cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Synthetic and structural studies of ruthenium polypyridyl complexes as DNA major groove binders
Creators: name: Prieto Otoya, Tayler David
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2024

description: The following cations: rac-[Ru(phen)2phi]2+
, rac-[Ru(bpy)2phi]2+
, rac-[Ru(TMP)2dpq]2+
, rac-
[Ru(DIP)2dpq]2+
, rac-[Ru(TMP)2dppz]2+
, rac-[Ru(DIP)2dppz]2+
, rac-[Ru(TMP)2qdppz]2+
, rac-
[Ru(TMP)2lin-dppz]2+, and rac-[Ru(DIP)2qdppz]2+ were synthesised and characterised as PF6
-
and Cl salts. All the complexes were separated as their enantiomers using a chiral column in 
10 to 50 mg quantities. The carefully purified enantiomers of each cation were used in 
extensive crystallisation trials with ten selected DNA oligomers. From these, diffraction-quality 
crystals were obtained with the combination Λ-[Ru(phen)2phi]2+ + d(CCGGTACCGG).
The oligonucleotides were obtained from commercial sources.
 This work provides the first structural evidence that a ruthenium polypyridyl complex 
can bind from the DNA major groove. In particular, Λ-[Ru(phen)2phi]2+ (phi= 9,10-
phenanthrenediimine) has been successfully crystallised with the decamer sequence 
d(CCGGTACCGG). The complex binds DNA with two different orientations: symmetrical 
intercalation to the central TA/TA step from the DNA major groove and asymmetrical 
intercalation at the CC/GG step from the DNA minor groove. A particular characteristic of the 
latter type of bonding is the formation of a hydrogen bond between the -NH proton of the 
imine group of the complex with the ribose oxygen of the (C8) cytosine below. Subsequently, 
solution studies demonstrated the higher binding affinity of the lambda enantiomer to DNA 
compared to the Δ-[Ru(phen)2phi]2+, specifically for the TATA sequence. Furthermore, 
differential behaviour has also been seen in a topoisomerase I inhibition assay and ethidium 
bromide displacement assay.
 Moreover, the same ruthenium metal complex – rac-[Ru(phen)2phi]2+
- has been 
crystallised at atomic resolution 0.9 Å bound to a consecutive DNA double mismatch, which 
induces a bulged base formation in the DNA sequence. The overall crystal structure presents 
three metal complexes: two Λ-[Ru(phen)2phi]2+ binding at the consecutive DNA double 
mismatch TT: AA from the DNA major groove, causing the ejection of one adenine base and 
forming specific interactions between its phenanthroline ligands and the adenines. On the 
other hand, only one Δ-[Ru(phen)2phi]2+ interacts via the minor groove, which shows 
sandwiching of its phi ligand with the phi ligands of the other two lambda enantiomers. This crystal structure shows for the first time a metallo-insertion from the DNA major groove, 
different from the previous minor groove metallo-insertion, a type of binding previously 
demonstrated for DNA single mismatches.
 Lastly, four ruthenium polypyridyl complexes were characterised as PF6
- or Cl salts by 
small molecule X-ray crystallography methods. These structures are valuable reference points 
for model building and comparison with published data.
1997 PRICING PERFORMANCE OF MARKET ADVISORY SERVICES FOR CORN AND SOYBEANS
Creators: name: Jackson, Thomas E.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Jackson, Thomas E.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: evaluation of advisory services
subject: pricing performance
subject: soybeans
subject: C8
subject: D4
subject: D8
subject: L1
subject: M3
subject: Q0
subject: Z0

