cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Breaking the food-system divide with Smart Food: good for you, the planet and the farmer
Creators: name: Kane-Potaka, Joanna
name: Kane-Potaka, Joanna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Food Security and Poverty

description: The ‘food-system divide’ – which is rarely talked about, let alone challenged – is one of the biggest hindrances to achieving a healthy population and sustainable and viable agricultural systems in developing countries. For decades, the majority of investments, whether on R&D, or big company investment, or policy support, or product development or even development aid, have been funnelled into just three major crops: rice, wheat and maize. These ‘Big 3’ crops provide 50% of the world’s calories and protein. As a result, their value chains are well developed and supported, making it very difficult to ‘mainstream’ other foods. The need for greater diversity in diets and on-farm is well known. Meeting that need will require mainstreaming and ensuring the viability of more foods. This should not be tackled with just any food but with food that is ‘good for you (nutritious and healthy), good for the planet (environmentally sustainable) and good for the farmer (viable and climate smart)’; that is our definition of Smart Food. The Smart Food initiative aims to learn from the successes of the ‘Big 3’ and create the ‘Big 5’ and eventually the ‘Big 7’, and so on. Smart Food will focus especially on foods that can be eaten as staples. This way, we will have a major impact on some of the leading global issues. As Smart Food is good for you and the planet and the farmer, these three qualities can in unison contribute to healthy people and sustainable and viable agriculture.
Oreodera cinerea Audinet-Serville 1835
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Oreodera
Oreodera cinerea

description: 21. Oreodera cinerea Audinet­Serville, 1835
Type locality — Brazil. (BMNH). Distribution — Brazil (Pernambuco to Rio Grande do Sul).
 Oreodera cinerea Audinet­Serville, 1835: 20; Laporte, 1840: 458; White, 1855: 348; Silva et al., 1968: 407 (hosts); Marinoni & Martins, 1978: 174 (syn.); Monné, 2001b: 44 (cat. hosts).
 Oreodera angustata Melzer, 1932b: 423, pl. 6, fig. 2; Zikán & Wygodzinsky, 1948: 60 (type): Buck, 1959: 603 (distr.); Silva et al., 1968: 407 (hosts); Zajciw, 1974a: 75 (distr.).
Type locality — Brazil, Pernambuco: Taperá. (MZSP).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Some Further Results for the Stationary Points and Dynamics of Supercooled Liquids
Creators: name: Wales, David J.
name: Doye, Jonathan P. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present some new theoretical and computational results for the stationary points of bulk systems. First we demonstrate how the potential energy surface can be partitioned into catchment basins associated with every stationary point using a combination of Newton-Raphson and eigenvector-following techniques. Numerical results are presented for a 256-atom supercell representation of a binary Lennard-Jones system. We then derive analytical formulae for the number of stationary points as a function of both system size and the Hessian index, using a framework based upon weakly interacting subsystems. This analysis reveals a simple relation between the total number of stationary points, the number of local minima, and the number of transition states connected on average to each minimum. Finally we calculate two measures of localisation for the displacements corresponding to Hessian eigenvectors in samples of stationary points obtained from the Newton-Raphson-based geometry optimisation scheme. Systematic differences are found between the properties of eigenvectors corresponding to positive and negative Hessian eigenvalues, and localised character is most pronounced for stationary points with low values of the Hessian index.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures
Numerical Representation of the Incomplete Gamma Function of Complex Argument
Creators: name: Mathar, Richard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C15; 33E50; 33F05

description: Various approaches to the numerical representation of the Incomplete Gamma Function F_m(z) for complex arguments z and small integer indexes m are compared with respect to numerical fitness (accuracy and speed). We consider power series, Laurent series, Gautschi's approximation to the Faddeeva function, classical numerical methods of treating the standard integral representation, and others not yet covered by the literature. The most suitable scheme is the construction of Taylor expansions around nodes of a regular, fixed grid in the z-plane, which stores a static matrix of higher derivatives. This is the obvious extension to a procedure often in use for real-valued z.
description: REVTeX4, 48 pages, 16 PostScript figures. Corrected typos in Eqs. (46), (47) and on bottom p. 43. Added Ref [32]
Sn-modification of Pt7/alumina model catalysts: Suppression of carbon deposition and enhanced thermal stability
Creators: name: Li, Guangjing
name: Zandkarimi, Borna
name: Cass, Ashley C.
name: Gorey, Timothy J.
name: Allen, Bradley J.
name: Alexandrova, Anastassia N.
name: Anderson, Scott L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An atomic layer deposition process is used to modify size-selected Pt7/alumina model catalysts by Sn addition, both before and after Pt7 cluster deposition. Surface science methods are used to probe the effects of Sn-modification on the electronic properties, reactivity, and morphology of the clusters. Sn addition, either before or after cluster deposition, is found to strongly affect the binding properties of a model alkene, ethylene, changing the number and type of binding sites, and suppressing decomposition leading to carbon deposition and poisoning of the catalyst. Density functional theory on a model system, Pt4Sn3/alumina, shows that the Sn and Pt atoms are mixed, forming alloy clusters with substantial electron transfer from Sn to Pt. The presence of Sn also makes all the thermally accessible structures closed shell, such that ethylene binds only by π-bonding to a single Pt atom. The Sn-modified catalysts are quite stable in repeated ethylene temperature programmed reaction experiments, suggesting that the presence of Sn also reduces the tendency of the sub-nano-clusters to undergo thermal sintering.
Soziale Kohäsion in Siedlungen: Handlungsmöglichkeiten der Soziokultur
Creators: name: Deeprose, Meghan
name: Estermann, Chiara
Publisher: name: Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2025

