cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title:  «Sarà giorno fatto dentro i miei occhi». Porta chiusa e il teatro dell’altro
Creators: name: Piccione  ,  Caterina
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2021

description: Come si delinea la relazione tra soggettività e alterità nel teatro di Sartre? Questo saggio intende, prima di tutto, trovare una dinamica originariamente teatrale nella costituzione sartriana del sé. Se la coscienza è percepita come oggetto solo in relazione all'alterità, attraverso lo scambio di sguardi che caratterizza l'essere-per-altri, allora il teatro può essere considerato uno specchio dell'esperienza del mondo come spazio di incontri. In secondo luogo, il saggio intende trovare questo dispositivo teatrale in funzione paradigmatica all'interno della stanza infernale di Porta Chiusa. Ogni personaggio dello spettacolo è lo specchio dell'altro, in una triangolazione che moltiplica indefinitamente le relazioni concrete con gli altri descritte ne L’Essere e il Nulla. Il tempo sospeso della stanza chiusa non ha bisogno di giudizi o punizioni divine: la nudità assoluta davanti agli occhi degli altri è sufficiente, implicando un riconoscimento reciproco e un'alienazione costitutiva della coscienza. La situazione infernale porta con sé un conflitto senza fine, ma anche un senso dell'esistenza che si svolge al crocevia tra ex-stasi, vuoto e metamorfosi, che può suggerire un'interpretazione inedita dell'affermazione "l'inferno sono gli altri".
description: Studi Sartriani – XV/2021 – Sartre e l’arte contemporanea. Immagini e immaginari
Basal ganglia structure and the effects of neuroleptic treatment in schizophrenia
Creators: name: Lang, Donna Jane-Mai
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Schizophrenia is a complex mental illness of unknown etiology. Clinical research has suggested that abnormalities of the basal ganglia are present in schizophrenia. Whether these abnormalities are present at the beginning of illness or progress with time remains controversial. Concomitantly, antipsychotic treatments, particularly traditional neuroleptics, may exert metabolic effects on the basal ganglia, but the effects of new atypical antipsychotic are unknown. To elucidate the nature of underlying basal ganglia structure and the effects of antipsychotic treatment on striatal morphology, clinical signs and symptoms, three MRI studies of basal ganglia volumes were conducted. In study A, baseline volumes in a cohort of drug-naive first episode psychosis (FEP) patients, chronically treated schizophrenia patients and healthy controls were assessed. Chronically treated patients had larger basal ganglia volumes compared to both never-medicated patients and healthy controls. Never-medicated patients' basal ganglia volumes were not different from controls. In study B, extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) and their relationship to neuroleptics and striatal volumes were examined. Prior to neuroleptic treatment, 39% of FEP patients had EPS at baseline. FEP patients who presented with parkinsonism had larger left caudate volumes than those who did not. In study C, the effects on basal ganglia volumes and EPS after switching patients from risperidone or typical antipsychotics to olanzapine were examined. Patients previously treated with typicals had decreases in putamen and globus pallidus volume after switching. Patients previously on risperidone had a decrease in caudate volume after switching. Patients maintained on risperidone had no changes in basal ganglia volumes. Severity and prevalence of EPS were unchanged after switching. No underlying volumetric abnormalities of the basal ganglia in drug-naive first-episode schizophrenia were observed in the cohort of patients included in this thesis. However, movement disorders were seen in a notable portion of drug-naive schizophrenia patients, suggesting that abnormalities of the basal ganglia or circuits of the basal ganglia are present and may be subtle. Atypical neuroleptics do not induce additional EPS at clinically effective doses. Chonic exposure to atypical neuroleptics is not associated with striatal hypertrophy, and in the case of olanzapine, may reduce caudate volumes in some patients.
Canonical trace ideal and residue for numerical semigroup rings
Creators: name: Herzog, Jürgen
name: Hibi, Takayuki
name: Stamate, Dumitru I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13H10, 20M10, 20M25, 13D02, 05E40

description: For a numerical semigroup ring $K[H]$ we study the trace of its canonical ideal. The colength of this ideal is called the residue of $H$. This invariant measures how far is $H$ from being symmetric, i.e. $K[H]$ from being a Gorenstein ring. We remark that the canonical trace ideal contains the conductor ideal, and we study bounds for the residue. For $3$-generated numerical semigroups we give explicit formulas for the canonical trace ideal and the residue of $H$. Thus, in this setting we can classify those whose residue is at most one (the nearly-Gorenstein ones), and we show the eventual periodic behaviour of the residue in a shifted family.
