cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Menstrual blood-derived mesenchymal stromal cells efficiently ameliorate experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis by inhibiting T cell activation in mice
Creators: name: Li, Yonghai
name: Gao, Haiyao
name: Brunner, Tobias M.
name: Hu, Xiaoxi
name: Yan, Yushan
name: Liu, Yanli
name: Qiao, Liang
name: Wu, Peihua
name: Li, Meng
name: Liu, Qing
name: Yang, Fen
name: Lin, Juntang
name: Löhning, Max
name: Shen, Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Kinetics of T cell responses in dLN and spleen, and immune cell infiltration in CNS during the course of EAE. EAE was induced in mice and immune cells were analyzed at various time points thereafter. (a, b) IFNγ- and IL-17-expressing CD4+ T cells in dLN and spleen were determined by FACS after MOG35-55 peptide restimulation. (c) CNS-infiltrating immune cells with high CD45 expression were determined by FACS ex vivo. Pool of two experiments with two mice per time point (n = 4 per time point). Figure S2. MB-MSC transplantation does not affect the frequency of regulatory T cells. EAE was induced in mice and 6 days later, P4 MB-MSCs were transplanted i.v.. Mice that received only PBS served as untreated controls. On day 7, the percentages of Foxp3-expressing cells among CD4 T cells in spleen were determined by FACS. Pool of four experiments with two mice per group per experiment (n = 8). Figure S3. MB-MSCs transplanted either i.v. or i.p. did not affect the accumulation and activation of macrophages, neutrophils, and monocytes. EAE was induced in mice and 6 days later, P4 MB-MSCs were transplanted via i.v. (i.v.) or i.p. (i.p.) route. Mice that received only PBS served as untreated controls. On day 7, the accumulation and activation of macrophages, monocytes, and neutrophils were analyzed in spleen. (a) Representative FACS plots and percentages of macrophages, monocytes, and neutrophils. (b) The expression level of costimulatory molecules on these three types of cells. Pool of four experiments with two mice per group per experiment (n = 8).
Urentius nanus
Creators: name: Montemayor, I.
name: Linnavuori, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Urentius
Urentius nanus

description: Urentius nanus (Schumacher, 1913)
 Distribution in Iran. Hormozgan (Linnavuori 2004), Khorasan (Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1999), West Azarbaijan (Ghahari et al. 2010b).
 Host records from Iran. Prosopis farcta (Fabaceae) (Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1999), Abutilon sp., Althaea sp. (Malvaceae) (Linnavuori 2004).
 General distribution. Algeria, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia (Péricart & Golub 1996), Jordan (Carapezza 2002), Yemen (Linnavuori & van Harten 2002), and tropical Africa (Deckert & Göllner-Scheiding 2006).
description: Published as part of Montemayor, I. & Linnavuori, E., 2012, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 22-39 in Zootaxa 3207 on page 35
Piaget’s Cognitive Developmental Theory: Critical Review
Creators: name: Babakr, Zana H.
name: Pakstan Mohamedamin
name: Karwan Kakamad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Education

description: In the last century, Jean Piaget proposed one of the most famous theories regarding cognitive development in children. Piaget proposed four cognitive developmental stages for children, including sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and the formal operational stage. Although Piaget’s theories have had a great impact on developmental psychology, his notions have not been fully accepted without critique. Piaget’s theory has some shortcomings, including overestimating the ability of adolescence and underestimating infant’s capacity. Piaget also neglected cultural and social interaction factors in the development of children’s cognition and thinking ability. Moreover, in terms of the methodological approach, Piaget’s theory had some ethical and bias problems as he studied his own children. However, Piaget contributions, particularly in regards to the process of education among children and transferring cognition into psychology, have had a significant effect on the science of child development.
Flat band in twisted bilayer Bravais lattices
Creators: name: Kariyado, Toshikaze
name: Vishwanath, Ashvin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Band engineering in twisted bilayers of the five generic two-dimensional Bravais networks is demonstrated. We first derive symmetry-based constraints on the interlayer coupling, which helps us to predict and understand the shape of the potential barrier for the electrons under the influence of the moiré structure without reference to microscopic details. It is also pointed out that the generic constraints becomes best relevant when the typical length scale of the microscopic interlayer coupling is moderate. The concepts are numerically demonstrated in simple tight-binding models to show the band flattening due to the confinement into the potential profile fixed by the generic constraints. On the basis of the generic theory, we propose the possibility of anisotropic band flattening, in which quasi one-dimensional band dispersion is generated from relatively isotropic original band dispersion. In the strongly correlated regime, anisotropic band flattening leads to a spin-orbital model where intertwined magnetic and orbital ordering can give rise to rich physics.
description: 10 pages
PRICE TRANSMISSION IN SERBIAN DAIRY CHAIN
Creators: name: Popovic, R.
name: Radovanov, B.
name: Popovic, R.
name: Radovanov, B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: price transmission
subject: milk and milk products
subject: milk supply chain
subject: market structure

