cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: A Brief Review of Past Perspectives, Present Developments, and Future Directions
Creators: name: Nouri, Aria
name: Cheng, Joseph S.
name: Davies, Benjamin
name: Kotter, Mark
name: Schaller, Karl
name: Tessitore, Enrico
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: focus issue
update
cervical spondylotic myelopathy
compressive myelopathy

description: Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) is the most common cause of spinal cord injury in developed countries; its prevalence is increasing due to the ageing of the population. DCM causes neurological dysfunction and is a significant cause of disability in the elderly. It has important negative impacts on the quality of life of those affected, as well as on their caregivers. DCM is triggered by a variety of degenerative changes in the neck, which affect one or more anatomical structures, including intervertebral discs, vertebrae, and spinal canal ligaments. These changes can also lead to structural abnormalities, leading to alterations in alignment, mobility, and stability. The principle unifying problem in this disease, regardless of the types of changes present, is injury to the spinal cord due to compression by static and/or dynamic forces. This review is partitioned into three segments that focus on key elements of the past, the present, and the future in the field, which serve to introduce the focus issue on “Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy and the Aging Spine”. Emerging from this review is that tremendous progress has been made in the field, particularly in recent years, and that there are exciting possibilities for further advancements of patient care.
Imitation and contrarian behavior: hyperbolic bubbles, crashes and chaos
Creators: name: Corcos, A.
name: Eckmann, J. -P.
name: Malaspinas, A.
name: Malevergne, Y.
name: Sornette, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Imitative and contrarian behaviors are the two typical opposite attitudes of investors in stock markets. We introduce a simple model to investigate their interplay in a stock market where agents can take only two states, bullish or bearish. Each bullish (bearish) agent polls m "friends'' and changes her opinion to bearish (bullish) if there is (1) either a majority of bearish agents or (2) too strong a majority of bullish agents. The condition (1) (resp. (2)) corresponds to imitative (resp. antagonistic) behavior. In the limit where the number N of agents is infinite, the dynamics of the fraction of bullish agents is deterministic and exhibits chaotic behavior in a significant domain of the parameter space of the model. A typical chaotic trajectory is characterized by intermittent phases of chaos, quasi-periodic behavior and super-exponentially growing bubbles followed by crashes. A typical bubble starts initially by growing at an exponential rate and then crosses over to a nonlinear power law growth rate leading to a finite-time singularity. The reinjection mechanism provided by the contrarian behavior introduces a finite-size effect, rounding off these singularities and leads to chaos. We document the main stylized facts of this model in the symmetric and asymmetric cases. This model is one of the rare agent-based models that give rise to interesting non-periodic complex dynamics in the ``thermodynamic'' limit (of an infinite number N of agents). We also discuss the case of a finite number of agents, which introduces an endogenous source of noise superimposed on the chaotic dynamics.
description: Latex document of 40 pages including 21 eps figures
A Perturbative Study of a General Class of Lattice Dirac Operators
Creators: name: Fujikawa, Kazuo
name: Ishibashi, Masato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A perturbative study of a general class of lattice Dirac operators is reported, which is based on an algebraic realization of the Ginsparg-Wilson relation in the form $γ_{5}(γ_{5}D)+(γ_{5}D)γ_{5} = 2a^{2k+1}(γ_{5}D)^{2k+2}$ where $k$ stands for a non-negative integer. The choice $k=0$ corresponds to the commonly discussed Ginsparg-Wilson relation and thus to the overlap operator. We study one-loop fermion contributions to the self-energy of the gauge field, which are related to the fermion contributions to the one-loop $β$ function and to the Weyl anomaly. We first explicitly demonstrate that the Ward identity is satisfied by the self-energy tensor. By performing careful analyses, we then obtain the correct self-energy tensor free of infra-red divergences, as a general consideration of the Weyl anomaly indicates. This demonstrates that our general operators give correct chiral and Weyl anomalies. In general, however, the Wilsonian effective action, which is supposed to be free of infra-red complications, is expected to be essential in the analyses of our general class of Dirac operators for dynamical gauge field.
description: 30 pages. Some of the misprints were corrected. Phys. Rev. D (in press)
NORWEGIAN AND POLISH DAIRY MARKETS, STATE AND PROSPECTS
Creators: name: Juszczyk, Juliusz
name: Juszczyk, Juliusz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Norwegian and Polish dairy market
subject: state
subject: forecasts

