cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Representative Farms Economic Outlook for the August 2006 FAPRI/AFPC Baseline
Creators: name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Knapek, George M.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Fumasi, Roland J.
name: Klose, Steven L.
name: Zimmel, Peter
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Knapek, George M.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Fumasi, Roland J.
name: Klose, Steven L.
name: Zimmel, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC) at Texas A&M University develops and maintains data to simulate 100 representative crop, dairy, and livestock operations in major production areas in 28 states. The chief purpose of this analysis is to project those farms’ economic viability by region and commodity for 2006 through 2011. The data necessary to simulate the economic activity of these operations is developed through ongoing cooperation with panels of agricultural producers in each of these states. The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) provided projected prices, policy variables, and input inflation rates in their August 2006 Baseline. Under the August 2006 Baseline, 14 of the 65 crop farms are considered in good liquidity condition (less than a 25 percent chance of negative ending cash in 2011). Ten crop farms have between a 25 percent and a 50 percent likelihood of negative ending cash. The remaining 41 crop farms have greater than a 50 percent chance of negative ending cash. Additionally, 23 of the 65 crop farms are considered in good equity position (less than a 25 percent chance of decreasing real net worth during the study period). Six crop farms have between a 25 percent and 50 percent likelihood of losing real net worth, and 36 crop farms have greater than a 50 percent probability of decreasing real net worth. The following discussion provides an overall evaluation by commodity considering both liquidity and equity measures.
Novel quantum phases of two-component bosons with pair hopping in synthetic dimension
Creators: name: Lin, Zhi
name: Liu, Chenrong
name: Chen, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study two-component (or pseudospin-1/2) bosons with pair hopping interactions in synthetic dimension, for which a feasible experimental scheme on a square optical lattice is also presented. Previous studies have shown that two-component bosons with on-site interspecies interaction can only generate nontrivial interspecies paired superfluid (super-counter-fluidity or pair-superfluid) state. In contrast, apart from interspecies paired superfluid, we reveal two new phases by considering this additional pair hopping interaction. These novel phases are intraspecies paired superfluid (molecular superfluid) and an exotic non-integer Mott insulator which shows a non-integer atom number at each site for each species, but an integer for total atom number.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
The Hot Bang state of massless fermions
Creators: name: Bahr, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In 2002, a method has been proposed by Buchholz et al. in the context of Local Quantum Physics, to characterize states that are locally in thermodynamic equilibrium. It could be shown for the model of massless bosons that these states exhibit quite interesting properties. The mean phase-space density satisfies a transport equation, and many of these states break time reversal symmetry. Moreover, an explicit example of such a state, called the Hot Bang state, could be found, which models the future of a temperature singularity. However, although the general results carry over to the fermionic case easily, the proof of existence of an analogue of the Hot Bang state is not quite that straightforward. The proof will be given in this paper. Moreover, we will discuss some of the mathematical subtleties which arise in the fermionic case.
description: 17 pages
Challenges in designing appropriate scaffolding to improve students' representational consistency: The case of a Gauss's law problem
Creators: name: Maries, Alexandru
name: Lin, Shih-Yin
name: Singh, Chandralekha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Prior research suggest that introductory physics students have difficulty with graphing and interpreting graphs. Here, we discuss an investigation of student difficulties in translating between mathematical and graphical representations for a problem in electrostatics and the effect of increasing levels of scaffolding on students' representational consistency. Students in calculus-based introductory physics were given a typical problem that can be solved using Gauss's law involving a spherically symmetric charge distribution in which they were asked to write a mathematical expression for the electric field in various regions and then plot the electric field. In study 1, we found that students had great difficulty in plotting the electric field as a function of the distance from the center of the sphere consistent with the mathematical expressions in various regions, and interviews with students suggested possible reasons which may account for this difficulty. Therefore, in study 2, we designed two scaffolding interventions with levels of support which built on each other (i.e., the second scaffolding level built on the first) in order to help students plot their expressions consistently and compared the performance of students provided with scaffolding with a comparison group which was not given any scaffolding support. Analysis of student performance with different levels of scaffolding reveals that scaffolding from an expert perspective beyond a certain level may sometimes hinder student performance and students may not even discern the relevance of the additional support. We provide possible interpretations for these findings based on in-depth, think-aloud interviews.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
Representative Farms Economic Outlook for the January 2006 FAPRI/AFPC Baseline
Creators: name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Knapek, George M.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Klose, Steven L.
