cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Shocks, sensitivity and resilience: tracking the economic impacts of environmental disaster on assets in Ethiopia and Honduras
Creators: name: Carter, Michael R.
name: Little, Peter D.
name: Mogues, Tewodaj
name: Negatu, Workneh
name: Carter, Michael R.
name: Little, Peter D.
name: Mogues, Tewodaj
name: Negatu, Workneh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Droughts, hurricanes and other environmental shocks punctuate the lives of poor and vulnerable populations in many parts of the world. The direct impacts can be horrific, but what are the longer-term effects of such shocks on households and their livelihoods? Under what circumstances, and for what types of households, will shocks push households into poverty traps from which recovery is not possible? In an effort to answer these questions, this paper analyses the asset dynamics of Ethiopian and Honduran households in the wake of severe environmental shocks. While the patterns are different across countries, both reveal worlds in which the poorest households struggle most with shocks, adopting coping strategies which are costly in terms of both short term and long term well-being. There is some evidence that shocks threaten long term poverty traps and that they tend to militate against any tendency of the poor to catch up with wealthier households. Policy implications are discussed in terms of access to markets and the design of government safety net programs.
Practical Rationality: Phronesis and Synderesis for a Theory of Moral Decision
Creators: name: Morandin-Ahuerma, Fabio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 220305 Ethical Theory
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 220311 Philosophical Psychology (incl. Moral Psychology and Philosophy of Action)

description: In this article the concepts of prudence and synderesis are contrasted, the first from the Aristotelian point of view and the second from the School of Paris. Prudence is defined as the method for achieving the desired ends and synderesis as the natural ability to judge rightly. Although it has been thought that they are two concepts unequipable, in this work I argue that (Φρόνησις - phronesis) prudence and (Συντήρηοη - synderesis) synderresis are two moments which are part of a theory of decision, with the condition that there are rational elements involved in moral deliberation, but, mostly, that is the product of an intuitive deliberation of person, based on first principles.
title: Практикум по методике обучения русскому языку вначальной школе
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Северо-Осетинский государственный педагогический институт
Year: 2020

description: В предлагаемом учебно-методическом пособии кратко представлены теоретические положения по всем разделам методики обучения русскому языку в начальной школе и практикум, включающий вопросы и задания для самостоятельной работы студентов. Учебно-методическое пособие может быть рекомендовано обучающимся по направлениям подготовки 44.03.01 Педагогическое образование (профиль «Начальное образование») и 44.03.05 Педагогическое образование (профили «Начальное образование / Русский язык», профили «Начальное образование / Родной язык и литература», профиль «Начальное образование / Дополнительное образование»).
Auditory and somatosensory feedback in voice (Smith et al., 2020)
Creators: name: Smith, Dante J.
name: Stepp, Cara
name: Guenther, Frank H.
name: Kearney, Elaine
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170204 Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Anatomy

description: Purpose: To better define the contributions of somatosensory and auditory feedback in vocal motor control, a laryngeal perturbation experiment was conducted with and without masking of auditory feedback.Method: Eighteen native speakers of English produced a sustained vowel while their larynx was physically and externally displaced on a subset of trials. For the condition with auditory masking, speech-shaped noise was played via earphones at 90 dB SPL. Responses to the laryngeal perturbation were compared to responses by the same participants to an auditory perturbation experiment that involved a 100-cent downward shift in fundamental frequency (fo). Responses were also examined in relation to a measure of auditory acuity.Results: Compensatory responses to the laryngeal perturbation were observed with and without auditory masking. The level of compensation was greatest in the laryngeal perturbation condition without auditory masking, followed by the condition with auditory masking; the level of compensation was smallest in the auditory perturbation experiment. No relationship was found between the degree of compensation to auditory versus laryngeal perturbations, and the variation in responses in both perturbation experiments was not related to auditory acuity.Conclusions: The findings indicate that somatosensory and auditory feedback control mechanisms work together to compensate for laryngeal perturbations, resulting in the greatest degree of compensation when both sources of feedback are available. In contrast, these two control mechanisms work in competition in response to auditory perturbations, resulting in an overall smaller degree of compensation.
Supplemental Material S1. Laryngeal displacement device (LDD): Video laryngoscopy.