description: The purpose of this research report is to present an evaluation of advisory service pricing performance in 1997 for corn and soybeans. Specifically, the average price received by a subscriber to an advisory service is calculated for corn and soybean crops harvested in 1997. The average net advisory price across all 23 corn programs is $2.32 per bushel. The net advisory prices for corn range from a minimum of $2.00 per bushel to a maximum of $2.74 per bushel. The average net advisory price across all 21 soybean programs is $6.40 per bushel. The net advisory prices for soybeans range from a minimum of $6.08 per bushel to a maximum of $6.99 per bushel.
Detecting differentially expressed genes of heterogeneous and positively skewed data using half Johnson’s modified t-test
Creators: name: I-Shiang Tzeng
name: Li-Shya Chen
name: Shy‐Shin Chang
name: Yung-Ling Leo Lee
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Background: Microarray technology allows simultaneously detecting thousands of genes within one single experiment. The Student’s t-test (for a two-sample situation) can be used to compare the mean expression of a gene, taken from replicate arrays, to detect differential expression under the conditions being studied, such as a disease. However, a general statistical test may have insufficient power to correctly detect differentially expressed genes of heterogeneous and positively skewed data. Methods: Here we define a differentially expressed gene as with significantly different expression in means, variances, or both between the two groups of microarray. Monte Carlo simulation shows that the “half Johnson’s modified t-test” maintains quite accurate type I error rates in normal and non-normal distributions. And the half Johnson’s modified t-test was more powerful than the half Student’s t-test overall when the ratio of standard deviations between case and control groups is greater than 1. Results: Analysis of a colon cancer data shows that when the false discovery rate (FDR) is controlled at 0.05, the half Johnson’s modified t-test can detect 429 differentially expressed genes, which is larger than the number of differentially expressed genes (i.e. 344) detected by the half Student’s t. To target 100 priority genes, the half Johnson’s modified t only set FDR to 4.28 × 10−8, but for the half Student’s t, it is set to 5.39 × 10−4. Conclusions: The half Johnson’s modified t-test is recommended for the detection of differentially expressed genes in heterogeneous and ONLY positively skewed data.
Cyclonenia hemmeni Nordsieck 2005
Creators: name: Cavallari, Daniel C.
name: Dornellas, Ana Paula S.
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Clausiliidae
Cyclonenia
Cyclonenia hemmeni

description: hemmeni, Cyclonenia Nordsieck, 2005
 Cyclonenia hemmeni Nordsieck, 2005b: 206 (fig. 5).
Gastropoda, Clausiliidae
 Paratype: MZSP 95477 (Fig. 6 A–B).
 Locality: Peru, Cajamar Department, c. Km 148.2 rd. Pacasmayo-Cajamarca, 2500 m altitude (type locality), 27 Oct. 2004.
 Collector: J. Hemmen.
 Preservation: Dry.
 Remarks: Former Jens Hemmen Collection. The specimen listed above is a remainder of a 28-specimen paratype lot deposited by Nordsieck in Hemmen’s collection.
description: Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 28, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/3840125
Evaluating customized database generation methods for metaproteomics analysis.
Creators: name: Mehta, Subina
name: McGowan, Thomas
name: James. E Johnson
name: Kumar, Praveen
name: Sajulga, Ray
name: Arntzen, Magnus
name: Delogu, Francesco
name: Crane, Marie
name: Peter. S Thuy-Boun
name: Dennis. W Wolan
name: Timothy. J Griffin
name: Pratik. D Jagtap
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: In metaproteomics research (study of the functional expression of a microbiome by characterizing the expressed proteins), the protein sequence databases used for searching mass spectrometry data play an important role in identification of microbial peptides and proteins present in a sample. Database features such as its size, redundancy of homologous proteins, its taxonomic and functional annotation can present challenges during protein identification. Here, we evaluate various approaches for database generation. Some of the approaches such as Sixgill, metagenomic binning and sectioning method are already available in the Galaxy platform. Along with these, we have evaluated Graph2Pro (a metagenome/transcriptome guided approach) and COMPIL 2.0 (which uses a NoSQL JSON-based MongoDB database).