name: Zimmel, Peter
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Knapek, George M.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Klose, Steven L.
name: Zimmel, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The farm level economic impacts of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (2002 Farm Bill) on representative crop and livestock operations are projected in this report. The analysis was conducted over the 2006-2010 planning horizon using FLIPSIM, AFPC’s whole farm simulation model. Data to simulate farming and ranching operations in the nation’s major production regions came from two sources: - Producer panel cooperation to develop economic information to describe and simulate representative crop, livestock, and dairy farms. - Projected prices, policy variables, and input inflation rates from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) January 2006 Baseline. The primary objective of the analysis is to determine the farms’ economic viability by region and commodity through the life of the 2002 Farm Bill. The FLIPSIM policy simulation model incorporates the historical risk faced by farmers and ranchers for prices and production. This report presents the results of the January 2006 Baseline in a risk context using selected simulated probabilities and ranges for annual net cash farm income values. The probability of a farm experiencing a negative ending cash balance and the probability of a farm losing real net worth are included as indicators of the cash flow and equity risks facing farms through the year 2010. This report is organized into ten sections. The first section summarizes the process used to develop the representative farms and the key assumptions utilized for the farm level analysis. The second section summarizes the FAPRI January 2006 Baseline and the policy and price assumptions used for the representative farm analyses. The third through sixth sections present the results of the simulation analyses for feed grain, wheat, cotton, and rice farms. The seventh and eighth sections summarize simulation results for dairy and cattle. Two appendices constitute the final section of the report. Appendix A provides tables to summarize the physical and financial characteristics for each of the representative farms. Appendix B provides the names of producers, land grant faculty, and industry leaders who cooperated in the panel interview process to develop the representative farms.
Europese 'good practices' voor de VWA: De implementatie van EG- verordening 882/2004 in Belgie, het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Duitsland en Denemarken
Creators: name: Wubben, Emiel F.M.
name: Hubeek, Francisca B.
name: Wubben, Emiel F.M.
name: Hubeek, Francisca B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: This report presents the results from a study of four countries. Information was collected on Belgium, the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark, and interviews were also held in those countries, to obtain an insight into their policies and implementation of controls on feed and food safety. The study was requested by the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality to prepare for the implementation of EC Regulation 882/2004 in 2006 and to provide support for the reform of the funding system for the Dutch Food and Non-Food Authority (VWA). The study focused on a search for good practices for the reform of the VWA's funding system.
Relation between Rotational and Translational Dynamic Heterogeneities in Water
Creators: name: Mazza, Marco G.
name: Giovambattista, Nicolas
name: Starr, Francis W.
name: Stanley, H. Eugene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use molecular dynamics simulations to probe the rotational dynamics of the SPC/E model of water for a range of temperatures down to 200 K, 13 K above to the mode coupling temperature. We find that rotational dynamics is spatially heterogeneous, i.e., there are clusters of molecules that rotate significantly more than the average for a given time interval, and we study the size and the temporal behavior of these clusters. We find that the position of a rotational heterogeneity is strongly correlated with the position of a translational heterogeneity, and that the fraction of molecules belonging to both kinds of heterogeneities increases with decreasing temperature. We further find that although the two types of heterogeneities are not identical, they are related to the same physical picture.
description: 10 pages
Babic, Gordana: Les Chapelles annexes des Églises byzantines
Creators: name: Wessel, Klaus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 55 (1971): Oriens christianus, Band 55
Stress, coping, and eating behaviors among female athletes in emerging adulthood
Creators: name: Muscat, Ann Carolyn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This investigation explores the interpersonal stress and coping process of female athletes' during emerging adulthood and across the eating disorder continuum. Respondents in this cross-sectional study were 223 female competitive athletes (Mage = 20.9 years, SD = 1.61) attending the University of British Columbia. It was hypothesized that while controlling for depression, female athletes who remembered critical comments by peers, family, or significant others about her body, shape, or weight, would report greater disordered eating, compared with female athletes who did not remember critical comments. It was also hypothesized there would be a statistically significant linear relationship between the predictor variables daily hassles, coping strategies (behavioral disengagement, mental disengagement, active coping, instrumental social support, emotional social support, planning, restraint coping, suppression of competing activities, religion, positive reinterpretation and growth, acceptance, denial, and relationship-focused coping) and the criterion variable, the severity of eating disordered behavior, controlling for the effects of depression. An analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to examine mean differences on disordered eating (covariate depression) between those individuals who remembered critical comments by peers, family or significant others (coaches) about their body shape or weight and those female athletes who did not remember critical comments. Participants with critical comments had a higher level of disordered eating (i.e., EDEQ). A hierarchical multiple regression (HMR) found once the variance attributed to depression was controlled for, severity of critical comment was significantly positively related to disordered eating. A second HMR was conducted to test whether the 15 predictor variables predicted overall severity of disordered eating, after controlling for depression. Once the variance attributed to depression was controlled for greater daily hassles, mental disengagement, positive growth and reinterpretation coping strategies and less use of active coping strategies predicted greater disordered eating. The results support the relevance of interpersonal stress, a few unique coping skills and depression in the experience of disordered eating of female athletes attending university. Implications for theory, research, and treatment are discussed.
