cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of alternative elicitation formats in discrete choice experiments
Creators: name: Scheufele, Gabriela
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
name: Scheufele, Gabriela
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: discrete choice experiments
subject: split sample approach
subject: elicitation format
subject: incentive compatibility
subject: strategic behaviour
subject: learning effects
subject: panel mixed logit models

description: An elicitation format prevalently applied in discrete choice experiments (DCEs) offers each respondent a sequence of choice tasks. Each choice task contains more than two choice options. Empirical evidence shows, however, that repeated choice tasks influence choice behaviour through institutional learning, fatigue, value learning and strategic response. The study reported in this paper uses a split sample approach. This approach was based on field surveys using a single binary elicitation format. To expand the research on effects of sequential binary DCE formats, a majority vote baseline was used. We present evidence for effects caused by institutional learning, and by either strategic behaviour or value learning, after respondents answered repeated choice questions. However, we did not find any indications for strategic behaviour in respondents caused by their awareness of having multiple choices. The decision to use a sequential or a single elicitation format may therefore imply a trade-off between decreased choice accuracy and potentially increased strategic behaviour in respondents. This trade-off is due to an incentive incompatible mechanism. Further research is needed to explore strategic behaviour induced by incentive incompatible elicitation formats, using alternative approaches that are not compromised by a confounded baseline, that facilitate the differentiation between value learning and strategic behaviour, and that allow the use of less restrictive model specifications. Such research should also investigate the effects of varying incentives induced by the order in which choice questions are presented to respondents.
Additional file 7 of Evolutionary analysis of genes coding for Cysteine-RIch Secretory Proteins (CRISPs) in mammals
Creators: name: Arévalo, Lena
name: Brukman, Nicolás G.
name: Cuasnicú, Patricia S.
name: Roldan, Eduardo R. S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7. Phylogenetic trees of species included in the analysis for A-Evac1 and B-Evac2.
An Integrated Assessment approach to linking biophysical modelling and economic valuation tools
Creators: name: Kragt, Marit Ellen
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
name: Jakeman, Tony
name: Kragt, Marit Ellen
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
name: Jakeman, Tony
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Bayesian networks
subject: bio-economic modelling
subject: catchment management
subject: cost-benefit analysis
subject: environmental values
subject: integrated assessment and modelling
subject: non-market valuation
subject: riparian vegetation

description: Natural resource management (NRM) typically involves complex decisions that affect a variety of stakeholder values. Efficient NRM, which achieves the greatest net environmental, social and financial benefits, needs to integrate the assessment of environmental impacts with the costs and benefits of investment. Integrated assessment (IA) is one approach that incorporates the several dimensions of catchment NRM, by considering multiple issues and knowledge from various disciplines and stakeholders. Despite the need for IA, there are few studies that integrate biophysical modelling tools with economic valuation. In this paper, we demonstrate how economic non-market valuation tools can be used to support an IA of catchment NRM changes. We develop a Bayesian Network model that integrates: a process-based water quality model; ecological assessments of native riparian vegetation; estimates of management costs; and non-market (intangible) values of changes in riparian vegetation. This modelling approach illustrates how information from different sources can be integrated in one framework to evaluate the environmental and economic impacts of NRM actions. It also shows the uncertainties associated with the estimated welfare effects. By estimating the marginal social costs and benefits, a cost-benefit analysis of alternative management intervention can be gained and provides more economic rationality to NRM decisions.
Cheilomenes sexmaculata
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Cheilomenes
Cheilomenes sexmaculata

