cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Current trends and geographical differences in therapeutic profile and outcomes of COVID-19 among pregnant women - a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Dubey, Pallavi
name: Thakur, Bhaskar
name: Sireesha Reddy
name: Martinez, Carla A.
name: Md Nurunnabi
name: Manuel, Sharron L.
name: Chheda, Sadhana
name: Bracamontes, Christina
name: Dwivedi, Alok K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
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: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Methodological quality assessment for studies included in the meta-analysis. Supplementary Table 2. Assessment of small studies effects (publication bias). Supplementary Table 3. Associations of maternal characteristics and treatments with outcomes in case reports.
O(alpha_s^2) QCD corrections to the electroproduction of hadrons with high transverse momentum
Creators: name: Daleo, A.
name: de Florian, D.
name: Sassot, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the order alpha_s^2 corrections to the one particle inclusive electroproduction cross section of hadrons with non vanishing transverse momentum. We perform the full calculation analytically, and obtain the expression of the factorized (finite) cross section at this order. We compare our results with H1 data on forward production of pi^0, and discuss the phenomenological implications of the rather large higher order contributions obtained in that case. Specifically, we analyze the cross section sensitivity to the factorization and renormalization scales, and to the input fragmentation functions, over the kinematical region covered by data. We conclude that the data is well described by the O(alpha_s^2) predictions within the theoretical uncertainties and without the inclusion of any physics content beyond the DGLAP approach.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX, 7 figures
CONTRIBUIÇÃO DA CERTIFICAÇÃO ORGÂNICA PARA UM NOVO MODELO DE GOVERNANÇA NO COMPLEXO AGROINDUSTRIAL CITRÍCOLA BRASILEIRO
Creators: name: Carvalho, Murilo Sicchieri De
name: Paulillo, Luiz Fernando
name: Carvalho, Murilo Sicchieri De
name: Paulillo, Luiz Fernando
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: institutions
subject: governance
subject: certification
subject: citrus
subject: integration

description: This paper compares governance structures in the Brazilian citrus production that appeared with the process of international certification of organic products. Both governance structures, between organic orange production and the processing plant, are analyzed through a study case methodology. These two governance structures are different from the traditional dominant structures that were consolidated with the industrial oligopoly of frozen and concentrated orange juice production along the last thirty years in Brazil. The analyzed cases (onward integration and onward partial-integration) can be used as a reference for possible penetrations of alternative organizational forms in citrus production in an agro-industrial complex predominantly directed at commodity exportation (frozen concentrated orange juice) that has been excluding thousands of citrus producers since 1990. The theoretical basis of this work is the new institutional economy (NIE), known as transaction cost approach. The results of the case studies show that organic certification of orange production and processing leads to more integrated governance structures in citrus production, as it increases agricultural products’ assets specificity and moral hazard risks in commercialization.
Berlin: A Quantitative View of the Structure of Institutional Scientific Collaborations
Creators: name: Akbaritabar, Aliakbar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper examines the structure of scientific collaborations in a large European metropolitan area. It aims to identify strategic coalitions among organizations in Berlin as a specific case with high institutional and sectoral diversity. By adopting a global, regional and organization based approach we provide a quantitative, exploratory and macro view of this diversity. We use publications data with at least one organization located in Berlin from 1996-2017. We further investigate four members of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) through their self-represented research profiles comparing it with empirical results of OECD disciplines. Using a bipartite network modeling framework, we are able to move beyond the uncontested trend towards team science and increasing internationalization. Our results show that BUA members shape the structure of scientific collaborations in the region. However, they are not collaborating cohesively in all disciplines. Larger divides exist in some disciplines e.g., Agricultural Sciences and Humanities. Only Medical and Health Sciences have cohesive intraregional collaborations which signals the success of regional cooperation established in 2003. We explain possible underlying factors shaping the observed trends and sectoral and intra-regional groupings. A major methodological contribution of this paper is evaluating coverage and accuracy of different organization name disambiguation techniques.
