cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Invasive woody plants: a double-edged sword for invertebrate conservation
Creators: name: Uys, Charmaine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: invasive woody plants
PhD

description: While the Cape Peninsula (South Africa) is renowned for its exceptional plant and invertebrate diversity and endemism, extensive alien plant invasion and exotic pine plantations reduce native species richness, and may facilitate alien invertebrate invasions. This study examines the impact of planting and felling pine on litter invertebrate communities, by comparing invertebrate diversity and faunal exchange between pine plantations and two types of native vegetation (Afrotemperate forest and fynbos). Impacts of the worst invasive alien invertebrate (Argentine ant, Linepithema humile) and other alien invertebrate species are investigated. This is one of the first attempts to inventory and quantify impacts of non-ant alien invertebrates in Table Mountain National Park. The entire ground-dwelling invertebrate community was sampled at 31 sites in summer 2008/2009, using soil cores, leaf litter samples, pitfall traps, sugar-baited ant traps, and decayed logs. A total of 112 404 individuals representing 728 species (10 classes and 38 orders), including nine Cape Peninsula endemic and 19 alien invertebrate species, was collected. Pine plantations supported lower species richness and abundance, and different community assemblages, compared to Afrotemperate forest, but similar species richness to fynbos. Pine plantations shared fewer species with fynbos than forest, thus negatively affected fynbos-specialist invertebrates, because afforestation reduces available fynbos habitat. Alien species richness was similar across habitats. Argentine ants, like most other alien species identified, were present in all habitats, but were the most abundant ant species at only four forest, two fynbos and two pine plantation sites. The impact of Argentine ant invasion on native ant communities was evaluated using species richness and community composition analyses, the functional group approach, and species co-occurrence patterns, and provided evidence for displacement, impoverishment, and community disassembly. No clear impacts of the 18 non-ant alien species on the abundance, species richness, or community composition of corresponding native taxa were detected. However, carnivorous molluscs and European wasps (Vespula germanica) require careful monitoring. Using a reiterative process, ant species and functional groups were selected as the best ecological indicators of restoration progress in fynbos following clear-felling of pine. These findings have application to other Mediterranean-type ecosystems impacted by exotic pine.
description: Submitted for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in the Department of Zoology
A new diketopiperazine isolated from a Nocardiopsis strain TRM20105 guided by bioassay against Candida albicans
Creators: name: Chen, Haolun
name: Wan, Chuanxing
name: Zhang, Lili
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: An actinomycete strain TRM20105 with antifungal activity was identified as Nocardiopsis dassonvillei subsp. dassonvillei DSM43111 (98.34% similarity) by 16S rDNA phylogenetic analysis and morphology observation. The fermentation broth of TRM20105 cultured with oat-soybean medium was subjected to discover bioactive compounds. Guided by antifungal bioassay against Candida albicans, a new diketopiperazine compound was purified via various column chromatographies together with pHPLC. The purified active compound was identified as 1-demethylnocazine A, (3Z,6Z)-5-methoxy-3,6-bis(4-methoxybenzylidene) -1,6-dihydropyrazin-2(3H)-one by the analyses of 1D & 2D NMR data.
Does Agricultural Growth in Poor Countries Harm Agricultural-Exporting Rich Countries?
Creators: name: Anderson, Kym
name: Anderson, Kym
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
International Relations/Trade

description: The commonly held view that agricultural-exporting developed countries would lose from agricultural growth in less-developed countries (LDCs) is shown to be based on an incomplete argument. It considers only the effects on LDC agricultural supply, or at best only that and the firstround effects of increased farmer incomes on the demand for tradables. What also needs to be considered is the effect on the demand for nontradables and hence the second-round effects of increased spending by producers of nontradables. When all these effects are considered, the positive correlations obtained between agricultural output growth in LDCs and agricultural imports from developed countries is not surprising. It is then shown that selling or giving away agricultural research and management skills to developing countries can be beneficial to developed countries, including agricultural exporters: by setting out to do good, they may end up also doing well.
Fractal Rigidity in Migraine
Creators: name: Latka, Miroslaw
name: Glaubic-Latka, Marta
name: Latka, Dariusz
name: West, Bruce J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study the middle cerebral artery blood flow velocity (MCAfv) in humans using transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (TCD). Scaling properties of time series of the axial flow velocity averaged over a cardiac beat interval may be characterized by two exponents. The short time scaling exponent (STSE) determines the statistical properties of fluctuations of blood flow velocities in short-time intervals while the Hurst exponent describes the long-term fractal properties. In many migraineurs the value of the STSE is significantly reduced and may approach that of the Hurst exponent. This change in dynamical properties reflects the significant loss of short-term adaptability and the overall hyperexcitability of the underlying cerebral blood flow control system. We call this effect fractal rigidity.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures
Enicospilus merdarius
Creators: name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ameri, Ali
name: Riedel, Matthias
name: Talebi, Ali Asghar
name: Ebrahimi, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Enicospilus
Enicospilus merdarius

description: Enicospilus merdarius (Gravenhorst, 1829)
 Ophion merdarius Gravenhorst, 1829: 698. Type lost.
