cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Markov random field-based approach to characterizing human brain development using spatial-temporal transcriptome data
Creators: name: Lin, Zhixiang
name: Sanders, Stephan J.
name: Li, Mingfeng
name: Sestan, Nenad
name: State, Matthew W.
name: Zhao, Hongyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human neurodevelopment is a highly regulated biological process. In this article, we study the dynamic changes of neurodevelopment through the analysis of human brain microarray data, sampled from 16 brain regions in 15 time periods of neurodevelopment. We develop a two-step inferential procedure to identify expressed and unexpressed genes and to detect differentially expressed genes between adjacent time periods. Markov Random Field (MRF) models are used to efficiently utilize the information embedded in brain region similarity and temporal dependency in our approach. We develop and implement a Monte Carlo expectation-maximization (MCEM) algorithm to estimate the model parameters. Simulation studies suggest that our approach achieves lower misclassification error and potential gain in power compared with models not incorporating spatial similarity and temporal dependency.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AOAS802 in the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Horizontal Price Transmission in Agricultural Markets: Fundamental Concepts and Open Empirical Issues
Creators: name: Listorti, Giulia
name: Esposti, Roberto
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2012

description: Following the dramatic changes experienced by the prices of agricultural commodities in 2007-2008, the analysis of horizontal price transmission mechanisms in agricultural markets has attracted renewed interest. In particular, this has led to the emergence of new challenges for the empirical analysis. How to model the increasing volatility and non linear behaviour of prices, to assess the impact of the policy responses to market turbulence, and how to account for the increasing interconnections between agricultural and non-agricultural commodity markets are amongst the most investigated issues. Building on a common analytical framework, this paper discusses and reviews the most recent methodological developments and empirical contributions in the field.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 1 No 1 (2012)
Lasioglossum minutissimum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum minutissimum

description: Lasioglossum minutissimum (Kirby, 1802)
 8.VI.2004, remblais, Brassicaceae, 4♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Multiple Sexually Transmitted Infections among Women: Risks of Additional Infections, Correlates and Implications for Prevention and Treatment
Creators: name: Sanusi, Ayodeji
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Background: Globally, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in women are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Challenges to prevention and control of STIs remain their asymptomatic nature, poor screening and treatment algorithms and poor access to screening and treatment services, especially in developing countries. While associations between most pairs of STIs are established, few studies have examined the clustering of more than two STIs in women, despite the implications for prevention and treatment. Methods: This study uses baseline data from 350 female sex workers in Korogocho, Kenya, collected between 2009 and 2011, to examine the clustering of more than two STIs among chlamydia, gonorrhea, HIV, human papillomavirus, mycoplasma and trichomoniasis, and the correlates of multiple STIs. The secondary objective of this study is to highlight the utility of propensity scores and machine learning methods (boosted classification and regression trees and covariate balancing propensity scores) in estimating treatment effects from data with rare outcomes in maternal and child health research. Results: Having more than two concurrent STIs is relatively uncommon. Although HIV and human papillomavirus infection was initially significantly associated with trichomoniasis co-infection, this association became insignificant after balancing on the propensity score. This effect was homogenous irrespective of the method of propensity score estimation and application. There were no demographic or behavioral correlates of having multiple concurrent STIs, although the number of daily sex partners nearly reached statistical significance. Summary: Multiple concurrent STIs are uncommon and HIV, HPV and trichomoniasis do not seem to cluster. Larger cross-sectional sample should be used to revalidate these findings and examine the associations between other STIs. Estimating treatment effects from data with rare outcomes and multiple confounders remain challenging, particularly when cross-sectional studies are the only ethical means available to conduct such studies. This is an area of maternal and child health research where propensity score analysis can help reduce bias in study results.
From Agricultural to Bio-based Economics? Context, State of the Art and Challenges
Creators: name: Viaggi, Davide
name: Mantino, Francesco
name: Mazzocchi, Mario
name: Moro, Daniele
name: Stefani, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2012

description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 1 No 1 (2012)
Lasioglossum morio
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum morio

description: Lasioglossum morio (Fabricius, 1793)
 15.IV.2003, prairie, Taraxacum sp., 1♀; 15.IV.2003, pied haie, Glechoma hederacea, 2♀; 8.VI.2004, remblais, Brassicaceae, 1♀; 22.IV.2005, talus argileux, 2♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Odd-parity superconductivity in the vicinity of inversion symmetry breaking in spin-orbit-coupled systems
Creators: name: Kozii, Vladyslav
name: Fu, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study superconductivity in spin-orbit-coupled systems in the vicinity of inversion symmetry breaking. We find that due to the presence of spin-orbit coupling, fluctuations of the incipient parity-breaking order generate an attractive pairing interaction in an odd-parity pairing channel, which competes with the s-wave pairing. We show that applying a Zeeman field suppresses the s-wave pairing and promotes the odd-parity superconducting state. Our work provides a new mechanism for odd-parity pairing and opens a route to novel topological superconductivity.
description: 5 pages, 4 pages of supplemental materials
Virtual reality use for acute pain and anxiety management for paediatrics with a neurological condition: a mixed methods scoping review
Creators: name: Orabella, Emily
name: Hill, Rebekah
name: Mosley, Chiara
name: Gough, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physiotherapy
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Education
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Neurological
subject: Neurorehabilitation
subject: Paediatric
subject: Pediatric
subject: Rehabilitation
subject: Virtual reality
subject: VR

description: The purpose of this scoping review is to explore the most current literature that examines the use of virtual reality gaming and exergaming-based interventions for acute pain and anxiety during paediatric neurological rehabilitation. Additionally, this review aims to identify the challenges and barriers associated with the inclusion of virtual reality in healthcare, and to provide further direction and recommendations toward future research
Modelling the adoption of automatic milking systems in Noord-Holland
Creators: name: Floridi, Matteo
name: Bartolini, Fabio
name: Peerlings, Jack
name: Polman, Nico
name: Viaggi, Davide
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2013

description: Innovation and new technology adoption represent two central elements for the business and industry development process in agriculture. One of the most relevant innovations in dairy farms is the robotisation of the milking process through the adoption of Automatic Milking Systems (AMS). The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of selected Common Agricultural Policy measures on the adoption of AMS in dairy farms. The model developed is a dynamic farm-household model that is able to simulate the adoption of AMS taking into account the allocation of productive factors between on-farm and off-farm activities. The model simulates the decision to replace a traditional milking system with AMS using a Real Options approach that allows farmers to choose the optimal timing of investments. Results show that the adoption of AMS, and the timing of such a decision, is strongly affected by policy uncertainty and market conditions. The effect of this uncertainty is to postpone the decision to adopt the new technology until farmers have gathered enough information to reduce the negative effects of the technological lock-in. AMS adoption results in an increase in farm size and herd size due to the reduction in the labour required for milking operations.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 2 No 1 (2013): Agricultural policy and the wider policy context: evaluation issues, practices and tools
Collective Modes in the Superfluid Inner Crust of Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Urban, Michael
name: Oertel, Micaela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The neutron-star inner crust is assumed to be superfluid at relevant temperatures. The contribution of neutron quasiparticles to thermodynamic and transport properties of the crust is therefore strongly suppressed by the pairing gap. Nevertheless, the neutron gas still has low-energy excitations, namely long-wavelength collective modes. We summarize different approaches to describe the collective modes in the crystalline phases of the inner crust and present an improved model for the description of the collective modes in the pasta phases within superfluid hydrodynamics.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures
Effective practice and performance preparation interventions for tertiary music students: a systematic review (Version 2)
Creators: name: Suzuki, Akiho
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Music
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: music practice
subject: systematic review

description: This registration is an amendment to the following systematic review protocol: Suzuki, A. (2021, October 26). Effective practice and performance preparation interventions for tertiary music students: a systematic review. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/FT36H
Greenhouse gases mitigation policies in the agriculture of Aragon, Spain
Creators: name: Kahil, Mohamed Taher
name: Albiac, José
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2013

description: Climate change is an important threat to human society. Agriculture is a source of greenhouse gases (GHG), but it also provides alternatives to confront climate change. The expansion of intensive agriculture around the world during recent decades has generated significant environmental damages from pollution emissions. The spatial distribution of emissions is important for the design of local abatement measures. This study makes an assessment of GHG emissions in an intensive agricultural area of Aragon (Spain), and then an economic optimization model is developed to analyze several GHG mitigation measures. The results indicate that adequate management of manure, emissions limits, and animal production restrictions are appropriate measures to abate pollution. Economic instruments such as input and emission taxes could be only ancillary measures to address nonpoint pollution problems. Suitable pollution abatement policies should be based on institutional instruments adapted to local conditions, and involve the cooperation of stakeholders.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 2 No 1 (2013): Agricultural policy and the wider policy context: evaluation issues, practices and tools
Lasioglossum nitidiusculum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum nitidiusculum

description: Lasioglossum nitidiusculum (Kirby, 1802)
 22.IV.2005, Taraxacum sp., 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
The Influence of Cash Conditional Programs on Neonatal Outcomes: Estimating the Impact of the JSY on Birth Asphyxia Mortality in India
Creators: name: Hairgrove Moran, Katelin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Birth asphyxia is a leading cause of neonatal mortality in India. Through conditional cash programs, such as the JSY, facility births are being incentivized in efforts to decrease neonatal mortality. We created a model through MANDATE to estimate how many neonatal lives would be saved if facility births were scaled up throughout India.
Exploring the characteristics of innovation alliances of Dutch Biotechnology SMEs and their policy implications
Creators: name: Garbade, Philipp
name: Omta, Simon
name: Fortuin, Francisca
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2013

description: Policy makers are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that R&D intensive SMEs play a pivotal role in providing sustainable economic growth by maintaining a high rate of innovation. To compensate for their financial vulnerability, these SMEs increasingly conduct innovation in alliances. This paper aims to explore the impact of different alliance characteristics on the performance of Dutch biotechnology SMEs. The conceptual model was tested using a sample of 18 biotech SMEs reporting about 40 alliances. The main findings indicate that alliance performance is positively related to the level of complementarity, the cognitive distance and tacit knowledge transfer by the human resources exchanges. Policy makers are recommended to support innovation alliances by providing the infrastructure in which alliances can flourish, e.g. through stimulating the foundation of cluster organizations that can function as innovation brokers. These cluster organizations can provide network formation, demand articulation, internationalization and innovation process support to their member companies and can act as a go-between among alliance partners. As part of the innovation process support activities, they can organize special workshops for biotech SMEs on how to successfully behave in an innovation alliance.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 2 No 1 (2013): Agricultural policy and the wider policy context: evaluation issues, practices and tools
title: Design of a new fluorogenic molecular probe of lipases that will be specific for monoacylglycerol lipase
Creators: name: Ajaezu, Judith Chikwadoro
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
Year: 2023

description: Homeostatic imbalances in enzyme activities have been linked to an array of human pathological conditions. Evidence exists for the role of monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) in the development and progression of malignant forms of cancers, including breast, prostate, melanoma and ovarian, as well as tuberculosis, Alzheimer’s, and other forms of neurological disorders. There is great need to develop improved sensing methods for the determination of activity of lipases, including MAGL, to probe mechanisms of disease development and progression. This research successfully developed two rhodamine B-based FRET (Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer) molecular probes (JA4 and JA7) targeted at lipases. The probes were achieved by a convergent synthesis in which a novel piperazine-linked rhodamine fluorophore (as donor) and an aminoanthraquinone ‘black-hole’ acceptor (as quencher) were coupled via a key ester bond destined to be the site of cleavage (activation) by lipase hydrolytic action. All new target compounds and intermediates were characterized by high resolution electrospray (+) mass spectrometry. The structures of the target compounds JA1 (fluorophore), JA4 (probe 1) and JA7 (probe 2) were confirmed by NMR spectroscopy. Novel substrate FRET probes, JA4 and JA7 were demonstrated to be smart probes in which rhodamine fluorescence was completely quenched until activated by lipase(s) as demonstrated by the efficient restoration of rhodamine fluorescence emission upon incubation with probes JA4 and JA7 by UV fluorescence spectroscopy experiments. The identities of the PPL-induced cleavage products of JA4, i.e., JA1 and JA3, were determined by HPLC using UV/Visible detection; this was possible because standards of JA1 and JA3 were already available by synthesis (and their structures determined, originally by mass spectrometry and latterly by NMR spectroscopy). Efficient restoration of intense rhodamine fluorescence upon incubation of the probes with porcine pancreatic lipase (PPL) enzyme, as a model for human lipases, served as a proof of concept that the probes could be activated by lipase action. The probes have potential to determine over-expressed lipase activity in human tissues ex vivo, without any interference from molecules of the biological matrix, to aid diagnosis, and monitor stage and progression of disease.
Lasioglossum nitidulum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum nitidulum

description: Lasioglossum nitidulum (Fabricius, 1804)
 8.VI.2004, remblais, Brassicaceae, 4♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Conflict adaptation and mouse tracking
Creators: name: Ye, Wenting
name: Damian, Markus
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Conflict adaptation
subject: Mouse tracking

description: Analysis files for manuscript: Ye, W., & Damian, M. F. Effects of conflict in cognitive control: evidence from mouse tracking
Connecting strongly correlated superfluids by a quantum point contact
Creators: name: Husmann, Dominik
name: Uchino, Shun
name: Krinner, Sebastian
name: Lebrat, Martin
name: Giamarchi, Thierry
name: Esslinger, Tilman
name: Brantut, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Point contacts provide simple connections between macroscopic particle reservoirs. In electric circuits, strong links between metals, semiconductors or superconductors have applications for fundamental condensed-matter physics as well as quantum information processing. However for complex, strongly correlated materials, links have been largely restricted to weak tunnel junctions. Here we study resonantly interacting Fermi gases connected by a tunable, ballistic quantum point contact, finding a non-linear current-bias relation. At low temperature, our observations agree quantitatively with a theoretical model in which the current originates from multiple Andreev reflections. In a wide contact geometry, the competition between superfluidity and thermally activated transport leads to a conductance minimum. Our system offers a controllable platform for the study of mesoscopic devices based on strongly interacting matter.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, 7 pages supplementary
Agnesia reticulata Yoo 1994, n.sp.
Creators: name: Yoo, E. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Paradoxosomatidae
Agnesia

description: Agnesia reticulata n.sp. [table omitted] PI. 8 figs 1-3 Description. Shell medium, trochiform, sinistral, moderately phaneromphalous. Protoconch coiling inward and hidden by later whorls, apex a funnel-like hole. Teleoconch conical with sunken top, whorl profile gently arched between sutures, rather deep, base gently convex, ornamentation of opisthocline collabra1 lirae and weaker spiral threads making small nodes in intersections. Selenizone relatively narrow; lower margin of selenizone on sutures with a narrower and deeper channel in the middle of the elevated selenizone; regularly spaced lunulae in the deeper channel and regularly spaced inclined streaks in outer selenizone. Aperture subcircular with inner lip thin, arcuate, deflected towards umbilicus; outer lip opisthocline from the upper suture, slit seemingly very narrow; parietal inductura lacking. [table omitted] Types. Holotype (F78406) and 3 paratypes (F78410, F78416). Type locality. Approximately 250 m west of Babbinboon Lane, in Swains Gully, 15 km south-west of Somerton, NSW (Locality 25). Stratigraphic position. In bioclastic limestone, 130 m above the base of the Namoi Formation. Geographic distribution. Type locality only. Geological age. Middle Tournaisian. Etymology. Referring to the network of obliquely intersecting linear ridges. Remarks. The shell consists of two distinct layers. Of interest is the mark of the deeper channel and the 1unulae remaining on the inner shell layer.
description: Published as part of Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 63-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18, http://zenodo.org/record/4654599
Lasioglossum pauxillum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum pauxillum

description: Lasioglossum pauxillum (Schenck, 1853)
 22.IV.2005, Taraxacum, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
title: Hans von Schulthess Rechberg, 1885-1951
title: Hans von Schulthess Rechberg (1885-1951)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1951
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Schulthess, Hans von
subject: Küsnacht (Kanton Zürich)

description: Enthält: Abdankung gehalten von Pfarrer Georg von Schulthess Rechberg; Ansprache von Dr. Franz Meyer; Ansprache von Dr. h. c. Theodor Boveri; Ansprache von Direktor A. Rosewick; Ansprache von Dr. Hans Pestalozzi; Nachruf aus dem "Tages-Anzeiger", Zürich
On the relevance of chaos for halo stars in the Solar Neighbourhood
Creators: name: Maffione, Nicolás P.
name: Gómez, Facundo A.
name: Cincotta, Pablo M.
name: Giordano, Claudia M.
name: Cooper, Andrew P.
name: O'Shea, Brian W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that diffusion due to chaotic mixing in the Neighbourhood of the Sun may not be as relevant as previously suggested in erasing phase space signatures of past Galactic accretion events. For this purpose, we analyse Solar Neighbourhood-like volumes extracted from cosmological simulations that naturally account for chaotic orbital behaviour induced by the strongly triaxial and cuspy shape of the resulting dark matter haloes, among other factors. In the approximation of an analytical static triaxial model, our results show that a large fraction of stellar halo particles in such local volumes have chaos onset times (i.e., the timescale at which stars commonly associated with chaotic orbits will exhibit their chaotic behaviour) significantly larger than a Hubble time. Furthermore, particles that do present a chaotic behaviour within a Hubble time do not exhibit significant diffusion in phase space.
description: 20 pages, 16 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Heterogeneous preferences for water rights reforms among smallholder irrigators in South Africa
Creators: name: Speelman, Stijn
name: Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2013

description: In the light of growing water scarcity appropriate institutional arrangements are needed to complement technical interventions, in order to ensure more efficient use and allocation of water in agriculture. A theoretically interesting institutional intervention is the installation or improvement of water rights, but the benefits of such intervention and their distribution are insufficiently researched. This paper contributes to the water rights literature by applying a state-of-the-art valuation method to a case study in South Africa. Using a latent class choice modelling approach the heterogeneity in the benefits generated by changes in water rights is investigated. Two segments could be distinguished in the sample population. While one of the segments has a lot to gain from a water rights reform, benefits for the other seem rather limited. Furthermore they clearly differ in preference for specific improvements. Such considerations should be taken into account in policy design.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 2 No 2 (2013)
Mothers' Perceptions of Family Planning Method Education and Selection, with Consideration of Infant Feeding Intention
Creators: name: McCready, Jenna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Breastfeeding and appropriate family planning methods are essential parts of a woman’s sexual and reproductive health, particularly in the postpartum period. A cross-sectional survey on new mothers’ experiences with family planning and breastfeeding was conducted. The sample population was largely white/Caucasian, of high socioeconomic status, highly educated, and expressed strong intent to breastfeed. Education and information provided by their healthcare providers influenced a change in family planning intention for some; anecdotal information revealed a struggle for some women in regards to rectifying conflicting concerns around hormonal methods and lactation outcomes. Further research is needed to reach a more representative population and understand the experiences of all women, particularly those with historically negative healthcare experiences.
Economics of Biofuels: An Overview of Policies, Impacts and Prospects
Creators: name: Moschini, GianCarlo
name: Cui, Jingbo
name: Lapan, Harvey
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2012

description: This paper provides an overview of the economics of biofuels. It starts by describing the remarkable growth of the biofuel industry over the last decade, with emphasis on developments in the United States, Brazil and the European Union, and it identifies the driving role played by some critical policies. After a brief discussion of the motivations that are commonly argued in favor of biofuels and biofuel policies, the paper presents an assessment of the impacts of biofuels from the economics perspective. In particular, the paper explains the basic analytics of biofuel mandates, reviews several existing studies that have estimated the economic impacts of biofuels, presents some insights from a specific model, and outlines an appraisal of biofuel policies and the environmental impacts of biofuels. The paper concludes with an examination of several open issues and the future prospects of biofuels.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 1 No 3 (2012): Towards a Sustainable Bio-economy: economic issues and policy challenges
Cloud Services Brokerage: A Survey and Research Roadmap
Creators: name: Barker, Adam
name: Varghese, Blesson
name: Thai, Long
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) acts as an intermediary between cloud service providers (e.g., Amazon and Google) and cloud service end users, providing a number of value adding services. CSBs as a research topic are in there infancy. The goal of this paper is to provide a concise survey of existing CSB technologies in a variety of areas and highlight a roadmap, which details five future opportunities for research.
description: Paper published in the 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2015)
Product Differentiation and Brand Competition in the Italian Breakfast Cereal Market: a Distance Metric Approach
Creators: name: Sckokai, Paolo
name: Varacca, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2012

description: This article employs a nation-wide sample of supermarket scanner data to study product and brand competition in the Italian breakfast cereal market. A modified Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), that includes Distance Metrics (DMs) as proposed by Pinkse, Slade and Brett (2002), is estimated to study demand responses, substitution patterns, own-price and cross-price elasticities. Estimation results provide evidence of some degree of brand loyalty, while consumers do not seem loyal to the product type. Elasticity estimates point out the presence of patterns of substitution within products sharing the same brand and similar nutritional characteristics.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 1 No 3 (2012): Towards a Sustainable Bio-economy: economic issues and policy challenges
Sphecodes crassus Thomson 1870
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes crassus

description: Sphecodes crassus Thomson, 1870
 2.VIII.2018, bord chemin, Daucus carota, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
RESEARCH OF A SYNCHRONIZED ASYNCHRONOUS MACHINE
Creators: name: Mammadov, N.S.
name: Nasibov, Q.A.
Publisher: name: Вестник науки
Year: 2023
Subjects: SYNCHRONIZED ASYNCHRONOUS MACHINE
RESEARCH
WINDING
VIBRATION DAMPING
PHASE ZONE

description: Recently, interest in synchronized asynchronous machines has been growing more and more. A synchronized asynchronous machine is a conventional wound-rotor induction machine, two or three phase windings of which are supplied with direct current. The article presents a diagram of a synchronized asynchronous machine. The article also discusses the analysis of the magnetic field, and more specifically, the magnetic motive force (mfs) of the rotor winding of a synchronized machine. To analyze this curve, the m.f.s. using the graphic method. According to the research, the main advantages and disadvantages of a synchronized asynchronous machine have been identified
Sphecodes monilicornis
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes monilicornis

description: Sphecodes monilicornis (Kirby, 1802)
 2.VIII.2018, bord chemin, Daucus carota, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Hendrixella Bannikov & Carnevale 2009, nov.
Creators: name: Bannikov, Alexandre F.
name: Carnevale, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Robertanniidae
Hendrixella

description: Genus Hendrixella nov. Diagnosis: Percoid with elongate and slender body; head pointed; jaw teeth sharp and posteriorly recurved; seven branchiostegal rays; 11 + 13 vertebrae; two series of intermuscular bones; caudal skeleton with five autogenous hypurals, three epurals, two uroneurals; haemal spine of third preural centrum fused; caudal fin with 17 principal rays and 11 upper and eight lower procurrent rays; predorsal formula 0/0/1 + 1/1/; two separated dorsal fins with a rayless pterygiophore in-between; first dorsal fin contains nine slender, flexible spines; first dorsal-fin spine supernumerary; second dorsal fin contains one spine and eight soft rays; anal fin with two spines (one supernumerary) and eight soft rays; anal fin opposed and nearly symmetrical to second dorsal fin; pectoral fin narrow; scales moderately large and weakly ctenoid. Type species: Hendrixella grandei gen. & sp. nov., by monotypy and designation herein. Etymology: Genus named in honour of the musician and composer James Marshall Hendrix.
description: Published as part of Alexandre F. Bannikov & Giorgio Carnevale, 2009, A new percoid fish from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy: Hendrixella grandei gen. & sp. nov., pp. 481-488 in Swiss Journal of Geosciencei 102 on page 482, DOI: 10.1007/s00015-009-1331-3
RESEARCH OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR
Creators: name: Safıyev, E.S.
name: Kerimova, S.M.
name: Ganieva, N.A.
Publisher: name: Вестник науки
Year: 2023
Subjects: HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
SUPER PRESSURE
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
BCS THEORY
COOPER PAIR

description: Currently, high-temperature superconductivity is one of the most studied areas of physics. This poses very serious and promising tasks for the practical application of superconductivity to scientists and engineers. In the article, high-temperature superconductivity is investigated and studied, and its promising paths are shown. One of these methods is the application of extreme pressures. In addition to hydrogen-containing materials, the article reflects the names of other promising materials
Greening agricultural payments in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy
Creators: name: Matthews, Alan
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2013

description: Environmental objectives have become increasingly integrated into the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) since the mid-1980s. Integration has been pur- sued through the attachment of environmental conditions to the receipt of direct payments in Pillar 1 (cross compliance) and the use of voluntary agri-environment measures in Pillar 2. In formulating its proposals for the revision of the CAP post-2013, the Commission opted to pursue further integration largely through Pillar 1 through the introduction of a ‘green’ payment for farmers following a specified set of mandatory farm practices. The legislative process was not concluded in February 2013, but enough is known of the positions of the Council and the European Parliament to indicate that the level of greening ambition in this CAP reform will be very limited. Some explanations for the apparent failure to significantly reshape the CAP to tackle the problems faced by the natural environment are reviewed. It is suggested that, far from being complementary, cross compliance and voluntary agri-environment meas- ures are competing approaches to further greening of the CAP. Advocates of a greater focus on environmental objectives need to choose between these approaches.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 2 No 1 (2013): Agricultural policy and the wider policy context: evaluation issues, practices and tools
How Transmen's Health Can Be a Women's Health Issue: Expanding the Boundaries of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
Creators: name: Hartofelis, E. Cameron
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: This paper explores the sexual and reproductive health needs and barriers to care for transgender men, referenced in this paper as “transmen” for consistency and brevity. Not all members of this community identify with this term; other common terms of self-identification may include: transgender man, trans man, male, transgender, transsexual man, female-to-male or FTM, or gender non-conforming. This population is largely heterogeneous, though certain health needs affect many and warrant closer attention by health professionals and systems. This paper will first address the broad needs of transgender individuals in the United States context. Next, I will explore the specific health needs and barriers to care faced specifically by transgender men. Last, I present my findings from a review of literature on transgender health and medical research, the health needs of transgender men, and provider perspectives on the treatment of transgender individuals.
Galaxy Clustering in 3D and Modified Gravity Theories
Creators: name: Munshi, Dipak
name: Pratten, Geraint
name: Valageas, Patrick
name: Coles, Peter
name: Brax, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Modified Gravity (MG) theories by modelling the redshifted matter power spectrum in a spherical Fourier-Bessel (sFB) basis. We use a fully non-linear description of the real-space matter power-spectrum and include the lowest-order redshift-space correction (Kaiser effect), taking into account some additional non-linear contributions. Ignoring relativistic corrections, which are not expected to play an important role for a shallow survey, we analyse two different modified gravity scenarios, namely the generalised Dilaton scalar-tensor theories and the $f({R})$ models in the large curvature regime. We compute the 3D power spectrum ${\cal C}^s_{\ell}(k_1,k_2)$ for various such MG theories with and without redshift space distortions, assuming precise knowledge of background cosmological parameters. Using an all-sky spectroscopic survey with Gaussian selection function $φ(r)\propto \exp(-{r^2 / r^2_0})$, $r_0 = 150 \, h^{-1} \, {\textrm{Mpc}}$, and number density of galaxies $\bar {\textrm{N}} =10^{-4}\;{\textrm{Mpc}}^{-3}$, we use a $χ^2$ analysis, and find that the lower-order $(\ell \leq 25)$ multipoles of ${\cal C}^s_\ell(k,k')$ (with radial modes restricted to $k < 0.2 \, h \,{\textrm{Mpc}}^{-1}$) can constraint the parameter $f_{R_0}$ at a level of $2\times 10^{-5} (3\times 10^{-5})$ with $3 σ$ confidence for $n=1(2)$. Combining constraints from higher $\ell > 25$ modes can further reduce the error bars and thus in principle make cosmological gravity constraints competitive with solar system tests. However this will require an accurate modelling of non-linear redshift space distortions. Using a tomographic $β(a)$-$m(a)$ parameterization we also derive constraints on specific parameters describing the Dilaton models of modified gravity.
description: 21 pages, 15 Figures, 1 Table, Submitted to MNRAS
Commodity futures markets: are they an effective price risk management tool for the European wheat supply chain?
Creators: name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Zuppiroli, Marco
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2013

description: The instability of commodity prices and the hypothesis that speculative behaviour was one of its causes has brought renewed interest in futures markets. The paper analyses the European wheat futures markets (feed and milling) and the Chicago Board of Trade’s wheat contract as a comparison. Although the main purpose of the paper is to analyse whether futures markets are still useful for hedging (considering the demands from different market participants), implicitly this can be seen as testing whether the increasing presence of speculation has made futures markets divorced from physical markets. The results indicate that hedging with futures markets is still a viable alternative for dealing with price risk. This is particularly true in short period hedges (e.g. merchants and processors), where the basis seems to have been affected by the observed price instability.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 2 No 3 (2013): Between Crisis and Development: Which Role for the Bio-Economy
Heriades truncorum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Heriades
Heriades truncorum

description: Heriades truncorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
 8.VI.2004, pré de fauche, Centaurea sp., 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Refined comparison theorems for the Dirac equation in d dimensions
Creators: name: Hall, Richard L.
name: Zorin, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A single spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particle obeys the Dirac equation in $d\ge 1$ spatial dimension and is bound by an attractive central monotone potential which vanishes at infinity (in one dimension the potential is even). This work refines the relativistic comparison theorems which were derived by Hall \cite{p75}. The new theorems allow the graphs of the two comparison potentials $V_a$ and $V_b$ to crossover in a controlled way and still imply the spectral ordering $E_a\le E_b$ for the eigenvalues at the bottom of each angular momentum subspace. More specifically in a simplest case we have: in dimension $d=1$, if $\int_0^x (V_b(t)-V_a(t)) dt\ge 0,\ x\in [0,\ \infty)$, then $E_a\le E_b$; and in $d>1$ dimensions, if $\int_0^r (V_b(t)-V_a(t))t^{2|k_d|} dt\ge 0,\ r\in [0,\ \infty)$, where $k_d=τ\left(j+\frac{d-2}{2}\right)$ and $τ=\pm 1$, then $E_a\le E_b$.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures
Megachile versicolor Smith 1844
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile versicolor

description: Megachile versicolor Smith, 1844
 8.VI.2004, pré de fauche, Centaurea sp., 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Osmia caerulescens
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Osmia
Osmia caerulescens

description: Osmia caerulescens (Linnaeus, 1758)
 8.VI.2004, pré de fauche, Trifolium repens, 1♀, Centaurea, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Race and Body Type in STEM: An Intersectional Analysis of the Perception of Women's Credibility
Creators: name: Guaba, Ana
name: Pihas, Isabella
name: Moerschel, Lily
name: Lane, Kristin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This is an experiment that aims to investigate the role of race and body type on the perception of women's credibility in STEM.
Short and Long Interpregnancy Intervals Increase the Odds of Adverse Health Outcomes for Mothers and Infants During the Perinatal Period: An Analysis of 2013-2016 Alaska Birth Certificate Data.
Creators: name: Lewandowski, Katherine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: OverviewThis study examined the effect of interpregnancy interval (IPI) on preterm birth, neonatal intensive care admission (NICU), gestational diabetes, and gestational hypertension.MethodsMultivariate logistic regression was conducted on all Alaskan second-order or higher singleton births during 2013-2016, followed by a stratified analysis by maternal race and ethnicity.ResultsRelative to 18-23 months, births after a short IPI had significantly greater odds of preterm birth and NICU admission; births after a long IPI had significantly greater odds of all four adverse outcomes. Overall, this relationship was similar for both non-Hispanic Alaska Native and non-Hispanic White women.Discussion/ConclusionOptimizing IPI is a modifiable risk factor for perinatal health outcomes, and should be incorporated in future efforts to improve the health of Alaskan mothers and infants.
Tomo II: La valutazione come riferimento per la pianificazione: Cagliari e il suo contesto - Calcolo dell'impronta ecologica della provincia di Cagliari e dei suoi quattro subambiti
Creators: name: Tiezzi, Enzo
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Aestimum, Atti del XXXIII Incontro di Studio (2003)
Tomo II: La valutazione come riferimento per la pianificazione: Cagliari e il suo contesto - Progetto di integrazione e sviluppo tecnologico dei sistemi di controllo della mobilità nell'area vasta di Cagliari
Creators: name: Corona, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Aestimum, Atti del XXXIII Incontro di Studio (2003)
Bombus hypnorum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus hypnorum

description: Bombus hypnorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
8.VI.2004, pré de fauche, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
A Reactive Robotized Interface for Lower Limb Rehabilitation: Clinical Results
Creators: name: Saint-Bauzel, Ludovic
name: Pasqui, Viviane
name: Monteil, Isabelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: -This article presents clinical results from the use of MONIMAD, a reactive robotized interface for lower limb Rehabilitation of patients suffering from cerebellar disease. The first problem to be addressed is the postural analysis of sit-to-stand motion. Experiments with healthy subjects were performed for this purpose. Analysis of external forces shows that sit-to-stand transfer can be subdivided into several phases: preaccel-eration, acceleration, start rising, rising. Observation of Center of Pressure, ground forces and horizontal components force on handles yields rules to identify the stability of the patient and to adjust the robotic interface motion to the human voluntary movement. These rules are used in a fuzzy-based controller implementation. The controller is validated on experiments with diseased patients in Bellan Hospital.