cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
When I grow up I want to be a data scientist/ work in policy-related research/ make a difference. Can you help me?
Creators: name: Carter, Jackie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: In 2013 at The Campaign for Social Science event in the UK, David Willetts, Minister for Higher Education and Skills pronounced in a world of increasing volume of social data there is an urgent need to "have properly qualified people to exploit and use the data". At present [the UK has] a serious shortage of social science graduates with the right quantitative skills to evaluate evidence and analyse data. This is not a new finding. Significant and shared efforts in the last decade have resulted in a large, national initiative being funded to tackle this problem in the UK (Q-Step, Nuffield 2013). This PK will highlight the void in teaching quantitative social science, and show how we (the ESSTED team at Manchester) are addressing the challenge of embedding number into the social science curriculum. A variety of techniques have been adopted and trialled; using real world survey data in the classroom alongside making students part of the dataset; flipping lectures; adopting the mantra of 'practice' for what is a real-world and employable skill. The PK will present: results based on evidence collated; conclusions based on our experiences; and ideas about how this is informing the University of Manchester's Q-Step centre.
Local Government Financial Capacity and the Growing Importance of State Aid
Creators: name: Warner, Mildred E.
name: Warner, Mildred E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Financial Economics
Public Economics

description: Since the 1970’s, the Federal Government has been turning back funding and authority to State and local governments. Devolution has important implications for local government finances. As direct Federal funds to counties decline, local wealth and the redistributive role played by the States become more important in determining local capacity for spending. These developments are illustrated by the experience of counties in eight Mid-Atlantic and East North Central States.
Melaloncha torquata Brown 2006, new species
Creators: name: Brown, Brian V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Phoridae
Melaloncha
Melaloncha torquata

description: Melaloncha torquata new species
Fig. 52
 Recognition. In overall appearance this species is similar to M. maculata, but differs by the forked apex of the sclerite of intersegment 7–8. It differs from the other species with a broadly forked apex, M. forficata, by the straight ovipositor, the white ring between the yellow and black color of the ovipositor, and the shape of the forked apex.
 Description. Female (male unknown). Body length 2.1 mm. Frons yellow, bare of setulae except few along eye margin; ocellar triangle black. Frons 0.48 head width. Medial furrow absent. Ocular setae brown dorsally, yellow laterally and ventrally; genal setae yellow. Flagellomere 1 basally white, apically yellow; aristomeres 1–2 and base of 3 yellow, rest of 3 brown. Palpus white; palpal setulae yellow. Scutum yellowish­brown. Scutellum yellowish­brown, with anterolateral dark round spot. Pleuron yellow, except basalare black. Legs whitish­yellow. Combined length of foretarsomeres 1.3 length of foretibia. Foretarsal claws recurved, with large basal lobe. Costa 0.52 wing length. Halter yellow. Abdominal tergites yellow anteriorly, black posteriorly and in segments 3–5 black medially. Venter of abdomen yellow. Ovipositor yellow basally, with small band of white more apically, then mostly black apically; tubular, straight; with scattered short setae; apex of sclerite of intersegment 7–8 with short medial apex and longer, divergently curving lateral arms.
 Host. We collected this species attacking Oxytrigona mellicolor on flowers of Syagrus coronata in Costa Rica.
 Geographical distribution. Costa Rica.
 Derivation of specific epithet. Latin torquatus for adorned with a collar, referring to the white ring on the ovipositor.
 Holotype. ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas: Wilson Botanical Garden, Las Cruces, 8.79°N, 82.95°W, 13.vi.1998, B. Brown, V. Berezovskiy, flowers of Syagrus coronata [LACM ENT 116541] (LACM).
 Paratypes. COSTA RICA: 1♀, same data as holotype (ovipositor only; rest of body used for molecular analysis] (LACM).
description: Published as part of Brown, Brian V., 2006, Revision of the untreated taxa of Melaloncha s. s. bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 1280 (1) on pages 64-65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1280.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5070710
Do Rural Youth Attain Their Educational Goals?
Creators: name: Blackwell, Debra L.
name: McLaughlin, Diane K.
name: Blackwell, Debra L.
name: McLaughlin, Diane K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: While boys and girls have similar educational aspirations and eventually attain similar educational levels, family background characteristics matter more to girls, especially rural girls. Additionally, rural girls do not enjoy the same educational benefits from taking part in extracurricular activities, despite the fact that they have relatively high participation rates. In contrast, male aspirations and attainment appear to be less the result of family background processes and more a result of their own achievement and activities. The largest differentials in educational goals and attainment occur within rural and urban areas between those who experience advantaged versus disadvantaged family backgrounds, schools, and communities.