 Ophion tournieri Vollenhoven, 1879: 61, pl. 39. Type lost.
 Henicospilus rossicus Kokujev, 1907: 170. Lectotype ♀ and paralectotype ♂ from Russia in ZIN, examined.
 Enicospilus contributus Shestakov, 1926: 256. Lectotype ♀ from Mongolia in ZIN, examined.
 Material examined: IRAN: 1♀, West Azerbaijan Province, Rezaieh, 7 km Silvano, 22 Jul. 1976, 1660 m. a. s., Borumand / Pazuki leg. (HMIM); 8♂♂, West Azerbaijan Province, Khoy, Firouragh, 38˚36’25.97"N, 44˚49’33.92"E, 8–20 Apr. 2019, 1278 m. a. s., Malaise trap, A. Ameri leg. (HMIM); 9♂♂, 1♀, Ardebil Province, Meshkin Shahr, 38˚30’37.62"N, 47˚45’17.52"E, 16–30 Aug. 2015, 1750 m. a. s., Malaise trap, A. Ameri leg. (HMIM); 1♀, 1♂, Zanjan Province and abad, 47˚59’21.87"E, 36˚48’27.73"N, 24 Jun. 2019, Sweepnet, A. Amiri leg. (HMIM); 1♀, East Azerbaijan Province, Arasbaran, Protected area (Kalaybar Aynalo), 38˚54’10.62"N, 46˚47’0.74"E, 1263, m. a. s., Malaise trap, A. Ameri leg. (HMIM); 1♀, Khorasan Province, Shomali-Ghuchan-Chakane, dga/ Pahne, 1780 m. a. s., 11–12 Jun. 2009, Mof. leg. (HMIM); 1♂, East Azerbaijan Province, Khoda, Afarain, Gholi Biglo Olya, 39˚23’30.99"N, 47˚20’28.77"E, – 16 Jul. 2019, 678 m. a. s., Malaise trap, A. Ameri leg. (HMIM).
 Remarks: Very similar to Enicospilus cruciator Viktorov, but with the ocelli touching the inner margin of the compound eye in the female and slightly narrower face in the male. Enicospilus merdarius is a widespread species in the Western Palaearctic, in Northern Europe mostly confined to coastal areas. Due to some unfortunate interpretation of type material, the name E. merdarius has widely been used for the species now known as Enicospilus adustus (Haller) (Broad & Shaw 2016). Broad and Shaw (2016) synonymized Enicospilus contributus Shestakov with the redefined E. merdarius, based on the synonymy proposed by Aubert (1962, 1964) and Viktorov, 1957, stating that the type could not be located at the time of the study. With the kind assistance of Dr. Andrey Khalaim at ZIN, the male type of E. contributus could be detected and the previously proposed synonymy is hereby confirmed.
description: Published as part of Johansson, Niklas, Ameri, Ali, Riedel, Matthias, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Ebrahimi, Ebrahim, 2021, Contribution to the Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Iran with the description of 16 new species and an illustrated key to the Eremotylus of the Western Palaearctic, pp. 151-206 in Zootaxa 5023 (2) on page 163, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5023.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5225655
Hidden symmetry and the separability of the Maxwell equation on the Wahlquist spacetime
Creators: name: Houri, Tsuyoshi
name: Tanahashi, Norihiro
name: Yasui, Yukinori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine hidden symmetry and its relation to the separability of the Maxwell equation on the Wahlquist spacetime. After seeing that the Wahlquist spacetime is a type-D spacetime whose repeated principal null directions are shear-free and geodesic, we show that the spacetime admits three gauged conformal Killing-Yano (GCKY) tensors which are in a relation with torsional conformal Killing-Yano tensors. As a by-product, we obtain an ordinary CKY tensor. We also show that thanks to the GCKY tensors, the Maxwell equation reduces to three Debye equations, which are scalar-type equations, and two of them can be solved by separation of variables.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, v2: typos corrected
Spillover Effects of International Agricultural Research: CIMMYT-based Semi-Dwarf Wheats in Australia
Creators: name: Brennan, John P.
name: Brennan, John P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: International Development
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The spillover effects of agricultural research are of interest because research-induced supply shifts in non-target regions can reduce the benefits for producers in the target regions. The introduction of semi-dwarfing genes in wheat into Australia provides an example of spillover from the CIMMYT program. Australia's wheat-growing environments were not those for which the CIMMYT material was specifically targeted. However, some of these lines were introduced into Australia and used in breeding programs to produce important supply shifts in Australia. An examination is made of the effects that the spillover had in Australia. Using an index of varietal improvement, with its attendant qualifications, an estimate of the extent of that shift resulting from the CIMMYT -based varieties was obtained. While the extent varied widely between states, the shift was found to be between 0.2 and 7.7%, with an overall average for Australia of 3.5% by 1983. On the basis of an assumption of perfectly elastic export demand for Australian wheat, the estimated total cost savings to Australian producers were US$747 million (in 1983-84 dollars) for the period 1974 to 1983, or an average ofUS$75 million per year. The annual contribution of Australia to CIMMYT has averaged approximately US$340,000 in recent years, while the average annual expenditure on wheat breeding in Australia has been US$4 to 5 million. On the basis of pedigrees, approximately two-thirds of the cost savings of CIMMYTbased varieties could be attributed to CIMMYT per se, with the remaining one-third attributable to the inputs of the Australian wheat breeders.
