cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Probing Mid-Infrared Phonon Polaritons in the Aqueous Phase
Creators: name: Wang, Haomin
name: Janzen, Eli
name: Wang, Le
name: Edgar, James H.
name: Xu, Xiaoji G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phonon polaritons (PhPs), the collective phonon oscillations with hybridized electromagnetic fields, concentrate optical fields in the mid-infrared frequency range that matches the vibrational modes of molecules. The utilization of PhPs holds the promise for chemical sensing tools and polariton-enhanced nanospectroscopy. However, investigations and innovations on PhPs in the aqueous phase remains stagnant, because of the lack of in situ mid-infrared nano-imaging methods in water. Strong infrared absorption from water prohibits optical delivery and detection in the mid-infrared for scattering-type near-field microscopy. Here, we present our solution: the detection of photothermal responses caused by the excitation of PhPs by liquid phase peak force infrared (LiPFIR) microscopy. Characteristic interference fringes of PhPs in 10B isotope-enriched h-BN were measured in the aqueous phase and their dispersion relationship extracted. LiPFIR enables the measurement of mid-infrared PhPs in the fluid phase, opening possibilities, and facilitating the development of mid-IR phonon polaritonics in water.
description: 4 figures
title: Interactions between neighbouring plants
Creators: name: Eve, Chrisopher
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1998

description: This thesis addresses the issue of interactions between neighbouring plants by looking at theory and models used in the study of wild plants with a view to applying them in the design of agroforests. In Part I difficulties of designing mixed crop stands are considered. Grime's model of the ecological strategies pursued by wild plants is described and its potential usefulness pointed out. Experimental results are presented suggesting that stress tolerant trees may interfere less with an understorey component than do competitive trees through the different patterns of spatial occupation manifested by their roots. Part II describes a statistical method to determine how any measurable attribute of one plant depends on the proximity and/or other characters of neighbouring plants. The method overcomes the need for unfeasibly large numbers of treatments encountered by conventional field trial methods. The method has the potential to offer a firm basis for the design of optimized plant production systems; and will also allow ecologists to detect and quantify interactions between wild plants in the field. Part III, using concepts of Evolutionary Game Theory, examines the question of cooperation in plants: both between the green plant and its associated vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungi; and between neighbouring green plants connected by common VAM fungal hyphae. Exploring the implications for plants of Axelrod and Hamilton's (1981) Game Theoretic approach to the evolution of cooperative behaviour, it examines a logical problem in the view that the relationship between a green plant and associated VAM fungus is mutually beneficial. That the association is of mutual benefit would be insufficient to explain its persistence, and the fact that it does persist tells us something about its structure. It is shown that no logical paradox exists in postulating the simultaneous existence of competition for resources and of resource-sharing cooperation between a given pair of neighbouring green plants; and that at least a certain minimal type of cooperation may be deemed to exist between connected plant neighbours. Putting together findings from two fields - direct nutrient transfers and biotic specialisation - solves problems for both, and provides evidence for inter-plant cooperation. Possible evolutionary stages through which cooperation could have passed are discussed. Given this theory it can no longer safely be assumed that plants do not cooperate, and experimental results are presented suggesting that they may be able to. Scientific and economic implications are indicated for all three areas covered. Fertile ground exists for further research and suggestions are made for directions and methods.
Erdbülten als Frühjahrsformen im Raum um Göttingen
Creators: name: Kelletat, Dieter
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1969

description: Es wird eine Beschreibung von Form, Verbreitung, Vegetationsbedeckung und innerem Bau von Erdbülten im Göttinger Raum gegeben. Die untersuchten Formen liegen bevorzugt auf künstlichen Böschungen ohne abgeschlossene Bodenentwicklung, von denen regelmäßig durch Grasbrände im Frühjahr die Vegetation entfernt wird. Kräftige Nachtfröste können dann zu einem Aufdringen von Bodenmaterial und zur Bildung der Erdbülten führen.
description: research
Community membership consistency applied to corporate board interlock networks
Creators: name: van Kuppevelt, Dafne E.
name: Bakhshi, Rena
name: Heemskerk, Eelke M.
name: Takes, Frank W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Community detection is a well established method for studying the meso scale structure of social networks. Applying a community detection algorithm results in a division of a network into communities that is often used to inspect and reason about community membership of specific nodes. This micro level interpretation step of community structure is a crucial step in typical social science research. However, the methodological caveat in this step is that virtually all modern community detection methods are non-deterministic and based on randomization and approximated results. This needs to be explicitly taken into consideration when reasoning about community membership of individual nodes. To do so, we propose a metric of community membership consistency, that provides node-level insights in how reliable the placement of that node into a community really is. In addition, it enables us to distinguish the community core members of a community. The usefulness of the proposed metrics is demonstrated on corporate board interlock networks, in which weighted links represent shared senior level directors between firms. Results suggest that the community structure of global business groups is centered around persistent communities consisting of core countries tied by geographical and cultural proximity. In addition, we identify fringe countries that appear to associate with a number of different global business communities.
description: This manuscript has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Computational Social Science
Role of "Mimi" in "La Bohème" : composer : "Giacomo Puccini"
Creators: name: Sloan, Whitney-Leigh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The thesis for the Master of Music degree in Opera consists of the performance of a major role in one full opera production in the first or second year. My major role in one full opera production was "Miml" performed in "La Boheme" on "February 9 and February 11, 2007".
Die Untersuchung der paläolithischen Freilandstation von Salzgitter-Lebenstedt
Creators: name: Tode, Alfred
name: Preul, Friedrich
name: Richter, Konrad
name: Selle, Willi
name: Pfaffenberg, Kurt
name: Kleinschmidt, Adolf
name: Guenther, Ekke W.
name: Müller, Adelheid
name: Schwartz, W.
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1953

description: research
Kink-Antikink Collisions and Multi-Bounce Resonance Windows in Higher-Order Field Theories
Creators: name: Christov, Ivan C.
name: Decker, Robert J.
name: Demirkaya, A.
name: Gani, Vakhid A.
name: Kevrekidis, P. G.
name: Saxena, Avadh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study collisions of coherent structures in higher-order field-theoretic models, such as the $ϕ^8$, $ϕ^{10}$ and $ϕ^{12}$ ones. The main distinguishing feature, of the example models considered herein, is that the collision arises due to the long-range interacting algebraic tails of these solitary waves. We extend the approach to suitably initialize the relevant kinks, in the additional presence of finite initial speed, in order to minimize the dispersive wave radiation potentially created by their slow spatial decay. We find that, when suitably initialized, these models still feature the multi-bounce resonance windows earlier found in models in which the kinks bear exponential tails, such as the $ϕ^4$ and $ϕ^6$ field theories among others. Also present is the self-similar structure of the associated windows with three- and more-bounce windows at the edges of two- and lower-bounce ones. Moreover, phenomenological, but highly accurate (and predictive) scaling relations are derived for the dependence of the time between consecutive collisions and, e.g., the difference in kinetic energy between the incoming one and the critical one for one-bounces. Such scalings are traced extensively over two-bounce collision windows throughout the three models, hinting at the possibility of an analytical theory in this direction.
Generalized flows and singular ODEs on differentiable manifolds
Creators: name: Kunzinger, Michael
name: Oberguggenberger, Michael
name: Steinbauer, Roland
name: Vickers, James A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 46F30, 34G20, 46T30, 53B20

description: Based on the concept of manifold valued generalized functions we initiate a study of nonlinear ordinary differential equations with singular (in particular: distributional) right hand sides in a global setting. After establishing several existence and uniqueness results for solutions of such equations and flows of singular vector fields we compare the solution concept employed here with the purely distributional setting. Finally, we derive criteria securing that a sequence of smooth flows corresponding to a regularization of a given singular vector field converges to a measurable limiting flow.
description: 17 pages, LaTeX
LARgE Survey -- III. Environments of Ultra-Massive Passive Galaxies at Cosmic Noon: BCG progenitors growing through mergers
Creators: name: Sawicki, Marcin
name: Arcila-Osejo, Liz
name: Golob, Anneya
name: Moutard, Thibaud
name: Arnouts, Stephane
name: Cheema, Gurpreet Kaur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the environments of a sample of 61 extremely rare z~1.6 Ultra-Massive Passively Evolving Galaxies (UMPEGs: stellar masses M_stars >10^11.5 M_sun) which -- based on clustering analysis presented in Cheema et al. (2020) -- appear to be associated with very massive (M_halo ~ 10^14.1 h^-1 M_sun) dark matter halos that are likely to be the progenitors of z~0 massive (Coma- and Virgo-like) galaxy clusters. We find that UMPEGs on average have fewer than one satellite galaxy with mass ratio M_sat : M_UMPEG >~ 1:5 (i.e., M_sat >~ 10^10.8 M_sun) within 0.5 Mpc; the large mass gap that we observe between the typical UMPEG and its most massive satellite implies that the z~1.6 UMPEGs assembled through major mergers. Using observed satellite counts with merger timescales from the literature, we estimate the growth rate due to mergers with mass ratio of >~ 1:4 to be ~13% Gyr^-1 (with a ~2x systematic uncertainty). This relatively low growth rate is unlikely to significantly affect the shape of the massive end of the stellar mass function, whose evolution must instead be driven by the quenching of new cohorts of ultra-massive star-forming galaxies. However, this growth rate is high enough that, if sustained to z~0, the typical z~1.6 M_UMPEG=10^11.6 M_sun UMPEG can grow into a M_stars~10^12 M_sun brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) of a present-day massive galaxy cluster. Our observations favour a scenario in which our UMPEGs are main-branch progenitors of some of the present-day BCGs that have first assembled through major mergers at high redshifts and grown further through (likely minor) merging at later times.
description: accepted for publication in MNRAS
THE BASIS OF LEADERSHIP IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN (LEED) AS A MODEL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE MECHANISM
Creators: name: Ludwig, Jonathan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: In light of emergent global environmental challenges, this project explores the extent to which the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system is a model environmental governance mechanism. Through an assessment of LEED and U.S. Green Building Council linkages to the environmental movement and environmental governance sectors and systems, linkages between LEED and environmental governance are identified within an increasingly dynamic, multi-scalar and interdependent governance context. While LEED is found to be a unique, effective and integrated environmental governance mechanism in the marketplace, it is concluded that LEED could not easily be deployed to other industries without significant modifications, and without the presence of an industry-specific blend of market and environmental governance conditions.
Tepotinib: First Approval
Creators: name: Markham, Anthony
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine

description: Compliance with Ethical Standards
Funding: The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding.
Conflict of interest: During the peer review process the manufacturer of the agent under review was offered an opportunity to comment on the article. Changes resulting from any comments received were made by the authors on the basis of scientific completeness and accuracy. A. Markham, a contracted employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, is responsible for the article content and declares no relevant conflicts of interest.
Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here

AbstractTepotinib (Tepmetko™, Merck) is a MET tyrosine kinase inhibitor being developed for the treatment of solid tumours. In quarter three 2019 tepotinib was granted breakthrough therapy status by the US FDA and orphan drug designation by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer harbouring MET alterations, and in March 2020 was approved for use in Japan in this indication. This article summarizes the milestones in the development of tepotinib leading to this first approval.
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Glacial Geology in Turkey - A Schematic Summary
Creators: name: Akcar, Naki
name: Schlüchter, Christian
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 2005

description: Die spezielle geographische Lage der Türkei nordöstlich vom Mittelmeer zwischen 36° und 42° N, bzw. zwischen 26° und 45° E macht sie für Klima- und Paläoklimastudien zu einem besonders zentralen und sensiblen Gebiet. Der Vergletscherungsgeschichte von Anatolien kommt demzufolge eine Schlüsselrolle bei der Bewertung von Klimaveränderungen im östlichen Mittelmeerraum zu. Bereits aus dem späten 19. Jahrhundert sind glazialgeologische Studien aus der Türkei bekannt. Vergletscherungsspuren sind vorwiegend in den östlichen, nordöstlichen und südlichen Gebirgszügen von Kleinasien vorhanden: in den Gebirgen am Schwarzen Meer, im Taurus, in den ostanatolischen Bergen, dem Uludag und auf isolierten Vulkanen wie Erciyes, Süphan und Ararat. Das Klima im östlichen Mittelmeerraum ist hauptsächlich durch drei atmosphärische Strömungen geprägt: westliche Höhenströmungen der mittleren und höheren Breiten, subtropische Hochdruckgebiete der mittleren Breiten und der Monsun. Der Transport von Feuchtigkeit ist die zentrale Bestimmungsgröße für die Niederschlagsverteilung in diesem Gebiet. Für die Feuchtigkeitszufuhr in die Gebirge Kleinasiens während der pleistozänen Kaltzeiten sind Lage und Maxima der Jetstreams wichtig. Gletscher und ihre Ablagerungen sind in diesem Zusammenhang zentrale Archive für Klimarekonstruktionen. Amplitude und Frequenz von eiszeitlichen Gletscherschwankungen müssen möglichst präzise erfasst werden, um Aussagen über die eiszeitliche atmosphärischen Zirkulationen - wie in den Alpen machen zu können. Dies ist für Kleinasien auch zudem wichtig und interessant, weil diese Gegend seit Jahrtausenden intensive besiedelt ist. Das Alter der letzten maximalen Vereisung in Anatolien ist bisher unbekannt. Unsere ersten Ergebnisse aus dem Kavrontal (Kackar Gebirge, NE Türkei) sind vielversprechend in bezug auf die Rekonstruktion früherer Vergletscherungen in der Türkei und daraus folgenden Interpretationen über die paläoklimatologischen Verhältnisse. Es ist im Augenblick jedoch schwierig die im Gelände unterscheidbaren Moränensequenzen mit den klassischen Vereisungsstadien (Letztes Glaziales Maximum, Jüngere Dryaszeit, Kleine Eiszeit) zu verknüpfen.
description: research
title: The role of theory and research in clinical practice: an investigation of therapists' perceptions of the scientist-practitioner model according to stage of professional development and professional allegiance
Creators: name: Corrie, Sarah
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1998

description: The scientist -·practitioner model has been widely espoused as the optimum model of professional training and practice for clinical psychologists and increasingly, the related professions of counselling psychology and counselling. However, it has also proved to be contentious regarding the extent to which it reflects or informs the realities of professional practice. This debate has taken on a new meaning in the current health care climate with the increasing emphasis on using research to achieve evidence-based practice'. This study explores clinical psychologists', counselling psychologists' and counsellors' beliefs about the scientist-practitioner model. Key themes relevant to this, and the related areas of theory, research and clinical formulation, were identified through in-depth, qualitative interviews and then tested further by using a survey instrument devised to reflect these themes. The results suggested differences between the professional groups in beliefs about research and the scientist-practitioner model and also indicated the influence of work setting. Differences in idiosyncratic definition of the scientist-practitioner model also emerged, which appeared to be related to beliefs about its value. Implications for training and professional practice are discussed and the contribution of the study to the existing literature and wider debate are reviewed.
Bounds on the Probability of Success of Postselected Non-linear Sign Shifts Implemented with Linear Optics
Creators: name: Knill, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fundamental gates of linear optics quantum computation are realized by using single photons sources, linear optics and photon counters. Success of these gates is conditioned on the pattern of photons detected without using feedback. Here it is shown that the maximum probability of success of these gates is typically strictly less than 1. For the one-mode non-linear sign shift, the probability of success is bounded by 1/2. For the conditional sign shift of two modes, this probability is bounded by 3/4. These bounds are still substantially larger than the highest probabilities shown to be achievable so far, which are 1/4 and 2/27, respectively.
description: 6 pages
On optimal recovery of integrals of random processes
Creators: name: Kovalenko, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26D10, 41A17, 41A44, 60G70

description: In this paper we prove a sharp Ostrowski type inequality for random processes of certain classes. This inequality is later applied to a solution of the optimal recovery of the integral $\int_0^1ξ_tdt$, using the random variables $ξ_{τ_1},\dots, ξ_{τ_n}$ as an information set, where $τ_1,\dots, τ_n$ are random variables. We also consider the problem of the information set optimization.
Zum Alter des Plaggeneschs
Creators: name: Mückenhausen, E.
name: Scharpenseel, H. W.
name: Pietig, F.
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1968

description: Der Plaggenesch entstand durch jahrhundertelange Düngung mit Plaggendung, der hauptsächlich aus Plaggen, d. h. flach abgehackten Heide- oder Grasstücken, und Stalldung bestand. Dadurch wurde der Ap-Horizont über dem ursprünglichen Bodentyp immer mächtiger bis zu 80 cm und mehr, und damit entstand der anthropogene Bodentyp „Plaggenesch". Entstehung, Aufbau, Eigenschaften und Verbreitung des Plaggeneschs werden beschrieben. Es wird geschildert, wie man das Alter, den Beginn der Plaggendüngung feststellen kann. Hinweise geben Ortsnamen, die Geschichte der Ackerkultur sowie Scherben und andere Funde. Eine direkte Altersbestimmung erlaubt die 14C-Methode, indessen ist sie mit Fehlern behaftet, da die organische Masse der Plaggenesche nicht einheitlich ist, d. h. ein verschiedenes Alter haben kann. Es wird daher nur ein Mittelwert erzielt. Unter Beachtung aller Fehlerquellen wird auf Grund der bisher gewonnenen 14C-Werte das Alter der Plaggenesche, d. h. der Beginn der Plaggendüngung, mit etwa 800—1200 Jahren angenommen. Dieses Alter stimmt mit den vorher auf anderem Weg gewonnenen Altersdatierungen einigermaßen überein.
description: research
Cold Atom Clocks, Precision Oscillators and Fundamental Tests
Creators: name: Bize, S.
name: Wolf, P.
name: Abgrall, M.
name: Cacciapuoti, L.
name: Clairon, A.
name: Gruenert, J.
name: Laurent, Ph.
name: Lemonde, P.
name: Maksimovic, I.
name: Mandache, C.
name: Marion, H.
name: Santos, F. Pereira Dos
name: Rosenbusch, P.
name: Santarelli, G.
name: Sortais, Y.
name: Vian, C.
name: Zhang, S.
name: Salomon, C.
name: Luiten, A. N.
name: Tobar, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe two experimental tests of the Equivalence Principle that are based on frequency measurements between precision oscillators and/or highly accurate atomic frequency standards. Based on comparisons between the hyperfine frequencies of 87Rb and 133Cs in atomic fountains, the first experiment constrains the stability of fundamental constants. The second experiment is based on a comparison between a cryogenic sapphire oscillator and a hydrogen maser. It tests Local Lorentz Invariance. In both cases, we report recent results which improve significantly over previous experiments.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Ionization of Rydberg atoms embedded in an ultracold plasma
Creators: name: Vanhaecke, Nicolas
name: Comparat, Daniel
name: Tate, Duncan A.
name: Pillet, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the behavior of cold Rydberg atoms embedded in an ultracold plasma. We demonstrate that even deeply bound Rydberg atoms are completely ionized in such an environment, due to electron collisions. Using a fast pulse extraction of the electrons from the plasma we found that the number of excess positive charges, which is directly related to the electron temperature Te, is not strongly affected by the ionization of the Rydberg atoms. Assuming a Michie-King equilibrium distribution, in analogy with globular star cluster dynamics, we estimate Te. Without concluding on heating or cooling of the plasma by the Rydberg atoms, we discuss the range for changing the plasma temperature by adding Rydberg atoms.
description: To be published in P.R.A
Weed Management During and After Rhizoma Perennial Peanut Establishment
Creators: name: Lugo-Torres, Maria De L.
name: Ruiz, Teodoro
name: Lugo-Torres, Maria De L.
name: Ruiz, Teodoro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: rhizome perennial peanut
subject: weeds

description: Beef and dairy enterprises are among the most economically important agricultural activities through the Caribbean Islands of the US. Rhizoma perennial peanut is currently being considered in the Caribbean as an alternative forage because of its low requirements for nitrogen fertilization, relatively high protein content, adaptability to contrasting ecological areas and low susceptibility to pests. The objective was to evaluate strategies to control weeds during and after rhizoma perennial peanut establishment. Four herbicide treatments of imazethapyr and dimethenamid were evaluated. Predominant weeds were junglerice, purple nutsedge, horse purslane, wild poinsettia and common purslane. Differences were detected for dry weight of the peanut and weeds among herbicides treatments at establishment. After establishment, evaluations indicated the best weed control was obtained on the early application dates.
Notes about Noise in Gravitational Wave Antennas Created by Cosmic Rays
Creators: name: Braginsky, V. B.
name: Ryazhskaya, O. G.
name: Vyatchanin, S. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermodynamical fluctuations of temperature in mirrors may produce surface fluctuations not only through thermal expansion in mirror body but also through thermal expansion in mirror coating. We analyze the last "surface" effect which can be larger than the first "volume" one due to larger thermal expansion coefficient of coating material and smaller effective volume. In particular, these fluctuations may be important in laser interferometric gravitational antennae.
description: 9 pages, LaTex
Topological control of the nonlinear-optical response of hybrid quantum systems
Creators: name: Crowell, Ethan L.
name: Kuzyk, Mark G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We map the topological properties of a one dimensional superlattice to the optical properties of an electronic system. We find that the nonlinear-optical response is optimized for electrons that live in the transitional morphology between topologically protected edge states and delocalized eigenstates. This provides a novel means of tuning the nonlinear-optical response of hybrid quantum systems. We show how these characteristics can be used to mimic saturable absorption and illustrate how `quantum cords' can be used to build an efficient all-optical switch.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Efecto del Palmiste (Elaeis guineensis) Sobre el Comportamiento Productivo de Cabras Lecheras.
Effects of Palm Kernel Cake in the Diet of Dairy Goats on Milk Production and Kid Daily Gain;
Creators: name: Urena, Juan C.
name: Fernandez, Marco E.
name: De Jesus, Carlos M.
name: Vasquez, Rafael A.
name: Urena, Juan C.
name: Fernandez, Marco E.
name: De Jesus, Carlos M.
name: Vasquez, Rafael A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: dairy
subject: goat
subject: feed intake
subject: milk
subject: yield
subject: ration

description: A field trial was carried out to evaluate the effects of the inclusion of palm kernel cake (PKC) in diets of dairy goats on goat performance, milk yield, kid daily gains and, milk composition. Forty-eight (48) last quarter gestating crossbreed dairy goats in the last quarter of gestation with 54 kg of BW were randomly distributed in eight PKC treatments arranged in 3 blocks in a randomized block design. The treatments were 0, 15, 30, 45% of PKC and two milking frequency (one and twice at day). The dairy ration was formulated (NRC, 1981) to contain 62.93 g of DP and 2.4 Mcal/kg NEL per dairy goat weighing 54 kg and producing milk containing 4.0 % milk fat. The ration consisted in hay grass (Transvala) and grains supplement. Body condition, feed intake, profit, milk production and composition, were measured with respect to the dairy goats and daily gain was registered with respect to the kids. The body condition was not affected by the PKC levels. The PKC treatments did not affect goat feed intake, which was 2.81kg /animal/d and 1.92 kg/animal/d when goats were milked once or twice per day, respectively. The average kid daily gain was 72.57 g/d in those lactated by goats that were milked once per day. Milk production was 18.62 kg per animal and 12.95 kg per animal in goats milked once and twice per day, respectively. The milk of dairy goats milked twice per day had higher milk fat content (4.45 %) than of those milked once per day (3.45 %). With goats milked once per day the highest profit was obtained with 15 % of PKC in the ration, and with goats milked twice per day the highest profit was obtained with 30 % of PKC in the ration.
Zur Korrelation der Terrassen und Lösse in Österreich
Creators: name: Fink, J.
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1956

description: Von den drei wichtigsten feldgeologischen Elementen, die zur Gliederung des Jungpleistozäns herangezogen werden können (Löß, Terrassen, Jungmoränen) werden hier die beiden ersten behandelt. Die Lösse sind in Österreich auf das Alpenvorland und auf das Wiener Becken beschränkt. Auf Grund typologischer Unterschiede innerhalb der fossilen Böden (im Löß) kann eine Gliederung in drei Räume getroffen werden (vergl. Abb. 1), die auch für die rezenten Böden (aus Löß) gilt: Im W liegt die humid beeinflußte „Feuchte Lößlandschaft", im mittleren Teil das „Übergangsgebiet" und im E die „Trockene Lößlandschaft". Abb. 5a und b vermitteln Sammelprofile für die feuchte Lößlandschaft, 5c für die trockene; das Übergangsgebiet wird nicht im Detail behandelt. Eine charakteristische Abfolge kehrt in allen Profilen wieder und darf einander gleichgesetzt werden: In der feuchten Lößlandschaft ist es ein Unterboden vom Typus sol lessivé, dem ein Fließerdepaket aufliegt, im trockenen Raum eine Verlehmungszone mit mehreren durch Lößzwischenlagen getrennten Humuszonen darüber. Es werden die Namen „Linzer" bzw. „Stillfrieder Komplex" für diese Abfolgen vorgeschlagen. Anschließend werden andere mittel- und westeuropäische Räume zum Vergleich herangezogen und der Beweis erbracht, daß diese Abfolge eine regionale Bedeutung besitzt (vergl. Abb. 6, 7 und 8). Im Hinblick auf die Gruppierung der Terrassen ergibt sich eine Gliederung in den „gletschernahen" und „gletscherfernen" Raum, deren geographische Verbreitung ungefähr mit dem Feucht- und Trockengebiet der Lösse zusammenfällt. Im gletschernahen Bereich sind wir gezwungen, die Nomenklatur von A. Penck zu verwenden. Hier ist die starke Aufgliederung der Niederterrasse in verschiedene Teilfelder auffallend, der aber nur eine rein lokale Bedeutung zukommt. Dagegen ist nur eine Hochterrasse ausgebildet, dann wieder eine Reihe altpleistozäner Terrassen (vergl. Abb. 9a). Im gletscherfernen Raum hingegen ist nur mehr eine große Niederterrasse ( — Praterterrasse) vorhanden, über der eine zweite, morphologisch völlig verschiedene Terrasse ( = Gänserndorfer T.) folgt. Letztere ist gegenüber den mittleren Terrassen und diese wieder gegenüber den altpleistozänen deutlich abgesetzt (vergl. Abb. 9b). Im gletscherfernen Bereich dürfen vorläufig nur Lokalnamen verwendet werden, da die Korrelation mit dem anderen Raum noch nicht völlig gesichert ist. Die Verlehmungszone des Stillfrieder Komplexes fällt in die Zäsur zwischen Prater- und Gänserndorfer Terrasse, die Humuszonen entsprechen der beginnenden letzten „Kaltzeit", die mit einer kräftigen Solifluktionsperiode einsetzt. Diese Solifluktion tritt im Trockengebiet nicht allzu stark in Erscheinung (so daß die Humuszonen mit den Lößzwischenlagen autochthon geblieben sind), während in der feuchten Lößlandschaft diese Zeit durch das mächtige Fließerdepaket charakterisiert ist.
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THE BASIS OF LEADERSHIP IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN (LEED) AS A MODEL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE MECHANISM
Creators: name: Ludwig, Jonathan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In light of emergent global environmental challenges, this project explores the extent to which the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system is a model environmental governance mechanism. Through an assessment of LEED and U.S. Green Building Council linkages to the environmental movement and environmental governance sectors and systems, linkages between LEED and environmental governance are identified within an increasingly dynamic, multi-scalar and interdependent governance context. While LEED is found to be a unique, effective and integrated environmental governance mechanism in the marketplace, it is concluded that LEED could not easily be deployed to other industries without significant modifications, and without the presence of an industry-specific blend of market and environmental governance conditions.
MICROBIAL THREATS TO THE SAFETY OF FOOD PRODUCTS IN TRADE BETWEEN THE LATIN AMERICA-CARIBBEAN REGION, THE USA AND OTHER COUNTRIES
Creators: name: Webb, Lloyd A. W.
name: Webb, Lloyd A. W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Imports
subject: Exports
subject: Inspection
subject: farm-to-fork concept
subject: HACCP

description: A large amount of data on the microbial threats to the safety of food products in trade originating from the English-speaking Caribbean countries come from public health sources. Many of the countries depend on diagnostics information from Public Health Laboratories or Analytical Laboratories, and the Chemistry Food and Drug Laboratories (in at least two CARICOM states). While the Ministry of Agriculture is the principal Ministry that directs the affairs of the export of food and agricultural products, the technical input regarding inspection and certification of such products for export often lies with inspectors from the Ministry of Health. Should this really matter? How efficient is the inspection process? How effective is the national laboratory in the support of regional and international trade. There is paucity in the information regarding food products to be exported from several CARICOM countries, but there is an equal scarcity of information on imported products from third countries and international trading partners. Some projections are made on addressing the lack of data in CARICOM countries. Caribbean countries are challenged to deal with microbial threats. But a genuine effort to address the deficiencies could prove valuable to the member countries, working collectively as a single domestic space with many common linkages. Through networks and partnerships, much could be achieved. Networks and partnerships could result in enhanced surveillance and diseases detection, and lead to great achievements in food safety and trade.
title: The attrition of change
Creators: name: Fink, Dean
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1997

description: Most newly constructed schools begin life as places of hope, enthusiasm, energy, and creativity. In many ways they might be considered `moving' schools. Such schools strive to anticipate and change with the times. Within a relatively short time, however, a significant number of new schools evolve, indeed regress, into conventional schools. This loss of initial momentum and innovative direction experienced by many newly established schools occurs because of what this study describes as the `attrition' of change. This thesis presents an historical case study of a secondary school that was once one of Canada's most renowned, innovative schools in the 1970s, and now 26 years later, can be described as a conventional secondary school. Based on interviews with three cohorts of teachers and administrators who worked in the school in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, the study provides an opportunity for inquiring into and analysing the attrition of educational change. The evidence of this study of the history of an innovative school points to the existence of an ironic change dynamic, and a dual meaning for the title the attrition of change'. There is a natural tendency for the school itself to experience attrition and over time to lose much of its early momentum and innovativeness. This pattern, however, is usually accelerated by hostility from the school's larger professional and parental communities who perceive the school's innovations to be a threat to long held educational beliefs and practices. The staff members of the innovative school feel that their inordinately hard work is unappreciated and misunderstood, turn inward to school colleagues for protection and support and adopt a less venturesome approach to innovation and change. In the short term, therefore, the innovative school's influence upon the larger system's attitude towards change tends to be quite negative. In the longer term, however, the innovative school seems to exert significant impact beyond its own walls through the rule-breaking precedents it sets that open up opportunities for others, and through the key leaders it spawns who take their innovative images of schooling to other parts of the system, and initiate change elsewhere. Changes in one part of a system inevitably affect changes in the larger system. Innovative schools, therefore, can erode obstacles to change in the larger system and create a climate of experimentation where one may not have existed previously, thus the second meaning of the `attrition of change'.
Supplementary materials for "Vasopressin gene products are colocalised with corticotropin-releasing factor within neurosecretory vesicles in the external zone of the median eminence of the Japanese macaque monkey (Macaca fuscata)"
Creators: name: Sakamoto, Hirotaka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60805 Animal Neurobiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Table and Figures
Stratigraphie und Genese fossiler Böden im Jungmoränengebiet südlich von Kiel
Creators: name: Felix-Henningsen, Peter
name: Stephan, Hans-Jürgen
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1982

description: Im weichselzeitlichen Moränengebiet südlich von Kiel sind häufig fossile Reste eemzeitlicher Parabraunerden auf warthezeitlichen Schmelzwassersedimenten oder Geschiebemergel aufgeschlossen. Die Bodenreste werden von der kalkhaltigen weichselzeitlichen Sedimentserie überlagert. Mittels makro- und mikromorphologischer Untersuchungen konnten die ursprünglichen Merkmale intensiver Tonverlagerung rekonstruiert werden. Pedochemische Analysen belegen eine große und tiefreichende Verwitterungsintensität. Der Klimaentwicklung im Eem-Interglazial entsprechend wurden die Parabraunerden gegen Ende der Warmzeit durch lokale Vergleyung überprägt. Noch vor dem ersten Vorstoß des weichselzeitlichen Inlandeises kam es zu einer periglazialen Überprägung der Böden und während der Vergletscherung zur Gefügeverdichtung und häufig zu Verknetungen durch Eisdruck und Eisschub.
description: research
ADDRESSING ANIMAL HEALTH ISSUES IN CARICOM MEMBER STATES
Creators: name: Webb, Lloyd A. W.
name: Webb, Lloyd A. W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Zoonoses
subject: transboundary
subject: endemic
subject: animal diseases
subject: diagnostics
subject: MRSA,
subject: regional forums
subject: CVO/CEDHO/DVPH Forum
subject: inter-ministerial
subject: inter-sectoral collaboration

description: More than 75% of human diseases are contracted from animals. Contaminated or infected meats and other foods can affect trade. Foods may contain hazards at the point of production, or acquire hazards along the food chain from farm to table. These hazards may be chemical (drug, pesticide or other chemical residues) or biological (foood borne diseases). Caribbean countries with their striving tourist industry are very vulnerable to transboundary and endemic animal diseases that require the full intervention of veterinary resources. Interministerial and inter-sectoral collaboration and coordination are paramount in addressing the concerns. Thus public and private partmerships are needed, which involve national authorities, industry, academia and research institutions. Import and export products must comply with the guidelines and regulations of WTO/SPS, OIE, Codex Alimentarius and IPPC. Thus foods of animal origin require disease diagnostics, risk assessment and overall food safety and quality controls. Skilled and experienced personnel are needed with expertise in clinical veterinary services, animal production and herd health medicine. Of special concern are methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium responsible for difficult-to-treat infections. Pathogens may survive food harvesting, storage, manufacturing and preparation. This veterinary diagnostics are essential. A legal framework with standards and regulatory procedures may be beneficial with endorsement by regional forums, such as the already established CVO/CEDHO/DVPH Forum. Caribbean countries should collaborate more to promote and support the development of entities and instruments within the countries and within the Region to assist in the coordination of the different multi-sectoral actors, particularly the health and agricultural sectors.
Unio sula Simpson 1900
Creators: name: Bolotov, Ivan N.
name: Vikhrev, Ilya V.
name: Lopes-Lima, Manuel
name: Gofarov, Mikhail Y.
name: Konopleva, Ekaterina S.
name: Lyubas, Artem A.
name: Lunn, Zau
name: Chan, Nyein
name: Bogan, Arthur E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Unionoida
Unionidae
Unio
Unio sula

description: Unio sula Simpson, 1900
 Unio sula Simpson, 1900: 678; Haas, 1912: 122; Simpson, 1914: 521; Brandt, 1974: 260.
 Taxonomic status. Nomen nudum, probably an incorrect spelling of the name Unio sella Prashad, 1922 (see Fig. 4D and Discussion).
description: Published as part of Bolotov, Ivan N., Vikhrev, Ilya V., Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Gofarov, Mikhail Y., Konopleva, Ekaterina S., Lyubas, Artem A., Lunn, Zau, Chan, Nyein & Bogan, Arthur E., 2019, Unio sella and U. sula: A review of enigmatic taxonomic names linked to Gibbosula laosensis (Lea, 1863) (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae: Gibbosulinae), pp. 440-447 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67 on page 446, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2019-0035, http://zenodo.org/record/4577110
Impact of the ISM magnetic field on GRB afterglow polarization
Creators: name: Teboul, O.
name: Shaviv, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Linear polarization has been measured in several GRB afterglows. After a few days, polarization arises from the forward shock emission which depends on the post-shock magnetic field. The latter can originate both from compression of existing fields, here the ISM magnetic field, and from shock generated instabilities. For short GRBs, previous modelling of the polarization arising from the forward shock considered a random field fully or partially confined to the shock plane. However, the ISM magnetic field likely consists of both random and ordered components. Here we study the impact of a more realistic magnetic field having both ordered and random components. We present our semi-analytical model and compute polarization curves arising for different magnetic field configurations. We find that the presence of an ordered component, even significantly weaker than the random one, has distinct signatures that could be detectable. In the presence of an ordered component not in the observer plane, we show that: i) for an observer inside the jet, the polarization angle $θ_p$ either remains constant during all the afterglow phase or exhibits variations smaller than the 90\textdegree swing expected from a random component solely, ii) for an observer outside the jet, the polarization angle evolves from $θ_p^{\max}$, before the jet break to its opposite after the jet break. We also find that the upper limit polarization for GRB170817 requires a random field not fully confined to the shock plane and is compatible with an ordered component as large as half the random one.
CIRAD INVASIVE SPECIES INITIATIVES IN THE CARIBBEAN BASIN
Creators: name: Wicker, Emmanuel
name: Abadie, Catherine
name: Daugrois, Jean Heinrich
name: Baudouin, Luc
name: Dollet, Michel
name: Zapater, Marie-Francoise
name: Vuillaume, Claude
name: Teycheney, Pierre-Yves
name: Wicker, Emmanuel
name: Abadie, Catherine
name: Daugrois, Jean Heinrich
name: Baudouin, Luc
name: Dollet, Michel
name: Zapater, Marie-Francoise
name: Vuillaume, Claude
name: Teycheney, Pierre-Yves
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: crops
subject: invasive species
subject: Ralstonia solanacearum
subject: Black Sigatoka
subject: coconut lethal yellowing
subject: Sugarcane yellow leaf curl virus
subject: Banana streak viruses
subject: diagnostic
subject: surveillance networks

description: Several research programmes of CIRAD (Centre de Coopération en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement) target invasive species in the Caribbean. These programmes deal primarily with pathogens (bacteria, bacteria-like, fungi and viruses) of major crops grown in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe and Martinique) and elsewhere in the Caribbean, such as banana, sugarcane and coconut. CIRAD has developed new tools for the detection of some of these pathogens: Ralstonia solanacearum (causal agent of Moko disease), Mycosphaerella fijiensis (causal agent of Black Sigatoka disease, BSD), Banana streak viruses (BSV), Banana mild mosaic virus (BanMMV) and banana virus X (BVX). Using these and existing detection tools, the presence, prevalence and diversity of pathogens established on or threatening banana, sugarcane and coconut in the Caribbean were investigated. These investigations resulted in recommendations for the control of the above-mentioned pathogens. Also, several of the detection techniques developed in these investigations were successfully transferred to Caribbean Plant Protection Services, paving the way for the development and implementation of a regional surveillance network of crop diseases.
Marine Interglacial Deposits in the Cuxhaven Area, NW Germany: A Comparison of Holsteinian, Eemian and Holocene Foraminiferal Faunas
Creators: name: Knudsen, Karen Luise
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1988

description: Es werden interglaziale Foraminiferen-Faunen aus dem Holstein, dem Eem und dem Holozän für den Raum Cuxhaven beschrieben. Bei den bearbeiteten Proben handelt es sich um Material aus Kernbohrungen. Die Vergesellschaftungen werden mit vorliegenden Publikationen entsprechender Vorkommen aus Nordwestdeutschland und Dänemark verglichen. Jede der 3 untersuchten Faunen hat typische Züge. Von besonderem Interesse ist die Tatsache, daß die Anwesenheit und/oder Häufigkeit bestimmter Taxa für das Gebiet der südlichen Nordsee stratigraphische Korrelationen ermöglicht.
description: research