cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Primula oreodoxa Franch.
Creators: name: Kovtonyuk, Nataliya
name: Durand-Andro, Véronique
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Primulaceae
Primula
Primula oreodoxa

description: Primula oreodoxa Franch.
(Fig. 8)
 Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 33: 66 (1886). — Pax, Engler’s Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik 10: 167 (1889). — Pax & Knuth, Primulaceae in Engler’s Pflanzenreich IV: 26 (1905). — Hu & Kelso, Flora of China 15: 117 (1996). — Richards, Primula: 128 (2003). — In protologue: “[China] Thibet oriental, Moupine, dans les parties fraîches des hautes montagnes – Avril 1869 (Arm. David).”
 LECTOTYPE (HERE DESIGNATED). — China. Moupine, Thibet oriental, Primula, fl. rouge violet, haute mont., IV.1869, David s.n. (lecto-, P[P04567171]!; isolecto-, P[P04567170]!).
REMARK
We found two sheets in herbarium P with label text almost as in protologue.
description: Published as part of Kovtonyuk, Nataliya & Durand-Andro, Véronique, 2019, Typification of Primula L. taxa names (Primulaceae), described by A. Franchet in 1886 from China and Eastern Tibet, pp. 75-89 in Adansonia (3) (3) 41 (9) on page 82, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2019v41a9, http://zenodo.org/record/4602183
Neighborhood Planning of Technology : Physical Meets Digital City from the Bottom-Up with Aging Payphones
Creators: name: Stokes, Benjamin
name: Bar, François
name: Baumann, Karl
name: Caldwell, Ben
Publisher: name: The Journal of Community Informatics
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: Article published in: The Journal of Community Informatics, Vol 10, No 3 (2014).
Additional file 1 of Effectiveness of intraosseous access during resuscitation: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Rijnhout, Tim W.H.
name: Kieft, Marin
name: Klein, Willemijn M.
name: Tan, Edward C.T.H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Business schools and the construction of management knowledge: an analysis of the MBA
Creators: name: Esland, Karen Victoria
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: The focus of this thesis is the expansion of business education in the UK over the past two decades. The reasons for the expansion are tied to the political and economic agendas of the New Right. The economic crises of the 1970s, resultant labour market instability and growing international competition led to the emergence of a political strategy around the promotion of management, to improve employment discipline, economic efficiency and national competitiveness. The dismantling of the post-war welfare settlement and consequent marketisation of the public sector resulted in the role of management being elevated within the public sector. The state-sponsorship of management within private and public sectors involved a confluence of interests around the growth of management education: increased demand was created which the tertiary sector was favourably predisposed to supply. The political articulation of public sector policy and practice in terms of a management discourse constitutes a distinct cultural and ideological transformation. The movement of a managerialist discourse into non-business spheres has involved business schools becoming important cultural intermediaries, contributing to a reconstitution of society. Given the political emphasis upon and cultural prevalence of management discourses, the factors influencing the construction of management knowledge and the ideologies it favours are of significance. This study examines the MBA curricula of business schools, focusing on the induced tension between business values, based on the broad acceptance of capitalist principles, and the academic requirement for critical analysis of business practice. This potential tension is explored in interviews with a number of academics. The responses indicate that balancing academic and business priorities can be a complex process with consequences for identity management. This study traces the implications of the political promotion of management knowledge and the role of the business school in the emergence of a new political settlement.
Additional file 1 of A five-year longitudinal study of the relation between end-stage kidney disease as the outcomes
Creators: name: Hsiu-Lan Li
name: Pei-Hui Tai
name: Hwang, Yi-Ting
name: Shih-Wei Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
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: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. :Appendix 1. Estimation results of time-based explanatory variables in the random intercept model for a blood test (HBC, HCT, MCV, platelet, WBC). Appendix 2. Estimation results of time-based explanatory variables in the random intercept model for a biochemical test (ALT, AST, albumin, alkaline, protein, total bilirubin levels). Appendix 3. Estimation results of time-based explanatory variables in the random intercept model for a biochemical test(Creatinine, K, Na, Uric acid, Ca).
Rayleigh-Taylor instability for nonhomogeneous incompressible fluids with Navier-slip boundary conditions
Creators: name: Ding, Shijin
name: Ji, Zhijun
name: Li, Quanrong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper is concerned with the Rayleigh-Taylor instability for the nonhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Navier-slip boundary conditions around a steady-state in an infinite slab, where the Navier-slip coefficients do not have defined sign and the slab is horizontally periodic. Motivated by [18], we extend the result from Dirichlet boundary condition to Navier-slip boundary conditions. Our results indicate the factor that "heavier density with increasing height" still plays a key role in the instability under Navier-slip boundary conditions.
description: 30 pages
Primula ovalifolia Franch.
Creators: name: Kovtonyuk, Nataliya
name: Durand-Andro, Véronique
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Primulaceae
Primula
Primula ovalifolia

