cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Measurement of Technical Efficiency and Production Risk in Zabol Dairy Farms, Iran
Creators: name: Shahraki, Javad
name: Pahlavani, Mosayeb
name: Ohadi, Nasrin
name: Shahraki, Javad
name: Pahlavani, Mosayeb
name: Ohadi, Nasrin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: dairy farms
subject: risk production
subject: technical efficiency
subject: Zabol

description: Given entrepreneurs’ special role in the economic growth and development, many developed and developing countries are attempting to motivate more number of people who have entrepreneurial characteristics towards entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial activities. The purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of entrepreneurship training courses in Ilam Province, Iran. In this research a descriptive survey method was used. The statistical population consisted of 830 people that based on Cochran’s formula and by using proportionate stratified random sampling method 130 people were selected as the sample. The research tool was a questionnaire which its validity was confirmed by a panel of experts’ and its reliability was estimated using Cronbach’s alpha as to be 0.83 proving its high reliability. Data were analyzed by SPSS Software Package. It was found that participants’ inclination towards self-employment and entrepreneurship was increased after attending the courses. Also, significant differences were observed in participants’ readiness to start a business, their familiarity with entrepreneurship concepts and their ability to make a business plan before and after attending the courses.
Additional file 1 of Deconvolution of diffuse gastric cancer and the suppression of CD34 on the BALB/c nude mice model
Creators: name: Seon-Jin Yoon
name: Jungmin Park
name: Youngmin Shin
name: Choi, Yuna
name: Sahng Wook Park
name: Seok-Gu Kang
name: Son, Hye Young
name: Huh, Yong-Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1 Figure S1. Three vessel markers of GCCs. Figure S2. Correlation of ESM 1 and PECAM1 in the GCCs. Figure S3. CD34 expression with antibody from SNU484 GCC. Figure S4. Flow cytometry results of SNU484. Figure S5. Tumorsphere formation in the SNU484 GCCs. Figure S6 Migration assay in the SNU484 GCCs. Figure S7. Individual comparison of MR images of control and CD34 KD mice. Figure S8. The tumor volume in the heterotopic models. Figure S9. The KM curve with the survival of orthotopic models. Figure S10. Drug treatment on the SNU484. Figure S11. RNAseq validation of the SNU484 and Hs746T. Table S1. Characteristics of selected GC cell lines. Table S2. Clinical information of GC enrolled in this study according to CD34 expression. Table S3. Statistical models of CD34 level in the YGC cohort (N = 357). Table S4. Subgroup analysis of YGC cohort by the tissue level of CD34. Table S5. Downregulated genes in the SNU484 CD34 KD.
Fold, Ride, Share and Rebrand : A low-tech crowdmap for social change and biking in South Los Angeles
Creators: name: Bar, François
name: Bayne, Tafarai
name: Khera, Otto
name: Stokes, Benjamin
name: Villanueva, George
Publisher: name: RideSouthLA
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Description to be added
Cutoff schemes in chiral perturbation theory and the quark mass expansion of the nucleon mass
Creators: name: Bernard, Véronique
name: Hemmert, Thomas R.
name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the use of cutoff methods in chiral perturbation theory. We develop a cutoff scheme based on the operator structure of the effective field theory that allows to suppress high momentum contributions in Goldstone boson loop integrals and by construction is free of the problems traditional cutoff schemes have with gauge invariance or chiral symmetries. As an example, we discuss the chiral expansion of the nucleon mass. Contrary to other claims in the literature we show that the mass of a nucleon in heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory has a well behaved chiral expansion up to effective Goldstone boson masses of 400 MeV when one utilizes standard dimensional regularization techniques. With the help of the here developed cutoff scheme we can demonstrate a well-behaved chiral expansion for the nucleon mass up to 600 MeV of effective Goldstone Boson masses. We also discuss in detail the prize, in numbers of additional short distance operators involved, that has to be paid for this extended range of applicability of chiral perturbation theory with cutoff regularization, which is usually not paid attention to. We also compare the fourth order result for the chiral expansion of the nucleon mass with lattice results and draw some conclusions about chiral extrapolations based on such type of representation.
description: 19 pp, 8 figs
Many-body Hamiltonians in implicitly defined frames
Creators: name: Bouzas, Antonio O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantization of three-dimensional many-body systems in rotating coordinate frames defined implicitly by frame conditions. We carry out the elimination of orientational degrees of freedom in general, giving the Hamiltonian for the $N$-particle system in a broad class of body frames in terms of frame conditions and internal coordinates. We obtain several forms for the kinetic energy operator and compare them to related expressions in the literature.
Additional file 8 of Prevalence of asymptomatic Leishmania infection and knowledge, perceptions, and practices in blood donors in mainland Portugal
Creators: name: Rocha, Rafael
name: Gonçalves, Luzia
name: Conceição, Cláudia
name: Andrade, Patrícia
name: Cristóvão, José Manuel
name: Condeço, Jorge
name: Delgado, Beatriz
name: Caeiro, Cristina
name: Kuzmenko, Tetyana
name: Vasconcelos, Eugénia
name: Escoval, Maria Antónia
name: Rey, Carmen
name: Guz, Madalina
name: Norte, Cláudia
name: Aldeia, Carlos
name: Cruz, Diego
name: Maia, Carla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 8: Table S5. Distribution of participants and K, Per and Pra scores by category, for sociodemographic variables.
A nonlinear quantum model of the Friedmann universe
Creators: name: Wang, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A discussion is given of the quantisation of a physical system with finite degrees of freedom subject to a Hamiltonian constraint by treating time as a constrained classical variable interacting with an unconstrained quantum state. This leads to a quantisation scheme that yields a Schrodinger-type equation which is in general nonlinear in evolution. Nevertheless it is compatible with a probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics and in particular the construction of a Hilbert space with a Euclidean norm is possible. The new scheme is applied to the quantisation of a Friedmann Universe with a massive scalar field whose dynamical behaviour is investigated numerically.
description: 11 pages of text + 4 pages for 8 figures
Experimental control of remote spatial indistinguishability of photons to realize entanglement and teleportation
Creators: name: Sun, Kai
name: Wang, Yan
name: Liu, Zheng-Hao
name: Xu, Xiao-Ye
name: Xu, Jin-Shi
name: Li, Chuan-Feng
name: Guo, Guang-Can
name: Castellini, Alessia
name: Nosrati, Farzam
name: Compagno, Giuseppe
name: Franco, Rosario Lo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Remote spatial indistinguishability of identical subsystems as a direct controllable quantum resource at distant sites has not been yet experimentally proven. We design a setup capable to tune the spatial indistinguishability of two photons by independently adjusting their spatial distribution in two distant regions, which leads to polarization entanglement starting from uncorrelated photons. The amount of entanglement uniquely depends on the degree of remote spatial indistinguishability, quantified by an entropic measure $\mathcal{I}$, which enables teleportation with fidelities above the classical threshold. This experiment realizes a basic nonlocal entangling gate by the inherent nature of identical quantum subsystems.
description: 6+5 pages, 4+10 figures. Paper submitted to the journal on October 7th, 2019
IMPACT WITH GAMES : A FRAGMENTED FIELD
Creators: name: Stokes, B.
name: Walden, N.
name: O’Shea, G.
name: Nasso, F.
name: Mariutto, G.
name: Burak, A.
Publisher: name: Games for Change
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4607
subject: Graphics, augmented reality and games

