cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Factors Affecting the Decision and Extent of Rice-milling before Sale among Ugandan Farmers
Creators: name: Nakazi, Florence
name: Sserunkuuma, Dick
name: Nakazi, Florence
name: Sserunkuuma, Dick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Rice
subject: Rice-milling
subject: Profitability
subject: Uganda

description: The number of rice mills in Uganda increased rapidly during the past decade, in response to increasing demand for milling services. However, despite the notable improvement in access to milling services, recent studies have shown that some farmers still sell rice in unmilled form which attracts lower prices. This study was undertaken to examine why some rice farmers still sell un-milled rice in the advent of improved access to milling services. Descriptive statistical methods of data analysis were used to characterize rice-growing households by the form in which they sell rice, before fitting a Tobit model to determine the factors influencing the proportion of rice sold as grain after milling. The returns (gross margins) to rice-milling were also estimated. The study findings show that rice production is profitable regardless of the form in which it is sold; and the majority of households invest in milling all or part of their rice before sale. However, although milling households incurred higher costs, they also had higher gross margins, implying that selling milled rice is more profitable than selling paddy. The price of milled rice, volume of harvested rice, household size and group membership have significant and positive relationships with the proportion of rice sold as grain; while distance to the nearest rice mill is negatively and significantly associated with the proportion of rice sold as grain.
From Spin Ladders to the 2-d O(3) Model at Non-Zero Density
Creators: name: Chandrasekharan, S.
name: Scarlet, B.
name: Wiese, U. -J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The numerical simulation of various field theories at non-zero chemical potential suffers from severe complex action problems. In particular, QCD at non-zero quark density can presently not be simulated for that reason. A similar complex action problem arises in the 2-d O(3) model -- a toy model for QCD. Here we construct the 2-d O(3) model at non-zero density via dimensional reduction of an antiferromagnetic quantum spin ladder in a magnetic field. The complex action problem of the 2-d O(3) model manifests itself as a sign problem of the ladder system. This sign problem is solved completely with a meron-cluster algorithm.
description: Based on a talk by U.-J. Wiese, 6 pages, 12 figures, to be published in computer physics communications
MOESM5 of An immunoevasive strategy through clinically-relevant pan-cancer genomic and transcriptomic alterations of JAK-STAT signaling components
Creators: name: Chang, Wai
name: Lai, Alvina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5. Differentially expressed genes between patients separated by the 28-gene signature into 4th and 1st quartiles.
The Climate Change Dynamics and its Impact on the Wheat Productivity in Pakistan: A VAR Approach
Creators: name: Mehmood, Naveed
name: Khalil, Samina
name: Mehmood, Naveed
name: Khalil, Samina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Anthropogenic activities
subject: Variance decomposition
subject: Impulse response function
subject: Climatic and non-climatic variables

description: The protracted change in climatic conditions because of the natural or anthropogenic activities is termed as climate change. It is mainly caused by human induced emission of greenhouse gases like Carbon dioxide CO2, Methane CH4, Nitrous oxide NO2. These gases trap the sunlight, rising the earth’s temperature and altering the pattern of precipitation, humidity across countries and causing some sever damages to the economies. Yearly data (from 1971 to 2009) published by the Metrological Department of Pakistan and Agriculture Statistics of Pakistan is being used. Vector Autoregressive Modeling is applied to study the impact of the climate change on wheat productivity. The result of the model shows that the rising temperature leads to reduction in output as the variation in the wheat productivity has been brought mainly by the variation in the temperature that is 25 percent in the tenth period as shown by the variance decomposition.
Monochroa conspersella
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Monochroa
Monochroa conspersella