description: The aim of this paper was to analyse and compare states of Norwegian and Polish dairy markets in last years, as well examine their prospects. The study was based on FAO, Statistics Norway, Central Statistical Office of Poland, MarketLine industries profile data for period 2009-2014 and it included following issues : market data of volume and value, its forecast, category and geographic segmentation, market shares and distribution channels. There also reviewed profiles of leading companies, as well was analysed Porter’s five forces driving of those markets. Norwegian market is smaller than Polish seven times in terms of volume and with but only twice smaller in terms of value. Norwegian dairy market is oligopolistic while Polish is highly competitive.
QED Radiative Corrections to Asymmetries of Elastic ep-scattering in Hadronic Variables
Creators: name: Afanasev, A. V.
name: Akushevich, I.
name: Ilyichev, A.
name: Merenkov, N. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Compact analytical formulae for QED radiative corrections in the processes of elastic $e-p$ scattering are obtained in the case when kinematic variables are reconstructed from the recoil proton momentum measured. Numerical analysis is presented under kinematic conditions of current experiments at JLab.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
History and Reform of the International Monetary System
Creators: name: Eichengreen, Barry
name: Eichengreen, Barry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: exchange rates
subject: international monetary reform
subject: economic history

description: This paper surveys the history of the international monetary system and considers alternatives for its reform. It first identifies three necessary conditions for international monetary stability. It then uses them as a basis for analyzing the functioning of alternative international monetary arrangements. The paper concludes with reflections on international monetary reform.
Quenched lattice QCD at finite isospin density and related theories
Creators: name: Kogut, J. B.
name: Sinclair, D. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quenched QCD at finite chemical potential, $μ_I$, for the third component of isospin and quenched two-colour QCD at finite chemical potential, $μ$, for quark number. In contrast to the quenched approximation to QCD at finite quark-number chemical potential, the quenched approximations to these theories behave similarly to the full theories. The reason is that these theories have real positive fermion determinants. In both of these theories there is some critical chemical potential above which the charge coupled to the chemical potential is spontaneously broken. In each case, the transition appears to be second order. We study the scaling properties near the critical point using scaling functions suggested by effective (chiral) Lagrangians and find evidence for scaling with mean-field critical exponents in each case. The subtleties associated with observing the critical scaling of these theories are discussed.
description: 29 pages, 9 figures, RevTeX. Major revision to reflect new interpretation of critical scaling consistent with mean field in all cases. Extra data on larger lattices and at smaller lambdas reported
Iron Status and Cancer Risk in UK Biobank: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study
Creators: name: Yuan, Shuai
name: Carter, Paul
name: Vithayathil, Mathew
name: Kar, Siddhartha
name: Giovannucci, Edward
name: Mason, Amy M.
name: Burgess, Stephen
name: Larsson, Susanna C.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: iron
transferrin saturation
ferritin
serum transferrin
cancer
Mendelian randomization