description: 10 tables, 8 figures
Nonthermal THz to TeV Emission from Stellar Wind Shocks in the Galactic Center
Creators: name: Quataert, Eliot
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The central parsec of the Galaxy contains dozens of massive stars with a cumulative mass loss rate of ~ 10^{-3} solar masses per year. Shocks among these stellar winds produce the hot plasma that pervades the central part of the galaxy. We argue that these stellar wind shocks also efficiently accelerate electrons and protons to relativistic energies. The relativistic electrons inverse Compton scatter the ambient ultraviolet and far infrared radiation field, producing high energy gamma-rays with a roughly constant luminosity from \~ GeV to ~ 10 TeV. This can account for the TeV source seen by HESS in the Galactic Center. Our model predicts a GLAST counterpart to the HESS source with a luminosity of ~ 10^{35} ergs/s and cooling break at ~ 4 GeV. Synchrotron radiation from the same relativistic electrons should produce detectable emission at lower energies, with a surface brightness ~ 10^{32} B^2_{-3} ergs/s/arcsec^2 from ~ THz to ~ keV, where B_{-3} is the magnetic field strength in units of mG. The observed level of diffuse thermal X-ray emission in the central parsec requires B < 300 micro-G in our models. Future detection of the diffuse synchrotron background in the central parsec can directly constrain the magnetic field strength, providing an important boundary condition for models of accretion onto Sgr A*.
description: submitted to ApJ Letters
What Brain Imaging Reveals About the Nature of Multitasking
Creators: name: Just, Marcel
name: Buchweitz, Augusto
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: The goal of this chapter is to provide an account of multitasking from the perspective of brain function and cognition using the new information gleaned from brain imaging science. By comparing the brain activation patterns observed in multitasking to the activation in the component tasks, it is possible to discover what is neurally distinctive and costly about multitasking. The neurocognitive account relates multitasking to the coordination of two large-scale cortical networks underlying each of the two tasks and a network of executive control. This approach provides new answers to several timeless questions about multitasking, such as the nature of the limited brain resources for which two tasks compete, the role of automaticity of one of the tasks being co-performed, and the brain effects of training.
EFICÁCIA DA POLÍTICA DE CRÉDITO GOVERNAMENTAL SOBRE A RENDA DOS ASSENTADOS DA REFORMA AGRÁRIA: UM ESTUDO DE CASO
Creators: name: Arraes, Ronaldo De Albuquerque E
name: Sousa Junior, Jose Luis De
name: Arraes, Ronaldo De Albuquerque E
name: Sousa Junior, Jose Luis De
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Santa Rita Settlement
subject: Agrarian Reform
subject: Public Policy Efficacy

description: This study aims to determine the impact of the installation credits of the National Program for Agrarian Reform and PRONAF-A (National Program for the Strengthening of Family Farming) on the household income of the rural workers in the Santa Rita Settlement, located in the municipality of Altos – Piaui state. A general survey of the settlement’s characteristics was conducted using statistic analysis through hypotheses testing to evaluate the impact of such programs, considering the average household income and the years of schooling of the family head for the years 2001 and 2005. A comparison was made of each of those variables using data samples from Santa Rita, PRONAF-A and traditional farmers as control group, for each year. The database was collected for analysis at INCRA/PI (National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform of Piaui state), CEPAC (Center for Cultural Action in Piaiui state) and PNAD (National Household Survey). The results show the need for a redirection of settlement policies to enhance the effectiveness of public resources and to provide greater wellness and sustainability among family farmers in low income and productivity areas, as exemplified by the northeast region of Brazil.
GESTÃO DE DISTRIBUIÇÃO DAS EMPRESAS ATACADISTAS DE FLV NA REGIÃO METROPOLITANA DE RECIFE - PE: O CASO DE DUAS EMPRESAS
Creators: name: Mendes, Luciene Nascimento
name: Silva, Jearbes Alexandre Da
name: Favero, Luiz Andrea
name: Mendes, Luciene Nascimento
name: Silva, Jearbes Alexandre Da
name: Favero, Luiz Andrea
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Supply Chain Management
subject: Transaction Cost Economics
subject: Wholesale

description: The national market for FLV (fruits, legumes and vegetables) has grown significantly in recent years. However, due to the high perishability of these products, their quality is subject to appropriate processes of standardization, selection, classification, packaging and transportation to avoid losses, which are high. This requires a complete harmony between the players/agents in this market to offer the consumer high quality products with speed and efficiency. Since the producers rarely perform these procedures, it is up to the segments, such as the wholesale segment, represented by CEASAs and wholesaler companies. Thus, this study sought to analyze the systems of two marketing wholesaler companies of fruits, legumes and vegetables in the metropolitan area of Recife, based on theories of Supply Chain Management and Transaction Costs Economics. There were similar features among the companies, such as lack of greater qualification in the management of business enterprise, a strong focus on decision-making and low concern with the training of the workers. The contract between suppliers and customers is only formalized when necessary. The forms of marketing focus primarily on the price, then on the quality of the product.