description: This paper explores price transmission at Serbian dairy market for period 2007-2009. It analyzes milk price transmission on formal milk market for three products: pasteurized milk, white yoghurt and cheese. From processed raw milk in dairy plants 17% is turned in pasteurized milk, 35% in fermented liquid milk products and 31% in cheese and other non-liquid milk products (Popovic, 2009). Monthly data are collected from three levels of milk chain: farm level, processors and retailers. Three step approach based on: intensity, asymmetry and time lags in price transmission was applied. Distinction of two market levels was made, first between farmers and processors and second among processors and retailers. Additionally price transmission from world to nationally market was examined.
title: Automatic Topic-Guided Segmentation of Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
Creators: name: Wagner, Eitan
name: Keydar, Renana
name: Pinchevski, Amit
name: Abend, Omri
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2025

description: In recent decades, efforts have been made to gather and digitize the testimonies of living Holocaust survivors. The challenge we now face is attending to those thousands of human stories, which while safely stored in archives, may nevertheless disappear into oblivion. Despite recent advances in narrative analysis in the fields of Computational Literature (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), existing language model technology still faces challenges in analyzing elaborate narratives and long texts. One such challenge is text segmentation – a long-standing issue in the area of CL and NLP. In our work, we propose a computational method to approach this problem. Our research draws on testimony transcripts from the Shoah Foundation (SF) Holocaust archive for supervised topic classification, which is then used as topics guidance for automatic segmentation.
LIFE QUALITY AND LIVING STANDARD OF OLD RURAL POPULATION
Creators: name: Miladinovic, Marica
name: Miladinovic, Marica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: old rural population
subject: life quality and living standard of old rural population

description: One of the basic characteristics of contemporary society is rapid population aging. Rural areas in Serbian society that are most undeveloped are also ones with the most aged population. In such context, aging of the population is not only demographic, but also social issue. Old population living in rural communities is double deprived. Their working and physical capabilities as well as their health condition are in decline and local rural community and their families are not always able to fulfill their basic life needs. Paper focuses on the analysis of the old rural population` life quality based upon empirical data from the sociological research of their social position. The research was conducted based on the use of the semi standardized interviews on a sample of the 300 old persons living in five villages in Vojvodina.
THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF PRODUCTIVITY OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR FROM THE VIEW OF MACROECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION
Creators: name: Obradovic, Sasa
name: Obradovic, Sasa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: productivity
subject: agriculture
subject: capital
subject: output
subject: growth

description: The aim of this paper is to provide the methodological basis for the possible direction of analysis of the correlation of output and productivity in agriculture. The basic intention of the author is to explain and show the concept on the basis of general theoretical statements present in macro-economic science, that can be used in the analysis of the agricultural sector. The concept of modeling changes in productivity based on the modernization and transformation of agriculture in accordance with the degree of economic development оf the observed country. The results that come up in the paper provide a basis for interpreting the changes that are occurring in the agricultural sector with the introduction of technological innovations and increasing the funds of various types of capital.
Investigation on thermal behaviour and optical properties of non-symmetric cholesterol-based twin liquid crystals with thioester linkages
Creators: name: Zhiming Fang
name: Changcheng Wu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Herein, a series of novel asymmetric cholesterol-based liquid crystal compounds containing thioester linkage and an analogue containing carboxylate linking unit have been synthesised and characterised. Thermal analyses demonstrated that all desired target compounds possess broad mesophase temperature ranges (ΔT, 91–142.5°C) and high thermal stability (clearing points, 214.9–259.4°C). Due to the increasing chain length of the inner flexible spacer, clearing points and entropy changes (ΔS/R) of the COS-containing dimers showed pronounced parity effects. All dimers exhibited enantiotropic mesophase behaviour with an SmC* phase and a typical cholesteric phase (N*), which were validated by XRD and POM. The effect of structural changes of COO and COS unit in the linking group on the mesomorphic properties was analysed. Comparing C6SAR with C6OAR, it was found that the thioester-containing dimer exhibited more stable mesophase, higher phase transition temperatures (about 20°C higher) and enthalpy values (ΔH). All final products exhibited selective reflection to visible light, produced multiple colours. The higher temperatures led to the shorter pitch, which can further result in shorter reflection wavelengths, and the ‘blue shift’ occurred.
Additional file 1 of Cost-effectiveness of screening and treating alcohol use and depression among people living with HIV in Zimbabwe: a mathematical modeling study
Creators: name: Su, Jasmine I-Shin
name: Yeo, Yao-rui
name: Jeetoo, Mellesia
name: Morojele, Neo K.
name: Francis, Joel M.
name: Shenoi, Sheela
name: Braithwaite, R. Scott
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1: FigS1. Model structure for HIV progression. FigS2. Model inputs. FigS3. Intervention inputs. FigS4. Calibration results by total population. FigS5. Calibration results stratified by age and sex. FigS6. Prevalence calibration results. FigS7. Incidence calibration results.
Pogonatum nanum P. Beauv.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Polytrichales
Polytrichaceae
Pogonatum
Pogonatum nanum

description: Pogonatum nanum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882): Atlas; Djebel Édough. Bescherelle (1882), Lapie (1909): Djurjura. Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Kabylie du Djurdjura, Tizi Ouzou. Brongniart (1882), Corbière (1889): Blidah, près la gracière Laval. Litschauer (1904), Jelenc (1955a): Fort National und Michelet, 1000-1200 m. Jelenc (1949, 1967): Monts de Tlemcen, forêt de Zariflet, 1150 m; Jelenc (1955a): Atlas de Blida; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Aït Yahia; La Calle. Jelenc (1967): Kabylie du Djurdjura, Yakouren, 1000 m; Monts de Tlemcen, Hafir. Frequent.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 91, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
High-precision characterization of the neutron light output of stilbene along the directions of maximum and minimum response
Creators: name: Weldon, R. A.
name: Mueller, J. M.
name: Lynch, C.
name: Schuster, P.
name: Hedges, S.
name: Awe, C.
name: Li, L.
name: Barbeau, P.
name: Mattingly, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scintillation light output response of stilbene crystals has been measured for protons recoiling along the \textit{a}, \textit{b}, and \textit{c'} crystalline axes with energies between 1.3 and 10 MeV using neutrons produced with the tandem Van de Graaff accelerator at Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory. The proton recoil energy and direction were measured using the coincident detection of neutrons between a stilbene scintillator and an array of EJ-309 liquid scintillators spanning arranged neutron recoil angles. The maximum light output was found to coincide with proton recoils along the \textit{a}-axis, in disagreement with other published measurements, which reported the \textit{b}-axis as the direction of the maximum light output. Additional measurements were conducted using two different stilbene crystals to confirm these results: a second measurement using the coincident detection of neutrons; measurements of neutron full energy deposition events along the \textit{a} and \textit{b} axes; and measurements of the count rate for $^{252}$Cf neutrons traveling along the \textit{a} and \textit{b} axes directions. All measurements found that recoils along the \textit{a}-axis produce the maximum light output.
A SUPPLEMENT TOWARDS CREATION OF RURAL RAGIONALIZATION CONCEPT IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Creators: name: Stojiljkovic, Dragi
name: Njegovan, Nikola
name: Stojiljkovic, Dragi
name: Njegovan, Nikola
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Rural Areas
subject: Republic of Serbia
subject: Rural Indicators
subject: Regionalization

description: The paper is discussing the problems of defining the rural аreas within the Republic of Serbia and the relative importance of rural versus urban areas. The authors try to examine determinants of overall socio-economic development (local authority administrative districts). They suggest most conveniant rural indicators that could be calculated and implemented at the regional level as well as the composte indicator as overal measure. Based on that analysis the rural and urban areas are identified mainly using the level of existing rurality and its relative importance. At the end, the particular and/or averall results as a base for the creation and implementation of different rural policy/ies in Republic of Serbia, has been discussed.
Early Childhood Education Teachers' Perceptions on the Use of Play as a Teaching Technique in Afadjato South District of the Volta Region, Ghana
Creators: name: Divine Koku Kekesi
name: Donkor, Simon Kormla
name: Torkonyo, Moses
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Education

description: The study investigated the perception of early childhood educators on the use of play as a teaching technique in the Afadjato South District. The study was a cross-sectional descriptive design using concurrent triangulation mixed method approach. A sample of 120 participants was used comprising100 kindergarten teachers, 10 basic school heads and 10 school supervisors. Purposive, simple random and convenience sampling techniques were used to select the participants. Questionnaire and interview guide were used to collect data. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the quantitative data while thematic analysis was used for the qualitative data. The findings showed that early childhood teachers in Afadjato South District had positive perception on the use of play as a teaching technique. Kindergarten teachers’ perception positively influenced their use of play as a teaching technique. Among other factors such as availability of play materials, the kind of motivation teachers received as teachers influenced the use of play as a technique of teaching. Teaching experiences were the most influential factors to kindergarten teachers’ use of play as a teaching technique. It was concluded that early childhood teachers in Afadjato South District had good intentions on the use of play as a teaching technique. Also, kindergarten teachers’ could use play as a teaching technique depending on their perception towards play. Moreover, factors that contributed to kindergarten teachers’ use of play as a teaching technique were: availability of play materials, the kind of motivation teachers receive and their teaching experiences. It was recommended that through in-service training, head teachers should encourage early childhood teachers in Afadjato South District to continuously have positive perception towards play as a teaching technique. Also, personnel in charge of supervision at the Afadjato South District Education Directorate should educate kindergarten teachers to use play as a teaching technique.
Azimuthal anchoring coefficients of nematic liquid crystals on polystyrene brushes formed at the air surface of block copolymer monolayers
Creators: name: Iwata, Naoto
name: Yuzuka Yoshioka
name: Yazawa, Kenta
name: Tokita, Masatoshi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A nematic liquid crystal (NLC) on a diblock copolymer monolayer shows Néel walls under a polarised optical microscope and the azimuthal anchoring coefficient (Aφ) is estimated from the width of the wall. The block copolymer consists of polystyrene (PS) and poly(3-(triethoxysilyl)propyl methacrylate) (PTESPMA) segments. A monolayer of a pair of PS and PTESPMA layers was prepared by spin coating a copolymer solution on a glass substrate, followed by annealing using methylcyclohexane, exposure to hydrochloric acid vapour and rinsing with acetone. The PS layer is at the air surface and exhibits a thickness five times larger than the radius of gyration of the PS chain, which suggests that the PS chains are more extended towards the air surface, adopting a brush conformation. The Aφ is 6 × 10−6 J m−2 at 25°C and slightly decreases to 3 × 10−6 J m−2 with increasing temperature up to 90°C. On the other hand, the Aφ on a high-density PS brush, which is prepared via surface-initiated polymerisation method, decreases from 8 × 10−6 to 3 × 10−7 J m−2 with increasing temperature in the same range.
Chaotic Free-Space Laser Communication over Turbulent Channel
Creators: name: Rulkov, N. F.
name: Vorontsov, M. A.
name: Illing, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of errors caused by atmospheric turbulence in a self-synchronizing chaos based communication system that stably transmits information over a $\sim$5 km free-space laser link is studied experimentally. Binary information is transmitted using a chaotic sequence of short-term pulses as carrier. The information signal slightly shifts the chaotic time position of each pulse depending on the information bit. We report the results of an experimental analysis of the atmospheric turbulence in the channel and the impact of turbulence on the Bit-Error-Rate (BER) performance of this chaos based communication system.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Pohlia annotina Lindb.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Bryales
Bryaceae
Pohlia
Pohlia annotina

description: Pohlia annotina (Hedw.) Lindb.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Kabylie, pic du Lalla-Khadidja. Boukhatem et al. (2017): El-Kala National Park, Tonga lake watershed. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 91, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Tingis (Tingis) pusilla
Creators: name: Montemayor, I.
name: Linnavuori, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Tingis
Tingis pusilla

description: Tingis (Tingis) pusilla (Jakovlev, 1873)
 Distribution in Iran. Semnan (Golub 1977; Péricart 1983).
 General distribution. South European Territory of Russia, Armenia, Iran, Central Asia, Mongolia and North China (Péricart & Golub 1996).
description: Published as part of Montemayor, I. & Linnavuori, E., 2012, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 22-39 in Zootaxa 3207 on page 33
Assessment of Acquaintance Techniques at the First Meeting of Adult Education
Creators: name: Nikitidis, Nikolaos O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Education

description: The knowledge and the skills acquired in basic education are not sufficient for the entire life as technological and social conditions change rapidly. The solution to this problem is adult learning actions. An essential component of these actions is the first meeting. In order for this process to be implemented without difficulties, the literature provides some techniques. This study assesses these techniques and to highlight their particular characteristics in order to clarify which one is best for each educational program. For achieving this, these techniques are sought in the literature and evaluated by specific criteria. Finally, 15 techniques have been found, differentiating about time, space and media, secondary goals, and the dangers they pose. Based on these data, the adult trainer can choose the most appropriate technique for his educational program.
Additional file 1 of Development and validation of the Chinese version of the perceived partner responsiveness scale (C-PPRS)
Creators: name: Zhou, Xinyi
name: Cai, Yaochun
name: Huang, Wanyi
name: Chen, Qishan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Initial Items of the C-PPRS.
Peri-urban food traders’ preferences for open-air market design and management attributes in Nairobi, Kenya
Creators: name: Cherono, Irine
name: Otieno, David Jakinda
name: Cherono, Irine
name: Otieno, David Jakinda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Open-air markets
subject: design – and management – attributes
subject: trader preferences
subject: Kenya

description: Open-air markets are a popular market channel for most agri-food products in developing countries. In the peri-urban areas of Kenya, these are the most convenient sources of fresh fruits and vegetables for many households. However, the haphazard organization and management of these markets often results in insecurity and other economic losses. Yet, no empirical study has delved in the analysis of the extent of these challenges and remedial measures. In order to address this critical policy issue and advance knowledge in this area, the present study analyzed peri-urban food traders’ preferences for the design and management attributes of open-air markets in Nairobi, Kenya. A total of 120 agri-food traders were randomly selected and interviewed from open-air markets. The results of a choice experiment survey showed that traders prefer the management of these markets through clearly structured county government procedures, allocation of market space on monthly rotational basis and restriction of space to each user. Further, the study observed that traders prefer comprehensive services provision based on competitive tendering processes. These findings call for reforms in the management and design of open-air markets in order to improve service delivery and security of all participants.
Tingis (Tingis) elongata
Creators: name: Montemayor, I.
name: Linnavuori, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Tingis
Tingis elongata

description: Tingis (Tingis) elongata (Fieber, 1861)
 Distribution in Iran. Iran (no locality) (Péricart & Golub 1996), Fars (Linnavuori 2011).
 General distribution. Balkan Peninsula, North Africa, Asian Turkey, Cyprus, Jordan, and Iran (Péricart & Golub 1996).
description: Published as part of Montemayor, I. & Linnavuori, E., 2012, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 22-39 in Zootaxa 3207 on page 33
An economic analysis of grain legumes profitability in Nandi County, Kenya
Creators: name: Onyango, Mercy
name: Otieno, David Jakinda
name: Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo
name: Ojiem, John
name: Onyango, Mercy
name: Otieno, David Jakinda
name: Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo
name: Ojiem, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Legumes
subject: gross margins
subject: profitability
subject: Kenya

description: Grain legumes have great potential for improving smallholder farmers’ productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) though their potential has not been fully exploited due to critical problems including high insect pests and disease infestation. As part of the process of addressing these challenges, the Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP) of the McKnight Foundation in collaboration with Cornell University and Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) recently introduced crop and soil enhancing strategies in Western Kenya. One of the strategies introduced included use of multipurpose grain legumes species in Nandi County (Koibem, Kapkerer and Kiptaruswo sites). Through this initiative, various legume species including common bean, cowpea, groundnuts, lablab and soybean of different varieties are being promoted at the farm level. However, no empirical study has assessed the economic benefits that farmers are likely to obtain if they adopt the legume species. In order to address the aforementioned knowledge gap, the present study sought to evaluate economic profitability from the production of grain legumes. Gross margins and profits were computed from farm-level data gathered from a random sample of 163 legume farmers in the above CCRP sites. Results showed that grain legumes species differed in terms of their gross margins; beans, groundnuts, cowpeas and soybean had positive gross margins while lablab had a negative gross margin. Further, the farm-area under grain legumes, age of the farmer, access to extension services and access to credit had significant influence on the amount of gross margin obtained by a farmer. The results point to the need for recruitment of more extension staff at local levels to enhance extension service delivery. Also, there is need for the county government to promote credit awareness and establish credit associations, which can boost farmers’ access to credit.
Additional file 1 of Establishment of a value assessment framework for orphan medicinal products in China
Creators: name: Chen, Handong
name: Xiang, Yuliang
name: Tang, Xian
name: Hu, Ming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Exploration of public spending and agricultural growth. Comparative analysis of Nigerian and Malaysian agricultural growth (1970-2010).
Creators: name: Apata, T.G.
name: Sanusi, R.A.
name: Obaisi, A.
name: Ajani, O.
name: Apata, T.G.
name: Sanusi, R.A.
name: Obaisi, A.
name: Ajani, O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Public spending
subject: growth model
subject: policy
subject: economy development
subject: Nigeria and Malaysia

description: Public expenditure in the form of budget is making a provision for development for today and in the future. Over the year’s sustainable budget provisions has been a contentious issue in Economic development. Public expenditure is a fiscal instrument that government uses to sustain the economy. The question is “what is to be sustained” and “what is to be developed”. This is the rationale for this study. Literature has revealed that Nigeria and Malaysia are comptemporaries in terms of development in the 1960s, recent findings revealed that Malaysia is advanced in economic development than Nigeria. The study answer two precise questions: policy settings under which public spending contributes to agricultural growth? and public spending mechanisms that have a clearer and longer-lasting influence on agricultural growth? The study aim to establish a link to public spending in Malaysia and provide lessons regarding the level and composition of public spending that can be useful for Nigeria. Secondary data used and sourced from FAOSTAT and International Monetary Fund's Government Finance Statistics (various issues) from 1970 to 2010. Simple version endogenous growth theory adopted. Government expenditures as a percentage of GDP in Nigeria witnessed massive public funding in Agriculture in the 1960s-1980s but decline in 1990s-2010, while Malaysian experienced consistency, both in public funding in agriculture and growth. Malaysia as the better manager in terms of components of growth than Nigeria. Malaysia reflects a clear predominance of productive spending, which is sustained through the decades of analysis, while Nigeria predominance of unproductive spending.
Characterizing the effect of scaling errors on the spatial downscaling of mountain vegetation gross primary productivity
Creators: name: Xie, Xinyao
name: Li, Ainong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: High spatial resolution Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) estimation makes it feasible to better understand the spatial heterogeneity of mountain vegetation photosynthesis. Spatial downscaling is a practical approach to obtaining high resolution GPP estimates, whereas there is almost no attention given to the downscaled biases resulted from the widely reported scaling errors in medium or coarse resolution GPP estimates. To fill the above gap, this study adopted an eco-hydrological model to obtain 960 m resolution distributed GPP estimates (not including scaling errors) and lumped GPP estimates (including scaling errors) over four mountainous watersheds. Then, the distributed and lumped estimates were downscaled from 960 m to 30 m, respectively. Finally, the contribution of reducing scaling errors was characterized by the agreement index (d), BIAS and Root-Mean-Square-Error (RMSE) values between downscaled GPP and referenced GPP (directly generated at the spatial resolution of 30 m). Results showed that a large difference existed between lumped and distributed GPP, with d, BIAS, and RMSE of 0.79, 212, and 334 gC m−2 year−1, demonstrating that the scaling errors should be given enough attention to current coarse resolution GPP estimates. Before considering the scaling errors, large uncertainties were observed in the GPP downscaled from lumped values, with d, BIAS, and RMSE of 0.68, 220, and 480 gC m−2 year−1. After considering the scaling errors, a significant improvement was achieved in the GPP downscaled from distributed values, with an increased d value of 0.81, a decreased BIAS value of 10 gC m−2 year−1, and a decreased RMSE value of 388 gC m−2 year−1, indicating that reducing the medium or coarse resolution scaling errors would effectively improve the spatial downscaling of mountain vegetation GPP. Our study highlights the effect of scaling errors on the spatial downscaling of mountain vegetation productivity, which should be given more attention in the future carbon modeling.
Consumer willingness to pay for rice fragrance: Evidence from Senegal
Creators: name: Diagne, Mandiaye
name: Demont, Matty
name: Ndour, Maimouna
name: Diagne, Mandiaye
name: Demont, Matty
name: Ndour, Maimouna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: fragrant rice
subject: experimental auction
subject: willingness to pay
subject: value chain
subject: Senegal