Additional file 1 of Novel CD44-targeting and pH/redox-dual-stimuli-responsive core–shell nanoparticles loading triptolide combats breast cancer growth and lung metastasis
Creators: name: Shi, Jinfeng
name: Ren, Yali
name: Ma, Jiaqi
name: Luo, Xi
name: Li, Jiaxin
name: Wu, Yihan
name: Gu, Huan
name: Fu, Chaomei
name: Cao, Zhixing
name: Zhang, Jinming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biochemistry
Space Science
Medicine
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures and tables.
MOESM7 of Overexpression of OsPUB41, a Rice E3 ubiquitin ligase induced by cell wall degrading enzymes, enhances immune responses in Rice and Arabidopsis
Creators: name: Kachewar, Neha
name: Vishal Gupta
name: Ranjan, Ashish
name: Hitendra Patel
name: Sonti, Ramesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 7: Table S5. Estradiol (by itself / alone) does not affect expression of defense genes in rice and Arabidopsis.
Process Physics: Inertia, Gravity and the Quantum
Creators: name: Cahill, Reginald T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Process Physics models reality as self-organising relational or semantic information using a self-referentially limited neural network model. This generalises the traditional non-process syntactical modelling of reality by taking account of the limitations and characteristics of self-referential syntactical information systems, discovered by Goedel and Chaitin, and the analogies with the standard quantum formalism and its limitations. In process physics space and quantum physics are emergent and unified, and time is a distinct non-geometric process. Quantum phenomena are caused by fractal topological defects embedded in and forming a growing three-dimensional fractal process-space. Various features of the emergent physics are briefly discussed including: quantum gravity, quantum field theory, limited causality and the Born quantum measurement metarule, inertia, time-dilation effects, gravity and the equivalence principle, a growing universe with a cosmological constant, black holes and event horizons, and the emergence of classicality.
description: LaTex, 18 pages 1 eps file. Contribution to the 3rd Australasian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, Perth, Australia, July 2001
Incremental Improvement of a Question Answering System by Re-ranking Answer Candidates using Machine Learning
Creators: name: Barz, Michael
name: Sonntag, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We implement a method for re-ranking top-10 results of a state-of-the-art question answering (QA) system. The goal of our re-ranking approach is to improve the answer selection given the user question and the top-10 candidates. We focus on improving deployed QA systems that do not allow re-training or re-training comes at a high cost. Our re-ranking approach learns a similarity function using n-gram based features using the query, the answer and the initial system confidence as input. Our contributions are: (1) we generate a QA training corpus starting from 877 answers from the customer care domain of T-Mobile Austria, (2) we implement a state-of-the-art QA pipeline using neural sentence embeddings that encode queries in the same space than the answer index, and (3) we evaluate the QA pipeline and our re-ranking approach using a separately provided test set. The test set can be considered to be available after deployment of the system, e.g., based on feedback of users. Our results show that the system performance, in terms of top-n accuracy and the mean reciprocal rank, benefits from re-ranking using gradient boosted regression trees. On average, the mean reciprocal rank improves by 9.15%.
description: Accepted for oral presentation at tenth International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2019
Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metal Compounds: Core-Valence Basis Sets and Importance of Subvalence Correlation
Creators: name: Iron, Mark A.
name: Oren, Mikhal
name: Martin, Jan M. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Core-valence basis sets for the alkali and alkaline earth metals Li, Be, Na, Mg, K, and Ca are proposed. The basis sets are validated by calculating spectroscopic constants of a variety of diatomic molecules involving these elements. Neglect of $(3s,3p)$ correlation in K and Ca compounds will lead to erratic results at best, and chemically nonsensical ones if chalcogens or halogens are present. The addition of low-exponent $p$ functions to the K and Ca basis sets is essential for smooth convergence of molecular properties. Inclusion of inner-shell correlation is important for accurate spectroscopic constants and binding energies of all the compounds. In basis set extrapolation/convergence calculations, the explicit inclusion of alkali and alkaline earth metal subvalence correlation at all steps is essential for K and Ca, strongly recommended for Na, and optional for Li and Mg, while in Be compounds, an additive treatment in a separate `core correlation' step is probably sufficient. Consideration of $(1s)$ inner-shell correlation energy in first-row elements requires inclusion of $(2s,2p)$ `deep core' correlation energy in K and Ca for consistency. The latter requires special CCV$n$Z `deep core correlation' basis sets. For compounds involving Ca bound to electronegative elements, additional $d$ functions in the basis set are strongly recommended. For optimal basis set convergence in such cases, we suggest the sequence CV(D+3d)Z, CV(T+2d)Z, CV(Q+$d$)Z, and CV5Z on calcium.
