cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The World Market in Fresh Fruit and Vegetables, Wine, and Tropical Beverages-- Government Intervention and Multilateral Policy Reform
Creators: name: Buckley, Katharine C.
name: Buckley, Katharine C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Trade liberalization
subject: policy reform
subject: fruit and vegetables
subject: wine
subject: coffee
subject: tea
subject: cocoa
subject: world trade
subject: government policies
subject: intervention

description: Agriculture is a key issue in the Uruguay Round of negotiations under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Much attention has been directed toward reaching an agreement for the multilateral elimination of government policies that distort production, consumption, and .trade in agricultural commodities. While agricultural specialty commodities have not been a primary focus in these negotiations, these high-value commodities are an important source of trade revenue for many countries. This study is a qualitative analysis of the consumption, production, and trade implications of removing trade -distorting government policies for selected agricultural specialty commodities (fresh fruit and vegetables, wine, and tropical beverages) in major importing and exporting countries. Countries providing an off-season base for supplying fresh fruit and vegetables to major markets would benefit from the removal of tariffs by importing countries, but few gains would be expected from liberalizing markets for coffee and cocoa beans and tea. U.S. fruit and wine producers would likely gain from the opening of new export market opportunities.
Universal Extra Dimensions and Kaluza Klein Bound States
Creators: name: Carone, Christopher D.
name: Conroy, Justin M.
name: Sher, Marc
name: Turan, Ismail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the bound states of the Kaluza-Klein (KK) excitations of quarks in certain models of Universal Extra Dimensions. Such bound states may be detected at future lepton colliders in the cross section for the pair production of KK-quarks near threshold. For typical values of model parameters, we find that "KK-quarkonia" have widths in the 10 - 100 MeV range, and production cross sections of order a few picobarns for the lightest resonances. Two body decays of the constituent KK-quarks lead to distinctive experimental signatures. We point out that such KK resonances may be discovered before any of the higher KK modes.
description: 21 pages LaTeX, 9 eps figures
Additional file 2 of Parasite associations predict infection risk: incorporating co-infections in predictive models for neglected tropical diseases
Creators: name: Clark, Nicholas J.
name: Owada, Kei
name: Ruberanziza, Eugene
name: Ortu, Giuseppina
name: Irenee Umulisa
name: Ursin Bayisenge
name: Mbonigaba, Jean Bosco
name: Mucaca, Jean Bosco
name: Lancaster, Warren
name: Fenwick, Alan
name: Magalhães, Ricardo J. Soares
name: Mbituyumuremyi, Aimable
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Observed infection prevalence for the four studied helminth parasites across 177 schools in Rwanda. Figure S2. Parasite co-infections and conditional correlation coefficients. Figure S3. Out-of-sample classification accuracies of the multi-parasite conditional random fields (CRF) and single-parasite gradient boosted machine (GBM) models. Figure S4. Area under the curve of the receiver operating characteristics (AUCs) for school-wide infection prevalence predicted by the conditional random fields (CRF) and single-parasite gradient boosted machine (GBM) models. Figure S5. Sensitivities of the conditional random fields (CRF) and single-parasite gradient boosted machine (GBM) models for predicting individual-level co-infections between A. lumbricoides and T. trichiura. Figure S6. Pearsonʼs correlations between each school’s observed standardised A. lumbricoides + T. trichiura co-infection ratio (SCR) and predicted SCRs from the conditional random fields (CRF) and single-parasite gradient boosted machine (GBM) models. Figure S7. Map of Rwanda’s provencial districts. Figure S8. Predicted infection prevalence of hookworm in Rwandan schoolchildren. Figure S9. Predicted infection prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni in Rwandan schoolchildren.
Lasioglossum (Dialictus) tuolumnense Gibbs 2009
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Lasioglossum (Dialictus) tuolumnense Gibbs, 2009 **
[Holotype: BBSL; ♀ 3.54 km. WNW Mount Gibson, 2036 mts elev., Tuolumne Co., California: USA; August 1, 2005]
This species represents a new record for the BCP and Mexico. The MABC team collected one male in the Baja California Mountains in Sierra San Pedro Mártir in July 2017. See fig. 180.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 263, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
The X-ray eclipse of OY Car resolved with XMM-Newton: X-ray emission from the polar regions of the white dwarf
Creators: name: Wheatley, Peter J.
