cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
SCHUMPETERIAANSE ENTREPRENEURSKAP IN DIE LANDBOUSEKTOR VAN DIE NUWE SUID-AFRIKA
Creators: name: Terreblanche, S. J.
name: Terreblanche, S. J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance

description: Schumpeter claims that the entrepreneur - who occasionally succeeds with a new bundle of innovations to set a process of Creative Destruction in motion - is in effect responsible for the dynamic character of capitalism. He was, nonetheless, of the opinion that entrepreneurial capitalism cannot survive its own success because it produced by virtue of its very success social and cultural by-products which will create circumstances that in the long run will not be conducive to providing that kind of protection, support and acknowledgement the entrepreneur needs. Because of the rise of large-scale corporative enterprises, the agricultural sector is today one of the few sectors in which the business form of owner-entrepreneur is still commonly in use. South Africa is at present experiencing a powershift toward a new dispensation. In the next 10 or 20 years a pluralistic network of power blocks must be brought about with the capacity to have a countervailing effect on one another. If this can be accomplished it will not only give structure and stability to the situation, but can also create CIRCUMSTANCES that will be conducive to the deployment of Schutnpeterian entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector. Even if such favourable conditions could be created for agriculture, it will still demand high standards of resourcefulness, adaptability and farsightedness of the entrepreneur if he really wants to succeed.
SOURCES AND IMPLICATIONS OF RURAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME FOR IMPROVING RURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN AFRICA: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM BOTSWANA
Creators: name: Panin, A.
name: Mahabile, M.
name: Mphoh, I.
name: Batlang, U.
name: Panin, A.
name: Mahabile, M.
name: Mphoh, I.
name: Batlang, U.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Consumer/Household Economics

description: In many African countries, a high proportion of the population resides in the rural areas and derives their incomes mainly from agriculture. This notwithstanding, there is a growing evidence that incomes from nonfarm employment sources are increasingly becoming important among the rural population. Using Botswana's rural household survey data, this paper examines the relative contributions and implications of agriculture and nonfarm employment to rural household incomes. Contrary to the popular held view that most rural households derive their income mainly from agriculture, the fmdings of this analysis clearly indicate that nonfarm employment is the dominant source of income in the study area. It accounted for 53% of the average total farm-household income of P4787 (1US$ = P2.49). Remittances alone contributed a substantial share of 37% and constitute an important source of income for most households in the area. On average, 40% of each household's labour force were migrant workers. As regards employment in the area, agriculture employed more than 88% of the active labour force in the villages. The relatively low contribution (47%) from agriculture implies that the potential for savings, investment and development of entrepreneur skills among most people in the area is limited. This situation is likely to encourage rapid rural-urban migration of a considerable proportion of the youth in the area. It is suggested that development strategy of Botswana government should concentrate on sustainable agricultural growth and establishment of rural enterprises to increase both income and employment shares of agriculture and non-agricultural activities, respectively, as well as rural entrepreneurship
The Nernst heat theorem for an atom interacting with graphene: Dirac model with nonzero energy gap and chemical potential
Creators: name: Klimchitskaya, G. L.
name: Mostepanenko, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the low-temperature behavior of the Casimir-Polder free energy for a polarizable atom interacting with graphene sheet which possesses the nonzero energy gap $Δ$ and chemical potential $μ$. The response of graphene to the electromagnetic field is described by means of the polarization tensor in the framework of Dirac model on the basis of first principles of thermal quantum field theory in the Matsubara formulation. It is shown that the thermal correction to the Casimir-Polder energy consists of three contributions. The first of them is determined by the Matsubara summation using the polarization tensor defined at zero temperature, whereas the second and third contributions are caused by an explicit temperature dependence of the polarization tensor and originate from the zero-frequency Matsubara term and the sum of all Matsubara terms with nonzero frequencies, respectively. The asymptotic behavior for each of the three contributions at low temperature is found analytically for any value of the energy gap and chemical potential. According to our results, the Nernst heat theorem for the Casimir-Polder free energy and entropy is satisfied for both $Δ> 2μ$ and $Δ< 2μ$. We also reveal an entropic anomaly arising in the case $Δ= 2μ$. The obtained results are discussed in connection with the long-standing fundamental problem in Casimir physics regarding the proper description of the dielectric response of matter to the electromagnetic field.
description: 37 pages, 1 Table; several typos are corrected
DIVERSIFICATION AS A RISK STRATEGY IN TIMES OF CHANGE: A STUDY IN THE EASTERN ORANGE FREE STATE
Creators: name: Binding, H. R.
name: Van Schalkwyk, H. D.
name: Van Zyl, J.
name: Sartorius Von Bach, H. J.
name: Binding, H. R.
name: Van Schalkwyk, H. D.
name: Van Zyl, J.
name: Sartorius Von Bach, H. J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Data from 100 commercial farmers in the Aberfeldy pedosystem (situated in the North-eastern Orange Free Sate) were used to analyse diversification as a risk alleviating strategy. In theory, diversification reduces risk, but when the ability with respect to management or entrepreneurship is ignored, diversification may increase risk. Results show that any excessive attitude towards risk is undesirable. Both risk averters and risk seekers showed a greater probability of finacial deterioration or failure. Risk neutrality seems to be the optimal strategy.