description: 26. sexmaculata (Fabricius, 1781)
Distribution: Widely distributed in the Oriental and Australasian regions; Throughout India; Bangladesh; Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Bhutan; Myanmar; Malaysia; Indonesia; The Philippines; Vietnam; China; Japan; Australasia; Introduced in the Caribbeans and spread to parts of South America (Chile, Colombia).
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 279, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
GSTT1, GSTP1 and XPC genes are associated with longevity in an Italian cohort
Creators: name: Scarfò, Manuel
name: Sciandra, Chiara
name: Ruberto, Stefano
name: Santovito, Alfredo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Longevity is a complex process controlled by environmental and genetic factors. We evaluated the association of seven drug metabolising and DNA-repair gene polymorphisms with longevity in an Italian cohort. A sample of 756 subjects aged 18-98 was genotyped for CYP1A1 (rs1048943, A>G), GSTM1 (rs 1183423000, presence/absence), GSTT1 (rs1601993659, presence/absence), GSTP1 (rs1695, A>G), XRCC1 (rs1799782, C>T), XRCC1 (rs25489, A>G) and XPC (rs2228001, A>C) gene polymorphisms. The association between the studied gene polymorphisms and longevity was evaluated by dividing the sample into three age groups: 18–50, 51–85, and 86–98. We observed a significant decrease in the frequency of the GSTT1 null, GSTP1 G and XPC C alleles in the oldest group with respect to the youngest one. We also obtained the same results when dividing the sample into 18–85 and 86–98 age groups. The general linear model analyses confirmed a significant decreasing trend with age of the above mentioned alleles. We hypothesised that these minor alleles, being important in the sensitivity against the development of different types of cancer, may reflect a reduced life-expectancy in carrier subjects and may explain their significantly lower frequency observed among subjects belonging to the oldest age group.
Modeling International Trends in Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emissions
Creators: name: Stern, David I.
name: Stern, David I.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Energy
subject: efficiency
subject: carbon
subject: emissions
subject: technological change
subject: between estimator

