cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CONTROVERSY ABOUT AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY: LESSONS FROM THE GREEN REVOLUTION
Creators: name: Ruttan, Vernon W.
name: Ruttan, Vernon W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The development and introduction of transgenically modified organisms to enhance crop and animal production has generated considerable controversy about potential food safety and environmental impacts. The introduction in tropical Latin America and Asia of high yielding varieties of wheat, maize and rice beginning in the late 1960s was also controversial. Critics argued that the new technology was biased against the poor-would make the rich richer and the poor poorer. In this paper I review the equity and productivity impacts of the "green revolution" technology and draw several inferences about evaluation the effects of the new biotechnologies in agricultural production.
Universal behavior of optimal paths in weighted networks with general disorder
Creators: name: Chen, Yiping
name: López, Eduardo
name: Havlin, Shlomo
name: Stanley, H. Eugene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the statistics of the optimal path in both random and scale free networks, where weights $w$ are taken from a general distribution $P(w)$. We find that different types of disorder lead to the same universal behavior. Specifically, we find that a single parameter ($S \equiv AL^{-1/ν}$ for $d$-dimensional lattices, and $S\equiv AN^{-1/3}$ for random networks) determines the distributions of the optimal path length, including both strong and weak disorder regimes. Here $ν$ is the percolation connectivity exponent, and $A$ depends on the percolation threshold and $P(w)$. For $P(w)$ uniform, Poisson or Gaussian the crossover from weak to strong does not occur, and only weak disorder exists.
description: Accepted by PRL
Probing the largest scale structure in the universe with polarization map of galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Seto, Naoki
name: Pierpaoli, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new formalism to describe the polarization signal of galaxy clusters on the whole sky. We show that a sparsely sampled, half-sky map of the cluster polarization signal at $z\sim 1$ would allow to better characterize the very large scale density fluctuations. While the horizon length is smaller in the past, two other competing effects significantly remove the contribution of the small scale fluctuations from the quadrupole polarization pattern at $z\sim 1$. For the standard Lambda-CDM universe with vanishing tensor mode, the quadrupole moment of the temperature anisotropy probed by WMAP is expected to have a ~32% contribution from fluctuations on scales below 6.3h^{-1}Gpc. This percentage would be reduced to ~2% level for the quadrupole moment of polarization pattern at $z\sim 1$. A cluster polarization map at $z \sim 1$ would shed light on the potentially anomalous features of the largest scale structure in the observable universe.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, revised version, to appear in PRL
Anachis helenae Costa 1983
Creators: name: Cavallari, Daniel C.
name: Dornellas, Ana Paula S.
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Columbellidae
Anachis
Anachis helenae

description: helenae, Anachis Costa, 1983
 Anachis helenae Costa, 1983: 95–98 (figs 1–3).
Gastropoda, Columbellidae
 Holotype: MZSP 102531 (Fig. 5 E–F).
 Paratype 1: MZSP 102534.
 Paratype 2: MZSP 102539.
 Localities: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Niterói off Boa Viagem Island, 22º54'43" S, 43º07'32" W, 8 m depth, Aug. 1979; 1–2) Brazil off Amapá State, 56 m, 1 May 1968.
 Collectors: P. M. Costa; 1–2) R/V Almirante Saldanha.
 Preservation: Dry. All specimens including the holotype suffered the effects of Bynesian decay due to poor storage conditions prior to donation. Specimens were reconditioned according to the recommendations of Cavallari et al. (2014).
 Remarks: Former USU. The holotype was formerly catalogued as USU 215; paratype 1 as USU 237; paratype 2 as USU 238. The specimens listed above were donated to the MZSP in 2011.
description: Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 26, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/3840125
1978 OATS SURVEY REPORT
Creators: name: Welsch, Delane E.
name: Stuthman, Deon
name: Showman, Alan
name: Welsch, Delane E.
name: Stuthman, Deon
name: Showman, Alan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: A mail survey was conducted in 1977 of farmers who were thought to be oats producers, using names obtained from several lists. The purpose of the 1977 mail survey was to obtain answers to the following questions: (1) What kind of farmer grows oats, (2) Where does he grow them, (3)Why does he grow them, (4) How does he produce them? Answers to these questions should enable the breeding program and the Extension Program at the University of Minnesota to better address the problems of oat production and thus maintain, or hopefully improve the relative competitive ability of oats as a crop in Minnesota.
