cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Observational Constraints on Disk Heating as a Function of Hubble Type
Creators: name: Shapiro, Kristen L.
name: Gerssen, Joris
name: van der Marel, Roeland P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current understanding of the secular evolution of galactic disks suggests that this process is dominated by two or more heating mechanisms, which increase the random motions of stars in the disk. In particular, the gravitational influence of giant molecular clouds and irregularities in the spiral potential have been proposed to explain the observed velocity dispersions in the solar neighborhood. Each of these mechanisms acts on different components of the stellar velocities, which affects the ratio of the vertical and radial components of the stellar velocity dispersion since the relative strengths of giant molecular clouds and spiral irregularities vary with Hubble type. A study of this ratio as function of Hubble type has the potential to provide strong constraints on disk heating mechanisms. We present major and minor axis stellar kinematics for four spiral galaxies of Hubble type from Sa to Sbc, and use the data to infer the ratios sigma_z/sigma_R in the galaxy disks. The results combined with two galaxies studied previously and with Milky Way data show that the ratio is generally in the range 0.5 - 0.8. There is a marginally significant trend of decreasing ratio with advancing Hubble type, consistent with the predictions of disk heating theories. However, the errors on individual measurements are large, and the absence of any trend is consistent with the data at the 1-sigma level. As a byproduct of our study, we find that three of the four galaxies in our sample have a central drop in their stellar line-of-sight velocity dispersion, a phenomenon that is increasingly observed in spiral galaxies. [ABRIDGED]
description: 24 pages, LaTeX, 5 Postscript figures, to appear in AJ (Dec 2003)
Emerging Economies, Productivity Growth, and Trade with Resource-Rich Economies by 2030
Creators: name: Anderson, Kym
name: Strutt, Anna
name: Anderson, Kym
name: Strutt, Anna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Public Economics
subject: Global economy-wide model projections
subject: Asian economic growth and structural change
subject: booming sector economics
subject: food security

description: Rapid economic growth in some emerging economies in recent decades has significantly increased their global economic importance. If this rapid growth continues and is strongest in resource-poor Asian economies, the growth in global demand for imports of primary products also will continue, to the on-going benefit of natural resource-rich countries. This paper explores how global production, consumption and trade patterns might change over the next two decades in the course of economic development and structural changes under various scenarios. We employ the GTAP model and Version 8 of the GTAP database, along with supplementary data from a range of sources to support projections of the global economy from 2007 to 2030. We first project a baseline assuming trade-related policies do not change in each region but that factor endowments and real GDP grow at exogenously-estimated rates. That baseline is compared with two alternative scenarios: one in which the growth rates of China and India are lower by one-quarter, and the other in which this slowdown in emerging economies leads to slower productivity growth in the primary sectors of all countries. Throughout the results, implications for natural resource-abundant economies including Australia and New Zealand are drawn out.
Conversion Disorder
Creators: name: Lai, Julian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: An overview of Conversion Disorder, its causes, history and treatment
Epitaxy of Fe3O4 on Si(001) by pulsed laser deposition using a TiN/MgO buffer layer
Creators: name: Reisinger, D.
name: Schonecke, M.
name: Brenninger, T.
name: Opel, M.
name: Erb, A.
name: Alff, L.
name: Gross, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Epitaxy of oxide materials on silicon (Si) substrates is of great interest for future functional devices using the large variety of physical properties of the oxides as ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism, or superconductivity. Recently, materials with high spin polarization of the charge carriers have become interesting for semiconductor-oxide hybrid devices in spin electronics. Here, we report on pulsed laser deposition of magnetite (Fe3O4) on Si(001) substrates cleaned by an in situ laser beam high temperature treatment. After depositing a double buffer layer of titanium nitride (TiN) and magnesium oxide (MgO), a high quality epitaxial magnetite layer can be grown as verified by RHEED intensity oscillations and high resolution x-ray diffraction.
description: submitted
Investigation of Wind and Temperature Dependence for Dimensioning of Laminated Inserts
Creators: name: Thésé, Matthieu
name: Hidalgo, Jorge
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: This study proposes a review of different design approaches allowing to dimension a laminated insert connection. It focuses on façade assemblies, where the critical load is due to wind, and where the stiffness relies on a highly viscoelastic material SentryGlas®. The high variability of material stiffness is considered using three different approaches. The first approach determines critical wind speeds and temperature values using a site-specific probabilistic analysis. The second approach uses the First Order Reliability Method to perform a probabilistic design. The final approach suggests a method for evaluating the wind and temperature dependence. This method is based on the Monte-Carlo simulation method and shows potential for optimizing the dimensioning of such façade connections.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 7 (2020): Challenging Glass 7
Small-scale CMB Temperature and Polarization Anisotropies due to Patchy Reionization
Creators: name: Santos, M. G.