description: We conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization study to explore the associations of iron status with overall cancer and 22 site-specific cancers. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms for iron status were obtained from a genome-wide association study of 48,972 European-descent individuals. Summary-level data for breast and other cancers were obtained from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium and UK Biobank. Genetically predicted iron status was positively associated with liver cancer and inversely associated with brain cancer but not associated with overall cancer or the other 20 studied cancer sites at p 0.05. The odds ratios of liver cancer were 2.45 (95% CI, 0.81, 7.45; p = 0.11), 2.11 (1.16, 3.83; p = 0.02), 10.89 (2.44, 48.59; p = 0.002) and 0.30 (0.17, 0.53; p = 2 × 10−5) for one standard deviation increment of serum iron, transferrin saturation, ferritin and transferrin levels, respectively. For brain cancer, the corresponding odds ratios were 0.69 (0.48, 1.00; p = 0.05), 0.75 (0.59, 0.97; p = 0.03), 0.41 (0.20, 0.88; p = 0.02) and 1.49 (1.04, 2.14; p = 0.03). Genetically high iron status was positively associated with liver cancer and inversely associated with brain cancer.
Symmetry Nonrestoration in a Resummed Renormalized Theory at High Temperature
Creators: name: Caldas, H. C. de Godoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reinvestigate the interesting phenomenon of symmetry nonrestoration at high temperature in the multifield O(N_1) X O(N_2) model. We apply modified self-consistent resummation (MSCR) in order to obtain the scalar dressed masses and find in what circumstances a resummed multifield theory which has symmetry (non)restoration can be renormalized. It is shown that, aside from the consistency of the MSCR method, the basic ingredient that guarantees the renormalization of a multifield model within a resummation approach is the T^2 mass behavior of field theory at high temperature.
description: 14 pages, 1 ps figure, revtex, Phys. Rev. D version
Additional file 6 of Association of mental health status between self-poisoning suicide patients and their family members: a matched-pair analysis
Creators: name: Zheng, Wenjing
name: Han, Limei
name: Fan, Yanna
name: Yi, Min
name: Lu, Xiaoxia
name: Yang, Juan
name: Peng, Xiaobo
name: Yang, Ying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 6: Supplementary table 6. Multivariable analysis of significant characteristics in terms of matched family members for predicting anxiety among self-poisoning suicide patients after adjusting for age and gender (n=102).
Spin Transport in Thick Insulating Antiferromagnetic Films
Creators: name: Troncoso, Roberto E.
name: Bender, Scott A.
name: Brataas, Arne
name: Duine, Rembert A.
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: Spin transport of magnonic excitations in uniaxial insulating antiferromagnets (AFs) is investigated. In linear response to spin biasing and a temperature gradient, the spin transport properties of normal-metal--insulating antiferromagnet--normal-metal heterostructures are calculated. We focus on the thick-film regime, where the AF is thicker than the magnon equilibration length. This regime allows the use of a drift-diffusion approach, which is opposed to the thin-film limit considered by Bender {\it et al.} 2017, where a stochastic approach is justified. We obtain the temperature- and thickness-dependence of the structural spin Seebeck coefficient $\mathcal{S}$ and magnon conductance $\mathcal{G}$. In their evaluation we incorporate effects from field- and temperature-dependent spin conserving inter-magnon scattering processes. Furthermore, the interfacial spin transport is studied by evaluating the contact magnon conductances in a microscopic model that accounts for the sub-lattice symmetry breaking at the interface. We find that while inter-magnon scattering does slightly suppress the spin Seebeck effect, transport is generally unaffected, with the relevant spin decay length being determined by non-magnon-conserving processes such as Gilbert damping. In addition, we find that while the structural spin conductance may be enhanced near the spin flip transition, it does not diverge due to spin impedance at the normal metal|magnet interfaces.
description: 14 pages and 6 figures
WhatsApp as a tool of information communication in libraries
Creators: name: KHAN, IMRAN
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 80799 Library and Information Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 80706 Librarianship

description: Khan, Imran. (2019). WhatsApp as a tool of information communication in libraries. In Bhatt, Dhavalben D., et al., (eds.). Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Librarianship: Reimagining and Reengineering Libraries (19th-21st December 2019: Vadodara). New Delhi: Excel India Publishers, 2019, pp. 91-95 (ISBN: 978-93-88237-98-7).
Bone Marrow Stromal Cells Drive Key Hallmarks of B Cell Malignancies
Creators: name: Mangolini, Maurizio
name: Ringshausen, Ingo
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: mesenchymal cells
bone marrow stroma
lymphoma
CLL

description: All B cell leukaemias and a substantial fraction of lymphomas display a natural niche residency in the bone marrow. While the bone marrow compartment may only be one of several sites of disease manifestations, the strong clinical significance of minimal residual disease (MRD) in the bone marrow strongly suggests that privileged niches exist in this anatomical site favouring central elements of malignant transformation. Here, the co-existence of two hierarchical systems, originating from haematopoietic and mesenchymal stem cells, has extensively been characterised with regard to regulation of the former (blood production) by the latter. How these two systems cooperate under pathological conditions is far less understood and is the focus of many current investigations. More recent single-cell sequencing techniques have now identified an unappreciated cellular heterogeneity of the bone marrow microenvironment. How each of these cell subtypes interact with each other and regulate normal and malignant haematopoiesis remains to be investigated. Here we review the evidences of how bone marrow stroma cells and malignant B cells reciprocally interact. Evidently from published data, these cell−cell interactions induce profound changes in signalling, gene expression and metabolic adaptations. While the past research has largely focussed on understanding changes imposed by stroma- on tumour cells, it is now clear that tumour-cell contact also has fundamental ramifications for the biology of stroma cells. Their careful characterisations are not only interesting from a scientific biological viewpoint but also relevant to clinical practice: Since tumour cells heavily depend on stroma cells for cell survival, proliferation and dissemination, interference with bone marrow stroma−tumour interactions bear therapeutic potential. The molecular characterisation of tumour−stroma interactions can identify new vulnerabilities, which could be therapeutically exploited.
Exploring the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic response on migrants’ transnational contact behavior and psychological health: A typological approach
Creators: name: Szabó, Ágnes
name: Trần, Vy
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 4404
subject: Development studies
classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4702
subject: Cultural studies
classificationCode: 3507
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: No description supplied
The Geography of the Gold Standard
Creators: name: Eichengreen, Barry
name: Flandreau, Marc
name: Eichengreen, Barry
name: Flandreau, Marc
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: gold standard
subject: bimetallism
subject: international monetary system