description: Article citation: Stokes, B., Walden, N., O’Shea, G., Nasso, F., Mariutto, G., & Burak, A. (2015). Impact with Games: A Fragmented Field. Pittsburgh, PA: ETC Press. Retrieved from http://gameimpact.net/reports/fragmented-field/.
DETECTING FOOD QUALITY WITH MACHINE LEARNING METHODS
Creators: name: Dr. ANITA PATI MISHRA
name: MONIKA DIXIT BAJPAI
name: PUJA SHREE SINHA
name: JYOTI TRIPATHI
name: DHWANI GARG
name: SUMIT NEGI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: CNN, Freshness Detection, Food Quality, Visual Defects, Machine Learning, Improved Efficiency.

description: Abstract

The proposed method of using a convolutional neural network (CNN) for fruit freshness detection is an efficient and nondestructive approach. Traditional methods for food quality detection can be time-consuming, time-intensive, and require specialized equipment and investigators to operate. By utilizing machine learning, specifically CNNs, the detection process can be streamlined and automated. CNNs are a type of deep learning algorithm commonly used for image identification tasks. They have shown excellent performance in various computer vision applications, including object detection and classification. In the context of fruit freshness detection, CNNs can analyze the visual characteristics of fruits and determine their freshness based on visual cues such as color, texture, and surface defects. The advantage of using CNNs for fruit freshness detection is that they can learn complex patterns and features directly from the input data without relying on explicit rules or predefined features. This makes CNNs well-suited for detecting subtle differences in fruit appearance that may indicate freshness or spoilage. By training the CNN on a large dataset of labeled fruit images, the model can learn to differentiate between fresh and spoiled fruits. The paper you mentioned likely presents experimental results that demonstrate the effectiveness of CNNs in identifying fruit freshness. These results would validate the proposed approach and provide evidence that machine learning can be a valuable tool in the field of food quality detection. Additionally, the paper may discuss the challenge of over fitting, which is a common issue in machine learning where the model becomes too specialized to the training dataset and performs poorly on new, unseen data. Overall, using CNNs for fruit freshness detection offers several benefits, including improved efficiency in food circulation, reduced storage and labor costs, and enhanced food safety. By leveraging the power of machine learning, this approach has the potential to revolutionize the way fruit quality is assessed and monitored throughout the supply chain.
Institutionalizing Entrepreneurship in Side Industries of Agriculture in Khouzestan Province, Iran
Creators: name: Ommani, Ahmadreza
name: Ommani, Ahmadreza
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: agricultural Side Industries
subject: entrepreneurship institutionalizing
subject: regression analysis

