cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Robust and probabilistic optimization methods with applications to truss structures
Creators: name: Baldi, Mauro Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Conver optimization
Truss structures
Uncertainty
Linear algebra
Physics

description: The work reported in this thesis is about one of the many branches of convex optimization: the truss structures design. A truss is a collection of bars which meet each other at certain points - the nodes - to form a planar or spatial lattice. Truss structures are ubiquitous and widespread in the industrialized and civil world; they appear as bridges, towers, roof supports, building exoskeletons, cranes and so on everywhere. The most famous and popular example of truss structure is the Eiffel tower, which has more than 15000 girders connected at over 30000 points. These numbers give the straightforward idea that it would be almost impossible (particularly in complex cases) and tedious to design a truss structures by hand; hence design algorithms are required.
 The philosophy at the basis of this thesis is to handle a robust or probabilistic truss structures design towards uncertainty associated to the data of the problem by providing to the processor the lattice geometry (i.e. position of nodes where the bars meet each other), the fixed nodes holding the structure and, finally, the external forces acting on the truss.
CONSERVATION BENEFITS OF THE USDA'S 1983 PAYMENT-IN-KIND AND ACREAGE REDUCTION PROGRAMS
Creators: name: Colacicco, D.
name: Barbarika, A.
name: Langner, L.
name: Colacicco, D.
name: Barbarika, A.
name: Langner, L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Acreage reduction
subject: payment-in-kind
subject: soil conservation
subject: soil erosion
subject: wildlife habitat

description: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's 1983 Payment-in-Kind and Acreage Reduction Programs reduced soil erosion on the land withdrawn from production by an average of 1.8 tons per acre per year over the 80 million acres diverted. The erosion reduction could have been significantly greater had the program targeted highly erodible land and had the diverted acres been adequately protected from erosion. Water withdrawal was reduced by 1.6 acre-feet per acre because of diverted lands that would have been irrigated. About 35 percent of the diverted acres provided suitable cover for wildlife. The analysis was based on data from a sample of over 4,900 farms in 278 counties.
Additional file 1 of Response of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) cultivars to drought stress under in vitro and field conditions
Creators: name: Zaki, Haitham E. M.
name: Radwan, Khlode S. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Distribution of particle size and chemical properties of the experimental site soil. Table S2. List of primers of the selected genes used for RT-PCR.
THE GREEN REVOLUTION FOR WHEAT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Creators: name: Vocke, Gary
name: Vocke, Gary
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Development
subject: Green revolution
subject: wheat
subject: developing countries
subject: agricultural policy
subject: high-yielding varieties

description: The green revolution has greatly increased the wheat supply in the developing world. The experiences of Mexico, India, Pakistan, Turkey, and Argentina are reviewed here. Governments of these countries, except Argentina, used procurement programs and input subsidies to maintain high profits for wheat production as long as domestic production substituted for imports. As these countries achieved wheat self-sufficiency, incentives for wheat production versus other crops were reduced. In contrast, Argentina taxed wheat exports and protected its high-cost fertilizer industry. Argentina increased wheat output by adopting semi-dwarf varieties double-cropped with soybeans using a small amount of fertilizer.
Additional file 1 of Impact of chronic kidney disease and anemia on health-related quality of life and work productivity: analysis of multinational real-world data
Creators: name: Haalen, Heleen Van
name: Jackson, James
name: Spinowitz, Bruce
name: Milligan, Gary
name: Moon, Rebecca
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1. Table 1 EQ-5D-3 L utility index and VAS scores by geographical region, Hb level and CKD stage.
Variations in the width, density, and direction of the Palomar 5 tidal tails
Creators: name: Bonaca, Ana
name: Pearson, Sarah
name: Price-Whelan, Adrian M.
name: Dey, Arjun
name: Geha, Marla
name: Kallivayalil, Nitya
name: Moustakas, John
name: Muñoz, Ricardo
name: Myers, Adam D.
name: Schlegel, David J.
name: Valdes, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stars that escape globular clusters form tidal tails that are predominantly shaped by the global distribution of mass in the Galaxy, but also preserve a historical record of small-scale perturbations. Using deep $grz$ photometry from DECaLS, we present highly probable members of the tidal tails associated with the disrupting globular cluster Palomar 5. These data yield the cleanest view of a stellar stream beyond $\sim20\,\rm kpc$ and reveal: (1) a wide, low surface-brightness extension of the leading tail; (2) significant density variations along the stream; and (3) sharp changes in the direction of both the leading and the trailing tail. In the fiducial Milky Way model, a rotating bar perturbs the Palomar 5 tails and can produce streams with similar width and density profiles to those observed. However, the deviations of the stream track in this simple model do not match those observed in the Palomar 5 trailing tail, indicating the need for an additional source of perturbation. These discoveries open up the possibility of measuring the population of perturbers in the Milky Way, including dark-matter subhalos, with an ensemble of stellar streams and deep photometry alone.