description: Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit untersucht die Förderung sozialer Kohäsion in Siedlungen durch soziokulturelle Animation und Siedlungscoaching. Soziale Kohäsion wird als wesentlicher Faktor für ein stabiles nachbarschaftliches Zusammenleben betrachtet. Die Arbeit zeigt, dass soziokulturelle Animation durch partizipative Ansätze und die Schaffung von Begegnungsräumen soziale Bindungen stärkt. Siedlungscoaching unterstützt dabei, nachbarschaftliche Netzwerke aufzubauen, Konflikte zu moderieren und Inklusion zu fördern.
Praxisbeispiele verdeutlichen, wie Bewohner:innen durch gezielte Massnahmen aktiviert und in die Gestaltung ihrer Lebensräume einbezogen werden können. Dies stärkt das Gemeinschaftsgefühl und verbessert die Lebensqualität. Die Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass soziale Kohäsion in Siedlungen nachhaltig gefördert werden kann, wenn entsprechende Strukturen geschaffen und begleitet werden.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Soziokultur, 2025 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202502
A within-sample investigation of test–retest reliability in choice experiment surveys with real economic incentives
Creators: name: Morkbak, Morten Raun
name: Olsen, Soren Boye
name: Morkbak, Morten Raun
name: Olsen, Soren Boye
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: choice experiments
subject: market good
subject: real incentives
subject: reliability
subject: test–retest

description: In this paper, we investigate the level of agreement between respondents’ choices in identical choice sets in a test–retest choice experiment for a market good with real economic incentives, thus investigating whether the incentivised CE method can be reliable and stable over time. Besides comparing choices, we also test for diﬀerences in preferences and error variance when a sample of respondents is given the exact same questionnaire twice, with a time lag of 2 weeks in between. Finally, we examine potential reasons and covariates explaining the level of agreement in choices across the 2 weeks. Across four diﬀerent tests, we ﬁnd very good agreement between the two choice experiments – both with respect to overall choices and with respect to preferences. Furthermore, error variances do not diﬀer signiﬁcantly between the two surveys. The results also show that the larger the utility diﬀerence in a choice task, the larger the probability that the respondent will choose the same alternative in the retest. Moreover, the results show that the longer time respondents take to answer the 12 choice sets in the retest, the lower the probability that the respondent will choose the same alternatives in the retest as they did in the test.
Variation of sunspot groups' polarity separation during their evolution
Creators: name: Muraközy, Judit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During the emergence of sunspot groups the footpoints of their leading and following parts move apart. This diverging motion results in the stretching of the active regions, which continues during the decay phase. The aim of the present work is to study the separation distance variations during the active region evolution on a large statistical sample. Altogether more than 2000 individual sunspot groups were taken into account. The investigation is mainly based on data of the SoHO/MDI - Debrecen Sunspot Data (SDD) catalog which covers the time span 1996-2010, practically the whole solar cycle 23. For check of the possible cyclical variation the Debrecen Photoheliographic Data (DPD) is used which contains data for solar cycles 20-24. The separation distance is calculated between the leading and following centers of mass and starts to increase after the emergence and shows a plateau around the peak flux. The polarity separation reaches its maximum in the decay phase and then starts to decrease in the cases of the largest and medium size groups, but continues its increase in the case of the smallest groups. This decrease is caused by the eastward motion of the leading part, while the following part continues its backward motion. The separation distance is size dependent, i. e., the larger the sunspot group the greater its extent. Cycle and cycle phase dependencies as well as hemispheric connection can also be observed.
description: 7 figures, 7 pages,; accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Upper critical field in dirty two-band superconductors: breakdown of the anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau theory
Creators: name: Golubov, A. A.
name: Koshelev, A. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the upper critical field in a dirty two-band superconductor within quasiclassical Usadel equations. The regime of very high anisotropy in the quasi-2D band, relevant for MgB$_{2}$, is considered. We show that strong disparities in pairing interactions and diffusion constant anisotropies for two bands influence the in-plane $H_{c2}$ in a different way at high and low temperatures. This causes temperature-dependent $H_{c2}$ anisotropy, in accordance with recent experimental data in MgB$_{2}$. The three-dimensional band most strongly influences the in-plane $H_{c2}$ near $T_{c}$, in the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) region. However, due to a very large difference between the c-axis coherence lengths in the two bands, the GL theory is applicable only in an extremely narrow temperature range near $T_c$. The angular dependence of $H_{c2}$ deviates from a simple effective-mass law even near $T_c$.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys.Rev.B
Oreodera copei McCarty 2001
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Oreodera
Oreodera copei

description: 23. Oreodera copei McCarty, 2001
Type locality — Mexico, Morelos: Estación CEAMISH, 2.5 km N, 4 km O Huautla. (UNAM). Distribution — Mexico (Morelos, Guerrero, Puebla).
 Oreodera copei McCarty, 2001: 18, fig. 3.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
M giants with IGRINS IV. Identification and characterization of a near-IR line of the s-element Barium
Creators: name: Nandakumar, G.
name: Ryde, N.
name: Hartman, H.
name: Mace, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutron-capture elements represent an important nucleosynthetic channel in the study of the Galactic Chemical Evolution of stellar populations. For stellar populations behind significant extinction, such as those in the Galactic Center and along the Galactic plane, abundance analyses based on near-IR spectra are necessary. Previously, spectral lines from the neutron-capture elements such as copper (Cu), cerium (Ce), neodymium (Nd), and ytterbium (Yb) have been identified in the H band, while yttrium (Y) lines have been identified in the K band. Due to the scarcity of spectral lines from neutron-capture elements in the near-IR, the addition of useful spectral lines from other neutron-capture elements is highly desirable. The aim of this work is to identify and characterise a spectral line suitable for abundance determination from the most commonly used s-process element, namely barium. We observed near-IR spectra of 37 M giants in the solar neighbourhood at high S/N and high spectral resolution using the IGRINS spectrometer on the GEMINI South telescope. Using a manual spectral synthesis method, we determined the stellar parameters for these stars and derived the barium abundance from the Ba line (6s5d $^3$D$_2 \rightarrow$ 6s6p $^3$P$^o_2$) at $λ_\mathrm{air}=23\,253.56\,$Å in the K band. We demonstrate that the Ba line in the K band at 2.33\,\mic\ ($λ$23253.56) is useful for abundance analysis from spectra of M giants. The line becomes progressively weaker at higher temperatures and is only useful in M giants and the coolest K giants at supersolar metallicities. We can now add Ba to the trends of the heavy elements Cu, Zn, Y, Ce, Nd, and Yb, which can be retrieved from high-resolution H- and K-band spectra. This opens up the study of nucleosynthetic channels, including the s-process and the r-process, in dust-obscured populations such as the Galactic Center.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication A&A
Recurrent Pregnancy Loss and Chronic Sorrow
Creators: name: Larochelle, Karen
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Recurrent pregnancy loss refers to three or more consecutive miscarriages and affects an estimated 1% of conceiving couples. This paper examines recurrent pregnancy loss in relation to the middle-range nursing theory of chronic sorrow using a comprehensive literature review with autobiographical narrative as an exemplar, and includes a practice innovation designed for women experiencing pregnancy loss. The author suggests chronic sorrow is a normal response to recurrent pregnancy loss that gives validity to these women’s grief experiences, which nurses are well placed to assess for and address.
First-principles prediction of redox potentials in transition-metal compounds with LDA+U
Creators: name: Zhou, Fei
name: Cococcioni, Matteo
name: Marianetti, Chris A.
name: Morgan, Dane
name: Ceder, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First-principles calculations within the Local Density Approximation (LDA) or Generalized Gradient Approximation (GGA), though very successful, are known to underestimate redox potentials, such as those at which lithium intercalates in transition metal compounds. We argue that this inaccuracy is related to the lack of cancellation of electron self-interaction errors in LDA/GGA and can be improved by using the DFT+$U$ method with a self-consistent evaluation of the $U$ parameter. We show that, using this approach, the experimental lithium intercalation voltages of a number of transition metal compounds, including the olivine Li$_{x}$MPO$_{4}$ (M=Mn, Fe Co, Ni), layered Li$_{x}$MO$_{2}$ ($x=$Co, Ni) and spinel-like Li$_{x}$M$_{2}$O$_{4}$ (M=Mn, Co), can be reproduced accurately.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures, Phys. Rev. B 70, 235121 (2004)
Additional file 4 of Benefits and harms of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines: systematic review with meta-analyses of trial data from clinical study reports
Creators: name: Jørgensen, Lars
name: Gøtzsche, Peter
name: Jefferson, Tom
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Benefits and harms of the HPV vaccines—meta-analyses. (PDF 26103 kb)
TFT construction of RCFT correlators III: Simple currents
Creators: name: Fuchs, Juergen
name: Runkel, Ingo
name: Schweigert, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We use simple currents to construct symmetric special Frobenius algebras in modular tensor categories. We classify such simple current type algebras with the help of abelian group cohomology. We show that they lead to the modular invariant torus partition functions that have been studied by Kreuzer and Schellekens. We also classify boundary conditions in the associated conformal field theories and show that the boundary states are given by the formula proposed in hep-th/0007174. Finally, we investigate conformal defects in these theories.
description: 78 pages, table of contents, several figures; v2: corrected definition 2.20, added remark to section 4.3
Ethnizität als Konfliktursache in Kollektivunterkünften für unbegleitete minderjährige Geflüchtete: Eine qualitative Untersuchung der Wahrnehmungen von MNA und
sozialpädagogischen Bezugspersonen in der Schweiz
Creators: name: Bühler, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2025

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Wahrnehmung ethnischer Konflikte in einer
Schweizer Kollektivunterkunft für unbegleitete minderjährige Geflüchtete (MNA) aus
Afghanistan. Qualitative Interviews zeigen, dass Bezugspersonen ethnische Konflikte
häufiger als zentral wahrnehmen, während Jugendliche diese relativieren und strukturelle
sowie soziale Faktoren wie enge Wohnverhältnisse, sprachliche Barrieren und fehlende
Rückzugsräume als entscheidender bewerten.
Die Ergebnisse verdeutlichen, dass ethnische Kategorien primär durch Eigen- und
Fremdzuschreibungen konstruiert sind, was stereotype Deutungsmuster begünstigen kann.
Institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen und personelle Ressourcenmängel werden als
wesentliche Konfliktfaktoren identifiziert.
Empfohlen werden eine differenzierte Konfliktanalyse, die Individualisierung der
Betreuung, partizipative Ansätze und strukturelle Verbesserungen. Zudem bedarf es einer
Sensibilisierung der Fachpersonen im Umgang mit ethnischen Kategorien, um stereotype
Zuschreibungen zu vermeiden. Die Arbeit regt dazu an, Konflikte als Chancen für
Entwicklung zu begreifen.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Sozialarbeit, 2025 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202502
Additional file 2 of Promoting sport participation during early parenthood: a randomized controlled trial protocol
Creators: name: Grant, Stina
name: Beauchamp, Mark
name: Blanchard, Chris
name: Carson, Valerie
name: Rhodes, Ryan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Consent form.
Financing resource recovery and reuse in developing and emerging economies: enabling environment, financing sources and cost recovery
Creators: name: Lazurko, Anita
name: Drechsel, Pay
name: Hanjra, M. A.
name: Lazurko, Anita
name: Drechsel, Pay
name: Hanjra, M. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource recovery
subject: Resource management
subject: Water reuse
subject: Economic development
subject: Financing
subject: Cost recovery
subject: Investment
subject: Incentives
subject: Market economies
subject: Credit policies
subject: Developing countries
subject: Development policies
subject: Regulations
subject: Stakeholders
subject: Funding
subject: Loans
subject: Grants
subject: Agreements
subject: Risk management
subject: Public-private cooperation
subject: Partnerships
subject: Value chain
subject: Carbon markets
subject: Payment for ecosystem services
subject: State intervention
subject: Cost benefit analysis
subject: Environmental management
subject: Waste management
subject: Water management
subject: Equity
subject: Communities
subject: Energy recovery

description: Resource recovery and reuse (RRR) of domestic and agro-industrial waste has the potential to contribute to a number of financial, socioeconomic and environmental benefits. However, despite these benefits and an increasing political will, there remain significant barriers to build the required up-front capital which is discouraging private sector engagement. A systematic analysis and understanding of the enabling environment, public and private funding sources, risk-sharing mechanisms and pathways for cost recovery can help to identify opportunities to improve the viability of RRR solutions. This report looks at regulations and policies that remove disincentives for RRR, public and private funding sources for capital and operational costs, risk mitigation options through blending and structuring finance, and options for operational cost recovery.
description: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)
Observations of a GX 301-2 Apastron Flare with the X-Calibur Hard X-Ray Polarimeter Supported by NICER, the Swift XRT and BAT, and Fermi GBM
Creators: name: Abarr, Q.
name: Baring, M.
name: Beheshtipour, B.
name: Beilicke, M.
name: deGeronimo, G.
name: Dowkontt, P.
name: Errando, M.
name: Guarino, V.
name: Iyer, N.
name: Kislat, F.
name: Kiss, M.
name: Kitaguchi, T.
name: Krawczynski, H.
name: Lanzi, J.
name: Li, S.
name: Lisalda, L.
name: Okajima, T.
name: Pearce, M.
name: Press, L.
name: Rauch, B.
name: Stuchlik, D.
name: Takahashi, H.
name: Tang, J.
name: Uchida, N.
name: West, A.
name: Jenke, P.
name: Krimm, H.
name: Lien, A.
name: Malacaria, C.
name: Miller, J. M.
name: Wilson-Hodge, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The accretion-powered X-ray pulsar GX 301-2 was observed with the balloon-borne X-Calibur hard X-ray polarimeter during late December 2018, with contiguous observations by the NICER X-ray telescope, the Swift X-ray Telescope and Burst Alert Telescope, and the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor spanning several months. The observations detected the pulsar in a rare apastron flaring state coinciding with a significant spin-up of the pulsar discovered with the Fermi GBM. The X-Calibur, NICER, and Swift observations reveal a pulse profile strongly dominated by one main peak, and the NICER and Swift data show strong variation of the profile from pulse to pulse. The X-Calibur observations constrain for the first time the linear polarization of the 15-35 keV emission from a highly magnetized accreting neutron star, indicating a polarization degree of (27+38-27)% (90% confidence limit) averaged over all pulse phases. We discuss the spin-up and the X-ray spectral and polarimetric results in the context of theoretical predictions. We conclude with a discussion of the scientific potential of future observations of highly magnetized neutron stars with the more sensitive follow-up mission XL-Calibur.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. 20 pages, 19 figures, 4 tables
How to support effective and inclusive irrigation water users’ associations: a guide for practitioners
Creators: name: Merrey, D. J.
name: Lefore, Nicole
name: Merrey, D. J.
name: Lefore, Nicole
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm Management
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: International Development
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research and development
subject: Learning
subject: Irrigation water
subject: Irrigation management
subject: Irrigation efficiency
subject: Water users associations
subject: Best practices
subject: Guidelines
subject: Farmers organizations
subject: Irrigation schemes
subject: Collective action
subject: Small scale systems
subject: Policy making
subject: Investment
subject: Costs
subject: Gender
subject: Training programmes
subject: Monitoring
subject: Evaluation
subject: Water policy
subject: Water governance
subject: Water institutions
subject: Water availability
subject: Nongovernmental organizations
subject: Sustainability
subject: Stakeholders
subject: Infrastructure
subject: Socioeconomic environment
subject: Communities
subject: Local authorities

description: The purpose of this Guide is to provide an overview of the major considerations and steps to be followed in organizing new irrigation farmers’ organizations or Irrigation Water Users’ Associations (IWUAs). The Guide should support developing or strengthening a specialized formal IWUA for implementing a program aimed at creating or improving a collectively managed irrigation scheme. The Guide is focused on programs involving construction of new irrigation schemes; rehabilitation, modernization or revitalization of existing irrigation schemes; or supporting farmers wishing to improve the performance of their irrigation scheme. While based on extensive research and evidence, the intended audience for this Guide is the set of practitioners responsible for planning and implementing communal irrigation programs. This may include managers of publicly or externally supported projects, government agricultural and irrigation officials, private investments and nongovernmental organizations. The Guide draws on over 50 years of experience organizing farmers to participate in the creation, improvement and management of both farmer-managed and government-managed irrigation schemes. The major lesson learned is that investing in the “software” component – training and institutional development – of irrigation is critical for success. If the IWUA is weak or ineffective, the scheme will fail to achieve its potential, no matter how good the hardware is. The Guide seeks to avoid imposing a specific organizational design for what an institution should look like and do, but suggests a process organized around six ‘steps’ to be followed, more or less in sequence. Using these steps creatively as a guideline, not as a recipe to be followed precisely, will increase the likelihood that irrigation investments achieve the desired project goals.
description: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).
Oreodera corticina Thomson 1865
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Oreodera
Oreodera corticina

description: 24. Oreodera corticina Thomson, 1865
Type locality — Mexico. (MNHN). Distribution — Mexico (Sinaloa, Jalisco, Michoacán, San Luís Potosí, Mexico, Veracruz, Chiapas) to Nicaragua.
 Oreodera corticina Thomson, 1865: 542; 1878: 15 (type); Bates, 1880a: 134; Franz, 1954: 226 (distr.); Chemsak et al., 1980: 36 (distr.); Chemsak et al., 1992: 131 (cat.); Noguera & Chemsak, 1996: 406 (cat.); McCarty, 2001: 19, fig. 4 (syn.).
 Oreodera obsoleta Bates, 1874: 228; 1880a: 134, pl. 10, fig. 12; Lameere, 1883: 65 (cat.); Bates, 1885: 376 (distr.); Chemsak & Linsley, 1970: 415 (lect.); Chemsak et al., 1992: 132 (cat.); Maes et al., 1994: 50 (distr.); Noguera & Chemsak, 1996: 406 (cat.).
Type locality — Nicaragua, Chontales. (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Graphical approaches for the control of generalised error rates
Creators: name: Robertson, David S.
name: Wason, James M. S.
name: Bretz, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62-7