Exotic Particles and Generalized Maxwell theory on Fuzzy Two-Sphere
Creators: name: Douari, Jamila
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider generalized Maxwell theory and spherical D2-brane. The model is built by introducing a generalized connection put at the origin of two-sphere to describe anyons instead of Chern-Simons term. The energy obtained in this model is very special since the gauge field is dynamic and its energy dominates when the radius of fuzzy two-sphere goes to infinity or if we take large number of charges. Consequently, D2-brane gets high energy. The static potential for two opposite charged exotic particles described by generalized Maxwell theory is found to have screening nature on fuzzy two-sphere instead of confinement which is a special property of the system on the plane.
description: 10 pages, No figure
Deliverable 5.1 Position paper on lessons learned to adjust D4.3
Creators: name: Wenink, Jolien
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: FIT4FOOD2030
Dissemination
Responsible Research and Innovation
Food and Nutrition Security
FOOD2030EU
Food system transformation
Horizon Europe Programme
Policy brief

description: As the end of FIT4FOOD2030 draws near, the purpose of deliverable 5.1 is to examine how Responsible Research and Innovation principles can be effectively applied to achieve food systems transformation, taking into account the lessons learned in the project, particularly in the project’s City, Food and Policy Labs. In doing so it builds on deliverable 4.3, a position paper on adapting R&I policies to achieve future- proof food systems by implementing RRI principles. D4.3 was submitted in M17, around the half-way mark of the project. Exploring and developing on the central concepts of FIT4FOOD2030, it was based on already existing research and sources, as well as work that was carried out during the first part of the project in Work Packages 2, 3 and 4. The activities to try and implement the main aims of FIT4FOOD2030 in practice, namely increasing the impact of R&I on the transformation of food systems through RRI, have taken place in the Labs. Therefore, it was foreseen that a second position paper would look at the application of RRI for food systems transformation again at the end of the project, taking into account the real world experiences of the Labs; the current deliverable. Authors:
 Gill, M., J., Cahill, J., Callenius, C., Caron, P., Damianova, Z.,Gurinovic, M. A., Lang, T., Laperrière, A., Lähteenmäki, L., Mango, C., Muilwijk, H., Sonnino, R., Verburg G., Brierley, C., Paca, C., Kok, K.P.W., den Boer, A.C.L., Regeer, B.J., Broerse, J. E. W. (2020). Governance of research to accelerate innovation, deliver transformation and demonstrate flexibility at the time of shocks. Published by FIT4FOOD2030, https://fit4food2030.eu/eu-think-tank-policy-brief/.
REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN SELECTED AREAS OF INDIA
Creators: name: Easter, K. William
name: Abel, Martin E.
name: Norton, George W.
name: Easter, K. William
name: Abel, Martin E.
name: Norton, George W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1976
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: The focus of this analysis is to measure, by use of production functions, the contribution to total output of not only the quantity of traditional inputs (land, labor, fertilizer, etc.), but also the quality of certain inputs, particularly irrigation; technology; environmental factors (soil types, rainfall, etc.); and infrastructure (transportation, markets, etc.).
THE DYNAMICS OF OVERSPINNING PROCESS OF BLACK HOLE AND THE ROLE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD.
Creators: name: Xudoyberdiyeva, Malika
name: Rustamov, Xurshid
name: Eshmo'minov, Azizbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Devoted to study the dynamics of overspinning process and the effect of magnetic field on this process in order to test cosmic censorship conjecture.
Spherical coefficients of slice regular functions
Creators: name: Altavilla, Amedeo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 30G35, secondary 30B10, 30G30

description: Given a quaternionic slice regular function $f$, we give a direct and effective way to compute the coefficients of its spherical expansion at any point. Such coefficients are obtained in terms of spherical and slice derivatives of the function itself. Afterwards, we compare the coefficients of $f$ with those of its slice derivative $\partial_{c}f$ obtaining a countable family of differential equations satisfied by any slice regular function. The results are proved in all details and are accompanied to several examples. For some of the results, we also give alternative proofs.