Electroweak pinch technique to all orders
Creators: name: Binosi, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generalization of the pinch technique to all orders in the electroweak sector of the Standard Model within the class of the renormalizable 't Hooft gauges, is presented. In particular, both the all-order PT gauge-boson-- and scalar--fermions vertices, as well as the diagonal and mixed gauge-boson and scalar self-energies are explicitly constructed. This is achieved through the generalization to the Standard Model of the procedure recently applied to the QCD case, which consist of two steps: (i) the identification of special Green's functions, which serve as a common kernel to all self-energy and vertex diagrams, and (ii) the study of the (on-shell) Slavnov-Taylor identities they satisfy. It is then shown that the ghost, scalar and scalar--gauge-boson Green's functions appearing in these identities capture precisely the result of the pinching action at arbitrary order. It turns out that the aforementioned Green's functions play a crucial role, their net effect being the non-trivial modification of the ghost, scalar and scalar--gauge-boson diagrams of the gauge-boson-- or scalar--fermions vertex we have started from, in such a way as to dynamically generate the characteristic ghost and scalar sector of the background field method. The pinch technique gauge-boson and scalar self-energies are also explicitly constructed by resorting to the method of the background-quantum identities.
description: 48 pages, 8 figures; v2: typos corrected
THE ROLE OF CREDIT IN THE FARMER SUPPORT PROGRAMME: IS IT THE KEY TO SUCCESS?
Die rol van krediet in die Boerdery-ondersteuningsprogram: Is dit die sleutel tot sukses?
Creators: name: Coetzee, G. K.
name: Kirsten, J. F.
name: Van Zyl, J.
name: Coetzee, G. K.
name: Kirsten, J. F.
name: Van Zyl, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Financial Economics

description: This paper concentrates on the credit element of Farmer Support Programmes (FSP) and the financial environment in which FSP credit is applied with a view to assess the importance of the credit component in the FSP. First, the theory on rural financial markets and intermediation is briefly reviewed. This is followed by an application to the FSP. The paper concludes with some policy implications of the findings. The main points that FSP financial policy should incorporate are: avoid loan subsidies and targeting; mobilise deposits; charge positive real rates of interest; avoid concessionary discount lines; reduce transaction costs; and emulate informal finance.
Argas miniatus
Creators: name: Basu, A. K.
name: Basu, M.
name: Adesiyun, A. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Ixodida
Argasidae
Argas
Argas miniatus

description: Argas miniatus
 Argas (Persicargas) miniatus was detected from chickens in Gasparee Island, Trinidad (Kohls et al. 1970). This is a common parasite of chickens in Neotropical countries which might have sometimes been misidentified as A. persicus. Many reports of A. persicus, a Palearctic species found on poultry in the Neotropics, may actually represent misidentifications of A. miniatus or another related species (Kohls et al. 1970).
 Argas miniatus is known to transmit Borrelia anserina (Borreliosis) (Jongejan and Uilenberg 2004).
 Distribution: Brazil, Guyana, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cuba (Guglielmone et al. 2003), Mexico (Hoffman and Lopez Campo 2000), USA, Peru (Cruz 2001).
description: Published as part of Basu, A. K., Basu, M. & Adesiyun, A. A., 2012, A Review On Ticks (Acari: Ixodoidea: Ixodidae, Argasidae), Associated Pathogens And Diseases Of Trinidad And Tobago, pp. 39-50 in Acarologia 52 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20122034, http://zenodo.org/record/4667077
Li Coefficients for Automorphic L-Functions
Creators: name: Lagarias, Jeffrey C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11M26 22E55

description: Xian-Jin Li gave a criterion for the Riemann hypothesis in terms of the positivity of a set of coefficients lambda_n, indexed by the integers. We define similar coefficients attached to principal automorphic L-functions over GL(N). We relate these coefficients to values of Weil's quadratic functional for the associated automorphic representation, and deduce a Riemann hypothesis criterion in terms of positivity of the real parts of these coefficients. We determine asymptotics of the coefficients, both unconditionally and on the Riemann hypothesis, as n increases. We show the existence of an entire function of exponential type that interpolates the generalized Li coefficients at integer values.