description: When simultaneously testing multiple hypotheses, the usual approach in the context of confirmatory clinical trials is to control the familywise error rate (FWER), which bounds the probability of making at least one false rejection. In many trial settings, these hypotheses will additionally have a hierarchical structure that reflects the relative importance and links between different clinical objectives. The graphical approach of Bretz et al. (2009) is a flexible and easily communicable way of controlling the FWER while respecting complex trial objectives and multiple structured hypotheses. However, the FWER can be a very stringent criterion that leads to procedures with low power, and may not be appropriate in exploratory trial settings. This motivates controlling generalised error rates, particularly when the number of hypotheses tested is no longer small. We consider the generalised familywise error rate (k-FWER), which is the probability of making k or more false rejections, as well as the tail probability of the false discovery proportion (FDP), which is the probability that the proportion of false rejections is greater than some threshold. We also consider asymptotic control of the false discovery rate (FDR), which is the expectation of the FDP. In this paper, we show how to control these generalised error rates when using the graphical approach and its extensions. We demonstrate the utility of the resulting graphical procedures on three clinical trial case studies.
description: Accepted for publication in Statistics in Medicine
Sexismus am Arbeitsplatz in der Sozialarbeit unter Professionellen
Creators: name: Durrer, Fabienne E.
Publisher: name: Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2025

description: Sexismus als gesellschaftliches und strukturelles Phänomen prägt die Arbeitswelt und
macht auch vor der Sozialarbeit unter Professionellen keinen Halt. Diese Arbeit untersucht
die Bedeutung von Sexismus in diesem Kontext und beleuchtet, wie er sich auf
Professionelle auswirkt. Ausgangspunkt ist die theoretische Analyse von Sexismus, welcher
auf sozialen Prägungen und Machtstrukturen basiert. Ziel ist es, praxisrelevantes
Wissen zu generieren, um den Herausforderungen sexistischer Diskriminierung aktiv
entgegenzuwirken. Die Methodik umfasst eine Literaturrecherche, welche sich auf intersektionale
Ansätze, geschlechterspezifische Diskriminierungen und die Profession der
Sozialarbeit konzentriert. Dabei werden die Perspektiven der professionellen Ethik und
der Berufskodex berücksichtigt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Sexismus nicht nur einzelne
Individuen betrifft, sondern tief in gesellschaftlicher und struktureller Haltung verankert
ist. Daraus abgeleitete Handlungsfelder für die Sozialarbeit betonen die Notwendigkeit
der Sensibilisierung, der kontinuierlichen Weiterbildung über das Phänomen und
einer hürdenfreien Feedbackkultur. Leitungspersonen und Ausbildungsinstitutionen tragen
eine Schlüsselrolle bei der Umsetzung dieser Massnahmen. Die Arbeit schliesst mit
der Aussicht, dass eine realistische Veränderung nur mit viel Engagement und einer guten
Verknüpfung von Theorie und Praxis erreicht werden kann. Wobei einen Beitrag zur
Förderung von Diskriminierungsfreiheit und Chancengleichheit in der Sozialarbeit geleistet
werden kann.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Sozialarbeit, 2025 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202502
Improving the availability and effectiveness of rural and “Micro” finance for small-scale irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of lessons learned
Creators: name: Merrey, D. J.
name: Lefore, Nicole
name: Merrey, D. J.
name: Lefore, Nicole
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Financing
subject: Microfinance
subject: Rural finance
subject: Financial institutions
subject: Small scale systems
subject: Agricultural credit
subject: Women’s participation
subject: Empowerment
subject: Rural communities
subject: Irrigation equipment
subject: Irrigation schemes
subject: Drip irrigation
subject: Pumps
subject: Solar energy
subject: Smallholders
subject: Farming systems
subject: Households
subject: Supply chain
subject: Microcredit
subject: Credit policies
subject: Investment
subject: Poverty
subject: Water resources
subject: Business models
subject: Grants
subject: Insurance
subject: Case studies
subject: Africa South of Sahara
subject: Kenya
subject: Rwanda
subject: Senegal
subject: Burkina Faso

description: This paper reviews the evidence available on the provision of financing for African smallholder farmers to purchase irrigation equipment such as pumps, pipes and drip irrigation systems. It sets the scene by first reviewing the literature on experiences with providing microcredit and other microfinance services as a poverty reduction strategy. Based on both case studies and several systematic reviews of the literature, it finds that the outcomes and impacts on poverty, gender equity and broader economic development are mixed at best. Microcredit is not a silver bullet solution to poverty, but it can often help poor households improve their lives. The paper then reviews the demand for and supply of financing for smallholders to purchase irrigation equipment. In surveys, farmers express a strong demand for equipment such as pumps, but often point to the lack of affordable and appropriately designed credit as a critical impediment to gaining access to such equipment. Even where microfinance institutions offer agricultural credit, it is usually short-term seasonal credit to purchase seeds and fertilizer. Credit on these terms is not useful to purchase equipment costing several hundred dollars. Focusing on programs specifically aimed at enabling farmers to purchase irrigation equipment, no credible detailed studies were found documenting the impacts and lessons learned. However, there are currently (as of 2018) numerous promising pilot studies and small projects offering a variety of approaches to enable smallholders to make such purchases. The paper reviews what information is available on these. A major recommendation of this paper is that a research project should be designed to carry out studies of these various experiments to identify what works under what conditions, as a basis for scaling out programs to offer financial services aimed at assisting smallholders to gain access to small-scale irrigation equipment.
The method of detecting online password attacks based on high-level protocol analysis and clustering techniques
Creators: name: Son, Nguyen Hong
name: Dung, Ha Thanh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Although there have been many solutions applied, the safety challenges related to the password security mechanism are not reduced. The reason for this is that while the means and tools to support password attacks are becoming more and more abundant, the number of transaction systems through the Internet is increasing, and new services systems appear. For example, IoT also uses password-based authentication. In this context, consolidating password-based authentication mechanisms is critical, but monitoring measures for timely detection of attacks also play an important role in this battle. The password attack detection solutions being used need to be supplemented and improved to meet the new situation. In this paper we propose a solution that automatically detects online password attacks in a way that is based solely on the network, using unsupervised learning techniques and protected application orientation. Our solution, therefore, minimizes dependence on the factors encountered by host-based or supervised learning solutions. The certainty of the solution comes from using the results of an in-depth analysis of attack characteristics to build the detection capacity of the mechanism. The solution was implemented experimentally on the real system and gave positive results.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of Promoting sport participation during early parenthood: a randomized controlled trial protocol
Creators: name: Grant, Stina
name: Beauchamp, Mark
name: Blanchard, Chris
name: Carson, Valerie
name: Rhodes, Ryan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1. Completed SPIRIT (2013) Checklist: Details on which page of the manuscript each relevant recommended item is addressed.
Spatial Deconvolution of Aerial Radiometric Survey and its application to the Fallout from a Radiological Dispersal Device
Creators: name: Sinclair, Laurel E.
name: Fortin, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mapping radioactive contamination using aerial survey measurements is an area under active investigation today. The radiometric aerial survey technique has been extensively applied following reactor accidents and also would provide a key tool for response to a malicious radiological or nuclear incident. Methods exist to calibrate the aerial survey system for quantification of the concentration of natural radionuclides, which can provide guidance. However, these methods have anticipated a spatial distribution of the source which is large in comparison to the survey altitude. In rapid emergency-response aerial surveys of areas of safety concern, deposits of relatively small spatial extent may be expected. The activity of such spatially restricted hot spots is underestimated using the traditional methods. We present here a spatial deconvolution method which can recover some of the variation smoothed out by the averaging due to survey at altitude. We show that the method can recover the true spatial distribution of concentration of a synthetic source. We then apply the method to real aerial survey data collected following detonation of a radiological dispersal device. The findings and implications of the deconvolution are then discussed by reference to a groundbased truckborne survey over the same contamination.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures
Interband Coulomb Interaction and Horizontal Line Nodes in Triplet Superconductor Sr$_2$RuO$_4$
Creators: name: hasegawa, Yasumasa
name: Yakiyama, Mayumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A possible mechanism for the horizontal line nodes in triplet superconductor, Sr$_2$RuO$_4$, is proposed. We consider the interlayer Coulomb interaction, as well as the on-site Coulomb repulsion, between electrons in different bands. In the second order perturbation in the interband interaction, the effective interaction becomes dependent on $\cos \frac{q_z}{2}$, resulting in the horizontal line nodes.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 3 of Benefits and harms of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines: systematic review with meta-analyses of trial data from clinical study reports
Creators: name: Jørgensen, Lars
name: Gøtzsche, Peter
name: Jefferson, Tom
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Benefits and harms of the HPV vaccines—list of excluded studies. (DOCX 63 kb)
Eighteen new fast radio bursts in the High Time Resolution Universe survey
Creators: name: Trudu, M.
name: Possenti, A.
name: Pilia, M.
name: Bailes, M.
name: Keane, E. F.
name: Kramer, M.
name: Balakrishnan, V.
name: Bhandari, S.
name: Bhat, N. D. R.
name: Burgay, M.
name: Cameron, A.
name: Champion, D. J.
name: Jameson, A.
name: Johnston, S.
name: Keith, M. J.
name: Levin, L.
name: Ng, C.
name: Sengar, R.
name: Tiburzi, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current observational evidence reveals that fast radio bursts (FRBs) exhibit bandwidths ranging from a few dozen MHz to several GHz. Traditional FRB searches primarily employ matched filter methods on time series collapsed across the entire observational bandwidth. However, with modern ultra-wideband receivers featuring GHz-scale observational bandwidths, this approach may overlook a significant number of events. We investigate the efficacy of sub-banded searches for FRBs, a technique seeking bursts within limited portions of the bandwidth. These searches aim to enhance the significance of FRB detections by mitigating the impact of noise outside the targeted frequency range, thereby improving signal-to-noise ratios. We conducted a series of Monte Carlo simulations, for the $400$-MHz bandwidth Parkes 21-cm multi-beam (PMB) receiver system and the Parkes Ultra-Wideband Low (UWL) receiver, simulating bursts down to frequency widths of about $100$\,MHz. Additionally, we performed a complete reprocessing of the high-latitude segment of the High Time Resolution Universe South survey (HTRU-S) of the Parkes-Murriyang telescope using sub-banded search techniques. Simulations reveal that a sub-banded search can enhance the burst search efficiency by $67_{-42}^{+133}$ % for the PMB system and $1433_{-126}^{+143}$ % for the UWL receiver. Furthermore, the reprocessing of HTRU led to the confident detection of eighteen new bursts, nearly tripling the count of FRBs found in this survey. These results underscore the importance of employing sub-banded search methodologies to effectively address the often modest spectral occupancy of these signals.
description: Accepted for publication (A&A)
Oreodera costaricensis Thomson 1865
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Oreodera
Oreodera costaricensis

description: 25. Oreodera costaricensis Thomson, 1865
Type locality — Costa Rica. (MNHN). Distribution — El Salvador, Nicaragua to Panama.
 Oreodera costaricensis Thomson, 1865: 542; Bates, 1872: 205 (distr.); Thomson, 1878: 15 (type); Bates, 1880a: 134, pl. 10, fig. 10; 1885: 375 (distr.); Pittier & Biolley, 1895: 29 (distr.); Franz, 1954: 226 (distr.); Chemsak et al., 1992: 131 (cat.); Maes et al., 1994: 49 (distr.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Market adoption and diffusion of fecal sludge-based fertilizer in developing countries: crosscountry analyses
Creators: name: Otoo, Miriam
name: Gebrezgabher, Solomie
name: Danso, G.
name: Amewu, Sena
name: Amirova, Iroda
name: Otoo, Miriam
name: Gebrezgabher, Solomie
name: Danso, G.
name: Amewu, Sena
name: Amirova, Iroda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Resource recovery
subject: Resource management
subject: Reuse
subject: Faecal sludge
subject: Organic fertilizers
subject: Developing countries
subject: Market economies
subject: Market prices
subject: Assessment
subject: Excreta
subject: Fertilizer application
subject: Waste management
subject: Soil fertility
subject: Nutrients
subject: Liquid fertilizers
subject: Solid wastes
subject: Agricultural wastes
subject: Pelleting
subject: Economic development
subject: Economic analysis
subject: Cost recovery
subject: Sanitation
subject: Businesses
subject: Agricultural production
subject: Composting
subject: Farmers’ attitudes
subject: Incentives
subject: Partnerships
subject: Ghana
subject: Uganda
subject: India
subject: Sri Lanka
subject: Vietnam

description: The safe recovery of nutrients from our waste streams allows us to address the challenges of waste management and soil nutrient depletion conjointly. Commercialization of waste-based organic fertilizers such as FortiferTM (fecal sludge-based co-compost) has the potential to generate significant benefits for developing economies via cost recovery for the sanitation sector and the provision of an alternative agricultural input for smallholder farmers. To guide future FortiferTM businesses, this report presents examples of detailed market assessments, based on farmers’ perceptions, attitudes and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a pelletized and non-pelletized FortiferTM co-compost. The research was conducted in the Greater Accra and Western regions in Ghana, and in and around Kampala (Uganda), Bangalore (India), Hanoi (Vietnam), and Kurunegala (Sri Lanka). Cross-country analyses helped to understand the effects of market drivers and, where possible, capture lessons learned for knowledge sharing.
description: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).