cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Analysing consumer motivations and their behaviour in the Alternative Food Networks in Italy
Creators: name: Mastronardi, Luigi
name: Giaccio, Vincenzo
name: Marino, Davide
name: Romagnoli, Luca
name: Mazzocchi, Giampiero
name: Palmieri, Margherita
name: Mastronardi, Luigi
name: Giaccio, Vincenzo
name: Marino, Davide
name: Romagnoli, Luca
name: Mazzocchi, Giampiero
name: Palmieri, Margherita
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: alternative food networks
subject: consumers
subject: italy
subject: multilevel
subject: regression models
subject: short food supply chains

description: Paper removed October 8, 2018 at the request of an author, due to errors. Paper will be re-submitted after modifications.
CMB and BBN constraints on evaporating primordial black holes revisited
Creators: name: Acharya, Sandeep Kumar
name: Khatri, Rishi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive new CMB anisotropy power spectrum and BBN constraints for evaporating primordial black holes by explicitly solving the electromagnetic particle cascades of emitted particles and the deposition of this emitted energy to the background baryon-photon plasma. We show that the CMB anisotropies can provide stronger constraints compared to BBN and CMB spectral distortions on black holes with masses as small as $M_{\rm BH}=1.1\times 10^{13}$g, a slightly smaller mass than what has been considered in literature until now. We also show that, with more up-to-date data on abundances of deuterium and helium-3, BBN constraints are strengthened significantly.
description: Comments welcome, updated to match the published version
A Myers-type theorem and compact Ricci solitons
Creators: name: Derdzinski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C25; 53C21

description: Let the Ricci curvature of a compact Riemannian manifold be greater, at every point, than the Lie derivative of the metric with respect to some fixed smooth vector field. It is shown that the fundamental group then has only finitely many conjugacy classes. This applies, in particular, to all compact shrinking Ricci solitons.
description: 4 pages
Bitoma nana Sharp 1876
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Bitoma
Bitoma nana

description: Bitoma nana Sharp, 1876
(Figs. 69–71)
 Bitoma nana Sharp, 1876: 27. Sharp 1877c: 400 (reprinted from Sharp 1876). Broun 1880: 194. Hutton 1904: 169. Hudson 1923: 368. Hetschko 1930: 18. Kuschel 1990: 33, 63. Maddison 2010: 426.
 Type locality: Tairua.
 Broun number: 347.
 Remarks: Sharp based this species on a single specimen.
 Type material examined: Holotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “ Bitoma nana Type N. Zeal d D.S. [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand] // Type [round label with red border] // Sharp Coll 1905-313.”
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
Sediment transport in pressure pipes
Creators: name: Rinas, Martin
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock, Agrar- und Umweltwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Professur Wasserwirtschaft Rostock
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 333.7 Natural resources, energy and environment
subject: 620 Engineering & allied operations
subject: 624 Structural and Environmental Engineering

description: Sewage pumping stations (PS) with flow control increase the risk of sediment formation inside the pressure pipe due to reduced flow velocitys. The transport of solids was investigated for a PS in northern Germany by means of laboratory tests (sedimentation & erosion), an online total suspended solids measurement and a 1D sediment transport simulation. The results have shown very slow settling processes and extremely low critical bed shear stresses for remobilization. Finally, the present work demonstrated that safe operation of the sewer system and energy-efficient pump control are compatible.
AN EXAMINATION OF SELECTED NON-GOVERNMENTAL ASSOCIATIONS WHICH ATTEMPT TOINFLUENCE THE FORMATION OF FEDERAL PUBLIC POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES
Creators: name: Kaufman, Robert William
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 22-04, page: 1232.
Thermal and optical properties of amphitropic liquid crystals derived from cholesterol and cinnamic acid
Creators: name: Hung, Yi-Hua
name: Chun-Yen Liu
name: Wei-Chieh Chen
name: Jui-Hsiang Liu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: In this paper, we firstly demonstrate the synthesis of chiral amphitropic liquid crystals derived from cholesterol as well as their thermal and optical properties. Chiral monomeric cholesteryl-4-(6-acryloyloxyhexyloxy) cinnamate (CCM) derived from cholesterol and cinnamic acid has been synthesised showing amphitropic liquid crystal phases. The synthesised CCM exhibits oily streak textures under a polarised optical microscope (POM), corresponding to cholesteric liquid crystal phase formed after heating over 120°C and after being treated with organic solvents such as dichloromethane, chloroform, tetrahydrofuran and toluene. Both the thermotropic and lyotropic cholesteric liquid crystals exhibit selective light reflection, and the wavelength of the reflected light falls in the visible light region showing colourful appearances. The results suggest that CCM could be used for the development of sensors for both temperature and solvents. Homopolymer (Poly-CCM) was synthesised via free radical polymerisation. The synthesised polymer did not exhibit any mesomorphic behaviour either by heating or being treated with solvents. These results indicate that the long chain hydrocarbons and sidechains of CCM were disturbed and restricted after polymerisation leading to the loss of liquid crystalline properties. However, cholesteric construction of monomeric CCM was fixed via UV-polymerisation. The synthesised Poly-CCM film shows Bragg reflection significantly.
Orientation of point nodes and nonunitary triplet pairing tuned by the easy-axis magnetization in UTe2
Creators: name: Kittaka, Shunichiro
name: Shimizu, Yusei
name: Sakakibara, Toshiro
name: Nakamura, Ai
name: Li, Dexin
name: Homma, Yoshiya
name: Honda, Fuminori
name: Aoki, Dai
name: Machida, Kazushige
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gap structure of a novel uranium-based superconductor UTe$_2$, situated in the vicinity of ferromagnetic quantum criticality, has been investigated via specific-heat $C(T,H,Ω)$ measurements in various field orientations. Its angular $Ω(ϕ,θ)$ variation shows a characteristic shoulder anomaly with a local minimum in $H \parallel a$ at moderate fields rotated within the $ab$ and $ac$ planes. Based on the theoretical calculations, these features can be attributed to the presence of point nodes in the superconducting gap along the $a$ direction. Under the field orientation along the easy-magnetization $a$ axis, an unusual temperature dependence of the upper critical field at low fields together with a convex downward curvature in $C(H)$ were observed. These anomalous behaviors can be explained on the basis of a nonunitary triplet state model with equal-spin pairing whose $T_{\rm c}$ is tuned by the magnetization along the $a$ axis. From these results, the gap symmetry of UTe$_2$ is most likely described by a vector order parameter of $d(k)=(b + ic)(k_b + ik_c)$.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures (main text) + 7 pages, 5 figures (Supplementary Material), accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Research
Bitoma vicina Sharp 1876
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Bitoma
Bitoma vicina

description: Bitoma vicina Sharp, 1876
(Figs. 84–86)
 Bitoma vicina Sharp, 1876: 25. Sharp 1877c: 398 (reprinted from Sharp 1876). Broun 1880: 193. Hutton 1904: 169. Broun 1912: 420. Hudson 1923: 368. Hetschko 1930: 20. Hudson 1934: 59. Watt 1982b: 303. Kuschel 1990: 33, 63. Maddison 2010: 426.
 Type locality: Tairua.
 Broun number: 344.
 Remarks: Sharp did not mention the number of specimens examined. In order to stabilize this name, a lectotype and two paralectotypes are here designated from the material of Bitoma vicina. There are five additional specimens, one singleton and two pairs card-mounted on separate pins (one pair with right specimen mounted venter-up, with pin head removed) that bear only “Sharp Coll. 1905-313” labels. These appear to be on the same card and pin type as the lectotype and paralectotypes and may be part of a split-up series. These specimens are not regarded as syntypes, however, due to lack of information.
 Type material examined: Lectotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “ Bitoma vicina Type N. Zeal d D.S. [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand] // Type [round label with red border] // Sharp Coll. 1905-313.” Paralectotypes (BMNH): 2, mounted individually on separate cards pins, with identical labels, “ Bitoma vicina Ind. typ. N. Zeald D.S. [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand] // Sharp Coll. 1905-313.”
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
Demand and potential subsidy level for forest insurance market in Demand and potential subsidy level for forest insurance market in Italy
Creators: name: Cipollaro, Maria
name: Sacchelli, Sandro
name: Cipollaro, Maria
name: Sacchelli, Sandro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: forest damage
subject: risk perception
subject: insurance
subject: willingness to pay
subject: premium

description: The projections for climate change in the coming decades highlight that European and Mediterranean forests will have to deal with negative biotic and abiotic impacts. Extreme meteorological events seem to be one of the main source of risk. Financial strategies can be a form of risk management. In this framework the work analyse the Willingness to Stipulate forest insurance schemes at national level by owners and managers of stands, based on owners characteristics, forest typology and localization as well as Willingness To Pay. Results are also defined at spatial level (macroregions for Italy: northern, central and southern regions) in order to be compared with premium. Preliminary results confirm how WTP is related with both statistical and perceived risk of damage. Moreover, forest owners appear more available to pay for insurance in case of high forest (in particular coniferous) in respect to coppices. Among motivations for not stipulating insurance, the main reason seems to be the preference for alternative form of risk management (e.g. post-event public compensation or silvicultural interventions). The paper stresses the difference between premium and WTP depicting the area where public subsidy could have a greater impact for insurance diffusion. Finally, discussion for future improvements and integration of the research are performed.
Optical afterglow of the not so dark GRB 021211
Creators: name: Pandey, S. B.
name: Anupama, G. C.
name: Sagar, R.
name: Bhattacharya, D.
name: Castro-Tirado, A. J.
name: Sahu, D. K.
name: Parihar, Padmakar
name: Prabhu, T. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine Johnson $B,V$ and Cousins $R,I$ photometric CCD magnitudes for the afterglow of GRB 021211 during the first night after the GRB trigger. The afterglow was very faint and would have been probably missed if no prompt observation had been conducted. A fraction of the so-called ``dark'' GRBs may thus be just ``optically dim'' and require very deep imaging to be detected. The early-time optical light curve reported by other observers shows prompt emission with properties similar to that of GRB 990123. Following this, the afterglow emission from $\sim 11$ min to $\sim 33$ days after the burst is characterized by an overall power-law decay with a slope $1.1\pm0.02$ in the $R$ passband. We derive the value of spectral index in the optical to near-IR region to be 0.6$\pm$0.2 during 0.13 to 0.8 day after the burst. The flux decay constant and the spectral slope indicate that optical observations within a day after the burst lies between cooling frequency and synchrotron maximum frequency.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, A&A Letters, 408, L21
Roll up the science design solution proposal
Creators: name: Mazhari, Arman
name: Simone, Christine
name: Higa, Dillon
name: Ong, Ee Faye
name: Shahbahrami, Katiana
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Evaluating Socio-Economic Impacts of PDO on Rural Areas
Creators: name: Raimondi, Valentina
name: Curzi, Daniele
name: Arfini, Filippo
name: Olper, Alessandro
name: Aghabeygi, Mona
name: Raimondi, Valentina
name: Curzi, Daniele
name: Arfini, Filippo
name: Olper, Alessandro
name: Aghabeygi, Mona
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Geographical indication
subject: Local Development
subject: Productivity
subject: Employment
subject: Dynamic Panel Model

description: The European Agricultural Policy tries to achieve sustainable agriculture by paying appropriate subsidies. EU makes agri-food chains more competitive by developing quality policy through the definition and promotion of food quality schemes which consider the area of production as credence good. Those products are classified as Geographical Indication (GI) and include PDO and PGI products. In particular, the generated effects of GIs on territorial level are not clear. The objective of this research is to evaluate the socio-economic impacts of GIs on the territory of origin indicated in the product specification. The research considers all the NUTS 3 regions of Italy, France and Spain during 1993 – 2014 in a framework of dynamic panel model. The results shown that an increase of the number of GI products generate a positive socio-economic impact in a short and long run.
How to combine crop production and environmental quality? A decision support system to quantify best agri-environmental measures in the Veneto Region , Italy
Creators: name: Lazzaro, B
name: N, Dal Ferro
name: Cocco, E
name: Berti, A
name: Morari, F
name: Lazzaro, B
name: N, Dal Ferro
name: Cocco, E
name: Berti, A
name: Morari, F
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: rural development programme
subject: modelling
subject: biogeochemical fluxes

description: Efforts have been made in Europe to support the adoption of agri-environmental measures (AEMs), with the ambition to combine both high standards of crop productivity and environmental quality. However, benefits from AEMs have been poorly quantified at the spatial scale, despite the increasing demand for a spatial-targeting approach that link site- specific payments with AEMs performance. The aim of this work was to develop an integrated model-GIS platform that was used as decision support system to evaluate best AEMs in terms of agronomic performance and agro-ecosystem quality. The study site was the Veneto Region, where the AEMs were applied from 2007 to 2013 according to the Rural Development Programme. Results showed that in general the continuous soil cover yielded both agronomic benefits and the improvement of environmental quality, while a change from mineral to organic fertilizations was effective in the long-term and in the loose soils of southern and western Veneto, improving the soil-water balance and the nutrients availability to the crops. These estimates provide a good starting point for decision-makers aiming to implement a spatial targeting approach that effectively evaluate the ecological effectiveness of agri-environmental policies.
Economic and social factors of food insecurity : A study of individual vulnerability at the global level
Creators: name: Grimaccia, Elena
name: Naccarato, Alessia
name: Grimaccia, Elena
name: Naccarato, Alessia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: food insecurity
subject: self-reported scale
subject: cluster analysis
subject: ordered logistic regression
subject: economic development