description: In this paper we chart the geography of the gold standard. We highlight the late date of the move to gold and the variety of transition strategies. Whether a country with a currency convertible into specie operated a gold, silver, or bimetallic standard at mid-century depended not so much on whether it was rich or poor as on the monetary standard of the foreign country or countries to which its transactions were linked. When it came to the distinction between specie convertibility and inconvertibility, however, domestic economic conditions came into play. In particular, there was a strong correlation between economic development, as proxied by the level of per capital incomes, and possession of a convertible Currency. Most countries went onto the gold standard between the 1870s and the first decade of the 20th century. We enumerate the factors propelling this transition and analyze variations in its timing. Factors shaping the course of this transition include the level of economic development, the magnitude of reserves relative to world specie markets, whether reserves were concentrated at the central bank, and the presence or absence of imperial ties.
Hysteretic properties of a magnetic particle with strong surface anisotropy
Creators: name: Kachkachi, H.
name: Dimian, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the influence of surface anisotropy on the zero-temperature hysteretic properties of a small single-domain magnetic particle, and give an estimation of the anisotropy constant for which deviations from the Stoner-Wohlfarth model are observed due to non-uniform reversal of the particle's magnetisation. For this purpose, we consider a spherical particle with simple cubic crystalline structure, a uniaxial anisotropy for core spins and radial anisotropy on the surface. The hysteresis loop is obtained by solving the local (coupled) Landau-Lifschitz equations for classical spin vectors. We find that when the surface anisotropy constant is at least of the order of the exchange coupling, large deviations are observed with respect to the Stoner-Wohlfarth model in the hysteresis loop and thereby the limit-of-metastability curve, since in this case the magnetisation reverses its direction in a non-uniform manner via a progressive switching of spin clusters. In this case the critical field, as a function of the particle's size, behaves as observed in experiments.
description: 12 pages, 15 eps figures
RESENHA DO ARTIGO "ANÁLISE DO USO DO ACENTO INDICATIVO DE CRASE A PARTIR DA ANÁLISE DE QUESTÕES DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA COBRADAS EM CONCURSOS PÚBLICOS RECENTES
Creators: name: De Oliveira, Anderson
name: Lopes, Rayane Silva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Esta é uma resenha do artigo intitulado “Análise do uso do acento indicativo de crase a partir da análise de questões de língua portuguesa cobradas em concursos públicos recentes”. Este artigo é de autoria de: GONÇALVES, Jonas Rodrigo et al. Análise do uso do acento indicativo de crase a partir da análise de questões de língua portuguesa cobradas em concursos públicos recentes. Revista JRG de Estudos Acadêmicos. Ano I, Vol. I, 2018.
Multi-Agent Systems and Complex Networks: Review and Applications in Systems Engineering
Creators: name: Herrera, Manuel
name: Pérez-Hernández, Marco
name: Kumar Parlikad, Ajith
name: Izquierdo, Joaquín
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: systems engineering
complex networks
multi-agent systems
optimisation
processes systems engineering
agent-based control

description: Systems engineering is an ubiquitous discipline of Engineering overlapping industrial, chemical, mechanical, manufacturing, control, software, electrical, and civil engineering. It provides tools for dealing with the complexity and dynamics related to the optimisation of physical, natural, and virtual systems management. This paper presents a review of how multi-agent systems and complex networks theory are brought together to address systems engineering and management problems. The review also encompasses current and future research directions both for theoretical fundamentals and applications in the industry. This is made by considering trends such as mesoscale, multiscale, and multilayer networks along with the state-of-art analysis on network dynamics and intelligent networks. Critical and smart infrastructure, manufacturing processes, and supply chain networks are instances of research topics for which this literature review is highly relevant.
Knowledge Diffusion and the Adoption of Fertilizer Microdosing in Northwest Benin
Creators: name: Natcher, David
name: Bachmann, Erika
name: Pittman, Jeremy
name: Kulshreshtha, Suren
name: Baco, Mohamed Nasser
name: Akponikpe, P. B. I.
name: Peak, Derek
name: Natcher, David
name: Bachmann, Erika
name: Pittman, Jeremy
name: Kulshreshtha, Suren
name: Baco, Mohamed Nasser
name: Akponikpe, P. B. I.
name: Peak, Derek
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: agricultural technology adoption
subject: demonstration farmers
subject: social network analysis
subject: food security
subject: West Africa

description: Soil degradation and low crop productivity negatively affect the food security of smallholder farmers in West Africa. Various agricultural techniques have been developed as components of food security interventions, but their effectiveness in addressing food insecurity in part depends upon farmers’ abilities to adopt these techniques. In this paper we present the results of a social network analysis that tracked the flow of information on fertilizer microdosing from our Project Research team (PRs) to Demonstration Farmers (DFs), and from DFs to other Village Farmers (VF) in the village of Koumagou B in northwest Benin. Our findings indicate that both adoption and project awareness of microdosing were low following two years of field trails. Overall, the DFs failed to spread information or promote learning over the trial period, with only 3 of 20 DFs diffusing knowledge to a significant degree (i.e., out-degree >5). After 2 years of trials, the efforts of PRs and DFs were insufficient to mobilize the network to adopt the microdosing technique.
Threshold-based Selective Cooperative-NOMA
Creators: name: Kara, Ferdi
name: Kaya, Hakan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this letter, we propose threshold-based selective cooperative-NOMA (TBS-C-NOMA) to increase the data reliability of conventional cooperative-NOMA (C-NOMA) networks. In TBS-C-NOMA, the intra-cell user forwards the symbols of cell-edge user after successive interference canceler (SIC) only if the signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) is greater than the pre-determined threshold value. Hence, the data reliability of the cell-edge user is increased by eliminating the effect of the error propagation. We derive closed-form end-to-end exact bit error probability (BEP) of proposed system for various modulation constellations. Then, the optimum threshold value is analyzed in order to minimize BEP. The obtained expressions are validated via simulations and it is revealed that TBS-C-NOMA outperforms C-NOMA and full diversity order is achieved.
A Brief Guide to Publishing Data for the Polar Research Community
Creators: name: SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM)
name: Arctic Data Committee (ADC)
name: Southern Ocean Observing System Data Management Sub-Committee
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Polar data management

description: This guide for the polar research community, aims to provide readers with tips to follow when publishing data. Following these will help ensure data are FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable). This means others can find, access, and reuse them and can combine them with other relevant data. It will also help ensure that there is appropriate citation/attribution when published data are reused and increase the impact of data.
Calibration of cryogenic amplification chains using normal-metal--insulator--superconductor junctions
Creators: name: Hyyppä, Eric
name: Jenei, Máté
name: Masuda, Shumpei
name: Tan, Kuan Yen
name: Silveri, Matti
name: Goetz, Jan
name: Partanen, Matti
name: Lake, Russel E.
name: Grönberg, Leif
name: Möttönen, Mikko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Various applications of quantum devices call for an accurate calibration of cryogenic amplification chains. To this end, we present a convenient calibration scheme and use it to accurately measure the total gain and noise temperature of an amplification chain by employing normal-metal--insulator--superconductor (NIS) junctions. Our method is based on the radiation emitted by inelastic electron tunneling across voltage-biased NIS junctions. We derive an analytical equation that relates the generated power to the applied bias voltage which is the only control parameter of the device. After the setup has been characterized using a standard voltage reflection measurement, the total gain and the noise temperature are extracted by fitting the analytical equation to the microwave power measured at the output of the amplification chain. The 1$σ$ uncertainty of the total gain of 51.84 dB appears to be of the order of 0.1 dB.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Lomechusina Fleming 1821
Creators: name: Hlaváč, Peter
name: Newton, Alfred F.
name: Maruyama, Munetoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae

description: SUBTRIBE: LOMECHUSINA Fleming   Lomechusidae Fleming 1821: 49. Type genus: Lomechusa Gravenhorst, 1806
Lomechusini; Wasmann, 1902b: 99.
 Xenodusae group; Seevers, 1978: 155 (unavailable, not used as latin group name). Type genus: Xenodusa Wasmann, 1894a
description: Published as part of Hlaváč, Peter, Newton, Alfred F. & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2011, World catalogue of the species of the tribe Lomechusini (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) 3075, pp. 1-151 in Zootaxa 3075 on page 12
Profitability and Institutional Constraints to the Adoption of Fertilizer Microdosing in Northwest Benin
Creators: name: Bachmann, Erika
name: Natcher, David
name: Kulshreshtha, Suren
name: Baco, Mohamed Nasser
name: Akponikpe, P. B. I.
name: Peak, Derek
name: Bachmann, Erika
name: Natcher, David
name: Kulshreshtha, Suren
name: Baco, Mohamed Nasser
name: Akponikpe, P. B. I.
name: Peak, Derek
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: agricultural technology adoption
subject: food security
subject: household decision-making

