cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The outcomes of 25 years of agricultural reforms in Kyrgyzstan
Creators: name: Mogilevskii, Roman
name: Abdrazakova, Nazgul
name: Bolotbekova, Aida
name: Chalbasova, Saule
name: Dzhumaeva, Shoola
name: Tilekeyev, Kanat
name: Mogilevskii, Roman
name: Abdrazakova, Nazgul
name: Bolotbekova, Aida
name: Chalbasova, Saule
name: Dzhumaeva, Shoola
name: Tilekeyev, Kanat
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: farm restructuring
subject: agricultural productivity
subject: irrigation
subject: pasture reform
subject: agricultural policy
subject: Kyrgyzstan
subject: реструктуризация сельского хозяйства
subject: производительность сельского хозяйства
subject: ирригация
subject: реформа пастбищ
subject: сельскохозяйственная политика
subject: Кыргызстан
subject: landwirtschaftliche Umstrukturierung
subject: landwirtschaftliche Produktivität
subject: Bewässerung
subject: Bodenreform
subject: Agrarpolitik
subject: Kirgistan

description: Kyrgyz agriculture experienced substantial reform during the 1990s and early 2000s. Subsequently, the pace of reform slowed and at present the government does not appear to have any clear strategy for further development in the sector. Summarizing the outcomes of these reforms, a certain freedom granted to farmers stands out as one of the main achievements and an important reason for the sector’s efficiency. Peasant farms are effectively protected from attempts to administratively regulate crop structure or introduce any other types of market distortions. However, an insufficient level of investments is undermining long-term prospects for development in the sector. Supporting large professional players in the sector is one of the key policy priorities of the government. It is however necessary to provide space for these enterprises to emerge on their own. It is additionally important to ensure that any support policies in favor of such players also provide positive spillovers to the small farmers around them, and do not aim at replacing them mechanically. The list of incomplete policy reforms is very long, especially in the area of natural resource management and provision of other essential public goods. The state of pastures and irrigation systems is alarming and requires government support well above its current level. Understanding the key areas for government intervention and focusing interventions on public goods provision should be the key components of a future agricultural development strategy.
Two new resin glycosides, muricatins XII and XIII, from the seeds of Ipomoea muricata
Creators: name: Ono, Masateru
name: Taketomi, Saki
name: Nishikawa, Hirotaka
name: Yasuda, Shin
name: Tsuchihashi, Ryota
name: Okawa, Masafumi
name: Kinjo, Junei
name: Miyashita, Hiroyuki
name: Yoshimitsu, Hitoshi
name: Nohara, Toshihiro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Two new resin glycosides, muricatins XII (1) and XIII (2), were isolated from the crude resin glycoside fraction of the seeds of Ipomoea muricata (L.) Jacq. (Convolvulaceae), along with three known ones, muricatins V (3), VI (4), and IX (5). Compounds 1 and 2 contained new glycosidic acids, muricatic acids E (1a) and F (2a), respectively. The structures of these compounds were determined using data obtained from spectroscopy measurements and chemical evidence. The results suggested that 1 and 2 have macrolactone structures (jalapins). Furthermore, the cytotoxic activity of the crude resin glycoside fraction and 3–5 against HL-60 human promyelocytic leukaemia cells was evaluated. All tested samples demonstrated cytotoxic activities.
The MATHUSLA Test Stand
Creators: name: Alidra, Maf
name: Alpigiani, Cristiano
name: Ball, Austin
name: Camarri, Paolo
name: Cardarelli, Roberto
name: Chou, John Paul
name: Curtin, David
name: Etzion, Erez
name: Garabaglu, Ali
name: Gomes, Brandon
name: Guida, Roberto
name: Kuykendall, W.
name: Kvam, Audrey
name: Lazic, Dragoslav
name: Lubatti, H. J.
name: Marsella, Giovanni
name: Mizrachi, Gilad
name: Policicchio, Antonio
name: Proffitt, Mason
name: Rothberg, Joe
name: Santonico, Rinaldo
name: Silver, Yiftah
name: Thayil, Steffie Ann
name: Torro-Pastor, Emma
name: Watts, Gordon
name: Young, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rate of muons from LHC $pp$ collisions reaching the surface above the ATLAS interaction point is measured and compared with expected rates from decays of $W$ and $Z$ bosons and $b$- and $c$-quark jets. In addition, data collected during periods without beams circulating in the LHC provide a measurement of the background from cosmic ray inelastic backscattering that is compared to simulation predictions. Data were recorded during 2018 in a 2.5 $\times$ 2.5 $\times$ 6.5~$\rm{m}^3$ active volume MATHUSLA test stand detector unit consisting of two scintillator planes, one at the top and one at the bottom, which defined the trigger, and six layers of RPCs between them, grouped into three $(x,y)$-measuring layers separated by 1.74 m from each other. Triggers selecting both upward-going tracks and downward-going tracks were used.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures, 1 table
Avaliação dos Critérios de Elegibilidade do Programa Territórios da Cidadania
Creators: name: Andrade, Pedro Gomes
name: Strauch, Julia Celia Mercedes
name: Ferreira, Gustavo
name: Andrade, Pedro Gomes
name: Strauch, Julia Celia Mercedes
name: Ferreira, Gustavo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Territories of citizenship
subject: Territorial development policy
subject: Eligibility criteria
subject: Logistic regression model.

