cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Role of Watershed Management in Bridging Demand – Supply Gap of Fodder for Enhancing Livestock Production in Shivaliks, Haryana
Creators: name: Arya, Swarn Lata
name: Panwar, Pankaj
name: Yadav, R.P
name: Arya, Swarn Lata
name: Panwar, Pankaj
name: Yadav, R.P
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Fodder
subject: Demand-supply gap
subject: Watershed management
subject: Livestock production
subject: Shivaliks

description: Watershed programme is an important intervention in dryland areas to improve livestock productivity through increased feed and fodder supply. The present study has focused on the impact of watershed interventions on crop-livestock linkages with particular emphasis on how the interventions have affected the quantity of stovers/straws as livestock feeding materials in bridging the demand-supply gap. The study has been carried out in three typical Shivalik foothill watersheds (two treated and one untreated) in the Panchkula district of Haryana state. The impact of watershed development programme has been estimated by adopting both with and without approach and before and after approach. The untreated watershed has derived 65 per cent of its total income from animal husbandry. On the contrary, this sector has contributed 42 per cent and 20 per cent in two treated watersheds. The availability of supplemental irrigation enabled the villagers to step up cropping intensity. The number of goats has reduced considerably in both treated watersheds and the number of stall-fed buffaloes has increased. Adult cattle units per household and per hectatre of cultivated area have been found to be highest in the untreated watershed. Green and dry fodder availability, both from cultivated lands and forest area, has increased as a result of implementation of watershed programme. Although the gap between requirement and availability has narrowed down in both the treated watersheds, significant gains could be realized in Sambhalwa watershed due to sufficient water availability to all the households. Bunga watershed has also shown effectiveness of watershed development programme in reducing demand –supply gap of fodder. This gap, however, widened after reaching the saturation point of watershed programme, i.e. after 22 years of its implementation.
Institutional and Economic Dynamics of Water Users Cooperative (WUC) Societies in Cauvery Basin of Karnataka
Creators: name: Rohith, B.K.
name: Chandrakanth, Mysore G.
name: Rohith, B.K.
name: Chandrakanth, Mysore G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Water users cooperative society
subject: Institutional economics
subject: Water institutions
subject: Cauvery Basin

description: The economic and institutional dimensions of water users cooperative (WUC) societies have been analyzed with regards to performance, membership and transaction costs in forming organization in the Cauvery basin of Karnataka. Field data have been collected from presidents and members of 30 WUC societies in Tirumakudalu Narasipura taluk of Mysore, Karnataka. Using cluster analysis, these have been grouped into (i) well performing, (ii) moderately performing, and (iii) poorly performing WUC societies. To understand institutional and economic dimensions, the selected WUC societies have been grouped based on command area, membership and conjunctive use of water. The odds ratio determined using logit model has indicated that for every one chance of not willing to pay additional water charges, there are seven chances of willingness to pay. Landholding size of farmer, conjunctive use and distance of the farm from canal have been found to significantly influence his/her willingness to pay for the assured summer irrigation. The mean willingness to pay amount for assured summer canal water has been found as ` 178 over and above the existing charge of ` 100. With all the odds being faced by these cooperatives, this study has revealed the inner strength of water user cooperative societies in canal water distribution through collective action.
Identifying anthropogenic features at Seoke (Botswana) using pXRF: Expanding the record of southern African Stone Walled Sites
Creators: name: Biagetti, Stefano
name: Alcaina-Mateos, Jonas
name: Ruiz-Giralt, Abel
name: Lancelotti, Carla
name: Groenewald, Patricia
name: Ibañez-Insa, Jordi
name: Gur-Arie, Shira
name: Morton, Fred
name: Merlo, Stefania
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Research Article
subject: Social sciences
subject: FOS: Social sciences
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Earth sciences
subject: Engineering and technology
subject: FOS: Engineering and technology
subject: Biology and life sciences

description: Funder: Office of Research and Development at the University of Botswana
description: Numerous and extensive ‘Stone Walled Sites’ have been identified in southern African Iron Age landscapes. Appearing from around 1200 CE, and showing considerable variability in size and form, these settlements are named after the dry-stone wall structures that characterize them. Stone Walled Sites were occupied by various Bantu-speaking agropastoral communities. In this paper we test the use of pXRF (portable X-ray fluorescence analysis) to generate a ‘supplementary’ archaeological record where evident stratigraphy is lacking, survey conditions may be uneven, and excavations limited, due to the overall site size. We propose herein the application of portable X-ray fluorescence analysis (pXRF) coupled with multivariate exploratory analysis and geostatistical modelling at Seoke, a southern African SWS of historical age (18th century CE). The aim of the paper is twofold: to explore the potential of the application of a low cost, quick, and minimally invasive technique to detect chemical markers in anthropogenic sediments from a Stone Walled Site, and to propose a way to analyse the results in order to improve our understanding of the use of space at non-generalized scales in such sites.
