cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
STUPNE CYKLICKEHO VYVOJA AGRARNEHO TRHU V EUROPSKYCH A AZIJSKYCH KRAJINACH
THE STAGES OF THE CYCLIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE AGRO-FOOD MARKET IN EUROPEAN AND ASIAN STATES
Creators: name: GAYSIN, Rafkat
name: GAYSIN, Rafkat
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: market
subject: demand
subject: supply
subject: conjuncture
subject: cycles
subject: rent
subject: agro-food

description: In the article three specific historical stages of the conjuncture in the agro-food market of the Western European countries are distinguished and analyzed. These stages are great waves of the conjuncture fluctuations in demand and supply levels, and long waves of conjuncture cycles in the agro-food market. The reasons causing long deviations of demand from supply, a steady increase and decrease in the alternative production cost are disclosed. As a result, trends in dynamics of the land rent in the course of the market development are discussed, the main reasons for changers in the parity of prices between agriculture and industry are revealed. The stages of the regulation mechanisms of the agro-food market are investigated in detail as well as the expediency of these mechanisms. Possible forecasts of the conjuncture development in the agro-food markets in Europe are provided. Agriculture and agrarian Russian market as well as markets in Asian countries are at the second stage of the cyclic development.
title: Students' Perception of Digital Resources in Higher Education in Africa
Creators: name: Ngimwa, Pauline
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2008

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of students on digital resources in universities in Africa. Digital resources in this study encompassed information resources from digital library and from e-learning. A mixed methods approach was employed with qualitative method being dominant, and was carried out within a case study design involving University of Nairobi students from two disciplines, lecturers and librarians. Interviews with students were triangulated with informal interviews with their lecturers and librarians, observations and documented quantitative data. The data was analyzed using thematic analytical approach. The study found that students take control of their usage of digital resources. They perceive e-leaming resources and digital library resources as intertwined into one learning resource. In addition, high IT skills among students and lecturers impact on students’ expectations of roles and levels of engagement with lecturers and librarians. The librarians’ role seems to be taken on by the lecturers. In this process, librarians are left out of participation in an e-learning environment. A related project suggests a user-focused, more collaborative model in which librarians, lecturers and students can engage with each other more in order to leverage the benefits of digital resources for learning.
A torsion-free algebraically C*-unique group
Creators: name: Scarparo, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $p$ and $q$ be multiplicatively independent integers. We show that the complex group ring of $\mathbb{Z}[\frac{1}{pq}]\rtimes\mathbb{Z}^2$ admits a unique $\mathrm{C}^*$-norm. The proof uses a characterization, due to Furstenberg, of closed $\times p-$ and $\times q-$invariant subsets of $\mathbb{T}$.
description: 4 pages. Changed terminology (including title) to avoid conflict with well-established notion
The Red Giant Branch in Near-Infrared Colour-Magnitude Diagrams. II: The luminosity of the Bump and the Tip
Creators: name: Valenti, E.
name: Ferraro, F. R.
name: Origlia, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new empirical calibrations of the Red Giant Branch (RGB) Bump and Tip based on a homogeneous near-Infrared database of 24 Galactic Globular Clusters. The luminosities of the RGB Bump and Tip in the J, H and K bands and their dependence on the cluster metallicity have been studied, yielding empirical relationships. By using recent transformations between the observational and theoretical planes, we also derived similar calibrations in terms of bolometric luminosity. Direct comparison between updated theoretical models and observations show an excellent agreement. The empirical calibration of the RGB Tip luminosity in the near-Infrared passbands presented here is a fundamental tool to derive distances to far galaxies beyond the Local Group, in view of using the new ground-based adaptive optics facilities and, in the next future, the James Webb Space Telescope.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: The Importance of Being Humorous: A Study of Humour in English University Lectures Within the BASE Corpus
Creators: name: Wang, Torri Yu
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2008

description: 1. Introduction

 1.1 Aims and objectives

 My research project is an exploratory study of the linguistic/sociolinguistic aspects of patterns and roles of humour in English university lectures selected from the holdings of the BASE corpus. Humour has long been investigated in psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and linguistics, but humour in academic contexts, especially cross-cultural teaching and learning, is relatively unexplored. My research helps to fill this gap by investigating some fundamental questions. In addressing these questions, my aim is to develop a framework which is beneficial for future enquiry:

 How should humour be defined in the setting of English university lectures?
Is humour pervasive in English university lectures?
 Are there any perceptible forms of humour in the lectures? What are the dimensions needed to classify forms of humour in the lectures?
 What are the interactional functions of humour in the lectures?