Spin-orbit induced interference in polygon-structures
Creators: name: van Veenhuizen, Marc J.
name: Koga, Takaaki
name: Nitta, Junsaku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the spin-orbit induced spin-interference pattern of ballistic electrons travelling along any regular polygon. It is found that the spin-interference depends strongly on the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit constants as well as on the sidelength and alignment of the polygon. We derive the analytical formulae for the limiting cases of either zero Dresselhaus or zero Rashba spin-orbit coupling, including the result obtained for a circle. We calculate the nonzero Dresselhaus and Rashba case numerically for the square, triangle, hexagon, and circle and discuss the observability of the spin-interference which can potentially be used to measure the Rashba and Dresselhaus coefficients.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures
Automatic Knowledge Acquisition for Object-Oriented Expert Systems
Creators: name: Colloc, Joël
name: Boulanger, Danielle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe an Object Oriented Model for building Expert Systems. This model and the detection of similarities allow to implement reasoning modes as induction, deduction and simulation. We specially focus on similarity and its use in induction. We propose original algorithms which deal with total and partial structural similitude of objects to facilitate knowledge acquisition.
Oenopia chinensis
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Oenopia
Oenopia chinensis

description: 96. chinensis (Weise, 1913)
Distribution: India (Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya); Nepal; Laos; Vietnam; China.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 285, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Potential theoretic approach to rendezvous numbers
Creators: name: Farkas, Balint
name: Revesz, Szilard Gy.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 31C15; 28A12, 54D45

description: We analyze relations between various forms of energies (reciprocal capacities), the transfinite diameter, various Chebyshev constants and the so-called rendezvous or average number. The latter is originally defined for compact connected metric spaces (X,d) as the (in this case unique) nonnegative real number r with the property that for arbitrary finite point systems {x1,...,xn} in X, there exists some point x in X with the average of the distances d(x,xj) being exactly r. Existence of such a miraculous number has fascinated many people; its normalized version was even named "the magic number" of the metric space. Exploring related notions of general potential theory, as set up, e.g., in the fundamental works of Fuglede and Ohtsuka, we present an alternative, potential theoretic approach to rendezvous numbers.
description: 21 pages
Next Waves in Veridical Network Embedding
Creators: name: Ward, Owen G.
name: Huang, Zhen
name: Davison, Andrew
name: Zheng, Tian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Embedding nodes of a large network into a metric (e.g., Euclidean) space has become an area of active research in statistical machine learning, which has found applications in natural and social sciences. Generally, a representation of a network object is learned in a Euclidean geometry and is then used for subsequent tasks regarding the nodes and/or edges of the network, such as community detection, node classification and link prediction. Network embedding algorithms have been proposed in multiple disciplines, often with domain-specific notations and details. In addition, different measures and tools have been adopted to evaluate and compare the methods proposed under different settings, often dependent of the downstream tasks. As a result, it is challenging to study these algorithms in the literature systematically. Motivated by the recently proposed Veridical Data Science (VDS) framework, we propose a framework for network embedding algorithms and discuss how the principles of predictability, computability and stability apply in this context. The utilization of this framework in network embedding holds the potential to motivate and point to new directions for future research.
Nonrelativistic effective field theories with enhanced symmetries and soft behavior
Creators: name: Mojahed, Martin A.
name: Brauner, Tomáš
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We systematically explore the landscape of nonrelativistic effective field theories with a local $S$-matrix and enhanced symmetries and soft behavior. The exploration is carried out using both conventional quantum field theory methods based on symmetry arguments, and recently developed on-shell recursion relations. We show that, in contrary to relativistic theories, enhancement of the soft limit of scattering amplitudes in nonrelativistic theories is generally not a byproduct of symmetry alone, but requires additional low-energy data. Sufficient conditions for enhanced scattering amplitudes can be derived by combining symmetries and dispersion relations of the scattered particles. This has direct consequences for the infrared dynamics that different types of nonrelativistic Nambu-Goldstone bosons can exhibit. We then use a bottom-up soft bootstrap approach to narrow down the landscape of nonrelativistic effective field theories that possess a consistent low-energy $S$-matrix. We recover two exceptional theories of a complex Schrödinger-type scalar, namely the $\mathbb{C} P^1$ nonlinear sigma model and the Schrödinger-Dirac-Born-Infeld theory. Moreover, we use soft recursion to prove a no-go theorem ruling out the existence of other exceptional Schrödinger-type theories. We also prove that all exceptional theories of a single real scalar with a linear dispersion relation are necessarily Lorentz-invariant. Soft recursion allows us to obtain some further general bounds on the landscape of nonrelativistic effective theories with enhanced soft limits. Finally, we present a novel theory of a complex scalar with a technically natural quartic dispersion relation. Altogether, our work represents the first step of a program to extend the developments in the study of scattering amplitudes to theories without Lorentz invariance.
