cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effect of Planting Density, Fertilizer Level, and Number of Seedlings per Hole on Yield of Coix Lachryrma-jobi L.
Creators: name: SONG, Zhiqin
name: AO, Maohong
name: SHEN, Gang
name: LIU, Pengfei
name: SONG, Zhiqin
name: AO, Maohong
name: SHEN, Gang
name: LIU, Pengfei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Coix Lachryrma-jobi L.
subject: Orthogonal design
subject: Planting density
subject: Fertilizer level
subject: Number of seedlings per hole

description: In order to study high yield cultivation technology for Coix Lachryrma-jobi L., and discuss the effect of planting density, fertilizer level, and number of seedlings per hole on yield of Coix Lachryrma-jobi L., this paper took domesticated variety Xingren Small White Shell of Coix Lachryrma-jobi L. as an example. Using L9(34) orthogonal design, it selected optimum combination of planting density, fertilizer level, and number of seedlings per hole to guide planting of Coix Lachryrma-jobi L.. Experiment indicated that the optimum planting density (spacing in the rows and spacing between rows) of Coix Lachryrma-jobi L. is 40 cm x 80 cm; the optimum fertilizer level is pure nitrogen 15 kg, pure phosphorus 15 kg and pure potassium 15 kg per mu; the optimum number of seedlings per hole is 5 seedlings per hole. Through variance analysis, it indicated that planting density exerts significance effect on the yield of Coix Lachryrma-jobi L.
The Spiral Structure of the Milky Way, Cosmic Rays, and Ice Age Epochs on Earth
Creators: name: Shaviv, Nir J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The short term variability of the Galactic cosmic ray flux (CRF) reaching Earth has been previously associated with variations in the global low altitude cloud cover. This CRF variability arises from changes in the solar wind strength. However, cosmic ray variability also arises intrinsically from variable activity of and motion through the Milky Way. Thus, if indeed the CRF climate connection is real, the increased CRF witnessed while crossing the spiral arms could be responsible for a larger global cloud cover and a reduced temperature, thereby facilitating the occurrences of ice ages. This picture has been recently shown to be supported by various data (Shaviv, 2001). In particular, the variable CRF recorded in Iron meteorites appears to vary synchronously with the appearance ice ages. Here we expand upon the original treatment with a more thorough analysis and more supporting evidence. In particular, we discuss the cosmic ray diffusion model which considers the motion of the Galactic spiral arms. We also elaborate on the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way's spiral arms. In particular, we bring forth new argumentation using HI observations which imply that the galactic spiral arm pattern speed appears to be that which fits the glaciation period and the cosmic-ray flux record extracted from Iron meteorites. In addition, we show that apparent peaks in the star formation rate history, as deduced by several authors, coincides with particularly icy epochs, while the long period of 1 to 2 Gyr before present, during which no glaciations are known to have occurred, coincides with a significant paucity in the past star formation rate.
description: 33 pages, 11 figures. To Appear in New Astronomy
Prospects for testing the inverse-square law and gravitomagnetism using quantum interference
Creators: name: Hammad, Fayçal
name: Landry, Alexandre
name: Mathieu, Kaleb
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine a simple tabletop experimental setup for probing the inverse-square law of gravity and detecting eventual deviations therefrom. The nature of the setup allows indeed to effectively reach for shorter distances compared to what is allowed by other methods. Furthermore, we show that the same setup could also in principle be used to probe the interaction between gravitomagnetism and the intrinsic angular spin of quantum particles. Moreover, we show that the setup allows to have a gravitationally induced harmonic oscillator, introducing thus the possibility of studying in a novel way the interaction between gravity and quantum particles.
description: 44 pages, 1 figure. Matches the accepted version in Int.J.Mod.Phys.D
Analysis on Nutritional and Functional Components of Different Pueraria lobata Roots
Creators: name: WU, Jinping
name: GUO, Fengling
name: SHAO, Xianqiang
name: HU, Yan
name: ZHAO, Jianjun
name: QIU, Zhengming
name: WU, Jinping
name: GUO, Fengling
name: SHAO, Xianqiang
name: HU, Yan
name: ZHAO, Jianjun
name: QIU, Zhengming
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Pueraria lobata roots
subject: Nutritional components
subject: Functional components
subject: Analysis

description: This paper made analysis and evaluation of nutritional components and functional components of different Pueraria lobata roots. Nutritional components mainly include water, ash content, fat, reducing sugar, starch and cellulose; functional components mainly include flavone and polyphenol. Pueraria lobata root No. 1 has highest ash content, flavone, and polyphenol but lowest fat, so it is suitable for using as medical Pueraria lobata root resource. Pueraria lobata root No. 5 has starch content as high as 64.43%, and is recommended using as vegetable and processing into Pueraria lobata powder. Pueraria lobata root No. 5 has cellulose content as high as 17.79% and is recommended processing into Pueraria lobata tablets. Through comparison of nutritional and functional components of different Pueraria lobata roots, it is intended to provide reference for variety selection, breeding, production and processing of Pueraria lobata roots.
Hydrodynamics for a granular binary mixture at low density
Creators: name: Garzó, Vicente
name: Dufty, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hydrodynamic equations for a binary mixture of inelastic hard spheres are derived from the Boltzmann kinetic theory. A normal solution is obtained via the Chapman-Enskog method for states near the local homogeneous cooling state. The mass, heat, and momentum fluxes are determined to first order in the spatial gradients of the hydrodynamic fields, and the associated transport coefficients are identified. In the same way as for binary mixtures with elastic collisions, these coefficients are determined from a set of coupled linear integral equations. Practical evaluation is possible using a Sonine polynomial approximation, and is illustrated here by explicit calculation of the relevant transport coefficients: the mutual diffusion, the pressure diffusion, the thermal diffusion, the shear viscosity, the Dufour coefficient, the thermal conductivity, and the pressure energy coefficient. All these coefficients are given in terms of the restitution coefficients and the ratios of mass, concentration, and particle sizes. Interesting and new effects arise from the fact that the reference states for the two components have different partial temperatures, leading to additional dependencies of the transport coefficients on the concentration. The results hold for arbitrary degree of inelasticity and are not limited to specific values of the parameters of the mixture. Applications of this theory will be discussed in subsequent papers.
description: to be published in Physics of Fluids
Additional file 1: of Characterisation of three novel α-L-arabinofuranosidases from a compost metagenome
Creators: name: Fortune, Brent
name: Sizwe Mhlongo
name: Zyl, Leonardo
name: Huddy, Robert
name: Smart, Mariette
name: Trindade, Marla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Figure S1. Thermostability profiles for the purified AFase H4 (A), E3 (B) and D3 (C) at 25 (✚), 40 (▲), 50 (♦), 60 (■), 70 (╳) and 80 °C (●). Data represents the average of three replicates ± standard error (n = 3). (DOCX 30 kb)
The Agonistic Poetics of Dāsya - bhāva: the Soteriological Confrontation Between Deity and Devotee
Creators: name: Barua, Ankur
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Original Article
Bhakti
Tulsīdās
Sūrdās
Mādhavadeva

description: Funder: University of Cambridge
description: Abstract: The devotional literatures across the Hindu bhakti traditions of medieval India are shaped by distinctive styles of affective responses to the divine reality. A theme which recurs in several layers of their songs is a theological dialectic between divine majesty and divine accessibility; the divine is not only simply transcendent in the sense of being a distant deity but is also immanently present in and through a range of human sensitivities, emotions, and affectivities. We will highlight the dialectic in the devotional songs of three medieval figures, Tulsīdās (c. 1600), Sūrdās (c. 1600), and Mādhavadeva (1489–1596), which are structured primarily by the devotional attitude of a servant (dāsa) towards the Lord. As we will see, this theological servitude is not to be understood as a form of abject servility, for the three poets, in their somewhat distinctive ways, can not only speak of the Lord as a friend and as a lover, but can even level various kinds of complaints, challenges, and accusations at the Lord. Thus, if the Lord’s transcendental sovereignty is emphasised by the devotee through the modes of self-censure, the Lord’s immanent availability is also highlighted through the protests that the devotee fervently makes to the seemingly uncaring Lord.
Spirobranchus polytrema
Creators: name: Ben-Eliahu, M. Nechama
name: Ten Hove, Harry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Serpulidae
Spirobranchus
Spirobranchus polytrema

description: Spirobranchus polytrema (Philippi, 1844)
 Type locality. Mediterranean Sea, Italy. Not present in the Suez Canal, but see Spirobranchus tetraceros .
description: Published as part of Ben-Eliahu, M. Nechama & Ten Hove, Harry A., 2011, Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Suez Canal- From a Lessepsian Migration Perspective (a Monograph) 2848, pp. 1-147 in Zootaxa 2848 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2848.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5287534
Predicting materials properties without crystal structure: deep representation learning from stoichiometry
Creators: name: Goodall, Rhys E. A.
name: Lee, Alpha A.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/639/638/563/983
/639/301
/639/301/1034/1037
article

description: Abstract: Machine learning has the potential to accelerate materials discovery by accurately predicting materials properties at a low computational cost. However, the model inputs remain a key stumbling block. Current methods typically use descriptors constructed from knowledge of either the full crystal structure — therefore only applicable to materials with already characterised structures — or structure-agnostic fixed-length representations hand-engineered from the stoichiometry. We develop a machine learning approach that takes only the stoichiometry as input and automatically learns appropriate and systematically improvable descriptors from data. Our key insight is to treat the stoichiometric formula as a dense weighted graph between elements. Compared to the state of the art for structure-agnostic methods, our approach achieves lower errors with less data.
Solar Fast Drifting Radio Bursts in an X1.3 Flare on 2014 April 25
Creators: name: Tan, Baolin
name: Chen, Nai-hwa
name: Yang, Ya-hui
name: Tan, Chengming
name: Masuda, Satoshi
name: Chen, Xingyao
name: Misawa, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most important products of solar flares are nonthermal energetic particles which may carry up to 50\% energy releasing in the flaring processes. In radio observations, nonthermal particles generally manifest as spectral fine structures with fast frequency drifting rates, named as solar fast drifting radio bursts (FDRBs). This work demonstrated three types of FDRBs, including type III pair bursts, narrow band stochastic spike bursts following the type III bursts and spike-like bursts superimposed on type II burst in an X1.3 flare on 2014 April 25. We find that although all of them have fast frequency drifting rates, but they are intrinsically different from each other in frequency bandwidth, drifting rate and the statistical distributions. We suggest that they are possibly generated from different accelerating mechanisms. The type III pair bursts may be triggered by high-energy electron beams accelerated by the flaring magnetic reconnection, spike bursts are produced by the energetic electrons accelerated by a termination shock wave triggered by the fast reconnecting plasma outflows impacting on the flaring looptop, and spike-like bursts are possibly generated by the nonthermal electrons accelerated by moving magnetic reconnection triggered by the interaction between CME and the background magnetized plasma. These results may help us to understand the generation mechanism of nonthermal particles and energy release in solar flares.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, and 1 table, accepeted by ApJ
Additional file 2: of Characterisation of three novel α-L-arabinofuranosidases from a compost metagenome
Creators: name: Fortune, Brent
name: Sizwe Mhlongo
name: Zyl, Leonardo
name: Huddy, Robert
name: Smart, Mariette
name: Trindade, Marla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Figure S2. Substrate range of AFases measured on pNP linked glycosides. A) H4, B) E3 and C) D3. Data represents the average of three replicates ± standard error (n = 3). (DOCX 46 kb)
Calculations of the Local Density of States for some Simple Systems
Creators: name: Losev, A.
name: Vlaev, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recently proposed convolution technique for the calculation of local density of states is described more thouroughly and new results of its application are presented. For separable systems the exposed method allows to construct the ldos for a higher dimensionality out of lower dimensional parts. Some practical and theoretical aspects of this approach are also discussed.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Reform of China’s Food Security Policies: Central Government Decentralizing Autonomous Management Right
Creators: name: LI, Ming
name: LI, Ming
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food security
subject: State subsidies
subject: Depredating
subject: Security system
subject: Economic benefits

description: Guaranteeing the food security is a fundamental state policy of China. Food security needs overall planning of central government, economic benefit allocation of local government, and increase of grain farmers’ income. Through analysis on current situations and causes of China’s food security, and comparative study on purposes and functions of foreign and domestic grain reserves, it came up with recommendations that central government should decentralize rights of grain production, reserve, sales, and management to grain producing areas and major sales provinces. It is not appropriate for central enterprises to take charge of national food security reserves. And it is required to make a new round of reform in autonomous management right of major grain producing areas and the capacity of the state purchasing social grain reserves.
Dynamical Susceptibility in KDP-type Crysals above and below Tc II
Creators: name: Yoshida, S.
name: Ihara, N.
name: Wada, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The path probability method (PPM) in the tetrahedron-cactus approximation is applied to the Slater-Takagi model with dipole-dipole interaction for KH2PO4-type hydrogen-bonded ferroelectric crystals in order to derive a small dip structure in the real part of dynamical susceptibility observed at the transition temperature Tc. The dip structure can be ascribed to finite relaxation times of electric dipole moments responsible for the first order transition with contrast to the critical slowing down in the second order transition. The light scattering intensity which is related to the imaginary part of dynamical susceptibility is also calculated above and below the transition temperature and the obtained central peak structure is consistent with polarization fluctuation modes in Raman scattering experiments.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures
Matching Efficiency Results of Organic Farms
Creators: name: Kantelhardt, Jochen
name: Kirchweger, Stefan
name: Kantelhardt, Jochen
name: Kirchweger, Stefan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Dairy Farming
subject: Farm Competitiveness
subject: Low-input farming
subject: Cluster Analysis
subject: Matching Method