 1.2 Rationale of this study

 1.2.1. The initial interest

 The research interest of this dissertation was derived from my personal experience as an international student in England, when I repeatedly encountered occasions in which jokes fell flat on me while other members, many of whom were native speakers, had burst into laughter. Upon reflection, it seemed that often I heard what had been said, but failed to notice or appreciate what had been funny. Such failures gradually damaged confidence in my English language competence, hindered me from actively participating in the lectures and, eventually, making contact with the lecturers or native speakers after class. As a result I preferred to make friends with Chinese students, and during our talks I realised that I was not the only one who had felt the difficulty. These experiences led me to conduct literature searches of academic investigations of humour in lectures; and of international students’ understanding of humour in academic contexts. The result of these searches revealed a comparatively blank area and hence inspired me to propose a study to fill the gap.

 The following two sections are designed to account for this gap of research interest. A brief history of humour research is firstly given with the intention to show what has been investigated in this field. Then I will move onto literature which highlights the difficulties that international students have in understanding English lecturers’ humour.
VSTUP DO PROBLEMATIKY TECHNOLOGICKEHO HODNOTENIA
INTRODUCTION TO TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
Creators: name: JEMALA, Marek
name: JEMALA, Marek
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: technology assessment
subject: technology foresight
subject: technology forecasting
subject: methodology
subject: technology innovation

description: The main objective of this study is to examine the key aspects of technology assessment isues, which have not been preciselly defined yet. Identifying effects of the technology innovation or application always requires an interdisciplinary approach, which allows creating a more comprehensive picture/model of a particular technology. A picture of the existing technology or a model of the planned technology should be created on the basis of broader consensus within a scientific discussion. However, this process may be highly demanding, especially as far as the problem of bounded rationality is concerned. Technology assessment should be focused on systematic investigation of various real and expected effects of the technology application. This study deals with key characterization of the technology assessment methodology, and its most extensively applied methods. The research was carried out on the backgrounds of intensive study of resources, extensive analysis of the European foresight monitoring network, several discussions with experts, and last but not least several case studies.
Gradualism and Irreversibility
Creators: name: Lockwood, Ben
name: Thomas, Jonathan P.
name: Lockwood, Ben
name: Thomas, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Cooperation
subject: repeated games
subject: gradualism
subject: irreversibility
subject: public goods

description: This paper considers a class of two-player dynamic games in which each player controls a one-dimensional variable which we interpret as a level of cooperation. In the base model, there is an irreversibility constraint stating that this variable can never be reduced, only increased. It otherwise satis…es the usual discounted repeated game assumptions. Under certain restrictions on the payo¤ function, which make the stage game resemble a continuous version of the Prisoners’ Dilemma, we characterize e¢cient symmetric equilibria, and show that cooperation levels exhibit gradualism and converge, when payo¤s are smooth, to a level strictly below the one-shot ef- …cient level: the irreversibility induces a steady-state as well as a dynamic ine¢ciency. As players become very patient, however, payo¤s converge to (though never attain) the e¢cient level. We also show that a related model in which an irreversibility arises through players choosing an incremental variable, such as investment, can be transformed into the base model with similar results. Applications to a public goods sequential contribution model and a model of capacity reduction in a declining industry are discussed. The analysis is extended to incorporate partial reversibility, asymmetric equilibria, and sequential moves.
Agrilus crapulellus Thomson 1879
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus crapulellus

description: Agrilus crapulellus Thomson, 1879
 Agrilus crapulellus Thomson, 1879: 71.
 Material examinado: MÉXICO, Guerrero, Acapulco, 1 ex., 08.X.961, Pereira & Halffter legg.; BRASIL, Pará, Itaituba (Rio Tapajós), 6 exs., V.1964, Dirings leg. ; São Paulo, Itápolis (Fazenda Palmeiras), 2 exs., X.1945, F. Lane leg.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 87, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
A penny for your thoughts: e-mail and the under-valuation of expert time
Creators: name: Willmore, Chris
name: Willmore, Chris
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The cost incurred by the sender of an e-mail does not reflect the costs to the recipient, leading to a larger number of messages being sent than is optimal for the general welfare. As a solution, we suggest a per-message e-mail tax on the sender similar to that proposed by Shiman (1996), with the addition of a recipient-determined 'contact list'. The recipient derives utility from messages sent by those on this list, and they are not to be taxed when sending messages to the recipient. We recommend that the tax revenue be divided between a regulating body and the email recipient's Internet service provider.
Supplementary Material for Pfizer’s Ibuzatrelvir Antiviral Candidate Pipeline
Creators: name: Fadel, Suki
Publisher: name: Pfizer
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Congress materials may include information for investigational products or for which the product is not approved and/or inconsistent with the product uses described in the Prescribing Information. Regulatory approval of investigational products or uses is dependent on the completion of the study programs and review by regulatory authorities. Pfizer does not suggest or recommend the use of Pfizer Products in any manner other than as described in the Prescribing Information. The clinical trial information is available at www.clinicaltrials.gov. This information is current as of February 2025.
Output Risk in Tuscan Agriculture in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Creators: name: Galassi, Francesco
name: Pudney, Stephen
name: Galassi, Francesco
name: Pudney, Stephen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Output risk
subject: agriculture
subject: tenure contracts
subject: Tuscany

description: We analyse output risk in Italian agriculture over the period 1870- 1914. We use data on a set of 16 tenanted plots grouped into three farms comprising a single large estate. We estimate the degree of risk associated with each separate crop, with the portfolio of crops at the level of the plot, the farm and the estate. We highlight two particular features: the relatively high risk associated with tree crops (wine, oil and nuts); and the substantial scope for the landlord to reduce risk through crop diversification across plots. We discuss the implications of these for tenure contract theory.
title: O regime sancionatório da responsabilidade ambiental
title: Environmental liability sanctioning regime
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Aragao Seia Franco, Maria Cristina
Publisher: name: Polis. - ISSN 0872-8208. - 2,3 (Janeiro-Junho 2021). - p. 95-117.
Year: 2021

description: O presente texto corresponde ao capítulo final da tese de doutoramento «A responsabilidade ambiental na União Europeia. Da responsabilidade civil à responsabilidade administrativa em Portugal». Nele se analisa o regime sancionatório, de natureza contraordenacional, da responsabilidade administrativa ambiental, tal como resulta do Decreto-Lei n.º 147/2008, de 29 de Julho. Faz-se ainda uma breve referência à possibilidade de criminalização dos mesmos comportamentos que são passíveis de responsabilidade administrativa por danos causados ao ambiente.
This text corresponds to the final chapter of the PhD thesis «Environmental liability in the European Union. From civil liability to administrative liability in Portugal ». It analyzes the sanctioning regime, of an administrative offense nature, of environmental administrative responsibility, as stated in Decree-Law No. 147/2008, of 29 July. A brief reference is also made to the possibility of criminalization of the same behaviors that are liable to administrative responsibility for damages caused to the environment.
Measuring Social Capital: Culture as an Explanation of Italy’s Economic Dualism
Creators: name: Galassi, Francesco L.
name: Galassi, Francesco L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Development
Public Economics

description: The paper presents a quantitative test of the oft-repeated view that Italy’s backward and poor South suffered from low “social capital”, a tendency to defect from co-operative engagements. The problem with such assertions is that they run the risk of taking as evidence in favour of the hypothesis the very observations that need to be explained. The analysis carried out in this work tries to break out of this impasse by analysing the conditions under which it was ex ante welfare-improving for farmers in early 20th century Italy to join an unlimited liability rural co-operative bank which would give them access to cheaper credit but also exposed them to the risk of their neighbours’ defection. These co-ops are a prime testing ground for the cultural explanation in that they spread rapidly throughout Northern Italy in the late 19th century, but never gained a similar popularity in the South. I estimate the switching function for these co-ops in different parts of the country to test whether Northern and Southern farmers faced significantly different choice sets when making the decision to join. Identical choice sets but differential responses would of course favour the cultural explanation of the South’s backwardness. The results suggest that for the same parameter values, the choice sets for North and South were different, though whether this difference was large enough to explain the full difference in responses is not completely clear.
Education and Work
Creators: name: Trostel, Philip
name: Walker, Ian
name: Trostel, Philip
name: Walker, Ian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: This paper examines the linkage between the incentives to work and to invest in human capital through education. These incentives are shown to be mutually reinforcing in a simple stylized model. This theoretical prediction is investigated empirically using three large micro datasets covering a broad set of countries. As one might expect, education and work are strongly (positively) correlated. This correlation has important implications for models of fiscal policy and economic growth. It also has important implications for the estimation of labor supply and the rate of return to education.
Micro Evidence on Human Capital as the Engine of Growth
Creators: name: Trostel, Philip A.
name: Trostel, Philip A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Labor and Human Capital
Production Economics

description: This study examines a crucial assumption in much of the recent work on endogenous growth, namely, constant returns to scale in the production of human capital. A simple model is constructed to show that the returns to scale in human capital production can be inferred from the relationship between the wage rate and years of schooling. A large international micro dataset is used to estimate this relationship. The empirical evidence is decisive. There are decreasing returns to scale in human capital production; that is, the micro-level evidence is not supportive of endogenous growth driven by human capital accumulation.
Field-induced magnetic anisotropy in La0.7Sr0.3CoO3
Creators: name: Mira, J.
name: Rivas, J.
name: Vazquez, M.
name: Ibarra, M. R.
name: Caciuffo, R.
name: Rodriguez, M. A. Senaris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic anisotropy has been measured for the ferromagnetic La0.7Sr0.3CoO3 perovskite from an analysis of the high-field part of the magnetization vs. field curves, i.e., the magnetic saturation regime. These measurements give a magnetic anistropy one order of magnitude higher than that of reference manganites. Surprisingly, the values of the magnetic anisotropy calculated in this way do not coincide with those estimated from measurements of coercive fields which are one order of magnitude smaller. It is proposed that the reason of this anomalous behaviour is a transition of the trivalent Co ions under the external magnetic field from a low-spin to an intermediate-spin state. Such a transition converts the Co3+ ions into Jahn-Teller ions having an only partially quenched orbital angular momentum, which enhances the intra-atomic spin-orbit coupling and magnetic anisotropy.
description: Accepted of publication in Europhysics Letters, 11 pages, 5 figures
Cartel Stability and Product Di¤erentiation: How Much Do the Size of the Cartel and the Size of the Industry Matter?
Creators: name: Posada, Pedro
name: Posada, Pedro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Production Economics
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This article analyses how the degree of product di¤erentiation, the size of the cartel and the size of the industry a¤ect the stability of a cartel formed by any number of …rms in an industry of any size. The paper considers a supergame-theoretic model to de…ne stability. After a nonloyal member leaves the cartel, two possible reactions by the remaining members of the cartel are assumed. The …rst one is a trigger strategy where the cartel dissolves after one member has left and the second is one where the cartel keeps acting as a cartel with one member less. The work also extends the analysis to investigate the stability of the remaining cartel. The results indicate that the relation between the cartel stability and the degree of di¤erentiation of the products depends considerably on the size of the cartel, the size of the industry and the reaction of the loyal members of the cartel.
Fermionic excitations at finite temperature and density
Creators: name: Tripolt, Ralf-Arno
name: Rischke, Dirk H.
name: von Smekal, Lorenz
name: Wambach, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study fermionic excitations in a hot and dense strongly interacting medium consisting of quarks and (pseudo-)scalar mesons. In particular, we use the two-flavor quark-meson model in combination with the Functional Renormalization Group approach, which allows to take into account the effects from thermal and quantum fluctuations. The resulting fermionic excitation spectrum is investigated by calculating the quark spectral function at finite temperature, quark chemical potential, and spatial momentum. This involves an analytic continuation from imaginary to real energies by extending the previously introduced analytically-continued FRG (aFRG) method to the present case. We identify three different collective excitations in the medium: the ordinary thermal quark, the plasmino mode, and an ultra-soft "phonino" mode. The dispersion relations of these modes are extracted from the quark spectral function. When compared to corresponding results from an FRG-improved one-loop calculation remarkable agreement is found.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures, v2 agrees with published version
How do electronic carriers cross Si-bound alkyl monolayers?
Creators: name: Salomon, Adi
name: Girshevitz, Olga
name: Cahen, David
name: Bocking, Till
name: Chan, Calvin K.
name: Amy, Fabrice
name: Kahn, Antoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron transport through Si-C bound alkyl chains, sandwiched between n-Si and Hg, is characterized by two distinct types of barriers, each dominating in a different voltage range. At low voltage, current depends strongly on temperature but not on molecular length, suggesting transport by thermionic emission over a barrier in the Si. At higher voltage, the current decreases exponentially with molecular length, suggesting tunneling through the molecules. The tunnel barrier is estimated, from transport and photoemission data, to be ~1.5 eV with a 0.25me effective mass.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
On the Extreme Flights of One-Sided Levy Processes
Creators: name: Eliazar, Iddo
name: klafter, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the statistical behavior of the order statistics of the flights of One-sided Levy Processes (OLPs). We begin with the study of the extreme flights of general OLPs,and then focus on the class of selfsimilar processes,investigating the following issues:(i)the inner hierarchy of the extreme flights - for example:how big is the 7th largest flight relative to the 2nd largest one?; and,(ii)the relative contribution of the extreme flights to the entire 'flight aggregate' - for example: how big is the 3rd largest flight relative to the OLP's value?. Furthermore, we show that all 'hierarchical' results obtained - but not the 'aggregate' results - are explicitly extendable to the class of OLPs with arbitrary power-law flight tails (which is far larger than the selfsimilar class).
description: 21 pages. This manuscript is an extended version of a contribution to a special Physica A volume in honor of Shlomo Havlin on his sixtieth birthday
Neural-network approach for identifying nonclassicality from click-counting data
Creators: name: Gebhart, Valentin
name: Bohmann, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Machine-learning and neural-network approaches have gained huge attention in the context of quantum science and technology in recent years. One of the most essential tasks for the future development of quantum technologies is the verification of nonclassical resources. Here, we present an artificial neural network approach for the identification of nonclassical states of light based on recorded measurement statistics. In particular, we implement and train a network which is capable of recognizing nonclassical states based on the click statistics recorded with multiplexed detectors. We use simulated data for training and testing the network, and we show that it is capable of identifying some nonclassical states even if they were not used in the training phase. Especially, in the case of small sample sizes, our approach can be more sensitive in identifying nonclassicality than established criteria which suggests possible applications in presorting of experimental data and online applications.
Agrilus sacer Kerremans 1903
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus sacer

description: Agrilus sacer Kerremans, 1903
 Agrilus sacer Kerremans, 1903: 332.
 Material examinado: BRASIL, Goiás, Goituba, 3 exs., X.1943, Dirings leg.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 96, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
Improved Correlation between the Variability and Peak Luminosity of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Li, Li-Xin
name: Paczynski, Bohdan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new procedure for smoothing a gamma-ray burst (GRB) lightcurve and calculating its variability is presented. Applying the procedure to a sample of 25 long GRBs, we have obtained a very tight correlation between the variability and the peak luminosity. The only significant outlier in the sample is GRB 030329. With this outlier excluded, the data scatter is reduced by a factor of \sim 3 compared to that of Guidorzi et al. (2005), measured by the deviation of fit. Possible causes for the outlier are discussed.
description: 9 pages, including 7 figure. Expanded as requested by referee. An error in Fig. 1 was corrected (the two 1-sigma lines in the old version were wrong). Accepted for publication by MNRAS
Agrilus simplicellus Thomson 1879
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus simplicellus

description: Agrilus simplicellus Thomson, 1879
 Agrilus simplicellus Thomson, 1879: 63.
 Material examinado: BRASIL, Minas Gerais, Monte Verde, 1 ex. 19.II.1969, J. Halik leg.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 98, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
Government Purchases Reloaded : Informational Insufficiency and Heterogeneity in Fiscal VARs
Creators: name: Ellahie, Atif
name: Ricco, Giovanni
name: Ellahie, Atif
name: Ricco, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: fiscal shocks
subject: government purchases
subject: fiscal foresight
subject: Large Bayesian VARs

description: Using a large Bayesian VAR, we approximate the flow of information received by economic agents to investigate the effects of changes to government purchases. We document robust evidence that informational insufficiency in conventional models explains inconsistent results across samples and commonly employed identifications in recursive Structural VARs and Expectational VARs. Furthermore, we report heterogeneous effects of components of government purchases. While aggregate government purchases do not appear to produce strong stimulative effects with output multiplier around 0.7, government investment components have multipliers well above unity. State and local consumption, which captures investment in education and health, elicits a strong response.
Agrilus lavoisieri Obenberger 1933
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus lavoisieri

description: Agrilus lavoisieri Obenberger, 1933
 Agrilus lavoisieri Obenberger, 1933a: 19.
 Material examinado: BRASIL, Santa Catarina, Rio Vermelho, 1 ex., XII.1950, Dirings leg.
O exemplar foi atribuído com dúvida a esta espécie descrita de São Paulo.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 94, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
Agrilus rimosicollis Kerremans 1897
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus rimosicollis

description: Agrilus rimosicollis Kerremans, 1897
 Agrilus rimosicollis Kerremans, 1897: 111.
 Material examinado: BRASIL, Goiás, Dianópolis, 1 ex., 11-14.I.1962, J. Bechyné leg.
Identificação duvidosa tratando-se de uma fêmea.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 96, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
Unsupervised Temporal Feature Aggregation for Event Detection in Unstructured Sports Videos
Creators: name: Chaudhury, Subhajit
name: Kimura, Daiki
name: Vinayavekhin, Phongtharin
name: Munawar, Asim
name: Tachibana, Ryuki
name: Ito, Koji
name: Inaba, Yuki
name: Matsumoto, Minoru
name: Kidokoro, Shuji
name: Ozaki, Hiroki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image-based sports analytics enable automatic retrieval of key events in a game to speed up the analytics process for human experts. However, most existing methods focus on structured television broadcast video datasets with a straight and fixed camera having minimum variability in the capturing pose. In this paper, we study the case of event detection in sports videos for unstructured environments with arbitrary camera angles. The transition from structured to unstructured video analysis produces multiple challenges that we address in our paper. Specifically, we identify and solve two major problems: unsupervised identification of players in an unstructured setting and generalization of the trained models to pose variations due to arbitrary shooting angles. For the first problem, we propose a temporal feature aggregation algorithm using person re-identification features to obtain high player retrieval precision by boosting a weak heuristic scoring method. Additionally, we propose a data augmentation technique, based on multi-modal image translation model, to reduce bias in the appearance of training samples. Experimental evaluations show that our proposed method improves precision for player retrieval from 0.78 to 0.86 for obliquely angled videos. Additionally, we obtain an improvement in F1 score for rally detection in table tennis videos from 0.79 in case of global frame-level features to 0.89 using our proposed player-level features. Please see the supplementary video submission at https://ibm.biz/BdzeZA.
description: Accepted to IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, 2019
Optimizing Spatial Acquisition in Inter-Satellite FSO Links Under Beam jitter
Creators: name: Safi, Hossein
name: Ihsan, Asim
name: Tavakkolnia, Iman
name: Haas, Harald
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2024

description: The acquisition system is a key element in intersatellite free-space optics (FSO) links. Because satellite vibrations cause the scanning beam to jitter, making the acquisition process both challenging and time-consuming, minimizing acquisition time is crucial for the rapid establishment of an FSO link. In this paper, we present an optimization framework aimed at minimizing acquisition time while maintaining a predefined failure probability threshold. The optimization problem considers the total available power, the amount of overlap between the scanning beams (overlapping factor), and the beamwidth of the scanning beam. Additionally, we incorporate a weighting parameter to account for the varying power costs associated with adjusting the beamwidth and the overlapping factor. To solve this non-convex and NP-hard problem, we utilize an iterative successive convex approximation-based algorithm. When the cost of increasing laser power is high, the results show that as jitter variance increases, the optimal overlapping factor must also increase to maintain the acquisition success probability. Simultaneously, the beamwidth slightly decreases to adhere to power constraints. On the other hand, when the cost for increasing laser power is low, the optimal strategy involves maximizing the beamwidth and increasing the overlapping factor to mitigate jitter effects.
Emblica Officinalis (Amloki) – Could Be the Remedy for Side Effects of Iron Supplementation in Pregnancy
Creators: name: Akter, Tahmina
name: Akhter, Qazi Shamima
name: Lisa, Saima Haque
name: Mst. Ariza Sultana
name: Tamanna Binte Habib
name: Sultana, Farhana
name: Sharmin Nahar
name: Sayeda Tasnim Kamal
name: Rahman, Farhana
name: Sharmin Khan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Background: Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is the most common nutritional disorder in pregnancy in developing countries. Different iron preparations are supplemented to treat IDA in pregnancy, which can lead to different side effects like nausea, vomiting, decreased appetite, constipation or diarrohea, hyperacidity. Emblica officinalis is a well known traditional fruit to reduce these side effects. Aim: To determine the side effects of iron supplementation and beneficial role of amloki in pregnancy to reduce these side effects.Methods and materials: This interventional study was done in the Department of Physiology, Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka from July 2016 to June 2017. From the Outpatient Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, 46 pregnant women were selected purposively on the basis of inclusion and exclusion criteria. Anaemic pregnant women supplemented with oral iron and amloki were considered as study groups (Group A) and pregnant women supplemented with only iron for 45 days were considered as control group (Group B). A previously formed structured questionnaire was used to evaluate the subjective complaints. Chi-square test was performed to compare between the groups. The test of significance was calculated & p value < 0.05 was accepted as level of significance. Results: Significant improvement in different subjective parameters nausea, vomiting, decreased appetite, constipation, hyperacidity (p<0.001), were seen in iron and amloki supplemented group. Conclusions: It can be concluded that, amloki supplementation along with iron can reduce the side effects of iron and improve the subjective complains of the iron deficient anemic pregnant women.
Costs and Implications of Consevation Compliance
Creators: name: Huang, Wen-Yuan
name: Huang, Wen-Yuan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance
Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The costs of conservation compliance progarm (CCP) to farmers in U.S. are to range from .105 to 2.88 billion dollars for 23 million acres enrolled in the conservation reserve program (CRP), and from .0866 to 2.66 billion dollars for 40 million acres in the CRP if soil erosion from the highly erodibel cropland is to limited to the tolerance (T) level. The exact CCP costs will depend on what extent the economic hardship exemption is given to farmers. Farmers in the Sourthen plains, Mountain region, the Northern Plains, and Pacific will need exemption from the compliance to maintain current levels of production .
An algebraic Birkhoff decomposition for the continuous renormalization group
Creators: name: Girelli, F.
name: Krajewski, T.
name: Martinetti, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper aims at presenting the first steps towards a formulation of the Exact Renormalization Group Equation in the Hopf algebra setting of Connes and Kreimer. It mostly deals with some algebraic preliminaries allowing to formulate perturbative renormalization within the theory of differential equations. The relation between renormalization, formulated as a change of boundary condition for a differential equation, and an algebraic Birkhoff decomposition for rooted trees is explicited.
IS POLICY ANALYSIS RELATED TO POLICY?
Creators: name: Fuglestad, Paul
name: English, Burton C.
name: Fuglestad, Paul
name: English, Burton C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Political Economy

description: This paper compares two policy analyses--the first and second RCA appraisals--with the economic climate in which each was conducted. The results of the analysis supporting the updated ·National Conservation Program are presented.
Economic and Physical Marginality of Highly Erodible Cropland
Creators: name: Heimlich, Ralph E.
name: Heimlich, Ralph E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: The conventional notion that highly erodible soils are uniformly unproductive is not supported by empirical evidence. Highly erodible soils are capable of producing corn grain yields and net crop revenue statistically equivalent to that from nonerodible soils. Significant acreages with all but the highest productivity can be found at all levels of erodibility. Retiring highly erodible, physically marginal cropland is not synonymous with retiring less productive, economically marginal cropland.
Agrilus tullius Obenberger 1933
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus tullius

description: Agrilus tullius Obenberger, 1933
 Agrilus tullius Obenberger, 1933b: 60.
 Material examinado: 82 exs., BRASIL, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutônia, IX.1966, Plaumann leg. ; idem, X.1966; Anita Garibaldi, IX.1950, Dirings leg. ; Joinville, X.1944, Dirings leg.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 99, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
The Moon Noodle Bar
Creators: name: Au, Jessie
name: Brown, Laura
name: Goh, Andrea
name: Lee, Jou-Pei (Helen)
name: Vukets, David
name: Wozniak, Roberta
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Mixed-Autonomy Traffic and Wireless Charging Problem for Autonomous Electric Vehicles Using Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Chu, Kai-Fung
name: Xie, Yue
name: Lam, Albert YS
name: Iida, Fumiya
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2024

description: As the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) continues to increase, integrating vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology while maintaining mobility and optimizing traffic flow becomes crucial. In this paper, we formulate a mixed-autonomy traffic and wireless charging problem where both autonomous and human-driven EVs coexist on the road. We aim to mitigate traffic congestion and improve V2G functionality, and therefore we propose a framework that adopts reinforcement learning, specifically the Soft Actor-Critic algorithm, to jointly enhance traffic throughput, balance the state-of-charge (SOC) among EVs, and maximize wireless charging energy in the mixed-autonomy ring-shaped road with wireless charging facilities. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in stabilizing traffic, achieving SOC balance, and increasing the energy charged to EVs. This study showcases the potential for solving mixed-autonomy traffic and wireless charging problems in future wireless charging transportation systems.
Indium tin oxide films meet circular Rydberg atoms: prospects for novel quantum simulation schemes
Creators: name: Meinert, Florian
name: Hölzl, Christian
name: Nebioglu, Mehmet Ali
name: D'Arnese, Alessandro
name: Karl, Philipp
name: Dressel, Martin
name: Scheffler, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long-lived circular Rydberg atoms are picking up increasing interest for boosting coherence times in Rydberg-based quantum simulation. We elaborate a novel approach to stabilize circular Rydberg states against spontaneous and blackbody-induced decay using a suppression capacitor made from indium tin oxide (ITO) thin films, which combine reflection of microwaves with transparency in the visible spectral range. To this end, we perform detailed characterization of such films using complementary spectroscopic methods at GHz and THz frequencies and identify conditions that allow for reaching circular-state lifetimes up to tens of milliseconds in a room-temperature environment. We discuss prospects of our findings in view of the quest for quantum simulations with high-$n$ circular Rydberg states at room temperature.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
title: Expression of TRIM Genes in Different Immune Cells and Mechanism of Regulation of Their Expression: Implications for the Immune Response to Pathogens
Creators: name: Rajsbaum, Ricardo
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2009

description: The tripartite motif (TRIM) proteins are important in a variety of cellular functions including antiviral activity. We systematically analyzed mRNA expression of representative TRIMs in primary mouse macrophages, myeloid and plasmacytoid dendritic cells, and a selection of CD4+ T cell subsets. These cells have different effector functions in innate and adaptive immune responses, to a large extent due to the different patterns of cytokines that they produce. Here, we defined four clusters of TRIM genes based on their selective expression in these cell subsets. The first group of TRIMs was preferentially expressed in CD4+T cells and contained the COS-FN3 motif. Additional TRIMs were identified that showed up-regulation in macrophages and dendritic cells upon influenza virus infection in a type-I IFN dependent manner suggesting that they may play a role in anti-viral responses. However, stimulation of macrophages and mDC with LPS and double stranded RNA also led to type-I IFN dependent up-regulation of these TRIM genes, suggesting that their expression is not directly regulated by the virus, and that they may have broader functions in innate immune responses. In support of the proposed role of TRIMs in anti-viral responses, a subset of the type-I IFN dependent TRIMs mapped to mouse chromosome 7, syntenic to human chromosome 11 where TRIMs such as TRIM5, shown to have anti-viral activity, are localized. Consistent with these findings, up-regulation of the same TRIM genes in human macrophages was mainly observed under conditions which resulted in the induction of IFNβ (in this case by LPS and IFNγ stimulations), as observed by reanalysis of a previously published microarray study. Within the group of TRIMs induced by viruses in macrophages and dendritic cells via a type-I IFN dependent mechanism we distinguish two clusters on the basis of TRIM expression in CD4+ T cells. A fourth group of TRIMs was constitutively expressed in plasmacytoid dendritic cells independently of viral infection or signalling through the type-I IFN receptor. Our findings on expression and regulation of TRIMs may help to develop potential strategies for determining functions of this diverse family of molecules in immune cells.