description: This study uses a stochastic production frontier to model energy efficiency trends, in 85 countries over a 37 year period. No structure is imposed on technological change over time, although differences in technology level across the countries are modelled as a stochastic function of explanatory variables. These variables are selected by a literature survey and a theoretical model of energy-efficient technology choice. An improvement in a country’s energy efficiency is measured as a reduction in energy intensity, while holding constant that economy’s mix of inputs and outputs. All other things remaining constant, the country using the least energy per unit output is on the global best-practice frontier. The model is used to derive decompositions of energy intensity and carbon emissions. It also examines whether there is a convergence across countries. The study shows that energy efficiency rises with increasing general total factor productivity. Energy efficiency is also higher in countries with undervalued currencies. Higher fossil fuel reserves are associated with lower energy efficiency. Energy efficiency converges over time across countries. Technological change was the most important factor counteracting the effect of economic growth in increasing global energy- use increase and carbon emissions.
Negative differential resistance in single crystal La_{2}CuO_{4} at low temperature
Creators: name: Belevtsev, B. I.
name: Dalakova, N. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A current-controlled negative differential resistance has been revealed in the I-V characteristics of single crystal La$_{2}$CuO$_{4+δ}$ in the low temperature region. The non-linear behavior of conductivity is accompanied by a transition from positive to negative magnetoresistance when the current is growing. Possible reasons for the effect observed are discussed.
description: 3pages, a translation from Russian into English of paper published in Izvestiya RAN, Ser. Fiz
Additional file 8 of Evolutionary analysis of genes coding for Cysteine-RIch Secretory Proteins (CRISPs) in mammals
Creators: name: Arévalo, Lena
name: Brukman, Nicolás G.
name: Cuasnicú, Patricia S.
name: Roldan, Eduardo R. S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8. Phylogenetic trees of species included in the analysis for Evac3.
Prerequisites and limits for economic modelling of climate change impacts and adaptation
Creators: name: Jotzo, Frank
name: Jotzo, Frank
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: There is demand for qualitative and quantitative economic analysis on the optimum degree of climate change mitigation and adaptation, the optimal timing of such actions, and their optimum distribution between countries and sectors. This paper discusses what is, as well as what is not, possible for economic modelling in this field. Specific reference is made to the paper by Bosello, Carraro and de Cian (2009), as well as Tol (2009). Integrated assessment modelling can provide powerful qualitative insights (for example, about the need for both mitigation and adaptation and the interactions between the two, or the need for both individual and policy-driven adaptation). However, the more detailed quantitative results from such studies are subject are extremely limited. In many cases, they are virtually irrelevant as a policy guide. For these models to be useful representations of reality, economic climate change models need three important features: representation of uncertainty about impacts (in particular, the risk of abrupt climate change); fuller representation of economic impacts from climate change and inclusion of non-market impacts; and finally, modelling of equity dimensions. These features are absent in many models currently used. This leads to a tendency for quantitative results to be biased against mitigation as an option to address climate change and in favour of other adaptation.
Spectral statistics of a quantum interval-exchange map
Creators: name: Bogomolny, E.
name: Schmit, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Curious spectral properties of an ensemble of random unitary matrices appearing in the quantization of a map p -> p+alpha, q -> q+f(p+alpha) in [Giraud et al. nlin.CD/0403033] are investigated. When alpha=m/n with integer co-prime m,n and matrix dimension N -> infinity is such that mN = 1 or -1 mod n, local spectral statistics of this ensemble tends to the semi-Poisson distribution [Bogomolny et al. Eur. Phys. J. B 19, 121 (2001)] with arbitrary integer or half-integer level repulsion at small distances: R(s)-> s^{beta} when s -> 0 and beta=n-1 or n/2-1 depending on time-reversal symmetry of the map.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Difference of mutant knot invariants and their differential expansion
Creators: name: Bishler, L.
name: Dhara, Saswati
name: Grigoryev, T.
name: Mironov, A.
name: Morozov, A.
name: Morozov, An.
name: Ramadevi, P.
name: Singh, Vivek Kumar
name: Sleptsov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate the differences of HOMFLY-PT invariants for pairs of mutant knots colored with representations of $SL(N)$, which are large enough to distinguish between them. These mutant pairs include the pretzel mutants, which require at least the representation, labeled by the Young diagram $[4,2]$. We discuss the differential expansion for the differences, it is non-trivial in the case of mutants, which have the non-zero defect. The most effective technical tool, in this case, turns out to be the standard Reshetikhin-Turaev approach.
description: 6 pages
The management of diversity : flexible integration in enviromental law through enhanced cooperation in the EU and harmonization in Canada
Creators: name: Abt, Marianne Freiermuth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis compares two mechanisms of flexible integration in environmental policy in two different legal systems, Canada and the European Union. It looks at the surrounding circumstances that led to the creation of these mechanisms, examines their design and functioning, attempts to assess their achievements and potential and situates them in a broader international context of current trends in federal systems. My point is that federal systems have had to turn to some form of flexible integration in order to prevent lowest common denominator solutions. They have chosen different solutions, but the examples show that effective environmental policy through flexible integration could be possible. Chapter One sets out the methods that are used in this comparative study. Comparative law is a logical choice to deal with the topic. I argue that the EU and Canada have a baseline of similarity and can be compared as two federal systems. Furthermore, I use federalism as a lens through which to look at enhanced cooperation in the EU and harmonization in Canada. Chapter Two explains the Canada-wide Accord on Environmental Harmonization and investigates its achievements to date under the Canada-wide Sub-Agreement on Environmental Standards. I question the design of the mechanism and its solely political character. Some results have been achieved under the Standards Sub-Agreement and considering the background of the Canada-wide Accord, one should not be too dismissive about these achievements. I argue, however, that the mechanism's potential could be considerably increased. Chapter Three describes the EU provisions on enhanced cooperation and their potential application in environmental law. I show that although the legal prerequisites are numerous and seem very strict, the mechanism has great potential if the conditions for application are not interpreted narrowly. My example is the new chemicals policy (REACH), but I emphasize that many other areas in environmental policy could be addressed effectively through enhanced cooperation. Chapter Four compares the two mechanisms and explores their differences and similarities. I explain the major problem areas and try to offer some suggestions for improvement based on the comparison. The Conclusion sums up and evaluates the findings of each chapter.
Tau (MAPT) haplotypes in Jordan: new evidence on the Middle East as a melting-pot predating Neolithic migration
Creators: name: Alkaraki, Almuthanna K.
name: Abuelezz, Alanoud I.
name: Khabour, Omar F.
name: Peña, Jose A.
name: Alfonso-Sánchez, Miguel A.
name: Altaany, Zaid
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Frequencies of H1 and H2 haplotypes of the microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) gene were examined in two Jordanian samples. The criterion for haplotype assignment was the presence/absence of the intronic 238-bp deletion, located between exons 9 and 10 of the MAPT genomic region. We further compiled MAPT haplotype frequencies in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and European populations to widen the scope of analyses. Jordan MAPT*H2 haplotype frequencies peaked among worldwide samples analysed to date, with the Jordan general population featuring the top value (0.386). AMOVA tests results indicated spatial genetic structuring, as they unveiled significant differences in H2 frequencies between South Asia and Europe, with a hypothetical contact zone in the Middle East. The southeastern region of the Middle East shares low H2 frequencies with South Asia, while the northwestern area shows high H2 frequencies, similar to and even higher than observed in Europe. We suggest that high H2 frequencies could have originated at the beginning of the Neolithic in the western region of the Middle East, most likely through genetic drift episodes associated with founding events. Subsequently, the arrival of Neolithic farmers boosted the H2 haplotype spreading throughout Europe.
Talbot-Lau interferometry with fullerenes: Sensitivity to inertial forces and vibrational dephasing
Creators: name: Stibor, A.
name: Hornberger, K.
name: Hackermueller, L.
name: Zeilinger, A.
name: Arndt, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss matter wave experiments in a near-field interferometer and focus on dephasing phenomena due to inertial forces. Their presence may result in a significant reduction of the observed interference contrast, even though they do not lead to genuine decoherence. We provide quantitative estimates for the most important effects and demonstrate experimentally the strong influence of acoustic vibrations. Since the effects of inertial forces get increasingly important for the interferometry with more massive particles they have to be identified and compensated in future experiments.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures. (To be published in Laser Physics)
Coccinella Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coccinella

description: Coccinella Linnaeus, 1758
27. iranica Dobzhansky, 1926
Distribution: Pakistan (Ashfaque et al. 2013); Iran; Turkey.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 279, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Is the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Policy Successful in Sustaining Rural Employment?
Creators: name: Bouamra-Mechemache, Zohra
name: Chaaban, Jad
name: Bouamra-Mechemache, Zohra
name: Chaaban, Jad
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Market Structure
subject: Protected Designation of Origin
subject: Rural Employment

description: This paper seeks to establish whether public agro-food interventions like food quality labels contribute or not to the promotion of rural employment. To this end, the paper uses original longitudinal firm and plant level datasets on the French cheese industry to assess the impact of the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) label on rural employment. The data is used to test the impact of the PDO label on equilibrium market structure in the downstream cheese processing segment, and to establish backward linkages this segment has on upstream plant-level employment and the number of dairy farmers. Our results show that the PDO label has increased the equilibrium number of firms at the national level, because the introduction of this label has created market segmentation which reduced barriers to entry. In turn, this higher number of cheese firms resulted in more employment in dairy farms and processing plants at the district level. However, the PDO label exerts pressure on farmers to abide by strict production techniques, which may cause exit due to cost increases. Yet our estimates show that the employment benefits of this label outweigh the potential losses it might create due to its product specification stringency.
Universality, criticality and complexity of information propagation in social media
Creators: name: Notarmuzi, Daniele
name: Castellano, Claudio
name: Flammini, Alessandro
name: Mazzilli, Dario
name: Radicchi, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information avalanches in social media are typically studied in a similar fashion as avalanches of neuronal activity in the brain. Whereas a large body of literature reveals substantial agreement about the existence of a unique process characterizing neuronal activity across organisms, the dynamics of information in online social media is far less understood. Statistical laws of information avalanches are found in previous studies to be not robust across systems, and radically different processes are used to represent plausible driving mechanisms for information propagation. Here, we analyze almost 1 billion time-stamped events collected from a multitude of online platforms -- including Telegram, Twitter and Weibo -- over observation windows longer than 10 years to show that the propagation of information in social media is a universal and critical process. Universality arises from the observation of identical macroscopic patterns across platforms, irrespective of the details of the specific system at hand. Critical behavior is deduced from the power-law distributions, and corresponding hyperscaling relations, characterizing size and duration of avalanches of information. Neuronal activity may be modeled as a simple contagion process, where only a single exposure to activity may be sufficient for its diffusion. On the contrary, statistical testing on our data indicates that a mixture of simple and complex contagion, where involvement of an individual requires exposure from multiple acquaintances, characterizes the propagation of information in social media. We show that the complexity of the process is correlated with the semantic content of the information that is propagated. Conversational topics about music, movies and TV shows tend to propagate as simple contagion processes, whereas controversial discussions on political/societal themes obey the rules of complex contagion.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, 7 pages of bibliography, 28 pages of supplemental material
Reflexiones en torno al enfoque SIAL: Evolución y avances desde la Agroindustria Rural (AIR) hasta los sistemas Agroalimentarios Localizados (SIAL)
Creators: name: Boucher, Francois
name: Pomeon, T.
name: Boucher, Francois
name: Pomeon, T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Agroindustria Rural
subject: Sistema Agroalimentario Localizado
subject: activación.

description: En el contexto de liberalización comercial y de las crisis actuales, la Agroindustria Rural (AIR) se enfrenta a nuevos desafíos relacionados con la emergencia de inusitadas exigencias de los consumidores, cambios rápidos en los circuitos de distribución y una mayor competencia con los productos importados. Este entorno resulta difícil si a ello se agrega la permanencia de la pobreza en las zonas rurales. La respuesta podría venir de las relaciones que hay entre la AIR y el territorio, las cuales han sido examinadas bajo un nuevo enfoque de reflexión denominado Sistema Agroalimentario Localizado (SIAL). El SIAL se define como una forma particular de Sistema Productivo Local (SPL) organizado en torno a recursos locales específicos. En este documento se presentan los desafíos actuales de la AIR y de las concentraciones geográficas de AIR, así como la evolución de la noción SIAL en sus varias dimensiones (concepto, enfoque, método de análisis y método de acompañamiento del desarrollo de concentración de agroindustrias rurales). Se pone un énfasis particular en la calificación territorial de los productos como proceso de activación de los SIAL y oportunidad para las AIR.
The nurse manager’s perspective in maintaining a quality practice environment
Creators: name: Tashkandi, Nabeeha
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The quality of the working environment is currently an important and rising issue in a number of disciplines, including nursing. To practice effectively, nurses today need an environment that supports quality professional practice. This qualitative research study used an interpretive description methodology to examine the nurse manager's perspective on creating and maintaining a quality practice environment. Four nurse managers were recruited from an acute care setting to be interviewed for this study. The deductive data analysis of participant narrative revealed three major and broad themes. These themes are: establishing a trust relationship; leadership philosophy and style; and organizational and staff support. The process, as the participants' stories reveal, is a cyclic, responsive, and interactive one, in which managers bring to bear an array of interdependent strategies on the complex problem of creating a quality practice environment. The results of this study shed light on the processes and challenges nurse manager's face in the current and ever changing health care system and provide a foundational background to the leadership traits needed to create and maintain a quality practice environment that promotes nurses' satisfaction and good patient outcomes. The findings of this research offer insights to inform nursing researchers, institutions, and policy makers in their efforts to understand and improve nursing practice, provide appropriate levels of support, improve educational programs, and develop better guidelines for creating and maintaining a quality practice environment.
Spectral theory of Jacobi matrices on trees whose coefficients are generated by multiple orthogonality
Creators: name: Denisov, Sergey A.
name: Yattselev, Maxim L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47B36, 42C05

description: We study Jacobi matrices on trees whose coefficients are generated by multiple orthogonal polynomials. Hilbert space decomposition into an orthogonal sum of cyclic subspaces is obtained. For each subspace, we find generators and the generalized eigenfunctions written in terms of the orthogonal polynomials. The spectrum and its spectral type are studied for large classes of orthogonality measures.
Coccinella lama Kapur 1963
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coccinella
Coccinella lama