description: Monochroa conspersella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
Berlin 30. VI –02.VII.1997; Miass 19.VI.1998, 26–27.VI.1997, 24.VI.2001; Sakmara river 20–21.VI.1996; Verbljushka 10–12.VI.1998, 18.VI.1999. Common.
 Distribution. Locally in Europe, from the Alps towards north, in the east to S Ural and the Middle Volga.
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655
Improving multilevel regression and poststratification with structured priors
Creators: name: Gao, Yuxiang
name: Kennedy, Lauren
name: Simpson, Daniel
name: Gelman, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A central theme in the field of survey statistics is estimating population-level quantities through data coming from potentially non-representative samples of the population. Multilevel Regression and Poststratification (MRP), a model-based approach, is gaining traction against the traditional weighted approach for survey estimates. MRP estimates are susceptible to bias if there is an underlying structure that the methodology does not capture. This work aims to provide a new framework for specifying structured prior distributions that lead to bias reduction in MRP estimates. We use simulation studies to explore the benefit of these prior distributions and demonstrate their efficacy on non-representative US survey data. We show that structured prior distributions offer absolute bias reduction and variance reduction for posterior MRP estimates in a large variety of data regimes.
description: Minor revision. Added plots showing share of simulations where structured priors outperformed baseline priors in MRP
Additional file 2 of Reliability and validity of the FFQ and feeding index for 7-to 24-month-old children after congenital heart disease surgery
Creators: name: Lei, Yiling
name: Liu, Yang
name: Hu, Chunmei
name: Cui, Yanqin
name: Gao, Rui
name: Li, Xiuxiu
name: Zhu, Yanna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary file 2. 24 hour dietary recall.
Visual Culture Of The Santals And Their Image: Myth, Morals And Materiality
Creators: name: Avijit, Anshul
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Santal
art
colonialism
rebellion
British
engravings
Sherwill
Bengal School
tribe
primitivism
banam
fiddle
Shantiniketan
myth
sororicide
cannibalism
palanquin
palki
wood carving
scroll painting
jadupatua
effigy

description: Many Indian tribes have a rich and diverse repertoire of material produce, and among them the Santal artistic heritage is not only little known, but also reveals deeply existential imperatives through its mythology and history. The purpose of this thesis has been two-fold – firstly, to systematically list and classify Santal visual culture as comprehensively as possible, and secondly, to understand this culture through more complex, collective subjectivities. These subjectivities were shaped primarily by the cultural memory of the tribe, their migratory past and their turbulent relationship with the colonial state. This thesis considers multiple forms of art – wall paintings, sacrificial geometry, musical instruments, marriage articles, paper paintings and shields used in war and dance – to understand the aesthetic eco-system of the Santals. But the emphasis is on three key artefacts that embody their philosophy – the fiddle (banam), palanquin (rahi) and scroll paintings (jadupata). The fiddle is an anthropomorphic articulation of the Santal universe and conceals a foundational tale of cannibalism, sororicide and mysticism. The palanquin, reflecting the great skill of the carvers, amuses the viewer with its animal-human parodies and its engagement with colonial modernity. The paintings, though not made by the Santals, depict key moments in the tribe’s mythical almanac and also service their anxieties of the afterlife through the promise of salvation. Additionally, the thesis questions the conventional historiography of ‘tribal’ portrayal. It argues that the Santals, as mediated through Victorian engravings and graphics, were given far more agency and epistemic strength than generally admitted. It also claims that the Indian painters from Shantiniketan and Calcutta, rather than uplifting the community as symbols of national resistance, actually imprisoned them in an Edenic past and denied them the temporal technologies to act in the present. The visual story of the Santals, till today, remains captive to this very paradox.
Manufacturing Process and Various uses of Savannah Herbal Tea (Lippia multiflora) in Côte d’Ivoire
Creators: name: Ekissi, Alice Christine
name: Yao-Kouame, Albert
name: Konan, Amoin Georgette
name: Alui, Konan Allphonse
name: Agbo, N’Zi Georges
name: Kati-Coulibaly, Séraphin
name: Ekissi, Alice Christine
name: Yao-Kouame, Albert
name: Konan, Amoin Georgette
name: Alui, Konan Allphonse
name: Agbo, N’Zi Georges
name: Kati-Coulibaly, Séraphin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Lippia multiflora
subject: Savannah Tea
subject: Herbal tea
subject: Tea

description: This study aims at determining the manufacturing process of tea from Lippia multiflora collected in Côte d’Ivoire and describe its various uses. A survey was conducted among pickers, sellers and consumers in five cities (Abidjan, Yamoussoukro, Toumodi, Katiola and Bondoukou). The results show that (92.11%) of the women harvesting tea, cut leafy stems at tea tree base, (80.65%) carry their harvests on the head and (60.95%) dry their harvest from 1 to 3 days or 7 days. The harvest period ranging from April to August is the most important one (80.15%). In Abidjan, the use of Lippia multiflora as food is 79.80 % and in other areas of the country, it is used for both food and medicine with the respective frequencies of 46.56 and 46.44 % and its insecticidal use represents only (6,16%). It appears from this survey that the leaves of Lippia multiflora are most used by consumers; the manufacturing of this herbal tea is performed according to traditional process. The savannah tea has nutritional, insecticidal and medicinal values. It would be better to afford the opportunity to transform the leaves of Lippia multiflora in tea in order to have a crop with a high added value.
MOESM3 of An immunoevasive strategy through clinically-relevant pan-cancer genomic and transcriptomic alterations of JAK-STAT signaling components
Creators: name: Chang, Wai
name: Lai, Alvina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 3. Univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression analyses to determine the independence of 28-gene signature from TNM staging and age.
title: Atlas des DOM. - La Réunion - Planche 9 : notice, page 2 "I. Les formations naturelles"
Creators: name: Defos du Rau, Jean
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017
Subjects: forêt
végétation
biogéographie
bois
espèce végétale
essence forestière tropicale
forêt primaire
inventaire floristique
paysage végétal