Measurements of hadronic structure functions of the photon at LEP
Creators: name: Taylor, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present status of the measurements of hadronic structure functions of the photon, investigated in deep inelastic electron-photon scattering at LEP, is presented. This article covers the hadronic structure function F_2^gamma of quasi-real photons as well as the structure function of virtual photons. Special emphasis is given to new developments in the analysis and to the most recent measurements.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, To appear in the proceedings of DIS 2001, Bologna, Italy
Polarised Amplitudes and Soft-Virtual Cross Sections for $b\bar b \rightarrow ZH$ at NNLO in QCD
Creators: name: Ahmed, Taushif
name: Ajjath, A. H.
name: Chen, Long
name: Dhani, Prasanna K.
name: Mukherjee, Pooja
name: Ravindran, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Production of the Higgs boson, $H$ in association with a massive vector boson, $V$, i.e., the $VH$ process, plays an important role in the explorations of Higgs physics at the Large Hadron Collider, both for a precise study of Higgs' Standard Model couplings and for probing New Physics. In this publication we present the two-loop corrections in massless quantum chromodynamics (QCD) to the amplitude of the Higgs production associated with a $Z$ boson via the bottom quark-antiquark annihilation channel with a non-vanishing bottom-quark Yukawa coupling, which is a necessary ingredient of the full next-to-next-to-leading-order QCD corrections to the $VH$ process in the five-flavour scheme. The computation is performed by projecting the D-dimensional scattering amplitude directly onto an appropriate set of Lorentz structures related to the linear polarisation states of the $Z$ boson. We provide analytic expressions of the complete set of renormalised polarised amplitudes in terms of polylogarithms of maximum weight four. To give an estimation of the size of contributions from amplitudes considered in this work, we compute numerically the resulting cross sections under the soft-virtual approximation. We also take the opportunity to make a dedicated discussion regarding an interesting subtlety appearing in the conventional form factor decomposition of amplitudes involving axial currents regularised in D dimensions.
description: 40 pages, 5 figures and 1 table; references added, matched with the published version in JHEP
MOESM6 of Wild-type Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase is misfolded in cerebrospinal fluid of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Creators: name: Tokuda, Eiichi
name: Yo-Ichi Takei
name: Ohara, Shinji
name: Fujiwara, Noriko
name: Hozumi, Isao
name: Furukawa, Yoshiaki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6: Figure S5. Reactivities of SOD1 antibodies toward conformationally distinct states of SOD1 in vitro were examined by indirect ELISA. Recombinant SOD1 proteins (black, wild-type: white, A4V: red, G37R: blue, G85R) were prepared in the following states: +Cu/Zn S-S, SOD1 with the disulfide bond (SOD1S-S) in the presence of copper and zinc ions; Apo S-S, SOD1S-S in the absence of any metal ions; Apo SH, SOD1 without the disulfide bond (SOD1SH) in the absence of any metal ions; SS oligomer, SOD1 oligomers crosslinked via disulfide bonds prepared from Apo S-S; Aggregates, insoluble SOD1 aggregates prepared from Apo SH. The experimental methods to prepare those SOD1 proteins can be found in our previous papers (ref #7, 8). Proteins (5 μg) were first adsorbed in wells of an ELISA plate and then detected with 0.2 μg/mL of (A) UβB, (B) EDI, (C) SOD1int, (D) apoSOD, (E) 24–39, and (F) Pan-SOD1 antibodies. A detailed procedure for indirect ELISA can be found in our previous papers (ref #35, 36), which have also reported the data on UβB, EDI, SOD1int, and apoSOD. Three independent experiments were performed to estimate error bars (standard deviation).
Lloydiella uberia Ballantyne & Lambkin 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Ballantyne, Lesley A.
name: Lambkin, Christine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Lloydiella
Lloydiella uberia

description: Lloydiella uberia sp. n.
(Figs 204, 208, 210, 215, 220, 224)
 Holotype. Male. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Chimbu Pr., Uberie, 29.ix.1966, R Carver & W Mackay (DAPM).
 Paratypes (5). PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Chimbu Pr., Uberie, 29.ix.1966, R Carver & W Mackay, males (DAPM)
 Diagnosis. Distinguished by the rounded obtuse posterolateral corners of the pronotum, narrow MPP, dark metasternum and moderately broad posterior area of the aedeagal sheath sternite.
 Male. 10.0– 11.3 mm long; 3.3–4.0 mm wide; W/L 0.3. Colour (Figs 204, 208, 211): Pronotum, MS and MN orange yellow (pronotum is semitransparent and fat body shows through cuticle in clumps); elytra very dark brown almost black; head, antennae and palpi dark brown; ventral aspect of pro and mesothorax yellowish, of metasternum and metepisternal plates dark brown, metepipleural plates yellow; all legs orange yellow except for dark brown apical 1/3 femora and all of tibiae and tarsi; abdominal V2–5 very dark brown as are tergites 2–6; LO creamy white; T 7, 8 pale orange. Pronotum (Figs 204, 208, 210) 2.0– 2.4 mm long; 3.3–4.0 mm wide; W/L 1.6; lateral margins diverge posteriorly with rounded convergence; posterolateral corners rounded obtuse, projecting beyond median posterior margin. Elytron: 8.0– 8.9 mm long; with 2 well–defined interstitial lines. Head: GHW 2.3–2.6; SIW 0.3; SIW/GHW 0.1. Apical segment of labial palpi with two teeth (one at apex and a slightly wider one at base). Abdomen, ventrites: MPP short narrow prominent, not inclined dorsally along its length. Tergites: T8 with lateral margins rounded; lacking median groove on ventral surface. Aedeagal sheath with sheath sternite moderately broad in posterior half (Fig. 221).
 Etymology. The specific name is considered a noun in apposition and reflects the type locality.
description: Published as part of Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lambkin, Christine, 2009, Systematics of Indo-Pacific fireflies with a redefinition of Australasian Atyphella Olliff, Madagascan Photuroluciola Pic, and description of seven new genera from the Luciolinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), pp. 1-188 in Zootaxa 1997 on pages 64-65
Preliminary trigger studies for the PEP-N detector
Creators: name: Pasqualucci, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A very preliminary study for a trigger for the PEP-N experiment is presented. Its aim is to show the feasibility of a very efficient trigger for multihadronic events based on energy releases in the electromagnetic calorimeter. Though the efficiency of such a trigger is very high and simple topology requirements can be applied to reduce cosmic background, an accurate study of machine background is going to be made to provide final trigger design and performance.
description: Invited talk at "e+e- physics at intermediate energies workshop", SLAC, April 30 - May 2, 2001 (T17)
New Generation of Parton Distributions with Uncertainties from Global QCD Analysis
Creators: name: Tung, Wu-Ki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new generation of parton distribution functions with increased precision and quantitative estimates of uncertainties is presented. This work includes a full treatment of available experimental correlated systematic errors for both new and old data sets and a systematic and pragmatic treatment of uncertainties of the parton distributions and their physical predictions. The new gluon distribution is considerably harder than that of previous standard fits. Extensive results on the uncertainties of parton distributions at various scales, and on parton luminosity functions at the Tevatron RunII and the LHC, are obtained. The latter provide the means to quickly estimate the uncertainties of a wide range of physical processes at these high-energy hadron colliders, such as the production cross sections of the $W,Z$ at the Tevatron and the LHC, and that of a light Higgs.
description: Contribution to the XXXVIIth Rencontres de Moriond session devoted to "QCD And High Energy Hadronic Interactions", 5 pages, 2 figures
Radio Pulsar Sub-Populations (I) : The Curious Case of Nulling Pulsars
Creators: name: Konar, Sushan
name: Deka, Uddeepta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: About 200 radio pulsars have been observed to exhibit nulling episodes - short and long. We find that the nulling fraction of a pulsar does not have any obvious correlation with any of the intrinsic pulsar parameters. It also appears that the phenomenon of nulling may be preferentially experienced by pulsars with emission coming predominantly from the polar cap region, and also having extremely curved magnetic fields.
description: Final published version. Text significantly improved
Characterising Sikussak and Other Forms of Ice Melange in Greenland Fjords
Creators: name: Fraser, Clare
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2012
Subjects: Sikussak structures
Melange structures
Tidewater glaciers
Fjords
Greenland

description: The term ‘sikussak’ has a complex and disordered history of use in glaciological literature, and no dedicated studies of sikussak characteristics have yet been carried out. Using ATM elevation data from the NASA Operation IceBridge campaign, profiles of pro-glacial sikussak and ice melange are derived. Sikussak structures are found to be approximately 15 – 150 m thick and 1 – 35 km long, with surface slopes in the range ⁻0.1 – ⁻0.7°. These structures are therefore larger than is generally perceived, and may have a greater impact on the sensitive terminal zone of tidewater glaciers than previously considered. This study aims to characterise pro-glacial sikussak and melange structures and their importance at the calving front of tidewater terminating glaciers using a dataset of 13 glaciers around the Greenland Ice Sheet. Based on observations from these data, a classification system is proposed for the different pro-glacial structures found in Greenlandic fjords, and the geographical location of these various structures is delimited using a fast-ice index based on the ratio between positive and freezing degree days. The primary controls affecting sikussak morphology are investigated, and a hierarchy of glacio-dynamic, environmental and topographic factors are identified. Finally, it is proposed that there exists a stabilising feedback between rapid glacier flow and sikussak formation, and that this may be threatened under future climate change.
Smallholder Dairy Farmers’ Access to Modern Milk Marketing Chains in India
Creators: name: Kumar, Anjani
name: Staal, Steven J.
name: Singh, Dhiraj Kumar
name: Kumar, Anjani
name: Staal, Steven J.
name: Singh, Dhiraj Kumar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Milk marketing chain
subject: Smallholders
subject: Dairy farmers
subject: Modern milk marketing chain
subject: Bihar
subject: Punjab

description: The smallholder dairy farmers’ access to modern milk marketing chain has been assessed in India by collecting data at the farm level in two states, viz. Bihar and Punjab. These states are among the largest milk producing states of the country but depict stark variations in terms of milk productivity and per capita milk availability. Another significant feature is the emergences of modern milk marketing chains in both the states. The study has shown that in spite of the growing presence of modern milk supply chains, the traditional milk supply chain is still dominant in the Indian milk market. Its presence is even more pronounced in less-developed states like Bihar. However, the traditional milk supply chain is being replaced, albeit slowly, with the commercialization of dairying. The structure of the milk marketing in Punjab has depicted this conclusion. The study has concluded that the modern milk supply chain seems to have an inclusive structure and the resource-poor dairy farmers are not excluded from the modern milk supply chain. The study has argued that the traceability and food safety issues will further strengthen the modern milk supply chain. The scalability of the modern milk supply chain will depend on the development of milk collection and transportation facilities and incentive pricing for a quality produce.
Phonon-assisted relaxation kinetics of statistically-degenerate excitons in high-quality quantum wells
Creators: name: Soroko, A. V.
name: Ivanov, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Acoustic-phonon-assisted thermalization kinetics of excitons in quantum wells (QWs) is developed for small concentrations of particles, $ρ_{\rm 2D} \lesssim 10^9$ cm$^{-1}$, when particle-particle interaction can be neglected while Bose-Einstein statistics already strongly influences the relaxation processes at low temperatures. In this case thermalization of QW excitons occurs through nonequilibrium states and is given by the following scenario. During the first transient stage, which lasts a few characteristic scattering times, the correlations with an initial distribution of QW excitons disappear. The next, adiabatic stage of thermalization usually takes many characteristic scattering times, depends only upon two control parameters, the lattice temperature $T_b$ and the degeneracy temperature $T_0 \propto ρ_{\rm 2D}$, and is characterized by a quasi-equilibrated distribution of high-energy QW excitons with effective temperature $T(t)$. We show that the thermalization law of high-energy particles is given by $δT(t) = T(t) - T_b \propto e^{-λ_0 t}/t$, where $λ_0$ is a marginal value of the continuous eigenvalue spectrum of the linearized kinetics. By analyzing the linearized phonon-assisted kinetics of statistically-degenerate QW excitons, we study the dependence $λ_0 =λ_0(T_b,T_0)$. Our numerical estimates refer to high quality GaAs and ZnSe QWs. Finally, we propose a special design of GaAs-based microcavities, which considerably weakens the bottleneck effect in relaxation of excitons (polaritons) and allows us to optimize the acoustic-phonon-assisted thermalization processes.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, REVTeX 4.0
Solar X-ray spectroscopy
Creators: name: Del Zanna, Giulio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: X-ray spectroscopy
Solar Physics
Atomic data
History Of Astronomy

description: I will briefly review the collisional-radiative modelling I introduced in CHIANTI v.9 to model the satellite lines in the X-rays and show some older high-resolution solar spectra in the 1-25 Angstroms range. I will then show recent lower resolution full-Sun spectra from the XSM instrument on board the Chandarayan mission, which have provided new results in terms of chemical abundances in active regions and flares. There is renewed interest in this spectral region, and the first imaging spectroscopy has recently been achieved this year with the MaGIXS instrument. I will then show that very good diagnostics are available in the soft X-rays, in the 90-150 Angstroms range. Several missions are being proposed, and a sounding rocket (EUNIS) has obtained the first imaging spectroscopy in this spectral range.
Semileptonic decays of heavy mesons with artificial neural networks
Creators: name: Grant, Cody M.
name: Gunawardana, Ayesh
name: Petrov, Alexey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental checks of the second row unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix involve extractions of the matrix element $V_{cd}$, which may be obtained from semileptonic decay rates of $D$ to $π$. These decay rates are proportional to hadronic form factors which parameterize how the quark $c \to d$ transition is realized in $D \to π$ meson decays. The form factors can not yet be analytically computed over the whole range of available momentum transfer $q^2$, but can be parameterized with a varying degree of model dependency. We propose using artificial neural networks trained from experimental pseudo-data to predict the shape of these form factors with a prescribed uncertainty. We comment on the parameters of several commonly-used model parameterizations of semileptonic form factors. We extract shape parameters and use unitarity to bound the form factor at a given $q^2$, which then allows us to bound the CKM matrix element $|V_{cd}|$.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables. Normalization of the input data corrected, clarifications added, misprints corrected. Results changed
Trends, Determinants and Constraints of Temporary Sheep Migration in Rajasthan — An Economic Analysis
Creators: name: Suresh, A.
name: Gupta, D.C.
name: Mann, J.S.
name: Suresh, A.
name: Gupta, D.C.
name: Mann, J.S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Sheep migration
subject: Rajasthan
subject: Sheep farming

description: The study has analysed the temporary migration of sheep as a response to the demand-supply disequilibrium of fodder and water and has explored its trends, determinants and constraints by using the data collected from rural areas of semi-arid Rajasthan. About 32 per cent of the farmers in the study area undertake temporary sheep migration. The migrating farmers have higher holding size of sheep, goat and buffaloes and are better in terms of adoption of improved sheep management practices than non-migrant farmers. The flock size, potential household labour supply and credit absorption behaviour have been reported to positively affect the odds of migration. The farmers face various en-route problems during migration, the major ones being increased morbidity, non-availability of veterinary medicines, resistance from local persons, theft and missing of sheep. The net return per animal per year has been found slightly higher in case of the non-migrant sheep flocks. The study has argued that migration of livestock is to be viewed as a method of production and adaptive mechanism evolved over the years. Efforts to sendentarise migrants without providing alternate fodder sources or productive assets of gainful employment may not be fruitful. In order to sustain the livelihood of the sheep farmers, institutional intervention to enhance accessibility to fodder and feed, veterinary services and strengthening of the extension services is needed.
River Herring Conservation in Freshwater: Investigating Fish Reproductive Success and the Educational Value of Citizen Monitoring Programs
Creators: name: Marjadi, Meghna
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: Over the last century anadromous alewife (Alosa psuedoharengus) and blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis), collectively called river herring, suffered drastic declines throughout their range from Newfoundland (Canada) to North Carolina (USA). A 2011 petition to include river herring in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was rejected, partly due to inadequate information towards identifying coast-wide population status. Additionally, knowledge gaps were identified with basic ecology of the river herring life cycle in freshwater, including species reproductive strategies. In Chapter 2, I investigated how body size, spawning arrival time, and sex influence river herring reproductive success. I collaborated with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries to introduce adult river herring (421, 266, and 410 individuals in 2013, 2014, and 2015, respectively) into Pentucket Pond (Massachusetts, USA), which historically had river herring but is currently inaccessible to upstream migrants. Using fin clips from stocked adult fish and juveniles collected in the lake each summer, I genotyped individuals and constructed pedigrees with 15 microsatellites. River herring had small (mean =1.1) families and spawned multiple times with multiple mates from May to June. Females were more successful than males. Earlier arrival and larger body size were independent indicators of reproductive success. These results provide critical river herring life history information for the freshwater component of population models that will inform management of this at-risk species.
Presently, most river herring populations are monitored using data from citizen counts of spawning adults entering freshwater. Involving citizen watershed groups in data collection and may provide ancillary benefits beyond collection of population-level count data. In Chapter 3, I used pre-and post-surveys to assess how involvement in one citizen monitoring program influenced participants’ environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Participants began the program with high scores for broader scientific and pro-environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behaviors. After the program, participants reported increased connection to nature, citizen science involvement, river herring knowledge, and engagement in outdoor recreation. For participants, engagement with nature was the most important program benefit. These results provide an additional case study to the citizen science literature and demonstrate that citizen science programs can help participants connect with the environment.
Cyberpoetry for activism
Creators: name: Waliya, Yohanna Joseph
Publisher: name: Vispo
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Africa
subject: Digital humanities
subject: Digital art
subject: Digital communications

description: Cyberpoetry for activism is a collection of two digital poems: Arise Africa! and Letter to the United Nations. The later was published in this Core repository before the official publication date . The poems communicate justice and encouragement.
Additional file 7 of Expression characteristics of pineal miRNAs at ovine different reproductive stages and the identification of miRNAs targeting the AANAT gene
Creators: name: Di, Ran
name: Liu, Qiu-Yue
name: Song, Shu-Hui
name: Tian, Dong-Mei
name: He, Jian-Ning
name: Ge, Ying
name: Wang, Xiang-Yu
name: Hu, Wen-Ping
name: Mwacharo, Joram-Mwashigadi
name: Pan, Zhang-Yuan
name: Wang, Jian-Dong
name: Ma, Qing
name: Cao, Gui-Ling
name: Jin, Hui-Hui
name: Liang, Xiao-Jun
name: Chu, Ming-Xing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7. Highly expressed genes during anestrus or breeding season in pineal gland of sheep.
Ecological Consequences of Lost Anadromous Forage Fish in Freshwater Ecosystems
Creators: name: Mattocks, Steven R
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: Beginning in the early 1600s, dam construction in New England obstructed anadromous fish access to spawning grounds during migration. As a result, anadromous forage fish populations have declined, which has impacted freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems. To determine the impacts of dams on anadromous forage fish and freshwater ecosystems, I used historical and current data to estimate population changes in alewives (Alosa pseudoharengus) from 1600-1900. A significant reduction in spawning habitat occurred in New England as a result of 1,642 dams constructed between 1600 and 1900, resulting in 14.8% and 16.6% lake and stream habitat remaining by 1900, respectively. In eight New England watersheds, this translates to an estimated cumulative annual loss of 30 B juvenile alewives available as freshwater forage and 538 M year 1, 2 and 3 alewives available as marine forage. The cumulative annual lost number of adult return spawners was conservatively 17 M fish, or 3,642 metric tons. Lost marine-derived nutrients from adult return spawners were 11 T phosphorus, 64 T nitrogen, and 410 T carbon. A comparison of predator fish growth and condition in alewife and non-alewife lakes showed that white perch (Morone Americana) and yellow perch (Perca flavescens) have higher condition in early summer in lakes with alewives. Predator growth rates (length-at-age) were significantly higher in early life stages (ages 1 and 2) when alewives were present, but significantly lower in late life stages (ages 3 and older). Results indicate a greater maximum length obtained by mature fish when alewives are absent, and an earlier age and length at maturity when alewives are present. These results indicate significant ecosystem impacts of lost anadromous forage fish, with bottom-up trophic effects across multiple time scales and biological processes. An ecosystem-based management approach should be used by inland and marine aquatic managers, and ecosystem connectivity and trophic interactions should be considered when managing migratory fish and prioritizing restoration goals.
Test of general relativity: 1995-2002 measurement of frame-dragging
Creators: name: Ciufolini, Ignazio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After an introduction on phenomena due to spin and mass-energy currents on clocks and photons, we review the 1995-2001 measurements of the gravitomagnetic field of Earth and Lense-Thirring effect obtained by analyzing the orbits of the two laser-ranged satellites LAGEOS and LAGEOS II; this method has provided a direct measurement of Earth's gravitomagnetism with accuracy of the order of 20 %. A future accurate measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect, at the level of 1 % accuracy, may include the LARES experiment that will also provide other basic tests of general relativity and gravitation. Finally, we report the latest measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect, obtained in 2002 with the LAGEOS satellites over nearly 8 years of data. This 2002 result fully confirms and improves our previous measurements of the Earth frame-dragging: the Lense-Thirring effect exists and its experimental value is within ~ 20 % of what is predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
MOESM5 of Genetic polymorphism of merozoite surface proteins 1 and 2 of Plasmodium falciparum in the China–Myanmar border region
Creators: name: Cang-Lin Zhang
name: Zhou, Hong-Ning
name: Liu, Quan
name: Yang, Ya-Ming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S4. Alignment of the predicted amino acid sequences of FC27 allelic types in msp2 of all isolates in the China–Myanmar border region. The shaded areas indicate the central variable region (GenBank accession number JX885918). Identical residues are indicated by dots. Dashes represent spaces inserted to maximize alignment. Each repeat unit is underlined. The total number of each allele is shown in the last of sequences.
Evaluating Generic Dairy Advertising impacts on Retail, Wholesale, and Farm Milk Markets
Creators: name: Kaiser, Harry M.
name: Forker, Olan D.
name: Lenz, John E.
name: Sun, Chin-Hwa
name: Kaiser, Harry M.
name: Forker, Olan D.
name: Lenz, John E.
name: Sun, Chin-Hwa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Genenc dairy advertising
subject: dairy industry model
subject: program impacts
subject: dairy price support program

description: This article develops a dynamic econometric model of the national dairy industry to simulate the Impacts of generic advertising on the demand for milk and dairy products, farm and consumer prices, and producer welfare Two advertising scenarios are analyzed (1) a historic scenario, and (2) a pre-National Dairy Promotion and Research Board (NDPRB) scenario, where generic advertising expenditures are held constant at their quarterly level. during the year prior to the NDPRB's inception The results indicate that the program has been effective In raising farm prices, Increasing dairy product demand, and reducing cheese and butter purchases by the Government
Quantum Theory of Light in a Dispersive Structured Linear Dielectric: a Macroscopic Hamiltonian Tutorial Treatment
Creators: name: Raymer, Michael G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These notes, intended to be self contained and tutorial, present a direct, macroscopic approach to quantizing light inside a linear-response dielectric material when both spectral dispersion and spatial nonuniformity are present, but the spectral region of interest is optically transparent so that explicit treatment of the underlying physics of the medium is not needed. The approach taken is based on the macroscopic Maxwell equations and a corresponding Hamiltonian, without the use of Lagrangians or any dynamical model for the medium, and uses a standard mode-based quantization method. The treatment covers: energy density and flux in a dispersive dielectric; a summary of the inverse permittivity formalism; a new derivation of the mode normalization condition; a direct proof of the nonorthogonality of the modes; examples of quantized field expressions for the general case and various special cases; the relationship between group velocity and energy flux; the band approximation and the continuum limit; and quantum optical treatment of waveguide modes.
description: to appear in J of Modern Optics 2020. minor typos corrected. 30 pages, 1 figure
Does Decentralization Improve Agricultural Services Delivery? — Evidence from Karnataka
Creators: name: Kannan, Elumalai
name: Kannan, Elumalai
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural services
subject: decentralization
subject: services delivery
subject: Karnataka

description: The study has analysed the impact of decentralization of governance structure on the delivery of agricultural public services in the state of Karnataka using survey data collected from 36 grama panchayats through focussed group discussions. The evidence shows that discussions on agricultural issues in grama sabhas influence the public service delivery positively. Similarly, the regular participation of the officials of state department of agriculture in grama sabha meetings has a significant effect on joint agricultural activities, especially demonstrations of new technology to farmers. The study has underlined the importance of the institution and how such institutional structures can enable effective service delivery to the farmers.
Karakteristik Dan Kemampuan Wirausaha
Creators: name: Laras Nanda Julita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Tugas Individu Membuat Makalah Mata Kuliah "Kewirausahaan" Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Arab Kelas B Semester 7 FTIK - IAIN Pontianak
Cyberpoésies d'engagement
Creators: name: Waliya, Yohanna Joseph
Publisher: name: Vispo
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Digital humanities
subject: Digital art

description: Cyberpoésies d'engagement est une collection de deux poèmes numériques: Ifrikiya lève-toi! et Lettre aux Nations Unies. Bien que le dernier poème ait été publié sur Core, celui-ci reste la version définitive.
Radiative decay of Upsilon(nS) into S-wave sbottomonium
Creators: name: Berger, Edmond L.
name: Bodwin, Geoffrey T.
name: Lee, Jungil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A calculation is presented of the radiative decay of the Upsilon(nS) into a bound state of bottom squarks. Predictions are provided of the branching fraction as a function of the masses of the bottom squark and the gluino. Branching fractions as large as several times 10^{-4} are obtained for supersymmetric particle masses in the range suggested by the analysis of bottom-quark production cross sections. Data are shown that limit the range of allowed masses. Forthcoming high-statistics data from the CLEO Collaboration offer possibilities of discovery or significant new bounds on the existence and masses of supersymmetric particles.
description: 10 pages, 3 figs, normalizations in Eqs. (12) & (13) corrected, figs. 2 & 3 replaced, published version
Reimagining and Rewriting the Guantánamo Bay Detainee Library: Translation, Ideology, and Power
Creators: name: McCammon, Muira N
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: The main argument of this thesis is that the rewriters of the story of the Guantánamo Bay Detainee Library, namely journalists and filmmakers, engage differently with primary source material about the detention facility; what they omit and include in their narratives varies and depends largely on their pre-established ideologies. In the field of translation studies, this thesis contributes a new case study; it considers the problematic interplay between law, libraries, and multilingual information access in detention facilities. My research also demonstrates the challenges of examining a library that belongs to a highly controversial military system. In the first chapter I review previous studies of detainee libraries, and I introduce the concepts of rewriting, power, patronage, and ideology. In the second chapter I evaluate how reading material is unevenly distributed across nineteen language groups in the Guantánamo Bay Detainee Library. In the third chapter I reflect on the ways in which news articles written by civilian and military journalists about the Guantánamo Bay Detainee Library are rooted in disparate ideologies. In the fourth chapter I parse the story of the Guantánamo Bay Detainee Library as it is told through the fictitious lens of the film Camp X-Ray (2014). In the fifth and final chapter I summarize the logistical challenges of studying the Guantánamo Bay Detainee Library from afar and imagine what future might await its books.
MOESM5 of Wild-type Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase is misfolded in cerebrospinal fluid of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Creators: name: Tokuda, Eiichi
name: Yo-Ichi Takei
name: Ohara, Shinji
name: Fujiwara, Noriko
name: Hozumi, Isao
name: Furukawa, Yoshiaki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S4. Almost complete depletion of C4F6-reactive SOD1 from CSF by immunoprecipitation. C4F6-crosslinked magnetic beads were first incubated with the CSF of ALS2 (40 μL) at 4 °C for 24 h, and the solution was collected as the “unbound” fraction in 1st IP. The remaining magnetic beads were then treated with 10 μL of 100 mM citrate buffer at pH 3.1, and the eluate was collected as the “bound” fraction in 1st IP. The unbound fraction (40 μL) in the 1st IP step was further treated with C4F6-crosslinked magnetic beads at 4 °C for 24 h, and the solution was collected as the unbound fraction in 2nd IP. The remaining magnetic beads were then treated with 10 μL of 100 mM citrate buffer at pH 3.1, and the eluate was collected as the bound fraction in 2nd IP. Ten microliter of the CSF (input) as well as the unbound and bound fractions in 1st IP and 2nd IP steps were analyzed by Western blotting with FL-154 antibody. The full-length and truncated SOD1 proteins were indicated with filled and open arrows, respectively.
THE HARMONIOUS CONCLUSIONS OF PEONY PAVILION & THE LUTE
Creators: name: McCartin, Alexander
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: This thesis explores the harmonious endings of two different Chinese plays The Lute and Peony Pavilion. The harmonious conclusions reflect unique aspects of Chinese culture such as Confucian ethics and norms. The analysis of these harmonious conclusions provides a further analysis of the text throughout the plays. The happy endings do not occur without strife. The conflict found in the plays is examined to demonstrate the factors that lead to the transformation from conflict to harmony.
Projections onto the Set of Feasible Inputs and the Set of Feasible Solutions
Creators: name: Gambella, Claudio
name: Marecek, Jakub
name: Mevissen, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the projection onto the set of feasible inputs and the set of feasible solutions of a polynomial optimisation problem (POP). Our motivation is increasing the robustness of solvers for POP: Without a priori guarantees of feasibility of a particular instance, one should like to perform the projection onto the set of feasible inputs prior to running a solver. Without a certificate of optimality, one should like to project the output of the solver onto the set of feasible solutions subsequently. We study the computational complexity, formulations, and convexifications of the projections. Our results are illustrated on IEEE test cases of Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF) problem.
Thinking in Circles: A Systems Theory Approach to Public Participation in Planning
Creators: name: Meno, Stephen
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: In the field of planning, there is widespread consensus that the mechanisms in which most planners use to engage with the public are ineffective and exclusive. Although there has been much work done on the techniques planners can adopt to reach out to underrepresented segments of the community, few municipalities have adopted them. This thesis seeks to advance the conversation on public participation beyond the mechanisms and into a discussion of why only certain communities are implementing these more progressive, efficient, effective, and equitable measures. By depicting how public participation functions as a system of interconnected paths and feedback loops, the author identifies twelve places in the system (i.e. leverage points) that could make participation more inclusive. The author tested the applicability of the leverage points by applying this Systems Theory framework to two inclusive participation initiatives in Amherst, Massachusetts and Vallejo, California. Through interviews and documentary research, the author found the framework to be effective in conceptualizing how communities become more inclusive and how participatory mechanisms can help shift the roles citizens, public managers, and planners have in the planning process.
MOESM7 of Wild-type Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase is misfolded in cerebrospinal fluid of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Creators: name: Tokuda, Eiichi
name: Yo-Ichi Takei
name: Ohara, Shinji
name: Fujiwara, Noriko
name: Hozumi, Isao
name: Furukawa, Yoshiaki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 7: Figure S6. Addition of metal salts has little effects on amounts of SOD1 adsorbed on wells of an ELISA plate. The experiments were performed as described in Fig. 8B except the capture antibody. Briefly, the CSF samples (20 μg of total proteins, 100 μL of total volume) were first incubated with either (blue bars) 100 μM CuSO4 or (red bars) 100 μM ZnSO4 at 4 °C overnight and then analyzed by sandwich ELISA with FL-154 and Pan-SOD1 as capture and detection antibodies, respectively. As a control, the CSF samples incubated at 4 °C overnight without addition of any metal ions (black bars) were also examined. The experiments were performed in triplicate to estimate error bars (standard deviation).
QCD Universality recovered via the Total Available Quadri-Scalar: Atot
Creators: name: Appignani, Corrado
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After presenting a brief review of the phenomenology of the Leading Effect, we define a new variable, the ``Total Available Quadri-Scalar'' (Atot), and propose it as the invariant quantity effectively available for the production of the multihadronic final states. The introduction and the definition of this new variable are justified by means of simple geometrical-kinematical considerations and we show that Atot reduces to the so-called Effective Energy in the single specific situation where the use of the latter applies. Using Atot to re-plot existing data, the quantity is shown to be a ``Universality Feature'' - that is, independent from the process under exam, the collider nominal energy, and even from the hadronic invariant mass - as imposed by QCD Universality.
description: V1: 24 pages, 4 figures; V2: reduced to 18 pages, layout and presentation improved, content unchanged; V3: definitive published version, adp latex style, a comparison to GPDs added, content unchanged