cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Determinants of Use and Intensity of Use of Mobile Phone-based Money Transfer Services in Smallholder Agriculture: Case of Kenya
Creators: name: Kirui, Oliver K.
name: Okello, Julius Juma
name: Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo
name: Kirui, Oliver K.
name: Okello, Julius Juma
name: Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Mobile phones
subject: money transfer M-PESA m-banking services
subject: use
subject: intensity of use/adoption
subject: smallholder farmers
subject: Kenya

description: Smallholder farmer access to agricultural finance has been a major constraint to agricultural commercialization in developing countries. The ICT revolution in Africa has however brought an opportunity to ease this constraint. The mobile phone-based money transfer (MMT) services that started in Kenya urban centres have spread to rural areas and even other countries. Using these services farmers could receive funds to invest in agricultural financial transactions. This study examines the factors that influence use of MMT services among farm households in Kenya. It also assesses the factors conditioning the intensity of use of such services. The study finds education, distance to a commercial bank, membership to farmer organizations, distance to the m-banking agents and endowment with physical and financial assets affect the use of m-banking services. It discusses the implications of these findings for policy and practice.
description: Information Communication Technology (ICT)
Liability for air carriage under the Warsaw system in municipal courts
Creators: name: Miller, Georgette Marianne
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: Warsaw Convention (1929)
subject: Aeronautics, Commercial Law and legislation
subject: Liability for aircraft accidents

description: This thesis examines the interpretation of the Warsaw Convention and its amendments and supplement by the courts of several countries. The Warsaw Convention was chosen as the vehicle for comparison because it is one of the oldest treaties unifying a certain area of private law and consequently has a time span sufficient to allow the appearance and development of problems in the application of a uniform law convention and their analysis in proper perspective. The thesis attempts to explain why the courts of the several countries examined often arrived at conclusions which differed although they were applying a text which, apart from the difficulties and errors of translation, was identical. This examination reveals many problems that arise in the application of uniform law conventions. The underlying causes for these problems are explained and analyzed. The examination of the interpretations given to the Warsaw Convention by the courts of the countries examined and the analysis of the reasons for divergencies in these interpretations enabled the isolation of a number of factors which led to these differences. Finally, the thesis offers a number of proposals for reducing the extent of this divergence in the interpretation of present and future uniform law conventions.
Quaternionic Extension of the Double Taub-NUT Metric
Creators: name: Casteill, Pierre-Yves
name: Ivanov, Evgeny
name: Valent, Galliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from the generic harmonic superspace action of the quaternion-Kähler sigma models and using the quotient approach we present, in an explicit form, a quaternion-Kähler extension of the double Taub-NUT metric. It possesses $U(1)\times U(1)$ isometry and supplies a new example of non-homogeneous Einstein metric with self-dual Weyl tensor.
description: 12 pages, 0 figure, latex file, to appear in Phys. Lett.B, reference corrected, Dubna preprint number added
The ANTARES Optical Module
Creators: name: The ANTARES Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ANTARES collaboration is building a deep sea neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. This detector will cover a sensitive area of typically 0.1 km-squared and will be equipped with about 1000 optical modules. Each of these optical modules consists of a large area photomultiplier and its associated electronics housed in a pressure resistant glass sphere. The design of the ANTARES optical module, which is a key element of the detector, has been finalized following extensive R & D studies and is reviewed here in detail.
description: 26 pages, 15 figures, to be published in NIM
RELATIVITY, INEQUALITY AND OPTIMAL NONLINEAR INCOME TAXATION
Creators: name: Kanbur, Ravi
name: Tuomala, Matti
name: Kanbur, Ravi
name: Tuomala, Matti
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Public Economics