description: Molecular Physics, in press (W. G. Richards issue); supplementary material (basis sets in G98 and MOLPRO formats) available at http://theochem.weizmann.ac.il/web/papers/group12.html
MOESM6 of Overexpression of OsPUB41, a Rice E3 ubiquitin ligase induced by cell wall degrading enzymes, enhances immune responses in Rice and Arabidopsis
Creators: name: Kachewar, Neha
name: Vishal Gupta
name: Ranjan, Ashish
name: Hitendra Patel
name: Sonti, Ramesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 6: Table S4. Estradiol (by itself / alone) does not affect Xoo infection in rice.
НАУЧНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКИЙ ПОДХОД К ИНТЕГРАЦИИ ИИ В ПРЕПОДАВАНИЕ АНГЛИЙСКОГО И ЛАТИНСКОГО ЯЗЫКОВ ДЛЯ МЕДИЦИНСКИХ СПЕЦИАЛЬНОСТЕЙ
Creators: name: Джалилова, Зарнигор
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Интеграция технологий искусственного интеллекта (ИИ) в преподавание английского и латинского языков для студентов медицинских специальностей представляет собой значительный шаг в развитии современных образовательных практик. В данной статье рассматривается, как инструменты на основе ИИ, такие как адаптивные платформы обучения, обработка естественного языка и виртуальные симуляции, могут улучшить уровень владения двумя языками, необходимых для работы в медицине. Объединяя историческую важность латыни в медицинской терминологии с глобальным доминированием английского языка в научной коммуникации, интегративный подход, подкрепленный ИИ, способствует развитию как языковой компетенции, так и практического применения знаний. В статье освещаются трудности, с которыми сталкиваются студенты-медики при изучении этих языков, и показано, как технологии ИИ могут решать эти проблемы через персонализированные пути обучения, мгновенную обратную связь и иммерсивные образовательные среды.
Enicospilus ocellatus Shestakov 1926
Creators: name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ameri, Ali
name: Riedel, Matthias
name: Talebi, Ali Asghar
name: Ebrahimi, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Enicospilus
Enicospilus ocellatus

description: Enicospilus ocellatus Shestakov, 1926
 Enicospilus ocellatus Shestakov 1926: 26. Lectotype ♀ from Georgia in ZIN, examined.
 Material examined: IRAN: 1♂, 1♀, Gilan Province, 5 km S. Astara, 26 Jun. 2003, 39 m. a. s., Mogh. / Nas. leg. (HMIM); 1♀, Kurdistan Province, Marivan, 16 km to Sanandaj, 35˚23’22.5"N, 46˚16’09.8"E, 3 May 2012, 1283 m. a. s., Light trap, Falsafi / Alipanah leg. (HMIM); 1♀, Gilan Province, 5 km Lakan rd, 63 m. a. s., 25 Jun. 2003, Mogh / Nas. leg. (HMIM); 1♀, Gilan Province, Roodbar, 26 Jun. 1997, Bar. / Mof. leg. (HMIM)
 Remarks: Very similar to Enicospilus repentinus (Holmgren, 1860), but with the face and temples considerably narrower and the lateral ocelli larger, touching inner margin of compound eye. Enicospilus affinis Hedwig, 1957 (p. 107) stat. rev., synonymized with E. ocellatus by Horstmann (1981), is excluded from synonymy with E. ocellatus and reinstated as a valid species.
description: Published as part of Johansson, Niklas, Ameri, Ali, Riedel, Matthias, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Ebrahimi, Ebrahim, 2021, Contribution to the Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Iran with the description of 16 new species and an illustrated key to the Eremotylus of the Western Palaearctic, pp. 151-206 in Zootaxa 5023 (2) on page 163, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5023.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5225655
Absence of a structural transition up to 40 Gpa in MgB2 and the relevance of magnesium non-stoichiometry
Creators: name: Bordet, P.
name: Mezouar, M.
name: Nunez-Regueiro, M.
name: Monteverde, M.
name: Nunez-Regueiro, M. D.
name: Rogado, N.
name: Regan, K. A.
name: Hayward, M. A.
name: He, T.
name: Loureiro, S. M.
name: Cava, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements on MgB2 up to ~40GPa. Increasing pressure yields a monotonous decrease of the lattice parameters and of the c/a ratio, but no structural transition down to parameters smaller than those of AlB2. The transition superconducting temperature also decreases with temperature in a sample dependent way. The results are explained by an increase of the filling of the 2D pxy bands with pressure, the Mg stoichiometry determining the starting position of the Fermi level. Our measurements indicate that these hole bands are the relevant ones for superconductivity.
