cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Targeting superficial cancers with gold nanoparticles: a review of current research
Creators: name: Gomes, Susana M
name: Gaspar, Maria Manuela
name: Coelho, João MP
name: Reis, Catarina Pinto
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Superficial cancers typically refer to cancers confined to the surface layers of tissue. Low-targeting therapies or side effects prompt exploration of novel therapeutic approaches. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), due to their unique optical properties, serve as effective photosensitizers, enabling tumor ablation through photothermal therapy (PTT). PTT induced by AuNPs can be achieved through light sources externally applied to the skin. Near-infrared radiation is the main light candidate due to its deep tissue penetration capability. This review explores recent advancements in AuNP-based PTT for superficial cancers, specifically breast, head and neck, thyroid, bladder and prostate cancers. Additionally, challenges and future directions in utilizing AuNPs for cancer treatment are discussed, emphasizing the importance of balancing efficacy with safety in clinical applications. Cancer remains a global health challenge, underscoring the necessity to explore innovative and more effective treatment modalities. AuNP-based PTT represents a promising shift in cancer therapy, offering targeted and minimally invasive treatment modalities. AuNPs, upon light activation, induce localized heating, selectively eradicating cancer cells. Their size, shape and surface properties influence their photothermal efficiency and targeting capabilities. Studies have demonstrated the efficacy of AuNP-based PTT in superficial cancers like melanoma and breast cancer. Functionalization strategies, such as EGFR or HTf-conjugation, enhance tumor targeting and therapeutic outcomes. Clinical trials validate the safety and efficacy of AuNP-based PTT, particularly in prostate cancer. Initial trials report significant tumor ablation rates, driving further translational research efforts. Challenges persist in optimizing AuNP parameters and minimizing off-target effects for broader clinical applicability. Future research efforts aim to overcome these challenges, advancing AuNP-based therapies toward clinical implementation.
FINANCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NORTH DAKOTA FARMS 2000-2002
Creators: name: Swenson, Andrew L.
name: Swenson, Andrew L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm financial management
subject: farm management
subject: farm income
subject: liquidity
subject: solvency
subject: profitability
subject: repayment capacity
subject: financial efficiency
subject: financial benchmarks
subject: tenure
subject: North Dakota.

description: The performance of over 500 North Dakota farms, 2000-2002, is summarized using 16 financial measures. Farms are categorized by geographic region, farm type, farm size, gross cash sales, farm tenure, net farm income, debt-to-asset, and age of farmer to analyze relationships between financial performance and farm characteristics. Farm financial trends for the 1993-2002 period are also presented. Financial performance improved in 2002, except for the west region and livestock farms. Crop farm profit was much higher from strong prices and lower costs, although government payments declined sharply and some west and south central areas suffered drought. Median net farm income was $38,079 in 2002, $27,729 in 2001, and $45,085 in 2000. All 16 financial performance measures declined in 2001, except interest expense ratio, because of lower government subsidies, higher costs and continued low commodity prices. Performance in 2000 and 1999 was the highest since 1993 because of extraordinary government and crop insurance payments, record yields for some crops and improved beef cattle prices. Performance for the 1993-2002 period was poorest in 1997 and 1998 when over one-half of farms could not make scheduled term debt payments with the year's income.
Additional file 1 of Preferences of physicians for public and private sector work
Creators: name: Scott, Anthony
name: Holte, Jon Helgeim
name: Witt, Julia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1. The measures of risk aversion.
Takahashi, Hidemi: Aristotelian Meteorology in Syriac
Creators: name: Schmitt, Jens Ole
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 89 (2005): Oriens christianus, Band 89
POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF GM WHEAT ON UNITED STATES AND NORTHERN PLAINS WHEAT TRADE
Creators: name: Taylor, Richard D.
name: DeVuyst, Eric A.
name: Koo, Won W.
name: Taylor, Richard D.
name: DeVuyst, Eric A.
name: Koo, Won W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: genetically modified wheat
subject: spatial equilibrium model
subject: trade flows
subject: protein equivalents
subject: externalities

description: The potential introduction of genetically modified (GM) wheat has both supporters and opponents waging battle in the popular press and scholarly research. Supporters highlight the benefits to producers, while the opponents highlight the unknown safety factors for consumers. The topic is very important to the United States, as a large portion of the wheat production is exported overseas. Consumer groups in some countries are resisting GM wheat. This study utilizes a spatial equilibrium model to evaluate the trade impacts associated with GM wheat introduction along with several assumed post-GM adoption scenarios. Wheat is converted into protein equivalents to allow for substitution between wheat classes. The importance of the U.S. handling/transportation system is highlighted in the ability of the system to develop an affordable and effective segregation system for GM wheat. Producers who do not produce GM wheat would face externalities associated with GM wheat contamination of non-GM wheat.