Buffer-gas cooling of molecules in the low-density regime: Comparison between simulation and experiment
Creators: name: Gantner, Thomas
name: Koller, Manuel
name: Wu, Xing
name: Rempe, Gerhard
name: Zeppenfeld, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cryogenic buffer gas cells have been a workhorse for the cooling of molecules in the last decades. The straightforward sympathetic cooling principle makes them applicable to a huge variety of different species. Notwithstanding this success, detailed simulations of buffer gas cells are rare, and have never been compared to experimental data in the regime of low to intermediate buffer gas densities. Here, we present a numerical approach based on a trajectory analysis, with molecules performing a random walk in the cell due to collisions with a homogeneous buffer gas. This method can reproduce experimental flux and velocity distributions of molecules emerging from the buffer gas cell for varying buffer gas densities. This includes the strong decrease in molecule output from the cell for increasing buffer gas density and the so-called boosting effect, when molecules are accelerated by buffer-gas atoms after leaving the cell. The simulations provide various insights which could substantially improve buffer-gas cell design.
Reservoir ecological operation by quantifying outflow disturbance to aquatic community dynamics
Creators: name: Yibo Wang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90509 Water Resources Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 60207 Population Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: none
Impact of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 for Rural Areas
Creators: name: Sell, Randall S.
name: Leistritz, F. Larry
name: Allen, John C.
name: Sell, Randall S.
name: Leistritz, F. Larry
name: Allen, John C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: The goals of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 include lower prices and higher quality services for customers. However, representatives of small telephone companies are concerned that rural areas will bear the brunt of the costs of a more competitive communications sector but receive few of the benefits. About 90 percent of 127 small telephone companies that responded to a nationwide survey believed that rural customers would benefit very little or not at all from the act’s provisions. Rather, they believed the major benefits will accrue to business, high-toll (typically high-volume users), and urban customers, and to large telecommunications companies. State governments and public utility commissions may need to take action to ensure that rural residents have reasonably priced access to advanced telecommunications services.
The effect of research video abstract presentation style on viewer comprehension and engagement
Creators: name: Li, Alice
name: O'Brien, Heather, 1977-
name: Sinnamon, Luanne
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This study investigated the effect of video abstract (VA) presentation style (slideshow versus animation) on viewer comprehension and user engagement. Video abstracts, short video presentations of journal articles, were selected and used in a randomized between-subjects experiment (N = 290) with Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) participants. The Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML) informed the selection of VAs. Barrett’s Taxonomy of Cognitive and Affective Dimensions of Reading Comprehension (Barrett’s Taxonomy) was used to develop comprehension measures focused on recall and summarization, and user engagement was measured using a questionnaire. The study found that: 1) comprehension outcomes did not vary between slideshow and animation style VAs, 2) animation VAs were perceived to be more engaging than slideshow VAs, and 3) user engagement was weakly negatively correlated with comprehension scores. In other words, animation VAs attracted viewers with their content, but did not lead to increased comprehension. In fact, viewers in the study who reported higher levels of engagement had slightly lower comprehension outcomes.
Mechanical Comparison of Arrangement Strategies for Topological Interlocking Assemblies
Creators: name: Goertzen, Tom
name: Macek, Domen
name: Schnelle, Lukas
name: Weiß, Meike
name: Reese, Stefanie
name: Holthusen, Hagen
name: Niemeyer, Alice C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Topological Interlocking assemblies are arrangements of blocks kinematically constrained by a fixed frame, such that all rigid body motions of each block are constrained only by its permanent contact with other blocks and the frame. In the literature several blocks are introduced that can be arranged into different interlocking assemblies. In this study we investigate the influence of arrangement on the overall structural behaviour of the resulting interlocking assemblies. This is performed using the Versatile Block, as it can be arranged in three different doubly periodic ways given by wallpaper symmetries. Our focus lies on the load transfer mechanisms from the assembly onto the frame. For fast a priori evaluation of the assemblies we introduce a combinatorial model called Interlocking Flows. To investigate our assemblies from a mechanical point of view we conduct several finite element studies. These reveal a strong influence of arrangement on the structural behaviour, for instance, an impact on both the point and amount of maximum deflection. The results of the finite element analysis are in very good agreement with the predictions of the Interlocking Flow model. Our source code, data and examples are available under https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10246034.
Detect Axial Gauge Fields with a Calorimeter
Creators: name: Baggioli, Matteo
name: Chernodub, Maxim N.
name: Landsteiner, Karl
name: Vozmediano, Maria A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Torsional strain in Weyl semimetals excites a unidirectional chiral density wave propagating in the direction of the torsional vector. This gapless excitation, named the chiral sound wave, is generated by a particular realization of the axial anomaly via the triple-axial (AAA) anomalous diagram. We show that the presence of the torsion-generated chiral sound leads to a linear behavior of the specific heat of a Weyl semimetal and to an enhancement of the thermal conductivty at experimentally accessible temperatures. We also demonstrate that such an elastic twist lowers the temperature of the sample, thus generating a new, anomalous type of elasto-calorific effect. Measurements of these thermodynamical effects will provide experimental verification of the exotic triple-axial anomaly as well as the reality of the elastic pseudomagnetic fields in Weyl semimetals.
description: v2: minor revisions
Multi-Agency Service Teams A New Approach in Maine To Deliver Technical Assistance to Rural Manufacturers
Creators: name: Ratner, Shanna
name: Ratner, Shanna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Production Economics
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: In 1994, the State of Maine began an experiment to improve the coordination of technical assistance to wood products manufacturers. State and Federal agencies worked with colleges, private consultants, and nonprofit organizations to target assistance to the particular needs of the wood products industry. Results were generally positive but also showed the need to carefully match assistance with the requirements of the individual firm and to improve teamwork among service providers. Preparation and coordination emerged as key factors in determining the success of delivering services.
Lernorientierte Zusammenarbeit: Beispiele aus dem 1. und 2. Zyklus mit dem Fokus Sprachförderung
Creators: name: Hildebrand, Elke
name: Brühlmann, Olga
name: Ruess, Annemarie
name: Stommel, Sarah
name: Rychener, Inge
name: Schneider, Hansjakob
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: lernorientierte Zusammenarbeit
Teamteaching
Professionalisierung
Lehrperson
Unterrichtsplanung
Unterrichtsqualität
Lernstrategien
Sprachförderung
Sprachunterricht
Fachbroschüre
Kanton Zürich

description: Aus dem Vorwort «Die vorliegende Fachbroschüre wurde im Rahmen des Zürcher Schulversuchs ‹Fokus Starke Lernbeziehungen› (FSL) entwickelt. Sie richtet sich sowohl an die Lehrpersonen und Beratungspersonen der Versuchsschulen als auch an alle anderen Lehr- und Fachpersonen, die einen Teil ihres Unterrichts im Teamteaching durchführen. [...] Zu Teamteaching im Allgemeinen gibt es bereits seit einigen Jahren sachdienliche Publikationen.2 Die Forschung zeigt, dass die Nutzung von Teamteaching für vertiefte binnendifferenzierende Förderung der Schülerinnen und Schüler sehr anspruchsvoll ist und des Öfteren bei einer eher oberflächlichen Kooperation der Lehrpersonen stehen bleiben kann. Das Potenzial der Zusammenarbeit im Team wird jedoch besonders dann gut genutzt, wenn das Lernen der Schülerinnen und Schüler, aber auch das gegenseitige Lernen der Lehrpersonen im Fokus stehen. Die Lehrpersonen in einem Teamteaching-Tandem können von und miteinander lernen. Ihre gemeinsame Reflexion des Unterrichts können sie zusätzlich durch das Einholen kollegialen Feedbacks erweitern. Wenn zwei Regelklassenlehrpersonen ein Teamteaching-Tandem bilden, müssen sie nicht jede Herausforderung im Unterricht alleine meistern. Vielmehr ist es ein Zeichen von Professionalität, das spezifische Know-how schulischer Fachpersonen in Form von Beratung einzuholen. Die vorliegende Fachbroschüre fokussiert deshalb auf die ‹lernorientierte Zusammenarbeit›.» [3]
description: +repphzhbib2020A
Proximity and Josephson effects in superconductor - antiferromagnetic Nb / γ-Fe50Mn50 heterostructures
Creators: name: Bell, C.
name: Tarte, E. J.
name: Burnell, G.
name: Leung, C. W.
name: Kang, D. -J.