For this study, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and mass spectrometry (MS) datasets from a time course study of an anaerobic cellulose-degrading community were used (DOI:10.1038/s41396-018-0290-y). The quality of the database construction methods were evaluated based on database size, composition and identification metrics. Primary evaluation shows that Sixgill along with the sectioning method generated a higher number of peptide identifications compared to other individual approaches. However, when we combined the Sixgill, Metagenomic binning and Graph2Pro databases, it provided us with the maximum number of peptide identification. Unipept (v4.3) processing of the results from the combined database, Sixgill and Graph2Pro identified approximately 8,000 EC terms and 5 genera with high confidence - which overlapped well with each other. COMPIL 2.0 and Metagenomics binning, however, provided with less number of identifications.
Elaborative Simplification: Content Addition and Explanation Generation in Text Simplification
Creators: name: Srikanth, Neha
name: Li, Junyi Jessy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Much of modern-day text simplification research focuses on sentence-level simplification, transforming original, more complex sentences into simplified versions. However, adding content can often be useful when difficult concepts and reasoning need to be explained. In this work, we present the first data-driven study of content addition in text simplification, which we call elaborative simplification. We introduce a new annotated dataset of 1.3K instances of elaborative simplification in the Newsela corpus, and analyze how entities, ideas, and concepts are elaborated through the lens of contextual specificity. We establish baselines for elaboration generation using large-scale pre-trained language models, and demonstrate that considering contextual specificity during generation can improve performance. Our results illustrate the complexities of elaborative simplification, suggesting many interesting directions for future work.
description: To appear in Findings of ACL 2021
SURVEYING FARMERS: A RESEARCH NOTE
Creators: name: Pennings, Joost M.E.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Pennings, Joost M.E.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Mail surveys are a very popular instrument for researchers as well as government agencies and commercial firms to obtain information about farmers. A large percentage of farmers do not respond to these mail surveys. To gain insight into why farmers do not respond and their preferences regarding mail surveys, farmers who did not respond to a mail survey were interviewed. From our field study it appears that a large proportion does not even read the questionnaire. Furthermore, the period in which the survey is sent along with the form and amount of compensation, the sender of the questionnaire, and the length of the questionnaire has a crucial impact on the willingness to participate.
Free scalar correlators in de Sitter via the stochastic approach beyond slow roll
Creators: name: Cable, Archie
name: Rajantie, Arttu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stochastic approach to calculating scalar correlation functions in de Sitter spacetime is extended beyond the overdamped "slow roll" approximation. We show that with the correct noise term, it reproduces the exact asymptotic long-distance behaviour of field correlators in free field theory, thereby demonstrating the viability of the technique. However, we also show that the naïve way of calculating the noise term by introducing a cut-off at the horizon does not give the correct answer unless the cut-off is chosen specifically to give the required result. We discuss the implications of this for interacting theories.
description: Accepted for publication to Physical Review D
Syzygium aromaticum (L.) elicits lifespan extension and attenuates age-related Aβ-induced proteotoxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans
Creators: name: Aakanksha Pant
name: Prakash, Prem
name: Pandey, Rakesh
name: Rishendra Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Clove (Syzygium aromaticum) is a popular medicinal plant which has been traditionally used in India as spice and medicine to counter various ailments. However, the stress modulatory and antiaging potential of this plant is yet to be characterized. Therefore, the present study evaluates the effect of clove oil (CO) on oxidative stress, lifespan, mobility, and the expression of aging-related proteins using Caenorhabditis elegans model system. The CO (10 ppm) was found to extend mean lifespan in worms by 21.4% (p p mev-1 mutant and elevated expression of gst-4 and sod-3 confirmed stress modulatory effects of CO. Additionally, the CO reduced intracellular ROS and Aβ1–42 proteotoxicity. Altogether, the present study unravels the anti-aging and stress modulatory potential of CO and suggests CO as a potential pharmaceutical entity in modulating aging process.
Complex chaos in the conditional dynamics of qubits
Creators: name: Kiss, T.
name: Jex, I.
name: Alber, G.
name: Vymetal, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the consequences of iterative measurement-induced nonlinearity on the dynamical behavior of qubits. We present a one-qubit scheme where the equation governing the time evolution is a complex-valued nonlinear map with one complex parameter. In contrast to the usual notion of quantum chaos, exponential sensitivity to the initial state occurs here. We calculate analytically the Lyapunov exponent based on the overlap of quantum states, and find that it is positive. We present a few illustrative examples of the emerging dynamics.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Gamma-ray Bursts in Wavelet Space
Creators: name: Bagoly, Z.
name: Horvath, I.
name: Meszaros, A.
name: Balazs, L. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gamma-ray burst's lightcurves have been analyzed using a special wavelet transformation. The applied wavelet base is based on a typical Fast Rise-Exponential Decay (FRED) pulse. The shape of the wavelet coefficients' total distribution is determined on the observational frequency grid. Our analysis indicates that the pulses in the long bursts' high energy channel lightcurves are more FRED-like than the lower ones, independently from the actual physical time-scale.
description: GRB: 30 years of Discovery. ed by E.E. Fenimore and M. Galassi
BOSHLANGʻICH SINFLARDA ONA TILI DARSLARIDA ZAMONAVIY PEDAGOGIK TEXNOLOGIYA VOSITALARIDAN FOYDALANISH VA DIDAKTIK OʻYINLAR ASOSIDA DARSNI TASHKIL ETISH.
Creators: name: Xursanova Gavhar Umar qizi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Annotatsiya: Ushbu maqolada boshlang'ich sinflarda ona tili darslarida zamonaviy pedagogik texnologiyalar va didaktik o'yinlardan foydalanishning ahamiyati, usullari va samaradorligi tahlil qilingan. Maqolada zamonaviy ta'lim yondashuvlarining afzalliklari, ularni qo'llash yo'llari va erishiladigan natijalar batafsil yoritilgan. Shuningdek, ona tili darslarini tashkil etishda innovatsion usullardan foydalanishning o'ziga xos xususiyatlari, o'qituvchi va o'quvchilarning yangi rollari hamda bu jarayonda yuzaga kelishi mumkin bo'lgan muammolar va ularning yechimlari ko'rib chiqilgan.

