cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Impact of Contract Farming on Smallholder Poultry Farmers’ Income in Kenya
Creators: name: Wainaina, Priscilla W.
name: Okello, Julius Juma
name: Nzuma, Jonathan M.
name: Wainaina, Priscilla W.
name: Okello, Julius Juma
name: Nzuma, Jonathan M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Contract farming
subject: smallholder farmers
subject: impact
subject: propensity score matching
subject: poultry production
subject: Kenya.

description: Contract farming is a form of vertical coordination largely aimed at correcting the market failure associated with spot markets that arise due to imperfect information. However there is still no consensus in the literature on the impact of contract farming on the welfare of smallholder farmers. While some studies have argued that contact farming improves access to ready markets by smallholder farmers, other studies have suggested that contract farming lowers the incomes of smallholder farmers because the contractors wield greater market power over the farmers. Consequently, it is seen as a blessing by some and a necessary evil by others. This study uses a propensity score matching technique to shed light on the impact of contract farming on smallholder farmers. The study also examines the conditioners of participation in contract farming. It uses data collected from 180 smallholder poultry farmers stratified by participation in contract production. The study finds that, on average, contracted farmers earned more net revenue per bird compared to the independent farmers, by approximately 27 percent, and as such participating in contract farming could improve the welfare of these small holder poultry farmers. The study discusses the policy implications of the findings.
Additional file 4: of Association of TGF-ß1 polymorphisms and chronic hepatitis C infection: a Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pengfei Guo
name: Shuangyin Liu
name: Xiangru Sun
name: Longqin Xu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S4. Scale for Quality Assessment for Identified Studies on TGF-ß1 gene polymorphisms and chronic HCV infection. (DOCX 15 kb)
Additional file 4 of IL13Rα1 protects against rheumatoid arthritis by combating the apoptotic resistance of fibroblast-like synoviocytes
Creators: name: Yang, Xiaomei
name: Guo, Qingwei
name: Feng, Tingting
name: Lu, Qiqi
name: Ge, Luna
name: Pan, Jihong
name: Bi, Kehong
name: Qiao, Li
name: Tian, Lei
name: Xie, Tianhua
name: Yao, Chengfang
name: Song, Guanhua
name: Wang, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 4: Table S2 List of potential IL13Rα1 partners in RA FLSs identified by mass spectrometry.
Evaluating Capacity Development in Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation: A Case from Agricultural Research
Creators: name: Horton, D.
name: Mackay, R.
name: Anderson, A.
name: Dupleich, L.
name: Horton, D.
name: Mackay, R.
name: Anderson, A.
name: Dupleich, L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Agricultural research
subject: capacity
subject: evaluation
subject: methodology
subject: monitoring
subject: planning
subject: training

description: Capacity development has moved to center stage on the agendas of development organizations. As technologies and institutions are changing fast and budgets for overseas development assistance are declining, strengthening the capabilities of individuals, organizations, and institutions is essential to ensure that development efforts are sustainable and poverty is eradicated. Substantial sums are being invested in the development of organizational and institutional capacities. Yet, the design and management of capacity development efforts leaves much to be desired. Few capacity development programs have been systematically and thoroughly evaluated to test their underlying theories and assumptions, document their results, and draw lessons for improving future programs. This report describes the concepts and methods used to evaluate a regional capacity development project in Latin America. The project under study aims to strengthen planning, monitoring, and evaluation (PM&E) in agricultural research organizations in the region. The report outlines the procedures employed in five evaluation studies and summarizes the results of each study. It then presents consolidated findings in response to three evaluation questions: What were the main contributions of the project to agricultural research management? What lessons can be learned to improve the design of future capacity development programs? What lessons can be learned to improve future evaluations of capacity development?
Separated Schmidt modes in the angular spectrum of biphotons
Creators: name: Borshchevskaia, N. A.
name: Just, F.
name: Katamadze, K. G.
name: Cavanna, A.
name: Chekhova, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prepare qudits based on angular multimode biphoton states by modulating the pump angular spectrum. The modes are prepared in the Schmidt basis and their intensity distributions do not overlap in space. This allows one to get rid of filtering losses while addressing single modes and to realize a single-shot qudit readout.
Table S8
Creators: name: Ilott, Nicholas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 60405 Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Transcription factor enrichment results of genes that belong to cluster 2
Additional file 3 of IL13Rα1 protects against rheumatoid arthritis by combating the apoptotic resistance of fibroblast-like synoviocytes
Creators: name: Yang, Xiaomei
name: Guo, Qingwei
name: Feng, Tingting
name: Lu, Qiqi
name: Ge, Luna
name: Pan, Jihong
name: Bi, Kehong
name: Qiao, Li
name: Tian, Lei
name: Xie, Tianhua
name: Yao, Chengfang
name: Song, Guanhua
name: Wang, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 3: Table S1 Clinical characteristics of RA patients.
Wormhole Modeling Supported by Non-Exotic Matter
Creators: name: Samanta, Gauranga C.
name: Godani, Nisha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present paper, the modelling of traversale wormholes, proposed by Morris \& Thorne \cite{morris1}, is performed within the $f(R)$ gravity with particular viable case $f(R)=R-μR_c\Big(\frac{R}{R_c}\Big)^p$, where $μ, R_c>0$ and $0
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, to be appear in Modern Physics Letters A
Expectations towards Geographical Indications-Empirical Evidence from India
Creators: name: Neetha, Rose C.D.
name: Kotrakerebasegowda, Umesh
name: Neetha, Rose C.D.
name: Kotrakerebasegowda, Umesh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Geographical Indication
subject: willingness to pay
subject: contingent evaluation willingness to accept
subject: logistic regression

description: In India agricultural products bearing Geographical Indication (GI) registration has increased progressively. GI registration is an indication that links the uniqueness of products towards the origin and thus, reduces the asymmetry of information between producer and consumer, ensuring market transparency, price stability and reduction in information costs. GIs can be used as an effective tool for ensuring the quality of the produce as well as developing brands for local agriculture products. Granting GI will assure the success only if the consumer values GI label. So far empirical evidence with respect to consumers’ awareness and WTP for GI product is mostly restricted to developed countries. This paper addresses expectations from both sides of market – consumers’ WTP (willingness to pay) and producers’ WTA (willingness to accept) for the GI product, Palakkadan Matta rice (Oryza sativa L) of Kerala, India. The results indicate that the awareness about GI registration is too low among the consumers. Consumers are willing to pay Rs. 5.01 per kilogram additionally, for ensuring the quality of the produce through GI label. Producers are willing to continue the cultivation by accepting an additional amount of Rs.5.82 per kilogram.
description: Geographical Indications
Mining university rankings: Publication output and citation impact as their basis
Creators: name: Robinson-Garcia, Nicolas
name: Torres-Salinas, Daniel
name: Herrera-Viedma, Enrique
name: Docampo, Domingo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: World University rankings have become well-established tools that students, university managers and policy makers read and use. Each ranking claims to have a unique methodology capable of measuring the 'quality' of universities. The purpose of this paper is to analyze to which extent these different rankings measure the same phenomenon and what it is that they are measuring. For this, we selected a total of seven world-university rankings and performed a principal component analysis. After ensuring that despite their methodological differences, they all come together to a single component, we hypothesized that bibliometric indicators could explain what is being measured. Our analyses show that ranking scores from whichever of the seven league tables under study can be explained by the number of publications and citations received by the institution. We conclude by discussing policy implications and opportunities on how a nuanced and responsible use of rankings can help decision making at the institutional level
description: Paper accepted for publication in Research Evaluation
title: Pulmonary sequestration in fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Creators: name: Vilela Lauar, Marcela Caetano
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chest imaging
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Lung
subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: MR
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: Female, 31 years old, 25 weeks pregnant in her first pregnancy. She has no significant clinical history. An ultrasound was performed by a general practitioner raising the suspicion for a diaphragmatic hernia in the left fetal hemithorax. The patient was forwarded to a specialized centre to perform a fetal MRI.

description: 31 years, female
The Demand for Nutrients in China: A Direct Approach
Creators: name: Tian, Xu
name: Yu, Xiaohua
name: Tian, Xu
name: Yu, Xiaohua
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Nutrient
subject: Income elasticity
subject: Nutrition improvement
subject: China

description: China is experiencing a nutrition transition which is coextensive with its rapid economic growth, and the most dramatic changes can be seen in food structure and nutritional demand. However, the relationship between income growth and changes in the demand for nutrients are still unclear. This paper uses household survey data and a direct method to estimate the income elasticities for 22 nutrients to fill the gap in the current literature. Our results show that the income elasticities of most nutrients are quite small and vary for different income groups, which implie that economic success has different influence on nutrition status for different families and the effect is not substantial.
title: Creating a multivariable model to predict primary graft dysfunction after heart transplantation in the United Kingdom using the 2014 International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation consensus definition
Creators: name: Avtaar Singh, Sanjeet Singh
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Primary graft dysfunction, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, heart transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, scoring systems.