name: Blamire, M. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the proximity effect in superconductor (S), antiferromagnetic (AF) bilayers, and report the fabrication and measurement of the first trilayer S/AF/S Josephson junctions. The disordered f.c.c. alloy γ-Fe50Mn50 was used as the AF, and the S is Nb. Micron and sub-micron scale junctions were measured, and the scaling of $J_C (d_AF)$ gives a coherence length in the AF of 2.4 nm, which correlates with the coherence length due to suppression of $T_C$ in the bilayer samples. The diffusion constant for FeMn was found to be 1.7 \times 10$^{-4}$ m$^2$ s$^-1$, and the density of states at the Fermi level was also obtained. An exchange biased FeMn/Co bilayer confirms the AF nature of the FeMn in this thickness regime.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted for Phys. Rev. B
Additional file 1 of Magnetotelluric characterization of the Alhama de Murcia Fault (Eastern Betics, Spain) and study of magnetotelluric interstation impedance inversion
Creators: name: Martí, Anna
name: Queralt, Pilar
name: Marcuello, Alex
name: Juanjo Ledo
name: Rodríguez-Escudero, Emilio
name: Martínez-Díaz, José
name: Campanyà, Joan
name: Meqbel, Naser
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
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: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Details of the synthetic models.
Interaction-induced phases in the half-filled Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model in one dimension
Creators: name: Favata, Roberta
name: Piccioni, Davide
name: Parola, Alberto
name: Becca, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the ground-state properties of a one-dimensional model with two orbitals per site, where, in addition to atomic energies $\pm M$, intra- and inter-orbital hoppings, the intra-orbital Hubbard ($U$) and nearest-neighbor density-density ($V$) repulsions are included. Our results are primarily based on a Jastrow-Slater wave function and variational Monte Carlo methods, but also corroborated by density-matrix renormalization group calculations. In the non-interacting limit, when varying $M>0$, a gapless point separates a trivial phase from a topological one. The inclusion of a finite Hubbard-$U$ repulsion does not give rise to any phase transition within the topological region, inducing a smooth crossover into a Haldane (spin gapped) insulator; notably, the string-order parameter, which characterizes the latter phase, is already finite in the non-interacting limit. Most importantly, at finite values of $U$, the transition between the trivial and topological states is not direct, since an emergent insulator, which shows evidence of sustaining gapless spin excitations, intrudes between them. A small $V$ interaction further stabilizes the intermediate insulator, while a sufficiently large value of this nearest-neighbor repulsion gives rise to two different charge-density wave insulators, one fully gapped and another still supporting gapless spin excitations. Our results demonstrate the richness of multi-orbital Hubbard models, in the presence of a topologically non-trivial band structure, and serve as a basis for future investigations on similar two-dimensional models.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures
Additional file 1 of From methylglyoxal to pyruvate: a genome-wide study for the identification of glyoxalases and D-lactate dehydrogenases in Sorghum bicolor
Creators: name: Bidisha Bhowal
name: Singla-Pareek, Sneh
name: Sopory, Sudhir
name: Charanpreet Kaur
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
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: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Determination of alternate splicing of putative functionally active SbGLYI transcripts. (A) Depiction of primer designing scheme. (B) Details of primers used for the determination of spliced variants of SbGLYI transcripts and respective amplification details. (C) Gel showing the amplification of SbGLYI transcripts.
Topological electronic states and thermoelectric transport at phase boundaries in single-layer WSe$_2$: An effective Hamiltonian theory
Creators: name: Tkachov, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides in the distorted octahedral 1T$^\prime$ phase exhibit a large bulk bandgap and gapless boundary states, which is an asset in the ongoing quest for topological electronics. In single-layer tungsten diselenide (WSe$_2$), the boundary states have been observed at well ordered interfaces between 1T$^\prime$ and semiconducting (1H) phases. This paper proposes an effective 4-band theory for the boundary states in single-layer WSe$_2$,describing a Kramers pair of in-gap states as well as the behaviour at the spectrum termination points on the conduction and valence bands of the 1T$^\prime$ phase. The spectrum termination points determine the temperature and chemical potential dependences of the ballistic conductance and thermopower at the phase boundary. Notably, the thermopower shows an ambipolar behaviour, changing the sign in the bandgap of the 1T$^\prime$ - WSe$_2$ and reflecting its particle-hole asymmetry. The theory establishes a link between the bulk band structure and ballistic boundary transport in single-layer WSe$_2$ and is applicable to a range of related topological materials.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, version accepted for publication
A model for the flaring radio emission in the double pulsar system J0737-3039
Creators: name: Zhang, Bing
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The binary J0737-3039 A & B includes two pulsars in a highly relativistic orbit. The pulsed radio flux from pulsar B brightens considerably during two portions of each orbit. This phenomenon cannot be naturally triggered by the illumination of $γ$-rays or X-rays from pulsar A or the bow shock around pulsar B. Instead, we explain these periodic flares quantitatively as episodes during which pairs from pulsar A's wind flow into the open field line region of pulsar B and emit curvature radiation at radio frequencies within an altitude of $\sim 10^8$ cm. The radio photons then travel through B's magnetosphere and eventually reach the observer on the other side of the pulsar. Our model requires that A's wind be anisotropic and that B's spin axis be somewhat misaligned relative to the orbital angular momentum. We estimate the expected $γ$-ray and X-ray emission from the system.
description: ApJ Letters, in press
Increasing the Minimum Wage Implications for Rural Poverty and Employment
Creators: name: Whitener, Leslie A.
name: Parker, Timothy S.
name: Whitener, Leslie A.
name: Parker, Timothy S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Financial Economics
Food Security and Poverty

description: Recent proposals to increase the minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.15 an hour would probably affect a larger share of rural than urban workers. The greatest effect would be in the South and Southwest where poverty rates are high and industries typically offer low wages. An increase of this magnitude would by itself have little effect on reducing poverty in either rural or urban areas, but combined with the Earned Income Tax Credit, could hold promise for lifting many minimum wage workers and their families out of poverty.
Community Empowerment A New Approach for Rural Development
Creators: name: Reid, J. Norman
name: Reid, J. Norman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: The 1993 legislation creating the Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities program represents a departure in Federal policy toward developing low-income rural and urban communities. By combining flexible, long-term financing with strategic planning and performance benchmarking, the program helps impoverished communities to address structural problems comprehensively, rather than applying “stovepipe” programs to isolated issues. Although the program is only 3 years into implementation, the results are already remarkable. Rising congressional interest in the program’s success points to an expansion of the empowerment approach in coming years.
THE LINK BETWEEN MATERNAL HEALTH AND WOMEN’S FOOD SECURITY IN RURAL COMMUNITIES: CASE STUDY OF SMALLHOLDER FARMERS IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Awodele A., O.
name: Olajide O., A.
name: Awodele A., O.
name: Olajide O., A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Maternal health
subject: Food Security
subject: Women
subject: Rural communities
subject: Access Scale
subject: Multinomial regression.

description: The interaction between household food security, maternal health and child nutritional status is well documented but the empirical evidence seems to be limited. The study examined maternal health and household food security in Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was adopted in selecting total of 112 respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multinomial regression model. The result revealed that most of the households were male-headed. The mean age of household heads was 34 years. About 82 percent of the respondents were married; only 42 percent were educated up to secondary school level and 46 percent were farmers with an estimated average monthly income of less than N20,000.00. The food security index showed that 77 percent were moderately food secure and about 66 percent of households skip meals because of insufficient funds to buy food. The food security status of households worsened with increase in household size; women within the age range of 35-39 years experienced a high degree of food insecurity. The results from the multinomial regression analysis revealed that income (p<0.1), education (p<0.01) and household size (p<0.01) are factors that determine the likelihood of being food insecure or secure. It also showed the effect of maternal health variables on households’ food security status; the frequency of illness (p<0,01) could decrease food security. The findings suggest that existing policies aimed at improving maternal health and ensuring food security should be monitored and evaluated for effective impact and should be more aggressively implemented. Also education, income generation and health policies specific to women are necessary to transform women’s food security status.
Additional file 2 of Prolonged health worker strikes in Kenya- perspectives and experiences of frontline health managers and local communities in Kilifi County
Creators: name: Waithaka, Dennis
name: Kagwanja, Nancy
name: Nzinga, Jacinta
name: Tsofa, Benjamin
name: Leli, Hassan
name: Mataza, Christine
name: Amek Nyaguara
name: Bejon, Philip
name: Gilson, Lucy
name: Barasa, Edwine
name: Sassy Molyneux
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Topic guide for focus group discussion-community representatives.
Federal Funding’s Unique Role in Appalachia
Creators: name: Bagi, Faqir S.
name: Reeder, Richard J.
name: Calhoun, Samuel D.
name: Bagi, Faqir S.
name: Reeder, Richard J.
name: Calhoun, Samuel D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Financial Economics

description: Rural Appalachia received relatively low levels of Federal funds in fiscal year 1997 compared with urban Appalachia. Although it had relatively high income support payments, reflecting high rates of poverty and unemployment, rural Appalachia received less per capita in Federal funding for community resources and other programs that create jobs and development. Mining and poverty counties were the chief rural beneficiaries of income support payments, while the more populous and prosperous rural manufacturing and commuting areas benefited more from community resource programs. Some Federal policy trends may further the region’s growth, particularly the recent increase in highway aid and changes in telecommunications, while environmental policy, welfare reform, and proposals to reduce or limit the growth of income support and economic development programs present challenges to the region.
Sigma-meson and omega-rho mixing effects in omega --> pi^+ pi^- gamma decay
Creators: name: Gokalp, A.
name: Kucukarslan, A.
name: Solmaz, S.
name: Yilmaz, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the branching ratio of omega --> pi^+ pi^- gamma decay in a phenomenological framework in which the contributions of VMD, chiral loops, sigma-meson intermediate state amplitudes and the effects of omega-rho mixing are considered. We conclude that the sigma-meson intermediate state amplitude and omega-rho mixing make substantial contribution to the branching ratio.
description: 10 pages RevTex, 4 Figures, to be published in Acta Phys. Pol. B
The Operation and Management of Village Development Fund in Champasak Province, Lao PDR
Creators: name: Sisoumang, Bounthom
name: Wangwacharakul, Vute
name: Limsombunchai, Visit
name: Sisoumang, Bounthom
name: Wangwacharakul, Vute
name: Limsombunchai, Visit
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Operation
subject: Management
subject: Village Development Fund
subject: Champasak
subject: Lao PDR

description: As a least developed country, the economy of Lao PDR is agricultural based with high percentage of poor people living in rural area, poverty eradication and rural development is at the centre of the government’s economic and social development policies. Village development fund has been used as an important strategy to increase access to financial capital of the rural poor. This paper reviews the development of village development fund in Champasak province, Lao PDR and assess its operation and management especially on the structure, management rules, operation and performance aspects, and supported by the interview of village development fund management committees of two districts in the province. The results show that the village development fund has expanded gradually over the past few years. The management is generally satisfactory. However, main problems encountered are those related to ethical ground and good governance of management personnel. By policies, the village development fund shall contribute to social development in the villages. This requires not only management skills and experiences to optimize business and social goals, but also knowledge and understanding of the members to accpet flexible or relative moderate rate of return to deposit. The non-performance loans, as observed, are mostly caused by crop or livestock raising failure. Hence, to sustain the village development fund in Champasak province, it is important to widen the capacity development by more campaign on basic knowledge of principles/concepts among the members; ethical development and good governance among management and advisory committees. To avoid non-performance loan, it is essential to reduce risks from investment in agricultural or non-agricultural activities. This requires more support from the public sector to ensure efficiency and sustainability of the village development fund.
Robust Network Function Virtualization
Creators: name: Lin, Tachun
name: Zhou, Zhili
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Network function virtualization (NFV) enables on-demand network function (NF) deployment providing agile and dynamic network services. Through an evaluation metric that quantifies the minimal reliability among all NFs for all demands, service providers and operators may better facilitate flexible NF service recovery and migration, thus offer higher service reliability. In this paper, we present evaluation metrics on NFV reliability and solution approaches to solve robust NFV under random NF-enabled node failure(s). We demonstrate how to construct an auxiliary NF-enabled network and its mapping onto the physical substrate network. With constructed NF-enabled network, we develop pseudo-polynomial algorithms to solve the robust NF and SFC $s-t$ path problems -- subproblems of robust NFV. We also present approximation algorithms for robust NFV with the SFC-Fork as the NF forwarding graph. Furthermore, we propose exact solution approaches via mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) under the general setting. Computational results show that our proposed solution approaches are capable of managing robust NFV in a large-size network.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures
Data visualization and information literacy
Creators: name: Womack, Ryan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: What is the place for data visualization in information literacy? Data librarians are typically expert in explaining the use of specific databases and software tools to locate and analyze information, but data visualization outside of the specialized context of GIS is typically given short shrift. The Pecha Kuchka illustrates the elements of data visualization best practices that deserve to be made a part of the data librarian's standard teaching toolkit, and also makes recommendations for which aspects of data visualization are valuable for general inclusion in information literacy goals.
