cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Effects of Changing Technology: The Impacts of a Changing Cost Structure on Land Tenure Arrangements in the Mississippi Delta, 1996 - 2004
Creators: name: Anderson, John D.
name: Thompson, W. Michael
name: Ibendahl, Gregory A.
name: Laughlin, David H.
name: Anderson, John D.
name: Thompson, W. Michael
name: Ibendahl, Gregory A.
name: Laughlin, David H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Mississippi cotton production
subject: Genetically Modified cotton varieties
subject: land tenure
subject: structural change

description: Genetically modified (GM) cotton varieties have changed many aspects of cotton production in the United States. The advent of GM varieties has fueled the ongoing trend of increasing farm size and fewer farmers. Mississippi is no exception to this trend. The rapid adoption of GM cotton varieties in Mississippi has allowed some producers to increase the acreage of their farming operation. This study analyses the impact of GM varieties on relative profitability over certain types of land tenure arrangements. The type of land tenure arrangement and the cost associated with the arrangement are compared to determine relative probabilities of breaking even for different farm sizes in the Mississippi cotton industry.
Silvia Mustaţă, The Roman Metal Vessels from Dacia Porolissensis.
Creators: name: Sueur, Quentin
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Silvia Mustaţă, The Roman Metal Vessels from Dacia Porolissensis. Patrimonium Archaeologicum Transylvanicum 12. Mega Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca 2017. ISBN 978-606-543-843-9. 374 pages with 26 figures, four graphs, and 106 plates.
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
Primordial galactic magnetic fields from the QCD phase transition
Creators: name: Forbes, Michael McNeil
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In this thesis I describe in detail a mechanism which we proposed to generate large-scale primordial magnetic fields with correlation lengths of 100 kpc today. Domain walls with QCD scale internal structure form, coalesce and attain Hubble scale correlations. These domain walls subsequently align nucleon spins. Due to strong CP violation, nucleons in these walls have anomalous electric and magnetic dipole moments and the walls are ferromagnetic. This induces electromagnetic fields with Hubble size correlations. The same CP violation also induces a maximal helicity (Chern-Simons) correlated through the Hubble volume which may support an "inverse cascade" allowing the initial correlations to grow to 100 kpc today. Details of the physics and estimation methods are presented as well as necessary background and a discussion of the numerical methods used to obtain the classical domain wall solutions. In particular, a nice method for estimating properties of flat domain walls is presented. In addition, possible flaws with the argument are examined and other applications of QCD domain walls to astrophysical problems are discussed.
A Variable-Flavour Number Scheme for NNLO
Creators: name: Thorne, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At NNLO it is particularly important to have a Variable-Flavour Number Scheme (VFNS) to deal with heavy quarks because there are major problems with both the zero mass variable-flavour number scheme and the fixed-flavour number scheme. I illustrate these problems and present a general formulation of a Variable-Flavour Number Scheme (VFNS)for heavy quarks that is explicitly implemented up to NNLO in the strong coupling constant alpha_S, and may be used in NNLO global fits for parton distributions. The procedure combines elements of the ACOT(chi) scheme and the Thorne-Roberts scheme. Despite the fact that at NNLO the parton distributions are discontinuous as one changes the number of active quark flavours, all physical quantities are continuous at flavour transitions and the comparison with data is successful.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures included as .ps files, uses axodraw. One additional explanatory sentence after eq. (25). Correction of typos and updated references. To be published in Phys. Rev. D
Supplemental File S1. Detailed materials and methods from Influenza A viruses remain infectious for more than seven months in northern wetlands of North America
Creators: name: Ramey, Andrew M.
name: Reeves, Andrew B.
name: Drexler, Judith Z.
name: Ackerman, Joshua T.
name: Cruz, Susan De La
name: Lang, Andrew
name: Leyson, Christina
name: Link, Paul
name: Prosser, Diann J.
name: Robertson, Gregory J.
name: Wight, Jordan
name: Sungsu Youk
name: Spackman, Erica
name: Pantin-Jackwood, Mary
name: Poulson, Rebecca L.
name: Stallknecht, David E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Detailed materials and methods
Additional file 3 of Translating restrictive law into practice: An ethnographic exploration of the systemic processing of legally restricted health care access for asylum seekers in Germany
Creators: name: Ziegler, Sandra
name: Bozorgmehr, Kayvan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Interview participants and pseudonymization.