Smith, D. J., Stepp, C., Guenther, F. H., & Kearney, E. (2020). Contributions of auditory and somatosensory feedback to vocal motor control. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00296
Screening of heavy quark free energies at finite temperature and non-zero baryon chemical potential
Creators: name: Doring, M.
name: Ejiri, S.
name: Kaczmarek, O.
name: Karsch, F.
name: Laermann, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the dependence of heavy quark free energies on the baryon chemical potential (mu_b) in 2-flavour QCD using improved (p4) staggered fermions with a bare quark mass of m/T = 0.4. By performing a 6th order Taylor expansion in the chemical potential which circumvents the sign problem. The Taylor expansion coefficients of colour singlet and colour averaged free energies are calculated and from this the expansion coefficients for the corresponding screening masses are determined. We find that for small mu_b the free energies of a static quark anti-quark pair decrease in a medium with a net excess of quarks and that screening is well described by a screening mass which increases with increasing mu_b. The mu_b-dependent corrections to the screening masses are well described by perturbation theory for T > 2 T_c. In particular, we find for all temperatures above T_c that the expansion coefficients for singlet and colour averaged screening masses differ by a factor 2.
description: 14 pages
Development and verification of the generic three dimensional finite volume solver
Creators: name: Perera, M. K. Harsha
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The generic finite volume solver, ANSLib, has been extended to three dimensions and used to verify the accurate computation of three-dimensional advection-diffusion and Poisson problems. A simple cubic domain has been selected as the domain of interest. Over this domain a steady state solution is computed for each model problem with 2nd, 3rd and 4th order accurate schemes. Gauss quadrature is used to evaluate the flux integral to 2nd, 3rd and 4th order accuracy. The flux scheme makes use of the centred scheme to model the viscous term and a simple upwind scheme to model the advective fluxes. In both cases the existing k-exact least-square reconstruction code is used to obtain the solution at each Gauss integration point to 2nd, 3rd and 4th order accuracy. Newton-Krylov implicit time advance is used to obtain the steady state solution, implemented using the GMRES algorithm. Prior to subjecting ANSLib code to physical model problems, the code is first tested for the correct enforcement of boundary constraints, accurate implementation of the solution reconstruction, and flux integral evaluation in three dimensions. Relevant changes are made to the code to obtain the desired behaviour. Analytical solutions for the advection-diffusion and Poisson equations are derived to satisfy Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions; these are used to compute the resulting discretized error in numerically converged solutions. Accuracy assessment is completed through a comparison of error norms for different mesh sizes for each test problem. Localized errors on the domain for each problem at steady state are plotted. The efficiency of the code to obtain a numerical converged solution is reported.
The Concept of Nature from the Physicalism of Deutsch
Creators: name: Morandin-Ahuerma, Fabio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 50209 Natural Resource Management
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: This paper is a basic elucidation of the concept of nature with relation to man and physis in tensile connection. In this paper we conclude that the question concerning nature necessarily imbricates man’s being with insurmountable moral implications. Theoretical and methodological framework human beings adopt, determines their axiological project of society.
Village inequality in Western China: implications for development strategy in lagging regions
Creators: name: Xing, Li
name: Fan, Shenggen
name: Luo, Xiaopeng
name: Zhang, Xiaobo
name: Xing, Li
name: Fan, Shenggen
name: Luo, Xiaopeng
name: Zhang, Xiaobo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Rural Development
subject: Poverty
subject: Inequality
subject: Public investment

description: Increased regional inequality has been a major concern in many emerging economies like China, India, Vietnam and Thailand. However, even a large inequality is observed within the lagging regions. The objective of this paper is to look into what are the sources of within region inequality using the community surveys and a census type of households in Western China. This snapshot view of inequality within and between rural villages in western China is based on a census-type household survey in three administrative villages and a sampling survey of 286 natural villages in the poor province of Guizhou in 2004. In contrast to coastal regions, nonfarm income is distributed unevenly in this inland western region. This accounts for the largest share of overall income inequality. But agriculture is still the rural people’s major source of livelihood in this particular location. On the expenditure side, health care is one of the most important sources of inequality. Because rural income is strongly related to human capital, the uneven access to health care will translate into a larger income gap in the long run. The analysis based on the natural village survey indicates that income varies widely across villages. Access to infrastructure and markets, education, and political participation explain most of this variation. These findings have important implications on the future development strategy in promoting lagging regions development and poverty reduction. While the overall economic development will be the main instrument to bring the majority poor out of poverty, a targeted approach has become increasingly crucial in helping the poor villages and households. It is critical to understand why these villages and households can not participate in the growth process and how development programs and various transfer programs help them to overcome the constraints they face.
