cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Microbially mediated phenolic catabolites exert differential genoprotective activities in normal and adenocarcinoma cell lines
Creators: name: Murphy, Brian Óg
name: Latimer, Cheryl
name: Dobani, Sara
name: Pourshahidi, L. Kirsty
name: Fontana, Massimilano
name: Ternan, Nigel. G.
name: McDougall, Gordon
name: Rowland, Ian
name: Pereira-Caro, Gema
name: Tuohy, Kieran M.
name: Del Rio, Daniele
name: Almutairi, Tahani M.
name: Crozier, Alan
name: Naumovski, Nenad
name: Gill, Chris I. R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Age-associated decline of nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) activity and DNA repair efficiency leads to the accumulation of DNA damage and increased risk of cancer. Understanding the mechanisms behind increased levels of damaged DNA is crucial for developing interventions to mitigate age-related cancer risk. Associated with various health benefits, (poly)phenols and their microbially mediated phenolic catabolites represent a potential means to reduce DNA damage. Four colonic-microbiota-derived phenolic catabolites were investigated for their ability to reduce H2O2-induced oxidative DNA damage and modulate the Nrf2-Antixoidant Response Element (ARE) pathway, in normal (CCD 841 CoN) and adenocarcinoma (HT29) colonocyte cell lines. Each catabolite demonstrated significant (p < .001) genoprotective activity and modulation of key genes in the Nrf2-ARE pathway. Overall, the colon-derived phenolic metabolites, when assessed at physiologically relevant concentrations, reduced DNA damage in both normal and adenocarcinoma colonic cells in response to oxidative challenge, mediated in part via upregulation of the Nrf2-ARE pathway.
Projections of Future Participation and Needs in Outdoor Recreation for North Dakota
Creators: name: Anderson, Randall S.
name: Leitch, Jay A.
name: Anderson, Randall S.
name: Leitch, Jay A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This report presents projected participation levels in selected outdoor recreation activities for North Dakota residents. It is the fifth study to collect data on recreation participation rates for North Dakota's State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan.
3D CFD model of the lubricant flow and heat transfer in a tapered roller bearing
Creators: name: Ahmed, Zaaquib Y.
name: T'Jollyn, Ilya
name: Banakermani, Mohammadreza
name: Fauconnier, Dieter
name: De Paepe, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Bearings are one of the most important components in modern industrial machinery due to their high load-carrying capacity with limited friction. Although limited, this friction can generate significant heat and can cause wear to the rolling elements. In order to prevent such situations, typically grease or lubricants are used. Lubricants in addition to preventing wear of the bearing components can also be used as a heat transfer fluid that extracts heat that is produced due to it friction inside the bearing. Studying the flow of the lubricant, therefore, becomes crucial for the optimum operation of the bearing. In this poster, a roller bearing is investigated. The model investigates the bulk fluid flow in the bearing along with the secondary flows around the roller elements. Modelling the flows inside the bearing is very complex due to the dimensional disparity between the bearing elements and the path of the fluid flow. The heat transfer phenomenon further complicates the problem as the time scales for the fluid and the solid components are very different. In order to simplify the problem the flow and heat transfer in the fluid and solid bodies are decoupled. In this poster, the first step in this process is presented where the flow field and heat fluxes on the bearing components are investigated. These heat fluxes can be then later used to evaluate the temperature distribution in the solid elements. This allows for much cheaper computations with plausible results that can be used to analyze the flow and temperature distribution inside the bearing.
Myklebust, Olav Guttorm, The Study of Missions in Theological Education
Creators: name: Wagner, Herwig
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 7 Nr. 3 (1958): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 7, Heft 3
Adherence to dietary approaches to stop hypertension diet and visceral adipose tissue area among U.S. adults, a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Gu, Xi
name: Wang, Xun
name: Wang, Sujie
name: Shen, Ying
name: Lu, Leiqun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Excessive visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is a significant risk factor for various diseases. Diet plays a crucial role in controlling obesity. This study examined the association between the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet and VAT in 9027 adults using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Linear regression models were used to explore this association, with subgroup analyses included. Results showed a significant inverse association between DASH scores and VAT area, even after adjusting for covariates (β = −2.18, 95% CI: −3.10, −1.27). Participants in the highest DASH score tertile had significantly lower VAT areas compared to those in the lowest tertile (β = −7.2, 95% CI: −10.40, −4.01). This inverse association was most pronounced in middle-aged participants. Further prospective cohort studies are necessary to confirm these findings.
Leo Strauss and The Law of War and Peace : esoteric teachings of Hugo Grotius
Creators: name: Fuller, Adam L.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Seventeenth century Dutch jurist, Hugo Grotius is considered one of the most prominent names in the academic study of international law and in political philosophy. However, Grotius was a political figure in his own right, and he was exiled from his native Holland for a crime he did not commit in order to suppress his unpopular views on divine predestination and individual responsibility. What if his famous treatise on international law uses esoteric writing to conceal these unpopular views? Political science professor Leo Strauss believed that as a tradition begun by the execution of Socrates, classical, medieval, and even some pre-modern political philosophers implement esotericism in their writing in order to hide unpopular messages underneath an exoteric guise. This thesis explores this 'art of writing' and examines the Law of War and Peace for a possible deeper, philosophical meaning. In doing so, I argue that Grotius was a realist who had little faith in international law, but at the same time, believed that men must aspire to use their capacity to act virtuously.
Time-Resolved Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy for selected photon paths beyond 300 transport mean free paths
Creators: name: Tualle, Jean-Michel
name: Nghiem, Ha Lien
name: Cheikh, Monia
name: Ettori, Dominique
name: Tinet, Eric
name: Avrillier, Sigrid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is devoted to the theoretical and experimental demonstration of the possibility to perform time-resolved diffusing wave spectroscopy: we successfully registered field fluctuations for selected photon path lengths that can overpass 300 transport mean free paths. Such a performance opens new possibilities for biomedical optics applications.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Anomalous photo-thermal effects in multi-layered semi-Dirac black phosphorus
Creators: name: Sengupta, Parijat
name: Rakheja, Shaloo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The photo-excitation of multi-layered potassium doped black phosphorus that exists as a gapped semi-Dirac two-dimensional normal insulator (NI), transforms it into a time-reversal symmetry broken Chern insulator (CI). This transition from an NI to CI happens under a high-frequency radiation corresponding to the off-resonant regime of the Floquet theory of periodic perturbations, which here is the impinging light beam. This photo-induced topological CI phase manifests as a finite Berry curvature and forms the basis of anomalous transverse heat flow in presence of a longitudinal temperature gradient. The anomalous variants of the Ettinghausen (EE) and Righi-Leduc effects (RLE), via their respective coefficients are quantitatively analyzed in this work. The strength of anomalous EE and RLE coefficients is a direct outcome of the sum of Berry curvatures over the occupied bands and is shown to drop as the Fermi level is positioned high in the conduction states or deep in the valence region. The drop is attributed to the flipped sign of the Berry curvature in the conduction and valence bands. Additionally, when the Fermi level lies in the band gap, the contribution of the conduction and valence bands may numerically outweigh one another for a much larger value of the coefficients. Finally, we point out how beyond the role of Berry curvature, several laboratory accessible methods can be utilized to modulate the EE and RLE coefficients, including an application of strain, variations in the dopant concentration, and frequency of incident radiation.
description: 7 pages; 7 figures
Spin-Induced Disk Precession in Sagittarius A*
Creators: name: Rockefeller, Gabriel
name: Fryer, Christopher L.
name: Melia, Fulvio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In Sgr A* at the Galactic center, by far the closest and easiest supermassive black hole we can study, the observational evidence is increasingly pointing to the presence of a compact, hot, magnetized disk feeding the accretor. In such low-Mach-number plasmas, forces arising, e.g., from pressure gradients in the plasma, can altogether negate the warping of disks around Kerr black holes caused by the Bardeen-Petterson effect and can lead to coherent precession of the entire disk. In this Letter, we present for the first time highly detailed 3D SPH simulations of the accretion disk evolution in Sgr A*, guided by observational constraints on its physical characteristics, and conclude that indeed the Bardeen-Petterson effect is probably absent in this source. Given what we now understand regarding the emission geometry in this object, we suggest that a ~ 50-500-day modulation in Sgr A*'s spectrum, arising from the disk precession, could be an important observational signature; perhaps the ~ 106-day period seen earlier in its radio flux, if confirmed, could be due to this process. On the other hand, if future observations do not confirm this long modulation in Sgr A*'s spectrum, this would be an indication that either the disk size or orientation is very different from current estimates, or that the black hole is not spinning at all (unlikely), or that our current understanding of how it produces its radiative output is incorrect.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures; small changes to sections 2.1 and 3; accepted for publication in ApJ
PROCUREMENT STRATEGIES: IMPACTS OF QUALITY RISKS IN HARD WHEAT
Creators: name: Wilson, William W.
name: Dahl, Bruce L.
name: Johnson, D. Demcey
name: Wilson, William W.
name: Dahl, Bruce L.
name: Johnson, D. Demcey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Agribusiness

description: Development and organization of procurement strategies have escalated in importance with maturity of the food processing industry, as well as with the prospect of greater choice attributable to variety development and information technology. Conventional alternatives for procurement range from spot purchases with specifications for easily measurable characteristics, to varying forms of strategies with pre-commitment. In the case of grains these choices are complicated by two factors. First, there is intrinsic uncertainty associated with end-use qualities that are not easily measurable. Second, grain prices and therefore procurement costs vary spatially due to competing market regions. Thus, shifting origins may involve higher cost due to having to bid grain away from its next best market. We posed three procurement strategies and developed analytical models to evaluate the risks and costs among these alternatives in the case of hard red spring (HRS) wheat. The first involves no commitment. The second involves some form of irrevocable commitment and the third entails less commitment. Stochastic simulation models were developed for each with an objective of cost minimization subject to different levels of risk. The results indicate that the naive strategy has the lowest expected cost, but a fairly high probability of not conforming to end-use requirements. The constant share strategies result in higher probabilities of meeting requirements, but at substantially higher costs. The opportunistic strategy results in a higher probability of meeting requirements than either of the other two alternative strategies at a comparable cost.
bebek düşürme hapı 0543 529 72 06 d'üşük hapı
Creators: name: Cytotec al, Düşük hapı =0543 529 72 06 watsapp
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 321406
subject: Pharmacogenomics
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology
classificationCode: 321403
subject: Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice
classificationCode: 321499
subject: Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 321405
subject: Pharmaceutical sciences
classificationCode: 300911
subject: Veterinary pharmacology
classificationCode: 321401
subject: Basic pharmacology
classificationCode: 321404
subject: Pharmaceutical delivery technologies
classificationCode: 321402
subject: Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
classificationCode: 320303
subject: Dental therapeutics, pharmacology and toxicology

description: Kürtaj olmak istemeyenler için evde kullanılabilecek Cytotec ilacı, doğru kullanıldığında rahat ve kolay bir kürtaj işlemi sağlar. İlacın kullanım talimatlarını dikkatlice okumanızı ve bir sağlık profesyonelinin önerdiği şekilde kullanmanızı tavsiye ederiz.
DESTEK VE BİLGİLENDİRMEWebsite üzerinde, Cytotec ilacının doğru ve güvenli kullanımı hakkında bilgileri bulabilirsiniz. Olası sorunlar ve yan etkiler konusunda bilgilendirilir, aklınıza takılan sorular için destek alabilirsiniz.
Hedging Effectiveness of U.S. Wheat Futures Markets
Creators: name: Wilson, William W.
name: Wilson, William W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Futures markets as a tool for risk management have become increasingly important in recent years. The effectiveness of hedging in the U.S. wheat futures market is evaluated in this study.
Pseudo-Path Semiclassical Approximation to Transport through Open Quantum Billiards: Dyson Equation for Diffractive Scattering
Creators: name: Stampfer, C.
name: Wirtz, L.
name: Rotter, S.
name: Burgdoerfer, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a semiclassical theory for transport through open billiards of arbitrary convex shape that includes diffractively scattered paths at the lead openings. Starting from a Dyson equation for the semiclassical Green's function we develop a diagrammatic expansion that allows a systematic summation over classical paths and pseudo-paths which consist of classical paths joined by diffractive scatterings (``kinks''). This renders the inclusion of an exponentially proliferating number of pseudo-path combinations numerically tractable for both regular and chaotic billiards. For a circular billiard and the Bunimovich stadium the path sum leads to a good agreement with the quantum path length power spectrum up to long path length. Furthermore, we find excellent numerical agreement with experimental studies of quantum scattering in microwave billiards where pseudo-paths provide a significant contribution.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Spatial Resolution of Double-Sided Silicon Microstrip Detectors for the PAMELA Apparatus
Creators: name: Straulino, S.
name: Adriani, O.
name: Bonechi, L.
name: Bongi, M.
name: Bottai, S.
name: Castellini, G.
name: Fedele, D.
name: Grandi, M.
name: Papini, P.
name: Ricciarini, S. B.
name: Spillantini, P.
name: Taccetti, F.
name: Taddei, E.
name: Vannuccini, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The PAMELA apparatus has been assembled and it is ready to be launched in a satellite mission to study mainly the antiparticle component of cosmic rays. In this paper the performances obtained for the silicon microstrip detectors used in the magnetic spectrometer are presented. This subdetector reconstructs the curvature of a charged particle in the magnetic field produced by a permanent magnet and consequently determines momentum and charge sign, thanks to a very good accuracy in the position measurements (better than 3 um in the bending coordinate). A complete simulation of the silicon microstrip detectors has been developed in order to investigate in great detail the sensor's characteristics. Simulated events have been then compared with data gathered from minimum ionizing particle (MIP) beams during the last years in order to tune free parameters of the simulation. Finally some either widely used or original position finding algorithms, designed for such kind of detectors, have been applied to events with different incidence angles. As a result of the analysis, a method of impact point reconstruction can be chosen, depending on both the particle's incidence angle and the cluster multiplicity, so as to maximize the capability of the spectrometer in antiparticle tagging.
description: 28 pages, 18 figures, submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
Workflow environments for advanced cyberinfrastructure platforms
Creators: name: Badia, Rosa M
name: Ejarque, Jorge
name: Lordan, Francesc
name: Lezzi, Daniele
name: Conejero, Javier
name: Cid-Fuentes, Javier Álvarez
name: Becerra, Yolanda
name: Queralt, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Progress in science is deeply bound to the effective use of high-performance computing infrastructures and to the efficient extraction of knowledge from vast amounts of data. Such data comes from different sources that follow a cycle composed of pre-processing steps for data curation and preparation for subsequent computing steps, and later analysis and analytics steps applied to the results. However, scientific workflows are currently fragmented in multiple components, with different processes for computing and data management, and with gaps in the viewpoints of the user profiles involved. Our vision is that future workflow environments and tools for the development of scientific workflows should follow a holistic approach, where both data and computing are integrated in a single flow built on simple, high-level interfaces. The topics of research that we propose involve novel ways to express the workflows that integrate the different data and compute processes, dynamic runtimes to support the execution of the workflows in complex and heterogeneous computing infrastructures in an efficient way, both in terms of performance and energy. These infrastructures include highly distributed resources, from sensors and instruments, and devices in the edge, to High-Performance Computing and Cloud computing resources. This paper presents our vision to develop these workflow environments and also the steps we are currently following to achieve it.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, in proceedings of 2019 IEEE 39th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
Algebraic K-theory of groups wreath product with finite groups
Creators: name: Roushon, S. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 19D55 (Primary), 57N37 (Secondary)

description: The Farrell-Jones Fibered Isomorphism Conjecture for the stable topological pseudoisotopy theory has been proved for several classes of groups. For example for discrete subgroups of Lie groups, virtually poly-infinite cyclic groups, Artin braid groups, a class of virtually poly-surface groups and virtually solvable linear group. We extend these results in the sense that if G is a group from the above classes then we prove the conjecture for the wreath product G with H for H a finite group. We also prove the conjecture for some other classes of groups.
description: 14 pages, AMSLATEX file, final version with some minor corrections. accepted for publication in Topology and its Applications
THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN MENTALITY
Creators: name: Rashidov Sanjar Jizzax davlat pedagogika universiteti, doktorant
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article examines the role of religion in shaping mentality, focusing on how religious beliefs and values influence the way individuals perceive, interpret, and interact with the world. Through a mixed-methods approach, we investigate the impact of religion on various cognitive and emotional processes, and how these mental frameworks affect behavior and decision-making. The study highlights the importance of understanding religious influences on mentality to improve intercultural communication and foster social cohesion.
Access to Methotrexate Monitoring in Latin America: A Multicountry Survey of Supportive Care Capacity
Creators: name: Villanueva, Gabriela
name: Lowe, Jennifer
name: Tentoni, Nicolás
name: Taluja, Ankit
name: Villarroel, Milena
name: Narváez, Carlos E.
name: León, Sandra Alarcón
name: Libreros, Diana L. Valencia
name: Suárez, Natalia Gonzalez
name: Mikkelsen, Torben S.
name: Howard, Scott C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: High-dose methotrexate (HDMTX) is used to treat a broad spectrum of cancers. Methotrexate (MTX) monitoring and adequate supportive care are critical for safe drug administration; however, MTX level timing is not always possible in low- and middle-income countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate HDMTX supportive care capacity and MTX monitoring practices in Latin America (LATAM) to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement. A multicenter survey was conducted among LATAM pediatric oncologists. Twenty healthcare providers from 20 institutions answered the online questionnaire. HDMTX was used to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL; 100%), non-Hodgkin lymphoma (84.2%), diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (47.4%), osteosarcoma (78.9%), and medulloblastoma (31.6%). Delays in starting HDMTX infusion were related to bed shortages (47.4%) and MTX shortages (21.1%). MTX monitoring was performed at an in-hospital laboratory in 52%, at an external/nearby laboratory in 31.6%, and was not available in 10.5%. Median interval between sampling and obtaining MTX levels was ≤ 2 h in 45% and ≥ 6 h in 30%, related to laboratory location. Sites without access to MTX monitoring reduced the MTX dose for patients with high-risk ALL or did not include MTX in the treatment of patients with osteosarcoma. Respondents reported that implementation of point-of-care testing of MTX levels is feasible. In LATAM, highly variable supportive care capacity may affect the safe administration of MTX doses. Improving accessibility of MTX monitoring and the speed of obtaining results should be prioritized to allow delivery of full doses of MTX required by the current protocols.
title: Cryptic metasomatic agent measured in situ in Variscan mantle rocks
title: Melt inclusions in garnet of eclogite, Granulitgebirge, Germany
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Borghini, Alessia
name: Ferrero, Silvio
name: O'Brien, Patrick J.
name: Laurent, Oscar
name: Günter, Christina
name: Ziemann, Martin A.
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: Garnet of eclogite (formerly termed garnet clinopyroxenite) hosted in lenses of orogenic garnet peridotite from the Granulitgebirge, NW Bohemian Massif, contains unique inclusions of granitic melt, now either glassy or crystallized. Analysed glasses and re‐homogenized inclusions are hydrous, peraluminous, and enriched in highly incompatible elements characteristic of the continental crust such as Cs, Li, B, Pb, Rb, Th, and U. The original melt thus represents a pristine, chemically evolved metasomatic agent, which infiltrated the mantle via deep continental subduction during the Variscan orogeny. The bulk chemical composition of the studied eclogites is similar to that of Fe‐rich basalt and the enrichment in LILE and U suggest a subduction‐related component. All these geochemical features confirm metasomatism. In comparison with many other garnet+clinopyroxene‐bearing lenses in peridotites of the Bohemian Massif, the studied samples from Rubinberg and Klatschmühle are more akin to eclogite than pyroxenites, as reflected in high jadeite content in clinopyroxene, relatively low Mg, Cr, and Ni but relatively high Ti. However, trace elements of both bulk rock and individual mineral phases show also important differences making these samples rather unique. Metasomatism involving a melt requiring a trace element pattern very similar to the composition reported here has been suggested for the source region of rocks of the so‐called durbachite suite, that is, ultrapotassic melanosyenites, which are found throughout the high‐grade Variscan basement. Moreover, the Th, U, Pb, Nb, Ta, and Ti patterns of these newly studied melt inclusions (MI) strongly resemble those observed for peridotite and its enclosed pyroxenite from the T‐7 borehole (Staré, České Středhoři Mountains) in N Bohemia. This suggests that a similar kind of crustal‐derived melt also occurred here. This study of granitic MI in eclogites from peridotites has provided the first direct characterization of a preserved metasomatic melt, possibly responsible for the metasomatism of several parts of the mantle in the Variscides.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 976
FACTORS AFFECTING THE SUPPLY OF QUALITY SPRING WHEATS: COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
Creators: name: Dahl, Bruce L.
name: Wilson, William W.
name: Dahl, Bruce L.
name: Wilson, William W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Varieties
subject: HRS
subject: Supply
subject: Protein
subject: Yields
subject: Variety Adoption
subject: End-use Quality
subject: Variety Release
subject: United States
subject: Canada

description: The demand for high quality hard wheats has been increasing. In this paper, factors affecting the supply and consistency of high quality wheats in Canada and North Dakota were compared and contrasted. Differences exist in the development and release of new varieties which affect the number and quality of hard wheats produced. Variety numbers and concentration were examined with a range of measures. Wheat area in Canada was found to be concentrated in fewer varieties than in North Dakota. These results were more apparent for durum than for hard red spring wheats. However, there was a trend toward more concentration in North Dakota and less in Canada. Protein, yield, and trade-offs were compared. Alberta appears to have a comparative advantage in the production of higher protein wheats. Farmers there have less of a yield loss penalty for increasing protein, compared to other regions. Varietal selection models were developed to analyze factors affecting variety choice. In Canada, agronomic factors including, relative yields, were significant variables affecting variety choice. In North Dakota, agronomic factors other than years since release generally had less effect on adoption rates. Varieties in North Dakota and Manitoba were found to have shorter life cycles and reached their maximum utilization by farmers faster than in Alberta or Saskatchewan.
Procacci et al.,_Supplemental_Methods_ESM from Context-dependent modulation of natural approach behaviour in mice
Creators: name: Procacci, Nicole M.
name: Allen, Kelsey M.
name: Robb, Gael E.
name: Ijekah, Rebecca
name: Lynam, Hudson
name: HOY, Jennifer L.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Additional information regarding animal ethics statement and details of statistical approaches
Simulating chiral quarks in the epsilon-regime of QCD
Creators: name: Bietenholz, W.
name: Chiarappa, T.
name: Jansen, K.
name: Nagai, K. -I.
name: Shcheredin, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present simulation results for lattice QCD with chiral fermions in small volumes, where the epsilon-expansion of chiral perturbation theory applies. Our data for the low lying Dirac eigenvalues, as well as mesonic correlation functions, are in agreement with analytical predictions. This allows us to extract values for the leading Low Energy Constants F_{pi} and Sigma.
description: 4 pages, talk presented by W.B. at Baryons04 (Paris, October 25 - 29, 2004); one Ref. added
A Computational Assessment of the Efficacy of Halides as Shape-Directing Agents in Nanoparticle Growth
Creators: name: Löfgren, Joakim
name: Rahm, J. Magnus
name: Brorsson, Joakim
name: Erhart, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a comprehensive study of aqueous halide adsorption on nanoparticles of gold and palladium that addresses several limitations hampering the use of atomistic modeling as a tool for understanding and improving wet-chemical synthesis and related applications. A combination of thermodynamic modeling with density functional theory (DFT) calculations and experimental data is used to predict equilibrium shapes of halide-covered nanoparticles as a function of the chemical environment. To ensure realistic and experimentally relevant results, we account for solvent effects and include a large set of vicinal surfaces, several adsorbate coverages as well as decahedral particles. While the observed stabilization is not significant enough to result in thermodynamic stability of anisotropic shapes such as nanocubes, non-uniformity in the halide coverage indicates the possibility of obtaining such shapes as kinetic products. With regard to technical challenges, we show that inclusion of surface-solvent interactions lead to qualitative changes in the predicted shape. Furthermore, accounting for non-local interactions on the functional level yields a more accurate description of surface systems.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Identifying two-photon high-dimensional entanglement in transverse patterns
Creators: name: Dang, Gui-Fang
name: Deng, Li-Ping
name: Wang, Kaige
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme to explore two-photon high-dimensional entanglement associated with a transverse pattern by means of two-photon interference in a beamsplitter. We find that the topological symmetry of the angular spectrum of the two-photon state governs the nature of the two-photon interference. We prove that the anti-coalescence interference is the signature of two-photon entanglement. On the basis of this feature, we propose a special Mach-Zehnder interferometer incorporated with two spiral phase plates which can change the interference from a coalescence to an anti-coalescence type only for a two-photon entangled state. The scheme is simple and straightforward compared with the test for a Bell inequality.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures
Language, communication and society: a gender based linguistics analysis
Creators: name: Cutugno, P.
name: Chiarella, D.
name: Lucentini, R.
name: Marconi, L.
name: Morgavi, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The purpose of this study is to find evidence for supporting the hypothesis that language is the mirror of our thinking, our prejudices and cultural stereotypes. In this analysis, a questionnaire was administered to 537 people. The answers have been analysed to see if gender stereotypes were present such as the attribution of psychological and behavioural characteristics. In particular, the aim was to identify, if any, what are the stereotyped images, which emerge in defining the roles of men and women in modern society. Moreover, the results given can be a good starting point to understand if gender stereotypes, and the expectations they produce, can result in penalization or inequality. If so, the language and its use would create inherently a gender bias, which influences evaluations both in work settings both in everyday life.
description: 7 pages, Mladenov et al., Recent Advances in Communications - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Communications (part of 19th International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers 2015)
Chiral dynamics in the gamma p --> pi^0 eta p and gamma p --> pi^0 K^0 Sigma^+ reactions
Creators: name: Doring, M.
name: Oset, E.
name: Strottman, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a chiral unitary approach for meson-baryon scattering in the strangeness zero sector, where the $N^*(1535)$ resonance is dynamically generated, we study the reactions $γp \to π^0 ηp$ and $γp \to π^0 K^0 Σ^+$ at photon energies at which the final states are produced close to threshold. Among several reaction mechanisms, we find the most important is the excitation of the $Δ^*(1700)$ state which subsequently decays into a pseudoscalar meson and a baryon belonging to the $Δ(1232)$ decuplet. Hence, the reaction provides useful information with which to test current theories of the dynamical generation of the low-lying $3/2^-$ states. The first reaction is shown to lead to sizable cross sections and the $N^*(1535)$ resonance shape is seen clearly in the $ηp$ invariant mass distribution. The same dynamical model is shown to lead to much smaller cross sections at low energies in the second reaction. Predictions are made for cross sections and invariant mass distributions which can be compared with forthcoming experiments at ELSA.
description: 22 pages, 22 figures
Application of microRNAs in the diagnosis and monitoring of pediatric germ cell tumors: Kazakh experience
Creators: name: Saliyeva, Symbat
name: Boranbayeva, Riza
name: Bulegenova, Minira
name: Beloussov, Vyacheslav
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: GCT is characterized by specific biochemical markers expression, such as human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), which are the main tools in the diagnosis and monitoring of GCT treatment. They are expressed in 15–20% of cases of seminoma and in 60–80% of cases of non-seminoma. MicroRNA profiling allows to identify a number of microRNAs that are superior to classical serum tumor markers in the diagnosis of primary tumors, as well as in subsequent monitoring and prediction of recurrence. We analyzed the expression of 9 microRNAs (microRNA clusters 302/367 and 371-373, microRNA375) in the blood serum of 20 children with extracranial GCT at different stages of therapy and showed their usefulness and informativeness in early detection of events. Taking into consideration the high sensitivity and specificity, serum microRNAs 367,371,372,373,302d are of great interest for clinical use in malignant GCT. Significant expression of miR 375-3p was not detected either in malignant GCT or in teratomas.
Extracurricular activities in early adolescence : links with peer group acceptance and belongingness
Creators: name: Connor, Judy Eleanor
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: One construct that has received a great deal of attention in the literature on adolescent loneliness is that of group acceptance. Past studies have shown that children who are not well-accepted by their peers generally experience more loneliness and more social dissatisfaction than their better-accepted agemates. Previous research, however, has only begun to discern the complexity of the factors assumed to be responsible for the link between peer acceptance and loneliness. For instance, are there different ways in which a child can be lonely? The purpose of the present investigation is to examine the relations among peer acceptance, and friendship status using a multidimensional approach to loneliness. Two different loneliness measures were used. The first assessment tool was an overall measure of loneliness (ILQ). The second measure (RPLQ) included several dimensions of loneliness whereby the two peer subscales were utilized - intimacy and belongingness. In addition, participation in extracurricular activities was examined to discern its contribution to adolescent loneliness and to investigate whether being involved in activities staves off feelings of loneliness. Accordingly, 419 students (210 girls, 209 boys) in grades 6 and 7 participated in the study. Findings revealed that low-accepted adolescents reported higher levels of loneliness, and lower levels of belongingness and intimacy. Girls reported significantly higher levels of intimacy than did boys. For boys only, participation in extracurricular activities was significantly associated with the three dimensions of loneliness, peer acceptance and friendship status. Findings for girls yielded the same significant results except that girls who were highly-involved in extracurricular activities did not report having more friendships. For both boys and girls, being involved in extracurricular activities predicted feelings of belongingness. Moreover, participation in extracurricular activities predicted higher levels of intimacy for boys but not for girls. Overall, findings suggest that loneliness may be multidimensional in nature and that different types of relationships such as friendship, peer acceptance and group affiliation predicts loneliness outcomes separately.
Optimal Allocation of Real-Time-Bidding and Direct Campaigns
Creators: name: Jauvion, Grégoire
name: Grislain, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we consider the problem of optimizing the revenue a web publisher gets through real-time bidding (i.e. from ads sold in real-time auctions) and direct (i.e. from ads sold through contracts agreed in advance). We consider a setting where the publisher is able to bid in the real-time bidding auction for each impression. If it wins the auction, it chooses a direct campaign to deliver and displays the corresponding ad. This paper presents an algorithm to build an optimal strategy for the publisher to deliver its direct campaigns while maximizing its real-time bidding revenue. The optimal strategy gives a formula to determine the publisher bid as well as a way to choose the direct campaign being delivered if the publisher bidder wins the auction, depending on the impression characteristics. The optimal strategy can be estimated on past auctions data. The algorithm scales with the number of campaigns and the size of the dataset. This is a very important feature, as in practice a publisher may have thousands of active direct campaigns at the same time and would like to estimate an optimal strategy on billions of auctions. The algorithm is a key component of a system which is being developed, and which will be deployed on thousands of web publishers worldwide, helping them to serve efficiently billions of ads a day to hundreds of millions of visitors.
Dollars or Cents: Impacts of Rescaling Data on a Mixed Logit Model with Normally and Lognormally Distributed Coefficients
Creators: name: Hu, Wuyang
name: Hu, Wuyang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: It is a common practice to rescale data to assist the model estimation process. This paper describes a case where care is called upon when interpreting the results after rescaling. The case is shown as associated with the lognormally distributed coefficient in a mixed logit model. Implications of rescaling data on a normally distributed coefficient are also given for comparison.
"Then It's Clear Who Owns the Trees": Evaluating Privatization in the Social Forest in a Zimbabwean Resettlement Area
Creators: name: Goebel, Allison
name: Goebel, Allison
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The value that associates private property regimes with better management of arable land played a consistent role in colonial policy and practice in "African" areas of Southern/Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). In the woodlands, however, common property management systems characterized African areas. This persisted in the post-Independence state, both in the Communal Areas, and in the newly demarcated Resettlement Areas. Recommendations by the recent Land Tenure Commission (1993), however, are set to change tenure in the woodlands in Resettlement Areas from common property to private property, on the perception that the common property system fails to sustainably manage the woodlands. In this paper, the apparent failure in common property woodland management in a case study of a Model A resettlement scheme in Zimbabwe is explored. Tenure insecurity and the types of controls and institutions in the woodlands are examined as possible sources of the failure. The major stress on the woodlands, besides clearance of land for agriculture, emerges as resource poaching by Communal Area neighbours. The currently popular notion of resource-sharing as a possible solution to this problem is discussed. In the final analysis the author finds that privatization is unlikely to solve the management crisis as it inadequately deals with the major problem of resource poaching. This failure is part of a wider conceptual problem of dealing with Zimbabwe's different land-use categories in isolation, rather than as an interrelated system. The paper is framed by an analysis of how a new focus on tenure issues, particularly privatization, in the land redistribution process in Zimbabwe fits with a growing trend wherein issues of justice and development for the rural poor are eclipsed by a discourse of "efficiency" and "productivity".
Gluon Distributions and Fits using Dipole Cross-Sections
Creators: name: Thorne, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I investigate the relationship between the gluon distribution obtained using a dipole model fit to low-x data on F_2(x,Q^2) and standard gluons obtained from global fits with the collinear factorization theorem at fixed order. I stress the necessity to do fits of this type carefully, and in particular to include the contribution from heavy flavours to the inclusive structure function. I find that the dipole cross-section must be rather steeper than the gluon distribution, which at least partially explains why dipole model fits produce dipole cross-sections growing quite strongly at small x, while DGLAP based fits have valence-like, or even negative, small-x gluons as inputs. However, I also find that the gluon distributions obtained from the dipole fits are much too small to match onto the conventional DGLAP gluons at high Q^2, i.e. approx 50 GeV^2, where the two approaches should coincide. The main reason for this discrepancy is found to be the large approximations made in converting the dipole cross-sections into structure functions using formulae which are designed only for asymptotically small x. The shortcomings in this step affect the accuracy of the extracted dipole cross-sections in terms of size and shape, and hence also in terms of interpretation, at all scales.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures, uses axodraw.sty
A characterization of the infinitely divisible squared Gaussian processes
Creators: name: Eisenbaum, Nathalie
name: Kaspi, Haya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60E07, 60G15, 60J25, 60J55 (Primary)

description: We show that, up to multiplication by constants, a Gaussian process has an infinitely divisible square if and only if its covariance is the Green function of a transient Markov process.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117905000000684 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES: STRATEGIC COMPLEMENTARITIES FROM AN AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC AND STRATEGIC NETWORK PERSPECTIVE
Creators: name: Ng, Desmond W.
name: Ng, Desmond W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: The concept of knowledge and its related dimensions of information and learning have traditionally received considerable research attention by scholars of organization and strategic management theorists. The increasing role of knowledge as a defining characteristic of the modern knowledge economy has renewed an interest to the importance of knowledge to a firm's competitive advantage. Such interest has raised a significant conceptual issue as to whether the new knowledge economy warrants an alternative framework to understanding competitive strategy. As a result, a conceptual model of knowledge based competitive advantage is proposed. Such a conceptual framework provides a departure from the static perspectives of Resource-based view and Industrial Organizational economic perspectives in accommodating for evolutionary changes of network knowledge. Implicit in this perspective is that sustainable competitive performance is not a realizable outcome. Rather knowledge based competitive performance is transitory in which the extent of such performance is contingent on the management of evolving network relations.