description: 16 pages; this paper contains most of the results related to numerical semigroups from the initial version of our paper arXiv:1612.02723 [math.AC]
Self-localization of composite spin-lattice polarons
Creators: name: Prelovsek, Peter
name: Zeyher, Roland
name: Horsch, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Self-localization of holes in the Holstein t-J model is studied in the adiabatic limit using exact diagonalization and the retraceable path approximation. It is shown that the critical electron-phonon coupling λ_c decreases with increasing J and that this behavior is determined mainly by the incoherent rather than by the coherent motion of the hole. The obtained spin correlation functions in the localized region can be understood within a percolation picture where antiferromagnetic order can persist up to a substantial hole doping. These results restrict the possibility of self-localization of holes in lightly doped cuprates.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
A note on pair dependent linear statistics with slowly growing variance
Creators: name: Aguirre, Ander
name: Soshnikov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60F05

description: We prove Gaussian fluctuation for pair counting statistics of the form $ \sum_{1\leq i\neq j\leq N} f(θ_i-θ_j)$ for the Circular Unitary Ensemble (CUE) of random matrices in the case of a slowly growing variance in the limit of large $N.$
q-Analogues of the Barnes multiple zeta functions
Creators: name: Yamasaki, Yoshinori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11M41, 11M35

description: In this paper, we introduce $q$-analogues of the Barnes multiple zeta functions. We show that these functions can be extended meromorphically to the whole plane, and moreover, tend to the Barnes multiple zeta functions when $q\uparrow 1$ for all complex numbers.
description: 13 pages
Conditional maximum entropy and Superstatistics
Creators: name: Davis, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superstatistics describes nonequilibrium steady states as superpositions of canonical ensembles with a probability distribution of temperatures. Rather than assume a certain distribution of temperature, recently [J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 53, 045004 (2020)] we have discussed general conditions under which a system in contact with a finite environment can be described by superstatistics together with a physically interpretable, microscopic definition of temperature. In this work, we present a new interpretation of this result in terms of the standard maximum entropy principle (MaxEnt) using conditional expectation constraints, and provide an example model where this framework can be tested.
Lorentz violating scalar Casimir effect for a $D$-dimensional sphere
Creators: name: Martín-Ruiz, A.
name: Escobar, C. A.
name: Escobar-Ruiz, A. M.
name: Franca, O. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Casimir effect, due to the confinement of a scalar field in a $D$-dimensional sphere, with Lorentz symmetry breaking. The Lorentz-violating part of the theory is described by the term $λ(u \cdot \partial ϕ) ^{2}$, where the parameter $λ$ and the background vector $u^μ$ codify the breakdown of Lorentz symmetry. We compute, as a function of $D$, the Casimir stress by using Green's function techniques for two specific choices of the vector $u ^μ$. In the timelike case, $u ^μ = (1,0,...,0)$, the Casimir stress can be factorized as the product of the Lorentz invariant result times the factor $(1 + λ) ^{-1/2}$. For the radial spacelike case, $u ^μ = (0,1,0,...,0)$, we obtain an analytical expression for the Casimir stress which nevertheless does not admit a factorization in terms of the Lorentz invariant result. For the radial spacelike case we find that there exists a critical value $λ_{c} = λ_{c} (D)$ at which the Casimir stress transits from a repulsive behavior to an attractive one for any $D> 2$. The physically relevant case $D = 3$ is analyzed in detail where the critical value $λ_{c}|_{\small D=3} = 0.0025$ was found. As in the Lorentz symmetric case, the force maintains the divergent behavior at positive even integer values of $D$.
description: V2: 14 pages, 5 figures; minor changes and clarifications. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Pairs-Production of Higgs in Association with Bottom Quarks Pairs at $e^+e^-$ Colliders
Creators: name: Gutierrez-Rodriguez, A.
name: Hernandez-Ruiz, M. A.
name: Sampayo, O. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous paper, we studied the Higgs pair production in the standard model with the reaction $e^{+}e^{-}\to t \bar t HH$. Based on this, we study the Higgs pair production via $e^{+}e^{-}\to b \bar b HH$. We evaluate the total cross section of $b\bar bHH$ and calculate the number total of events considering the complete set of Feynman diagrams at tree-level, and compare this process with the process $e^{+}e^{-}\to t \bar t HH$. The numerical computation is done for the energy which is expected to be available at a possible Next Linear $e^{+}e^{-}$ Collider with a center-of-mass energy $800, 1000, 1600$ $GeV$ and luminosity 1000 $fb^{-1}$.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Statistical description of dust polarized emission from the diffuse interstellar medium -- A RWST approach
Creators: name: Blancard, Bruno Regaldo-Saint
name: Levrier, François
name: Allys, Erwan
name: Bellomi, Elena
name: Boulanger, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The statistical characterization of the diffuse magnetized ISM and Galactic foregrounds to the CMB poses a major challenge. To account for their non-Gaussian statistics, we need a data analysis approach capable of efficiently quantifying statistical couplings across scales. This information is encoded in the data, but most of it is lost when using conventional tools, such as one-point statistics and power spectra. The wavelet scattering transform (WST), a low-variance statistical descriptor of non-Gaussian processes introduced in data science, opens a path towards this goal. We applied the WST to noise-free maps of dust polarized thermal emission computed from a numerical simulation of MHD turbulence. We analyzed normalized complex Stokes maps and maps of the polarization fraction and polarization angle. The WST yields a few thousand coefficients; some of them measure the amplitude of the signal at a given scale, and the others characterize the couplings between scales and orientations. The dependence on orientation can be fitted with the reduced WST (RWST), an angular model introduced in previous works. The RWST provides a statistical description of the polarization maps, quantifying their multiscale properties in terms of isotropic and anisotropic contributions. It allowed us to exhibit the dependence of the map structure on the orientation of the mean magnetic field and to quantify the non-Gaussianity of the data. We also used RWST coefficients, complemented by additional constraints, to generate random synthetic maps with similar statistics. Their agreement with the original maps demonstrates the comprehensiveness of the statistical description provided by the RWST. This work is a step forward in the analysis of observational data and the modeling of CMB foregrounds. We also release PyWST, a Python package to perform WST/RWST analyses at: https://github.com/bregaldo/pywst.