Hermite-Biehler, Routh-Hurwitz, and total positivity
Creators: name: Holtz, Olga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93D05, 12D10, 26C05, 26C10, 30C15, 15A23, 15A48, 15A57

description: Simple proofs of the Hermite-Biehler and Routh-Hurwitz theorems are presented. The total nonnegativity of the Hurwitz matrix of a stable real polynomial follows as an immediate corollary.
description: 4 pages
High-field depinned phase and planar Hall effect in skyrmion-host Gd$_2$PdSi$_3$
Creators: name: Hirschberger, Max
name: Nakajima, Taro
name: Kriener, Markus
name: Kurumaji, Takashi
name: Spitz, Leonie
name: Gao, Shang
name: Kikkawa, Akiko
name: Yamasaki, Yuichi
name: Sagayama, Hajime
name: Nakao, Hironori
name: Ohira-Kawamura, Seiko
name: Taguchi, Yasujiro
name: Arima, Taka-hisa
name: Tokura, Yoshinori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the skyrmion-hosting intermetallic Gd$_2$PdSi$_3$ with centrosymmetric hexagonal lattice and triangular net of rare earth sites, we report a thorough investigation of the magnetic phase diagram. Our work reveals a new magnetic phase with isotropic value of the critical field for all orientations, where the magnetic ordering vector $\mathbf{q}$ is depinned from its preferred directions in the basal plane. This is in contrast to the highly anisotropic behavior of the low field phases, such as the skyrmion lattice (SkL), which are easily destroyed by in-plane magnetic field. The bulk nature of the SkL and of other magnetic phases was evidenced by specific-heat measurements. Resistivity anisotropy, likely originating from partial gapping of the density of states along $\mathbf{q}$ in this RKKY magnet, is picked up via the planar Hall effect (PHE). The PHE confirms the single-$\mathbf{q}$ nature of the magnetic order when the field is in the hexagonal plane, and allows to detect the preferred directions of $\mathbf{q}$. For field aligned perpendicular to the basal plane, several scenarios for the depinned phase (DP), such as tilted conical order, are discussed on the basis of the data.
description: 27 pages, 12 figures (including SI)
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN FARMERS AND CONSUMERS: VALUE CREATION AND MEDIATION IN “PASTURE-RAISED BEEF” FOOD NETWORKS
Creators: name: Bedoin, Florence
name: Kristensen, Troels
name: Noe, Egon
name: Bedoin, Florence
name: Kristensen, Troels
name: Noe, Egon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Grassland
subject: Meat quality
subject: Sustainability
subject: Food labeling
subject: Case study

description: The aim of this article is to explore how different quality dimensions (safety, aesthetics, ethics and rooted ness) are created in food networks; how these qualities are transferred until the consumers; and how this process is supported by the organisation of the food network. Our postulate is that combining the quality and organisation dimensions and exploring the link between them will provide an interesting perspective for improving the sharing of values in food networks. This framework is applied to five case studies of “pasture-raised beef” food networks in France, representing a diversity of organisations such as public label scheme, cooperate owned brand and direct sell from farmer to consumer. The results highlight the importance of the role of certification and personal commitment for the creation, and also for the mediation of added-value.
Kink-driven magnetic reconnection in relativistic jets: consequences for X-ray polarimetry of BL Lacs
Creators: name: Bodo, Gianluigi
name: Tavecchio, Fabrizo
name: Sironi, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate with relativistic MHD simulations the dissipation physics of BL Lac jets, by studying the synchrotron polarization signatures of particles accelerated by the kink instability in a magnetically-dominated plasma column. The nonlinear stage of the kink instability generates current sheets, where particles can be efficiently accelerated via magnetic reconnection. We identify current sheets as regions where s = J d/B is above some predefined threshold (where B is the field strength, J the current density and d the grid scale), and assume that the particle injection efficiency scales as proportional to the square of the current. X-ray emitting particles have short cooling times, so they only probe the field geometry of their injection sites. In contrast, particles emitting in the optical band, which we follow self-consistently as they propagate away from their injection sites while cooling, sample a larger volume, and so they may be expected to produce different polarimetric signatures. We find that the degree of polarization is roughly the same between X-ray and optical bands, because even the optical-emitting particles do not travel far from the current sheet where they were injected, due to lack of sufficient kink-generated turbulence. The polarization angle shows a different temporal evolution between the two bands, due to the different regions probed by X-ray and optical emitting particles. In view of the upcoming IXPE satellite, our results can help constrain whether kink-induced reconnection (as opposed to shocks) can be the source of multi-wavelength emission from BL Lacs.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures, MNRAS in press
title: Практикум по пунктуации простого и простого осложненного предложения
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Северо-Осетинский государственный педагогический институт
Year: 2020

description: Практикум содержит таблицы, отражающие теоретический материал, задания и упражнения контрольно-тренировочного характера для студентов по темам практических занятий, контрольные вопросы,алгоритмы, образцы анализа. Иллюстративный материал, в том числе и отдельные предложения, со структурой которых связаны те или иные пунктуационные правила, отобраны из произведений художественной литературы и публицистики. Рекомендуется студентам высших учебных заведений филологических и педагогических специальностей.