description: How does concern for consumption relative to others (”relativity”) affect the progressivity of the optimal income tax structure? In this paper we revisit this literature and present a more detailed analysis of the solution to the non-linear income tax problem with consumption interdependence than is currently available, generalizing some results and developing other results for cases with special objective functions and special distributions, as well as numerical simulations. Of particular interest for us is the interplay between inequality and relativity in determining the optimal tax schedule. We find support for greater progressivity in the tax structure as relative concern increases. But our numerical calculations show that this incremental impact is less at higher levels of inequality. We also explore what happens when the government does not accept the relative concerns of individuals and maximizes a non-welfarist objective function.
Metrics Towards Measuring Cyber Agility
Creators: name: Mireles, Jose David
name: Ficke, Eric
name: Cho, Jin-Hee
name: Hurley, Patrick
name: Xu, Shouhuai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In cyberspace, evolutionary strategies are commonly used by both attackers and defenders. For example, an attacker's strategy often changes over the course of time, as new vulnerabilities are discovered and/or mitigated. Similarly, a defender's strategy changes over time. These changes may or may not be in direct response to a change in the opponent's strategy. In any case, it is important to have a set of quantitative metrics to characterize and understand the effectiveness of attackers' and defenders' evolutionary strategies, which reflect their {\em cyber agility}. Despite its clear importance, few systematic metrics have been developed to quantify the cyber agility of attackers and defenders. In this paper, we propose the first metric framework for measuring cyber agility in terms of the effectiveness of the dynamic evolution of cyber attacks and defenses. The proposed framework is generic and applicable to transform any relevant, quantitative, and/or conventional static security metrics (e.g., false positives and false negatives) into dynamic metrics to capture dynamics of system behaviors. In order to validate the usefulness of the proposed framework, we conduct case studies on measuring the evolution of cyber attacks and defenses using two real-world datasets. We discuss the limitations of the current work and identify future research directions.
Occupational mobility in Australia : a career and generational study based on birth and marriage records of New South Wales
Creators: name: Allingham, John Douglas
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1965
Subjects: subject: Occupational mobility

description: All societies, even the simplest, must maintain themselves through func tional skills transmitted from each generation to the next. In broad configuration, skills may be called occupations. The characteristics of the transmission process differ among societies and the process of occupational transmission has been a topic of considerable interest for scholars in several disciplines. Historical and contemporary patterns of occupational transmission have been present ed by some scholars in terms of a broad caste-open class model which illustrates polar forms of social organisation. As an ideal type, the caste system consists of social aggregates in a fixed order of social superiority. Each caste has its own traditional rights and duties, including occupations, and each caste is self-recruiting . Such a system is workable only in a static society and traditional India most closely approximated caste social organisation.
Paleocadus burmiticus Poinar 2016
Creators: name: Guo, Mingxia
name: Xing, Lida
name: Wang, Bo
name: Zhang, Weiwei
name: Wang, Shuo
name: Shi, Aimin
name: Bai, Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Choanozoa
Mesomycetozoea
Eccrinales
Eccrinaceae
Paleocadus
Paleocadus burmiticus

description: 19) Paleocadus burmiticus Poinar, 2016
 Paleocadus burmiticus Poinar, 2016b: 1538.
Type specimen(s). H: No. B-Hy-19B (PACO).
Host. Wingless adult female ceraphronoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea).
description: Published as part of Guo, Mingxia, Xing, Lida, Wang, Bo, Zhang, Weiwei, Wang, Shuo, Shi, Aimin & Bai, Ming, 2017, A catalogue of Burmite inclusions, pp. 249-379 in Zoological Systematics 42 (3) on page 256, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201715, http://zenodo.org/record/5360313
Hawking Radiation in Laboratories
Creators: name: Sakagami, Masa-aki
name: Ohashi, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an experimental model using the Laval nozzle of a sonic analogue of the Hawking radiation. We observe a power spectrum of the out-going wave emitted from the vicinity a sonic horizon in place of a created particle number. Our treatment is based on classical theory, and it will make experiments to be easier. This experimental possibility is a great advantage of our model.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures: this is published version. Minor changes and one figure are added
Non-linear oscillations of massive stars
Creators: name: Murphy, John Oliver
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1968
Subjects: subject: Variable stars
subject: Stars Motion in line of sight

description: The study of non-linear oscillations of massive stars undertaken in this thesis has been orientated, in the first instance, towards determining the form of the radial velocity curve of a pulsating star, and later, to aspects pertaining to the vibrational stability of certain stellar models.
Charitable Conservatism, Poverty Radicalism and Good Old Fashioned Inequality Aversion
Creators: name: Kanbur, Ravi
name: Tuomala, Matti
name: Kanbur, Ravi
name: Tuomala, Matti
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Financial Economics
Public Economics