description: Primula ovalifolia Franch.
(Fig. 9)
 In Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 33: 67 (1886). — Hu & Kelso, Flora of China 15: 141 (1996). — Richards, Primula: 161 (2003). — In protologue: “[China] Thibet oriental, Moupine, dans les lieux frais des montagnes – Mars 1869 (Arm. David).” LECTOTYPE (HERE DESIGNATED). — China. Moupine, Thibet oriental, Primula, fl.violet, lieux frais élevés, III.1869, David s.n. (lecto-, P[P04567168]!; isolecto- K[K000750135]!; syn-, E[E00024332]!, MPU[MPU022020], P[P04567162, P04567164]!).
REMARK
We found a specimen with text as in protologue (P04567168), and some sheets without any date. All of them are syntypes. We choose the herbarium sheet with full information as lectotype.
description: Published as part of Kovtonyuk, Nataliya & Durand-Andro, Véronique, 2019, Typification of Primula L. taxa names (Primulaceae), described by A. Franchet in 1886 from China and Eastern Tibet, pp. 75-89 in Adansonia (3) (3) 41 (9) on page 82, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2019v41a9, http://zenodo.org/record/4602183
A Reality Game to Cross Disciplines : Fostering Networks and Collaboration
Creators: name: Stokes, Benjamin
name: Watson, Jeff
name: Fullerton, Tracy
name: Wiscombe, Simon
Publisher: name: Digital Games Research Association
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4607
subject: Graphics, augmented reality and games

description: Proceedings of DiGRA 2013: DeFragging Game Studies.
Additional file 8 of Being red, blue and green: the genetic basis of coloration differences in the strawberry poison frog (Oophaga pumilio)
Creators: name: Rodríguez, Ariel
name: Mundy, Nicholas I.
name: Ibáñez, Roberto
name: Pröhl, Heike
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8 Supplementary figures.
Photoproduction of $D^{*\pm}$ mesons associated with a leading neutron
Creators: name: ZEUS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The photoproduction of $D^{*\pm} (2010)$ mesons associated with a leading neutron has been observed with the ZEUS detector in $ep$ collisions at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 80 pb$^{-1}$. The neutron carries a large fraction, {$x_L>0.2$}, of the incoming proton beam energy and is detected at very small production angles, {$θ_n<0.8$ mrad}, an indication of peripheral scattering. The $D^*$ meson is centrally produced with pseudorapidity {$|η|<1.5$}, and has a transverse momentum {$p_{\it T} > 1.9$ GeV}, which is large compared to the average transverse momentum of the neutron of 0.22 GeV. The ratio of neutron-tagged to inclusive $D^*$ production is $8.85\pm 0.93({\rm stat.})^{+0.48}_{-0.61}({\rm syst.})\%$ in the photon-proton center-of-mass energy range {$130
description: 28 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
THE ROLE OF THE LOCATIONS OF PUBLIC SECTOR VARIETAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY: EVIDENCE FROM NORTHERN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Takeshima, Hiroyuki
name: Nasir, Abdullahi Mohammed
name: Takeshima, Hiroyuki
name: Nasir, Abdullahi Mohammed
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty
International Development

description: Despite the importance of location-specific adaptive crop breeding research, past reforms of breeding systems in Nigeria have focused more on centralizing the breeding activities into fewer locations. This has been based partly on the premise that such research systems can still effectively meet the need for a diverse set of varietal technologies that are suitable for different agroecological conditions through the use of numerous outstations and multilocational trials, regardless of the locations of the headquarters or the outstations where breeders are located. However, little empirical evidence exists to support this premise. Using panel data for agricultural households in northern Nigeria, as well as spatial data on agroecological factors, this study fills this knowledge gap. Specifically, it empirically shows that agricultural productivity and technical efficiency at farm household level is significantly and positively affected by similarity between the agroecological conditions of the locations of these households and where major crop breeding institutes are headquartered in Nigeria, namely Maiduguri, Kano, Zaria, Badeggi, Ibadan, and Umudike, after controlling for the agroecological conditions and various relevant household characteristics of these households. These findings suggest that where improved varieties are developed or evaluated affects agricultural productivity and technical efficiency in different locations. Overall agricultural productivity in Nigeria can be significantly increased not simply by increasing support for public sector varietal development, but by doing so in a manner that increases the similarity in agroecological conditions between areas where crop breeding is conducted and the areas where farm households produce those crops.
Nonequilibrium reservoir engineering of a biased coherent conductor for hybrid energy transport in nanojunctions
Creators: name: Hu, Bing-Zhong
name: Nian, Lei-Lei
name: Lü, Jing-Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a current-carrying coherent electron conductor can be treated as effective bosonic energy reservoir involving different types of electron-hole pair excitation. For weak electron-boson coupling, hybrid energy transport between nonequilibrium electrons and bosons can be described by a Landauer-like formula. This allows for unified account of a variety of heat transport problems in hybrid electron-boson systems. As applications, we study the non-reciprocal heat transport between electrons and bosons, thermoelectric current from a cold-spot and electronic cooling of the bosons. Our unified framework provides an intuitive way of understanding hybrid energy transport between electrons and bosons. It opens the way of nonequilibrium reservoir engineering for efficient energy control between different quasi-particles in the nanoscale.
SCRUTINIZING THE STATUS QUO: RURAL TRANSFORMATION AND LAND TENURE SECURITY IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Ghebru, Hosaena
name: Girmachew, Fikirte
name: Ghebru, Hosaena
name: Girmachew, Fikirte
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty
International Development