A Not So Little Higgs?
Creators: name: Sutherland, David G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most recent models assuming the Higgs Boson is a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Boson (p NGb) are motivated by the indication from Standard Model fits that its mass is < 200GeV.Starting from a modified SM of Forshaw et. al. with a triplet boson added and a heavier Higgs Boson, we consider a pNGb model. This differs in several wa ys from most little Higgs models: apart from using only one loop, the cutoff sca le is reduced to 5 TeV, and consequently a linear sigma model is used to allevia te FCNC effects; no new vector bosons are required, but vector-like isosinglet f ermions are needed, but play no part in determining the mass of the Higgs Boson. The phenomenology of the isosinglet pNGb that arises from the SU(3)xSU(3)->SU(3) model we use is briefly discussed. Some potential theoretical and phenomenolog ical problems arementioned briefly.
description: 7 pages, some clarifying remarks added and improved discussion of mass estimates given
Orbital precession in the distant solar system; further constraining the Planet Nine hypothesis with numerical simulations
Creators: name: Clement, Matthew S.
name: Kaib, Nathan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The longitudes of perihelia and orbital poles of the solar system's dozen or so most remote detected objects are clustered in a manner inconsistent with that of a random sample of uniformly distributed orbits. While small number statistics and observational biases may explain these features, the statistical significance of the clustering has led to the recent development of the "Planet Nine hypothesis." In the proposed scenario, orbits in the distant solar system are shepherded via secular perturbations from an undetected massive planet on an eccentric orbit. However, the precession of perihelia and nodes in the outer Kuiper Belt and inner Oort Cloud are also affected by the the giant planets, passing stars, and the galactic tide. We perform a large suite of numerical simulations designed to study the orbital alignment of Extreme Trans-Neptunian Objects (ETNOs) and Inner Oort Cloud Objects (IOCOs). In our various integrations that include Planet Nine, we consistently find that >60% of ETNOs and IOCOs that are detectable after 4 Gyr are also anti-aligned in perihelia with the distant massive perturber. However, when we randomly select 17 objects from this sample of remaining orbits, there is significant scatter in the degree of longitude of perihelion and orbital pole clustering that might be observed. Furthermore, we argue that, in the absence of Planet Nine, 17 randomly drawn orbits should still exhibit some clustering even if the underlying distribution is uniform. Thus, we find that still more ETNO and IOCO detections are required to confidently infer the presence of Planet Nine.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in AJ
The Value of Hermeneutic Question on Hans-Georg Gadamer
Creators: name: Morandin-Ahuerma, Fabio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 220307 Hermeneutic and Critical Theory
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: In the present work is addressed three defining aspects of the question hermeneutics as didactic and condition to generate a shared horizon of meaning. In the first place the dialog between the text, author and reader. Second, the opening of the horizon of meaning through the question and its radical ontological. Third, the role of tradition in the construction of rational discourse and breaking through a language polysemic. Finally, we conclude that the dialog that opens horizon and shared sense is the only capable of building long-term consensus and, specifically, solutions.
Gluon-induced WW background to Higgs boson searches at the LHC
Creators: name: Binoth, T.
name: Ciccolini, M.
name: Kauer, N.
name: Krämer, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vector-boson pair production is an important background for Higgs boson and new physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider LHC. We have calculated the loop-induced gluon-fusion process gg -> WW -> leptons, allowing for arbitrary invariant masses of the intermediate W bosons. This process contributes at O(alpha_s^2) relative to quark-antiquark annihilation, but its importance is enhanced by the large gluon flux at the LHC and by experimental cuts employed in Higgs boson searches. We find that gg -> WW provides only a moderate correction (ca. 5%) to the inclusive W-pair production cross section at the LHC. However, after taking into account realistic experimental cuts, the gluon-fusion process becomes significant and increases the theoretical WW background estimate for Higgs searches in the pp -> H -> WW -> leptons channel by approximately 30%.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures, uses JHEP3.cls
Implications of the Low-Temperature Instability of Dynamical Mean Theory for Double Exchange Systems
Creators: name: Lin, chungwei
name: Millis, Andrew. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The single-site dynamical mean field theory approximation to the double exchange model is found to exhibit a previously unnoticed instability, in which a well-defined ground state which is stable against small perturbations is found to be unstable to large-amplitude but purely local fluctuations. The instability is shown to arise either from phase separation or, in a narrow parameter regime, from the presence of a competing phase. The instability is therefore suggested as a computationally inexpensive means of locating regimes of parameter space in which phase separation occurs.
description: 5 pages 5 figures
Resonant Neutrino Self-Interactions
Creators: name: Creque-Sarbinowski, Cyril
name: Hyde, Jeffrey
name: Kamionkowski, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If neutrinos have self-interactions, these will induce scatterings between astrophysical and cosmic neutrinos. Prior work proposed to look for possible resulting resonance features in astrophysical neutrino spectra in order to seek a neutrino self-interaction which can be either diagonal in the neutrino flavor space or couple different neutrino flavors. The calculation of the astrophysical spectra involves either a Monte Carlo simulation or a computationally intensive numerical integration of an integro-partial-differential equation. As a result only limited regions of the neutrino self-interaction parameter space have been explored, and only flavor-diagonal self-interactions have been considered. Here, we present a fully analytic form for the astrophysical neutrino spectra for arbitrary neutrino number and arbitrary self-coupling matrix that accurately obtains the resonance features in the observable neutrino spectra. The results can be applied to calculations of the diffuse supernova neutrino background and of the spectrum from high-energy astrophysical neutrino sources. We illustrate with a few examples.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
The Effects of Approximate Multiplication on Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Kim, Min Soo
name: Del Barrio, Alberto A.
name: Kim, HyunJin
name: Bagherzadeh, Nader
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper analyzes the effects of approximate multiplication when performing inferences on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The approximate multiplication can reduce the cost of the underlying circuits so that CNN inferences can be performed more efficiently in hardware accelerators. The study identifies the critical factors in the convolution, fully-connected, and batch normalization layers that allow more accurate CNN predictions despite the errors from approximate multiplication. The same factors also provide an arithmetic explanation of why bfloat16 multiplication performs well on CNNs. The experiments are performed with recognized network architectures to show that the approximate multipliers can produce predictions that are nearly as accurate as the FP32 references, without additional training. For example, the ResNet and Inception-v4 models with Mitch-$w$6 multiplication produces Top-5 errors that are within 0.2% compared to the FP32 references. A brief cost comparison of Mitch-$w$6 against bfloat16 is presented, where a MAC operation saves up to 80% of energy compared to the bfloat16 arithmetic. The most far-reaching contribution of this paper is the analytical justification that multiplications can be approximated while additions need to be exact in CNN MAC operations.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
STANDPOINTS OF THE DIRECTORS OF AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES ABOUT THE MEMBERSHIP AND THE WORK OF COOPERATIVE UNIONS IN SERBIA
Creators: name: Sevarlic, Miladin M.
name: Nikolic, Marija M.
name: Simmons, Richard
name: Sevarlic, Miladin M.
name: Nikolic, Marija M.
name: Simmons, Richard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Director
subject: Premises - evaluation
subject: Membership
subject: Cooperatives
subject: Cooperative activities
subject: Cooperative unions

description: Goal of this paper is to analyse premises of directors of agricultural cooperatives towards cooperative associations, based on result of survey conducted on chosen sample. Analysis is based on the hypothesis that reform processes present in the Serbian economy, and completely absent from cooperative sector, have weaken the work of cooperative unions and undermined regular relations between cooperatives and their associations. Paper also analyse premises of directors of cooperatives on relevant questions on membership and work of 12 regional, provincial and Cooperative union of Serbia, based on result of survey conducted in 148 or 7.2% of 2.055 agricultural cooperatives in Serbia. For cooperatives that are not members of any union, paper gives systematization of reasons why cooperative is not member and motives that could inspire cooperative to become a member. For cooperatives that are members of some union, we give analyses of answers if cooperative is satisfied with work and activities of union conducted for cooperative welfare; and suggestions for activities that cooperative unions should practice in the interests and needs of their members.
Virtual Reality Visualization by CAVE with VFIVE and VTK
Creators: name: Ohno, Nobuaki
name: Kageyama, Akira
name: Kusano, Kanya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The CAVE-type virtual reality (VR) system was introduced for scientific visualization of large scale data in the plasma simulation community about a decade ago. Since then, we have been developing a VR visualization software, VFIVE, for general CAVE systems. Recently, we have integrated an open source visualization library, the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), into VFIVE. Various visualization methods of VTK can be incorporated and used interactively in VFIVE.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, submitted to J. Plasma Physcs (special issue for 19th ICNSP)
Dynamically induced Planck scale and inflation in the Palatini formulation
Creators: name: Gialamas, Ioannis D.
name: Karam, Alexandros
name: Racioppi, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study non-minimal Coleman-Weinberg inflation in the Palatini formulation of gravity in the presence of an $R^2$ term. The Planck scale is dynamically generated by the vacuum expectation value of the inflaton via its non-minimal coupling to the curvature scalar $R$. We show that the addition of the $R^2$ term in Palatini gravity makes non-minimal Coleman-Weinberg inflation again compatible with observational data.
description: section 4 extended, references added
“THE METAPONTUM AGRO-FOOD DISTRICT OF QUALITY”: A CASE STUDY OF KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF HUMAN CAPITAL IN TERRITORIAL RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Creators: name: Conto, Francesco
name: La Sala, Piermichele
name: Papapietro, Paolo
name: Conto, Francesco
name: La Sala, Piermichele
name: Papapietro, Paolo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: The Metapontum Agro-food district of quality
subject: Concrete construction methodology of agro - food district
subject: Creation of the shop of development
subject: Formative laboratory
subject: Information technology training of human resources solutions
subject: Rural Development Program

description: The aim of this research is to find a concrete construction methodology of the Metapontum Agro - food district by three main phases: awaking of the operators and the institutional stakeholders (got together in the district’s local web); economicterritorial analysis; experimentation. This last phase will be the final step of the project, i.e. creation of the Development Centre - Formative laboratory, where both new methodologies of services’ spreading on enterprises and new methodologies of formation-information for operators and new potential entrepreneurs will be tested. This new methodology, based on the Learning Organization, set in the usual “district approach” to the local development, will employ information technology, solutions regarding the economic and the agricultural field, as well as training of human resources; this will follow the PSR 2007 – 2013 of Basilicata Region and the rural development program (PIT for the district). Therefore, after the analysis to identify the territorial organization of local development we can plan the new model of district, beginning from integrated supply chain. This will facilitate the construction of a Society of District - Service Center can organize territorially local development and to optimize the planned investments from financial instruments offered by the PSR, to provide horizontal services (training, promotion, internationalization, etc.) to member companies to increase efficiency of management effectiveness. In this context, based on the development of knowledge and ability to do business, underpinning the organization of the Center to ensure improved outcomes for companies and local business.
title: Представления о супругах у мужчин и женщин Республики Северная Осетия – Алания
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Северо-Осетинский государственный педагогический институт
Year: 2018

description: В монографии выявлены содержание и структуры образов мужчин и женщин, отражаемых их собственным сознанием и сознанием супругов, рассматриваются этнопсихологические особенности образа супруга в сознании мужчин и женщин Республики Северная Осетия – Алания и семейно-брачные установки. Авторы впервые осуществили комплексный подход к изучению этнически обусловленных особенностей образа супруга в сознании мужчин и женщин, что позволило понять, как в формировании и динамике образа супруга и семейно-брачных установках мужчин и женщин взаимодействуют два условия общественно-исторического образа мужчин: этнокультурные традиции и современные тенденции общественного сознания. Научное издание предназначено для специалистов, работающих в образовательной сфере, преподавателей, научных работников, аспирантов, магистрантов и бакалавров, обучающихся по направлениям психолого-педагогического образования.
On the Paradoxical Impact of Blending by Red Clump Giants
Creators: name: Majaess, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of blending by RCGs (red clump giants, or relatively metal-rich red horizontal branch stars) is discussed as it relates to RRab and classical Cepheids, and invariably establishing an improved distance scale. An analysis of OGLE Magellanic Cloud variables reaffirms that blending with RCGs may advantageously thrust remote extragalactic stars into the range of detectability. Specifically, simulations of Magellanic Cloud RRab and RCG blends partly reproduce bright non-canonical trends readily observed in amplitude-magnitude space ($I_c$ vs.~$A_{I_c}$). Conversely, the larger magnitude offset between classical Cepheids and RCGs causes the latter's influence to be challenging to address. The relative invariance of a Wesenheit function's slope to metallicity (e.g., $W_{VI_c}$) implies that a deviation from the trend could reveal blending and photometric inaccuracies (e.g., standardization), as blending by RCGs (a proxy of an evolved red stellar demographic) can flatten period-Wesenehit relations owing to the increased impact on less-luminous shorter-period Cepheids. That could partly explain both a shallower inferred Wesenheit function and over-estimated $H_0$ values. A consensus framework to identify and exploit blending is desirable, as presently $H_0$ estimates from diverse teams are unwittingly leveraged without homogenizing the disparate approaches (e.g., no blending correction to a sizable $\simeq 0.^{\rm m}3$).
description: accepted for publication
Benefits of Improved Groundnut Technologies to Resource-poor Farmers: A Participatory Approach
Creators: name: Govindaraj, G.
name: Kumar, G.D. Satish
name: Basu, M.S.
name: Govindaraj, G.
name: Kumar, G.D. Satish
name: Basu, M.S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Considering that non-adoption of improved groundnut technologies by the small and resource-poor farmers is due to non-availability of quality seeds, poor knowledge, inappropriateness of technologies, etc., in the current study, improved groundnut technologies have been implemented through participatory mode so as to generate awareness about improved technologies among them. The participatory approach could make the farmers to learn, adopt and spread new technologies. The economic indicators have shown that a net return of Rs 7104 per ha was realized by adopting improved varieties and integrated crop management (ICM) package during kharif season, and it is higher than the returns realized by growing local variety (AK-12-24) with local practice (Rs 2010/ha). The cost of production has been found to be Rs 11.04/kg and 13.98/kg among the improved practice and farmers’ practice, respectively. A similar trend of higher net returns (Rs 13820/ha) and lower cost of production (Rs 8.86 per/kg) has been observed with improved practice during the rabi season, compared to the lower net returns (Rs 6309/ha) and higher cost of production (Rs 11.34 per/kg) with farmers’ practice. The informal seed supply system implemented through seed bank operation in a participatory mode has increased the improved groundnut seed availability at the village level. The seed multiplication programme could increase the spread of improved varieties from 32 ha to 69 ha in the adopted villages and from 15.9 ha to 85 ha in the neighbouring villages within a period of three years. It will help increase productivity levels of crops and income of farmers. The informal seed supply system implemented through seed bank operation has been found very successful in the faster technology spread. Hence, this model may be replicated in other areas to provide improved seeds to small and marginal farmers. It will also help in achieving self-sufficiency in improved varietal needs at the village level.
On the Hardy-Littlewood-Pólya and Taikov type inequalities for multiple operators in Hilbert spaces
Creators: name: Babenko, Vladislav
name: Babenko, Yuliya
name: Kriachko, Nadiia
name: Skorokhodov, Dmytro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A63, 41A35, 26D10, 41A65

description: We present unified approach to obtain sharp mean-squared and multiplicative inequalities of Hardy-Littlewood-Polyá and Taikov types for multiple closed operators acting on Hilbert space. We apply our results to establish new sharp inequalities for the norms of powers of the Laplace-Beltrami operators on compact Riemmanian manifolds and derive the well-known Taikov and Hardy-Littlewood-Polyá inequalities for functions defined on $d$-dimensional space in the limit case. Other applications include the best approximation of unbounded operators by linear bounded ones and the best approximation of one class by elements of other class. In addition, we establish sharp Solyar-type inequalities for unbounded closed operators with closed range.
Simple halo model formalism for the cosmic infrared background and its correlation with the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect
Creators: name: Maniyar, A. S.
name: Béthermin, M.
name: Lagache, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modelling the anisotropies in the CIB on all the scales is a challenging task due to the complex nature of the galaxy evolution and thus often requires too many parameters in order to fit the observational data. In this paper, we present a new halo model for the anisotropies of the CIB using only four parameters. Our model connects the mass accretion on the dark matter halos to the star formation rate. Using this model, we find that the halo mass with the maximum efficiency for converting the accreted baryons into stars is $\log_{10}M_\mathrm{max} = {12.94}^{+0.02}_{-0.02} \: M_\odot$, consistent with other studies. Accounting for the mass loss through stellar evolution, we find, for an intermediate age galaxy, that the star formation efficiency defined as $M_\star(z)/M_b(z)$ is equal to 0.19 and 0.21 at redshift 0.1 and 2 respectively, in good agreement with the values obtained by previous studies. It is the first time that a CIB model is used to fit Planck and Herschel CIB power spectra simultaneously. However we find that the large angular scale Planck and Herschel data are not fully compatible with the small scale Herschel data (for $\ell>3000$). The CIB is expected to be correlated with the tSZ signal of the galaxy clusters. Using this halo model for the CIB, and a halo model for the tSZ with a single parameter, we also provide a consistent framework to calculate this cross-correlation, which requires no extra parameter. The CIB$\times$tSZ correlation is found to be higher when inferred with a combination of two widely spaced frequency channels (e.g. 143x857 GHz). The CIB, tSZ, and CIB$\times$tSZ act as foregrounds while measuring the kSZ power spectrum from the CMB power spectrum and need to be removed. Due to its simplistic nature and low number of parameters, the halo model formalism presented here is quite useful for such an analysis to measure the kSZ power spectrum accurately.
description: 20 pages (3 in appendix), 13 figures (4 in appendix), Accepted version
Thermopower and Unconventional Nernst in the Predicted Type-II Weyl Semi-metal WTe$_2$
Creators: name: Rana, K. Gaurav
name: Dejene, Fasil K.
name: Kumar, Neeraj
name: Rajamathi, Catherine R.
name: Sklarek, Kornelia
name: Felser, Claudia
name: Parkin, Stuart S. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: WTe$_2$ is one of a series of recently discovered high mobility semimetals, some of whose properties are characteristic of topological Dirac or Weyl metals. One of its most interesting properties is the unsaturated giant magnetoresistance that it exhibits at low temperatures. An important question is the degree to which this property can be ascribed to a conventional semi-metallic model in which a highly compensated, high mobility metal exhibits large magnetoresistance. Here we show that the longitudinal thermopower (Seebeck effect) of semi-metallic WTe$_2$ exfoliated flakes exhibits periodic sign changes about zero with increasing magnetic field that indicates distinct electron and hole Landau levels and nearly fully compensated electron and hole carrier densities. However, inconsistent with a conventional semi-metallic picture, we find a rapid enhancement of the Nernst effect at low temperatures that is nonlinear in magnetic field, which is consistent with Weyl points in proximity to the Fermi energy. Hence, we demonstrate the role played by the Weyl character of WTe$_2$ in its transport properties.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, MULTIFUNCTIONALITY OF AGRICULTURE AND PUBLIC DECISIONS: CRITICAL ISSUES OF CONTEMPORARY CONTROVERSIES
Creators: name: Laurent, Catherine E.
name: Labarthe, Pierre
name: Berriet-Solliec, Marielle
name: Trouve, Aurelie
name: Kirsch, Marc
name: Laurent, Catherine E.
name: Labarthe, Pierre
name: Berriet-Solliec, Marielle
name: Trouve, Aurelie
name: Kirsch, Marc
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Multifunctionality
subject: Agriculture
subject: Knowledge
subject: Policy

description: Various theoretical models of public policy analysis are used to treat situations of decision-making in which public deciders have to take into account the multifunctionality of agriculture. For some, science-society relations are not really problematical. Others acknowledge the current attempts of these policy-makers to find adequate scientific knowledge, and the difficulties they encounter. These difficulties stem partly from the very content of knowledge produced by research. Could other modes of production be more efficient? The status of the knowledge produced by these approaches is a subject of debate. Bridging the divide between science and policy more effectively is not only a question of knowledge brokerage. Accessibility and reliability of the existing evidences are also problems to be addressed. The debates around evidence-based practices may provide some landmarks in this new situation although they also emphasize the limits of the tools that can be built for this purpose.
Local Environment of Ferromagnetically Ordered Mn in Epitaxial InMnAs
Creators: name: Chiu, P. T.
name: Wessels, B. W.
name: Keavney, D. J.
name: Freeland, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic properties of the ferromagnetic semiconductor In0.98Mn0.02As were characterized by x-ray absorption spectroscopy and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism. The Mn exhibits an atomic-like L2,3 absorption spectrum that indicates that the 3d states are highly localized. In addition, a large dichroism at the Mn L2,3 edge was observed from 5-300 K at an applied field of 2T. A calculated spectrum assuming atomic Mn2+ yields the best agreement with the experimental InMnAs spectrum. A comparison of the dichroism spectra of MnAs and InMnAs show clear differences suggesting that the ferromagnetism observed in InMnAs is not due to hexagonal MnAs clusters. The temperature dependence of the dichroism indicates the presence of two ferromagnetic species, one with a transition temperature of 30 K and another with a transition temperature in excess of 300 K. The dichroism spectra are consistent with the assignment of the low temperature species to random substitutional Mn and the high temperature species to Mn near-neighbor pairs.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Applied Physics Letters