description: Présente la formation végétale naturelle (c'est-à-dire que le rôle de l'homme y est négligeable) de la forêt de " Bois Couleur ".
description: Relation: http://www.nakala.fr/data/11280/4f8e3b7e
description: Relation: http://www.nakala.fr/data/11280/0b1c8a23
description: Relation: http://www.nakala.fr/data/11280/1f2542be
description: Coverage: La Réunion
description: Coverage: Forêt de "Bois Couleur"
description: Temporal: start=1972; end=1975;
Monochroa elongella
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Monochroa
Monochroa elongella

description: Monochroa elongella (Heinemann, 1870)
Ajat river 03–04. VII.1997; Arkaim 08–09.VII.1997, 22.VII.1998; Berlin 30. VI –02. VII.1997; Burannoe 21. VI.1999; Chalk Hills 30. VI –01. VII.2003; Ekaterinburg 29.V.2001, 10–15.VII.2003; Guberlja 25. VI.2003; Miass 26.VI.1997, 15.VII.1997, 19.VI.1998, 28.VI.1999, 24.VI.2001, 14.VII.2003; Moskovo 10. VII.1997; Verbljushka 10–12.VI.1998, 17–19.VI.1999. A total of 26 exx.
 Distribution. Widely distributed through Europe, absent from the south. Outside Europe reported from S Siberia (Transbaikalia, Altai and Tuva).
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655
MOESM4 of An immunoevasive strategy through clinically-relevant pan-cancer genomic and transcriptomic alterations of JAK-STAT signaling components
Creators: name: Chang, Wai
name: Lai, Alvina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 4. Kaplan-Meier analyses of patients with glioblastoma multiforme stratified by the 28-gene signature. The log-rank test is used to compare patients within the 1st and 4th survival quartiles.
Large mixing angle oscillations as a probe of the deep solar interior
Creators: name: Burgess, C.
name: Dzhalilov, N. S.
name: Maltoni, M.
name: Rashba, T. I.
name: Semikoz, V. B.
name: Tortola, M. A.
name: Valle, J. W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We re-examine the sensitivity of solar neutrino oscillations to noise in the solar interior using the best current estimates of neutrino properties. Our results show that the measurement of neutrino properties at KamLAND provides new information about fluctuations in the solar environment on scales to which standard helioseismic constraints are largely insensitive. We also show how the determination of neutrino oscillation parameters from a combined fit of KamLAND and solar data depends strongly on the magnitude of solar density fluctuations. We argue that a resonance between helioseismic and Alfven waves might provide a physical mechanism for generating these fluctuations and, if so, neutrino-oscillation measurements could be used to constrain the size of magnetic fields deep within the solar radiative zone.
description: 13 pages, LaTeX file using AASLaTeX, 6 figures included. Improved version including the new KamLAND data. To appear in APJ letters
PROFITABILITY AND RESOURCE USE EFFICIENCY OF PRODUCING MAJOR SPICES IN BANGLADESH
Creators: name: Islam, M. Serajul
name: Rahman, K. M. Mostafizur
name: Hasan, Md. Kamrul
name: Islam, M. Serajul
name: Rahman, K. M. Mostafizur
name: Hasan, Md. Kamrul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Production Economics

description: The present study attempts to determine the productivity, profitability and resource use efficiency of four promising spices crops such as garlic, chilli, ginger and turmeric. The data were collected from 480 farm households in the crop year 2010-2011. Productions of all the crops were profitable as estimated by net returns and benefit cost ratios. Functional analyses showed that farm size, seed, inorganic and organic fertilisers, cost of power tiller and draft power, irrigation, education, farming experience and training had positive impact on the production of spices. Increasing returns to scale prevailed in the production process for garlic, chilli, ginger whereas constant returns to scale prevailed for the production of turmeric. All the models used fitted well to analyse the selected data for all crops. Small farmers were more efficient for garlic production only whereas the large farmers were more efficient for other spices crops. More educated and more experienced farmers were technically more efficient than less educated and less experienced farmers. Training reduced significantly the inefficiency of farmers in producing respective crops. The average estimated technical efficiencies for garlic, chilli, ginger and turmeric were respectively 88, 80, 69 and 79% which indicated that garlic production could be increased by 12%, chilli by 20%, ginger by 31% and turmeric by 21% with the same level of inputs without incurring any additional cost. As a policy option, training should be extended to all farmers to have a reduced inefficiency effect, which in turn would increase the profitability of spices crop production by saving resources. However, training should be provided frequently to improve the efficiency of farmer for spices production.
In Search of Respectability. The Politics of the Union des organisations islamiques de France
Creators: name: Dazey, Margot Hélène Lizika
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: marginalised groups
religion and politics
Islam in France