Patterns and Collective Behavior in Granular Media: Theoretical Concepts
Creators: name: Aranson, Igor S.
name: Tsimring, Lev S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Granular materials are ubiquitous in our daily lives. While they have been a subject of intensive engineering research for centuries, in the last decade granular matter attracted significant attention of physicists. Yet despite a major efforts by many groups, the theoretical description of granular systems remains largely a plethora of different, often contradicting concepts and approaches. Authors give an overview of various theoretical models emerged in the physics of granular matter, with the focus on the onset of collective behavior and pattern formation. Their aim is two-fold: to identify general principles common for granular systems and other complex non-equilibrium systems, and to elucidate important distinctions between collective behavior in granular and continuum pattern-forming systems.
description: Submitted to Reviews of Modern Physics. Full text with figures (2Mb pdf) avaliable at http://mti.msd.anl.gov/AransonTsimringReview/aranson_tsimring.pdf Community responce is appreciated. Comments/suggestions send to aronson@msd.anl.gov
U.S. PROCESSED FOOD EXPORTS AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Creators: name: Mattson, Jeremy W.
name: Koo, Won W.
name: Mattson, Jeremy W.
name: Koo, Won W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: processed foods
subject: foreign direct investment
subject: Western Hemisphere

description: U.S. exports of processed food products and sales by foreign affiliates of U.S. companies in the industry have been growing rapidly. Canada and Mexico are the United States' two major trading partners in the Western Hemisphere, while small quantities of processed food products are exported to a number of other countries in the hemisphere. U.S. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), like exports, is also largest in Canada and Mexico, but there is also significant FDI in the processed food industry in South American countries such as Brazil and Argentina. U.S. FDI, measured as sales by foreign affiliates, is significantly greater than U.S. processed food exports. The relationship between FDI and trade is subject to much debate and analysis. An econometric model is developed and estimated to determine the factors affecting U.S. processed food exports and sales by affiliates in eight Western Hemisphere countries, as well as the relationship between exports and FDI. Results suggest that U.S. FDI and exports are complements. U.S. exports are also positively influenced by real GDP in the importing country and are negatively influenced by tariffs. There are also large regional differences in U.S. exports after economic variables are accounted for. U.S. exports are higher to Canada and, to a lesser extent, Mexico and are lower to Brazil and Argentina. U.S. FDI is positively influenced by real GDP in the host country, which indicates that U.S. firms invest in countries with greater market opportunities. FDI is negatively influenced by exchange rate volatility, which indicates that U.S. firms try to avoid unstable economies. Free trade agreements with Canada and Mexico also have significant positive effects on U.S. FDI. Results indicate that taking advantage of lower labor costs is not a motivating factor for U.S. firms, and that the real exchange rate does not have a significant effect on either FDI or exports.
Purely in-plane ferroelectricity in monolayer SnS at room temperature
Creators: name: Higashitarumizu, N.
name: Kawamoto, H.
name: Lee, C. -J.
name: Lin, B. -H.
name: Chu, F. -H.
name: Yonemori, I.
name: Nishimura, T. i
name: Wakabayashi, K.
name: Chang, W. -H.
name: Nagashio, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 2D van der Waals ferroelectric semiconductors have emerged as an attractive building block with immense potential to provide multifunctionality in nanoelectronics. Although several accomplishments have been reported in ferroelectric resistive switching for out-of-plane 2D ferroelectrics down to the monolayer, a purely in-plane ferroelectric has not been experimentally validated at the monolayer thickness. Herein, a micrometer-size monolayer SnS is grown on mica by physical vapor deposition, and in-plane ferroelectric switching is demonstrated with a two-terminal device at room temperature (RT). SnS has been commonly regarded to exhibit the odd-even effect, where the centrosymmetry breaks only in the odd-number layers to exhibit ferroelectricity. Remarkably, however, a robust RT ferroelectricity exists in SnS below a critical thickness of 15 layers with both an odd and even number of layers. The lack of the odd-even effect probably originates from the interaction with the mica substrate, suggesting the possibility of controlling the stacking sequence of multilayer SnS, going beyond the limit of ferroelectricity in the monolayer. This work will pave the way for nanoscale ferroelectric applications based on SnS as a new platform for in-plane ferroelectrics.
Andromeda IX: Properties of the Smallest M 31 Dwarf Satellite Galaxy
Creators: name: Harbeck, D.
name: Gallagher, J.
name: Grebel, E. K.
name: Koch, A.
name: Zucker, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present WIYN observations of the recently discovered And IX dwarf spheroidal (dSph) satellite galaxy of M 31. Our data, obtained at a natural seeing of 0.5'' and just reaching the horizontal branch level, confirm And IX as a dSph galaxy with a distance similar to M 31. A survey for carbon stars shows no evidence for an intermediate-age (1--10 Gyr) stellar population in And IX. From the red giant branch we estimate a metallicity of roughly -2 dex. Combined with the tip of the red giant branch luminosity, this results in a distance of 735 kpc, placing And IX approximately 45 kpc from M 31. This faint dSph follows the relations between luminosity and metallicity, and luminosity and surface brightness defined by other Local Group dSph galaxies. The core and tidal radii are found to be 1.35' and 5.9', respectively. We conclude that And IX -- despite its low luminosity -- might be an ordinary Local Group dSph and discuss implications for its formation from a once more massive, but stripped progenitor or from an intrinsically low-mass seed.
description: 5 pages, scheduled for ApJ v623
Additional file 1 of Timely estimation of National Admission, readmission, and observation-stay rates in medicare patients with acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, or pneumonia using near real-time claims data
Creators: name: Li, Shu-Xia
name: Yongfei Wang
name: Sonam D. Lama
name: Schwartz, Jennifer
name: Jeph Herrin
name: Mei, Hao
name: Zhenqiu Lin
name: Bernheim, Susannah M.
name: Spivack, Steven
name: Krumholz, Harlan M.
name: Suter, Lisa G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure A1. Monthly cohort definition for AMI, HF or Pneumonia Readmissions and Observation Stays (Pg.2). Figure A2. Hierarchy for multiple post-discharge care events (Pg. 2). Table A1. Cumulative numbers and percentages of final action inpatient claims uploaded to the IDR for all conditions with a discharge date in January 2013 and July 2013 (as of December 2014) (Pg.3). Figure A3: Modeling approach (Pg.3). Figure A4. Timing of calculating monthly outcomes (Pg.4). Table A2. Final model specification for prediction of number of admissions, readmission rate, and observation-stay rate in AMI cohort (Pg.4). Table A3: Specifications of the final real-time reporting models for Heart failure and pneumonia (Pg.6). Table A4: Results of look-back validation where we compare the rates estimated (for the months July 2016 through December 2016) in February 2017 using RTR models with the final rates later observed using data downloaded from the IDR in February 2018 for AMI, HF and Pneumonia (Pg.7). Figure A5. Prediction and look-back validation for heart failure admission, readmission and observation stays (July 2016–December 2016) (Pg.8). Figure A6. Prediction and look-back validation for pneumonia admission, readmission and observation stays (July 2016–December 2016 (Pg.9).
Extending the theory of Owicki and Gries with a logic of progress
Creators: name: Dongol, Brijesh
name: Goldson, Doug
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.4; D.3.1; F.3.1

description: This paper describes a logic of progress for concurrent programs. The logic is based on that of UNITY, molded to fit a sequential programming model. Integration of the two is achieved by using auxiliary variables in a systematic way that incorporates program counters into the program text. The rules for progress in UNITY are then modified to suit this new system. This modification is however subtle enough to allow the theory of Owicki and Gries to be used without change.
DEVELOPING THE OUTDOOR RECREATION-RELATED AND NATURE-BASED TOURISM SECTOR IN SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA
Creators: name: Leistritz, F. Larry
name: Hodur, Nancy M.
name: Leistritz, F. Larry
name: Hodur, Nancy M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: SW-REAP Zone
subject: nature-based tourism
subject: economic development
subject: outdoor recreation

description: Southwestern North Dakota has historically been economically dependent on agriculture and the energy industry. Since the early 1980s, the region has experienced substantial out-migration and population loss as both the agricultural and energy sectors have undergone substantial consolidation with subsequent declining employment. The patterns of economic restructuring, out-migration, and population decline throughout the region led to the designation of the eight southwestern counties of North Dakota (a.k.a., State Planning Region 8) as a Rural Economic Area Partnership (REAP) zone in 1995. The USDA program was established to help address critical economic and community development issues unique to rural areas by facilitating a collaborative and citizen-led effort to stimulate economic development and diversification in the region. Tourism, particularly nature-based tourism, has seen substantial expansion in recent years and has been identified as a primary sector with growth potential. The purpose of this study was to: 1) identify opportunities for expanding the tourism sector in southwestern North Dakota, 2) identify challenges and obstacles facing the area's tourism businesses, and 3) frame key issues and outline some of the various perspectives related to each issue in order to facilitate a discussion of potential options.
Spacetime structure of static solutions in Gauss-Bonnet gravity: neutral case
Creators: name: Torii, Takashi
name: Maeda, Hideki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spacetime structures of the static solutions in the $n$-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-$Λ$ system systematically. We assume the Gauss-Bonnet coefficient $α$ is non-negative. The solutions have the $(n-2)$-dimensional Euclidean sub-manifold, which is the Einstein manifold with the curvature $k=1,~0$ and -1. We also assume $4{\tilde α}/\ell^2\leq 1$, where $\ell$ is the curvature radius, in order for the sourceless solution (M=0) to be defined. The general solutions are classified into plus and minus branches. The structures of the center, horizons, infinity and the singular point depend on the parameters $α$, $\ell^2$, $k$, $M$ and branches complicatedly so that a variety of global structures for the solutions are found. In the plus branch, all the solutions have the same asymptotic structure at infinity as that in general relativity with a negative cosmological constant. For the negative mass parameter, a new type of singularity called the branch singularity appears at non-zero finite radius $r=r_b>0$. The divergent behavior around the singularity in Gauss-Bonnet gravity is milder than that around the central singularity in general relativity. In the $k=1,~0$ cases the plus-branch solutions do not have any horizon. In the $k=-1$ case, the radius of the horizon is restricted as $r_h\sqrt{2\tildeα}$) in the plus (minus) branch. There is also the extreme black hole solution with positive mass in spite of the lack of electromagnetic charge. We briefly discuss the effect of the Gauss-Bonnet corrections on black hole formation in a collider and the possibility of the violation of third law of the black hole thermodynamics.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures
RESIDENT AND NONRESIDENT HUNTER AND ANGLER EXPENDITURES, CHARACTERISTICS, AND ECONOMIC EFFECTS, NORTH DAKOTA, 2001-2002
Creators: name: Bangsund, Dean A.
name: Leistritz, F. Larry
name: Bangsund, Dean A.
name: Leistritz, F. Larry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: hunting
subject: fishing
subject: expenditures
subject: economic effects
subject: North Dakota

description: The purpose of this study was to estimate the economic effects of hunting and fishing activities during the 2001-2002 season on the North Dakota economy, and to compare current information to previous studies to identify trends in hunting and angling activities. A mail survey of 29,034 resident hunters and anglers and 7,199 nonresident hunters and anglers was conducted to solicit information on 21 hunting and fishing activities during the 2001-2002 season. Total spending by hunters and anglers in North Dakota during the 2001-2002 season was estimated at $468.5 million, excluding purchases of licenses. Resident hunter and angler expenditures were estimated at $402.7 million, and nonresident hunter and angler expenditures were estimated at $65.9 million. Hunting expenditures were estimated at $166.4 million, and fishing expenditures were estimated at $302.1 million. Total spending in rural areas was estimated at $213.4 million by residents and $48.4 million by nonresidents. Total direct expenditures ($468.5 million) from hunting and fishing in North Dakota generated nearly $544.9 million in secondary economic effects. Gross business volume (direct and secondary effects) of hunting and fishing in North Dakota was estimated at $1 billion. Hunting and fishing activities were estimated to generate $30.5 million in general state tax collections and support 13,100 full-time equivalent jobs throughout the state. As a result of increased average per person spending in most hunting and fishing activities and increased number of participants in most activities, total spending in North Dakota increased by $106 million or 29 percent from 1996-97 to 2001-02. Total spending by resident hunters and anglers increased by $73 million or 22 percent, while nonresident spending increased by $33 million or 101 percent over the period. Hunter expenditures increased by $31 million or 23 percent, while angler expenditures increased by $75 million or 33 percent over the period. Gross business volume from all hunting and fishing activities increased by $233.9 million (30 percent) over the period. The economic importance of hunting and fishing in North Dakota has continued to increase throughout the 1990s, and continues to be an important source of economic activity in the state. However, policy decisions affecting wildlife management should not be based solely on economic information, and must balance the ever increasing demand for wildlife-related recreation with the supply of wildlife-related resources to ensure the continued economic benefits that abundant hunting and fishing opportunities provide to the state.
