cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Economics of Civil War: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Creators: name: Ndikumana, Léonce
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: This study analyzes the causes of civil wars in the Congo since independence and
investigates how the Congo case fits the model of civil war proposed by Collier and
Hoeffler. Five conclusions arise from this case study. First, the level and growth rate of
national income increased the risk of war by reducing the cost of organizing rebellions
and the government’s ability to counteract the rebellions. Second, while regional ethnic
dominance served as a basis for mobilization of rebellions, ethnic antagonism was also an
obstacle to the expansion of civil wars beyond the province of origin. Third, while
natural resource dependence was a significant determinant of civil wars in the DRC, it is
the geographic concentration of natural resources and their unequal distribution that made
the Congo particularly prone to civil war. Fourth, the government’s ability to counteract
rebellions depended more on external support than on the government’s military and
economic capacity. Fifth, discriminatory nationality laws, disruptions in the ethnic
balance of the eastern region caused by the influx of Rwandan Hutu refugees in 1994,
and shared ethnicity between rebels and neighboring regimes—variables which are not
included in the Collier-Hoeffler model—were significant determinants of the outbreak of
civil wars in the 1990s.
Project Report - Validation of Time Series Technique for Prediction of Conformational States of Amino Acids
Creators: name: Nikam, Sagar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Molecular Physics
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Biophysics
subject: Computational Chemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: - Project report for M.Sc (Bioinformatics) at Bioinformatics Center,University of Pune, Pune (India)
- predictive analysis modelling using time series of missing amino acids in proteins - techniques for time-dependent pseudo-clusteing / classification & pseudo-phylogeny -a futuristic way for how to develop synthetic proteins to combat seasonal diseases & to tackle chemical warfare attacks.
Economic Integration, Cultural Standardization, and the Politics of Social Insurance
Creators: name: Bowles, Samuel
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: Does the freer movement of goods, people, ideas and money across national boundaries mean that, as Charles Kindleberger (1969):207 put it,  "the nation state is just about through as an economic unit" when it comes to the provision of social insurance and programs of egalitarian redistribution? Surely globalization will not eliminate the conditions  economic insecurity and distributions of income widely thought to be unfair that initially gave rise to the welfare state. What form will responses to these conditions take in a globally integrated economy?
An Econometric Analysis of International Variations in Child Welfare
Creators: name: Dalirazar, Nasrin
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: This paper attempts to further analytical understanding of the ways in which child welfare can be improved.   I examine the determinants of international variations in child health, nutrition, and education, analyzing the impacts both of government expenditures and of structural variables, such as income distribution, that are less policy-sensitive in the short run.  To control for cross-country variations in child welfare outcomes related to per capita income, I use ‘national performance gap’ measures of five dimensions of child welfare, and an aggregate index derived from them, as dependent variables.
D3.1 Humanities and Social Science Proof of Concept
Creators: name: ODIN Consortium
name: Kaye, John
name: Demeranville, Tom
name: McEachern, Steven
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: During the first year of the ODIN project the needs of Humanities and Social Science researchers were investigated through examining the use and re-use of British Birth Cohort Studies. This report contains the discipline context and characteristics associated with this research area, it outlines the current state of unique and persistent identifier adoption and use and outlines preliminary workflows to build on the opportunities that exist in this area. Year two of ODIN will compare disciplines build on these preliminary workflows to create concrete processes.
Inward Foreign Direct Investment and Inter-Industry Wage Differentials In U.S. Manufacturing Industries
Creators: name: Choi, Minsik
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: This study investigates the effects of inward foreign direct investment on local
workers’ wages by focusing on U.S. manufacturing industries for the period from
1987 to 1992. I use two different approaches to control individual characteristics and
to implement estimation in this study: (1) One-step estimation with industry-state
level of inward foreign direct investments, and (2) Two-step industry characteristic
regression approach. I find that the higher presence of foreign firms is associated
with higher local wages after workers’ observable characteristics are controlled for in
cross-section analysis. However, I did not find a positive association between inward
FDI activities and industry wage premiums within industry in a panel data analysis.
In this analysis, inward FDI activities appeared to be negatively associated with
worker’s industry wage premium for workers with more than high a school education.
D6.1 International validation of D3.1, D3.2, D4.1 and D5.1
Creators: name: ODIN Consortium
name: Aryani, Amir
name: Vision, Todd
name: Warner, Simeon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: This report (D6.1) examines and validates the ODIN approach from an international perspective. In addition, it presents the feedback of the Australian and US partners on the ODIN deliverables D3.1, D3.2, D4.1 and D5.1.
D1.2 First interim scientific report
Creators: name: ODIN Consortium
name: Ruiz, Sergio
name: Kaye, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: This first interim scientific report, as a contractual deliverable, describes at a high level the work that the ODIN consortium has carried out in the first 6 months of the project, and an overview of the resources used in the project so far.
Social Conflict and Macroeconomics: what determines the effectiveness of aggregate demand policies?
Creators: name: Tsakalotos, Euclid
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: This paper examines the role of social conflict in explaining macroeconomic phenomena and,
especially, the effectiveness of aggregate demand policies as a means of raising real output. The
social conflict approach to macroeconomic phenomena is compared with a Keynesian view
along with Ball, Mankiw and Romer’s (1988) and Lucas’ (1973) models of the determinants of
the effectiveness of aggregate demand policies (or the slope of the Phillips curve). Empirical
analysis over the period from the 1950s to the 1990s for 15 OECD countries provides
significant evidence that the social conflict view of inflation has much to offer in explaining
differences in the effectiveness of aggregate demand policies both across countries and through
time.
D4.1 Conceptual model of interoperability
Creators: name: ODIN Consortium
name: Fenner, Martin
name: Thorisson, Gudmundur
name: Ruiz, Sergio
name: Brase, Jan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: A conceptual model to solve the interoperability between different identifiers for data and people is proposed. The model describes key criteria for persistent identifiers and metadata describing the relationship between different identifier schemes. We describe how this conceptual model fits into the Linked Open Data model and look at several key relevant workflows.
D3.2 Proof of Concept HEP
Creators: name: ODIN Consortium
name: Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen
name: Mele, Salvatore
name: Ruiz, Sergio
name: Warner, Simeon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: During its first year, the ODIN project has studied the needs and particularities of the High-Energy Physics community. Based on these needs, a set of preliminary models on data exchange and workflows has been developed.
This information will be used during the second year of the project, when cross-field requirements and parallelisms will be analysed.
Review of Toxoplasma gondii Infection Drives Conversion of NK Cells into ILC1s
Creators: name: Alan Sher, Tadatsugu Taniguchi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Natural Killer (NK) and the ILC1 subset of innate lymphoid cells share related functions in host defense but have been argued to arise from distinct pathways. Park et al present new evidence challenging this concept. They show that murine Toxoplasma gondii infection promotes the differentiation of NK cells into an ILC1-like cell population which is stable and long-lasting, even after the infection has been cleared. These T. gondii induced cells, unlike Eomes+CD49a- NK cells, are Eomes-CD49a+T-bet+ and therefore resemble ILC1 cells. The authors additionally show that their differentiation involves Eomes down regulation and is STAT-4 dependent, However, in common with NK cells and distinct from ILC1 the T. gondii induced "ILC-like" population circulates to blood and lungs. Finally, the authors employ single cell RNAseq to examine the heterogeneity of the major T. gondii induced innate lymphocyte populations and their NK vs ILC relatedness as assessed by gene expression. Together, their observations establish a previously unappreciated developmental link between NK and ILC1cells in the context of infection. The 3 reviewers and editor agree that this is an important contribution that sheds new light on the developmental relationship of NK and ILC1 cells, a scientific issue that has received considerable attention in the innate immunity field. Although extensive, most of the criticisms raised can be addressed by revisions to the manuscript. One additional experiment is requested to provide a missing control.
The #1 Strategy for Automating SEO using Linked Data
Creators: name: Volpini, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: seo
linked data
structured data
CLIP
natural language generation
knowledge graph
WordLift