description: 42 pages; minor corrections; references updated; correction to remainder term in Theorem 1.1
Theoretical constraints on scalar parameters in the compact 341 model
Creators: name: Djouala, Meriem
name: Mebarki, Noureddine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical constraints on the scalar potential of the compact 341 model with three quadruplets scalar fields are discussed. It is shown that, in order to ensure good behavior of the potential and the viability of the model, the criteria such as copositivity, minimization, perturbative unitarity, perturbativity of the scalar couplings and no ghost scalar bosons (scalar bosons masses positivity) are imposed and bounds on the scalar couplings are obtained. Moreover, the existence of the Landau pole in the model imposes stringent limits.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, 1 appendix
Digital Tools for Promoting and Enhancing a Spanish Chapbooks Collection
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
name: Jacsont Pauline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Digital libraries
Digital editions
XML-TEI

description: The project Untangling the cordel (2020-2023) is dedicated to the study of a collection of 19th century Spanish chapbooks preserved at the University Library of Geneva. It aims at promoting and analysing this collection through a digital library (DL). Chapbooks have existed since the beginning of printing. Sold in the streets, they relate fictitious or real events, songs, plays or religious writings. Even if their topics are numerous, their editorial form is consistent. They are composed of a few pages, in in-quarto, arranged in columns and decorated with woodcuts. Due to their specific layout and the diversity of their content, chapbooks are complex documents that involve many levels of interpretation (book and art history, literature, linguistic, sociology, etc.). To represent this diversity and allow varied analysis, we have elaborated a DL composed of digital scholarly editions (DSE) of chapbooks, and of a catalogue of woodcuts. Regarding the DSE, we transcribed the texts with different HTR tools (Transkribus and eScriptorium). Then, we converted the results in XML-TEI via XSLT. The encoded texts have been stored in the XML database eXist-DB, and the images in the IIIF server of the Geneva University. Finally, we have published the DSE with the web application TEI-Publisher. The woodcuts catalogue has also been encoded in XML-TEI. The main distinctive features of this catalogue are 1) a list of similar woodcuts within our corpus, that have been detected with different visual search softwares, and 2) information about the chapbook they come from. Through this workflow, the DL offers services that stress different aspects of chapbooks, i.e. document, text or image, and their close relationships: parallel consultation of transcription and facsimiles, comparison of documents with Mirador, full-text and thematic searches, links between text and woodcuts, etc.
SOURCES AND MANAGEMENT OF RISK IN EXTENSIVE LIVESTOCK FARMING IN THE NORTH-WESTERN TRANSVAAL BUSH YELP
Bronne en bestuur van risiko in ekstensiewe veeboerdery in die Noordwes- Transvaalse Bosveld.
Creators: name: Swanepoel, V.
name: Ortmann, G. F.
name: Swanepoel, V.
name: Ortmann, G. F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Risk and Uncertainty

description: A survey involving 93 farmers in the North-Western Transvaal Bushveld reveals sources of and responses to risk in farm production, marketing and financing. Main sources of risk were considered to be variations in livestock production, rainfall and livestock prices, the threat of land reform, and changes in input costs. The most important production responses to risk include low-cost production, choice of production system and changing livestock numbers. Acceptance of the floor price scheme was regarded as the most important marketing response to risk, while financial record keeping, debt management and maintaining credit reserves were considered the major financial responses to risk. The results could assist policy makers, lenders, extension officers and consultants in designing appropriate risk management programmes and strategies for farmers in the study area.
Pointer to replication dataset for : Attitudes and beliefs of academic librarians in Germany and the USA
Creators: name: Kramer, Stefan
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4610
subject: Library and information studies

description: This dataset is available via openICPSR at: http://doi.org/10.3886/E111106V1
title: Cosmological Redshift and Gravitational Potential in a Spatially Flat Universe
Creators: name: Churchman, James
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: We take a new look at an old concept. Textbook descriptions of cosmological redshift are examined. In particular, explanations that treat cosmological redshift as a continual loss of energy as the radiation propagates are found to be hard to reconcile with Quantum Theory. A new treatment of the subject is presented that compares cosmological redshift with gravitational redshift as demonstrated by the “classic” Pound Rebka experiment. Cosmological redshift in a spatially flat universe, is presented as being due to a rising “global” gravitational potential. The evidence for the Universe being essentially spatially flat is reviewed and found to be compelling. The relationship between the scale factor of the universe and the potential is found and a modifled version of the Robertson Walker metric is derived with the components of the metric tensor being expressed in terms of the global potential. A simple treatment of the quantum electromagnetic field is shown to be compatible with the notion of cosmological redshift, if the time coordinate of the background space-time in which the theory is expressed, is that of the new modifled Robertson Walker metric. Finally the possibihty of building an apparatus that would directly detect the rising potential is examined. For such an apparatus it is shown that in a non-accelerating universe the effects of the rising potential are unobservable in local experiments, but that there may be observable effects if the universe is accelerating.
Fabrication of low-loss quasi-single-mode PPLN waveguide and its application to a modularized broadband high-level squeezer
Creators: name: Kashiwazaki, Takahiro
name: Yamashima, Taichi
name: Takanashi, Naoto
name: Inoue, Asuka
name: Umeki, Takeshi
name: Furusawa, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A continuous-wave (CW) broadband high-level optical quadrature squeezer is essential for high-speed large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing on a time-domain-multiplexed continuous-variable optical cluster state. CW THz-bandwidth squeezed light can be obtained with a waveguide optical parametric amplifier (OPA); however, the squeezing level have been insufficient for applications of fault-tolerant quantum computation because of degradation of the squeezing level due to their optical losses caused by the structural perturbation and pump-induced phenomena. Here, by using mechanical polishing processes, we fabricated a low-loss quasi-single-mode periodically-poled LiNbO3 (PPLN) waveguide, which shows 7% optical propagation loss with a waveguide length of 45 mm. Using the waveguide, we assembled a low-loss fiber-pigtailed OPA module with a total insertion loss of 21%. Thanks to its directly bonded core on a LiTaO3 substrate, the waveguide does not show pump-induced optical loss even under a condition of hundreds of milliwatts pumping. Furthermore, the quasi-single-mode structure prohibits excitation of higher-order spatial modes, and enables us to obtain larger squeezing level. Even with including optical coupling loss of the modularization, we observe 6.3-dB squeezed light from the DC component up to a 6.0-THz sideband in a fully fiber-closed optical system. By excluding the losses due to imperfections of the modularization and detection, the squeezing level at the output of the PPLN waveguide is estimated to be over 10 dB. Our waveguide squeezer is a promising quantum light source for high-speed large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing.
'Linking West' in 'Unsettled Times' : India-G.C.C. trade relations
Creators: name: Calabrese, John
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: India's interests and capabilities extend well beyond the subcontinent. This series explores the geopolitical dimensions, economic ties, transnational networks, and other aspects of India's links with the Middle East (West Asia) -- a region that plays a vital role in India's economy and its future.
Argas persicus
Creators: name: Basu, A. K.
name: Basu, M.
name: Adesiyun, A. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Ixodida
Argasidae
Argas
Argas persicus

description: Argas persicus
 Hart (1899) documented the presence of the fowl tick Argas persicus and presumed that these ticks were imported from the United States to Trinidad and Tobago. He observed that the infested birds sat down, dropped their wings and experienced fever. He also reported that dressing infested fowl with petroleum killed the ticks.
 As mentioned above, Argas persicus, a Palearctic species, can be easily confounded with other Argas species during identification, and many reports of A. persicus on poultry in the Neotropics may actually represent misidentifications of A. miniatus or another related species (Kohls et al. 1970).
 Argas persicus is known to transmit Borrelia anserina (Borreliosis) and Aegyptionella pullorum (Aegyptianellosis) (Jongejan and Uilenberg 2004) and also transmits Slovakia virus, Slovakia (Labuda and Nuttall 2004). Larval ticks produce a toxin which causes paralysis in chickens (Walker et al. 2007).
Distribution: Cosmopolitan (Cruz 2001).
description: Published as part of Basu, A. K., Basu, M. & Adesiyun, A. A., 2012, A Review On Ticks (Acari: Ixodoidea: Ixodidae, Argasidae), Associated Pathogens And Diseases Of Trinidad And Tobago, pp. 39-50 in Acarologia 52 (1) on pages 40-42, DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20122034, http://zenodo.org/record/4667077
Diffusion and pulsations in slowly rotating B stars
Creators: name: Turcotte, S.
name: Richard, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diffusion in cool B stars of the main sequence has been shown to strongly affect opacities and convection in cool B stars of the main sequence. We show here that diffusion in B stars maintains or enhances the excitation of pulsations in these stars. This result conflicts with observations as cool B stars that show evidence of diffusion, the HgMn stars, are stable to the current detection level. We discuss possible implications of this discrepancy for the models.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, in Element stratification in stars: 40 years of atomic diffusion
PROMISING ANTIMICROBIAL HOPE FOR CORONAVIRUS, BUT IS IT WORKING AGAINST A VIRUS?
Creators: name: Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110802 Medical Infection Agents (incl. Prions)
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description:
BULLET-POINT SUMMARY:
• Antivirals did not play a significant role in helping curb previous coronavirus outbreaks — SARS and MERS largely went away on their own, through public health measures that helped contain the spread.
• Present coronavirus trials using antivirals have to this point on the whole proved either inconclusive or disappointing.
• Azithromycin, an antibiotic with no antiviral activity whatsoever, is proving quite efficacious in treating the disease behind the “COVID-19” pandemic. Azithromycin is a first-line drug against Mycobacterium avium, which can simulate obstructive lung disease, and every other sign or symptom of COVID-19 documented to date. In addition azithromycin is a second or third-line drug against drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
• There was and still is a Pandemic going on in the world which dwarfs coronavirus. A Pandemic which kills one person every 21 seconds. A pandemic which in 2018 alone killed at least 1.5 million people annually. A mycobacterial pandemic, from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
• In the United States, pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) disease or “fowl tuberculosis” is more common than tuberculosis
• Furthermore, Mycobacterium avium complex is now the leading mycobacterial cause of chronic pneumonia in the United States.
• Infections due to non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) such as Mycobacteria avium are increasing worldwide, and are particularly important to take into account when considering a zoonosis, which COVID-19 was originally thought to be.
• Not only does the drug hydroxychloroquine inhibit intracellular TB, but it acts synergistically against mycobacterial disease when combined with certain antimycobacterials. Azithromycin is also used as an antimycobacterial.
• The BCG tuberculosis vaccine is currently the focus of an international 4 country study to combat the Coronavirus pandemic.
• In the present Coronavirus pandemic, tubercular infection is by far the most common co-morbidity or underlying condition.
• A Recent preliminary Chinese study shows that tubercular infection likely increases susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, and also increases COVID-19 severity.
Experimental Realization of the Quantum Box Problem
Creators: name: Resch, K. J.
name: Lundeen, J. S.
name: Steinberg, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The three-box problem is a gedankenexperiment designed to elucidate some interesting features of quantum measurement and locality. A particle is prepared in a particular superposition of three boxes, and later found in a different (but nonorthogonal) superposition. It was predicted that appropriate "weak" measurements of particle position in the interval between preparation and post-selection would find the particle in two different places, each with certainty. We verify these predictions in an optical experiment and address the issues of locality and of negative probability.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
The BepiColombo SERENA/ELENA Instrument On-Ground Testing with the ELENA Special Check Out Equipment (SCOE)
Creators: name: Lazzarotto, Francesco
name: Vertolli, Nello
name: Maschietti, Dario
name: Di Lellis, Andrea Maria
name: Ryno, Jouni
name: Camozzi, Fabio
name: Orsini, Stefano
name: Milillo, Anna
name: Mura, Alessandro
name: De Angelis, Elisabetta
name: Rispoli, Rosanna
name: Colasanti, Luca
name: Selci, Stefano
name: D'Alessandro, Marco
name: Leoni, Roberto
name: Mattioli, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The neutral particles sensor ELENA (Emitted Low Energy Neutral Atoms) for the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury (in the SERENA instrument suite) is devoted to measure low energetic neutral atoms. The main goal of the experiment is measuring the sputtering emission from planetary surfaces, from E=20eV up to E=5keV, within 1D (2 deg. x 76 deg. ). ELENA original project had also a particle discrimination system based on Time-of-Flight (TOF) of particles through the shutter on the Micro Channel Plates detector (MCP), it has been withdrawn from the flight model due to design and development problems. The ELENA SCOE is the configuration/testing system of ELENA, it allows to command operations and to set up configuration parameters on the instrument and to monitor the incoming data. The TC/TM simulation/encoding/decoding software is developed respecting the CCSDS/ECSS standards implemented by ESA, and it's SCOS2000 compatible. TC generation, HK data monitoring and basic science data analysis are operated by the SERENA EGSE, developed by the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Helsinki, Finland. The data stream outcoming from the EGSE is then preprocessed from TM to user readable formats: FITS and then ASCII csv tables with metadata collected in a detached XML file, called label. This task is performed using the PacketLib, ProcessorLib, and DISCoS (PPD) framework and is going to be used as the first level prototype of the BepiColombo Science Ground Segment processing pipeline, based in ESAC, Madrid, Spain and implemented using the PDS4 data format.
description: Proceedings of the European Ground System Architecture Workshop (ESAW) 18-19 June 2013 ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany
CIRPASS near-infrared integral-field spectroscopy of massive star clusters in the starburst galaxy NGC 1140
Creators: name: de Grijs, R.
name: Smith, L. J.
name: Bunker, A.
name: Sharp, R. G.
name: Gallagher, J. S.
name: Anders, P.
name: Lancon, A.
name: O'Connell, R. W.
name: Parry, I. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [ABRIDGED] We analyse near-infrared integral field spectroscopy of the central starburst region of NGC 1140, obtained at the Gemini-South telescope equipped with CIRPASS. Our ~1.45-1.67 um wavelength coverage includes the bright [Fe II] emission line, as well as high-order Brackett (hydrogen) lines. While strong [Fe II] emission, thought to originate in the thermal shocks associated with supernova remnants, is found throughout the galaxy, both Br 12-4 and Br 14-4 emission, and weak CO(6,3) absorption, is predominantly associated with the northern starburst region. The Brackett lines originate from recombination processes occurring on smaller scales in (young) HII regions. The time-scale associated with strong [Fe II] emission implies that most of the recent star-formation activity in NGC 1140 was induced in the past 35-55 Myr. Based on the spatial distributions of the [Fe II] versus Brackett line emission, we conclude that a galaxy-wide starburst was induced several tens of Myr ago, with more recent starburst activity concentrated around the northern starburst region. This scenario is (provisionally) confirmed by our analysis of the spectral energy distributions of the compact, young massive star clusters (YMCs) detected in new and archival broad-band HST images. The YMC ages in NGC 1140 are all <= 20 Myr, consistent with independently determined estimates of the galaxy's starburst age, while there appears to be an age difference between the northern and southern YMC complexes in the sense expected from our CIRPASS analysis. Our photometric mass estimates of the NGC 1140 YMCs, likely upper limits, are comparable to those of the highest-mass Galactic globular clusters and to spectroscopically confirmed masses of (compact) YMCs in other starburst galaxies.
description: 16 pages LaTeX, incl. 6 postscript figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Analogue of the Kubo Formula for Conductivity of Spatially Inhomogeneous Systems and Electric Fields
Creators: name: Pavlov, S. T.
name: Lang, I. G.
name: Korovin, L. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The average of densities of currents and charges, induced by a weak electromagnetic field in spatially inhomogeneous are calculated at final temperatures. The Kubo formula for a conductivity tensor is generalized for spatially inhomogeneous systems and fields. The contributions containing electric fields and derivative from fields on coordinates are allocated. The Semiconductor quantum wells, wires and dots may be considered as spatially inhomogeneous systems.
description: 10 pages
'Linking West' in 'Unsettled Times' : India-G.C.C. trade relations
Creators: name: Calabrese, John
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: India's interests and capabilities extend well beyond the subcontinent. This series explores the geopolitical dimensions, economic ties, transnational networks, and other aspects of India's links with the Middle East (West Asia) -- a region that plays a vital role in India's economy and its future.
Strong-field ionization of atoms with $p^3$ valence shell: Two versus three active electrons
Creators: name: Efimov, Dmitry K.
name: Prauzner-Bechcicki, Jakub S.
name: Zakrzewski, Jakub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a model atom with the $p^3$ valence shell we construct consistent three- and two-active electrons models enabling their direct comparison. Within these models, we study the influence of the third active electron on the double ionization yield in strong femtosecond laser fields. We reveal proportionality between double ionization signals obtained with both models in the field intensity region where non-sequential ionization dominates. We derive analytically a correspondence rule connecting the double ionization yields obtained within the three- and two-active electrons models.
description: version accepted for Phys. Rev. A
Remembering Dr. Vinson Synan, Historian Extraordinaire of Pentecostal Church History: 'He inspired me to do my doctoral thesis on F.F. Bosworth'
Creators: name: Barnes, Roscoe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210304 Biography
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 220401 Christian Studies (incl. Biblical Studies and Church History)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 220402 Comparative Religious Studies
subject: History
subject: 210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: Religious Studies
subject: 220499 Religion and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified

description: This blog post is a tribute to Dr. Vinson Synan. It recounts, among other things, how he encouraged me to do my doctoral thesis on F.F. Bosworth. #FFBosworth
The FORS Deep Field Spectroscopic Survey
Creators: name: Noll, S.
name: Mehlert, D.
name: Appenzeller, I.
name: Bender, R.
name: Boehm, A.
name: Gabasch, A.
name: Heidt, J.
name: Hopp, U.
name: Jaeger, K.
name: Seitz, S.
name: Stahl, O.
name: Tapken, C.
name: Ziegler, B. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a catalogue and atlas of low-resolution spectra of a well defined sample of 341 objects in the FORS Deep Field. All spectra were obtained with the FORS instruments at the ESO VLT with essentially the same spectroscopic set-up. The observed extragalactic objects cover the redshift range 0.1 to 5.0. 98 objects are starburst galaxies and QSOs at z > 2. Using this data set we investigated the evolution of the characteristic spectral properties of bright starburst galaxies and their mutual relations as a function of the redshift. Significant evolutionary effects were found for redshifts 2 < z < 4. Most conspicuous are the increase of the average C IV absorption strength, of the dust reddening, and of the intrinsic UV luminosity, and the decrease of the average Ly alpha emission strength with decreasing redshift. In part the observed evolutionary effects can be attributed to an increase of the metallicity of the galaxies with cosmic age. Moreover, the increase of the total star-formation rates and the stronger obscuration of the starburst cores by dusty gas clouds suggest the occurrence of more massive starbursts at later cosmic epochs.
description: 24 pages, 25 figures (35 PS files), 4 tables, accepted for publication in A&A. v2: minor typos corrected and references updated
title: Use of Drawings and Reflective Comments in Family Construct Development
Creators: name: Giles, Lucille Dorrean
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: Family drawings, reflective comments, and observations of associated interactions amongst family members were used to develop shared family constructs. Previous research by Kelly (1955) proposed that constructs guide an individual’s thoughts and actions; later Procter (1981) and Dallos (1991) demonstrated that verbal responses within a family aid in the development of family constructs.
The current research improves on shortcomings of previous construct development methods, and makes new contributions to Personal Construct Theory by using meanings found in family members’ drawings. This comprehensive method was found to be simple, effective and non-threatening for all family members and allowed everyone an equal opportunity to portray their family and develop constructs relating to it.
Illustrations done by the families and the process through which their constructs were formed and analyzed are included. A phenomenological analysis of the collective constructs resulted in the major family themes of Connection to Family of Origin, Family Values, Family Structures, Family’s Everyday Concerns, and Management of Change. These construct-based themes were shown to be relevant to the recent literature on families’ functioning. Results of this research suggest that using family members’ drawings and reflective comments as a method to develop shared family constructs could improve assessment techniques for family therapy.
Extra packing of mass of anisotropic interiors induced by MGD
Creators: name: Arias, Cynthia
name: Tello-Ortiz, Francisco
name: Contreras, Ernesto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we investigate the extra packing of mass within the framework of gravitational decoupling by means of Minimal Geometric Deformation approach. It is shown that, after a suitable set of the free parameters involved, the like--Tolman IV solution extended by Minimal Geometric Deformation not only acquire extra packing of mass but it corresponds to a stable configuration according to the adiabatic index criteria. Additionally, it is shown that the extra packing condition induce a lower bound on the compactness parameter of the seed isotropic solution and a stringent restriction on the decoupling parameter.
Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) azteci
Creators: name: Basu, A. K.
name: Basu, M.
name: Adesiyun, A. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Ixodida
Argasidae
Ornithodoros
Ornithodoros azteci

description: Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) azteci
 Ornithodoros (A.) azteci has been collected from bats in Trinidad (Cooley and Kohls 1944; Fairchild et al. 1965; Kohls 1969). This species was also found on vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus rotundus) from Croney Cave, Diego Martin in 1958 and from Lonchorhina aurita, Paromin, Maraval from Trinidad in 1960 (Kohls et al. 1965).
 Distribution: Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Islands of the Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela (Kohls et al. 1965; Cruz 2001).
description: Published as part of Basu, A. K., Basu, M. & Adesiyun, A. A., 2012, A Review On Ticks (Acari: Ixodoidea: Ixodidae, Argasidae), Associated Pathogens And Diseases Of Trinidad And Tobago, pp. 39-50 in Acarologia 52 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20122034, http://zenodo.org/record/4667077
An investigation into the use of rapidly renewable materials in the Student Union Building
Creators: name: Zhou, Zizheng
name: Stoddard, Levi
name: Chang, Joey
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Stakeholders in the new Student Union Building (SUB) - including students, staff, and residents of UBC – value living socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable lives. As such, the team responsible for designing the new SUB is aiming to produce a building that meets the heralded LEED platinum standard. Using rapidly renewable and/or recyclable materials in the construction of the proposed building would contribute towards the achievement of this goal. This report conducts a triple-bottom-line analysis of two such materials, linoleum and wheat board, based on existing literature. Linoleum is a sheet material that is primarily used for floor covering. When considering the total cost of ownership, linoleum is cheaper than vinyl flooring, yet more expensive than poured epoxy flooring. The social and environmental benefits of linoleum far outweigh those of vinyl and poured epoxy. Vinyl and poured epoxy are both hazardous to the manufacturing and installation staff; require more frequent replacement than linoleum; and are damaging to the environment upon disposal. Linoleum releases less VOC’s than vinyl flooring; can be burned for significant energy when disposed; harmlessly degrades when landfilled; and contributes to multiple LEED point categories. For the aforementioned reasons, linoleum would be an ideal floor covering for the food service areas in the new building. Wheat board is a pressed fiber board consisting of 100% wheat – as opposed to a traditional medium-density fiberboard (MDF) produced from wood products. Wheat board is comparable in cost and strength to its MDF counterpart, yet releases fewer odors into its indoor environment. Wheat board would be an ideal material for constructing tabletops and cabinets in the new SUB building. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Supernarrow spectral peaks near a kinetic phase transition in a driven, nonlinear micromechanical oscillator
Creators: name: Stambaugh, C.
name: Chan, H. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the spectral densities of fluctuations of an underdamped nonlinear micromechanical oscillator. By applying a sufficiently large periodic excitation, two stable dynamical states are obtained within a particular range of driving frequency. White noise is injected into the excitation, allowing the system to overcome the activation barrier and switch between the two states. While the oscillator predominately resides in one of the two states for most excitation frequencies, a narrow range of frequencies exist where the occupations of the two states are approximately equal. At these frequencies, the oscillator undergoes a kinetic phase transition that resembles the phase transition of thermal equilibrium systems. We observe a supernarrow peak in the power spectral densities of fluctuations of the oscillator. This peak is centered at the excitation frequency and arises as a result of noise-induced transitions between the two dynamical states.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Possible Class of Nearby Gamma-Ray Burst / Gravitational Wave Sources
Creators: name: Norris, Jay P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A possible subclass of gamma-ray bursts -- those with few, wide pulses, spectral lags of order one to several seconds, and soft spectra -- has been identified. Their Log[N]-Log[Fp] distribution approximates a -3/2 power-law, suggesting homogeneity and relatively nearby sources. These mostly dim bursts account for ~ 50% of the BATSE sample of long bursts near that instrument's trigger threshold, suggesting that this subluminous class constitutes a more common variety than the more familiar burst sources which lie at truly cosmological distances. Theoretical scenarios predicted such a class, motivated by their exemplar GRB 980425 (SN 1998bw) lying at a distance of ~ 38 Mpc. The observations are explained by invoking off-axis viewing of the GRB jet and/or bulk Lorentz factors of order a few. Long-lag bursts show a tendency to concentrate near the Supergalactic Plane with a quadrupole moment of -0.10+/-0.04, similar to that for SNe type Ib/c within the same volume. The rate of the observed subluminous bursts is of order 1/4 that of SNe Ib/c. Evidence for a sequential relationship between SNe Ib/c and GRBs is critiqued for two cases, as simultaneity of the SN and GRB events may be important for detection of the expected gravitational wave signal; at most, SN to GRB delays appear to be a few days. SN asymmetries and ultrarelativistic GRB jets suggest the possibility of rapid rotation in the pre-collapse objects, a primary condition required for highly non-axisymmetric SN collapse to produce strong gravitational waves.
description: Invited talk at "The Astrophysics of Gravitational Wave Sources" Workshop; April 24-26, 2003, U. Maryland; 10 pages, 5 figures
Analytic structure in the coupling constant plane in perturbative QCD
Creators: name: Caprini, Irinel
name: Fischer, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the analytic structure of the Borel-summed perturbative QCD amplitudes in the complex plane of the coupling constant. Using the method of inverse Mellin transform, we show that the prescription dependent Borel-Laplace integral can be cast, under some conditions, into the form of a dispersion relation in the a-plane. We also discuss some recent works relating resummation prescriptions, renormalons and nonperturbative effects, and show that a method proposed recently for obtaining QCD nonperturbative condensates from perturbation theory is based on special assumptions about the analytic structure in the coupling plane that are not valid in QCD.
description: 14 pages, revtex4, 1 eps-figure
PROMISING ANTIMICROBIAL HOPE FOR CORONAVIRUS, BUT IS IT WORKING AGAINST A VIRUS?
Creators: name: Dr. Larry Broxmeyer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110802 Medical Infection Agents (incl. Prions)
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description:
BULLET-POINT SUMMARY:
• Antivirals did not play a significant role in helping curb previous coronavirus outbreaks — SARS and MERS largely went away on their own, through public health measures that helped contain the spread.
• Present coronavirus trials using antivirals have to this point on the whole proved either inconclusive or disappointing.
• Azithromycin, an antibiotic with no antiviral activity whatsoever, is proving quite efficacious in treating the disease behind the “COVID-19” pandemic. Azithromycin is a first-line drug against Mycobacterium avium, which can simulate obstructive lung disease, and every other sign or symptom of COVID-19 documented to date. In addition azithromycin is a second or third-line drug against drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
• There was and still is a Pandemic going on in the world which dwarfs coronavirus. A Pandemic which kills one person every 21 seconds. A pandemic which in 2018 alone killed at least 1.5 million people annually. A mycobacterial pandemic, from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
• In the United States, pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) disease or “fowl tuberculosis” is more common than tuberculosis
• Furthermore, Mycobacterium avium complex is now the leading mycobacterial cause of chronic pneumonia in the United States.
• Infections due to non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) such as Mycobacteria avium are increasing worldwide, and are particularly important to take into account when considering a zoonosis, which COVID-19 was originally thought to be.
• Not only does the drug hydroxychloroquine inhibit intracellular TB, but it acts synergistically against mycobacterial disease when combined with certain antimycobacterials. Azithromycin is also used as an antimycobacterial.
• The BCG tuberculosis vaccine is currently the focus of an international 4 country study to combat the Coronavirus pandemic.
• In the present Coronavirus pandemic, tubercular infection is by far the most common co-morbidity or underlying condition.
• A Recent preliminary Chinese study shows that tubercular infection likely increases susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, and also increases COVID-19 severity.