description: 20 pages, 15 figures, accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics
Between Conservationism, Eco-Populism and Developmentalism: Discourses in Biodiversity Policy in Thailand and Indonesia
Creators: name: Wittmer, Heidi
name: Birner, Regina
name: Wittmer, Heidi
name: Birner, Regina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: discourse
subject: biodiversity conservation
subject: protected area management

description: The present paper analyzes the role of discourse in conflicts concerning nature conservation in tropical countries. We focus on the contested question as to whether and to which extent local communities should be allowed to live and use resources inside protected areas. Applying the concepts of belief-systems, story-lines and discourse coalitions, we analyze two empirical case studies dealing with this conflict: The first case study is concerned with a policy process at the national level that aimed at passing a community forestry law in Thailand to make the establishment of community forests in protected areas possible. The second case study deals with the proposed resettlement of a village from the Lore Lindu National Park in Sulawesi, Indonesia. In both cases, three discourses could be observed: a conservationist discourse, an eco-populist discourse, and a developmentalist discourse. The case studies show that the conservationists and the developmentalists were able to form a discourse coalition, which was challenged by the proponents of the eco-populist discourse. The analysis also demonstrates that establishing storylines in the discourse can lead to the neglect of facts and problems that do not fit in either discourse. The paper draws attention to the role of science in the different discourses and concludes that scientists should become more aware of the role they play in the different discourses.
Farmers' Rights and Protection of Traditional Agricultural Knowledge
Creators: name: Brush, Stephen B
name: Brush, Stephen B
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: genetic resources
subject: collective action
subject: bioprospecting
subject: conservation

description: Although achieving in situ conservation is possible without changing farmers’ customary management of crops as common pool resources, an alternative approach is to negotiate a bioprospecting contract with providers of the resource that involves direct payment and royalties. This bioprospecting mechanism implies a change in the customary treatment of crop genetic resources as common pool goods and is in line with national ownership mandated by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This paper questions the value of bioprospecting for protecting traditional agricultural knowledge and argues for a common pool approach. It examines the nature of crop genetic resources and farmers’ knowledge about them, and it analyzes the nature of the ‘common heritage’ regime that was partly dismantled by the Convention on Biological Diversity. The paper reviews the implementation of access and benefit sharing schemes under the CBD and discusses programs to recognize Farmers’ Rights that have arisen since the establishment of the CBD. It concludes with recommendations for meeting the Farmers’ Rights mandate of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
Nonradial and nonpolytropic astrophysical outflows VIII. A GRMHD generalization for relativistic jets
Creators: name: Meliani, Z.
name: Sauty, C.
name: Vlahakis, N.
name: Tsinganos, K.
name: Trussoni, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Steady axisymmetric outflows originating at the hot coronal magnetosphere of a Schwarzschild black hole and surrounding accretion disk are studied in the framework of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). The assumption of meridional self-similarity is adopted for the construction of semi-analytical solutions of the GRMHD equations describing outflows close to the polar axis. In addition, it is assumed that relativistic effects related to the rotation of the black hole and the plasma are negligible compared to the gravitational and other energetic terms. The constructed model allows us to extend previous MHD studies for coronal winds from young stars to spine jets from Active Galactic Nuclei surrounded by disk-driven outflows. The outflows are thermally driven and magnetically or thermally collimated. The collimation depends critically on an energetic integral measuring the efficiency of the magnetic rotator, similarly to the non relativistic case. It is also shown that relativistic effects affect quantitatively the depth of the gravitational well and the coronal temperature distribution in the launching region of the outflow. Similarly to previous analytical and numerical studies, relativistic effects tend to increase the efficiency of the thermal driving but reduce the effect of magnetic self-collimation.
description: 20 page, Accepted in A&A 10/10/2005
Logistic modelling of smallholder livestock farmers’ adoption of tree-based fodder technology in Zimbabwe
Creators: name: Jera, R.
name: Ajayi, Olu Clifford
name: Jera, R.