description: Content Knowledge Graphs are an open and scalable way to organize and optimize online content using artificial intelligence. This talk will explore the latest tactics to re-use the graph for automating SEO. From scaling schema markup to creating long-tail pages, from discovering new search opportunities to developing conversational user interfaces, this talk will help technical SEOs, content writers and marketers learn how to master Semantic SEO techniques using linked data graphs.
Cygwin installation instructions
Creators: name: Töpel, Mats
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This file contains information for installing the program Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) on Windows XP, Vista and 7.
The Past as Future? The Contribution of Financial Globalization to the Current Crisis of Neo-Liberalism as a Development Strategy
Creators: name: Felix, David
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description:  During the initial quarter-century of the post-World War II era, the development strategies urged on less-developed countries by the economic think tanks and foreign aid agencies of the capitalist world were shaped by Keynesian macroeconomics and by two “lessons” from history that further enlarged the economic role assigned the state in the development process. During the second post-war quarter century, the mainstream perspective shifted to neo-liberalism, which reoriented macroeconomic policy to accord with monetarism, structural policies with competitive general equilibrium theorizing, and reinforced the reorientation with “lessons” from history that diminished the role of the state in the development process.  Recently, however, we have been witnessing growing defections from neo-liberalism at the ideational level and tectonic shifts away at the political level.  Optimistically, these trends will return capitalistic development strategies and their theoretical rationale, in spirit though not in detail, back to those of the initial post-war quarter century; pessimistically, not before passing again through a 1930s-type dark tunnel.
Information Policy and Genetically Modified Food: Weighing the Benefits and Costs
Creators: name: Teisl, Mario F.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: The labeling of genetically modified foods (GMFs) is the topic of a debate that could dramatically alter the structure of the U.S. and international food industry. The current lack of harmonization of policy across countries makes GMF labeling an international trade issue. The U.S. and Canada do not require GMFs to be labeled unless the GMF is significantly different than the conventional food or the GMF presents a health concern. However, many other countries are requiring GMFs to be labeled. This paper discusses empirical work on the sources and magnitude of benefits and costs from labeling programs, with particular emphasis on the impact of the design of the labeling program on benefits and costs.
Divergent evolution of the paralogous human mitochondrial transcription factors, h-mtTFB1 and h-mtTFB2, to fulfill unique functions in mitochondrial gene expression, biogenesis, and retrograde signaling
Creators: name: Cotney, Justin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Molecular Biology

description: Mitochondria are essential organelles, resulting from an ancient endosymbiosis,that are found in virtually all eukaryotes. To maintain proper function, human mitochondria have maintained distinct genomes and a dedicated gene expression system. The human mitochondrial transcription system consists of three types of proteins: POLRMT, a bacteriophage-like RNA polymerase; h-mtTFA, a mitochondrial DNA binding protein; and the mtTFBs, two factors that provide a physical link between hmtTFA and POLRMT required for transcription initiation. The human mtTFBs, hmtTFB1 and h-mtTFB2, are unique transcription factors exhibiting homology with N6-adenine RNA dimethyltransferases. Phylogenetic analysis suggests a very early duplication of the endosymbiont KsgA gene as the source of these two paralogs. Consistent with this ancestry, I demonstrate that both h-mtTFB1 and h-mtTFB2 have maintained RNA methyltransferase activity. Overexpression of h-mtTFB1 in human cells increases the level of methylated 12S rRNA and induces mitochondrial mass. hmtTFB2 overexpression elevates mitochondrial DNA levels, transcripts, mass, membrane potential, and surprisingly induces a coordinate increase in h-mtTFB1 expression. This indicates that h-mtTFB1 is the major 12S methyltransferase and h-mtTFB2 is involved primarily in mitochondrial transcription. These results also suggest a major role for these factors in coordinating mitochondrial biogenesis. By combining their activities, a robust remodeling of the mitochondrial compartment occurs, increasing organelle mass and greater respiratory capacity. This response is dependent specifically upon methylation activity of h-mtTFB1 and indicates that the methylation status of 12S rRNA is a metric for mitochondrial function. In support of this idea cells harboring the mtDNA mutation A1555G, a mutation in 12S rRNA linked to non-syndromic deafness, have elevated methylated 12S rRNA and phenotypes similar to those associated with h-mtTFB1 overexpression. I propose that 12S rRNA methylation status is regularly monitored by the cell and either induces expression of h-mtTFB1 to improve overall methylation or induces mitochondrial mass in preparation for more OXPHOS complexes to be produced by fully methylated mitochondrial ribosomes. Altogether this research indicates that these factors are intimately involved in regulating mitochondrial biogenesis. Inappropriate modulation of their levels or activities might contribute to human disease by producing mitochondria deficient in transcription, translation, or respiration.
Leveraging Early Stage Venture To Build Knowledge Graph Startups
Creators: name: Ishaq, Hamza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Knowledge graphs have existed since the 1980s and despite more companies adopting knowledge graph technologies there is still relatively little understanding of knowledge graphs in the mainstream, particularly amongst investors. While there are more KG-driven startups being built today, there is still little conversation in the community around how they can attract early stage venture capital to help them build better, faster, and bigger. My presentation will focus on helping KG technologist understand what they need to present to investors/angels/VCs to attract investment and build the future.
Knowledge Gaph experience report from the leading European DIY retailer, how it improved its search, browsing and recommendations.
Creators: name: Belbeoch (Belbeoc'h) Gaetan
name: Gouwy Charles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: knowledge graph
retail
ecommerce
home improvement
ecommerce search

description: How The Leading Home Improvement Retailer In Europe Improved Its Search And Reco Relevance With A Collaborative Expert Knowledge Graph
Electrochemically active biofilms: facts and fiction. A review
Creators: name: Babauta, Jerome
name: Renslow, Ryan
name: Lewandowski, Zbigniew
name: Beyenal, Haluk
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2012
Subjects: Marine Biology

description: This review examines the electrochemical techniques used to study extracellular electron transfer in the electrochemically active biofilms that are used in microbial fuel cells and other bioelectrochemical systems. Electrochemically active biofilms are defined as biofilms that exchange electrons with conductive surfaces: electrodes. Following the electrochemical conventions, and recognizing that electrodes can be considered reactants in these bioelectrochemical processes, biofilms that deliver electrons to the biofilm electrode are called anodic, ie electrode-reducing, biofilms, while biofilms that accept electrons from the biofilm electrode are called cathodic, ie electrode-oxidizing, biofilms. How to grow these electrochemically active biofilms in bioelectrochemical systems is discussed and also the critical choices made in the experimental setup that affect the experimental results. The reactor configurations used in bioelectrochemical systems research are also described and the authors demonstrate how to use selected voltammetric techniques to study extracellular electron transfer in bioelectrochemical systems. Finally, some critical concerns with the proposed electron transfer mechanisms in bioelectrochemical systems are addressed together with the prospects of bioelectrochemical systems as energy-converting and energy-harvesting devices.
Is Cheap Talk Effective at Eliminating Hypothetical Bias in a Provision Point Mechanism?
Creators: name: Murphy, James J.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: Significant difference between response to real and hypothetical valuation questions is often referred to as hypothetical bias. Some economists have had success with using “cheap talk” (which entails reading a script that explicitly highlights the hypothetical bias problem before participants make any decisions) as a means of generating unbiased responses in a referendum format. In this article, we test the robustness of cheap talk using a voluntary contribution mechanism with a provision point over a wide range of possible payment amounts. Our results confirm the existence of hypothetical bias, and suggest that cheap talk may eliminate hypothetical bias, but only for respondents facing higher payments.
N-acyl homoserine lactone mediated interspecies interactions between A. baumannii and P. aeruginosa
Creators: name: Bhargava, Nidhi
name: Sharma, Prince
name: Capalash, Neena
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2012
Subjects: Marine Biology

description: Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are pathogens capable of colonizing the same infection sites and employing N-acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) based quorum-sensing systems to co-ordinate biofilm formation. Hence, the effect of P. aeruginosa AHLs on biofilm formation by A. baumannii and vice versa were investigated using the biofilm impaired quorum sensing mutants, A. baumannii M2 (abaI::Km) and P. aeruginosa PAO-JP2. Complementing the mutants with heterologous, extracted and pure AHLs increased biofilm mass significantly. The surface area coverage and biovolume also increased significantly as observed by confocal scanning laser microscopy which corroborated scanning electron microscope analysis. Autoinducer synthase gene promoters of A. baumannii, PabaI-lacZ, and P. aeruginosa, PlasI-lacZ, were induced (p A. baumannii was not inhibited by pyocyanin of P. aeruginosa which may allow their co-existence and interaction in the clinical setting, thereby affecting the severity of combined infections and therapeutic measures to control them.
Neighborhood-Aware Path Traversal (NAPT) in Property Graph and RDF Queries
Creators: name: Das, Souripriya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Edge Neighborhood
Path Traversal
RDF
Property Graph

description: This presentation discusses the motivation and current state of the art for Neighborhood-Aware Path Traversal in graph query languages. It proposes an approach that is rooted at introducing notations for references to neighborhood elements of the current edge being processed. Ideas are explained for new constructs that enable specification of constraints involving the properties of the neighborhood elements of an edge so that only those edges that satisfy the constraints are added to the path being created. Additional constructs are proposed for retrieval of path (aggregates), aggregate-based filter, and returning top-K paths based on specified criteria.
Production of Chlorofluorocarbons in Anticipation of the Montreal Protocol
Creators: name: Auffhammer, Maximilian
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: Anticipation of an International Environmental Agreement provides an incentive
for countries to change their production behavior prior to negotiations in order to
gain a favorable bargaining position. Increased historical production figures at the
time of negotiations may influence the magnitude of the baseline from which
cutbacks will be specified. In this paper we empirically measure the magnitude of
such strategic production behavior in the case of the Montreal Protocol on
Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer of 1987. Due to data limitations we
specify a two player Nash-Cournot game between the United States and the rest
of the world. We find evidence of asymmetric strategic behavior, which resulted
in a net increase of aggregate world chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) production.
Rapid Quantification of Methamphetamine: Using Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and Chemometrics
Creators: name: Hughes, Juanita
name: Ayoko, Godwin
name: Collett, Simon
name: Golding, Gary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper reports a new, rapid method for non evidentiary quantitative analysis. This rapid method could be used as a rapid alternative to the current UPLC method for non evidentary purposes. This FTIR technique agrees with the current method in the range from uncut to 0.3% methamphetamine, with linear calibration R2 value 96.37% and RMSEP 5.2. link to publisher online http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0069609 Article Source: Hughes J, Ayoko G, Collett S, Golding G (2013) Rapid Quantification of Methamphetamine: Using Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and Chemometrics. PLoS ONE 8(7): e69609. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0069609
title: Una estancia en tiempos ¿difíciles?: El reporte de un becario “Doucet” 2022
Creators: name: Chiliguay, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Cada año el mpilhlt invita a jóvenes investigadoras e investigadores para hacer uso de la Biblioteca Doucet, una colleción de casi 5.000 libros en el área de Historia del Dereco Indiano. En 2022 el argentino Alejandro Chiliguay pasó tres meses en Frankfurt am Main.
description: Legal History Insights
Building multilingual chatbots with language-agnostic KGs
Creators: name: Vasilevich, Alena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: multilingual AI, chatbots, multilingual knowledge system, natural language processing, reusable solution

description: CEFAT4Cities project targets the development of multilingual cross-border eGovernment services via a software layer that facilitates the conversion of natural-language administrative procedures into machine-readable data. We showcase the effectiveness of this solution embedded in SmartBot, a prototypical multilingual chatbot, developed for the Vienna Business Agency (VBA) in scope of the CEFAT4Cities project. SmartBot makes VBA's services discoverable in a user-friendly way, fine-targeting such topics as starting a new business and finding relevant grants among hundreds of funding opportunities. It is driven by multilingual AI that contains the results of CEFAT4Cities workflows, integrated into its domain knowledge along with multilingual domain-specific vocabularies, represented in a language-agnostic knowledge graph in Coreon. Thanks to the integrated MKS, SmartBot is able to infer connections between language-agnostic concepts and can deal with terms, previously unseen by the bot's language model.
title: Challenges of a digital source edition project during a pandemic
Creators: name: Wolf, Johanna;
name: Ebbertz, Matthias
name: Vesper, Tim-Niklas
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 340

description: How was archival work possible during the pandemic? To what extent are archives prepared for the digitization of their collections? These are the questions that the Working Time Project Group explores in this blog post and aims to stimulate discussions on the topic of the challenges and opportunities of digitizing sources.
description: Legal History Insights
Survey Instrument for Case Studies of Food Safety Innovation
Creators: name: Salay, Elisabete
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: Firms innovate to prevent the presence of microbial pathogens in foods and to address other safety problems. To date, studies on the economics of food safety innovation are relatively rare. We designed a series of case studies of such innovation in the meat industry. Our objectives were to identify and analyze different types of innovation, the drivers of innovation, the mode of innovation development, and the impact of innovation on food safety and firm performance. Here we present the survey instrument developed to conduct the case studies. This instrument can be applied, with minor modifications to reflect research objectives, to a wide variety of innovations and adaptations of innovations in the food industry.
Mechanisms for Addressing Third Party Impacts Resulting From Voluntary Water Transfers
Creators: name: Murphy, James J.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: This paper uses laboratory experiments to test alternative water market institutions designed to protect
third party interests. The institutions tested include taxing mechanisms that raise revenue to compensate
affected third parties and a market in which third parties actively participate. The results indicate that
there are some important trade-offs in selecting a policy option. Active third party participation in the
market is likely to result in free riding that may erode some or all of the efficiency gains, and may
introduce volatility into the market. Taxing transfers and compensating third parties offers a promising
balance of efficiency, equity and market stability.
Einfluß von Umweltfaktoren auf Austrieb, Blüte, Fruchtbarkeit und Triebwachstum bei der Rebe
Creators: name: Alleweldt, G.
name: Hofäcker, W.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2016

description: • In den Jahren 1969-1972 wurden auf 3 Versuchsparzellen Nordwürttembergs, in Flein und Stetten a. H., Wachstum und Entwicklung der Rebsorte Riesling mit den vorliegenden Standortfaktoren Temperatur, Lichtintensität, Niederschlag und Bodenwassergehalt verglichen. • Austrieb und Blüte der Reben zeigten eine enge Beziehung zu den täglichen Maxima der Lufttemperatur und der mittleren Bodentemperatur in 20 cm Tiefe. Für den Austrieb waren besonders Temperaturen oberhalb von 7-8 °C, für die Blüte oberhalb 15 °c wirksam. • Das Triebwachstum wurde außer durch die Lichtintensität (r = +0,801) und die Temperatur (r = +0,763) auch vom Niederschlag (r = +0,573) positiv beeinflußt. Auf dem trockneren Standort Flein Steinboden stand der Bodenwassergehalt in seiner Bedeutung vor den übrigen Faktoren. • Bei der Infloreszenzbildung und dem Verrieselungsgrad erwies sich der Bodenwassergehalt als relevantester Umweltfaktor. Influence of environmental factors on bud hurst, inflorescences, fertility, and shoot growth of vines From 1969 to 1972, in 3 plots in Northern Württemberg (Flein and Stetten a. H.), growth and development of the cultivar 'Riesling' were compared with regard to the present environmental factors: temperature, light intensity, precipitation, and water content of the soil. Bud burst and flowers of the vines showed a close relation to the daily maxima of air temperature and the average soil temperature at a depth of 20 cm. Temperatures above 7-8 oc had a special effect on bud burst, temperatures above 15 oc on flowers. In addition to light intensity (r = +0,801) and temperature (r = +0,763), the shoot growth was also positively influenced by precipitation (r = +0,573). On the drier location at "Flein Steinboden", the water content of the soil was of greater importance than the other factors. As regards inflorescence development and extent of shattering, the water content of the soil proved the most relevant environmental factor.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 14 No. 2 (1975): Vitis
Quantitative survey of microflora in shelf wines
Creators: name: Chudyk, R. V.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2016

description: A quantitative microbiological survey was conducted on 310 shelf bottles from 21 wine producing countries. The wines examined included the following types: low alcohol; crackling; rose; sparkling; red table wine; white table wine; champagne; aperitif; vermouth; flavoured wine; cider; wine cocktail; and fruit wine. Data on each wine type is presented as • range of viable mould, bacterium and yeast counts, • frequency of individual mould, bacterium and yeast counts, • frequency of different combinations of types of micro-organisms isolated from the same bottle and • relation between yeast and bacteria counts in wines containing both types of micro-organisms. Eine quantitative Erfassung der Mikroflora von Flaschenweinen aus dem Einzelhandel An 310 in Einzelhandelsgeschäften zum Verkauf anstehenden Weinflaschen, die aus 21 Weinbauländern stammten, wurde eine quantitative mikrobiologische Bestandsaufnahme durchgeführt. Die geprüften Weine umfaßten folgende Typen: Leichte Weine, Perlweine, Roseweine, Traubenschaumweine, rote Tafelweine, weiße Tafelweine, Sekte, Aperitifs, Wermutweine, Würzweine, Apfelweine, weinhaltige Mischgetränke und Obstweine. Jeder Weintyp wird durch folgende Daten charakterisiert: • Minimale und maximale Anzahl der lebensfähigen Keime von Schimmelpilzen, Bakterien und Hefen; • jeweilige Häufigkeitsverteilung der Keimzahlen von Schimmelpilzen, Bakterien und Hefen; • Häufigkeitsverteilung verschiedener Kombinationen von Mikroorganismentypen, die aus derselben Flasche isoliert wurden; • Relation von Hefen- und Bakterienzahlen in Weinen, die beide Mikroorganismentypen enthielten.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 14 No. 2 (1975): Vitis
From the Modern Data Stack to the Knowledge Graph
Creators: name: Muglia, Bob
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Knowledge Graph

description: The Modern Data Stack has revolutionized analytics and enabled thousands of companies to leverage the cloud to more effectively manage their data assets and to develop analytic solutions. While incredible progress has been made, we are still in the developmental stage of data platforms and it is clear that there are requirements, particularly for data governance, that are insufficiently addressed by today’s Modern Data platforms. Recent advances in relational algorithms promise to breakthrough these limitations, enabling the next generation data platform based on Knowledge Graphs. This talk will discuss the current state of the Modern Data Stack, explore some of the customer challenges with existing products, and describe a potential solution based on Knowledge Graphs.
title: Ein Plädoyer für die Änderung der Strafzumessungsgründe in § 46 Abs. 2 S. 2 StGB
Creators: name: Çelebi, Dilken
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
What is ignorance and what is malpractice? Drawing a responsible line.
Creators: name: Hartgerink, Chris H.J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: This is a piece I wrote within an ethics course. I was interested in trying to distinguish what choices could be deemed ignorant, and what choices could be deemed careless, and therefore malpractical from a researcher's perspective. This is a very gray subject area, and this piece is meant to provoke thought, which is why references are lacking. The style is therefore also more informal.
Die Rolle der Abscisinsäure bei der Knospenruhe di- und tetraploider Rebsorten
Creators: name: Düring, H.
name: Kismali, I.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2016

description: Ein Vergleich der Austriebsbereitschaft von Rebknospen der di- und tetraploiden Sorten Müller-Thurgau, Portugieser und Riesling mit den parallel ermittelten ABS-Gehalten der Winterknospen und Nodien während der Phase der endogenen Knospenruhe läßt folgende zusammenhänge erkennnen: • Die Austriebsbereitschaft der Winterknospen war bei allen Sorten Anfang September sehr ausgeprägt, fiel im Oktober auf Minimalwerte ab und stieg Ende November/Anfang Dezember wieder deutlich an. Aus diesen Untersuchungen ergab sich eine Abgrenzung der endogenen Knospenruhe von der korrelativen Vor- und der exogenen Nachruhe. • Im Untersuchungszeitraum stiegen bei allen Sorten die ABS-Gehalte der Winterknospen und Nodien um durchschnittlich das 6,5fache bis zu einem Maximum im Oktober an und sanken bis Anfang Dezember wieder auf etwa ihr Ausgangsniveau ab. • Das gegenläufige Verhalten von Knospenaustriebsbereitschaft und ABS-Gehalt sowie zeitliche und quantitative Verschiebungen im Verlauf der Ab- bzw. Zunahmen der Knospenaustriebsbereitschaft bei einzelnen Sorten und Valenzstufen, die mit entsprechenden Verschiebungen im Verlauf der ABS-Gehalte verbunden sind, lassen einen Kausalzusammenhang zwischen endogener Knospenruhe und ABS-Gehalt erkennen. The role of abscisic acid in bud dormancy of di- and tetraploid varieties of grapevines Rates of bud burst, using cuttings of di- and tetraploid grapevines of Müller-Thurgau, Portugieser and Riesling, were compared with the level of abscisic acid (ABA) in buds and nodes analysed by high pressure liquid chromatography in the period of endogenous bud dormancy. • After high percentages of bud burst at the beginning of September, in October, in all varieties, bud burst almost completely stopped until Novmeber when all varieties showed increasing bud burst again. These assays allowed to differentiate precisely between the periods of correlative predormancy, endogenous dormancy and exogenous ("imposed") dormancy. • In the period of endogenous dormancy in all varieties, the ABA level of buds and nodes increased more than sixfold, with a maximum in October, and decreased in November and December to a level comparable to the initial level. • The inverse course of reaction of bud burst and ABA content, as well as the temporal and quantitative differences in the course of decreasing and increasing bud burst of several varieties correlated with corresponding changes in the ABA level, indicate a causal relationship between endogenous bud dormancy and ABA content.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 14 No. 2 (1975): Vitis
A Meta-Analysis of Hypothetical Bias in Stated Preference Valuation
Creators: name: Murphy, James J.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: Individuals are widely believed to overstate their economic valuation of a good by a
factor of two or three. This paper reports the results of a meta-analysis of hypothetical
bias in 28 stated preference valuation studies that report monetary willingness-to-pay
and that used the same mechanism for eliciting both hypothetical and actual values.
The papers generated 83 observations with a median value of the ratio of hypothetical to
actual value of 1.35, and the distribution has severe positive skewness. Since a
comprehensive theory of hypothetical bias has not been developed, we use a set of
explanatory variables based on issues that have been investigated in previous research.
We find that a choice-based elicitation mechanism is important in reducing bias, though
an insufficient number of studies and confounding with other variables prevents us from
characterizing individual mechanisms. We provide some evidence that the use of
student subjects may be a source of bias, but this variable is highly correlated with
group experimental settings and no firm conclusions can be drawn. There is some weak
evidence that bias increases when public goods are being valued, and that some
calibration methods are effective at reducing bias. Results are quite sensitive to model
specification, which will remain a problem until a comprehensive theory of hypothetical
bias is developed.
Effect of time of application of potassium gibberellate on duster development of 'Zinfandel' grapes
Creators: name: Weaver, R. J.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2016

description: 'Zinfandel' grapevines were sprayed with KGA3 at 10 ppm when shoots were about 12, 25, or 50 cm long, or at bloom (50% calyptra fall). On 13 subsequent dates (April 29 to June 10), and at fruit maturity, various parameters were measured. Early applications of KGA3 increased shoot length, but by June 1 there were no differences among treatments. The first 3 treatments caused rapid increases in cluster length, but by June 10 lengths were not significantly different from the controls. Development of the basal lateral followed a similar trend. Pedicel length increased rapidly as a result of treatment, and on June 10 all treated pedicels were longer than those of the controls. At maturity, berries sprayed at the first 3 stages were smaller than control berries. The cessation of growth in length occurred first in clusters, followed by pedicels, laterals, and shoots, respectively. Einfluß des Anwendungszeitpunktes von Kalium-Gibberellat auf die Traubenentwicklung von Reben der Sorte Zinfandel Reben der Sorte Zinfandel wurden mit 10 ppm Kalium-Gibberellat besprüht, und zwar wenn die Triebe 12, 25 oder 50 cm lang waren, oder wenn 50% der Blütenkäppchen abgefallen waren. An 13 verschiedenen Daten (29. April bis 10. Juni) sowie zur Beerenreife wurden mehrere Parameter ermittelt. Frühzeitige Anwendungen förderten das Längenwachstum der Triebe; bis zum 1. Juni waren die Unterschiede zwischen den Varianten jedoch wieder ausgeglichen. Die ersten drei Behandlungen hatten ein schnelleres Längenwachstum der Trauben zur Folge; bis zum 10. Juni waren aber auch diese Unterschiede gegenüber den Kontrollen nicht mehr signifikant. Die Entwicklung der basalen Geiztriebe verlief ähnlich. Die Beerenstiele wuchsen nach Behandlung schneller und waren am 10. Juni durchweg länger als die der Kontrolle. Bei der Reife waren die in den ersten drei Wachstumsphasen besprühten Beeren kleiner als die Kontrollbeeren. Der Wachstumsstillstand trat zuerst bei den Trauben, dann bei den Beeerenstielen, den Geiztrieben und zuletzt bei den Trieben auf.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 14 No. 2 (1975): Vitis
GNU parallel for Bioinformatics: my notebook
Creators: name: Lindenbaum, Pierre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This tutorial follows Ole Tange’s GNU parallel tutorial ( http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_tutorial.html ) but I tried to use some bioinformatics-related examples (align with BWA, Samtools, etc.. ).
Evaluating Tradable Property Rights for Natural Resources: The Role of Strategic Entry and Exit
Creators: name: Brandt, Sylvia
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: This paper presents an econometric approach to the evaluation of environmental
regulation using tradable property rights. Existing empirical research on this issue,
which compares overall industry efficiency before and after the introduction of new
regulations, conflates two distinct phenomena: efficiency changes due to exit of excess
capital, and changes in the efficiency of individual firms. Because the regulatory
process induces firms of different types to enter and exit the industry at different rates,
the true efficiency and equity effects of tradable property rights cannot be assessed
without correcting for these changes in sample composition. This paper examines the
impact of regulatory change in the Mid-Atlantic surf clam fishery, using an econometric
model that separates its effects on industry structure and vessel efficiency. The analysis
finds that, contrary to widely held belief, tradable property rights did not
disproportionately benefit either large fishing firms or highly integrated firms.
A Tale of Two Clams: Policy Anticipation and Industry Productivity
Creators: name: Brandt, Sylvia
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: Sound environmental regulation must achieve environmental objectives while
maximizing economic efficiency. This paper evaluates the impact of regulation on
efficiency by measuring annual productivity across regulatory regimes in two similar
fisheries with differing policy expectations. Anticipation of regulatory change
produced strategic behavior in one fishery, leading to depressed productivity; in the
other, regulatory change was not expected, and productivity did not suffer. These
results imply that fisheries regulation should take into account both firms’ policy
expectations and the potentially perverse incentives that may be created by policy
change.
A Comparison of Cheap Talk and Alternative Certainty Calibration Techniques in Contingent Valuation
Creators: name: Samnaliev, Mihail
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: A field test of cheap talk and two types of certainty calibration in contingent valuation of public lands indicated that cheap talk does not reduce WTP estimates. Use of a ten point certainty calibration scale reduces WTP estimates by about half. However, adjusting for uncertainty using a ‘Not Sure’ option does not reduce WTP estimates but increases the variance in responses. There may be a conceptual difference between these two ways of accounting for respondents’ uncertainty, which may suggest why they provide different WTP value estimates and variances.
title: Explosive Investments: How International Law Regulates the Financing of Cluster Munitions
Creators: name: Graf, Jan-Phillip
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cluster Munitions
subject: Explosive Investments
subject: Disarmament
subject: 341

description: This paper investigates the question how international law regulates the financing of cluster munition producers. Due to their indiscriminate and long-lasting effects, cluster munitions cause a lot of civilian suffering. Although their use and production are prohibited in the 108 member states of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, cluster bombs are still produced and used in military conflicts worldwide. Moreover, states, private individuals, and banks provide billions of dollars in investments to the companies manufacturing cluster munitions. It will be argued that such financial assistance is illegal under the Convention on Cluster Munitions. State practice and domestic laws provide further evidence for this argument. Different ways of holding states, individuals, and corporations accountable for the provision of financial assistance will be compared by analyzing concepts from the law of state responsibility, international criminal law, corporate responsibility, and a selection of domestic laws.
description: IFHV Working Paper Series, vol. 12.2
The Impact of Reforming Wheat Importing State-Trading Enterprises on the Quality of Wheat Imported
Creators: name: Lavoie, Nathalie
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003

description: Recent surveys of wheat importers indicate that countries that import wheat via a state-trading enterprise (STE) are less sensitive to quality issues in import decision-making than countries that import wheat through private traders. This study examines conceptually and empirically the impact of the deregulation of wheat imports on the quality and source of wheat imports.
The Blessing of Commons: Small Scale Fisheries, Community Property Rights, and Coastal Natural Assets
Creators: name: Kurien, John
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2004

description: Following the influential article of Garrett Hardin titled ‘tragedy of the commons,’ it is part of both popular and scholarly belief that unless natural resources are strictly in the domain of private or state property, their fate is inevitable ruin. Closer examination of the actions of lowincome communities who depend on natural resources for their daily livelihoods has recently brought to the fore a more positive view about human proclivity for caring and nurturing common resources found in nature (Hardin 1968).
Equitable Carbon Revenue Distribution Under an International Emissions Trading Regime
Creators: name: Hultman, Nathan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2004

description: When people hear about ‘global warming’ or the Kyoto Protocol, many think of a topic of boundless uncertainty and political controversy. One reason for this reaction is the current U.S. administration’s statement that ‘Kyoto is dead’ and impossible to implement in the United States. As the largest greenhouse polluter in the world, the U.S. is indeed vital to any meaningful attempt to address the certain threat of climate change. Yet climate change will not go away simply because the Bush Administration refuses to sign one particular international accord. Scientists believe with high certainty that the impacts of current greenhouse gas emissions have started but may not be completely felt for 100 years or more.