description: 67 pages, 3 figures
APLICAÇÃO DA ANÁLISE ENVOLTÓRIA DE DADOS (DEA) PARA AVALIAÇÃO DE EFICIÊNCIA DE USINAS DE AÇÚCAR E ÁLCOOL DA REGIÃO NORDESTE DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO
Creators: name: Salgado Junior, Alexandre Pereira
name: Bonacim, Carlos Alberto Grespan
name: Pacagnella Junior, Antonio Carlos
name: Salgado Junior, Alexandre Pereira
name: Bonacim, Carlos Alberto Grespan
name: Pacagnella Junior, Antonio Carlos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Sugar and Ethanol Plants
subject: Ethanol
subject: Agribusiness
subject: Efficiency and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

description: This aim of this article is to analyze the relation of size and operational efficiency of sugar and ethanol plants in the northeastern region of São Paulo state. In order to achieve this goal, a survey was conducted to identify the consumption of the main resources (inputs) and product creation (outputs) in a random sample of twenty six units, which allowed for their classification according to size. This enabled the creation of an efficiency ranking, using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), whose variables were chosen by the stepwise method. The results suggest that, for the plants studied, there is no direct relation between size and operational efficiency, which can be explained by technical aspects associated to the inputs. The results provide subsides to the managers in the sugar and ethanol plants, who can then better structure their operational strategies.
The Gestural organization of North American English /r/ : a study of timing and magnitude
Creators: name: Campbell, Fiona Margaret
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The syllable-based allophonic variation in the relative timing and magnitude of two gestures which has been observed for a number of complex segments, including /l/, /w/ and nasal consonants (Sproat and Fujimura, 1993; Browman and Goldstein, 1995; Krakow, 1999; Gick, 2003), provides the generalization that more anterior gestures tend to appear at syllable peripheries. However, because only two gestures are examined it is not clear how to characterize the gestures involved, nor whether timing offsets are categorical or gradient. North American English /r/ is a particularly variable and complex segment with three constrictions - tongue root (TR), tongue tip/blade/body (TB), and lips (Lip), perhaps the reason it has been the subject of numerous studies (Delattre and Freeman, 1968; etc.). That said, technological limitations have hindered the ability of articulatory studies to accurately examine the timing and magnitude of all three gestures of /r/ (Gick and Campbell, 2003). With the object of better understanding the nature and role of timing offsets within phonetics and articulatory phonology, this thesis reports the results of an experiment examining productions of /r/ by nine speakers of Canadian English. The present study uses a novel combination of M-mode ultrasound to measure lingual gestures and Optotrak to measure lip gestures - a significant improvement over previous methods, particularly with respect to temporal resolution (Campbell, Gick, & Namdaran, 2004). Despite variable tongue position/shapes across subjects, cross-subject results show a position-based reduction in gestural magnitude similar to that observed in previous studies (see Krakow, 1999); the Lip and TB gestures were reduced in syllable-final position and the TR gesture was reduced in syllable-initial position. Results also indicate that there is a pattern of front-to-back timing in syllable-initial position, with the Lip occurring before the TB, which occurs before the TR. In syllable-final position the order observed was TR and Lip, followed by TB. These findings are not wholly consistent with any of the theories advanced thus far to explain syllable-based allophonic variation. It is proposed that the relative magnitude of gestures is a better predictor of timing than the relative anteriority of a gesture or an assigned phonological classification.
AVALIAÇÃO DA PRODUÇÃO DO BIODIESEL DE SOJA E DOS PREÇOS AO PRODUTOR E AO CONSUMIDOR, NO BRASIL, EM 2008
Creators: name: Baccarin, Jose Giacomo
name: Gandra, Anamaria Guimaraes
name: Baccarin, Jose Giacomo
name: Gandra, Anamaria Guimaraes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: soybean
subject: biodiesel
subject: diesel
subject: production cost
subject: consumer price

description: This work evaluated the effective and potential importance of biodiesel for soybean production in Brazil and its regions in 2008, as well as if the prices of biodiesel had been adjusted according to the interests of producers and consumers. Four situations were considered: the first one refers to the application of Law 11.097/05, which resulted in a production of 1.164,33 million liters of biodiesel (912,83million liters of soybean biodiesel), which corresponds to 2,6% of the national diesel consumption in 2008. Alternatively, an estimate was made of what would happen if the percentage of the mixture had been 4%, 5% or 8,3%. In 2008, it is estimated that 8,5 % of the soybean produced in Brazil was directed for biodiesel production, and this percentage would increase to 13%, 16,3% and 26,9%, in the case of the other mixtures. Considering the production cost estimates of the soybean and biodiesel of the 2004/05 crop and comparing them with 2008, it was observed that the prices obtained by the soybean and biodiesel producers were attractive, regarding both the production costs and the price of the soybean. For the consumer, it was estimated that the 2,6% biodiesel mixture increased diesel prices in 1,45% in 2008. The other mixtures lead to prices increases of 2,15%, 2,69% and 4,46%.
Lens Galaxy Environments and Anomalous Flux Ratios in Gravitational Lenses
Creators: name: Oguri, Masamune
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fraction of substructures required to account for anomalous flux ratios in gravitational lens systems appears to be higher than that predicted in the standard cold dark matter cosmology. We present a possible alternative route to anomalous flux ratios from lens galaxy environments. We consider the compound lens system such that a lens galaxy lie in a group or cluster, and estimate the contribution of substructures in the group/cluster to the fraction using an analytic model of substructures. We find that the contribution becomes dominant when the impact parameter of the lens is less than ~30% of the virial radius of the group/cluster. This indicates that the environmental effect can partly explain the high incidence of anomalous flux ratios.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
The fourth- and fifth-order virial coefficients from weak-coupling to unitarity
Creators: name: Hou, Y.
name: Drut, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the current era of precision quantum many-body physics, one of the most scrutinized systems is the unitary limit of the nonrelativistic spin-$1/2$ Fermi gas, due to its simplicity and relevance for atomic, condensed matter, and nuclear physics. The thermodynamics of this strongly correlated system is determined by universal functions which, at high temperature, are governed by universal virial coefficients $b_n$ that capture the effects of the $n$-body system on the many-body dynamics. Currently, $b_2$ and $b_3$ are well understood, but the situation is less clear for $b_4$, and no predictions have been made for $b_5$. To answer these open questions, we implement a nonperturbative analytic approach based on the Trotter-Suzuki factorization of the imaginary-time evolution operator, using progressively finer temporal lattice spacings. Implementing these factorizations and automated algebra codes, we obtain the interaction-induced change $Δb_n$ from weak coupling to unitarity. At unitarity, we find: $Δb_3 = -0.356(4)$, in agreement with previous results; $Δb_4 = 0.062(2)$, in agreement with all previous theoretical estimates but at odds with experimental determinations; and $Δb_5 = 0.078(6)$, which is a prediction. We show the impact of those answers on the density equation of state and Tan contact, and track their origin back to their polarized and unpolarized components.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Neural Representations of Concept Knowledge
Creators: name: Just, Marcel
name: Bauer, Andrew
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: This chapter reviews progress made by brain-reading (neurosemantic) studies that use multivariate analytic methods to delineate the nature, content, and neuroanatomical distribution of the neural representation of concept knowledge in semantic memory. Concept knowledge underlies almost all human thought, communication, and daily activity. The chapter describes how neurosemantic research has provided initial answers to such prominent questions as: What types of information are encoded in a given neural concept representation? To what extent are neural concept representations common across different people? Do neural concept representations evoked by pictures differ from those evoked by language? How are abstract versus concrete concepts represented in the brain? How does the neural representation of a concept evolve while a new concept is being learned? What are the properties and implications of the data analytic techniques that are used in this research area? The initial answers to these questions illuminate how the properties of brain organization impose a structure on the neural representations of concepts.
