cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hyperolius sylvaticus Schiotz 1967
Creators: name: Kanga, Kouassi Philippe
name: Kouamé, N'Goran Germain
name: Zogbassé, Parfait
name: Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès
name: Agoh, Konan Laurent
name: Kouamé, Akoua Michèle
name: Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N.
name: Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice
name: Gourène, Germain
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hyperoliidae
Hyperolius
Hyperolius sylvaticus

description: Hyperolius cf. sylvaticus Schiøtz, 1967
Forest Reed Frog
Material: Male, NGK-Nimba 0108 (Fig. 10E–F).
Comments: Hyperolius cf. sylvaticus was recorded in an open area in the Yéalé village (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl). However, H. sylvaticus is known to be a forest species (Schiøtz 1967; Rödel and Branch 2002; Ernst and Rödel 2008), thus it might just as well be a member of the Hyperolius picturatus -complex.
description: Published as part of Kanga, Kouassi Philippe, Kouamé, N'Goran Germain, Zogbassé, Parfait, Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès, Agoh, Konan Laurent, Kouamé, Akoua Michèle, Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N., Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice, Gourène, Germain & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains, pp. 71-107 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) (e 275) 15 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122
Marketing Strategies of UK Beef Farmers in a Changing Environment
Creators: name: Hobbs, Jill E.
name: Kerr, William A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Livestock Production/Industries

description: This paper reports the results of a survey of UK beef farmers' attitudes towards different marketing channels against the backdrop of a rapidly changing marketing environment. Recent changes to UK food safety legislation and growing consumer concerns over farm animal welfare have heightened the need for improved traceability of beefproducts back to farm of origin. Retailers and meat processors increasingly require more information about on-farm production practices. Closer relationships between farmers, processors and retailers can be expected to develop. Farmers' attitudes towards four marketing channel alternatives are assessed: traditional live-ring auctions, direct sales to meat processors, electronic auction sales and group marketing schemes. These attitudes are discussed within the context of the changing marketing environment.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Electromagnetic wave transmission through a small hole in a perfect electric conductor of finite thickness
Creators: name: Nikitin, A. Yu.
name: Zueco, D.
name: Garcia-Vidal, F. J.
name: Martin-Moreno, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The non-resonant electromagnetic transmission of a normal-incident plane wave through a single hole in a perfect conductor metal slab of finite width is studied. The cases of rectangular and circular holes are treated in detail. For holes in the extreme subwavelength regime, in a film of finite thickness, the transmittance is shown to have the Rayleigh dependency upon the wavelength and, in addition, is mainly suppressed due to attenuation of the fundamental waveguide mode. In the limit of an infinitesimally thin screen Bethe's result is recovered for the circular hole. The numerical computations are fitted, providing expressions for the transmission in a wide region of parameters. We reformulate our results in terms of multipole expansion, interpreting the waveguide modes inside the hole as induced multipole moments. This result provides the link between the modal expansion method and the one based on a multipole expansion.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Sexual dimorphism in the frog Aubria subsigillata (Duméril, 1856) (Anura: Pyxicephalidae) in Benin republic, West Africa.
Creators: name: Gansa, Houénafa A. C.
name: Agadjihouèdé, Hyppolite
name: Hounkanrin, Mahugnon B.
Publisher: name: Afriherp Communications
Year: 2023
Subjects: anuran
sexual differetiation
dimorphic criteria
Ouémé Valley
Benin

description: Sexual dimorphism, when present in a given species, is an important adjunct when studying reproductive strategies in amphibian populations. In this study we investigated biometric and qualitative characters for sexing the frog Aubria subsigillata. The objective of this study was to determine from these data the criteria for accurately distinguishing males and females of the frog Aubria subsigillata. Multivariate analysis of variance was used to compare the means of the collected variables between the sexes and canonical discriminant analysis was used to identify notable dimorphic traits. The results reveal that males have a fairly long humerus (mean 13.49 mm), abdomen and throat generally heavily mottled with black. They lack femoral glands on the femora. In contrast, females have a shorter humerus (mean 13.01 mm), a whitish abdomen and throat and a protruding femoral gland. Females are larger in size (mean 86.19 mm) and are heavier (mean 38.63 g) than males (means 80.19 mm & 30.25 g respectively). For sexing of A. subsigillata individuals, it is important to take into account all these morphological criteria.
Intermixing Induced Anisotropy Variations in CoB-based Chiral Multilayer Films
Creators: name: Tan, H. K.
name: Lim, Royston J. J.
name: Seng, H. L.
name: Shanmugam, J.
name: Ko, H. Y. Y.
name: Cheng, X. M.
name: Putra, V.
name: Xing, Z. X.
name: Soumyanarayanan, Anjan
name: Ho, Pin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the atomic intermixing phenomenon in three distinct amorphous CoB-based multilayer thin film platforms - Pt/CoB/Ir, Ir/CoB/Pt and Pt/CoB/MgO - which are shown to stabilise room-temperature chiral magnetic textures. Intermixing occurs predominantly between adjacent metallic layers. Notably, it is stack-order dependent, and particularly extensive when Ir sits atop CoB. Intermixing induced variations in magnetic properties are ascribed to the formation of magnetic dead layer arising from CoIr alloying in the metallic stacks. It also produces systematic variations in saturation magnetization, by as much as 30%, across stacks. Crucially, the resulting crossover CoB thickness for the transition from perpendicular to in-plane magnetic anisotropy differs by more than 2x across the stacks. Finally, with thermal annealing treatment over moderate temperatures of 150-300 degree Celsius, the magnetic anisotropy increases monotonically across all stacks, coupled with discernibly larger Hc for the metallic stacks. These are attributed to thermally induced CoPt alloying and MgO crystallization in the metallic and oxide stacks, respectively. Remarkably, the CoB in the Pt/CoB/MgO stacks retains its amorphous nature after annealing. Our results set the stage for harnessing the collective attributes of amorphous CoB-based material platforms and associated annealing processes for modulating magnetic interactions, enabling the tuning of chiral magnetic texture properties in ambient conditions.
description: Supplementary information included
Asymptotics for the Wiener sausage among Poissonian obstacles
Creators: name: Fukushima, Ryoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60K37; 60G17; 82D30

description: We consider the Wiener sausage among Poissonian obstacles. The obstacle is called hard if Brownian motion entering the obstacle is immediately killed, and is called soft if it is killed at certain rate. It is known that Brownian motion conditioned to survive among obstacles is confined in a ball near its starting point. We show the weak law of large numbers, large deviation principle in special cases and the moment asymptotics for the volume of the corresponding Wiener sausage. One of the consequence of our results is that the trajectory of Brownian motion almost fills the confinement ball.
description: 19 pages, Major revision made for publication in J. Stat. Phys
Producing deflective online strategies: Lessons from New Zealand women's management of social media engagement
Creators: name: Bickerton, Sarah Hendrica
name: Lofgren, Karl
Publisher: name: Open Access Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160599 Policy and Administration not elsewhere classified

description: Public engagement is a gendered experience, whether offline or online, something which is reflected in women’s experiences of social media. In this article, we seek to systematically explore the experiences from politically engaged women twitter users in New Zealand in order to draw some lessons, through a thematic and interpretative analytical approach, at four different strategic levels on how to deflect intimidating and aggressive behaviour. We conclude that understanding strategically how structural social locations like gender effect the ability to contribute to political participation and engagement, if addressed, can produce more inclusive and productive online political and policy spaces. Further, this strategic approach involves connecting together different levels of response to online negativity such as platform tools, space-curation, and monitoring, having these made coherent with each other, as well as with this strategic understanding of how structural social location plays into access and use of online political and policy spaces.
title: The comparison of harmful exhaust components from 1.9 and 2.0 JTD engines in real operating conditions
Creators: name: Lijewski, Piotr
name: Siedlecki, Maciej
name: Sokolnicka, Barbara
name: Szymlet, Natalia
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2018

description: Journal of Mechanical and Transport Engineering, 70, 1, 25-38
title: Академический скандал и грузинская печать академика Мари-Фелисите Броссе
Creators: name: Иодко, О. В.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2020

description: В 1990-х гг. в Санкт-Петербургском филиале Архива РАН был обнаружен запечатанный конверт с надписью «8 февраля 1856 г. от акад. Броссе для сохранения в Архиве Академии». В центре сургучной печати – дата 1834, фамилия Броссе грузинскими буквами, а по периметру россыпь плохо пропечатанных грузинских букв. В конверте – письмо по поводу спора, кому поручить составление академического каталога китайских книг. Статья раскрывает историю создания печати и суть конфликта, особое мнение по которому было запечатано на 150 лет.
Ключевые слова: алфавит грузинский, каталог, книги китайские, сургучная печать.
Kassina cochranae
Creators: name: Kanga, Kouassi Philippe
name: Kouamé, N'Goran Germain
name: Zogbassé, Parfait
name: Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès
name: Agoh, Konan Laurent
name: Kouamé, Akoua Michèle
name: Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N.
name: Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice
name: Gourène, Germain
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hyperoliidae
Kassina
Kassina cochranae

description: Kassina cochranae (Loveridge, 1941)
Cochran’s Running Frog
Material: Four males, NGK-Nimba 0139, NGK-Nimba 0140, NGK-Nimba 0141 (Fig. 11A), NGK-Nimba 0142.
Comments: Kassina cochranae is an arboreal forest and farmbush dweller, ranging from the rainforest edge into the moist savannah zone from western Ivory Coast to eastern Sierra Leone (Schiøtz 1967; Rödel et al. 2002). During the rainy season, we heard a vast number of males calling concealed in dense vegetation, close to a grassy swamp (habitat C: 07°32.993’N, 008°24.753’W; 425 m asl). Four males measured 34.0‒ 36.5 mm. In the Yéalé village, a K. cochranae metamorph was found by dip-netting in a deep pond in dense farmbush vegetation. At night, adult males were heard calling at the same site between inaccessible dense vegetation, edging a swamp (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl).
description: Published as part of Kanga, Kouassi Philippe, Kouamé, N'Goran Germain, Zogbassé, Parfait, Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès, Agoh, Konan Laurent, Kouamé, Akoua Michèle, Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N., Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice, Gourène, Germain & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains, pp. 71-107 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) (e 275) 15 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122
The effect of salinity, temperature, season and intertidal height on calcium uptake by Mytilus edulis (Linnaeus)
Creators: name: Robinson, Donald C. E.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This study has shown that season, salinity, temperature and intertidal height all affect the rate up calcium uptake by mussels. For summer-adapted mussels, calcium uptake was found to be temperature dependent over the range of acute temperatures measured (1°-23°C). When subjected to a range of salinities over a three week period, summer-adapted mussels showed calcium-uptake rates which were salinity dependent from 25%-75% SW, and which did not show any increase in uptake rate in salinities greater than 75% SW. For winter-adapted mussels, calcium uptake was temperature independent over a temperature range from 5°-l7°C. At higher and lower temperatures, uptake was reduced. When subjected to a range of salinities over a three-week period, winter-adapted mussels were also unable to compensate for the lower concentration of calcium in the seawater, and did not show any increase in the uptake rate in salinities greater than 75% SW. It was found that high and low intertidal mussels had different calcium uptake rates, and that transplantation could alter the uptake rate of transplanted mussels to the uptake rate of untransplanted controls. In the intertidal zone a gradient of shell size was found, which could be associated with the change in uptake range over the intertidal range. Differences in immersion time between the two. sites could not explain all of the differences in uptake rate, but high intertidal mussels were found to have less total dry weight of soft parts than low mussels, and correcting for this difference accounted for the the remainder of the difference in calcium-uptake rate between the two sites. The soft parts of the mussel were found to become saturated with ⁴⁵Ca after four hours, while the shell accumulated calcium for the duration of the experiment. The mantle and gill tissue held the same amount of calcium when corrected for differences in weight, while the viscera held a greater pool of calcium. Accounting for real increases in the amount of calcium accumulated by the shell showed that the uptake rates reported in this study are about 59% of the absolute uptake rates.
Type Stability in Julia: Avoiding Performance Pathologies in JIT Compilation (Extended Version)
Creators: name: Pelenitsyn, Artem
name: Belyakova, Julia
name: Chung, Benjamin
name: Tate, Ross
name: Vitek, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As a scientific programming language, Julia strives for performance but also provides high-level productivity features. To avoid performance pathologies, Julia users are expected to adhere to a coding discipline that enables so-called type stability. Informally, a function is type stable if the type of the output depends only on the types of the inputs, not their values. This paper provides a formal definition of type stability as well as a stronger property of type groundedness, shows that groundedness enables compiler optimizations, and proves the compiler correct. We also perform a corpus analysis to uncover how these type-related properties manifest in practice.
description: OOPSLA '21, extended version
The Rural Business Planner
Creators: name: Surminsky, Don
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This Rural Business Planner is a CD ROM designed and developed by Farm Management Specialists from the four Western Canadian provinces. Direct funding was provided by the Canadian Farm Business Management Council and funding in kind from the four participating provinces. The purpose of the this CD is to assist rural entrepreneurs develop their own business plans. The Compact Disk has a software program for the client to actually compose his own plan and a Resource Library that contains published information from the Departments of Agriculture of many of the Canadian provinces. There are two tutorials: one explains how to use the CD itself and the other explains how to approach the process of writing a Business Plan. The product is designed to be used by individual clients or by professionals to assist clients to develop Business Plans.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
title: Леонид Иванович Лавров и история изучения убыхов, оставшихся в Причерноморской Шапсугии (случай фамилии Чéрен)
Creators: name: Агабабян, А. Г.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2020

description: В статье рассматривается частный случай из исследовательской практики Л. И. Лаврова по убыхской тематике. Ранние полевые фиксации ученого привели к актуализации знания о семье Черен как о единственных полноправных потомках народа, трагически «исчезнувшего» из мест автохтонного расселения (г. Сочи и окрестности). Переосмысление опыта кавказоведа на примере этого небольшого кейса позволяет шире взглянуть на ключевые проблемы советского убыховедния в исторической ретроспективе.
Ключевые слова: Леонид Иванович Лавров, убыхи, потомки убыхов, убыховедение, Чéрен, Причерноморская Шапсугия.
Transversely Polarized Drell-Yan Process and Soft Gluon Resummation in QCD
Creators: name: Kawamura, Hiroyuki
name: Kodaira, Jiro
name: Tanaka, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the transverse-momentum $Q_T$ spectrum of the dilepton in the transversely polarized Drell-Yan process on the basis of the factorization theorem in QCD. We take into account universal logarithmically enhanced corrections in edge region of phase space by resumming multiple soft-gluon emissions to all orders in the small $Q_T$ region.
description: 84 pages, 5 figures, Revised version published in Prog.Theor.Phys
Geometric Origin of Physical Constants in a Kaluza-Klein Tetrad Model
Creators: name: Reifler, Frank
name: Morris, Randall
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An important feature of Kaluza-Klein theories is their ability to relate fundamental physical constants to the radii of higher dimensions. In previous Kaluza-Klein theory, which unifies the electromagnetic field with gravity as dimensionless components of a Kaluza-Klein metric, i) all fields have the same physical dimensions, ii) the Lagrangian has no explicit dependence on any physical constants except mass, and hence iii) all physical constants in the field equations except for mass originate from geometry. While it seems natural in Kaluza-Klein theory to add fermion fields by defining higher dimensional bispinor fields on the Kaluza-Klein manifold, these Kaluza-Klein theories do not satisfy conditions (i), (ii), and (iii). In this paper, we show how conditions (i), (ii), and (iii) can be satisfied by including bispinor fields in a tetrad formulation of the Kaluza-Klein model, as well as in an equivalent teleparallel model. This demonstrates an unexpected feature of Dirac's bispinor equation, since conditions (i), (ii), (iii) imply a special relation among the terms in the Kaluza-Klein or teleparallel Lagrangian that would not be satisfied in general.
title: Electronic control in injection-ignition systems in propulsion of non-road mobile machinery
Creators: name: Warguła, Łukasz
name: Krawiec, Piotr
name: Waluś, Konrad Jan
name: Polasik, Jakub
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2018

description: Journal of Mechanical and Transport Engineering, 70, 1, 61-78
Spectrum and polarization of coherent and incoherent radiation and the LPM effect in oriented single crystal
Creators: name: Baier, V. N.
name: Katkov, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectrum and the circular polarization of radiation from longitudinally polarized high-energy electrons in oriented single crystal are considered using the method which permits inseparable consideration of both the coherent and the incoherent mechanisms of photon emission. The spectral and polarization properties of radiation are obtained and analyzed. It is found that in some part of spectral distribution the influence of multiple scattering (the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM) effect) attains the order of 7 percent. The same is true for the influence of multiple scattering on the polarization part of the radiation intensity. The degree of circular polarization of total intensity of radiation is found. It is shown that the influence of multiple scattering on the photon polarization is similar to the influence of the LPM effect on the total intensity of radiation: it appears only for relatively low energies of radiating electron and has the order of 1 percent, while at higher energies the crystal field action excludes the LPM effect.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
title: The dignity of persons : Kantian ethics and utilitarianism
Creators: name: Sierra Vélez, Lucas
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2020