description: The Territories of Citizenship Program (PTC) is one of the most important territorial development policies in force in Brazil, especially regarding its scope and importance. The program features different scope, with territorial approach, social and inter-ministerial management. Despite the fact that the PTC is based in an evolutionary process of public policies, such as the National Program to Strengthen Family Agriculture (Pronaf) and Sustainable Development Program of Rural Areas (Pronat), it still presents certain bottlenecks, as the definition criteria for the choice of the territories. In this sense, the paper presents a statistical methodology with the objective of assessing the eligibility criteria and the importance level of these criteria for a municipality to be served by the program, from proxy indicators to the criteria set by decree. As a result, criteria such as population density, existence of quilombos and indigenous population did not show the expected role. But the Human Development Index is presented as the main eligibility criteria, showing that the index remains relevant for the monitoring and evaluation cycle of Brazilian public policy. Family farming, one of the main pillars of PTC and its predecessor programs, was also important, maintaining the consistency of the scope and objectives of the program.
Verzeichnis der Musikalien zum Nachlass Alfred Leonz Gassmann
Creators: name: Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
Publisher: name: Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
Year: 2024
Subjects: Nachlass
Gassmann, Alfred Leonz

description: Verzeichnis der Musikalien zum Nachlass Alfred Leonz Gassmann
Der Nachlass umfasst Materialien zum Werk, Werke, Abschriften, Musikhandschriften
Handschriftliche Materialien von Frau Huber-Gassmann, Baden (Tochter)
Umfang: 0.1 Lfm
description: Standort: [ZHB] Sempacherstrasse / Luzern (Tresor BB), Signatur: Ms.N.60
Gestão Cooperativa, Ambiente Institucional e Sociocultural: o caso Brasil-Paraguai
Creators: name: Tarifa, Marcelo Resquetti
name: Schallenberger, Erneldo
name: Tarifa, Marcelo Resquetti
name: Schallenberger, Erneldo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agroindustrial cooperativism
subject: Institutional theory
subject: Organizational culture
subject: Social capital.

description: The purpose of this paper was to analyze the influence of institutional and socio-cultural environment in the cooperative management of the C.Vale – Agroindustrial Cooperative, compared to the most representative units located in Parana, Brazil, and the ones located in Paraguay. The analyses of the institutional environment were based on the New Institutional Economics, with emphasis on the Douglass North’s theory (1990) analisaabout the institutions and occurred with in loco interviews in each cooperative unit that was covered by the sample. The analysis of the cultural environment was based on the characterization of the organizational culture of each cooperative unit, according to the Competing Value Model, developed by Cameron and Quinn (1998), that typifies it in group culture, innovative, market and hierarchical, applied to the same managers, through online electronic questionnaire . The analysis of the social environment was based on the theoretical concept of social capital and the respective characteristics identified in the units by adapting the model proposed by the World Bank study group (BM), prepared by Grootaert et al. (2003), through the content analysis of the interviews. As a result to the established problem it was concluded that, even C.Vale being a single cooperative, there are influences of the institutional and the socio-cultural environment in the process of management of the cooperative units in Paraná and Paraguay. Finally, according to the grouping proposal of the cooperative units based on the collected data, four specific clusters were identified.
Table S1: SEM and EDS operating conditions from Aluminosilicate haloes preserve complex life approximately 800 million years ago
Creators: name: Anderson, Ross P.
name: Tosca, Nicholas J.
name: Gianfelice Cinque
name: Frogley, Mark D.
name: Lekkas, Ioannis
name: Akey, Austin
name: Hughes, Gareth M.
name: Bergmann, Kristin D.
name: Knoll, Andrew H.
name: Briggs, Derek E.G.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 20101 Astrobiology
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SEM and EDS operating conditions: accelerating voltages and detector types.
How to Quantify and Avoid Finite Size Effects in Computational Studies of Crystal Nucleation: The Case of Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation
Creators: name: Hussain, Sarwar
name: Haji-Akbari, Amir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Computational studies of crystal nucleation can be impacted by finite size effects, primarily due to unphysical interactions between crystalline nuclei and their periodic images. It is, however, not always feasible to systematically investigate the sensitivity of nucleation kinetics and mechanism to system size due to large computational costs of nucleation studies. Here, we use jumpy forward flux sampling to accurately compute the rates of heterogeneous ice nucleation in the vicinity of square-shaped model structureless ice nucleating particles (INPs) of different sizes, and identify three distinct regimes for the dependence of rate on the INP dimension, $L$. For small INPs, the rate is a strong function of $L$ due to artificial spanning of critical nuclei across the periodic boundary. Intermediate-sized INPs, however, give rise to the emergence of non-spanning 'proximal` nuclei that are close enough to their periodic images to fully structure the intermediary liquid. While such proximity can facilitate nucleation, its effect is offset by the higher density of the intermediary liquid, leading to artificially small nucleation rates overall. The critical nuclei formed at large INPs are neither spanning nor proximal. Yet, the rate is a weak function of $L$, with its logarithm scaling linearly with $1/L$. The key heuristic emerging from these observations is that finite size effects will be minimal if critical nuclei are neither spanning nor proximal, and if the intermediary liquid has a region that is structurally indistinguishable from the supercooled liquid under the same conditions.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures, 1 main table, 17 supplementary tables
Verzeichnis der Musikalien zum Nachlass Richard Rosenberg
Creators: name: Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
Publisher: name: Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
Year: 2024
Subjects: Nachlass
Rosenberg, Richard

description: Verzeichnis der Musikalien zum Nachlass Richard Rosenberg
Der Nachlass umfasst Der Nachlass enthält: Allgemeines und Einzelnes, Musikalische Werke, Korrespondenz, Lebensdokumente, Berufliche Tätigkeit/Publikationen, Sammlungen
description: Standort: [ZHB] Sempacherstrasse / Luzern (Tresor BB), Signatur: Ms.N.136
Isolation and identification of the alga-symbiotic bacterium Gordonia and characterisation of its exopolysaccharide
Creators: name: Liu, Wang
name: Xing, Xiangying
name: Dong, Qinglin
name: Liu, Xiaohang
name: Li, Wenna
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: An exopolysaccharide (EPS)-producing bacterium TD18, isolated from the culture broth of green alga Scenedesmus obliquus, was identified as Gordonia terrae based on the 100% identity of 16S rRNA sequences and designated Gordonia terrae TD18. The results of compositional and structural analyses and physiochemical tests show that (1) the exopolysaccharide produced by G. terrae TD18 (TD18-EPS) is an acidic hetero-polysaccharide with a molecular weight of 23 kDa, consisting of glucose, mannose, galactose and glucuronic acid, and (2) TD18-EPS is of high thermal stability with a degradation temperature of 308 °C, the solution of which is non-Newtonian pseudoplastic fluid exhibiting good emulsifying properties over a wide range of temperatures, pH and NaCl concentrations. Hence, Gordonia terrae TD18 is the first alga-symbiotic Gordonia strain identified thus far, while TD18-EPS is unique in terms of composition and structure, different from the known Gordonia EPS, with excellent physiochemical properties and thus has potential applications in industry.
La rigidità dei prezzi in Italia (Price Stickiness in Italy)
Creators: name: Fabiani, Silvia
name: Gattulli, Angela
name: Sabbatini, Roberto
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Prices, Supply
subject: E31

description: The presence of price stickiness implies that in the short term adjustment to demand or supply shocks takes place through quantities. This paper approaches the issue of nominal price stickiness in Italy by analysing the cross-sectional distributions of the changes in sectoral consumer price indices and the relationships between the moments of such distributions. A preliminary descriptive analysis showed that consumer price cuts are indeed quite rare. The theoretical literature on price rigidity, in particular downwards, suggests some propositions concerning such relationships, which can be empirically tested. In particular, downward price rigidity should imply a positive asymmetric distribution which should become more pronounced as average inflation declines. Consumer price changes in Italy in fact exhibit quite a pronounced positive asymmetry. Moreover, the relative number of months in which the distribution of consumer price changes is right-skewed rises substantially moving from a high to a low inflation environment. On the basis of a Granger-causality analysis we show that, while the asymmetry in the distribution of Italian consumer price changes over the period characterised by high inflation rates was endogenously generated by the presence of adjustment costs, when moderate inflation prevailed the asymmetric behaviour of prices seems to have been due mainly to some form of inherent downward stickiness in the service sector. JEL Codes: E31 Keywords: Prices, Supply
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 56, N. 223 (2003)
Exploring the status of geospatial skills within local authorities in Zimbabwe
Creators: name: NORMAN KARIMAZONDO
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 100508 Satellite Communications
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Some evidence for geospatial skills shortage have been revealed by surveys that were done in developed countries such as New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA). However, most of the reported skills shortage are not sector specific and there is lack of information regarding extent of the geospatial skills shortage and its dimensions. In this study, an online survey was done to explore the scope of the geospatial skills shortage within the local authorities in Zimbabwe. The results of the survey indicate that demand for geospatial skills is very high, but supply is critically low with local authorities facing severe shortages particularly in remote sensing skills. Some of the key drivers behind the current geospatial skills shortage are lack of suitably qualified and experienced graduates, higher education training, awareness regarding geospatial technologies and the related career opportunities. This study recommends the development of clear geospatial graduate pathways for recent graduates wishing to gain initial experience in the geospatial industry and supporting current geospatial staff to obtain skills and recognised geospatial qualifications.
The importance of the diffuse ionized gas for interpreting galaxy spectra
Creators: name: Asari, N. Vale
name: Stasińska, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diffuse ionized gas (DIG) in galaxies can be found in early-type galaxies, in bulges of late-type galaxies, in the interarm regions of galaxy disks, and outside the plane of such disks. The emission-line spectrum of the DIG can be confused with that of a weakly active galactic nucleus. It can also bias the inference of chemical abundances and star formation rates in star forming galaxies. We discuss how one can detect and feasibly correct for the DIG contribution in galaxy spectra.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, Invited review, Proceedings of IAUS 359, Storchi-Bergmann et al. eds. Accepted manuscript after minor corrections
title: Automated quality control procedures for the International Soil Moisture Network
Creators: name: Xaver, Angelika
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Qualitätskontrolle
subject: Bodenfeuchtigkeit
subject: In-Situ
subject: Quality Control
subject: Soil Moisture
subject: In-Situ