name: Cooray, A.
name: Haiman, Z.
name: Knox, L.
name: Ma, C. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study contributions from inhomogeneous (patchy) reionization to arcminute scale ($1000 < \ell < 10,000$) cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. We show that inhomogeneities in the ionization fraction, rather than in the mean density, dominate both the temperature and the polarization power spectra. Depending on the ionization history and the clustering bias of the ionizing sources, we find that rms temperature fluctuations range from 2 $μ$K to 8 $μ$K and the corresponding values for polarization are over two orders of magnitude smaller. Reionization can significantly bias cosmological parameter estimates and degrade gravitational lensing potential reconstruction from temperature maps but not from polarization maps. We demonstrate that a simple modeling of the reionization temperature power spectrum may be sufficient to remove the parameter bias. The high-$\ell$ temperature power spectrum will contain some limited information about the sources of reionization.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures. Minor changes to match version accepted by ApJ
An Analysis of Marketing Preferences of Sultana Producers in Turkey in Terms of Sustainable Market Power
Creators: name: Atiş, Ela
name: Miran, Bulent
name: Bektaȿ, Zerrin
name: Ciftci, Kenan
name: Karabat, Selcuk
name: Atiş, Ela
name: Miran, Bulent
name: Bektaȿ, Zerrin
name: Ciftci, Kenan
name: Karabat, Selcuk
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Analytical Hierarchy Process
subject: Conventional Sultana
subject: Market Preference
subject: Organic Sultana
subject: Tobit

description: Sultana is among the most important products in Turkish economy in terms of being a principal export crop and many producers’ occupations. Although sultana’s share in export is high, Turkey aims having a sustainable place in the international competition. In this framework; common attitude of all the actors and institutions in the sector towards attaining competitive advantages are required both in national and international markets. A sustainable competition power calls for paying a special attention to producer preferences. It is of importance to reveal and analyze that sultana producers’ preferred market and particularly the reasons for those preferences. This study deals with analyzing tendencies of the conventional and organic sultana producers to supply their products to domestic and international markets with respect to some alternatives such as high price, guaranteed payment and marketing easily by means of Analytical Hierarchy Process. Data of the study was gathered from randomly chosen 300 sultana producers in Manisa where sultana production is very widespread. Scores from Analytical Hierarchy Process are analyzed by Tobit for doing a deeper analysis of the producer preferences.
An investigation into the use of experienced utility scores to assess multi-attribute changes in environmental quality
Creators: name: Batstone, Chris
name: Moores, Jonathan
name: Baines, James
name: Harper, Sharleen
name: Batstone, Chris
name: Moores, Jonathan
name: Baines, James
name: Harper, Sharleen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Ecosystem services
subject: experienced utility
subject: expert elicitation

description: Much contemporary socio-economic environmental policy evaluation is undertaken using decision utility based approaches such as choice modelling and contingent valuation. In this paper we describe an investigation into the use of the contrasting “experienced utility” concept to assess changes in environmental quality. The research context is the development of a spatial decision support system that discriminates between catchment development options in terms of their effects on the receiving water bodies of urban storm water. We report the outcomes of the application of an expert elicitation process from the risk assessment literature to the trial of a visual analogue method designed to elicit experienced utility scores from consultation workshops to assess the effects of multi-attribute changes to ecosystem services in urban estuaries.
Structural Behaviour of Glass Panels Under Soft-body Impact
Creators: name: Kozłowski, Marcin
name: Persson, Kent
name: Honfi, Dániel
name: Williams Portal, Natalie
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Glass is a commonly used material in modern architecture not only for building enclosures but also for glazed barriers preventing building occupants from falling out of balconies or different levels inside buildings. The paper reports some results of an on-going research project involving testing of glass balustrades and infill panels mounted with different fixing methods, such as linear clamps, local clamp fixings, and point fixings through holes in glass. A reduced numerical model for prediction of strength of glass under soft body impact is also presented. In the experimental study toughened and heat-strengthened glass, as well as two interlayer materials of different stiffness, were used.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 7 (2020): Challenging Glass 7
SKA shakes hands with Summit
Creators: name: Wang, Ruonan
name: Wicenec, Andreas
name: An, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, a full-scale data processing workflow of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Phase 1 was successfully executed on the world's fastest supercomputer Summit, proving that scientists have the expertise, software tools and computing resources to process the SKA data. The SKA-Summit experiment shows the importance of multidisciplinary cooperation between astronomy, computer science and others communities. The SKA science cannot be achieved without the joint efforts of talents from multiple fields.
description: Published in Science Bulletin
title: GC. 38.4.3 - « Valeurs pragmatiques et réactions primordiales » : chapitre sur l’habitude
Creators: name: Planet, Camille
name: Canguilhem, Georges (1904-1995)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: created: start=1937;end=2002
Invasive species management in the Pacific using survey data and benefit-cost analysis
Creators: name: Daigneault, Adam J.
name: Brown, P.
name: Daigneault, Adam J.
name: Brown, P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: invasive species
subject: cost-benefit analysis
subject: non-market valuation

description: Invasive species pose an enormous threat in the Pacific: not only do they strongly affect biodiversity, but they also potentially affect the economic, social, and cultural wellbeing of Pacific peoples. Invasive species can potentially be managed and their impacts can potentially be avoided, eliminated, or reduced. However, neither the costs nor the numerous benefits of management are well understood in the Pacific. Thus, we undertook cost-benefit analyses (CBAs) of managing five species that are well established on Viti Levu, Fiji: spathodea campanulata (African tulip tree), herpestus javanicus (small Asian mongoose), papuana uninodis (taro beetle), pycnonotus cafer (red-vented bulbul), and merremia peltata (merremia vine). These CBAs are informed by extensive survey data that record the incidence, management, and impacts of the five species in Fiji. We find that the most cost-effective management option varies by species, precluding a universal solution. Nevertheless, the benefits of management often exceed the costs of management by a wide margin, arguing for a more concerted effort to control the spread of invasive species in the Pacific.
Reducing the Effort for Systematic Reviews in Software Engineering
Creators: name: Osborne, Francesco
name: Muccini, Henry
name: Lago, Patricia
name: Motta, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Context. Systematic Reviews (SRs) are means for collecting and synthesizing evidence from the identification and analysis of relevant studies from multiple sources. To this aim, they use a well-defined methodology meant to mitigate the risks of biases and ensure repeatability for later updates. SRs, however, involve significant effort. Goal. The goal of this paper is to introduce a novel methodology that reduces the amount of manual tedious tasks involved in SRs while taking advantage of the value provided by human expertise. Method. Starting from current methodologies for SRs, we replaced the steps of keywording and data extraction with an automatic methodology for generating a domain ontology and classifying the primary studies. This methodology has been applied in the Software Engineering sub-area of Software Architecture and evaluated by human annotators. Results. The result is a novel Expert-Driven Automatic Methodology, EDAM, for assisting researchers in performing SRs. EDAM combines ontology-learning techniques and semantic technologies with the human-in-the-loop. The first (thanks to automation) fosters scalability, objectivity, reproducibility and granularity of the studies; the second allows tailoring to the specific focus of the study at hand and knowledge reuse from domain experts. We evaluated EDAM on the field of Software Architecture against six senior researchers. As a result, we found that the performance of the senior researchers in classifying papers was not statistically significantly different from EDAM. Conclusions. Thanks to automation of the less-creative steps in SRs, our methodology allows researchers to skip the tedious tasks of keywording and manually classifying primary studies, thus freeing effort for the analysis and the discussion.
MOESM1 of Mapping the prevalence and nature of drug related problems among hospitalised children in the United Kingdom: a systematic review
Creators: name: Sutherland, Adam
name: Denham Phipps
name: Tomlin, Stephen
name: Ashcroft, Darren
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Search strategy.
title: Petrophysical Evaluation of Nubian Sandstone Reservoir Sarir Field - Southeast Sirt Basin
Creators: name: Reema,  Omar Mohammed
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Ajdabiya University, Libya

 The work was carried out to evaluate the petrophysical characteristics of Nubian sandstone in Sarir field. The data used in this study were mainly wire-line logs from three wells (D11-BLK9, D13-BLK9 and D14-BLK9). The aim of this study is to do the formation evaluation using petrophysical parameters from wire-line logs in order to determine lithology, porosity, permeability and fluid saturation and to understand the importance of the analysis and distribution of petrophysical properties on reservoir and predict oil recovery. In this work, Interactive Petrophysics (V3.4) software was used to perform a solid computation of petrophysical properties and then give summaries of the results. It is important to identify properly the lithology and the reservoir to allow an accurate petrophysical calculation of porosity, water saturation and permeability. The determination of lithology based on cross-plot neutron versus density log was important step to come up with the reservoir petrophysical properties. The quality of the reservoir is determined by set the cut-off values of the petrophysical properties and describe the change in lithologies. It worth to mention that, the presence of shale in the entire reservoir influenced negatively in the quality of the reservoir and net pay values. The petrophysical properties of the reservoir in Sarir oil field are good enough to permit hydrocarbon production.
title: Price Negotiation in Differentiated Products Markets: Evidence from the Canadian Mortgage Market
Creators: name: Allen, Jason
name: Clark, Robert
name: Houde, Jean-François
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2012

description: This paper measures market power in a decentralized market where contracts are determined through a search and negotiation process. The mortgage industry has many institutional features which suggest competitiveness: homogeneous contracts, negotiable rates, and, for a given consumer, common lending costs across lenders. As a result, even with a small number of lenders, informed borrowers can gather multiple quotes. However, there is important heterogeneity in the ability of consumers to understand the subtleties of financial contracts, in their ability or willingness to search and negotiate for quotes, and also in their degree of loyalty to their main financial institution. We propose and estimate a model to disentangle the different channels through which market power can arise for a given transaction in this environment. There are two main sources of market power. The first is search frictions. We find that over the five year period of the contract the average search cost corresponds to an upfront sunk cost of between $1,047 and $1,590. The second main source of market power is switching costs. We estimate that consumers are willing to pay between $759 and $1,617 upfront to avoid having to switch banks.
description: Les auteurs mesurent le pouvoir de marché dans un marché décentralisé où les conditions contractuelles sont déterminées à l’issue d’un processus de recherche et de négociation. Le secteur hypothécaire possède de nombreuses caractéristiques qui dénotent la compétitivité : homogénéité des contrats, taux négociables et, pour un consommateur donné, coûts des prêts communs à tous les prêteurs. Par conséquent, même en présence d’un nombre limité de prêteurs, des emprunteurs informés sont en mesure d’obtenir différentes offres de prix. On observe cependant une importante hétérogénéité dans la capacité des consommateurs de comprendre les complexités des contrats financiers, dans leur faculté ou volonté de solliciter et de négocier des offres de prix, et aussi dans leur degré de loyauté envers leur banque principale. Les auteurs proposent et estiment un modèle permettant de distinguer les différents canaux par lesquels le pouvoir de marché peut être exercé sur les transactions, dans cet environnement. Le pouvoir de marché provient de deux sources principales. La première concerne les frictions associées à la prospection. Les auteurs constatent que, sur les cinq années de la durée d’un contrat, le coût moyen de prospection correspond à un coût initial irrécupérable allant de 1 047 à 1 590 dollars. Les coûts de transfert forment la seconde grande source du pouvoir de marché. À ce titre, les auteurs estiment que les consommateurs sont disposés à payer au départ entre 759 et 1 617 dollars pour ne pas avoir à changer de banque.
GRO J0422+32: The Lowest Mass Black Hole?
Creators: name: Gelino, Dawn M.
name: Harrison, Thomas E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have obtained optical and infrared photometry of the soft X-ray transient GRO J0422+32. From this photometry, we find a secondary star spectral type of M1, and an extinction of Av = 0.74 +/- 0.09. We present the first observed infrared (J-, H-, and K-band) ellipsoidal variations, and model them with WD98, a recent version of the Wilson-Devinney light curve modeling code. Assuming no significant contamination of the infrared light curves, we find a lower limit to the inclination angle of 43 degrees corresponding to an upper limit on the mass of the compact object of 4.92 M_sun. Combining the models with the observed spectral energy distribution of the system, the most likely value for the orbital inclination angle is 45 +/- 2 degrees. This inclination angle corresponds to a primary black hole mass of 3.97 +/- 0.95 M_sun. Thus we contend that J0422+32 contains the lowest mass stellar black hole reported, and the first to have a measured mass that falls in the 3 - 5 M_sun range.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Structural Glass in Superyacht Applications: Overcoming Challenges, Design Standards and Analysis Methods
Creators: name: Moupagitsoglou, Kosmas
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Structural glass has become a popular material in marine applications. It has been used to enhance the transparency not only in luxury yachts but also in passenger vessels like cruise-ships. Yacht designers being inspired by all-glass facades and structural glass pavilions are trying to adopt these achievements and promote the glass design and engineering technology in the shipbuilding industry. However, designing glass elements in a marine environment involves more challenges comparing to civil applications. Glass engineers should not only consider in their calculations the wind loads and the movements of the support structure, but also the significantly higher wave loads and accelerations due to the ship movement. In addition, the watertightness of the windows is particularly important for the integrity of the vessel and the safety of the passengers. Finally, the thickness and weight of the glass can influence significantly not only the cost but also the stability of the whole vessel. The aim of this paper is to describe the typical requirements a glass window in superyacht applications needs to fulfil, possible challenges a glass engineer will meet and methods to overcome these challenges. In addition, we will present the most important design standards and compare them with relevant standards from the building industry. We will then explore the most common analysis methods and their impact on the accuracy of the results and glass build-up optimization. Adhesive connections of the glass elements to the main structure will also be described as these are the main mechanism to accommodate the hogging, sagging and torsional deformations of a hull in case of a stormy sea.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 7 (2020): Challenging Glass 7
The existence of a stable noncollinear phase in a Heisenberg model with a complex structure
Creators: name: Shopova, D. V.
name: Boyadjiev, T. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have analyzed the properties of a noncollinear magnetic phase obtained in the mean-field analysis of the model of two coupled Heisenberg subsystems. The domain of its existence and stability is narrow and depends on the ratio between the averaged over nearest neighbours microscopic exchange parameters.
description: 7 pages, miktex, 3 figures
VVV analysis of star clusters towards the W31 star-forming complex
Creators: name: Bianchin, Marina
name: Lima, Eliade F.
name: Bica, Eduardo
name: Riffel, Rogemar A.
name: Bonatto, Charles
name: Saito, Roberto K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The giant HII region W31 hosts the populous star cluster W31-CL and others projected on or in the surroundings. The most intriguing object is the stellar cluster SGR1806-20, which appears to be related to a Luminous Blue Variable (LBV) - a luminous supergiant star. We used the deep VVV J-,H-and K$_s$-bands photometry combined with 2MASS data in order to address the distance andother physical and structural properties of the clusters W31-CL, BDS 113 and SGR1806-20. Field-decontaminated photometry was used to analyse colour-magnitude diagrams and stellar radial density profiles, using procedures that our group has developed and employed in previous studies. We concludethat the clusters W31-CL and BDS113 are located at 4.5kpc and 4.8kpc and have ages of 0.5Myr and 1Myr, respectively. This result, together with the pre-main sequence (PMS) distribution in the colour-magnitude diagram, characterises them as members of the W31 complex. The present photometry detects the stellar content, addressed in previous spectroscopic classifications, in the direction of thecluster SGR1806-20, including the LBV, WRs, and foreground stars. We derive an age of 10$\pm$4Myr and a distance of d=8.0$\pm$1.95kpc. The cluster is extremely absorbed, with AV= 25mag. Thepresent results indicate that SGR1806-20 is more distant by a factor 1.8 with respect to the W31 complex, and thus not physically related to it.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, accepted to publication
Development and Diffusion of Sorghum Improved Cultivars in India: Impact on Growth and Variability in Yield
Creators: name: Charyulu, D. Kumara
name: Bantilan, Ma Cynthia S.
name: Rajalaxmi, A.
name: Charyulu, D. Kumara
name: Bantilan, Ma Cynthia S.
name: Rajalaxmi, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Development of improved cultivars
subject: diffusion of sorghum improved cultivars in India
subject: Impact on yield Growth and variability

description: Sorghum is the third cereal crop after rice and wheat in India, mostly grown under marginal and stress-prone areas of Semi-Arid Tropics (SAT). NARS, ICRISAT and private seed companies are the major stakeholders working for sorghum crop improvement in the last five decades (1960-2012). Altogether more than 256 improved cultivars have been notified and made available to farmers during the same time. The current knowledge about spread and impact of sorghum improved crop varieties in the country is incomplete. The present study made an attempt to address these issues with help of primary as well as secondary sources of information. The analysis has concluded that nearly 80 per cent of total sorghum area is under improved cultivars which helped to increase the country productivity levels by 85 per cent during 1960 and 2010. This aptly proves that role of sorghum improved cultivars in sustaining the higher yields.
SuizidKW.pdf
Creators: name: Witzel, Kai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 220305 Ethical Theory
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Die höchstrichterlichen Entscheidungen in Österreich und Deutschland in 2020 zur Freigabe des assistierten Suizids werfen Fragen zur Rolle der Ärzteschaft und der Gesamtgesellschaft auf. Die vermeintliche Autonomie Sterbewilliger auch ohne spezifische Erkrankungen ist schwer objektivierbar und volatil. Der hohe Stellenwert der Suizidprävention wird hierdurch relativiert. Kultivationseffekte in Bezug auf die Menschenwürde sind zu befürchten.
title: The Evolution of Canada’s Global Export Market Share
Creators: name: de Munnik, Daniel
name: Jacob, Jocelyn
name: Sze, Wesley
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2012

description: Following gains during the 1990s, Canada’s global market share of goods exports has declined markedly in recent years. In this regard, the constant market share analysis framework is used to decompose changes in Canada’s global market share into competitiveness and structural effects over the 1990‐2010 period, as well as to draw some comparisons to a number of other countries. While Canadian firms have been facing competitiveness challenges in recent years resulting from the persistent strength of the Canadian dollar and poor productivity performance relative to major trade competitors, other factors such as to whom Canada sells its products and the product it sells, have also significantly affected the performance of Canadian exports. Over the past decade, the structure of the geographic market to which Canada exports, with a large weight on the relatively slow‐growing U.S. market, and a small weight on other economies, particularly the relatively fast‐growing emerging market economies, has exerted the majority of the overall net negative impact on Canadian exports.
description: Après avoir enregistré des gains dans les années 1990, la part du Canada dans le marché mondial des exportations de biens a fortement diminué au cours des dernières années. Au regard de cette évolution, les auteurs procèdent à une analyse à parts de marché constantes afin de dégager la contribution respective des effets de compétitivité et des effets de structure sur les variations de la part du Canada dans le marché mondial durant la période 1990‐2010. Ils emploient également cette méthode pour réaliser des comparaisons avec d’autres pays. Bien que, ces dernières années, les entreprises canadiennes se soient heurté à des problèmes de compétitivité liés à la vigueur persistante du dollar canadien et au piètre bilan du pays au chapitre de la productivité par rapport à ses principaux concurrents commerciaux, d’autres facteurs, notamment la gamme des produits vendus par le Canada et leur destination, ont aussi pesé de manière prononcée sur la tenue des exportations canadiennes. Durant la dernière décennie, la structure géographique des marchés d’exportation du Canada – caractérisée par la place importante d’un marché américain dont la croissance est relativement lente et la place modeste qu’occupent les autres économies, en particulier les économies émergentes qui connaissent une expansion plutôt rapide – est le principal facteur du recul global net des exportations canadiennes.
An Example of How Chemical Regulation is Affecting Biosecurity Policy-Making: Mediterranean Fruit Fly in Western Australia
Creators: name: Cook, David C.
name: Fraser, Rob W.
name: Weinert, Andrew S.
name: Cook, David C.
name: Fraser, Rob W.
name: Weinert, Andrew S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Biosecurity
subject: Mediterranean fruit fly
subject: pest management

description: The principal chemicals used by Western Australia’s horticultural industries for field control and post-harvest disinfestation procedures for Mediterranean fruit fly are soon to be withdrawn from use due to public health concerns. When this occurs, the necessary switch to alternative control methods such as bait sprays and intensive fruit fly trapping will involve additional producer costs. Given these costs, this paper evaluates the option of eradicating Mediterranean fruit fly from the State and discusses possible cost sharing arrangements between government and industry that could be reached for mutual benefit.
Transparent, Complex, Sustainable Challenges for Contemporary Facade Engineering
Creators: name: Blandini, L.
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: The tasks a façade has to fulfill in contemporary high-end architecture have become more and more complex and challenging. An innovative skin has to block a considerable amount of sun radiation in summer, while it has to prevent heating energy from getting lost in winter. At the same time the skin has to allow for a high amount of (controlled) natural lighting and (controlled) natural ventilation. On the other side the iconic character of “signature” architecture pushes for glass façades to become almost dematerialized, a development further reinforced by recent advances in modern glass technology. Contemporary façades have to reach high transparency rates and have to follow extremely complex geometries - while still fulfilling requirements with regard to energy consumption and user comfort. The arising challenges for the façade engineer are therefore immense. The present paper presents various examples of how these challenges can be tackled in an appropriate way that units functionality, sustainability, and aesthetics
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 5 (2016): Challenging Glass 5
Erin Mills Town Centre Globe Structure
Creators: name: Kooymans, John
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Erin Mills Town Centre is a shopping mall in Mississauga, Canada owned by Cushman & Wakefield in Toronto. The revitalization project was designed by MMC International Architects Ltd. and features a 27.4m diameter glass and steel globe at its Centre Court. The structural glass for this globe structure is created with laminated double curved glass panels patch supported by a steel structure. Some challenges arose during construction due to the frit on the glass panel and the thermal stress created between the inner and outer lites of the laminated assembly. Testing was used to establish a workable solution for replacement glass in order to correct the in-situ issue that was discovered
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 7 (2020): Challenging Glass 7
Redundancy tests on glass fins
Creators: name: Rotten, Peter Van De
name: Akilo, Michele Arinze
name: Sluis, Wouter Van Der
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Since 2010, Octatube has adopted glass fins as structural components in at least 20 different projects, both in facades and roofs (the van Gogh Museum, the Tottenham Experience, Canal House Amsterdam are some relevant examples). Glass is widely known as a fragile material and it usually breaks in a brittle fashion, whereas a metal like steel typically fails plastically. The post-breakage behavior of glass beams is not easy to predict, therefore Octatube performed a range of tests on different glass fins varying the test setup. All tests were performed in house, at Octatube’s factory/test area in Delft, the Netherlands. In this paper two case studies are discussed. For the brand-new Spartherm Headquarters in Melle (Germany) laminated glass fins are adopted to support large insulated glazing units. Due to the round shape of the building the glass fins spanning for a maximum of 5,3 meters, are also curved on one side. The glass fins were tested both in un-cracked and cracked conditions to assess the overall safety of the design. For the refurbishment of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, a new glass roof, over the old Sculpture Courtyard, was designed by Heneghan Peng Architects. With glass beams up to 8,3 m, and 3x10mm fully tempered PVB laminated panes were adopted. In cooperation with T/E/S/S engineering, the second support system was designed for post breakage behavior. In case of total failure of a glass fin, the safety was is ensured by catenary action in combination with a stiff frame of glass beam. This was tested in a true size, 6,0 meter, mock up. The residual capacity in the glass beam is ensured provided that the global structural system and detailing are carefully designed.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 7 (2020): Challenging Glass 7
Thin Glass in Architecture - Possible Applications and Challenges
Creators: name: Topcu, Özhan
name: Marinov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Thin glass offers a promising prospect for lightweight façades with reduced use of raw materials, also opening up entirely new perspectives for architectural expression with its excellent optical quality as well as its high flexibility. The realisation of projects featuring thin glass as a structural element is so far limited due to several challenges led by structural issues mainly induced by the product's low stiffness. This paper attempts to bypass this issue by exploring the possibilities of the structural application of thin glass as a membrane element using examples of all-glass projects from the past as well as researches conducted in the present. The use of thin glass as a compressive member is impractical since the risk of buckling poses a greater threat than stress exceedance. As an alternative, its application as a tensile member is proposed, supported by examples from academic and industrial researches. In this context, a new type of glass support is introduced, enabling a moment-free load transfer into the glass.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 7 (2020): Challenging Glass 7
PandaX limits on light dark matter with light mediator in the singlet extension of MSSM
Creators: name: Wang, Wenyu
name: Wu, Jia-Jun
name: Xiong, Zhao-Hua
name: Zhao, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the latest PandaX limits on light dark matter (DM) with light mediator, we check the implication on the parameter space of the general singlet extension of MSSM (without $Z_3$ symmetry), which can have a sizable DM self-interaction to solve the small-scale structure problem. We find that the PandaX limits can stringently constrain such a paramter space, depending on the coupling $λ$ between the singlet and doublet Higgs fields. For the singlet extension of MSSM with $Z_3$ symmetry, the so-called NMSSM, we also demonstrate the PandaX constraints on its parameter space which gives a light DM with correct relic density but without sufficient self-interaction to solve the small-scale structure problem. We find that in this NMSSM the GeV dark matter with a sub-GeV mediator has been stringently constrained.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
The development and testing of large sandwich panels
Creators: name: Veer, Fred
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: The TU Delft glass group designed, developed and build three glass sandwich panels for the Glasstec 2018 in collaboration with ARUP. These were composed of heat strengthened laminated float glass with Schott glass tubes as the core. Initial small scale tests were used to determine the parameters for the digital design by ARUP. Based on these results form-finding was used to determine the optimum configuration of the glass tubes in the panel. This was verified by further scale model experiments which led to more refinements in the form finding algorithm. The small scale tests were extend to full scale prototypes which were proof tested at TU delft using a static and dynamic load of standing or dancing students. The full scale panels were then exhibited at the Glasstec 2018 where they were walked over by thousands of people. Finally one of the panels was tested to destruction. It was found to be very resilient and failed in a safe way. The test results are compared with FEM models. The important lessons learned from this for the design and production are explained.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 7 (2020): Challenging Glass 7
Willingness to Pay for Private Labels, National Brands, and Local Designations at the Retail Level
Creators: name: Bosworth, Ryan C.
name: Bailey, DeeVon
name: Curtis, Kynda R.
name: Bosworth, Ryan C.
name: Bailey, DeeVon
name: Curtis, Kynda R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Public Economics
subject: choice experiments
subject: state-sponsored food designations
subject: ice cream

description: A shopper survey was conducted to determine willingness to pay for ice cream with different labels. A statistical analysis was conducted using stated choices by respondents. The randomized choices were 1) a local brand with or without an indication it had a Utah’s Own designation, 2) a local brand with and without a locally-produced designation, 3) a private label product , and 4) a national brand product. The results suggested that brands affect willingness to pay for ice cream. However, shoppers were willing to pay a significant positive amount more for ice cream with the local designations.
MOESM1 of Acupoint transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in hospitalized COPD patients with severe dyspnoea: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Fernández-Jané, Carles
name: Vilaró, Jordi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Trial registration dataset.
Eulasia (Eulasia) diadema
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Nikodým, Milan
name: M, Pygopleurus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Glaphyridae
Eulasia
Eulasia diadema

description: Eulasia (Eulasia) diadema (REITTER, 1890)
 Amphicoma diadema REITTER, 1890; Amphicoma diademata REITTER, 1903.
D i s t r i b u t i o n i n I r a n: Iran (no locality cited) (NIKODÝM & BEZDEK 2006, 2016; BUNALSKI et al. 2014).
G e n e r a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: Iran, Turkey (NIKODÝM & BEZDEK 2006, 2016).
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Nikodým, Milan & M, Pygopleurus, 2018, An annotated checklist of Glaphyridae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of Iran, pp. 1171-1193 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 1175, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5174099
MOESM2 of Acupoint transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in hospitalized COPD patients with severe dyspnoea: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Fernández-Jané, Carles
name: Vilaró, Jordi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) 2013 Checklist: Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents*.
Intertwined quantum phase transitions in the Zr chain
Creators: name: Gavrielov, N.
name: Leviatan, A.
name: Iachello, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the notion of intertwined quantum phase transitions (IQPTs), for which a crossing of two configurations coexists with a pronounced shape-evolution of each configuration. A detailed analysis in the framework of the interacting boson model with configuration mixing, provides evidence for this scenario in the Zr isotopes. The latter exhibit a normal configuration which remains spherical along the chain, but exchanges roles with an intruder configuration, which undergoes first a spherical to prolate-deformed [U(5)$\to$SU(3)] QPT and then a crossover to $γ$-unstable [SU(3)$\to$SO(6)].
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings of the IV International Conference on Nuclear Structure and Dynamics NSD2019, May 13-17, 2019, Venice, Italy
title: Drillcore GT1 of the ICDP Oman Drilling Project: insights into magmatic processes beneath fast-spreading mid-ocean ridges
Creators: name: Mock, Dominik
name: Ildefonse, Benoit
name: Garbe-Schönberg, Dieter
name: Müller, Samuel
name: Axford-Neave, David
name: Koepke, Jürgen
name: Science Team, Diverse
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: The Samail ophiolite in Oman provides an ideal field laboratory for investigating the processes taking place beneath fast-spreading mid-ocean ridges (MORs). Drill site GT1, which was sampled by the Oman Drilling Project in the frame of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), is located in Wadi Gideah (Wadi Tayin massif). Here, a reference profile through the entire Oman paleocrust was established [1] such that GT1 can be embedded into the surface profile. The core was investigated with diverse petrographic, petrological, and microstructural tools in order to better understand the accretion of the lower crust at fast-spreading MORs. The majority of the obtained samples are gabbros or olivine gabbros. Mg#s (Mg#=Mg/(Mg+Fe)x100; molar) vary between 74 and 86 in clinopyroxene, and between 70 and 83 in some primary olivine relicts. Ca# (Ca#=Ca/(Ca+Na)x100; molar) in plagioclase varies between 68 and 87. Both Mg#s and Ca# show distinct minima with progressively increasing trends both up and down section at 1050 m above the Moho. To quantify the pole figure symmetry, i.e. fabric, of plagioclase, we use the BA index [2] which varies between 0 for a purely foliated and 1 for a purely lineated fabric. BA correlates with the petrological data indicating a more foliated plagioclase fabric that correlates with the minima in Mg#s and Ca#, indicating stronger compacted and/or less sheared material at this horizon. We interpret the correlation between petrological and microstructural data as indicator for the influx of more evolved melt leading to a concurrent weakening of plagioclase lineation. References: [1] Koepke, J., Garbe-Schoenberg, D., Mueller, T., Mueller, M., Mock, D., Strauss, H., Schuth, S., Ildefonse, B., 2017. A Reference Section through the Lower Fast-spreading Oceanic Crust in the Wadi Gideah (Sumail ophiolite, Sultanate Oman): Drill Sites GT1A and GT2A within the ICDP Oman Drilling Project Abstract V43G-2737: presented at 2017 Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans. [2] Satsukawa, T., Ildefonse, B., Mainprice, D., Morales, L. F. G., Michibayashi, K., Barou, F. (2013). A database of plagioclase crystal preferred orientations (CPO) and microstructures-implications for CPO origin, strength, symmetry and seismic anisotropy in gabbroic rocks. Solid Earth, 4(2), 511.