description: submitted March 9th 2001, PRB accepted
title: Paratexte_La nouvelle magie blanche dévoilée
Creators: name: AmateurS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021

description: Paratexte
description: ID_PARA_01091
AdS$_3$ solutions with $\mathcal{N}=(3,0)$ from S$^3\times$S$^3$ fibrations
Creators: name: Legramandi, Andrea
name: Macpherson, Niall T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study warped AdS$_3$ solutions in massive IIA supergravity preserving $\mathcal{N}=(3,0)$ and $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ supersymmetry. We consider solutions whose internal spaces decompose as an S$^3\times$S$^3$ fibration and a interval over which the rest of the solution is foliated. We present necessary and sufficient conditions for these solutions to exist, in terms of systems of ordinary differential equations and find several new analytic and numerical examples with internal spaces bounded between D-brane and O-plane behaviors.
description: Published version
Geometrical Aspects of Aging and Rejuvenation in the Ising Spin Glass: A Numerical Study
Creators: name: Berthier, Ludovic
name: Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive study of non-equilibrium phenomena in the low temperature phase of the Edwards-Anderson Gaussian spin glass in 3 and 4 spatial dimensions. Many effects can be understood in terms of a time dependent coherence length, $\ell_T$, such that length scales smaller that $\ell_T$ are equilibrated, whereas larger length scales are essentially frozen. The time and temperature dependence of $\ell_T$ is found to be compatible with critical power-law dynamical scaling for small times/high temperatures, crossing over to an activated logarithmic growth for longer times/lower temperatures, in agreement with recent experimental results. The activated regime is governed by a `barrier exponent' psi which we estimate to be psi ~ 1.0 and psi ~ 2.3 in 3 and 4 dimensions, respectively. We observe for the first time the rejuvenation and memory effects in the four dimensional sample, which, we argue, is unrelated to `temperature chaos'. Our discussion in terms of length scales allows us to address several experimentally relevant issues, such as super-aging versus sub-aging effects, the role of a finite cooling rate, or the so-called Kovacs effect.
description: Version accepted for publication - Physical Review B
Challenging the State in the Middle East and North Africa: the role of identities
Creators: name: Messari, Nizar
name: Kamel, Lorenzo
name: Bakır, Zeynep Gülöz
name: Djallil Lounnas
name: Maghraoui, Driss
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Iran
Israel
Middle East
Nationalism
North Africa
Turkey
MENA

description: Since independence, states in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have been dominant players in shaping the regional order. The purpose of this paper is to explore and define challenges to the state and their role in shaping identities in the MENA region, and to evaluate their regional roots. The paper emphasizes two key aspects of nationalism in the region. The first concerns the existence of multiple identities and layers of identity that co-exist in the MENA region and which do not necessarily clash with each other. The second is that nationalism and national identities are not a recent phenomenon in the region. This paper shows that there are similarities as well as differences among the three major sub-regions of MENA in terms of the impact of identities at three levels of analysis.
Market Price Response of World Rice Research
Creators: name: Hayami, Yujiro
name: Kikuchi, Masao
name: Morooka, Kazuko
name: Hayami, Yujiro
name: Kikuchi, Masao
name: Morooka, Kazuko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Demand and Price Analysis
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Using the total number of research publications as a proxy, the output of rice research in the world is estimated to be highly responsive in the short run to price fluctuations in the international rice market. The results suggest a danger of the inducement mechanism of public investment in the agricultural production infrastructure being misguided by cyclical price changes, thereby leading to recurrent food shortages and oversupplies in a cobweb-like manner.
Synthesis of modified ribonucleosides and oligoribonucleotide hybridization probes
Creators: name: Lewis, Michael Robert
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1988
Subjects: Chemistry

description: Two strategies for the construction of chemically modified, DNA cleaving oligoribonucleotide probes are described. In the first strategy, the synthetic substrate 5-(3-aminoallyl)uridine 5'-triphosphate (AA-UTP, 1) is reacted with RNA polymerase II to synthesize an aminoallyl-oligoribonucleotide, and the DNA cleaving moiety is introduced by nonspecific, posttranscriptional derivatization of the primary amine groups of the modified RNA. The second strategy involves the incorporation of a modified ribonucleoside 3',5'-bisphosphate, covalently tethered to a DNA cleaving functionality, into an oligoribonucleotide by reaction with T4 RNA ligase. A general method for the chemical synthesis of ribonucleoside 3',5'-bisphosphates was developed. Using this method, uridine 3',5'-bisphosphate (pUp, 2) was synthesized in six steps with an overall yield of 14%. A modified pUp derivative, 5-(3-(3-nitrophenoxy)acetamidoally1)-, uridine 3',5'-bisphosphate (NA-pUp, 12), was also synthesized with an overall yield of 3% for nine steps. The RNA polymerase substrate 1 was prepared by known methods and tested for compatibility with 17 RNA polymerase II in an in vitro "run-off' transcription system. The incorporation of AA-UTP by 17 RNA polymerase was found to be less efficient than that of uridine 5'-triphosphate (UTP), in contrast to results reported for SP6 RNA polymerase. In vitro transcription synthesis of oligoribonucleotides and aminoallyl-oligoribonucleotides by SP6 RNA polymerase gave irreproducible results. In the Ti RNA polymerase system, transcription synthesis produced heterogeneous mixtures of oligoribonucleotides or aminoallyl-oligoribonucleotides. Analysis of the transcription products by high-resolution gel electrophoresis showed that the distribution of transcripts did not vary significantly with buffer conditions or template end structure.