description: In his Presidential Address to the European Economic Association, Tony Atkinson introduced the idea of a “Charitable Conservatism” position in public policy, which “exhibits a degree of concern for the poor, but this is the limit of the redistributional concern and there is indifference with respect to transfers above the poverty line.” This contrasts with the perspective of poverty indices, which give zero weight to those above the poverty line, which we call “Poverty Radicalism,” and with standard “Inequality Aversion” where the weights decline smoothly as we move up the income scale. The object of this paper is, first, to clarify the interrelationships between Charitable Conservatism, Poverty Radicalism and Inequality Aversion. We do this by showing how the patterns of welfare weights to which each of these gives rise are related to each other. Secondly, we are concerned to demonstrate the implications of these different views for optimal income taxation. In terms of levels and patterns of marginal tax rates, we show that Charitable Conservatism and Poverty Radicalism are on a continuum, and by choice of low or high Inequality Aversion one can approximate either outcome fairly well.
Analyzes of the Distributed System Load with Multifractal Input Data Flows
Creators: name: Lyudmyla, Kirichenko
name: Tamara, Radivilova
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.4.6; E.3; C.2
subject: 90B18

description: The paper proposes a solution an actual scientific problem related to load balancing and efficient utilization of resources of the distributed system. The proposed method is based on calculation of load CPU, memory, and bandwidth by flows of different classes of service for each server and the entire distributed system and taking into account multifractal properties of input data flows. Weighting factors were introduced that allow to determine the significance of the characteristics of server relative to each other. Thus, this method allows to calculate the imbalance of the all system servers and system utilization. The simulation of the proposed method for different multifractal parameters of input flows was conducted. The simulation showed that the characteristics of multifractal traffic have a appreciable effect on the system imbalance. The usage of proposed method allows to distribute requests across the servers thus that the deviation of the load servers from the average value was minimal, that allows to get a higher metrics of system performance and faster processing flows.
description: 5 pages
Additional file 1 of Enhancing sleep quality for nursing home residents with dementia: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial of an evidence-based frontline huddling program
Creators: name: Snow, A. Lynn
name: Loup, Julia
name: Morgan, Robert O.
name: Richards, Kathy
name: Parmelee, Patricia A.
name: Baier, Rosa R.
name: McCreedy, Ellen
name: Frank, Barbara
name: Brady, Cathie
name: Fry, Liam
name: McCullough, Megan
name: Hartmann, Christine W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Manual of Procedures. Includes description of training, personnel, intervention, measures, IRB-approved protocol, and informed consent documents.
End-point singularities of Feynman graphs on the light cone
Creators: name: Melikhov, D.
name: Simula, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that some Lorentz components of the Feynman integrals calculated in terms of the light-cone variables may contain end-point singularities which originate from the contribution of the big-circle integral in the complex k_ plane. These singularities appear in various types of diagrams (two-point functions, three-point functions, etc) and provide the covariance of the Feynman integrals on the light-cone. We propose a procedure for calculating Feynman integrals which guarantees that the end-point singularities do not appear in the light-cone representations of the invariant amplitudes.
description: final version to appear in PLB; few references added
THE GENERAL LAW ON DATA PROTECTION AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR ACHIEVING PRIVATE AUTONOMY IN AN INCREASINGLY TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD
Creators: name: LUCAS GONÇALVES DA SILVA
name: BRICIO LUIS DA ANUNCIAÇÃO MELO
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: In the technological world, personal information is scattered across multiple databases. Privacy was conceived as a fundamental right to informational self-determination, allowing the individual to control their personal data. Databases violate the dignity of individuals, since there is complete exposure and it is possible to create a profile based on information that previously remained scattered. Based on the private autonomy, the General Law of Data Protection became conditioned to the consent of the holder the use of personal data.The literature review technique on data protection will be used.
Paleoleishmania Poinar & Poinar 2004
Creators: name: Guo, Mingxia
name: Xing, Lida
name: Wang, Bo
name: Zhang, Weiwei
name: Wang, Shuo
name: Shi, Aimin
name: Bai, Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Euglenozoa
Kinetoplastea
Trypanosomatida
Trypanosomatidae
Paleoleishmania

description: 3.19 Genus Paleoleishmania Poinar & Poinar, 2004
 Paleoleishmania Poinar & Poinar, 2004: 307. Type species: Paleoleishmania proterus Poinar & Poinar, 2004.
description: Published as part of Guo, Mingxia, Xing, Lida, Wang, Bo, Zhang, Weiwei, Wang, Shuo, Shi, Aimin & Bai, Ming, 2017, A catalogue of Burmite inclusions, pp. 249-379 in Zoological Systematics 42 (3) on page 256, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201715, http://zenodo.org/record/5360313
TAX RESPONSIBILITY UNDER THE STJ SUMMARY 435 APPROACH
Creators: name: FÁBIO PALLARITTI CALCINI
name: JULIANA CAMPOS DE CARVALHO CRUZ
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This article proposes to make a critique regarding the imputation of the tax responsibility to members and administrators based in the Precedent nº 435 of the STJ issued based on a misconception of the rule of the article 135, subsection III, of the CTN, in clear disregard of the complementary law and the Federal Constitution.
PROTECTING THE POOR AGAINST THE NEXT CRISIS
Creators: name: Kanbur, Ravi
name: Kanbur, Ravi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Public Economics

description: Crises are likely to be new normal for developing and transition economies. In designing programs to protect the poor against crises, governments face two uncertainties— uncertainty of crisis type and uncertainty of crisis timing. In the face of these uncertainties, I propose three lines of action for governments and for the international community: (i) Conduct a Social Protection Assessment Program which “stress tests” the collection of social protection interventions against a range of possible crises to reveal gaps and vulnerabilities, (ii) Over the medium term, finance improvements in design to addressing these gaps and vulnerabilities, and (iii) offer a pre-qualified line of assistance for social protection which goes into action automatically when crisis triggers are breached.
Estimating the Influence of Ethanol Policy on Plant Investment Decisions: A Real Options Analysis with Two Stochastic Variables
Creators: name: Schmit, Todd M.
name: Luo, Jianchuan
name: Conrad, Jon M.
name: Schmit, Todd M.
name: Luo, Jianchuan
name: Conrad, Jon M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agribusiness
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Ethanol policies have contributed to changes in the levels and the volatilities of revenues and costs facing ethanol firms. The implications of these policies for optimal investment behavior are investigated through an extension of the real options framework that allows for the consideration of volatility in both revenue and cost components, as well as the correlation between them. The effects of policy affecting plant revenues dominate the effects of those policies affecting production costs. In the absence of these policies, much of the recent expansionary periods would have not existed and market conditions in the late-1990s would have led to some plant closures. We also show that, regardless of plant size, national ethanol policy has narrowed the distance between the optimal entry and exit curves, implying a more narrow range of inactivity and a more volatile evolution for the industry than would have existed otherwise.
Harnessing the Forces of Urban Expansion –The Public Economics of Farmland Development Allowence
Creators: name: Chau, Nancy H.
name: Zhang, Weiwen
name: Chau, Nancy H.
name: Zhang, Weiwen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Public Economics
subject: land development allowance
subject: fiscal decentralization
subject: inter-jurisdictional competi- tion
subject: agricultural development.

description: For decades, rapid urban expansion has led to concerns over the loss of cultivated land in rural China. Less well known is the fact that development of newly cultivated land has in fact consistently exceeded land conversion from 1999-2006. This paper provides an analytical model that makes sense of this observation, featuring scal decentralization, local governments as custodians of land use and land development, as well as a land development allowance policy put in place in 1998. The model shows how a land development allowance policy can harness and redirect the forces of urban expansion to encourage agricultural land development.
The impact of small scale irrigation on household food security: the case of Filtino and Godino Irrigation Schemes in Ada Liben District, East Shoa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tesfaye, A.
name: Bogale, A.
name: Namara, Regassa E.
name: Tesfaye, A.
name: Bogale, A.
name: Namara, Regassa E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Irrigation schemes
subject: Small scale systems
subject: Households
subject: Food security
subject: Models
subject: Case studies
subject: Food insecurity
subject: Ethiopia
subject: Ada Liben District
subject: East Shoa
subject: Filtino Irrigation Scheme
subject: Godino Irrigation Scheme

description: Irrigated production is far from satisfactory in the country. The country's irrigation potential is estimated at 3.7 million hectare, of which only about 190,000 hectare (4.3 percent of the potential) is actually irrigated. The aim of this paper is to identify the impact of small-scale irrigation on household food security based on data obtained from 200 farmers in Ada Liben district of Ethiopia. Different studies revealed that access to reliable irrigation water can enable farmers to adopt new technologies and intensify cultivation, leading to increased productivity, overall higher production, and greater returns from farming. In the study area also about 70 percent of the irrigation users are food secure while only 20 percent of the non-users are found to be food secure. Access to irrigation enabled the sample households to grow crops more than once a year; to insure increased and stable production, income and consumption; and improve their food security status. The study concludes that small-scale irrigation is one of the viable solutions to secure household food needs in the study area but it did not eliminate the food insecurity problem.
description: In Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Loulseged, Makonnen; Yilma, Aster Denekew (Comps.). Impact of irrigation on poverty and environment in Ethiopia: draft proceedings of the symposium and exhibition, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 27-29 November 2007. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
A disintegrating cosmic string
Creators: name: Griffiths, J. B.
name: Docherty, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple sandwich gravitational wave of the Robinson-Trautman family. This is interpreted as representing a shock wave with a spherical wavefront which propagates into a Minkowski background minus a wedge. (i.e. the background contains a cosmic string.) The deficit angle (the tension) of the string decreases through the gravitational wave, which then ceases. This leaves an expanding spherical region of Minkowski space behind it. The decay of the cosmic string over a finite interval of retarded time may be considered to generate the gravitational wave.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Class. Quantum Grav
Evolution of rotation in rapidly rotating early-type stars during the main sequence with 2D models
Creators: name: Gagnier, D.
name: Rieutord, M.
name: Charbonnel, C.
name: Putigny, B.
name: Lara, F. Espinosa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The understanding of the rotational evolution of early-type stars is deeply related to that of anisotropic mass and angular momentum loss. In this paper, we aim to clarify the rotational evolution of rapidly rotating early-type stars along the main sequence (MS). We have used the 2D ESTER code to compute and evolve isolated rapidly rotating early-type stellar models along the MS, with and without anisotropic mass loss. We show that stars with $Z=0.02$ and masses between $5$ and $7~M_\odot$ reach criticality during the main sequence provided their initial angular velocity is larger than 50% of the Keplerian one. More massive stars are subject to radiation-driven winds and to an associated loss of mass and angular momentum. We find that this angular momentum extraction from the outer layers can prevent massive stars from reaching critical rotation and greatly reduce the degree of criticality at the end of the MS. Our model includes the so-called bi-stability jump of the $\dot{M}-T_{\rm eff}$ relation of 1D-models. This discontinuity now shows up in the latitude variations of the mass-flux surface density, endowing rotating massive stars with either a single-wind regime (no discontinuity) or a two-wind regime (a discontinuity). In the two-winds-regime, mass loss and angular momentum loss are strongly increased at low latitudes inducing a faster slow-down of the rotation. However, predicting the rotational fate of a massive star is difficult, mainly because of the non-linearity of the phenomena involved and their strong dependence on uncertain prescriptions. Moreover, the very existence of the bi-stability jump in mass-loss rate remains to be substantiated by observations.
description: 12 pages, accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics
The development and application of computer simulation models to biological systems
Creators: name: Armstrong, John Stanley
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
Year: 1969
Subjects: subject: Biology Mathematical models
subject: Electronic data processing Bibliography
subject: FORTRAN (Computer program language)

description: Biological systems are generally complex and he interrelations which describe the system response are difficult to determine. Consequently, the construction of a model of such a system usually involves considerable abstraction. The recent advances in the computing field, notably in the speed of operation, storage space and specialised simulation languages, do relieve some of the difficulty in making models of biological systems. The labour of numerical calculation is removed and a broader approach to the problem is possible. This thesis describes some work that has been done on three particular models.
Entomological studies on the impact of a small-scale irrigation scheme on malaria transmission around Ziway, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Kibret, S.
name: Petros, B.
name: Boelee, Eline
name: Tekie, H.
name: Kibret, S.
name: Petros, B.
name: Boelee, Eline
name: Tekie, H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Malaria
subject: Anopheles pharoensis
subject: Anopheles arabiensis
subject: Entomology
subject: Surveys
subject: Irrigation schemes
subject: Small scale systems
subject: Ethiopia
subject: Ziway

description: To evaluate the impact of a small-scale irrigation scheme on the level of malaria transmission in a semi-arid area, entomological studies were conducted in Zeway area, Central Ethiopia. Larval and adult anophelines were sampled during the dry and short-rainy seasons from irrigated and non-irrigated villages. Overall, significantly higher density of Anopheles larvae were found during the dry season in the irrigated village (Mean = 38.3 larvae/100 dips) than the non-irrigated village (7.4 larvae/100 dips). Canal leakage pools, irrigated fields and irrigation canals were the major sources of Anopheles mosquitoes. Larval and adult Anopheles pharoensis and An. arabiensis, principal malaria vectors in Ethiopia, were more abundant in the irrigated village than the non-irrigated village throughout the study period. Hourly light trap catches revealed that peak indoor and outdoor biting activities of An. arabiensis and An. pharoensis occurred during the early period of the night before the local inhabitants retire to bed. The majority of blood-engorged An. arabiensis (0.78) and An. pharoensis (0.69) had fed on humans, suggesting that their highly anthropophilic nature in Zeway area. Plasmodium falciparum infection rates of 1.02% and 0.54% were determined for An. arabiensis and An. pharoensis, respectively, in the irrigated village. This study demonstrated that due to poorly maintained irrigation structures, the irrigation scheme created conducive breeding grounds for malaria vector species, particularly during the dry season. Consequently, the period of malaria transmission might possibly extend from seasonal to year-round, involving the dry season. Proper water management coupled with environmental management such as source reduction could reduce vector abundance and hence malaria transmission in the irrigation schemes.
description: In Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Loulseged, Makonnen; Yilma, Aster Denekew (Comps.). Impact of irrigation on poverty and environment in Ethiopia: draft proceedings of the symposium and exhibition, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 27-29 November 2007. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE VALIDITY PLAN IN THEORY OF LEGAL FACT PONTES DE MIRANDA: AN ANALYSIS FROM THE HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES RATIFIED BY BRAZIL
Creators: name: WILSON ENGELMANN
name: ALINE ANDRIGHETTO
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This article proposes to define the constituent elements of the Treaties on Human Rights harbored the notion of rule of law and the plans designed by Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda. Checks how occurs Constitutional law via protection forecasting minority groups to incorporate Plans validity and Pontes de Miranda effectiveness. It also seeks, from the study of law sources of theory to analyze how the dialogue between sources operates in a systematic way which is amounts to the legal world opening up possibilities for the recovery of other forms of legal expression as the study of decisions the Inter-American Court of rights and the American Convention on Human rights. This article aims to verify how and whether there is constitutional protection legislation via prediction minority groups to incorporate Plans validity and Miranda Bridges effectiveness. Still, how it will face the social inequalities faced in the twenty-first century by many social factors. The work will be guided by the hermeneutic phenomenological method from specific bibliography.
STRATEGIES AND CRITERIA FOR CHOOSING THE RIGHT RESEARCH TOPIC:   A GUIDE FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS
Creators: name: Baxtiyorova Muslimabonu Shuxrat qizi Student of Samarkand State institute of Foreign language
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Selecting an appropriate research topic is a critical step in the research process, influencing the success and impact of academic work. This paper explores the factors influencing topic selection, including personal interest, relevance, feasibility and originality. And also it examines the factors influencing the selection of research topics and offers strategies to help researchers identify optimal subjects for inquiry. The study provides a framework to guide students and early-career researchers in choosing optimal research topics by review of existing literature, expert insights, and practical guidelines

       Keywords: feasibility, scope, guidance, mentorship, seek feedback, collaborate, brainstorm.
Additional file 1 of Rhodanine-3-acetamide derivatives as aldose and aldehyde reductase inhibitors to treat diabetic complications: synthesis, biological evaluation, molecular docking and simulation studies
Creators: name: Mohsinul Mulk Bacha
name: Nadeem, Humaira
name: Sumera Zaib
name: Sarwar, Sadia
name: Aqeel Imran
name: Rahman, Shafiq Ur
name: Ali, Hafiz Saqib
name: Muazzam Arif
name: Iqbal, Jamshed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. 2D interactions of cognate ligand (FX4401) (a), selective inhibitor (3e) of ALR1 (b) and dual inhibitors (c: 3f; d; 3g) inside the active pocket of 3FX4.
Additional file 1 of Incidence, clinical features, and outcomes of COVID-19 in Canada: impact of sex and age
Creators: name: O’Brien, Jacob
name: Du, Kevin Y.
name: Peng, Chun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Materials and Methods.
Curvature perturbation at the local extremum of the inflaton's potential
Creators: name: Yokoyama, Jun'ichi
name: Inoue, Shogo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectrum of curvature perturbation generated during inflation is studied in the case the inflation-driving scalar field (inflaton) $ϕ$ crosses over its potential extremum. It is shown that the nondecaying mode of perturbation has a finite value and a proper formula is given. The result is also extended to more general cases where $\ddotϕ$ is non-negligible.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure. To appear in Physics Letters B
Welcome address at the International Expert Consultation on Wastewater Irrigation, Consumer Health Risk Assessment, On-farm and Off-farm Options for Health Risk Mitigation, and Wastewater Governance in Low-income Countries, Accra, Ghana, 6 October 2008
Creators: name: Bahri, Akissa
name: Bahri, Akissa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Water reuse
subject: Wastewater irrigation
subject: Health hazards
subject: Risk assessment
subject: Waterborne diseases
subject: Governance
subject: Africa

description: Expert consultation organized by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), IDRC and WHO, supported by IDRC and the Google Foundation
Kaluza-Klein anisotropy in the CMB
Creators: name: Barrow, John D
name: Maartens, Roy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that 5-dimensional Kaluza-Klein graviton stresses can slow the decay of shear anisotropy on the brane to observable levels, and we use cosmic microwave background anisotropies to place limits on the initial anisotropy induced by these stresses. An initial shear to Hubble distortion of only \sim 10^{-3}Ω_0h_0^2 at the 5D Planck time would allow the observed large-angle CMB signal to be a relic mainly of KK tidal effects.
description: 4 pages revtex; minor changes to improve clarity
Methods to investigate the hydrology of the Himalayan springs: a review
Creators: name: Chinnasamy, Pennan
name: Prathapar, Sanmugam A.
name: Chinnasamy, Pennan
name: Prathapar, Sanmugam A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Hydrology
subject: Freshwater
subject: Water storage
subject: Water springs
subject: Water resources
subject: Groundwater
subject: Watershed management
subject: Water rates
subject: Meltwater
subject: Pumps
subject: Monitoring
subject: Catchment areas
subject: Isotope analysis
subject: Climate change
subject: Rain
subject: Temperature
subject: Mountains
subject: Flow discharge
subject: Hydrogeology
subject: South Asia
subject: Himalayan Region

description: Springs are the major source of freshwater in many small mountainous watersheds within the Himalayan region. In recent years,their flow rates have diminished,but the reasons for this are not self-evident,and hence this paper reviews the methods to investigate Himalayan springs. The review reveals that chemical and isotope analyses – mostly water dating and stable isotope (e.g.,d18O) analyses – could be an appropriate entry point to commence field investigations,because of their potential to map complex spring pathways,including linkages between aquifers. This should be combined with the building of hydrogeological maps with the available data. Output from desktop analyses,field investigations and hydrogeological maps could then contribute to the establishment of a conceptual model,which could form the basis for a numerical model.
Schwarzschild black holes and propagation of electromagnetic and gravitational waves
Creators: name: Karkowski, Janusz
name: Malec, Edward
name: Swierczynski, Zdobyslaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Disturbing of a spacetime geometry may result in the appearance of an oscillating and damped radiation - the so-called quasinormal modes. Their periods of oscillations and damping coefficients carry unique information about the mass and the angular momentum, that would allow one to identify the source of the gravitational field. In this talk we present recent bounds on the diffused energy, applicable to the Schwarzschild spacetime, that give also rough estimates of the energy of excited quasinormal modes.
description: 3 figures eps
Angular Distribution of Leptons in General ttbar Production and Decay
Creators: name: Grzadkowski, Bohdan
name: Hioki, Zenro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Angular distribution of the secondary lepton in top-quark production followed by subsequent semi-leptonic decay is studied assuming general top-quark couplings. It is shown that the distribution does not depend on any possible anomalous tbW couplings and is determined only by the standard V-A decay vertex for any production mechanism if certain well-justified conditions are satisfied.
description: (1) PACS number changed (2) In Ref.[8], one typo corrected and one paper (Erratum) added (3) To appear in Phys.Lett.B
Evaluating irrigation technologies to improve crop and water productivity of onion in Dangishta watershed during the dry monsoon phase
Creators: name: Tesema, M.
name: Schmitter, Petra
name: Nakawuka, Prossie
name: Tilahun, S. A.
name: Steenhuis, T.
name: Langan, Simon
name: Tesema, M.
name: Schmitter, Petra
name: Nakawuka, Prossie
name: Tilahun, S. A.
name: Steenhuis, T.
name: Langan, Simon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Crop production
subject: Crop management
subject: Water productivity
subject: Water use efficiency
subject: Water conservation
subject: Water management
subject: Onions
subject: Monsoon climate
subject: Dry season
subject: Watershed services
subject: Wet cultivation
subject: Soil moisture
subject: Soil water balance
subject: Rhizosphere
subject: Rain
subject: Agriculture
subject: Fertilizer application
subject: Ethiopia
subject: Dangishta Watershed

description: Abstract Although Ethiopia has abundant rainfall during the monsoon, its agricultural system does not yet fully benefit from the technologies of optimal agricultural water management during the dry season when water supplies are short. Therefore, there is need to investigate the potential of simple water saving irrigation technologies for farmers. In this study two different irrigation scheduling methods were compared: irrigation scheduling by Wetting Front Detector (WFD) and soil water balance by measuring soil moisture using Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR). Eighteen farmers, grew the same onion variety, were randomly assigned to the two irrigation management practices. The experimental plot size varied between 100 m2 and 230 m2.Recommended crop management and fertilizer application rates were maintained for all farmers. The average amount of water applied in the WFD plots was 24% lower than for TDR. Larger variability among the TDR farmers was found both in irrigation quantity and yield. Differences in yield, water productivity and water use efficiency between both irrigation treatments were not significant. The study shows that using the WFD tool could guide farmers on how much to irrigate, reducing the amount of water without affecting crop yields.
description: Paper presented at the International Conference of the Advancement of Science and Technology, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, 17-18 July 2016
A rapidly-changing jet orientation in the stellar-mass black hole V404 Cygni
Creators: name: Miller-Jones, James C. A.
name: Tetarenko, Alexandra J.
name: Sivakoff, Gregory R.
name: Middleton, Matthew J.
name: Altamirano, Diego
name: Anderson, Gemma E.
name: Belloni, Tomaso M.
name: Fender, Rob P.
name: Jonker, Peter G.
name: Körding, Elmar G.
name: Krimm, Hans A.
name: Maitra, Dipankar
name: Markoff, Sera
name: Migliari, Simone
name: Mooley, Kunal P.
name: Rupen, Michael P.
name: Russell, David M.
name: Russell, Thomas D.
name: Sarazin, Craig L.
name: Soria, Roberto
name: Tudose, Valeriu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Powerful relativistic jets are one of the main ways in which accreting black holes provide kinetic feedback to their surroundings. Jets launched from or redirected by the accretion flow that powers them should be affected by the dynamics of the flow, which in accreting stellar-mass black holes has shown increasing evidence for precession due to frame dragging effects that occur when the black hole spin axis is misaligned with the orbital plane of its companion star. Recently, theoretical simulations have suggested that the jets can exert an additional torque on the accretion flow, although the full interplay between the dynamics of the accretion flow and the launching of the jets is not yet understood. Here we report a rapidly changing jet orientation on a timescale of minutes to hours in the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni, detected with very long baseline interferometry during the peak of its 2015 outburst. We show that this can be modelled as Lense-Thirring precession of a vertically-extended slim disk that arises from the super-Eddington accretion rate. Our findings suggest that the dynamics of the precessing inner accretion disk could play a role in either directly launching or redirecting the jets within the inner few hundred gravitational radii. Similar dynamics should be expected in any strongly-accreting black hole whose spin is misaligned with the inflowing gas, both affecting the observational characteristics of the jets, and distributing the black hole feedback more uniformly over the surrounding environment.
description: This is a pre-print of an article published in Nature. The final published version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1152-0 . 42 pages, 14 figures (5 as tables)
Additional file 2 of Incidence, clinical features, and outcomes of COVID-19 in Canada: impact of sex and age
Creators: name: O’Brien, Jacob
name: Du, Kevin Y.
name: Peng, Chun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S1. Dataset layout. Screenshots were taken in MATLAB of the final dataset layout of the Canadian COVID19 dataset (A), Canadian population demographics (B), and Canadian workforce demographics (C). Fig. S2. Summary of COVID-19 dataset paremeters and potential values. Fig. S3. Age, sex, and symptom segregated COVID-19 cases. Data represent percentage of cases with symptom relative to total closed cases per sex in each age group. Data were sampled from the ‘A/Symptomatic, Closed cases’ group and analyzed with Fisher’s Exact Test. *p ***p