cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluating Consumer Usage of Nutritional Labeling: The Influence of Socio-Economic Characteristics
Creators: name: Govindasamy, Ramu
name: Italia, John
name: Govindasamy, Ramu
name: Italia, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: The majority of consumers report making frequent use of nutritional labeling when purchasing food products. However, certain segments appear to place a greater emphasis on food product labels than others. This study empirically evaluates which demographic characteristics encourage consumers to be more likely to take nutritional labels into account when purchasing grocery products. The results indicate that females, older individuals, and those living in suburban and rural areas are the most likely to make use of nutritional labeling. The results also indicate that larger households were less likely to use nutritional labeling.
Magnetic flux in the inter-network quiet Sun from comparison with numerical simulations
Creators: name: Almeida, J. Sanchez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Khomenko et al. estimate the mean magnetic field strength of the quiet Sun to be 20 G. The figure is smaller than several existing estimates, and it comes from the comparison between observed Zeeman polarization signals and synthetic signals from numerical simulations of magneto-convection. The numerical simulations require an artificially large magnetic diffusivity, which smears out magnetic structures smaller than the grid scale. Assuming a turbulent cascade for the unresolved artificially smeared magnetic fields, we find that their unsigned magnetic flux is at least as important as that explicitly shown in the simulation. The unresolved fields do not produce Zeeman polarization but contribute to the unsigned flux.Since they are not considered by Khomenko et al., their mean magnetic field strength has to be regarded as a lower limit. This kind of bias is not specific of a particular numerical simulation or a spectral line. It is to be expected when observed quiet Sun Zeeman signals are compared with synthetic signals from simulations.
description: Accepted A&A. 4 pages, 0 figures
The Contour Method: a new approach to finding modes of non-adiabatic stellar pulsations
Creators: name: Goldstein, J.
name: Townsend, R. H. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The contour method is a new approach to calculating the non-adiabatic pulsation frequencies of stars. These frequencies can be found by solving for the complex roots of a characteristic equation constructed from the linear non-adiabatic stellar pulsation equations. A complex-root solver requires an initial trial frequency for each non adiabatic root. A standard method for obtaining initial trial frequencies is to use a star's adiabatic pulsation frequencies, but this method can fail to converge to non-adiabatic roots, especially as the growth and/or damping rate of the pulsations becomes large. The contour method provides an alternative way for obtaining initial trial frequencies that robustly converges to non-adiabatic roots, even for stellar models with extremely non-adiabatic pulsations and thus large growth/damping rates. We describe the contour method implemented in the GYRE stellar pulsation code and use it to calculate the non-adiabatic pulsation frequencies of $10\,\rm{M_{\odot}}$ and $20\,\rm{M_{\odot}}$ $β$ Cephei star models, and of a $0.9\,\rm{M_{\odot}}$ extreme helium star model.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures, Accepted to ApJ
The lived-experience of teachers involved in a social and emotional competence promotion program
Creators: name: Wessel, April Teresa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study was to capture the lived experience of teachers hosting an external classroom-based program entitled the Roots of Empathy (ROE). Of ten potential participants, three (all female) volunteered to participate in this phenomenological investigation. Data were collected via two in-depth interviews during the final month of the school year in which the program had been implemented. The initial interview focused on the teachers' retrospective description of their experiences in the ROE. In the second interview the teachers were asked to clarify points of ambiguity and correct, expand upon or agree with the researcher's understanding of the teachers' original accounts. Seven common themes emerged from the data, using Karlsson's (1993) five-step model of data analysis. The seven themes that emerged were: (1) A sense of excitement and pride; (2) A sense of congruence; (3) A sense of curiosity; (4) A sense of uniqueness; (5) A sense of moral responsibility; (6) A sense of conflict; and (7) A sense of yearning. Overall, the results indicated that the teachers involved in the ROE perceived their involvement and their resultant experiences to be worth the energy they expended on program implementation. In addition, the study indicated that the teachers perceived their participation in the ROE as a positive and enriching personal and professional experience. Through their involvement in the program the teachers integrated and extended their past teaching practices, and in the process forged for themselves a new and unique role: as observers in their own classrooms.
Oligomerisation of the complement regulator, properdin
Creators: name: Alzamami, Ahmad A.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The complement system provides protection against invading pathogens through lysis, opsonisation and by triggering the inflammatory immune response. The alternative pathway, one of the three activation pathways of the complement system, activates spontaneously on the surfaces of pathogen and depends on regulators to protect host cells. Properdin is the only positive regulator of complement. It stabilises a key enzyme called the alternative pathway C3 convertase, extending its half-life by up to 10-fold. Properdin consists of seven thrombospondin type-I repeat (TSR) domains and circulates as dimers, trimers, and tetramers of polypeptides connected to each other via head-to-tail contacts. Properdin oligomerisation is necessary for function.The aim of this project is to understand how properdin oligomerises. To address this question, the full-length properdin as well as truncated fragments were produced in both mammalian and bacterial expression systems. The results show that the full-length properdin produced in Chinese hamster ovary cells oligomerises in the same way as the native protein. A truncated form comprising a fusion of TSR-0 and TSR-6, the putative oligomerisation TSR domains, dimerises, confirming that these domains probably mediate oligomerisation in the full-length protein. However, when this fragment is expressed in E. coli, which lacks the enzymes responsible for post-translational modifications, the truncated form is monomeric, suggesting that one or more of the modifications that occur after synthesis are necessary for self-association. Analysis of these post-translational modifications suggests that C-mannosylation, a rare modification often found in proteins containing thrombospondin type-I repeat domains, is essential for the efficient oligomerisation of properdin. A model is proposed to explain how C-mannosylation promotes self-association of properdin polypeptides.
Closed String Tachyon Condensation in Supercritical Strings and RG Flows
Creators: name: Suyama, Takao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show an explicit relation between an RG flow of a two-dimensional gravity and an on-shell tachyon condensation in the corresponding string theory, in the case when the string theory is supercritical. The shape of the tachyon potential in this case can, in principle, be obtained by examining various RG flows. We also argue that the shape of tachyon potential for a (sub)critical string can be obtained by analyzing a supercritical string which is obtained from the (sub)critical string.
description: 17 pages, references added
Rotating Black Hole with an Anisotropic Matter Field as a Particle Accelerator
Creators: name: Rizwan, C. L. Ahmed
name: Kumara, A. Naveena
name: Hegde, Kartheek
name: Ali, Md Sabir
name: M, Ajith K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, a generalised solution for Einstein equations of a rotating compact body, surrounded by matter field was proposed, which is the Kerr-Newman spacetime with an anisotropic matter. The solution possesses an additional hair, along with the conventional mass, charge and spin, which arises from the negative radial pressure of the anisotropic matter. In this article we show that, this new class of black holes can act as a particle accelerator during the collision of two generic particles in its gravitational field in the ergo-region. The centre of mass energy of the particles shoots to arbitrary high value in the vicinity of event horizon for the extremal black hole. The physical conditions for the collision to take place are obtained by studying the horizon structure and circular particle motion. The results are interesting from astrophysical perspective.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures
Non-equilibrium temperatures in steady-state systems with conserved energy
Creators: name: Bertin, Eric
name: Dauchot, Olivier
name: Droz, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a class of non-equilibrium lattice models describing local redistributions of a globally conserved quantity, which is interpreted as an energy. A particular subclass can be solved exactly, allowing to define a statistical temperature T_{th} along the same lines as in the equilibrium microcanonical ensemble. We compute the response function and find that when the fluctuation-dissipation relation is linear, the slope T_{FD}^{-1} of this relation differs from the inverse temperature T_{th}^{-1}. We argue that T_{th} is physically more relevant than T_{FD}, since in the steady-state regime, it takes equal values in two subsystems of a large isolated system. Finally, a numerical renormalization group procedure suggests that all models within the class behave similarly at a coarse-grained level, leading to a new parameter which describes the deviation from equilibrium. Quantitative predictions concerning this parameter are obtained within a mean-field framework.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
title:  L’art comme forme de liberté chez Sartre
Creators: name: Neacşu  ,  Adriana E.
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2021

description: In questo articolo, l'autrice analizza la posizione di Sartre sull'essenza dell'arte. Parte dall'ontologia sartriana, che stabilisce che l'uomo è l'essere che crea il proprio nulla, scegliendosi costantemente e manifestandosi come libertà in tutte le sue imprese. L'arte, come attività umana, è anche una forma di libertà. Si basa sulla capacità della coscienza immaginativa di creare oggetti irreali, e nega il mondo per trascenderlo nel nulla e fondarlo dalla prospettiva delle esigenze morali della libertà. L'opera d'arte, l'oggetto estetico, appare nel punto di convergenza tra la libertà del creatore e del ricevente, essendo il risultato di un "patto di generosità" tra i due, e il fine ultimo dell'arte, che è meglio evidenziato dall'arte della scrittura, è la liberazione finale della persona umana in questo mondo reale, da qualsiasi forma di sfruttamento.
description: Studi Sartriani – XV/2021 – Sartre e l’arte contemporanea. Immagini e immaginari
Quality of Agricultural Produce: Consumer Preferences and Perceptions
Creators: name: Govindasamy, Ramu
name: Italia, John
name: Liptak, Clare
name: Govindasamy, Ramu
name: Italia, John
name: Liptak, Clare
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: The purpose of this research was to gain a greater insight into the characteristics and beliefs consumers draw upon while selecting the produce they purchase. Health and environmental risk perceptions of many agricultural inputs and products were also collected as well as demographic information. Nineteen produce characteristics were ranked by consumers. Locally grown produce and the country of origin were among the least important characteristics while freshness, taste/flavor, cleanliness, health value and absence of pesticides were among the most important characteristics. The survey also showed that most consumers made use of nutritional information and labeling while shopping for food and those who did, felt it aided them in making better purchase decisions. Consumers exhibited a clear preference for low-input methods of agricultural production which minimize the use of pesticides. They believed that there were health benefits to organic produce and that they would purchase more organic produce if it were more readily available. Respondents also indicated that they believed pesticides in general, herbicides, fungicides and insecticides all had significant health and environmental risks. Consumers believed on average that the use of pesticides positively contributes to the cosmetic appearance, quality, and supply of produce. Conversely, they believed that a reduction in pesticide usage would increase both the healthfulness and prices of produce. The results show where consensus and discord exist among consumers beliefs. Issues which have been the result of media campaigns and advertising such as oils used in cooking, tobacco products and alcoholic beverages show a greater degree of consensus than issues which are not often in the public spotlight. There were also areas in which consumers believed that there were inadequacies in the current produce market. Participants did not believe government food safeguards were sufficient to 2 protect public health nor did they believe the experts know enough about the long term effects of pesticide residues. The goal of this research was to provide food marketing agents with a better understanding of consumer purchase behavior, preferences and beliefs. The results are especially encouraging to those developing marketing endeavors for low input produce such as organic and IPM produce.
Predicting Consumer Risk Aversions to Synthetic Pesticide Residues: A Logistic Analysis
Creators: name: Govindasamy, Ramu
name: Italia, John
name: Adelaja, Adesoji O.
name: Govindasamy, Ramu
name: Italia, John
name: Adelaja, Adesoji O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Crop Production/Industries
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Growing concerns about pesticide residues in fresh produce could result in increased demand for low-input agriculture with reduced pesticide residues, and decreased demand for conventional fresh produce. The objective of this study was to empirically evaluate consumer concern about pesticide residues and analyze the effect of sociodemographic factors on pesticide residue concern. Two separate surveys were used to provide data about consumer risk perceptions and demographic characteristics. Statistical models using data from both surveys show that females are approximately 9 to 14 percent more likely to be risk averse toward pesticides than males. Furthermore, both surveys indicate that households with children are more likely to be risk averse than those without children. Specifically, the earlier survey (1990) indicates that households with at least one child were 11 percent more likely to be risk averse than households without children. The more recent survey (1997) shows households with two or more children to be 22 percent more likely to be risk averse. Those who frequently purchase organic produce and those who grew vegetables for consumption in their home were both found to be at least 18 percent more likely to be risk averse than those who did not. Individuals over 35 years of age are more likely to have high levels of risk aversion toward pesticide residues and suburban households were found to be 10 percent more likely than rural or urban households to be risk averse. The result also indicated that households with higher levels of income and education generally exhibit lower risk aversions. With sustainable and environmentally safer forms of agriculture likely to comprise a more significant share of the nation’s food production, marketing research must be implemented to ascertain public willingness-to-purchase of such produce. Predicting which consumers are likely to have high concerns about synthetic pesticide residues should be beneficial to identifying those who are more likely to purchase low-input agriculture such as IPM and organically grown produce.
Strange and charged particle elliptic flow in Pb+Au collisions at 158 AGeV/c
Creators: name: Milosevic, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present $Λ$ and $π$ elliptic flow measurements from Pb+Au collisions at the highest SPS energy. The data, collected by the CERES experiment which covers $η=2.05,2.70$ with full azimuthal coverage and wide $p_{T}$ sensitivity up to 3.5 GeV/c, can be used to test hydrodynamical models and show sensitivity to the EoS. The value of $v_{2}$ as a function of centrality and $p_{T}$ is presented. Values of $v_{2}$ observed by STAR at RHIC are larger by about 1/3. Our measurements are compared to results from other SPS experiments and to hydrodynamical calculations. Huge statistics allows for a precise measurement of the differential pion elliptic flow.
description: Proceeding for Quark Matter 2005, parallel talk, 4 pages, 7 figures
Formation and Evolution of Disks around Young Stellar Objects
Creators: name: Zhao, Bo
name: Tomida, Kengo
name: Hennebelle, Patrick
name: Tobin, John J.
name: Maury, Anaelle
name: Hirota, Tomoya
name: Sánchez-Monge, Álvaro
name: Kuiper, Rolf
name: Rosen, Anna
name: Bhandare, Asmita
name: Padovani, Marco
name: Lee, Yueh-Ning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations have suggested that circumstellar disks may commonly form around young stellar objects. Although the formation of circumstellar disks can be a natural result of the conservation of angular momentum in the parent cloud, theoretical studies instead show disk formation to be difficult from dense molecular cores magnetized to a realistic level, owing to efficient magnetic braking that transports a large fraction of the angular momentum away from the circumstellar region. We review recent progress in the formation and early evolution of disks around young stellar objects of both low-mass and high-mass, with an emphasis on mechanisms that may bridge the gap between observation and theory, including non-ideal MHD effects and asymmetric perturbations in the collapsing core (e.g., magnetic field misalignment and turbulence). We also address the associated processes of outflow launching and the formation of multiple systems, and discuss possible implications in properties of protoplanetary disks.
description: 57 pages, Space Science Reviews, topical collection Star Formation
Automated eye disease classification method from anterior eye image using anatomical structure focused image classification technique
Creators: name: Oda, Masahiro
name: Yamaguchi, Takefumi
name: Fukuoka, Hideki
name: Ueno, Yuta
name: Mori, Kensaku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents an automated classification method of infective and non-infective diseases from anterior eye images. Treatments for cases of infective and non-infective diseases are different. Distinguishing them from anterior eye images is important to decide a treatment plan. Ophthalmologists distinguish them empirically. Quantitative classification of them based on computer assistance is necessary. We propose an automated classification method of anterior eye images into cases of infective or non-infective disease. Anterior eye images have large variations of the eye position and brightness of illumination. This makes the classification difficult. If we focus on the cornea, positions of opacified areas in the corneas are different between cases of the infective and non-infective diseases. Therefore, we solve the anterior eye image classification task by using an object detection approach targeting the cornea. This approach can be said as "anatomical structure focused image classification". We use the YOLOv3 object detection method to detect corneas of infective disease and corneas of non-infective disease. The detection result is used to define a classification result of a image. In our experiments using anterior eye images, 88.3% of images were correctly classified by the proposed method.
description: Accepted paper as a poster presentation at SPIE Medical Imaging 2020, Houston, TX, USA
title:  Sartre e l’impero delle immagini
Creators: name: Scuderi  ,  Attilio
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2021

description: La teoria delle immagini di Sartre è un punto di svolta nel dibattito sulla cultura visiva contemporanea. Il saggio discute le premesse teoriche del suo contributo, confronta la meditazione di Sartre con la Teoria dei Mondi Possibili, e collega l'idea di libertà in Che cos'è la letteratura di Sartre con la libertà dell'Immaginazione affermata ne L’Immaginario.
description: Studi Sartriani – XV/2021 – Sartre e l’arte contemporanea. Immagini e immaginari
An Exploratory Qualitative Study on the Experiences of Work and Life Outside Work of Women Academic and Teaching Staff in Higher Education in Hong Kong
Creators: name: Singh, Rita Gill
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The higher education sector is characterised as competitive with heavy workloads and increased scrutiny of performance (Barcan, 2018; Gill, 2014). Yet this culture remains a relatively unexplored area in Hong Kong (HK) and the aim of this research is to explore and deepen understanding of women academic and teaching staff’s experiences of work and life outside work. The research questions were: 1). How do women academic and teaching staff view the notion of ‘work’? and 2). What are their experiences of work and life outside work under the trend of marketisation of education? An exploratory qualitative study of 15 participants working in higher education underpinned by social constructivism and relying on semi-structured interviews was adopted while thematic analysis was employed to analyse the data. Evidence of work intensification and extensification was found in participants’ accounts. However, differences were noted in terms of how participants explained their experiences of work with the negative experiences of teaching staff being closely associated with work intensification, extensification, and a perceived lack of recognition from management, whereas the positive experiences were linked with a strong professional work identity, personal achievement, ownership and a perceived tolerance of the work culture. A distinct finding was that husbands/partners were willing to perform feminised roles by helping participants manage domestic duties in Chinese culture, while the availability of inexpensive paid domestic help enabled participants to better manage work and other aspects of life although participants were expected to be ‘superwomen’ in managing all roles well. Life outside work experiences, which did not exclusively focus on childcare/family, were impacted particularly by the precarious nature of contracts. This thesis makes a contribution to the body of knowledge on work and life issues through exploring our understandings of the meanings attributed to work and life outside work experiences in the HK context.
Model-Driven Development in the Content Management System Domain: Empirical Assessment during Common Development Scenarios
Creators: name: Priefer, Dennis
name: Rost, Wolf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This project includes the replication package as online appendix for the paper "Model-Driven Development in the Content Management System Domain: Empirical Assessment during Common Development Scenarios" which is submitted to the SoSyM Journal.
We provide the artifacts of a conducted semi-structured expert interview, controlled experiment, and field experiment.
Classification and Regression Trees, CART: A User Manual For Identifying Indicators of Vulnerability to Famine And Chronic Food Insecurity
Creators: name: Yohannes, Yisehac
name: Webb, Patrick
name: Yohannes, Yisehac
name: Webb, Patrick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: Over the past decade, the increasing power and reliability of microcomputers and the development of sophisticated soft ware designed specifically for use with them has led to significant changes in the way that socioeconomic data are collected and analyzed. The venue of the computations has shifted from off-site main frames, dependent on highly trained operators and significant capital investment in supporting equipment, to desk top and lap top computers, dependent only on the occasional availability of electricity. This means that it is now feasible to quickly transfer new statistical techniques between IFPRI and IFPRI’s collaborators in developing countries, that data manipulation costs of policy analysis have been substantially reduced, and that a new level of complexity and accuracy is now possible in the collection and analysis of survey data in developing countries. As with any new technology, how ever, there are substantial costs in time and money involved in learning the most efficient ways of using this new technology and then transmitting these lessons to others. This series, Microcomputers in Policy Research, represents IFPRI’s collective ongoing experience in adapting microcomputer technology for use in food policy analysis in developing countries. The papers in the series are primarily for the purpose of sharing these lessons with potential users in developing countries, although persons and institutions in developed countries may also find them useful. The series is designed to provide hands- on methods for resolving statistical and data collection problems encountered in food policy research. In our opinion, examples provide the best and clearest form of instruction; therefore, examples—including actual software codes wherever relevant—are used extensively through out this series. This third book in the series, Classification and Regression Trees, CART ™ : A User Manual for Identifying Indicators of Vulnerability to Famine and Chronic Food Insecurity, by Yisehac Yohannes and Patrick Webb, is a manual out lining how to use CART soft ware to conduct classification- and regression- tree analysis. The manual is based on IFPRI’s experiences from its famine research program, which was completed in 1998 with the publication of the book by Joachim von Braun, Tesfaye Teklu, and Patrick Webb, Famine in Africa: Causes, Responses, and Prevention. The manual shows how to use CART to identify indicators of a number of outcomes, including food insecurity and vulnerability to famine. Examples are provided throughout using programs from CART.™
Antineutrino Background from Spent Fuel Storage in sensitive Searches for theta_13 at Reactors
Creators: name: Kopeikin, V.
name: Mikaelyan, L.
name: Sinev, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sensitive searches for antineutrino oscillations in atmospheric mass parameter region much discussed in recent years are based on accurate comparison of the inverse beta decay positron spectra measured in two (or more) detectors, far and near, stationed e.g. at ~1000 m and ~100 m from the reactor(s). We show that antineutrinos emitted from the stored irradiated fuel can differently distort the soft part of positron spectra measured in the far and near detector and thus mimic (or hide) the oscillation signal
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Atom. Nucl
Modeling the Epidemic Outbreak and Dynamics of COVID-19 in Croatia
Creators: name: Kapetanović, Ante Lojić
name: Poljak, Dragan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The paper deals with a modeling of the ongoing epidemic caused by Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the closed territory of the Republic of Croatia. Using the official public information on the number of confirmed infected, recovered and deceased individuals, the modified SEIR compartmental model is developed to describe the underlying dynamics of the epidemic. Fitted modified SEIR model provides the prediction of the disease progression in the near future, considering strict control interventions by means of social distancing and quarantine for infected and at-risk individuals introduced at the beginning of COVID-19 spread on February, 25th by Croatian Ministry of Health. Assuming the accuracy of provided data and satisfactory representativeness of the model used, the basic reproduction number is derived. Obtained results portray potential positive developments and justify the stringent precautionary measures introduced by the Ministry of Health.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the SpliTech2020 conference
Beyond Rural: Urban: Keeping Up With Changing Realities
Creators: name: Garrett, James L.
name: Garrett, James L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Policies built on presumptions of separateness or on traditional notions of urban and rural livelihoods diminish the possibilities for economic growth and poverty reduction. More effective policies will take the diversity of livelihoods along the continuum into account and also appreciate the differences among urban and rural areas and the links between them. Focusing on the connections between urban and rural areas can help to reframe our understanding of development in these areas. We can see that rural and urban lives and livelihood strategies span rural and urban geographies in integrated and interdependent ways. With better understanding of the current reality of urban and rural areas and the connections between them, policies will better reflect the ways people actually live. Policies will take into account the different livelihood strategies, links, and localities that exist across “urban” and “rural.” And they will be able to promote synergies—such as market exchange—that benefit all, no matter where they live.
What Can We Learn From Almost a Decade of Food Tweets
Creators: name: Sproģis, Uga
name: Rikters, Matīss
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present the Latvian Twitter Eater Corpus - a set of tweets in the narrow domain related to food, drinks, eating and drinking. The corpus has been collected over time-span of over 8 years and includes over 2 million tweets entailed with additional useful data. We also separate two sub-corpora of question and answer tweets and sentiment annotated tweets. We analyse contents of the corpus and demonstrate use-cases for the sub-corpora by training domain-specific question-answering and sentiment-analysis models using data from the corpus.
Partial Synchronization on Complex Networks
Creators: name: Ao, Bin
name: Zheng, Zhigang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Network topology plays an important role in governing the collective dynamics. Partial synchronization (PaS) on regular networks with a few non-local links is explored. Different PaS patterns out of the symmetry breaking are observed for different ways of non-local couplings. The criterion for the emergence of PaS is studied. The emergence of PaS is related to the loss of degeneration in Lyapunov exponent spectrum. Theoretical and numerical analysis indicate that non-local coupling may drastically change the dynamical feature of the network, emphasizing the important topological dependence of collective dynamics on complex networks.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
On Protecting Farmers’ New Varieties: New Approaches to Rights on Collective Innovations in Plant Genetic Resources
Creators: name: Salazar, Rene
name: Louwaars, Niels P.
name: Visser, Bert
name: Salazar, Rene
name: Louwaars, Niels P.
name: Visser, Bert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Farmers’ varieties
subject: collective rights
subject: origin recognition
subject: declaration of origin
subject: South-East Asia

description: Current farmers’ breeding goes beyond the gradual selection in landraces, and includes development and maintenance of major new farmers’ varieties that are rather uniform, in particular in South-East Asia. Modern varieties developed in the formal sector have simply replaced landraces as the source of diversity, but have not abolished farmers’ breeding practices. Interpretations of the new international agreements on plant genetic resources should protect the development of modern farmers’ varieties. However, ensuring recognition of collective innovation, allowing access to relevant germplasm sources for farmers’ breeding activities, keeping materials freely available, and arranging for effective benefit sharing, all form major challenges. This paper proposes a new protective measure: namely “origin recognition rights.”
Minkowski functionals for phase behavior under confinement
Creators: name: Boelens, Arnout M P
name: Tchelepi, Hamdi A
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, the Minkowski functionals are used as a framework to study how morphology (i.e. the shape of a structure) and topology (i.e. how different structures are connected) influence wall adsorption and capillary condensation under tight confinement. Numerical simulations based on classical density functional theory (DFT) are run for a wide variety of geometries using both hard-sphere and Lennard-Jones fluids. These DFT computations are compared to results obtained using the Minkowski functionals. It is found that the Minkowski functionals can provide a good description of the behavior of Lennard-Jones fluids down to small system sizes. In addition, through decomposition of the free energy, the Minkowski functionals provide a good framework to better understand what are the dominant contributions to the physics of a system. Lastly, while studying the phase envelope shift as a function of the Minkowski functionals it is found that topology has a different effect depending on whether the phase transition under consideration is a first- or a second-order transition.
Initiatives For Rural Development Through Collective Action : The Case of Household Participation in Group Activities in the Highlands of Central Kenya
Creators: name: Kariuki, Gatarwa
name: Place, Frank
name: Kariuki, Gatarwa
name: Place, Frank
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: collective action
subject: Kenya
subject: groups
subject: gender
subject: assets
subject: institutions

description: Dimensions of the nature, scope, and complexity of collective action in Kenya have evolved over many years. In studying collective action, the aim is to understand why and how people participate in networks of trust. The purpose of this study was to investigate the different objectives that farmers pursue through collective action with the aim of understanding the patterns of people’s participation in collective action, identify factors that influence people to join groups, and identify the costs and benefits of participating in activities of groups. The study was carried out in four sites spread across the highlands of central Kenya. Data was collected from a total of 442 households, focusing on whether members of those households belonged to groups and if so, what type of groups these were and their activities. In addition we looked at how these groups functioned and identified some of the contributions members make to these groups and the benefits from the same. The analysis shows that collective action is used to accomplish a range of activities for different socioeconomic categories and that the majority of households in central Kenya engage in some form of group activity. There are numerous active groups in central Kenya, most starting on their own initiative. They are very dynamic and take on many new activities often involving income generation. Gender has an influence on the nature of collective action. Findings suggest that men and women are engaged in similar group activities but the motivation for joining groups and extent of participation may be different. Men and women have different priorities which influence their decision to join groups. Access to markets and social insurance coping mechanisms are the main reason why men join groups while for women, social insurance and building household assets are the primary reasons why they join groups. Women are likely to engage significantly in subsistence agriculture while men are traditionally inclined towards the production of commercial enterprises through which they obtain their major source of income. Men will therefore be more interested in joining groups that have an element of commercialization and marketing. The study suggests that where institutions and policies that promote individual or private sector growth are weak, collective action can help to overcome these weaknesses and connect individuals in these institutions and policies.
title:  Sartre et la liberté de la création: l’art entre la philosophie et la littérature
Creators: name: Wittmann  ,  Heiner
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2021

description: Oltre ai due grandi campi della filosofia e della letteratura, Jean-Paul Sartre si è particolarmente interessato alle questioni fondamentali dell'estetica. Se guardiamo le ricerche di Sartre a partire dal suo studio di Auguste Flach, Sugli schemi simbolici nel processo di pensiero produttivo (1925), L’Immaginazione (1936), L’immaginario. Psicologia fenomenologica dell’immaginazione (1940), e i suoi studi di artisti visivi, scrittori e poeti da Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Tintoretto e Flaubert, l'estetica diventa chiaramente riconoscibile come punto centrale di riferimento nella sua opera.
description: Studi Sartriani – XV/2021 – Sartre e l’arte contemporanea. Immagini e immaginari
Garitte, Gerard: Cataloque des manuscrits géorgiens littéraires du Mont Sinai
Creators: name: Molitor, Joseph
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 41 (1957): Oriens christianus, Band 41
Analysis of full disc Ca II K spectroheliograms III. Plage area composite series covering 1892-2019
Creators: name: Chatzistergos, Theodosios
name: Ermolli, Ilaria
name: Krivova, Natalie A.
name: Solanki, Sami K.
name: Banerjee, Dipankar
name: Barata, Teresa
name: Belik, Marcel
name: Gafeira, Ricardo
name: Garcia, Adriana
name: Hanaoka, Yoichiro
name: Hegde, Manjunath
name: Klimeš, Jan
name: Korokhin, Viktor V.
name: Lourenço, Ana
name: Malherbe, Jean-Marie
name: Marchenko, Gennady P.
name: Peixinho, Nuno
name: Sakurai, Takashi
name: Tlatov, Andrey G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the plage area evolution over the last 12 solar cycles employing data from all Ca II K archives available publicly in digital form known to us, including several as yet unexplored Ca II K archives. We analyse more than 290,000 full-disc Ca II K observations from 43 datasets spanning the period 1892-2019. All images were consistently processed with an automatic procedure that performs the photometric calibration (if needed) and the limb-darkening compensation. The processing also accounts for artefacts plaguing many of the images, including some very specific artefacts such as bright arcs found in Kyoto and Yerkes data. We have produced a plage area time-series from each analysed dataset. We found that the differences between the plage areas derived from individual archives are mainly due to the differences in the central wavelength and the bandpass used to acquire the data at the various sites. We have empirically cross-calibrated and combined the results obtained from each dataset to produce a composite series of plage areas. "Backbone" series are used to bridge all the series together. We have also shown that the selection of the backbone series has little effect on the final plage area composite. We have quantified the uncertainty of determining the plage areas with our processing due to shifts in the central wavelength and found it to be less than 0.01 in fraction of the solar disc for the average conditions found on historical data. We also found the variable seeing conditions during the observations to slightly increase the plage areas during activity maxima. We provide the so far most complete time series of plage areas based on corrected and calibrated historical and modern Ca II K images. Consistent plage areas are now available on 88% of all days from 1892 onwards and on 98% from 1907 onwards.
description: 23 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
A Lyman-alpha blob in the GOODS South field: evidence for cold accretion onto a dark matter halo
Creators: name: Nilsson, Kim
name: Fynbo, Johan P. U.
name: Moller, Palle
name: Sommer-Larsen, Jesper
name: Ledoux, Cedric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the discovery of a z = 3.16 Lyman-alpha emitting blob in the GOODS South field. The blob has a total Ly-alpha luminosity of ~ 10^(43) erg s^(-1) and a diameter larger than 60 kpc. The available multi-wavelength data in the GOODS field consists of 13 bands from X-rays (Chandra) to infrared (Spitzer). Unlike other discovered Ly-alpha blobs, this blob shows no obvious continuum counter-part in any of the broad-bands. In particular, no optical counter-parts are found in the deep HST/ACS imaging available. For previously published blobs, AGN (Active Galactic Nuclei) or 'superwind' models have been found to provide the best match with the data. We here argue that the most probable origin of the extended Ly-alpha emission from the blob in the GOODS South field is cold accretion onto a dark matter halo.
description: 4 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures, Accepted to A&A Letters, minor changes to text
Unified Approach to Classical Speed Limit and Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation
Creators: name: Vo, Van Tuan
name: Van Vu, Tan
name: Hasegawa, Yoshihiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The total entropy production quantifies the extent of irreversibility in thermodynamic systems, which is nonnegative for any feasible dynamics. When additional information such as the initial and final states or moments of an observable is available, it is known that tighter lower bounds on the entropy production exist according to the classical speed limits and the thermodynamic uncertainty relations. Here, we obtain a universal lower bound on the total entropy production in terms of probability distributions of an observable in the time forward and backward processes. For a particular case, we show that our universal relation reduces to a classical speed limit, imposing a constraint on the speed of the system's evolution in terms of the Hatano--Sasa entropy production. Notably, the newly obtained classical speed limit is tighter than the previously reported bound by a constant factor. Moreover, we demonstrate that a generalized thermodynamic uncertainty relation can be derived from another particular case of the universal relation. Our new uncertainty relation holds for systems with time-reversal symmetry breaking and recovers several existing bounds. Our approach provides a unified perspective on two closely related classes of inequality: classical speed limits and thermodynamic uncertainty relations.
description: 6 pages; 2 pages of supplemental material
A review of clinical uses of Bromelain and concerned purification methods to obtain its pharmacological effects efficiently
Creators: name: Habib, Shehan
name: Arefin, Paroma
name: Aishawarya Arefin
name: MD SAIDUL AREFIN
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biological Techniques
Medicine

description: Bromelain comprises a group of proteolytic enzymes obtained from the tissue of Pineapple, Ananas comosus,belonging to the Bromeliaceae plant family. Different studies indicated its antithrombotic, fibrinolytic,antimicrobial, anticancer, and anti-inflammatory properties. Bromelain has significant applications in clinical,industrial, and cosmetic sectors. Therefore, researchers have always explored suitable extraction andpurification methods for the final application. In this paper, we have mainly focused on the potentialpharmacological activity of bromelain and future applications. We have identified, compared, and evaluated thedifferent extraction and purification methods of bromelain for utilizing its pharmacological activities. We havealso discussed the pharmacokinetics, toxicity profile, and health effects of bromelain. The study concluded withfindings of a huge area of their clinical uses and proper methods to obtain the purest form of bromelain.
جایگاه علمی دانشگا ه های جهان در نظام رتبه بندی لایدن سال 2020
Creators: name: Zahedi, Zohreh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: جایگاه علمی دانشگا ه های جهان در نظام رتبه بندی لایدن سال 2020
Tarchnišvili, Michael: Geschichte der kirchlichen georgischen Literatur, auf Grund des ersten Bandes der georgischen Literaturgeschichte von K. Kekelidze bearbeitet in Verbindung mit Julius Assfalg
Creators: name: Molitor, Joseph
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 41 (1957): Oriens christianus, Band 41
Mesure de la pertinence du concept de l’Orientation Entrepreneuriale dans le contexte Tunisien : Promettre l’échelle de mesure deMiller/ Covin et Slevin (1989)[Measuring the relevance of the Entrepreneurial Orientation concept in the TunisianContext:Promising Miller / Covin and Slevin'sMeasurementScale (1989)]
Creators: name: Chemli, Samah Horchani
name: Zouaoui, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150304 Entrepreneurship
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The purpose of this article is to explore how the concept of Entrepreneurial Orientation has been described and evaluated in previous research. The focus is on Entrepreneurial Orientation as a measure of entrepreneurial intensity. The mobilization of the resource-based approach and the measurement-based approaches led us to the challenge of testing the relevance of the Miller / Covin and Slevin (1989) measurement scale in a specific context. It is argued that as a latent construct, Entrepreneurial Orientation exists independently of its measures and that researchers are free to choose the measurement approach that best serves their research objectives.