Infinite chain of N different deltas: a simple model for a Quantum Wire
Creators: name: Cervero, Jose M.
name: Rodriguez, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the exact diagonalization of the Schrodinger operator corresponding to a periodic potential with N deltas of different couplings, for arbitrary N. This basic structure can repeat itself an infinite number of times. Calculations of band structure can be performed with a high degree of accuracy for an infinite chain and of the correspondent eigenlevels in the case of a random chain. The main physical motivation is to modelate quantum wire band structure and the calculation of the associated density of states. These quantities show the fundamental properties we expect for periodic structures although for low energy the band gaps follow unpredictable patterns. In the case of random chains we find Anderson localization; we analize also the role of the eigenstates in the localization patterns and find clear signals of fractality in the conductance. In spite of the simplicity of the model many of the salient features expected in a quantum wire are well reproduced.
description: 28 pages, LaTeX, 13 eps figures (3 color)
Agricultural Technology and Farm-Nonfarm Growth Linkages
Creators: name: Haggblade, Steven
name: Hazell, Peter
name: Haggblade, Steven
name: Hazell, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Production Economics
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Agricultural growth stimulates rural nonfarm activity by boosting demand for production inputs and consumer goods. But different kinds of agricultural technology promote different patterns of nonfarm linkages. To explore how key features of agricultural technology affect growth in the rural nonfarm economy, this paper reviews an array of cross-section and time-series evidence bearing on the dynamics of the rural nonfarm economy. Then, using consumption and production parameters associated with different agricultural technologies, it introduces a simple model which isolates the effects of different technologies on nonfarm growth linkages.
Depleted-Uranium Weapons: the Whys and Wherefores
Creators: name: Gsponer, Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The only military application in which depleted-uranium (DU) alloys out-perform present-day tungsten alloys is long-rod penetration into a main battle-tank's armor. However, this advantage is only on the order of 10%, and it disappears when the comparison is made in terms of actual lethality of complete anti-tank systems instead of laboratory-type steel penetration capability. Therefore, new micro- and nano-engineered tungsten alloys may soon out-perform DU alloys, enabling the production of tungsten munition which will be better than existing uranium munition, and whose overall life-cycle cost will be lower, due to the absence of the problems related to the radioactivity of uranium. The reasons why DU weapons have been introduced and used are analysed from the perspective that their radioactivity must have played an important role in the decision making process. It is found that DU weapons belong to the diffuse category of low-radiological-impact nuclear weapons to which emerging types of low-yield (i.e., fourth generation) nuclear explosives also belong. It is concluded that the battlefield use of DU during the 1991 Gulf War, which broke a 46-year-long taboo against the intentional use or induction of radioactivity in combat, has created a military and legal precedent which has trivialized the combat use of radioactive materials, and therefore made the use of nuclear weapons more probable.
description: Postface to a book to be published by the Bertrand Russell Foundation, Final version with acknowledgments, 33 pages
Sparse solutions of optimal control via Newton method for under-determined systems
Creators: name: Polyak, Boris
name: Tremba, Andrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49M15, 65H10, 49J30

description: We focus on finding sparse and least-$\ell_1$-norm solutions for unconstrained nonlinear optimal control problems. Such optimization problems are non-convex and non-smooth, nevertheless recent versions of Newton method for under-determined equations can be applied successively for such problems.
description: Author version with errata after (15) at page 6 (missing formula for $\bar{v}$ is restored). J Glob Optim (2019)
Polaron and bipolaron formation in the Hubbard-Holstein model: role of next-nearest neighbor electron hopping
Creators: name: De Filippis, G.
name: Cataudella, V.
name: Iadonisi, G.
name: Ramaglia, V. Marigliano
name: Perroni, C. A.
name: Ventriglia, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of next-nearest neighbor electron hopping, $t^{\prime}$, on the polaron and bipolaron formation in a square Hubbard-Holstein model is investigated within a variational approach. The results for electron-phonon and electron-electron correlation functions show that a negative value of $t^{\prime}$ induces a strong anisotropy in the lattice distortions favoring the formation of nearest neighbor intersite bipolaron. The role of $t^{\prime}$, electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions is briefly discussed in view of the formation of charged striped domains.
description: 4 figures
The Dynamics of Brand Value in the Carbonated Soft Drinks Industry
Creators: name: Huang, Lu
name: Liu, Yizao
name: Huang, Lu
name: Liu, Yizao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Carbonated soft drinks
subject: Social media
subject: Advertising

description: This study examines how brand values of different carbonated soft drink (CSD) products change over time and how advertising and social media exposure contribute to brand building. The model consists of two stages. In the first stage, we adopt a structural approach to estimate the brand equities of 12 CSD products and measure the brand values in a Bertrand-Nash equilibrium. In the second stage, we study the impacts of marketing-mix variables on brand values. The empirical results show that both advertising expenditure and the quality of social media activity are important to brand value while the increase in the total social media activity has little effect.