Supply Response in Agriculture: Farm-Level and Sector-Wide Adjustment Reconciled
Creators: name: Keeney, Roman
name: Hertel, Thomas W.
name: Keeney, Roman
name: Hertel, Thomas W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The importance of getting supply response correct is critical to analysis of policy. The literature on structural adjustment and the debate over price incentives versus public investment in technology as means of stimulating agricultural growth in developing countries yielded several broad surveys of supply response all emphasizing the key role of accurately assessing supply response. For OECD countries where interest in domestic policy influence on agricultural production is piqued due to ongoing agricultural negotiations in the WTO, policy modeling efforts have similarly drawn attention to the issues of supply response in agriculture. This report offers a survey of the current literature on supply response, with a particular emphasis on the separate contributions of acreage and yield response. We bring together the varied estimates of supply response to price and policy changes for comparative analysis based on the elements used to generate the estimates. In order to view this diverse literature through a common lens, we use the OECD-PEM framework as a vehicle for decomposing and assessing supply response at the aggregate level, as it arises from farm-level adjustment in the supply of primary factors and input substitution.
description: Paper removed by authors for revision - 3/13/08.
Additional file 4 of Translating restrictive law into practice: An ethnographic exploration of the systemic processing of legally restricted health care access for asylum seekers in Germany
Creators: name: Ziegler, Sandra
name: Bozorgmehr, Kayvan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. Documentation of outcomes of Applications for Cost Coverage (ACCs).
Representation Formula for Viscosity Solution to a PDE Problem involving Pucci's Extremal Operator
Creators: name: Pozza, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J60, 60H30

description: We provide a representation formula for viscosity solutions to an elliptic Dirichlet problem involving Pucci's extremal operators. This is done through a dynamic programming principle derived from Denis, Hu and Peng (2010). The formula can be seen as a nonlinear extension of the Feynman-Kac formula.
description: 17 pages
The Relative Importance of Global Agricultural Subsidies and Market Access
Creators: name: Anderson, Kym
name: Martin, William J.
name: Valenzuela, Ernesto
name: Anderson, Kym
name: Martin, William J.
name: Valenzuela, Ernesto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The claim by global trade modelers that the potential contribution to global economic welfare of removing agricultural subsidies is less than one-tenth of that from removing agricultural tariffs puzzles many observers. To help explain that result, this paper first compares the OECD and model-based estimates of the extent of the producer distortions (leaving aside consumer distortions), and shows that 75 percent of total support is provided by market access barriers when account is taken of all forms of support to farmers and to agricultural processors globally, and only 19 percent to domestic farm subsidies. We then provide a back-of-the-envelope (BOTE) calculation of the welfare cost of those distortions. Assuming unitary supply and demand elasticities, that BOTE analysis suggests 86 percent of the welfare cost is due to tariffs and only 6 percent to domestic farm subsidies. When the higher costs associated with the greater variability of trade measures relative to domestic support are accounted for, the BOTE estimate of the latter's share falls to 4 percent. This is close to the 5 percent generated by the most commonly used global model (GTAP) and reported in the paper's final section.
Additional file 1 of A systematic scoping review on group non-written reflections in medical education
Creators: name: Burla, Neha
name: Ong, Rui Song Ryan
name: Chee, Ryan Choon Hoe
name: Wong, Ruth Si Man
name: Neo, Shao Yun
name: Abdul Hamid, Nur Amira Binte
name: Lim, Crystal
name: Ong, Eng Koon
name: Somasundaram, Nagavalli
name: Krishna, Lalit Kumar Radha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Full SEBA Methodology
Forecasting Food Price Inflation, Challenges for Central Banks in Developing Countries using an Inflation Targeting Framework: the Case of Colombia
Creators: name: Gomez, Miguel I.
name: Gonzalez, Eliana
name: Melo, Luis F.
name: Torres, Jose L.
name: Gomez, Miguel I.
name: Gonzalez, Eliana
name: Melo, Luis F.
name: Torres, Jose L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Inflation
subject: Time Series
subject: Forecast Combination
subject: Inflation Targeting

description: Many developing countries are adopting inflation targeting regimes to guide monetary policy decisions. In such countries the share of food in the consumption basket is high and policy makers often employ total inflation (as opposed to core inflation) to set inflationary targets. Therefore, central banks need to develop reliable models to forecast food inflation. Our literature review suggests that little has been done in the construction of models to forecast short-run food inflation in developing countries. We develop a model to improve short-run food inflation forecasts in Colombia. The model disaggregates food items according to economic theory and employs Flexible Least Squares given the presence of structural changes in the inflation series. We compare the performance of this new model to current models employed by the central bank. Next, we apply econometric methods to combine forecasts from alternative models and test whether such combination outperforms individual models. Our results indicate that forecasts can be improved by classifying food basket items according to unprocessed, processed and food away from home and by employing forecast combination techniques.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 11/17/06. Former title: Forecasting Food Price Inflation, Challenges for Central Banks in Developing Countries using an Inflation Targeting Framework: the Case of Colombia
System Dynamic Approach to Assessing New Product Introduction: The Case of Functional Foods in the United States
Creators: name: Ross, Kara L.
name: Amanor-Boadu, Vincent
name: Ross, Kara L.
name: Amanor-Boadu, Vincent
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Health care costs particularly those associated with chronic health conditions such as cancer have been significantly increasing for both individuals and governments in the past decades, prompting the demand for preventative medical initiatives, such as functional food, and spawning a new industry in the food sector functional food industry. This article conducts a feasibility study for a firm entering the functional food industry with a specific product, Avert®, CLA-enhanced cheese. It also assesses alternative market conditions under which the firm will be successful. A system dynamics framework is used for the analyses. The results show that a firm can be profitable in the functional food industry provided that it satisfies certain pricing and target market conditions. The results indicate that the extent to which the market differentiates Avert® from commodity cheese, and hence the premium it pays, is a critical success factor for the firm introducing the product.
Table S4. Abundance of the transcripts encoding MRO protein candidates and acetyl-CoA synthases (ACS1-3) among Barthelona sp. Strain PAP020, Dysnectes brevis, and Kipferlia bialata. from Barthelonids represent a deep-branching metamonad clade with mitochondrion-related organelles predicted to generate no ATP
Creators: name: Euki Yazaki
name: Keitaro Kume
name: Shiratori, Takashi
name: Eglit, Yana
name: Tanifuji, Goro
name: Harada, Ryo
name: Simpson, Alastair G. B.
name: Ken-Ichiro Ishida
name: Hashimoto, Tetsuo
name: Inagaki, Yuji
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: We here report the phylogenetic position of barthelonids, small anaerobic flagellates previously examined using light microscopy alone. Barthelona spp. were isolated from geographically distinct regions and we established five laboratory strains. Transcriptomic data generated from one Barthelona strain (PAP020) were used for large-scale, multi-gene phylogenetic (phylogenomic) analyses. Our analyses robustly placed strain PAP020 at the base of the Fornicata clade, indicating that barthelonids represent a deep-branching Metamonad clade. Considering the anaerobic/microaerophilic nature of barthelonids and preliminary electron microscopy observations on strain PAP020, we suspected that barthelonids possess functionally and structurally reduced mitochondria (i.e. mitochondrion-related organelles or MROs). The metabolic pathways localized in the MRO of strain PAP020 were predicted based on its transcriptomic data and compared with those in the MROs of fornicates. We here propose that strain PAP020 is incapable of generating ATP in the MRO, as no mitochondrial/MRO enzymes involved in substrate-level phosphorylation were detected. Instead, we detected the putative cytosolic ATP-generating enzyme (acetyl-CoA synthetase), suggesting that strain PAP020 depends on ATP generated in the cytosol. We propose two separate losses of substrate-level phosphorylation from the MRO in the clade containing barthelonids and (other) fornicates.
The Effects of Crop Generic Resources and Biodiversity on Agricultural Production: An Empirical Study on Rice Farming
Creators: name: Kim, Kwansoo
name: An, Donghwan
name: Chae, Kwangseok
name: Kim, Kwansoo
name: An, Donghwan
name: Chae, Kwangseok
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: This paper has investigated the effects of crop biodiversity on the mean and the variance of yield in rice production. It used panel data from 22 research stations of Rural Development Administration in Korea during 1997-2004. We found evidence that yield risk is positively related with crop biodiversity measured as a Herfindahl concentration index of varietal diversity. In other words, crop biodiversity is found to be a risk-decreasing input.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 07/20/06.
Tidal Effects in the Post-Minkowskian Expansion
Creators: name: Cheung, Clifford
name: Solon, Mikhail P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tools from scattering amplitudes and effective field theory have recently been repurposed to derive state-of-the-art results for the black hole binary inspiral in the post-Minkowskian expansion. In the present work we extend this approach to include the tidal effects of mass and current quadrupoles on the conservative dynamics of non-spinning neutron star mergers. We compute the leading and, for the first time, next-to-leading order post-Minkowskian finite size corrections to the conservative Hamiltonian, together with their associated scattering amplitudes and scattering angles. Our expressions are gauge invariant and, in the extreme mass ratio limit, consistent with the dynamics of a tidally deformed test body in a Schwarzschild background. Furthermore, they agree completely with existing results at leading post-Minkowskian and second post-Newtonian orders.
description: 5 pages + references, 1 figure, 1 ancillary file
Generating long streams of $1/f^alpha$ noise
Creators: name: Plaszczynski, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review existing methods for generating long streams of 1/f^alpha noise ($02$. The software is available from http://planck.lal.in2p3.fr/article.php3?id\_article=8
description: Last version (corrected web site)
Synthesis of large-area rhombohedral few-layer graphene by chemical vapor deposition on copper
Creators: name: Bouhafs, Chamseddine
name: Pezzini, Sergio
name: Mishra, Neeraj
name: Mišeikis, Vaidotas
name: Niu, Yuran
name: Struzzi, Claudia
name: Zakharov, Alexei A.
name: Forti, Stiven
name: Coletti, Camilla
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rhombohedral-stacked few-layer graphene (FLG) has been receiving an ever-increasing attention owing to its peculiar electronic properties that could lead to enticing phenomena such as superconductivity and magnetic ordering. Up to now, experimental studies on such material have been mainly limited by the difficulty in isolating it in thickness exceeding 3 atomic layers with device-compatible size. In this work, rhombohedral graphene with thickness up to 9 layers and areas up to ~50 micrometers square is grown via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on suspended Cu foils and transferred onto target substrates via etch-free delamination. The domains of rhombohedral FLG are identified by Raman spectroscopy and are found to alternate with domains of Bernal-stacked FLG within the same crystal in a stripe-like configuration. A combined analysis of micro-Raman mapping, atomic force microscopy and optical microscopy indicates that the formation of rhombohedral-stacked FLG is strongly correlated to the copper substrate morphology. Cu step bunching results in bending of FLG and interlayer displacement along preferential crystallographic orientations, as determined experimentally by electron microscopy, thus inducing the stripe-like domains. The growth and transfer of rhombohedral FLG with the reported thickness and size shall facilitate the observation of predicted unconventional physics and ultimately add to its technological relevance.
description: 27 pages, 4 Figures, 9 Supplementary Figures
Economic impact of biofuel chains in France
Creators: name: Sourie, Jean-Claude
name: Treguer, David
name: Rozakis, Stelios
name: Sourie, Jean-Claude
name: Treguer, David
name: Rozakis, Stelios
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Given the current situation with the high price of oil (an average of $53 per barrel in 2005) and the risk of global warming, the European Union (EU) is reinforcing its objectives related to the production of biofuels: they should account for 5.75% of the overall fuel consumption by 2010 in France, as opposed to 1% in 2005. In keeping with the objective set for 2010, the biodiesel derived from rapeseed is still the preferred biofuel (27.5 million hectolitres projected), compared to the ethanol derived from wheat or sugarbeet (9.3 million hectolitres projected). Our model makes it possible to foresee that there will be a competition between food and energy crops by 2006 and that this will occur even before all of the fallow areas are requisitioned. Our paper stresses the fact that the energy and economic advantages of first-generation biofuels are not sufficient to replace large quantities of petroleum resources.
Additional file 2 of A systematic scoping review on group non-written reflections in medical education
Creators: name: Burla, Neha
name: Ong, Rui Song Ryan
name: Chee, Ryan Choon Hoe
name: Wong, Ruth Si Man
name: Neo, Shao Yun
name: Abdul Hamid, Nur Amira Binte
name: Lim, Crystal
name: Ong, Eng Koon
name: Somasundaram, Nagavalli
name: Krishna, Lalit Kumar Radha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. PRISMA-ScR Checklist
Power-law velocity distributions in granular gases
Creators: name: Ben-Naim, E.
name: Machta, B.
name: Machta, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a general class of steady and transient states of granular gases. We find that the kinetic theory of inelastic gases admits stationary solutions with a power-law velocity distribution, f(v) ~ v^(-sigma). The exponent sigma is found analytically and depends on the spatial dimension, the degree of inelasticity, and the homogeneity degree of the collision rate. Driven steady-states, with the same power-law tail and a cut-off can be maintained by injecting energy at a large velocity scale, which then cascades to smaller velocities where it is dissipated. Associated with these steady-states are freely cooling time-dependent states for which the cut-off decreases and the velocity distribution is self-similar.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Rouse, Ruth und Neill, Stephen Charles, Geschichte der Ökumenischen Bewegung 1517-1948
Creators: name: Siegmund-Schultze, Friedrich
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 8 Nr. 2 (1959): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 8, Heft 2
52. Interplanetary navigation
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Spacecraft sent out to orbit, land on, or simply fly past the planets and other bodies of our solar system rely on interplanetary navigation. At the basis of knowing both the target object's orbit, and the rendezvous vehicle's orbit, are accurate star positions. The recent spectacular fly-by of Ultima Thule used the latest Gaia results.
The dressed oscillator approach and particle creation in two simple models of a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universe
Creators: name: Bruskiewich, Patrick
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In the First part of this thesis I look at the Algebraic Method which is a very straightforward technique. The idea behind the Algebraic Method is to generate all the states of a quantum system beginning with a well defined base state, generally the lowest energy state, through successive application of a creation operator (also known as a raising operator) which modifies the lowest energy state in such a fashion as to then characterize the rest of the spectrum of the system. The lowest energy state is defined as the state that is annihilated by the annihilation operator (also known as the lowering operator). Several examples of the Algebraic technique are presented including Landau Levels. In the Second part of this thesis I look at several examples of Unitary Similarity Transformations and how they can be used to simplify Hamiltonians describing quantum systems. Examples of the Similarity Transformation Method discussed in this thesis include a method to determine the ground state eigen-function using a generating function, Electron-Spin Resonance, the Foldy and Wouthuysen Transformation and an approach first proposed by Wentzel and applied by Schwinger to describe the non-relativistic interaction of an electron with a field. Schwinger used this approach to solve for the Lamb shift of the electron in a central coulombic potential. In the Third Part of this thesis I look at the Bogoliubov Transformation which can be used for Diagonalizing a Quadratic Bosonic Hamiltonian. In the Fourth Part I describe the coupling between a non-relativistic system of oscillators coupled linearly to a scalar field in ordinary Euclidean 3-space. From a physical point of view we give a nonperturbative treatment to the oscillator radiation introducing some coordinates that permit us to divide the coupled system into two parts, the "dressed" oscillator and the field. I also look at how one can describe transitions due to a forcing function. The first four sections of this thesis build up the mathematical tools, namely the Algebraic Method, the Bogoliubov transformation and the "dressed" oscillator approach, for Part Five in which I look at uniform acceleration n Rindler space, particle creation in two simple models of a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universe, as well as a hypothesis that Gravity is an Induced Quantum Effect.
Supplemental figure 1-6 from Barthelonids represent a deep-branching metamonad clade with mitochondrion-related organelles predicted to generate no ATP
Creators: name: Euki Yazaki
name: Keitaro Kume
name: Shiratori, Takashi
name: Eglit, Yana
name: Tanifuji, Goro
name: Harada, Ryo
name: Simpson, Alastair G. B.
name: Ken-Ichiro Ishida
name: Hashimoto, Tetsuo
name: Inagaki, Yuji
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: We here report the phylogenetic position of barthelonids, small anaerobic flagellates previously examined using light microscopy alone. Barthelona spp. were isolated from geographically distinct regions and we established five laboratory strains. Transcriptomic data generated from one Barthelona strain (PAP020) were used for large-scale, multi-gene phylogenetic (phylogenomic) analyses. Our analyses robustly placed strain PAP020 at the base of the Fornicata clade, indicating that barthelonids represent a deep-branching Metamonad clade. Considering the anaerobic/microaerophilic nature of barthelonids and preliminary electron microscopy observations on strain PAP020, we suspected that barthelonids possess functionally and structurally reduced mitochondria (i.e. mitochondrion-related organelles or MROs). The metabolic pathways localized in the MRO of strain PAP020 were predicted based on its transcriptomic data and compared with those in the MROs of fornicates. We here propose that strain PAP020 is incapable of generating ATP in the MRO, as no mitochondrial/MRO enzymes involved in substrate-level phosphorylation were detected. Instead, we detected the putative cytosolic ATP-generating enzyme (acetyl-CoA synthetase), suggesting that strain PAP020 depends on ATP generated in the cytosol. We propose two separate losses of substrate-level phosphorylation from the MRO in the clade containing barthelonids and (other) fornicates.
Dynamical masses for the Pleiades binary system HII-2147
Creators: name: Torres, Guillermo
name: Melis, Carl
name: Kraus, Adam L.
name: Dupuy, Trent J.
name: Chilcote, Jeffrey K.
name: Crepp, Justin R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report our long-term spectroscopic monitoring of the Pleiades member HII-2147, which has previously been spatially resolved at radio wavelengths in VLBI observations. It has also been claimed to be a (presumably short-period) double-lined spectroscopic binary with relatively sharp lines, although no orbit has ever been published. Examination of our new spectroscopic material, and of the historical radial velocities, shows that the current and previous spectra are best interpreted as showing only a single set of lines of a moderately rapidly rotating star with slowly variable radial velocity, which is one of the sources detected by VLBI. We combine our own and other velocities with the VLBI measurements and new adaptive optics observations to derive the first astrometric-spectroscopic orbit of the G5 + G9 pair, with a period of 18.18 $\pm$ 0.11 years. We infer dynamical masses of 0.897 $\pm$ 0.022 MSun for the spectroscopically visible star and 0.978 $\pm$ 0.024 MSun for the other, along with a distance of 136.78 (+0.50/-0.46) pc. The lack of detection of the lines of the more massive component in our spectra can be adequately explained if it is rotating much more rapidly than the star we see. This is consistent with the observation that the lines of the secondary are shallower than expected for a star of its spectral type.
description: 16 pages in emulateapj format, including figures and tables. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Off-Farm Work and On-Farm Investment
Creators: name: Foltz, Jeremy D.
name: Aldana, Ursula
name: Foltz, Jeremy D.
name: Aldana, Ursula
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This work has developed a theoretically consistent model of a farm household's choice between working on-farm and working off-farm and the effects of that choice on farm investment choices. The theory demonstrates the potential for wages driven by local economic conditions to be more important to dairy farm investment decisions than characteristics of dairy farms and farmers. The switching regression model developed from the theory is then tested with data from a representative sample of Wisconsin dairy farms. The econometric results demonstrate the importance of wages to farm investment decisions.
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION AND THE OPTIMAL LOCATION OF THE FIRM UNDER UNCERTAINTY
Creators: name: Isik, Murat
name: Isik, Murat
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: risk aversion
subject: uncertainty
subject: regulation
subject: market-based policies.

description: This paper examines the optimal location of a competitive firm in response to environmental costs imposed by the abatement investment and taxes when the cost of the environmental regulation varies spatially under uncertainty. It contributes to the literature by incorporating the spatial setting into a risk-averse firm's location decisions in the presence of environmental regulation uncertainty. An increase in the cost of the environmental regulation moves a risk-averse firm closer to the output market. An augmented input or emission tax causes the risk-averse firm to locate closer to the output market. Uncertainty about environmental regulations in the form of the abatement investment and taxes also leads a risk-averse firm to locate closer to the output market, while it does not affect a risk-neutral firm's location decisions. The results have implications for the design and implementations of environmental and other development-related policies.
Effects of Neutron Irradiation on Carbon Doped MgB2 Wire Segments
Creators: name: Wilke, R. H. T.
name: Bud'ko, S. L.
name: Canfield, P. C.
name: Finnemore, D. K.
name: Suplinskas, Raymond J.
name: Farmer, J.
name: Hannahs, S. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the evolution of superconducting and normal state properties of neutron irradiated Mg(B$_{.962}$C$_{.038}$)$_2$ wire segments as a function of post exposure annealing time and temperature. The initial fluence fully suppressed superconductivity and resulted in an anisotropic expansion of the unit cell. Superconductivity was restored by post-exposure annealing. The upper critical field, H$_{c2}$(T=0), approximately scales with T$_c$ starting with an undamaged T$_c$ near 37 K and H$_{c2}$(T=0) near 32 T. Up to an annealing temperature of 400 $^ o$C the recovery of T$_c$ tends to coincide with a decrease in the normal state resistivity and a systematic recovery of the lattice parameters. Above 400 $^ o$C a decrease in order along the c- direction coincides with an increase in resistivity, but no apparent change in the evolution of T$_c$ and H$_{c2}$. To first order, it appears that carbon doping and neutron damaging effect the superconducting properties of MgB$_2$ independently.
THE INFLUENCE OF MICROFINANCE ON THE EDUCATION DECISIONS OF RURAL HOUSEHOLDS: EVIDENCE FROM BOLIVIA
Creators: name: Maldonado, Jorge Higinio
name: Gonzalez-Vega, Claudio
name: Romero, Vivianne
name: Maldonado, Jorge Higinio
name: Gonzalez-Vega, Claudio
name: Romero, Vivianne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: There is debate about measurement of impact and achievement of expected results of rural microfinance programs in LDCs. The paper addresses these issues using survey household data from Bolivia. Regression models examine the determinants of education outcomes for microfinance clients. The results challenge usual assumptions in program design.
THE DESEASONALIZATION OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION
Creators: name: Roosen, Jutta
name: Hennessy, David A.
name: Roosen, Jutta
name: Hennessy, David A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Animal Production
subject: FOS: Animal and dairy science
subject: Capital Intensity
subject: Dairy
subject: Industrialization
subject: Seasonality

description: We document the deseasonalization of animal production in the US and Europe. Hypotheses on causes and consequences of this trend are advanced. They pertain to feed costs, changes in animal productivity and cost fixity of the underlying technology, innovations in genetic control and epidemiology, and the capital intensity of production.
A COLLECTIVE PERFORMANCE-BASED CONTRACT FOR POINT-NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION TRADING
Creators: name: Taylor, Michael A.
name: Randall, Alan
name: Sohngen, Brent
name: Taylor, Michael A.
name: Randall, Alan
name: Sohngen, Brent
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Collective performance-based trading can be achieved by pairing a team contract with an auction to determine team membership. The auction effectively overcomes adverse selection, and the team contract reduces the incentive to "free-ride" associated with moral hazard in teams.
Two-Loop Corrections to Bhabha Scattering
Creators: name: Penin, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two-loop radiative photonic corrections to the Bhabha scattering are computed in the leading order of the small electron mass expansion up to nonlogarithmic term. After including the soft photon bremsstrahlung we obtain the infrared finite result for the differential cross section, which can be directly applied to precise luminosity determination of the present and future $e^+e^-$ colliders.
description: Eq.(3) corrected
Supplementary figures, tables, and materials from Prey with hidden colour defences benefit from their similarity to aposematic signals
Creators: name: Yongsu Kim
name: Yerin Hwang
name: Sangryong Bae
name: Sherratt, Thomas N.
name: Jeongseop An
name: Sei-Woong Choi
name: Miller, Jeffrey C.
name: Changku Kang
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Some camouflaged animals hide colour signals and display them only transiently. These hidden colour signals are often conspicuous and are used as a secondary defence to warn or startle predators (deimatic displays) and/or to confuse them (flash displays). The hidden signals used in these displays frequently resemble typical aposematic signals, so it is possible that prey with hidden signals have evolved to employ colour patterns of a form that predators have previously learned to associate with unprofitability. Here, we tested this hypothesis by conducting two experiments that examined the effect of predator avoidance learning on the efficacy of deimatic and flash displays. We found that the survival benefits of both deimatic and flash displays were substantially higher against predators that had previously learned to associate the hidden colours with unprofitability than against naive predators. These findings help explain the phenological patterns we found in 1568 macro-lepidopteran species on three continents: species with hidden signals tend to occur later in the season than species without hidden signals.
Additional file 3 of A systematic scoping review on group non-written reflections in medical education
Creators: name: Burla, Neha
name: Ong, Rui Song Ryan
name: Chee, Ryan Choon Hoe
name: Wong, Ruth Si Man
name: Neo, Shao Yun
name: Abdul Hamid, Nur Amira Binte
name: Lim, Crystal
name: Ong, Eng Koon
name: Somasundaram, Nagavalli
name: Krishna, Lalit Kumar Radha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. Tabulated Summaries of Included Full-Text Articles
Table S3. BUSCO scores of the RNA-seq data of Barthelona sp. strain PAP020 and four fornicate species. from Barthelonids represent a deep-branching metamonad clade with mitochondrion-related organelles predicted to generate no ATP
Creators: name: Euki Yazaki
name: Keitaro Kume
name: Shiratori, Takashi
name: Eglit, Yana
name: Tanifuji, Goro
name: Harada, Ryo
name: Simpson, Alastair G. B.
name: Ken-Ichiro Ishida
name: Hashimoto, Tetsuo
name: Inagaki, Yuji
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: We here report the phylogenetic position of barthelonids, small anaerobic flagellates previously examined using light microscopy alone. Barthelona spp. were isolated from geographically distinct regions and we established five laboratory strains. Transcriptomic data generated from one Barthelona strain (PAP020) were used for large-scale, multi-gene phylogenetic (phylogenomic) analyses. Our analyses robustly placed strain PAP020 at the base of the Fornicata clade, indicating that barthelonids represent a deep-branching Metamonad clade. Considering the anaerobic/microaerophilic nature of barthelonids and preliminary electron microscopy observations on strain PAP020, we suspected that barthelonids possess functionally and structurally reduced mitochondria (i.e. mitochondrion-related organelles or MROs). The metabolic pathways localized in the MRO of strain PAP020 were predicted based on its transcriptomic data and compared with those in the MROs of fornicates. We here propose that strain PAP020 is incapable of generating ATP in the MRO, as no mitochondrial/MRO enzymes involved in substrate-level phosphorylation were detected. Instead, we detected the putative cytosolic ATP-generating enzyme (acetyl-CoA synthetase), suggesting that strain PAP020 depends on ATP generated in the cytosol. We propose two separate losses of substrate-level phosphorylation from the MRO in the clade containing barthelonids and (other) fornicates.
Wide binaries are rare in open clusters
Creators: name: Deacon, N. R.
name: Kraus, A. L.
name: .
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The population statistics of binary stars are an important output of star formation models. However populations of wide binaries evolve over time due to interactions within a system's birth environment and the unfolding of wide, hierarchical triple systems. Hence the wide binary populations observed in star forming regions or OB associations may not accurately reflect the wide binary populations that will eventually reach the field. We use Gaia DR2 data to select members of three open clusters, Alpha~Per, the Pleiades and Praesepe and to flag cluster members that are likely unresolved binaries due to overluminosity or elevated astrometric noise. We then identify the resolved wide binary population in each cluster, separating it from coincident pairings of unrelated cluster members. We find that these clusters have an average wide binary fraction in the 300-3000\,AU projected separation range of 2.1$\pm^{0.4}_{0.2}$\% increasing to 3.0$\pm^{0.8}_{0.7}$\% for primaries with masses in the 0.5-1.5\,$M_{\odot}$ range. This is significantly below the observed field wide binary fraction, but shows some wide binaries survive in these dynamically highly processed environments. We compare our results with another open cluster (the Hyades) and two populations of young stars that likely originated in looser associations (Young Moving Groups and the Pisces-Eridanus stream). We find that the Hyades also has a deficit of wide binaries while the products of looser associations have wide binary fractions at or above field level.
description: 27 pages, 9 figures, 11 tables, MNRAS accepted
Holomorphic horospherical transform on non-compactly causal spaces
Creators: name: Gindikin, Simon
name: Kroetz, Bernhard
name: Olafsson, Gestur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop integral geometry for non-compactly causal symmetric spaces. We define a complex horospherical transform and, for some cases, identify it with a Cauchy type integral.
description: Revised, final version; to appear in IMRN, 38 p
Assessing the Impact of Space School UK
Creators: name: Robson, Daniel
name: Lau, Henry
name: O'Brien, Áine
name: Williams, Lucy
name: Sutlieff, Ben
name: Thiemann, Heidi
name: McCaul, Louise
name: Weaver, George
name: Dickens, Tracey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Space School UK (SSUK) is a series of summer residential programmes for secondary school aged students, held at the University of Leicester over 3 weeks each year. Each programme involves space-related activities run by a team of mentors - currently including university students, graduates, teachers and young professionals associated with the space sector - all of whom attended SSUK as students themselves. It includes the 6-day Space School UK and the 8-day Senior Space School UK (collectively SSUK) which are for 13-15 and 16-18 year olds respectively. This paper seeks to evaluate and present the benefits of SSUK to individuals who participate in the programme, organisations involved in the running of SSUK, and to highlight and promote these benefits to the wider UK and global space community. We also address which facets of SSUK make for such an engaging and encouraging experience for the students, that are missing from students' traditional education. We seek to show how SSUK acts as an excellent example of how to bridge the gap between secondary and tertiary space education. Through an analysis of our alumni survey results, we show that attending SSUK has a significant impact on career choices and prepares students for Higher Education, regardless of background. Some groups, such as women, and those from non-selective schools, reported a higher impact in some of these areas than others. Metrics such as skills learned, goals achieved, alongside knowledge of careers and Higher Education possibilities are discussed for various demographics.
description: 7 pages, 12 figures, published in Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Space Educational Activities (2019)
ORGANIC PEST MANAGEMENT DECISIONS: A SYSTEMS APPROACH
Creators: name: Park, Timothy A.
name: Lohr, Luanne
name: Park, Timothy A.
name: Lohr, Luanne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Organic farmers make system-level crop protection decisions that combine complementary insect, disease, nematode, and weed management strategies. Data from a national survey of U.S. organic farmers were used in a multivariate count data model to identify the farm and regional factors influencing adoption across the linked pest management categories. The results showed that weed management requires the greatest management effort by organic farmers. More intensive information-seeking and on-farm experimentation, higher educational attainment, and intensity of commitment to organic farming were positively related to the number of weed control strategies adopted. Predictions of adoption based on this model and customized to farm and region specifications will give information providers lead time to develop technical support for reduced chemical pest management systems.
AGRICULTURE AND CITIZEN COMPLAINTS
Creators: name: Raymond, Mark
name: Weersink, Alfons
name: Raymond, Mark
name: Weersink, Alfons
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The paper addresses the relationship between agricultural spills and environmental complaints filed by citizens against agriculture. It also determines the influence of other factors on the likelihood of both farm spills and complaints within a region. The relationships have been estimated using a unique data set containing the number of spills and complaints along with regional data such as the stringency of environmental regulations and socio-economic variables. Different environmental regulations do appear to have an effect on the spills and complaints. By-laws on the size of manure storage facility in relation to the number of livestock housed influence the likelihood of spills within a region. Larger storages decrease the number of annual manure applications and thus the opportunity for runoff. While the required distance between a new barn and a waterway appears to have no effect on the likelihood of spills, it does decrease the probability of complaints being lodged against agriculture. Increases in the percentage of the regions zoned as agriculture also decreases the likelihood of complaining. Together the results suggest that distance between livestock producers and both environmentally sensitive areas and people are an effective means to reduce conflicts between farmers and the local community. Another policy question raised in the study was the effectiveness of using citizen complaints as an information tool in addressing environmental quality issues surrounding agriculture. There is a positive, albeit weak, positive influence between spills in a region and the number of complaints. Complaints could be used to indicate problem areas but the information signal will be noisy. Regulators will have to be aware that such complaints are more likely to come from wealthy areas when deciding upon how to react to complaints.