description: The purpose of this study was assessment of institutionalizing level of entrepreneurship in citrus processing and complementary industries in Khouzestan Province, Iran. The method of research was descriptive. The statistical population comprised managers of complementary and processing industry of citrus products in Khouzestan Province (N=75). For the purpose of this study, a census was conducted and opinions of all managers were studied. The main instrument in this study was a questionnaire the validity of which was established by a panel of experts and its reliability coefficient was obtained by using a Cronbach’s alpha (0.89). Institutionalizing level of entrepreneurship was assessed by three subsections that include: continuity, comprehensiveness and becoming a social reality. Based on the results, the level of continuity, comprehensiveness, and becoming a social reality, respectively, was low (2.4-2.6), moderate (2.83- 2.85), and moderate (2.71-2.84). Based on the results, the correlation between participation in extension programs, accountability, risk taking, tendency to be creative, competitiveness, attitude to entrepreneurship, the level of education and entrepreneurship institutionalizing was significant. In addition, multivariate regression analysis showed that the variables of participation in extension programs, accountability, risk taking, tendency to be creative, competitiveness, attitude to entrepreneurship, and the level of education had explained 63.6 percent (R 2 =0.636) of entrepreneurship institutionalizing’ changes.
Entrepreneurial Strategies of Enhancing Competitive Advantage of Medicinal Herbs in Ilam Province, Iran
Creators: name: Jasemi, Mohammad
name: Moradnezhadi, Homayoon
name: Salavarz, Mohammad
name: Jasemi, Mohammad
name: Moradnezhadi, Homayoon
name: Salavarz, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: competitive advantage
subject: entrepreneurial strategy
subject: Ilam Province
subject: medicinal plants

description: Finding new ways to compete in competitive markets is the essence of strategic thinking and marketing strategy. This issue has always been addressed by the experts and scholars of economics and management over recent decades. In this regard, the present study explores the entrepreneurial strategies to gain a competitive advantage in Ilam Province medicinal plants. This study employed a mixed-methods research paradigm. In the qualitative part, Delphi method and in quantitative part the Analytic Hierarchy Process was used. The population in the qualitative part comprised experts in the fields of marketing, entrepreneurship and herbs in Ilam Province that among them 12 participants were selected using purposive sampling methods. In the quantitative part, the population included 33 experts in the field of medicinal plants which were studied by census method. The data were collected using a paired comparison questionnaire and analyzed by Expert Choice11 software. Results showed that according to considered criteria in this re- search) differentiation strategy, ways to reduce costs, focusing on customers and market strategies, innovations and risk taking strategy) differentiation strategy plays the greatest role in gaining advantage for medicinal plants in Ilam Province.
IMPACT WITH GAMES : A FRAGMENTED FIELD
Creators: name: Stokes, B.
name: Walden, N.
name: O’Shea, G.
name: Nasso, F.
name: Mariutto, G.
name: Burak, A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Article citation: Stokes, B., Walden, N., O’Shea, G., Nasso, F., Mariutto, G., & Burak, A. (2015). Impact with Games: A Fragmented Field. Pittsburgh, PA: ETC Press. Retrieved from http://gameimpact.net/reports/fragmented-field/.
title: New approaches to improving the accuracy and outcome of Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy
Creators: name: Cowley, Ian Richard
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2006

description: Several aspects of the IMRT treatment chain are evaluated with a view to improving the accuracy with which the treatment can be delivered and also the radiobiological outcome for the patient. A safe, non-invasive way of evaluating patient repositioning for multi-fraction treatments is developed and presented, with results highlighting the head-and-neck immobilisation system that provides the best results at Addenbrooke's radiotherapy centre. Previously published dose evaluation metrics are studied in depth, identifying ways in which they differ. A new method of calculating the popular Gamma index is proposed, along with a new Kappa index which can highlight areas of dose mismatch more readily than the Gamma index. Using a specially developed dose calculation system, systematic errors found with the IMRT treatment machines at Addenbrooke's are simulated to determine the dose differences created by these errors, which are then evaluated using the Kappa index with typical tolerances used by previous authors. The concept of equivalent uniform dose (EUD) is then used to assess whether the tolerances for distance and dose are equivalent to each other. They are found not to be equivalent, and better relative values of the two quantities are suggested for use in composite indices. The use of the EUD is extended further into analysing the equivalent dose differences of the treatment delivery errors previously calculated. It is found that the equivalent dose to the target volume is changed by more than the composite indices indicate. The EUD is then used to calculate normal tissue complication probabilities, the probability of uncomplicated control and therapeutic gain. It is found that the dose errors predicted can actually be beneficial to the patient outcome, although not always. It is concluded that dose evaluation for complex treatments such as IMRT should be more radiobiologically-based in order to assess patient outcomes properly.
Infrared Hall angle in the $d$-density wave state: a comparison of theory and experiment
Creators: name: Tewari, Sumanta
name: Chakravarty, Sudip
name: Fjaerestad, John Ove
name: Nayak, Chetan
name: Thompson, Richard S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Infrared Hall measurements in the pseudogap phase of the high-$T_c$ cuprates are addressed within the framework of the ordered $d$-density wave state. The zero-temperature Hall frequency $ω_H$ is computed as a function of the hole-doping $x$. Our results are consistent with recent experiments in absolute units. We also discuss the signature of the quantum critical point in the Hall frequency at a critical doping inside the superconducting dome, which can be tested in future experiments.
description: 5 pages, 3 eps figures, RevTex 4. This is the version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B. Two new long footnotes (14,25) are added-- otherwise unchanged
Additional file 1 of Accreditation as a management tool: a national survey of hospital managers’ perceptions and use of a mandatory accreditation program in Denmark
Creators: name: Ellis, Louise A.
name: Nicolaisen, Anne
name: Bogh, Søren Bie
name: Churruca, Kate
name: Braithwaite, Jeffrey
name: Plessen, Christian Von
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. DDKM Attitude and Use Items.
Additional file 7 of Thousands of previously unknown phages discovered in whole-community human gut metagenomes
Creators: name: Benler, Sean
name: Yutin, Natalya
name: Antipov, Dmitry
name: Rayko, Mikhail
name: Shmakov, Sergey
name: Gussow, Ayal B.
name: Pevzner, Pavel
name: Koonin, Eugene V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6. Genome maps of predicted anti-CRISPR proteins (Acrs) in uncharacterized Bifidobacteria phages. Open reading frames are colored according to function: large terminase subunit (red), structural components (blue), replication (orange), integrase (pink), general function (green) and unknown (grey). The candidate Acrs are indicated with a dashed box.
A Survey on the Existence of Price Discrimination Behavior in Iran’s Saffron Exporting Market by Using PTM Model
Creators: name: Mahmoodi, Elahe
name: Mahmoodi, Majid
name: Mahmoodi, Elahe
name: Mahmoodi, Majid
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: exchange rate
subject: price discrimination
subject: PTM
subject: saffron

description: One of the most important effects of exchange rate movements is its effection the exporting price of different products. According to the new trade theories, market structure plays an important role in relating exchange rate depreciations to price declines. In Iran, exchange rate has increased in recent years. Inspired by this assumption, this paper attempts to investigate the impact of exchange rate movements on the export price of saffron (which is the most important non-oil export product after pistachio)in Iran over the period of 2001-2012. As shown by the results of the present study, the country effect (λi) for each destination is significant except for United States. In addition, the exchange rate’s coefficient is significant for all countries in our sample. Accordingly, as also indicated by the related literature,the hypothesis of the existence of competitive market is rejected, and this lends support to the idea that price discrimination in saffron market is regularly applied by Iranian exporters,which suggests that the government should try to support this strategic product by suitable policies.
Evaluation of Palm Groves Technical Efficiency Using Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis: A Case Study of Roodkhanehbar Area, Iran
Creators: name: Zamanian, Gholamreza
name: Hassani, Mostafa Khajeh
name: Zamanian, Gholamreza
name: Hassani, Mostafa Khajeh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: bootstrap
subject: Data Envelopment Analysis
subject: Hormozgan Province
subject: Keriteh date
subject: Roodkhanehbar
subject: technical efficiency