Kalit so’zlar: Boshlang'ich sinf, ona tili darslari, zamonaviy pedagogik texnologiyalar, didaktik o'yinlar, innovatsion ta'lim, interaktiv usullar, axborot-kommunikatsiya texnologiyalari, o'quvchi faolligi, ijodiy fikrlash, individual yondashuv, baholash tizimi, o'qituvchi roli, milliy qadriyatlar, ta'lim samaradorligi.
Late stage combination drug development for improved portfolio-level decision-making
Creators: name: Graham, Emily
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020

description: Combination therapies are becoming increasingly used in drug development for a range of therapeutic areas such as oncology and infectious diseases, providing potential benefits such as minimising drug resistance and toxicity. Typically, a pharmaceutical company will have multiple treatments in different stages of development in their portfolio and the problem of portfolio decision-making will include decisions such as which studies to initiate and how to prioritise studies. This problem is more complex for portfolios of combinations since sets of combination studies may be related, for example if they have at least one treatment in common and are used in the same indication. However, in this setting, value can be gained by sharing information between related combination studies in terms of improving the treatment effect estimates and improving the portfolio-level decisions. We discuss the challenges of portfolio decision-making for a portfolio of combinations and present methodology to assist with this. One of the key estimates that is used in decision-making regarding a clinical study is the probability of study success. We present a framework that allows the study success probabilities of a set of related combination therapies to be updated based on the outcome of a single combination study. This allows us to incorporate both direct and indirect data on a combination therapy in the decision-making process for future studies. Existing methods for portfolio decision-making do not account for the differences between single agent and combination drug development. We extend the existing methodology to consider the relationship between combinations and the effect that observing certain outcomes may have on the portfolio decisions we make. This is achieved by updating the study success probabilities throughout the decision-making process whenever a relevant outcome is observed.
An exploratory study of the information needs and behavior of graduate students of management sciences at the Centre for Operations Excellence, Faculty of Commerce, University of British Columbia
Creators: name: Sheth, Jessica M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of the study was to provide insights into the information seeking behaviors and needs of graduate students of Management Sciences at the Centre for Operations Excellence, University of British Columbia. The study describes major aspects of the information seeking patterns taking into account the whole phenomena: from the nature of the original situation where and when the need was recognized, to the characteristics of the information seeker, to the providers which were consulted and degrees of success. Using the case-study method and the sense-making approach, data were gathered through logs, interviews, and a questionnaire. Verbal protocols helped to delve and probe into the qualitative aspects of the search behavior resulting in a model for the search process. Findings revealed that the students went through six stages during their research: [1] Task defining, [2] Focus forming, [3] Monitoring and reviewing, [4] Selecting and sieving, [5] Interpreting, and [6] Presenting. Typically, information seeking occurred in context of task achievement which was affected by various factors such as time, cost, prior knowledge, feedback, motivation and experience and perception of students. A user survey demonstrated that [1] informal channels were used more avidly in information seeking than formal channels, [2] information service providers were not consulted on a regular basis, [3] UBC libraries were very rarely used, [4] factors such as time, location, motivation, cost, perception, feedback played an integral role in information seeking and task completion, [5] satisfaction with services of service provider were based on the relevance, currency, timeliness and accuracy of information provided, and [6] usage of information was weighed against the benefit to analysts. Recommendations for action and further study and a service model were the outcomes of the findings.
Conasprella herndli Petuch & Myers 2014
Creators: name: Cavallari, Daniel C.
name: Dornellas, Ana Paula S.
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Conidae
Conasprella
Conasprella herndli

description: herndli, Jaspidiconus Petuch & Myers, 2014
 Jaspidiconus herndli Petuch & Myers, 2014a: 42–43 (fig. 3A–C).
Gastropoda, Conidae
 Holotype: MZSP 116151.
 Locality: The Bahamas, western Great Bahama Bank, Bimini Chain, 3 km due east of Victory Cay, 5 m depth.
 Preservation: Dry.
 Remarks: This species was recombined as Conasprella herndli by Puillandre et al. (2015).
description: Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 28, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/3840125
ORGANIZATION OF THE MILITARY EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE ANALYSIS IN THE ARMIES OF NATO MEMBER COUNTRIES
Creators: name: Baranov, A.
name: Baranov Yu.
name: Okipniak, D.
name: Kyrylchuk, V.
name: Kovalchuk, S.
Publisher: name: The Scientific Heritage
Year: 2022
Subjects: military equipment
maintenance
overhaul works.

