cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CROP INSURANCE – RISKS AND MODELS OF INSURANCE
Creators: name: Vladimir, Čolović
name: Nataša, Mrvić Petrović
name: Vladimir, Čolović
name: Nataša, Mrvić Petrović
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: insurance
subject: agriculture
subject: crops
subject: premium
subject: risk

description: The issue of crop protection is very important because of a variety of risks that could cause difficult consequences. One type of risk protection is insurance. The author in the paper states various models of insurance in some EU countries and the systems of subsidizing of insurance premiums by state. The author also gives a picture of crop insurance in the U.S., noting that in this country pays great attention to this matter. As for crop insurance in Serbia, it is not at a high level. The main problem with crop insurance is not only the risks but also the way of protection through insurance. The basic question that arises not only in the EU is the question is who will insure and protect crops. There are three possibilities: insurance companies under state control, insurance companies that are public-private partnerships or private insurance companies on a purely commercial basis.
description: Original scientific paper
The Snowmass Points and Slopes: Benchmarks for SUSY Searches
Creators: name: Allanach, B. C.
name: Battaglia, M.
name: Blair, G. A.
name: Carena, M.
name: De Roeck, A.
name: Dedes, A.
name: Djouadi, A.
name: Gerdes, D.
name: Ghodbane, N.
name: Gunion, J.
name: Haber, H. E.
name: Han, T.
name: Heinemeyer, S.
name: Hewett, J. L.
name: Hinchliffe, I.
name: Kalinowski, J.
name: Logan, H. E.
name: Martin, S. P.
name: Martyn, H. -U.
name: Matchev, K. T.
name: Moretti, S.
name: Moortgat, F.
name: Moortgat-Pick, G.
name: Mrenna, S.
name: Nauenberg, U.
name: Okada, Y.
name: Olive, K. A.
name: Porod, W.
name: Schmitt, M.
name: Su, S.
name: Wagner, C. E. M.
name: Weiglein, G.
name: Wells, J.
name: Wilson, G. W.
name: Zerwas, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ``Snowmass Points and Slopes'' (SPS) are a set of benchmark points and parameter lines in the MSSM parameter space corresponding to different scenarios in the search for Supersymmetry at present and future experiments. This set of benchmarks was agreed upon at the 2001 ``Snowmass Workshop on the Future of Particle Physics'' as a consensus based on different existing proposals.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
It's the life in your years, not the years in your life — COMMENTARY
Creators: name: Leonard, Brian W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Behavioral Neuroscience
subject: 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: AGE IDENTITY AND COGNITION IN OLD AGEWe read with great interest the research report by M.H. Schafer and T.P. Shippee in the January 2010 issue of The Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences (Schafer & Shippee, 2010). The authors contribute several key findings to the literature on age identity in middle-aged to younger-old subjects (55-74 years), perhaps the most important being that younger age identities lead to more optimistic personal dispositions about cognitive aging. Over the past three years, we have anecdotally noted a similar phenomenon, in which subjects in our research program on healthy aging (O’Connor, et al., 2009; O’Connor, et al., 2015) report feeling much younger than their chronological age. We would like to use this commentary to report preliminary findings that compliment and extend the authors’ conclusions on age identity in healthy older individuals, those in their 80s, 90s, and 100s. In particular, we present new data about actual cognitive performance and age identity in our group of very old subjects (Leonard, et al.,. 2010).In summary, similar to the Schafer and Shippee study (Schafer & Shippee, 2010), our preliminary data on age identity in the oldest of old individuals show that feeling much younger than one’s chronological age translates into better perceptions about one’s cognitive abilities. Here, and elsewhere, we also suggest that having a younger age identity is more powerful: it translates into better objectively measured cognitive function (Leonard, et al., 2010; 2011), showing, perhaps, that what counts toward successful aging is the “life” in your years (Ryff, 1989).

© 2011 Brian W. Leonard
PROFITABILITY OF FAMILY FARMS DIRECTED AT CROP PRODUCTION
Creators: name: Petar, Munćan
name: Saša, Todorović
name: Mihajlo, Munćan
name: Petar, Munćan
name: Saša, Todorović
name: Mihajlo, Munćan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: profit
subject: family farm
subject: crop production
subject: opportunity costs

description: The efficiency in crop production depends on, on the one hand, achieved yields and selling prices (production value) and, on the other hand, on the incurred production costs. These data suggest different economic indicators which indicate the efficiency of farm operations. Data on the basic parameters of production were collected using the method of survey, which was conducted during the five-year period (2009-2013) on the selected 40 family farms (<100 ha), divided into five groups, each consisting of 8 farms, oriented exclusively towards crop production in the region of two municipalities in the South Banat District. Production efficiency and rational usage of available resources of observed family farms were measured by calculating their profit including state incentives for agriculture and evaluating their own resources engaged in the production.
description: Original scientific paper
The Equation of State for Dense QCD and Quark Stars
Creators: name: Andersen, Jens O.
name: Strickland, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the equation of state for degenerate quark matter to leading order in hard-dense-loop (HDL) perturbation theory. We solve the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov equations to obtain the mass-radius relation for dense quark stars. Both the perturbative QCD and the HDL equations of state have a large variation with respect to the renormalization scale for quark chemical potential below 1 GeV which leads to large theoretical uncertainties in the quark star mass-radius relation.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Empirical Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis from European Manufacturing Sectors
Creators: name: Rubashkina, Yana
name: Galeotti, Marzio
name: Verdolini, Elena
name: Rubashkina, Yana
name: Galeotti, Marzio
name: Verdolini, Elena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Environmental Regulation
subject: Innovation
subject: Productivity
subject: Competitiveness
subject: Porter Hypothesis

description: This paper represents an empirical investigation of the “weak” and “strong” Porter Hypothesis (PH) focusing on the manufacturing sectors of European countries between 1997 and 2009. By and large, the literature has analyzed the impact of environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant indicators for the “strong” PH. This approach allows us to account for potential opportunity costs of induced innovations. As a proxy of environmental policy stringency we use pollution abatement and control expenditures (PACE), which represent one of the few indicators available at the sectoral level. We remedy upon its main drawback, that of potential endogeneity of PACE, by adopting an instrumental variable estimation approach. We find evidence of a positive impact of environmental regulation on the output of innovation activity, as proxied by patents, thus providing support in favor of the “weak” PH in line with most of the literature. On the other front, we find no evidence in favor or against the “strong” PH, as productivity appears to be unaffected by the degree of pollution control and abatement efforts.
Combinatorial problems of (quasi-)crystallography
Creators: name: Baake, Michael
name: Grimm, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A15, 52C23, 11R99

description: Several combinatorial problems of (quasi-)crystallography are reviewed with special emphasis on a unified approach, valid for both crystals and quasicrystals. In particular, we consider planar sublattices, similarity sublattices, coincidence sublattices, their module counterparts, and central and averaged shelling. The corresponding counting functions are encapsulated in Dirichlet series generating functions, with explicit results for the triangular lattice and the twelvefold symmetric shield tiling. Other combinatorial properties are briefly summarised.
description: 12 pages, 2 PostScript figures, LaTeX using vch-book.cls
Production of $ϕ(2170)$ and $η(2225)$ in a kaon induced reaction
Creators: name: Wang, Xiao-Yun
name: He, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we study the production of strange quarkoniums, the $ϕ(2170)$, also named $Y(2175)$, and the $η(2225)$, via a kaon induced reaction on a proton target in an effective Lagrangian approach. The total and differential cross sections of the reactions $K^{-}p\rightarrow ϕ(2170)Λ$ and $K^{-}p\rightarrow η(2225)Λ$ are calculated by the Reggeized $t $-channel Born term under an assumption that the $ϕ(2170)$ and $η(2225)$ are $Λ\barΛ$ molecular states. At the center of mass energies of about 4.2 GeV, the total cross section for the $ϕ(2170)$ production is predicted to be about 1 $μ$b. The numerical results indicate that it is feasible to produce the $ϕ(2170)$ via kaon beam scattering at the best energy window near 4.2 GeV. The total cross section for the $η(2225)$ production is smaller than that for the $ϕ(2170)$ production and it may reach an order of the magnitude of 0.1 $μ$b. The differential cross sections for both reactions at different center of mass energies are also presented. It is found that the Reggeized $t$ channel gives a considerable contribution at forward angles. As the energy increases, the contribution from the $t$-channel almost concentrates at extreme forward angles. From these theoretical predictions, the relevant experimental research is suggested, which could provide important information to clarify the internal structure and production mechanism of these two strange quarkoniums.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
EFFECTIVE METHОDS ОF TEАCHING WRITING TО B1 LEVEL LEАRNERS IN EFL CLАSSES
Creators: name: Rаyevа, Sаrvinоz
name: Аhmedоvа, Muyаssаr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Writing is а cruciаl prоductive skill in lаnguаge leаrning, especiаlly fоr leаrners аt the B1 (Intermediаte) level оf the CEFR. Аt this stаge, students аre expected tо write simple cоnnected text оn tоpics which аre fаmiliаr оr оf persоnаl interest. This аrticle explоres effective methоds fоr teаching writing tо B1 leаrners, emphаsizing interаctive techniques, scаffоlding, technоlоgy-enhаnced tооls, аnd reаl-life writing cоntexts tо bооst leаrner engаgement аnd writing prоficiency.
The Schrödinger-Poisson method for Large-Scale Structure
Creators: name: Garny, Mathias
name: Konstandin, Thomas
name: Rubira, Henrique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Schrödinger-Poisson (SP) method in the context of cosmological large-scale structure formation in an expanding background. In the limit $\hbar \to 0$, the SP technique can be viewed as an effective method to sample the phase space distribution of cold dark matter that remains valid on non-linear scales. We present results for the 2D and 3D matter correlation function and power spectrum at length scales corresponding to the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak. We discuss systematic effects of the SP method applied to cold dark matter and explore how they depend on the simulation parameters. In particular, we identify a combination of simulation parameters that controls the scale-independent loss of power observed at low redshifts, and discuss the scale relevant to this effect.
description: 29 pages, 17 figures. Published in JCAP
Anomalous thickness dependence of the Hall effect in ultrathin Pb layers on Si(111)
Creators: name: Vilfan, I.
name: Henzler, M.
name: Pfennigstorf, O.
name: Pfnuer, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetoconductive properties of ultrathin Pb films deposited on Si(111) are measured and compared with density-functional electronic band-structure calculations on two-dimensional, free-standing, 1 to 8 monolayers thick Pb(111) slabs. A description with free-standing slabs is possible because it turned out that the Hall coefficient is independent of the substrate and of the crystalline order in the film. We show that the oscillations in sign of the Hall coefficient observed as a function of film thickness can be explained directly from the thickness dependent variations of the electronic bandstructure at the Fermi energy.
description: 4 pages incl. 3 figures, RevTeX, to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Envisioning Pathways toward Transformative Food Systems Change: Understanding the Role of Multi-Stakeholder Engagement at the Culinary and Nutrition Center in Springfield, MA
Creators: name: Whitmore, Kristen
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: The alternative food movement claims varied goals such as building environmental sustainability, strengthening local economies, and promoting health equity, yet critics argue that the movement’s transformative potential is threatened by a lack of shared vision. Literature suggests that community-based multi-stakeholder coalitions are a useful tool for building consensus around food systems futures. But what kinds of futures? Home Grown Springfield is a school food initiative aimed at reducing hunger in Springfield, MA by serving healthy, homemade, and locally-sourced meals via the Culinary and Nutrition Center, a brand-new full-service commercial kitchen and storage facility. This qualitative case study examines the engagement process of the Culinary and Nutrition Center’s Advisory Council, a multi-stakeholder coalition convened in 2018 to guide the project. The engagement process was envisioned by the Springfield Food Policy Council, Springfield Public Schools, and Sodexo, and funded by the Henry P. Kendall Foundation. Research findings suggests that engagement of diverse actors promotes expanded project visions, which results in more holistic, progressive, and potentially transformative food systems change. In addition, it reveals challenges around the process of authentic community engagement and the dynamics of power-sharing between project leaders and community members. This research has multiple objectives: 1) to document the first year of the Advisory Council’s process for its own reflection; 2) to demonstrate the need for planners to help facilitate diverse cross-sector engagement for more holistic and progressive regional planning; and 3) to highlight the critical need for community leadership and decision-making in planning for sustainable and equitable community development.
An introduction to the 'Respiratory rate algorithms for wearables' project
Creators: name: Charlton, Peter H
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: respiratory rate
photoplethysmography
signal processing
wearables

description: This presentation provides an introduction to the 'Respiratory rate algorithms for wearables' project. It was originally presented at a meeting at the University of Cambridge on 13th May 2021. The accompanying video is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3JPImVkouc Further information on the project is available at: http://peterhcharlton.github.io/RRest/
“Nothing Material Occurred”: The Maritime Captures That Caused Then Outlasted the United States’ Quasi War with France
Creators: name: Zeig, Emma
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: This thesis examines the French maritime seizures during the eighteenth-century US Quasi War with France (also called the half war, or the United States’ undeclared war with France), encompassing events on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, in France, the United States, and the Caribbean, particularly Haiti. The analysis focuses on the captured ships, telling the stories of seamen who feared for their lives and merchants who lost their ships. This point of view allows the thesis to explore an area of the Quasi War that are less documented in other histories: how civilian participants experienced violence and the indifference of governments that valued property over people. The Law of Nations had a certain amount of ambiguity when it came to captured crews. However, the questionable legality of French seizures and the system of decrees created to sustain them fostered an environment designed create situations where those in the maritime trade lacked credibility when they documented their dangerous situations. By examining seizures that chiefly took place before the more commonly considered date of the conflict (1798). This thesis will attempt to show how extending the timeline of the war allows for a narrative centering the experience of the seizures, and focusing on more than just the political class. Drawing on newspaper articles, legislative records, court records and other judicial records, as well as letters, and family papers, the thesis argues that while no single seizure was a defining event for the country, many were defining events for the individuals involved, and as a whole they constituted the foundation to the conflict. Concentrating on the seizures will not only reveal new perspectives on the Quasi War, but also providing context to other scholarship on the war, where the seizures are less fully explored. Humanizing the Quasi War is important, both because these seizures are an infrequently explored area of scholarship, and because understanding what the conflict meant to everyday Americans makes it easier to understand why it had meaning on a larger scale.
Perceptions of Athletes: Exploring Race-Based Dehumanization and Superhumanization
Creators: name: Wu, Deborah
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: Throughout American history, African Americans have been negatively stereotyped and dehumanized (e.g., believed to be less evolutionarily evolved). Recent research shows that African Americans are also sometimes superhumanized, meaning that they are believed to possess physical qualities that are supernatural (e.g., able to withstand great pain; Waytz, Hoffman, & Trawalter, 2014). Both dehumanization and superhumanization suggest that African Americans are perceived to not be as human as White Americans. Two studies sought to investigate dehumanizing and superhumanizing attributions in the context of athletics. Specifically, I tested whether perceivers made different attributions of Black and White athletes’ physical prowess by attributing more negative (e.g., aggressive, animalistic) rather than positive (e.g., active, athletic) physical traits towards Black (vs. White) athletes, and whether these negative physical attributions implied more dehumanization and superhumanization when describing Black athletes in comparison to White athletes. In contrast to my hypotheses, I found that White athletes were perceived to be more representative of negative physical traits in comparison to Black athletes. Furthermore, greater attribution of negative physical traits was similarly associated with greater dehumanization for Black and White athletes. I explore possible reasons for these unexpected findings.
Getting the Right Twist: Influence of Donor-Acceptor Dihedral Angle on Exciton Kinetics and Singlet-Triplet Gap in Deep Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitter
Creators: name: Weissenseel, Sebastian
name: Drigo, Nikita A.
name: Kudriashova, Liudmila G.
name: Schmid, Markus
name: Morgenstern, Thomas
name: Lin, Kun-Han
name: Prlj, Antonio
name: Corminboeuf, Clémence
name: Sperlich, Andreas
name: Brütting, Wolfgang
name: Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja
name: Dyakonov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here, a novel deep blue emitter SBABz4 for use in organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) is investigated. The molecular design of the emitter enables thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF), which we examine by temperature-dependent time-resolved electroluminescence (trEL) and photoluminescence (trPL). We show that the dihedral angle between donor and acceptor strongly affects the oscillator strength of the charge transfer state alongside the singlet-triplet gap. The angular dependence of the singlet-triplet gap is calculated by time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT). A gap of 15 meV is calculated for the relaxed ground state configuration of SBABz4 with a dihedral angle between the donor and acceptor moieties of 86°. Surprisingly, an experimentally obtained energy gap of 72+/-5 meV can only be explained by torsion angles in the range of 70°-75°. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations showed that SBABz4 evaporated at high temperature acquires a distribution of torsion angles, which immediately leads to the experimentally obtained energy gap. Moreover, the emitter orientation anisotropy in a host matrix shows an 80% ratio of horizontally oriented dipoles, which is highly desirable for efficient light outcoupling. Understanding intramolecular donor-acceptor geometry in evaporated films is crucial for OLED applications, because it affects oscillator strength and TADF efficiency.
AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE UNDER THE SOLVENCY II DIRECTIVE
Creators: name: Vladimir, Njegomir
name: Rajko, Tepavac
name: Miloje, Obradović
name: Vladimir, Njegomir
name: Rajko, Tepavac
name: Miloje, Obradović
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: insurance
subject: agricultural producers
subject: catastrophic floods
subject: claims and prevention in agribusiness
subject: risk management
subject: reinsurance
subject: Solvency II.

description: Solvency II Directive represents a new framework of unique solvency regulation of insurance and reinsurance companies in the European Union. Although it has not yet been implemented in national legislations, it can be concluded, based on the directive wording and conducted quantitative studies, that it will have implications on agricultural producers since they are the users of insurance services. The aim of the research presented in this paper is to analyse the implications of the new directive to agricultural producers since they are the insureds and the main actors of agribusiness. Firstly, the paper gives an overview of the basic features of the new regulatory framework and then it points at the issues and the needs for intensive application of Directive in order to improve the insurance business in Serbia. The process will direct the settlement of major claims, the ones that are typical of catastrophic risks in agriculture, towards the insurance, while the expectations from the government will be directed towards the regulation of the setting and economic measures (development and investment subsidies, cooperative movement). In addition, the paper points at the demands of the new regulation and analyses the implications of the new regulation regarding the settlement of claims resulting from major flood since it represents the example that proves the basic postulate.
description: Original scientific paper
Searching for Super-Eddington Quasars using a Photon Trapping Accretion Disc Model
Creators: name: Pognan, Quentin
name: Trakhtenbrot, Benny
name: Sbarrato, Tullia
name: Schawinski, Kevin
name: Bertemes, Caroline
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accretion onto black holes at rates above the Eddington limit has long been discussed in the context of supermassive black hole (SMBH) formation and evolution, providing a possible explanation for the presence of massive quasars at high redshifts (z$\gtrsim$7), as well as having implications for SMBH growth at later epochs. However, it is currently unclear whether such `super-Eddington' accretion occurs in SMBHs at all, how common it is, or whether every SMBH may experience it. In this work, we investigate the observational consequences of a simplistic model for super-Eddington accretion flows -- an optically thick, geometrically thin accretion disc (AD) where the inner-most parts experience severe photon-trapping, which is enhanced with increased accretion rate. The resulting spectral energy distributions (SEDs) show a dramatic lack of rest-frame UV, or even optical, photons. Using a grid of model SEDs spanning a wide range in parameter space (including SMBH mass and accretion rate), we find that large optical quasar surveys (such as SDSS) may be missing most of these luminous systems. We then propose a set of colour selection criteria across optical and infra-red colour spaces designed to select super-Eddington SEDs in both wide-field surveys (e.g., using SDSS, 2MASS and WISE) and deep & narrow-field surveys (e.g., COSMOS). The proposed selection criteria are a necessary first step in establishing the relevance of advection-affected super-Eddington accretion onto SMBHs at early cosmic epochs.
description: 24 pages, 13 figures, accepted by MNRAS 07/01/2020
Homogeneous Analysis of Globular Clusters from the APOGEE Survey with the BACCHUS Code. II. The Southern Clusters and Overview
Creators: name: Mészáros, Szabolcs
name: Masseron, Thomas
name: García-Hernández, D. A.
name: Prieto, Carlos Allende
name: Beers, Timothy C.
name: Bizyaev, Dmitry
name: Chojnowski, Drew
name: Cohen, Roger E.
name: Cunha, Katia
name: Dell'Agli, Flavia
name: Ebelke, Garrett
name: Fernández-Trincado, José G.
name: Frinchaboy, Peter
name: Geisler, Doug
name: Hasselquist, Sten
name: Hearty, Fred
name: Holtzman, Jon
name: Johnson, Jennifer
name: Lane, Richard R.
name: Lacerna, Ivan
name: Longa-Peña, Penelopé
name: Majewski, Steven R.
name: Martell, Sarah L.
name: Minniti, Dante
name: Nataf, David
name: Nidever, David L.
name: Pan, Kaike
name: Schiavon, Ricardo P.
name: Shetrone, Matthew
name: Smith, Verne V.
name: Sobeck, Jennifer S.
name: Stringfellow, Guy S.
name: Szigeti, László
name: Tang, Baitian
name: Wilson, John C.
name: Zamora, Olga
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 investigate the Fe, C, N, O, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Ce and Nd abundances of 2283 red giant stars in 31 globular clusters from high-resolution spectra observed in both the northern and southern hemisphere by the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2 survey. This unprecedented homogeneous dataset, largest to date, allows us to discuss the intrinsic Fe spread, the shape and statistics of Al-Mg and N-C anticorrelations as a function of cluster mass, luminosity, age and metallicity for all 31 clusters. We find that the Fe spread does not depend on these parameters within our uncertainties including cluster metallicity, contradicting earlier observations. We do not confirm the metallicity variations previously observed in M22 and NGC 1851. Some clusters show a bimodal Al distribution, while others exhibit a continuous distribution as has been previously reported in the literature. We confirm more than 2 populations in $ω$ Cen and NGC 6752, and find new ones in M79. We discuss the scatter of Al by implementing a correction to the standard chemical evolution of Al in the Milky Way. After correction, its dependence on cluster mass is increased suggesting that the extent of Al enrichment as a function of mass was suppressed before the correction. We observe a turnover in the Mg-Al anticorrelation at very low Mg in $ω$ Cen, similar to the pattern previously reported in M15 and M92. $ω$ Cen may also have a weak K-Mg anticorrelation, and if confirmed, it would be only the third cluster known to show such a pattern.
description: Published in MNRAS, 31 pages, 24 figures, 7 tables. Further typos are corrected, now identical in text, figures and tables to the published paper
Anaphothrips geijerae Mound & Masumoto 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Masumoto, Masami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Anaphothrips
Anaphothrips geijerae

description: Anaphothrips geijerae sp. n.
(Figs 88–91)
 Female macroptera. Body and legs brown, tarsi yellow; antennal segments I and IV–IX brown, II darker, III paler; fore wings uniformly weakly shaded; tergite IX major setae brown. Head wider than long, with transverse anastomosing striae behind eyes (Fig. 91); eyes without pigmented facets; ocellar setae III just within triangle. Antennae 9-segmented, III–IV with sensorium forked; II with microtrichia on sculpture lines; suture between VI–VII transverse; VI constricted at base but not pedicellate (Fig. 88). Pronotum with prominent transverse ridges on anterior half (Fig. 91); discal setae relatively stout. Metascutum irregularly reticulate, sculpture lines apparently with flanges (Fig. 90); median setae near anterior margin; MCS present or absent. Prosternal ferna interrupted medially. Fore wing first vein with about 9 setae basally, 2 medially and 2 distally; second vein with 10 setae; clavus with 5 veinal setae and one seta at base. Abdominal tergites II–VII with no sculpture medially; laterally with closely spaced sculpture lines bearing weak broadly based microtrichia, not extending mesad of S2; posterior margin of VIII with complete long comb, lateral microtrichia arising from larger bases. Sternites with transverse reticulation medially.
 Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1220. Head, length 75; width across eyes 135. Pronotum, length 110; maximum width 175. Fore wing, length 650; median width 50; first vein longest seta in basal row 20. Tergite IV S1 setae 5. Tergite IX, MD setae 12; PM S1 setae 80. Tergite X PM S1 setae 75. Antennal segments III–IX, 37, 35, 35, 30, 10, 7, 12.
 Male unknown.
 Specimens examined. Holotype female macroptera, New South Wales, Peak Hill, from Geijera parviflora leaves (Rutaceae), 8.xii.2001 (LAM 4064).
Paratypes: 3 females taken with holotype.
 Comments. The sculpture of this brown species, with small flanges on many of the sculpture lines, is unusual within the genus. Although here named after the widespread shrub on which the type series was found, there is no certainty that this is the definitive host plant.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 2042 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2042.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5313983
Investigating Autistic Spectrum Disorder related behaviours, including sensory difficulties, in girls with Fragile X Syndrome
Creators: name: Marlborough, Michelle A.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Thesis Abstract: There is very little research for females with Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) examining their ASDbehaviours, with most research focusing on males. This thesis examines the prevalence of ASD in FXS and the specific behavioural and psychological phenotype for girls with FXS.Literature Review:Whilst up to 60% of males with full-mutation Fragile X syndrome (FXS) meet criteria for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the prevalence and nature of ASD in females with FXS remains unclear. A systematic literature search identified papers reporting ASD prevalence and/or symptomatology in females with full-mutation or pre-mutation FXS. Meta-analysis estimated pooled prevalence of ASD for the full mutation at 17% (95% CI 11 to 24%), and for the pre-mutation 3% (95% CI 0% to 17%), using a quality effects model. Whilst papers highlighted a number of social and repetitive difficulties, characteristic profiles of impairment are not clear. Possible associations of ASD traits with IQ and levels of fragile X mental retardation protein are suggested, but data are equivocal.Research Report:Whilst Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is the most common inherited single-gene cause of intellectual disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), research is dominated by male samples, and the understanding of ASD-related behaviour and other behavioural/psychological characteristics in females remains relatively unestablished.Parents/caregivers of girls with FXS were compared on ASD-related behaviours, including sensory difficulties, together with ability, mood, activity levels and challenging behaviour with those of boys with FXS and typically developing children. A number of behavioural/psychological difficulties are less pronounced in girls than boys with FXS, but they exceed those associated with typical development. This study also provides the first evidence of sensory processing difficulties in girls with FXS and suggests that they may relate to other elements of ASD-related behaviours and not to lower ability in girls with FXS.
title: 01_2067
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Improved constraints on WIMPs from the International Germanium Experiment IGEX
Creators: name: Morales, A.
name: Aalseth, C. E.
name: Avignone, F. T.
name: Brodzinski, R. L.
name: Cebrian, S.
name: Garcia, E.
name: Irastorza, I. G.
name: Kirpichnikov, I. V.
name: Klimenko, A. A.
name: Miley, H. S.
name: Morales, J.
name: de Solorzano, A. Ortiz
name: Osetrov, S. B.
name: Pogosov, V. S.
name: Puimedon, J.
name: Reeves, J. H.
name: Sarsa, M. L.
name: Smolnikov, A. A.
name: Tamanyan, A. G.
name: Vasenko, A. A.
name: Vasiliev, S. I.
name: Villar, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One IGEX 76Ge double-beta decay detector is currently operating in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory in a search for dark matter WIMPs, through the Ge nuclear recoil produced by the WIMP elastic scattering. A new exclusion plot, has been derived for WIMP-nucleon spin-independent interactions. To obtain this result, 40 days of data from the IGEX detector (energy threshold E \~ 4 keV), recently collected, have been analyzed. These data improve the exclusion limits derived from all the other ionization germanium detectors in the mass region from 20 GeV to 200 GeV, where a WIMP supposedly responsible for the annual modulation effect reported by the DAMA experiment would be located. The new IGEX exclusion contour enters, by the first time, the DAMA region by using only raw data, with no background discrimination, and excludes its upper left part. It is also shown that with a moderate improvement of the detector performances, the DAMA region could be fully explored.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Physics Letters B (revised version after referee's comments, some figures added)
Age Management Principles in Czech Agrarian Sector
Creators: name: Urbancová, H.
name: Hlavsa, T.
name: Urbancová, H.
name: Hlavsa, T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Age Management
subject: demography development of population
subject: agriculture
subject: cost
subject: the Czech Republic
subject: survey

description: Within the frame of the entire economy, the modern conception of Age Management enables each and every employee to use their full potential without being put at a disadvantage for age reasons. Despite the fact that this area is important in terms of current demographic development, there are organisations that do not implement its measures. The article therefore concentrates on the identification and evaluation of Age Management application by Czech agricultural businesses. The data analysed was obtained based on a quantitative survey in which data was collected by means of a questionnaire survey (total companies: n=315, agricultural businesses: na=60). The outcomes show that Czech agricultural businesses are not quite familiar with the application of Age Management measures. One of the conclusions of the article is that from the social point of view Age Management measures may help improve the situation on the labour market, labour productivity, encourage young people to work in the agricultural sector and, last but not least, build, on the organisational level, an employer’s brand. Application of Age Management causes on the employees performance but also on the costs reduce and profit increase. This contribution is a follow-up to the project of University – wide internal grant agency (CIGA), number 20141002 - Human resource branding using of the new strategic trends in organisations in the Czech Republic.
Hydrogen Molecules in the Dark Ages Halos: Thermal Emission vs. Resonant Scattering
Creators: name: Novosyadlyj, B.
name: Shulga, V.
name: Kulinich, Yu.
name: Han, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The emission from dark ages halos in the lines of transitions between lowest rotational levels of hydrogen and hydrogen deuteride molecules is analyzed. It is assumed molecules to be excited by CMB and collisions with hydrogen atoms. The physical parameters of halos and number density of molecules are precalculated in assumption that halos are homogeneous top-hat spheres formed from the cosmological density perturbations in the four-component Universe with post-Planck cosmological parameters. The differential brightness temperatures and differential spectral fluxes in the rotational lines of H$_2$-HD molecules are computed for two phenomena: thermal luminescence and resonant scattering of CMB radiation. The results show that expected maximal values of differential brightness temperature of warm halos ($T_K\sim$200-800 K) are at the level of nanokelvins, are comparable for both phenomena, and are below sensitivity of modern sub-millimeter radio telescopes. For hot halos ($T_K\sim$2000-5000 K) the thermal emission of H2-ortho molecules dominates and the differential brightness temperatures are predicted to be of a few microkelvins at the frequencies 300-600 GHz, that could be detectable with telescopes of a new generation.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures, 16 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ; in the revised version the discussion about impact of new coefficients of collision excitation H2-H on the brightness temperature as well as the comparison with results of other authors are added
Anaphothrips nimbus Mound & Masumoto 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Masumoto, Masami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Anaphothrips
Anaphothrips nimbus

description: Anaphothrips nimbus sp. n.
(Figs 117–119)
 Female macroptera. Body and legs light brown, tarsi and tibiae mainly yellow; antennal segments I–II and IV–VIII brown, III paler but with apex shaded; fore wing pale with median brown band. Head wider than long, with transverse lines on posterior third, ocellar region without sculpture (Fig. 118); ocellar setae III anterior to posterior ocelli, just outside triangle; eyes with 6 weakly pigmented facets. Antennae 8-segmented, III–IV with sensorium forked; II–III without microtrichia; VI weakly pedicellate; VIII longer than VII (Fig. 119). Pronotum almost without sculpture. Mesonotum with few transverse lines. Metascutum irregularly reticulate, median setae behind anterior margin; MCS present medially. Fore wing first vein with about 7 setae on basal half, 2 setae medially, 2 setae distally; second vein with 8–9 setae including 1–2 basal to vein fork; clavus with 6 veinal setae including one seta at base. Tergites I–II fully sculptured medially, III–VI with faint lines between median setae; VIII with comb long but irregular, spiracles large (Fig. 117).
 Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1150. Head, length 90; width across eyes 125. Pronotum, length 115; maximum width 165. Fore wing, length 560; median width 35; first vein longest seta in basal row 20. Tergite IV S1 setae 12. Tergite IX, MD setae 10; PM S1 setae 80. Tergite X PM S1 setae 65. Antennal segments III–VIII, 40, 30, 30, 42, 10, 15.
 Male unknown.
 Specimens examined. Holotype female macroptera, Queensland, Lamington, Werrikimbe, fogging Nothofagus moorei, 10.xii.1990 (R.Kitching).
Paratypes: 7 females taken with holotype.
 Comments. Judging from the shape of the head, but despite the enlarged spiracles on tergites I and VIII, this species with 8-segmented antennae is not related to the grass-living members of Anaphothrips. It possibly lives on the leaves of the trees from which it was obtained by insecticide fogging. The pale fore wing with transverse shaded band is particularly unusual.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 2042 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2042.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5313983
Higgs-Boson Interactions within the Randall-Sundrum Model
Creators: name: Dominici, Daniele
name: Grzadkowski, Bohdan
name: Gunion, John F.
name: Toharia, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scalar sector of the Randall-Sundrum model is discussed. The effective potential for the Standard Model Higgs-boson (h) interacting with Kaluza-Klein excitations of the graviton and the radion (phi) has been derived and it has been shown that only the Standard Model-like vacuum is allowed. The theoretical and experimental consequences of the curvature-scalar mixing xi RHH introduced on the visible brane are considered and simple sum rules that relate the couplings of the mass eigenstates (h) and (phi) to pairs of vector bosons and fermions are derived. The sum rule for the ZZh and ZZ phi couplings in combination with LEP/LEP2 data implies that not both the h and phi can be light. We present explicit results for the still allowed region in the (mh,mphi) plane that remains after imposing the LEP upper limits for non-standard scalar couplings to a ZZ pair. The phenomenological consequences of the mixing are investigated and, in particular, it is shown that the Higgs-boson decay h -> phi phi would provide an experimental signature for non-zero xi and can have a very substantial impact on the Higgs-boson searches, having BR(h->phi phi) as large as 30 - 40 %.
description: Talk dedicated to Stefan Pokorski on his 60th birthday presented at the conference ``Planck 02'', Fifth European Meeting From the Planck Scale to the Electroweak Scale, ``Supersymmetry and Brane Worlds'', Kazimierz, Poland, May, 2002. 16 pages
Dimensions and Determinants of Growth in Micro and Small Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from Mekelle City, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Woldeyohanes, H. T.
name: Woldeyohanes, H. T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Determinants
subject: dimensions
subject: growth
subject: MSEs
subject: binary choice model
subject: Tigray
subject: Ethiopia

description: This paper aims to investigate the dimensions and determinants of growth in Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) based on a survey covering 178 randomly selected MSEs in Mekelle city, northern Ethiopia through the test of four main hypotheses and arguments of Gibrat’s law and the learning theory hypothesis. Semi-structured questionnaire and interview were used to collect data, and the binary choice model was used to identify factors that significantly affect the growth of MSEs. Employment size index is used as a proxy to measure firm growth in which about 76.4 percent of MSEs are found survival and the remaining 23.6 percent are growing type. There is also an evidence supporting the law of proportional effect could hold in the MSEs context. Moreover, the logit model result reveals that there is a significant gender difference in growth of MSEs. Furthermore, the start up capital, location and sector in which MSEs operate matter a lot for their growth. Hence, government and non-government organizations that are concerned with the promotion and development of MSEs need to take these factors in to account to accomplish better result and increase the potential contribution of MSEs to the economic growth.