cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessing water system vulnerabilities under changing climate conditions using different representations of a hydrological system
Creators: name: Sharifinejad, Ali
name: Hassanzadeh, Elmira
name: Zaerpour, Masoud
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Changes in climate are altering the historical characteristics of the streamflow regime and affecting the performance of water systems. Here, the role of representing natural streamflow conditions in quantification of water system vulnerability under changing climate is evaluated in the Oldman River Basin, Canada. Four hydrological models are developed using point- and grid-based climate data and considering lumped and semi-distributed representations of the watershed. These hydrological models are then coupled with a reservoir water allocation model. Using an ensemble of climate model projections fed into these integrated models, changes in the water system’s behaviour are evaluated. Although intensified and earlier peak flows and more critical water deficits are projected, the estimated risks of failure strongly depend on the considered hydrological model configuration. The divergence among models’ projections for water deficit can be as high as 300%. Therefore, usage of all configurations is recommended to revise the reservoir operational policies.
Three-spin interactions and entanglement in optical lattices
Creators: name: Pachos, Jiannis K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entanglement properties of some novel quantum systems are studied that are inspired by recent developments in cold-atom technology. A triangular optical lattice of two atomic species can be employed to generate a variety of spin-1/2 Hamiltonians including effective three-spin interactions. A variety of one or two dimensional systems can thus be realized that possess multi-degenerate ground states or non-vanishing chirality. The properties of these ground states and their phase transitions are probed with appropriate measures such as the entropic entanglement and the spin chirality.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, talk presented at the De Giorgi Workshop on Entanglement in Physical and Information Science, Pisa 2004
Coenen, Lothar, Beyreuther, Erich, Bietenhard, Hans: Theologisches Begriffslexikon zum neuen Testament
Creators: name: Schulz, Otmar
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 17 Nr. 2 (1968): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 17, Heft 2
THE MULTI-PRODUCT ASYMPTOTICALLY IDEAL MODEL: AN APPLICATION TO AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Lusk, Jayson L.
name: Featherstone, Allen M.
name: Lusk, Jayson L.
name: Featherstone, Allen M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: AIM
subject: Asymptotically Ideal Model
subject: flexible functional form
subject: cost function

description: This paper examines the Multi-Product Asymptotically Ideal Production Model as an alternative to the translog and normalized quadratic functional forms using farm level data. Factors such as ease of estimation, imposition of regularity conditions, and quantitative differences in empirical estimates are compared.
Lateral facies variation of base surge deposits in the Ubehebe hydrovolcanic field investigated by ground penetrating radar
Creators: name: Cagnoli, Bruno
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Ground penetrating radar surveys were conducted in the Ubehebe hydrovolcanic field (Death Valley, California) in order to study the lateral facies variation of base surge deposits. Using low frequency antennae (50, 100 and 200 MHz), the lower strati graphic boundary of the pyroclastic deposits was imaged, showing that their thickness can be estimated. Furthermore, different radar responses were obtained from base surge deposits and underlying sedimentary rocks, which enable their recognition when outcrops are unavailable. GPR data also confirmed the presence of small, eroded craters, which are partially filled by alluvium. In this case an unconformity between the overlying, horizontally bedded alluvium and the underlying bowl-shaped base surge deposits was recognized in the radar sections. GPR images collected with higher frequency antennae (900 MHz) show the presence of wavy reflections and that these reflections become increasingly less wavy and more planeparallel away from the vent. These wavy reflections have been interpreted as GPR images of subsurface trains of climbing dune-forms, whose size decreases downflow. High-pass eigenimages of the 900 MHz profiles were computed in order to quantify the waviness of the reflections. The high-pass eigenimages act as a filter discarding the highly correlated parts of the traces and leaving the wavy reflections. For this reason, the energy of the eigenimages appears to be an index of the waviness of the reflections. The 900 MHz data showed also a downflow amplitude decrease of the reflections that can be used as a flow direction indicator when the vent position is unknown. This trend was displayed computing Fourier transforms and the average square of the sample points of the traces and probably reflects some aspects of the lateral facies variation of base surge deposits. This can be explained with a downflow increase of sorting and decrease of grain size and a consequent reduction of the differences between the beds, which, in turn, causes a reduction of the reflected energy. These results suggest that, although GPR profiles are traditionally used as 2-D images of the subsurface stratigraphy, they can be useful to obtain information about the heterogeneous distribution of subsurface physical properties.
Dynamical stabilization of solitons in cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger model
Creators: name: Abdullaev, Fatkhulla Kh.
name: Garnier, Josselin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the existence of a dynamically stable soliton in the one-dimensional cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger model with strong cubic nonlinearity management for periodic and random modulations. We show that the predictions of the averaged cubic-quintic NLS equation and modified variational approach for the arrest of collapse coincide. The analytical results are confirmed by numerical simulations of one-dimensional cubic-quintic NLS equation with rapidly and strongly varying cubic nonlinearity coefficient.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
On the normalisation of the cosmic star formation history
Creators: name: Hopkins, Andrew M.
name: Beacom, John F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong constraints on the cosmic star formation history (SFH) have recently been established using ultraviolet and far-infrared measurements, refining the results of numerous measurements over the past decade. Taken together, the most recent and robust data indicate a compellingly consistent picture of the SFH out to redshift z~6, with especially tight constraints for z
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ, major revisions following referee's comments
The Positive-Parity Baryon Spectrum and the Role of Hybrid Baryons
Creators: name: Khan, Tanjib
name: Richards, David
name: Winter, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the low-lying spectra for the positive-parity $Δ$ and $N$ at two pion masses of 358 and 278 MeV using an isotropic clover action with two degenerate light-quaark and one strange-quark flavors through the application of the generalized variational method within the distillation framework. The spectrum exhibits the general features observed in previous calculations using an anisotropic clover lattice, with a counting of states at least as rich as the quark model. Furthermore, we identify states that are hybrid in nature, where gluonic degrees of freedom play a structural role, indicatinng that such states appear a feature of the excited baryon spectrum, irrespective of the lattice action, or the precise details of the smearing of the lattice interpolating operators used to identify such states.
Base-mediated alternate route for multi-functionalized allylbenzenes using ring transformation strategy
Creators: name: Samata E. Shetgaonkar
name: Singh, Fateh V.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: A simple yet innovative approach for the construction of multi-substituted allylbenzenes 14, 16 and 18 with ‘donor-acceptor’ functionalities has been delineated through base-mediated ring transformation of 6-aryl-2H-pyran-2-ones 13, 15 and 17 respectively with commercially available 5-hexen-2-one 11 as carbanion source. The reactions were carried out at room temperature without using any catalyst or organometallic reagents with excellent functional group tolerance. Moreover, the present method is possible alternate route to access allylbenzenes apart from usual metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions.
Multipartite Secret Correlations and Bound Information
Creators: name: Masanes, Lluis
name: Acin, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of secret key extraction when $n$ honest parties and an eavesdropper share correlated information. We present a family of probability distributions and give the full characterization of its distillation properties. This formalism allows us to design a rich variety of cryptographic scenarios. In particular, we provide examples of multipartite probability distributions containing non-distillable secret correlations, also known as bound information.
description: 13 pages
Lavanchy, A., Rich, A., Rieben, H., Visser't Hooft, W. A.: Kirche und Gesellschaft
Creators: name: Kg.
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 17 Nr. 2 (1968): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 17, Heft 2
Additional file 1 of How body concerns, body mass, self-rated health and self-esteem are mutually impacted in early adolescence: a longitudinal cohort study
Creators: name: Meland, Eivind
name: Breidablik, Hans Johan
name: Thuen, Frode
name: Samdal, Gro Beate
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Cardiology

description: Additional file 1.
DYNAMICS AND UNCERTAINTY IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT UNDER SCARCITY: THE CASE OF IRRIGATION
Creators: name: Bontemps, Christophe
name: Couture, Stephane
name: Bontemps, Christophe
name: Couture, Stephane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: dynamic optimization
subject: irrigation management
subject: agroeconomic modeling
subject: uncertainty

description: The objective of this paper is to study the problem of management of irrigation water. We analyse farmers' economic rules of tactical irrigation scheduling in a certain or uncertain environment under water scarcity. The optimal plans depend on uncertain weather conditions and expectations. We develop a dynamic economic model of irrigation water applications under certain or uncertain weather conditions and in the context of a limited total quantity of water. We program this economic model, introducing the agronomic model EPIC, which is used to obtain information on the crop yield. The model is used to explain the optimal irrigation management plan of corn in the area of Toulouse (France). This model improves water management and leads to substantial reduction of water consumed. As an of the applications recommended by agronomists.
Dynamics of Quark-Gluon-Plasma Instabilities in Discretized Hard-Loop Approximation
Creators: name: Rebhan, Anton
name: Romatschke, Paul
name: Strickland, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-Abelian plasma instabilities have been proposed as a possible explanation for fast isotropization of the quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We study the real-time evolution of these instabilities in non-Abelian plasmas with a momentum-space anisotropy using a hard-loop effective theory that is discretized in the velocities of hard particles. We extend our previous results on the evolution of the most unstable modes, which are constant in directions transverse to the direction of anisotropy, from gauge group SU(2) to SU(3). We also present first full 3+1-dimensional simulation results based on velocity-discretized hard loops. In contrast to the effectively 1+1-dimensional transversely constant modes we find subexponential behaviour at late times.
description: 30 pages, 16 figures. v3 typos fixed
INTEGRATED CROP AND LIVESTOCK RISK MODELING
Creators: name: Tembo, Gelson
name: Kaitibie, Simeon
name: Epplin, Francis M.
name: Tembo, Gelson
name: Kaitibie, Simeon
name: Epplin, Francis M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Production Economics
Risk and Uncertainty

description: This study was conducted to determine risk efficient production strategies for crop and livestock producers who have the opportunity to produce wheat as a dual-purpose forage and grain crop. Empirical data obtained from field trials were incorporated into an integrated crop and livestock production and marketing risk programming model.
PREDICTING FEEDING COST OF GAIN WITH MORE PRECISION
Creators: name: Jones, Rodney D.
name: Kastens, Terry L.
name: Jones, Rodney D.
name: Kastens, Terry L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Cattle-Feeding
subject: Feeding-Cost-Of-Gain

description: Costs during the feeding period, commonly summarized as "feeding cost of gain", are primary determinants of cattle feeding profits. This study provides a method of generalizing information available at placement time into a suitable feeding cost of gain prediction, so that feeders and ranchers can make more informed placement decisions.
Intracellular inhibition of immune dysfunction induced by HIV-I NEF protein
Creators: name: Chang, Alex Hongsheng
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Current 'cocktail-therapy' toward HIV-1 infection using reverse transcriptase and protease inhibitors have been successful in controlling the viral growth, but not very effective in eradicating the reservoir of HIV-1 infected cells. It is a new challenge for H IV therapy to find ways to remove the virus reservoir that is composed of latently infected CD4+ T cells carrying integrated provirus. A potential new therapeutic target is Nef, a HIV-1 viral protein that downregulates class I M H C and by doing so it enables infected cells to elude killing by cytotoxic T lymphocytes. In this thesis research, intracellular inhibition of Nef-mediated downregulation of CD4 and MHC-1 molecules was studied using recombinant single-chain antibodies (ScFvs) and a dominant-negative Hck. Several anti-Nef single-chain antibodies were first constructed. A l l retained the binding activity of their corresponding parental monoclonal antibodies when expressed intracellularly. However, ScFv expression was unable to inhibit CD4 or MHC-1 downregulation induced by Nef. This indicated that the intracellular binding of ScFv with Nef and the following Nef sequestration may not be sufficient to prevent the receptor downregulation events induced by Nef. The expression of molecules capable of binding to epitopes in Nef, that are implicated specifically in receptor modulation, may be required for these effects. A dominant-negative form of Hck protein-tyrosine kinase, DN-Hck, composed of the Hck amino terminal region and its SH3 and SH2 domains, was then studied as a potential candidate for preventing MHC-1 downregulation; it is known that the Hck SH3 domain binds Nef with a very high affinity (Kd=0.25 uM). In addition, the SH3-binding motif in Nef, PXXP78 is also a major determinant in downregulation of MHC-1. It was demonstrated that DN-Hck was able to block Nef-induced downregulation of class I M H C surface expression in human cells. This effect required a functional SH3 domain, as it was not evident in cells that expressed DN-Hck-W93F, an SH3 domain mutation that results in diminished binding affinity for Nef. The results in this thesis research thus support a model that DN-Hck prevents Nef-induced class I downregulation by blocking the interaction between Nef and an as yet unidentified SH3- containing cellular protein that is capable of coupling Nef to the MHC-1 molecule. Upon binding with Nef, this cellular protein might recruit class I M H C molecules via a specific interaction with their cytoplasmic motifs, which in turn routes these molecules towards an intracellular degradation pathway. The SH3- binding region of Nef therefore represents a new target for therapeutic intervention in individuals infected with HIV-1.
PERCEPTIONS OF RISKS AND RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; AN ANALYSIS OF DUTCH LIVESTOCK FARMERS
Creators: name: Meuwissen, Miranda P.M.
name: Huirne, Ruud B.M.
name: Hardaker, J. Brian
name: Meuwissen, Miranda P.M.
name: Huirne, Ruud B.M.
name: Hardaker, J. Brian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: perception
subject: sources of risk
subject: risk management strategies
subject: attitude towards risk
subject: questionnaire survey
subject: livestock farming
subject: The Netherlands

description: The risk environment of farmers is changing and new risk management strategies are being introduced. Beal (1996) stated that risk management strategies adopted by farmers will be in accordance with their personal preferences for risk. In this context it would be useful for developers and sellers of new risk management strategies to have insight into farmers' preferences for risk. This paper studies to what extent such preferences are farmer-specific or whether general relationships exist. By means of a large questionnaire survey among 2700 livestock farmers in the Netherlands we gathered data on four groups of variables, i.e. socioeconomic characteristics of the farm, farmers' attitudes towards risk, their perceptions of sources of risk, and their perceptions of risk management strategies. Various techniques of multivariate data analyses have been used to analyse the relationships between these groups of variables. Many significant relationships were found (although not to a great extent for attitudes towards risk). However, we are cautious in recommending that new risk management strategies need to be fully fine-tuned to aspects analysed in this study. Low values of the adjusted R-squared indicate that there are still other (possibly even more personal) aspects that determine the final perception of a farmer of a risk management instrument. In addition, results of this study reflect farmers' perceptions of risk management strategies, which is not necessarily the same as the extent to which they would actually use such strategies.
Integrated Arbitrary Filter with Spiral Gratings: Design and Characterization
Creators: name: Hu, Yi-Wen
name: Xie, Shengjie
name: Zhan, Jiahao
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Veilleux, Sylvain
name: Dagenais, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the design and characterization of a high performance integrated arbitrary filter from 1450 nm to 1640 nm. The filter's target spectrum is chosen to suppress the night-sky OH emission lines, which is critical for ground-based astronomical telescopes. This type of filter is featured by its large spectral range, high rejection ratio and narrow notch width. Traditionally it is only successfully accomplished with fiber Bragg gratings. The technique we demonstrate here is proven to be very efficient for on-chip platforms, which can bring many benefits for device footprint, performance and cost. For the design part, two inverse scattering algorithms are compared, the frequency domain discrete layer-peeling (f-DLP) and the time domain discrete layer-peeling (t-DLP). f-DLP is found to be superior for the grating reconstruction in terms of accuracy and robustness. A method is proposed to resolve the non-uniformity issue caused by the non-zero layer size in the DLP algorithm. The designed 55-notch filter is 50-mm-long and implemented on a compact Si3N4/SiO2 spiral waveguide with a total length of 63 mm. Experimentally, we demonstrate that the device has a insertion loss as low as 2.5 dB, and that the waveguide propagation loss is as low as 0.10 dB/cm. We are also able to achieve uniform notch depths and 3-dB widths of about 28 dB and 0.22 nm, respectively.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of Lightwave Technology
THE SOURCE OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE IN THE BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY: A REAL OPTIONS APPROACH
Creators: name: Lavoie, Brian F.
name: Sheldon, Ian M.
name: Lavoie, Brian F.
name: Sheldon, Ian M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Comparative advantage
subject: biotechnology
subject: real options

description: Sources of heterogeneity within the process of R&D investment, such as international differences in the maximum per-period rate of investment and level of regulatory uncertainty, offer a plausible explanation for US comparative advantage in biotechnology. Using dynamic stochastic simulation, the results presented in this paper suggest US biotechnology firms may initiate more R&D projects, innovate earlier and more rapidly, persevere longer in the face of mounting R&D costs, and successfully complete more R&D projects than European firms.
Seasonal watershed-scale influences on nitrogen concentrations across the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Creators: name: Wine, Michael L.
name: Makhnin, Oleg
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: In the Upper Mississippi River Basin, after spring fertilizer application, total nitrogen concentration [TN] in streams drops by ~73% from June to September consistent with effects of seasonal nutrient loading. We hypothesized this seasonal variability might be affected by land cover (e.g., wetland, cultivated area extent). To test this hypothesis, we adopted a linear mixed effects modeling approach including periodic functions. However, inclusion of wetland area was not indicated, suggesting that increased model complexity associated with inclusion of contemporary wetland extent was unjustified. While consideration of cultivated extent in relation to mean annual [TN] was shown to improve performance, no evidence was observed that cultivated extent could enhance explanation of intra-annual [TN]. Improved understanding of cause and effect will require improved spatiotemporal data on Nitrogen sources and additional critical field experimentation, which in turn is expected to set the stage for advancement in physically- or process-based modeling of nutrient concentrations.
DOUBLE DIVIDEND WITH TRADE DISTORTIONS: ANALYTICAL RESULTS AND EVIDENCE FROM CHILE
Creators: name: Beghin, John C.
name: Dessus, Sebastien
name: Beghin, John C.
name: Dessus, Sebastien
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Double dividend
subject: trade and environment
subject: piecemeal reform
subject: policy coordination

description: This paper contributes to the double dividend debate with a formal analysis and some numerical evidence emphasizing trade and environmental distortions with a substitution of environmental taxes for trade distortions. We derive existence conditions and we empirically explore the trade/environment double dividend with an applied general equilibrium model of Chile.
Additional file 1 of Whole genome comparisons reveal panmixia among fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) from diverse locations
Creators: name: Schlum, Katrina A.
name: Lamour, Kurt
name: Bortoli, Caroline Placidi De
name: Banerjee, Rahul
name: Meagher, Robert
name: Pereira, Eliseu
name: Murua, Maria Gabriela
name: Sword, Gregory A.
name: Tessnow, Ashley E.
name: Dillon, Diego Viteri
name: Ramirez, Angela M. Linares
name: Komivi S. Akutse
name: Schmidt-Jeffris, Rebecca
name: Fangneng Huang
name: Reisig, Dominic
name: Emrich, Scott J.
name: Jurat-Fuentes, Juan Luis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Describing details of samples analyzed, and Table 2 showing Mash distances based on country. Supplementary Figure S1. Showing clustering based on Mash distances, Figure S2 showing amplification of Wolbachia in selected samples, Figure S3 showing the amplified sequences in Fig. S2, and Figure S4 showing the geographic locations sampled.
Synthesis, characterization, antibacterial activity and molecular docking studies on triazolophanes with benzophenone and S(-)-BINOL functionalization at the intra annular position
Creators: name: Saravanan, Velautham
name: Perumal Rajakumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Triazolophanes with benzophenone and S(-)-BINOL functionalization at the intra annular position have been synthesized by the click reaction of 4,4′-bis(azidomethyl) benzophenone with the corresponding bispropargyloxy compounds. The newly synthesized triazolophanes were characterized by spectral and analytical methods. Triazolophane with S(-)-BINOL and benzophenone functionality at the intra annular position shows good target binding ability in molecular docking studies and also better antibacterial activity against all the four tested pathogens viz. Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Salmonella typhimurium, and Escherichia coli bacteria.
Pseudo-scalar Higgs production at next-to-leading order SUSY-QCD
Creators: name: Harlander, Robert V.
name: Hofmann, Franziska
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The production rate of the CP-odd Higgs boson in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model is evaluated through next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant. The divergent integrals are regulated using Dimensional Reduction, with a straightforward implementation of $γ_5$. The result is confirmed within Dimensional Regularization where $γ_5$ is implemented according to the Standard Model calculation of Chetyrkin et al. The well-known Standard Model result is recovered if the masses of the supersymmetric particles tend to infinity.
description: Latex, 17 pages, 11 figures (23 ps-files). Various changes. Version accepted for publication in JHEP
Assessing water system vulnerabilities under changing climate conditions using different representations of a hydrologic system
Creators: name: Sharifinejad, Ali
name: Hassanzadeh, Elmira
name: Zaerpour, Masoud
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Changes in climate are altering the historical characteristics of the streamflow regime and affecting the performance of water systems. Here, the role of representing natural streamflow conditions on quantification of water system vulnerability under changing climate is evaluated in the Oldman River Basin, Canada. Four hydrological models are developed using point- and grid-based climate data and considering lumped and semi-distributed representations of the watershed. These hydrological models are then coupled with a reservoir water allocation model. Using an ensemble of climate model projections fed into these integrated models, changes in the water system’s behavior are evaluated. Although intensified and earlier peak flows and more critical water deficits are projected, the estimated risks of failure strongly depend on the considered hydrological model configuration. The divergence among models’ projections for water deficit can be as high as 300%. Therefore, usage of all configurations is recommended to revise the reservoir operational policies.
Stellar model atmospheres with magnetic line blanketing. II. Introduction of polarized radiative transfer
Creators: name: Khan, S. A.
name: Shulyak, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The technique of model atmosphere calculation for magnetic Ap and Bp stars with polarized radiative transfer and magnetic line blanketing is presented. A grid of model atmospheres of A and B stars are computed. These calculations are based on direct treatment of the opacities due to the bound-bound transitions that ensures an accurate and detailed description of the line absorption and anomalous Zeeman splitting. The set of model atmospheres was calculated for the field strengths between 1 and 40 kG. The high-resolution energy distribution, photometric colors and the hydrogen Balmer line profiles are computed for magnetic stars with different metallicities and are compared to those of non-magnetic reference models and to the previous paper of this series. The results of modelling confirmed the main outcomes of the previous study: energy redistribution from UV to the visual region and flux depression at 5200A. However, we found that effects of enhanced line blanketing when transfer for polarized radiation takes place are smaller in comparison to those obtained in our first paper where polarized radiative transfer was neglected. Also we found that the peculiar photometric parameter delta_a is not able to clearly distinguish stellar atmospheres with abundances other than solar, and is less sensitive than delta(V_1-G) or Z to a magnetic field for low effective temperature (Teff=8000K). Moreover we found that the back determination of the fundamental stellar atmosphere parameters using synthetic Stromgren photometry does not result in significant errors.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures. The final version, Sect. 3.4 revised, typos and mistakes corrected
SPATIAL BEHAVIOR OF RENEWABLE RESOURCE HARVESTERS: THE CALIFORNIA SEA URCHIN FISHERY
Creators: name: Smith, Martin D.
name: Wilen, James E.
name: Smith, Martin D.
name: Wilen, James E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This paper analyzes spatial patterns of exploitation in the California sea urchin fishery. A Random Utility Model of urchin diver participation and location choice yields a conditional logit specification. Results demonstrate that diver attributes, location-specific features, and characteristics of individual days are important determinants of harvester choices.
Evolution of a Network of Vortex Loops in HeII. Exact Solution of the "Rate Equation"
Creators: name: Nemirovskii, Sergey K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evolution of a network of vortex loops in HeII due to the fusion and breakdown of vortex loops is studied. We perform investigation on the base of the ''rate equation'' for the distribution function $n(l)$ of number of loops of length $l$ proposed by Copeland with coauthors. By using the special ansatz in the ''collision'' integral we have found the exact power-like solution of ''kinetic equation'' in stationary case. That solution is the famous equilibrium distribution $n(l)\varpropto l^{-5/2}$ obtained earlier in numerical calculations. Our result, however, is not equilibrium, but on the contrary, it describes the state with two mutual fluxes of the length (or energy) in space of the vortex loop sizes. Analyzing this solution we drew several results on the structure and dynamics of the vortex tangle in the superfluid turbulent helium. In particular, we obtained that the mean radius of the curvature is of order of interline space. We also obtain that the decay of the vortex tangle obeys the Vinen equation, obtained earlier phenomenologically. We evaluate also the full rate of reconnection events. PACS-number 67.40
description: 4 pages, submitted to PRL
A CONJOINT ANALYSIS OF WATERFOWL HUNTING IN LOUISIANA
Creators: name: Gan, Christopher E.C.
name: Luzar, E. Jane
name: Gan, Christopher E.C.
name: Luzar, E. Jane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Conjoint analysis
subject: Recreation demand
subject: Waterfowl hunting
subject: Valuation

description: Conjoint analysis, widely used in marketing research, offers an alternative resource valuation approach suited to outdoor recreation activities characterized as multiattribute. Design, implementation, and interpretation of conjoint analysis are reviewed in the context of recreation applications. Conjoint analysis is used in an analysis of waterfowl hunting in Louisiana. Using primary data collected from a survey of waterfowl hunters, ordered logit is used to estimate willingness-to-pay for recreation experience attributes.
Additional file 1 of The key components of a successful model of midwifery-led continuity of carer, without continuity at birth: findings from a qualitative implementation evaluation
Creators: name: Dharni, N.
name: H. Essex
name: M. J. Bryant
name: A. Cronin De Chavez
name: K. Willan
name: D. Farrar
name: T. Bywater
name: J. Dickerson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
MICE: The International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment
Creators: name: Kaplan, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ionization cooling of a muon beam is a key technique for a Neutrino Factory or Muon Collider. An international collaboration is mounting an experiment to demonstrate muon ionization cooling at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. We aim to complete the experiment by 2010.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to the Proceedings of the COOL05 Workshop, Galena, IL, USA Sept. 18-23, 2005
Additional file 3 of The key components of a successful model of midwifery-led continuity of carer, without continuity at birth: findings from a qualitative implementation evaluation
Creators: name: Dharni, N.
name: H. Essex
name: M. J. Bryant
name: A. Cronin De Chavez
name: K. Willan
name: D. Farrar
name: T. Bywater
name: J. Dickerson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3.
Synthesis and studies of flavone and bis-flavone derivatives
Creators: name: Durgapal, Sunil Dutt
name: Shubhangi S. Soman
name: Umar, Shweta
name: Balakrishnan, Suresh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Flavonoids are widely occurring polyphenols of plant origin and well explored in the field of pharmacological activities. Recent studies showed this scaffold to be more dynamic as fluorescent probe. Very rare reports are there in literature on flavones as liquid crystals, for the first time we have synthesized and characterized flavone and bis-flavone derivatives for mesomorphic properties. Compounds 9a–d and 13a–d were studied for liquid crystalline properties by Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and Polarizing optical microscopy (POM) studies. The compounds 8, 9a–d, 12, and 13a–d were also studied for antioxidant property by DPPH assay. We have synthesized new n-alkoxy flavone and Bis-flavone derivatives for liquid crystalline properties. The compounds were characterized by using different spectral techniques, all synthesized compounds did not show mesophase which was confirmed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and polarizing optical microscopy (POM) study. POM image of compound 9c in heating (a) shows direct melting (92.2°C) of compound and cooling (b) goes to crystallization (65.8°C) with no phase. Flavone derivatives are well reported to show broad pharmacological applications, we have also tested compounds for antioxidant properties by DPPH assay.
ESTIMATED COSTS AND RETURNS FOR CATFISH FARMS WITH RECIRCULATING PONDS ALONG THE UPPER TEXAS COAST
Creators: name: Lambregts, Johannes Adrianus
name: Griffin, Wade L.
name: Lacewell, Ronald D.
name: Davis, James T.
name: Clary, Gregory M.
name: Lambregts, Johannes Adrianus
name: Griffin, Wade L.
name: Lacewell, Ronald D.
name: Davis, James T.
name: Clary, Gregory M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Aquaculture
subject: Catfish
subject: Economics
subject: Off-flavor

description: Cost, returns, and economies of scale for small, medium and large catfish farms with recirculating ponds are presented for the upper Texas coast. Internal rates of return are 0.150, 0.183 and 0.219, respectively. Total investment is higher than farms with static ponds but investment per unit production capacity is 7 percent to 16 percent lower. Average total cost per pound is between $0.565 and $0.541, (11 percent - 20 percent lower than farms using current technology). These results have implications for regional comparative advantage of catfish production as well as incentive for adoption of new technology in conventional ponds.
MULTIDIMENSIONAL EVALUATION OF FLEXIBLE FUNCTIONAL FORMS FOR PRODUCTION ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Ornelas, Fermin S.
name: Shumway, C. Richard
name: Ornelas, Fermin S.
name: Shumway, C. Richard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Box-Cox
subject: Functional form
subject: Prediction
subject: Production
subject: Statistical performance

description: Several common flexible functional forms are evaluated for Texas agricultural production utilizing three procedures. Nested hypothesis tests indicate that the normalized quadratic is the marginally-preferred functional form followed by the generalized Leontief. Predictive accuracy results are ambiguous between the generalized Leontief and the normalized quadratic. Statistical performance favors the normalized quadratic. These two functional forms consistently dominate the translog.
Quantum breathers in a nonlinear Klein Gordon lattice
Creators: name: Proville, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum modes of a nonlinear Klein Gordon lattice have been computed numerically [L. Proville, Phys. Rev. B, vol. 71, 104306 (2005)]. The on-site nonlinearity has been found to lead to a phonon pairing and consequently some phonon bound states. In the present paper, the time dependent Wannier transform of these states is shown to exhibit a breather-like behavior, i.e., it is spatially localized and time-periodic. The typical time the lattice may sustain such breather states is studied as a function of the trapped energy and the intersite lattice coupling.
ESTIMATING INSECTICIDE APPLICATION FREQUENCIES: A COMPARISON OF GEOMETRIC AND OTHER COUNT DATA MODELS
Creators: name: Hubbell, Bryan J.
name: Hubbell, Bryan J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Apples
subject: Count data
subject: Geometric
subject: Insect control
subject: Pesticides

description: The number of insecticide applications made by an apple grower to control an insect infestation is modeled as a geometric random variable. Insecticide efficacy, rate per application, month of treatment, and method of application all have significant impacts on the expected number of applications. The number of applications to control a given insect population is dependent on the probability of achieving successful control with a given application. Results suggest that northeastern growers have the highest and mid-Atlantic growers the lowest probability of controlling an infestation with a given application. Results also indicate that scales require the least and moths the most number of applications. Growers are not responsive to per unit insecticide prices, but respond negatively to insecticide toxicity, supporting findings from previous pesticide demand analyses.
PRODUCTION CONTRACTS, RISK SHIFTING, AND RELATIVE PERFORMANCE PAYMENTS IN THE PORK INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Martin, Laura L.
name: Martin, Laura L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Absolute performance payment
subject: Income variability
subject: Pork industry
subject: Production contracts
subject: Relative performance payment
subject: Risk shifting

description: Actual performance records of production contract farmers are used to assess the extent to which contract production reduces the risk borne by pork producers. Comparisons of contracting relative to independent market production reveal that farmers who enter into production contracts based on absolute performance measures reduce risks associated with variable income. Weak evidence is found that relative performance contracts, similar to those used in the broiler chicken industry, further reduce income variability. The effectiveness of such relative performance contracts will rely on several factors; among these are increased contract production and a more uniform pork production and processing system.
The Fermion Self-Energy during Inflation
Creators: name: Miao, Shun-Pei
name: Woodard, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the one loop fermion self-energy for massless Dirac + Einstein in the presence of a locally de Sitter background. We employ dimensional regularization and obtain a fully renormalized result by absorbing all divergences with BPHZ counterterms. An interesting technical aspect of this computation is the need for a noninvariant counterterm owing to the breaking of de Sitter invariance by our gauge condition. Our result can be used in the quantum-corrected Dirac equation to search for inflation-enhanced quantum effects from gravitons, analogous to those which have been found for massless, minimally coupled scalars.
description: 63 pages, 3 figures (uses axodraw.sty), LaTeX 2epsilon. Revised version (to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity) corrects some typoes and contains some new references
Design and synthesis of new thiazoles by microwave-assisted method: Evaluation as an anti-breast cancer agents and molecular docking studies
Creators: name: Srikanth Mamidala
name: V. Sushma Mudigunda
name: Peddi, Sudhir Reddy
name: Bokara, Kiran Kumar
name: Vijjulatha Manga
name: Rajeswar Rao Vedula
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: A series of novel thiazole analogues were designed and synthesized by the microwave-assisted multicomponent reaction of thiocarbohydrazide, aldehydes with substituted phenacyl bromides. Structures of all the synthesized compounds were in good agreement with their spectral (1H and 13C NMR, FTIR, Mass) and analytical data. The target thiazole compounds were screened for their in vitro cytotoxic activity by testing against MCF-7, MDA-MB-231/ATCC, HS 578 T, BT-549, T-47D and MDA-MB-468 Breast cancer cell lines. From the in vitro results, it was found that the compound 4b has potent activity against MDA-MB-231/ATCC cell line. Docking studies were also done on these compounds to probe the possible binding site interactions which corroborated well with the in vitro results.
DEMAND AND COMPETITION AMONG SUPPLY SOURCES: THE INDONESIAN FRUIT IMPORT MARKET
Creators: name: Andayani, Sri R.M.
name: Tilley, Daniel S.
name: Andayani, Sri R.M.
name: Tilley, Daniel S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: AIDS model
subject: Fruit
subject: Import demand
subject: Indonesia
subject: Source-differentiated demand

description: Indonesia is a rapidly growing and competitive market for U.S. fruit. A restricted, source-differentiated, almost ideal demand system is estimated for apples, oranges, grapes, and other fruit in Indonesia. The Marshallian expenditure elasticities for U.S. fruit are estimated to be between 1.01 and 1.21. For grapes and oranges, competition with other fruits appears to be more important that competition with other supply sources. For apples, strong source-differentiated substitution relationships are found.