description: New version: some change in the exposition and several typos corrected. 30 pages, several examples, 2 tables, 1 flow chart, 2 appendices
Expression of fibroblast growth factor 2 and its receptors in axotomized facial and rubrospinal neurons
Creators: name: Stilwell, Katherine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Regeneration of PNS neurons is accompanied by the expression of regeneration associated genes, including trophic factors and their receptors. In contrast, this gene expression is not maintained in CNS neurons, which undergo atrophy and/or death after axotomy. The latter phenomenon may involve discrepancies in trophic support to the injured neurons. I hypothesize that FGF-2, FGFR-1 and/or FGFR-2 mRNA and protein are increased in axotomized facial (PNS) motoneurons, and fail to be upregulated in axotomized rubrospinal (CNS) neurons. In situ hybridization (ISH), reverse transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR), immunohistochemistry and Western blots were used to study the production of the neurotrophic factor FGF-2 and its receptors FGFR-1 and FGFR-2 in the facial and red nucleus after axotomy of neurons in these nuclei. ISH demonstrated large increases in FGF-2 mRNA expression and moderate increases of FGFR-1 mRNA in axotomized motoneurons of the facial nucleus. In contrast, no increase in FGF-2 mRNA was detected in axotomized rubrospinal neurons, and the increase in FGFR-1 mRNA was transient. FGFR-2 mRNA expression in facial and red nuclei was limited to glial cells. These data were corroborated by RT-PCR. Immunohistochemistry for FGF-2 in the axotomized facial nucleus revealed increased staining in the neuropil and some glial and neuronal profiles. Immunoreactivity for FGFR-1 increased in the facial nucleus motoneurons after axotomy, and declined in red nucleus neurons. Immunoreactivity for FGFR-2 in the facial nucleus decreased in neurons after axotomy, and increased in glial cells; in the red nucleus, neuronal staining remained unchanged. Western blots revealed increased amounts of FGF-2 protein in the facial nucleus after axotomy. Thus, the main finding is that FGF-2 and FGFR-1 expression increased in axotomized facial motoneurons, but decreased in rubrospinal neurons. These results suggest that FGF-2 in the axotomized facial neuron may facilitate regeneration - most likely by acting via intracrine and auto-/paracrine routes. The lack of expression of FGF-2 in axotomized rubrospinal neurons may contribute to the failure of these neurons to regenerate. Moreover, the inability of rubrospinal neurons to express FGFR-1 may be a critical factor in their failure to regenerate, since FGFR-1 is involved in N-CAM/L1 mediated axon outgrowth.
Real-space observation of vibrational strong coupling between propagating phonon polaritons and organic molecules
Creators: name: Bylinkin, Andrei
name: Schnell, Martin
name: Autore, Marta
name: Calavalle, Francesco
name: Li, Peining
name: Taboada-Gutitierrez, Javier
name: Liu, Song
name: Edgar, James H.
name: Casanova, Felix
name: Hueso, Luis E.
name: Alonso-Gonzalez, Pablo
name: Nikitin, Alexey Y.
name: Hillenbrand, Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phonon polaritons (PPs) in van der Waals (vdW) materials can strongly enhance light-matter interactions at mid-infrared frequencies, owing to their extreme infrared field confinement and long lifetimes. PPs thus bear potential for achieving vibrational strong coupling (VSC) with molecules. Although the onset of VSC has recently been observed spectroscopically with PP nanoresonators, no experiments so far have resolved VSC in real space and with propagating modes in unstructured layers. Here, we demonstrate by real-space nanoimaging that VSC can be achieved between propagating PPs in thin vdW crystals (specifically h-BN) and molecular vibrations in adjacent thin molecular layers. To that end, we performed near-field polariton interferometry, showing that VSC leads to the formation of a propagating hybrid mode with a pronounced anti-crossing region in its dispersion, in which propagation with negative group velocity is found. Numerical calculations predict VSC for nanometer-thin molecular layers and PPs in few-layer vdW materials, which could make propagating PPs a promising platform for ultra-sensitive on-chip spectroscopy and strong coupling experiments.
A SIMPLE ANALYSIS OF ACREAGE RESPONSE TO SOME AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS
Creators: name: Danin, Yigal
name: Danin, Yigal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1976
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries

description: The purpose of this paper is twofold: (a) To analyze the effect of some common agricultural programs on the planted area of a crop. This will be done with the framework of a simple model mostly by graphical methods. (b) To comment on an estimative procedure by which a support price, which is linked to acreage restrictions, is transformed to an "effective support price." Three programs will be analyzed, namely, unlinked support price, link support price and diversion payment.
Vertical distribution of stars and gas in a galactic disk
Creators: name: Jog, Chanda J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the vertical density distribution of stars and gas (HI and H_2) in a galactic disk which is embedded in a dark matter halo. The new feature of this work is the inclusion of gas, and the gravitational coupling between stars and gas, which has led to a more realistic treatment of a multi-component galactic disk. The gas gravity is shown to be crucially important despite the low gas mass fraction. This approach physically explains the observed scaleheight distribution of all the three disk components, including the long-standing puzzle (Oort 1962) of a constant HI scaleheight observed in the inner Galaxy. The above model is applied to two external galaxies: NGC 891 and NGC 4565, and the stellar disk is shown to be not strictly flat as was long believed but rather it shows a moderate flaring of a factor of about 2 within the optical radius.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of "Island Universes: Structure and evolution of disk galaxies" (Terschelling, The Netherlands, July 2005), ed. R. de Jong
Effect of reduced local lattice disorder on the magnetic properties of B-site substituted La0.8Sr0.2MnO3
Creators: name: Ghorai, Sagar
name: Ivanov, Sergey A.