description: Organic farms work under very heterogeneous natural-site and socio-economic conditions. This heterogeneity is of clear relevance for economic efficiency and for the decision of farms to convert to organic farming. In order to produce proper results efficiency analysis must consider such heterogeneity and self-selection aspects. This applies in particular to data envelopment analysis, since this technique does not calculate error terms, but include heterogeneity into efficiency results. One way to control for such effects is matching. Matching is based on the assumption that under a given vector of observable variables, the outcome of one individual is independent of the adoption of a specific treatment. In our paper we present how to implement matching into efficiency analysis of organic farms. We give a brief overview on literature applying this technique and we discuss which insights the application of matching might contribute to the current discussion on organic farming.
TripleNet: Triple Attention Network for Multi-Turn Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots
Creators: name: Ma, Wentao
name: Cui, Yiming
name: Shao, Nan
name: He, Su
name: Zhang, Wei-Nan
name: Liu, Ting
name: Wang, Shijin
name: Hu, Guoping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the importance of different utterances in the context for selecting the response usually depends on the current query. In this paper, we propose the model TripleNet to fully model the task with the triple instead of in previous works. The heart of TripleNet is a novel attention mechanism named triple attention to model the relationships within the triple at four levels. The new mechanism updates the representation for each element based on the attention with the other two concurrently and symmetrically. We match the triple centered on the response from char to context level for prediction. Experimental results on two large-scale multi-turn response selection datasets show that the proposed model can significantly outperform the state-of-the-art methods. TripleNet source code is available at https://github.com/wtma/TripleNet
description: 10 pages, accepted as a conference paper at CoNLL 2019
Efficiency analysis of organic farming systems- a review of methods, topics, results, and conclusions
Creators: name: Lakner, Sebastian
name: Breustedt, Gunnar
name: Lakner, Sebastian
name: Breustedt, Gunnar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Organic Farming
subject: Technical Efficiency
subject: Environmental Efficiency
subject: Productivity
subject: Farming Systems
subject: Subsidies

description: The article summarizes the literature on efficiency and productivity of organic farming. A short overview on theories and models is provided. We can distinguish between studies that concentrate of specific problems of the organic sector and studies that aim to compare conventional and organic farming systems. Sample selection is a major challenge for comparisons between organic and conventional farms, since the organic farms have a different farm-structure and are often represented by a relatively small number of observations. We find that conversion to organic farming is influenced by inefficiency. In three of four studies, organic farms have a lower productivity than conventional farms. Studies on environmental efficiency document that organic farming show a higher degree of efficiency if environmental variables (such as landscape elements and diversity in the croprotation) are taken into account. The impact of subsidies on farm efficiency is often found to be negative.
Bound States in One-Dimensional Quantum N-Body Systems with Inverse Square Interaction
Creators: name: Basu-Mallick, B.
name: Gupta, Kumar S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the existence of bound states in a one-dimensional quantum system of $N$ identical particles interacting with each other through an inverse square potential. This system is equivalent to the Calogero model without the confining term. The effective Hamiltonian of this system in the radial direction admits a one-parameter family of self-adjoint extensions and the negative energy bound states occur when most general boundary conditions are considered. We find that these bound states exist only when $N=3,4$ and for certain values of the system parameters. The effective Hamiltonian for the system is related to the Virasoro algebra and the bound state wavefunctions exhibit a scaling behaviour in the limit of small inter-particle separation.
description: 10 pages, Latex file, Minor typos corrected, Added one reference
The Evolution of Global Farming Land: Facts and Interpretations
Creators: name: Headey, Derek
name: Headey, Derek
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Farm land
subject: land use
subject: agricultural development

description: Although land plays a crucially important role in economic development and structural transformation, the causes and consequences of the evolution of farming land have only been paid scant attention in recent decades. In this paper I document changes in the extent of global farming land and in average farm sizes. I show that the spatial distribution of global farming land has changed dramatically, with developed countries substantially reducing their share and landabundant developing countries substantially increasing their share. In per capita terms we see a rather different pattern, with average farm sizes increasing rich and more commercialized agricultural systems, and generally declining or staying constant in poorer and less commercialized systems. These outcomes are the result of complex processes that are not always well understood. I conclude the paper by suggesting new, or neglected, areas of research that would help us better understand these critically important developments.
Additional file 1: of Improving nutrition and physical activity environments of family child care homes: the rationale, design and study protocol of the ‘Healthy Start/Comienzos Sanos’ cluster randomized trial
Creators: name: Risica, Patricia
name: Tovar, Alison
name: Palomo, Vanessa
name: Dionne, Laura
name: Noereem Mena
name: Magid, Kate
name: Ward, Diane
name: Gans, Kim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: “Example of a tailored feedback page”. This is an example of the tailored feedback page given to participants during the Healthy Start/Comienzos Sanos study. (DOCX 70 kb)
Africa's Changing Farmland Ownership: The Rise of the Emergent Investor Farmer
Creators: name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Chamberlin, Jordan
name: Traub, Lulama
name: Sitko, N.
name: Muyanga, Milu
name: Yeboah, Felix
name: Nkonde, Chewe
name: Anseeuw, Ward
name: Chapoto, Anthony
name: Kachule, Richard
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Chamberlin, Jordan
name: Traub, Lulama
name: Sitko, N.
name: Muyanga, Milu
name: Yeboah, Felix
name: Nkonde, Chewe
name: Anseeuw, Ward
name: Chapoto, Anthony
name: Kachule, Richard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: International Development
Land Economics/Use

description: Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing major changes in farm land ownership and use, which are both cause and consequence of the economic transformations that the region is now experiencing. The rapid rise of emergent investor farms in the 5 to 100 hectare category represents a revolutionary change in Africa’s farm structure since 2000. In most countries examined, the majority of medium-scale farms are owned by urban-based professionals or rural elites, many of whom are also public sector employees. About half of these farmers obtained their land later in life, financed by non-farm income. The rise of investor farmers is affecting the region in diverse ways that are difficult to generalize. Many investor farms are a source of dynamism, technical change and commercialization of African agriculture. In densely populated areas, however, the growth of investor farms may be displacing the potential for agricultural land expansion of small-scale farming communities. Investor farmers tend to dominate farm lobby groups and influence agricultural policies and the allocation of public expenditures to agriculture in their favor. Nationally representative Demographic and Health Survey data from six countries (Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia) show a sharp rise in urban-based households engaged in agriculture, with about 10% of urban households owning 10% to 35% of total agricultural land. Urban households account for a disproportionately large share of national farm holdings over 20 hectares. This suggests a new and hitherto unrecognized channel by which investor farmers may be shifting the strength and location of agricultural growth multipliers between rural and urban areas.
Institutional Innovation and Policy Support to Facilitate Small-Scale Farming Transformation in China
Creators: name: Huang, Jikun
name: Ding, Jiping
name: Huang, Jikun
name: Ding, Jiping
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Farm Management
International Development

description: While Asian food economy has been experiencing significant transitions, little transformation occurs in farm land operation. However, recent rapid emergence of middle and large farms in many regions of China is striking. Overall goal of this paper is to understand small-scale farm transformation in China based on a unique dataset surveyed in Northeast and North China. The results show that the institutional innovation through establishing land transfer service center to activate land rental market, supporting policies to incentivize and speed up land consolidation, and farm mechanization services are major driving forces in recent evolution of China’s farm operations. The paper concludes with policy implications on small-scale farming transformation in China and the rest of world and identifies remaining research issues for further study.
Beef Cattle in the MERCOSUR bloc: Integrated or Separate Markets?
Creators: name: Lanfranco, Bruno A.
name: Ferraro, Bruno
name: Rostan, Francisco
name: Lanfranco, Bruno A.
name: Ferraro, Bruno
name: Rostan, Francisco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: cattle prices
subject: law of one price
subject: market integration
subject: fractional cointegration

description: This aim of this paper was to provide empirical evidence of market integration in the beef cattle industry of the MERCOSUR economic bloc. This region possesses the largest commerical bovine herd in the world and explains one quarter of the international trade for beef. The study included size relevant cattle markets located in the four original members of the bloc. The analysis was conducted using a fractional cointegration approach proposed Marinucci and Robinson (2001). The fractional integration parameters and the error term of the cointegration equations were computer using a semi-parametric approach developed by Geweke and Porter-Hudak (1983). The null hypothesis of 'separate markets' could not be rejected even when the general bahavior of the series under analysis encouraged the idea of some market integration. Despite the common trends, their response to specific shocks was dissimilar and, most importantly, the reversion of the disturbed series to equilibrium was always slow.
The State Be7 in the Core of the Sun and the Solar Neutrino Flux
Creators: name: Shaviv, N. J.
name: Shaviv, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exact ionization state of Be7 in the solar core is crucial for the precise prediction of the solar B8 neutrino flux. We therefore examine the effect of pressure ionization on the ionization state of Be7 and all elements with 12 >= Z >= 4. We show that under the conditions prevailing in the solar core, one has to consider the effect of the nearest neighbor on the electronic structure of a given ion. To this goal, we first solve the Schroedinger and then the Kohn-Sham equations for an ion immersed in a dense plasma under conditions for which the mean interparticle distance is smaller than the Debye radius. The question of which boundary conditions should be imposed on the wave function is discussed, examined and found to be crucial. Contrary to previous estimates showing that Beryllium is partially ionized, we find that it is fully ionized. As a consequence, the predicted rate of the Be7 + e- reaction is reduced by 20-30%, depending on the exact solar model. Since Be7 is a trace element, its total production is controlled by the unchanged He4+He3 reaction rate, and its destruction is determined by the rate of electron capture. As the latter rate decreases when the Beryllium is fully ionized (relative to the case of partially ionized Be), the estimate for the abundance of Be7 increases and with it the B8 neutrino flux. The increase in phi_nu(B8) is by about 20-30%. The neutrino flux due to Be7 electron capture remains effectively unchanged because the change in the rate is compensated for by a change in the abundance. Hence the prediction for the ratio of phi_nu(B8) / phi_nu(Be7) changes as well.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Patterns of Etruscan Urbanism
Creators: name: Stoddart, Simon
name: Palmisano, Alessio
name: Redhouse, David
name: Barker, Graeme
name: Di Paola, Giorgia
name: Motta, Laura
name: Rasmussen, Tom
name: Samuels, Troy
name: Witcher, Robert
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Digital Humanities
urban—rural
urban development
Etruria
Mediterranean
city

description: This paper examines the patterns of Etruscan urbanism by the innovative use of newly available rural data, employing rank size, and indices of centralization. The detailed case study looks at the development of urbanism of pre-Roman Etruria where both robust and delicate urbanism were present alongside one another. To achieve this end, the paper will draw on the complementary features of two recent articles—Redhouse and Stoddart (2011) and Palmisano et al. (2018)—to provide a synthesis that both examines the large places and the supporting rural settlement. The territorial boundaries of the major urban places were predicted by the XTENT model in the first article. The cumulative numbers of rural settlement (and other proxies of population) over time were examined in the second article. This paper will look at the regional variation in landscape organization within the predicted territorial boundaries of the major robust centres and the more delicate transitory centres, as well as the buffer zones in between. At least three phases of boundary development can be examined, equivalent broadly to the Iron Age, Orientalizing/Archaic and Post Archaic periods, seeking to match these with the correspondingly dated rural settlement. The results will be critically examined in terms of broader knowledge of the economic and political development from current fieldwork in Etruria. The ethnographic analysis of Kopytoff (1989) will also be applied to assess the application of the internal African frontier to the central Italian context. In this way, the quantitative will be matched with the qualitative to provide a deeper understanding of urban development in an under-assessed example within the Mediterranean world.
Landau parameters of nuclear matter in the spin and spin-isospin channels
Creators: name: Lombardo, U.
name: Shen, Caiwan
name: Zuo, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equation of state of spin and isospin polarized nuclear matter is determined in the framework of the Brueckner theory including three-body forces. The Landau parameters in the spin and spin-isospin sectors are derived as a function of the baryonic density. The results are compared with the Gamow-Teller collective modes. The relevance of $G_0$ and $G_0'$ for neutron stars is shortly discussed, including the magnetic susceptibility and the neutron star cooling.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, RevTex4 format
Allocladius Kieffer
Creators: name: Ferrington Jr, Leonard C.
name: Saether, Ole A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Allocladius

description: Key to known pupae of Allocladius Kieffer
 1. Tergal conjunctive II/III with 45–70 spinules.......................................... A. longicrus (Kieffer) (p. 84)
– Tergal conjunctive II/III bare or with less than 20 spinules.......................................................... 2
 2. Tergal conjunctive VII/VIII of female with 7–63 spinules, parthenogenetic................. A. arenarius (Strenzke) (p. 72)
– Tergal conjunctive VII/VIII of female with 0–3 spinules, in male with 40–50 spinules.............................. 3
 3. Sternal conjunctives III/IV and VIII/IX bare in male..................... Allocladius sp. " Chile " (? bilobulatus) (p. 101)
 – Sternal conjunctives III/IV with 4–33 spinules, VIII/IX with 40–50 spinules in male................................. 4 4. Genital sac of both sexes not ending in distinct papilla............................... A. bothnicus (Tuiskunen) (p. 93)
– Genital sac of both sexes ending in papilla.................................................................. 5
 5. Genital sac of both sexes ending in papilla which is nearly twice as long as wide (Andersen et al. 2010, figs 36, 37); sternal conjunctive VI/VII with 115–200 spinules, VII/VIII with 110–119 spinules............... A. neobilobulatus (Paggi) (p. 96)
 – Genital sac of both sexes ending in papilla which is at most as long as wide (Fig. 25 A–D); sternal conjunctive VI/VII with 86– 107 spinules, VII/VIII with 50–103 spinules............................................ A. nanseni (Kieffer) (p. 66)
description: Published as part of Ferrington Jr, Leonard C. & Saether, Ole A., 2011, A revision of the genera Pseudosmittia Edwards, 1932, Allocladius Kieffer, 1913, and Hydrosmittia gen. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) 2849, pp. 1-314 in Zootaxa 2849 (1) on pages 49-50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2849.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5288200
Cost-effectiveness of Alternative Payment and Auction Designs for Biodiversity Conservation in Agriculture
Creators: name: Lankoski, Jussi
name: Lankoski, Jussi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: conservation auction
subject: uniform payment
subject: differentiated payment
subject: policy-related transaction costs
subject: targeting

description: Empirical evidence shows that biodiversity conservation policies implemented in agriculture sector in many OECD countries have not been environmentally effective nor cost-effective. There are several new policy mechanisms available to improve both environmental effectiveness and the cost-effectiveness, including spatially differentiated payments and conservation auctions. In this paper a theoretical framework is developed for describing farmers’ participation in government payment programme for enhancing semi-natural wildlife habitats on farmland. Payment types analysed include uniform payment, three types of conservation auctions with environmental targeting, uniform payment with environmental targeting and two types of differentiated payments with environmental targeting. Quantitative results show that uniform payment performs less efficiently than other payment types, and that auctions with environmental targeting are the most cost-effective option from analysed payment types. Adding environmental targeting to the uniform payment policy greatly improves the cost-effectiveness of uniform payment. Key
Additional file 1: of Association between prediagnostic leukocyte telomere length and breast cancer risk: the Singapore Chinese Health Study
Creators: name: Samavat, Hamed
name: Xiaoshuang Xun
name: Aizhen Jin
name: Renwei Wang
name: Woon-Puay Koh
name: Yuan, Jian-Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Tables S1. Distributions of participantsâ characteristics for women who donated blood samples for telomere length measurement and women who did not provide blood samples for telomere length measurement, the Singapore Chinese Health Study. Table S2. Associations between relative telomere length and risk of breast cancer stratified by length of follow-up, Singapore Chinese Health Study. (DOCX 21 kb)
Mesoscopic non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach to the dynamics of polymers
Creators: name: Rubi, J. M.
name: Perez-Madrid, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a general formalism able to derive the kinetic equations of polymer dynamics. It is based on the application of nonequilibrium thermodynamics to analyze the irreversible processes taking place in the conformational space of the macromolecules. The Smoluchowski equation results from the analysis of the underlying diffusion process in that space within the scheme of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. We apply the method to different situations, concerning flexible, semiflexible and rod-like polymers and to the case of more concentrated solutions in which interactions become important.
description: 13 pages (RevTex). To be published in Physica A
The Radius-Luminosity Relationship Depends on Optical Spectra in Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Du, Pu
name: Wang, Jian-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radius-luminosity (R-L) relationship of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) established by the reverberation mapping (RM) observations has been widely used as a single-epoch black hole mass estimator in the research of large AGN samples. However, the recent RM campaigns discovered that the AGNs with high accretion rates show shorter time lags by factors of a few comparing with the predictions from the R-L relationship. The explanation of the shortened time lags has not been finalized yet. We collect 8 different single-epoch spectral properties to investigate how the shortening of the time lags correlate with those properties and to understand what is the origin of the shortened lags. We find that the flux ratio between Fe II and H$β$ emission lines shows the most prominent correlation, thus confirm that accretion rate is the main driver for the shortened lags. In addition, we establish a new scaling relation including the relative strength of Fe II emission. This new scaling relation can provide less biased estimates of the black hole mass and accretion rate from the single-epoch spectra of AGNs.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Are Women Less Productive Farmers? How Markets and Risk Affect Fertilizer Use, Productivity, and Measured Gender Effects in Uganda
Creators: name: Larson, Donald
name: Savastano, Sara
name: Murray, Siobhan
name: Palacios-Lopez, Amparo
name: Larson, Donald
name: Savastano, Sara
name: Murray, Siobhan
name: Palacios-Lopez, Amparo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Smallholder farmers
subject: productivity
subject: gender
subject: maize
subject: Uganda

description: African governments and international development groups see boosting productivity on smallholder farms as key to reducing rural poverty and safeguarding the food security of farming and non-farming households. Prompting smallholder farmers to use more fertilizer has been a key tactic. Closing the productivity gap between male and female farmers has been another avenue toward achieving the same goal. The results in this paper suggest the two are related. Fertilizer use and maize yields among smallholder farmers in Uganda are increased by improved access to markets and extension services, and reduced by ex ante risk-mitigating production decisions. Standard ordinary least squares regression results indicate that gender matters as well; however, the measured productivity gap between male and female farmers disappears when gender is included in a list of determinants meant to capture the indirect effects of market and extension access.
Allocladius Kieffer
Creators: name: Ferrington Jr, Leonard C.
name: Saether, Ole A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Allocladius

description: Key to known larvae of Allocladius Kieffer
 1. Mandible with 3 inner teeth, mentum with 4 lateral teeth.............................. A. bothnicus (Tuiskunen) (p. 93)
– Mandible with 4 inner teeth, mentum with 4–5 lateral teeth......................................................... 2
 2. Mentum with 4 lateral teeth.................................................. Allocladius sp. Falkland Islands (p.102)
– Mentum with 5 lateral teeth.................................................................................. 3
 3. Posterior parapods each with 11 claws................................................. A. nanseni (Kieffer) (p. 66)
 – Posterior parapods each with 7–8 claws................................................ A. arenarius (Strenzke) (p. 72)
description: Published as part of Ferrington Jr, Leonard C. & Saether, Ole A., 2011, A revision of the genera Pseudosmittia Edwards, 1932, Allocladius Kieffer, 1913, and Hydrosmittia gen. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) 2849, pp. 1-314 in Zootaxa 2849 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2849.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5288200
Duration of obesity exposure between ages 10 and 40 years and its relationship with cardiometabolic disease risk factors: A cohort study
Creators: name: Norris, Tom
name: Cole, Tim J.
name: Bann, David
name: Hamer, Mark
name: Hardy, Rebecca
name: Li, Leah
name: Ong, Ken K.
name: Ploubidis, George B.
name: Viner, Russell
name: Johnson, William
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research Article
subject: Biology and life sciences
subject: Medicine and health sciences
subject: Social sciences
subject: FOS: Social sciences

description: Background: Individuals with obesity do not represent a homogeneous group in terms of cardiometabolic risk. Using 3 nationally representative British birth cohorts, we investigated whether the duration of obesity was related to heterogeneity in cardiometabolic risk. Methods and findings: We used harmonised body mass index (BMI) and cardiometabolic disease risk factor data from 20,746 participants (49.1% male and 97.2% white British) enrolled in 3 British birth cohort studies: the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD), the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS), and the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70). Within each cohort, individual life course BMI trajectories were created between 10 and 40 years of age, and from these, age of obesity onset, duration spent obese (range 0 to 30 years), and cumulative obesity severity were derived. Obesity duration was examined in relation to a number of cardiometabolic disease risk factors collected in mid-adulthood: systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c). A greater obesity duration was associated with worse values for all cardiometabolic disease risk factors. The strongest association with obesity duration was for HbA1c: HbA1c levels in those with obesity for <5 years were relatively higher by 5% (95% CI: 4, 6), compared with never obese, increasing to 20% (95% CI: 17, 23) higher in those with obesity for 20 to 30 years. When adjustment was made for obesity severity, the association with obesity duration was largely attenuated for SBP, DBP, and HDL-C. For HbA1c, however, the association with obesity duration persisted, independent of obesity severity. Due to pooling of 3 cohorts and thus the availability of only a limited number harmonised variables across cohorts, our models included adjustment for only a small number of potential confounding variables, meaning there is a possibility of residual confounding. Conclusions: Given that the obesity epidemic is characterised by a much earlier onset of obesity and consequently a greater lifetime exposure, our findings suggest that health policy recommendations aimed at preventing early obesity onset, and therefore reducing lifetime exposure, may help reduce the risk of diabetes, independently of obesity severity. However, to test the robustness of our observed associations, triangulation of evidence from different epidemiological approaches (e.g., mendelian randomization and negative control studies) should be obtained.
ReFreeDrive - Deliverable 6.5: Induction Machine with Die-Casted Copper Rotor for 200kW of operation (Executive Summary only)
Creators: name: Vetuschi, Mario
name: Schmitz, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: die cast rotor
induction motor
high power
copper rotor

description: Executive Summary corresponding to the ReFreeDrive project deliverable D6.5: "Induction machine with die-casted copper rotor for 200 kW of operation"