Charge symmetry breaking as a probe for the real part of eta--nucleus scattering lengths
Creators: name: Baru, V.
name: Haidenbauer, J.
name: Hanhart, C.
name: Niskanen, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that one can use the occurrence of charge symmetry breaking as a tool to explore the eta--nucleus interaction near the eta threshold. Based on indications that the cross section ratio of pi+ and pi0 production on nuclei deviates from the isotopic value in the vicinity of the eta production threshold, due to, e.g., pi0-eta mixing, we argue that a systematic study of this ratio as a function of the energy would allow to pin down the sign of the real part of the eta-nucleus scattering length. This sign plays an important role in the context of the possible existence of eta-nucleus bound states.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Copernicus Core Services Interface - Documentation (CURE Deliverable D2.2)
Creators: name: Opletal, Michal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This document presents a technical description of the CURE Copernicus Core Services Interface (CCSI) and its implementation. The aim of this development activity is to provide a unified interface to streamline search and locate Copernicus services products and other resources as requested by CURE cross-cutting applications. This will help to automate the process of data input into CURE applications and the CURE System, which will significantly enhance their replication potential for the future. The CCSI is stored in this GitHub repository: https://github.com/gisat/cure_core_interface, and it will constantly be updated in order to allow the efficient development of the CURE System.
Generally covariant $N$-particle dynamics
Creators: name: Miller, Tomasz
name: Eckstein, Michał
name: Horodecki, Paweł
name: Horodecki, Ryszard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C50, 53C80, 28E99, 60B05

description: A simultaneous description of the dynamics of multiple particles requires a configuration space approach with an external time parameter. This is in stark contrast with the relativistic paradigm, where time is but a coordinate chosen by an observer. Here we show, however, that the two attitudes toward modelling $N$-particle dynamics can be conciliated within a generally covariant framework. To this end we construct an '$N$-particle configuration spacetime' $\mathcal{M}_{\scriptscriptstyle (N)}$, starting from a globally hyperbolic spacetime $\mathcal{M}$ with a chosen smooth splitting into time and space components. The dynamics of multi-particle systems is modelled at the level of Borel probability measures over $\mathcal{M}_{\scriptscriptstyle (N)}$ with the help of the global time parameter. We prove that with any time-evolution of measures, which respects the $N$-particle causal structure of $\mathcal{M}_{\scriptscriptstyle (N)}$, one can associate a single measure on the Polish space of '$N$-particle wordlines'. The latter is a splitting-independent object, from which one can extract the evolution of measures for any other global observer on $\mathcal{M}$. An additional asset of the adopted measure-theoretic framework is the possibility to model the dynamics of indistinguishable entities, such as quantum particles. As an application we show that the multi-photon and multi-fermion Schrödinger equations, although explicitly dependent on the choice of an external time-parameter, are in fact fully compatible with the causal structure of the Minkowski spacetime.
description: 33 pages
Additional file 11 of From methylglyoxal to pyruvate: a genome-wide study for the identification of glyoxalases and D-lactate dehydrogenases in Sorghum bicolor
Creators: name: Bidisha Bhowal
name: Singla-Pareek, Sneh
name: Sopory, Sudhir
name: Charanpreet Kaur
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 11. D-LDH protein sequences used for the phylogenetic analysis.
All [global] data is local: How academic libraries are enabling discovery and access for institutional data collections
Creators: name: Bennett, Terrence
name: Nicholson, Shawn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: This poster will report onnbsp; a methodical analysis of the role and function of academic libraries in support of the global data ecosystem. Specifically, we'll examine how academic libraries (particularly at large research universities in North America and the UK, where data curation and research data services are functions that have become embedded into the research infrastructure) are enabling cross-institutional and interdisciplinary discovery and use of locally produced research data collections. The analysis will also consider how (or if) academic libraries are positioning their local holdings - particularly digital texts, image files, audio archives, and other non-numeric collections- as research datasets (rather than as artifacts of limited local and/or historical interest); and , more importantly, how libraries are making these datasets discoverable by researchers.
The Meltdown of the Agricultural Legacy and the Disintegration of the Rural Social Fabric in Malaysia
Creators: name: Azman, Azlinda
name: Sulaiman, Jamalludin
name: Azman, Azlinda
name: Sulaiman, Jamalludin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Agriculture used to be a way of life for most nations and is still is for many nations in the world today. It is in the agricultural sector that the battle for long-term development will won or lost, to quote Myrdal. It cannot be denied that sector plays a key role in the process of economic development. When Malaysia embarked on its economic structural transformation policy to leap frog into an industrialised nation by 2020, the agricultural sector was unintentionally neglected. It was put on the backseat of development and later efforts to revise and reinvent the sector were unconvincing. Along the way, the rural social fabric of the nation disintegrated. The rural-urban migration left the agricultural sector helpless with aged farmers to farm, while the more able younger population look for better opportunities in the urban centres. The Lewis-Fei -Ranis (LFR) economic model described the economic transformation persuasively. It and many other similar economic models however, neglected the social implications of this phenomenon and its impact on the lives of the rural population and the later impacts on newer trend of labour mobility – the exodus of the migrant labour from neighbouring nations to the country sides of Malaysia. This paper, based on our many previous studies done in 2006 to 2008, seeks to explore and analyse this phenomenon by answering the following questions: (1) How much has main agricultural outputs dropped due to the rural-urban migration, (2) What aspects and how much of this agricultural legacy and the existing social fabric have been impacted by the migration, (3) What are some of the immediate interventions that could be introduced to reverse some of the trends.
Additional file 10 of From methylglyoxal to pyruvate: a genome-wide study for the identification of glyoxalases and D-lactate dehydrogenases in Sorghum bicolor
Creators: name: Bidisha Bhowal
name: Singla-Pareek, Sneh
name: Sopory, Sudhir
name: Charanpreet Kaur
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 10. Glyoxalase II protein sequences from various species used for the phylogenetic analysis.
Incentives and Social Connection in the Agrarian Labor Contract: Evidence from Field Experiments in Central Luzon, Philippines
Creators: name: Goto, Jun
name: Aida, Takeshi
name: Aoyagi, Keitaro
name: Sawada, Yasuyuki
name: Goto, Jun
name: Aida, Takeshi
name: Aoyagi, Keitaro
name: Sawada, Yasuyuki
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Social preferences
subject: peer effect
subject: labor contract
subject: field experiment
subject: Philippines

description: This paper presents evidence on peer effects and the role of social incentives in the traditional labor contracts. By doing so, we aim at addressing the underlying mechanisms of the peer effects and test the hypothesis of motivational crowding-out, utilizing the data from the field and laboratory experiments. We focus on the case of the Central Luzon in the Philippines where informal labor organization has supplied hired labor for rice planting since the 1960s. Team production characterizes its planting process. Interestingly, despite the possibility of infestation of opportunistic behaviors by workers, a fixed wage scheme has been adopted and remained unchanged for fifty years. We exogenously introduced three distinct labor contracts, which are fixed wage(FW), individual piece rate (IPR), and group piece rate (GPR), to 120 workers during the dry planting season in 2011. Our estimation results show the incentive effects – higher productivity level in IPR comparing to other schemes, which implies that moral hazard and free-riding behavior deteriorate performances in FW and GPR. However, we find strong evidence on peer effects that other worker's ability positively affects individual productivity level, which improves group productivity as a whole. In addition to this, our estimation results indicate the individual and peer’s social preference impinge on worker’s behavior. First, the lower intensity of monetary incentive encourages workers more to cooperate based on altruistic and reciprocal motivation, which eventually mitigate agency problems. Second, the degree of free-riding in GPR is negatively correlated with the group’s propensity to social sanction rather than monitoring or pro-social preference although its effect seems to be diminished. Finally, altruistic and reciprocal cooperation in the fixed wage are crowded out by the monetary incentives in IPR and GPR.
Analysing observed star cluster SEDs with evolutionary synthesis models: Systematic uncertainties
Creators: name: Anders, P.
name: Bissantz, N.
name: Alvensleben, U. Fritze-v.
name: de Grijs, R.
name: ;
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the systematic uncertainties inherent to analyses of observed (broad-band) Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) of star clusters with evolutionary synthesis models. We investigate the effects caused by restricting oneself to a limited number of available passbands, choices of various passband combinations, finite observational errors, non-continuous model input parameter values, and restrictions in parameter space allowed during analysis. Starting from a complete set of UBVRIJH passbands (respectively their Hubble Space Telescope/WFPC2 equivalents) we investigate to which extent clusters with different combinations of age, metallicity, internal extinction and mass can or cannot be disentangled in the various evolutionary stages throughout their lifetimes and what are the most useful passbands required to resolve the ambiguities. We find the U and B bands to be of the highest significance, while the V band and near-infrared data provide additional constraints. A code is presented that makes use of luminosities of a star cluster system in all of the possibly available passbands, and tries to find ranges of allowed age-metallicity-extinction-mass combinations for individual members of star cluster systems. Numerous tests and examples are presented. We show the importance of good photometric accuracies and of determining the cluster parameters independently without any prior assumptions.
description: 18 pages, 18 figures (ps and eps), accepted for publication in MNRAS