cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Exploring the Needs and Expectations of International Students towards The National University of Malaysia (UKM)
Creators: name: Arandas, Mohammed Fadel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 200101 Communication Studies

description: This study demonstrates main reasons for choosing The National University of Malaysia (UKM) by international
students and their needs and expectations toward the University. The study also shows the obstacles faced by
those students and their satisfaction towards UKM. A total of 108 questionnaires were distributed in the main
campus to the respondents who came from ten diffident countries. The main reasons for choosing UKM were its
high ranking, reasonable tuition fees, faculty, programmes, and lecturers respectively. The results revealed that
the main obstacles faced international students were tough visa procedures, improper hostels, social isolation and
discrimination, and bureaucracy. Both the facilities and services of UKM and the studying approach have met the
expectations satisfaction of international students. Yet, both social relationship and participation in activities and
living conditions in UKM hostels have disappointed international students and did not meet their satisfaction. This study suggested that UKM should establish counselling unit and organise regular meetings to listen to the problems
and suggestions of those students. Volunteer and pre-enrolment activities should be organised to introduce the
Malaysian culture and gather international students with their local peer. Moreover, international students should
be provided upon their arrival to UKM by hostels that combine proper conditions of living at a reasonable price.
Keywords: international students, expectations, needs, satisfaction, internationalisation, intercultural communication
Women and Common Property Resources in the Management and Health of Livestock in Thai Villages
Creators: name: Kehren, Tatjana
name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Kehren, Tatjana
name: Tisdell, Clem
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Public Economics
subject: livestock disease
subject: role of women in farming
subject: common property resources
subject: Thailand.

description: In many Asian countries, women play a significant but varying role in the management of livestock and the use of common resources plays an important role in animal husbandry, and can affect the health of some types of livestock. This paper concentrates on village livestock in Thailand and makes use of survey data as well as national statistics. It first of all outlines the nature and development of livestock industries in Thailand. It then considers the role which women play in the village livestock economy in relation to cattle and buffalo, particularly dairying, and in the keeping of poultry and pigs. The extent to which women are involved in maintaining the health of livestock is considered. Both village bovines and poultry utilise common property resources to a considerable extent in Thailand. This has implications for the economics and productivity of keeping village livestock, the healthiness of such livestock and the spread of livestock diseases.
The Betti numbers of some finite racks
Creators: name: Litherland, R. A.
name: Nelson, Sam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55M27;55N35

description: We show that the lower bounds for Betti numbers given in math.GT/9909161 are equalities for a class of racks that includes dihedral and Alexander racks. We confirm a conjecture from the same paper by defining a splitting for the short exact sequence of quandle chain complexes. We define isomorphisms between Alexander racks of certain forms, and we also list the second and third homology groups of some dihedral and Alexander quandles.
description: LaTeX, 16 pages; v3.0 added author contact info & corrected typos
Nycteridocaulus Atyeo 1966
Creators: name: Hernandes, Fabio Akashi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Proctophyllodidae
Nycteridocaulus