Top Partners in Little Higgs Theories with T-parity
Creators: name: Cheng, Hsin-Chia
name: Low, Ian
name: Wang, Lian-Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a class of little Higgs theories with T-parity where ALL new particles responsible for canceling the standard model contributions to the one-loop quadratic divergences in the Higgs potential are odd under T-parity, including the heavy top partner which was previously taken to be T-even. The new construction significantly simplifies the spectrum in the top sector and completely changes the phenomenology of the top partner. At hadron colliders the signals of this class of T-invariant models appear to be even more similar to supersymmetry. We initiate a study on the collider phenomenology and discuss the challenge of distinguishing this class of models from supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider.
description: 23 pages, 5 figures
Uncertainty-based Traffic Accident Anticipation with Spatio-Temporal Relational Learning
Creators: name: Bao, Wentao
name: Yu, Qi
name: Kong, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Traffic accident anticipation aims to predict accidents from dashcam videos as early as possible, which is critical to safety-guaranteed self-driving systems. With cluttered traffic scenes and limited visual cues, it is of great challenge to predict how long there will be an accident from early observed frames. Most existing approaches are developed to learn features of accident-relevant agents for accident anticipation, while ignoring the features of their spatial and temporal relations. Besides, current deterministic deep neural networks could be overconfident in false predictions, leading to high risk of traffic accidents caused by self-driving systems. In this paper, we propose an uncertainty-based accident anticipation model with spatio-temporal relational learning. It sequentially predicts the probability of traffic accident occurrence with dashcam videos. Specifically, we propose to take advantage of graph convolution and recurrent networks for relational feature learning, and leverage Bayesian neural networks to address the intrinsic variability of latent relational representations. The derived uncertainty-based ranking loss is found to significantly boost model performance by improving the quality of relational features. In addition, we collect a new Car Crash Dataset (CCD) for traffic accident anticipation which contains environmental attributes and accident reasons annotations. Experimental results on both public and the newly-compiled datasets show state-of-the-art performance of our model. Our code and CCD dataset are available at https://github.com/Cogito2012/UString.
description: Accepted by ACM MM 2020
EURO-MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP; STATE OF AFFAIRS AND KEY POLICY AND RESEARCH ISSUES
Creators: name: Kuiper, Marijke H.
name: Dell'Aquila, Crescenzo
name: Kuiper, Marijke H.
name: Dell'Aquila, Crescenzo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: This study draws on a body of existing literature to take stock of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP), which focuses on establishing a Mediterranean Free Trade Area. Despite considerable scope for reducing barriers on Mediterranean trade, current agreements are limited to a quasi-unilateral reduction of trade barriers for manufactured products by the Mediterranean Partner Countries. Next to the limited scope of the current liberalisation achieved by the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, structural features of the MPCs limit the impact of the trade liberalisation on their economic growth. To promote stability and economic growth at the Southern borders of the EU, coherence of EU trade and foreign policy is called for.