Direct STM Measurements of R- and H-type Twisted MoSe2/WSe2 Heterostructures
Creators: name: Nieken, Rachel
name: Roche, Anna
name: Mahdikhanysarvejahany, Fateme
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Koehler, Michael R.
name: Mandrus, David G.
name: Schaibley, John
name: LeRoy, Brian J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides heterostructures are stacked the twist angle and lattice mismatch leads to a periodic moiré potential. As the angle between the layers changes, so do the electronic properties. As the angle approaches 0- or 60-degrees interesting characteristics and properties such as modulations in the band edges, flat bands, and confinement are predicted to occur. Here we report scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy measurements on the band gaps and band modulations in MoSe2/WSe2 heterostructures with near 0 degree rotation (R-type) and near 60 degree rotation (H-type). We find a modulation of the band gap for both stacking configurations with a larger modulation for R-type than for H-type as predicted by theory. Furthermore, local density of states images show that electrons are localized differently at the valence band and conduction band edges.
description: Published version
Oenopia conglobata
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Oenopia
Oenopia conglobata

description: 97. conglobata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Distribution: India (Assam, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Sikkim); Pakistan; Afghanistan; China; Mongolia; North Africa; Introduced into North America.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 285, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
An Unbalanced Nested Error Component Model for Estimating Pest Damage Functions and the Value of Rootworm Bt Corn
Creators: name: Dun, Zhe
name: Mitchell, Paul D.
name: Dun, Zhe
name: Mitchell, Paul D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: We apply Antweiler’s (2001) double-nested unbalanced panel data model to estimate a western corn rootworm damage function using data from field trials in Illinois and Nebraska. Results imply that expected yield losses for a one unit difference in the node injury scale are 16.4%. Estimated random year and state effects are statistically significant, as is the estimated random experimental effect. The experimental effect is relatively large indicating the tremendous variability in yield losses at the small scale for plots with the same node injury scale measure of root damage. Using the estimated pest damage function to assess the value of Bt corn for farmers in Nebraska and Illinois, we find that, with a mean yield of 200 bu/ac, a yield CV of 25%, a corn price of $3.50/bu, and a Bt corn technology fee of $16/ac, the value of Bt corn for farmers is $173.35/ac and $156.14/ac under very high and high pest pressure respectively.
Additional file 1 of Influence of organization and demographic characteristics of primary care practices on continuity of care: analysis of a retrospective cohort from 287 primary care practices covering about 6 million people in Catalonia
Creators: name: Coma, Ermengol
name: Mora, Núria
name: Peremiquel-Trillas, Paula
name: Mència Benítez
name: Méndez, Leonardo
name: Mercadé, Albert
name: Fina, Francesc
name: Fàbregas, Mireia
name: Medina, Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Formulae for the computing of continuity of care indices and examples.
Determinants and impact of farmers' participation in social media groups: Evidence from irrigated areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
Creators: name: Tadjiev, Abdusame
name: Kurbanov, Zafar
name: Djanibekov, Nodir
name: Govind, Ajit
name: Akramkhanov, Akmal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: extension services
subject: self-help groups
subject: knowledge exchange
subject: participation determinants
subject: Central Asia

description: The spread of information and communications technology (ICT) in Central Asia has reached a point where most farmers use smartphones with mobile internet access, providing an opportunity for a cost-effective and timely access to agricultural information and extension services. When extension service provision is poor and does not reflect farmers' immediate needs, farmers often seek other sources of information, such as exchanging knowledge with their peers via social media groups in instant messaging applications (apps). Using the findings of a farm-level survey conducted in 2022 in irrigated areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, we study behavior and attitudes of farmers in terms of participation in smartphone-based social media groups and its impact of farm performance. We find that in the two country contexts underlying reasons for participation in social groups differ. In Kazakhstan, participation decisions are made by those who have better access to a mobile internet connection, are younger, have agriculture-related education, have a wider communication circle on phone with more than four individuals, cultivate fewer crops, have lands with low soil quality and poor irrigation water access, as well as located in remote areas. In Uzbekistan participation decisions are made by those who see the relevance of mobile internet for their farm business, have own agronomic knowledge, are open to new things, care less about the opinion of other farmers, have higher perception about freedom in crop choice, have off-farm work, as well as poor irrigation water access. These findings suggest farmers' participation in agricultural information-sharing groups (AISG) is influenced less by the type of cultivated crops or farm size, but by their institutional environment. The findings are relevant for developing private strategies and public policies to spread digital technologies among Central Asia's farmers. When introducing smartphone-based digital advisory services policymakers are recommended to start scaling up with younger and more educated farmers who rely on their own knowledge and are more open to embracing new ways of farming and interaction. Farmers' decision-making autonomy will be crucial for converting digital transformation in agriculture into farm benefits.
Impact of intra-grain spin wave reflections on nano-contact spin torque oscillators
Creators: name: Eklund, Anders J.
name: Dvornik, Mykola
name: Qejvanaj, Fatjon
name: Jiang, Sheng
name: Chung, Sunjae
name: Åkerman, Johan
name: Malm, B. Gunnar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the origin of the experimentally observed varying current-frequency nonlinearity of the propagating spin wave mode in nano-contact spin torque oscillators. Nominally identical devices with 100 nm diameter are characterized by electrical microwave measurements and show large variation in the generated frequency as a function of drive current. This quantitative and qualitative device-to-device variation is described in terms of continuous and discontinuous nonlinear transitions between linear current intervals. The thin film grain microstructure in our samples is determined using atomic force and scanning electron microscopy to be on the scale of 30 nm. Micromagnetic simulations show that the reflection of spin waves against the grain boundaries results in standing wave resonance configurations. For a simulated device with a single artificial grain, the frequency increases linearly with the drive current until the decreased wavelength eventually forces another spin wave anti-node to be formed. This transition results in a discontinuous step in the frequency versus current relation. Simulations of complete, randomly generated grain microstructures additionally shows continuous nonlinearity and a resulting device-to-device variation in frequency that is similar to the experimental levels. The impact of temperature from 4 K to 300 K on the resonance mode-transition nonlinearity and frequency noise is investigated using simulations and it is found that the peak levels of the spectral linewidth as a function of drive current agrees quantitatively with typical levels found in experiments at room temperature.
Analysis and Forecast of Shaanxi GDP Based on the ARIMA Model
Creators: name: Ning, Wei
name: Kuan-Jiang, Bian
name: Zhi-Fa, Yuan
name: Ning, Wei
name: Kuan-Jiang, Bian
name: Zhi-Fa, Yuan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: GDP
subject: ARIMA model
subject: ACF graph
subject: PACF graph
subject: Time series analysis

description: Based on the 2008 Shaanxi Statistical Yearbook and the relevant data of Shaanxi GDP in the years 1952-2007, SPSS statistical software and time series analysis are used to establish ARIMA (1.2,1) time series model, according to the four steps, recognition rules and stationary test of time series under AIC criterion. ACF graph and PACF graph are used to conduct the applicability test on model. Then, the actual value and predicted value in the years 2002-2007 are compared in order to forecast the GDP of Shaanxi Province in the next 6 years based on this model. Result shows that the relative error of actual value and predicted value is within the range of 5%, and the forecasting effect of this model is relatively good. It is forecasted that the GDP of Shaanxi Province is 647.750, 765.662, 905.866, 10735.10, 12744.69 and 15158.20 billion yuan in the year from 2008 to 2013, respectively. According to the result, GDP of Shaanxi Province shoes a higher growth trend in the years 2008-2013. The forecasting result of this model is only a predicted value. But the national economy is a complex and dynamic system. We should pay attention to the risk of adjustment in economic operation and adjust the corresponding target value according to the actual situation.
Additional file 3 of Patients with severe schistosomiasis mansoni in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Creators: name: Nigo, Maurice M.
name: Odermatt, Peter
name: Nigo, David Wully
name: Salieb-Beugelaar, Georgette B.
name: Battegay, Manuel
name: Hunziker, Patrick R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. Liver image patterns associated with schistosomiasis, by [12].
Galactic Center Extinction: Evidence for Metallic Needles in the General Interstellar Medium
Creators: name: Dwek, Eli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The extinction curve derived from ISO mid-infrared (IR) observations of the Galactic center (GC) exhibits a surprisingly flat behavior in the ~ 3 to 8 micron region, contrary to the deep minimum expected from standard interstellar dust models consisting of bare silicate and graphite dust particles. We show that this extinction is likely caused by the presence of metallic needles in the interstellar medium (ISM) towards the Galactic center. If the needles contribute only to the 3 - 8 micron extinction, they must have a long wavelength cutoff at ~ 8 microns, and therefore a typical length over radius ratio of about 600, smaller than the 3000 aspect ratio determined for the needles in Cas A. Homogeneously distributed throughout the ISM, they comprise only a minor mass fraction of the ISM, with a needle-to-H mass ratio of \~5x10^{-6}, which is equivalent to 0.14% of the silicate dust mass. Their total ISM abundance can then be readily explained by the combined production in SNe and O-rich stellar outflows. It is currently unclear how universal the GC extinction law is. Local 2 - 5 micron extinction measurements seem to be consistent with the standard extinction law, suggesting a non uniform distribution of needles in the ISM. The GC observations show that metallic needles, in spite of their low abundance or non uniform distribution, can be the dominant source of opacity in the 3 - 8 micron wavelength region. However, expelled into the intergalactic medium, their abundance is too low to cause any dimming of cosmological sources, and their length is too short to make them a significant source of submillimeter emission.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the ApJ Letters
Oenopia diabolica Canepari 1997
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Oenopia
Oenopia diabolica

description: 98. diabolica Canepari, 1997
Distribution: Nepal.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 285, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
A Study Evaluation Model and Index System of Industrial Resource and Energy Consumption in Small Towns
Creators: name: Tong-Sheng, Zhang
name: Tong-Sheng, Zhang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Small towns
subject: Resource
subject: Energy
subject: Energy saving
subject: Pollution reducing
subject: China

description: Based on the principles of hierarchy, representativeness, operability and completeness, 10 indices are selected from 3 aspects of resource consumption, energy consumption and environmental emissions during small town development. Comprehensive evaluation index system for industrial source-energy saving and pollution reducing in small towns in constructed. According to the fuzzy mathematical method, qualitative calculation model of two-level hierarchical structure is constructed. Among them, the first-level model focuses on each specific evaluation index. It calculates the membership degree of region to resource-energy and pollution reducing in evaluation index set, and sorts the calculation results. The second-level model focuses on the first-level evaluation index set based on the sorting result. It calculates the membership degree of region to resource-energy saving and pollution reducing in the whole evaluation index system and sorts the calculation results. The weight of each evaluation indicator at each level is determined by analytic hierarchy process and information entropy method. Result shows that this model can be applied in quantitative and comprehensive measurement on industrial energy saving and pollution reducing degree in small towns. This model can help to judge the resource and energy consumption in different areas and industries, as well s the improvement of deteriation degree of environment emission.
Additional file 2 of Patients with severe schistosomiasis mansoni in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Creators: name: Nigo, Maurice M.
name: Odermatt, Peter
name: Nigo, David Wully
name: Salieb-Beugelaar, Georgette B.
name: Battegay, Manuel
name: Hunziker, Patrick R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Household questionnaire.
காளி வேடமிடுதலின் எதிர்காலம்
Creators: name: Devarkaivalyam, Ashok
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200520 Indian Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200315 Indian Languages

description: காளி வழிபாடு பழங்காலம் முதலே இருந்து வரும் வழிபாடாகும். பழந்தமிழ்ச் சமூகத்தில் போரின் போது வெற்றிக்காக நிகழ்த்தப்பட்ட இவ்வழிபாடு பிற்காலத்தில் மக்களின் அனைத்துத் தேவைகளுக்காவும் நிகழ்த்தப்பட்டு வருகிறது. இவ்வழிபாடு தற்காலத்தில் காளி வேடமிட்டு அருளோடு ஆடி வருவது வழக்கமாக இருந்து வருகிறது. இவ்வழக்கம் காலம் காலமாக நடந்து வருகிறது. இவ்வழிபாட்டுமுறையில் சில மாற்றங்களும் நிகழ்ந்தேறியுள்ளன. காளிவேடமிடுபவரையும் அதற்குரிய நாளையும் தெரிவு செய்தல் அவர்கடைபிடிக்க வேண்டிய வழிமுறைகள் வேடத்திற்கு மரப்பொருட்கள் நிகழ்த்தும்முறைகள் என இவ்வழிபாட்டிற்குரிய வரையறைகளின் களம் நிள்கின்றன. இக்காளி வேடமிட்டு ஆடுதலில் மக்கள் கொண்டுள்ள பற்றுதலின் காரணமாக மரபுவழியில் காலங்காலத்திற்கும் தொடரும் என்பது திண்ணம்.
Converging measures of neural change at the microstructural, informational, and cortical network levels in the hippocampus during the learning of the structure of organic compounds
Creators: name: Just, Marcel
name: Keller, Timothy
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: The critical role of the hippocampus in human learning has been illuminated by neuroimaging studies that increasingly improve the detail with which hippocampal function is understood. However, the hippocampal information developed with different types of imaging technologies is seldom integrated within a single investigation of the neural changes that occur during learning. Here we show three different ways in which a small hippocampal region changes as the structures and names of a set of organic compounds are being learned, reflecting changes at the microstructural, informational, and cortical network levels. The microstructural changes are sensed using measures of water diffusivity. The informational changes are assessed using machine learning of the neural representations of organic compounds as they are encoded in the fMRI-measured activation levels of a set of hippocampal voxels. The changes in cortical networks are measured in terms of the functional connectivity between hippocampus and parietal regions. The co-location of these three hippocampal changes reflects that structure’s involvement in learning at all three levels of explanation, consistent with the multiple ways in which learning brings about neural change.