description: Roodkhnehbar area, having approximately 111 thousands of Keriteh palm trees, is one of the most important areas of date production in the Rudan County 1 and the source of peoples’ income in this area, directly or indirectly. As a result, its production efficiency has a critical importance to the orchardists in this region. This study aims to evaluate technical efficiency of palm groves in this area using input-oriented bootstrap data envelopment analysis and sampling 50 palm groves of Keriteh date producers of Roodkhanehbar area in 2013. The results suggested that 64% of date producers operate with less than 50% efficiency and only 14% of them operate efficiently. The study, then, carries the implication that it is recommended to train the orchardists, providing a chance for successful orchardists to share their experiences with others in an attempt to optimize allocation of inputs.
Four-dimensional SYM probes in wrapped M5-brane backgrounds
Creators: name: Loureda, José Sánchez
name: Smith, Douglas J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the worldvolume supersymmetric gauge theory of M-branes probing backgrounds corresponding to wrapped M5-branes. In the case of M5-branes wrapping a 2-cycle in two-dimensional complex space, we use M2-brane probes to compute the BPS spectra of the corresponding N=2 gauge theory as well as M5-brane probes to calculate field theory parameters such as the gauge coupling, theta angle and complex scalar moduli space metric. This background describes a large class of Hanany-Witten type models when dimensionally reduced to Type IIA 10d string theory. We calculate the instanton action using a D0-brane probe in this limit. For the case of M5-branes wrapping a 2-cycle in three-dimensional complex space, we firstly show an alternative method to derive this solution involving the projection conditions and certain spinor bilinear differential equations. We also consider M5-brane probes of this background, and analyse the corresponding N=1 MQCD gauge theory parameters. In general there were no supergravity corrections to field theory parameters when compared to previous flat-space field theory analysis.
description: 50 pages, 1 figure; typos corrected, references added
Primula membranifolia Franch.
Creators: name: Kovtonyuk, Nataliya
name: Durand-Andro, Véronique
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Primulaceae
Primula
Primula membranifolia

description: Primula membranifolia Franch.
(Fig. 6)
 In Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 33: 68 (1886). — Hu & Kelso, Flora of China 15: 169 (1996). — Richards, Primula: 262 (2003). — In protologue: “[China] Yun-nan, sur le mont Tsang-chan, au-dessus de Tali. – 4 juin 1883. (Delavay, no. 263).”
 SYNTYPES. — China. Yunnan, Tsang-Chan près Tali, Delavay 263 (syn- BM[BM000996911], K[K000750068], LE[LE 01032006], NY[NY00329546]; rochers de Tsang Chan près de Ta-li-fou, Delavay 263 (syn-, E[E00024149]!, P[P01029609]).
 LECTOTYPE (HERE DESIGNATED). — China, Primula, Mont Tsang-chan, au-dessus de Tali (Yunnan). 4.VI.1883, Delavay 263 (lecto-, P[P04544200]!; isolecto-, G[G00440574]!, K[K000750070], MPU[MPU022026, MPU022027], P[P04544198, P04544201]!, LE[LE01032005]!).
REMARK
 We found some herbarium sheets of Primula membranifolia with no. 263, the label text and date almost as in protologue in different herbarium collections, all of them are syntypes. We suggest to choose as lectotype a specimen with handwritten label.
description: Published as part of Kovtonyuk, Nataliya & Durand-Andro, Véronique, 2019, Typification of Primula L. taxa names (Primulaceae), described by A. Franchet in 1886 from China and Eastern Tibet, pp. 75-89 in Adansonia (3) (3) 41 (9) on page 82, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2019v41a9, http://zenodo.org/record/4602183
The Leimert Phone Company
Creators: name: Baumann, Karl
name: Stokes, Benjamin
name: Bar, François
name: Caldwell, Ben
Publisher: name: New American Notes Online
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4701
subject: Communication and media studies

description: Published in NANO Issue 5. http://nanocrit.com/issues/5/leimert-phone-company.
Factors Affecting Farmers' Satisfaction: Case of Agricultural Production Cooperatives in Guilan Province, Iran
Creators: name: Taleghani, Mohammad
name: Mehdizade, Mehran
name: Taleghani, Mohammad
name: Mehdizade, Mehran
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: agricultural production
subject: cooperatives
subject: effective factors
subject: farmers' satisfaction

description: The aim of this study was to identify and prioritize factors affecting farmers’ level of satisfaction in agricultural production cooperatives of Guilan Province, Iran. To this aim, documentary studies were conducted, and 15 factors affecting farmers’ satisfaction were identified. Next, they were prioritized by field studies using a questionnaire. The statistical population consisted of members of agricultural production cooperatives in Guilan Province. The sample comprised 93 farmers who were recruited using the Cochran formula. The questionnaires were distributed among farmers from12 cooperatives using a mix of random and proportional sampling methods and 100 questionnaires were collected. The content validity of the questionnaire was established and its reliability was estimated to be 79 percent using a Cronbach's alpha. To prioritize the factors, the researchers calculated means cores by using SPSS. Results indicated that empathy and cooperation among members, giving advice and guidance to members in case of problems, as well as effective communication with the local community are, respectively, the three factors that have the strongest effect on farmers' satisfaction in the studied region. In addition, the results showed that satisfaction of the majority of the members of cooperative activities was at a moderate level.
Improved storage of coherent and squeezed states in imperfect ring cavity
Creators: name: Marek, Petr
name: Filip, Radim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method of an improving quality of a ring cavity which is imperfect due to non-unit mirror reflectivity. The method is based on using squeezed states of light pulses illuminating the mirror and gradual homodyne detection of a radiation escaping from the cavity followed by single displacement and single squeezing operation performed on the released state. We discuss contribution of this method in process of storing unknown coherent and known squeezed state and generation of squeezing in the optical ring cavities.
description: 6 pages and 5 figures
Training a U-Net based on a random mode-coupling matrix model to recover acoustic interference striations
Creators: name: Li, Xiaolei
name: Song, Wenhua
name: Gao, Dazhi
name: Gao, Wei
name: Wan, Haozhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A U-Net is trained to recover acoustic interference striations (AISs) from distorted ones. A random mode-coupling matrix model is introduced to generate a large number of training data quickly, which are used to train the U-Net. The performance of AIS recovery of the U-Net is tested in range-dependent waveguides with nonlinear internal waves (NLIWs). Although the random mode-coupling matrix model is not an accurate physical model, the test results show that the U-Net successfully recovers AISs under different signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and different amplitudes and widths of NLIWs for different shapes.
Perceived Effects of Poor Road Transportation Network on Crop Production in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State, North Central Nigeria
Creators: name: Adefalu, Lateef Lawal
name: Olorunfemi, Oluwasogo David
name: Olatinwo, LatifatKehinde
name: Olatunji, Yusuf
name: Adefalu, Lateef Lawal
name: Olorunfemi, Oluwasogo David
name: Olatinwo, LatifatKehinde
name: Olatunji, Yusuf
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Public Economics
subject: crop production
subject: Kwara State
subject: perceived effects
subject: poor road transportation

description: This paper examines the effect of the poor road transportation network on crop production in one of the rural agrarian local government of Kwara State, Nigeria. A well-structured interview schedule was conducted to elicit information from 120 crop farmers using a two-stage sampling technique. Findings from the study revealed that the poor road transportation network in their area had led to a reduction in their income, longer time in transporting produce to more buoyant markets, as well as incurring high transportation costs. Chi-square analysis revealed that there was a significant relationship between age, educational level, years of farming experience, and the respondents’ perceived effects of poor road transportation network for their crop production. The study recommends an urgent intervention from government and stakeholders in terms of construction and rehabilitation of roads in these rural agrarian areas in an attempt to help improve the livelihoods of the farmers through enhancing transportation of produce to more buoyant markets in good condition and at less cost.
Measuring the Technical Efficiency of Canola Farmers and Determining the Effective Factors in Tabriz County, Iran
Creators: name: Dolatabadi, Sepideh Rostami
name: Ghahremanzadeh, Mohammad
name: Dolatabadi, Sepideh Rostami
name: Ghahremanzadeh, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Canola
subject: Stochastic Frontier Function
subject: Tabriz County
subject: technical efficiency

description: The purpose of this study was to measure the technical efficiency of canola farmers and determine the underpinning factors. Required data were collected using stratified random sampling method and questionnaire survey. In this context, 157 canola farmers from Tabriz County, Iran, were asked to fill out the questionnaire in 2012-2013 growing season. The technical efficiency was evaluated using stochastic frontier approach. The results of inputs production elasticity indicated that all inputs were consumed in economic area. In addition, the highest (0.504) and lowest (0.095) elasticity rate was related to water consumption and education level, respectively. The estimated technical efficiency demonstrated that the highest and lowest technical efficiencies were 25 and 95% with an average of 80%. It should be noted that the highest efficiency was observed in the farms with the area covering 3-4 hectares. Furthermore, the estimated inefficiency model indicated that education level, training course number, and cultivated area negatively affected the inefficiency. By contrast, age of farmer had a positive effect on inefficiency. As the results show, educating and training farmers for the optimum use of inputs as well as improving their knowledge as to promote agricultural products should be taken into account.
The Analysis of Iran Cotton Producers’ Risk Degree Based on Non-Linear Mean-Standard Deviation Model
Creators: name: Moradi, Ebrahim
name: Darmian, Asma Abdollahi
name: Moradi, Ebrahim
name: Darmian, Asma Abdollahi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Iran
subject: cotton
subject: cost product
subject: Mean-Standard Deviation Model
subject: risk

description: As regards decreasing cotton cultivation in Iran during these years, the degree of risk taken by a cotton cultivator in the agricultural part is important. The studies showed that the cotton crop yield during the past years did not have enough growth and the cotton cost product in the period of study cotton production costs, has increased. In this paper, the risk orientation of cotton cultivators was investigated; the researchers have done this employing a parametric approach and the Saha Mean-Standard Deviation Model. Statistical information and the cost product of provinces which produce cotton between 2000-2010 were collected. Econometric models with panel data were estimated. The results showed that cotton cultivator aversion, risk, and the trend increased when the income and the fluctuation cost product went up in each hector.
Impact of Peripheral Factors on Reducing the Consequences of the Targeted Subsidies from the Greenhouse Owners' View Point: The Case of Semnan Province, Iran
Creators: name: Sabouri, Mohammad Sadegh
name: Noori, Siavash
name: Karbasioun, Mostafa
name: Sabouri, Mohammad Sadegh
name: Noori, Siavash
name: Karbasioun, Mostafa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: greenhouse
subject: peripheral factors
subject: subsidies
subject: Semnan Province

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the peripheral factors on reducing the consequences of the targeted subsidies from the view point of greenhouse owners of Semnan Province, Iran. The population of the study comprised greenhouse owners of Semnan Province. The sample size was calculated using Cochran formula and encompassed a number of 287 greenhouse owners. The main research tool used in this study was a questionnaire. SPSS v21was used to analyze the data obtained through the questionnaires. Based on hypotheses and theories, questions were designed, and after testing validity and reliability (based on the dependent variable Cronbach's alpha was calculated equal with 87.8) indices, modifications were performed. To examine the hypotheses of this research, the correlation coefficient was estimated, and a multiple regressions analysis was run. The results showed that current expenses, using the proper structures for constructing greenhouse, method of fuel use, the perfect place of heaters, and the use of skilled workers in the greenhouse had a key role in reducing the impact of targeted subsidies plan (dependent variable) on green- house owners. These variables explained 40.2 per cent of the variance in the dependent variable.
Additional file 8 of Thousands of previously unknown phages discovered in whole-community human gut metagenomes
Creators: name: Benler, Sean
name: Yutin, Natalya
name: Antipov, Dmitry
name: Rayko, Mikhail
name: Shmakov, Sergey
name: Gussow, Ayal B.
name: Pevzner, Pavel
name: Koonin, Eugene V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7. Coverage heatmap of a “Quimbyviridae” genome across human gut viromes. The coverage of the most abundant “Quimbyviridae” phage genome (accession OMAC01000147.1) is plotted as a heatmap, scaled from 0 – 100x per 100 bp window.
Additional file 1 of Isolated during adolescence: long-term impact on social behavior, pain sensitivity, and the oxytocin system in male and female rats
Creators: name: P. Graf, Akseli
name: Hansson, Anita C.
name: Spanagel, Rainer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Lightcurve Classification in Massive Variability Surveys II: Transients towards the Large Magellanic Cloud
Creators: name: Belokurov, V.
name: Evans, N. W.
name: Du, Y. Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Automatic classification of variability is now possible with tools like neural networks. Here, we present two neural networks for the identification of microlensing events -- the first discriminates against variable stars and the second against supernovae. The inputs to the networks include parameters describing the shape and the size of the lightcurve, together with colour of the event. The network computes the posterior probability of microlensing, together with an estimate of the likely error. An algorithm is devised for direct calculation of the microlensing rate from the output of the neural networks. We present a new analysis of the microlensing candidates towards the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The neural networks confirm the microlensing nature of only 7 of the possible 17 events identified by the MACHO experiment. This suggests that earlier estimates of the microlensing optical depth towards the LMC may have been overestimated. A smaller number of events is consistent with the assumption that all the microlensing events are caused by the known stellar populations in the outer Galaxy/LMC.
description: 11 pages, MNRAS, in press
Time-scale synthesis for locally stationary signals
Creators: name: Meynard, Adrien
name: Torrésani, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We develop a timescale synthesis-based probabilistic approach for the modeling of locally stationary signals. Inspired by our previous work, the model involves zero-mean, complex Gaussian wavelet coefficients, whose distribution varies as a function of time by time dependent translations on the scale axis. In a maximum a posteriori approach, we propose an estimator for the model parameters, namely the time-varying scale translation and an underlying power spectrum. The proposed approach is illustrated on a denoising example. It is also shown that the model can handle locally stationary signals with fast frequency variations, and provide in this case very sharp timescale representations more concentrated than synchrosqueezed or reassigned wavelet transform.
