cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modified instanton profile effects from lattice Green functions
Creators: name: Boucaud, Ph.
name: De Soto, F.
name: Yaouanc, A. Le
name: Leroy, J. P.
name: Micheli, J.
name: Pène, O.
name: Rodríguez-Quintero, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We trace here instantons through the analysis of pure Yang-Mills gluon Green functions in the Landau gauge for a window of IR momenta (0.4 GeV $< k < 0.9$ GeV). We present lattice results that can be fitted only after substituting the BPST profile in the Instanton liquid model (ILM) by one based on the Diakonov and Petrov variational methods. This also leads us to gain information on the parameters of ILM.
description: 32 pagex, 6 figures
MOESM1 of Antiviral activities of extremophilic actinomycetes extracts from Kazakhstan’s unique ecosystems against influenza viruses and paramyxoviruses
Creators: name: Berezin, Vladimir
name: Diyora Abdukhakimova
name: Trenozhnikova, Lyudmila
name: Bogoyavlenskiy, Andrey
name: Turmagambetova, Aizhan
name: Alpamys Issanov
name: Azliyati Azizan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The dose of actinomycetes preparations inducing 50% lysis of erythrocytes (ТC50 mean value, mg/ml).
Neutron-antineutron oscillations in the deuteron studied with $NN$ and $\bar NN$ interactions based on chiral effective field theory
Creators: name: Haidenbauer, Johann
name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutron-antineutron ($n-\bar n$) oscillations in the deuteron are considered. Specifically, the deuteron lifetime is calculated in terms of the free-space $n-\bar n$ oscillation time $τ_{n-\bar n}$ based on $NN$ and $\bar NN$ interactions derived within chiral effective field theory (EFT). This results in $(2.6\pm 0.1) \times 10^{22}\,τ^2_{n-\bar n}$ s, which is close to the value obtained by Dover and collaborators more than three decades ago, but disagrees with recent EFT calculations that were performed within the perturbative scheme proposed by Kaplan, Savage, and Wise. Possible reasons for the difference are discussed.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
Platygaster aegeus Walker 1835
Creators: name: Buhl, Peter N.
name: Notton, David G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Platygaster
Platygaster aegeus

description: Platygaster aegeus Walker, 1835
 England: Buckinghamshire, Burnham Beeches, 1 female, 14 September 1974, Bou C ek, Z. (BMNH); Hampshire, Brockenhurst, 1 female, 22–26 August 1932, Nixon, G.E.J. (BMNH); Kent, Eynsford, 1 female, 31 August 1929, Nixon, G.E.J. (BMNH).
Ireland: Sligo, Trawalua, 1 female, 24–29 July 1933, Nixon, G.E.J. (BMNH).
Recorded from Ireland by Walker (1835) and from the Isle of Man by Buhl and Bennett (2009).
description: Published as part of Buhl, Peter N. & Notton, David G., 2009, A revised catalogue of the Platygastridae of the British Isles (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea), pp. 1651-1703 in Journal of Natural History 43 (27 - 28) on page 1668, DOI: 10.1080/00222930902993732, http://zenodo.org/record/5216619
title: „Ein gutes Ende kann dies nicht nehmen“. Käthe Starke-Goldschmidts Erinnerungen an Theresienstadt
Creators: name: Apel, Linde
Publisher: name: Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Judenfeindschaft und Verfolgung
subject: Erinnern und Gedenken

description: 1975 veröffentlichte Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt Die Autorin veröffentlichte unter ihrem Ehenamen Starke, den sie ab Ende der 1940er-Jahre trug. In Anlehnung an andere Publikationen und zur besseren Lesbarkeit wird sie im Folgenden Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt genannt. ihre Erinnerungen an ihre Zeit im Ghetto und Durchgangslager Theresienstadt unter dem Titel „Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt“. Sie beginnt mit einer kritischen, stellenweise bitter wirkenden Einordnung der Zeit vor 1933, beschreibt ausführlich ihr Leben, ihre Arbeit und ihre Begegnungen in Theresienstadt und endet mit ihrer Rückkehr nach Hamburg am 2.8.1945. Besonders eindrücklich ist die Schilderung ihrer Deportation, die trotz ihrer nüchternen Weitsichtigkeit emotional stark aufgeladen ist – sie soll hier im Mittelpunkt stehen. In ihrem Buch sind alle künstlerischen Werke aus Theresienstadt abgedruckt, die sie retten konnte. Zudem enthält es einen Bericht über eine Reise mit ihrem Sohn Pit nach Terezín im Jahr 1964, den sie doppeldeutig und ähnlich sarkastisch wie den Titel des Buches mit „Stadt meiner Träume“ überschrieben hat. Ein umfangreicher Dokumententeil enthält sowohl einen Rechenschaftsbericht der Zentralbücherei sowie Nachweise über Deportationen nach und von Theresienstadt. Auch Starke-Goldschmidts „certificate“ der Jüdischen Selbstverwaltung vom 28.7.1945, das sie als ehemaligen Häftling ausweist, ist abgedruckt. Das Buch ist seit langem vergriffen und antiquarisch nur zu recht hohen Preisen zu erwerben. Die von Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt geretteten Dokumente wurden 2002 vom Altonaer Museum ausgestellt. Axel Feuß, Das Theresienstadt-Konvolut, Hamburg / München 2002. Das Theresienstadt-Konvolut befindet sich noch heute als Dauerleihgabe dort und ist im Besitz ihres Sohnes.
Ghana Country Report 2020
Creators: name: Mabaya, Edward
name: Waithaka, Michael
name: Tihanyi, Krisztina
name: Yao, Samuel Adzivor
name: Wobil, John
name: Mugoya, Mainza
name: Magambo, George
name: Mabaya, Edward
name: Waithaka, Michael
name: Tihanyi, Krisztina
name: Yao, Samuel Adzivor
name: Wobil, John
name: Mugoya, Mainza
name: Magambo, George
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Production Economics
subject: Africa
subject: seed systems
subject: agricultural input markets
subject: technology adoption
subject: agricultural policy
subject: improved seed
subject: institutions

description: The timely availability of improved seeds at affordable prices is critical to improving food security, resilience, and livelihoods for smallholder farmers in Ghana. Seed of improved varieties can deliver state-of-the-art technology to farmers including higher yields, disease and pest resistance, climate change adaptation, and improved nutrition. This report summarizes the key findings of the study conducted by The African Seed Access Index (TASAI) to appraise the structure and economic performance of Ghana’s formal seed sector. With a focus on the four grain and legume crops important to national food and nutritional security (maize, rice, soya bean, and cowpea) the report covers 22 key performance indicators divided into five categories: Research and Development, Industry Competitiveness, Seed Policy and Regulations, Institutional Support, and Service to Smallholder Farmers. We conclude that Ghana’s formal seed sector is in the early growth stage of development. The requisite policy, legal, and regulatory instruments are in place and mostly functional. The government subsidy program, Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) has boosted the seed sector in Ghana by providing a reliable channel for marketing certified seed. In addition to these highlights, the report discusses many positive developments as well as areas for improvement in Ghana’s formal seed sector.
XMM-Newton Campaign On Ultraluminous X-ray Source NGC 1313 X-1: Wind vs. State Variability
Creators: name: Pinto, C.
name: Walton, D. J.
name: Kara, E.
name: Parker, M. L.
name: Soria, R.
name: Kosec, P.
name: Middleton, M. J.
name: Alston, W. N.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Guainazzi, M.
name: Roberts, T. P.
name: Fuerst, F.
name: Earnshaw, H. P.
name: Sathyaprakash, R.
name: Barret, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are thought to be powered by neutron stars and black holes accreting beyond the Eddington limit. If the compact object is a black hole or a neutron star with a magnetic field $\lesssim10^{12}$ G, the accretion disc is expected to thicken and launch powerful winds driven by radiation pressure. Evidence of such winds has been found in ULXs through the high-resolution spectrometers onboard XMM-Newton, but several unknowns remain, such as the geometry and launching mechanism of these winds. In order to better understand ULX winds and their link to the accretion regime, we have undertaken a major campaign with XMM-Newton to study the ULX NGC 1313 X-1, which is known to exhibit strong emission and absorption features from a mildly-relativistic wind. The new observations show clear changes in the wind with a significantly weakened fast component (0.2c) and the rise of a new wind phase which is cooler and slower (0.06-0.08c). We also detect for the first time variability in the emission lines which indicates an origin within the accretion disc or in the wind. We describe the variability of the wind in the framework of variable super-Eddington accretion rate and discuss a possible geometry for the accretion disc.
description: 20 pages, 16 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Wer hat die Wahl? Robin Markwicas „Emotional Choices. How the Logic of Affect Shapes Coercive Diplomacy“ – Eine Reflexion
Creators: name: Rauscher, Anna
name: Gienow-Hecht, Jessica
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Emotionsgeschichte
subject: US-Außenpolitik
subject: Diplomatiegeschichte
subject: Geschichte der internationalen Beziehungen
subject: Neuere Geschichte
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: Robin Markwicas Monografie erforscht, welche Rolle Emotionen in der Geschichte von (außen-)politischen Prozessen und Beziehungen spielen können. Entsprechend setzen die Autorinnen der Rezension Markwicas Arbeit in Beziehung zur Emotionsgeschichte als Forschungsparadigma. Zudem referieren sie anhand ausgewählter Arbeiten, welchen Erkenntnisgewinn eine Berücksichtigung der Emotionen in der Geschichte der internationalen Beziehungen liefert. Im Anschluss daran evaluieren sie die theoretischen und methodischen Überlegungen des Autors, die Ergebnisse seiner Analyse und seine Vorschläge zur konstruktiven Anwendung dieser Resultate in der internationalen Diplomatie. Die Autorinnen kommen zu dem Schluss, dass Markwicas Ansatz aufgrund seines Fokus auf Emotion als eine weitere Variable in (außen-)politischen Prozessen, sowie wegen der relativen Offenheit, Pluralität und Flexibilität des Analysemodells die Diskussion um Entscheidungsfindungzprozesse nachhaltig inspirieren könne.
The Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment and the Standard Model
Creators: name: Hertzog, David W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The muon anomalous magnetic moment measurement, when compared with theory, can be used to test many extensions to the standard model. The most recent measurement made by the Brookhaven E821 Collaboration reduces the uncertainty on the world average of a_mu to 0.7 ppm, comparable in precision to theory. This paper describes the experiment and the current theoretical efforts to establish a correct standard model reference value for the muon anomaly.
description: Plenary Talk; PANIC'02 XVI Particles and Nuclear International Conference, Osaka, Japan; Sept. 30 - Oct. 4, 2002; Report describes the published 0.7 ppm result and updates the theory status
Global food and financial crises: lessons and imperatives for accelerating food production in Africa
Creators: name: Adesina, Akinwumi A.
name: Adesina, Akinwumi A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
International Development

description: This paper critically reviews the effects of the global food and financial crises on developing countries, with specific focus on Africa. While assessments of the intertwined effects of the crises have often focused on short-term transitory causal factors, this paper takes the view that the causes of the food crises in Africa are long term and fundamentally structural. Policy measures to address the food crises therefore should focus on resolving the long-term structural impediments to accelerated agricultural growth. The paper argues that market fundamentalist policy prescriptions have failed in Africa and are at the root of the high poverty and food insecurity being experienced by African countries. Externally imposed policy prescriptions of one size fits all are inimical to the growth of African agriculture, and to self-reliance in food production, given the increasing unreliability of global markets for accessing food. Africa needs to take bold steps to accelerate food production using home-based policies that are better aligned with its state of economic growth and development, as well as level of poverty. Policy recommendations to accelerate food production include greater investments to raise the productivity of staple food crops; ‘growth enhancement support’ (GES) to unlock poverty traps by combining public farm support for farmers with risk sharing instruments that will unlock financing for farmers and agribusinesses, and speed up the process of commercialization of smallholder agriculture; policies to promote expanded use of fertilisers; seed policies to expand the use of improved seeds and the growth of the private sector seed industry; leveraging commercial bank financing into agriculture through risk-sharing instruments; focusing investments within the breadbasket areas of African countries, where the rate of returns on investments will be high; policies to improve climate change adaptation; and a greater strategic role for the state in correcting for market failures, making investments in public goods, supporting farmers, and guiding the market systems to accelerate food production.
MOESM4 of DPF is a cell-density sensing factor, with cell-autonomous and non-autonomous functions during Dictyostelium growth and development
Creators: name: Netra Meena
name: Pundrik Jaiswal
name: Chang, Fu-Sheng
name: Brzostowski, Joseph
name: Kimmel, Alan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. Log-phase growing WT cells were plated under DB starvation buffer at 20 × 103 cells/cm2 with fresh, naïve DB media or cell-free, >30 kDa conditioned media from the indicated cell lines starved in DB for 18 h.
title: “This cannot end well.” Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt's Memories of Theresienstadt
Creators: name: Apel, Linde
Publisher: name: Institute for the History of the German Jews
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Antisemitism and Persecution
subject: Memory and Remembrance

description: In 1975, Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt published her memoirs The author published under her married name Starke, which she used from the late 1940s. In reference to other publications and for better readability, she will be called Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt in the following. of her time in the Theresienstadt ghetto and transit camp under the title “Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt” [“The Führer Gives the Jews a City” ]. She begins with a critical, at times bitter-seeming classification of the period before 1933, describes in detail her life, her work and her encounters in Theresienstadt, and ends with her return to Hamburg on August 2, 1945. Particularly stirring is the description of her deportation, which, despite its sober far-sightedness, is highly emotionally charged – it will be the focus here. Her book contains all the artworks from Theresienstadt that she was able to save. In addition, it contains an account of a trip to Terezín with her son Pit in 1964, which she ambiguously and similarly sarcastically titled “Stadt meiner Träume” [“City of my Dreams”]. An extensive document section includes both an account of the Central Library and evidence of deportations to and from Theresienstadt. The book also includes a reproduction of Starke-Goldschmidt's “certificate” issued on July 28, 1945 by the Jewish self-government, which identifies her as a former prisoner. The book has long been out of print and can only be purchased from antiquarian booksellers at rather high prices. The documents saved by Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt were exhibited by the Altona Museum in 2002. Axel Feuß, Das Theresienstadt-Konvolut, Hamburg / Munich 2002. The museum still keeps the Theresienstadt collection, which is in the possession of her son, on permanent loan.
Reallocation of foliicolous species of the genus Strigula into six genera (lichenized Ascomycota, Dothideomycetes, Strigulaceae)
Creators: name: Jiang, Shu-Hua
name: Lücking, Robert
name: Xavier-Leite, Amanda Barreto
name: Cáceres, Marcela E. S.
name: Aptroot, André
name: Viñas Portilla, Carlos
name: Wei, Jiang-Chun
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cephaleuros
subject: Epiphyllous lichens
subject: Generic classification
subject: Higher taxa
subject: Macroconidial appendages
subject: Phycopeltis
subject: Surface fixation
subject: Trentepohlia
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::579 Mikroorganismen, Pilze, Algen

description: Strigula sensu lato has been previously defined based on phenotype characters as a rather broad genus including tropical to temperate species growing on a wide array of substrata. In this study, based on a multilocus phylogenetic approach, we show that foliicolous species form six well-delimited clades that correlate with diagnostic phenotype features, including thallus morphology, carbonization of the involucrellum and excipulum, ascospore dimensions, and type of macroconidia. Given the topology, with five of the six clades emerging on long stem branches, and the strong phenotypical differentiation between the clades, we recognize these at the genus level, making mostly use of previously established genus names. Four genera, namely Phylloporis, Puiggariella, Raciborskiella, and Racoplaca, are resurrected for the S. phyllogena, S. nemathora, S. janeirensis, and S. subtilissima groups, respectively, whereas one new genus, Serusiauxiella gen. nov., is introduced for a novel lineage with peculiar macroconidia. The only sequenced non-foliicolous species, S. jamesii, is not closely related to these six foliicolous lineages but clusters with Flavobathelium and Phyllobathelium, revealing it as an additional undescribed genus-level lineage being treated elsewhere. Within the new genus Serusiauxiella, three new species are described: Serusiauxiella filifera sp. nov., S. flagellata sp. nov., and S. sinensis sp. nov. In addition, ten new combinations are proposed: Phylloporis austropunctata comb. nov., P. radiata comb. nov., P. vulgaris comb. nov., Puiggariella confluens comb. et stat. nov., P. nemathora comb. nov., P. nigrocincta comb. nov., Racoplaca maculata comb. nov., R. melanobapha comb. nov., R. transversoundulata, and R. tremens comb. nov. We also report on a peculiar, previously unrecognized growth behaviour of the macroconidial appendages in Strigula s.lat.
Proton-synchrotron as the radiation mechanism of the prompt emission of GRBs?
Creators: name: Ghisellini, G.
name: Ghirlanda, G.
name: Oganesyan, G.
name: Ascenzi, S.
name: Nava, L.
name: Celotti, A.
name: Salafia, O. S.
name: Ravasio, E. M.
name: Ronchi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the new surprising observational results that indicate quite convincingly that the prompt emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is due to synchrotron radiation produced by a particle distribution that has a low energy cut-off. The evidence of this is provided by the low energy part of the spectrum of the prompt emission, that shows the characteristic F(nu) \propto nu^(1/3) shape followed by F(nu) \propto nu^(-1/2) up to the peak frequency. This implies that although the emitting particles are in fast cooling, they do not cool completely. This poses a severe challenge to the basic ideas about how and where the emission is produced, because the incomplete cooling requires a small value of the magnetic field, to limit synchrotron cooling, and a large emitting region, to limit the self-Compton cooling, even considering Klein-Nishina scattering effects. Some new and fundamental ingredient is required for understanding the GRBs prompt emission. We propose proton-synchrotron as a promising mechanism to solve the incomplete cooling puzzle.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
On the Relation Between Fock and Schroedinger Representations for a Scalar Field
Creators: name: Corichi, Alejandro
name: Cortez, Jeronimo
name: Quevedo, Hernando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Linear free field theories are one of the few Quantum Field Theories that are exactly soluble. There are, however, (at least) two very different languages to describe them, Fock space methods and the Schroedinger functional description. In this paper, the precise sense in which the two representations are related is reviewed. Several properties of these representations are studied, among them the well known fact that the Schroedinger counterpart of the usual Fock representation is described by a Gaussian measure. A real scalar field theory is considered, both on Minkowski spacetime for arbitrary, non-inertial embeddings of the Cauchy surface, and for arbitrary (globally hyperbolic) curved spacetimes. As a concrete example, the Schroedinger representation on stationary and homogeneous cosmological spacetimes is constructed.
description: 23 pages. No figures. A new section on examples added
Computational methods for flexible filaments and Brownian suspensions
Creators: name: Westwood, Timothy Anthony
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: The focus of this thesis is on methods for simulating microscopic objects in viscous fluids. The long range hydrodynamic interactions between submerged objects couple their motions and establish a computationally challenging problem. Depending on the size of these immersed objects, thermal fluctuations of the fluid may induce random Brownian motion or the motion may be deterministic. This thesis is concerned with both cases. In the deterministic setting, a methodology for modelling and simulating inextensible, flexible filaments is introduced. Specialised parameterisations are used to describe the filament state and the method admits any hydrodynamic model for the filament-fluid interactions which is compatible with the inertialess Stokes regime. A computationally-scalable implementation is discussed which employs implicit time integration and enforces constraints using either geometric integration or Lagrange multipliers. The potential of the method is explored by applying it to the study of tethered filaments. New filament motions and collective behaviours are observed and discussed. The Brownian motion of rigid bodies is considered in the stochastic case. An existing method for the positions of spheres is generalised to the positions and orientations of arbitrarily-shaped rigid particles. Geometric integration is used for the orientations and the appropriate stochastic equation is established. The method is applied to problems inspired by liquid crystals to demonstrate that it produces the correct statistics and to suspension rheology to showcase its capabilities.
Changes in the Relationship between Ionized and Total Calcium in Clinically Healthy Dairy Cows in the Period around Calving
Creators: name: Ott, Dorothee
name: Schrapers, Katharina T.
name: Aschenbach, Jörg R.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: dairy cows
subject: hypocalcemia
subject: ionized calcium
subject: total calcium
subject: heparin
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::616 Krankheiten

description: We aimed to establish a model for prediction of iCa from tCa, using multivariable regressions with diverse blood constituents. Blood was taken from 14 cows at days −2, 0, 2, 4, 7, and 14 relative to parturition. Cows were clinically healthy, and no hypocalcaemia prophylaxis and treatment were applied. Total calcium and further parameters were determined from frozen serum. Ionized calcium, blood gases, and electrolytes were determined from heparin-stabilized blood samples. Linear regression between iCa and tCa was estimated. Precision improved only slightly using a multivariable model. Best precision was achieved when estimating the iCa:tCa ratio from other blood constituents. To identify the reason behind the poorly predictive value of tCa for iCa, the relative changes of iCa and tCa around calving were calibrated to the respective values of day −2 (=100%) for each cow. An increase in the iCa:tCa ratio was observed from 0.43 at day −2 to 0.48 at day 0, followed by a gradual decrease towards 0.43 at day 7. We conclude that routine measurement of iCa should be implemented in the diagnosis of hypocalcaemia. An optimized estimate of iCa from tCa with non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA), beta-hydroxybutyric acid, cholesterol, and phosphorous as co-predictors is still poorly satisfying.
Platygaster athamas Walker 1835
Creators: name: Buhl, Peter N.
name: Notton, David G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Platygaster
Platygaster athamas

description: Platygaster athamas Walker, 1835
 England: Richmond upon Thames, Richmond Park, 1 female, 14 August 1982, Noyes, J.S. (BMNH); Surrey, Horsley, 1 female, 14 June 1930, Nixon, G.E.J. (BMNH); Surrey, Esher Common, 1 female, 12 July 1970, Bou C ek, Z. (BMNH).
Scotland: Perth and Kinross, Enochdhu, 1 female, 18 July 1977, Noyes, J.S., Rogers, L. and Huddleston, T. (BMNH).
Recorded from near London by Walker (1835).
description: Published as part of Buhl, Peter N. & Notton, David G., 2009, A revised catalogue of the Platygastridae of the British Isles (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea), pp. 1651-1703 in Journal of Natural History 43 (27 - 28) on page 1669, DOI: 10.1080/00222930902993732, http://zenodo.org/record/5216619
To what extent do fertiliser subsidies improve household income and reduce poverty? The case of Malawi
Creators: name: Mkwara, Bentry
name: Mkwara, Bentry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Financial Economics
Food Security and Poverty
International Development

description: In a number of sub-Saharan African countries, farm input subsidies are currently implemented in order to stimulate farm-level fertiliser application, enhance food security, improve household income and alleviate poverty. In this paper, a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) method are employed to explore the extent to which fertiliser subsidies improve household income and reduce poverty in Malawi. Modelling results suggest that fertiliser subsidies lead to small increases in income distribution of all agricultural households. Rural non-agricultural households experience reductions in their incomes, while there are no income changes for metro households. The results of the FGT decomposition of poverty suggest that the subsidies help to reduce income poverty for rural and urban agricultural households, as well as for urban non-agricultural households. However, the poverty situation of rural non-agricultural households worsens, while no poverty changes occur in the case of metro households.
Leading quantum gravitational corrections to scalar QED
Creators: name: Bjerrum-Bohr, N. E. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the leading post-Newtonian and quantum corrections to the non-relativistic scattering amplitude of charged scalars in the combined theory of general relativity and scalar QED. The combined theory is treated as an effective field theory. This allows for a consistent quantization of the gravitational field. The appropriate vertex rules are extracted from the action, and the non-analytic contributions to the 1-loop scattering matrix are calculated in the non-relativistic limit. The non-analytical parts of the scattering amplitude, which are known to give the long range, low energy, leading quantum corrections, are used to construct the leading post-Newtonian and quantum corrections to the two-particle non-relativistic scattering matrix potential for two charged scalars. The result is discussed in relation to experimental verifications.
description: 14 pages, 33 figures, typos corrected
The development of agricultural markets in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of rice in Uganda
Creators: name: Kijima, Yoko
name: Otsuka, Keijiro
name: Futakuchi, Koichi
name: Kijima, Yoko
name: Otsuka, Keijiro
name: Futakuchi, Koichi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
International Development

description: If agricultural markets do not work well in sub-Saharan Africa, it will be inconceivable to increase crop yields, as this requires the increased application of purchased inputs and the marketing of increased output. This study therefore investigates whether and to what extent rice markets function in Uganda, where rice is a new crop. We found that the number of rice millers has increased in response to the increase in rice production. As the number of rice millers and traders has increased, the price differentials of milled rice across wide areas have come to depend on transportation costs, which indicates the more efficient functioning of local rice markets.
The effect of predator culling on livestock losses: Ceres, South Africa, 1979 to 1987
Creators: name: Conradie, Beatrice
name: Piesse, Jenifer
name: Conradie, Beatrice
name: Piesse, Jenifer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: human-wildlife conflict
subject: culling effectiveness
subject: demographic compensation
subject: sheep

description: Caracal (Caracal caracal) and leopard (Panthera pardus) are perennial problems for sheep farmers on the southern fringe of South Africa’s arid Karoo. In the past, farmers responded to the conflict with blanket culling of predators, a strategy that ecologists understand to be harmful. This paper investigates the ability of blanket predator culling to reduce livestock losses. It found the probability of livestock losses to be a function of the number of caracal, leopards, vagrant dogs (Canis familiaris) and other wildlife culled during the previous year, as well as the previous year’s trapper effort, the farm’s remoteness and three years’ worth of rainfall. Other unobserved farm characteristics did not systematically affect losses. Culling an additional caracal or leopard was estimated to increase future livestock losses by 5.7% and 27.2% respectively, while culling a vagrant dog was estimated to reduce the likelihood of future losses by 9.5%. Both trapper effort and remoteness increased the probability of livestock losses. The current and previous years’ rainfall decreased the likelihood of future losses, while rainfall from two years prior was positively correlated with future losses. These results are important because they describe general culling effectiveness under a variety of management conditions over a period long enough to allow for adjustment to culling.
Evaluation of improved hermaphrodite papaya (Carica papaya L.) varieties at Arba Minch, Southern Ethiopia
Creators: name: G Fikre
name: A Mensa
name: G Fikre
name: A Mensa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Adaptability
subject: Arba Minch
subject: Fruit yield
subject: Papaya varieties

description: The experiment was conducted to evaluate the adaptability of newly released papaya varieties at Chano Mille research site of Arba Minch Agricultural Research Center during 2019-2020 cropping seasons. The three hermaphrodite papaya varieties namely; Braz-HS1, Koka-HM1 and Meki-HL1 were used for the study and laid-out in a Randomized Complete Block Design in three replications. Data on yield and yield components were collected and analyzed by using analysis of variance (ANOVA) through Statistical Analytics System software. The ANOVA results revealed that there were significant variations among papaya varieties for the studied parameters. Significantly, the highest number of fruits plant-1, number of leaves and fruit yield were obtained from Braz-HS1 papaya variety. The fruit yield of Braz-HS1 variety was 46% higher than that of Koka-HM1. In general, Braz-HS1 papaya variety performed (in terms of number of fruits and fruit yield) better than the rest two varieties. Thus, Braz-HS1 papaya variety could be recommended for the papaya growers in the study area and vicinity with similar agro-ecology.
Using sustainable development tools for solving property rights in Montenegro
Creators: name: Janjusevic, Jelena'
name: Janjusevic, Jelena'
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: energy efficiency
subject: sustainable development
subject: illegal construction
subject: energy audits
subject: retrofitting

description: In recent months Montenegro has been faced with serious budget problems , one proposed solution of which has been to reduce the number of employees in state administration. Additionally, the costs of living are above the disposable budget of most households, in particular the high cost of electricity. While the government warns about a lack of electricity, the citizens are hardly in the position to cover these costs. Montenegro is dealing with the double challenge of inefficient use of space (the country features over 100,000 illegal homes)(I don’t understand the link between inefficient use of space and illegal homes) and inefficient energy use (Montenegro needs an average of 8.5 times more energy per unit produced than an average EU country). How can these problems be solved in a way which pleases both sides? In this paper, an approach is presented which links the solving of the problem of illegal construction with increasing the level of energy efficiency in households, businesses and other facilities. There is a model developed by UNDP Montenegro – an integrated policy solution to the double challenge of providing energy efficiency measures to incentivise households to legalise their homes. The legalisation of illegal buildings by the introduction of mandatory energy efficiency measures in them may at the same time result in an increase of revenue to the central and local budgets, the reduction of negative impacts on the environment, an increase in employment, the engagement of the economy, a reduction of electricity consumption and thereby to reduce the need to import electricity, and ultimately the increased welfare of the population.
Education for rural development and agribusiness in post-socialist Slovakia
Creators: name: Moravcíkova, Danka
name: Adamičková, Izabela
name: Bielik, Peter
name: Moravcíkova, Danka
name: Adamičková, Izabela
name: Bielik, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: adult education
subject: agricultural education
subject: post-socialist transformation

description: Agricultural education and training in the former Czechoslovakia has traditionally focused on fostering the position of cooperatives and state farms. The destruction of socialist agriculture and the reduction of commuting opportunities in the urban space during the transition have resulted in the handicapped socio-economic position of the Slovak countryside and its population. The role of education and training in fostering agribusiness growth and rural development could therefore become a crucial strategy. The aim of this article is to analyse the current state of education and training for agribusiness and for rural development in Slovakia using the methods of literature research and document analysis. The article interprets general trends in the development of adult education in Slovakia during the transition period. The main priorities and perspectives formulated in the national strategy for education in agriculture (for the period 2007-2013) are discussed in the mentioned context. With a focus on the leading role of the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, the paper assesses the current status of formal and further agricultural education and training offered in academic and other educational institutions. The paper concludes by discussing implications, recommendations and challenges for developing education and training initiatives for agribusiness and rural development.
Social Capital: Higher Resilience in Slums in the Lagos Metropolis
Creators: name: Obaitor, Olabisi S.
name: Lawanson, Taibat O.
name: Stellmes, Marion
name: Lakes, Tobia
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: social capital
subject: community groups
subject: community action
subject: slum resilience
subject: Lagos
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::910 Geografie, Reisen::910 Geografie, Reisen

description: Different slums exhibit different levels of resilience against the threat of eviction. However, little is known about the role of the social capital of the slum community in this context. This study investigates the factors contributing to slum resilience in the Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria, through a social capital lens. This study first investigates land allocation in slums, then the available social capital, and subsequently how this capital influences resilience to the threat of eviction in slums. Data were collected in two slum communities, in Lagos, through in-depth interviews and focus groups discussion. This study shows that land allocation is done by the traditional heads, contrarily to the mandate of the Nigeria Land Use Act of 1978. Furthermore, there is a form of structural social capital through the presence of government registered community development associations in the slums; however, their activities, decision-making process and the perception of the residents’ towards their respective associations, differs. This led to differences in trust, social cohesion and bonding ties among residents of the slum, thereby influencing resilience to the threat of eviction in slums. Since community group associations, through the appointed executives, drive the efficient utilization of social capital in slums, this study therefore recommends their restructuring in order to support a sustainable solution to the threat of eviction in slums in Lagos.
Data from: Disease resistance is more costly at younger ages: An explanation for the maintenance of juvenile susceptibility
Creators: name: Bruns, Emily
name: Slowinski, Samuel
name: Kido, Allyson
name: Alexander, Laura
name: Shirdon, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: disease resistance
fitness cost
trade-off
age-specific resistance
juvenile resistance
juvenile susceptibility

description: High juvenile susceptibility drives infectious disease epidemics across kingdoms, yet the evolutionary mechanisms that maintain this susceptibility are unclear. We tested the hypothesis that juvenile susceptibility is maintained by high costs of juvenile resistance by quantifying the genetic correlation between host fitness and age-specific innate resistance to a fungal pathogen in a wild plant. We found significant fitness costs associated with disease resistance at juvenile but not at adult host stages, and show that the magnitude of these juvenile resistance costs are sufficient to prevent the spread of juvenile resistance in models. Our results provide the first direct evidence that costs of resistance decrease with host age, and provide an explanation for the maintenance of epidemiologically important juvenile susceptibility in natural populations.
description: Funding provided by: National Science FoundationROR ID: https://ror.org/021nxhr62Award Number: 1936334
description: Two data sets are included:

Results from greenhouse inoculation studies on 45-full S. latifolia plants at 4 ages (9, 19, 78, and 104 days)

Measurements of survival, flowering, and fruiting over 2 years for 721 plants from the same full sib families planted in a common garden in Beltsville, MD

We include both the raw data, and a combined data set with both the resitance measures and survival and flowering field data.  

Scripts for the analsyis are also included. These are descripted in the manuscript.
Spatial urban plans as a basis for agribusiness development
Creators: name: Čizmović, Mirjana
name: Kovačević, Milica
name: Čizmović, Mirjana
name: Kovačević, Milica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: agribusiness
subject: spatial planning
subject: communication strategy

description: The main goals of the spatial development of rural areas are to protect and prevent degradation of agricultural land, forests and protected areas, as well as to encourage (more) balanced territorial development. Given that the quality and development of agriculture largely depend on the level of consciousness and awareness of the population in rural areas as to the opportunities and benefits of their involvement in the adoption and approval of planning solutions, the aim of this paper is to define a communication strategy to help raise the awareness of the focus groups (landowners, farmers and investors) of the importance of and link between spatial planning and development of agribusiness and rural areas, exploring different techniques and methods of using various communication channels. The methods which will be used in the paper include secondary research, SWOT analysis, and trend and historical analysis. The research results show that it is essential from the very beginning to take the views of various stakeholders into account through frequent thematic dialogues, in order to incorporate a consensus which has been reached together with the expert team of the developer, into planning decisions. Only such an approach can lead to sustainable and enforceable plans as prerequisites for the realisation of realistically planned investment in rural areas. Furthermore, it is very important to legally standardise such an approach so that public participation, as a mandatory legal procedure, can be defined through precisely defined steps and established performance indicators from the very beginning of the process of adopting planning documents.
GPS observables in general relativity
Creators: name: Rovelli, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present a complete set of gauge invariant observables, in the context of general relativity coupled with a minimal amount of realistic matter (four particles). These observables have a straightforward and realistic physical interpretation. In fact, the technology to measure them is realized by the Global Positioning System: they are defined by the physical reference system determined by GPS readings. The components of the metric tensor in this physical reference system are gauge invariant quantities and, remarkably, their evolution equations are local.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, references added
Azimuthally-sensitive pion HBT at RHIC
Creators: name: Lisa, Mike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The STAR Collaboration has measured two-pion correlation functions versus emission angle with respect to the event plane in non-central Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}}=130, 200 GeV. In the context of a parameterized freezeout scenario, the data suggest an out-of-plane freezeout geometry, and a rapid system evolution to freezeout.
description: presented at XXXII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD2002), Alushta, Ukraine; to appear in the proceedings
High-resolution extinction map in the direction of the bulge globular cluster NGC 6440
Creators: name: Pallanca, Cristina
name: Ferraro, Francesco R.
name: Lanzoni, Barbara
name: Saracino, Sara
name: Raso, Silvia
name: Focardi, Paola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used optical images acquired with the UVIS channel of the Wide Field Camera 3 on board of the Hubble Space Telescope to construct the first high-resolution extinction map in the direction of NGC 6440, a globular cluster located in the bulge of our Galaxy. The map has a spatial resolution of 0.5" over a rectangular region of about 160" X 240" around the cluster center, with the long side in the North-West/South-East direction. We found that the absorption clouds show patchy and filamentary sub-structures with extinction variations as large as $δ{\rm E}(B-V)\sim0.5$ mag. We also performed a first-order proper motion analysis to distinguish cluster members from field interlopers. After the field decontamination and the differential reddening correction, the cluster sequences in the color-magnitude diagram appear much better defined, providing the best optical color-magnitude diagram so far available for this cluster.
description: Accepted for publication by ApJ; 14 pages, 8 figures and 1 table. A free tool providing the color excess values at any coordinate within the investigated Field of View can be found at the Web site http://www.cosmic-lab.eu/Cosmic-Lab/Products.html
Platygaster chloropus Thomson 1859
Creators: name: Buhl, Peter N.
name: Notton, David G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Platygaster
Platygaster chloropus

description: Platygaster chloropus Thomson, 1859
England: Suffolk, Westhall, 1 female, 17–27 August 1981, Cogan, B.H. (BMNH); West Berkshire, Berkshire Downs, near Streatley, 1 female, 14 June 1975, Noyes, J.S. (BMNH).
Ireland: Dublin, Glenasmole, 1 female, 13 June 1938, Stelfox, A.W. (BMNH).
 Recorded from Ireland by Buhl and O’Connor (2009). This species is very similar to P. indefinita Buhl, 2006 which has less striated occiput and shorter female antennae than P. chloropus. Rearing might elucidate a possible synonymy.
description: Published as part of Buhl, Peter N. & Notton, David G., 2009, A revised catalogue of the Platygastridae of the British Isles (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea), pp. 1651-1703 in Journal of Natural History 43 (27 - 28) on page 1670, DOI: 10.1080/00222930902993732, http://zenodo.org/record/5216619