cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Assessment of the Food Companies Sustainability Policies through a Greenwashing Indicator
Creators: name: Zanasi, Cesare
name: Rota, Cosimo
name: Trerè, Simona
name: Falciatori, Sharon
name: Zanasi, Cesare
name: Rota, Cosimo
name: Trerè, Simona
name: Falciatori, Sharon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: green marketing; greenwashing index; food; sustainability report; communication

description: There is an increasing interest in green marketing as a powerful tool to enhance the agrifood companies’ reputation and competitiveness; this makes it necessary to provide tools, for the consumers and the other stakeholders in the food system, able to detect the presence of distorted or false information often defined as greenwashing. It is also important for the agrifood companies to be able to prevent their communication to be unintentionally perceived as greenwashing, thus fully exploiting the value added provided by an effective communication of their sustainability policies. The goal of this paper is to provide a monitoring tool able to support the food companies definition of effective green marketing strategies, avoiding the risk of greenwashing; moreover supporting the other food system stakeholders’ critical analysis of the sustainability communication coming from the food companies. To this end a list of indicators coming from different organizations (Greenpeace, EnviroMedia Social Marketing and Oregon University, Terrachoice, Futerra) and authors (J.Grant, 2009) have been chosen and integrated in order to cover a broad range of sustainability dimensions and communication suggestions finalised to avoiding greenwashing in the agrifood sector. The level of correctness and relevance of the companies communication as been assessed by measuring the number of actions described in the food companies’ Sustainability Report, falling within the indicators belonging to the different categories of green marketing and greenwashing. The indicators have been tested on a large Italian food company: Barilla, by considering its Sustainability Report for the year 2016. The results showed that the sustainability actions related to possible greenwashing represent a relatively low share of the total action implemented by Barilla. Most interesting is the capacity of this analytical tool to encompass a broad range of dimensions related to the companies green marketing strategies evaluation; this allows also other stakeholders to more clearly analyse the capacity of a company to provide a clear honest and complete report on their sustainability activities. Further studies should weigh the different green marketing and greenwashing indicators in order to appreciate their relevance in contributing to the overall level of correct communication. A sample of representative food chain stakeholders should be involved in providing an expert evaluation.
Entropic repulsion of an interface in an external field
Creators: name: Velenik, Yvan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60K35, 82B24, 82B20

description: We consider an interface above an attractive hard wall in the complete wetting regime, and submitted to the action of an external increasing, convex potential, and study its delocalization as the intensity of this potential vanishes. Our main motivation is the analysis of critical prewetting, which corresponds to the choice of a linear external potential. We also present partial results on critical prewetting in the two dimensional Ising model, as well as a few (weak) results on pathwise estimates for the pure wetting problem for effective interface models.
title: The Impact of Radiation Damage on Electron Multiplying CCD Technology for the WFIRST Coronagraph
Creators: name: Bush, Nathan L.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2018

description: This thesis follows an investigation into the effects of radiation damage on the e2v CCD201-20; the detector baselined for use in the WFIRST coronagraph imaging and spectroscopy camera systems (hereafter, WFIRST CGI). The CCD201 is an EM-CCD, a variant of traditional CCD technology that is well suited for operation in light starved conditions. Despite successful implementation on many ground-based instruments, the technology has yet to be used within a space environment and therefore has low technological maturity compared to the standard CCD counterpart. Improvement of the technological maturity rested upon in-depth investigations into the effect of radiation damage on the CCD201, which in turn could be used to estimate the End Of Life (EOL) performance of the instrument and de-risk the utilisation of EM-CCDs for the mission. An in-depth radiation campaign was completed whereby multiple CCD201s were irradiated to multiple fluence levels at both room temperature and the nominal operating temperature of the mission (165 K). Performance was measured prior to and following each irradiation, including measurements of low-signal Charge Transfer Inefficiency (CTI), dark current and Clock Induced Charge (CIC). Significant performance differences were noted between the room temperature and cryogenic irradiation case, indicating that cryogenic irradiations are instrumental to accurate EOL performance estimates. CTI was identified as the key limitation to CGI science performance, and so attention then turned to amelioration strategies focused on improving performance in the presence of radiation damage, including trap pumping and narrow-channel modelling. The results presented in this thesis have helped lead to the adoption of the CCD201-20 for the WFIRST mission, have provided key insight into the differences between room temperature and cryogenic irradiations, have advanced the “trap pumping” technique for use on EM-CCDs and presented the properties on the dominant traps that impact CTI for radiation damaged CCDs. The findings are not only useful for the WFIRST CGI, but for any future space mission that will utilise EM-CCD technology in an environment where radiation has the potential to degrade science performance.
Leveraging High Performance CIP Processes to Reduce Water Usage in the Beverage Industry
Creators: name: Curt M. Weber, J.D
name: Roy, Sharon
name: Curt M. Weber, J.D
name: Roy, Sharon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Clean-in-place; CIP; Hazard analysis and critical control points; HACCP; Sustainability; Corporate social responsibility; Regulation; Water