description: Despite growing consensus on the socio-economic benefits emanating from enhanced land tenure security, issues related to how best to measure it and what constitute universal indicators of tenure (in)security are poorly understood. As a result, issues of what drives tenure security are poorly understood and inconclusive. This study, thus, examines the drivers of perceived tenure insecurity in Nigeria using the Nigeria LSMS-Panel General Household Survey of 2012/13. The determinants of perceive tenure insecurity are assessed across two indicators: private (idiosyncratic) tenure risk and collective (covariate) tenure security risk. The analysis shows that perceived risks of private land dispute are higher for female-headed households, households with lower social/political connectedness, and for land parcels acquired via the traditional/customary system, in contrast to having been purchased. Private tenure risk/insecurity is also higher in communities with vibrant land market and for households that are located close to urban centers, while the opposite is the case in communities with relative ease of land access. On the other hand, collective tenure risk is lower in communities with improved economic status. Finally, signifying the need to account for intra-household dimensions in implementing land reform interventions, results from a more disaggregated analysis show that tenure security is relatively higher on female-managed plots of female-headed households, while the opposite is the case for female-managed plots of male-headed households.
VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Creators: name: van Gelder, M. L.
name: Kaper, L.
name: Japelj, J.
name: Ramírez-Tannus, M. C.
name: Ellerbroek, L. E.
name: Barbá, R. H.
name: Bestenlehner, J. M.
name: Bik, A.
name: Gräfener, G.
name: de Koter, A.
name: de Mink, S. E.
name: Sabbi, E.
name: Sana, H.
name: Sewiło, M.
name: Vink, J. S.
name: Walborn, N. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The process of massive star ($M\geq8~M_\odot$) formation is still poorly understood. Observations of massive young stellar objects (MYSOs) are challenging due to their rarity, short formation timescale, large distances, and high circumstellar extinction. Here, we present the results of a spectroscopic analysis of a population of MYSOs in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We took advantage of the spectral resolution and wavelength coverage of X-shooter (300-2500 nm), mounted on the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope, to detect characteristic spectral features in a dozen MYSO candidates near 30 Doradus, the largest starburst region in the Local Group hosting the most massive stars known. The X-shooter spectra are strongly contaminated by nebular emission. We used a scaling method to subtract the nebular contamination from our objects. We detect H$α,β$, [O I] 630.0 nm, Ca II infrared triplet, [Fe II] 1643.5 nm, fluorescent Fe II 1687.8 nm, H$_2$ 2121.8 nm, Br$γ$, and CO bandhead emission in the spectra of multiple candidates. This leads to the spectroscopic confirmation of 10 candidates as bona fide MYSOs. We compare our observations with photometric observations from the literature and find all MYSOs to have a strong near-infrared excess. We compute lower limits to the brightness and luminosity of the MYSO candidates, confirming the near-infrared excess and the massive nature of the objects. No clear correlation is seen between the Br$γ$ luminosity and metallicity. Combining our sample with other LMC samples results in a combined detection rate of disk features such as fluorescent Fe II and CO bandheads which is consistent with the Galactic rate (40\%). Most of our MYSOs show outflow features.
description: Accepted to A&A, 26 pages, 19 figures, 4 tables
Criterios para un sistema de gestión de costos de calidad para una pisquera artesanal en Perú
Creators: name: Collantes, Ligia Arízaga
name: Malavé Figueroa, Adelso Nikolai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 70199 Agriculture, Land and Farm Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences

description: The objective of this study was to establish the criteria for a quality cost management system, oriented towards increasing the profitability and competitiveness of an agrarian company that produces artisanal pisco located in the Ica region, Peru. The research consisted of a non-experimental, descriptive design, with a mixed degree of structuring of the data and a cross-sectional section. At present, three survey models with acceptable levels of reliability were applied on all administrative and permanent collaborators in the company (N = 13), in response to the retrospective diagnosis on the 2010 period compared to 2019. The first instrument consisted of On a Likert scale that allowed the diagnosis of quality costs (α = 0.90; p <0.05), the second was a questionnaire of dichotomous questions about the detection of quality cost management activities (α = 0.93; p <0.05) and, the third was a consultation on guidelines for obtaining financial and economic benefits (α = 0.87; p <0.05). The results reflected that the company presented during the mentioned period a moderate profitability, low investment in quality cost management policies (CI = 7.14), modest staff training, as well as poor leadership values ​​and in regards to continuous improvement. It is concluded that the established criteria allow the preliminary conception of a cost management system aligned with optimal profitability and competitiveness indices.
Promalactis peculiaris Wang and Li 2004
Creators: name: Du, Z. H.
name: Wang, S. X.
name: Li, H. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Oecophoridae
Promalactis
Promalactis peculiaris

description: Promalactis peculiaris Wang and Li, 2004
(Figures 1H, 3D, 4F)
 Promalactis peculiaris Wang and Li, 2004, Oriental Insects, 38: 1. Type locality: China (Zhejiang).    Material examined
Three males and three females: one male and one female, Hueisun Exp. Forest, Nantou County, Taiwan, China, 22−24 October 1998, leg. Mey and Ebert (MNHU); two males and two females, same locality, 650 m, 24−29 October 1998, leg. Mey and Speidel, genitalia slide Nos. MNHU-NK025 female, MNHU-NK026 female, MNHU-NK027 male, MNHU-NK028 male (MNHU).   Distribution
China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Taiwan, Zhejiang).   Remarks
There are some variations in this species: the male ventroapical process of the valva is blunt at apex and the saccus is three-fifths the length of valva (Figure 3D), the small female antrum has a V-shaped notch at middle on posterior margin (Figure 4F) in the specimens collected from Taiwan; the male ventroapical process of the valva is pointed at apex and the saccus is two-fifths the length of valva, the large female antrum is broadly concave in a V-shape on posterior margin in the specimens collected from the type locality.   Notes
New record for Taiwan.
description: Published as part of Du, Z. H., Wang, S. X. & Li, H. H., 2013, A review of the genus Promalactis Meyrick, 1908 (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from Taiwan, China, pp. 87-108 in Journal of Natural History 48 (1 - 2) on pages 106-107, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.791940, http://zenodo.org/record/4607589
Protostellar mergers in protoclusters and the origin of ultra-luminous X-ray sources
Creators: name: Soria, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I suggest that stellar coalescence in mid-size protoclusters (M ~ 10^{3.5} - 10^{4.5} M_sun) is a possible scenario for the formation of ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs). More massive super-star-clusters are not needed, since the most likely ULX mass range is only ~ 30--200 M_sun; in fact, they are very rarely found at or very near ULX positions. Protostellar envelopes and gas accretion favour captures and mergers in dense cores of embedded clusters. Moreover, protoclusters with masses ~ 10^{3.5} - 10^{4.5} M_sun are likely to disperse quickly into loose OB associations, where most ULXs are found. Sufficiently high protostellar density may be achieved when clustered star formation is triggered by galaxy collisions and mergers. Low metallicity may then be necessary to ensure that a large fraction of the stellar mass ends up in a black hole. In this scenario, most ULXs are naturally explained as the extreme end of the high-mass X-ray binary population.
description: 4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the IAU Symposium 230, "Populations of High Energy Sources in Galaxies", Dublin, 15-19 Aug 2005
A STAKEHOLDER ASSESSMENT OF AGRICULTURAL POLICY PROCESSES IN MALI : RESULTS OF A BASELINE SURVEY
Creators: name: Traoré, Abdramane
name: Samaké, Amadou
name: Sanogo, Ousmane
name: Haggblade, Steven
name: Maredia, Mywish
name: Traoré, Abdramane
name: Samaké, Amadou
name: Sanogo, Ousmane
name: Haggblade, Steven
name: Maredia, Mywish
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty
International Development