description: The spokespersons of Western Europe’s Muslim communities face the imperative to garner legitimacy among distinct, power-asymmetric audiences. They need to gain approval from the general public, whose opinions are ruled by secular liberal principles, and they need the support of their pious Muslim constituents, who uphold norms of Islamic authenticity. This thesis aims to situate the responses of Muslim political actors to these competing normative prescriptions. To do this, it disentangles the subtle trade-offs they need to negotiate between political pressures for a civil Islam and intra-community expectations of religious authenticity. This double-bind situation is unpacked through the case study of the Union des organisations islamiques de France (UOIF), arguably the most prominent organisation on the French Islamic landscape. Founded in 1983 by religiously observant students close to the Muslim Brotherhood, the UOIF rapidly evolved into an influential Muslim interest group looking for policy-makers’ recognition. Building on three years of ethnographic fieldwork as well as untapped material drawn from interviews, governmental archives and media analysis, my study argues that UOIF leaders progressively embraced a quest for political respectability. To this end, they sought to assuage suspicions about their Islamist filiation and subscribe to dominant secular- republican scripts about how ‘good Muslims’ should appear and behave. This strategy encompassed an array of ideological, organisational and tactical adaptations designed to establish the organisation’s credibility—from the construction of a respectable façade to the sanction of unruly members, and from cooperation with public authorities to theological reformulations. Aligning with dominant norms, however, was a costly process, and UOIF leaders consequently alienated factions within their Muslim followers, often finding themselves accused of compromising doctrinal principles and ‘selling out’ Islam. To capture this ambivalent strategy, I transpose the notion of the Politics of Respectability from predominantly North-American case studies on black elites to European Islamic contexts. Such a conceptual reformulation allows me to document Muslims’ political agency in hostile environments and clarify the inclusion dilemmas they face. In writing the first in-depth historical and ethnographic study of the UOIF, my ambition is twofold: to contribute to a substantial understanding of Muslim politics in minority contexts and to draw a more general framework accounting for the respectability politics of marginalised groups.
description: Knox studentship (Trinity College) and Fox fellowship (Yale University)
Identifying Higher Order Topology and Fractional Corner Charge Using Entanglement Spectra
Creators: name: Zhu, Penghao
name: Loehr, Kieran
name: Hughes, Taylor L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the entanglement spectrum (ES) of two-dimensional $C_{n}$-symmetric second-order topological insulators (TIs). We show that some characteristic higher order topological observables, e.g., the filling anomaly and its associated fractional corner charge, can be determined from the ES of atomic and fragile TIs. By constructing the relationship between the configuration of Wannier orbitals and the number of protected in-gap states in the ES for different symmetric cuts in real space, we express the fractional corner charge in terms of the number of protected in-gap states of the ES. We show that our formula is robust in the presence of electron-electron interactions as long as the interactions preserve $C_{n}$ rotation symmetry and charge-conservation symmetry. Moreover, we discuss the possible signatures higher order topology in the many-body ES. Our methods allow the identification of some classes of higher order topology without requiring the usage of nested Wilson loops or nested entanglement spectra.
description: 11+4 pages, 8 figures in the main text, 3 figures in appendices
The Stellar IMF in Very Metal-Deficient Gas
Creators: name: Nakamura, Fumitaka
name: Umemura, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of the star formation through the fragmentation of an extremely metal-deficient protogalactic cloud, the gravitational collapse of filamentary gas clouds is explored with H$_2$ and HD chemistry. It is found by 1D hydrodynamical simulations that the cloud evolution is prescribed mainly by the initial density ($n_0$) and H$_2$ abundance ($x_{\rm H_2,0}$). In particular, it turns out that the evolution of low-density filaments ($n_0 \lesssim 10^5$ cm$^{-3}$) bifurcates at a critical H$_2$ abundance of $x_{\rm H_2,cr}\simeq 3\times 10^{-3}$, beyond which HD cooling overwhelms H$_2$ cooling. The numerical results indicate that the stellar IMF is likely to be double-peaked and deficient in sub-solar mass stars, where the high mass peak of the IMF is around $10M_\odot$ or $10^2M_\odot$, dependently on the initial density and H$_2$ abundance. If the gas in protogalactic clouds is photoionized by UV radiation or shock-heated, the H$_2$ abundance could exceed $x_{\rm H_2,cr}\simeq 3\times 10^{-3}$ by H$^-$ reactions. Then, the high mass peak would be $O(10) M_\odot$.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, proceedings of New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics: The link between Stars and Cosmology (eds. M. Chavez, A. Bressan, A. Buzzoni & D. Mayya, to be published by the Kluwer Academic Publishers)
ASSESSING THE EFFECT OF ARSENIC CONTAMINATION ON MODERN RICE PRODUCTION: EVIDENCES FROM A FARM LEVEL STUDY
Creators: name: Alam, M. Shahe
name: Islam, M. A.
name: Alam, M. Shahe
name: Islam, M. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Production Economics