Enicospilus pseudoculator Gadallah & Soliman 2017
Creators: name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ameri, Ali
name: Riedel, Matthias
name: Talebi, Ali Asghar
name: Ebrahimi, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Enicospilus
Enicospilus pseudoculator

description: Enicospilus pseudoculator Gadallah & Soliman 2017
 Enicospilus pseudoculator Gadallah & Soliman 2017:39,44; Figs 4G, 8C, 12C, 16C, 20C, 26C, 31C holotype ♀ from Saudi Arabia. Type material studied through illustrations in Gadallah et al. (2017).
 Material examined: IRAN: 2♂♂, Hormozgan Province, Sirik 70 km North of Minab, 19 Apr. 1992, 170 m. a. s., Mirz. / Badii leg. (HMIM); 1 unsexed specimen, Hormozgan Province, Jazireh-e Larak, 6 Mar. 1999, Gh. / Manz. leg. (HMIM); 1♀, Kerman Province, 25 km E. of Jiroft (Mijan), 28˚42"N, 57˚57"E, 27 May 2014, Mi. Halada leg. (OÖLM).
 Remarks: Recently described based on material collected in Saudi Arabia (Gadallah et al. 2017). Very closely related to Enicospilus affinis Hedwig, 1957 stat. rev. with minor differences in coloration. The two species may be conspecific (see remarks under E. affinis). Enicospilus pseudoculator has also previously been recorded from Iran under the erroneous name Enicospilus monostigma (Vollenhoven, 1879) in Ameri et al. (2016, Figs 5A–F).
description: Published as part of Johansson, Niklas, Ameri, Ali, Riedel, Matthias, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Ebrahimi, Ebrahim, 2021, Contribution to the Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Iran with the description of 16 new species and an illustrated key to the Eremotylus of the Western Palaearctic, pp. 151-206 in Zootaxa 5023 (2) on page 166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5023.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5225655
Commodity price stabilisation: macroeconomic impacts and policy options
Creators: name: Kannapiran, Chinna A.
name: Kannapiran, Chinna A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Commodity price stabilisation
subject: Macroeconomy
subject: Tree crop exports

description: A macroeconometric simulation study is undertaken to evaluate the impact of commodity price stabilisation (CPS) schemes for the export tree crop industry in Papua New Guinea. The findings suggest that there is a negligible level of favourable macroeconomic impacts of CPS. Contrary to the expectation, CPS adversely affects the stability of monetary and external sectors (BOP). CPS policy has failed to stabilise the macroeconomy. The price stabilisation policies are no longer appropriate from the macroeconomic point of view. Technical change, futures market and rural savings are the possible alternative policy options to manage the price risk. © 2000 Elsevier Science B. V. All rights reserved.
Lithuania's food demand during economic transition
Creators: name: Hossain, Ferdaus
name: Jensen, Helen H.
name: Hossain, Ferdaus
name: Jensen, Helen H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Transition economies
subject: Food demand
subject: LA-AIDS
subject: Fixed effects model

description: The linear approximate version of the almost ideal demand system (LA-AIDS) model is estimated using data from the Lithuanian household budget survey (HBS) covering the period from July 1992 to December 1994. Price and real expenditure elasticities for 12 food groups were estimated based on the estimated coefficients of the model. Very little or nothing is known about the demand parameters of Lithuania and other former socialist countries, so the results are of intrinsic interest. Estimated expenditure elasticities were positive and statistically significant for all food groups, while all own-price elasticities were negative and statistically significant, except for that of eggs which was insignificant. Results suggest that Lithuanian household consumption did respond to price and real income changes during their transition to a market-oriented economy. © 2000 Elsevier Science B. V. All rights reserved.
Large N limit of the exactly solvable BCS model: analytics versus numerics
Creators: name: Roman, J. M.
name: Sierra, G.
name: Dukelsky, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the numerical solutions of Richardson equations of the BCS model in the limit of large number of energy levels at half-filling, and compare them with the analytic results derived by Gaudin and Richardson, which in turn leads to the standard BCS solution. We focus on the location and density of the roots, the eigenvalues of the conserved quantities, and the scaling properties of the total energy for the equally spaced and the two-level models.
description: Revtex 4 file. 24 pages with 13 figures in text. Minor changes, references added
Enicospilus ramidulus
Creators: name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ameri, Ali
name: Riedel, Matthias
name: Talebi, Ali Asghar
name: Ebrahimi, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Enicospilus
Enicospilus ramidulus

description: Enicospilus ramidulus ( Linnaeus, 1758)
 Ichneumon ramidulus Linnaeus, 1758: 566. Type lost.
 Sphex truncata Poda, 1761: 107. Type lost?
 Henicospilus instabilis Kokujev, 1907: 174. Lectotype ♀ from Kazachstan in ZIN, not examined.