description: This work is an attempt to develop a general ethical framework, the product of the synthesis of Kantian ethics and Utilitarianism, giving us a basic account of the dignity of persons and the structure of the moral community. There is a Kantian doctrine of human dignity, and an associated conception of the nature of morality, which together should be taken to provide the basic conceptual framework in ethical theory. However, the conception of morality implicated in the Kantian story recognises not only the dignity of human beings as moral subjects, but also the dignity (the special moral standing) of all sentient beings, who therefore count as persons for moral purposes. This is shown to be the case by means of an argument for Utilitarianism (taken as a technical view in philosophy) being consistent with the basic Kantian framework already in place, argument that involves disassociating Utilitarianism from both Consequentialism and Welfarism and construing it as an Agapist doctrine (i.e. as a philosophy of practical love or rationally-based benevolence).
Incremental Cross-Domain Adaptation for Robust Retinopathy Screening via Bayesian Deep Learning
Creators: name: Hassan, Taimur
name: Hassan, Bilal
name: Akram, Muhammad Usman
name: Hashmi, Shahrukh
name: Taguri, Abdel Hakim
name: Werghi, Naoufel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Retinopathy represents a group of retinal diseases that, if not treated timely, can cause severe visual impairments or even blindness. Many researchers have developed autonomous systems to recognize retinopathy via fundus and optical coherence tomography (OCT) imagery. However, most of these frameworks employ conventional transfer learning and fine-tuning approaches, requiring a decent amount of well-annotated training data to produce accurate diagnostic performance. This paper presents a novel incremental cross-domain adaptation instrument that allows any deep classification model to progressively learn abnormal retinal pathologies in OCT and fundus imagery via few-shot training. Furthermore, unlike its competitors, the proposed instrument is driven via a Bayesian multi-objective function that not only enforces the candidate classification network to retain its prior learned knowledge during incremental training but also ensures that the network understands the structural and semantic relationships between previously learned pathologies and newly added disease categories to effectively recognize them at the inference stage. The proposed framework, evaluated on six public datasets acquired with three different scanners to screen thirteen retinal pathologies, outperforms the state-of-the-art competitors by achieving an overall accuracy and F1 score of 0.9826 and 0.9846, respectively.
description: Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. Source code is available at https://github.com/taimurhassan/continual_learning/
The Molecular Hydrogen Explorer H2EX
Creators: name: Boulanger, F.
name: Maillard, J. P.
name: Appleton, P.
name: Falgarone, E.
name: Lagache, G.
name: Schulz, B.
name: Wakker, B. P.
name: Bressan, A.
name: Cernicharo, J.
name: Drissen, L.
name: Helou, G.
name: Henning, T.
name: Lim, T. L.
name: Valentijn, E. A.
name: collaboration, the H2EX
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Molecular Hydrogen Explorer, H2EX, was proposed in response to the ESA 2015 - 2025 Cosmic Vision Call as a medium class space mission with NASA and CSA participations. The mission, conceived to understand the formation of galaxies, stars and planets from molecular hydrogen, is designed to observe the first rotational lines of the H2 molecule (28.2, 17.0, 12.3 and 9.7 micron) over a wide field, and at high spectral resolution. H2EX can provide an inventory of warm (> 100 K) molecular gas in a broad variety of objects, including nearby young star clusters, galactic molecular clouds, active galactic nuclei, local and distant galaxies. The rich array of molecular, atomic and ionic lines, as well as solid state features available in the 8 to 29 micron spectral range brings additional science dimensions to H2EX. We present the optical and mechanical design of the H2EX payload based on an innovative Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (IFTS) fed by a 1.2m telescope. The 20'x20' field of view is imaged on two 1024x1024 Si:As detectors. The maximum resolution of 0.032 cm^-1 (FWHM) means a velocity resolution of 10 km s^-1 for the 0-0 S(3) line at 9.7 micron. This instrument offers the large field of view necessary to survey extended emission in the Galaxy and local Universe galaxies as well as to perform unbiased extragalactic and circumstellar disks surveys. The high spectral resolution makes H2EX uniquely suited to study the dynamics of H2 in all these environments. The mission plan is made of seven wide-field spectro-imaging legacy programs, from the cosmic web to galactic young star clusters, within a nominal two years mission. The payload has been designed to re-use the Planck platform and passive cooling design.
description: Accepted for publication in Experimental Astronomy special issue on Cosmic Vision Proposals, 19 pages and 9 figures
Investment Analysis of Agri-Food Ventures: What Risk Premia are Appropriate? The Silence of the Literature
Creators: name: Unterschultz, James R.
name: Quagrainie, Kwamena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Financial principles of project investment analysis deal with the cost and benefit flows over time. Invariably, the correct future cash flows and exact risks are unknown. The agricultural academic literature devotes substantial energy to discussing the estimation of the cashflows but it is relatively silent on applied estimation of risk. Empirical studies on agri-food ventures have made little or no attempt to estimate appropriate risk adjusted discount rates or other risk measures. Choice of discount rate has been arbitrary. Thus little guidance has been given to practitioners analysing agri-food investments as to the appropriate risk adjusted discounts rates. The Capital Market Line provides a relatively straightforward way to calculate risk premiums for project investments by non-diversified investors. These risk premiums can then be used in Net Present Value investment analysis.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Quality Management in the Danish Agricultural Advisory Service
Creators: name: Bay, Hans Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Presentation of a three-year project (1995-97) including the development, implementation and evaluation of an integrated quality and management system in accordance with the international standard ISO 9002. For the first time ever such a project has been carried out successfully in the advisory service sector. It has been demonstrated that it is possible to develop and apply a joint manual that outlines the framework for several agricultural advisory centres. The concepts of quality management as described in the standards require individual systems for individual enterprises. In this case it is fulfilled by an individual quality manual for each individual advisory team, containing all the specific management tools required. Quality management consists of 80% attitudes and 20% technique. The attitudes are the approach and the commitment of the management and the staff towards quality management whereas the technique is described in the quality manual. Quality management requires acceptance on the part of the individual employee. It cannot be implemented overnight - it takes 1-2 years.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
A New Method of Calculating the Running Coupling Constant
Creators: name: Bilgici, Erek
name: Flachi, Antonino
name: Itou, Etsuko
name: Kurachi, Masafumi
name: Lin, C. -J David
name: Matsufuru, Hideo
name: Ohki, Hiroshi
name: Onogi, Tetsuya
name: Yamazaki, Takeshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new method to compute the running coupling constant of gauge theories on the lattice. We first give the definition of the running coupling in the new scheme using the Wilson loops in a finite volume, and explain how the running of the coupling constant is extracted from the measurement of the volume dependence. The perturbative calculation of the renormalization constant to define the scheme is also given at the leading order. As a benchmark test of the new scheme we apply the method the case of the quenched QCD. We show the preliminary result from our numerical simulations which are carried out with plaquette gauge action for various lattice sizes and bare lattice couplings. With techniques to improve the statistical accuracy, we show that we can determine the non-perturbative running of the coupling constant in a wide range of the energy scale with relatively small number of gauge configurations in our scheme. We compare our lattice data of the running coupling constant with perturbative renormalization group evolution at one- and two-loop order, and confirm the consistency between them at high energy.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, based on talks given by E. Itou and M. Kurachi at The XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 14 - 19, 2008, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA; barely visible changes in Figs. 5 and 6
Delivering Client Centred Farm Business Management Training in Australia: A Case Study
Creators: name: Bowen, K.W.
name: Brown, Andrew L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Rural business management training has many aspects in common with training for other small businesses. However, its development and delivery has been different from urban business managers because of the different learning requirements of farm managers and rural people. Successful implementation of rural business management training has involved rural people (the clients), rural organisations and training providers working together to produce acceptable packages which meet their client’s needs. This paper highlights the processes used to develop one successful program in Australia, the Certificate in Rural Office Practice (CROP), and describes what led to the development of the course and how it was delivered and maintained. The paper then describes how similar processes are being used to develop further training programs in rural business management.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Hyperolius fusciventris subsp. fusciventris Peters 1876
Creators: name: Kanga, Kouassi Philippe
name: Kouamé, N'Goran Germain
name: Zogbassé, Parfait
name: Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès
name: Agoh, Konan Laurent
name: Kouamé, Akoua Michèle
name: Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N.
name: Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice
name: Gourène, Germain
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hyperoliidae
Hyperolius
Hyperolius fusciventris
Hyperolius fusciventris fusciventris peters, 1876

description: Hyperolius fusciventris fusciventris Peters, 1876
Dark-bellied Reed Frog
Material: Male, NGK-Nimba 0077 (Fig. 9C).
Comments: Hyperolius fusciventris fusciventris occurs from western Ivory Coast into neighboring Liberia and Guinea in farmbush, heavily degraded forests, and occasionally in gallery forests within humid savannah (Schiøtz 1967). We encountered the species in the Yéalé village (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl), in an open but densely vegetated area close to swamps. The dorsal color varied from uniform brownish over light green to dense green. Some individuals with greyish-blue eyes exhibited a uniform yellow dorsal color. The belly of females was either dark or light grey. All males had a lighter belly. The male SULs ranged from 23.5–25.0 (N = 7), females reached 26.5–27.0 mm (N = 3).
description: Published as part of Kanga, Kouassi Philippe, Kouamé, N'Goran Germain, Zogbassé, Parfait, Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès, Agoh, Konan Laurent, Kouamé, Akoua Michèle, Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N., Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice, Gourène, Germain & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains, pp. 71-107 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) (e 275) 15 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122
Hyperolius lamottei Laurent 1958
Creators: name: Kanga, Kouassi Philippe
name: Kouamé, N'Goran Germain
name: Zogbassé, Parfait
name: Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès
name: Agoh, Konan Laurent
name: Kouamé, Akoua Michèle
name: Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N.
name: Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice
name: Gourène, Germain
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hyperoliidae
Hyperolius
Hyperolius lamottei

description: Hyperolius lamottei Laurent, 1958
Lamotte’s Reed Frog
Material: One female, NGK-Nimba 0074 (Fig. 9E), and two males, NGK-Nimba 0081 (Fig. 9F), NGK-Nimba 0082.
Comments: Hyperolius lamottei is a savannah frog with a patchy distribution, preferring low grass habitats, often in higher altitude, e.g., granite inselbergs in central-southern Ivory Coast, Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone to Senegal (Arnoult and Lamotte 1958; Lamotte 1969, 1971; Schiøtz 1967; Rödel et al. 2004). Recently, it was reported for the first time from Burkina Faso (Ayoro et al. 2020). In Ivory Coast, the species was recorded from the Lamto Faunal Reserve (Schiøtz 1967) and the Mount Péko National Park (Rödel and Ernst 2003). However, more recently Adeba et al. (2010) failed to re-detect the species in Lamto. We found H. lamottei in large numbers in grassy montane pasture (07°35.258’N, 008°25.052’W; 821 m asl). The species was only active during the rainy season, when males and females became active after sunset. They spent the night perching on high grasses which covered a flooded iron-oxide quartzite ground. During the daytime all frogs hid within the dense herbaceous vegetation. Body size of males ranged from 17.5–19.0 mm (N = 4), females measured 21.5–23.5 mm (N = 3). Color pattern was variable, but within the range described by Schiøtz (1967).
description: Published as part of Kanga, Kouassi Philippe, Kouamé, N'Goran Germain, Zogbassé, Parfait, Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès, Agoh, Konan Laurent, Kouamé, Akoua Michèle, Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N., Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice, Gourène, Germain & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains, pp. 71-107 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) (e 275) 15 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122
Mistaken Objectives and Flawed Advice to Farmers - A Brazilian Example
Creators: name: Dalmozo, N.L.
name: Frengley, G.A.G.
name: Sorrenson, W.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Farm management advisors are frequently motivated to improve their clients' farm performance by new technical knowledge and changed economic circumstances. Successful advice demands sound knowledge of all factors which influence the decision process. Judgements that rational farm management decisions can be made, based solely on new technology ignore farmers' personal objectives, resources and capabilities. Brazil's Government extension service was established post-war. University training was technically oriented with little emphasis on financial or farm management system implications, or the attitudes and objectives of farm families. By the 1980's the service was failing and in 1988 Federal funding to the States was abandoned. Results of this study indicate that many Brazilian extensionists were mistaken in their belief of the usefulness of the new technology for farmer needs. Public funding used for technology transfer and research was misdirected, suggesting graduate training may have been inappropriate. There are lessons for agricultural research, farm management teaching, extension and development in all countries.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Hyperolius undetermined
Creators: name: Kanga, Kouassi Philippe
name: Kouamé, N'Goran Germain
name: Zogbassé, Parfait
name: Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès
name: Agoh, Konan Laurent
name: Kouamé, Akoua Michèle
name: Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N.
name: Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice
name: Gourène, Germain
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hyperoliidae
Hyperolius
Hyperolius undetermined

description: Hyperolius sp.
Material: Male, NGK-Nimba 0068 (Fig. 10G–H).
Comments: Two Hyperolius sp. were recorded in the Yéalé village (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl), in a swampy area with a shallow creek, dense herbaceous formations, and few shrubs and trees. A male (26.4 mm) possessed a uniform greyish-brown dorsal color; the throat was dull blue; the anterior part of the belly was white, the posterior part greenish to blueish. The ventral surfaces of limbs were greenish; the discs of toes and fingers were reddish. The gular gland was indistinct and smooth. So far, we cannot assign these frogs to any West African Hyperolius species (e.g., Schiøtz 1967; Channing and Rödel 2019). Molecular and acoustic data are required in order to resolve the taxonomic status of this reedfrog.
description: Published as part of Kanga, Kouassi Philippe, Kouamé, N'Goran Germain, Zogbassé, Parfait, Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès, Agoh, Konan Laurent, Kouamé, Akoua Michèle, Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N., Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice, Gourène, Germain & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains, pp. 71-107 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) (e 275) 15 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122
Greybody Factor and Hawking Radiation of Charged Dilatonic Black Holes
Creators: name: Kim, Wontae
name: Oh, John J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The greybody factor and the Hawking temperature for a class of asymptotically flat charged dilatonic black holes are computed by using the low-energy dynamics of scalar fields in the black hole background. In the semi-classical approximation, the Hawking temperature has a good agreement with the one computed from the surface gravity, which is independent of the magnetic (or electric) charges of dilatonic black holes.
description: 7 pages, RevTeX4, 2 figs. and some discussions included
New Extension Services and Restructuring Farm Management Training Under Transition: A Pilot Project in Hungary
Creators: name: Voros, Mihaly L.
name: Kecskes, Laszlo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
Farm Management

description: As a result of the radical political, social, and economic transition in process fundamental changes have been taking place in Hungarian agriculture concerning the outside environmental conditions of farm management (government policy, loss and alter of export markets, legislation ’'boom", etc.), as well as, in inside circumstances of farming operations (new land owners with limited knowledge and basic capital, decentralisation and privatisation of large-scale farm businesses, conversion of farm enterprise forms, etc. It has been a considerable effect on the requirements against information and human resources within all type of restructuring businesses. Most of the previous information and advisory services either have become obsolete or collapsed. By surveying the major objectives and achievements of a pilot project this paper presents how a local enterprise agency in Hungary has been able to respond to these changes. Although the greater part of the development work has not been carried out, but pilot advisory models and case studies elaborated during this regional development project have enabled to leam fundamental lessons and formulate further problem-oriented conclusions and considerations.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Farm Management Consultants' Modus Operandi: Case Studies in the South Island of New Zealand
Creators: name: Spies, Airton
name: Frengley, Gerald A.G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The Farm Management Consultants’ Modus Operandi was examined in a study conducted in the South Island of New Zealand in 1995 and 1996. Seventeen Farm Management Consultants were interviewed, to describe and analyse their practices for the provision of advice to their clients. Findings showed that farm management consultancy is a vety demanding profession from the personal and professional point of view. The study highlighted personal and professional attributes that are essential for success. Consultants should have credibility, trustworthiness, accountability and sound technical knowledge. It is a market driven business and farmers are now seeking highly skilled consultants, with an holistic approach, with the ability to advise with competence on issues beyond the technical field, including business and managerial themes.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Measurements of neutrons produced by high-energy muons at the Boulby Underground Laboratory
Creators: name: Araujo, H. M.
name: Blockley, J.
name: Bungau, C.
name: Carson, M. J.
name: Chagani, H.
name: Daw, E.
name: Edwards, B.
name: Ghag, C.
name: Korolkova, E. V.
name: Kudryavtsev, V. A.
name: Lightfoot, P. K.
name: Lindote, A.
name: Liubarsky, I.
name: Luscher, R.
name: Majewski, P.
name: Mavrokoridis, K.
name: McMillan, J. E.
name: Murphy, A. St. J.
name: Paling, S. M.
name: da Cunha, J. Pinto
name: Preece, R. M.
name: Robinson, M.
name: Smith, N. J. T.
name: Smith, P. F.
name: Spooner, N. J. C.
name: Sumner, T. J.
name: Walker, R. J.
name: Wang, H.
name: White, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first measurements of the muon-induced neutron flux at the Boulby Underground Laboratory. The experiment was carried out with an 0.73 tonne liquid scintillator that also served as an anticoincidence system for the ZEPLIN-II direct dark matter search. The experimental method exploited the delayed coincidences between high-energy muon signals and gamma-rays from radiative neutron capture on hydrogen or other elements. The muon-induced neutron rate, defined as the average number of detected neutrons per detected muon, was measured as $0.079 \pm 0.003$ (stat.) neutrons/muon using neutron-capture signals above 0.55 MeV in a time window of 40-190 $μ$s after the muon trigger. Accurate Monte Carlo simulations of the neutron production, transport and detection in a precisely modeled laboratory and experimental setup using the GEANT4 toolkit gave a result 1.8 times higher than the measured value. The difference greatly exceeds all statistical and systematic uncertainties. As the vast majority of neutrons detected in the current setup were produced in lead we evaluated from our measurements the neutron yield in lead as $(1.31 \pm 0.06) \times 10^{-3}$ neutrons/muon/(g/cm$^2$) for a mean muon energy of about 260 GeV.
description: 27 pages, 9 figures, to be published in Astroparticle Physics
Rapport Building: An Essential component of the Farm Management Consultancy Process
Creators: name: Williams, P.
name: Kemp, L.
name: Gray, D.
name: Kuiper, D.
name: Gardner, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Although a significant proportion of farm management graduates in New Zealand obtain employment in private consultancy firms, little is formally known about the process of farm management consultancy. Recent studies found that the consultancy process comprises two important components; rapport building and problem solving. This paper reports a case study of the rapport building process used by an experienced farm management consultant. A conceptual framework of the process developed from the literature is presented and compared with the process used by this consultant. The paper highlights the important aspects of rapport building a consultant needs to consider when developing rapport with a client.
description: Eleventh International Farm Management Congress, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-19, 1997
Astronomical-Images-Classification.pdf
Creators: name: Yosry Negm
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics
subject: 20108 Planetary Science (excl. Extraterrestrial Geology)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Using deep learning convolutional neural networks to classify astronomical images