description: The development (modernization) and introduction of new samples of military equipment (ME) with improved technical characteristics increases the period of their operation until the next overhaul works (OW). Along with the advantage of increasing the ME uptime to the next type of repair, a number of disadvantages appear, the main of which is increase in the number of failures of the main units and ME systems. The organization of ME maintenance analysis in the armies of NATO member countries allows us to implement the most effective approach to improving the efficiency of ME samples functioning in the Armed Forces of Ukraine
New Generation Grain Marketing Contracts
Creators: name: Hagedorn, Lewis A.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Sherrick, Bruce J.
name: Schnitkey, Gary D.
name: Hagedorn, Lewis A.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Sherrick, Bruce J.
name: Schnitkey, Gary D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The purpose of this research report is to summarize the features of several types of "new generation" grain marketing contracts. Over the last several years, new types of grain marketing contracts have been developed by the grain industry in an attempt to improve the results of the marketing process for farmers. These products use automated pricing rules, discretionary marketing on the part of a professional advisor, options strategies, or some combination of all three; their goal is to achieve a price for the farmer near or above the "average" price offered by the market over a given time. Reports in the farm media suggest interest in new generation contracts has increased rapidly in recent years. This publication describes some of the contracts currently available and, where possible, provides examples of how each would perform in different market conditions.
Bell inequality with an arbitrary number of settings and its applications
Creators: name: Nagata, Koji
name: Laskowski, Wieslaw
name: Paterek, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a geometrical argument introduced by Zukowski, a new multisetting Bell inequality is derived, for the scenario in which many parties make measurements on two-level systems. This generalizes and unifies some previous results. Moreover, a necessary and sufficient condition for the violation of this inequality is presented. It turns out that the class of non-separable states which do not admit local realistic description is extended when compared to the two-setting inequalities. However, supporting the conjecture of Peres, quantum states with positive partial transposes with respect to all subsystems do not violate the inequality. Additionally, we follow a general link between Bell inequalities and communication complexity problems, and present a quantum protocol linked with the inequality, which outperforms the best classical protocol.
description: 8 pages, To appear in Phys. Rev. A
DEVELOPMENT OF A MARKET BENCHMARK PRICE FOR AGMAS PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS
Creators: name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Jackson, Thomas E.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Jackson, Thomas E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: advisory services
subject: evaluating the pricing performance
subject: market benchmark price
subject: C8
subject: C0
subject: D4
subject: D8
subject: L1
subject: M3
subject: Q0
subject: Z0

description: The purpose of this research report is to identify the appropriate market benchmark price to use to evaluate the pricing performance of market advisory services that are included in the annual AgMAS pricing performance evaluations. Five desirable properties of market benchmark prices are identified. Three potential specifications of the market benchmark price are considered: the average price received by Illinois farmers, the harvest cash price, and the average cash price over a two-year crop marketing window. The average cash price meets all of the desired properties, except that it would not be easily implementable by producers. It can be shown, though, that the price realized via a more manageable strategy of "spreading" sales during the marketing window very closely approximates the average cash price. Therefore, it is determined that the average cash price meets all five selection criteria, and is the most appropriate market benchmark to be used in evaluating the pricing performance of market advisory services.
Conus honkerorum Petuch & Myers 2014
Creators: name: Cavallari, Daniel C.
name: Dornellas, Ana Paula S.
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Conidae
Conus
Conus honkerorum

description: honkerorum, Gradiconus Petuch & Myers, 2014
 Gradiconus honkerorum Petuch & Myers, 2014a: 37 (fig. 1C–D).
Gastropoda, Conidae
 Holotype: MZSP 116148.
 Locality: Bahamas, Bahama Bank, Abaco Islands, Green Turtle Cay, 2 m depth.
 Collector: P. Honker.
 Preservation: Dry.
 Remarks: This species was recombined as Conus honkerorum by Puillandre et al. (2015).
description: Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 28, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/3840125
The spontaneous juvenile alopecia (jal) mutation in mice is associated with the insertion of an IAP element in the Gata3 gene
Creators: name: Connor, Malcolm E.
name: King, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: A combination of genetic fine-mapping and complementation testing was used previously to assign the juvenile alopecia mutation (abbreviated jal) to the GATA binding protein 3 (Gata3) gene on Chromosome 2 in mice. However, sequence analysis of Gata3 exons (including coding and noncoding regions) revealed no differences between wild type C3H/HeJ and co-isogenic C3H/HeJ-jal/J mutant mice. Results: Using a PCR-based scanning method, here we have tested the hypothesis that jal might result from insertion of a transposable element in or near the Gata3 gene. We show that the jal mutation is specifically associated with an intracisternal A particle (IAP) element of the I∆1 subtype that has transposed to Intron 3–4 in the Gata3 gene, and use the same panel of recombinants used previously to fine-map jal to show that this IAP element and jal are located within the same small genetic interval. Conclusion: Transposition of an IAP element of the I∆1 subtype into Intron 3–4 of the mutant Gata3jal allele is the likely cause of the juvenile alopecia phenotype in mutant mice.
THE PRICING PERFORMANCE OF MARKET ADVISORY SERVICES IN CORN AND SOYBEANS OVER 1995-2000
Creators: name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Irwin, Scott H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The purpose of this research report is to evaluate the pricing performance of market advisory services for the 1995-2000 corn and soybean crops. Certain explicit assumptions are made to produce a consistent and comparable set of results across the different advisory programs. These assumptions are intended to accurately depict "real-world" marketing conditions. Several key assumptions are: i) with a few exceptions, the marketing window for a crop year runs from September before harvest through August after harvest, ii) cash prices and yields refer to a central Illinois farm, iii) storage is assumed to occur at on-farm or commercial sites, and iv) marketing loan recommendations made by advisory programs are followed wherever feasible. Based on these assumptions, the net price received by a subscriber to market advisory programs is calculated for the 1995-2000 corn and soybean crops. Market and farmer benchmarks are developed for the performance evaluations. Two market benchmarks are specified in order to test the fragility of performance results to changing benchmark assumptions. The 24-month market benchmark averages market prices for the entire 24-month marketing window. The 20-month market benchmark is computed in a similar fashion, except the first four months of the marketing window are omitted. The farmer benchmark is based upon the USDA average price received series for corn and soybeans in Illinois. The same assumptions applied to advisory program track records are used when computing the market and farmer benchmarks. Four basic indicators of performance are applied to advisory program prices and revenues over 1995-2000. The results provide limited evidence that advisory programs as a group outperform market benchmarks, particularly after considering risk. In contrast, substantial evidence exists that advisory programs as a group outperform the farmer benchmarks, even after taking risk into account. Whether the superior performance of advisory programs versus the farmer benchmark is attributed to luck or skill depends on one's theoretical perspective. Efficient market theory favors a luck interpretation, while behavioral market theory favors a skill interpretation. Regardless of the theoretical perspective, there is little evidence that advisory programs with superior performance can be usefully selected based on past performance.
Theorems on existence and global dynamics for the Einstein equations
Creators: name: Rendall, Alan D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article is a guide to theorems on existence and global dynamics of solutions of the Einstein equations. It draws attention to open questions in the field. The local-in-time Cauchy problem, which is relatively well understood, is surveyed. Global results for solutions with various types of symmetry are discussed. A selection of results from Newtonian theory and special relativity that offer useful comparisons is presented. Treatments of global results in the case of small data and results on constructing spacetimes with prescribed singularity structure or late-time asymptotics are given. A conjectural picture of the asymptotic behaviour of general cosmological solutions of the Einstein equations is built up. Some miscellaneous topics connected with the main theme are collected in a separate section.
description: Submitted to Living Reviews in Relativity, major update of Living Rev. Rel. 5 (2002) 6
CONTRACTING IN AGRICULTURE: A PRIMER FOR FARM LENDERS
Creators: name: Hudson, Darren
name: Hudson, Darren
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: contracting
subject: asset specificity
subject: transaction costs

description: Contracting in agriculture has increased over the past several decades. This activity has heightened concerns about concentration, market power, and farmer welfare. The purpose of this paper is to describe some of the underlying motivations for contracting and to highlight some of the trade-offs made when making contracting decisions. These illustrations are intended to inform readers of the economic conditions for contracting, not provide empirical evidence of their implications, costs, or benefits.
A predictive fault-tolerance framework for IoT systems
Creators: name: Power, Alexander
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020

description: As Internet of Things (IoT) systems scale, attributes such as availability, reliability, safety, maintainability, security, and performance become increasingly more important. A key challenge to realise IoT is how to provide a dependable infrastructure for the billions of expected IoT devices. A dependable IoT system is one that can defensibly be trusted to deliver its intended service within a given time period. To define a FT-support solution that is applicable to all IoT systems, it is important that error definition is a generic, language-agnostic process, so that FT can be applied as a software pattern. It must also be interoperable, so that FT support can be easily 'plugged into' any existing IoT system, which is facilitated by an adherence to standards and protocols. Lastly, it is important that FT support is, itself, fault tolerant, so that it can be depended on to provide correct support for IoT systems. The work in this thesis considers how real-time and historical data analysis techniques can be combined to monitor an IoT environment and analyse its short- and long-term data to make the system as resilient to failure as possible. Specifically, complex event processing (CEP) is proposed for real-time error detection based on the analysis of stream data in an IoT system, where errors are defined as nondeterministic finite automata (NFA). For long-term error analysis, machine learning (ML) is proposed to predict when an error is likely to occur and mitigate imminent system faults based on previous experience of erroneous system behaviour in the IoT system. The contribution is threefold: (1) a language-agnostic approach to error definition using NFAs, designed to provide `FT as a service' for easy deployment and integration into existing IoT systems; (2) an implementation of NFAs on a bespoke CEP system, BoboCEP, that provides distributed, resilient event processing at the network edge via active replication; and (3) a ML approach to intelligent FT that can learn from system errors over time to ensure correct long-term FT support. The proposed solution was evaluated using two vertical-farming testbeds and a dataset from a real-world vertical farm. Results showed that the proposed solution could detect and predict the successful detection and recovery of erroneous system behaviours. A performance analysis of BoboCEP was conducted with favourable results.
Hydrorissoia hospitalis Brandt 1968
Creators: name: Cavallari, Daniel C.
name: Dornellas, Ana Paula S.
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Hydrobiidae
Hydrorissoia
Hydrorissoia hospitalis

description: hospitalis, Hydrorissoia Brandt, 1968
 Hydrorissoia hospitalis Brandt, 1968: 244–245 (pl. 9, fig. 32 + text fig. 23).
Gastropoda, Pomatiopsidae
 Probable paratype: MZSP 95949 (Fig. 3 I–J).
 Locality: Thailand, Khong Island, Mekong at Khong Village (type locality), 22 Feb. 1968.
 Preservation: Dry.
 Remarks: Former Jens Hemmen Collection. Data on the specimen’s label correspond to the lot originally catalogued as SMRL 3479. The specimen listed above is a possible remainder of 3 paratypes left by the author under the care of the SMRL. This species is a synonym of Hydrorissoia gracilis Brandt, 1968 according to Davis (1979).
description: Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 30, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/3840125
Conformal Field Theory Approach to the Two-channel Anderson Model
Creators: name: Johannesson, H.
name: Andrei, N.
name: Bolech, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two-channel Anderson impurity model serves as a prototype for describing heavy-fermion materials with a possible mixed-valent regime with both quadrupolar and magnetic character. We report on the low-energy physics of the model, using a conformal field theory approach with exact Bethe Ansatz results as input.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure. Proceedings of the International Conference on Magnetism (ICM 2003)
IMPACTS ON PROPERTY TAXES OF RECLASSIFYING FLOOD-PRONE CROPLAND IN THE SOUTH DELTA AREA OF MISSISSIPPI
Creators: name: Surrette, Derrick H.
name: Spurlock, Stanley R.
name: Surrette, Derrick H.
name: Spurlock, Stanley R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Cropland appraisal
subject: property taxes
subject: flood-prone cropland

description: Current tax appraisal procedures for cropland in Mississippi do not account for any negative impacts caused by frequent flooding in some areas of the South Delta. If flood-prone cropland values are significantly below average, the current tax system could generate inequitable tax burdens on owners of flood-prone cropland. A modified system of appraisal may be desirable to produce a more equitable tax structure. The purpose of this study was to evaluate different methods of reclassifying flood-prone cropland in the South Delta and to determine subsequent tax impacts on landowners and county tax revenue. Cropland tax data for Sharkey and Issaquena Counties were collected and different permanent reclassification schemes were proposed. Reclassification schemes were defined by lowering a parcel's capability class assignment by 1, 2, 3, or 4 classes if its elevation was below a specified trigger level. The impact that each reclassification scheme would have on landowners' taxes and the tax base in the affected counties was then estimated. In order to show the impact on tax shifts that would keep the county's tax base from declining, a new, higher millage rate was computed for selected reclassification schemes. After applying the adjusted millage rate to all properties in the county, changes in cropland taxes were reduced. Among the permanent reclassification schemes evaluated in this study, a trigger elevation level of 90 feet appears to offer reasonable tax impacts. Cropland parcels below 90 feet could be reassigned to the lowest capability class if the residents desired to provide the largest tax relief to these property owners. A more conservative reassignment scheme could be selected if desired. A temporary (year-to-year) reclassification system may provide more equitable tax distributions over time but would probably require more administrative costs to implement.
Oscillating elastic defects: competition and frustration
Creators: name: Barre', J.
name: Bishop, A. R.
name: Lookman, T.
name: Saxena, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a dynamical generalization of the Eshelby problem: the strain profile due to an inclusion or "defect" in an isotropic elastic medium. We show that the higher the oscillation frequency of the defect, the more localized is the strain field around the defect. We then demonstrate that the qualitative nature of the interaction between two defects is strongly dependent on separation, frequency and direction, changing from "ferromagnetic" to "antiferromagnetic" like behavior. We generalize to a finite density of defects and show that the interactions in assemblies of defects can be mapped to XY spin-like models, and describe implications for frustration and frequency-driven pattern transitions.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
The Impacts of Taste, Location of Origin, and Health Information on Market Demand for Sweet Potatoes
Creators: name: Nalley, Lawton Lanier
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Parkhurst, Gregory M.
name: Nalley, Lawton Lanier
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Parkhurst, Gregory M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Location of product origin is an often-used marketing device by retailers. This approach is based on the assumption that location of origin signals something to consumers about the underlying quality (or other attributes) of the product. This can be an effective strategy if the signal matches the consumer valuation of the product after consumption. In the same vein, health advertising is used to increase demand for a product that exhibits "healthy" dietary attributes. While there have been numerous studies examining the potential impacts of these attributes on demand, there have been few rigorous studies that examine the consistency of consumer valuations of location of origin before and after they have actually consumed the product (or before and after health advertising). Results show that knowledge of location of origin of sweet potatoes does have an impact on consumer valuation. It was also found that both the information from the taste attribute (experience) and the health attribute (credence) played a significant role in participant valuation.
CATTLE PRODUCER ATTITUDES TOWARDS ALTERNATIVE PRODUCTION AND MARKETING PRACTICES
Creators: name: Little, Randall D.
name: Forrest, Charlie S.
name: Lacy, R. Curt
name: Little, Randall D.
name: Forrest, Charlie S.
name: Lacy, R. Curt
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: beef cattle production and marketing practices
subject: producer attitudes

description: This paper reports the results of a comprehensive survey of Mississippi beef cattle producers regarding their current production and marketing practices and their attitudes toward and willingness to employ alternative production and marketing practices.
THE IMPACT OF CURRENT COTTON PRICE AND PRODUCTION COSTS ON SKIP-ROW COTTON
Creators: name: Parvin, David W.
name: Cooke, Fred T.
name: McCarty, Will
name: Parvin, David W.
name: Cooke, Fred T.
name: McCarty, Will
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: cotton
subject: no-till yields
subject: returns

description: According to conventional wisdom, low prices favor skip-row planting patterns while high prices favor solid planted cotton. Production costs have been trending upward for many years. Current high production costs have redefined the point at which a low price becomes a high price relative to skip-row versus solid planting pattern decisions. Growers considering a shift from solid to skip-row cotton must be able to produce high yields, more than 90% of the solid yield on a land acre basis.
RaFoSA: Random forests secondary structure assignment for coarse-grained and all-atom protein systems
Creators: name: Salawu, Emmanuel Oluwatobi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Secondary structures (SS) of proteins are of great importance to structural, molecular, and computational biology and chemistry. Accurate and reliable method for automatic SS assignment when only coarse-grained (CG) information is available is needed. RaFoSA, a novel, accurate, and reliable method for automatic SS assignment based on coordinates of alpha carbon (CAC) atoms alone is presented here. Results from RaFoSa have been rigorously compared to those from Dictionary of Protein SS (DSSP, the acclaimed gold-standard for automatic SS assignment) and STRIDE. Requiring only CAC, RaFoSA achieves an agreement of 96% (and 94%) with DSSP (and STRIDE) that require all-atom and hydrogen-bonding information. No known automatic SS assignment method based on CG system has ever achieved such agreement with DSSP and STRIDE. Furthermore, RaFoSA has been applied to a real-life problem and its possible use for ranking proteins in their order of SS-based stability is shown in this paper. Overall, RaFoSA’s abilities to accurately and reliably assign SS to CG or all-atom protein systems make this work important. Furthermore, it must be emphasized that SS assignment by RaFoSA is different from (and is more rigorous than) SS prediction from amino acids sequence. Indeed, SS assignment by RaFoSA can differentiate between frames from molecular dynamics simulations trajectories, while existing methods for SS prediction from amino acid sequence cannot. Source codes and a webserver implementation of RaFoSA are available at http://bioinformatics.center/RaFoSA.
COSTS, YIELDS, AND NET RETURNS, COMMERCIAL NO-TILL COTTON PRODUCTION, MISSISSIPPI, 1999
Creators: name: Parvin, David W.
name: Cooke, Fred T.
name: Parvin, David W.
name: Cooke, Fred T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: no-till
subject: spindle harvest
subject: cost of production
subject: yield

description: An analysis of a 1999 sample of ten no-till producers indicates that over a reasonable range of cotton lint prices, no-till cotton production may result in larger net returns per acre than conventional tillage. However, the authors caution that additional analysis based on a larger sample of commercial no-till growers on better cotton soils is needed.