description: 4 figures, 12 pages; submitted to AAS Journals
Chlamydastis noramartinae Phillips and Brown 2021, new species
Creators: name: Phillips-Rodríguez, Eugenie
name: Brown, John W.
name: Hallwachs, Winnie
name: Janzen, Daniel H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Oecophoridae
Chlamydastis
Chlamydastis noramartinae

description: Chlamydastis noramartinae Phillips and Brown, new species
Figures 45, 84
 Holotype. Male, Costa Rica, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Orosi, Manta Mecate, 587 m, 30.ix.2011, H. Cambronero and S. Ríos, 11-SRNP-104804, GenBank accession code MH827046 (USNM).
 Paratypes (11♂). See Appendix 1.
 Diagnosis. Superficially, C. noramartinae is similar to C. vitorbeckeri. In both, the forewing has a somewhat twotoned pattern—pale yellow in the basal 0.33 and pale brown-ocherous in the distal 0.66 (Fig. 45), with a slender copper crescent-shaped patch in the termen. The male genitalia of C. noramartinae can be distinguished from other members of the species group by the small, rounded uncus and the greatly reduced sacculus.
 Description. MALE (Fig. 45). Head. Frons and vertex pale yellow, with ocherous tufts on lateral vertex and collar, labial palpus brownish; antenna with sensory setae extremely short, sparse. Thorax. Tegulae and dorsum pale yellow, with irregular ocherous anterior band; FW length 5.1–5.7 mm; FW pale yellow in basal 0.33, delineated distally by an arched white line; distal 0.66 pale brown-ocherous with faint subcircular blotch in terminal area. HW pale grayish brown. Abdomen. Externally brown with two anteriormost segments pale yellow; conspicuous bushy hairpencil from end of abdomen. Genitalia (Fig. 84) with uncus reduced to a short, rounded nub; gnathos absent; valva somewhat parallel-sided with fanlike arrangement of specialized setae originating near middle of apex of valva; lateral processes of juxta with group of setae at distal ends; phallus stout, curved at ca. 0.65 distance from base.
FEMALE. Unknown.
 DNA barcodes. The three barcodes of C. noramartinae form a BIN (BOLD:ABW0965) with an average distance of 0.21% among sequences and a distance of 7.21% to the nearest neighbor, C. manuelzumbadoi.
 Distribution. Chlamydastis noramartinae has been collected only in dry forest/dry lowland intergrade at ca. 600 m elevation in ACG.
 Biology. The immature stages and food plants are unknown.
 Etymology. Chlamydastis noramartinae is named in honor of Nora Martin in recognition of her administrative and logistic contributions to the national biodiversity inventory of Costa Rica.
description: Published as part of Phillips-Rodríguez, Eugenie, Brown, John W., Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H., 2021, Chlamydastis Meyrick of Costa Rica: barcodes, biology, and descriptions of 36 new species (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae), pp. 1-96 in Insecta Mundi 2021 (868) on pages 42-43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5042023
E11 and Spheric Vacuum Solutions of Eleven- and Ten dimensional Supergravity Theories
Creators: name: Schnakenburg, Igor
name: Miemiec, Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In view of the newly conjectured Kac-Moody symmetries of supergravity theories placed in eleven and ten dimensions, the relation between these symmetry groups and possible compactifications are examined. In particular, we identify the relevant group cosets that parametrise the vacuum solutions of AdS x S type.
description: discussion improved
Search for low energy neutrinos in correlation with the 8 events observed by the EXPLORER and NAUTILUS detectors in 2001
Creators: name: Aglietta, M.
name: Antonioli, P.
name: Bari, G.
name: Castagnoli, C.
name: Fulgione, W.
name: Galeotti, P.
name: Garbini, M.
name: Ghia, P. L.
name: Giusti, P.
name: Gomez, F.
name: Kemp, E.
name: Malguin, A. S.
name: Menghetti, H.
name: Porta, A.
name: Pesci, A.
name: Pless, I. A.
name: Ryasny, V. G.
name: Ryazhskaya, O. G.
name: Saavedra, O.
name: Sartorelli, G.
name: Selvi, M.
name: Telloni, D.
name: Vigorito, C.
name: Votano, L.
name: Yakushev, V. F.
name: Zatsepin, G. T.
name: Zichichi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a search for low-energy neutrino (antineutrino) bursts in correlation with the 8 time coincident events observed by the gravitational waves detectors EXPLORER and NAUTILUS (GWD) during the year 2001. The search, conducted with the LVD detector (INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy), has considered several neutrino reactions, corresponding to different neutrino species, and a wide range of time intervals around the (GWD) observed events. No evidence for statistically significant correlated signals in LVD has been found. Assuming two different origins for neutrino emission, the cooling of a neutron star from a core-collapse supernova or from coalescing neutron stars and the accretion of shocked matter, and taking into account neutrino oscillations, we derive limits to the total energy emitted in neutrinos and to the amount of accreting mass, respectively.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Three-dimensional general relativistic Poynting-Robertson effect II: Radiation field from a rigidly rotating spherical source
Creators: name: Bakala, Pavel
name: De Falco, Vittorio
name: Battista, Emmanuele
name: Goluchová, Kateřina
name: Lančová, Debora
name: Falanga, Maurizio
name: Stella, Luigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the three-dimensional, general relativistic Poynting-Robertson effect in the case of rigidly rotating spherical source which emits radiation radially in the local comoving frame. Such radiation field is meant to approximate the field produced by the surface of a rotating neutron star, or by the central radiating hot corona of accreting black holes; it extends the purely radial radiation field that we considered in a previous study. Its angular momentum is expressed in terms of the rotation frequency and radius of the emitting source. For the background we adopt a Kerr spacetime geometry. We derive the equations of motion for test particles influenced by such radiation field, recovering the classical and weak-field approximation for slow rotation. We concentrate on solutions consisting of particles orbiting along circular orbits off and parallel to the equatorial plane, which are stabilized by the balance between gravitational attraction, radiation force and PR drag. Such solutions are found to lie on a critical hypersurface, whose shape may morph from prolate to oblate depending on the Kerr spin parameter and the luminosity, rotation and radius of the radiating sphere. For selected parameter ranges, the critical hypersurface intersects the radiating sphere giving rise to a bulging equatorial region or, alternatively, two lobes above the poles. We calculate the trajectories of test particles in the close vicinity of the critical hypersurface for a selected set of initial parameters and analyze the spatial and angular velocity of test particles captured on the critical hypersurface.
description: 20 pages, 13 Figures
Additional file 2 of Underlying goals of advance care planning (ACP): a qualitative analysis of the literature
Creators: name: Fleuren, Nienke
name: Depla, Marja
name: Janssen, Daisy
name: Huisman, Martijn
name: Hertogh, Cees
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2:. Codes per underlying goal.
ПРЕНАТАЛЬНАЯ УЛЬТРАЗВУКОВАЯ ДИАГНОСТИКА АНОМАЛИЙ МОЧЕВОЙ СИСТЕМЫ
Creators: name: Эргашева, Ш.Ш.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Врожденная урологическая патология наиме; нее симптоматична в первые месяцы и даже годы жизни ребенка до присоединения таких осложне; ний, как хронический пиелонефрит и почечная недостаточность. Отсутствие жалоб, малочислен; ность и неспецифичность симптомов при сложных калечащих мочевые органы патологических про; цессах приводят к тому, что у детей до 1 года вы; является менее 25% врожденной урологической патологии, а у детей до 5 лет - только 55% (А.В. Папаяна, 2015).
Additional file 1 of Underlying goals of advance care planning (ACP): a qualitative analysis of the literature
Creators: name: Fleuren, Nienke
name: Depla, Marja
name: Janssen, Daisy
name: Huisman, Martijn
name: Hertogh, Cees
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1:. Search terms.
AGGREGATE INDICATORS IN THE QUARTERLY AGRICULTURE FORECASTING MODEL: RETAIL FOOD PRICES
Creators: name: Westcott, Paul C.
name: Westcott, Paul C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food prices
subject: stage of processing
subject: farm-level prices
subject: food marketing costs
subject: model validation
subject: multipliers

description: This report discusses a quarterly markup model for retail food prices. Impact, interim, and total multipliers are derived for 15 exogenous variables in order to examine the dynamic properties of the model. Most of the effects on food prices resulting from changes in farm-level prices and food marketing costs occur quickly, usually within two quarters. The transmission to retail prices of changes in farm-level prices and food marketing costs tends to be the quickest for foods requiring relatively little processing, while tending to be longer for more highly processed foods. Within-sample and beyond-sample validation statistics indicate that the model performs well, especially for the major consumer price index aggregates.
The resolved size and structure of hot dust in the immediate vicinity of AGN
Creators: name: GRAVITY Collaboration
name: Dexter, J.
name: Shangguan, J.
name: Hönig, S.
name: Kishimoto, M.
name: Lutz, D.
name: Netzer, H.
name: Davies, R.
name: Sturm, E.
name: Pfuhl, O.
name: Amorim, A.
name: Bauböck, M.
name: Brandner, W.
name: Clénet, Y.
name: de Zeeuw, P. T.
name: Eckart, A.
name: Eisenhauer, F.
name: Schreiber, N. M. Förster
name: Gao, F.
name: Garcia, P. J. V.
name: Genzel, R.
name: Gillessen, S.
name: Gratadour, D.
name: Jiménez-Rosales, A.
name: Lacour, S.
name: Millour, F.
name: Ott, T.
name: Paumard, T.
name: Perraut, K.
name: Perrin, G.
name: Peterson, B. M.
name: Petrucci, P. O.
name: Prieto, M. A.
name: Rouan, D.
name: Schartmann, M.
name: Shimizu, T.
name: Sternberg, A.
name: Straub, O.
name: Straubmeier, C.
name: Tacconi, L. J.
name: Tristram, K.
name: Vermot, P.
name: Waisberg, I.
name: Widmann, F.
name: Woillez, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use VLTI/GRAVITY near-infrared interferometry measurements of 8 bright, Type 1 AGN to study the size and structure of hot dust heated by the central engine. We partially resolve each source, and report Gaussian FWHM sizes in the range 0.3-0.8 milliarcseconds. In all but one object, we find no evidence for significant elongation or asymmetry (closure phases < 1 deg). The effective physical radius increases with bolometric luminosity as found from past reverberation and interferometry measurements. The measured sizes for Seyfert galaxies are systematically larger than for the two quasars in our sample when measured relative to the previously reported R ~ L^1/2 relationship explained by emission at the sublimation radius. This could be evidence of evolving near-infrared emission region structure as a function of central luminosity.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, submitted to A&A
Let’s Take Safer Steps Together
Creators: name: Tan, Tracy
name: Martinez-Minett, Sebastian
name: Young, Kailey
name: Robinson, Cameron
name: Wong, Horace
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: This study examines the subjective and dynamic concept of safety within the University of British Columbia Vancouver (UBCV) campus environment, focusing not only on how safety is perceived, but also constructed, and influenced by both institutional mechanisms and socio-spacial relationships. By integrating feminist geographies, intersectionality and placemaking theories, this study challenges traditional views that safety is not just the absence of violence but rather is a fluctuating, relational construct shaped by numerous factors, including infrastructure, identity, cultural and sociopolitical factors. This study uses a mixed-methods approach integrating ethnographic observation, surveys, and interviews, using stratified sampling and random sampling techniques to collect data to reflect the reality of UBC campus demographics. This allows for targeted analysis to understand the spatial and emotional dimensions of safety and unsafety. The study worked in conjunction with the AMS Safewalk program, a non-profit, student-run voluntary service at UBC that provides students walking or driving company to destinations anywhere on campus at night. This allowed for an actual example of campus safety measures and access to large data sets. The research identifies significant differences in safety perceptions amongst different demographic identifiers, further influenced by actors such as lighting, community presence, and institutional trust. The study concludes that while certain areas of the campus are deemed safe due to high pedestrian activity and visibility, others are considered unsafe due to poor lighting and low human traffic, contextualising the importance of placemaking frameworks. The study also provides critiques to improve the effectiveness of current safety interventions and suggests more proactive alterations to UBC campus infrastructure and policy to promote greater feelings of safety at UBC. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Additional file 1 of Through service providersâ€™ eyes: health systems factors affecting implementation of tuberculosis control in Enugu State, South-Eastern Nigeria
Creators: name: Ogbuabor, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Interview guide.
Cosmology in theories with derivative matter coupling
Creators: name: Haghani, Zahra
name: Shahidi, Shahab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new class of modified gravity theories with a healthy higher order derivative terms of a function of the matter Lagrangian $f(L_m)$ is considered. Generally the energy momentum tensor is not conserved, leading to the fifth force similar to $f(R,T)$ theories. We will however show that in the FRW background there exists two possibilities corresponding to conservative and non-conservative cases. Cosmological implications of both cases with different functions of the matter Lagrangian $f$ will be investigated in details and we will show that current observational data can be satisfied in this model. The non-conservative case however, predicts less matter sources at early times and more deceleration. Evolution of the matter density perturbation in the longitudinal gauge is also considered for dust matter sources. We will show that the late time behavior of the matter density perturbation is in agreement with current observational data at sub-horizon limit.
description: 13 pages
Additional file 2 of Consistent changes in the intestinal microbiota of Atlantic salmon fed insect meal diets
Creators: name: Li, Yanxian
name: Gajardo, Karina
name: Jaramillo-Torres, Alexander
name: Kortner, Trond M.
name: Krogdahl, Åshild
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Figures S1 to S3. Supplementary figures.
Topical Collection: Testing the Kerr spacetime with gravitational-wave and electromagnetic observations
Creators: name: Berti, Emanuele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the Holy Grails of observational astronomy is to confirm the prediction that black holes in the Universe are described by the Kerr solution of Einstein's field equations of general relativity. This Topical Collection provides a status report of theoretical and experimental progress towards confirming the "Kerr paradigm" through X-ray astronomy, gravitational lensing, stellar tidal disruption events, superradiance, and gravitational-wave observations of black hole binary mergers.
description: Introduction to the General Relativity and Gravitation Topical Collection "Testing the Kerr spacetime with gravitational-wave and electromagnetic observations", available at https://link.springer.com/journal/10714/topicalCollection/AC_9f63b87d155730bc7589edb13e509026
Long term γ -ray variability of blazars
Creators: name: Rajput, Bhoomika
name: Stalin, C. S.
name: Rakshit, Suvendu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used the data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to characterise the γ-ray flux variability of blazars on month-like time scales. Our sample consists of 1120 blazars of which 481 are flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and 639 are BL Lac objects (BL Lacs). We generated monthly binned light curves of our sample for a period of approximately nine years from 2008 August to 2017 December and quantified variability by using excess variance (F_var). On month-like time scales, 371/481 FSRQs are variable ( 80%), while only about 50% (304/639) of BL Lacs are variable. This suggests that FSRQs are more variable than BL Lac objects. We find a mean F_var of 0.55 +/- 0.33 and 0.47 +/- 0.29 for FSRQs and BL Lacs respectively. Large F_var in FSRQs is also confirmed from the analysis of the ensemble structure function. By Dividing our sample of blazars based on the position of the synchrotron peak in their broad-band spectral energy distribution, we find that the low synchrotron peaked (LSP) sources have the largest mean F_var value of 0.54 +/- 0.32 while the intermediate synchrotron peaked (ISP) and high synchrotron peaked (HSP) sources have mean F_var values of 0.45 +/- 0.25 and 0.47 +/- 0.33 respectively. On month-like time scales, we find FSRQs to show a high duty cycle (DC) of variability of 66% relative to BL Lacs that show a DC of 36%. We find that both the F_var and time scale of variability (τ) do not correlate with the black hole mass. We note that F_var is found to be weakly correlated with Doppler factor (δ) and τ is also weakly correlated with δ. Most of the sources in our sample have τ of the order of days, which might be related to processes in the jet. We find marginal difference in the distribution of τ between FSRQs and BL Lacs.
description: 8 pages, 14 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A
CRITICAL ISSUES IN THE DELIVERY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT SERVICES IN RURAL AMERICA
Creators: name: Doeksen, Gerald A.
name: Peterson, Janet
name: Doeksen, Gerald A.
name: Peterson, Janet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Political Economy
subject: Community services
subject: rural development
subject: education
subject: rural water
subject: rural crime prevention
subject: fire
subject: hospitals
subject: solid waste
subject: budgeting production functions

description: Technological changes, an increase in demand for quality community services, and environmental controls have created conditions of continual change in. the delivery of rural services. This report summarizes economic theory on community services, reviews literature, and identifies research issues. Current research on budgets for community services and facilities and on the production, or delivery, function are identified as high-priority issues. Also, the crucial topic of extending research findings to the final user is discussed.
Localization of interacting electrons in quantum dot arrays driven by an ac-field
Creators: name: Creffield, C. E.
name: Platero, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dynamics of two interacting electrons moving in a one-dimensional array of quantum dots under the influence of an ac-field. We show that the system exhibits two distinct regimes of behavior, depending on the ratio of the strength of the driving field to the inter-electron Coulomb repulsion. When the ac-field dominates, an effect termed coherent destruction of tunneling occurs at certain frequencies, in which transport along the array is suppressed. In the other, weak-driving, regime we find the surprising result that the two electrons can bind into a single composite particle -- despite the strong Coulomb repulsion between them -- which can then be controlled by the ac-field in an analogous way. We show how calculation of the Floquet quasienergies of the system explains these results, and thus how ac-fields can be used to control the localization of interacting electron systems.
description: 7 pages, 6 eps figures V2. Minor changes, this version to be published in Phys. Rev. B
Monopole Chains in the Compact Abelian Higgs Model with doubly-charged Matter Field
Creators: name: Chernodub, M. N.
name: Feldmann, R.
name: Ilgenfritz, E. -M.
name: Schiller, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the properties of topological defects in the lattice compact Abelian Higgs Model with charge Q=2 matter field. We find that monopoles and antimonopoles form chain-like structures which are dense in the confinement/symmetric phase. In this phase the mentioned structures explain both the confinement of single-charged and the breaking of strings spanned between doubly-charged test particles. This observation helps to understand how the non-diagonal gluons, once taken into consideration in the Abelian projection of gluodynamics, could reproduce in this framework the string breaking for adjoint charges.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures; Revision 1: two figures added, percolation properties discussed, title changed, enlarged version; Revision 2: misprints are corrected, to be published in Phys.Lett.B
Cosmological baryon transfer in the SIMBA simulations
Creators: name: Borrow, Josh
name: Angles-Alcazar, Daniel
name: Dave, Romeel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a framework for characterizing the large scale movement of baryons relative to dark matter in cosmological simulations, requiring only the initial conditions and final state of the simulation. This is performed using the spread metric which quantifies the distance in the final conditions between initially neighbouring particles, and by analysing the baryonic content of final haloes relative to that of the initial Lagrangian regions defined by their dark matter component. Applying this framework to the SIMBA cosmological simulations, we show that 40% (10%) of cosmological baryons have moved $> 1h^{-1}~ {\rm Mpc}^{-1}$ ($3h^{-1}~ {\rm Mpc}^{-1}$) by $z=0$, due primarily to entrainment of gas by jets powered by AGN, with baryons moving up to $12h^{-1}~ {\rm Mpc}^{-1}$ away in extreme cases. Baryons decouple from the dynamics of the dark matter component due to hydrodynamic forces, radiative cooling, and feedback processes. As a result, only 60% of the gas content in a given halo at $z=0$ originates from its Lagrangian region, roughly independent of halo mass. A typical halo in the mass range $M_{\rm vir} = 10^{12}$--$10^{13}{\rm M}_\odot$ only retains 20% of the gas originally contained in its Lagrangian region. We show that up to 20% of the gas content in a typical Milky Way mass halo may originate in the region defined by the dark matter of another halo. This inter-Lagrangian baryon transfer may have important implications for the origin of gas and metals in the circumgalactic medium of galaxies, as well as for semi-analytic models of galaxy formation and "zoom-in" simulations.
description: Submitted to MNRAS
PRIVATE FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN NIGERIAN AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Mabbs-Zeno, Carl C.
name: Mabbs-Zeno, Carl C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Agricultural policy
subject: foreign investment
subject: Nigeria
subject: privatization

description: Nigerian policies have tended to support foreign investment since national independence, but agriculture has attracted little foreign capital. The Government favors private ownership, but it accepted a large role in agriculture. The response to a declining agricultural sector and a recent decline in export earnings from petroleum has been an array of programs directed toward enhancing foreign and private agricultural investment opportunities. Most of these programs have limited potential to improve agricultural productivity at the national level, although effects of import bans and currency devaluation will be extensive.
Dati della ricerca e citazioni aperte
Creators: name: Peroni, Silvio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: citazioni aperte
dati della ricerca
dati FAIR
dati aperti
open data
FAIR data
open citations
research data
OpenCitations

description: Slide utilizzate nella presentazione del 7 Aprile 2021 sui dati della ricerca e le citazioni aperte avvenuta durante il secondo ciclo di incontri "(As)saggi di OpenScience: conversazioni in tema di accesso aperto" organizzato dalla Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali dell'Università di Firenze.
THE LAND IMPROVEMENT TAX SIMULATOR (LITS): AN ANALYTICAL TOOL
Creators: name: Heimlich, Ralph E.
name: Daugherty, Arthur B.
name: Heimlich, Ralph E.
name: Daugherty, Arthur B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Conservation
subject: income taxes
subject: land improvement
subject: resource development
subject: models
subject: natural resources

description: Knowledge about effects of Federal income tax provisions on the use and treatment of land is important in analyzing and predicting changes in the use and management of land. This report describes an electronic spreadsheet model allowing comparisons of alternative tax treatment of expenditures for soil and water conservation, landclearing, and other land improvement investments. Each calculation is referenced to the Internal Revenue Code. A simple example application of the model is included along with listings of row headings, formulas, and required data input.
Additional file 1 of Collaboration with community connectors to improve primary care access for hardly reached people: a case comparison of rural Ireland and Australia
Creators: name: Wallace, Carolyn
name: Farmer, Jane
name: Carolynne White
name: McCosker, Anthony
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1. Interview Guides.
The contribution from stars stripped in binaries to cosmic reionization of hydrogen and helium
Creators: name: Gotberg, Y.
name: de Mink, S. E.
name: McQuinn, M.
name: Zapartas, E.
name: Groh, J. H.
name: Norman, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Massive stars are often found in binary systems and it has been argued that binary products boost the ionizing radiation of stellar populations. Accurate predictions for binary products are needed to understand and quantify their contribution to Cosmic Reionization. We investigate the contribution of stars stripped in binaries since (1) they are, arguably, the best-understood products of binary evolution, (2) we recently produced the first non-LTE radiative transfer calculations for the atmospheres of these stripped stars that predict their ionizing spectra, and (3) they are very promising sources since they boost the ionizing emission of stellar populations at late times. This allows stellar feedback to clear the surroundings such that a higher fraction of their photons can escape and ionize the intergalactic medium. Combining our detailed predictions for the ionizing spectra with a simple cosmic reionization model, we estimate that stripped stars contributed tens of percent of the photons that caused cosmic reionization of hydrogen, depending on the assumed escape fractions. More importantly, stripped stars harden the ionizing emission. We estimate that the spectral index for the ionizing part of the spectrum can increase to -1 compared to
description: Under review in A&A, suggestions welcome
Additional file 1 of 3D hanging spheroid plate for high-throughput CAR T cell cytotoxicity assay
Creators: name: Chen, Zhenzhong
name: Han, Seokgyu
name: Sanny, Arleen
name: Chan, Dorothy Leung-Kwan
name: van Noort, Danny
name: Lim, Wanyoung
name: Tan, Andy Hee-Meng
name: Park, Sungsu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
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: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Generation of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells. (A) Schematic diagram showing HER2-CAR structure. (B) Frequency of HER2-CAR T cells as assessed using flow cytometry. Data in (B) are representative of three independent experiments: HTM, hinge and transmembrane region. Fig. S2. Treatment of BT474 spheroids with either mock T or HER2-CAR T cells. The ratio of BT474 spheroids to either mock T or HER2-CAR T cells was 1:4 in agarose-coated wells, and the treatment duration was 3, 16, and 24 h. Fig. S3. Formation of BT474 spheroids on the 3DHSP. (A) Micrographs of BT474 spheroids with different cell numbers (300, 3000, and 30,000) on the 3DHSP for 1, 3, 5, and 7 d. (B) Spheroid diameter changing with time. (C) Representative images of BT474 spheroids cultured on the 3DHSP for 7 d showing the live (green) and dead (red) cells. (D) Green and red fluorescence intensity of spheroids cultured on the 3DHSP for 7 d. Scale bar: 200 μm. Student’s t-test: *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001; NS, not significant. Fig. S4. Image of the treated BT474 spheroids with and without either one or two repeated washings. Scale bar: 200 μm. Fig. S5. Treatment of spheroids with either the mock or HER2-CAR T cells. The ratio of the spheroids and either the mock or HER2-CAR T cells was 1:1 in the 3DHSP, and the treatment duration was 24 h. (A) Optical and fluorescent images of the treated spheroids of BT474, SKOV3, and U87 cells stained with calcein-AM (green) and ethidium homodimer-1 (red). (B) Area and green and red fluorescence intensity (C) of the treated spheroids. Scale bar: 200 μm. Student’s t-test: *p < 0.05, ***p < 0.001; NS, not significant. Fig. S6. Cytotoxicity of mock T and HER2-CAR T cells against luciferase-expressing cells co-cultured in 2D. The effector (BT474, SKOV3, and U87 cells) to target ratio was 4:1 (unless otherwise stated), and the cytotoxicity was assessed by the luminescence of surviving tumor cells 24 h later. Data are the mean ± standard deviation (SD) of three technical replicates for each condition and representative of one experiment.
Additional file 2 of Quality of life, level of functioning, and its relationship with mental and physical disorders in the elderly: results from the MentDis_ICF65+ study
Creators: name: Grassi, Luigi
name: Caruso, Rosangela
name: Ronch, Chiara Da
name: Härter, Martin
name: Schulz, Holger
name: Volkert, Jana
name: Dehoust, Maria
name: Sehner, Susanne
name: Suling, Anna
name: Wegscheider, Karl
name: Ausín, Berta
name: Canuto, Alessandra
name: Muñoz, Manuel
name: Crawford, Mike
name: Hershkovitz, Yael
name: Quirk, Alan
name: Rotenstein, Ora
name: Santos-Olmo, Ana
name: Shalev, Arieh
name: Strehle, Jens
name: Weber, Kerstin
name: Hans-Ulrich Wittchen
name: Andreas, Sylke
name: Murri, Martino Belvederi
name: Zerbinati, Luigi
name: Nanni, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Online supplemental Table 2. Regression analysis of the socio-demographic, mental and physical disorders on WHODAS II and WHO-QoL Bref (adjusted for age group, sex (and interaction if significant) as well as study centre)
Phenomenology of the Pentaquark Antidecuplet
Creators: name: Carlson, Carl E.
name: Carone, Christopher D.
name: Kwee, Herry J.
name: Nazaryan, Vahagn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the mass splittings and strong decays of members of the lowest-lying pentaquark multiplet, which we take to be a parity-odd antidecuplet. We derive useful decompositions of the quark model wave functions that allow for easy computation of color-flavor-spin matrix elements. We compute mass splittings within the antidecuplet including spin-color and spin-isospin interactions between constituents and point out the importance of hidden strangeness in rendering the nucleon-like states heavier than the S=1 state. Using recent experimental data on a possible S=1 pentaquark state, we make decay predictions for other members of the antidecuplet.
description: 12 pages LaTeX, 1 eps figure
Gaia RR Lyrae Stars in Nearby Ultra-Faint Dwarf Satellite Galaxies
Creators: name: Vivas, A. Katherina
name: Martínez-Vázquez, Clara
name: Walker, Alistair
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We search for RR Lyrae stars in 27 nearby ($<100$ kpc) ultra-faint dwarf satellite galaxies using the Gaia DR2 catalog of RR Lyrae stars. Based on proper motions, magnitudes and location on the sky, we associate 47 Gaia RR Lyrae stars to 14 different satellites. Distances based on RR Lyrae stars are provided for those galaxies. We have identified RR Lyrae stars for the first time in the Tucana II dwarf galaxy, and find additional members in Ursa Major II, Coma Berenices, Hydrus I, Bootes I and Bootes III. In addition we have identified candidate extra-tidal RR Lyrae stars in six galaxies which suggest they may be undergoing tidal disruption. We found 10 galaxies have no RR Lyrae stars neither in Gaia nor in the literature. However, given the known completeness of Gaia DR2 we cannot conclude these galaxies indeed lack variable stars of this type.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJSS
title: INTÉRÊT DE L’EAU THERMALE D’AVÈNE DANS LA PRISE EN CHARGE DE LA DERMATITE ATOPIQUE
title: Role of Avène Thermal Spring Water in the management of Atopic Dermatitis
Creators: name: Guerrero, Didier
name: Georgescu, Victor
name: Jean-Decoster, Catherine
name: Sattler, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Société Française de Médecine Thermale
Year: 2012

description: La dermatite atopique, maladie fréquente chez les jeunes enfants, est considérée comme une très bonne indication de cure à la station thermale d’Avène. Cette affection se caractérise par des désordres chroniques de la barrière cutanée et une réponse immune perturbée. Les évaluations cliniques réalisées auprès des curistes, utilisant Scorad et échelles de qualité de vie, ont permis d’objectiver le bénéfice immédiat et différé de la cure sur une cohorte de plus de 10.000 patients. Les travaux pharmaco-cliniques menés en parallèle montrent l’intérêt de l’eau thermale sur différentes composantes de la peau atopique : modulation du profil lymphocytaire, induction de la différenciation kératinocytaire et élimination de staphylocoques présents à la surface de la peau au profit d’une flore non pathogène. Ces observations confirment à la fois l’efficacité globale de la cure et l’intérêt spécifique de l’eau thermale dans la prise en charge de la dermatite atopique.
description: Atopic dermatitis is a very common skin disorder in children, and is considered as a good indication for hydrotherapy in Avène Hydrotherapy Centre.
Symptoms of atopic dermatitis are linked to chronic disorders of barrier function and anomalies of immune response.
Clinical evaluations carried out among Avène patients, using Scorad index and Quality of Life scales, have demonstrated the short- and long-term benefits of the treatment, in a population of more than 10.000 patients.
Pharmaco-clinical studies highlight the interest of Avène Thermal Spring Water on the different parameters of atopic skin : change in lymphocyte balance, improvement of epidermis differentiation, and elimination of staphylococcus on the surface of the skin, which are replaced by non-pathogen germs.
Both these results prove the global efficacy of Avène treatment in atopic patients and the specific interest of Avène Thermal Spring Water in this skin disorder.
U.S. AND WORLD FOOD, BEVERAGES, AND TOBACCO EXPENDITURES, 1970-83
Creators: name: Korb, Penelope
name: Korb, Penelope
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Food expenditures
subject: beverages expenditures
subject: tobacco expenditures
subject: disposable personal income
subject: personal consumption expenditures
subject: food as a percent of DPI
subject: dollar equivalent food
subject: beverages
subject: tobacco

description: The amount of money people spend on food, beverages, and tobacco is an excellent measure of a country's standard of living. Comparing U.S. food expenditures with those of other countries entails putting the statistics on a common ground. This series of tables and charts relates food, beverages, and tobacco statistics to the U.S. dollar and to disposable personal income, a unit of account not readily available for foreign countries. Comparisons show that dollar for dollar, U.S. consumers spend smaller portions of their paychecks for food than anyone else in the world.
Additional file 1 of Status of family planning integration to HIV care in Amhara regional state, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Zebideru Zewdie
name: Mezgebu Yitayal
name: Yigzaw Kebede
name: Abebaw Gebeyehu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: English Version Questionnaires