description: Seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 2009, werden durch das International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) harmonisierte in situ Bodenfeuchtemessungen bereitgestellt, die von einer Vielzahl von operativen Netzwerken stammen. Die Qualität der gesammelten Daten variiert sehr stark, aufgrund von Unterschieden der angewandten Sensortechnik ebenso wie aufgrund verschiedener lokaler Bedingungen bei den Messstationen. In situ Bodenfeuchtebeobachtungen sind essentiell, um modellierte und fernerkundungsbasierte Bodenfeuchteprodukte zu evaluieren und zu kalibrieren. Die Relevanz von aussagekräftigen Qualitätsmaßen für in situ Bodenfeuchtemessungen ist daher offensichtlich. Diese Arbeit präsentiert komplexe automatisierte Verfahren der Qualitätskontrolle, um Spikes, Sprünge und Plateaus basierend auf der Form von Bodenfeuchte-Zeitreihen zu detektieren. Mehrere Bedingungen werden definiert, um diese fehlerhaften Ereignisse durch Untersuchung der ersten und zweiten Ableitungen, berechnet mithilfe des bekannten Savitzky-Golay Filters, zu identifizieren. Die Performance der vorgestellten Verfahren der Qualitätskontrolle wird durch einen Vergleich der automatisiert geflaggten Resultate mit manuell geflaggten Daten, basierend auf einer Auswahl von 40 Bodenfeuchtedatensätzen des ISMN, evaluiert. Abschließend wird eine Flagging-Statisik über alle im ISMN enthaltenen Bodenfeuchtedaten präsentiert.
description: Since its establishment in 2009, the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) provides harmonized ground-based soil moisture measurements, originating from a variety of operating networks. The quality of the collected data is highly variable, caused by differences in the sensing technique as well as by different local conditions at the measuring sites. In situ soil moisture observations are essential to evaluate and calibrate modelled and remotely sensed soil moisture products. Thus, the importance of meaningful quality measures for in situ soil moisture measurements is evident. This study presents sophisticated automated quality control procedures to detect spikes, jumps and plateaus based on analyzing the shape of the soil moisture time series. Several conditions will be defined to identify these erroneous events through investigating the first and second derivatives, derived by the widely-known Savitzky-Golay filter. The performance of the introduced quality control procedures will be evaluated by comparing the automated flagging results to manually flagged data of 40 selected soil moisture datasets from the ISMN. Finally, a flagging statistic based on all soil moisture measurements contained in the ISMN will be presented.
The Laplacian on Cartesian products with mixed boundary conditions
Creators: name: Seelmann, Albrecht
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J05 (Primary) 46E35, 35J25 (Secondary)

description: A definition of the Laplacian on Cartesian products with mixed boundary conditions using quadratic forms is proposed. Its consistency with the standard definition for homogeneous and certain mixed boundary conditions is proved and, as a consequence, tensor representations of the corresponding Sobolev spaces of first order are derived. Moreover, a criterion for the domain to belong to the Sobolev space of second order is proved.
description: 7 pages; some material regarding mixed boundary conditions of product type added, added or updated references, minor changes and fixed typos
Verzeichnis der Musikalien zum Nachlass Jost Kaufmann
Creators: name: Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
Publisher: name: Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
Year: 2024
Subjects: Nachlass
Kaufmann, Jost

description: Verzeichnis der Musikalien zum Nachlass Jost Kaufmann
Der Nachlass umfasst Kompositionen
Umfang: 0.1 Lfm
description: Standort: [ZHB] Sempacherstrasse / Luzern (Tresor BB), Signatur: Ms.N.122
Crisi economiche e mercati finanziari: è di aiuto un nuovo ordine finanziario? (Economic Crises and Financial Markets: Will a New Financial Order Be Helpful?)
Creators: name: Sarcinelli, Mario
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Crisis, Debt, Exchange Rates, Foreign Debt
subject: F31, F33, F34, F42

description: The financial market crises in Japan and the United States due to bubbles and the exchange rate, banking and sometimes foreign debt crises that affected in past years South-East Asia, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, and Turkey made for a brief evaluation of the adequacy of national and international governance mechanisms for preventing and solving them. The widespread dissatisfaction they raise was instrumental in examining whether a larger recourse to finance and risk management is better than macroeconomic management and/or regulation. The types of contract sponsored by Robert J. Shiller in The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st century have been scrutinised to see whether they offer a better chance to stabilise individual or national income. Even where such an outcome can be secured without aggravating moral hazard, the costs in terms of personal freedom and privacy seem to be particularly high. JEL Codes: F31, F33, F34, F42 Keywords: Crisis, Debt, Exchange Rates, Foreign Debt
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 56, N. 224 (2003)
Juventud Rural: factores que influyen en el desarrollo de la actividad agropecuaria. Reflexiones sobre el caso argentino
Creators: name: Sili, Marcelo
name: Fachelli, Sandra
name: Meiller, Andres
name: Sili, Marcelo
name: Fachelli, Sandra
name: Meiller, Andres
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural youth
subject: Rural exodus
subject: Argentina
subject: Rural development.

description: The exodus or the permanence of young people in rural areas is a highly debated topic in Latin America. This work aims to contribute to this discussion based on an empirical research with a survey of 400 young people in Argentina. This study shows how different variables influence in keeping young people in rural areas engaging in agriculture activities. The hypothesis that arises and that is finally validated is that belonging to farming families and studies related to agricultural activity are the key factors that allow young people to settle in rural areas and engage in agriculture. The statistical techniques used for descriptive analysis are contingency tables and comparison of means, while the multiple binary logistic regressions are used to perform dependency analysis and validate the hypothesis.
Il processo di integrazione monetaria europea: un confronto tra gli approcci belga e italiano (The Process of European Monetary Integration: A Comparison of the Belgian and Italian Approaches)
Creators: name: Maes, Ivo
name: Quaglia, Lucia
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: EMU, Exchange Rates, Integration
subject: F31, F36

description: This paper analyses the roles which Belgium and Italy have played in the process of European monetary integration. It focusses on Belgian and Italian attitudes towards European integration and EMU, exchange rate policies, key concepts of the EMU strategies and concrete contributions. Overall, Belgium and Italy played an important and pace-setting role in the process of European monetary integration. The main difference is that Belgium has been a constant and consistent "pace-setter" in monetary matters, whereas Italy was mainly active in the 1980s. Furthermore, the paper shows how important it was for a country to achieve a sound economic performance, especially a stable exchange rate, in order to have influence on the European monetary scene. JEL Codes: F31, F36 Keywords: EMU, Exchange Rates, Integration
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 56, N. 224 (2003)
Le emissioni delle banche italiane sull’euromercato (The Eurobond Issues of Italian Banks)
Creators: name: Mistrulli, Paolo Emilio
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Bank
subject: G21

description: After the launch of the single European currency banks of the main euro-area countries have increasingly issued bonds on the Euromarket. In this paper, I investigate the determinants of Italian banks' recourse to international capital markets. I find that, other things being equal, domestic market conditions affect the choice whether to issue Eurobonds. In particular, the econometric analysis highlights that those banks, which are more prone to issue bonds on the Euromarket, are more exposed to liquidity risks and are less specialized in raising deposits on specific domestic submarkets. JEL Codes: G21 Keywords: Bank
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 56, N. 224 (2003)
Penta-Quark Anti-Decuplet in Anisotropic Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Ishii, N.
name: Doi, T.
name: Iida, H.
name: Oka, M.
name: Okiharu, F.
name: Suganuma, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The penta-quark(5Q) Theta^+(1540) is studied in anisotropic lattice QCD with renormalized anisotropy a_s/a_t=4 for a high-precision measurement. Both the positive and the negative parity 5Q baryons are studied using a non-NK type interpolating field with I=0 and J=1/2. After the chiral extrapolation, the lowest positive parity state is found at m_{Theta}\simeq 2.25 GeV, which is too heavy to be identified with Theta^+(1540). In the negative parity channel, the lowest energy state is found at m_{Theta}\simeq 1.75 GeV. Although it is rather close to the empirical value, it is considered to be an NK scattering state rather than a localized resonance state.
description: Lattice2004(spectrum), A talk presented at Lattice 2004 (The XXII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA, 21-26 June 2004
Proposta de Critério de Alocação de Custos Indiretos na Pecuária Bovina de Ciclo Completo
Creators: name: Aranha, José Aparecido Moura
name: Dias, Alexandre Menezes
name: Ítavo, Luís Carlos Vinhas
name: Aranha, José Aparecido Moura
name: Dias, Alexandre Menezes
name: Ítavo, Luís Carlos Vinhas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Beef cattle accounting
subject: Indirect costs
subject: Sharing cost.

description: Traditionally, accounting makes the apportionment of indirect costs in the full cycle beef cattle activity based on the unit cost per animal (head). By this criterion, the cost value attributed to a calf is the same for an adult animal (cow), which suggests not be most appropriate criterion. The use of agricultural inputs, food consumption and the purchase and sale of animals occur according to body weight. Provide an apportionment precriterion that allows distribution of the production costs to the herd taking into account the body weight would be the most appropriate. Proposing the apportionment of the overhead costs of the full cycle beef cattle activity based on the animal unit (AU) is the objective of this study, since it allows classifying beef cattle of different ages and sex in the same evaluation basis. The results confirmed differences among the apportionment criteria, pointing out that the animal unit is the most appropriate for apportioning costs in full cycle beef cattle
Produzione, investimenti e produttività. Rendimenti crescenti e cambiamento strutturale nell’industria manifatturiera americana (1960-1994)
Creators: name: Bonifati, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Capital, Investment, Manufacturing, Production, Productivity
subject: D24, E22, L60, J24, O33

description: The article studies the cross-industry relation between production, investment and productivity in American manufacturing industry, disaggregated to 4-digit, in the period 1960-94. From the empirical analysis it turns out that no strong direct relation between investments and productivity can be observed in the presence of increasing returns by which when the output rises there is a rise both in output per employee and in output per unit of capital employed. For the same reason, the inter-industry differences in productivity growth rates are simultaneously linked, positively, with the growth of output and, negatively, with that of investments. The growth of production and that of new industries are placed in the Smithian perspective of increasing returns stemming from the effects of the increase in the division of labour on the development of the technological and organizational capabilities that can be realized in productive activity as such. JEL Codes: D24, E22, L60, J24, O33 Keywords: Capital, Investment, Manufacturing, Production, Productivity
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 55, N. 217 (2002)
title: The importance of introductory pricing of a new technology product of a start-up company in a developed B2B market
Creators: name: Einhaus, Manuel
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Start-up company
subject: Pricing
subject: New technology
subject: New product pricing
subject: Competition informed pricing
subject: Cost- informed pricing

description: Pricing strongly relates to successful business. It influences competitiveness, sales volumes, growth and especially profitability. Although pricing is so important for economic success, in many companies the issue of pricing often plays just a subordinate role. Even experienced companies make their pricing decisions on the basic pricing practice cost-plus, which does not sufficiently support the above mentioned points. But if looking at start-up companies which are just about to access the market with their new product the pricing issue is mostly not dealt with professionally. This is even understandable because many entrepreneurs do not have any experience in pricing because it is a highly unique and special field of economic research. This master thesis deals with the issue of pricing a new product with looking at an example from the EM.tec design GmbH, which is just about to enter the market with their licensed ennobling technology valure-. Since the pricing issue is even difficult in big companies which have especially trained people on that, this master thesis is focussing on the pricing issues for start-up companies. Especially for start-up companies pricing their new product is very important in order to enter the market successfully. The master thesis strives for a very practical way for start-up companies to price their products. It deals with the basics of pricing and sets up a pricing circle which can be helpful in many pricing situations.
La copertura dei rischi finanziari nelle imprese non finanziarie italiane attraverso gli strumenti derivati (The Hedging of Financial Risks Using Derivatives by Italian Non-financial Firms)
Creators: name: Bison, Gianluca
name: Pellizzon, Loriana
name: Sartore, Domenico
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Financial Risk, Firm, Hedging
subject: G11, G31, G32, F31

description: The paper deals with the use of derivatives by Italian non-financial firms, in order to analyse existing theories of hedging behaviour, and provides empirical evidence on a potential differentiation of determinants of derivative use over time. Univariate and multivariate analyses show that the determinants of derivative use reveal marked differences when compared in the different years, so they may change over time. In general, we find that the most determinant variable is foreign sales, and analysis therefore suggests the hypothesis that exposure to exchange rate risk is the strongest determinant in derivative use. Interest rate risk exposure seems to be less relevant. Moreover, from 1997, another variable proves determinant, firm size, which suggests that economies of scale could also be a key variable in derivative use. With respect to financial distress cost models, tax and agency cost theories, the results are mixed. JEL Codes: G11, G31, G32, F31 Keywords: Financial Risk, Firm, Hedging
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 55, N. 217 (2002)
Detection of Line Artefacts in Lung Ultrasound Images of COVID-19 Patients via Non-Convex Regularization
Creators: name: Karakuş, Oktay
name: Anantrasirichai, Nantheera
name: Aguersif, Amazigh
name: Silva, Stein
name: Basarab, Adrian
name: Achim, Alin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we present a novel method for line artefacts quantification in lung ultrasound (LUS) images of COVID-19 patients. We formulate this as a non-convex regularisation problem involving a sparsity-enforcing, Cauchy-based penalty function, and the inverse Radon transform. We employ a simple local maxima detection technique in the Radon transform domain, associated with known clinical definitions of line artefacts. Despite being non-convex, the proposed technique is guaranteed to convergence through our proposed Cauchy proximal splitting (CPS) method and accurately identifies both horizontal and vertical line artefacts in LUS images. In order to reduce the number of false and missed detection, our method includes a two-stage validation mechanism, which is performed in both Radon and image domains. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method in comparison to the current state-of-the-art B-line identification method and show a considerable performance gain with 87% correctly detected B-lines in LUS images of nine COVID-19 patients. In addition, owing to its fast convergence, our proposed method is readily applicable for processing LUS image sequences.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
title: Integrationseffekte der Transeuropäischen Verkehrsnetze auf Zentralräume und Peripherie : Vergleich ausgewählter Regionen in Österreich und Portugal
Creators: name: Weber, Victor
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: TEN
subject: Entwicklung
subject: EU
subject: Integration
subject: Verkehr
subject: Peripherie
subject: Zentralraum
subject: TEN
subject: Development
subject: EU
subject: Integration
subject: Transport
subject: Periphery
subject: central-space

description: Die Einigung Europas ist ein bedeutendes politisches Motiv der EU. Der Anspruch geht dabeiweiter als ein lediglich politischer Zusammenschluss. Die Vereinigung soll auch auf der regionalenEbene ankommen. Die Reduzierung der territorialen Disparitäten nimmt dabei eine Schlüsselrolleein. Anhand einer theoriebasierten Exploration werden Effekte der europäischen Regionalpolitik inausgewählten Gebieten erforscht. Die statistische Auswertung von räumlichen Indikatoren gelangtbezüglich zu deutlichen Erkenntnissen zur erreichten Integration mit den gewähltenregionalplanerische Maßnahmen. In erster Linie ist die unreflektierte Reproduktion deseuropäischen Zentralraums durch die Transeuropäische Netze zu nennen. Die Analyse bringe somiteinen Mehrwert an Verständnis für die Funktion der Regionalentwicklung in der EU. Es wird dieNotwendigkeit der Abkehr von der starken Gewichtung der Agglomerationen und vom bloßenDogma der Erreichbarkeit deutlich. Die Planungen, die im wesentlichen auf verkürztenökonomischen Bewertungssystemen basieren sind nicht erfolgversprechend. Besonders endogeneEntwicklungsmethoden können hier wirksam eingesetzt werden. Diese Erkenntnisse sind zwar inder Wissenschaft und dem Vertragswerke der EU durchaus vertreten, finden aber in der Praxis kaumAnwendung. Die Berücksichtigung und kontextbezogene Implementierung dieser kann also dieSteuerungsleistung verbessern. Es wird rückgeschlossen, dass die praktischen Ansätze für solcheLösungen zu öffnen sind.
description: Europe's unity is a grand political motive of the EU. The prospect is greater than mere administrative association. Unity shall reach the regional level too. Reduction of territorial disaprities is a key aim. Effects of regional politics will be probed in specific areas Based on theoretical exploration. Due to statistical research of spatial data it was possible to find proper evidence concerning integration for the choosen spatial measures. First and foremost the reproduction of the european cantral space, especially through TEN-T. Analysis provides insight into the function of regioanl development in the EU and thus provodes a additional benefit. The need for renunciation of focus on agglomerations and accessibilty is revealed. Planning mainly based on economic Indicators is not promising. Endogenious development may be much more effective. This is well known in science and incorporated in several treaties, but isn't executet all that often. Its implementation may ellevate effectivness reasonably. Practises shall therefor be openend for those approaches much more.
Il livello dei prezzi e la politica monetaria (The Price Level and Monetary Policy)
Creators: name: Kindleberger, Charles P.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cost of Living; Interest Rates; Interest; Monetary Policy; Monetary; Policy; Price Level; Prices
subject: E31;E52

description: Most central banks are required or choose to stabilize a price index, largely by manipulating short term interest rates. A serious problem is what index to choose among the national income deflator, wholesale prices, the cost of living, with or eliminating highly volatile commodities such as food and energy, to produce a core index, plus others such as housing, including or without imputed rent of owner-occupied houses, or assets, whether equities or houses. No obvious and widely agreed index exists. Even if there were a clear choice, there remains a question whether a central bank should carefully consider action to achieve other goals: full employment, adjustment of the balance of payments, of the exchange rate, prevention of bubbles in asset prices, or recovery from financial crises. If so, the question of central bank weapons remains: monetary expansion or contraction, credit controls, overall or for particular purposes, and moral suasion. JEL Codes: E31, E52 Keywords: Cost of Living, Interest Rates, Interest; Monetary Policy, Monetary, Policy, Price Level, Prices
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 55, N. 218 (2002)
Some Conjectures on the Limit of Infinite Higgs Mass
Creators: name: Ferrari, Ruggero
name: Picariello, Marco
name: Quadri, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a possible field theory candidate for the electroweak SU(2) x U(1) model where the limit of infinitely sharp Higgs potential is performed. We show that it is possible to formulate such a limit as a Stueckelberg massive non abelian gauge theory.
description: One reference added. Final version to appear in the journal
Ancorare, fluttuare o abbandonare la nave:i regimi valutari dei paesi candidati all’Unione Europea (Anchor, Float or Abandon Ship: Exchange Rate Regimes for the Accession Countries)
Creators: name: Buiter, Willem H.
name: Grafe, Clemens
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: EMU; EU; Exchange Rates
subject: F33;P33;F15

description: The paper considers alternative exchange rate regimes for the East European accession candidates, both prior to EU accession and following EU accession but prior to EMU membership. We conclude that, from an economic point of view, EMU membership should be as early as possible. There is, however, a risk that prevailing interpretations of the inflation and exchange rate criteria for EMU membership could lead to unnecessary delays in EMU membership for the accession countries. The exchange rate criterion for EMU membership requires that the candidate "has respected the normal fluctuation margins provided for by the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System without severe tensions for at least the last two years before the examination." Both this text and the precedents of Finland, Italy and Greece, support the view that the exchange rate criterion can be satisfied without two years of formal ERM II membership. Insistence on at least two years of formal ERM II membership for the accession countries would result in an unnecessary, costly and potentially risky stay in EMU purgatory. JEL Codes: F33, P33, F15 Keywords: EMU, EU, Exchange Rates
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 55, N. 218 (2002)
Uniform semi-Latin squares and their pairwise-variance aberrations
Creators: name: Bailey, R. A.
name: Soicher, Leonard H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62K05, 62K10 (Primary) 05B05, 05B15 (Secondary)

description: For integers $n>2$ and $k>0$, an $(n\times n)/k$ semi-Latin square is an $n\times n$ array of $k$-subsets (called blocks) of an $nk$-set (of treatments), such that each treatment occurs once in each row and once in each column of the array. A semi-Latin square is uniform if every pair of blocks, not in the same row or column, intersect in the same positive number of treatments. We show that when a uniform $(n\times n)/k$ semi-Latin square exists, the Schur optimal $(n\times n)/k$ semi-Latin squares are precisely the uniform ones. We then compare uniform semi-Latin squares using the criterion of pairwise-variance (PV) aberration, introduced by J.P. Morgan for affine resolvable designs, and determine the uniform $(n\times n)/k$ semi-Latin squares with minimum PV aberration when there exist $n-1$ mutually orthogonal Latin squares (MOLS) of order $n$. These do not exist when $n=6$, and the smallest uniform semi-Latin squares in this case have size $(6\times 6)/10$. We present a complete classification of the uniform $(6\times 6)/10$ semi-Latin squares, and display the one with least PV aberration. We give a construction producing a uniform $((n+1)\times (n+1))/((n-2)n)$ semi-Latin square when there exist $n-1$ MOLS of order $n$, and determine the PV aberration of such a uniform semi-Latin square. Finally, we describe how certain affine resolvable designs and balanced incomplete-block designs (BIBDs) can be constructed from uniform semi-Latin squares. From the uniform $(6\times 6)/10$ semi-Latin squares we classified, we obtain (up to block design isomorphism) exactly 16875 affine resolvable designs for 72 treatments in 36 blocks of size 12 and 8615 BIBDs for 36 treatments in 84 blocks of size 6. In particular, this shows that there are at least 16875 pairwise non-isomorphic orthogonal arrays $\mathrm{OA}(72,6,6,2)$.
description: 21 pages; accepted manuscript
AQUARIUS D4.1 Infrastructures' Catalogue
Creators: name: Armstrong, Frank
name: Ni Chonghaile, Bernadette
name: Fitzgerald, Aodhán
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The primary aim of the AQUARIUS project is to provide a highly comprehensive suite of integrated research infrastructures designed to address significant challenges for the longterm sustainability of our unique oceans, seas, and freshwater ecosystems. An impressive range of 57 research infrastructure services will be made available through Transnational Access (TA) Calls, including research vessels, mobile marine observation platforms, fixed marine facilities, experimental research facilities, river & basin supersites, aircraft, drones,satellite services, and sophisticated data infrastructures.A bespoke catalogue has been created to showcase these research infrastructures (RI), allowingcall applicants to view the RI on offer in the project and make informed proposals fortransnational access (TA). This document outlines the process and steps taken to createthe Infrastructures Catalogue. The catalogue was officially launched on the 29th of August2024 and is available at https://aquarius-ri.eu/ri-catalogue/.