description: 28. lama Kapur, 1963a
Distribution: India (Eastern Himalayas); Tibet; Mount Everest.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 279, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations from Gravitational Waves: An Analytic Approach
Creators: name: Pritchard, Jonathan R.
name: Kamionkowski, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop an analytic approach to calculation of the temperature and polarisation power spectra of the cosmic microwave background due to inflationary gravitational waves. This approach complements the more precise numerical results by providing insight into the physical origins of the features in the power spectra. We explore the use of analytic approximations for the gravitational-wave evolution, making use of the WKB approach to handle the radiation-matter transition. In the process, we describe scaling relations for the temperature and polarisation power spectra. We illustrate the dependence of the amplitude, shape, and peak locations on the details of recombination, the gravitational-wave power spectrum, and the cosmological parameters, and explain the origin of the peak locations in the temperature and polarisation power spectra. The decline in power on small scales in the polarisation power spectra is discussed in terms of phase-damping. In an appendix we detail numerical techniques for integrating the gravitational-wave evolution in the presence of anisotropic stress from free-streaming neutrinos.
description: 38 pages, 15 figures, submitted to Annals of Physics
Additional file 6 of Evolutionary analysis of genes coding for Cysteine-RIch Secretory Proteins (CRISPs) in mammals
Creators: name: Arévalo, Lena
name: Brukman, Nicolás G.
name: Cuasnicú, Patricia S.
name: Roldan, Eduardo R. S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6. Crisp3 (Evac3a) gene sequence alignment.
Coccinella longifasciata Liu 1962
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coccinella
Coccinella longifasciata

description: 29. longifasciata Liu, 1962
Distribution: India (Eastern Himalayas); Tibet; China; Russia; Mongolia.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 279, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Strange mesons in strong magnetic fields
Creators: name: Mishra, Amruta
name: Misra, S. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The masses of the strange mesons ($K$, $K^*$ and $ϕ$) are investigated in the presence of strong magnetic fields. The changes in the masses of these mesons arise from the mixing of the pseusdoscalar and vector mesons in the presence of a magnetic field. For the charged mesons, these mass modifications are in addition to the contributions from the lowest Landau energy levels to their masses. The decay widths, $ϕ\rightarrow K\bar K$ and $K^* \rightarrow Kπ$, in the presence of the magnetic field are studied using a field theoretic model of composite hadrons with constituent quarks/antiquarks. The model uses the free Dirac Hamiltonian in terms of the constituent quark fields as the light quark antiquark pair creation term and explicit constructions for the meson states in terms of the constituent quarks and anitiquarks to study the decay processes. The study of the masses and decay widths of the strange mesons in strong magnetic fields can have observable consequences on the production of the open and hidden strange mesons in the peripheral ultra high energy collisions at LHC, where the created magnetic field can be huge.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures. published in Int. Jour. Mod. Phys. E, Vol. 30, No. 3 (2021) 2150014. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2005.00354
title: Abdominal pain with a twist
Creators: name: Matos, Inês
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Paediatric radiology
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Paediatric
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Clinical Case

description: Clinical History: A ten-year-old girl, with a history of precocious puberty, presented in the Emergency Department with diffuse lower quadrant abdominal pain and vomiting. Her laboratory findings showed leucocytosis with neutrophilia.

description: 10 years, female
Construction of Evaluation System for High-quality Development of Characteristic Towns from the Perspective of Production-Living-Ecology Integration
Creators: name: DONG Hongxia
name: WANG Hui
name: DONG Hongxia
name: WANG Hui
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Production-living-ecology integration, Characteristic town, High-quality development, Evaluation index

description: Under the perspective of production-living-ecology integration, an evaluation system, involving production quality, living quality and ecological quality, was constructed in this article for high-quality development of characteristic towns. Using Delphi method and analytic hierarchy process, the indices selected based on experience were screened, and the evaluation indices retained were weighted. What’s more, relevant suggestions for high-quality development of characteristic towns were put forward from the three aspects of production, living and ecology.
Stationary scattering theory for repulsive Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Itakura, Kyohei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present paper we discuss stationary scattering theory for repulsive Hamiltonians. We show the existence and completeness of stationary wave operators and unitarity of the scattering matrix. Moreover we completely characterize asymptotic behaviors of generalized eigenfunctions with minimal growth in terms of the scattering matrix. In our argument the radiation condition bounds for limiting resolvents play major roles. In fact, it is used to construct the stationary wave operators.
description: 25 pages
Spin injection, accumulation and spin precession in a mesoscopic non-magn etic metal island
Creators: name: Zaffalon, M.
name: van Wees, B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally study spin accumulation in an aluminium island with all dimensions smaller than the spin relaxation length, so that the spin imbalance throughout the island is uniform. Electrical injection and detection of the spin accumulation are carried out in a four terminal geometry by means of four cobalt electrodes connected to the island through tunnel barriers. We model the system theoretically and we investigate the role of the ferromagnetic electrodes on the spin accumulation at the limit at which the electron diffusion time can be neglected. We present measurements of spin accumulation at room temperature and at 4.2 K: in both cases the spin accumulation signal is larger than the Ohmic resistance of the aluminium island. From magnetisation precession measurements at room temperature, we extract a spin relaxation time of 60 ps and a polarisation P = 8% for tunnel barriers with resistances as low as 20 Ωμm^2.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures
Agglomeration Economies in Ukrainian Dairy Sector: a Marked Point Process Approach
Creators: name: Brümmer, Bernhard
name: Von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan
name: Nivievskyi, Oleg
name: Schlather, Martin
name: Brümmer, Bernhard
name: Von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan
name: Nivievskyi, Oleg
name: Schlather, Martin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Ukraine
subject: dairy farming
subject: order-m frontier
subject: spatial dependence
subject: agglomeration.

description: Even after more than 15 years of transition from plan to market, agriculture in Ukraine still faces many challenges in terms of its structure. The evidence in the literature points to significant heterogeneity of technical efficiency and productivity scores in Ukraine. Moreover, both the recently approved WTO accession, and the ongoing negotiations on a free trade agreement with the EU will require further improvements in productivity and competitiveness at the farm level. Using farm-level data for 2004-2005, we study the presence and possible causes of agglomeration economies in Ukrainian dairy sector. One of the most important results is that there are agglomeration effects in the sector. The performance of dairy farms is influenced by the performance of its neighbors. Furthermore, the dairy farms in the neighborhood of a dairy processor outperform the more distant ones, although the heterogeneity of this effect is substantial.
Additional file 1 of Repurposing NGO data for better research outcomes: a scoping review of the use and secondary analysis of NGO data in health policy and systems research
Creators: name: Masefield, Sarah C.
name: Megaw, Alice
name: Barlow, Matt
name: Piran C. L. White
name: Henrice Altink
name: Grugel, Jean
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1. Full list of references for the studies included in the review.
Matrix Factorizations And Mirror Symmetry: The Cubic Curve
Creators: name: Brunner, Ilka
name: Herbst, Manfred
name: Lerche, Wolfgang
name: Walcher, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit open string mirror symmetry for the elliptic curve, using matrix factorizations for describing D-branes on the B-model side. We show how flat coordinates can be intrinsically defined in the Landau-Ginzburg model, and derive the A-model partition function counting disk instantons that stretch between three D-branes. In mathematical terms, this amounts to computing the simplest Fukaya product m_2 from the LG mirror theory. In physics terms, this gives a systematic method for determining non-perturbative Yukawa couplings for intersecting brane configurations.
description: 23 pages, 3 figures
Identification and characterization of DNA receptor candidates in Haemophilus influenzae
Creators: name: Molnar, Sebastian James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Haemophilus influenzae is a naturally transformable bacterium with a mechanism for the preferential uptake of conspecific DNA. This mechanism requires the specific recognition of uptake signal sequences (USS) on exogenous DNA by receptors on the bacterial cell surface. The USS-specific DNA receptor in H. influenzae is unknown. From the set of known and putative competence genes, candidate USS-receptor genes were identified using bioinformatic approaches. ComEl was initially identified as the best candidate receptor, since it is orthologous to proteins that bind DNA for uptake in Bacillus subtilis and other bacteria. A comEl knockout was previously found to have a 10-fold reduction in its transformability, and this retention of partial DNA uptake in ΔcomEl allowed a direct test for a change in uptake specificity. Thus, to test for a role as the USS-specific DNA-receptor, I used DNA-competition experiments to compare uptake specificity in the ΔcomEl and wild type strains. A loss of uptake specificity in ΔcomEl was not detected. Therefore, comEl does not encode the USS-specific receptor. Recently, a putative competence operon (comNOPQ) was found to have an upstream competence regulatory element (CRE), which is essential for competence gene expression, and microarray analysis showed that its genes are induced during competence development. The operon contained USS-receptor candidate genes, however, it was not known whether comNOPQ genes function in competence. To test this, I constructed a knockout of comN and measured its transformability. The transformation frequency of the ΔcomN strain was 10⁵-fold less than that of wild type. Furthermore, I found that DNA binding and uptake were completely eliminated in the ΔcomN. This suggests that comN could be a component of the DNA binding and uptake machinery or that it functions in the assembly of such apparatus. An alternative possibility is that the ΔcomN strain has polar effects on downstream genes in the comNOPQ operon, and comN does not function in the competence mechanism. Further work is needed to test these possibilities. However, I have demonstrated that the comNOPQ operon is part of the competence regulon and that it contains one or more genes that are essential for the DNA uptake mechanism in H. influenzae.
Coccinella luteopicta
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coccinella
Coccinella luteopicta

description: 30. luteopicta (Mulsant, 1866)
Distribution: India (Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarkhand, West Bengal); Bhutan; Nepal; Tibet; China.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 279, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
University Accreditation using Data Warehouse
Creators: name: Sindar, Anita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 80110 Simulation and Modelling
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The accreditation aims assuring the quality the quality of the institution education. The institution needs the comprehensive documents for giving the information accurately before reviewed by assessor. Therefore, academic documents should be stored effectively to ease fulfilling the requirement of accreditation. However, the data are generally derived from various sources, various types, not structured and dispersed. This paper proposes designing a data warehouse to integrate all various data to prepare a good academic document for accreditation in a university. The data warehouse is built using nine steps that was introduced by Kimball. This method is applied to produce a data warehouse based on the accreditation assessment focusing in academic part. The data warehouse shows that it can analyse the data to prepare the accreditation assessment documents.
SMEs' Confidentiality Concerns for Security Information Sharing
Creators: name: Shojaifar, Alireza
name: Fricker, Samuel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Small and medium-sized enterprises are considered an essential part of the EU economy, however, highly vulnerable to cyberattacks. SMEs have specific characteristics which separate them from large companies and influence their adoption of good cybersecurity practices. To mitigate the SMEs' cybersecurity adoption issues and raise their awareness of cyber threats, we have designed a self-paced security assessment and capability improvement method, CYSEC. CYSEC is a security awareness and training method that utilises self-reporting questionnaires to collect companies' information about cybersecurity awareness, practices, and vulnerabilities to generate automated recommendations for counselling. However, confidentiality concerns about cybersecurity information have an impact on companies' willingness to share their information. Security information sharing decreases the risk of incidents and increases users' self-efficacy in security awareness programs. This paper presents the results of semi-structured interviews with seven chief information security officers of SMEs to evaluate the impact of online consent communication on motivation for information sharing. The results were analysed in respect of the Self Determination Theory. The findings demonstrate that online consent with multiple options for indicating a suitable level of agreement improved motivation for information sharing. This allows many SMEs to participate in security information sharing activities and supports security experts to have a better overview of common vulnerabilities. The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57404-8_22
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, 14th International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA 2020)
Identificación de potenciales consumidores y clientes de pequeñas empresas agropecuarias, en una feria especialidades campesinas de Chile
Creators: name: Caceres, Leonardo
name: Torres, Victoria
name: Saez, Luis
name: Caceres, Leonardo
name: Torres, Victoria
name: Saez, Luis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: CATPCA
subject: Cluster analysis
subject: typical food
subject: market segmentation.

description: The purpose of this study is to identify potential consumer and customers of small farmers at a peasant specialties fair in Chile. An exploratory multivariate analysis was conducted based on information gathered from a surveyapplied to visitors of a peasant specialty fair in Chile. We found that visitors perceived the quality of the products of the peasant class, as well as increase their perception of small farmers once they visit the fair. We identifi ed fi ve segments of visitors, of which two are proposed as attractive segments for the small farmers, as a potential consumer and another as potential customers.
description: Published by Asociación de Economistas Agrarios de Chile