description: Heart failure places a global strain on healthcare provision. It has an increasing incidence and represents the endpoint of a variety of cardiovascular diseases. The preceding decades have carved out a clear management algorithm for the use of pharmacotherapies (neurohormonal antagonists), device-based therapies (Implantable Cardioverting Defibrillator (ICD) and Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT)) and mechanical therapies including left ventricular assist devices and heart transplantation. While heart transplantation remains the gold standard for the suitable few, the advancement of healthcare systems and improved working conditions and safety regulations have changed the demographics of the typical organ donor which traditionally were young brainstem death donors (DBD) with minimal other comorbidities. Nevertheless, transplantation confers a substantial survival benefit for selected patients with advanced heart failure, achieving a 1-year survival rate of ≥80%. The primary cause for early mortality in recipients remains primary graft dysfunction (PGD). The incidence of PGD throughout the UK and the world are variable due to the lack of a standardised definition until 2014. My research explored the true incidence of PGD throughout the UK using data collected from each of the 6 transplant centres alongside the National Health Service Blood and Transplant database. I then looked at risk factors for PGD which culminated in the largest PGD study recorded at the time of writing. I also looked into the role of mechanical circulatory support to bridge patients in cardiogenic shock post-myocardial infarction in Scotland. I finally developed 2 scoring systems, 1 for Primary Graft Dysfunction (PREDICTA) and 1 using the modified Delphi Method of a consensus agreement (GTS) to factor in elements of frailty which had been garnering increasing interest at conferences I had attended.
Poverty and Tropical Deforestation by Smallholders in Forest Margin Areas: Evidence from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Creators: name: Reetz, Sunny W.H.
name: Schwarze, Stefan
name: Brümmer, Bernhard
name: Reetz, Sunny W.H.
name: Schwarze, Stefan
name: Brümmer, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Deforestation
subject: Subjective well-being
subject: Poverty proxies

description: The negative impacts of climate change have made poverty and deforestation topics of heightened interest within global community discussions in recent years. Our study contributes to the debate over the links between poverty and deforestation by providing an alternative approach from the village level perspective, whilst broadening the range of poverty measures based on poverty proxies and subjective well-being (SWB). We use a beta regression in our empirical model. Our results suggest that there is a non-linear relationship between SWB, as well as other poverty proxies, and deforestation. We found that objective and subjective poverty measures yielded contrasting results.
Gait self-observation implications for body awareness enhancement in recreational vocational and neurorehabilitative contexts.pdf
Creators: name: Dionysus Fragkiadakis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170101 Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology)
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Terrestrial locomotion evolved as animals in prehistoric times adapted from aquatic to terrestrial envirnoments. Since then, reduced friction was replaced by the effects of gravity. Human gait is achieved through physical activity; it actually engages the whole body and not just the lower limbs. Gait is strictly connected with our functional autonomy since walking related motor skills are necessary preconditions to function, interact and live everyday life situations in a rather autonomous manner. Walking was and is always an evolutionary meaningful behavior, important for our survival and at the same time is a kind of activity playing a crucial role in the update and reorganization of our body schema. Furthermore, since the body is the physical manifestation of an individual’s private-subjective word, the concept of the self and its functions are tightly bound to that of somatic awareness. For all those reasons cultivating a gait self-observation perspective could be helpful and educative for every single individual and especially for people suffering neuropsychiatric disorders.
Comments on D-branes in Kazama-Suzuki models and Landau-Ginzburg theories
Creators: name: Nozaki, Masatoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study D-branes in Kazama-Suzuki models by means of the boundary state description. We can identify the boundary states of Kazama-Suzuki models with the solitons in N=2 Landau-Ginzburg theories. We also propose a geometrical interpretation of the boundary states in Kazama-Suzuki models.
description: 28 pages, 2 figures
Relativistic Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlation and Bell's inequality
Creators: name: Terashima, Hiroaki
name: Ueda, Masahito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) gedankenexperiment within the framework of relativistic quantum theory to analyze a situation in which measurements are performed by moving observers. We point out that under certain conditions the perfect anti-correlation of an EPR pair of spins in the same direction is deteriorated in the moving observers' frame due to the Wigner rotation, and show that the degree of the violation of Bell's inequality prima facie decreases with increasing the velocity of the observers if the directions of the measurement are fixed. However, this does not imply a breakdown of non-local correlation since the perfect anti-correlation is maintained in appropriately chosen different directions. We must take account of this relativistic effect in utilizing in moving frames the EPR correlation and the violation of Bell's inequality for quantum communication.
description: 33 pages, 6 figures
Electrical and Thermal Transport by Nodal Quasiparticles in the DDW State
Creators: name: Yang, Xiao
name: Nayak, Chetan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the electrical and thermal conductivities and Hall conductivities of the $d$-density wave (DDW) state in the low-temperature impurity-scattering-dominated regime for low-dopings, at which they are dominated by nodal quasiparticles. We show that the longitudinal conductivity in this limit in the DDW state is not Drude-like. However, the thermal conductivty is Drude-like; this is a reflection of the discrepancy between electrical and thermal transport at finite frequency in the DDW state. An extreme example of this occurs in the $μ=0$, $τ\to\infty$ limit, where there is a strong violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law: ${κ_{xx}}/{σ_{xx}} \propto {T^2}$ at $ω=0$ and ${κ_{xx}}/{σ_{xx}}=0$ at finite frequency. The DDW electrical and thermal Hall conductivities are linear in the magnetic field, $B$, for weak fields. The formation of Landau levels at the nodes leads to the quantization of these Hall conductivities at high fields. In all of these ways, the quasiparticles of the DDW state differ from those of the $d_{{x^2}-{y^2}}$ superconducting (DSC) state.
Quasiparticle Thermal Conductivities in a Type-II Superconductor at High Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Dukan, S.
name: Powell, T. P.
name: Tesanovic, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a calculation of the quasiparticle contribution to the longitudinal thermal conductivities as well as transverse (Hall) thermal conductivity of an extreme type-II superconductor in a high magnetic field and at low temperatures. In the limit of frequency and temperature approaching zero, both longitudinal and transverse conductivities upon entering the superconducting state undergo a reduction from their respective normal state values by the factor $(Γ/Δ)^2$, which measures the size of the region at the Fermi surface containing gapless quasiparticle excitations. We use our theory to numerically compute the longitudinal transport coefficient in borocarbide and A-15 superconductors. The agreement with recent experimental data on LuNi_2B_2C is very good.
description: 8 pages +1 ps figure included in text, to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Charged fixed point in the Ginzburg-Landau superconductor and the role of the Ginzburg parameter $κ$
Creators: name: Kleinert, Hagen
name: Nogueira, Flavio S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a semi-perturbative approach which yields an infrared-stable fixed point in the Ginzburg-Landau for N=2, where $N/2$ is the number of complex components. The calculations are done in $d=3$ dimensions and below $T_c$, where the renormalization group functions can be expressed directly as functions of the Ginzburg parameter $κ$ which is the ratio between the two fundamental scales of the problem, the penetration depth $λ$ and the correlation length $ξ$. We find a charged fixed point for $κ>1/\sqrt{2}$, that is, in the type II regime, where $Δκ\equivκ-1/\sqrt{2}$ is shown to be a natural expansion parameter. This parameter controls a momentum space instability in the two-point correlation function of the order field. This instability appears at a nonzero wave-vector ${\bf p}_0$ whose magnitude scales like $\simΔκ^{\barβ}$, with a critical exponent $\barβ=1/2$ in the one-loop approximation, a behavior known from magnetic systems with a Lifshitz point in the phase diagram. This momentum space instability is argued to be the origin of the negative $η$-exponent of the order field.
description: Author Information under http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/institution.html . Latest update of paper (including all PS fonts) at http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/333
Time-delay between neutrinos and gamma-rays in short GRBs
Creators: name: Penacchioni, A. V.
name: Civitarese, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we make an estimate of the time-delay between signals, recorded at detectors on Earth, of neutrinos and photons originated in a short gamma-ray burst. We describe the geometry and dynamics of the system according to the Fireshell model. The delay in the photon's arrival time is produced because the system is originally opaque to radiation; thus, the photons remain trapped and thermalize until the transparency condition is reached. We calculate the time interval between neutrino- and photon- emission in the black hole frame and transform it to the observer-frame using Lorentz transformations. We obtain a difference in the arrival time at Earth of $Δt_{Earth} \approx 854.57$ s.
description: 2 figures, 13 references
Wetzel's sector covers unit arcs
Creators: name: Panraksa, Chatchawan
name: Wichiramala, Wacharin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52A38, 51N05, 51M99

description: We settle J. Wetzel's 1970's conjecture and show that a 30{^\circ} circular sector of unit radius can accommodate every planar arc of unit length. Leo Moser asked in 1966 for the smallest (convex) region in the plane that can accommodate each arc of unit length. With area π/12, this sector is the smallest such set presently known. Moser's question has prompted a multitude of papers on related problems over the past 50 years, most remaining unanswered.
description: preprint (since 2017)
Pristaulacus aquilus Smith 2008, new species
Creators: name: Smith, David R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Aulacidae
Pristaulacus
Pristaulacus aquilus

description: Pristaulacus aquilus SMITH, new species
(Figs 83-86)
 Diagnosis:
Orange with ocellar area and meso- and metapleura black; legs all orange. Wings and veins uniformly black. Head shining above, frons dull, sculptured. Mesonotum with large closely set punctures, without carinae. Hind coxa shining, with cross striations. Pronotum without anteriorly projecting tooth.
 Female: Unknown.
 Male:
 Length, 14.5 mm; forewing length 11.5 mm. Color: Antenna orange; pedicel, flagellomeres 1 and 2, and apical 3 blackish. Head orange; apex of mandible and interocellar area black. Mesosoma orange with narrow posterior line on pronotum, upper mesepisternum, mesepimeron, metapleuron, spot on lower propodeum, and areas lateral to mesoscutellum black. Legs orange; tarsi more yellowish. Metasoma orange. Wings uniformly black; veins and stigma black. Head: Antennal length 2.6X head width. Lower interocular distance subequal to eye height; malar space 0.3X eye height (Fig. 83). Occipital carina very narrow, less than a fifth diameter of an ocellus. Mostly shining, covered with fine white pubescence; vertex and gena with fine punctures (Fig. 84); frons, interantennal area, and clypeus more reticulate to punctate and slightly duller than vertex with fine microsculpture (Fig. 83). Mesosoma: Pronotum without anteriorly projecting tooth. Mostly, uniformly coarsely reticulate (Figs 85, 86); propleuron smooth, shining; pronotum with somewhat scrobiculate diagonal band; posterior margin of mesopleuron scrobiculate. Hind coxa with coarse, transverse carinae; about 2.2X longer than broad. Tarsal claws with 6 teeth and small basal lobe, basal lobe appearing as a sixth tooth. Hind basitarsus 1.2X longer than length of remaining tarsal segments combined. Forewing with long vein Rs+M separating cells 1M and 1Rs (as in Fig. 91). Hind wing with veins distinct, vein M separates cells Cu and R1+Rs (as in Fig. 104). Metasoma: Shining; fine white pubescence and fine punctures on segment 2 to apex.
 Holotype: Male labeled “ Mexico, Jalisco, Chamela 26/30-IX-85, FD Parker, TL Griswold” (USU).
 Etymology: Vrom the Latin aquilus, meaning dark colored, referring to the entirely dark wings.
 Remarks:
This large, shining, orange male cannot be associated with females I have seen, and it is the only species I know that has the forewing entirely black without hyaline areas.
description: Published as part of Smith, David R., 2008, Aulacidae of the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Central America (Hymenoptera), pp. 267-355 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2) on pages 310-312, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.267-355, http://zenodo.org/record/5364480
Comparison of two early warning systems for regional flash flood hazard forecasting
Creators: name: Corral, Carles
name: Sempere-Torres, Marc Berenguer. Daniel
name: Poletti, Laura
name: Silvestro, Francesco
name: Rebora, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anticipation of flash flood events is crucial to issue warnings to mitigate their impact. This work presents a comparison of two early warning systems for real-time flash flood hazard forecasting at regional scale. The two systems are based in a gridded drainage network and they use weather radar precipitation inputs to assess the hazard level in different points of the study area, considering the return period (in years) as the indicator of the flash flood hazard. The essential difference between the systems is that one is a rainfall-based system (ERICHA), using the upstream basin-aggregated rainfall as the variable to determine the hazard level, while the other (Flood-PROOFS) is a system based on a distributed rainfall-runoff model to compute the streamflows at pixel scale. The comparison has been done for three rainfall events in the autumn of 2014 that resulted in severe flooding in the Liguria region (Northwest of Italy). The results obtained by the two systems show many similarities, particularly for larger catchments and for large return periods (extreme floods).
description: 34 pages, 1 Table, 15 Figures
Energy-Efficient Flat Precoding for MIMO Systems
Creators: name: Sohrabi, Foad
name: Nuzman, Carl
name: Du, Jinfeng
name: Yang, Hong
name: Viswanathan, Harish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper addresses the suboptimal energy efficiency of conventional digital precoding schemes in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Through an analysis of the power amplifier (PA) output power distribution associated with conventional precoders, it is observed that these power distributions can be quite uneven, resulting in large PA backoff (thus low efficiency) and high power consumption. To tackle this issue, we propose a novel approach called flat precoding, which aims to control the flatness of the power distribution within a desired interval. In addition to reducing PA power consumption, flat precoding offers the advantage of requiring smaller saturation levels for PAs, which reduces the size of PAs and lowers the cost. To incorporate the concept of flat power distribution into precoding design, we introduce a new lower-bound per-antenna power constraint alongside the conventional sum power constraint and the upper-bound per-antenna power constraint. By adjusting the lower-bound and upper-bound values, we can effectively control the level of flatness in the power distribution. We then seek to find a flat precoder that satisfies these three sets of constraints while maximizing the weighted sum rate (WSR). In particular, we develop efficient algorithms to design weighted minimum mean squared error (WMMSE) and zero-forcing (ZF)-type precoders with controllable flatness features that maximize WSR. Numerical results demonstrate that complete flat precoding approaches, where the power distribution is a straight line, achieve the best trade-off between spectral efficiency and energy efficiency for existing PA technologies. We also show that the proposed ZF and WMMSE precoding methods can approach the performance of their conventional counterparts with only the sum power constraint, while significantly reducing PA size and power consumption.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 2025
Additional file 2: of Association of TGF-ß1 polymorphisms and chronic hepatitis C infection: a Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pengfei Guo
name: Shuangyin Liu
name: Xiangru Sun
name: Longqin Xu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S2. Detailed information of the TGF-ß1 codon 10 T/C in the studies associated with the chronic HCV infection included in the meta-analysis. (DOC 44 kb)
Spontaneous structure formation in a network of chaotic units with variable connection strengths
Creators: name: Ito, Junji
name: Kaneko, Kunihiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a model of temporally evolving networks, we consider a globally coupled logistic map with variable connection weights. The model exhibits self-organization of network structure, reflected by the collective behavior of units. Structural order emerges even without any inter-unit synchronization of dynamics. Within this structure, units spontaneously separate into two groups whose distinguishing feature is that the first group possesses many outwardly-directed connections to the second group, while the second group possesses only few outwardly-directed connections to the first. The relevance of the results to structure formation in neural networks is briefly discussed.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, REVTeX
Table S7
Creators: name: Ilott, Nicholas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 60405 Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Transcription factor enrichment results of genes that belong to cluster 1
AGN-driven quenching of satellite galaxies
Creators: name: Dashyan, Gohar
name: Choi, Ena
name: Somerville, Rachel S.
name: Naab, Thorsten
name: Quirk, Amanda C. N.
name: Hirschmann, Michaela
name: Ostriker, Jeremiah P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the effect of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback from central galaxies on their satellites by comparing two sets of cosmological zoom-in runs of 27 halos with masses ranging from $10^{12}$ to $10^{13.4}$ solar masses at z=0, with (wAGN) and without (noAGN) AGN feedback. Both simulations include stellar feedback from multiple processes, including powerful winds from supernovae, stellar winds from young massive stars, AGB stars, radiative heating within Strömgren spheres and photoelectric heating. Our wAGN model is identical to the noAGN model except that it also includes a model for black hole seeding and accretion, as well as AGN feedback via high-velocity broad absorption line winds and Compton/photoionization heating. We show that the inclusion of AGN feedback from the central galaxy significantly affects the star formation history and the gas content of the satellite galaxies. AGN feedback starts to affect the gas content and the star formation of the satellites as early as z=2. The mean gas rich fraction of satellites at z=0 decreases from 15% in the noAGN simulation to 5% in the wAGN simulation. The difference between the two sets extends as far out as five times the virial radius of the central galaxy at z=1. We investigate the quenching mechanism by studying the physical conditions in the surroundings of pairs of satellites matched across the wAGN and noAGN simulations and find an increase in the temperature and relative velocity of the intergalactic gas.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Large N Renormalization Group Flows in 3d $\mathcal{N}=1$ Chern-Simons-Matter Theories
Creators: name: Aharony, Ofer
name: Sharon, Adar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss 3d $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric SU(N) and U(N) Chern-Simons-matter theories, with $N_f$ matter superfields in the fundamental representation of SU(N) or U(N). In the large N 't Hooft limit with fixed 't Hooft coupling $λ$ these theories have one (for $N_f=1$) or two (for $N_f > 1$) exactly marginal deformations in the superpotential. At finite N these couplings acquire a beta function. We compute the beta function exactly for $λ=0$, at leading order in 1/N. For $N_f=1$ we find four fixed points, one of which is triply-degenerate. We show that at large N there are at most six fixed points for any $λ$, and conjecture that there are exactly six, with three of them stable (including a point with enhanced $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetry). The strong-weak coupling dualities of $\mathcal{N}=1$ Chern-Simons-matter theories map each of these fixed points to a dual one. We show that at large N the phase structure near each of the three stable fixed points is different. For $N_f>1$ we analyze the fixed points at weak coupling, and we work out the action of the strong-weak coupling duality on the marginal and relevant superpotential couplings at large N (which was previously known only for $N_f=1$). In addition, we compute in these theories the 2-point and 3-point functions of the lowest gauge-invariant singlet superfield at large N, for all values of $λ$ and of the superpotential couplings, and use them to test the large N dualities. This computation is one of the ingredients needed for a computation of the beta function at order 1/N for all $λ$, which we leave for future work. We also discuss Chern-Simons-matter theories with extra Hubbard-Stratonovich type singlet fields, and suggest dualities between them.
Two-Step Enantio-selective Optical Switch
Creators: name: Král, Petr
name: Thanopulos, Ioannis
name: Shapiro, Moshe
name: Cohen, Doron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an optical "enantio-selective switch", that, in two steps, turns a ("racemic") mixture of left-handed and right-handed chiral molecules into the enantiomerically pure state of interest. The optical switch is composed of an "enantio-discriminator" and an "enantio-converter" acting in tandem. The method is robust, insensitive to decay processes, and does not require molecular preorientation. We demonstrate the method on the purification of a racemate of (transiently chiral) D$_2$S$_2$ molecules, performed on the nanosecond timescale.
description: REVTEX4, 4 pages, 3 Postscript figures
Additional file 1: of Association of TGF-ß1 polymorphisms and chronic hepatitis C infection: a Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pengfei Guo
name: Shuangyin Liu
name: Xiangru Sun
name: Longqin Xu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S1. Detailed information of the TGF-ß1–509C/T in the studies associated with the chronic HCV infection included in the meta-analysis. (DOC 40 kb)
Additional file 1: of MFG-E8 mediates arterial aging by promoting the proinflammatory phenotype of vascular smooth muscle cells
Creators: name: Chiang, Hou-Yu
name: Pao-Hsien Chu
name: Ting-Hein Lee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
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: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Figure S1. MFG-E8 abundantly expresses in aged human aortas and augments transactivation of NF-κB p65 in human VSMCs. (a–j) Representative IHC images display increased coexpression of MFG-E8 and phosphorylated NF-κB p65 (Ser536) as well as elevated ICAM-1 intensity in aged aortas. Arrows indicate the autofluorescence of the elastic laminae in the vessels; bar, 100 μm. (k–l) After treatment with rMFG-E8 (250 ng/mL) for 24 h, hAoSMCs were stimulated with Ang II (1 μM) for 24 h to mimic aging. (k) Cell lysates were analyzed through immunoblotting with antibodies specific for NF-κB p65 phosphorylated at Ser536 and NF-κB p65. Levels of phosphorylated p65, normalized to that of total p65 (n = 3), were analyzed. (l) The protein expression of VCAM-1 in hAoSMCs was evaluated through immunoblotting; the quantitative analysis results for VCAM-1, normalized to that of Gapdh, are displayed (n = 3). Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation. *P
Table S6
Creators: name: Ilott, Nicholas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 60405 Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: GO Biological Pathways enrichment results of genes that belong to cluster 4
Additional file 1 of Risk factors for electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy in a young Chinese general population: the Hanzhong adolescent cohort study
Creators: name: Liao, Yue-Yuan
name: Gao, Ke
name: Fu, Bo-Wen
name: Yang, Lei
name: Zhu, Wen-Jing
name: Ma, Qiong
name: Chu, Chao
name: Yan, Yu
name: Wang, Yang
name: Zheng, Wen-Ling
name: Hu, Jia-Wen
name: Wang, Ke-Ke
name: Sun, Yue
name: Chen, Chen
name: Mu, Jian-Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1.: Table S1. ECG parameters of participants categorized by LVH status (n=1515). Table S2. The collinearity diagnosis analysis between variables (n=1515). Table S3. Association between various characteristics and the risk of LVH by multiple logistic regression analysis in normotensive subjects (n=1344).
title: ‘Melancholy and low spirits are half my disease’: physical and mental health in the life and works of Robert Burns
Creators: name: Hansen, Moira Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robert Burns, melancholy, mental health, creativity, bipolar disorder, medical humanities.

description: Robert Burns is celebrated the world over as Scotland’s national bard, a prolific creative genius who produced over 700 poems and songs before his untimely death in 1796 at the age of only 37. Almost every area of his life has been subject to scrutiny and extensive commentary. However, one aspect which has been largely ignored is that of his mental health, despite many references in his letters to ‘blue devilism’, ‘melancholia’ and his ‘diseased nervous system’, and several poems seemingly pointing to a depressive state of mind. It has been suggested previously that Burns suffered from periods of clinical depression or was affected by bipolar disorder. This thesis consists of three sections which address this question and its wider implications. The first section involves the close analysis of Burns's personal writing in conjunction with accounts and additional evidence from his friends and family to determine the degree to which a diagnosis of clinical depression or bipolar disorder can be supported. It also explores the interplay between Burns’s disordered moods and the manifestation of physical symptoms. The second section examines how Burns understood and related to his mental state, particularly within the context of his relationship with Frances Dunlop. It then goes on to explore the impact of his mood state on key aspects of his life. The final section examines the impact of Burns's mood state on his creative output, exploring how episodes of elevated and depressed mood affected the quality, quantity and content of the poetry and songs produced. Case studies explore how Burns used his creativity as a means of expressing his extremes of emotion. As a whole, the thesis offers a significantly improved understanding of Robert Burns’s mental health and its role in shaping aspects of his life. It demonstrates that Burns was possibly affected by what would now be recognised as Type II bipolar disorder before going on to show that the periods of disordered mood associated with the condition had some influence on key events in his life. Furthermore, there is clear evidence that Burns’s attempts to understand, reconcile and express his disordered mood states resulted in the recurrent use of particular features within his creative output, thus offering his poetry as a further source of material from which an understanding of the impact of his disordered moods can be drawn.
Note on generating functions and connected correlators of 1/2-BPS Wilson loops in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory
Creators: name: Garay, Anthonny F. Canazas
name: Faraggi, Alberto
name: Mück, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generating functions for the Wilson loops in the symmetric and antisymmetric representations of the gauge group $U(N)$ are expressed in terms of the connected correlators of multiply-wound Wilson loops, using ingredients from the representation theory of the symmetric group. This provides a proof of a recent observation by Okuyama. As a by-product, we present a new calculation of the connected 2-point correlator of multiply-wound Wilson loops at leading order in $1/N$.
description: 16 pages, v2: references added, changes in intro and conclusions, corrected typos
Spin-current modulation and square-wave transmission through periodically stubbed electron waveguides
Creators: name: Wang, X. F.
name: Vasilopoulos, P.
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ballistic spin transport through waveguides, with symmetric or asymmetric double stubs attached to them periodically, is studied systematically in the presence of a weak spin-orbit coupling that makes the electrons precess. By an appropriate choice of the waveguide length and of the stub parameters injected spin-polarized electrons can be blocked completely and the transmission shows a periodic and nearly square-type behavior, with values 1 and 0, with wide gaps when only one mode is allowed to propagate in the waveguide. A similar behavior is possible for a certain range of the stub parameters even when two-modes can propagate in the waveguide and the conductance is doubled. Such a structure is a good candidate for establishing a realistic spin transistor. A further modulation of the spin current can be achieved by inserting defects in a finite-number stub superlattice. Finite-temperature effects on the spin conductance are also considered.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures