cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ESTRUTURA DE MERCADO E COMPETITVIDADE DAS EMPRESAS PRODUTORAS DE SEMENTES DE SOJA DA REGIÃO SUL DE MATO GROSSO
Creators: name: Oliveira, Luciel Henrique De
name: Cassiano, Reinaldo Mesquita
name: Oliveira, Luciel Henrique De
name: Cassiano, Reinaldo Mesquita
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Concentração de Mercado
subject: Concorrência
subject: Índice de Hirschman– Herfindahl (IHH)

description: Este artigo analisa a estrutura de mercado e a competitividade das empresas produtoras de sementes de soja da região Sul de Mato Grosso. Após analisar a estrutura de mercado, o estudo objetivou analisar e classificar as estratégias utilizadas e a competitividade das empresas produtoras de sementes de soja da região Sul de Mato Grosso, por meio das estratégias genéricas de Porter (1986), identificando os principais fatores de influência na competitividade e na elaboração destas estratégias. Para um melhor entendimento da estrutura de mercado faz-se necessário a mensuração do seu grau de concentração, por meio do Índice de Hirschman–Herfindahl (IHH). Os resultados observados, quanto ao nível de concentração das empresas produtoras de sementes de soja da região Sul de Mato Grosso, evidenciam uma concentração de mercado, com uma tendência de uma concorrência oligopolista, com conseqüente aumento da competitividade.
Additional file 2 of Metabolic syndrome among children and adolescents in low and middle income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Bitew, Zebenay Workneh
name: Ayinalem Alemu
name: Ermias Getaneh Ayele
name: Zelalem Tenaw
name: Anmut Alebel
name: Teshager Worku
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Critical appraisal of the included studies.
A Comparative Efficiency Analysis of Cooperative and Non-cooperative Dairy Manufacturing Firms
Creators: name: Kanter, Christopher A.
name: Hueth, Brent
name: Gould, Brian W.
name: Kanter, Christopher A.
name: Hueth, Brent
name: Gould, Brian W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Industrial Organization
Livestock Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis

description: Due to differences in ownership structure between cooperative and non-cooperative firms (NCFs), it has been hypothesized that co-ops may be less efficient than their non-cooperative counterparts. Illiquidity of owners’ investment and democratic governance may lead to underinvestment and managerial shirking in cooperative firms, both technical inefficiency sources, and the lack of a clear profit motive generates “inefficient” (relative to a profit-maximizing firm) economic decisions. This is especially true in the dairy product manufacturing sector, where production is capital intensive and factors leading to non-optimal investment decisions may have a large impact on efficiency. In this research we will use a unique dataset that includes plant level panel data for dairy product manufacturers from the Census of Manufactures encompassing the years 1977-2007 to determine whether there is a difference in plant level efficiency between cooperative firms and NCFs, as well as the source of any measured inefficiency. We will employ Data Envelopment and Stochastic Frontier (SFA) analyses to ensure robustness of results across alternative methodologies for productivity measurement.
Correcting for Measurement Error in a Stochastic Frontier Model: A Fishery Context
Creators: name: Burns, Christopher
name: Burns, Christopher
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: commercial fisheries
subject: stochastic frontier
subject: technical efficiency
subject: measurement error

description: Using data from the Mid-Atlantic surfclam fishery, this study examines the effect of measurement error on the analysis of technical efficiency. After specifying a stochastic frontier model and estimating it under naive analysis, a measurement error correction technique known as Simulation Extrapolation (SIMEX) is used to obtain less biased estimates of technical efficiency and production parameters. The SIMEX estimates of the stochastic frontier model agree with economic theory and show that important relationships between technical efficiency and vessel characteristics are present, something the naive estimates do not. Both sets of estimates show regional variation in technical efficiency, possibly due to declining landings per-uniteffort, suggesting future fishery management should take this into account.
ТРАНСПОРТ ВОСИТАСИНИ ОЛИБ ҚОЧИШ ЖИНОЯТИНИ ЖИНОЯТ-ҲУҚУҚИЙ ТАСНИФЛАШ МУАММОЛАРИ
Creators: name: Муқимжонов, Жасурбек
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Транспорт воситасини олиб қочиш тўғрисидаги жиноят-ҳуқуқий норма ўзига хос хусусиятга эга. Бироқ шуни эсда тутиш лозимки, кейинги нормада бошқа объект – жамоат хавфсизлиги ҳимоя остига олинган ва қилмишга бошқа ижтимоий йўналиш берилган. Чамаси, қонун чиқарувчининг автотранспорт ва бошқа транспорт воситаларига нисбатан нуқтайи-назари жиноятнинг махсус предмети билан боғлиқ. Чунки уларнинг бевосита вазифаси бошқа ҳар қандай мол-мулкка қараганда ўғирлаш мақсадисиз ноқонуний эгаллашни кўпроқ рағбатлантиради.
MOESM1 of Driving pressure is not associated with mortality in mechanically ventilated patients without ARDS
Creators: name: Lanspa, Michael
name: Ithan Peltan
name: Jacobs, Jason
name: Sorensen, Jeffrey
name: Carpenter, Lori
name: Ferraro, Jeffrey
name: Brown, Samuel
name: Berry, Jay
name: Srivastava, Raj
name: Grissom, Colin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Online Data supplement
Correlated Isocurvature Fluctuation in Quintessence and Suppressed CMB Anisotropies at Low Multipoles
Creators: name: Moroi, Takeo
name: Takahashi, Tomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy in models with quintessence taking into account of isocurvature fluctuation in the quintessence. It is shown that, if the primordial fluctuation of the quintessence has a correlation with the adiabatic density fluctuations, CMB angular power spectrum $C_l$ at low multipoles can be suppressed without affecting $C_l$ at high multipoles. Possible scenario of generating correlated mixture of the quintessence and adiabatic fluctuations is also discussed.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, published version
SOUURSE ANALYSIS OF THE WORK "MIRAJNAME" IN TURKIC LANGUAGE
Creators: name: Turdiev, Jahongir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article is devoted to the copy of the Turkic language work "Merojnoma" in the nastalik letter kept in Istanbul and its textual components. The article analyzed manuscript from the sourse point of view. "Meraj" is the ascension of the last Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) from Jerusalem to heaven to Allah. The works dedicated to this event are called "Mirajnama". Such works were originally created in Arabic literature. Later in Persian and Turkic literature, Mirajnama was formed as an independent work.
Working mechanism and behavior of Collison nebulizer
Creators: name: Feng, James Q.
name: Go, Liang-Sin
name: Calubayan, Jenny
name: Tomaska, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Collison nebulizer (as well as its variations) has been widely used for generating fine aerosol droplets of a few microns from liquids of viscosity up to 1000 centipoise. It was originally developed for producing medical aerosols in inhalation therapy, and now has become an important component as pneumatic atomizer in the Aerosol Jet(R) direct-write system for additive manufacturing. Qualitative descriptions of its working mechanism were given in the literature as an expanding high-speed gas jet creates a negative pressure to syphon liquid into the jet stream, where the liquid is subsequently blown into sheets, filaments, and eventually droplets. But quantitative analysis and in-depth understanding have been lacking until rather recently. In this work, we present a logical description of the working mechanism of Collison nebulizer based on OpenFOAM(R) CFD analysis of compressible jet flow in the jet expansion channel. The positive-feedback liquid aspiration mechanism becomes clear by examining the CFD results as the jet expansion channel geometry is varied. As a consequence, the output mist density can be rather insensitive to the liquid viscosity, which is illustrated by a set of experiments with the Collison-type pneumatic atomizer in an Aerosol Jet(R) direct-write system. Thus, an intrinsic self-regulation mechanism is elegantly incorporated in the Collison nebulizer design. As intuitively expected, experimental data also supports the notion of the existence of an upper limit for liquid holdup in the limited space of jet expansion channel; therefore, the output mist density cannot increase indefinitely by increasing the atomization gas flow rate.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, paper presented at 20th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Ube, Japan, Dec 21-23, 2019
Stellar models of evolved secondaries in CVs
Creators: name: Andronov, N.
name: Pinsonneault, M. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the impact of chemically evolved secondaries on CV evolution. We find that when evolved secondaries are included a spread in the secondary mass-orbital period plane comparable to that seen in the data is produced for either the saturated prescription for magnetic braking or the unsaturated model commonly used for CVs. We argue that in order to explain this spread a considerable fraction of all CVs should have evolved stars as the secondaries. The evolved stars become fully convective at lower orbital periods. Therefore, even if there was an abrupt decrease in magnetic braking for fully convective stars (contrary to open cluster data) it would not be expected to produce a sharp break in the period distribution for CVs. We also explore recent proposed revisions to the angular momentum loss rate for single stars, and find that only modest increases over the saturated prescription are consistent with the overall observed spindown pattern. We compare predictions of our models with diagnostics of the mass accretion rate in WDs and find results intermediate between the saturated and the older braking prescription. Taken together these suggest that the angular momentum loss rate may be higher in CV secondaries than in single stars of the same rotation period, but is still significantly lower than in the traditional model. Alternative explanations for the CV period gap are discussed.
description: 24 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to ApJ
MOESM4 of Rearrangement analysis of multiple bacterial genomes
Creators: name: Mehwish Noureen
name: Ipputa Tada
name: Kawashima, Takeshi
name: Arita, Masanori
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S3. Example of gene order rotation and flipping.
NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION FOR EFFECT OF HOLE ON THERMAL ANALYSIS OF RECTANGULAR PLATE
Creators: name: M.L. PAVAN KISHORE
name: PRIYANKA CHATTORAJ
name: M. AVINASH
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Ansys, Temperature Distribution, Steady State, Heat Flux, Thermal Conductivity.

description: Abstract

The temperature distribution over a plate is one of the most fundamental aspects of any investigation in engineering and science, and it has implications in many different sectors. Mechanisms of heat transfer within a solid plate are of extreme importance for many fields, such as aerospace engineering, electronics, materials science, and energy systems. The ability to more accurately model and predict temperature distributions within a plate may allow for new thermal management strategy development, material selection optimization, and overall system optimization. This work investigates the numerical study of thermal behavior in rectangular plates with and without a central circular hole during steady-state heat transfer conditions. This paper aims at making a thorough analysis of the temperature distribution and heat flux on a solid plate and a hole-containing plate by changing geometric configurations and patterns of the boundary conditions, while emphasizing the impact of hole presence on the thermal performance of the plate. The presence of the aperture introduces regions of stress concentration and changes the transfer mechanism, which is the cause for localized fluctuations in temperature as well as changes in the flux of heat, too. Numerical study is made using the finite element method. Two different cases are simulated: a solid square plate with no perforation and a square plate having a central circular hole of different diameters. Several parameters, including the geometry of the plates, hole diameters, and the thermal conductivities of materials with different types of boundary conditions, affect the distribution of temperatures and heat flux in the setup. The following temperature contour and heat flux vector plots provide further insights into thermal dynamics of this setup. The results presented here are expected to improve the design and thermal performance of perforated rectangular plates, irrespective of the perforations, and hence help facilitate progress in both thermal efficiency and structural integrity.
Factorization Approach for Inclusive Production of Doubly Heavy Baryon
Creators: name: Ma, J. P.
name: Si, Z. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study inclusive production of doubly heavy baryon at a $e^+e^-$ collider and at hadron colliders through fragmentation. We study the production by factorizing nonpertubative- and perturbative effects. In our approach the production can be thought as a two-step process: A pair of heavy quarks can be produced perturbatively and then the pair is transformed into the baryon. The transformation is nonperturbative. Since a heavy quark moves with a small velocity in the baryon in its rest frame, we can use NRQCD to describe the transformation and perform a systematic expansion in the small velocity. At the leading order we find that the baryon can be formed from two states of the heavy-quark pair, one state is with the pair in $^3S_1$ state and in color ${\bf \bar 3}$, another is with the pair in $^1S_0$ state and in color ${\bf 6}$. Two matrix elements are defined for the transformation from the two states, their perturbative coefficients in the contribution to the cross-section at a $e^+e^-$ collider and to the function of heavy quark fragmentation are calculated. Our approach is different than previous approaches where only the pair in $^3S_1$ state and in color ${\bf \bar 3}$ is taken into account. Numerical results for $e^+e^-$ colliders at the two $B$-factories and for hadronic colliders LHC and Tevatron are given.
description: Add results for large p_t, minor changes
Additional file of Socio-economic and demographic determinants of female genital mutilation in sub-Saharan Africa: analysis of data from demographic and health surveys
Creators: name: Bright Opoku Ahinkorah
name: Hagan, John Elvis
name: Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena
name: Seidu, Abdul-Aziz
name: Budu, Eugene
name: Sambah, Francis
name: Yaya, Sanni
name: Torgbenu, Eric
name: Schack, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file of Socio-economic and demographic determinants of female genital mutilation in sub-Saharan Africa: analysis of data from demographic and health surveys
MOESM3 of Rearrangement analysis of multiple bacterial genomes
Creators: name: Mehwish Noureen
name: Ipputa Tada
name: Kawashima, Takeshi
name: Arita, Masanori
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S2. Example of almost conserved gene clusters.
Role of shocked accretion flows in regulating the QPO of galactic black hole candidates
Creators: name: Das, Tapas Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a generalized non-spherical, multi-transonic accretion flow model, we analytically calculate the normalized QPO frequency ${\bar {\bf ν}}_{qpo}$ of galactic black hole candidates in terms of dynamical flow variables and self-consistently study the dependence of ${\bar {\bf ν}}_{qpo}$ on such variables. Our results are in fairly close agreement with the observed QPO frequencies of GRS 1915+105. We find that ${\bar {\bf ν}}_{qpo}$ is quite sensitive to various parameters describing the black hole accretion flow containing dissipative and non-dissipative shock waves. Thus the QPO phenomena is, {\it indeed}, regulated by `shocked' black hole accretion, and, for the first time, we establish a definitive connection between the QPO frequency and the properties of advective BH accretion flows. This information may provide the explanation of some important observations of galactic micro quasars.
description: Final version accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL). A considerable part of the paper is almost completely re-written, though the results and the final conclussions are the same. One can now ignore the previous version. 8 pages with four black and white figures. For high resolution Fig. 3, please mail the author
Alborixin clears amyloid-β by inducing autophagy through PTEN-mediated inhibition of the AKT pathway
Creators: name: Abubakar Wani
name: Mehak Gupta
name: Masroor Ahmad
name: Aabid M. Shah
name: Aitizaz Ul Ahsan
name: Parvaiz H Qazi
name: Fayaz Malik
name: Singh, Gurdarshan
name: Parduman R. Sharma
name: Kaddoumi, Amal
name: Sandip B. Bharate
name: Vishwakarma, Ram A.
name: Kumar, Ajay
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Imbalance in production and clearance of amyloid beta (Aβ) is the primary reason for its deposition in Alzheimer disease. Macroautophagy/autophagy is one of the important mechanisms for clearance of both intracellular and extracellular Aβ. Here, through screening, we identified alborixin, an ionophore, as a potent inducer of autophagy. We found that autophagy induced by alborixin substantially cleared Aβ in microglia and primary neuronal cells. Induction of autophagy was accompanied by up regulation of autophagy proteins BECN1/Beclin 1, ATG5, ATG7 and increased lysosomal activities. Autophagy induced by alborixin was associated with inhibition of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)-AKT pathway. A knock down of PTEN and consistent, constitutive activation of AKT inhibited alborixin-induced autophagy and consequent clearance of Aβ. Furthermore, clearance of Aβ by alborixin led to significant reduction of Aβ-mediated cytotoxicity in primary neurons and differentiated N2a cells. Thus, our findings put forward alborixin as a potential anti-Alzheimer therapeutic lead. Abbreviations: Aβ: amyloid beta; ALB: alborixin; ATG: autophagy-related; BECN1: beclin 1; DAPI: 4, 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole; DCFH-DA: 2,7-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate; fAβ: fibrillary form of amyloid beta; GFAP: glial fibrillary acidic protein; MAP1LC3B/LC3B: microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 beta; MAP2: microtubule-associated protein 2; MTOR: mechanistic target of rapamycin kinase; PTEN: phosphatase and tensin homolog; ROS: reactive oxygen species; SQSTM1: sequestosome 1; TMRE: tetramethylrhodamine, ethyl ester
New proposals for the detection of the Earth's gravitomagnetic field in space-based and laboratory-based experiments
Creators: name: Iorio, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this contribution we present two new proposals for measuring the general relativistic gravitomagnetic component of the gravitational field of the Earth. One proposal consists of the measurement of the difference of the rates of the perigee $ψ$ from the analysis of the laser--ranged data of two identical Earth'artificial satellites placed in equal orbits with supplementary inclinations. In this way the impact of the aliasing classical secular precessions due to the even zonal harmonics of the geopotential would be canceled out, although the non--gravitational perturbations, to which the perigees of LAGEOS--type satellites are particularly sensitive, should be a limiting factor in the obtainable accuracy. With a suitable choice of the inclinations of the orbital planes it would be possible to reduce the periods of such insidious perturbations so to use not too long observational time spans. However, the use of a pair of drag--free satellites would greatly reduce this problem, provided that the time span of the data analysis does not excess the lifetime of the drag--free apparatus. In the other proposal the difference of the rotational periods of two counter-revolving particles placed on a friction-free plane in a vacuum chamber at the South Pole should be measured in order to extract the relativistic gravitomagnetic signal. Among other very challenging practical implications, the Earth's angular velocity $ω_{\oplus}$ should be known at a $10^{-15}$ rad s$^{-1}$ level from VLBI and the friction force of the plane should be less than $2\times 10^{-9}$ dyne.
description: 5 pages, no figures, no tables. Paper presented at 15th SIGRAV Conference on General Relativity and Gravitational Physics Villa Mondragone Monte Porzio Catone, Roma, Italy September 9-12, 2002
Brane Localized Curvature for Warped Gravitons
Creators: name: Davoudiasl, H.
name: Hewett, J. L.
name: Rizzo, T. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of including brane localized curvature terms in the Randall-Sundrum (RS) model of the hierarchy. This leads to the existence of brane localized kinetic terms for the graviton. Such terms can be induced by brane and bulk quantum effects as well as Higgs-curvature mixing on the brane. We derive the modified spectrum of Kaluza-Klein (KK) gravitons and their couplings to 4-dimensional fields in the presence of these terms. We find that the masses and couplings of the KK gravitons have considerable dependence on the size of the brane localized terms; the weak-scale phenomenology of the model is consequently modified . In particular, the weak-scale spin-2 graviton resonances which generically appear in the RS model may be significantly lighter than previously assumed. However, they may avoid detection as their widths may be too narrow to be observable at colliders. In the contact interaction limit, for a certain range of parameters, the experimental reach for the scale of the theory is independent of the size of the boundary terms.
description: 20 pages, 11 figures, LaTex, minor revisions
Intrinsic edge excitons in two-dimensional MoS$_2$
Creators: name: D'Amico, Pino
name: Gibertini, Marco
name: Prezzi, Deborah
name: Varsano, Daniele
name: Ferretti, Andrea
name: Marzari, Nicola
name: Molinari, Elisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using accurate first-principles calculations based on many-body perturbation theory we predict that two-dimensional MoS$_2$ hosts edge excitons with universal character, intrinsic to the existence of edges and lying well below the onset of bulk features. These excitons are largely insensitive to edge terminations or orientation, persisting even in the presence of metallic screening at zigzag edges, with large binding energies of $\sim$0.4 eV. Additional excitons can also emerge in ultranarrow ribbons, or as a function of the chemical nature of the termination. The chemical, structural, and electronic similarities with Se- or W-based transition-metal dichalcogenides suggest that these optical features could be common in this class of materials.
description: 7 pages main text, 5 pages supplemental material, 12 figures
Farmers Markets and Location Choice for Value Added Processing
Creators: name: Bouma, Andrea
name: Durham, Catherine A.
name: Goddik, Lisbeth
name: Bouma, Andrea
name: Durham, Catherine A.
name: Goddik, Lisbeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: A less examined facet of the local foods movement is the impact of the location of the producer on the feasibility of operating as a local supplier. Obvious variables are labor hours in travel to regional markets and fuel expenditures. The costs these engender is strongly related to the density of customers that are willing or able to deal with smaller scale delivery. Whether supplying produce or a value-added food, the viability of an enterprise which hopes to diversify its markets or products through a local channel is dependent on that density. Furthermore the price received varies greatly depending on whether the customer is a farmers market consumer, a local grocer or restaurant, or-as those markets are exhausted-a distributor. With value-added products (28% of farms engaged in entrepreneurial activities are producing value –added products (Martinez 2010)) the availability of alternative channels and pricing received in them is particularly important due to the capital investment required for equipment.
Superconductivity of Pure H3S Synthesis from Elemental Sulfur and Hydrogen
Creators: name: Nakao, Harushige
name: Einaga, Mari
name: Sakata, Masafumi
name: Kitagaki, Masaomi
name: Shimizu, Katsuya
name: Kawaguchi, Saori
name: Hirao, Naohisa
name: Ohishi, Yasuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconductive H3S synthesized from H2S is very poorly crystallized, and has excess sulfur as impurity (3H2S -> 2H3S + S). The phase transition process undergoes in sulfur excess condition, which might cause hydrogen deficiency. The influence of hydrogen deficiency is not clear. Therefore investigation on the superconductivity in H3S with no hydrogen deficiency is demanded. Two groups performed synthesis of H3S from elemental sulfur and hydrogen (direct synthesis) and their results have shown that no hydrogen deficiency is caused when the direct synthesis is performed under hydrogen excessive condition. However, no measurements of superconductivity has been carried out because of the major technical difficulties in hydrogen experiments in diamond anvil cells (DACs). Here, we report the first electrical resistance measurements in superconductive H3S synthesized from elemental sulfur and hydrogen (3H2 + 2S -> 2H3S). Our powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) using a synchrotron X-ray revealed that synthesized H3S has much improved crystalline quality and no sulfur as reported in previous works. We observed a superconducting transition with a sharp drop of the resistance at Tonset = 200 K and we obtained the highest Toffset of 186 K in S-H system.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Consumer preferences for apple quality traits
Creators: name: Carrillo-Rodriguez, Lilian
name: Gallardo, R. Karina
name: Yue, Chengyan
name: McCracken, Vicki A.
name: Luby, James
name: McFerson, James R.
name: Carrillo-Rodriguez, Lilian
name: Gallardo, R. Karina
name: Yue, Chengyan
name: McCracken, Vicki A.
name: Luby, James
name: McFerson, James R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Experimental auction
subject: Willingness to pay
subject: Quality traits

description: This study investigates the marginal values consumers place on apple quality traits as part of a larger SCRI project whose goal is to increase the long-term economic sustainability of Rosacea crops by increasing the U.S. per-capita consumption of fruits. Information on consumers’ preferences and the value they place on fruit quality is important and may help breeders better establish trait priorities and make the breeding process more efficient. We conducted sensory tasting tests and experimental auctions in order to study consumer preferences for apple quality traits. We find that consumers value more some quality traits depending on the information they have to make their decision. Size and color are important when consumers have information based on appearance, and sweetness and crispness are important when consumers have information based on sensory tasting tests.
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Measuring Behavioural Intention to Accept Autonomous Vehicles: A Structural Equation Model
Creators: name: Seuwou, Patrice
Publisher: name: London South Bank University
Year: 2020

description: For decades, the user acceptance of information technology has been a vital field of study for psychologists and sociologists investigating new insights into the acceptance of behaviour at individual and organisational levels. Despite numerous models being proposed to predict consumer use of the behaviour of technology; the latest models and theories are still not able to fully capture the complexity of the factors influencing people behavioural intention to adopt Autonomous Vehicles (AV). The research adopts a pragmatic approach using multiple methods that was executed in the following phases. In phase I, the key factors influencing behavioural intention to use AV were identified using an initial survey with 408 participants, interviews were conducted with experts in the field of Psychology, Sociology and Computer Science, then the model was developed, and finally the hypothesis defined. In phase II, the conceptual model was empirically validated and refined by employing a survey research approach with another 482 participants. The constructs were operationalised by developing and validating the research instrument with content validity, reliability, construct validity approach and Structure Equation Modelling (SEM). In phase III a tool for information visualisation was developed bridging the gap between theoretical concepts and practical industry requirements. The findings suggested that all the constructs included in the conceptual model significantly influence the consumers’ behavioural intention (BI) to adopt AVs. Based on our evaluation we take the determinants self-efficacy, perceived safety, trust, anxiety and legal regulations into consideration and propose a theoretical AV technology acceptance model (AVTAM) by incorporating these determinants into the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) model. The results show that anxiety is negatively correlated with BI. The contribution of this research towards theory is the development and validation of a research instrument that future studies can utilize to examine AV and other similar emerging technologies from a consumers’ perspective. An added contribution to practice is the development of an information visualisation tool to further explain different group behaviours towards technology adoption.
OFDM-Based Optical Spatial Modulation
Creators: name: Yesilkaya, Anil
name: Bian, Rui
name: Tavakkolnia, Iman
name: Haas, Harald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Spatial modulation (SM) has proven to be a promising multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) technique which provides high energy efficiency and reduces system complexity. In SM, only one transmitter is active at any given time while the rest of them remain silent. The index of the active transmitter carries information. This spatial information is in addition to the data carried by the constellation symbols in the signal domain. Therefore, SM increases the transmission rate of the communication system compared to single-input-single-output and space-time block coding (STBC)-MIMO. For signal domain data encoding, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been widely adopted. The key benefits in multi-carrier intensity-modulation and direct-detection (IM/DD) systems are: i) the capability to achieve high spectral efficiency and ii) the ability to effectively mitigate direct-current (DC) wander effects and the impact of ambient light. However, current off-the shelf light emitting diodes (LEDs) which are used as transmit entities are primarily bandwidth limited. Thus, there are benefits of combining SM and OFDM to enhance transmission speeds while maintaining low complexity. In this paper, the two most common OFDM-based SM types, namely frequency domain SM (FD-SM) and time domain SM (TD-SM), are investigated for optical wireless communications (OWC). Moreover, proof-ofconcept experimental results are presented to showcase practical feasibility of both techniques. The obtained results are also compared with Monte Carlo simulations. The results show that TDSM with an optimal maximum-a-posteriori-probability (MAP) detector significantly outperforms FD-SM. It can be inferred from the results that TD SM is a strong candidate among OFDM-based optical SM systems for future optical IM/DD wireless communication systems.
The Spt4 component of the Spt4-Spt5 transcription factor complex negatively regulates the expression of ATG41
Creators: name: Wen, Xin
name: Gatica, Damián
name: Zhangyuan Yin
name: Zehan Hu
name: Dengjel, Jörn
name: Klionsky, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Macroautophagy/autophagy, a highly conserved dynamic process, is one of the major degradative pathways in cells. So far, over 40 autophagy-related (ATG) genes have been identified in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, most of which have homologs in more complex eukaryotes. Autophagy plays a crucial role in cell survival and maintenance, and its dysfunction is related to various diseases, indicating that the proper regulation of autophagy is important. Although the overall process of autophagy has been extensively studied, in particular with regard to the function of the Atg proteins, relatively little is known about the regulatory mechanisms that control autophagy activity. Spt5 is one of the transcriptional factors that is universally conserved across all domains. This protein can form a complex with Spt4, together playing a central role in transcription. In complex eukaryotic cells, the Spt4-Spt5 complex plays a dual role in gene regulation, acting both to delay transcription through promoter-proximal pausing, and to facilitate transcriptional elongation. In contrast, in S. cerevisiae, only the positive function of the Spt4-Spt5 complex has been identified. Here, we show for the first time that the Spt4-Spt5 transcription factor complex negatively regulates ATG genes in S. cerevisiae, inhibiting autophagy activity during active growth. Under autophagy-inducing conditions, the repression is released by Spt5 phosphorylation, allowing an upregulation of autophagy activity.
Weighted $L^2$-cohomology of Coxeter groups
Creators: name: Davis, M. W.
name: Dymara, J.
name: Januszkiewicz, T.
name: Okun, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 20F55; Secondary: 20C08, 20E42, 20F65, 20J06, 46L10, 51E24, 57M07, 58J22

description: Given a Coxeter system $(W,S)$ and a positive real multiparameter $\bq$, we study the "weighted $L^2$-cohomology groups," of a certain simplicial complex $Σ$ associated to $(W,S)$. These cohomology groups are Hilbert spaces, as well as modules over the Hecke algebra associated to $(W,S)$ and the multiparameter $q$. They have a "von Neumann dimension" with respect to the associated "Hecke - von Neumann algebra," $N_q$. The dimension of the $i^th$ cohomology group is denoted $b^i_q(Σ)$. It is a nonnegative real number which varies continuously with $q$. When $q$ is integral, the $b^i_q(Σ)$ are the usual $L^2$-Betti numbers of buildings of type $(W,S)$ and thickness $q$. For a certain range of $q$, we calculate these cohomology groups as modules over $N_q$ and obtain explicit formulas for the $b^i_q(Σ)$. The range of $q$ for which our calculations are valid depends on the region of convergence of the growth series of $W$. Within this range, we also prove a Decomposition Theorem for $N_q$, analogous to a theorem of L. Solomon on the decomposition of the group algebra of a finite Coxeter group.
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MOESM2 of Rearrangement analysis of multiple bacterial genomes
Creators: name: Mehwish Noureen
name: Ipputa Tada
name: Kawashima, Takeshi
name: Arita, Masanori
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Gene clusters recorded in the form of table.
A Novel Hybrid Opportunistic Scalable Energy Efficient Routing Design For Low Power, Lossy Wireless Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Thyagarajan, Jayavignesh
name: K, Suganthi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Opportunistic Routing (OR) scheme increases the transmission reliability despite the lossy wireless radio links by exploiting the broadcast nature of the wireless medium. However, OR schemes in low power Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) leads to energy drain in constrained sensor nodes due to constant overhearing, periodic beaconing for Neighbourhood Management (NM) and increase in packet header length to append priority wise sorted Forwarding Candidates Set (FCS) prior to data transmission. The focus of this work is to propose a hybrid opportunistic energy efficient routing design for large scale, low power and lossy WSN. This design avoids periodic 'hello' beacons for NM, limits constant overhearing and increase in packet header length. There are two modes of operation i) opportunistic ii) unicast mode. The sender node adopts opportunistic forwarding for its initial data packet transmission and instead of pre-computing the FCS, it is dynamically computed in a completely distributed manner. The nodes part of FCS based on cross layered multi-metrics and fuzzy decision logic determines its priority level to compute Dynamic Holding Delay (DHD) for effective timer coordination. The differentiated back off implementation along with DHD enables the higher priority candidate that had received data packet to forward the packet first and facilitates others to cancel its timer upon overhearing. The sender node switches to unicast mode for successive transmissions to achieve energy efficiency till link-level transmission error occur. Opportunistic mode is used as the first and last resort to increase the transmission reliability. Simulation results in NS2 show significant increase in Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), decrease in both average energy consumption per node and Normalized Energy Consumption (NEC) per packet in comparison with existing protocols.
A linear noise approximation for stochastic epidemic models fit to partially observed incidence counts
Creators: name: Fintzi, Jonathan
name: Wakefield, Jon
name: Minin, Vladimir N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Stochastic epidemic models (SEMs) fit to incidence data are critical to elucidating outbreak dynamics, shaping response strategies, and preparing for future epidemics. SEMs typically represent counts of individuals in discrete infection states using Markov jump processes (MJPs), but are computationally challenging as imperfect surveillance, lack of subject-level information, and temporal coarseness of the data obscure the true epidemic. Analytic integration over the latent epidemic process is impossible, and integration via Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is cumbersome due to the dimensionality and discreteness of the latent state space. Simulation-based computational approaches can address the intractability of the MJP likelihood, but are numerically fragile and prohibitively expensive for complex models. A linear noise approximation (LNA) that approximates the MJP transition density with a Gaussian density has been explored for analyzing prevalence data in large-population settings, but requires modification for analyzing incidence counts without assuming that the data are normally distributed. We demonstrate how to reparameterize SEMs to appropriately analyze incidence data, and fold the LNA into a data augmentation MCMC framework that outperforms deterministic methods, statistically, and simulation-based methods, computationally. Our framework is computationally robust when the model dynamics are complex and applies to a broad class of SEMs. We evaluate our method in simulations that reflect Ebola, influenza, and SARS-CoV-2 dynamics, and apply our method to national surveillance counts from the 2013--2015 West Africa Ebola outbreak.
description: 67 pages, 22 pages of main text, the rest are appendices
Global Anisotropy Versus Small-Scale Fluctuations in Neutrino Flux in Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions
Creators: name: Madokoro, Hideki
name: Shimizu, Tetsuya
name: Motizuki, Yuko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effects of small-scale fluctuations in the neutrino radiation on core-collapse supernova explosions are examined. Through a parameter study with a fixed radiation field of neutrinos, we find substantial differences between the results of globally anisotropic neutrino radiation and those with fluctuations. As the number of modes of fluctuations increases, the shock positions, entropy distributions, and explosion energies approach those of spherical explosion. We conclude that global anisotropy of the neutrino radiation is the most effective mechanism of increasing the explosion energy when the total neutrino luminosity is given. This supports the previous statement on the explosion mechanism by Shimizu and coworkers.
description: 14 pages, including 12 figures. To be published in the Astrophysical Journal