description: The southeastern and southwestern parts of Bangladesh are naturally contaminated with arsenic exposing more than 30 million people to unsafe levels of this element in drinking water and potentially threatening rice production. A study was undertaken in three arsenic contaminated upazilas namely Kachua, Bhanga and Faridpur, aiming at understanding the possible negative effects of arsenic contamination on crop production. Sample survey was carried out to generate primary data. Two-stage sampling technique was followed in selecting the sample farms. Using Cobb-douglas yield function, productivity variability and the factors influencing level of productivity were identified. Analysis reveals that the share of agriculture income was higher for the farms under Bhanga (48%) compared to that under Kachua (46%). More than 70% of the sample households faced various arsenic related problems in rice production. Arsenic contamination resulted in less tillering, shorter plants, uneven plant growth and finally, decreased yield. Rice farmers adopted few practices for overcoming the problem, such as draining out of water from the rice fields, applying adequate fertilizers to the rice fields. Land degradation due to continued use of arsenic contaminated irrigation was reported. Due to the application of extra fertilizer and labour, the cost of modern Boro rice production in the more arsenic contaminated plots was 5% higher compared to that in less contaminated plots. Yields of MV (Modern variety) boro rice in more contaminated plots were significantly low resulting in lower gross return and profitability. Power tiller cost (a proxy for use of tiller), distance of plot from the STW, labour use, frequency of irrigation etc were the dominant determinants of MV Boro rice production in the sample arsenic prone areas.
ECONOMICS OF EXTRACTION OF PRODUCTS FROM SUNDAR BANS RESERVE FOREST
Creators: name: Islam, K M Nabiul
name: Islam, Md Nazrul
name: Islam, K M Nabiul
name: Islam, Md Nazrul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Production Economics

description: The Sundarbans has a tremendous impact on the ecosystem of this country, region and the world as a whole. It provides livelihoods to the local and national economy. The Paper demonstrates that poverty levels of Sundarbans Impact Zone (SIZ) areas, compared to non-SIZ areas, are quite high. Naturally, the issue arises as to why the SIZ population is living in poverty and whether issues related to Sundarbans Reserve Forest (SRF) extraction activities have any bearing on this poverty situation. This Paper is an attempt to explore this through undertaking value chain analysis. The study on which this Paper is based aimed to understand and, where possible, quantify the economics of extraction and sale of products marketed from the Sundarbans. The Paper suggests that there are more than one million people directly involved with the resources extraction from the SRF. About 28% of the population in the impact zone are dependent on the SRF, and in future this dependence will increase, which is likely to aggravate the existing pressure. The increased population with few alternative livelihood opportunities poses a serious threat to the Sundarbans which is the main cause of mangrove destruction. The people and the community especially that of the bottom layer actors in the value chains, tend to fall in the process of pauperization. The income distribution appears to be highly skewed in the SIZ area. While the bottom half (Deciles 1 to 5) of the actors have 15 percent of the total income, the top half (Deciles 6 to 10) of the actors accounts for as much as 85 percent of the total income, with Gini coefficient for the SIZ area estimated as 0.52, as compared to 0.46 for Bangladesh, as a whole. Intuitively, given the existing economic situation, SRF extraction is deepening poverty levels, which may help widen the income gap between rich and poor in the SIZ area. The Paper raises issues that are crucial in terms of return and equity, conservation and co-management, and suggests specific policy interventions in respect of, among others, improving the value chains and poverty situations of SRF actors (particularly of bottom layer actors), improving terms of trade and marketing system, conservation of the SRF and capacity of the FD, in order to help ensure improved and collaborative management of SRF and sustainable use of its resources.
Stochastic data-driven model predictive control using Gaussian processes
Creators: name: Bradford, E.
name: Imsland, L.
name: Zhang, D.
name: del Rio-Chanona, E. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) is one of the few control methods that can handle multivariable nonlinear controlsystems with constraints. Gaussian processes (GPs) present a powerful tool to identify the required plant model and quantifythe residual uncertainty of the plant-model mismatch. It is crucial to consider this uncertainty, since it may lead to worsecontrol performance and constraint violations. In this paper we propose a new method to design a GP-based NMPC algorithmfor finite horizon control problems. The method generates Monte Carlo samples of the GP offline for constraint tighteningusing back-offs. The tightened constraints then guarantee the satisfaction of chance constraints online. Advantages of our proposed approach over existing methods include fast online evaluation, consideration of closed-loop behaviour, and thepossibility to alleviate conservativeness by considering both online learning and state dependency of the uncertainty. The algorithm is verified on a challenging semi-batch bioprocess case study.
description: 26 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables
IMPACT OF AN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ON TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION AND CROP YIELDS OF RESOURCE POOR FARMERS IN BANGLADESH
Creators: name: Jabbar, M.A.
name: Ziauddin, A.T.M.
name: Abedin, M.Z.
name: Jabbar, M.A.
name: Ziauddin, A.T.M.
name: Abedin, M.Z.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: project impact
subject: knowledge
subject: adoption
subject: technology
subject: crop
subject: livestock
subject: fisheries
subject: agro-processing
subject: Bangladesh