Improving Statistical Methods To Understand Differences In Cancer Survival
Creators: name: Syriopoulou, Elisavet
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Cancer survival varies substantially across population groups. For instance, there are differences across socioeconomic groups that persist irrespective of how deprivation is defined. The underlying determinants are not well understood as they are driven by complex mechanisms. Identifying drivers of variation is important and can lead to targeted interventions to improve survival. This thesis involves the development and application of statistical methods to understand and report population variation; largely focussing on cancer-related differences through a relative survival setting. The developed methodology is applied using English registry data for several cancer types. Differences in all-cause survival arise from both cancer-related and other-cause factors: the advantage of using the relative survival framework is the possibility, under assumptions, to isolate differences due to cancer-related factors. There have been past examples of exploring differences across population groups, and this thesis sets those approaches into an appropriate causal framework. Causal inference and mediation analysis are extended to the relative survival framework and marginal measures of interest are defined. Contrasts between subgroups in terms of net and all-cause measures are introduced and shown to be identifiable under assumptions. Mediation analysis allows the possibility to delve deeper into observed differences and explore the role of intermediary explanatory factors. The potential impact of removing differences is explored and quantified as the number of avoidable deaths under hypothetical interventions. Marginal estimates are obtained using regression standardisation, inverse probability weighting, or doubly robust standardisation. Methodology that allows excess mortality to be partitioned into components due to specific non-cancer causes is also provided. Finally, additional reporting measures such as loss in life expectancy are utilised to help understand the lifetime impact of a cancer diagnosis. The extensions proposed in this thesis, and the focus on a broad range of intuitive metrics, could have wide-ranging impact in cancer (and other disease) epidemiology.
Structural and electronic properties of the metal-metal intramolecular junctions of single-walled carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Fa, Wei
name: Chen, Jiangwei
name: Liu, Hong
name: Dong, Jinming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several intramolecular junctions (IMJs) connecting two metallic (11, 8) and (9, 6) carbon nanotubes along their common axis have been realized by using a layer-divided technique to the nanotubes and introducing the topological defects. Atomic structure of each IMJ configuration is optimized with a combination of density-functional theory (DFT) and the universal force field (UFF) method, based upon which a four-orbital tight-binding calculation is made on its electronic properties. Different topological defect structures and their distributions on the IMJ interfaces have been found, showing decisive effects on the localized density of states, while the sigma-pi coupling effect is negligible near Fermi energy (EF). Finally, a new IMJ model has been proposed, which probably reflects a real atomic structure of the M-M IMJ observed in the experiment [Science 291, 97 (2001)].
description: 11 pages and 3 figures
Effectiveness of interactive tutorials in promoting "which-path" information reasoning in advanced quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Maries, Alexandru
name: Sayer, Ryan
name: Singh, Chandralekha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have been investigating advanced students' learning of quantum mechanics concepts and have developed interactive tutorials which strive to help students learn these concepts. Two such tutorials, focused on the Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) and the double-slit experiment (DSE), help students learn how to use the concept of "which-path" information to reason about the presence or absence of interference in these two experiments in different situations. After working on a pretest that asked students to predict interference in the MZI with single photons and polarizers of various orientations placed in one or both paths of the MZI, students worked on the MZI tutorial which, among other things, guided them to reason in terms of which-path information in order to predict interference in similar situations. We investigated the extent to which students were able to use reasoning related to which-path information learned in the MZI tutorial to answer analogous questions on the DSE (before working on the DSE tutorial). After students worked on the DSE pretest they worked on a DSE tutorial in which they learned to use the concept of which-path information to answer questions about interference in the DSE with single particles with mass sent through the two slits and a monochromatic lamp placed between the slits and the screen. We investigated if this additional exposure to the concept of which-path information promoted improved learning and performance in the DSE questions with single photons and polarizers placed after one or both slits. We find evidence that both tutorials promoted which-path information reasoning and helped students use this reasoning appropriately in contexts different from the ones in which they had learned it.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2005.07560
Additional file 3 of Intraoperative [18F]FDG flexible autoradiography for tumour margin assessment in breast-conserving surgery: a first-in-human multicentre feasibility study
Creators: name: Jurrius, Patriek A. G. T.
name: Grootendorst, Maarten R.
name: Krotewicz, Marika
name: Cariati, Massimiliano
name: Kothari, Ashutosh
name: Patani, Neill
name: Karcz, Paulina
name: Nagadowska, Monika
name: Vyas, Kunal N.
name: Purushotham, Arnie
name: Turska-D’Amico, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Table 2. Confusion matrix of FAR imaging for intraoperative margin assessment of intact WLE specimens compared to gold standard histopathology. The patients were divided into three subgroups based on T-classification.
Product differentiation under the WTO; An analysis of labelling and tariff or tax measures concerning farm animal welfare
Creators: name: Eaton, Derek J.F.
name: Bourgeois, J.
name: Achterbosch, Thom J.
name: Eaton, Derek J.F.
name: Bourgeois, J.
name: Achterbosch, Thom J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This report examines the possibility of giving preferential treatment to imports of meat products that meet improved standards in terms of animal welfare in production. Three specific forms of preferential treatment are considered here as possible measures for increasing levels of animal welfare in meat production in the EU and its exporting partners: labelling of products (either voluntary or compulsory), differentiated import tariffs and differentiated consumer taxes. The likely admissibility of such measures under WTO rules is assessed by means of an analysis of previous decisions by WTO dispute settlement panels. It is concluded that all of the measures analysed have a possibility of being upheld, based on a defence relying on Article XX of the GATT and perhaps also the TBT Agreement. While the incentives offered by labelling could be reinforced with differentiated tariffs or taxes, these financial instruments involve various additional complications. They could best be considered after the possibilities of regulated labelling schemes have been exhausted.
Stability Analysis of the Observer Error of an In-Domain Actuated Vibrating String
Creators: name: Malzer, Tobias
name: Rams, Hubert
name: Kolar, Bernd
name: Schöberl, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, the behaviour of the observer error of an in-domain actuated vibrating string, where the observer system has been designed based on energy considerations exploiting a port-Hamiltonian system representation for infinite-dimensional systems, is analysed. Thus, the observer-error dynamics are reformulated as an abstract Cauchy problem, which enables to draw conclusions regarding the well-posedness of the observer-error system. Furthermore, we show that the observer error is asymptotically stable by applying LaSalle's invariance principle for infinite-dimensional systems.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
Kostprijsontwikkeling kuikenblees 2004-2010: Basisjaar 2004
Creators: name: Van Horne, Peter L.M.
name: Bondt, Nico
name: Van Horne, Peter L.M.
name: Bondt, Nico
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: This report relates to a comparative study of the production cost in 2004 of broilermeat in a number of EU countries and Brazil and the USA. This was supplemented with a review of the prospects towards 2010. For every country an insight was obtained into the developments in animal welfare, environmental measures, and food safety. It was concluded that in all EU countries the production cost will increase and as a result the difference with non EU countries will further increase. These costs relate, depending on the specific country, mainly to the environment, animal welfare, or food safety. In dit rapport worden de kostprijzen van kuikenvlees in 2004 in verschillende EU-landen vergeleken met Brazilië en de Verenigde Staten. Voor alle genoemde landen is een doorkijk gemaakt naar het jaar 2010. Per land zijn de ontwikkelingen op het gebied van dierenwelzijn, milieu en voedselveiligheid in kaart gebracht. Geconcludeerd wordt dat de kosten in de EU-landen de komende jaren verder stijgen waardoor het verschil met de niet- EU-landen verder toeneemt. Het verschilt per land of het accent hierbij ligt op milieu, dierenwelzijn of voedselveiligheid.
Zicht op agrarische prijzen
Creators: name: De Bont, C.J.A.M.
name: Bolhuis, J.
name: De Bont, C.J.A.M.
name: Bolhuis, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: This report provides insight into the activities of LEI in the field of the collection, determi-nation and reporting of agricultural prices. Background information is also provided regarding the developments in the field of those agricultural prices. Moreover, the report looks into the problems for agriculture and horticulture that are connected with the devel-opments of agricultural markets and prices.
IMPACT OF EU COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 99/74/EC 'WELFARE OF LAYING HENS' ON THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE EU EGG INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Van Horne, Peter L.M.
name: Bondt, Nico
name: Van Horne, Peter L.M.
name: Bondt, Nico
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Because of animal welfare concerns in the EU, from 2012 only enriched cages will be allowed for the housing of laying hens (Council Directive 1999/74/EC). Production in enriched cages will increase the production cost of eggs. At the same time the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has launched a new round of negotiations to further liberalise trade in agricultural products. This report provides the results of a study on the impact of the EU Directive for EU egg processors. Within several scenarios, the increase in production costs (enriched cages) are combined with different levels of import levies and currency exchange rates. In general it can be concluded that in 2012 EU countries cannot compete on their home market for egg products with countries such as Ukraine, United States, Brazil and India.
Handelsstromen van pluimveevlees
Creators: name: Tacken, G.M.L.
name: Van Horne, Peter L.M.
name: Tacken, G.M.L.
name: Van Horne, Peter L.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This study provides an insight into the goods flows of (raw) poultry meat within - and, in particular, to - the Netherlands, and into the associated zoonosis risks. The study offers input for an inspection policy that will be required to enforce the intended prohibition on the marketing of raw poultry meat infected with Campylobacter and Salmonella. The Netherlands is an important poultry-meat trading country, and consequently the interviewees endorsed the importance of the reduction of zoonosis; they were also of the opinion that good Salmonella and Campylobacter control measures are in place in the Netherlands. In addition, it was also concluded that the retail sale of poultry meat that is free of Campylobacter and Salmonella is not currently a feasible proposition in the Netherlands.
Papageorgiou, Anastasios: Ikonen aus Zypern
Creators: name: Wessel, Klaus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 55 (1971): Oriens christianus, Band 55
Groei van de biologische landbouw: Kwantitatieve analyse met een systeemdynamisch model
Creators: name: Van Wagenberg, Coen P.A.
name: Schepers, H.E.
name: Boekhoff, Marike
name: Hoorweg, Marja J.
name: Wijnands, Jo H.M.
name: Van Wagenberg, Coen P.A.
name: Schepers, H.E.
name: Boekhoff, Marike
name: Hoorweg, Marja J.
name: Wijnands, Jo H.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Farm Management

description: This study forms a part of the project 'Views on organic agriculture: a system analysis'. The project distinguishes different life styles to concretise these views on the organic agriculture. This report describes the developed system dynamics model that can be used to calculate the quantitative effects of different policies on the growth perspectives of the Dutch organic sector by distinguishing these life styles. De studie vormt een onderdeel van het project 'Visies op biologische landbouw: een systeem-analyse'. In dit project worden mensbeelden onderscheiden om verschillende visies op de biologische landbouw te concretiseren. Dit rapport bevat een beschrijving van het ontwikkel-de systeemdynamisch model waarmee door het onderscheiden van mensbeelden kwantitatieve effecten van beleidsmaatregelen op de groei van de biologische landbouw be-paald kunnen worden.
Effect of the length of inflation on angular TT and TE power spectra in power-law inflation
Creators: name: Hirai, Shiro
name: Takami, Tomoyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of the length of inflation on the power spectra of scalar and tensor perturbations is estimated using the power-law inflation model with a scale factor of a(t) = t^q. Considering various pre-inflation models with radiation-dominated or scalar matter-dominated periods before inflation in combination with two matching conditions, the temperature angular power spectrum (TT) and temperature-polarization cross-power spectrum (TE) are calculated and a likelihood analysis is performed. It is shown that the discrepancies between the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data and the LCDM model, such as suppression of the spectrum at l = 2,3 and oscillatory behavior, may be explained by the finite length of inflation model if the length of inflation is near 60 e-folds and q > 300. The proposed models retain similar values of chi^2 to that achieved by the LCDM model with respect to fit to the WMAP data, but display different characteristics of the angular TE power spectra at l < 20.
description: 41 pages, 11 figures
Additional file 1 of Conceptual framework for increasing legitimacy and trust of sustainability governance
Creators: name: Stupak, Inge
name: Mansoor, Maha
name: C. Tattersall Smith
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Benchmark of good governance principles; Table S2. Classification of risk-based elements; Table S3. Classification of transparency level; Table S4. List of literature upon which Table 11 and Fig. 9 is based, Table S5. Working table upon which Fig. 9 is based, including reference to literature from Table S4.
The impact on the Netherlands of the Egyptian greenhouse vegetable chain
Creators: name: Wijnands, Jo H.M.
name: Wijnands, Jo H.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: This report forms part of a broader analysis of the competitiveness of Dutch tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers on the European market. It describes elements of Porter's competitiveness analysis for the Egyptian horticultural sector. Within this framework, it presents an analysis of the domestic demand, the supply, the structure and strategy of firms, the network and the Egyptian government. It concludes with a SWOT analysis.
The effect of high nitrogen pressures on the habitable zone and an appraisal of greenhouse states
Creators: name: Ramirez, Ramses M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The habitable zone is the main tool that mission architectures utilize to select potentially habitable planets for follow up spectroscopic observation. Given its importance, the precise size and location of the habitable zone remains a hot topic, as many studies, using a hierarchy of models, have assessed various factors including: atmospheric composition, time, and planetary mass. However, little work has assessed how the habitable zone changes with variations in background nitrogen pressure, which is directly connected to the habitability and life bearing potential of planets. Here, I use an advanced energy balance model with clouds to show that our solar system habitable zone is about 0.9 to 1.7 AU, assuming a 5 bar nitrogen background pressure and a maximum 100 percent cloud cover at the inner edge. This width is about 20 percent wider than the conservative habitable zone estimate. Similar extensions are calculated for A to M stars. I also show that cooling clouds and hazes and high background pressures can decrease the runaway greenhouse threshold temperature to approximately 300 K (or less) for planets orbiting any star type. This is because the associated increase in planetary albedo enables stable climates closer to the star, where rapid destabilization can be triggered from a lower mean surface temperature. Enhanced longwave emission for planets with very high stratospheric temperatures also permits stable climates at smaller orbital distances. The model predicts a runaway greenhouse above approximately 330 K for planets orbiting the Sun, which is consistent with previous work. However, moist greenhouses only occur for planets orbiting A-stars.
description: Published in The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (27 pages, 7 figures)
The holographic mapping of the Standard Model onto the black hole horizon, Part I: Abelian vector field, scalar field and BEH Mechanism
Creators: name: Hooft, G. 't
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interactions between outgoing Hawking particles and ingoing matter are determined by gravitational forces and Standard Model interactions. In particular the gravitational interactions are responsible for the unitarity of the scattering against the horizon, as dictated by the holographic principle, but the Standard Model interactions also contribute, and understanding their effects is an important first step towards a complete understanding of the horizon's dynamics. The relation between in- and outgoing states is described in terms of an operator algebra. In this paper, the first of a series, we describe the algebra induced on the horizon by U(1) vector fields and scalar fields, including the case of an Englert-Brout-Higgs mechanism, and a more careful consideration of the transverse vector field components.
description: 13 pages, no figures
Budde, Ludwig: Antike Mosaiken in Kilikien
Creators: name: Wessel, Klaus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 55 (1971): Oriens christianus, Band 55
Bridging that gap : occupational therapist experiences of client-centred practice
Creators: name: Mortenson, William Bennett
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Although client-centred practice has become an essential part of Canadian occupational therapy practice in the last twenty years (Law, 1998; Sumsion & Smyth, 2000), many authors have indicated that therapists do not practice in a client-centred manner (Law, Baptiste & Mills, 1995; Toomey, Nicholson & Carswell, 1995; Hammell, 1998a). Some authors have focused on how therapists are responsible for problems implementing client-centred practice, because they are unwilling to give up power (Sumsion, 1999c; Gage, 1999; Hammell, 1998a; Law, Polatajko, Pollock, McColl, Carswell, & Baptiste, 1994). As power has been identified as an important construct in the literature on client-centred practice, I have conducted an exploratory, qualitative study of occupational therapists' experiences of client-centred practice using standpoint theory and Foucault's work on power to frame the study. Based on a thematic analysis of in-depth ethnographic interviews of nine therapists from acute care and homecare settings three main themes were identified. "Bridging that gap: ideal versus real conceptions of client-centred practice" reveals the tensions that therapists experience between the discourse and practice of occupational therapy. "Related to the service environment: the importance of setting" focuses on how institutional factors shape practice. The final theme "a bit of tension: problems with the client-therapist relationship" describes the client-therapist interaction, which is influenced by discursive and institutional factors. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the theoretical implications, practical applications, limitations and significance of these research findings.
Directed flow in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ =62.4 GeV
Creators: name: STAR Collaboration
name: Adams, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the directed flow ($v_1$) measured in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 62.4 GeV in the mid-pseudorapidity region $|η|<1.3$ and in the forward pseudorapidity region $2.5 < |η| < 4.0$. The results are obtained using the three-particle cumulant method, the event plane method with mixed harmonics, and for the first time at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the standard method with the event plane reconstructed from spectator neutrons. Results from all three methods are in good agreement. Over the pseudorapidity range studied, charged particle directed flow is in the direction opposite to that of fragmentation neutrons.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures and 2 tables. Submitted to PRC
AN ANALYSIS OF U.S. FARM INCOME POLICIES: HISTORICAL, MARKETING-DETERMINED, AND SECTOR-WIDE STABILIZATION
Creators: name: McDowell, Howard
name: Kramer, Randall A.
name: Price, J. Michael
name: McDowell, Howard
name: Kramer, Randall A.
name: Price, J. Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: This paper provides an economic analysis of the historical agricultural price and income support policy, a policy of market-determined prices and income, and a policy linking market-determined prices with sector-wide farm income stabilization in years of economic disaster. The analysis compares commodity prices, net farm income, and government expenditures over the period 1970 through 1982 based on estimates generated by USDA's Food and Agricultural Policy Simulator (FAPSIM). The historical policy generates the highest income and most stable prices. Market-determined income is lowest and has the greatest variability. Stabilization minimized income variability at intermediate income levels.
A search for CP violation and a measurement of the relative branching fraction in D+ -> KKpi decays
Creators: name: Aubert, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a search for the CP asymmetry in the singly Cabibbo-suppressed decays D+ -> KKpi and in the resonant decays D+ -> phipi and D+ -> KstarK based on a data sample of 79.9 fb^-1 recorded by the BABAR detector. We use the Cabibbo-favored Ds -> KKpi branching fraction as normalization in the measurements to reduce systematic uncertainties. The CP asymmetries obtained are A_{CP}(KKpi) = (1.4 +/- 1.0 (stat.) +/- 0.8 (syst.) x 10^-2, A_{CP}(phi pi) = (0.2 +/- 1.5 (stat.) +/- 0.6 (syst.) x 10^-2, and A_{CP}(Kstar K) = (0.9 +/- 1.7 (stat.) +/- 0.7 (syst.) x 10^-2. The relative branching fraction Gamma(D+ -> KKpi)/Gamma(D+ -> Kpipi) is also measured and is found to be (10.7 +/- 0.1 (stat.) +/- 0.2 (syst.) x 10^-2.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D Rapid Communications
Parametrically excited star-shaped patterns at the interface of binary Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Maity, D. K.
name: Mukherjee, K.
name: Mistakidis, S. I.
name: Das, S.
name: Kevrekidis, P. G.
name: Majumder, S.
name: Schmelcher, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Faraday-wave-like parametric instability is investigated via mean-field and Floquet analysis in immiscible binary Bose-Einstein condensates. The condensates form a so-called \textit{ball-shell} structure in a two-dimensional harmonic trap. To trigger the dynamics, the scattering length of the core condensate is periodically modulated in time. We reveal that in the dynamics the interface becomes unstable towards the formation of oscillating patterns. The interface oscillates sub-harmonically exhibiting an $m$-fold rotational symmetry that can be controlled by maneuvering the amplitude and the frequency of the modulation. Using Floquet analysis we are able to predict the generated interfacial tension of the mixture and derive a dispersion relation for the natural frequencies of the emergent patterns. A heteronuclear system composed of $^{87}$Rb-$^{85}$Rb atoms can be used for the experimental realization of the phenomenon, yet our results are independent of the specifics of the employed atomic species {and of the parameter at which the driving is applied.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Andreev states near short-ranged pairing potential impurities
Creators: name: Andersen, Brian M.
name: Melikyan, Ashot
name: Nunner, Tamara S.
name: Hirschfeld, P. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Andreev states near atomic scale modulations in the pairing potential in both $s$- and d-wave superconductors with short coherence lengths. For a moderate reduction of the local gap, the states exist only close to the gap edge. If one allows for local sign changes of the order parameter, however, resonances can occur at energies close to the Fermi level. The local density of states (LDOS) around such pairing potential defects strongly resembles the patterns observed by tunneling measurements around Zn impurities in Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+x}$ (BSCCO). We discuss how this phase impurity model of the Zn LDOS pattern can be distinguished from other proposals experimentally.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
IRRIGATION AND POTENTIAL DIVERSIFICATION BENEFITS IN HUMID CLIMATES
Creators: name: Vandeveer, Lonnie R.
name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
name: Lavergne, David R.
name: Vandeveer, Lonnie R.
name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
name: Lavergne, David R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Income variability and means for managing risk continue to receive much attention in farm management research. In this paper, irrigation is presented as a risk-management strategy that offers potential diversification benefits. Potential diversification opportunities largely result from a wider range of enterprise production activities. A portfolio analysis of dryland and irrigated farm scenarios indicates that income stabilizing and diversification effects of irrigation substantially modify the risk-return position of a typical farm in northeast Louisiana. Safety-first considerations along with Target MOTAD programming procedures also are used to evaluate the impact of irrigation on the farm's financial performance.