description: In response to increasing urban consumer demand for fragrant rice, rice breeders have developed local, fragrant rice varieties in Senegal. We assess the drivers of demand for rice fragrance by eliciting urban consumers’ willingness to upgrade non-fragrant to fragrant rice and willingness to pay (WTP) for domestic versus imported fragrant rice. We conducted experimental auctions with 120 urban consumers in Dakar and analyzed WTP for rice fragrance through a double hurdle model. The results indicate that variables such as ethnicity, household size, and awareness of fragrance and local fragrant rice significantly affect consumers’ willingness to upgrade non-fragrant to fragrant rice. Urban consumers with positive buying intentions towards domestic fragrant rice are very likely to buy it and pay price premiums of 64 FCFA/kg. However local fragrant rice is slightly discounted compared to imported fragrant Thai Hom Mali rice. Our findings suggest that there is an important market for domestic fragrant rice in Dakar and that local rice is competitive with imported rice on that urban market.
UV Background Fluctuations and Three-Point Correlations in the Large Scale Clustering of the Lyman-alpha Forest
Creators: name: Tie, Suk Sien
name: Weinberg, David H.
name: Martini, Paul
name: Zhu, Wei
name: Peirani, Sebastien
name: Suarez, Teresita
name: Colombi, Stephane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Ly$α$ mass assignment scheme (LyMAS), we make theoretical predictions for the 3-dimensional 3-point correlation function (3PCF) of the Ly$α$ forest at redshift $z=2.3$. We bootstrap results from the (100 $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$)$^3$ Horizon hydrodynamic simulation to a (1 $h^{-1}$ Gpc)$^3$ $N$-body simulation, considering both a uniform UV background (UVB) and a fluctuating UVB sourced by quasars with a comoving $n_q \approx 10^{-5}$ $h^3$ Mpc$^{-3}$ placed either in massive halos or randomly. On scales of $10-30$ $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$, the flux 3PCF displays hierarchical scaling with the square of the 2PCF, but with an unusual value of $Q \equiv ζ_{123}/(ξ_{12} ξ_{13} + ξ_{12} ξ_{23} + ξ_{13} ξ_{23}) \approx -4.5$ that reflects the low bias of the Ly$α$ forest and the anti-correlation between mass density and transmitted flux. For halo-based quasars and an ionizing photon mean free path of $λ= 300$ $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$ comoving, UVB fluctuations moderately depress the 2PCF and 3PCF, with cancelling effects on $Q$. For $λ= 100$ $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$ or 50 $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$, UVB fluctuations substantially boost the 2PCF and 3PCF on large scales, shifting the hierarchical ratio to $Q \approx -3$. We scale our simulation results to derive rough estimate of the 3PCF detectability in observational data sets for the redshift range $z=2.1 - 2.6$. At $r = 10$ $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$ and 20 $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$, we predict a signal-to-noise (SNR) of $\sim$ 9 and $\sim$ 7, respectively, for both BOSS and eBOSS, and $\sim$ 37 and $\sim$ 25 for DESI. At $r = 40$ $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$ the predicted SNR is lower by $\sim$ 3$-$5 times. Measuring the flux 3PCF would be a novel test of the conventional paradigm of the Ly$α$ forest and help separate the contributions of UVB fluctuations and density fluctuations to Ly$α$ forest clustering.
description: Submitted to MNRAS. 19 pages, 17 figures
The influence of multiple alkyl chains on mesomorphic and photophysical properties of diphenylacrylonitrile liquid crystals
Creators: name: Liangbin Lin
name: Wenwei Qin
name: Bifeng Cheng
name: Hongyu Guo
name: Fafu Yang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 60506 Virology

description: For the purpose of studying the influence of the number of alkyl chains on mesomorphic and photophysical properties of aggregation-induced emission liquid crystals, the novel diphenylacrylonitrile derivatives 6–9 with 2–5 alkyl chains were prepared in yields of 80%–86%. The studies suggested that the number of alkyl chains influenced greatly on both mesomorphic properties and aggregation-induced emission fluorescence. The four or five alkyl chains on diphenylacrylonitrile liquid crystals were favourable for the ordered hexagonal columnar mesophase. The three or four alkyl chains contributed to high fluorescence. The four alkyl chains on diphenylacrylonitrile derivatives were the optimised number for producing the ordered columnar liquid crystalline phase and high fluorescence.
The Spectral Energy Distribution and Mass-loss Rate of the A-Type Supergiant Deneb
Creators: name: Aufdenberg, J. P.
name: Hauschildt, P. H.
name: Baron, E.
name: Nordgren, T. E.
name: Howarth, I. D.
name: Burnley, A. W.
name: Gordon, K. D.
name: Stansberry, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A stellar wind module has been developed for the PHOENIX stellar atmosphere code for the purpose of computing non-LTE, line-blanketed, expanding atmospheric structures and detailed synthetic spectra of hot luminous stars with winds. We apply the code to observations of Deneb, for which we report the first positive detections of mm and cm emission (obtained using the SCUBA and the VLA), as well a strong upper limit on the 850 micron flux (using the HHT). The slope of the radio spectrum shows that the stellar wind is partially ionized. We report a uniform-disk angular diameter measurement, 2.40 +/- 0.06 mas, from the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer (NPOI). The measured bolometric flux and corrected NPOI angular diameter yield an effective temperature of 8600 +/- 500 K. Least-squares comparisons of synthetic spectral energy distributions from 1220 A to 3.6 cm with the observations provide estimates for the effective temperature and the mass-loss rate of 8400 +/- 100 K and 8 +/- 3 E-7 M_sun/yr, respectively. This range of mass-loss rates is consistent with that derived from high dispersion UV spectra when non-LTE metal-line blanketing is considered. We are unable achieve a reasonable fit to a typical Halpha P-Cygni profile with any model parameters over a reasonable range. This is troubling because the \ha profile is the observational basis for Wind Momentum-Luminosity Relationship.
description: Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal, 43 pages, 23 figures
Additional file 1 of Association between the alanine aminotransferase/aspartate aminotransferase ratio and new-onset non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in a nonobese Chinese population: a population-based longitudinal study
Creators: name: Zou, Yang
name: Zhong, Ling
name: Hu, Chong
name: Sheng, Guotai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplement Table 1. The description of missing data. Supplementary Table 2. Sensitivity comparative analysis between pre-imputation and post-imputation. Supplementary Table 3. Collinearity diagnostics steps. Supplementary Table 4. Results of multivariate linear regression among original data and post-imputation data. Supplementary Table 5. Results of multivariate linear regression among original data and post-imputation data in different genders. Supplementary Table 6. Subgroup analysis by stratified cox regression model. Supplementary Table 7. nonlinearity among original data and post-imputation data.
Internal response of vegetation growth to degrees of permafrost degradation in Northeast China from 2001 to 2020
Creators: name: Yang, Hong
name: Xing, Yanqiu
name: Chang, Xiaoqing
name: Wang, Jiaqi
name: Li, Yuanxin
name: Tang, Jie
name: Wang, Dejun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Ecosystems at the southern edge of the permafrost distribution are highly sensitive to global warming. Changes in soil freeze-thaw cycles can influence vegetation growth in permafrost regions. Extant studies mainly focused on analyzing the differences of vegetation dynamics in different permafrost regions. However, the intrinsic drivers of permafrost degradation on vegetation growth remain elusive yet. Based on the top temperature of permafrost (TTOP) model, we simulated the spatial distribution of permafrost in Northeast China (NEC) from 2001 to 2020. Using the data of the vegetation Net Primary Productivity (NPP), vegetation phenology, climate and permafrost phenology, and analytical methods including partial correlation, multiple linear regression, and path analysis, we explored the response of vegetation growth and phenology to soil freeze-thaw changes and climate change under different degrees of permafrost degradation. Overall, the start date of the growing season (SOS) was very sensitive to the start date of soil thaw (SOT) changes, and multiple regression analyses showed that SOT was the main factor influencing SOS in 41.8% of the NEC region. Climatic factors remain the main factors affecting vegetation NPP in NEC, and the results of partial correlation analysis showed that only 9.7% of the regional duration of soil thaw (DOT) had a strong correlation with vegetation NPP. Therefore, we determined the mechanism responsible for the soil freeze-thaw changes and vegetation growth relationship using the path analysis. The results indicated that there is a potential inhibitory effect of persistent permafrost degradation on vegetation growth. Our findings would contribute to the improvement of process-based models of forest dynamics in the boreal region, which would help to plan sustainable development and conservation strategies in permafrost areas.
Developing country-wide farm typologies: An analysis of Ethiopian smallholders’ income and food security
Creators: name: Boere, Esther
name: Mosnier, Aline
name: Bocqueho, Geraldine
name: Krisztin, Tamas
name: Havlik, Petr
name: Boere, Esther
name: Mosnier, Aline
name: Bocqueho, Geraldine
name: Krisztin, Tamas
name: Havlik, Petr
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Security and Poverty

description: Ethiopia’s agricultural sector is highly diverse and subject to change due to different factors such as climate and population growth. Consequently, competition for available land, water, energy, and other inputs increases, posing pressure on the rural population’s livelihoods and food security. It is therefore imperative to analyze farmer’s production choices under these changing circumstances. The objective of this paper is to develop a methodology to establish country-wide farm typologies allowing for both a spatial and temporal analysis of the evolution of the agricultural sector, and in particular smallholders' food security and income in Ethiopia. First, household survey data is employed to categorize smallholder farming systems according to their agro-ecological zone, farm size, main activities and degree of intensification. Second, farming systems are extrapolated using a multinomial logit-regression. Resulting combinations of farming-system occurrence and their production activities are harmonized with national statistics and subsequently equipped with the potential to intensify. Compared with other typologies that commonly only focus on the distribution of farming systems, this study fills the typology with data, allowing for the analysis of income and food security over space and time. It is concluded that livestock-oriented systems are less profitable than crop-oriented systems and more prone to food-insecurity. Increased input intensification is one way to reduce pressure on cropland expansion caused by the expected increase in population, but has to go together with other methods to fully alleviate pressure on land and thereby poverty and food insecurity.