Is there an information-loss problem for black holes?
Creators: name: Kiefer, Claus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Black holes emit thermal radiation (Hawking effect). If after black-hole evaporation nothing else were left, an arbitrary initial state would evolve into a thermal state (`information-loss problem'). Here it is argued that the whole evolution is unitary and that the thermal nature of Hawking radiation emerges solely through decoherence -- the irreversible interaction with further degrees of freedom. For this purpose a detailed comparison with an analogous case in cosmology (entropy of primordial fluctuations) is presented. Some remarks on the possible origin of black-hole entropy due to interaction with other degrees of freedom are added. This might concern the interaction with quasi-normal modes or with background fields in string theory.
description: 11 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the conference DICE, Piombino 2002, ed. by H.-T. Elze (Springer 2003), references and clarifications added
Additional file 9 of Thousands of previously unknown phages discovered in whole-community human gut metagenomes
Creators: name: Benler, Sean
name: Yutin, Natalya
name: Antipov, Dmitry
name: Rayko, Mikhail
name: Shmakov, Sergey
name: Gussow, Ayal B.
name: Pevzner, Pavel
name: Koonin, Eugene V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8. Phylogenetic tree of the MCP, primase and portal proteins encoded by “Quimbyviridae” phages.
Robust Control of Quantum Information
Creators: name: Pravia, Marco A.
name: Boulant, Nicolas
name: Emerson, Joseph
name: Farid, Amro
name: Fortunato, Evan M.
name: Havel, Timothy F.
name: Cory, David G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Errors in the control of quantum systems may be classified as unitary, decoherent and incoherent. Unitary errors are systematic, and result in a density matrix that differs from the desired one by a unitary operation. Decoherent errors correspond to general completely positive superoperators, and can only be corrected using methods such as quantum error correction. Incoherent errors can also be described, on average, by completely positive superoperators, but can nevertheless be corrected by the application of a locally unitary operation that ``refocuses'' them. They are due to reproducible spatial or temporal variations in the system's Hamiltonian, so that information on the variations is encoded in the system's spatiotemporal state and can be used to correct them. In this paper liquid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is used to demonstrate that such refocusing effects can be built directly into the control fields, where the incoherence arises from spatial inhomogeneities in the quantizing static magnetic field as well as the radio-frequency control fields themselves. Using perturbation theory, it is further shown that the eigenvalue spectrum of the completely positive superoperator exhibits a characteristic spread that contains information on the Hamiltonians' underlying distribution.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
Skyrme-type nuclear interaction as a tool for calculating the finite nuclear size correction to atomic energy levels and the bound-electron $g$ factor
Creators: name: Valuev, Igor A.
name: Harman, Zoltán
name: Keitel, Christoph H.
name: Oreshkina, Natalia S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A state-of-the-art approach for calculating the finite nuclear size correction to atomic energy levels and the bound-electron $g$ factor is introduced and demonstrated for a series of highly charged hydrogen-like ions. Firstly, self-consistent mean-field calculations based on the Skyrme-type nuclear interaction are employed in order to produce a realistic nuclear proton distribution. In the second step, the obtained nuclear charge density is used to construct the potential of an extended nucleus, and the Dirac equation is solved numerically. The ambiguity in the choice of a Skyrme parametrization is supressed by fine-tuning of only one parameter of the Skyrme force in order to accurately reproduce the experimental values of nuclear radii in each particular case. The homogeneously charged sphere approximation, the two-parameter Fermi distribution and experimental nuclear charge distributions are used for comparison with our approach, and the uncertainties of the presented calculations are estimated. In addition, suppression of the finite nuclear size effect for the specific differences of $g$ factors is demonstrated.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure, 4 tables
Additional file 1 of Engineered reduction of S-adenosylmethionine alters lignin in sorghum
Creators: name: Tian, Yang
name: Gao, Yu
name: Turumtay, Halbay
name: Turumtay, Emine Akyuz
name: Chai, Yen Ning
name: Choudhary, Hemant
name: Park, Joon-Hyun
name: Wu, Chuan-Yin
name: De Ben, Christopher M.
name: Dalton, Jutta
name: Louie, Katherine B.
name: Harwood, Thomas
name: Chin, Dylan
name: Vuu, Khanh M.
name: Bowen, Benjamin P.
name: Shih, Patrick M.
name: Baidoo, Edward E. K.
name: Northen, Trent R.
name: Simmons, Blake A.
name: Hutmacher, Robert
name: Atim, Jackie
name: Putnam, Daniel H.
name: Scown, Corinne D.
name: Mortimer, Jenny C.
name: Scheller, Henrik V.
name: Eudes, Aymerick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1.