cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
PR - Development Of A Benchmarking System For Irish Beef Farms Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Creators: name: Finneran, Eoghan
name: Crosson, Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: beef
subject: benchmarking
subject: comparative analysis

description: Agricultural extension trends have involved greater use of collaborative â€œdiscussion groupâ€ dissemination approaches. These discussion groups involve regular participatory meetings between a consistent cohort of farmers and extension practitioners with occasional input from industry and research stakeholders. In Ireland, policy change, small farm scale and low incomes are some of the factors incentivising beef farmers and industry to seek increased whole-farm income efficiency. Whole-farm comparative analysis may provide a means of identifying and explaining efficiency drivers at farm level. This article describes the development of BEEFMARK, a benchmarking model with potential to act as a tool to facilitate farmer-farmer and farmer-adviser group learning within discussion groups. BEEFMARK utilised Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure beef farm income and scale efficiency and to identify and characterise efficient peer farms which act as benchmarks for similarly structured, but lower efficiency farms. Market derived gross output (â‚¬) per livestock unit was positively associated with farm efficiency while greater overhead and concentrate feed expenditure was negatively associated with income and scale efficiency.
description: Nineteenth International Farm Management Congress, Warsaw, Poland, 2013
Flavour-dependent radiative correction to neutrino-neutrino refraction
Creators: name: Mirizzi, Alessandro
name: Pozzorini, Stefano
name: Raffelt, Georg G.
name: Serpico, Pasquale D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the Standard Model we calculate the flavour non-universal correction for neutrino refraction in a neutrino background and verify a similar previous result for the case of ordinary-matter background. The dominant term arises at loop level and involves tau leptons circulating in the loop. These O(G_F m_tau^2) corrections to the tree-level potential provide the dominant refractive difference between nu_mu and nu_tau unless the medium contains mu or tau leptons. Our results affect the flavour evolution of dense neutrino gases and may be of interest for collective three-flavour oscillations of supernova neutrinos. We spell out explicitly how these non-universal neutrino-neutrino interactions enter the flavour oscillation equations.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures; updated reference list
PR - Transforming Communities Through Agriculture: Demonstration Plot Seedcane Model Improves The Livelihoods Of Small-scale Sugarcane Growers
Creators: name: Gillespie, William A.
name: Mitchell, Felicity J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: extension
subject: rural development
subject: sugarcane small growers

description: The small-scale farms in the communal areas of Noodsberg mill supply area, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, were not productive for many reasons, including a lack of resources, knowledge and access to finance and high food insecurity. An innovative extension approach was required to uplift communities and ensure the success of agricultural projects at a small grower level. Thus the â€œDemonstration Plot Seedcane Modelâ€ was initiated and developed. The project was a multi-stakeholder, private-public approach which aimed to improve the agronomic knowledge and skills of small growers while raising awareness of the high potential of the areaâ€™s natural resources for sugarcane production. Through this extension methodology, growers could become aware of the value of scientific research for their livelihoods. Key agronomic skills and knowledge transfer would include understanding differences in varieties; the importance of soil sampling, approved, locally available seed cane and pest and disease monitoring. In addition, environmental sustainability and good farming practices form the basis of the extension and technology transfer activities and promotes improved farmer co-operation and community coherence. The â€œDemonstration Plot Seedcane Modelâ€ allows for highly scientific information to be transferred and adopted in an accessible manner. The project, spanning 11 years, has resulted in vastly improved yields, increased area under sugarcane and improved livelihoods in the community. The contribution to the local economy is significant as is the increased stability of sugarcane supply to the local mill. This has, in turn, created job opportunities and reduced poverty at both household and community level. The model is repeatable in other regions, can be extended to other commodities and results in improved skills adoption, income generation and job creation.
description: Nineteenth International Farm Management Congress, Warsaw, Poland, 2013
Factors affecting peer acceptance of children with disabilities in regular schools
Creators: name: Robinson, MJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: One of the major changes in education in recent decades has been the shift away from segregated school settings, to including children with disabilities in regular school settings. This process, variously known as mainstreaming, integration or inclusion, has been evident in the United States, Britain and Australia. This review addresses some of the social aspects of inclusion, notably peer acceptance of these children in regular settings and the factors that may contribute to the likelihood of acceptance. The major impetus for inclusion was the idea that children with disabilities would benefit socially from regular school settings. However, a large body of research definitively claims that children with disabilities, who are educated in regular settings, are less accepted by their non-disabled peers. Furthermore, numerous studies have revealed that certain factors appear to determine peer acceptance of children with disabilities: for example, individual characteristics of the child, peer perceptions, teacher perceptions attitude or style, and classroom environment. There has been no research to date that has considered the degree to which each factor contributes to peer acceptance. Nor has there been an attempt to relate theories of interpersonal attraction, social exchange and social identity to an understanding of peer acceptance for children with disabilities. In conclusion, future research ought to focus on the factor(s) that make the greatest contribution to peer acceptance for these children, and consider how theories may assist in understanding why children with disabilities are not well accepted by peers. In doing so, it is more likely that any practical interventions for these children will be appropriate and successful.
PR - Financial Measurements To Rank Farms In The Northern Cape, South Africa, Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Creators: name: Henning, J.I.F.
name: Strydom, D.B.
name: Willemse, B.J.
name: Matthews, N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: farm management
subject: Data Envelopment Analysis
subject: financial benchmarking

description: Producers use financial benchmarking in agriculture to compare financial performance across production years and to compare competitors in the industry. This study determined whether Data Envelopment Analysis could be used to divide farms in the Northern Cape (South Africa) into different performance groups using financial measurements. Three enterprise groups (crop, mixed, and livestock) were benchmarked using Data Envelopment Analysis and subsequently divided into efficient or inefficient groups according to operating efficiency. Efficient farms had an operating efficiency score of one and inefficient farms less than one. Results indicated that Data Envelopment Analysis could be applied to determine efficient and inefficient farms according to financial results. An alternative benchmarking tool to compare the operating efficiency of one farm relative to similar farms included in the data set was thus provided. It is recommended that the Data Envelopment Analysis benchmarking model be used in conjunction with other models or established norms to provide accurate information and a comprehensive overview of financial performance.
description: Nineteenth International Farm Management Congress, Warsaw, Poland, 2013
Statistical analysis of the Indus script using $n$-grams
Creators: name: Yadav, Nisha
name: Joglekar, Hrishikesh
name: Rao, Rajesh P. N.
name: Vahia, M. N.
name: Mahadevan, Iravatham
name: Adhikari, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Indus script is one of the major undeciphered scripts of the ancient world. The small size of the corpus, the absence of bilingual texts, and the lack of definite knowledge of the underlying language has frustrated efforts at decipherment since the discovery of the remains of the Indus civilisation. Recently, some researchers have questioned the premise that the Indus script encodes spoken language. Building on previous statistical approaches, we apply the tools of statistical language processing, specifically $n$-gram Markov chains, to analyse the Indus script for syntax. Our main results are that the script has well-defined signs which begin and end texts, that there is directionality and strong correlations in the sign order, and that there are groups of signs which appear to have identical syntactic function. All these require no {\it a priori} suppositions regarding the syntactic or semantic content of the signs, but follow directly from the statistical analysis. Using information theoretic measures, we find the information in the script to be intermediate between that of a completely random and a completely fixed ordering of signs. Our study reveals that the Indus script is a structured sign system showing features of a formal language, but, at present, cannot conclusively establish that it encodes {\it natural} language. Our $n$-gram Markov model is useful for predicting signs which are missing or illegible in a corpus of Indus texts. This work forms the basis for the development of a stochastic grammar which can be used to explore the syntax of the Indus script in greater detail.
Chemistry of tropospheric fallout and streamflow in a small mountainous water-shed near Vancouver, British Columbia
Creators: name: Zeman, Lubomir John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis describes the balance between ionic input in precipitation and output in streamflow from a small mountainous watershed, and deals with a detailed examination of ionic concentrations in bulk and wet fallout on a coastal site in the vicinity of Vancouver, British Columbia. The Jamieson Creek experimental watershed in the Greater Vancouver Water District was chosen as an example of a topographically well-defined watershed with relatively watertight bedrock and an undisturbed coniferous forest ecosystem. During the period of November 1970 to October 1971, weekly samples of precipitation and discharge water were analyzed for eleven ionic constituents. The ionic input-output budgets show that there were net losses of sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, bicarbonate, sulfate, chloride, silica and phosphate from the watershed in stream-flow. The exceptions were the nitrate and ammonium loads which showed net gains in the watershed. The tropospheric fallout provides most of the ionic loads of the following constituents of discharge water: nitrate, ammonium, sulfate and chloride. The terrestrial sources, however, are the major suppliers of silica, calcium, bicarbonate, magnesium and potassium. Phosphate and sodium are derived equally from tropospheric and terrestrial sources. Continuous daily sampling of bulk fallout and wet fallout was carried out on Point Grey, Vancouver, during the period of December 1971 to April 1972. Although the ionic concentrations in bulk fallout were consistently somewhat higher, the differences between ionic concentrations in bulk and wet fallout were not statistically significant. The relationships between concentrations and rainfall were significant for sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulfate, chloride, nitrate, silica and ammonium but there were no significant relationships between snowfall and the concentrations of any chemical constituent. Bicarbonate and phosphate do not show any significant relationship with either rain or snow. The bulk fallout on Point Grey was characterized by higher ratios of calcium and potassium to sodium and chloride, and by a lower ratio of chloride to sodium than is found in sea water. These deviations from sea water ratios are ascribed to the contribution of soil dust to the content of calcium, potassium and sodium in bulk fallout. Higher ratios of sulfate to sodium and chloride were observed in the Point Grey results and are ascribed to the influence of anthropogenic sources on the composition of bulk fallout. On the other hand, in bulk fallout on the Jamieson Creek watershed there was a lower deviation of ratios of sulfate to sodium or chloride from the sea water values, suggesting that anthropogenic sources are less influential in the watershed area. However, much higher ratios of calcium, magnesium and chloride to sodium were observed. These indicate that dry fallout contributes substantially to the composition of bulk fallout on the watershed.
Presidential power and democratization by elections in Africa
Creators: name: Morse, Yonatan L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Do elections in and of themselves provide mechanisms for democratization? The “democratization by elections” thesis has been challenged, yet scholars still differ over its substantive effect. Some of the disagreement is over the specific outcome of interest, with proponents advocating for a narrower definition of “democratization”. Others want to know more about the factors that condition how elections impact on democracy. This article addresses both points by demonstrating that in Africa the extent of formal presidential power significantly shapes the ability of repeated elections to socialize more broadly democratic behaviour in the form of greater civil and private liberties, more civil society participation, and wider egalitarianism. Using recently available data on African presidents and the democratic qualities of regimes, the article demonstrates the ongoing influence of presidential power in Africa and provides some previously unstudied constraints on the democratization by elections thesis.
The missing atom as a source of carbon magnetism
Creators: name: Ugeda, M. M.
name: Brihuega, I.
name: Guinea, F.
name: Gomez-Rodriguez, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomic vacancies have a strong impact in the mechanical, electronic and magnetic properties of graphene-like materials. By artificially generating isolated vacancies on a graphite surface and measuring their local density of states on the atomic scale, we have shown how single vacancies modify the electronic properties of this graphene-like system. Our scanning tunneling microscopy experiments, complemented by tight binding calculations, reveal the presence of a sharp electronic resonance at the Fermi energy around each single graphite vacancy, which can be associated with the formation of local magnetic moments and implies a dramatic reduction of the charge carriers' mobility. While vacancies in single layer graphene naturally lead to magnetic couplings of arbitrary sign, our results show the possibility of inducing a macroscopic ferrimagnetic state in multilayered graphene samples just by randomly removing single C atoms.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Additional file 2 of Chloroplast genome sequence of Chongming lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.) and comparative analyses with other legume chloroplast genomes
Creators: name: Tian, Shoubo
name: Lu, Panling
name: Zhang, Zhaohui
name: Wu, Jian Qiang
name: Zhang, Hui
name: Shen, Haibin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. The relative synonymous codon usage of the P. lunatus chloroplast genome.
PR - Policy Impact Analysis Of Penalty And Reward Scenarios To Promote Flower Strips Using A Business Simulation Game
Creators: name: Holst, Gesa S.
name: MuÃŸhoff, Oliver
name: DÃ¶Rschner, Till
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: policy impact analysis
subject: flower strips
subject: experimental economics

description: In Germany the cultivation of silage maize has risen due to the increasing number of biogas plants and the good qualities of maize as biogas substrate. But, various reasons speak for the limitation of maize. So the policy may be promoting alternative biogas substrates. A currently much discussed biogas substrate is the use of a special floral seed blend. A business simulation game is used to investigate whether the implementation of a reward and a penalty policy will improve the uptake of flower strips in the production program of farmers. The results indicate that the implementation of these policy measures have a promoting effect on the cultivation area of flower strips. The penalty policy leads to a stronger increase in the growing area of flower strips than the reward policy, although the policies have the same income effect.
description: Nineteenth International Farm Management Congress, Warsaw, Poland, 2013
PR - Are The Most Profitable Farms Consistently The Most Profitable
Creators: name: Ibendahl, Gregory
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: profitability
subject: ranking
subject: consistency

description: Every year, some farmers will do better than other farmers. Whether by luck, better management, more rainfall, a different enterprise mix, etc., a subset of farmers will be more profitable than another subset of farmers. However, over a period of years, is there consistency among the population of farmers for who is the most profitable. That is, are the most profitable farms in any given year also the most profitable farms over a long-term time horizon? This paper investigates a 15-year panel data set of similar farm from Kansas to determine if the most profitable farms are consistent across time. We accomplish this by ranking farms by decile each year and then averaging these yearly rankings. If luck and weather are the main drivers of differences in yearly net farm income, then over time a farmâ€™s yearly ranking would vary and the overall average ranking for that farm should approach 5.5. Conversely, if management is more of a factor determining differences in net farm income, then a farm should consistently place in the same decile ranking year in and year out. Thus the overall 15-year average rankings of farms should be very widely distributed. That is there would be no more farms ranked at the mean (5.5) than at the extremes. We find that both management and weather/luck contribute to overall profitability. Even though the bottom decile of farmers consistently have negative net farm income each year, the 15-year average of net farm income only has 4 percent of farms with a negative average.
description: Nineteenth International Farm Management Congress, Warsaw, Poland, 2013
Critical Behavior of Liquid 3He
Creators: name: Bordbar, G. H.
name: Zebarjad, S. M.
name: Shojaei, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the liquid-gas second-order phase transition in liquid $^3He$ using the variational calculations based on the cluster expansion of the energy functional. We also compute the critical point exponents of liquid $^3He$ which are in agreement with experimental data.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
PR - Agricultural And Rural Income Tax Education Over The Years: An Extension Program Of Land Grant Universities
Creators: name: Isaacs, Steven G.
name: Roe, Kathy C.
name: Van Der Hoeven, Guido
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: taxation
subject: education
subject: LGUTEF

description: Income tax regulations in the United States are complex, voluminous, and ever changing. Continuing education for professional tax preparers is necessary and is required for most categories of tax professionals. For decades the cooperative extension services of the Land Grant Universities have offered tax education for their constituents. This has developed into a collaborative effort led by the Land Grant University Tax Education Foundation (LGUTEF). The twenty-six member institutions of LGUTEF offered materials and training for approximately 30,000 tax professionals in 32 states 2012. North Carolina State University and the University of Kentucky are two states that offer a range of seminars to tax professionals in their respective states. This paper discusses the historical development of tax education, the logistics of its delivery, and the challenges of the future.
description: Nineteenth International Farm Management Congress, Warsaw, Poland, 2013
Vacuum Energy as the Origin of the Gravitational Constant
Creators: name: Demir, Durmus A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a geometro-dynamical approach to the cosmological constant problem (CCP) by invoking a geometry induced by the energy-momentum tensor of vacuum, matter and radiation. The construction, which utilizes the dual role of the metric tensor that it structures both the spacetime manifold and energy-momentum tensor of the vacuum, gives rise to a framework in which the vacuum energy induced by matter and radiation, instead of gravitating, facilitates the generation of the gravitational constant. The non-vacuum sources comprising matter and radiation gravitate normally. At the level of classical gravitation, the mechanism deadens the CCP yet quantum gravitational effects, if can be strong in de Sitter space, can keep it existent.
description: 28 pages, 1 figure. Added references
Dualities in the theory of accessible categories
Creators: name: Tendas, Giacomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18C10, 18C35, 18D20, 18A35, 18E08

description: Through the notion of weakly sound class of weights, we recover many known dualities involving accessible categories with a chosen class of limits, as instances of a general duality theorem. These include the Gabriel-Ulmer duality for locally finitely presentable categories, Diers duality for locally finitely multipresentable categories, and the Makkai-Paré duality for finitely accessible categories. In doing so, we extend these to the enriched setting, provide a more formal and unifying approach to the theory, and also discuss new dualities that arise as a consequence of our main theorem.
description: v2 completely different from v1, only the sound case is considered. The previous (more general) version remains available in the author's PhD thesis. To appear in the Journal of Algebra
PR - The Economics Of Biogas In Denmark â€“ A Farm And Socital Economic Perspective
Creators: name: Jacobsen, Brian H.
name: Laugesen, Frederik M.
name: Dubgaard, Alex
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: biogas
subject: economics
subject: upgrading biogas

description: Denmark has been one of the leading European Countries in using Biogas for Combined Heat and Power (CHP), since the 1980â€™ties. However, in the last two decades, the increase has been limited. A new energy policy aimed at increasing the profitability of Biogas was introduced in the spring of 2012. The analysis here shows that the new agreement will improve the profitability of biogas plants and increase the biogas production although the political ambition of an increase from 4 PJ to 14 PJ by 2020 seems unlikely. The analysis shows that biogas plants can be profitable even if the input is a mix of manure and solid fractions/farm yard manure given the present level of support. The analyses show that although maize increases the gas output somewhat, it increases the profit only slightly as the costs of the input is high (41â‚¬ per tonne). The overall production costs are around 0.53 â‚¬ per m3 methane. Even without an investment subsidy of 30%, the case 2012, is profitable. Financing the biogas plants is a challenge. The interest used of 4.25% requires bank guaranties which in practice can be hard to get. Using a more likely interest of 7-8% reduces the yearly profit to 400.000 â‚¬. The socioeconomic analyses show that the costs of biogas as a measure to reduce CO2 emissions, are around 135 â‚¬ per tonne CO2 and using maize is an expensive way to reduce emissions of CO2 as the CO2 reducing effect is limited. The new Danish energy agreement gives subsidies to biogas used in the natural gas grid. The upgrading, including pressure adjustment, is 0.16 â‚¬ per m3 methane. The analysis shows that the profit from upgrading biogas is only to be preferred if the sales prices of heat are very low. The socioeconomic cost of upgrading is, in most cases, not better than CPH. In order to reduce the cost of reducing CO2 emissions, the input to the biogas plant has to be based on farm yard manure and deep bedding as well as slurry.
description: Nineteenth International Farm Management Congress, Warsaw, Poland, 2013
PR - Smallholder Farmers Participating In Commercial Agri-food Chains: Learning From Eksteenskuil Raisin Producers
Creators: name: Jordaan, H.
name: GrovÃ©, B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: linking farmers to markets
subject: New Institutional Economics
subject: smallholder farmers

description: The strict rules and regulations associated with supplying agricultural products to commercial agri-food chains often contribute to the exclusion of smallholder farmers from the formal market. New Institutional Economics theory is used in this paper to investigate the way how a group of smallholder raisin producers from South Africa cope with the strict rules and regulations associated with supplying raisins to the Fairtrade market. The findings show that, instead of viewing the rules and regulations as a fatal stumbling block, the farmers from Eksteenskuil created additional rules and regulations to help them coping with the strict requirements of the Fairtrade initiative. The conclusion is that, if incentives are correctly aligned and the financial benefit for the farmers is significant, the farmers will find a way to cope with the requirements to successfully participate in the formal market.
description: Nineteenth International Farm Management Congress, Warsaw, Poland, 2013
The curvature of the QCD phase transition line
Creators: name: Endrodi, G.
name: Fodor, Z.
name: Katz, S. D.
name: Szabo, K. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the curvature of the phase transition line in the mu-T plane through an analysis of various observables, including the Polyakov loop, the quark number susceptibilities and the susceptibility of the chiral condensate. The second derivative of these quantities with respect to mu was calculated. The measurements were carried out on N_T = 4,6,8 and 10 lattices generated with a Symanzik improved gauge and stout-link improved 2+1 flavour staggered fermion action using physical quark masses.
description: Talk presented at the XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 14 - 19, 2008, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. 7 pages, 6 figures
The martial origins of democracy: a global study of military conscription and suffrage extensions since the Napoleonic wars
Creators: name: Ingesson, Tony
name: Lindberg, Mårten
name: Lindvall, Johannes
name: Teorell, Jan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This article examines the relationship between conscription (the compulsory enlistment of civilians for military service) and democracy. Using the best available cross-country comparable data on the history of conscription and democracy, we demonstrate that there is an empirical relationship between conscription and democratization, but the relationship is more complicated than commonly believed. Specifically, we find that conscription increases the likelihood of male suffrage extensions, but only in wartime (when the conscript army is mobilized). We find no relationship between conscription and democratization apart from extensions of suffrage. Nor do we find support for the hypothesis that conscription shelters democracies from coups.
Polygamy of Entanglement in Multipartite Quantum Systems
Creators: name: Kim, Jeong San
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that bipartite entanglement distribution (or entanglement of assistance) in multipartite quantum systems is by nature polygamous. We first provide an analytic upper bound for the concurrence of assistance in bipartite quantum systems, and derive a polygamy inequality of multipartite entanglement in arbitrary dimensional quantum systems.
description: 4 pages
PR - Vocational Reorientation Of Farmers And Members Of Their Families â€“ A New Challenge For Rural Poland
Creators: name: KamiÅ„Ski, Ryszard
name: Sass, Roman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: differentiation of farmsâ€™ situation
subject: vocational reorientation of farmers and members of their families
subject: awareness and motivation of taking up a job

description: In view of inability of most of the farms in Poland to develop, there arises a big social problem connected with the necessity to hunt for additional main sources of incomes outside farming. This problem was the subject matter of the studies conducted in the Mogilno poviat, which belongs to typical agrarian poviats. These studies aimed at recognizing farmersâ€™ and household membersâ€™ readiness by vocational reorientation. It results from the conducted studies, that 66% of respondentsâ€™ answers are rather no and decisively no. The fact that on farms up to 5 ha as many as 61% respondents do not want to take up reorientation is particularly alarming. Analyzing main problems why farmers do not want to reskill to another profession , those pooled mention the lack of time connected with excess of work on a farm. Lack of financial means is an important argument, as well as a big distance from educational centres. On the other hand women stress the necessity of care over children and elder persons. However, special attention should be paid to the lack of belief among these polled ones, that they would get a job â€“ it is the opinion of 1/3 of respondents. The results of the poll studies were a kind of inspiration to commence started from 2009, the realization of the regional programme of vocational reorientation in Kujawsko-Pomeranian Province, the effects of which have also been presented in this article.
description: Nineteenth International Farm Management Congress, Warsaw, Poland, 2013
Mesoscopic atomic entanglement for precision measurements beyond the standard quantum limit
Creators: name: Appel, J.
name: Windpassinger, P. J.
name: Oblak, D.
name: Hoff, U. B.
name: Kjaergaard, N.
name: Polzik, E. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Squeezing of quantum fluctuations by means of entanglement is a well recognized goal in the field of quantum information science and precision measurements. In particular, squeezing the fluctuations via entanglement between two-level atoms can improve the precision of sensing, clocks, metrology, and spectroscopy. Here, we demonstrate 3.4 dB of metrologically relevant squeezing and entanglement for ~ 10^5 cold cesium atoms via a quantum nondemolition (QND) measurement on the atom clock levels. We show that there is an optimal degree of decoherence induced by the quantum measurement which maximizes the generated entanglement. A two-color QND scheme used in this paper is shown to have a number of advantages for entanglement generation as compared to a single color QND measurement.
description: 6 pages+suppl, PNAS format
Stranger and intimate stalking : psychological and psychophysiological responses in victims during direct and indirect threat
Creators: name: Sculthorpe, LM
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: A review of the literature in the area of stalking and victims of stalking was undertaken. Stalking is defined as a course of conduct in which one individual inflicts on another repeated unwanted intrusions and communications, to such an extent that the victim fears for their safety (Path& & Mullen, 1997). Some psychological research has removed the criteria of a fear response in the victim for participant inclusion. Demographic data indicate risk groups for being stalked are females, young adults, college students and health professionals. Research into motivation of stalkers found that most stalkers act out of a desire to initiate or re-establish an intimate relationship with the target. A small minority of stalkers are motivated by revenge, a desire to invoke fear or a desire for sexual gratification. Research on effects of stalking on victims has documented that somatic complaints, depressive symptoms, heightened anxiety and PTSD has been found in victims of stalking. Research into stalking is still at an early stage, and further empirically based research is needed to clarify and consolidate these findings.
PR - Development Of Productivity Of Dairy And Pig Farms In Germany
Creators: name: Kleinhanss, Werner
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Total Factor Productivity
subject: dairy and pig farms
subject: Farm Accountancy Data Network

description: The development and change of productivity, as well as of its influencing factors, is of interest in economic research. In this paper we analyse the development of productivity in dairy and pig farms in Germany. Balanced farm panels are selected from the German national FADN. As productivity measure we use the FÃ¤re-Primont Index proposed by Oâ€™Donnell. Results shows an increase of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of 1% p.y. of dairy farms, a rather constant TFP level of pig fattening farms and decreasing TFP of farms specialized in piglet production. Due to cyclical pig prices the variation of TFP is rather high in pig farms. Significant scale effects are identified with highest TFP levels of large sized farms. The variation of income in time is much more pronounced than of TFP, which might partially be determined by the rather high aggregation of output and input variables used for FP calculations.
description: Nineteenth International Farm Management Congress, Warsaw, Poland, 2013
Lorentzian polynomials, Segre classes, and adjoint polynomials of convex polyhedral cones
Creators: name: Aluffi, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14C17, 52B05, 14N30

description: We consider polynomials expressing the cohomology classes of subvarieties of products of projective spaces, and limits of positive real multiples of such polynomials. We study the relation between these covolume polynomials and Lorentzian polynomials. While these are distinct notions, we prove that, like Lorentzian polynomials, covolume polynomials have M-convex support and generalize the notion of log-concave sequences. In fact, we prove that covolume polynomials are `sectional log-concave', that is, the coefficients of suitable restrictions of these polynomials form log-concave sequences.
 We observe that Chern classes of globally generated bundles give rise to covolume polynomials, and use this fact to prove that certain polynomials associated with Segre classes of subschemes of products of projective spaces are covolume polynomials. We conjecture that the same polynomials may be Lorentzian after a standard normalization operation.
 Finally, we obtain a combinatorial application of a particular case of our Segre class result. We prove that the adjoint polynomial of a convex polyhedral cone contained in the nonnegative orthant, and sharing a face with it, is a covolume polynomial. This implies that these adjoint polynomials are M-convex and sectional log-concave, and in fact dually Lorentzian, that is, Lorentzian after a certain change of variables.
description: 29 pages, 2 figures. Minor changes and reference updates
Meeting the Dalai Lama and perceptions of democracy in China: a quasi-natural experiment
Creators: name: Gruffydd-Jones, Jamie J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: How does the international human rights community affect the likelihood of democratization? Scholarship on Chinese citizens’ preferences about their political system has not explored the importance of the external environment, perhaps surprising given the extensive foreign pressure on China’s authoritarian system over the last 30 years. I use a quasi-natural experiment around the meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama in 2011 to examine the impact of foreign pressure on citizens’ perceptions of democracy in China in real time. I show that the meeting significantly increased the Chinese public’s belief that their country is democratic, with those of above average patriotism over 11 percentage points more likely to believe China is democratic in the five days following the meeting than before. The findings suggest that some kinds of external pressure may help to increase satisfaction with authoritarian rule, ultimately boosting autocrats’ ability to hold on to power.
PR - Economic And Environmental Assessment Of Pulse Rotations In Canadian Prairies
Creators: name: Kulshreshtha, Sure
name: MacWilliam, Susan
name: Wismer, Monique
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: life cycle assessment
subject: economic assessment
subject: pulses

description: As consumers regard for corporate responsibility increases, governments, industries and organizations have begun to assess the sustainability of their activities. Sustainability has many criteria, and those related to environmental impacts and economic effects are of interest to policy makers. Pulse (dry peas) crop production is on the rise in Saskatchewan. Although exports of peas to other countries are important from a local development perspective, their use for local activities has some appeal. In this paper, a combined life cycle assessment (LCA) and economic impact analysis (EIA) of growing peas or lentils in a four-year rotation was undertaken and compared to a rotation without pulse crops (i.e. an oilseed-cereal rotation). Inclusion of peas in a rotation is desirable as it is known to break disease and pest cycles, as well as fix atmospheric nitrogen through symbiotic association with Rhizobia. This results in decreased requirements of fertilizer, pesticide and insecticide application. These changes resulted in major financial implications for the producers, as the economic returns increased by $131 to $158 per ha for the pulse rotation over the baseline rotation. The LCA results demonstrated lower environmental impacts in all categories with the pea or lentils rotations as compared to the oilseed-cereal rotation. The results of the study suggest that adding dry peas and /or lentils in oilseed-cereal rotations improve the sustainability of crop production systems.
description: Nineteenth International Farm Management Congress, Warsaw, Poland, 2013
Glaucocharis Meyrick 1938
Creators: name: Léger, Théo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Glaucocharis

description: Glaucocharis Meyrick, 1938
Glaucocharis Meyrick, 1938.
Type species: Glaucocharis stella Meyrick, 1938
= Pagmania Amsel, 1961: 332. Type species: Pagmania bilinealis Amsel, 1961. Błeszyński, 1965, p. 51 (syn.)
= Pareromene Osthelder, 1941: 366. Type species: Pareromene rebeli Osthelder, 1941. Gaskin, 1985, p. 11 (syn.)
= Ditomoptera Hampson, 1893: 52, 179. Type species: Ditomoptera minutalis Hampson, 1893.
DIAGNOSIS
Forewing with conspicuous antemedian and postmedian lines, apex usually with apical streak, termen protruding outwards at apex, below apex with an indentation reaching tip of M1, often with a secondary indentation at tip of M3 (W. Li & Li, 2012b). Male genitalia with the following characteristics: uncus and gnathos elongate, narrow, of various shapes; valva long and narrow, with narrow cucullus, costal process sclerotized, elongate, narrow, pointed outwards or upwards. Female genitalia with short papillae anales coalesced dorsally; posterior and anterior apophyses over twice the tergite length; antrum usually tubular or funnel-shaped; ductus bursae long, narrow; corpus bursae rounded or ovate, signum present or absent (W. Li & Li, 2012b; pers. obs.).
DISTRIBUTION
Known from the Afrotropics, the Palearctic, Oriental, and Australasian regions. Nine species are reported here from the Philippines: Glaucocharis lathonia (Błeszyński, 1966), Glaucocharis clytia (Błeszyński, 1966), Glaucocharis negrosensis sp. n., Glaucocharis hamulus sp. n., Glaucocharis kayumanggi sp. n., Glaucocharis kabundukanis sp. n., Glaucocharis altissima sp. n., Glaucocharis uncusellus sp. n., Glaucocharis sungay sp. n.
PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS
Glaucocharis belongs to the Diptychophorini, the mostbasal tribe of Crambinae (Léger et al., 2019).
description: Published as part of Léger, Théo, 2024, Half of the Diversity Undescribed: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals 32 New Species and a High Cryptic Diversity in the Scopariinae and Crambinae of the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), pp. 1-93 in Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3 (2) on pages 24-25, DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v3i2.9527, http://zenodo.org/record/15116964
title: Rezension von: Burkhard Schäffer und Olaf Dörner (Hrsg.): Weiterbildungsbeteiligung als Teilhabe- und Gerechtigkeitsproblem. München 2012, Herbert Utz Verlag, 100 S.
Creators: name: Eigenmann, Philipp
Publisher: name: Publikationsserver der Pädagogischen Hochschule Thurgau
Year: 2013

description: Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung, vol. 36, no. 4, p. 82
The martial origins of democracy: a global study of military conscription and suffrage extensions since the Napoleonic wars
Creators: name: Ingesson, Tony
name: Lindberg, Mårten
name: Lindvall, Johannes
name: Teorell, Jan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This article examines the relationship between conscription (the compulsory enlistment of civilians for military service) and democracy. Using the best available cross-country comparable data on the history of conscription and democracy, we demonstrate that there is an empirical relationship between conscription and democratization, but the relationship is more complicated than commonly believed. Specifically, we find that conscription increases the likelihood of male suffrage extensions, but only in wartime (when the conscript army is mobilized). We find no relationship between conscription and democratization apart from extensions of suffrage. Nor do we find support for the hypothesis that conscription shelters democracies from coups.
PR - Investigation Of Bottlenecks And Success Factors For Networking As A Tool For Innovation In The Ornamental Plant Sector
Creators: name: Lambrecht, Evelien
name: Taragola, Nicole
name: KÃ¼hne, Bianke
name: Crivits, Maarten
name: Gellynck, Xavier
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: innovation
subject: network activity
subject: ornamental plant production

description: Networking and innovation are important sources for entrepreneurs to achieve competitive advantage. This paper aims to investigate bottlenecks and success factors for networking of ornamental plant growers. To reach this objective, following research questions are formulated: (1) What kind of innovations are applied?, (2) What kind of networks are used?, (3) What role does networking play in the contribution to the development and implementation of innovations?, (4) What are the main bottlenecks and success factors for networking as a tool for innovation?The research data are collected by means of in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with ornamental plant growers and network coordinators. The results show that ornamental plant growers have many possibilities in the domain of product, process, market and organizational innovation at their disposal, which are often underutilized. With regard to networking, a high diversity in the intensity of network activity and in the appeal to different network types are determined. Network types include horizontal and vertical networks as well as collaboration with third parties. Actually a link between network activity and innovation is observed, under condition that networking occurs in an effective and efficient way. Important bottlenecks for networking as a tool for innovation are a lack of human and financial resources, a strong competition and conflicts of interest between the network partners, leading to individualism and distrust, a high threshold between growers and research and governmental institutes and a low perceived added value or organized network activities. Some critical success factors for networking are lowering the threshold and enhancing trust and transparency among network members. Growers should take advantage of the underutilized innovation possibilities through enhanced networking. This would increase the farmersâ€™ insights into changing markets and consumer needs and the necessary and relevant partners and information as trigger for innovation. This study delivers valuable insights and implications for growers as well as network coordinators. An important recommendation is that growers as well as network coordinators should apply strategies to connect with each other in the most effective and efficient way.
description: Nineteenth International Farm Management Congress, Warsaw, Poland, 2013