenneth M.
name: Beale, Calvin L.
name: Johnson, Kenneth M.
name: Beale, Calvin L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital

description: Of the 993 U.S. counties experiencing at least 1 year of natural population decrease (deaths outnumbering births) from 1950-87, 95 percent were nonmetro counties. The primary cause of local natural decrease today is outmigration of young adults, not inadequate fertility rates. Counties facing such long-term natural decrease may undergo significant financial stress, due to an erosion of property values and the tax base, and have difficulty in sustaining key services and businesses. Natural decrease is not always a problem, however. Many areas are thriving through inmovement of older people, even though such places have more deaths than births each year.
Rapid Multielemental Inductively Coupled Plasma–Atomic Emission Spectrometric (ICP-AES) Method for the Assessment of the Quality of Flower Waters
Creators: name: Manousi, N.
name: Kalogiouri, N. P.
name: Kokokiris, L.
name: Anthemidis, A.
name: Zachariadis, G. A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Flower waters, also known as aromatic waters, hydrosols, or herbal distillates, are typically considered to be by-products of essential oil. However, because of their bioactive content, flower waters currently exhibit various applications in the food industry as flavoring agents and food sanitizers. In this study, inductively coupled plasma–atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) was employed for the assessment of the elemental composition (i.e., Ag, Al, B, Ba, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn) of several flower waters. The reported method was optimized and validated in terms of linearity, limits of detections (LODs), limits of quantifications (LOQs), accuracy, and precision. The relative recoveries of the proposed method were between 80.0% and 120.0%, while the relative standard deviation values were less than 9.8%. The LODs and LOQs of the ICP-AES method ranged between 0.8 μg L−1(Cr) - 73.5 μg L−1 (Al), and between 2.5 μg L−1 (Cr) - 245.0 μg L−1 (Al), respectively . The validated ICP-AES method was successfully employed for the analysis of a variety of flower water samples.
The "miniskirt" counter array at CDF-II
Creators: name: Artikov, A.
name: Bellettini, G.
name: Budagov, J.
name: Cervelli, F.
name: Chirikov-Zorin, I.
name: Chlachidze, G.
name: Chokheli, D.
name: Dreossi, D.
name: Incagli, M.
name: Menzione, A.
name: Pauletta, G.
name: Penzo, A.
name: Pukhov, O.
name: Scribano, A.
name: Stefanini, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a part of the CDF Upgrade for Run-II of the Tevatron collider, the azimuthal coverage of the muon detectors between pseudorapidities of 0.6 and 1.2 was completed by the insertion of stacks of drift chambers and scintillation counters, which came to be known as the "miniskirts" because they cover lower 90^o in azimuth. The design and construction of the miniskirts was rather complex and posed special problems because of its interference with the floor and the supports of the central detector. The original design parameters of the "miniskirt" scintillator counters for the CDF Muon System are presented and the modifications, testing and installation of these counters in the course of the CDF Upgrade Project are described in detail
description: 21 pages, 10 figures
Deione Thorell 1898
Creators: name: Han, Guang-Xin
name: Zhu, Ming-Sheng
name: Levi, Herbert W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Araneidae
Deione

description: Deione Thorell, 1898
 Deione Thorell, 1898: 365; Bonnet, 1956: 1379; Murphy & Murphy, 2000: 87, Fam.15: fig. 2; Roewer, 1942: 761.
 Type species. Deione thoracica Thorell, 1898, by monotypy.
 Diagnosis. Deione can be distinguished from other araneid genera, like the South-East Asian genus Artonis, by the presence of four humps in two rows on the distal end of the abdomen (Fig 2), two pairs of short and thick macrosetae on anterior abdomen, two strong ventral macrosetae near the distal end of tibia II, two short, blunt macrosetae ventrally on basal metatarsus in the male, and by the broad, trapezoid epigynal scape in the female. The abdomen shape of Deione is similar to that of Chorizopes, but can be distinguished by the widely separated posterior median eyes (Fig. 3), flat cephalic region, the presence of two macrosetae on male palpal patella, the absence of paramedian apophysis, and the median apophysis flat with wide and smooth edge.
 Description. Carapace longer than wide (Figs 1; 14–15). Cervical groove distinct. Cephalic region long, posteriorly raised. Thoracic region short relative to cephalic region, low, round in sides. Both eye rows recurved, posterior median eyes largest, widely separated. Clypeal height equals the AME diameter. Sternum longer than wide, truncated on anterior margin. Chelicerae strong, promargin with five teeth and retromargin with three, anterior edge embowed. Labium and endites wider than long. Legs short and thin, with few macrosetae. Leg formula: 1243. Abdomen oval, with humps at the top of posterior abdomen. Spinnerets situated under distal end of abdomen. Epigynum with short, wide scape, one hood at the top (Figs 4–5). Male palpal patella with two macrosetae; conductor wide, membranous; embolus flagelliform, median apophysis wide; terminal apophysis with hook; paramedian apophysis absent. Tibia II with two large, ventral macrosetae at distal end, the base of metatarsus with one or two short, blunt macrosetae ventrally.
 Distribution. China, Myanmar.
description: Published as part of Han, Guang-Xin, Zhu, Ming-Sheng & Levi, Herbert W., 2009, alpha-amylase inhibitor Parvulustat (Z- 2685) from Streptomyces parvulus, pp. 55-63 in Zootaxa 2297 on page 56, DOI: 10.13018/bmr16157, http://zenodo.org/record/5308828
Properties of a New Class of Lattice Dirac Operators
Creators: name: Fujikawa, Kazuo
name: Ishibashi, Masato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new class of lattice Dirac operators $D$ have been recently proposed on the basis of the generalized Ginsparg-Wilson relation, $γ_5(γ_5 D) + (γ_5 D)γ_5 =2a^{2k+1}(γ_5 D)^{2k+2}$, where $k$ is a non-negative integer. We discuss the index theorem and locality properties for this general class of lattice Dirac operators.
description: 3 pages, Lattice2001(chiral femions)
Quantum Hall fractions in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Regnault, N.
name: Jolicoeur, Th.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Quantum Hall phases that appear in the dilute limit of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates. By exact diagonalization in a spherical geometry we obtain the ground-state and low-lying excited states of a small number of bosons as a function of the filling fraction nu, ratio of the number of bosons to the number of vortices. We show the occurrence of the Jain principal sequence of incompressible liquids for nu = 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 4/3, 5/4 as well as the Pfaffian state for nu =1. The collective excitations for the Jain sequence are well described by a composite-fermion scheme.
description: 4 pages, 5 figs
Analysis of Lakhra Coal by Calibration Free Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (CF-LIBS) and Comparison of Self-Absorption Correction Procedures
Creators: name: Iqbal, Sheikh Muhammad Zeeshan
name: Uddin, Zaheer
name: Umar, Zeshan Adeel
name: Ahmed, Nasar
name: Ahmed, Rizwan
name: Baig, Muhammad Aslam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The analysis of Lakhra Coal to determine its total carbon content and ash content is reported by calibration-free laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (CF-LIBS). The total carbon content and ash content in coal are key parameters for efficient energy u in sepower plants. The optical emission spectrum of coal contains spectral lines of Ca, Si, Fe, Ti, Mg, Na, K, Li, Al, and C together with traces of Ba and Sr. The excitation temperature and electron number density of the laser-produced plasma were estimated using a Boltzmann plot and Stark broadened Hα line, respectively. The self-absorption correction in the emission intensities of the spectral lines were performed using the internal reference self-absorption correction (IRSAC) and the density correction. The analysis of the coal was performed by CF-LIBS, CF-LIBS with IRSAC, and CF-LIBS with density correction which were then compared with the certified composition reported by the Lakhra Coal Development Company. The results revealed that IRSAC with a fixed slope is more easily applicable and reliable than the number density correction for analyzing the total carbon content, ash content, and trace elements.
Catching Shadows: The Exhibition of Intangible Heritage of Oceania in Lisa Reihana’s in Pursuit of Venus [infected]
Creators: name: Daly, Leanne Margaret
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: intangible heritage
decolonization
material culture
filmmaking
colonialism
Lisa Reihana
James Cook
heritage
museums
curation
digital heritage
new media
remediation
digital techology
contemporary art
Pacific art
Oceanic art
Oceania
Maori art
Indigenous art
Indigenous peoples
taonga
wallpaper
encounter
entangled objects
object biographies
virtual taonga
digital taonga
panorama
contact zone
offerings

description: Since the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2003 and the increased prevalence of decolonizing objectives in museums, curators have been faced with the challenge of how to exhibit intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Existing literature on ICH in museums is sparse and that which relates to exhibition technologies like film often focuses on audience effect rather than on content and context of the media or motivations/intentions of curators in their use. This research explores how curators utilize film to exhibit ICH in museums through the case study of Lisa Reihana’s in Pursuit of Venus [infected] (iPOVi). By tracking the creation and exhibition of iPOVi, especially through interviewing various curators of the artwork, it is clear that curators privilege film’s ability to represent complex aspects of culture, like ICH, and utilize the medium to engage with the decolonizing objectives of museums. It is ultimately how ICH characterizes every facet of iPOVi (the medium, content, and filmmaking and exhibition contexts) that allows it to bridge gaps in discourse surrounding material culture and ICH and exposes the potential for filmmaking to become a heritage process.
Fast Pricing of Energy Derivatives with Mean-reverting Jump-diffusion Processes
Creators: name: Petroni, Nicola Cufaro
name: Sabino, Piergiacomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Most energy and commodity markets exhibit mean-reversion and occasional distinctive price spikes, which results in demand for derivative products which protect the holder against high prices. To this end, in this paper we present exact and fast methodologies for the simulation of the spot price dynamics modeled as the exponential of the sum of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck and an independent pure jump process, where the latter one is driven by a compound Poisson process with (bilateral) exponentially distributed jumps. These methodologies are finally applied to the pricing of Asian options, gas storages and swings under different combinations of jump-diffusion market models, and the apparent computational advantages of the proposed procedures are emphasized.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures, 8 Tables, preprint
КОНСТИТУЦИЯ ОНА ВА БОЛА САЛОМАТЛИГИ МУҲОФАЗАСИНИНГ ҲУҚУҚИЙ АСОСИ СИФАТИДА
Creators: name: Ибрагимова, Зулфия
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ушбу мақолада мустақил Ўзбекистон тарихида аҳоли саломатлиги, айниқса оналар ва болалар муҳофазасининг ҳуқуқий асослари, қабул қилинган Конституция ва меъёрий ҳужжатларнинг мазкур мақсад йўлидаги фаолияти ҳақида фикрлар баён этилган.
Chandra observation of the central galaxies in A1060 cluster of galaxies
Creators: name: Yamasaki, N. Y.
name: Ohashi, T.
name: Furusho, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chandra observation of the central region of the A1060 cluster of galaxies resolved X-ray emission from two giant elliptical galaxies, NGC 3311 and NGC 3309. The emission from these galaxies consists of two components, namely the hot interstellar medium (ISM) and the low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). We found the spatial extent of the ISM component was much smaller than that of stars for both galaxies, while the ratios of X-ray to optical blue-band luminosities were rather low but within the general scatter for elliptical galaxies. After subtracting the LMXB component, the ISM is shown to be in pressure balance with the intracluster medium of A1060 at the outer boundary of the ISM. These results imply that the hot gas supplied from stellar mass loss is confined by the external pressure of the intracluster medium, with the thermal conduction likely to be suppressed. The cD galaxy NGC 3311 does not exhibit the extended potential structure which is commonly seen in bright elliptical galaxies, and we discuss the possible evolution history of the very isothermal cluster A1060.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, Latex2e(emulateapj5), accepted in ApJ
Climate Change and Agriculture: An Integrated Approach to Evaluate Economy-wide Effects for Turkey1
Creators: name: Dudu, Hasan
name: Cakmak, Erol H.
name: Dudu, Hasan
name: Cakmak, Erol H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Effects of climate change in Turkey, which is already a water stressed country, are expected to be significant. The aim of this paper is to quantify the effects of climate change on overall economy by using an integrated framework incorporating a computable general equilibrium model and a crop water requirement model for the period 2010-2099. Since agriculture is the most important sector that will be affected by climate change, analysis of climate change effects on the overall economy necessitate taking into account backward and forward linkages of agriculture. The CGE model used in this paper models the links between agriculture and other sectors and economic agents at 12 NUTS1 regions level. On the other hand, the crop model is used to translate the results of global climate models to estimate changes in yields and irrigation requirements for the period 2010-2099 at 81 NUTS3 level for 35 crops. The results of the crop model are then introduced to CGE model as climate shocks. The results suggest that the economic effects of climate change will not be significant until late 2030s; therefore Turkey has a chance to develop appropriate adaptation policies. However after 2030s, effects of climate change will be significant. Production patterns and relative prices will change drastically. The economic effects will differ among regions. The regions where irrigated agriculture is relatively low, the effects will be milder suggesting a need for putting more emphasis on the region-specific climate change policy design. Agriculture and food production will be the most affected sectors. Increasing irrigation requirements will cause farmers to reduce irrigated production. Combined with decline in yields, this will cause significant deterioration in agricultural production and prices will increase. The loss in household welfare will be significant. Some part of production decline will be compensated by imports, causing an increase in agrofood trade which will cause trade balance to worsen with declining manufacturing exports due to increasing cost of production.
Potential Precursor of Angiotensin-I Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitory Activity and Structural Properties of Peptide from Peptic Hydrolysate of Cutlassfish Muscle
Creators: name: Kim, Hyun-Soo
name: WonWoo Lee
name: Thilina U. Jayawardena
name: Nalae Kang
name: Kang, Min Cheol
name: Seok-Chun Ko
name: Lee, Jeong Min
name: Yim, Mi-Jin
name: Lee, Dae-Sung
name: You-Jin Jeon
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Peptic hydrolysates were prepared by digesting the cutlassfish muscle protein using pepsin for 1, 3, and 6 h, and their inhibitory activity against angiotensin-I converting enzyme (ACE) was studied. The ACE-inhibitory effect of the peptic hydrolysate of cutlassfish muscle generated at the 3 h time point exhibited the strongest activity. After identifying the optimal hydrolysate, the active peptide was isolated by ultrafiltration, gel permeation, and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The resulting purified peptide was characterized using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF/TOF MS/MS) and was identified to be a 496.44 Da pentapeptide (Phe-Ser-Gly-Gly-Glu). The ACE-inhibitory activity of the active peptide exhibited an IC50 value of 0.033 ± 0.003 mg/ml. A molecular docking program was used to simulate the interaction between the peptide and ACE, which revealed that the inhibitory effect was mainly due to the hydrogen bonds between ACE and the peptide. Based on the ACE-inhibitory properties and the molecular docking study of the resulting active peptide, we demonstrated an increase in nitric oxide (NO) production in a dose-dependent manner. In conclusion, cutlassfish protein hydrolysate and the resulting active peptide could be used as active ingredients in functional food as anti-hypertensive agents.
Precision Measurement of Energy and Position Resolutions of the BTeV Electromagnetic Calorimeter Prototype
Creators: name: Batarin, V.
name: Brennan, T.
name: Butler, J.
name: Cheung, H.
name: Derevschikov, A.
name: Fomin, Y.
name: Frolov, V.
name: Goncharenko, Y.
name: Grishin, V.
name: Kachanov, V.
name: Khodyrev, V.
name: Khroustalev, K.
name: Konstantinov, A.
name: Kravtsov, V.
name: Kubota, Y.
name: Leontiev, V.
name: Maisheev, V.
name: Matulenko, Y.
name: Melnick, Y.
name: Meschanin, A.
name: Mikhalin, N.
name: Minaev, N.
name: Mochalov, V.
name: Morozov, D.
name: Mountain, R.
name: Nogach, L.
name: Ryazantsev, A.
name: Semenov, P.
name: Shestermanov, K.
name: Soloviev, L.
name: Solovianov, V.
name: Stone, S.
name: Ukhanov, M.
name: Uzunian, A.
name: Vasiliev, A.
name: Yakutin, A.
name: Yarba, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The energy dependence of the energy and position resolutions of the electromagnetic calorimeter prototype made of lead tungstate crystals produced in Bogoroditsk (Russia) and Shanghai (China) is presented. These measurementswere carried out at the Protvino accelerator using a 1 to 45 GeV electron beam. The crystals were coupled to photomultiplier tubes. The dependence of energy and position resolutions on different factors as well as the measured electromagnetic shower lateral profile are presented.
description: 21 pages, 17 figures, LaTeX
A functional equation related to generalized entropies and the modular group
Creators: name: Bennequin, Daniel
name: Vigneaux, Juan Pablo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 97I70, 94A17

description: We solve a functional equation connected to the algebraic characterization of generalized information functions. To prove the symmetry of the solution, we study a related system of functional equations, which involves two homographies. These transformations generate the modular group, and this fact plays a crucial role in solving the system. The method suggests a more general relation between conditional probabilities and arithmetic.
description: Originally uploaded as an appendix to arXiv:1709.07807v1. Changes in v2: the introduction was extended to summarize in more detail previous results; there is a new lemma at the end of Section 4
Gauge potential singularities and the gluon condensate at finite temperatures
Creators: name: Langfeld, K.
name: Ilgenfritz, E. -M.
name: Reinhardt, H.
name: Shin, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The continuum limit of SU(2) lattice gauge theory is carefully investigated at zero and at finite temperatures. It is found that the continuum gauge field has singularities originating from center degrees of freedom being discovered in Landau gauge. Our numerical results show that the density of these singularities properly extrapolates to a non-vanishing continuum limit. The action density of the non-trivial Z_2 links is tentatively identified with the gluon condensate. We find for temperatures larger than the deconfinement temperature that the thermal fluctuations of the embedded Z_2 gauge theory result in an increase of the gluon condensate with increasing temperature.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures, talk presented by K. Langfeld at the 19th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (LATTICE2001), Berlin, 19.-24.8.2001, to appear in the proceedings
Foreign Seamen and the British Navy, 1793-1815
Creators: name: Caputo, Sara
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Maritime History
Migration
Royal Navy
Eighteenth century
French Wars
Seamen
Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
Transnational History
British History
Naples
Dutch History
Quantitative Historical Methods
Immigration
European History
Languages
Race
Religion
Social History
Legal History
Admiralty

description: This thesis focuses on the foreign seamen who served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815). It is a transnational social history of eighteenth-century state power, warfare, and migration, examining the legal terms of ‘foreigners’’ naval employment, the political and diplomatic background, cultural and social integration, and the demographic characteristics of these men. The conclusions are as follows. First, studying these aspects transforms our conception of the Navy. Simply taking for granted the Navy’s ‘Britishness’, and failing to explore its position in an international maritime labour marketplace, can leave our understanding of its social history incomplete. Second, the power of the eighteenth-century state had to make important compromises, when it came to the cross-border movement of certain individuals, because of its need for resources. In times pre-dating the rise of the modern anti-mercenary norm, cosmopolitanism was disciplined and accommodated in ingenious and flexible ways within the Navy – a military institution which, albeit part of a transnational maritime world, was by definition a heavily ‘nationalised’ space. Third, this thesis shows the methodological value of deconstructing the term ‘foreigner’, as it developed in late eighteenth-century Europe and America, using the Navy as a case study. To avoid essentialising the concept of ‘foreigner’, each chapter tackles a different meaning of the word, questioning how far the characteristics attached to it would have affected someone’s situation in the Navy. Chapter 1 shows that recruits with birthplace in other countries were not radically dissimilar to their British colleagues in age, skill, or rating in the Navy. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 argue that legal and cultural ‘foreignness’ (defined in terms of language, religion, and racialised physical difference) was easily ignored, bypassed or even put to use by the Navy, interested in maximising its efficient use of manpower. Chapters 5 and 6 are case studies on the integration of southern and northern European seamen respectively. Chapter 7 demonstrates that ‘foreignness’ defined in contingent terms, the lived social experience of immigration, travel, and displacement, was a crucial respect in which ‘foreign’ sailors may have been unlike their colleagues, dealing with different options, needs, motivations, and opportunity costs.
description: Robinson College Lewis-AHRC Studentship (2015-18) Institute of Historical Research 12-month Scouloudi Fellowship (2018-19)
MOESM5 of Genome-wide analysis, transcription factor network approach and gene expression profile of GH3 genes over early somatic embryogenesis in Coffea spp
Creators: name: Pinto, Renan
name: NatĂĄlia Freitas
name: MĂĄximo, Wesley
name: Thiago Cardoso
name: DĂŠbora Prudente
name: Paiva, Luciano
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S3 RNA integrity assessment by agarose gel electrophoresis. This figure was cropped from the original picture to exhibit the RNAs extracted from three biological replicates referred to each cell type used for RT-qPCR analysis. The bands clearly separated and visible represent two rRNA subunits point to the good RNA quality. From the left to the right are the samples: Embryogenic cell suspension, biological replicates 1, 2 and 3; Embryogenic calli, biological replicates 1, 2 and 3; Non-embryogenic calli, biological replicates 1, 2 and 3.
The Concept of 'Liveliness' in English Visual Culture, c.1560-c.1630
Creators: name: Faraday, Christina Juliet
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Tudor
art history
elizabethan
vividness
enargeia
liveliness
lively
vivid
portrait
portraits
epistemic images
epistemic image
prints
print culture
book illustration
domestic imagery
face jugs
bellarmine
embroidery
tapestry
wall paintings
rhetoric
art of rhetoric
eloquence
idolatry
agency
automata
crucifixes
iconophobia
iconoclasm
reformation

description: In contrast to the richly visual literature of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, the period’s visual art is usually seen as impoverished. Historians have emphasised the views of Protestant divines, for whom images were ‘dead and dumb’, and have focused on the limitations placed on images’ abilities to communicate. Yet period texts show that many people saw images as highly vivid, or in their words ‘lively’. The fact that, in our own time, viewers have been so quick to dismiss English visual art as dull and limited shows that our framework for interpreting these artworks is anachronistic, informed more by our own surroundings than by the period’s interests. My research re-enlivens these once ‘lively’ objects by seeking out the qualities which made them ‘lively’ at the time. Perhaps the biggest challenge facing art historians of this period is the lack of period sources discussing art in England; unlike contemporaries in Italy, the English rarely recorded their thoughts about images in any detail. My research turns to rhetorical theory as a period-appropriate theory of communication, enabling me to explore how these objects communicated effectively, and vividly, to their audiences. Rhetoric, the art of persuasion, formed the basis for grammar school and university education, and writers on rhetoric frequently draw parallels between literature and visual art. I focus particularly on strategies used to create the effect of 'enargeia' or vividness in writing, and compare them with the strategies used by artists and patrons in visual and material culture. Examining a broad range of objects including portraits, domestic decoration, household items, and book illustration, this thesis makes a new case for Tudor and Jacobean confidence in the effectiveness of visual objects.
description: Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship AHRC Student Development Fund to cover a 2-year part-time Curatorial Internship at the National Portrait Gallery (completed alongside the PhD) St John's College, Cambridge, Learning and Research Fund
MOESM3 of Potential for non-combustible nicotine products to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in smoking: a systematic review and synthesis of best available evidence
Creators: name: Lucherini, Mark
name: Hill, Sarah
name: Smith, Katherine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Data Extraction and quality appraisal template https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:c6d7db29-6f62-4b30-baa3-ce6b29d6cf02
Mangroves, fisheries and community livelihoods
Creators: name: Seary, Rachel Claire Orger
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Mangrove
Fishery
Ecosystem services
Communities

description: Mangroves are thought to provide vital ecosystem services to coastal fishing communities through the enhancement of fisheries production. Ongoing loss of mangrove extent globally is therefore of societal concern given that communities living near mangroves rely on mangrove-fishing for income and subsistence. Whilst research and conservation efforts have successfully advocated mangrove restoration, and promoted the importance of mangroves in climate mitigation and coastal protection, knowledge of how people use mangroves for fishing is less well developed (Chapters 1 and 2). To date, most quantitative estimates of the value of the presence of mangroves to fishing have been limited to single fishing sectors, gear types or species groups and therefore fail to capture the full diversity of fishing practices, and thus the true socio-economic benefits of mangrove-fishing. The thesis first develops a definition of what mangrove-fisheries can encompass. A case study which investigated the fishing activities associated with mangroves through interviews with fishers was conducted in the Perancak Estuary, Bali, Indonesia. A framework based on this case study was developed as a flexible tool for identifying the characteristics of a mangrove-fishery in a local context (Chapter 3). Using this framework, Chapter 4 measured the all-encompassing value of mangrove benefits to fishing in the Peam Krasaop Fishing Community (PKFC), Koh Kong Province, southwest Cambodia. The ecosystem service value of mangroves for fishing to households in the PKFC was arrived at using daily landings volumes and market values provided through interview surveys with fishers. Both chapters highlight the highly diverse nature of mangrove-fisheries. To what extent are the benefits of mangrove purely local phenomena or are these benefits reflected in global catch datasets? Chapter 5 investigates the spatial relationships between mangrove extent and fisheries catches at the global scale. For the period 2000-2012, small-scale (artisanal and subsistence) catch data, from the Sea Around Us fisheries catch database, was matched against high resolution mangrove extent maps from the Global Database of Continuous Mangrove Forest Cover for the 21st Century revealing that contrary to much of the previous literature, variation in mangrove-associated species catches is better explained by proximity to the mangrove than by mangrove area. Finally, Chapter 6 considers how new and emergent technologies, such as real-time vessel tracking, are likely to improve our ability to estimate mangrove-fishery value, assesses the potential of restored mangroves in providing ecosystem services, and reflects on how communities will need to respond to pressures on mangrove-fishery livelihoods from global environmental change.
description: This PhD was funded by the Nippon Foundation Nereus Program.
High sensitivity GEM experiment on double beta decay of 76-Ge
Creators: name: Zdesenko, Yu. G.
name: Ponkratenko, O. A.
name: Tretyak, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The GEM project is designed for the next generation 2 beta decay experiments with 76-Ge. One ton of ''naked'' HP Ge detectors (natural at the first GEM-I phase and enriched in 76-Ge to 86% at the second GEM-II stage) are operating in super-high purity liquid nitrogen contained in the Cu vacuum cryostat (sphere with diameter 5 m). The latest is placed in the water shield. Monte Carlo simulation evidently shows that sensitivity of the experiment (in terms of the T1/2 limit for neutrinoless 2 beta decay) is 10^27 yr with natural HP Ge crystals and 10^28 yr with enriched ones. These bounds corresponds to the restrictions on the neutrino mass less than 0.05 eV and 0.015 eV with natural and enriched detectors, respectively. Besides, the GEM-I set up could advance the current best limits on the existence of neutralinos - as dark matter candidates - by three order of magnitudes, and at the same time would be able to identify unambiguously the dark matter signal by detection of its seasonal modulation.
description: LaTeX, 20 pages, 4 figures