name: Ajayi, Olu Clifford
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Based on field data collected from 131 small scale dairy farmers that were randomly selected from four agro-ecological zones, this study assessed the potential of adoption of fodder bank technology as a means for improving livestock production and income generation for smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe. Using a logit modelling approach, it also identified the drivers of adoption of the technology by analysing the influence of household characteristics and ecological factors on farmers’ decision to adopt the technology. The model correctly predicted 75% of observed adoption and non-adoption by farmers. Results reveal that dairy herd size, land holding size, membership of dairy association and agro-ecological potential are the key factors influencing farmers’ adoption of fodder bank. Age, sex, household size and educational level of farmers play lesser role. Male and female farmers were equally likely to take up and practice fodder bank if they are given equal access to information and incentives. The study recommends farmer-led extension approaches where farmers who possess certain key characteristics should constitute the initial group for disseminating information regarding the technology in rural communities. The results highlight the importance of access to dairy product markets as a driver for the adoption of fodder banks. It is recommended that forging a strategic partnership with the Dairy Development Programme (DDP) will offer high potential for enhancing the scaling up of the adoption and impact of fodder bank technology in the country.
The occurrence rate of exoplanets orbiting ultracool dwarfs as probed by K2
Creators: name: Sestovic, Marko
name: Demory, Brice-Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the discovery of a planetary system around TRAPPIST-1, there has been a surge of interest in ultracool dwarfs as potential planet hosts. Planetary systems around ultracool dwarfs represent our best chance of characterising temperate rocky-planet atmospheres with JWST. However, TRAPPIST-1 remains the only known system of its kind, and the occurrence rate of planets around ultracool dwarfs is still poorly constrained. We seek to perform a complete transit search on the ultracool dwarfs observed by NASA's K2 mission to constrain the occurrence rate of planets around these stars. We filter and characterise the sample of ultracool dwarfs observed by K2, by fitting their spectral energy distributions and using parallaxes from Gaia. We build an automatic pipeline to perform photometry, detrend the lightcurves, and search for transits. Using extensive injection-recovery tests of our pipeline, we compute the detection sensitivity of our search, and thus the completeness of our sample. We infer the planetary occurrence rates within a hierarchical Bayesian model (HBM) to treat uncertain planetary parameters. With the occurrence rate parametrised by a step-wise function, we show a convenient way to directly marginalise over the second level of our HBM (the planet parameters). Our method is applicable generally and can greatly speed up inference with larger catalogues of detected planets. We detect one planet in our sample of 702 ultracool dwarfs: a previously-validated mini-Neptune. We thus infer a mini-Neptune (2 - 4Re) occurrence rate of η = 0.20+0.16-0.11 within orbital periods of 1 - 20 days. For super-Earths (1 - 2Re) and ice/gas giants (4 - 6Re) within 1 - 20 days, we place 95% credible intervals of η < 1.14 and η < 0.29, respectively. If TRAPPIST-1-like systems were ubiquitous, we would have had a 96% chance of finding at least one.
description: Accepted in A&A on 29/04/2020, 13 pages, 6 figures
Synalpheus quinquedens Tattersall 1921
Creators: name: Al-Kandari, Manal
name: Anker, Arthur
name: Hussain, Sumaiah
name: Al-Yassen, Sharifa
name: Sattari, Zainab
name: Grave, Sammy De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Alpheidae
Synalpheus
Synalpheus quinquedens

description: Synalpheus quinquedens Tattersall, 1921
 Synalpheus quinquedens Tattersall 1921: 376, pl. 28, figs. 1–5; Ramadan 1936: 19; Banner & Banner 1981: 74, 92; Banner & Banner 1983: 105; Jones 1986: 153, pl. 43; De Grave & Ashelby 2011: 3; Naderloo & Türkay 2012: 5; George 2012: 285.
 Material examined. Kuwait: 1 female, OUMNH. ZC. 2020.01.022, Failaka Island, eastern side, rocky substrate, leg. M. Al-Kandari et al., 24.xii.2014.
 General distribution. Indo-West Pacific, with records from the Red Sea (e.g. Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, Ghardaqa, Khor Dongonab, Suakin), Arabian Gulf (Iran, Qatar, Kuwait), East Africa (Kenya), Madagascar and Indonesia (e.g., Tattersall 1921; Ramadan 1936; Banner & Banner 1981, 1983; Jones 1986; George 2012; Naderloo & Türkay 2012).
 Ecology. Lower intertidal to 64 m (Banner & Banner 1983); possibly associated with encrusting sponges.
 Remarks. The species was previously known from the Arabian Gulf based on unspecified material from an unknown locality collected by the “Danish Persian Gulf Expedition” (Banner & Banner 1981). Since this expedition was conducted mainly along the Iranian coast, Naderloo & Türkay (2012) included S. quinquedens in the list of the Iranian decapod fauna.
 Synalpheus quinquedens was also included in the popular field-guide to the intertidal macrofauna of Kuwait (Jones 1986), with a short text accompanied by a highly diagrammatic, inaccurate illustration. Importantly, the diagnostic characters (presence of five strong rounded or subacute teeth on the posterior margin of the sixth pleonite) of S. quinquedens cannot be seen in the figure of the general habitus provided by Jones (1986). Therefore, the present specimen represents the first formal record of S. quinquedens from Kuwait, confirming the previous, rather vague records of the species from the Arabian Gulf (Banner & Banner 1981; Jones 1986).
description: Published as part of Al-Kandari, Manal, Anker, Arthur, Hussain, Sumaiah, Al-Yassen, Sharifa, Sattari, Zainab & Grave, Sammy De, 2020, New records of decapod crustaceans from Kuwait (Malacostraca: Decapoda), pp. 251-280 in Zootaxa 4803 (2) on page 259, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4803.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/3909077
The dwarf galaxy DDO 47: testing cusps hiding in triaxial halos
Creators: name: Gentile, G.
name: Burkert, A.
name: Salucci, P.
name: Klein, U.
name: Walter, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present HI data of the dwarf galaxy DDO 47, aimed at testing the hypothesis that dark halo triaxiality might induce non-circular motions resulting in rotation curves best fitted by cored halos, even if the dark matter halo is intrinsically cuspy. We performed a harmonic decomposition of the velocity field in order to search for alleged non-circular motions needed to ``hide'' a cusp: in DDO 47 non-circular motions are globally at a level of 2-3 km s$^{-1}$, far from being sufficient to reconcile the observed rotation curve with the $Λ$CDM predictions. We conclude that the dark matter halo around DDO 47 is truly cored and that a cusp cannot be hidden by non-circular motions. More details are shown in Gentile et al. (2006, ApJL in press, astro-ph/0506538).
description: 2 pages, to appear in Proc. XXIst IAP Colloquium "Mass Profiles and Shapes of Cosmological Structures", Paris 4-9 July 2005 (EAS Publications Series, G. Mamon, F. Combes, C. Deffayet, B. Fort eds.)
Evolução dos temas relacionados ao desenvolvimento rural: de 1950 a 2000
Creators: name: Ellis, Frank
name: Biggs, Stephen
name: Ellis, Frank
name: Biggs, Stephen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: rural sociology
subject: rural development thinking
subject: sustainable development

description: This article provides a brief overview of the major switches in rural development thinking that have occurred over the past halfcentury or so. Dominant and subsidiary themes are identified, as well as the co-existence of different narratives running in parallel. The continuing success of the long-running small-farm efficiency paradigm is highlighted. The article concludes by asking whether sustainable livelihoods approaches can be interpreted as provided a new or different way forward for rural development in the future. The answer is a cautious yes since these approaches potentially permit the cross-sectoral and multi-occupational character of contemporary rural livelihoods in low-income countries to be placed in centre-stage in efforts to reduce rural poverty.
Latreutes mucronatus
Creators: name: Al-Kandari, Manal
name: Anker, Arthur
name: Hussain, Sumaiah
name: Al-Yassen, Sharifa
name: Sattari, Zainab
name: Grave, Sammy De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Hippolytidae
Latreutes
Latreutes mucronatus

description: Latreutes mucronatus (Stimpson, 1860)
(Fig. 6)
 Latreutes mucronatus Stimpson, 1860: 27; Hayashi & Miyake 1968: 16, figs. 3a–b, 4; Ledoyer 1969: 365, pl. 6, figs. 1A–11A; Ghani & Tirmizi 1991: 320, figs. 1–5; De Grave 2007: 147.
 Material examined. Kuwait: 4 ov. females, OUMNH. ZC. 2020.01.025, Failaka Island, 29°23.409’N 48°23.927’E, intertidal, under rocks and amongst seaweeds, leg. S. De Grave & Z. Sattari, 03.x.2019 [fcn KUW-055].
 General distribution. Indo-West Pacific, from the western and northern Indian Ocean (Madagascar, Arabian Gulf, Pakistan, etc.) to Japan; within the Arabian Gulf previously recorded only from the UAE (De Grave 2007) and now Kuwait (present study).
 Ecology. Intertidal to shallow subtidal; typically in seaweed and seagrass beds, but also reported as an associate of jellyfishes (Scyphozoa) (Hayashi & Miyake 1968).
 Remarks. All Kuwaiti specimens harbour three post-orbital teeth, which is in accordance with material from Madagascar (Ledoyer 1969) and Pakistan (Ghani & Tirmizi 1991), contrasting to specimens from elsewhere in the species’ geographical range. This fact, together with disparity in ecological data (seaweed or seagrass vs. jellyfish symbiosis), may imply that L. mucronatus could be a species complex. The colour pattern of this species appears to be extremely variable, apparently due to camouflage / background matching (Fig. 6).
description: Published as part of Al-Kandari, Manal, Anker, Arthur, Hussain, Sumaiah, Al-Yassen, Sharifa, Sattari, Zainab & Grave, Sammy De, 2020, New records of decapod crustaceans from Kuwait (Malacostraca: Decapoda), pp. 251-280 in Zootaxa 4803 (2) on pages 260-262, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4803.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/3909077
Correlation between Superconducting Carrier Density and Transition Temperature in NbB$_{2+x}$
Creators: name: Takagiwa, H.
name: Kuroiwa, S.
name: Yamazawa, M.
name: Akimitsu, J.
name: Ohishi, K.
name: Koda, A.
name: Higemoto, W.
name: Kadono, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the magnetic penetration depth, lambda, in a type II superconductor NbB_{2+x} determined by muon spin rotation method. We show in the sample with x=0.1 that lambda at 2.0 K is independent of an applied magnetic field. This suggests that the superconducting order parameter in NbB_{2+x} is isotropic, as expected for conventional BCS superconductors. Meanwhile, the superconducting carrier density (proportional to lambda^{-2}) exhibits an interesting tendency of increase with increasing T_c (where T_c varies with x). Possible origin of such behavior is discussed in comparison with the case of exotic superconductors.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
The Land Tenure Security Advantage: A catalytic asset for sustainable and inclusive rural transformation
Creators: name: Soma, Chakrabarti
name: Soma, Chakrabarti
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: climate change
subject: land tenure security
subject: rural poor
subject: sustainable rural transformation

description: The Land Tenure Security Advantage presents an overview of IFAD’s engagement in securing land tenure for the rural poor, specifically through the lens of its mainstreaming priorities for inclusive and sustainable rural transformation: gender equality and women’s empowerment, youth employment, indigenous peoples, and climate change and the environment. The report first presents the importance of land tenure for global commitments relevant to IFAD’s mandate, together with some important challenges. It then explains how IFAD is tackling those challenges. Five case studies from each of IFAD’s regions of intervention illustrate IFAD’s support for land tenure security in practice. Lastly, the final section looks ahead to new initiatives.
The courtyard as city : subtitle a framework for applying Alexander’s "A Pattern Language" method to China
Creators: name: Wang, Jian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: During its long history, Chinese architecture has achieved brilliant results-developing a system of architecture that is unique, excellent and independent in a global context. However, faced with the challenges of new social and economic programs and new technologies, traditional building types and landscape architecture have been largely set aside in favor of an international style. As a result, the regard for harmony and unity, which is the essence of traditional environmental design in China, is generally lacking in contemporary Chinese architectural and landscape architecture practice. It has been an important research to consider the potential future evolution of Chinese contemporary architecture and landscape architecture based on both old and new cultural and economic traditions. This is also the motivation and aim of this thesis. In this thesis, a research and design model is proposed for a "New and Chinese" architecture and landscape architecture, which is to apply Alexander's "A Pattern Language" to Chinese community design and to begin to develop a unique Chinese pattern language for contemporary Chinese architecture and landscape architecture. Better community site planning and landscape design is urgently needed in China today. The unique Chinese patterns distilled and presented in this thesis focus on the community environment in North China, based on the archetypal residence of northern China, the Beijing courtyard house. These patterns are rich in Chinese spirit, support cultural expectations and can help to make the new Chinese living environments "alive" and "whole".
O USO DA ANÁLISE DE CONTEÚDO COMO UMA FERRAMENTA PARA A PESQUISA QUALITATIVA: DESCRIÇÃO E APLICAÇÃO DO MÉTODO
Creators: name: Silva, Cristiane Rocha
name: Gobbi, Beatriz Christo
name: Simao, Ana Adalgisa
name: Silva, Cristiane Rocha
name: Gobbi, Beatriz Christo
name: Simao, Ana Adalgisa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: social representations
subject: theory of the action
subject: content analysis

description: The purpose of this present rehearsal is the conceptual explanation of the method of content analysis used in the qualitative research and its application in the social sciences. Two theoretical roads are traveled for the construction of that purpose. The first is based on the reference to the Theory of the Social Representations and the second to the Theory of the Action. The argument that sustains the purpose is that both theories base the content analysis as method of analysis for the social actors declared speech. Initially it is accomplished a theoretical rising of authors who described the content analysis and theories and later is developed an analysis of some dissertations that made of the method in the research process in Post Graduation s Program in Administration of the Federal University of Lavras. It is important to understand that, the non-discussion on the other theories that embrace the theme doesn t reduce your importance.
Protective effects of madecassoside, a triterpenoid from Centella asiatica, against oxidative stress in INS-1E cells
Creators: name: Tan, Swee Ching
name: Rajendran, Ramkumar
name: Bhattamisra, Subrat Kumar
name: Krishnappa, Purushotham
name: Davamani, Fabian
name: Chitra, Ebenezer
name: Ambu, Stephen
name: Furman, Brian
name: Candasamy, Mayuren
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Progressive decline in β cell function and reduction in the β cell mass is important in type 2 diabetes. Here, we tested the hypothesis that madecassoside’s previously demonstrated in vivo protective effects on the β cell in experimental diabetes were exerted directly. We investigated the effects of madecassoside in protecting a β cell line (INS-1E) against a variety of agents. INS-1E cells were treated with madecassoside in the presence of high glucose (HG), a cytokine mixture, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), or streptozotocin (STZ). HG, the cytokine mixture, H2O2 and STZ each produced a significant decrease in cell viability; this was significantly reversed by madecassoside. Pre-treatment with madecassoside reduced the number of apoptotic cells induced by HG, the cytokine mixture, H2O2, and STZ, and concentration-dependently reduced ROS production. Madecassoside also significantly enhanced glucose-induced insulin secretion. The results suggest that madecassoside’s in vivo effects are exerted directly on the β cell.