Additional file 1 of Two-year long safety and efficacy of deferasirox film-coated tablets in patients with thalassemia or lower/intermediate risk MDS: phase 3 results from a subset of patients previously treated with deferasirox in the ECLIPSE study
Creators: name: Tartaglione, Immacolata
name: Origa, Raffaella
name: Kattamis, Antonis
name: Pfeilstöcker, Michael
name: Gunes, Sibel
name: Crowe, Susanne
name: Fagan, Niamh
name: Vincenzi, Beatrice
name: Ruffo, Giovan Battista
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Summary of blood transfusions during the study. Table S2. Overview of adverse events. Table S3. Adverse events of special interest by preferred term (safety set). Table S4. Change from baseline to month 6 and month 12 in key hematological parameters.
Automated Sustainability Compliance Checking Using Process Mining and Formal Logic
Creators: name: Schreiber, Clemens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Business processes need to have certain constraints such that they can lead to sustainable outcomes. These constraints can be manifold and their adherence has to be monitored. In the past compliance checking has been applied in several business domains without considering certain sustainability aspects, such as multi-dimensionality and impact level. With my research I want to contribute to the application of compliance checking techniques for the purpose of sustainability compliance. In order to achieve this, I want to analyse and develop data-driven approaches, which allow to automate the task of compliance checking. The way in which this can be achieved, is be combining methods from process mining with formal languages that can express sustainability rules in a machine-readable manner. The main goal is to develop a compliance engine that can be adapted by ERP systems in order to evaluate sustainability conformance in business processes.
Long range absorption in the scattering of 6He on 208Pb and 197Au at 27 MeV
Creators: name: Kakuee, O. R.
name: Alvarez, M. A. G.
name: Andres, M. V.
name: Cherubini, S.
name: Davinson, T.
name: Di Pietro, A.
name: Galster, W.
name: Gomez-Camacho, J.
name: Laird, A. M.
name: Lamehi-Rachti, M.
name: Martel, I.
name: Moro, A. M.
name: Rahighi, J.
name: Sanchez-Benitez, A. M.
name: Shotter, A. C.
name: Smith, W. B.
name: Vervier, J.
name: Woods, P. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasi-elastic scattering of 6He at E_lab=27 MeV from 197Au has been measured in the angular range of 6-72 degrees in the laboratory system employing LEDA and LAMP detection systems. These data, along with previously analysed data of 6He + 208Pb at the same energy, are analyzed using Optical Model calculations. The role of Coulomb dipole polarizability has been investigated. Large imaginary diffuseness parameters are required to fit the data. This result is an evidence for long range absorption mechanisms in 6He induced reactions.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, minor corrections. To appear in Nucl. Phys. A
Weltecke, Dorothea: Die >>Beschreibung der Zeiten
Creators: name: Hage, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 89 (2005): Oriens christianus, Band 89
MODELING INTERNATIONAL TRADE IMPACTS OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED WHEAT INTRODUCTIONS
Creators: name: DeVuyst, Eric A.
name: Koo, Won W.
name: DeVuyst, Cheryl Sinn
name: Taylor, Richard D.
name: DeVuyst, Eric A.
name: Koo, Won W.
name: DeVuyst, Cheryl Sinn
name: Taylor, Richard D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: international trade
subject: genetically modified organisms
subject: producer surplus
subject: consumer surplus
subject: welfare
subject: transportation cost

description: Planned introductions of genetically modified crop varieties can be troublesome to model. Estimation of demand and supply equations is not feasible due to lack of data. Further, specifying demand and supply equations requires calibration to a presumed equilibrium. Depending on the point chosen, highly questionable results may be obtained. We propose a model that uses existing supply, demand, and elasticity estimates. The approach relies on composite supply and demand functions. These composite functions are linear combinations of GM and non-GM varieties. We then employ this approach in a model of world wheat trade to analyze the impact of several plausible GM wheat adoption and consumer acceptability scenarios.
Vantage point in episodic memory : a cognitive and clinical investigation
Creators: name: McIsaac, Heather Kathleen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: People can take different points of view when recalling prior events. On the one hand, they can adopt a field vantage point in which they mentally reinstate the memory as if reliving the experience through their own eyes. On the other hand, they can recall the memory as if they were an outside observer watching themselves in the remembered scene. This thesis used two experiments - one with normal adults in a controlled laboratory setting and another with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients - to examine whether the selection of a particular mental vantage point impacts the contents of one's memory for personal events. To create an episode for recall, participants performed several tasks and then were asked to recall this episode from either the field or the observer vantage point. Following recall, participants indicated how the specified vantage point affected their memory. Two coders analyzed participants' tape-recorded recollections using a scoring key containing a priori content categories on which the vantage point memories were predicted to differ. Participants' recollections differed as a function of vantage point with field memories containing more information about how they felt - emotionally, physically, psychologically during the task and observer memories focusing more on their actions and appearance, and object locations. The same analyses were used to assess the memories of a group of patients who met criteria of PTSD. Unlike the laboratory experiment wherein participants were randomly assigned to one of the vantage point groups, here each PTSD patient was allowed to recollect their traumatic experience from the perspective they would naturally choose to use. The analysis of the trauma memories revealed differences in memory contents as a function of vantage point similar to those found in the laboratory experiment: field memories contained more statements about affective reactions, physical sensations, and psychological states during the trauma, while observer memories included more information about object locations and descriptions of the patients watching themselves in the scene. Additionally, observer memories in the PTSD sample included more information peripheral to the traumatic event. The discussion focuses on the implications of these results and prospects for future research.
Halos of Spiral Galaxies. III. Metallicity Distributions
Creators: name: Mouhcine, M.
name: Rich, R. M.
name: Ferguson, H. C.
name: Brown, T. M.
name: Smith, T. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abriged) We report results of a campaign to image the stellar populations in the halos of highly inclined spiral galaxies, with the fields roughly 10 kpc (projected) from the nuclei. We use the F814W (I) and F606W (V) filters in the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, on board the Hubble Space telescope. Extended halo populations are detected in all galaxies. The color-magnitude diagrams appear to be completely dominated by giant-branch stars, with no evidence for the presence of young stellar populations in any of the fields. We find that the metallicity distribution functions are dominated by metal-rich populations, with a tail extending toward the metal poor end. To first order, the overall shapes of the metallicity distribution functions are similar to what is predicted by simple, single-component model of chemical evolution with the effective yields increasing with galaxy luminosity. However, metallicity distributions significantly narrower than the simple model are observed for a few of the most luminous galaxies in the sample. It appears clear that more luminous spiral galaxies also have more metal-rich stellar halos. The increasingly significant departures from the closed-box model for the more luminous galaxies indicate that a parameter in addition to a single yield is required to describe chemical evolution. This parameter, which could be related to gas infall or outflow either in situ or in progenitor dwarf galaxies that later merge to form the stellar halo, tends to act to make the metallicity distributions narrower at high metallicity.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures (ApJ, in press)
The Generational Turnover in Agriculture: Theoretical Problems and Empirical Evidences
Creators: name: Simeone, Mariarosaria
name: Simeone, Mariarosaria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Generational-turnover
subject: migration
subject: transfer farms

description: The purpose of this study is to understand the causes determining the exit from the sector of young adults. Drawing from migration and succession theories, a number of factors, hypothesised to influence the decision, are tested using a Probit model. The findings lend support for the selectivity hypothesis: low incomes are negatively related with the propensity to stay in the sector. The exit of young could be related to the low earnings and to the preferences of individuals. The intergenerational transfer seems to be the result of an involvement in the farm activity.
Additional file 6 of Registration and local production of essential medicines in Uganda
Creators: name: Brhlikova, Petra
name: Maigetter, Karen
name: Murison, Jude
name: Agaba, Amon G.
name: Jonans Tusiimire
name: Pollock, Allyson M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6. Interview guide regulators follow up.
Ownership Form Effect on Large-Scale Farms' Performance: Case of Czech Agriculture
Creators: name: Curtiss, Jarmila
name: Medonos, Tomas
name: Ratinger, Tomas
name: Curtiss, Jarmila
name: Medonos, Tomas
name: Ratinger, Tomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Cluster analysis
subject: Czech agriculture
subject: ownership
subject: endogeneity
subject: large-scale farms
subject: performance
subject: principal component analysis.

description: This study analyzes the ownership-performance relationship in large-scale farms using extensive survey and farm accountancy data from Czech agriculture. Controlling for ownership endogeneity, no significant influence of ownership on financial performance was found. However, ownership concentration and managerial ownership positively effect labor productivity. Farm group analysis detects highly heterogeneous ownership form combinations and suggests that ownership endogeneity stems from mutual sources with economic performance. The results imply that one of these sources is management quality and its ownership transformation strategies. They further disclose that ownership structure and agency problems are more of a concern in larger farms.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 03/01/06.
Modelling, Simulation, and Planning for the MoleMOD System
Creators: name: Brejchová, Michaela
name: Kulich, Miroslav
name: Petrš, Jan
name: Přeučil, Libor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: MoleMOD is a heterogeneous self-reconfigurable modular robotic system to be employed in architecture and civil engineering. In this paper we present two components of the MoleMOD infrastructure - a test environment and a planning algorithm. The test environment for simulation and visualization of active parts as well as passive blocks of MoleMOD is based on Gazebo - a powerful general-purpose robotic simulator. The key effort has been put into preparation of realistic models of passive and active components taking into account their physical characteristics. Moreover, given a starting configuration of the MoleMOD system and a final configuration an approach to plan collision-free trajectories for a fleet of active parts is introduced.
Additional file 4 of Registration and local production of essential medicines in Uganda
Creators: name: Brhlikova, Petra
name: Maigetter, Karen
name: Murison, Jude
name: Agaba, Amon G.
name: Jonans Tusiimire
name: Pollock, Allyson M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Interview guide procurers/distributors.
A mathematical theory of citing
Creators: name: Simkin, M. V.
name: Roychowdhury, V. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Recently we proposed a model in which when a scientist writes a manuscript, he picks up several random papers, cites them and also copies a fraction of their references (cond-mat/0305150). The model was stimulated by our discovery that a majority of scientific citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers (cond-mat/0212043). It accounted quantitatively for several properties of empirically observed distribution of citations. However, important features, such as power-law distribution of citations to papers published during the same year and the fact that the average rate of citing decreases with aging of a paper, were not accounted for by that model. Here we propose a modified model: when a scientist writes a manuscript, he picks up several random recent papers, cites them and also copies some of their references. The difference with the original model is the word recent. We solve the model using methods of the theory of branching processes, and find that it can explain the aforementioned features of citation distribution, which our original model couldn't account for. The model can also explain "sleeping beauties in science", i.e., papers that are little cited for a decade or so, and later "awake" and get a lot of citations. Although much can be understood from purely random models, we find that to obtain a good quantitative agreement with empirical citation data one must introduce Darwinian fitness parameter for the papers.
Additional file 5 of Registration and local production of essential medicines in Uganda
Creators: name: Brhlikova, Petra
name: Maigetter, Karen
name: Murison, Jude
name: Agaba, Amon G.
name: Jonans Tusiimire
name: Pollock, Allyson M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5. Interview guide donors/NGOs.
Disentangling the Social and Economic Dimensions of Agricultural Behaviour: What Role for Institutions and Social Capital?
Creators: name: Kostov, Philip
name: Lingard, John
name: Kostov, Philip
name: Lingard, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Agricultural production is increasingly combined with other economic and noneconomic activities. This leads to complex interactions taking place within rural systems. The recent policy shift towards a more holistic approach in terms of integrated and sustainable models of rural development emphasises these developments. In this context the role of 'noneconomic' determinants of behaviour is placed to the fore. The orthodox economic approach stresses (almost) instantaneous adjustments to prices and other 'economic' factors. This is at odds with idealised images of the 'efficient' market, which is characterised by a great deal of uncertainty. In such a volatile environment, routines-based behaviour, such as following institutional rules and/or socially acceptable types of behaviour, usually described in term of 'social capital', is advantageous and creates a more stable environment. The stable environment is a pre-requisite for workability of the purely 'economic' arrangements. This intuitive argument is developed using a simple mathematical model, incorporating 'social' and 'economic' factors. The social dimension enhances the impact of economic factors, slowing the speed of adjustment to the equilibrium state. Some conditions under which the social and institutional infrastructure are beneficial or detrimental for economic development are outlined. An important by-product of our model is the conclusion that social and economic factors are closely entangled and their separate influences are purely analytical devices. Ignoring this entanglement may lead to serious biases in quantitative analysis. Some examples of these potential pitfalls are presented.
Instantaneous Measurement of field quadrature moments and entanglement
Creators: name: Lougovski, P.
name: Walther, H.
name: Solano, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method of measuring expectation values of quadrature moments of a multimode field through two-level probe ``homodyning''. Our approach is based on an integral transform formalism of measurable probe observables, where analytically derived kernels unravel efficiently the required field information at zero interaction time, minimizing decoherence effects. The proposed scheme is suitable for fields that, while inaccessible to a direct measurement, enjoy one and two-photon Jaynes-Cummings interactions with a two-level probe, like spin, phonon, or cavity fields. Available data from previous experiments are used to confirm our predictions.
description: 4 pages, no figures, modified version with experimental estimations
Integral fluctuation theorem for the housekeeping heat
Creators: name: Speck, T.
name: Seifert, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The housekeeping heat $Q\hk$ is the dissipated heat necessary to maintain the violation of detailed balance in nonequilibrium steady states. By analyzing the evolution of its probability distribution, we prove an integral fluctuation theorem $\mean{\exp[-βQ\hk]}=1$ valid for arbitrary driven transitions between steady states. We discuss Gaussian limiting cases and the difference between the new theorem and both the Hatano-Sasa and the Jarzynski relation.
description: to be published in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen
Agricultural Agent Land-Use and Land Ownership Behavioural Analysis: A Casa Study From a Southern Italian Region
Creators: name: Pascucci, Stefano
name: Pascucci, Stefano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Behavioural studies
subject: Institutional structure of land ownership

description: The recent CAP reform introduced new income support instruments much more related on agricultural agents land-use and land-ownership conditions than before. In this perspective the behavioural analysis of land-use and land-ownership decision process seems to be a basic condition to evaluate the efficiency, effectiveness and equity of those instruments, and to understand and to forecast the agents response to these stimuli. The land-use and land-ownership behaviour differs according to various land managers, not only on the base of "economic-productive" conditions, but also on the base of exogenous and endogenous "institutional" conditions, such as the presence of formal or informal contracts, cultural values, intergenerational linkages, family-farm organisation and land-market imperfections and regulations. In this study an analytic methodology is presented together with an explanatory model which both try to show the role and the relationships between the various land-use and landownership driving factors at an agricultural agent level. It is also showed the different behavioural response to the exogenous stimuli coming from the "economic-institutional" environment, in which the agents operate. The model was tested in a Southern Italian region case study. In the first part of the analysis the various "economic-institutional" environment typologies, in which the region is articulated, were detected, on the base of official census data at the communal administrative units level. The Factorial Analysis through the Principal Components Analysis and Groups Analysis, is the analytic methodology used for this aim. In the second part of the analysis two specific "environments" were chosen in which the empirical survey was led at the agricultural agent level. The data coming from the survey were used to test the behavioural explanatory model. The results showed not only some specific "behavioural" paths which may be detected in the two different environments, but also deep differences among the various typologies of agricultural agents inside the same environments, depending on the "economic-productive" size, the presence of strong familiar roles, informal contracts for hiring work and renting land, the specific history of the agricultural agent, the perception of land as a productive factor, an investment good or a "social status symbol". The results are presented in the last part of the article.
The Relevance of the Policies of Development in the Agri-Food Sector of Emilia-Romagna Region
Creators: name: Brasili, Cristina
name: Bonetti, Mirko
name: Brasili, Cristina
name: Bonetti, Mirko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Agri-food sector
subject: Development Policies
subject: Food industry
subject: Multicriterial Analysis
subject: Region Emilia-Romagna
subject: Sensitivity Analysis

description: The aim of this paper is to analysis the impact of the policies of development and investments in the food industry at geographical and enterprises levels. We will analysis how the different geographical areas inside the Italian region Emilia-Romagna are sensitive to the development policies. A Principal Component Analysis and a Cluster Analysis will be applied to determine the most homogeneous geographical areas with respect to the considered variables. Then for evaluating the sensibility of these areas with respect to changes in investments and policies for food industry enterprise will be applied a Multicriterial Analysis and a Sensitivity Analysis.
Additional file 3 of Registration and local production of essential medicines in Uganda
Creators: name: Brhlikova, Petra
name: Maigetter, Karen
name: Murison, Jude
name: Agaba, Amon G.
name: Jonans Tusiimire
name: Pollock, Allyson M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Interview guide regulators.