name: Skini, Ridha
name: Ström, Petter
name: Svedlindh, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Disorder induced by chemical inhomogeneity and Jahn-Teller (JT) distortions is often observed in mixed valence perovskite manganites. The main reasons for the evolution of this disorder are connected with the cationic size differences and the ratio between JT active and non-JT active ions. The quenched disorder leads to a spin-cluster state above the magnetic transition temperature. The effect of Cu, a B-site substitution in the La0.8Sr0.2MnO3 compound, on the disordered phase has been addressed here. X-ray powder diffraction reveals rhombohedral (R-3c) structures for the two compounds with negligible change of lattice volume. The chemical compositions of the two compounds were verified by ion beam analysis technique. With the change of electronic bandwidth, the magnetic phase transition temperature has been tuned towards room temperature (318 K), an important requirement for room temperature magnetic refrigeration. However, a small decrease of the isothermal entropy was observed with Cu-substitution, related to the decrease of the saturation magnetization.
QUARTERLY ECONOMETRIC MODEL AND FORECASTS OF THE MINNESOTA AND U.S. IRON MINING INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Lyche, Harald C.
name: Maki, Wilbur R.
name: Lyche, Harald C.
name: Maki, Wilbur R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The Report projects quarterly production and stock levels for the Minnesota and U.S. iron mining industry to the year 2000. Projections of Minnesota's iron industry employment are subsequently derived from the production forecasts. Ordinary least squares regression techniques are used to analyze the seasonality patterns that existed between 1955 and 1978. The regression equations, based on the quarterly data, were calibrated so they could be used to seasonalize the annual iron ore consumption, production and import projections developed by the U.S. Bureau of Mines. Alternate industry forecast series are presented to facilitate comparison with the yearly baseline projection series.
Conasprella henriquei Petuch & Myers 2014
Creators: name: Cavallari, Daniel C.
name: Dornellas, Ana Paula S.
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Conidae
Conasprella
Conasprella henriquei

description: henriquei, Coltroconus Petuch & Myers, 2014
 Coltroconus henriquei Petuch & Myers, 2014a: 40 (fig. 2A–C).
Gastropoda, Conidae
 Holotype: MZSP 116143.
 Locality: Brazil, Bahia State, east of the Abrolhos Platform, western side of Royal Charlotte Bank, 35 m depth.
 Preservation: Dry.
 Remarks: This species was recombined as Conasprella henriquei by Puillandre et al. (2015).
description: Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on pages 26-28, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/3840125
Pulsar rotation measures and the large-scale structure of Galactic magnetic field
Creators: name: Han, J. L.
name: Manchester, R. N.
name: Lyne, A. G.
name: Qiao, G. J.
name: van Straten, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The large-scale magnetic field of our Galaxy can be probed in three dimensions using Faraday rotation of pulsar signals. We report on the determination of 223 rotation measures from polarization observations of relatively distant southern pulsars made using the Parkes radio telescope. Combined with previously published observations these data give clear evidence for large-scale counterclockwise fields (viewed from the north Galactic pole) in the spiral arms interior to the Sun and weaker evidence for a counterclockwise field in the Perseus arm. However, in interarm regions, including the Solar neighbourhood, we present evidence that suggests that large-scale fields are clockwise. We propose that the large-scale Galactic magnetic field has a bisymmetric structure with reversals on the boundaries of the spiral arms. Streaming motions associated with spiral density waves can directly generate such a structure from an initial inwardly directed radial field. Large-scale fields increase toward the Galactic Center, with a mean value of about 2~$μ$G in the Solar neighbourhood and 4~$μ$G at a Galactocentric radius of 3 kpc.
description: ApJ accepted. 16 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables, 223 pulsar RMs
Peek into Plant Diversity using Herbarium Specimens (Online!)
Creators: name: Pearson, Katie
name: Love, Natalie
name: Mazer, Susan
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2020

description: This exercise introduces herbarium specimens and how they are used for research. Students contribute to specimen "digitization" using the citizen science platform Notes from Nature, and they work with the California specimen database, CCH2.
Complete absorption of topologically protected waves
Creators: name: Baardink, Guido
name: Cassella, Gino
name: Neville, Luke
name: Milewski, Paul A.
name: Souslov, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chiral edge states can transmit energy along imperfect interfaces in a topologically robust and unidirectional manner when protected by bulk-boundary correspondence. However, in continuum systems, the number of states at an interface can depend on boundary conditions. Here we design interfaces that host a net flux of the number of modes into a region, trapping incoming energy. As a realization, we present a model system of two topological fluids composed of counter-spinning particles, which are separated by a boundary that transitions from a fluid-fluid interface into a no-slip wall. In these fluids, chiral edge states disappear, which implies non-Hermiticity and leads to a novel interplay between topology and energy dissipation. Solving the fluid equations of motion, we find explicit expressions for the disappearing modes. We then conclude that energy dissipation is sped up by mode trapping. Instead of making efficient waveguides, our work shows how topology can be exploited for applications towards acoustic absorption, shielding, and soundproofing.
description: 12 pages including Supplemental Material, 9 figures. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoNgKH6GWJ4 for Supplementary Movie
Application of Theorems on Null-Geodesics on the Solar Limb Effect
Creators: name: Mikhail, F. I.
name: Wanas, M. I.
name: Morcos, A. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A direct and more general calculation of the limb effect connected with red-shift observations is obtained. Result agrees completely, in its general form, with that obtained from observations of the solar spectra but with different value for the maximum effect.
description: 12 pages, PDF file
Nature is good for us and the society - NBS and wellbeing (editorial)
Creators: name: De Vreese, Rik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: “Nature is good for us and the society”. That was – in short – the main message by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) back in 2005. The outcomes of the MEA were an eye-opener and have led to new knowledge and new concepts: Nature-based Solutions (NbS) is one of them. With most Europeans living in cities, NbS situated in urban and peri-urban areas have a large potential to contribute to the well-being of urban dwellers. Simple interventions, as planting trees and giving them the chance to become large, have immediate impact on citizens’ health. A recent research published in Nature indicates that people who live less than 100 m of street trees need less antidepressant medication. More interesting is that the impact was more outspoken for individuals with low socio-economic status. This confirms outcomes from another study (2008) that populations who are exposed to green environments in their daily life, have lower levels of health inequality. Deprived groups usually score lower on health and wellbeing indicators, and are more difficult to reach through health promotion campaigns. Both studies show that facilitating unintentional contact with nature – through living in a green environment – is an effective public health intervention, at no cost to the citizens whose health is improving, and at limited cost to the society. This is an interesting lesson for the post-COVID recovery: building leafy cities is contributing the most to the ones who have the highest needs. In this sense it is unfortunate that we observe green gentrification in our cities: greener neighbourhoods get more expensive places to live, and vulnerable groups are forced to leave these quarters. One of the suggested solutions to strive against green gentrification is to make the whole city more green, instead of focussing on specific quarters. Or, as done in the URBiNAT project, focussing the urban forestry strategy on providing sufficient trees in social housing neighbourhoods. Urban trees can be perceived as old technology, but have multiple benefits, and should be part of a NbS-based sustainable urbanisation pathway. Learn more on how to mobilise the multiple benefits of urban forests and urban trees during the forthcoming online Urban Forestry Days (23 - 24 March) organised by the European Forest Institute and the CLEARING HOUSE project, or during one of the multiple events of the NetworkNature Semester on NbS in the light of the Pandemic. And do not forget to celebrate your favourite tree on the International Day of Forests on the 21st of March, keeping in mind and being grateful for what they do for you!
ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN WORKING CONDITIONS OF A TRACTOR DRIVER DURING COMPUTERIZATION OF CONTROL SYSTEMS OF A TRACTOR UNIT
Creators: name: Shirokov Yu.
name: Tikhnenko, V.
name: Ivakina, E.
name: Imamzade, A.
Publisher: name: The Scientific Heritage
Year: 2022
Subjects: tractor
tractor driver
workplace
video terminal
sanitary requirements
hygienic assessment.

description: The article is devoted to changing and clarifying the requirements for the organization of workplaces and the labor process of drivers driving a modern computerized tractor. It is shown that with the introduction of computer and satellite systems for controlling the tractor and its engine, dispatching operations performed in the field in online mode using global satellite and local monitoring and control systems, a new approach to the organization of the workplace and the process of work and rest of the tractor driver is also required. The analysis of possible problems with the provision of conditions for the preservation of the health and efficiency of the tractor driver during computerization of control, and the use of video terminals.
ADVISORY SERVICE MARKETING PROFILES FOR CORN OVER 1995-2000
Creators: name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Cabrini, Silvina M.
name: Stark, Brian G.
name: Shi, Wei
name: Webber, Rick L.
name: Hagedorn, Lewis A.
name: Williams, Steven L.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Cabrini, Silvina M.
name: Stark, Brian G.
name: Shi, Wei
name: Webber, Rick L.
name: Hagedorn, Lewis A.
name: Williams, Steven L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This report presents marketing profiles and loan deficiency payment/marketing loan gain profiles for the advisory services followed by the AgMAS Project for the 1995 through 2000 corn crops. Marketing profiles are constructed by plotting the cumulative net amount priced under each program's set of recommendations throughout a crop year. Loan deficiency payment/marketing loan gain (LDP/MLG) profiles are constructed by plotting the cumulative percentage of the crop on which the LDP/MLG was claimed during the crop year. Marketing profiles provide information to evaluate the style of advisory services in several ways. The percentage of crop priced is a measure of within-crop year price risk. The higher the proportion of a crop priced, the lower the sensitivity of the farmer's position value to crop price changes. For example, when 100% of the crop is priced there is no price sensitivity, which means that changes in price do not affect the value of the farmer's position. On the other hand, when the amount priced is 0%, the value of the farmer's position will vary in the same proportion as the change in price. Marketing profiles, therefore, allow investigating the evolution of price sensitivity under each service's set of recommendations along the marketing window. Marketing profiles also provide other useful information. The number of steps in the profile lines and the location of these steps in the marketing window provide information about timing, frequency and size of recommended transactions. It is also possible to determine from the marketing profile figures how intensely a program uses options markets, since when options positions are open the profile line is irregular. In the same way, LDP/MLG profiles provide information about the size and timing of LDP/MLG claims.
Final State Interaction In $B\to KK$ Decays
Creators: name: Lü, Cai-Dian
name: Shen, Yue-Long
name: Wang, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the final state interaction effects in $B\to KK$ decays. We find that the $t$ channel one-particle-exchange diagrams cannot enhance the branching ratios of $\bar{B^0}\to K^0\bar{K^0}$ and $B^-\to K^0K^-$ very sizably. For the pure annihilation process $\bar{B^0}\to K^+K^-$, the obtained branching ratio by final state interaction is at ${\cal{O}}(10^{-8})$.
title: Automatic Assessment of Keel Bone Damage in Laying Hens at the Slaughter Line
Creators: name: Jung, Lisa
name: Nasirahmadi, Abozar
name: Schulte-Landwehr, Jan
name: Knierim, Ute
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: keel bone damage
subject: precision livestock farming
subject: laying hen
subject: health indicators
subject: animal welfare assessment
subject: laying hen health
subject: automated assessment
subject: 590
subject: Legehenne
subject: Knochenverletzung
subject: Tiergesundheit
subject: Präzisionslandwirtschaft
subject: Legehennenhaltung
subject: Gesundheitsindikator
subject: Automatisches Prüfen

description: Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
THE 1995 THROUGH 1998 PRICING PERFORMANCE OF MARKET ADVISORY SERVICES FOR WHEAT
Creators: name: Jirik, Mark A.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Jackson, Thomas E.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Jirik, Mark A.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Jackson, Thomas E.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The purpose of this research report is to present an evaluation of advisory service pricing performance from 1995 through 1998 for wheat. The average net advisory price across all 24 wheat programs in 1995 is $3.79 per bushel, $0.18 above the market benchmark price. The range in 1995 is $3.01 to $4.71 per bushel. The average net advisory service price for 23 wheat programs in 1996 is $3.82 per bushel, $0.13 below the market benchmark. The range in 1996 is $2.74 to $4.94 per bushel. The average net advisory price for all 20 wheat programs in 1997 is $2.64 per bushel, $0.58 below the market benchmark. The range in 1997 is $1.34 to $3.90 per bushel. Finally, the average net advisory price across all 21 services in 1998 is $2.36 per bushel, $0.54 below the market benchmark. The range in 1998 is $1.34 to $3.33 per bushel.
Redundancy-weighting the PDB for detailed SSP with applications in EMA
Creators: name: Sidi, Tomer
name: Keasar, Chen
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: The Protein Data Bank (PDB), the ultimate source for data in structural biology, is inherently imbalanced. To alleviate biases, virtually all structural biology studies use non-redundant subsets of the PDB, which include only a fraction of the available data. An alternative approach, dubbed redundancy-weighting, down-weights redundant entries rather than discarding them. This approach may be particularly helpful for Machine Learning (ML) methods that use the PDB as their source for data.

Current state-of-art methods for Secondary Structure Prediction of proteins (SSP) use non-redundant datasets to predict either 3-letter or 8-letter secondary structure annotations. The current study challenges both choices: the dataset and alphabet size. Non-redundant datasets are presumably unbiased, but are also inherently small, which limits the machine learning performance. On the other hand, the utility of both 3- and 8-letter alphabets is limited by the aggregation of parallel, anti-parallel, and mixed beta-sheets in a single class. Each of these subclasses imposes different structural constraints, which makes the distinction between them desirable. In this study we show improvement in prediction accuracy by training on a redundancy-weighted dataset. Further, we show the information content is improved by extending the alphabet to consider beta subclasses while hardly effecting SSP accuracy.
DEVELOPMENT OF A METHODICAL APPROACH TO THE RATIONING OF VARIOUS FACTORS IN THEIR COMBINED ACTION IN THE INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT OF EMPLOYEES OF ENTERPRISES
Creators: name: Belikov А.
name: Tretyakov, O.
name: Hryhorieva, Y.
name: Harmash, B.
name: Katkovnikova, L.
Publisher: name: The Scientific Heritage
Year: 2022
Subjects: Occupational health and safety
occupational risk
harmful factor
hazardous factor.

description: To improve working conditions, it is necessary to introduce and develop risk-oriented model of labor protection management in Ukraine, based on scientifically grounded approach. This requires an objective comparison of actual working conditions with normative ones, taking into account the peculiarities of the functional state of the organism under simultaneous exposure to several factors of the working environment. Thus, there are opportunities to form the basis for further development of methodical approaches to the rationing of different factors in the working area, taking into account their combined action.
DO AGRICULTURAL MARKET ADVISORY SERVICES BEAT THE MARKET? EVIDENCE FROM THE WHEAT MARKET OVER 1995-1998
Creators: name: Jirik, Mark A.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Jackson, Thomas E.
name: Jirik, Mark A.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Jackson, Thomas E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The purpose of this report is to address two basic performance questions for market advisory services in wheat: 1) Do market advisory services, on average, outperform an appropriate market benchmark? and 2) Do market advisory services exhibit persistence in their performance from year-to-year? Data on wheat net price received for advisory services, as reported by the AgMAS Project, are available for the 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 crop years. Not only do market advisory programs in wheat consistently fail to "beat the market," their performance is significantly worse than the market. On average, market advisory service performance is about $14 per acre below benchmark revenue, an economically non-trivial amount by any reasonable standard. The predictability results provide little evidence that future advisory service pricing performance can be predicted from past performance.
Hemimarginula hemitoma Simone & Cunha 2014
Creators: name: Cavallari, Daniel C.
name: Dornellas, Ana Paula S.
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Lepetellida
Fissurellidae
Hemimarginula
Hemimarginula hemitoma

description: hemitoma, Hemimarginula Simone & Cunha, 2014
 Hemimarginula hemitoma Simone & Cunha, 2014: 463–464 (figs 140–151).
Gastropoda, Fissurellidae
 Paratype: MZSP 101247.
 Paratypes 1 (2 spc): MZSP 102947.
 Paratypes 2 (3 spc): MZSP 102948.
 Locality: Brazil, off Espírito Santo, Trindade Island, Andradas Beach, 20°30'50'' S, 29°18'20'' W, 0–1 m depth; 1) Espírito Santo, off Itaúnas, Abrolhos Slope, 18°50' S, 37°57' W, 60 m, MD55 sta. DC83 (type locality), 28 May 1987; 2) 18°56' S, 37°52' W, 85–105 m, MD55 sta. DC82, 28 May 1987.
 Collectors: P. Bouchet, J.H. Leal & B. Métivier.
 Preservation: Dry.
 Remarks: Former MNHN, Paris.
description: Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 28, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/3840125
Walks on Apollonian networks
Creators: name: Huang, Zi-Gang
name: Xu, Xin-Jian
name: Wu, Zhi-Xi
name: Wang, Ying-Hai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out comparative studies of random walks on deterministic Apollonian networks (DANs) and random Apollonian networks (RANs). We perform computer simulations for the mean first passage time, the average return time, the mean-square displacement, and the network coverage for unrestricted random walk. The diffusions both on DANs and RANs are proved to be sublinear. The search efficiency for walks with various strategies and the influence of the topology of underlying networks on the dynamics of walks are discussed. Contrary to one's intuition, it is shown that the self-avoiding random walk, which has been verified as an optimal strategy for searching on scale-free and small-world networks, is not the best strategy for the DAN in the thermodynamic limit.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Network analysis of protein-protein interactions relevant in atherosclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Ravisen Beemadoo
name: Anisah  Wahed Ghoorah
name: Jaufeerally-Fakim, Yasmina
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Atherosclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis are chronic inflammatory diseases of high incidence worldwide. Both diseases are driven by a complex pathogenesis involving molecular interactions between the myriad of genes or proteins which can be modeled as protein-protein interaction networks (PPIN). Here, we identify the common genes and their functional implications in pathways that underlie the common pathophysiology of RA and atherosclerosis using network analysis of PPIN. By integrating protein-protein interaction (PPI) data and gene-disease associations, we constructed a common PPIN to identify the common genes and their topological significance. We then performed network analysis to identify hub genes based on degree and betweenness centrality. Functional modules were identified and mapped to Gene Ontology (GO) annotations. The resulting PPIN consists of 1379 nodes and 1739 interactions with 26 hub genes representing the union of atherosclerosis and RA related genes. Of these 26 genes, PTGS2, VCAM-1, ICAM-1, TNF-α, ALOX5, TGFβ1 and FOS are identified as both hub and common inflammation genes. Five most significant functional modules are detected and GO analysis reveals that these genes are involved in inflammatory response, regulation of T cell proliferation and response to lipopolysaccharide as biological processes. Three significant pathways validated by KEGG are TNF, NFkB and Interleukin-17 signaling pathways. Dysregulation in both lipid metabolism and T cell differentiation and proliferation were found to be the main triggers causing an inflammatory response which was found to be the common shared pathology that links atherosclerosis and RA. These genes could represent potential biomarkers and drug targets for future research on RA and atherosclerosis and their associated comorbidities.
1999 PRICING PERFORMANCE OF MARKET ADVISORY SERVICES FOR CORN AND SOYBEANS
Creators: name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The purpose of this research report is to present an evaluation of advisory service pricing performance in the 1999 crop year for corn and soybeans. Specifically, the average price received by a subscriber to an advisory service is calculated for corn and soybean crops harvested in 1999. The average net advisory price across all 26 corn programs in 1999 is $2.02 per bushel, three cents below the market benchmark price. The range of net advisory prices for corn is substantial, with a minimum of $1.66 per bushel and a maximum of $2.49 per bushel. The average net advisory price across all 25 soybean programs in 1999 is $5.67 per bushel, seventeen cents above the market benchmark. As with corn, the range of net advisory prices for soybeans is substantial, with a minimum of $4.68 per bushel and a maximum of $7.10 per bushel. The average revenue achieved by following both the corn and soybean programs offered by an advisory service is $299 per acre, $2.00 more than market benchmark revenue for 1999. The spread in advisory revenue also is noteworthy, with the difference between the bottom- and top-performing advisory programs reaching more than $100 per acre.
Optimal Inspection and Maintenance Planning for Deteriorating Structural Components through Dynamic Bayesian Networks and Markov Decision Processes
Creators: name: Morato, P. G.
name: Papakonstantinou, K. G.
name: Andriotis, C. P.
name: Nielsen, J. S.
name: Rigo, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Civil and maritime engineering systems, among others, from bridges to offshore platforms and wind turbines, must be efficiently managed as they are exposed to deterioration mechanisms throughout their operational life, such as fatigue or corrosion. Identifying optimal inspection and maintenance policies demands the solution of a complex sequential decision-making problem under uncertainty, with the main objective of efficiently controlling the risk associated with structural failures. Addressing this complexity, risk-based inspection planning methodologies, supported often by dynamic Bayesian networks, evaluate a set of pre-defined heuristic decision rules to reasonably simplify the decision problem. However, the resulting policies may be compromised by the limited space considered in the definition of the decision rules. Avoiding this limitation, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a principled mathematical methodology for stochastic optimal control under uncertain action outcomes and observations, in which the optimal actions are prescribed as a function of the entire, dynamically updated, state probability distribution. In this paper, we combine dynamic Bayesian networks with POMDPs in a joint framework for optimal inspection and maintenance planning, and we provide the formulation for developing both infinite and finite horizon POMDPs in a structural reliability context. The proposed methodology is implemented and tested for the case of a structural component subject to fatigue deterioration, demonstrating the capability of state-of-the-art point-based POMDP solvers for solving the underlying planning optimization problem. Within the numerical experiments, POMDP and heuristic-based policies are thoroughly compared, and results showcase that POMDPs achieve substantially lower costs as compared to their counterparts, even for traditional problem settings.
Propagation of Light in Photonic Crystal Fibre Devices
Creators: name: Dabirian, Ali
name: Akbari, Mahmood
name: Mortensen, Niels Asger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a semi-analytical approach for three-dimensional analysis of photonic crystal fibre devices. The approach relies on modal transmission-line theory. We offer two examples illustrating the utilization of this approach in photonic crystal fibres: the verification of the coupling action in a photonic crystal fibre coupler and the modal reflectivity in a photonic crystal fibre distributed Bragg reflector.
description: 15 pages including 7 figures. Accepted for J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt