cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Recent landmarks: an analysis of Vancouver's program for commemorating modern architecture
Creators: name: Wickham, Andrea Lynne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The City of Vancouver has led North American cities in commemorating Modern heritage. In 1990, City of Vancouver planners initiated the Recent Landmarks study, thus launching a progressive, specialized program aimed at documenting and conserving the city's post-war architecture. While this program has raised awareness and catalogued a large stock of Modern resources, few of the identified buildings have been protected with legal heritage designation. Thus it seemed appropriate to explore Vancouver's Recent Landmarks program in this thesis and assemble comparative information (from other jurisdictions) against which to measure it. Thus the primary purpose of this thesis is to point to contemporary heritage conservation initiatives and programs in North America that are specifically concerned with twentieth-century buildings, in order to inform heritage planning in Vancouver. The secondary purpose is to amplify current efforts to broaden and redefine the notion of structural heritage to include twentieth-century work. This thesis surveyed representatives (i.e. civic planning or cultural/landmark Department staff, and representatives of local chapters of DOCOMOMO, the international organization formed to document and conserve the works of the Modern movement) in Toronto, Victoria, New York, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. The results of the thesis show that by 1999, all but one of the five surveyed North American municipalities had addressed the issue of Modern heritage. However none of the consulted cities had developed distinct programs to address this resource. For example, while several cities reported listing Modern buildings on their heritage inventories, none of the municipalities canvassed reported the development of studies or inventories that were focused on post-war landmarks. Thus from this information, it appears that the Recent Landmarks initiative in Vancouver remains quite exceptional. This program has identified several (and spurred the designation of some) significant Modern buildings, stimulated the creation of reports and studies, and made strong attempts to engage the public. In sum, the results gleaned from this thesis survey show that the Recent Landmarks initiative remains a leader in the specialized realm of heritage conservation for Modern architecture, and that many North American cities have yet to match Vancouver's efforts.
Additional file 1 of Association between spinal manipulative therapy and lumbar spine reoperation after discectomy: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Trager, Robert J.
name: Gliedt, Jordan A.
name: Labak, Collin M.
name: Daniels, Clinton J.
name: Dusek, Jeffery A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Characterization of transforming growth factor-β1 in β2 adrenergic receptor dysfunction and signaling mechanisms in human airway smooth muscle
Creators: name: Chung, Elena
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Underlying source(s) of airway smooth muscle hypercontractility and hyporesponsivenessto bronchodilatory therapy in the context of inflammatory diseases of the lung remainunclear. In asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), it is unclear if theairway dysfunction is due to intrinsic genetic or epigenetic contribution that precipitateincreased basal tone and enhanced contractile responses, or attenuated bronchodilationcapability of the airways. Airway smooth muscle (ASM) cells are primary cells modulatingbronchomotor tone, but that alterations in the cells may be a primary contributor to airwaydysfunction associated with asthma and COPD. Studies suggest that β-adrenergic receptor(β2AR) dysfunction in the inflammatory environment occurs via exposure to inflammatorycytokines including exposure to IL-1β, IL-13, TNFα, and TGF-β, and lipid mediators. Thepurpose of this thesis was to characterize β2AR dysfunction within the context of TGF-β1exposure, as well as to characterize responsiveness to dexamethasone, a glucocorticoid.Modulation of gene expression, cyclic AMP (cAMP) levels, and myosin light chain (MLC)phosphorylation have been posited to play important roles in regulating both bronchoconstriction and bronchodilation in asthma. Furthermore, β2AR agonists (β2-agonists), and both direct and indirect signaling components downstream of the receptor,are effective treatments for asthma and other inflammatory conditions to induce relaxationof the airways. However, persistent usage of these therapeutics causes desensitization anddownregulation of the receptor. Overall, the focus of this thesis is examining the efficacyof bronchodilators in the context of TGF-β1 exposure, as well as the effects ofdexamethasone in modulating the effects of TGF-β1.
THE MARKETING STYLE OF ADVISORY SERVICES FOR CORN AND SOYBEANS IN 1995
Creators: name: Bertoli, Roberto
name: Zuluaf, Carl R.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Jackson, Thomas E.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Bertoli, Roberto
name: Zuluaf, Carl R.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Jackson, Thomas E.
name: Good, Darrel L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: advisory services
subject: pricing tools
subject: pricing strategies
subject: assessment of recommendations
subject: D4
subject: C8
subject: D8
subject: M3
subject: Q0

description: The 1995 marketing styles for the 25 market advisory service programs included in the AgMAS Project were developed in two steps. The first step was the construction of a detailed "menu" of the tools and strategies used by each of the advisory programs in marketing corn and soybeans. The menu describes the type of pricing tool, frequency of transactions, and magnitude of transactions. The second step was the development of a daily index of the net amount sold by each market advisory program. To construct such an index, the various futures, options, and cash positions recommended for a program on a given day were weighted by the respective position "delta." When the daily values of the index were plotted for the entire marketing period, the marketing "profile" for a program was generated. The results show that advisory programs made a relatively small number of recommendations that primarily involved cash marketing strategies, not futures and options, non-cash marketing recommendations were typically held open for a short period of time, and the re-harvest amount sold averaged 35 percent for corn and 30 percent for soybeans.
1998 PRICING PERFORMANCE OF MARKET ADVISORY SERVICES FOR CORN AND SOYBEANS
Creators: name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Jackson, Thomas E.
name: Jirik, Mark A.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Jackson, Thomas E.
name: Jirik, Mark A.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The purpose of this research report is to present an evaluation of advisory service pricing performance in 1998 for corn and soybeans. Specifically, the average price received by a subscriber to an advisory service is calculated for corn and soybean crops harvested in 1998. The average net advisory price across all 23 corn programs is $2.17 per bushel - seven cents below the market benchmark price. The net advisory prices for corn range from a minimum of $1.93 per bushel to a maximum of $2.51 per bushel. The average net advisory price across all 22 soybean programs is $5.82 per bushel - four cents less than the market benchmark. The net advisory prices for soybeans range from a minimum of $5.11 per bushel to a maximum of $6.58 per bushel.
Long-term optical photometric monitoring of the quasar SDSS J153259.96-003944.1
Creators: name: Stalin, C. S.
name: Srianand, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report optical Cousins R and I band monitoring observations of the high redshift (z = 4.67) QSO SDSS J153259.96-003944.1 that does not show detectable emission lines in its optical spectrum. We show this object varies with a maximum amplitude of ~0.4 mag during a year and three months of monitoring. Combined with two other epochs of photometric data available in the literature, we show the object has gradually faded by ~0.9 mag during the period June 1998 - April 2001. A linear least squares fit to all available observations gives a slope of ~0.35 mag/yr which translates to ~1.9 mag/yr in the rest frame of the quasar. Such a variability is higher than that typically seen in QSOs but consistent with that of BL Lacs, suggesting that the optical continuum is Doppler boosted. Alternatively, within photometric errors, the observed lightcurve is also consistent with the object going through a microlensing event. Photoionization model calculations show the mass of the Broad Line Region to be few tens of solar mass similar to that of low luminosity Seyfert galaxies, but about orders of magnitude less than that of luminous quasars. Further frequent photometric/spectroscopic monitoring is needed to support or refute the different alternatives discussed here on the nature of SDSS J153259.96-003944.1.
description: 7 pages with 4 figures, uses mn2e.cls, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
A reparametrization invariant surface ordering
Creators: name: Gustavsson, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a notion of a non-Abelian loop gauge field defined on points in loop space. For this purpose we first find an infinite-dimensional tensor product representation of the Lie algebra which is particularly suited for fields on loop space. We define the non-Abelian Wilson surface as a `time' ordered exponential in terms of this loop gauge field and show that it is reparametrization invariant.
description: 11 pages, clarifications and added refs
On random measures on the space of trajectories and strong and weak solutions of stochastic equations
Creators: name: Dorogovtsev, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H10, 60H15

description: The random measures on the space of continuous functions are considered. Stationary random measures are described. The weak solutions of the stochastic equations are substituted by the strong measure-valued solutions.
description: 11 pages
The Impact of Hunting Package Attributes on Hunting Package Prices in Mississippi
Creators: name: Buller, Virginia
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Parkhurst, Gregory M.
name: Whittington, Andrew
name: Buller, Virginia
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Parkhurst, Gregory M.
name: Whittington, Andrew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Potential economic impacts of hunting activities suggested opportunities for non-industrial private landowners in Mississippi to capitalize on apparent market demand for fee-access hunting. Data were collected from outfitting individuals/firms operating within Mississippi to analyze the impact of hunting package attributes on package prices. Generally, package prices were directly related to the length of the package in days, with the increase in price decreasing with each additional day. Provision of other amenities such as lodging as well as joint activities such as fishing also increased package prices. Finally, there were differences in package prices depending on species being hunted. These results provide landowners with added information about the potential values of hunting package prices, which, when combined with costs of providing the packages, can assist in making optimal enterprise management decisions.
MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS, JOINT VENTURES, AND STRATEGIC ALLIANCES IN AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES
Creators: name: Hudson, Darren
name: Herndon, Cary W.
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Herndon, Cary W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: mergers
subject: acquisitions
subject: joint ventures
subject: strategic alliances
subject: cooperatives
subject: surveys

description: A recent merger "wave" has occurred within the economy, including the agricultural sector. Some research has been conducted on publicly traded companies, but there is little information available on merger activity within agricultural cooperatives. This paper presents the results of a recent survey of agricultural cooperatives and attempts to identify major trends in merger activity within cooperatives.
LDNet: End-to-End Lane Marking Detection Approach Using a Dynamic Vision Sensor
Creators: name: Munir, Farzeen
name: Azam, Shoaib
name: Jeon, Moongu
name: Lee, Byung-Geun
name: Pedrycz, Witold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modern vehicles are equipped with various driver-assistance systems, including automatic lane keeping, which prevents unintended lane departures. Traditional lane detection methods incorporate handcrafted or deep learning-based features followed by postprocessing techniques for lane extraction using frame-based RGB cameras. The utilization of frame-based RGB cameras for lane detection tasks is prone to illumination variations, sun glare, and motion blur, which limits the performance of lane detection methods. Incorporating an event camera for lane detection tasks in the perception stack of autonomous driving is one of the most promising solutions for mitigating challenges encountered by frame-based RGB cameras. The main contribution of this work is the design of the lane marking detection model, which employs the dynamic vision sensor. This paper explores the novel application of lane marking detection using an event camera by designing a convolutional encoder followed by the attention-guided decoder. The spatial resolution of the encoded features is retained by a dense atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) block. The additive attention mechanism in the decoder improves performance for high dimensional input encoded features that promote lane localization and relieve postprocessing computation. The efficacy of the proposed work is evaluated using the DVS dataset for lane extraction (DET). The experimental results show a significant improvement of $5.54\%$ and $5.03\%$ in $F1$ scores in multiclass and binary-class lane marking detection tasks. Additionally, the intersection over union ($IoU$) scores of the proposed method surpass those of the best-performing state-of-the-art method by $6.50\%$ and $9.37\%$ in multiclass and binary-class tasks, respectively.
Additional file 1 of Comparison of tracer kinetic models for 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET in intermediate-risk primary prostate cancer patients
Creators: name: Smith, Nathaniel J.
name: Green, Mark A.
name: Bahler, Clinton D.
name: Tann, Mark
name: Territo, Wendy
name: Smith, Anne M.
name: Hutchins, Gary D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Medicine
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional supporting figures. Referenced materials include additional parameter regressions (S1), patient-matched parameter values for lesion and reference prostate (S2), comparison of kinetic parameter values by prostatic zone (S3), and reference prostate chi-square goodness-of-fit values by prostatic zone for the 2T3k kinetic model (S4).
Visibility retrieval in Michelson wide-field stellar interferometry
Creators: name: Montilla, I.
name: Sellos, J.
name: Pereira, S. F.
name: Braat, J. J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wide field interferometry has become a subject of increasing interest in the recent years. New methods have been suggested in order to avoid the drawbacks of the standard wide-field method (homothetic mapping) which is not applicable when the aperture is highly diluted; for this reason imaging with non-homothetic arrays is being extensively studied [1], [2]. The field of view of a pupil plane interferometer or a densified array consists only of a few resolution elements; in order to improve these systems, we developed a new method consisting of a Michelson pupil-plane combination scheme where a wide field of view can be achieved in one shot. This technique, called "staircase mirror" approach, has been described in a previous paper [3] and uses a stair-shaped mirror in the intermediate image plane of each telescope in the array, allowing for simultaneous correction of the differential delay for both the on- and off-axis image positions. Experimental results have been obtained showing the simultaneous recovering of the fringes of off-axis stars with an appreciable angular separation, and with a contrast similar to that of the on-axis reference star. With this example, we demonstrate an increase of the field of view by a factor of five, with no need of extra observation time. In this article, we present a further analysis of the method. We investigate how to retrieve the visibility when a star is focused on the edge of a step of the stair-shaped mirror. Even though the Optical Pathlength Difference (OPD) correction is discontinuous, we show both numerically and analytically that the visibility can be completely recovered, so that no information is lost. Our experimental results demonstrate that the visibility can be retrieved to within a 1% error.
What is moving in silica at 1 K? A computer study of the low-temperature anomalies
Creators: name: Reinisch, J.
name: Heuer, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Though the existence of two-level systems (TLS) is widely accepted to explain low temperature anomalies in many physical observables, knowledge about their properties is very rare. For silica which is one of the prototype glass-forming systems we elucidate the properties of the TLS via computer simulations by applying a systematic search algorithm. We get specific information in the configuration space, i.e. about relevant energy scales, the absolute number of TLS and electric dipole moments. Furthermore important insight about the real-space realization of the TLS can be obtained. Comparison with experimental observations is included.
CROSS-COMMODITY PERSPECTIVE ON CONTRACTING: EVIDENCE FROM MISSISSIPPI
Creators: name: Hudson, Darren
name: Hudson, Darren
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This analysis presents the results of a survey of agricultural producers in Mississippi regarding their use of contracting. The study focuses on cross-commodity differences in contracting and the variable underlying contracting. Logistic regression models are used to examine the impacts of variables coming from transactions cost economics and risk on contracting decisions. Support is found for the effects of transactions cost, but price risk is not found to be an important determinant of contracting decisions.
Perturbative and Geometric Analysis of the Quartic Kontsevich Model
Creators: name: Branahl, Johannes
name: Hock, Alexander
name: Wulkenhaar, Raimar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T18, 81T16, 14H81, 32A20

description: The analogue of Kontsevich's matrix Airy function, with the cubic potential $\operatorname{Tr}\big(Φ^3\big)$ replaced by a quartic term $\operatorname{Tr}\big(Φ^4\big)$ with the same covariance, provides a toy model for quantum field theory in which all correlation functions can be computed exactly and explicitly. In this paper we show that distinguished polynomials of correlation functions, themselves given by quickly growing series of Feynman ribbon graphs, sum up to much simpler and highly structured expressions. These expressions are deeply connected with meromorphic forms conjectured to obey blobbed topological recursion. Moreover, we show how the exact solutions permit to explore critical phenomena in the quartic Kontsevich model.
description: 33 pages, 13 figures. v2: distinction between our model and GKM, exact formula for genus zero closed graphs, example higher-order ramification: correct limit. Small corrections. v3: some material added to sec 5.1+5.3. v4: published version
An Iterative Procedure for the Estimation of Drift and Diffusion Coefficients of Langevin Processes
Creators: name: Kleinhans, D.
name: Friedrich, R.
name: Nawroth, A.
name: Peinke, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general method is proposed which allows one to estimate drift and diffusion coefficients of a stochastic process governed by a Langevin equation. It extends a previously devised approach [R. Friedrich et al., Physics Letters A 271, 217 (2000)], which requires sufficiently high sampling rates. The analysis is based on an iterative procedure minimizing the Kullback-Leibler distance between measured and estimated two time joint probability distributions of the process.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
THE ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF VARIABLE RATE FERTILIZER APPLICATION: THE CASE OF MISSISSIPPI
Creators: name: Intarapapong, Walaiporn
name: Hite, Diane
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Intarapapong, Walaiporn
name: Hite, Diane
name: Hudson, Darren
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: A number of programs have been introduced to limit environmental nonpoint pollution (NPP) associated with agricultural practices. One such program, precision agriculture, involves a range of management practices that utilize site-specific information at the field level. These practices can limit the amount of nutrient and chemical runoff to the environment because they precisely match fertilizer and pesticide application to the needs of the crop. This study uses bioeconomic modeling to investigate the environmental and economic impacts of precision agriculture technology associated with variable rate fertilizer application, as compared to a conventional, single rate application. The empirical results demonstrate that one particular precision agricultural technology, variable rate fertilizer application, can provide both environmental and economic benefits when used on cotton, soybeans, and corn in Mississippi. However, our results depend on several factors, such as soil variability, and the results may be different depending on local conditions.
INVESTIGATING THE IMPLICATIONS OF MULTI-CROP REVENUE INSURANCE FOR PRODUCER RISK MANAGEMENT
Creators: name: Miller, J. Corey
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Barnett, Barry J.
name: Miller, J. Corey
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Barnett, Barry J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: crop insurance
subject: revenue insurance
subject: risk

description: This study investigates the potential for alternative multi-crop revenue insurance designs in comparison to single crop yield and revenue insurance designs. A non-parametric multi-crop insurance model is developed which subsumes the single crop designs. The results compare alternative designs in terms of rate levels and risk reduction gains for representative Mississippi producers.
Spectroscopic properties of large open quantum-chaotic cavities with and without separated time scales
Creators: name: Bulgakov, E. N.
name: Rotter, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectroscopic properties of an open large Bunimovich cavity are studied numerically in the framework of the effective Hamiltonian formalism. The cavity is opened by attaching leads to it in four different ways. In some cases, short-lived and long-lived resonance states coexist. The short-lived states cause traveling waves in the transmission while the long-lived ones generate superposed fluctuations. The traveling waves oscillate as a function of energy. They are not localized in the interior of the large chaotic cavity. In other cases, the transmission takes place via standing waves with an intensity that closely follows the profile of the resonances. In all considered cases, the phase rigidity fluctuates with energy. It is mostly near to its maximum value and agrees well with the theoretical value for the two-channel case. As shown in the foregoing paper \cite{1}, all cases are described well by the Poisson kernel when the calculation is restricted to an energy region in which the average $S$ matrix is (nearly) constant.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
THE ROLE OF RESEARCH IN PRODUCER RISK MANAGEMENT
Creators: name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Barnett, Barry J.
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Barnett, Barry J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Risk
subject: Insurance
subject: Research

description: Agricultural economists have for many decades concerned ourselves with gaining an understanding of individual behavior when confronted with risk, and developing tools to address decision-making under risk. This area of research has recently gained renewed attention for a variety of reasons. This paper attempts to provide a review of the current status of risk related research, to assess areas where we have made significant progress, and also areas where expected benefits of future work are greatest. Theoretical advancements have contributed to our understanding of portfolio trade-offs, optimal input and output decisions, and the use of instruments such as futures and insurance. Advances in the ability to quantify risk with more robust methodologies also contribute to the information available for producers. Research has also contributed to the development of new instruments and provided evaluation of alternatives which confront producers. There are, however, areas in need of further research. We identify five general areas which we believe merit further attention. Progress in these areas should contribute significantly to our understanding of risk management and the information that agricultural economics may provide to producers.
Enstrophy dissipation in two-dimensional turbulence
Creators: name: Baiesi, Marco
name: Maes, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Insight into the problem of two-dimensional turbulence can be obtained by an analogy with a heat conduction network. It allows the identification of an entropy function associated to the enstrophy dissipation and that fluctuates around a positive (mean) value. While the corresponding enstrophy network is highly nonlocal, the direction of the enstrophy current follows from the Second Law of Thermodynamics. An essential parameter is the ratio $T_k = γ_k /(νk^2)$ of the intensity of driving $γ_k>0$ as a function of wavenumber $k$, to the dissipation strength $νk^2$, where $ν$ is the viscosity. The enstrophy current flows from higher to lower values of $T_k$, similar to a heat current from higher to lower temperature. Our probabilistic analysis of the enstrophy dissipation and the analogy with heat conduction thus complements and visualizes the more traditional spectral arguments for the direct enstrophy cascade. We also show a fluctuation symmetry in the distribution of the total entropy production which relates the probabilities of direct and inverse enstrophy cascades.
description: 8 pages, revtex4
Hubendickia microsculpta Brandt 1968
Creators: name: Cavallari, Daniel C.
name: Dornellas, Ana Paula S.
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Hydrobiidae
Hubendickia
Hubendickia microsculpta

description: microsculpta, Hubendickia Brandt, 1968
 Hubendickia microsculpta Brandt, 1968: 239–240 (pl. 9, fig. 27 + text fig. 17).
Gastropoda, Pomatiopsidae
 Probable paratype: MZSP 95945 (Fig. 4 G–H).
 Locality: East Thailand, Ubon Province, Mekong River at Bandan (type locality), 9 May 1967.
 Preservation: Dry.
 Remarks: Former Jens Hemmen Collection. Data on the specimen’s label correspond to the lot originally catalogued as SMRL 3378. The specimen listed above is a possible remainder of a 50-specimen paratype lot left by the author under the care of the SMRL. This species was recombined as Manningiella microsculpta by Brandt (1974).
description: Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 36, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/3840125
Current Dissipation in Thin Superconducting Wires: Accurate Numerical Evaluation Using the String Method
Creators: name: Qian, Tiezheng
name: Ren, Weiqing
name: Sheng, Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current dissipation in thin superconducting wires is numerically evaluated by using the string method, within the framework of time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation with a Langevin noise term. The most probable transition pathway between two neighboring current-carrying metastable states, continuously linking the Langer-Ambegaokar saddle-point state to a state in which the order parameter vanishes somewhere, is found numerically. We also give a numerically accurate algorithm to evaluate the prefactors for the rate of current-reducing transitions.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures
THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION AND SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE: THE COTTON PERSPECTIVE
Creators: name: Hudson, Darren
name: Hudson, Darren
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: cotton
subject: WTO
subject: trade
subject: textiles
subject: MFA

description: The World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations could have important implications for Southern Agriculture. This paper explores some of the issues surrounding the WTO negotiations for cotton. Specifically, this paper examines the impacts of the phase-out of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) on the location of textile production and cotton trade flows. Generally, it is believed that the WTO negotiations will have little direct impact on cotton, but will have indirect impacts through textile policy.
Keiling, Hanns Peter: Die Entstehung der "United Church of Christ" (USA)
Creators: name: Böttcher, Walter
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 19 Nr. 4 (1970): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 19, Heft 4
Scaling and Universality in the Counterion-Condensation Transition at Charged Cylinders
Creators: name: Naji, Ali
name: Netz, Roland R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the critical and universal aspects of counterion-condensation transition at a single charged cylinder in both two and three spatial dimensions using numerical and analytical methods. By introducing a novel Monte-Carlo sampling method in logarithmic radial scale, we are able to numerically simulate the critical limit of infinite system size (corresponding to infinite-dilution limit) within tractable equilibration times. The critical exponents are determined for the inverse moments of the counterionic density profile (which play the role of the order parameters and represent the inverse localization length of counterions) both within mean-field theory and within Monte-Carlo simulations. In three dimensions (3D), correlation effects (neglected within mean-field theory) lead to an excessive accumulation of counterions near the charged cylinder below the critical temperature (condensation phase), while surprisingly, the critical region exhibits universal critical exponents in accord with the mean-field theory. In two dimensions (2D), we demonstrate, using both numerical and analytical approaches, that the mean-field theory becomes exact at all temperatures (Manning parameters), when number of counterions tends to infinity. For finite particle number, however, the 2D problem displays a series of peculiar singular points (with diverging heat capacity), which reflect successive de-localization events of individual counterions from the central cylinder. In both 2D and 3D, the heat capacity shows a universal jump at the critical point, and the energy develops a pronounced peak. The asymptotic behavior of the energy peak location is used to locate the critical temperature, which is also found to be universal and in accordance with the mean-field prediction.
description: 31 pages, 16 figures
Complete genome sequences of Providencia bacteriophages PibeRecoleta, Stilesk and PatoteraRojo
Creators: name: Batinovic, Steven
name: Chan, Hiu Tat
name: Stiles, J
name: Petrovski, Steve
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310508
subject: Genome structure and regulation
classificationCode: 3102
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology

description: Objectives: Providencia is a genus of gram-negative bacteria within the order Enterobacterales, closely related to Proteus and Morganella. While ubiquitous in the environment, some species of Providencia, such as P. rettgeri and P. stuartii, are considered emerging nosocomial pathogens and have been implicated in urinary tract infection, gastrointestinal illness, and travelers’ diarrhea. Given their intrinsic resistance to many commonly used antibiotics, this study aimed to isolate and sequence bacteriophages targeting a clinical P. rettgeri isolate. Data description: Here we report the complete genome sequence of three novel Providencia phages, PibeRecoleta, Stilesk and PatoteraRojo, which were isolated against a clinical P. rettgeri strain sourced from a patient in a metropolitan hospital in Victoria, Australia. The three phages contain dsDNA genomes between 60.7 and 60.9 kb in size and are predicted to encode between 72 and 73 proteins. These three new phages, which share high genomic similarity to two other Providencia phages previously isolated on P. stuartii, serve as important resources in our understanding about Providencia bacteriophages and the potential for future phage-based biotherapies.
CROP PRODUCER RISK MANAGEMENT SURVEY: A PRELIMINARY SUMMARY OF SELECTED DATA; A REPORT FROM THE UNDERSTANDING FARMER RISK MANAGEMENT DECISION MAKING AND EDUCATIONAL NEEDS RESEARCH PROJECT
Creators: name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Knight, Thomas O.
name: Patrick, George F.
name: Baquet, Alan E.
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Knight, Thomas O.
name: Patrick, George F.
name: Baquet, Alan E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Risk Insurance Marketing Policy

description: Changes in the risk environment and tools available to manage risk have resulted in an increased need for risk management skills among farmers and ranchers. In response the USDA initiated a risk management education competitive grants program in the spring of 1998. This is the first report from one of the grant-funded projects. The project's primary objective is to provide supporting research that will contribute to the design and implementation of effective risk management education programs, policies and tools. This report provides selected summary statistics, without analysis, from a survey of crop producers conducted as part of the first phase of the project. Over 1,800 usable producer responses from Mississippi, Texas, Indiana, and Nebraska are summarized. Major subject categories reported include: perceptions of various risks and the effectiveness of risk management tools; perceptions of farm policy alternatives; crop insurance participation; participation in and desire for risk management education; and use of pre- and post-harvest pricing techniques.
Intracellular signaling pathways regulating integrin-mediated keratinocyte spreading and lamellipodia formation
Creators: name: Alavian, Keyhan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The process of wound healing involves formation of long cytoplasmic extensions by keratinocytes followed by the their migration into the wound. This process is regulated through intracellular pathways triggered by integrin-extracellular matrix interactions. Still, little is known about the intracellular pathways involved in formation of these "extended lamellipodia" in keratinocytes and their effects on cell migration. In this study, we used a number of kinase and phosphatase modulators to target various signaling pathways inside keratinocytes spreading on the wound provisional matrix, fibronectin. Our results showed that staurosporine (STP), a broad kinase inhibitor, leads to formation lamellipodia in keratinocytes at 10 nM and extended lamellipodia (E-Lam) at 50 nM. Cell spreading however was not concentration dependent since both STP concentrations increased cell spreading and migration by same amount (200%). Neither cell spreading or E-Lam formation involves modulation of phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI-3K) or extended tyrosine phosphorylation since inhibitors against these proteins had no effect on STP-induced E-Lam formation and cell spreading. Actin and microtubule polymerization, however, are required for the formation of E-Lams. Western blotting experiments showed that keratinocytes treated with 50 nM STP exhibit twice the level of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activation as keratinocytes treated with 10 nM STP. Immunostaining experiments with anti-tubulin antibodies demonstrated that microtubules (MTs) are localized at the tip of the extended lamellipodia when treated with 50 nM STP, suggesting that MTs may play an active role in E-Lam formation. Further experiments using inhibitory ocv and pi antibodies confirmed previous results that cell spreading and E-Lam formation is mediated through αvβl, α5βl, and αvβ6 integrins. Based on these findings, we speculate that differential activation of MAPK may play an active role in regulation of E-Lam formation involved in cell spreading and cell migration, by modulation of integrins binding-affinity, and organization of the cytoskeletal actin and microtubules.
Quantitative AI for Business Analytics: KPI ESG
Creators: name: Leogrande, Angelo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: I modelli ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) valutano le performance aziendali in base a tre criteri: ambientale, sociale e di governance. Questi modelli vengono utilizzati per misurare la sostenibilità e l'impatto etico di un'azienda, fornendo informazioni utili per investitori e stakeholder.

•Fattori ambientali: Valutano come l'azienda gestisce risorse naturali, emissioni di carbonio, inquinamento e sostenibilità. Ad esempio, l'uso di energie rinnovabili, la gestione dei rifiuti e le politiche di riduzione delle emissioni rientrano in questa categoria.

•Fattori sociali: Considerano l'impatto dell'azienda sulle persone e sulla società. Ciò include le condizioni di lavoro, la sicurezza, i diritti umani, la diversità, l'equità di genere e il coinvolgimento della comunità. Le aziende con forti politiche sociali tendono a essere più attrattive per dipendenti e clienti.

•Fattori di governance: Riguardano la trasparenza e la gestione aziendale. Comprendono la struttura del consiglio di amministrazione, la gestione dei rischi, l'etica, la trasparenza finanziaria e la remunerazione dei dirigenti.

I modelli ESG sono strumenti sempre più usati nel mondo degli investimenti responsabili, poiché aiutano a identificare aziende che non solo sono finanziariamente solide, ma anche attente a sostenibilità e responsabilità sociale, riducendo i rischi a lungo termine.
The graded ring of quantum theta functions for noncommutative torus with real multiplication
Creators: name: Vlasenko, Mariya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16S38, 11G15

description: For quantum torus generated by unitaries $UV = e(θ)VU$ there exist nontrivial strong Morita autoequivalences in case when $θ$ is real quadratic irrationality. A.Polishchuk introduced and studied the graded ring of holomorphic sections of powers of the respective bimodule (depending on the choice of a complex structure). We consider a Segre square of this ring whose graded components are spanned by Rieffel scalar products of Polishchuk's holomorphic vectors. These graded components are linear spaces of quantum theta functions in sense of Yu.Manin.
The Devil's in the Details: Why a Revenue-based Farm Program is No Panacea
Creators: name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Coble, Keith H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: farm policy
subject: revenue insurance
subject: WTO

description: Producer and other interest groups are beginning to consider farm policy positions in anticipation of hearings and possible serious farm bill debates during late 2006 and 2007. An idea gaining attention and support among some groups is deemphasizing or eliminating the current commodity "price" programs (loan deficiency payments and counter-cyclical payments) and replacing them with programs based on "revenue insurance" designs. Suggested designs include a multi-tiered farm payment program based on individual revenue guarantees and shortfalls in county revenue. Another example of such an alternative design is a whole-farm revenue design that issues program payments when adjusted gross farm revenue falls below a historical five-year baseline. Interestingly, programs quite similar to both proposals have been offered by USDA's Risk Management Agency (RMA) since 1999 as part of the federal crop insurance program. In this paper, we evaluate the implications of using revenue-based designs as the primary U.S. farm support program. Our analysis considers implementation issues, distributional effects of such a change, and implications for compliance with WTO rules.
Disks and Planets Around Massive White Dwarfs
Creators: name: Livio, M.
name: Pringle, J. E.
name: Wood, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We predict the existence of dusty disks and possibly CO planets around massive white dwarfs. We show that the thermal emission from these disks should be detectable in the infrared. The planets may also be detectable either by direct IR imaging, spectroscopy, or using the pulsations of the white dwarfs.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure; accepted ApJL
Additional file 1 of Experiences of suicide survivors of sharing their stories about suicidality and overcoming a crisis in media and public talks: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Kirchner, Stefanie
name: Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1: This file entails the interview guide that was developed for this study and used to collect the data
Data Stewardship Fundamentals: Module 4, Data Stewardship in Practice
Creators: name: Bremm, Rene Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Slides used for Data Stewardship Fundamentals training held by Digital Learning Hub (DLH) on 27, 28 June 2024.

Link to training: https://dlh.lu/product/data-stewardship-fundamentals/
On the relation between structured d-DNNFs and SDDs
Creators: name: Bollig, Beate
name: Farenholtz, Martin
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Complexity theory
subject: Decomposable negation normal forms
subject: Knowledge compilation
subject: Sentential decision diagrams
subject: 004
subject: Komplexitätstheorie
subject: Normalform
subject: Entscheidungsgraph

description: Structured d-DNNFs and SDDs are restricted negation normal form circuits used in knowledge compilation as target languages into which propositional theories are compiled. Structuredness is imposed by so-called vtrees. By definition SDDs are restricted structured d-DNNFs. Beame and Liew (2015) as well as Bova and Szeider (2017) mentioned the question whether structured d-DNNFs are really more general than SDDs w.r.t. polynomial-size representations (w.r.t. the number of Boolean variables the represented functions are defined on.) The main result in the paper is the proof that a function can be represented by SDDs of polynomial size if the function and its complement have polynomial-size structured d-DNNFs that respect the same vtree.
description: Theory Comput Syst;65(2)
Interferometric Measurements of Variable 340 GHz Linear Polarization in Sagittarius A*
Creators: name: Marrone, D. P.
name: Moran, J. M.
name: Zhao, J. -H.
name: Rao, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Submillimeter Array, we have made the first high angular resolution measurements of the linear polarization of Sagittarius A* at submillimeter wavelengths, and the first detection of intra-day variability in its linear polarization. We detected linear polarization at 340 GHz (880um) at several epochs. At the typical resolution of 1.4"x2.2", the expected contamination from the surrounding (partially polarized) dust emission is negligible. We found that both the polarization fraction and position angle are variable, with the polarization fraction dropping from 8.5% to 2.3% over three days. This is the first significant measurement of variability in the linear polarization fraction in this source. We also found variability in the polarization and total intensity within single nights, although the relationship between the two is not clear from these data. The simultaneous 332 and 342 GHz position angles are the same, setting a one-sigma rotation measure (RM) upper limit of 7x10^5 rad/m^2. From position angle variations and comparison of "quiescent" position angles observed here and at 230 GHz we infer that the RM is a few times 10^5 rad/m^2, a factor of a few below our direct detection limit. A generalized model of the RM produced in the accretion flow suggests that the accretion rate at small radii must be low, below 10^{-6} to 10^{-7} M_{sun}/year depending on the radial density and temperature profiles, but in all cases below the gas capture rate inferred from X-ray observations.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures. To appear in ApJ