description: Genus Nycteridocaulus Atyeo, 1966    Type species
 Nycteridocaulus tyranni Atyeo, 1966
This genus includes seven species, associated with Neotropical passerines of the families Tyrannidae, Pipridae, Vireonidae, Cotingidae and Furnariidae (Atyeo 1966b; Alzuet and Brandetti 1986). Undetermined species have also been reported from the Parulidae (Kanegae et al. 2008; Enout et al. 2012). Species of this genus have the genital arch low and its branches are sinuously curved.
description: Published as part of Hernandes, Fabio Akashi, 2013, Three new proctophyllodine feather mites (Acari: Proctophyllodidae) from passerines in Brazil (Aves: Passeriformes), pp. 185-202 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 48 (3 - 4) on page 186, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.791949, http://zenodo.org/record/5199193
Additional file 1 of Comparison between FOLFIRINOX and gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel including sequential treatment for metastatic pancreatic cancer: a propensity score matching approach
Creators: name: Chun, Jung Won
name: Lee, Sang Hyub
name: Kim, Joo Seong
name: Namyoung Park
name: Huh, Gunn
name: Cho, In Rae
name: Paik, Woo Hyun
name: Ryu, Ji Kon
name: Kim, Yong-Tae
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Uni−/multi-variable analyses of prognostic factors for overall survival. Supplementary Table 2. Recently published studies comparing FOLFIRINOX vs Gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel including sequential treatment. Supplementary Figure 1. Subgroup analyses for overall survival in the (A) whole and (B) matched populations according to the first-line treatment regimens. Supplementary Figure 2. Kaplan–Meier curves of overall survival among patients with age
Deconstruction, Lattice Supersymmetry, Anomalies and Branes
Creators: name: Giedt, Joel
name: Poppitz, Erich
name: Rozali, Moshe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the realization of anomalous Ward identities in deconstructed (latticized) supersymmetric theories. In a deconstructed four-dimensional theory with N=2 supersymmetry, we show that the chiral symmetries only appear in the infrared and that the anomaly is reproduced in the usual framework of lattice perturbation theory with Wilson fermions. We then realize the theory on the world-volume of fractional D-branes on an orbifold. In this brane realization, we show how deconstructed theory anomalies can be computed via classical supergravity. Our methods and observations are more generally applicable to deconstructed/latticized supersymmetric theories in various dimensions.
description: 1+27 pages, 2 figures, references added
Galilean Satellites as Sites for Incipient Life, and the Earth as its Shelter
Creators: name: Drobyshevski, E. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Numerous problems connected with an assumption of the life origin on the Earth do not arise on Galilean satellites. Here, in presence of a practically non-salt water and of a great deal (~5-10%) of abiogenic organics, a great diversity of conditions, which are unthinkable for the Earth, were realized more than once. They were caused by global electrochemical processes in the magnetic field presence what could entail an absolute enantiomeric synthesis. The subsequent explosions of the satellites' icy envelopes saturated by the electrolysis products resulted in appearance of hot massive atmospheres and warm deep oceans and ejection of the dirty ice fragments (=comet nuclei), what led to the material exchange with other bodies, etc.
description: 19 pages
Animal Health Information Systems
Creators: name: Ramsay, Gavin
name: Ramsay, Gavin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Animal disease
subject: animal health information systems
subject: animal disease prevention

description: This paper examines the development of animal health information systems at the farm, national and international level, with examples of some systems that have been developed. Methods for the assessment of animal health information systems are then examined. This is followed by an outline of the national animal health information system (NARIS) currently being developed in Australia, with special emphasis on the system of Structured Animal Health Surveillance (SAHS) being set up in Central Queensland.
Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Waves: An Overview
Creators: name: Krishnendu, N. V.
name: Ohme, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detections of gravitational-wave (GW) signals from compact binary coalescence by ground-based detectors have opened up the era of GW astronomy. These observations provide opportunities to test Einstein's general theory of relativity at the strong-field regime. Here we give a brief overview of the various GW-based tests of General Relativity (GR) performed by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration on the detected GW events to date. After providing details for the tests performed in four categories, we discuss the prospects for each test in the context of future GW detectors. The four categories of tests include the consistency tests, parametrized tests for GW generation and propagation, tests for the merger remnant properties, and GW polarization tests.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures, review article contributed as part of the Special Issue on Current and Future Tests of General Relativity of the journal Universe
Learning Dynamic Author Representations with Temporal Language Models
Creators: name: Delasalles, Edouard
name: Lamprier, Sylvain
name: Denoyer, Ludovic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Language models are at the heart of numerous works, notably in the text mining and information retrieval communities. These statistical models aim at extracting word distributions, from simple unigram models to recurrent approaches with latent variables that capture subtle dependencies in texts. However, those models are learned from word sequences only, and authors' identities, as well as publication dates, are seldom considered. We propose a neural model, based on recurrent language modeling, which aims at capturing language diffusion tendencies in author communities through time. By conditioning language models with author and temporal vector states, we are able to leverage the latent dependencies between the text contexts. This allows us to beat several temporal and non-temporal language baselines on two real-world corpora, and to learn meaningful author representations that vary through time.
description: International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2019
Meson-Meson Interactions and Resonances in the 't Hooft Model
Creators: name: Batiz, Z.
name: Pena, M. T.
name: Stadler, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied meson-meson interactions using the 't Hooft model, which represents QCD in 1+1 dimensions and assumes a large number of colors ($N_c$). The dominant interactions in this large $N_c$ limit are generated by quark exchange. Our results show that QCD in 1+1 dimensions allows the realization of a constituent-type quark model for the mesons, and generates a scalar ``$σ$''-like meson-meson resonance, whose effective coupling and mass are determined by the underlying QCD dynamics. These results suggest an interpretation of the lightest scalar mesons as $q\bar{q} q \bar{q}$ systems.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in PRC
Rapid Variations of Earth's Core Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Lesur, V.
name: Gillet, N.
name: Hammer, M. D.
name: Mandea, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evidence of fast variations in the Earth's core field are seen both in magnetic observatory and satellite records. We present here how they have been identified at the Earth's surface from ground-based observatory records and how their spatio-temporal structure is now characterised by satellite data. It is shown how their properties at the core mantle boundary are extracted through localised and global modelling processes, paying particular attention to their time scales. Finally are listed possible types of waves in the liquid outer core, together with their main properties, that may give rise to these observed fast variations.
Additional file 5 of Associations between polymorphisms of SLC22A7, NGFR, ARNTL and PPP2R2B genes and Milk production traits in Chinese Holstein
Creators: name: Jia, Ruike
name: Fu, Yihan
name: Xu, Lingna
name: Li, Houcheng
name: Li, Yanhua
name: Liu, Lin
name: Ma, Zhu
name: Sun, Dongxiao
name: Han, Bo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Table S5. Primers and procedures for PCR used in SNPs identification of SLC22A7, NGFR, ARNTL and PPP2R2B genes.
Collecting Animal Health Data for Cattle Properties in Extensive Grazing Systems
Creators: name: Ramsay, Gavin
name: Ramsay, Gavin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: animal health
subject: animal health data collection
subject: Queensland Department of Primary Industries
subject: QDPI

description: This chapter reviews the methods that have been used for the collection of animal health data then specifically examines three methods of data collection being used in the animal health information system by the Queensland Department of Primary Industries (QDPI). One method of passive data collection, namely laboratory submissions, and two active methods are considered. The laboratory database examined is maintained as part of the QDPI laboratory services. The active data have been collected as part of the system of Structured Animal Health Surveillance (SAHS) that is being set up in Queensland (Baldock, 1995) and the two methods considered are the collection of serum specimens from animals on-farm and the collection of serum specimens at an abattoir. The strengths and weaknesses of each method of data collection are examined in this chapter. In the case of laboratory data their use in estimating disease occurrence is examined. In the case of serological testing the usefulness in determining age specific seroprevalence of the two methods for the collection of specimens is compared.
Sleptogenesis
Creators: name: Allahverdi, Rouzbeh
name: Dutta, Bhaskar
name: mazumdar, Anupam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe can naturally arise from a net asymmetry generated in the sleptonic sector at fairly low reheat temperatures. The best candidate is indeed the right-handed sneutrino. The initial asymmetry in the sneutrino sector can be produced from the decay of the inflaton, and is subsequently transferred into the Standard Model (s)lepton doublet via the decay of the sneutrino. The active sphalerons then reprocess the leptonic asymmetry into the baryonic asymmetry. The marked feature of this scenario is that the lepton asymmetry is decoupled from the neutrino Yukawa sector. We exhibit that our scenario can be embedded within models which seek the origin of a tiny mass for neutrinos.
description: 7 revtex pages, 2 figures (uses axodraw). Minor changes for better clarification and updated references. Final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Litter species composition
Creators: name: Jorgelina Franzese
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Data from Franzese et al. 2019 in the Journal of Vegetation Science: "Land cover change due to non-native pine introduction modifies litter traits of temperate forests in Patagonia".
Property Studies of "Loner" Flares of Gamma-Ray Blazars
Creators: name: Wang, Gege
name: Wang, Zhongxiang
name: Chen, Liang
name: Zhou, Jianeng
name: Xing, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We search through $γ$-ray data obtained with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope and find 24 blazars (or candidates) that have a single clear flare event in their 9.5 year long-term light curves. We define these events as loner flares since each flare stands out significantly above the relatively stable, low-flux light curve. We analyze the LAT data in detail for these 24 sources. The flares in ten of them are primarily due to a single sharp peak, for which we study by fitting with two different analytic functions. The time durations thus determined for the sharp peaks are in a range of 4-25 days. The $γ$-ray spectra of the 24 blazar sources can be described with a power-law or a log-parabola function. We obtain their spectral properties in the flaring and quiescent states, and find that in the flares 16 of the sources have harder emission and three have softer emission while the other five keep the same emission. We discuss a possible correlation between the differences in photon index in the quiescent and flaring states and photon indices in quiescence. In addition, the sharp peak flares seem to have a tendency of having long time durations and hard emission, possibly related to their physical origin in a blazar jet. Studies of more similar flares will help establish these possible features.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, accepted by PASJ
Additional file 1 of End-stage kidney disease and rationing of kidney replacement therapy in the free state province, South Africa: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Thabang T Molaoa
name: Feziwe B Bisiwe
name: Kwazi CZ Ndlovu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1:
Discovery and Identification of MAXI J1621-501 as a Type I X-ray Burster with a Super-Orbital Period
Creators: name: Gorgone, Nicholas M.
name: Kouveliotou, Chryssa
name: Negoro, Hitoshi
name: Wijers, Ralph A. M. J.
name: Bozzo, Enrico
name: Guiriec, Sylvain
name: Bult, Peter
name: Huppenkothen, Daniela
name: Gogus, Ersin
name: Bahramian, Arash
name: Kennea, Jamie
name: Linford, Justin D.
name: Miller-Jones, James
name: Baring, Matthew G.
name: Beniamini, Paz
name: Chakrabarty, Deepto
name: Granot, Jonathan
name: Hailey, Charles
name: Harrison, Fiona A.
name: Hartmann, Dieter H.
name: Iwakiri, Wataru
name: Kaper, Lex
name: Kara, Erin
name: Mazzola, Simona
name: Murata, Katsuhiro
name: Stern, Daniel
name: Tomsick, John A.
name: van der Horst, Alexander J.
name: Younes, George A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MAXI J1621-501 is the first Swift/XRT Deep Galactic Plane Survey transient that was followed up with a multitude of space missions (NuSTAR, Swift, Chandra, NICER, INTEGRAL, and MAXI) and ground-based observatories (Gemini, IRSF, and ATCA). The source was discovered with MAXI on 2017 October 19 as a new, unidentified transient. Further observations with NuSTAR revealed 2 Type I X-ray bursts, identifying MAXI J1621-501 as a Low Mass X-ray Binary (LMXB) with a neutron star primary. Overall, 24 Type I bursts were detected from the source during a 15 month period. At energies below 10 keV, the source spectrum was best fit with three components: an absorbed blackbody with kT = 2.3 keV, a cutoff power law with index $Γ$ = 0.7, and an emission line centered on 6.3 keV. Timing analysis of the X-ray persistent emission and burst data has not revealed coherent pulsations from the source or an orbital period. We identified, however, a super-orbital period $\sim{}$78 days in the source X-ray light curve. This period agrees very well with the theoretically predicted radiative precession period of $\sim{}$82 days. Thus, MAXI J1621-501 joins a small group of sources characterized with super-orbital periods.
description: 24 pages, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal (8/21/2019)
50 years INR: Exploring the High-Energy Universe
Creators: name: Spiering, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article is an attempt to review 50 years of high-energy cosmic particle physics at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It is written by an outsider whose scientific career, to a large part, was formed by collaborating with INR scientists in the late 1980s and 1990s. The review covers the fields of cosmic-ray, gamma-ray and high-energy neutrino physics. The main focus will be on INR's large infrastructures in the Baksan Valley and at Lake Baikal. Research at these facilities is flanked by participation in top experiments at different places around the world, recently the Telescope Array in the USA and the LHAASO detector in China.
description: Talk given on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of INR, December 4, 2020
Mahler measure of the colored Jones polynomial and the volume conjecture
Creators: name: Murakami, Hitoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27

description: In this note, I will discuss a possible relation between the Mahler measure of the colored Jones polynomial and the volume conjecture. In particular, I will study the colored Jones polynomial of the figure-eight knot on the unit circle. I will also propose a method to prove the volume conjecture for satellites of the figure-eight knot.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, submitted to the proceedings of the workshop `Volume Conjecture and Its Related Topics' held at the International Institute for Advanced Studies from 5th to 8th March, 2002
Sampling Considerations for Active Surveillance of Livestock Diseases in Developing Countries
Creators: name: Harrison, Steve
name: Harrison, Steve
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Animal Health
subject: Foot and Mouth disease
subject: Thailand

description: This paper reviews statistical considerations in multistage sampling designs for active surveillance of livestock diseases, with particular emphasis on FMD in Thailand. Issues addressed include statistical efficiency concepts, estimator formulae for proportion of protected animals, and sampling design and cost considerations. A simulated sampling approach to comparing sampling designs with respect to their precision and cost is presented. Comments are also made about the application of active surveillance for livestock disease monitoring in Australia.
Controlled chemical functionalization toward 3D-2D carbon nanohorn-MoS2 heterostructures with enhanced electrocatalytic activity for protons reduction
Creators: name: Kagkoura, Antonia
name: Arenal, Raul
name: Tagmatarchis, Nikos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The realization of novel heterostructures arising from the combination of nanomaterials is an effective way to modify their physicochemical and electrocatalytic properties, giving them enhanced characteristics stemming from their individual constituents. Interfacing carbon nanohorns (CNHs) possessing high porosity, large specific surface area and good electrical conductivity, with MoS2 owning multiple electrocatalytic active sites but lacking significant conductivity, robust interactions and effective structure, can be a strategy to boost the electrocatalytic reduction of protons to molecular hydrogen. Herein, we covalently introduce, in a stepwise approach, complementary functional groups at the conical tips and sidewalls of CNHs, along with the basal plane of MoS2, en route the construction of 3D-2D CNH-MoS2 heterostructures. The increased MoS2 loading onto CNHs, improving and facilitating charge delocalization and transfer in neighboring CNHs, along with the plethora of active sites, results in excellent electrocatalytic activity for protons reduction same to that of commercial Pt/C. We have registered minute overpotential, low Tafel slope and small charge-transfer resistance for electrocatalyzing the evolution of hydrogen from the newly prepared heterostructure of 0.029 V, 71 mV/dec and 34.5 Ω, respectively. Furthermore, the stability of the 3D-2D CNH-MoS2 heterostructure was validated after performing 10,000 ongoing electrocatalytic cycles.
On the Economics of Maintaining the Health of Livestock with Thai Examples
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Tisdell, Clem
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Animal husbandry
subject: control of livestock disease
subject: foot-and-mouth disease
subject: Thailand

description: Livestock are of growing importance in agriculture. Global populations of livestock have increased significantly in recent decades, and East Asia has recorded major increases in its livestock numbers. Thailand’s stocks of poultry, cattle and pigs have expanded with its economic development. Per capita consumption of red meat and milk by Thais shows an upward trend and its livestock industry is becoming more commercialised. Nevertheless, most cattle are still present in Thai villages and village poultry still account for around one third of Thailand's poultry. The type of animal husbandry practised in Thai villages influences the incidence and spread of livestock diseases. The economics of private decisions about livestock health interventions are discussed. Vaccination of livestock against foot-and-mouth disease is taken as an example and the private economics of treating a sick animal is considered. Methods for measuring the social economic benefits from control of livestock diseases (and their distribution) are outlined along with some of their policy implications. The usefulness of using the price of livestock as a guide to the value of maintaining their healthiness is examined. It is suggested that increases in the healthiness of livestock be looked upon as an addition to livestock capital, as in the case of human capital.
The farm-level economics of conservation agriculture for resource-poor farmers
Creators: name: Pannell, David J.
name: Llewellyn, Rick S.
name: Corbeels, Marc
name: Pannell, David J.
name: Llewellyn, Rick S.
name: Corbeels, Marc
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: zero tillage
subject: legume rotation
subject: mulching
subject: crop residue retention
subject: risk
subject: uncertainty
subject: adoption of innovations
subject: cropping system
subject: Zimbabwe
subject: maize
subject: groundnuts

description: The farm-level economics of conservation agriculture (zero tillage, mulching and crop rotation)are described, reviewed and modelled. The economics are defined broadly to include not just shortterm financial benefits and costs, but also the whole-farm management context, constraints on key resources such as labour and capital, risk and uncertainty, interactions between enterprises, and time-related factors, such as interest rates and the urgency of providing for the farm family. A wealth of evidence shows that these economic factors and variables related to them have significant influences on farmers’ decisions about adoption of conservation agriculture. Literature on the farmlevel economics of conservation agriculture for resource-poor farmers is reviewed. There is not a large body of high-quality relevant studies. Those that have been published highlight that the economics are highly heterogeneous and need to be considered on a case-by-case basis. Their results tend to indicate that it would be profitable to adopt conservation agriculture or components of it (although not in all cases). This contrasts with disappointing adoption in many of the regions of interest. Potential reasons for this disparity are discussed. A general model of the farm-level economics of conservation agriculture and its components is presented, and used to illustrate influences on the overall economic attractiveness of conservation agriculture. Key factors that would tend to discourage adoption in situations that otherwise look favourable include: the opportunity cost of crop residues for feed rather than mulch, the short-term reduction in yields under zero tillage plus mulching in some cases, combined with short planning horizons and/or high discount rates of farmers, farmer aversion to uncertainty, and constraints on the availability of land, labour and capital at key times of year. Good quality economic analysis should be used more extensively to guide research and extension in this area, particularly in relation to the targeting of effort, and adaptation of the system to suit local conditions.
Universal and non-universal text statistics: Clustering coefficient for language identification
Creators: name: Espitia, Diego
name: Larralde, Hernán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work we analyze statistical properties of 91 relatively small texts in 7 different languages (Spanish, English, French, German, Turkish, Russian, Icelandic) as well as texts with randomly inserted spaces. Despite the size (around 11260 different words), the well known universal statistical laws -- namely Zipf and Herdan-Heap's laws -- are confirmed, and are in close agreement with results obtained elsewhere. We also construct a word co-occurrence network of each text. While the degree distribution is again universal, we note that the distribution of Clustering Coefficients, which depend strongly on the local structure of networks, can be used to differentiate between languages, as well as to distinguish natural languages from random texts.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
Towards a standard jet definition
Creators: name: Grigoriev, D. Yu.
name: Jankowski, E.
name: Tkachov, F. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a simulated measurement of the $W$-boson mass, evaluation of Fisher's information shows the optimal jet definition to be physically equivalent to the $k_\mathrm{T}$ algorithm while being much faster at large multiplicities.
description: version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett., 4 pages
Agriculture Drought Risk Management Using Standardized Precipitation Index and AEZ Model
Creators: name: Nazarifar, M. H.
name: Momeni, R.
name: Kanani, M. H.
name: Eslami, A.
name: Nazarifar, M. H.
name: Momeni, R.
name: Kanani, M. H.
name: Eslami, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Hamadan
subject: Drought
subject: GIS
subject: Agro-ecological zoning

description: The objective of this study was to assess the drought risk management in the region under study. The SPI method was adopted for drought monitoring in Hamadan Province, Iran. The temporal and spatial extent of the area vulnerable to drought was delineated using AEZ model, GIS and other softwares. Five zones were recognized based on the drought severity index. Selection of compatible crops with respect to climate and land production capability of a region specially in drought condition is one of the effective elements to increase the water productivity in agriculture, based on Agro-ecological Zoning(AEZ) model, developed by FAO, suitable spatial extension of wheat cultivation, which is the main crop in Hamadan Province, were delineated. According to this study the most suitable lands potentially available for wheat production are located in the north-east region and a part of the central region, where as, least suitable ones can be observed in the north-east and the south – east regions. The results of the risk analysis study show that south-east, north and central regions are susceptible to longest duration intense droughts where as long duration droughts are intensive in north, west and south-east regions. The overlaid and integrated maps of risks with the maps obtained after applying the AEZ model resulted into the map of spatial suitability of potential crop production for each class of risk (longest duration and most intensive durations). This enables the decision makers to define spatial priority of crop cultivation and manage various potential regions susceptible to drought risks.
Detectability of the subdominant mode in a binary black hole ringdown
Creators: name: Bhagwat, Swetha
name: Cabero, Miriam
name: Capano, Collin D.
name: Krishnan, Badri
name: Brown, Duncan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ringdown is the late part of the post-merger signature emitted during the coalescence of two black holes and comprises of a superposition of quasi-normal-modes. Within general relativity, because of the no-hair theorems, the frequencies and damping times of these modes are entirely determined by the mass and angular momentum of the final Kerr black hole. A detection of multiple ringdown modes would potentially allow us to test the no-hair theorem from observational data. The parameters which determine whether sub-dominant ringdown modes can be detected are primarily the overall signal-to-noise ratio present in the ringdown signal, and on the amplitude of the subdominant mode with respect to the dominant mode. In this paper, we use Bayesian inference to determine the detectability of a subdominant mode in a set of simulated analytical ringdown signals. Focusing on the design sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO detectors, we systematically vary the signal-to-noise ratio of the ringdown signal, and the mode amplitude ratio in order to determine what kind of signals are promising for performing black hole spectroscopy.
description: 7 figures, 2 tables
The effect of effectiveness: Donor response to aid effectiveness in a direct mail fundraising experiment
Creators: name: Karlan, Dean S.
name: Wood, Daniel
name: Karlan, Dean S.
name: Wood, Daniel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Public Economics
subject: aid effectiveness
subject: charitable fundraising
subject: warm glow
subject: pure altruism

description: We test how donors respond to new information about a charity’s effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program’s impact as measured by scientific research. The base script, used for both treatment and control, included a standard qualitative story about an individual beneficiary. Adding scientific impact information has no effect on average likelihood of giving or average gift amount. However, we find important heterogeneity: large prior donors both are more likely to give and also give more, whereas small prior donors are less likely to give. This pattern is consistent with two different types of donors: warm glow donors who respond negatively to analytical effectiveness information, and altruism donors who respond positively to such information.
description: Revised paper uploaded July 30, 2015.
Nodal Protectorate: A Unified Theory of the ab-plane and c-axis Penetration Depths of Underdoped cuprates
Creators: name: Sheehy, Daniel E.
name: Davis, T. P.
name: Franz, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate a model describing the doping ($x$) and temperature ($T$) dependence of the $ab$-plane and c-axis penetration depth of a cuprate superconductor. The model incorporates the suppression of the superfluid density with underdoping as the system approaches the Mott-Hubbard insulating state by augmenting a d-wave BCS model with a phenomenological charge renormalization factor that is vanishingly small for states away from the nodes of the d-wave pair potential but close to unity in the vicinity of the nodes. The c-axis penetration depth is captured within a model of incoherent electron tunneling between the CuO$_2$ planes. Application of this model to the recent experimental data on the high-purity single crystals of YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6+δ}$ implies existence of a ``nodal protectorate'', a $k$-space region in the vicinity of the nodes whose size decreases in proportion to $x$, in which d-wave quasiparticles remain sharp even as the system teeters on the brink of becoming an insulator. The superfluid density, which is extremely small for these samples, also appears to come exclusively from these protected nodal regions.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
What determines consumption of fortified foods in Kenya: the potential for micronutrient malnutrition control
Creators: name: Pambo, Kennedy Otieno
name: Olila, Dennis Opiyo
name: Pambo, Kennedy Otieno
name: Olila, Dennis Opiyo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Micronutrient malnutrition
subject: fortification
subject: consumers
subject: consumption drivers
subject: probit

description: Food fortification is considered as an important strategy for addressing micronutrient malnutrition that includes vitamin A, iron and zinc deficiency in most developing countries. Development efforts have thus focused on breeding for crops that have natural ability to produce through a process widely known as bio-fortification. In Kenya, these efforts are being complemented with push pilot fortification of foods. The recently enacted National Food Security and Nutrition Policy aims to encourage industrial fortification of widely consumed foods with essential micronutrients. Despite these efforts there is still very weak information on factors affecting consumption of fortified foods hence the dearth of knowledge regarding consumption levels and patterns. This study therefore assessed factors affecting consumption of fortified foods. It focuses on Vitamin A fortified sugar and uses data collected from rural and peri-urban areas of Kenya through a binary probit model to examine consumption drivers. The results showed that point of purchase, trust for stakeholders involved in fortification, consumer awareness and knowledge of the importance of vitamin A have significant effects on consumption of fortified foods. These findings offer useful insights for the development of nutrition policies in Kenya, and Africa at large. The study also augurs well with the theme ‘Innovative Research and Technology for Global Development’ on the premise of value addition, food technology and human health development.
description: Selected paper prepared for presentation at the 8th Annual Egerton University International Conference, Njoro, Kenya, 26th – 28th March, 2014
Isolation and estimation of flavonoid compound(s) of Baccharoides anthelmintica (L.) Moench
Creators: name: Kumar, Deepak
name: Kaur, Amanpreet
name: Madaan, Reecha
name: Kumar, Suresh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Based on ethnobotanical surveys, an Indian traditional plant, i.e., Baccharoides anthelmintica (L.) Moench (Family – Asteraceae) was selected for detailed phytochemical investigations. B. anthelmintica seeds, purchased from local market, were extracted exhaustively in a Soxhlet apparatus using methanol as solvent. A well-established method was adopted to obtain phenolic compounds and flavonoids rich fraction of methanol extract. This fraction yielded two isolates (AK-1 and AK-2) upon purification by column chromatographic process. AK-1 was characterized as mixture of two isomeric compounds − 3′,4′,5,6,7- and 3′,4′,5,7,8-pentahydroxy flavanone, and AK-2 as butein (chalcone derivative) by UV, IR and NMR spectral analysis. A TLC densitometric method was developed and validated to estimate the content of butein in B. anthelmintica seeds, and was found to be 1.252 mg/g. Bioactive Marker (butein) based standardized B. anthelmintica seeds will ensure reproducibility in efficacy and safety of the plant or authenticity of its products.
Additional file 1 of Combining genetic algorithm with machine learning strategies for designing potent antimicrobial peptides
Creators: name: Boone, Kyle
name: Wisdom, Cate
name: Camarda, Kyle
name: Spencer, Paulette
name: Tamerler, Candan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supporting information.
The Representation of the Ku Klux Klan in Mainstream American Cinema (1988-2016)
Creators: name: Wintle, Philip
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Ku Klux Klan are America’s most notorious terrorist organisation. In the 1920s membership to the Klan numbered several million, partly resulting from the success of The Birth of a Nation (1915). In this period of Klan popularity, Hollywood utilised their iconography for box office success. In the contemporary age Klan membership has diminished, yet the Klan image continues to be regularly depicted in American film. My research assesses the function of the Klan in contemporary cinema, looking at their representation between 1988 and 2016 to explain the longevity of their depiction in a period of social irrelevance.The shifting representation of the Klan offers a unique case study in demonstrating the changing attitudes Hollywood has to race and racism. In this thesis, I argue that the Klan have been used in films to paradoxically downplay issues of racism. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Klan were presented as a white ‘Other’ to whom racism is isolated. This ‘Othering’ drives melodramatic narratives of white conflict in films such as Mississippi Burning (1988) and A Time to Kill (1996). The melodramatic simplicity of the Klan image is later accentuated in comedy films between 1999 and 2013. The comedic depiction of the Klan has often been ignored in existing literature on the Klan’s representation in film; this is a significant oversight, as comedy has kept the Klan image within public consciousness during this period. Moreover, representations of the Klan, both melodramatic and comic, have been used to guide the viewer’s understanding of American history, society, and racism. However, in recent years Hollywood has offered a greater focus on the ‘black narrative’, in these films the Klan are utilised to explore America’s history of racism, rather than to marginalise it. My research analyses the Klan’s evolving depiction and the persistence of their representation.
Framing the First Palestinian General Elections by Malaysia’s New Straits Times
Creators: name: Arandas, Mohammed Fadel
name: Idid, Syed Arabi
name: Kee, Chang Peng
name: Mohamad, Emma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 200101 Communication Studies

description: The main focus of this study is the coverage of New Straits Times (NST) of the first Palestinian General Elections for two presidential candidates namely, Yasser Arafat and Samiha Khalil. This study aimed to explore if any of Entman’s 1993 framing functions was used in the coverage of this issue and to explore whether the tone of NST coverage was negative, positive, balanced or neutral. To
achieve the aims of this study, qualitative content analysis of elections stories from NST has been adopted. The number of news stories was eight, and the time frame started from 19th January to 13th February 1996, where three of these stories were published on the same day of 22nd January,
two days after holding the elections on 20th January. Defining problems and diagnosing causes were
the most prominent of Entman’s four framing functions presented in all the articles. The moral judgment function was included in four news stories, and suggesting remedies was included in two news stories out of eight. The findings revealed that Yasser Arafat received 50% balanced coverage, followed by 37.5% positive coverage, and only 12.5% negative coverage, while Samiha Khalil
received 67% balanced coverage, compared to 33% positive coverage.

Keywords: Arafat, framing, media coverage, Palestine, presidential elections