name: West, Richard G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the XMM-Newton X-ray eclipse lightcurve of the dwarf nova OY Car. The eclipse ingress and egress are well resolved for the first time in any dwarf nova placing strong constraints on the size and location of the X-ray emitting region. We find good fits to a simple linear eclipse model, giving ingress/egress durations of 30+/-3 sec. Remarkably this is shorter than the ingress/egress duration of the sharp eclipse in the optical as measured by Wood et al. (1989) and ascribed to the white dwarf (43+/-2 sec). We also find that the X-ray eclipse is narrower than the optical eclipse by 14+/-2 sec, which is precisely the difference required to align the second and third contact points of the X-ray and optical eclipses. We discuss these results and conclude that X-ray emission in OY Car most likely arises from the polar regions of the white dwarf. Our data were originally reported by Ramsay et al (2001), but they did not make a quantitative measurement of eclipse parameters. We have also corrected important timing anomalies present in the data available at that time.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Dependence of the transition from Townsend to glow discharge on secondary emission
Creators: name: Raizer, Yu. P.
name: Ebert, Ute
name: Sijacic, D. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper Sijacic and Ebert have systematically studied the transition from Townsend to glow discharge, refering to older work from von Engel (1934) up to Raizer (1991), and they stated a strong dependendence on secondary emission $γ$ from the cathode. We here show that the earlier results of von Engel and Raizer on the small current expansion about the Townsend limit actually are the limit of small $γ$ of the new expression; and that for larger $γ$ the old and the new results vary by no more than a factor of 2. We discuss the $γ$-dependence of the transition which is rather strong for short gaps.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures, submited as a brief report to Phys.Rev.E
Trade Liberalization in Yugoslavia and Poland
Creators: name: Cochrane, Nancy J.
name: Cochrane, Nancy J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Eastern Europe
subject: Yugoslavia
subject: Poland
subject: trade liberalization
subject: producer subsidy equivalents
subject: consumer subsidy equivalents
subject: SWOPSIM
subject: agricultural trade
subject: agricultural policy
subject: economic reforms

description: CThis study presents the author's estimates of producer and consumer subsidy equivalents (PSE's and CSE's) for Yugoslavia and Poland and uses the Static World Policy Simulation (SWOPSIM) framework developed at ERS to model the effects of trade liberalization (equated here with domestic policy reform) on agricultural production and trade in those two countriegl *PSE and CSE calculations for 1986, the base year used in the model,-show that in that year both Yugoslavia and Poland subsidized producers on a level roughly equal to that in Western Europe. On the other hand, Poland also subsidized consumers quite heavily, while Yugoslavia taxed its consumers, generally to a greater extent than in Western Europe. SWOPSIM results suggest that the ongoing economic reforms in these countries, if successful, could dramatically alter current patterns of production and trade in both countries. Poland could become a significant net agricultural exporter, mainly the result of a large increase in pork exports. Yugoslavia could shift to a net importer of grains, but increased exports of meat and other products could bring it close to selfsufficiency in agricultural trade.
Optimal time plan for accelerated degradation testing based on the inverse Gaussian process
Creators: name: Zhou, Xiaodong
name: Wu, Yiqi
name: Wang, Yunjuan
name: Wu, Lin
name: Yue, Rongxian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Neuroscience
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: This paper addresses the optimal design problem for constant-stress accelerated degradation tests using inverse Gaussian (IG) process models. Unlike previous studies that primarily focussed on optimizing stress levels and sample sizes, this research uniquely emphasizes the critical role of measurement timing as a design variable. We investigate D-, A-, and V -optimal designs for IG processes, both with and without random effects. Our study derives analytical solutions for optimal measurement time schedules in IG processes characterized by linear degradation paths and provides numerical solutions for those with nonlinear degradation paths. To streamline the search for optimal time schedules, we employ a lower-dimensional parameterization method that mitigates the substantial computational burden. This approach facilitates the generation of multiple measurement times using only a limited number of design variables. The numerical results highlight the significant impact of optimal time scheduling on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of accelerated degradation test designs.
China's Interprovincial Grain Marketing and Import Demand
Creators: name: Lardy, Nicholas R.
name: Lardy, Nicholas R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: China
subject: international markets
subject: grain marketing
subject: imports
subject: policy

description: China has been a major participant in international markets for agricultural commodities for at least a century. This study explores the possibility that China's grain import demand is a function of state policy on interprovincial grain marketing. China's system for the interprovincial transfer of grain appears to have performed very poorly in the first decade of reform. The central government has taken several important steps to reduce its role in the grain market to facilitate grain transfer. However, it remains to be seen if the constraints, such as storage and transport, could be eased sufficiently to increase the level of interprovincial grain transfer.
Gender, sex work, and human rights: A study of the legal reform of commercial sex in contemporary Taiwan
Creators: name: Wang, Yi-Lu
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation discusses the issue of commercial sex in Taiwan. In Today's Taiwan, the only place to conduct legal sexual transaction is in the very few licensed brothels. Even though the Social Maintenance Law (SOMA) allows the local governments to establish red-light district in their territories; however, none of them so far have considered establishing such red-light district. Outside of the red-light district that does not exist and the licensed brothels, Article 80 of SOMA sanctions sex workers and their clients with administrative fines. With almost no place to conduct legal sexual transactions, the sex industry hides in shadows. Murders, exploitations, and trafficking are haunted in this underground industry. In order to protect human rights of sex workers, legal reform is needed. I use this dissertation to argue the current criminalization legal regime in Taiwan is not working and should be discarded, and the new legal regime focusing on protecting the human rights of sex workers should be established. In order to find the best approach that assures human rights of sex workers, I discuss and analyze the policies of the United States (Criminalization Approach and Legalization of brothels), Sweden (Criminalizing clients), the Netherlands (Legalization Approach), and the New Zealand (Decriminalization Approach). I concluded the Decriminalization Approach is so far the best approach to ensure the human rights of sex workers. I argue the Constitutional Court in Taiwan should issue Interpretation to recognize the legal status of sex work and the SOMA should cease to be implemented. Lastly, for establishing the new decriminalization regime, I propose my own suggestions toward the new legislation regulating commercial sex.
Change point detection for clustered survival data with marginal proportional hazards model
Creators: name: Xie, Ping
name: Niu, Yi
name: Wang, Xiaoguang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: In survival analysis, models with a change point for independent survival data have been extensively studied. However, few works in the literature focus on clustered survival data with a change point, despite the prevalence of such survival data in clinical research. In this article, we propose the maximal score test, along with its normalized version, to detect the existence of change point effects for the marginal proportional hazards model. We establish the asymptotic distributions of the proposed test statistics under both the null and local alternative hypotheses. To approximate the critical points for the proposed tests, a simple Monte Carlo method is presented. Furthermore, when the null hypothesis of no change point effects is rejected, we propose maximum smoothed partial likelihood estimators for the unknown change point and the regression parameters and derive the asymptotic properties of the estimators. Extensive simulation studies are carried out to evaluate the finite sample performance of the proposed methods. Finally, we illustrate the proposed methods with applications to the breast cancer data from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial.
THE TAX SYSTEM OF IRAQ: A STUDY OF TAXATION IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY
Creators: name: El-Mutwalli, Tariq
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 3502
subject: Banking, finance and investment

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 18-03, page: 8670.
Discovery of a New Transient Magnetar Candidate: XTE J1810-197
Creators: name: Ibrahim, A. I.
name: Markwardt, C.
name: Swank, J.
name: Ransom, S.
name: Roberts, M.
name: Kaspi, V.
name: Woods, P.
name: Safi-Harb, S.
name: Balman, S.
name: Parke, W.
name: Kouveliotou, C.
name: Hurley, K.
name: Cline, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a new X-ray pulsar, XTE J1810-197. The source was serendipitously discovered on 2003 July 15 by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) while observing the soft gamma repeater SGR 1806-20. The pulsar has a 5.54 s spin-period and a soft spectrum (photon index ~ 4). We detect the source in earlier RXTE observations back to 2003 January. These show that a transient outburst began between 2002 November 17 and 2003 January 23 and that the pulsar has been spinning down since then, with a high rate Pdot ~ 10^-11 s/s showing significant timing noise, but no evidence for Doppler shifts due to a binary companion. The rapid spin-down rate and slow spin-period imply a super-critical magnetic field B=3x10^14 G and a young characteristic age < 7600 yr. These properties are strikingly similar to those of anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft gamma repeaters, making the source a likely new magnetar. A follow-up Chandra observation provided a 2".5 radius error circle within which the 1.5 m Russian-Turkish Optical Telescope RTT150 found a limiting magnitude of R_c=21.5, in accord with other recently reported limits. The source is present in archival ASCA and ROSAT data as well, at a level 100 times fainter than the \~ 3 mCrab seen in 2003. This suggests that other X-ray sources that are currently in a state similar to the inactive phase of XTE J1810-197 may also be unidentified magnetars awaiting detection via a similar activity.
description: Submitted to ApJL; 4 pages; 4 figures
Additional file 3 of Automatic quantification of left ventricular function by medical students using ultrasound
Creators: name: Grue, Jahn Frederik
name: Storve, Sigurd
name: Dalen, Håvard
name: Mjølstad, Ole Christian
name: Samstad, Stein O.
name: Eriksen-Volnes, Torfinn
name: Torp, Hans
name: Haugen, Bjørn Olav
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3: Additional Figure 3. Examples of failed tracking of the mitral annulus on student recordings.
The World Rice Market--Government Intervention and Multilateral Policy Reform
Creators: name: Childs, Nathan W.
name: Childs, Nathan W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Rice
subject: trade
subject: production
subject: indica
subject: japonica
subject: domestic policies
subject: trade policies
subject: trade liberalization

description: The world rice market is characterized by the relatively small share of production traded compared with other major grains and substantial price variability. These characteristics are primarily due to the uncertainties associated with the timing of the Asian monsoon, concentration of production in South Asia and Southeast Asia, and domestic and trade policies conducted by most Asian countries that ban or restrict imports and support production. In addition, developed exporters and some developing exporters support domestic producers and/or assist exports. The combination of policies conducted by major producers and traders, especially Japan's and South Korea's complete ban on imports of rice, have lowered trading prices and reduced trade volumes. If all trade-distorting policies were eliminated, world price and trade would increase, while production and consumption would decline. The United States could lose some of its lower quality indica markets to Asian producers, but would likely expand japonica trade with Japan and South_Korea and higher quality indica trade with the EC and the Middle East. This report describes world rice production and trade, catalogs the trade and domestic policies of the major producing, consuming, and trading countries, and examines the potential effects of a liberalized trade environment on the world and domestic rice markets.
Thermodynamic cycles with active matter
Creators: name: Ekeh, Timothy
name: Cates, Michael E.
name: Fodor, Étienne
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: Active matter constantly dissipates energy to power the self-propulsion of its microscopic constituents. This opens the door to designing innovative cyclic engines without any equilibrium equivalent. We offer a consistent thermodynamic framework to characterize and optimize the performances of such cycles. Based on a minimal model, we put forward a protocol which extracts work by controlling only the properties of the confining walls at boundaries, and we rationalize the transitions between optimal cycles. We show that the corresponding power and efficiency are generally proportional, so that they reach their maximum values at same cycle time in contrast with thermal cycles, and we provide a generic relation constraining the fluctuations of the power.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Cotton: State-Level Costs of Production, 1986-88
Creators: name: Mathews, Kenneth H.
name: Dismukes, Robert
name: Pelly, Robert A.
name: Ali, Mir B.
name: Mathews, Kenneth H.
name: Dismukes, Robert
name: Pelly, Robert A.
name: Ali, Mir B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Costs of production
subject: State -level
subject: cotton
subject: enterprise costs and returns

description: This report presents State-level cotton production cost and return estimates for 1986-88. Six hundred fifty cotton producers from 10 States were interviewed about their production practices, input use, and expenditures. The estimates are calculated on a per -planted -acre basis and reflect average production practices, yields, and prices paid and received by cotton producers. Per -acre (per-pound) total economic costs among cotton-producing States varied from $256.09 to $934.13 ($0.61 to $o.77) in 1987. The estimates are based on the 1987 Farm Costs and Returns Survey (FCRS).
Additional file 1 of Partners’ experiences of breastfeeding: a qualitative evaluation of a breastfeeding support intervention in Sweden
Creators: name: Blixt, Ingrid
name: Axelsson, Ove
name: Funkquist, Eva-Lotta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supporting information.
The World Sugar Market--Government Intervention and Multilateral Policy Reform
Creators: name: Lord, Ron
name: Barry, Robert D.
name: Lord, Ron
name: Barry, Robert D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Sugar trade
subject: policy reform
subject: trade liberalization
subject: GATT negotiations
subject: government intervention
subject: high fructose starch syrup
subject: sweeteners

description: Extensive government intervention in sugar markets significantly affects sugar production, consumption, and trade. Many countries provide support for sugar producers, placing the cost on consumers and/or taxpayers. A trade liberalization scenario is analyzed in which only the industrial market economies are assumed to liberalize their agriculture. The analysis shows that compared with actual 1986-88 levels, liberalized levels of sugar production in 1986-88 would have been lower in the industrial market economies, and higher in the less -developed countries. Liberalization would have led to an increase in the world sugar price of 10-30 percent from its 1975-89 longrun average level, and would have reduced world price variability while increasing domestic price variability in many industrial market economies. Sugar production in the United States would have been lower, and consumption slightly higher. World sugar trade patterns would have shifted dramatically, but overall trade volume would have increased only marginally. Sugar substitutes, primarily high fructose starch syrups, would have increased market share, mainly in a few industrial market economies.
Lasioglossum (Evylaeus) argemonis
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Lasioglossum (Evylaeus) argemonis (Cockerell, 1897)
[Holotype: USNM; ♀ Paso de Telaya, Veracruz, Mexico; March 29, 1896]
Lasioglossum argemonis is found in the southwestern USA and Baja California, Mexico. The BBPT collected this species in the Coastal Sage Matorral in June 2020 (1 ♀), and April 2021 (1 ♀), and Chaparral in May 2021 (2 ♀), and April (2 ♀), and May 2022 (2 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC. See fig. 181.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 264, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Peanuts: State-Level Costs of Production, 1986-88
Creators: name: Dismukes, Robert
name: Ali, Mir B.
name: Pelly, Robert A.
name: Dismukes, Robert
name: Ali, Mir B.
name: Pelly, Robert A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Peanuts
subject: costs of production

description: Peanut production costs vary from State to State because of differences in soil type, climate, production practices, input use, and type of peanut grown. Costs per acre are highest in Virginia and North Carolina and lowest in Texas. Higher yields in Virginia and North Carolina, however, lead to lower costs per pound. Seeding costs are higher in States where runner and Virginia peanuts predominate: Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. Fertilizer costs are greater in irrigated areas of Oklahoma and Texas. Chemical expenses are highest in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.
Rudorffites for solar-cell applications: Insights on their structures, electronic and optical properties from first-principles
Creators: name: Cucco, Bruni
name: Pedesseau, Laurent
name: Even, Jacky
name: Kepenekian, Mikaël
name: Volonakis, George
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Traditional lead halide perovskites exhibit excellent photovoltaics properties and over the
 past few years have revolutionized the eld of emerging photovoltaics technologies, reaching power
 conversion eciencies of above 25%. Yet, the well-known instability of these materials when
 exposed to ambient conditions and/or illumination, and the concerns raised regarding the presence
 of the non-environmental friendly Pb-atoms in the structures are still challenges to be overcome.
 The search for stable non-toxic materials with high photo-conversion eciency remains an active
 topic of research for the next-generation photovoltaics.
 In 2017 a new family of ternary Ag-Bi-I materials name rudortes, with the formula AaBbXx (x
 = a + 3b), were shown to be highly stable and promising for solar cell applications, exhibiting
 low optical band gaps, impressive high short-circuit currents of 10:7mA=cm2, and achieved a
 photo-conversion eciency up to 4.3%[1]. Contrary to standard ABX3 perovskites, rudortes
 exhibit edge-shared AgI6 and BiI6 octahedra, thus breaking the paradigm of corner-sharing
 structures for good opto-electronic properties, and highlight a new class of lead-free perovskitoid
 materials to be explored. These new materials have also shown an ease of processing and have
 been successfully synthesized by spin-coating techniques [2], thermal co-evaporation [3], and more
 recently through a solution atomization to produce aerosols [4]. However, to-date a systematic
 investigation of their structural and electronic properties is missing.
 Here, we thoroughly analyse the symmetry of the rudortes structures and employ calcula-
 tions from rst-principles to unveil their electronic and optical properties. In practice, it's
 possible to derive an in nity number of rudortes structures. Among these, Ag3BiI6, Ag2BiI5,
 AgBiI4 and AgBi2I7 were previously experimentally investigated by Turkevych et al. and exhibit
 extremely similar structural properties and optical absorption spectra [1]. We use their reported
 symmetry groups (R3m, C2/m and Fd3m), and show that it is necessary to nely analyze the
 structure/symmetry relationship to accurately describe the lattices. Starting from AgBiI4 we
 establish a reference point to evaluate its opto-electronic properties, including quasi-particle
 e ects by means of state-of-the-art GW calculations. We expand our approach to investigate other
 rudortes, by varying the Ag/Bi ratio in the composition, as well as the number of B-site vacancies.
 In summary, by systematically exploring the rudorte phase-space we use our calculations to
 propose key parameters to tune the properties of these compounds by controlling the stoichiometry
 at the time of synthesis.
Probabilistic Visual Navigation with Bidirectional Image Prediction
Creators: name: Hirose, Noriaki
name: Taguchi, Shun
name: Xia, Fei
name: Martin-Martin, Roberto
name: Tahara, Kosuke
name: Ishigaki, Masanori
name: Savarese, Silvio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Humans can robustly follow a visual trajectory defined by a sequence of images (i.e. a video) regardless of substantial changes in the environment or the presence of obstacles. We aim at endowing similar visual navigation capabilities to mobile robots solely equipped with a RGB fisheye camera. We propose a novel probabilistic visual navigation system that learns to follow a sequence of images with bidirectional visual predictions conditioned on possible navigation velocities. By predicting bidirectionally (from start towards goal and vice versa) our method extends its predictive horizon enabling the robot to go around unseen large obstacles that are not visible in the video trajectory. Learning how to react to obstacles and potential risks in the visual field is achieved by imitating human teleoperators. Since the human teleoperation commands are diverse, we propose a probabilistic representation of trajectories that we can sample to find the safest path. Integrated into our navigation system, we present a novel localization approach that infers the current location of the robot based on the virtual predicted trajectories required to reach different images in the visual trajectory. We evaluate our navigation system quantitatively and qualitatively in multiple simulated and real environments and compare to state-of-the-art baselines.Our approach outperforms the most recent visual navigation methods with a large margin with regard to goal arrival rate, subgoal coverage rate, and success weighted by path length (SPL). Our method also generalizes to new robot embodiments never used during training.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables
Additional file 5 of Automatic quantification of left ventricular function by medical students using ultrasound
Creators: name: Grue, Jahn Frederik
name: Storve, Sigurd
name: Dalen, Håvard
name: Mjølstad, Ole Christian
name: Samstad, Stein O.
name: Eriksen-Volnes, Torfinn
name: Torp, Hans
name: Haugen, Bjørn Olav
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 5: Additional Table 2. Mitral annular tracking in student recordings and patient characteristics.
title: Distress and resilience of healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic (DARVID): study protocol for a mixed-methods research project
Creators: name: Fuchs, Alexander Fabian
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150 Psychology
subject: 610 Medicine & health

description: Introduction: The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has exposed healthcare professionals to exceptional situations that can lead to increased anxiety (i.e., infection anxiety, perceived vulnerability), traumatic stress and depression. We will investigate the development of these psychological disturbances in healthcare professionals at the treatment front line and second line during the COVID-19 pandemic over a 12-month period in different countries. Additionally, we will explore whether personal resilience factors and a work-related sense of coherence influence the development of mental health problems of healthcare professionals.

Methods and analysis: We plan to carry out a sequential qualitative–quantitative mixed-methods-design study. The quantitative phase consists of a longitudinal online survey based on six validated questionnaires, to be completed at three points in time. A qualitative analysis will follow at the end of the pandemic, to comprise at least nine semi-structured interviews. The a-priori sample size for the survey will be a minimum of 160 participants, which we will extend to 400, to compensate for drop-out. Recruitment into the study will be through personal invitations and the ‘snowballing’ sampling technique. Hierarchical linear regression combined with qualitative data analysis will facilitate greater understanding of any associations between resilience and mental health issues in healthcare professionals during pandemics.

Ethics and dissemination: The study participants will provide their electronic informed consent. All recorded data will be stored on a secured research server at the study site, which will only be accessible to the investigators. The Bern Cantonal Ethics Committee has waived the need for ethical approval (Req-2020-00355; 1 April, 2020). There are no ethical, legal or security issues regarding the data collection, processing, storage and dissemination in this project.

Trial registration: ISRCTN13694948 (date of registration: 1 April, 2020)
Massive Nonlinear Sigma Models and BPS Domain Walls in Harmonic Superspace
Creators: name: Arai, Masato
name: Ivanov, Evgeny
name: Niederle, Jiri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Four-dimensional massive N=2 nonlinear sigma models and BPS wall solutions are studied in the off-shell harmonic superspace approach in which N=2 supersymmetry is manifest. The general nonlinear sigma model can be described by an analytic harmonic potential which is the hyper-Kahler analog of the Kahler potential in N=1 theory. We examine the massive nonlinear sigma model with multi-center four-dimensional target hyper-Kahler metrics and derive the corresponding BPS equation. We study in some detail two particular cases with the Taub-NUT and double Taub-NUT metrics. The latter embodies, as its two separate limits, both Taub-NUT and Eguchi-Hanson metrics. We find that domain wall solutions exist only in the double Taub-NUT case including its Eguchi-Hanson limit.
description: 35 pages, 4 figures, minor corrections and references added, to appear in NPB
Lasioglossum (Hemihalictus) arizonense
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Lasioglossum (Hemihalictus) arizonense (Crawford, 1907)
[Type: USNM; ♀ Arizona, USA]
Sandhouse and Cockerell (1924) reported this species in the Lower Colorado Desert and the Gulf Coast regions of BC and BCS. However, what is currently known as Lasioglossum arizonense belongs to a species complex requiring further revision, potentially necessitating the description of new species. See fig. 182.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 266, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
HD 191939: Three Sub-Neptunes Transiting a Sun-like Star Only 54 pc Away
Creators: name: Badenas-Agusti, Mariona
name: Günther, Maximilian N.
name: Daylan, Tansu
name: Mikal-Evans, Thomas
name: Vanderburg, Andrew
name: Huang, Chelsea X.
name: Matthews, Elisabeth
name: Rackham, Benjamin V.
name: Bieryla, Allyson
name: Stassun, Keivan G.
name: Kane, Stephen R.
name: Shporer, Avi
name: Fulton, Benjamin J.
name: Hill, Michelle L.
name: Nowak, Grzegorz
name: Ribas, Ignasi
name: Pallé, Enric
name: Jenkins, Jon M.
name: Latham, David W.
name: Seager, Sara
name: Ricker, George R.
name: Vanderspek, Roland K.
name: Winn, Joshua N.
name: Abril-Pla, Oriol
name: Collins, Karen A.
name: Serra, Pere Guerra
name: Niraula, Prajwal
name: Rustamkulov, Zafar
name: Barclay, Thomas
name: Crossfield, Ian J. M.
name: Howell, Steve B.
name: Ciardi, David R.
name: Gonzales, Erica J.
name: Schlieder, Joshua E.
name: Caldwell, Douglas A.
name: Fausnaugh, Michael
name: McDermott, Scott
name: Paegert, Martin
name: Pepper, Joshua
name: Rose, Mark E.
name: Twicken, Joseph D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the discovery of three sub-Neptune-sized planets transiting the nearby and bright Sun-like star HD 191939 (TIC 269701147, TOI 1339), a $K_{s}=7.18$ magnitude G8 V dwarf at a distance of only 54 parsecs. We validate the planetary nature of the transit signals by combining five months of data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite with follow-up ground-based photometry, archival optical images, radial velocities, and high angular resolution observations. The three sub-Neptunes have similar radii ($R_{b} = 3.42^{+0.11}_{-0.11}\,R_{\oplus}$, $R_{c}=3.23_{-0.11}^{+0.11}\,R_{\oplus}$, and $R_{d}=3.16_{-0.11}^{+0.11}\,R_{\oplus}$) and their orbits are consistent with a stable, circular, and co-planar architecture near mean motion resonances of 1:3 and 3:4 ($P_{b}=8.88$ days, $P_{c}=28.58$ days, and $P_{d}=38.35$ days). The HD~191939 system is an excellent candidate for precise mass determinations of the planets with high-resolution spectroscopy due to the host star's brightness and low chromospheric activity. Moreover, the system's compact and near-resonant nature can provide an independent way to measure planetary masses via transit timing variations while also enabling dynamical and evolutionary studies. Finally, as a promising target for multi-wavelength transmission spectroscopy of all three planets' atmospheres, HD 191939 can offer valuable insight into multiple sub-Neptunes born from a proto-planetary disk that may have resembled that of the early Sun.
description: 24 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables
Electronic properties of vacancy ordered double perovskites
Creators: name: Cucco, Bruno
name: Bouder, Gaelle
name: Kepenekian, Mikaël
name: Even, Jacky
name: Pedesseau, Laurent
name: Katan, Claudine
name: Volonakis, George
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Poster on Electronic properties of vacancy ordered double perovskites. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and in- novation Programme under the grant agreement No 862656. The information and views set out in the abstracts and presentations are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Union. Neither the European Union institutions and bodies nor any person acting on their behalf may be held responsible for the use which may be made of the information contained herein.
Lasioglossum (Hemihalictus) kincaidii
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Lasioglossum (Hemihalictus) kincaidii (Cockerell, 1898)
[Holotype: USNM; ♀ Olympia, Thurston, Washington, USA; June 10, 1895]
This species has been previously reported by Moure and Hurd (1987) in BC. The BBPT collected L. kincaidii in the Coastal Sage Matorral in June 2020 (3 ♀), and July 2020 (1 ♂); Chaparral in April 2021 (1 ♀); and Succulent Coastal Matorral in August 2021 (1 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC. See fig. 182.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 266, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Simultaneous robust subspace recovery and semi-stability of quiver representations
Creators: name: Chindris, Calin
name: Kline, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 16G20, 13A50, 14L24

description: We consider the problem of simultaneously finding lower-dimensional subspace structures in a given $m$-tuple of possibly corrupted, high-dimensional data sets all of the same size. We refer to this problem as simultaneous robust subspace recovery (SRSR) and provide a quiver invariant theoretic approach to it. We show that SRSR is a particular case of the more general problem of effectively deciding whether a quiver representation is semi-stable (in the sense of Geometric Invariant Theory) and, in case it is not, finding a subrepresentation certifying in an optimal way that the representation is not semi-stable. In this paper, we show that SRSR and the more general quiver semi-stability problem can be solved effectively.
Prediction can be safely used as a proxy for explanation in causally consistent Bayesian generalized linear models
Creators: name: Scholz, Maximilian
name: Bürkner, Paul-Christian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Bayesian modeling provides a principled approach to quantifying uncertainty and has seen a surge of applications in recent years. Within the context of a Bayesian workflow, we are concerned with model selection for the purpose of finding models that best explain the data or underlying data generating process. Since insight into the true process is rare, what remains is incomplete causal knowledge and model predictions of the data. This leads to the important question of when the use of prediction as a proxy for explanation for the purpose of model selection is valid. We approach this question by means of large-scale simulations of Bayesian generalized linear models where we investigate various causal and statistical misspecifications. Our results indicate that the use of prediction as proxy for explanation is valid and safe if the models under consideration are sufficiently consistent with the underlying causal structure of the true data generating process.
One-year overview of the H2020 European project DROP-IT
Creators: name: Acharya, Debdipto
name: Pedesseau, Laurent
name: Volonakis, George
name: Kepenekian, Mikaël
name: Katan, Claudine
name: Even, Jacky
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Lead free
optoelectronic applications
solar cell

description: DROP-IT is a 3years H2020 European project starting in November 2019. DROP-IT “DRop-on demand flexible Optoelectronics & Photovoltaics by means of Lead-Free halide perovskITes”. FOTON Institute - INSA Rennes and ISCR are part of the DROP-IT consortium (8 European partners). DROP-IT will combine optoelectronics and photonics in a single flexible drop-on demand inkjet technology platform by means of exploiting the enormous potential of lead-free perovskite materials. FOTON Institute – INSA Rennes will be in charge of the simulation task of the project. The first year has been mainly focusing on 2 tasks i) the state-of-art bibliography and analysis of the lead-free materials for solar cells, leds,photocatalysts, and then ii) the exploration of new lead-free materials by Density Functional Theory. DROP IT consortium : UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA (Spain), UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA (Spain), UNIVERSITAT JAUME I DE CASTELLON (Spain), EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH (Switzerland), FUNDACJA SAULE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Poland), SAULE SP ZOO (Poland), AVANTAMA AG (Switzerland), INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE RENNES (France)
 Disclaimer excluding Agency responsibility:
 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme under the grant agreement No 862656. The information and views set out in the abstracts and presentations are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Union. Neither the European Union institutions and bodies nor any person acting on their behalf may be held responsible for the use which may be made of the information contained herein.