 Material examined: IRAN: 6♂♂, 4♀♀, Zanjan Province and abad, 47˚59’21.87"E, 36˚48’27.73"N, 24 Jun. 2019, Sweepnet, A. Amiri leg. (HMIM); 14♀♀, 4♂♂, Ardebil Province, Meshkin Shahr, 38˚30’37.62"N, 47˚45’17.52"E, 16–30 Aug. 2015, 1750 m. a. s., Malaise trap, A. Ameri leg. (HMIM); 6♀♀, 4♂♂, West Azerbaijan Province, Khoy, Firouragh, 38˚36’25.97"N, 44˚49’33.92"E, 8–20 Apr. 2019, 1278 m. a. s., Malaise trap, A. Ameri leg. (HMIM); 4♀♀, 3♂♂, East Azerbaijan Province, Arasbaran, Protected area (Kalaybar Aynalo), 38˚54’10.62"N, 46˚47’0.74"E, 1263, m. a. s., Malaise trap, A. Ameri leg. (HMIM); 1♀, 9♂♂, West Azerbaijan Province, Mahabad, Sahoolan, 36˚39’19.80"N, 45˚56’46.23"E, 1–16 Aug. 2019, 1780, m. a. s., Malaise trap, A. Ameri leg. (HMIM); 4♂♂, Zanjan Province, Sohrin, Mari, 36˚59’49.63"N, 48˚27’55.30"E, 1–25 Oct. 2019, 2160, m. a. s., Malaise trap, A. Ameri leg. (HMIM); 1♀, East Azerbaijan Province, Khoda, Afarain, Gholi Biglo Olya, 39˚23’30.99"N, 47˚20’28.77"E, – 16 Jul. 2019, 678 m. a. s., Malaise trap, A. Ameri leg. (HMIM); 1♀, Mazandaran Province, 15 km. S. Alamdeh, 36˚26"N, 51˚54"E, 530 m. a. s., 7 Jun. 2014, J. Halada leg. (OÖLM).
 Remarks: Only recently reported from Iran (Amiri et al. 2016). However, the material studied here indicates that this is the most widespread and common species of Enicospilus occurring in Iran.
description: Published as part of Johansson, Niklas, Ameri, Ali, Riedel, Matthias, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Ebrahimi, Ebrahim, 2021, Contribution to the Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Iran with the description of 16 new species and an illustrated key to the Eremotylus of the Western Palaearctic, pp. 151-206 in Zootaxa 5023 (2) on page 166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5023.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5225655
MOESM1 of Knowledge and menstrual hygiene practice among adolescent schoolÂ girls in southern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Zelalem Belayneh
name: Birhanie Mekuriaw
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Interview guide used for the data collection of this study.
Non-Abelian aether-like term in four dimensions
Creators: name: Carvalho, A. J. G.
name: Granado, D. R.
name: Nascimento, J. R.
name: Petrov, A. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The non-Abelian aether-like Lorentz-breaking term, involving triple and quartic self-coupling vertices, is generated from the non-Abelian generalization of the Lorentz-breaking extended QED including only a minimal spinor-vector interaction. This term is shown explicitly to be finite and non-ambiguous.
description: 13 pages, minor corrections
An analysis of short-run response of export and domestic agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Aboagye, Anthony Q.
name: Gunjal, Kisan
name: Aboagye, Anthony Q.
name: Gunjal, Kisan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Production Economics
subject: Official development assistance
subject: Private foreign commercial capital
subject: Domestic savings
subject: Export and domestic shares of agricultural output
subject: Profit function
subject: Panel data

description: Short-run responses of export and domestic shares of total agricultural output to changes in stocks of domestic savings (SAV), development assistance (ODA), private foreign commercial capital (PFX) and other variables is investigated. A profit function approach is used. Time series data for 19 sub-Saharan African countries are pooled into three panels using similarities in changes in economic policy regime. Statistical evidence suggests that for the panel of countries that were undertaking liberalized economic reforms, the slope coefficients of some of the variables in the models have changed significantly between 1970-1980 and 1981-1993. For the 1981-1993 period, the impacts of ODA, PFX and SAV on export and domestic shares were different for this panel. The effect of increases in agricultural labor was different across the three panels. There is also evidence that productivity growth in the export agriculture sub-sector is negative in all the groups. It is recommended that to halt the decline in export share of agricultural output in the group of countries that have undertaken substantial improvements in economic policy environment, efforts must be made to reduce the negative impact of domestic savings and agricultural labor, while at the same time working to reduce the bias of development assistance against food security. © 2000 Elsevier Science B. V. All rights reserved.
MOESM5 of Overexpression of OsPUB41, a Rice E3 ubiquitin ligase induced by cell wall degrading enzymes, enhances immune responses in Rice and Arabidopsis
Creators: name: Kachewar, Neha
name: Vishal Gupta
name: Ranjan, Ashish
name: Hitendra Patel
name: Sonti, Ramesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 5: Table S3. Estradiol (by itself / alone) does not induce callose deposition in rice or Arabidopsis.