description: Food insecurity is one of the most important issues in determining a country's level of development, being at the core of sustainable growth. It affects all countries in the world, because even in countries with high current levels of income or food availability, the stability of food access and utilization may change over time. Comparisons of food insecurity in different economic and demographic subpopulations across countries provide a better understanding of the complex phenomenon and support policies aimed at improving the well-being of populations and alleviating hunger. Even though definitions and measures of food insecurity have been widely debated, both in the political and scientific spheres, for decades, until very recently data referring to a univocal measure of food insecurity was lacking at the global level. Only beginning in 2014 was the FAO Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) used to perform a global survey, in 147 countries, with a sample of more than 150,000 individuals. This study presents an analysis of food insecurity based on information relating to individuals' own experience of their food insecurity, measured by FIES, together with other meaningful personal and household characteristics. The objective of this work is to assess which factors can determine individual food insecurity. Food insecurity presents marked differences depending on the level of development of the country under consideration. To take these factors into account, countries have been grouped together using a cluster analysis, based on the indicators forming the UN Human Development Index. The model, estimated both at the global level and for each group of countries, allows us to identify the economic, social, and demographic characteristics related to food insecurity, adding further evidence to the existing literature. Overall, the factors that have a significant impact on the risk of food insecurity include level of education, number of children in the household, and location of the household
Bitoma picicornis Broun 1909
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Bitoma
Bitoma picicornis

description: Bitoma picicornis Broun, 1909
(Figs. 74–75)
 Bitoma picicorne Broun, 1909a: 385. Hudson 1923: 369. May 1967: 178.
 Bitoma picicornis: Broun 1914b: 177. Hetschko 1930: 19. Maddison 2010: 426.
 Type locality: Broken River.
 Broun number: 2762 (as given in Broun 1914b: 177; May 1967: 178).
 Remarks: Note that the female gender ending of the Latin “ picicorn- ” is formed as picicornis (as listed above). Broun based this species on a single specimen.
 Type material examined: Holotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “Type [round label with red border] // 2762. [in Broun’s hand] // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // Broken River. [in Broun’s hand] // Bitoma picicorne - [in Broun’s hand]”.
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
Integrated optical multi-ion quantum logic
Creators: name: Mehta, Karan K.
name: Zhang, Chi
name: Malinowski, Maciej
name: Nguyen, Thanh-Long
name: Stadler, Martin
name: Home, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Practical and useful quantum information processing (QIP) requires significant improvements with respect to current systems, both in error rates of basic operations and in scale. Individual trapped-ion qubits' fundamental qualities are promising for long-term systems, but the optics involved in their precise control are a barrier to scaling. Planar-fabricated optics integrated within ion trap devices can make such systems simultaneously more robust and parallelizable, as suggested by previous work with single ions. Here we use scalable optics co-fabricated with a surface-electrode ion trap to achieve high-fidelity multi-ion quantum logic gates, often the limiting elements in building up the precise, large-scale entanglement essential to quantum computation. Light is efficiently delivered to a trap chip in a cryogenic environment via direct fibre coupling on multiple channels, eliminating the need for beam alignment into vacuum systems and cryostats and lending robustness to vibrations and beam pointing drifts. This allows us to perform ground-state laser cooling of ion motion, and to implement gates generating two-ion entangled states with fidelities $>99.3(2)\%$. This work demonstrates hardware that reduces noise and drifts in sensitive quantum logic, and simultaneously offers a route to practical parallelization for high-fidelity quantum processors. Similar devices may also find applications in neutral atom and ion-based quantum-sensing and timekeeping.
Interpreting the Spitzer/IRAC Colours of 7
Creators: name: Roberts-Borsani, Guido
name: Ellis, Richard S.
name: Laporte, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Prior to the launch of JWST, Spitzer/IRAC photometry offers the only means of studying the rest-frame optical properties of z>7 galaxies. Many such high redshift galaxies display a red [3.6] - [4.5] micron colour, often referred to as the "IRAC excess", which has conventionally been interpreted as arising from intense [OIII]+Hbeta emission within the [4.5] micron bandpass. An appealing aspect of this interpretation is similarly intense line emission seen in star-forming galaxies at lower redshift as well as the redshift-dependent behaviour of the IRAC colours beyond z~7 modelled as the various nebular lines move through the two bandpasses. In this paper we demonstrate that, given the photometric uncertainties, established stellar populations with Balmer (4000 A, rest-frame) breaks, such as those inferred at z>9 where line emission does not contaminate the IRAC bands, can equally well explain the redshift-dependent behaviour of the IRAC colours in 7
description: 11 pages, 8 figures. MNRAS in press. Includes some additional figures and subsections to match the accepted version
The infrared L'-band view of the Galactic Center with NAOS-CONICA at VLT
Creators: name: Clénet, Y.
name: Rouan, D.
name: Gendron, E.
name: Lacombe, F.
name: Lagrange, A. -M.
name: Rousset, G.
name: Genzel, R.
name: Schödel, R.
name: Ott, T.
name: Eckart, A.
name: Marco, O.
name: Tacconi-Garman, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on Galactic Center L'-band observations made during NAOS/CONICA Science Verification. Colors of the inner 2" stars reveal an infrared excess of S2, the closest star to the black hole, that could sign the first thermal infrared detection of Sgr A*. A multi-wavelength maximum likelihood analysis has allowed us to eliminate all but two of the candidates for gravitational lensing proposed by Alexander (2001). Our observations of the thin and intersecting structures of the Northern Arm could trace several shocks heating the neighbooring dust rather than a stream of matter in orbit around the central mass as previously thought.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics: 16 April 2003, accpeted: 14 November 2003, updated references
The Agrifood network of lupine bean ( Lupinus mutabilis ) in Ecuador: A characterization of the value chain with a socioeconomic and productive perspective
Creators: name: Carlos, Moreno-Miranda
name: Liliana, Pilamala
name: Cerda-Mejía, Araceli
name: Daniele, Rama
name: Carlos, Moreno-Miranda
name: Liliana, Pilamala
name: Cerda-Mejía, Araceli
name: Daniele, Rama
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: socioeconomic integration
subject: agents
subject: productive
subject: agroeconomic performance
subject: production

description: The fruits and vegetables sector in Ecuador despite its gradual growth in local and international markets has captured the interest of state institutions and academic centers who have focused their studies on agronomic aspects of non- traditional products without consider socioeconomic, productive and performance problems; such is the case of lupine bean value chain. To this extent, the aim of this article was to present an analysis of lupine bean value chain in Ecuador through the identification of stages, agents, flows and activities (primary and support) from the socioeconomic and productive point of view for which a systematic methodology was used involving aspects of the agro-economic process. As a result, it was determined that lupine bean value chain in the production and postproduction stages requires the diversification of marketing channels, the implementation of refrigerated storage modules located in the supply centers, the strengthening of associative and / or cooperative structures; and the productive planning programs to provide a potential competitive advantage
Wave effects in the microlensing of pulsars and FRBs by point masses
Creators: name: Jow, Dylan L.
name: Foreman, Simon
name: Pen, Ue-Li
name: Zhu, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wave effects are often neglected in microlensing studies; however, for coherent point-like sources, such as pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs), wave effects will become important in their gravitational lensing. In this paper, we describe the wave optics formalism, its various limits, and the conditions for which these limits hold. Using the simple point lens as an example, we will show that the frequency dependence of wave effects breaks degeneracies that are present in the usual geometric optics limit, and constructive interference results in larger magnifications further from the lens. This latter fact leads to a generic increase in cross section for microlensing events in the wave-optics regime compared to the geometric optics regime. For realistic percent-level spectral sensitivities, this leads to a relative boost in lensing cross section of more than an order of magnitude. We apply the point-lens model to the lensing of FRBs and pulsars and find that these radio sources will be lensed in the full wave-optics regime by isolated masses in the range of $0.1-100\,M_\oplus$, which includes free-floating planets (FFPs), whose Einstein radius is smaller than the Fresnel scale. More generally, the interference pattern allows an instantaneous determination of lens masses, unlike traditional microlensing techniques which only yield a mass inference from the event timescale.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
Weak Sequential Properties of the Multiplication Operators on Banach Algebras
Creators: name: Oktay, Onur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B10, 46H99, 47B07, 47L10

description: Let $A$ be a Banach algebra. For $f\in A^{\ast}$, we inspect the weak sequential properties of the well-known map $T_f:A\to A^{\ast}$, $T_f(a) = fa$, where $fa\in A^{\ast}$ is defined by $fa(x) = f(ax)$ for all $x\in A$. We provide equivalent conditions for when $T_f$ is completely continuous for every $f\in A^{\ast}$, and for when $T_f$ maps weakly precompact sets onto L-sets for every $f\in A^{\ast}$. Our results have applications to the algebra of compact operators $K(X)$ on a Banach space $X$.
Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Docg : Managing Product and Landscape Core Sustainable Policies and Their Impacts on Winery Visits
Creators: name: Barisan, L
name: Onofri, L
name: Boatto, V
name: Barisan, L
name: Onofri, L
name: Boatto, V
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: conegliano valdobbiadene docg
subject: wine tourists
subject: prosecco and sustainability
subject: prosecco and landscape
subject: two- stages least squares

description: Nowadays, the relationships among wine tourism and environmental and economic sustainability has gained an outstanding importance on the supply side because of changes in wine visits’ demand and behaviour. This paper aims to better understand the model which explains the number of wine visits wherever product and landscape management are considered key factors for the wine tourism development of the Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco PDO. In order to assess the research questions, we used the method of instrumental variables (IV), applied through the Two-Stages Least Squares (TSLS) procedure for evaluating wineries sustainability’s policies towards winery visits. Results showed how in the case of the Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco PDO’s wineries, evidence-based strategies on product and landscape sustainability policies should be taken into account when managing more effective visits experiences.
Growth performance of Chlorella ellipsoidea at three levels of banana leaf ash with added papaya skin powder and urea
Creators: name: Toyub, M. A.
name: Bari, M. S.
name: Miah, M. I.
name: Habib, M. A. B.
name: Toyub, M. A.
name: Bari, M. S.
name: Miah, M. I.
name: Habib, M. A. B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Chlorella
subject: Cell density
subject: Chlorophyll a
subject: Banana leaf
subject: Papaya skin

description: Chlorella ellipsoidea was cultured in three different concentrations viz., 4.8, 7.2 and 9.6 g/I of BLA with added 0.4 g PSP and 0.2 g urea and in BBM (control) with triplicate for a period of three months. Each trial was continued for a period of 14 days in the laboratory. The initeal cell density of C. ellipsoidea was 2.5x105 cells/ml which attained the maximum of 94.86x105 cells/ml in BBM followed by 90.89x105, 83.88x10 and 71.34x105-cells/ml in 7.2, 9.6 and 4.8 g/I concentration of BLA, respectively on 10th day 5 of culture. The initial chlorophyll a content of inoculated C. ellipsoidea was 0.10 mg/I which attained the highest content 4.82 rng/I in BBM followed by 4.69, 4.31 and 3.95 mg/I in 7.2, 9.6* and 4.8 g/I concentration of BLA with added 0.4g PSP and 0.2g urea, respectively on 10th day of culture. During the whole culture period the pH range was 6.86 to 8.02.
Random Energy Model with complex replica number, complex temperatures and classification of the string's phases
Creators: name: Saakian, D. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The results by E. Gardner and B.Derrida have been enlarged for the complex temperatures and complex numbers of replicas. The phase structure is found. There is a connection with string models and their phase structure is analyzed from the REM's point of view.
description: 11 pages,revtex
Laterally substituted biphenyl benzoates ‒ synthesis and mesomorphic properties
Creators: name: Cigl, Martin
name: František Hampl
name: Jiří Svoboda
name: Podoliak, Natalia
name: Stulov, Sergei
name: Kohout, Michal
name: Novotná, Vladimíra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: We have synthesised several series of dialkoxy-terminated biphenyl benzoates with lateral substituents (X = F, Cl) in the vicinity of the ester linking group, varying the length of the terminal alkyl chains. The aim was to study mesomorphic properties of these new compounds and compare them with the previously reported analogous phenyl biphenylcarboxylates, which possess reverse orientation of the ester linking group. The studied compounds were characterised by differential scanning calorimetry, polarising optical microscopy and birefringence measurements. For selected homologues, the type of mesophases was confirmed by x-ray scattering analysis. We calculated the dipole moments and suggested its correlation with the preference of tilted smectic phases in studied biphenyl benzoates. Generally, lateral substitution causes the drop of phase transition temperatures as well as melting points, giving rise to mesophases in a wide temperature range, in several cases down to the room temperature.
MEDI-CALL. Vol. 1, No. 16 (April 29 1945)
Creators: name: United States Army Office of Information and Education
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1945
Subjects: 12th General Hospital
World War II
Newsletters

description: This weekly newsletter includes: reports from the front lines, departmental notes, advice columns, stories, poetry, comics, and announcements concerning the 12th General Hospital sports teams.
Correspondences among CFTs with different W-algebra symmetry
Creators: name: Creutzig, Thomas
name: Genra, Naoki
name: Hikida, Yasuaki
name: Liu, Tianshu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: W-algebras are constructed via quantum Hamiltonian reduction associated with a Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ and an $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$-embedding into $\mathfrak{g}$. We derive correspondences among correlation functions of theories having different W-algebras as symmetry algebras. These W-algebras are associated to the same $\mathfrak{g}$ but distinct $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$-embeddings. For this purpose, we first explore different free field realizations of W-algebras and then generalize previous works on the path integral derivation of correspondences of correlation functions. For $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{sl}(3)$, there is only one non-standard (non-regular) W-algebra known as the Bershadsky-Polyakov algebra. We examine its free field realizations and derive correlator correspondences involving the WZNW theory of $\mathfrak{sl}(3)$, the Bershadsky-Polyakov algebra and the principal $W_3$-algebra. There are three non-regular W-algebras associated to $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{sl}(4)$. We show that the methods developed for $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{sl}(3)$ can be applied straightforwardly. We briefly comment on extensions of our techniques to general $\mathfrak{g}$.
description: 52 pages
Production of mannose-containing oligosaccharides by glucansucrase E81 and determination of their functional characteristics
Creators: name: İspirli, Hümeyra
name: Dertli, Enes
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Oligosaccharides are one of the functional ingredients to be used in food technology. In this study, by using an active glucansucrase GTFA-ΔN E81 in the acceptor reaction of mannose, mannose-containing oligosaccharides were produced and their functionality was tested. The formation of the oligosaccharides were visualised by TLC analysis and mannose-containing oligosaccharides up to DP 7 were determined by LC-MS analysis. The presence of the (1,6)Glc and (1,3)Glc units within the oligosaccharides were determined by NMR analysis. The in vitro immune-modulatory functions of the mannose-containing oligosaccharides were determined but no induction in IL-4, IL-10, IL-12 and TNF-α cytokine levels were detected. Importantly this oligosaccharide mixture showed prebiotic effect by triggering the growth of tested probiotics and not affecting the growth of pathogen strains. Our findings reveals the potential of the role of glucansucrases for the production of functional oligosaccharides.
Dark Energy and the Statistical Study of the Observed Image Separations of the Multiply Imaged Systems in the CLASS Statistical Sample
Creators: name: Dev, Abha
name: Jain, Deepak
name: Mahajan, Shobhit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present day observations favour a universe which is flat, accelerated and composed of $\sim 1/3$ matter (baryonic + dark) and $\sim 2/3$ of a negative pressure component, usually referred to as dark energy or quintessence. The Cosmic Lens All Sky Survey (CLASS), the largest radio-selected galactic mass scale gravitational lens search project to date, has resulted in the largest sample suitable for statistical analyses. In the work presented here, we exploit observed image separations of the multiply imaged lensed radio sources in the sample. We use two different tests: (1) image separation distribution function $n(Δθ)$ of the lensed radio sources and (2) ${\dtheta}_{\mathrm{pred}}$ vs ${\dtheta}_{\mathrm{obs}}$ as observational tools to constrain the cosmological parameters $w$ and $\Om$. The results are in concordance with the bounds imposed by other cosmological tests.
description: 20 pages latex; Modified " Results and Discussion " section, new references added
Aging Correlation Functions for Blinking Nano-Crystals, and Other On - Off Stochastic Processes
Creators: name: Margolin, Gennady
name: Barkai, Eli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following recent experiments on power law blinking behavior of single nano-crystals, we calculate two-time intensity correlation functions  for these systems. We use a simple two state (on and off) stochastic model to describe the dynamics. We classify possible behaviors of the correlation function and show that aging, e.g., dependence of the correlation function on age of process t, is obtained for classes of the on time and off time distributions relevant to experimental situation. Analytical asymptotic scaling behaviors of the intensity correlation in the double time t and t' domain are obtained. In the scaling limit  --> h(x), where four classes of behaviors are found: (i) finite averaged on and off times x=t' (standard behavior) (ii) on and off times with identical power law behaviors x=t/t' (case relevant for capped nano-crystals). (iii) exponential on times and power law off times x=tt' (case relevant for uncapped nano-crystals). (iv) For defected off time distribution we also find x=t+t' . Origin of aging behavior is explained based on simple diffusion model. We argue that the diffusion controlled reaction A+B AB, when followed on a single particle level exhibits aging behavior.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Bitoma distincta Broun 1880
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Bitoma
Bitoma distincta

description: Bitoma distincta Broun, 1880
(Figs. 55–56)
 Bitoma distincta Broun, 1880: 194. Hutton 1904: 169. Broun 1921b: 613. Hudson 1923: 368. Hetschko 1930: 17. Maddison 2010: 426.
 Type locality: Tairua.
 Broun number: 348.
 Remarks: Broun based this species on a single specimen.
 Type material examined: Holotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “Type [round label with red border] // 348 [green label] // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // Tairua. [black underline, in Broun’s hand] // Bitoma distincta [in Broun’s hand]”.
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
'APCs in the Wild': Could Increased Monitoring and Consolidation of Funding Accelerate the Transition to Open Access?
Creators: name: Monaghan, Jessica
name: Mithu Lucraft
name: Allin, Katie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The whitepaper highlights the challenges in monitoring payments for OA article processing charges (APCs), given that the sources of OA funding are often complex
Evaluation of growth and water quality in pangasiid catfish (Pangasius hypophthalmus) monoculture and polyculture with silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix)
Creators: name: Sarkar, M. R. U.
name: Khan, S.
name: Haque, M. M.
name: Haq, M. S.
name: Sarkar, M. R. U.
name: Khan, S.
name: Haque, M. M.
name: Haq, M. S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Pangasiid catfish
subject: Silver carp
subject: Polyculture
subject: Growth
subject: Water quality

description: An experiment was carried out to evaluate the fish growth and water quality in pangasiid catfish (Pangasius hypophthalmus Sauvage) monoculture and polyculture with silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix Valenciennes) in nine (0.05 acre each) earthen ponds under three treatments each with three replications for a period of 98 days. In treatment 1 (Ti) 12000 pangasiid catfish per acre (2.47 acre = 1 ha), in treatment 2 (12) 6000 pangasiid catfish plus 6000 silver carp per acre and in treatment 3 (13) 8000 pangasiid catfish plus 4000 silver carp per acre were stocked. A commercial peileted feed containing 28% crude protein and 6% lipid was fed to the pangasiid catfish at the rate of 8%, 6% and 4%-of the body weight per day during the first month, second month and rest of the culture period, respectively. The growth of fishes was found significantly (p<0.05) different among the treatments. Highest growth of pangasiid catfish was found in T2 and lowest in T1, and in case of silver carp the growth was highest in 13. Among the studied water quality parameters dissolved oxygen, nitiatenitrogen, phosphate-phosphorus and phytoplankton cell density differed significantly (p<0.05). The dissolved oxygen was highest in 12 and lowest in Ti. The nitrate-nitrogen, phosphate-phosphorus and phytoplankton cell density were highest in Ti and lowest in T2. The results suggest that polyculture of pangasiid catfish and silver carp at the ratio of 1:1 with a total density of 12000 fishes per acre is suitable for good fish growth and better water quality maintenance.
2024 NMDC Ambassador Training Slides: Portuguese translation
Creators: name: Caesar, Lílian
name: Rodriguez, Francisca
name: Kelliher, Julia
name: Johnson, Leah
name: Eloe-Fadrosh, Emiley
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The NMDC Ambassador training slides were translated into Portuguese by 2024 NMDC Ambassador Lílian Caesar and presented virtually to a Portuguese speaking audience in July of 2024.
Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics
Creators: name: Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L.
name: Bowern, Claire
name: Round, Erich R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: J.5

description: Phylogenetic methods have broad potential in linguistics beyond tree inference. Here, we show how a phylogenetic approach opens the possibility of gaining historical insights from entirely new kinds of linguistic data--in this instance, statistical phonotactics. We extract phonotactic data from 111 Pama-Nyungan vocabularies and apply tests for phylogenetic signal, quantifying the degree to which the data reflect phylogenetic history. We test three datasets: (1) binary variables recording the presence or absence of biphones (two-segment sequences) in a lexicon (2) frequencies of transitions between segments, and (3) frequencies of transitions between natural sound classes. Australian languages have been characterized as having a high degree of phonotactic homogeneity. Nevertheless, we detect phylogenetic signal in all datasets. Phylogenetic signal is greater in finer-grained frequency data than in binary data, and greatest in natural-class-based data. These results demonstrate the viability of employing a new source of readily extractable data in historical and comparative linguistics.
description: Main text: 32 pages, 17 figures, 1 table. Supplementary Information: 17 pages, 1 figure. Code and data available at http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3936353. This article is in review but not yet accepted for publication in a journal