description: The beverage industry around the world has been water-intensive, traditionally involving significant water usage, resulting in conflict over the viability of water sourcing vis-à-vis the respective surrounding ecosystems. Much of the usage has been related to the cleaning and sanitizing of manufacturing lines. With the advent of “clean-in-place” systems (CIP), it is possible to clean these lines in one minute in an environmentally friendly manner. This article discusses the use of advanced CIP to improve the beverage production process through reduction of water consumption, and how continuous improvement will assist in solving a critical problem in food manufacture. The legal ramifications of treatment of water with a concentrated food cleaner will be discussed, as well as an investigation of attaining and exceeding established regulatory standards.
Ultraprecise Rydberg atomic localization using optical vortices
Creators: name: Jia, Ning
name: Kirova, Teodora
name: Juzeliunas, Gediminas
name: Hamedi, Hamid Reza
name: Qian, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a robust localization of the highly-excited Rydberg atoms, interacting with doughnut-shaped optical vortices. Compared with the earlier standing-wave (SW)-based localization methods, a vortex beam can provide an ultrahigh-precision two-dimensional localization solely in the zero-intensity center, within a confined excitation region down to the nanometer scale. We show that the presence of the Rydberg-Rydberg interaction permits counter-intuitively much stronger confinement towards a high spatial resolution when it is partially compensated by a suitable detuning. In addition, applying an auxiliary SW modulation to the two-photon detuning allows a three-dimensional confinement of Rydberg atoms. In this case, the vortex field provides a transverse confinement while the SW modulation of the two-photon detuning localizes the Rydberg atoms longitudinally. To develop a new subwavelength localization technique, our results pave one-step closer to reduce excitation volumes to the level of a few nanometers, representing a feasible implementation for the future experimental applications.
description: oe in press
Women's responses to potential cardiac symptoms and emergency department care : maintaining personal, social, and physical integrity
Creators: name: Turris, Sheila A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this grounded theory study was to explore how women interpreted and made decisions about their symptoms, and how they subsequently interpreted their experiences of care in the emergency department (ED), in the context of seeking treatment for the symptoms suggestive of cardiac illness. Data were drawn from several sources: 100 hours of naturalistic observation, 17 in depth interviews with 16 women who visited one of two urban EDs between June 2005 and June 2006 for the treatment of symptoms suggestive of cardiac illness, and three interviews with expert ED nurses. The basic social psychological process of maintaining integrity was identified. Three distinct phases were apparent including: "resisting disruption," which occurred before arrival in an ED; "suspending agency," which occurred during an ED visit; and "integrating experiences and knowledge," which occurred after discharge. Focusing on the outcome of interest--treatment seeking in the context of symptoms suggestive of cardiac illness--health-care professionals and researchers have often attempted to understand the process by which women make decisions about seeking medical advice, through the framework of medical knowledge. In contrast, the women in this study drew on many forms of knowledge to understand both their symptoms and their subsequent diagnoses. Employing the framework of personal context, rather than medical knowledge, the women analyzed their symptoms, decided between competing courses of action, and ultimately came to understand the events that took place before, during, and after their visits to the ED. The findings of this study suggest that: (1) women's understandings of their symptoms, and their actions in relation to those symptoms, were strongly influenced by the broader context of their lives as mothers and wives; (2) women's perceptions of the ED as a place that is intense, regulated, and besieged played an important role in decisions about treatment seeking; (3) after discharge from the hospital, women strove to make sense of new knowledge and experiences in ways that were congruent with their images of themselves as "good" and "responsible" individuals.
Trust no One? Citizens’ Concerns regarding the Pork and Dairy Supply Chain
Creators: name: Rovers, Anja
name: Christoph-Schulz, Inken
name: Brümmer, Nanke
name: Saggau, Doreen
name: Rovers, Anja
name: Christoph-Schulz, Inken
name: Brümmer, Nanke
name: Saggau, Doreen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: trust, pork supply chain, dairy supply chain

description: Latest studies show that a responsible treatment of farm animals is important to many citizens. Furthermore, societal expectations towards animal husbandry and present husbandry systems mismatch more and more. Thereby, pig production is criticized more than dairy farming. This paper gives insights into citizens’ main points of criticism among the pork and dairy cattle supply chain. It also intends to show several aspects of distrust. To capture a variety of opinions and expectations among the population, focus groups with citizens were carried out. For each topic (pig and dairy cattle husbandry) six focus groups took place in three German cities. Participants discussed about their perception of actual animal husbandry with respect to housing systems, animal health and well-being. Using content analysis with a mixed inductive and deductive category system, three sources of concerns were identified: role of farmers, legal framework and food retail. First, participants reflect the role of farmers and discuss that farmers only comply with the minimum of statutory requirements. Accordingly, participants think that farmers accept fines in order to avoid changes in their animal husbandry. Second, participants doubt the legal framework. In their view the standards are very low, especially regarding animal welfare. So, for instance, it enables farmers to circumvent the regulations. To improve the situation, participants emphasize a major revision of the legal framework for animal husbandry. Another critical focus is on legal controls. Participants remark that controls are often announced previously. The third point of criticism affects food retail. It is complicated for consumers to understand the complete supply chain. According to this, animal production takes more and more place behind closed doors without transparency. Altogether these aspects lead to an increasing rejection of animal products. The concerns were stronger in case of pork than in case of dairy cattle. As a consequence, some participants state to consume less or no pork or change to meat alternatives. Results suggest different possibilities among the complete supply chain, to understand citizens’ points of concerns better and to improve the situation of farm animal husbandry. Doing so, citizens’ concerns might be reduced resulting in more trust into the whole system again. Hence, more consumers of meat will be kept and will not consume more and more meat substitutes.
Pycnoplax Castro 2007, N. GEN.
Creators: name: Castro, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Goneplacidae
Pycnoplax

description: KEY TO SPECIES OF PYCNOPLAX N. GEN.
 1. Two acute, thin, spine-like anterolateral teeth (see Fig. 13B).......... Pycnoplax bispinosa
— Two triangular anterolateral teeth which may have acute tips but never thin, spine-like................................................................................................................................... 2
 2. Ambulatory legs (P2-P5) long, relatively slender, distal end of merus of folded P5 extending beyond tip of second anterolateral tooth (see Fig. 13A). G2 with pointed tip without terminal spinules (see Guinot 1969a: fig. 74; 1989: fig. 31B; Chen 1984: figs 3-7, 3-8, as Carcinoplax surugensis)............................................................... Pycnoplax surugensis
— Ambulatory legs (P2-P5) relatively short, distal end of merus of folded P5 only reaching or barely reaching tip of second anterolateral tooth. G2 with terminal spinules (see Fig. 16D)................................................................................................................................... 3
 3. Leaf-like, granular, shallow tooth on each outer orbital angle (see Figs 16A; 17). Short tooth on each suborbital border.............................................. Pycnoplax latifolia n. sp.
— Triangular, pointed tooth on each outer orbital angle. Conspicuous tooth on each suborbital border........................................................................................................................ 4
 4. Second anterolateral tooth curved, hook-like, acute tip (see Poore 2004: fig. 140c). Dorsal surface of carapace relatively smooth......................................... Pycnoplax meridionalis
 — Second anterolateral tooth triangular, obtuse tip (see Poore 2004: fig. 140d). Two shallow horizontal ridges on dorsal surface of carapace.............................. Pycnoplax victoriensis
description: Published as part of Castro, Peter, 2007, A reappraisal of the family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) and revision of the subfamily Goneplacinae, with the description of 10 new genera and 18 new species, pp. 609-774 in Zoosystema 29 (4) on pages 662-663, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525564
The General Kerr-de Sitter Metrics in All Dimensions
Creators: name: Gibbons, G. W.
name: Lu, H.
name: Page, D. N.
name: Pope, C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give the general Kerr-de Sitter metric in arbitrary spacetime dimension D\ge 4, with the maximal number [(D-1)/2] of independent rotation parameters. We obtain the metric in Kerr-Schild form, where it is written as the sum of a de Sitter metric plus the square of a null geodesic vector, and in generalised Boyer-Lindquist coordinates. The Kerr-Schild form is simpler for verifying that the Einstein equations are satisfied, and we have explicitly checked our results for all dimensions D\le 11. We discuss the global structure of the metrics, and obtain formulae for the surface gravities and areas of the event horizons. We also obtain the Euclidean-signature solutions, and we construct complete non-singular compact Einstein spaces on associated S^{D-2} bundles over S^2, infinitely many for each odd D \ge 5.
description: Latex, 27 pages, typos corrected, version to appear in J. Geom. Phys
Future Developments in German Fish Market – Integration of Market Expert Knowledge into a Modelling System
Creators: name: Angulo, Laura
name: Salamon, Petra
name: Banse, Martin
name: Döring, Ralf
name: Keller, Matthias
name: Leeuwen, Myrna Van
name: Angulo, Laura
name: Salamon, Petra
name: Banse, Martin
name: Döring, Ralf
name: Keller, Matthias
name: Leeuwen, Myrna Van
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Fish model, AGMEMOD, partial –equilibrium model, baseline projections, market expert knowledge

description: Globally fish has become more important in the human nutrition, thus global consumption is expected to highly increase in the future years. Business-as-usual projections for fish market are limited by availability of reliable data that hinders the differentiation on fish category level on the supply and demand side and across EU member states. The Fishmodul in AGEMEMOD provides long term predictions for the fish market by fish categories at EU member state level. For this, a status-quo simulation to the year 2030 is developed in AGMEMOD. Additionally, opinions of market experts from private sector and research institutions through interviews and an elaborated questionnaire is integrated into the model to deal with the insufficient information. Thus, expertise knowledge provides better and accurate information of the sector for market projections. As results, baseline projections were adjusted, showing a slowly increase over the years, but higher production level by 2030.
Communication Strategies on Palm Oil Sustainability: Agri-Food Chain Actors Use of Social Media Twitter?
Creators: name: Samoggia, Antonella
name: Ruggeri, Arianna
name: Samoggia, Antonella
name: Ruggeri, Arianna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agri-food chain; palm oil; Twitter; social media; sustainability

description: From production to consumption, palm oil is a global food chain facing various sustainability dimensions. The study focuses on Twitter social media communication strategy of world agri-food chain actors on sustainability of palm oil. The study focused on a content analysis of twitter messages of palm oil producers, agri-food manufacturers and retailers. Preliminary results show that palm oil producers aim at promoting public opinion’s positive image of palm oil. Food manufacturers and retailers instead limit their communication on reacting to consumers’ solicitations, such as questions, doubts or complaints on palm oil use.
title: La lingua cinese in Italia. Studi su didattica e acquisizione
Creators: name: Conti, Sergio
name: Romagnoli, Chiara
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2021

description: I nove contributi inclusi in questo volume hanno lo scopo di presentare teorie e dati relativi alla didattica e all’acquisizione del cinese come lingua straniera. Le ricerche selezionate coprono i principali ambiti della didattica e dell’acquisizione del cinese: fonetica, scrittura, lessico, sintassi e pragmatica. Ciascuno di essi introduce l’oggetto di ricerca presentando la letteratura di riferimento in modo da offrire al lettore non solo una panoramica degli studi già condotti ma anche i termini e le nozioni utili ad affrontare i diversi ambiti dell’apprendimento del cinese, da quelli più estesamente trattati come scrittura e fonologia a quelli affrontati solo più di recente, come lessico e pragmatica. La maggior parte dei lavori presenta dati originali e contribuisce pertanto a delineare le caratteristiche dell’apprendente italofono di cinese e a suggerire possibili proposte per superare le criticità riscontrate o colmare i vuoti che inevitabilmente si creano nella didattica di questa lingua.
Neutrino Oscillations: A Global Analysis
Creators: name: Fogli, G. L.
name: Lisi, E.
name: Marrone, A.
name: Montanino, D.
name: Palazzo, A.
name: Rotunno, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the status of the neutrino oscillation physics (as of June 2003), with a particular emphasis on the present knowledge of the neutrino mass-mixing parameters in a three generation approach. We consider first the nu_mu-->nu_tau flavor transitions of atmospheric neutrinos. It is found that standard oscillations provide the best description of the SK+K2K data, and that the associated mass-mixing parameters are determined at 1 sigma (and dof=1) as: Delta m^2=(2.6 +-0.4) x 10^-3 eV^2 and sin^2(2theta)=1.00+0.00-0.05. Such indications, presently dominated by SK, could be strengthened by further K2K data. Then we analyze the energy spectrum of reactor neutrino events recently observed at KamLAND and combine them with solar and terrestrial neutrino data. We find that the solution to the solar neutrino problem at large mixing angle (LMA) is basically split into two sub-regions, that we denote as LMA-I and LMA-II. The LMA-I solution, characterized by lower values of the squared neutrino mass gap, is favored by the global data fit. Finally, we briefly illustrate how prospective data from the SNO and KamLAND can increase our confidence in the occurrence of standard matter effects in the Sun, which are starting to emerge from current data.
description: Invited talk given by G.L. Fogli at the XXIII Physics in Collisions Conference (PIC03), Zeuthen, Germany, June 2003. 2nd version significantly shortened to match editorial constraints; 16 pages, including 7 figures
More Than a Period: Creative Engagement and Storytelling to Transform the Menstrual Communication Landscape
Creators: name: Poulose, Priyanka Abraham
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2024
Subjects: Menstruation
Reproductive health
Menstruation--Social aspects
Communication

description: This project addresses long-standing taboos, misinformation, and negative communication about menstruation that contribute to its persistent stigmatisation. It reveals discontentment experienced by menstruators in professional, institutional, and communal systems. This centres on dissatisfaction with menstrual leave policies and invalidation of debilitating menstrual pain by medical professionals, as well as insufficient emotional and empathetic support from non-menstruators. This thesis situates itself in the gap between the physiological challenges of menstruation and the psychosocial needs of menstruators. These concerns are addressed by investigating how design can foster meaningful knowledge, positive messaging, and open communication about menstruation. By employing a practice-based methodology led by provocations in material form, this project initiates conversation around the power structures that assert control over women’s bodies. Through ethnographic interviews, participatory workshops, co-creative projects, and storytelling, the research gathers significant insights into a diversity of lived experiences of menstruation. The research culminates in the establishment of two interconnected menstrual communication networks–Bloom Club, a vibrant and inclusive community centred on knowledge sharing through personal accounts, the inclusion of non-menstruators to build allyship, and the use of playfully provocative messaging for accessible and engaging advocacy–and Bloom Talk, a podcast show that unravels a diversity of menstrual experiences through candid, personal stories. These outcomes serve as case studies of creative communication systems that foster community building to enable healthy, positive, and curiosity-driven attitudes toward menstruation.
description: Menstrual stigma
description: Menstrual communication
description: Reproductive health communication
description: Communication design
description: Participatory design
description: Community engagement
description: Design for discourse
description: Bloom club
description: Bloom talk podcast
International Demand Shaping Governance Mechanisms in Brazilian Beef Agri-Systems: The Case of the Three Main Processors
Creators: name: Lemos, Fernanda K.
name: Zylbersztajn, Decio
name: Lemos, Fernanda K.
name: Zylbersztajn, Decio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Strictly coordinated sub-system; Property Rights; Governance Strategies; Transaction Costs; Beef-cattle agribusiness system

description: Which specific investments do the industry and the cattle producers need for their coordination in order to meet the demands of the international market and participate in it? Insertion in the international market is a multifaceted and complex theme, which represents a challenge for the market and for the research in economy of organizations, because it focuses on the systemic coordination of a certain segment for the generation of value as an organizational strategy. Through critical observation of export sub-systems, their various institutional environments and their differences from internal issues can be considered central, as this leads to specific investments to operate in these markets in uncertain environments. This gap encourages and justifies this research, which aims to present and advance the concept of agribusiness system (SAG). Specifically, we sought to identify the observed regularities of the agents involved in these transactions — specific assets invested, degree of recurrence, degree of knowledge and adaptability — internal and to the external market and to compare them. Such an analysis seeks to delimit the institutional differences, the coordinating agents of the different strictly coordinated systems. Finally, to determine the boundaries of a typical system and one that meets specific demands and the need for coordination among the agents to serve them by focusing on systems geared to the international market. Through the methodology of multiple case studies, the three largest slaughter and processing industries in Brazil and their relationship with the farmers in relation to the Sub-System Strictly Coordinated (SSSC) for export to the European Union were addressed. Among the regularities of the case studies, the emergence of SSSCs for the internal market focused on quality resulting from the process of creation of the SSSC-exporter allowed to explore the degree of organizational tolerance of the arrangements of these companies. The cases also provided findings about organizational tolerance and the relation of specific investments and quality in the chain.
Prognostic value of myocardial injury-related findings onresting electrocardiography for cardiovascular risk in the asymptomatic general population: The 12-year follow-up report from the Ansan-Ansung cohort
Creators: name: Jinho Shin
name: Yonggu Lee
name: Jin-Kyu Park
name: Shin, Jeong-Hun
name: Young-Hyo Lim
name: Heo Ran
name: Kim, Hyun-Jin
name: Hwan-Cheol Park
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: We investigated the predictive values of myocardial injury-related findings (MIFs)including ST-T wave abnormalities (STA) and pathologic Q waves (PQ) in electrocardiography for long-term cardiovascular outcomes in an asymptomatic general population. Methods: We observed8,444 subjects without cardiovascular diseases and related symptoms biennially over a 12-year period. Major cardiovascular adverse events (MACEs) weredefined as a composite of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease and stroke. Results: MACEs occurred more frequently in subjects with STA (9.1% vs. 5.2%, p p = 0.001) than in those without any MIFs, whereas anterolateral/posterior PQwere not associated with a higher incidence of MACEs. Multivariate Cox regression analyses showed that STA and anterior PQ were independently associated with the risk of MACEs. However, survival receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that the composite of STA and anterior PQ did not improve the predictive power of the conventional cardiovascular risk estimators when added to the models. Conclusions: The presence of STA oranterior PQ wasassociated with worse cardiovascular outcomes in the asymptomatic general population. However, the addition of MIFs to the conventional risk estimators was of limited value in the prediction of MACEs. Key MessagesMyocardial injury-related findings including ST-T wave abnormalities and anterior pathologic Q waves in resting electrocardiography predict long-term cardiovascular outcomes in an asymptomatic low-risk population.However, ST-T wave abnormalities and anterior pathologic Q waves add only limited value to conventional cardiovascular risk estimators in the prediction of cardiovascular outcomes. Myocardial injury-related findings including ST-T wave abnormalities and anterior pathologic Q waves in resting electrocardiography predict long-term cardiovascular outcomes in an asymptomatic low-risk population. However, ST-T wave abnormalities and anterior pathologic Q waves add only limited value to conventional cardiovascular risk estimators in the prediction of cardiovascular outcomes.
Strengthening Farmers’ Bargaining Power in the New CAP
Creators: name: Sorrentino, Alessandro
name: Russo, Carlo
name: Cacchiarelli, Luca
name: Sorrentino, Alessandro
name: Russo, Carlo
name: Cacchiarelli, Luca
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Producer Organisation; CAP reform; competition; bargaining power; food supply chain

description: The food supply chain plays a substantial role in the European economy. Agricultural markets are highly interdependent and competition at different stages of the supply chain matters for the overall functioning of the entire food sector. Welfare and distributional implications of competition at any stage of the food supply chain concern several ‘weak subjects’ such as small farmers and consumers who negotiate with “strong subjects” operating in more concentrated (industrial and retailing) sectors. In order to balance power across the EU agro-food supply chain and achieve a more sustainable distribution of value-added, the main instruments featuring the new paradigm of market organisation proposed by the CAP reform are Producer Organisation, Association Producer Organisation and Inter-Branch Organisation. We employ a simple bargaining model aimed to identify the determinants of the bargaining power in the food supply chain; the model is used to assess the capability of POs to strengthen farmers’ bargaining power. The results show that, under certain conditions, the joint selling and production planning can be effective tools for rebalancing power in the agro-food system. We also concluded that requiring a minimum size for POs may improve their effectiveness. Such requirement should be calibrated on the structure of the downstream (upstream) relevant market: more consolidated buyer (seller) industries call for larger POs.
Occurrence and toxigenic potential of Aspergillus section Flavi on wheat and sorghum silages in Uruguay
Creators: name: Palacio, Agustina Del
name: Pan, Dinorah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Species belonging to Aspergillus section Flavi occur naturally in crops and can cause food spoilage and/or toxin production. The aim of this study was to determine the occurrence and diversity of the species of Aspergillus section Flavi found in wheat and sorghum at harvest time and during silage storage, and to evaluate the toxigenic potential of the isolates to determine the contamination risk of mycotoxins in grains. Strains from Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus were found based on multi-gene phylogenetic analyses. This is the first report on the presence of A. parasiticus in wheat from Uruguay. Of the 80 isolates Aspergillus section Flavi, 30% produced aflatoxins (AFs), mainly type B1, and 25% produced cyclopiazonic acid (CPA). Within the isolates from wheat samples, 35% were AFs producers and 27.5% were CPA producers. Among the Aspergillus section Flavi isolates from sorghum, 25% were AFs producers while 22.5% were CPA producers. This work contributes to the knowledge of the species in crops and helps define appropriate strategies for the prevention and control of contamination with AFs and CPA by Aspergillus section Flavi fungi.
Policy Incentives and the Organic Value Chain in Ireland
Creators: name: O’Donoghue, Cathal
name: Ryan, Mary
name: Clavin, Dan
name: Heery, Declan
name: Leavy, Elaine
name: O’Donoghue, Cathal
name: Ryan, Mary
name: Clavin, Dan
name: Heery, Declan
name: Leavy, Elaine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Organic beef; value chain issues; leakage; specialisation

description: Merged administration data are utilized to study farms that have converted to organic beef production in Ireland, to draw lessons for future CAP scheme design. Results show the complex structure of organic farms with lower cattle age progression than in non-organic systems, suggesting leakage to conventional agriculture. There is also a flow of animals as they age from poorer land in the West to better Eastern areas that are more suitable for finishing, however the flow is less for organic farms. Additionally, there is less specialisation on organic farms as more animals are finished, so leakage is less than expected.
Vector Topological Edge Solitons in Floquet Insulators
Creators: name: Ivanov, Sergey K.
name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
name: Szameit, Alexander
name: Torner, Lluis
name: Konotop, Vladimir V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce topological vector edge solitons in a Floquet insulator, consisting of two honeycomb arrays of helical waveguides with opposite directions of rotation in a focusing nonlinear optical medium. Zigzag edges of two arrays placed in contact create a zigzag-zigzag interface between two structures with different topology. A characteristic feature of such a photonic insulator is that, in the linear limit, it simultaneously supports two topologically protected chiral edge states at the interface between the two arrays. In the presence of nonlinearity, either bright or dark scalar Floquet edge soliton can bifurcate from a linear topological edge state. Such solitons are unidirectional and are localized in both directions, along the interface due to nonlinear self-action, and across the interface as being an edge state. The presence of two edge states with equal averaged group velocities enables the existence of stable topological vector edge solitons. In our case, these are nonlinearly coupled bright and dark solitons bifurcating from different branches of the topological Floquet edge states. Here we put forward a new mathematical description of scalar and vector small-amplitude Floquet envelope solitons in the above-mentioned continuous system. Importantly for the design of future photonic devices based on Floquet edge solitons, we find that the latter can be described by nonlinear Schrodinger equations for the mode envelopes obtained by averaging over one rotation period in the evolution coordinate.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Thyraplax Castro 2007, N. GEN.
Creators: name: Castro, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Goneplacidae
Thyraplax

description: KEY TO SPECIES OF THYRAPLAX N. GEN.
 1. Entire fingers dark in colour (see Fig. 24). P5 dactylus with denticulate margins (see Fig. 23B)......................................................................... Thyraplax digitodentata n. sp.
— Fingers with only the tips dark in colour. P5 dactylus with smooth margins............... 2
 2. P5 propodus wide (see Fig. 21); low carina on each side........... Thyraplax cristata n. sp.
— P5 propodus narrow; smooth surfaces........................................................................ 3
 3. Anterolateral teeth slender; acute tip (see Figs 25A; 26). G1 with broad, truncated tip (see Fig. 25C)................................................................................ Thyraplax truncata n. sp.
— Anterolateral teeth prominent, triangular, broad; obtuse tip. G1 with slender, pointed tip.............................................................................................................................. 4
 4. Anterolateral borders with slight carina (see Fig. 13C), sometimes marked by median notch. Male telson of large individuals with broad, posterior tooth-like tubercle on each side.................................................................................................. Thyraplax crosnieri
 — Anterolateral borders with slight, tooth-like prominence (see Guinot 1989: fig. 42, pl. 11, fig. G, as Carcinoplax cooki). Male telson without lateral tooth-like tubercles.............................................................................................................................. Thyraplax cooki
description: Published as part of Castro, Peter, 2007, A reappraisal of the family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) and revision of the subfamily Goneplacinae, with the description of 10 new genera and 18 new species, pp. 609-774 in Zoosystema 29 (4) on page 674, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525564
Fermion Zero Modes in the Presence of Fluxes and a Non-perturbative Superpotential
Creators: name: Lust, Dieter
name: Reffert, Susanne
name: Schulgin, Waldemar
name: Tripathy, Prasanta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of background fluxes of general Hodge type on the supersymmetry conditions and on the fermionic zero modes on the world-volume of a Euclidean M5/D3-brane in M-theory/type IIB string theory. Using the naive susy variation of the modulino fields to determine the number of zero modes in the presence of a flux of general Hodge type, an inconsistency appears. This inconsistency is resolved by a modification of the supersymmetry variation of the modulinos, which captures the back-reaction of the non-perturbative effects on the background flux and the geometry.
description: 21 pages, revised version contains a new appendix on dimensional reduction of spinors and some changes in the spinor equations
MIGNEX Handbook Chapter 9 - Country-level policy review
Creators: name: Godin, Marie
name: Vargas-Silva, Carlos
Publisher: name: Peace Research Institute Oslo
Year: 2020

description: This chapter explains the policy review process and the creation of the MIGNEX Policy Database. The aim of the chapter is to provide the guidelines that are necessary to achieve consistency and allow for comparability between countries.

Key Takeaways

We have adopted a broad definition of ‘policy’ to include particular laws, interventions, practices and initiatives, as well as the broader policy environment.

In addition to migration, we cover other policy areas that are relevant to the migration–development nexus, including employment, health, education, security and the environment.

The policy review examines the degree of policy coherence, policy effectiveness and policy influence on the migration–development nexus.
A review of the use and potential of Azadirachta indica in the field of agriculture, industry, medicine and environment
Creators: name: Arefin, Paroma
name: Saidul Arefin
name: Aishawarya Arefin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70508 Tree Nutrition and Physiology
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: Pharmacology

description: Azadirachta indicia.(Neem), endemic to Indian subcontinent, is one of the most versatile trees with enormous potential. It possesses highest number of useful parts i.e. leaves, bark, fruits, seed, flowers, exudates , oil , cake etc. Each part has some biological activities and commercial use. Some of the activities of neem have been investigated at least in some species of animals of medical and veterinary significance. Industrially neem, the environment friendly tree is usable for its activity. The review is designed to explore the significance of this endemic tree in the area of agriculture, industry, medicine and environment to promote the economy of Bangladesh.
Novel (‒)-carvone derivatives as potential anticonvulsant and analgesic agents
Creators: name: Mariia Nesterkina
name: Barbalat, Dmytro
name: Konovalova, Irina
name: Shishkina, Svitlana
name: Atakay, Mehmet
name: Salih, Bekir
name: Kravchenko, Iryna
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Novel hydrazones based on (‒)-carvone were synthesized via condensation of terpenoid with 4-R-phenoxyacetic acid hydrazides. The structure of target compounds was established by FT-IR, Raman, 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR spectral analysis, FAB/ESI mass spectrometry. (‒)-Carvone hydrazones were proven to exist as Z/E geometrical isomers about C = N bond using ion mobility-tandem mass spectrometry (IM-MS/MS). Single crystal X-ray diffraction study was applied to determine molecular and crystal structure of compound 3e. Hydrazones 3a-3e were evaluated as potential anticonvulsant agents after their oral administration against maximal electroshock (MES) and pentylenetetrazole (PTZ)-induced seizures in mice. Analgesic activity of compounds was investigated by topical application on models of capsaicin and AITC-induced pain. The present findings indicate that (‒)-carvone derivatives afforded seizure protection both at short (1 h) and long (24 h) time period by blocking electroshock- and chemical-induced convulsions. Hydrazones binding to TRPA1/TRPV1 ion channels was proposed as possible mechanism explaining significant analgesic effect of compounds.
RURAL LIVELIHOODS IN MON STATE, MYANMAR: EVIDENCE FROM A REPRESENTATIVE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
Creators: name: Hein, Aung
name: Htoo, Kyan
name: Kham, L. Seng
name: Win, Myat Thida
name: Thinzar, Aye Mya
name: Naing, Zaw Min
name: Thida, Mi Win
name: Lei, Ni
name: Min, Lu
name: Mwee, Naw Eh
name: Oo, Zaw
name: Filipski, Mateusz
name: Nischan, Ulrike
name: Van Asselt, Joanna
name: Holtemeyer, Brian
name: Schmidt, Emily
name: Kedir, Mekamu
name: Kennedy, Adam
name: Zhang, Xiaobo
name: Dorosh, Paul
name: Payongayong, Ellen
name: Belton, Ben
name: Boughton, Duncan
name: Hein, Aung
name: Htoo, Kyan
name: Kham, L. Seng
name: Win, Myat Thida
name: Thinzar, Aye Mya
name: Naing, Zaw Min
name: Thida, Mi Win
name: Lei, Ni
name: Min, Lu
name: Mwee, Naw Eh
name: Oo, Zaw
name: Filipski, Mateusz
name: Nischan, Ulrike
name: Van Asselt, Joanna
name: Holtemeyer, Brian
name: Schmidt, Emily
name: Kedir, Mekamu
name: Kennedy, Adam
name: Zhang, Xiaobo
name: Dorosh, Paul
name: Payongayong, Ellen
name: Belton, Ben
name: Boughton, Duncan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Myanmar
subject: Household Survey
subject: Rural Livelihoods
subject: Mon State

description: The purpose of this report is to provide information and analysis to government, civil society, and donors interested in improving the well-being of the rural population of Mon State. Specifically, the report analyzes the different sources of income for rural households, as well as their socioeconomic characteristics, with a view to identifying potential pathways to improving incomes, especially for poor households, and stimulating inclusive rural growth. The overall picture that emerges is one of an economy heavily dependent on services for local employment and on international migration for income. Like a two-legged stool, such an economy is potentially unstable in the face of external shocks. Diversification of the Mon State economy, including diversification and increased productivity within the agricultural sector, will lessen the relative dependence on external migration remittances and result in more resilient growth in the future.
Light Thoughts on Dark Energy
Creators: name: Linder, Eric V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physical process leading to the acceleration of the expansion of the universe is unknown. It may involve new high energy physics or extensions to gravitation. Calling this generically dark energy, we examine the consistencies and relations between these two approaches, showing that an effective equation of state function w(z) is broadly useful in describing the properties of the dark energy. A variety of cosmological observations can provide important information on the dynamics of dark energy and the future looks bright for constraining dark energy, though both the measurements and the interpretation will be challenging. We also discuss a more direct relation between the spacetime geometry and acceleration, via ``geometric dark energy'' from the Ricci scalar, and superacceleration or phantom energy where the fate of the universe may be more gentle than the Big Rip.
description: invited overview at Dark Matter/Dark Energy 2004; 6 pages