Effects of new long-range interaction: Recombination of relic Heavy neutrinos and antineutrinos
Creators: name: Belotsky, K. M.
name: Khlopov, M. Yu.
name: Legonkov, S. V.
name: Shibaev, K. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If stable Heavy neutrinos of 4th generation possess their own Coulomb-like interaction, recombination of pairs of Heavy neutrinos and antineutrinos can play important role in their cosmological evolution and lead to observable consequences. In particular, effect of this new interaction in the annihilation of neutrino-antineutrino pairs can account for $γ$-flux observed by EGRET.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures; Invited talk at 6 International Conference on Cosmoparticle physics "Cosmion 2004"
Kerker Conditions Upon Lossless, Absorption, and Optical Gain Regimes
Creators: name: Olmos-Trigo, Jorge
name: Sanz-Fernández, Cristina
name: Abujetas, Diego R.
name: Lasa-Alonso, Jon
name: de Sousa, Nuno
name: García-Etxarri, Aitzol
name: Sánchez-Gil, José A.
name: Molina-Terriza, Gabriel
name: Sáenz, Juan José
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The directionality and polarization of light show peculiar properties when the scattering by a dielectric sphere can be described exclusively by electric and magnetic dipolar modes. Particularly, when these modes oscillate in-phase with equal amplitude, at the so-called first Kerker condition, the zero optical backscattering condition emerges for non-dissipating spheres. However, the role of absorption and optical gain in the first Kerker condition remains unexplored. In this work, we demonstrate that either absorption or optical gain precludes the first Kerker condition and, hence, the absence of backscattered radiation light, regardless of the size of the particle, incident wavelength, and incoming polarization. Finally, we derive the necessary prerequisites of the second Kerker condition of the zero forward light scattering, finding that optical gain is a compulsory requirement.
PARTICIPAÇÃO LIBERTADORA, CEBS E COMUNIDADES CAMPONESAS EM MONTES CLAROS MG
Creators: name: Lopes, Frederico Antonio Mineiro
name: Amancio, Robson
name: Alencar, Edgard
name: Lopes, Frederico Antonio Mineiro
name: Amancio, Robson
name: Alencar, Edgard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: social participation
subject: rural communities
subject: sustainable development.

description: St. Sebastian s Parish, located in the municipality of Montes Claros, in the State of Minas Gerais, characterizes itself by its planning and by its apostolic pastoral work, directing its efforts towards integrating faith and life. The ´80s and ´90s were marked by intense rural worker participation in the Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs) and by popular education with a view to human, and therefore community, promotion. This case study, of an interpretative nature, sought to verify, by participative observation and by interview transcripts, if the manner of the Jesuits intervention, through the BECs, was educational (with popular appeal) or tutorial (with an authoritarian hallmark). In addition it sought to investigate if there was a relationship between participation in parochial activities and those developed in the associations, in the trade union and in the community itself, as well as if this involvement favored the emergence of practices of sustainable development in the scenario researched. The answers to the questions were given by the social agents themselves, that is, domestic producers, residents, the Jesuits, pastoral workers, and interpreted by the investigator. Educational intervention for social participation in the communities provided personal, community and regional growth, contributing to development derived from people s involvement as protagonists in the solution of their problems in all areas, and in the search for sustainable alternatives to economic models that exclude development.
QUANTIFICAÇÃO E COORDENAÇÃO DE SISTEMAS AGROINDUSTRIAIS: O CASO DO TRIGO NO BRASIL
Creators: name: Rossi, Ricardo Messias
name: Neves, Marcos Fava
name: Castro, Luciano Thome
name: Rossi, Ricardo Messias
name: Neves, Marcos Fava
name: Castro, Luciano Thome
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: agribusiness system
subject: distribution channels
subject: wheat.

description: The present article presents an overview of the Agribusiness System of wheat in Brazil. Departing from a methodology developed for mapping and quantifying value chains, the structure of the respective chain is presented, with the main sectors identified and quantified (revenue of the sector with the wheat chain sales in Brazil in 2002). Also, the main coordination problems were identified in the system, as well as the development of a work agenda containing a list of collective actions that should be implemented by the private initiative, in order to minimize the existing problems. It was suggested to the several members of the wheat chain the establishment of an organization, which will integrate the entire system, named Trigo-Brasil (Wheat-Brazil, for implementing the proposed collective actions.
Analysis of a multi-wavelength time-resolved observation of a coronal loop
Creators: name: Reale, Fabio
name: Ciaravella, Angela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several items on the diagnostics and interpretation of coronal loop observations are under debate. In this work, we analyze a well-defined loop system detected in a time-resolved observation in several spectral bands. The dataset includes simultaneous images in the TRACE 171 A, 195 A and 284 A bands, and Yohkoh/SXT, and two rasters taken with SoHO/CDS in twelve relevant lines. The loop is initially best visible in the TRACE 195 A filter band, and later in the 171 A filter band, with correspondence with the CDS raster images at log T \~ 6.0-6.1. We have taken as pixel-by-pixel background the latest TRACE, Yohkoh and CDS images where the loop has faded out. We examine the loop morphology evolution, the light curves, the TRACE filter ratio distribution and evolution, the images and emission measure from the CDS spectral lines. Our analysis detects that, after background subtraction, the emission along the loop and its evolution are non-uniform, especially in the 171 A filter band, and that the TRACE 195/171 filter ratio has a moderately non-uniform distribution along the loop and evolves in time. Both the light curves and the filter ratio evolution indicate a globally cooling loop. Relatively hot plasma may be present at the beginning while, during the first CDS raster, the data indicate a rather moderate thermal structuring of the loop. Our data analysis supports a coherent scenario across the different bands and instruments, points out difficulties in diagnostic methods and puts quantitative basis for detailed forward modeling.
description: 20 pages, 13 figs, refereed, in press
Cutoff effects of Wilson fermions in the absence of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking
Creators: name: Della Morte, Michele
name: Luz, Magdalena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We simulate two dimensional QED with two degenerate Wilson fermions and plaquette gauge action. As a consequence of the Mermin-Wagner theorem, in the continuum limit chiral symmetry is realized a la Wigner. This property affects also the size of the cutoff effects. That can be understood in view of the fact that the leading lattice artifacts are described, in the continuum Symanzik effective theory, by chirality breaking terms. In particular, vacuum expectation values of non-chirality-breaking operators are expected to be O(a) improved in the chiral limit. We provide a numerical confirmation of this expectation by performing a scaling test.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. Eq. 9 corrected, accepted for publication in Physics Letters B
Large magnetoresistance in $π$-conjugated semiconductor thin film devices
Creators: name: Mermer, Ö.
name: Veeraraghavan, G.
name: Francis, T. L.
name: Sheng, Y.
name: Nguyen, D. T.
name: Wohlgenannt, M.
name: Köhler, A.
name: Al-Suti, M. K.
name: Khan, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following the recent discovery of large magnetoresistance at room temperature in polyfluorence sandwich devices, we have performed a comprehensive magnetoresistance study on a set of organic semiconductor sandwich devices made from different pi-conjugated polymers and small molecules. The measurements were performed at different temperatures, ranging from 10K to 300K, and at magnetic fields, $B < 100mT$. We observed large negative or positive magnetoresistance (up to 10% at 300K and 10mT) depending on material and device operating conditions. We compare the results obtained in devices made from different materials with the goal of providing a comprehensive picture of the experimental data. We discuss our results in the framework of known magnetoresistance mechanisms and find that none of the existing models can explain our results.
RESPONSABILIDADE SOCIAL: PERSPECTIVAS PARA O AGRONEGÓCIO
Creators: name: Verdolin, Daniela Rodrigues
name: Alves, Alexandre Florindo
name: Verdolin, Daniela Rodrigues
name: Alves, Alexandre Florindo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: social responsibility
subject: management
subject: agribusiness.

description: The present paper has as main purpose to present the companies social accountability as a style of strategic management for credibility and competitiveness search in a globalized market in the regional, national and international levels, showing that the ethical actions related to the environment and the society as a whole are more and more influencing market behavior, in a favor of whom practices them. Besides that, the study searches to relate the main points of that strategy withthe importance that the same may have to the agribusiness due to its reflexes in the internal and external market.
A survey for pulsars in EGRET error boxes
Creators: name: Champion, D. J.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Lorimer, D. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As part of an effort to associate the unidentified EGRET gamma-ray sources with pulsars, error boxes for 19 sources were searched using Arecibo at 327-MHz. The sources were chosen to be out-of-plane and possibly associated with the Gould belt, a nearby starburst region with an enhanced production rate of core-collapse supernovae. The search revealed one new 597-ms pulsar, J2243+1518, within the error box of the EGRET source 3EG J2243+1509. The spin-down energy loss rate of the new pulsar is not nearly sufficient to power the gamma-ray source and so the pulsar is very unlikely to be associated. Simulations we have carried out show that any pulsars at Gould belt distances should have been detected by the survey. This suggests that either the EGRET sources associated with the Gould belt are not pulsars, or that the minimum of the pulsar luminosity function is lower than the ~1.5 mJy kpc^2 inferred from the population of normal pulsars.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in MNRAS