description: An agricultural development project targeted to resource poor households disseminated a wide range of crop, livestock, fisheries, agro-processing and non-farm technologies to enhance their yield, income and food security. In this paper, impact of the project on acquisition of knowledge and adoption of the promoted technologies are measured as these are critical intermediate steps to achieve increased yield, income and food security. A combination of project and control, and before intervention and after intervention was used to assess impact of the project activities. It appeared that for technologies which were more vigorously promoted through knowledge dissemination and input supply, both incidence of knowledge and adoption increased significantly in the project areas, and in some cases net change in adoption was more than in knowledge acquisition perhaps because previously people knew certain technologies but did not practice them due to some constraints which were removed by the project activities. Net change in the yield of several crops was 8-21% in the project areas. The findings indicate that even when technologies are scale neutral, poor and marginal farmers may not be aware about them and may not adopt them or adopt inadequately due to lack of knowledge and access to inputs and services. Therefore, much social gains can be derived by designing and implementing extension, information dissemination and input supply programmes targeted to such households so that they may have access to better knowledge, technology and inputs to make best use of their meagre land, labour and capital resources to improve productivity and income and improve food security.
Primordial pairing and binding of superheavy charge particles in the early Universe
Creators: name: Dubrovich, V. K.
name: Khlopov, M. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Primordial superheavy particles, considered as the source of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) and produced in local processes in the early Universe, should bear some strictly or approximately conserved charge to be sufficiently stable to survive to the present time. Charge conservation makes them to be produced in pairs, and the estimated separation of particle and antiparticle in such pair is shown to be in some cases much smaller than the average separation determined by the averaged number density of considered particles. If the new U(1) charge is the source of a long range field similar to electromagnetic field, the particle and antiparticle, possessing that charge, can form primordial bound system with annihilation timescale, which can satisfy the conditions, assumed for this type of UHECR sources. These conditions severely constrain the possible properties of considered particles.
description: Latex, 4 pages. The final version to appear in Pis'ma ZhETF (the conditions for the primordial binding are specified, some refs added)
MOESM1 of Identifying risks areas related to medication administrations - text mining analysis using free-text descriptions of incident reports
Creators: name: HĂ¤RkĂ¤Nen, Marja
name: Paananen, Jussi
name: Murrells, Trevor
name: Rafferty, Anne
name: Franklin, Bryony
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Weights between most common medications and highly associated terms based on clustering and concept linking.
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: The Case of Carbon Trading in China
Creators: name: Zhang, ZhongXiang
name: Zhang, ZhongXiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Pilot Carbon Trading Schemes
subject: Low-carbon Development
subject: Environmental Taxes
subject: Market Stabilization Mechanism
subject: Carbon Offsets
subject: Enforcement and Compliance
subject: China

description: Putting a price on carbon is considered a crucial step for China’s endeavor of harnessing the market forces to reduce its energy consumption and carbon emissions. Indeed, aligned with China’s grand experiment with low-carbon provinces and low-carbon cities in six provinces and thirty-six cities, the Chinese central government has approved the seven pilot carbon trading schemes. These pilot trading schemes have features in common, but vary considerably in their approach to issues such as the coverage of sectors, allocation of allowances, price uncertainty and market stabilization, potential market power of dominated players, use of offsets, and enforcement and compliance. This article explains why China turns to market forces and opts for emissions trading, rather than carbon or environmental taxes at least initially, discusses the five pilot trading schemes that have to comply with their emissions obligations by June 2014, and examines a wide range of design, implementation, enforcement and compliance issues related to China’s carbon trading pilots and their first-year performance. The article ends with drawing some lessons learned and discussing the options to evolve regional pilot carbon trading schemes into a nationwide carbon trading scheme.
Musical Instrumrnt Recognition Using Artificial Neural Network
Creators: name: Shirazi, Mahmoud
name: Alireza Khanteimoori
name: Bigham, Bahram Sadeghi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Applied Computer Science
Theoretical Computer Science

description: This paper addresses musical sounds recognition produced by different instrument and focus on classification of instrument tones. Architecture of back-propagation and networks are applied as classifiers. The discrete Fourier transform vectors, mean, and variance extracted from each segment are used as parameters. The Music Instrument Sample Database (UIOWA) is used for this experiment. The number of instrument is 14. We use 16 different structures of neural networks for recognition these instruments and compare the results. Ezzaidi Hassan [1] obtained SR(14)=12/14 by MLP with 60, 120, and 240 units in the middle layer without impacting of training data set. We obtain SR(14)=13/14 using a different way for analyzing the music sounds.
The Conservation versus Production Trade-off: Does Livestock Intensification Increase Deforestation? The Case of the Brazilian Amazon
Creators: name: Molina Vale, Petterson
name: Molina Vale, Petterson
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Amazon
subject: Rebound Effect
subject: Intensification
subject: Deforestation
subject: Land Use
subject: Cattle Ranching

description: More cattle, less deforestation? Land use intensification in the Amazon is an unexpected phenomenon. Theories of hollow frontier, speculative behaviour and boom-bust all share the prediction that livestock production will remain largely extensive. Yet between 1996 and 2006 productivity of cattle grew by an astounding 57.5% in the average Amazon municipality. Does rising land productivity of cattle increase deforestation? I use secondary data and spatial econometrics to look for evidence of a positive relation between cattle intensification and deforestation (‘rebound effect’). The reduced-form model I employ is based on a spatial econometric specification by Arima et al. (2011) and uses panel data at the municipality-level. I show that mounting productivity in consolidated areas has been associated with lower deforestation both in frontier and consolidated municipalities. This suggests that any process of out-migration spurred by the rising productivity is insufficient to have a positive impact on deforestation.
Monochroa sepicolella
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Monochroa
Monochroa sepicolella

description: Monochroa sepicolella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
Arkaim 08–09.VII.1997, 15.VI.1999; Bishtiryak 13.VII.1998; Burannoe 06–07.VIII.2005; Chalk Hills 03– 07.VI.1998; Kidriasovo 28–29.V.1998; Kuvandyk 21.VII.1998; Verbljushka 10–12.VI.1998, 19.VI.1999, 28.VII.2000; Tavatui 30.VII.1998. A total of 22 exx.
 Distribution. Very locally from C and N Europe to the Ural Mountains. Outside Europe reported from Causasus and S Siberia.
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655
Ordonnance du conseil souverain, qui enjoint aux huissiers de la cour de comparaître tous les ans le vendredi, après les vacances de Pâques & d'août pour déposer leurs masses, & purger les plaintes qui pourront être faites à leur charge
Creators: name: Plouvain, Pierre-Antoine-Samuel-Joseph (1754-1832)
name: Six, Philippe-Josse-Auguste-Joseph (1732-1793)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: Justice royale
Organisation judiciaire
Auxiliaire de justice

description: Source: http://nordnum.univ-lille.fr/ark:/72505/a0115224001360im5Ol/from/a011522400136ypxWl2
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandre
description: issued: 20/03/1671
Luring Others into Climate Action: Coalition Formation Games with Threshold and Spillover Effects
Creators: name: Bosetti, Valentina
name: Heugues, Melanie
name: Tavoni, Alessandro
name: Bosetti, Valentina
name: Heugues, Melanie
name: Tavoni, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Climate Change
subject: International Cooperation
subject: R&D Spillovers
subject: Threshold Public Goods Game
subject: Coalition Formation Game
subject: Climate Experiment