description: Policy influences agricultural performance in fundamentally important ways. In Mali, a wide range of laws, regulations and programs affect land tenure, water infrastructure and access, plant and animal health, availability of new seed technologies, transport cost, electricity, labor markets, input prices and trade. Together these policy incentives shape the investment, production and marketing decisions of farmers and agribusinesses. Decisions by key private sector actors, in turn, drive agricultural growth trajectories. Sound policies, therefore, become a critical pre-requisite for broad-based, sustainable agricultural productivity gains and improved food security for Malian citizens.
title: Knowledge Creation in Corporate Research and Development: An Investigation into the Approaches and Practices employed within the Pharmaceutical Industry in the United Kingdom at the start of the 21st Century
Creators: name: Folkes, Christina Rosemarie
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2006

description: Throughout the development of corporate R&D, there has been a search for the 'one best way' to manage the processes involved. Although perceptions of what constitutes the 'one best way' have changed over time, the quest for reliable pointers continues. This thesis develops the author's personal interest in how things 'ought to be' in order to secure success within corporate R&D. Marrying ideas from the fields of R&D Management and Knowledge Management, and using the results from an empirical study into pharmaceutical R&D in the United Kingdom, the thesis shows the distinct differences between knowledge creation in research and knowledge creation in development and concludes that these two activities should be carried out separately, but not separate from each other. In arriving at this conclusion, the thesis upholds the criticisms of the knowledge creation model advocated by Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995); and points to the failings of the pluralist framework proposed by Cook and Brown (1999); arguing, after Polanyi (1966), that knowledge creation in any context is better modelled with reference to the individual acts of tacit knowing of the particular people involved, acts of tacit knowing which lead to the subsidiary conclusion that research should remain a scientific endeavour, whereas development should be a transdisciplinary, trans functional, and perhaps a transorganizational activity. Hence, the thesis rejects the trends in R&D generations reported in the R&D Management literature; and the corresponding move from a Mode 1 to a Mode 2 approach predicted by Gibbons and co-workers in the Knowledge Management literature.
A Remark on stress of a spatially uniform dislocation density field
Creators: name: Li, Siran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 74B20, 74G25

description: In an interesting recent paper [1] (A. Acharya, Stress of a spatially uniform dislocation density field, J. Elasticity 137 (2019), 151--155), Acharya proved that the stress produced by a spatially uniform dislocation density field in a body comprising a nonlinear elastic material may fail to vanish under no loads. The class of counterexamples constructed in [1] is essentially $2$-dimensional: it works with the subgroup $\mathcal{O}(2) \oplus \langle{\bf Id}\rangle \subset \mathcal{O}(3)$. The objective of this note is to extend Acharya's result in [1] to $\mathcal{O}(3)$, subject to an additional structural assumption and less regularity requirements.
description: 5 pages
Additional file 1 of “Meet people where they are”: a qualitative study of community barriers and facilitators to HIV testing and HIV self-testing among African Americans in urban and rural areas in North Carolina
Creators: name: Mathews, Allison
name: Farley, Samantha
name: Donaldson F. Conserve
name: Knight, Kimberly
name: Le’Marus, Alston
name: Blumberg, Meredith
name: Rennie, Stuart
name: Tucker, Joseph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1.
Studying viral populations with tools from quantum spin chains
Creators: name: Shivam, Saumya
name: Baldwin, Christopher L.
name: Barton, John
name: Kardar, Mehran
name: Sondhi, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Eigen's model of quasi-species, characterized by sequences that replicate with a specified fitness and mutate independently at single sites. The evolution of the population vector in time is then closely related to that of quantum spins in imaginary time. We employ multiple perspectives and tools from interacting quantum systems to examine growth and collapse of realistic viral populations, specifically certain HIV proteins. All approaches used, including the simplest perturbation theory, give consistent results.
Pricing Coffee Cherry to Incentivize Farmers and Improve Quality
Creators: name: Africa Great Lakes Region Coffee Support Program (AGLC)
name: Africa Great Lakes Region Coffee Support Program (AGLC)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty
International Development

description: The USAID-funded African Great Lakes Region Coffee Support Program (AGLC) is a collaborative initiative led by Michigan State University (MSU) that integrates applied research, farmer capacity building, and policy engagement. The program’s goal is to dramatically reduce the effects of antestia bug / Potato Taste Defect (PTD) and to raise farm-level productivity in Rwanda and Burundi, both of which will improve income for smallholder farmers and help to sustain the African Great Lakes region’s reputation for producing some of the highest quality coffees in the world. The AGLC program has enduring ties with the public, private, and university sectors in Rwanda, all of which are necessary to build sustainable regional capacity in research, extension/outreach, and policy analysis. Ultimately, our goal is to equip policy makers with the necessary research to develop informed policies aimed at improving coffee quality and productivity. To achieve that goal, the AGLC team held a series of Policy Advocacy Roundtables in 2016 and 2017. The final roundtable event was held at the National Agricultural Export Development Board (NAEB) headquarters on 13 June 2017. This event was focused specifically on connecting Rwandan coffee price to quality.
Fish Farms and Land Confiscation in the Ayeyarwady Delta: History, Impact and Prospects for Restitution
Creators: name: Mark, SiuSue
name: Mark, SiuSue
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty
International Development

description: This policy brief draws on qualitative fieldwork conducted in Maubin township, Ayeyarwady – one of the most important locations for aquaculture (fish farming) in Myanmar. Local officials, community members, civil society leaders and operators of large fish farms were interviewed about the history and consequences of land confiscation for use in aquaculture, and the prospects for land restitution.
Revisiting relativistic magnetohydrodynamics from quantum electrodynamics
Creators: name: Hongo, Masaru
name: Hattori, Koichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a statistical mechanical derivation of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics on the basis of the $(3+1)$-dimensional quantum electrodynamics; the system endowed with the magnetic one-form symmetry. The conservation laws and the constitutive relations are presented in a manifestly covariant way with respect to the general coordinate transformation. The method of the local Gibbs ensemble (or nonequilibrium statistical operator) combined with the path-integral formula for the thermodynamic functional enables us to obtain an exact form of the constitutive relations. Applying the derivative expansion to the exact formula, we derive the first-order constitutive relations for the relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. The result for the QED plasma preserving the parity and charge-conjugation symmetries is equipped with two electrical resistivities and five (three bulk and two shear) viscosities. We also show that those transport coefficients satisfy the Onsager's reciprocal relation and a set of inequalities, indicating the semi-positivity of the entropy production rate consistent with the local second law of thermodynamics.
description: 47 pages, 4 figures, minor corrections, published version
Surface Instabilities on Liquid Oxygen in an Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Catherall, A. T.
name: Benedict, Keith A
name: King, P. J.
name: Eaves, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Liquid oxygen exhibits surface instabilities when subjected to a sufficiently strong magnetic field. A vertically oriented magnetic field gradient both increases the magnetic field value at which the pattern forms and shrinks the length scale of the surface patterning. We show that these effects of the field gradient may be described in terms of an ``effective gravity'', which in our experiments may be varied from 1g to 360g.
description: 4 pages, 5 embedded figures in eps format
Malawi’s Land Laws and Agricultural Commercialization: Recommendations from a Land Symposium
Creators: name: Nankhuni, Flora Janet
name: Mabiso, Athur
name: Nankhuni, Flora Janet
name: Mabiso, Athur
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty
International Development

description: The Second Malawi Land Symposium was organized by the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development (MoLHUD) in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development (MoAWD) with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the New Alliance Policy Acceleration Support (NAPAS: Malawi) Project and the European Union (EU)-funded Land Governance Project. The symposium brought together 106 participants (22 female) from: government ministries and departments; the private sector; Civil Society Organizations; Farmer Organizations; Development Partners; research and the academia; the media; and others. The aim of the symposium was to provide a venue for dialogue on the newly adopted land laws and explain what they entail for agricultural development in Malawi. The symposium also aimed at providing information on the status of land-related policy reform commitments, under the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, which include: 1) Identify land in phases, suitable for large-scale commercial agriculture (10,000 ha/year from 2013) every year; 2) Enactment of the new Land Bill into law1; 3) Introduction of agricultural zoning based on priority crops and growth.
Additional file 1 of repDilPCR: a tool for automated analysis of qPCR assays by the dilution-replicate method
Creators: name: Yosifov, Deyan Yordanov
name: Reichenzeller, Michaela
name: Stilgenbauer, Stephan
name: Mertens, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary information including further details on method implementation, program installation and usage, as well as validation experiments
Vacuum energy and Universe in special relativity
Creators: name: Volovik, G. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of cosmological constant and vacuum energy is usually thought of as the subject of general relativity. However, the vacuum energy is important for the Universe even in the absence of gravity, i.e. in the case when the Newton constant G is exactly zero, G=0. We discuss the response of the vacuum energy to the perturbations of the quantum vacuum in special relativity, and find that as in general relativity the vacuum energy density is on the order of the energy density of matter. In general relativity, the dependence of the vacuum energy on the equation of state of matter does not contain G, and thus is valid in the limit when G tends to zero. However, the result obtained for the vacuum energy in the world without gravity, i.e. when G=0 exactly, is different.
description: LaTeX file, 7 pages, no figures, to appear in JETP Letters, reference is added
Institutional change in the energy regime complex
Creators: name: Colgan, Jeff
name: Keohane, Robert O.
name: Van de Graaf, Thijs
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.); Princeton University; Ghent University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Paper prepared for the 2011 Political Economy of International Organizations meeting, Zurich.
X-Ray Binary Populations: The Luminosity Function of NGC1569
Creators: name: Belczynski, K.
name: Kalogera, V.
name: Zezas, A.
name: Fabbiano, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the population synthesis code StarTrack we construct the first synthetic X-ray binary populations for direct comparison with the X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of NGC 1569 observed with Chandra. Our main goal is to examine whether it is possible to reproduce the XLF shape with our models, given the current knowledge for the star-formation history of this starburst galaxy. We thus produce hybrid models meant to represent the two stellar populations: one old, metal-poor with continuous star-formation for 1.5 Gyr and another recent and metal-rich population. To examine the validity of the models we compare XLFs calculated for varying ages of the populations and varying relative weights for the star-formation rates in the two populations. We find that, for typical binary evolution parameters, it is indeed possible to quite closely match the observed XLF shape. The robust match is achieved for an age of the young population and a ratio of star formation rates in the two populations that are within factors of 1.5 and 2, respectively, of those inferred from HST observations of NGC 1569. In view of this encouraging first step, we discuss the implications of our X-ray binary models and their potential as tools to study binary populations in galaxies.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted to ApJ Lett
Synopsis: The role of the locations of public sector varietal development activities on agricultural productivity
Creators: name: Takeshima, Hiroyuki
name: Nasir, Abdullahi Mohammed
name: Takeshima, Hiroyuki
name: Nasir, Abdullahi Mohammed
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty
International Development

description: Despite the importance of location-specific adaptive crop breeding research, past reforms of breeding systems in Nigeria have focused on centralizing breeding activities into fewer locations. This has been based partly on the premise that such research systems can still effectively meet the need for a diverse set of crop varieties suited for different agroecological conditions by using numerous outstations and multilocational trials. However, little empirical evidence exists to support this premise. Using panel data from farm households in northern Nigeria and spatial data on agroecological factors, this study shows that crop productivity and technical efficiency at farm household level is positively affected by the degree of similarity between the agroecological conditions of the locations of these households and where major crop breeding institutes are headquartered. Where improved varieties are developed affects crop productivity in different locations.
Trends in West African Pesticide Markets
Creators: name: Haggblade, Steven
name: Diarra, Amadou
name: Haggblade, Steven
name: Diarra, Amadou
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty
International Development

description: West African countries import roughly $900 million worth of pesticide products each year (Table 1). Because most suppliers do not manufacture pesticide active ingredients domestically, these import figures provide the best available estimate of wholesale market value. In terms of product composition, herbicides dominate, accounting for over 60% of total pesticide use (Table 1). Herbicides kill weeds and thus substitute primarily for hand weeding labor, which has historically dominated farmers’ weed control efforts. Insecticides account for a further 26% of pesticides used. Fungicides and other pest control products, such as nematicides and rodenticides, account for the remaining 12% of pesticides applied by West African farmers.
title: Detection of Copies of Digital Audio Recordings for Forensic Purposes
Creators: name: Cooper, Alan John
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2006

description: Most forms of tampering or malicious editing of an audio recording result in the edited version being a copy. Therefore, when conducting a forensic authenticity examination of an evidential audio recording, proving that the recording is the original or a copy is of paramount importance. The thesis reports on a method that detects if a digital recording has been copied using an analogue interface between recording systems. The technique is supported by extensive analysis, experiments, and blind trials. The method is primarily suitable for portable digital audio recording systems that store audio data that has not been perceptually encoded. The magnitude response of anti-aliasing and anti-imaging filters allows the overall magnitude response of a recording system to be modeled as a low pass filter with a cut off frequency close to the Nyquist limit. It will be shown that in its simplest form, the recorded data may be considered to be an acoustic signal added to white noise produced from signal conditioning circuits and convolved with the low-pass response of the recording system. Making a number of initial assumptions about the recorded signals and recording systems, an estimate of the magnitude squared transfer function of part of the low-pass response of the recording system may be produced. This is achieved purely using the data from the recording under analysis. The signal processing procedure incorporates a number of narrow band log-power spectral estimates formed over a limited part of the low-pass transition region. The application of averaging techniques and a simple novel transform to this limited frequency region allows a single parameter to be estimated using regression analysis. When the make and type of recorder are known, the parameter value can be a direct indication of the number of stages used in the production of the recording and hence provides a method for distinguishing between an original recording and a copy recording.
Additional file 1 of Real-world comparative effectiveness of second-line ipilimumab for metastatic melanoma: a population-based cohort study in Ontario, Canada
Creators: name: Dai, Wei Fang
name: Beca, Jaclyn M.
name: Croxford, Ruth
name: Wanrudee Isaranawatchai
name: Menjak, Ines B.
name: Petrella, Teresa M.
name: Mittmann, Nicole
name: Earle, Craig C.
name: Gavura, Scott
name: Hanna, Timothy P.
name: Chan, Kelvin K.W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Appendix: Figure 1: Funding timeline of metastatic melanoma treatments in Ontario. Table 1: Summary of administrative databases.
Real-time 3D object proposal generation and classification under limited processing resources
Creators: name: Li, Xuesong
name: Guivant, Jose
name: Khan, Subhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The task of detecting 3D objects is important to various robotic applications. The existing deep learning-based detection techniques have achieved impressive performance. However, these techniques are limited to run with a graphics processing unit (GPU) in a real-time environment. To achieve real-time 3D object detection with limited computational resources for robots, we propose an efficient detection method consisting of 3D proposal generation and classification. The proposal generation is mainly based on point segmentation, while the proposal classification is performed by a lightweight convolution neural network (CNN) model. To validate our method, KITTI datasets are utilized. The experimental results demonstrate the capability of proposed real-time 3D object detection method from the point cloud with a competitive performance of object recall and classification.
Novel High-Mobility Field-Effect Transistors Based on Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Creators: name: Podzorov, V.
name: Gershenson, M. E.
name: Kloc, Ch.
name: Zeis, R.
name: Bucher, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on fabrication of novel field-effect transistors (FETs) based on transition metal dichalcogenides. The unique structure of single crystals of these layered inorganic semiconductors enables fabrication of FETs with intrinsically low field-effect threshold and high charge carrier mobility, comparable to that in the best single-crystal Si FETs (up to 500 cm2/Vs for the p-type conductivity in the WSe2-based FETs at room temperature). These novel FETs demonstrate ambipolar operation. Owing to mechanical flexibility, they hold potential for applications in "flexible" electronics.
description: 3 pages
First-principles study on the bulk and two-dimensional structures of AMnBi(A =K, Rb, Cs)-family materials
Creators: name: Zhu, Ziming
name: Liao, Chunyan
name: Li, Si
name: Zhang, Xiaoming
name: Wu, Weikang
name: Yu, Zhi-Ming
name: Yu, Rui
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Yang, Shengyuan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic materials with high mobilities are intriguing subject of research from both fundamental and application perspectives. Based on first-principle calculations, we investigate the physical properties of the already synthesized AMnBi(A =K, Rb, Cs)-family materials. We show that these materials are antiferromagnetic (AFM), with Neel temperatures above 300 K. They contain AFM ordered Mn layers, while the interlayer coupling changes from ferromagnetic (FM) for KMnBi to AFM for RbMnBi and CsMnBi. We find that these materials are narrow gap semiconductors. Owing to the small effective mass, the electron carrier mobility can be very high, reaching up to 100,000 cm2/(Vs) for KMnBi. In contrast, the hole mobility is much suppressed, typically lower by two orders of magnitude. We further study their two-dimensional (2D) single layer structures, which are found be AFM with fairly high mobility (1000 cm2/(Vs)). Their Neel temperatures can still reach room temperature. Interesting, we find that the magnetic phase transition is also accompanied by a metal-insulator phase transition, with the paramagnetic metal phase possessing a pair of nonsymmorphic-symmetry-protected 2D spin-orbit Dirac points. Furthermore, the magnetism can be effectively controlled by the applied strain. When the magnetic ordering is turned into FM, the system can become a quantum anomalous Hall insulator with gapless chiral edge states.
New accelerating solutions in late-time cosmology
Creators: name: Cicoli, Michele
name: Dibitetto, Giuseppe
name: Pedro, Francisco G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark energy models can be seen as dynamical systems. In this paper we show that multi-field models with a curved field space give rise to new critical points and we analyse their stability. These are new accelerating solutions in late-time cosmology which exist even for steep potentials. This opens up the possibility to realise quintessence models even when quantum corrections spoil the flatness of the underlying potential. These non-linear sigma models arise naturally in supergravity and string models where their multi-field dynamics can help to avoid swampland bounds.
Additional file 2 of Two subphenotypes of septic acute kidney injury are associated with different 90-day mortality and renal recovery
Creators: name: Wiersema, Renske
name: Jukarainen, Sakari
name: Vaara, Suvi T.
name: Poukkanen, Meri
name: Lakkisto, Päivi
name: Wong, Hector
name: Linder, Adam
name: Horst, Iwan C. C. Van Der
name: Pettilä, Ville
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. STROBE checklist and corresponding page numbers.