description: Various agricultural techniques have been developed as components of food security interventions, but their effectiveness in addressing food insecurity in part depends upon the effectiveness of these techniques in fulfilling farmers’ objectives. This paper presents the results of research that examined the constraints that limit the adoption of microdosing by farmers in northwest Benin. The results of farmer field trials indicate that on average, microdosing produced lower yields and proved less profitable than recommended levels. In addition to reduced profitability, numerous institutional constraints were identified that further limit adoption. These constraints include poorly functioning input markets, inefficient distribution systems, limited affordability and credit constraints, liquidity constraints, and government policies that limit cross-border access to inputs as well as the prioritization of fertilizer for cotton production over food crops.
Review of Terahertz Pulsed Imaging for Pharmaceutical Film Coating Analysis
Creators: name: Alves-Lima, Décio
name: Song, Jun
name: Li, Xiaoran
name: Portieri, Alessia
name: Shen, Yaochun
name: Zeitler, J. Axel
name: Lin, Hungyen
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: film coatings
TPI
terahertz
characterization

description: Terahertz pulsed imaging (TPI) was introduced approximately fifteen years ago and has attracted a lot of interest in the pharmaceutical industry as a fast, non-destructive modality for quantifying film coatings on pharmaceutical dosage forms. In this topical review, we look back at the use of TPI for analysing pharmaceutical film coatings, highlighting the main contributions made and outlining the key challenges ahead.
Assessment of The Effects of Monetary Policy on the Price of construction Labour in the NCS.pdf
Creators: name: Oluwafemi Adedeji
name: Najimu Saka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120203 Quantity Surveying

description: Secondary Data 1. Money supply 2. Interest rate 3. Unskilled labour4. Skilled labour
Independent variables such as the monetary policy statistics were gotten from central bank of Nigeria publications, National bureau of statistics.
Dependent variables such as the skilled and unskilled labour statistics were gotten from NIQS cost book, Consol cost book.
Price Reactions After the Official Release of the NASS Honey Publication
Creators: name: Taylor, Christopher W.
name: Taylor, Christopher W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: NASS Honey Publication
subject: price reaction
subject: chi-square distribution goodness-of-fit test.

description: The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) conducts hundreds of surveys to make estimates on crops, livestock, production practices, farm economics, etc. Some elements of the agricultural industry ask, “What effects will the publishing of agricultural statistics have on the market of our product?” Markets of agricultural commodities that involve a great deal of speculation have especially wondered about this. In response, NASS publishes two reports (Price Reactions After USDA Crop Reports and Price Reactions After USDA Livestock Reports) showing that the price reactions to the official release of certain NASS publications tend to even out over time. This report examines the honey market which was not covered in NASS’s earlier price reactions studies. The independent price data used in assessing the impact of the NASS publication release were obtained from the National Honey Report published by the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of the USDA. The mean interval estimate determined from the sample of 65 measured price reactions with a confidence level of 95 percent is between -$0.03 and $0.01. The interval is short, includes zero, and is roughly symmetric about zero. A frequency distribution comparison (including a sample mean t-test) also supports this conclusion and suggests that the official release of the NASS Honey publication has no systematic effect on the honey market.
Glutathione–Allylsulfur Conjugates as Mesenchymal Stem Cells Stimulating Agents for Potential Applications in Tissue Repair
Creators: name: Di Giovanni, Emilia Di
name: Buonvino, Silvia
name: Amelio, Ivano
name: Melino, Sonia
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: hydrogen sulfide
garlic
regenerative medicine
oxidative stress
MSCs
organosulfur compounds
cell migration
cell differentiation

description: The endogenous gasotransmitter H2S plays an important role in the central nervous, respiratory and cardiovascular systems. Accordingly, slow-releasing H2S donors are powerful tools for basic studies and innovative pharmaco-therapeutic agents for cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Nonetheless, the effects of H2S-releasing agents on the growth of stem cells have not been fully investigated. H2S preconditioning can enhance mesenchymal stem cell survival after post-ischaemic myocardial implantation; therefore, stem cell therapy combined with H2S may be relevant in cell-based therapy for regenerative medicine. Here, we studied the effects of slow-releasing H2S agents on the cell growth and differentiation of cardiac Lin− Sca1+ human mesenchymal stem cells (cMSC) and on normal human dermal fibroblasts (NHDF). In particular, we investigated the effects of water-soluble GSH−garlic conjugates (GSGa) on cMSC compared to other H2S-releasing agents, such as Na2S and GYY4137. GSGa treatment of cMSC and NHDF increased their cell proliferation and migration in a concentration dependent manner with respect to the control. GSGa treatment promoted an upregulation of the expression of proteins involved in oxidative stress protection, cell−cell adhesion and commitment to differentiation. These results highlight the effects of H2S-natural donors as biochemical factors that promote MSC homing, increasing their safety profile and efficacy after transplantation, and the value of these donors in developing functional 3D-stem cell delivery systems for cardiac muscle tissue repair and regeneration.
Evolution of Magnetic Helicity in Solar Cycle 24
Creators: name: Pipin, Valery V.
name: Pevtsov, Alexei A.
name: Liu, Yang
name: Kosovichev, Alexander G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel approach to reconstruct the surface magnetic helicity density on the Sun or sun-like stars. The magnetic vector potential is determined via decomposition of vector magnetic field measurements into toroidal and poloidal components. The method is verified using data from a non-axisymmetric dynamo model. We apply the method to vector field synoptic maps from Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard of Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to study evolution of the magnetic helicity density during solar cycle 24. It is found that the mean helicity density of the non-axisymmetric magnetic field of the Sun evolves in a way which is similar to that reported for the current helicity density of the solar active regions. It has predominantly the negative sign in the northern hemisphere, and it is positive in the southern hemisphere. Also, the hemispheric helicity rule for the non-axisymmetric magnetic field showed the sign inversion at the end of cycle 24. Evolution of magnetic helicity density of large-scale axisymmetric magnetic field is different from that expected in dynamo theory. On one hand, the mean large- and small-scale components of magnetic helicity density display the hemispheric helicity rule of opposite sign at the beginning of cycle 24. However, later in the cycle, the two helicities exhibit the same sign in contrast with the theoretical expectations.
description: 8 pages 5 figures
title: Travels with Alex: Music for viola obbligato and various ensembles
Creators: name: Bolley, Richard
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2020

description: Travels with Alex is a cycle of nine pieces for viola obbligato and various combinations drawn from an ensemble of 24 musicians (including two performers on Tibetan instruments). Ideally these compositions are to be played as a complete cycle, given the use of a large-scale durational interval succession to derive the relative durations of the individual pieces and sections within them. However, performance individually or in smaller combinations is also possible. The initial inspirations were twofold: the gift to the composer of a Tibetan thangka, and the travel writings of the French Buddhist, Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969). Musically speaking, the cycle explores a range of methods, serial and otherwise, for ‘composing out’ from small, modal, mantric motifs. In Buddhist traditions, these and others like them have been used to invoke the presence of a particular bodhisattva (a ‘patron deity’, or mythical being, committed to guiding humanity towards Enlightenment) — in this case, Tārā or Jetsun Dölma, amongst whose attributes devotees prize her protection of travellers. The supporting commentary explains how these micro-elements are used to build a musical structure lasting around an hour. The commentary credits a compositional lineage featuring particular works of Tōru Takemitsu, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Peter Maxwell Davies and Jonathan Harvey. Specific technical indebtedness is also ascribed to other twentieth-century figures such as Igor Stravinsky, Michael Tippett, Elliott Carter, Witold Lutosławski, Luciano Berio and Pierre Boulez. Amongst the original features of the cycle is the juxtaposition of typical Western orchestral instruments with instruments used in Tibetan Buddhist ritual practices (played in the recording by Tibetan monks) and the inclusion of poetry in French inspired by David-Néel’s writings. The latter appears in two of the nine pieces, involving the addition of a countertenor to the instrumental ensemble.
Role of Photoproduction in Exotic Meson Searches
Creators: name: Szczepaniak, Adam P.
name: Swat, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss two production mechanisms of the $J^{PC}=1^{-+}$ exotic meson, hadroproduction, using pion beams and photoproduction. We show that the ratio of exotic to non-exotic, in particular the $a_2$, meson production cross sections is expected to be by a factor of 5 to 10 larger, in photoproduction then in hadroproduction. Furthermore we show that the low-t photoproduction of exotic meson is enhanced as compared to hadronic production. This findings support the simple quark picture in which exotic meson production is predicted to be enhanced when the beam is a virtual $Q\bar Q$ pair with a spin-1 (photon) rather then with a spin-0 (pion).
description: 10 pages, 2 figures inculded
Dipping Pattern and 1-year stroke functional outcome in ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack
Creators: name: Ding, Xia
name: Zhou, Yilun
name: Pan, Yuesong
name: Xu, Jie
name: Yan, Hongyi
name: Zhao, Xingquan
name: Wang, Yilong
name: Wang, Yongjun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: This study aimed to explore whether a relationship exists between dipping patterns and 1-year functional outcome in patients with acute ischemic stroke (IS) or transient ischemic attack (TIA). Data from the Blood Pressure and Clinical Outcome in TIA or Ischemic Stroke Study (BOSS), a nationwide, hospital-based, longitudinal cohort study, was used for this study. Patients with acute IS or TIA were recruited within 7 days after onset and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was performed during hospitalization. Patients were defined as dippers if nocturnal systolic blood pressure fell by ≥10%, non-dippers if 0–10%, and reverse dippers if < 0%. Poor functional outcome was defined as a modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score of 3–5. Logistic regression analysis was used to test the association between dipping patterns and 1-year functional outcome. Among the 1808 IS/TIA patients, 19.19% were dippers, 53.21% were non-dippers, and 27.60% were reverse dippers. Poor functional outcome occurred in 22.44% of reverse dippers, which was significantly higher than that of dippers (16.14%) and non-dippers (16.53%) (P = .014). A univariate analysis revealed that reverse dipping was a risk factor for poor functional outcome (Odds ratio 1.504, 95% confidence interval 1.055–2.145, P = .024). However, this significance disappeared after adjusting for confounders. Reverse dipping was prevalent in patients with IS/TIA. The higher incidence of 1-year poor functional outcome in reverse dippers warrants further investigation.
Using Handheld Global Positioning System Receivers for Phase II of the Agricultural Resource Management Survey
Creators: name: Gerling, Michael W.
name: Gerling, Michael W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Agricultural Surveys
subject: Data Collection
subject: GPS

description: The National Agricultural Statistics Service conducts hundreds of surveys on United States and Puerto Rico agriculture for the purpose of making estimates on crops, livestock, production practices, economics, etc. One of these surveys conducted annually is the Agricultural Resource Management Survey. The survey has multiple purposes ranging from collecting information on chemical use and production practices on specific targeted crops to obtaining information on the financial well-being of agricultural operations. One aspect of the survey requires obtaining the latitude and longitude coordinates of sampled agricultural fields containing the target commodity. The current method involves the enumerator marking the location of these fields onto county highway maps, followed by the use of mapping software by office staff. This process is time consuming and lends itself to human error. Hence, the Research and Development Division and the Washington Field Office joined efforts to investigate whether equipping field enumerators with low-cost handheld GPS receivers would save staff time and improve the accuracy of recording where the sampled fields are located.
Statistics of the Charge Spectrum of Photo-Multipliers and Methods for Absolute Calibration
Creators: name: Diwan, Milind V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the full expression for the shape of the charge spectrum that results from the illumination of a photo-multiplier tube. The derivation is for low intensity illumination with constant gain, a common condition for most nuclear and particle physics applications. Under these conditions, it is shown that an analytic expression can be formulated that describes details of the spectrum including the pedestal and dark noise with excellent fidelity to allow statistical fits to data. The derivation and full formula using either Gaussian or Poisson models for gain, and its limiting forms under various simplifying assumptions are presented with strategies on their use. The analytic description can be used to formulate data acquisition strategies to perform precise absolute calibration of photo-multipliers, the digitizers, and the data acquisition system.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, updated from previous version
WORKING PAPER 6 - Maternidade e Identidade e Contexto de Imigração
Creators: name: CHALLINOR, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Identidade pessoal e social
Subjetividade
Objetividade
Cabo Verde
Migração
Maternidade
Personal and social identity
Subjectivity
Objectivity
Cape Verde
Migration
Motherhood

description: Resumo Ao questionar como analisar e contextualizar testemunhos pessoais de
 experiências de maternidade vividas, longe da terra natal, sem desvalorizar
 subjectividades, o texto inicia uma reflexão à procura de “algo” que evite uma
 abordagem contextual demasiado redutora e uma abordagem excessivamente literal e subjectivista. Embora os testemunhos de mulheres cabo-verdianas, residentes em Portugal, elucidem a relevância de se abordar questões relacionadas com raça, género e a história de migrações, a procura desse “algo” convida a seguir um caminho experimental no território do realismo crítico de Margaret Archer (2000). As suas reflexões sobre o papel do “diálogo interno” na construção da identidade e sobre a relação entre a identidade pessoal e social parecem oferecer novas pistas de análise na procura desse “algo” que obriga a um constante questionar das categorias analíticas.
description: Citar como/Please quote as: Challinor, Elizabeth. 2010. Maternidade e Identidade em Contexto de Imigração. Working Paper CRIA 6, Lisboa.