description: We study the effect of leadership in an experimental threshold public ‘bad’ game, where we manipulate both the relative returns of two investments (the more productive of which causes a negative externality) and the extent to which the gains from leadership diffuse to the group. The game tradeoffs mimic those faced by countries choosing to what degree and when to transition from incumbent polluting technologies to cleaner alternatives, with the overall commitment dictating whether they manage to avert dangerous environmental thresholds. Leading countries, by agreeing on a shared effort, may be pivotal in triggering emission reductions in non-signatories countries. In addition, the leaders’ coalition might also work as innovation and technology adoption catalyzer, thus producing a public good (knowledge) that benefits all countries. In our game, players can choose to tie their hands to a cooperative strategy by signing up to a coalition of first movers. The game is setup such that as long as the leading group reaches a pivotal size, its early investment in the externality-free project may catalyze cooperation by non-signatories. We find that the likelihood of reaching the pivotal size is higher when the benefits of early cooperation are completely appropriated by the coalition members, less so when these benefits spillover to the non-signatories. On the other hand, spillovers have the potential to entice second movers into adopting the ‘clean’ technology.
Local and non-local electron dynamics of Au/Fe/MgO(001) heterostructures analyzed by time-resolved two-photon photoemission spectroscopy
Creators: name: Beyazit, Yasin
name: Beckord, Jan
name: Zhou, Ping
name: Meyburg, Jan
name: Diesing, Detlef
name: Ligges, Manuel
name: Bovensiepen, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Employing femtosecond laser pulses in front and back side pumping of Au/Fe/MgO(001) combined with detection in two-photon photoelectron emission spectroscopy we analyze local relaxation dynamics of excited electrons in buried Fe, injection into Au across the Fe-Au interface, and electron transport across the Au layer at 0.6 to 2.0 eV above the Fermi energy. By analysis as a function of Au film thickness we obtain the electron lifetimes of bulk Au and Fe and distinguish the relaxation in the heterostructure's constituents. We also show that the excited electrons propagate through Au in a superdiffusive regime and conclude further that electron injection across the epitaxial interface proceeds ballistically by electron wavepacket propagation.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Exploration and Exploitation Innovations in the Food Firms
Creators: name: Sánchez-Pérez, Manuel
name: Marín-Carrillo, María Belén
name: Bourlakis, Michael
name: Sánchez-Pérez, Manuel
name: Marín-Carrillo, María Belén
name: Bourlakis, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Agribusiness
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: In a context of increasingly intense competition, creating a unique mix of value through innovation has been considered one tenet for creating a competitive advantage (Porter, 1996). During the past decades, innovation has become a central issue of strategic management (Nag et al., 2007). The literature has identified several problems in relation to firm failure innovation decisions, focusing on the supply-side (organizational competence, Henderson 2006; dependence of actual most profitable customers, Christensen, 1997; out-of-date competence due to technological breakthroughs, Tushman & Anderson, 1986), and on the demand-side (market turbulence, Abernathy & Clark 1985; institutional environment, Chesbrough, 2001).
Dust Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Nenkova, M.
name: Ivezic, Z.
name: Elitzur, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unified schemes of active galactic nuclei (AGN) require an obscuring dusty torus around the central source, giving rise to Seyfert 1 line spectrum for pole-on viewing and Seyfert 2 characteristics in edge-on sources. Although the observed IR is in broad agreement with this scheme, the behavior of the 10 micron silicate feature and the width of the far-IR emission peak remained serious problems in all previous modeling efforts. We show that these problems find a natural explanation if the dust is contained in about 5-10 clouds along radial rays through the torus. The spectral energy distributions (SED) of both type 1 and type 2 sources are properly reproduced from different viewpoints of the same object if the visual optical depth of each cloud is larger than about 60 and the clouds' mean free path increases roughly in proportion to radial distance.
description: 11 pages, submitted to ApJ Letters
Triply-charmed dibaryon states or two-baryon scattering states from the QCD sum rules?
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we construct the color-singlet-color-singlet type currents to study the scalar and axialvector $Ξ_{cc}Σ_c$ dibaryon states with QCD sum rules in details by taking into account both the dibaryon states and two-baryon scattering sates at the hadron side, and examine the existence of the $Ξ_{cc}Σ_c$ dibaryon states. Our calculations indicate that the two-baryon scattering states cannot saturate the QCD sum rules, it is necessary to introduce the dibaryon states, the color-singlet-color-singlet type currents couple potentially to the molecular states, not to the two-particle scattering states, the molecular states begin to receive contributions at the order $\mathcal{O}(α_s^0)$, not at the order $\mathcal{O}(α_s^2)$.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures