cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of adding motivational interviewing or stratified vocational advice intervention to usual case management on return to work for people with musculoskeletal disorders. The MI-NAV study
Creators: name: Øiestad, Britt Elin
name: Aanesen, Fiona
name: Løchting, Ida
name: Storheim, Kjersti
name: Tingulstad, Alexander
name: Tarjei L. Rysstad
name: Småstuen, Milada C.
name: Tveter, Anne Therese
name: Sowden, Gail
name: Wynne-Jones, Gwenllian
name: Fors, Egil A.
name: Tulder, Maurits Van
name: Berg, Rigmor C.
name: Foster, Nadine E.
name: Grotle, Margreth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1:Appendix I: Statistical analysis plan for the MI-NAV study: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of adding motivational interviewing or stratified vocational advice intervention to usual case management on return to work for people with musculoskeletal disorders. The MI-NAV study.
FACTOR AND PRODUCT MARKET TRADABILITY AND EQUILIBRIUM IN PACIFIC RIM PORK INDUSTRIES
Creators: name: Barrett, Christopher B.
name: Li, Jau-Rong
name: Bailey, DeeVon
name: Barrett, Christopher B.
name: Li, Jau-Rong
name: Bailey, DeeVon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: This study uses a new market analysis methodology to examine price and trade relationships in eight Pacific Rim factor and product markets central to the Canadian and U.S. pork industries. The new method enables direct estimation of the frequencies with which a variety of market conditions occur, including competitive equilibrium, tradability, and segmented equilibrium. While extraordinary profit opportunities emerge episodically in a few niche markets, the vast majority of the markets studies are highly competitive- exhibiting zero estimated marginal profits to spatial arbitrage at monthly frequency- and internationally contestable. With a few notable exceptions due primarily to nontariff barriers, and despite significant remaining tariffs in some niches, the Pacific Rim is effectively a single market for pork producers and processors today.
Modelling gap-size distribution of parked cars using random-matrix theory
Creators: name: Abul-Magd, A. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the random-matrix theory to the car-parking problem. For this purpose, we adopt a Coulomb gas model that associates the coordinates of the gas particles with the eigenvalues of a random matrix. The nature of interaction between the particles is consistent with the tendency of the drivers to park their cars near to each other and in the same time keep a distance sufficient for manoeuvring. We show that the recently measured gap-size distribution of parked cars in a number of roads in central London is well represented by the spacing distribution of a Gaussian unitary ensemble.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
PHASES High Precision Differential Astrometry of delta Equulei
Creators: name: Muterspaugh, Matthew W.
name: Lane, Benjamin F.
name: Konacki, Maciej
name: Burke, Bernard F.
name: Colavita, M. M.
name: Kulkarni, S. R.
name: Shao, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: delta Equulei is among the most well-studied nearby binary star systems. Results of its observation have been applied to a wide range of fundamental studies of binary systems and stellar astrophysics. It is widely used to calibrate and constrain theoretical models of the physics of stars. We report 27 high precision differential astrometry measurements of delta Equulei from the Palomar High-precision Astrometric Search for Exoplanet Systems (PHASES). The median size of the minor axes of the uncertainty ellipses for these measurements is 26 micro-arcseconds. These data are combined with previously published radial velocity data and other previously published differential astrometry measurements using other techniques to produce a combined model for the system orbit. The distance to the system is determined to within a twentieth of a parsec and the component masses are determined at the level of a percent. The constraints on masses and distance are limited by the precisions of the radial velocity data; we outline plans improve this deficiency and discuss the outlook for further study of this binary.
description: Accepted by AJ. Complete versions of tables 2-7 now available at http://stuff.mit.edu/~matthew1/deltaEquTables/ (removed from astroph server)
Infrared Spectroscopy of Symbiotic Stars. IV. V2116 Ophiuchi/GX 1+4, The Neutron Star Symbiotic
Creators: name: Hinkle, Kenneth H.
name: Fekel, Francis C.
name: Joyce, Richard R.
name: Wood, Peter R.
name: Smith, Verne V.
name: Lebzelter, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have computed, based on 17 infrared radial velocities, the first set of orbital elements for the M giant in the symbiotic binary V2116 Ophiuchi. The giant's companion is a neutron star, the bright X-ray source GX 1+4. We find an orbital period of 1161 days by far the longest of any known X-ray binary. The orbit has a modest eccentricity of 0.10 with an orbital circularization time of less than 10^6 years. The large mass function of the orbit significantly restricts the mass of the M giant. Adopting a neutron-star mass of 1.35M(Sun), the maximum mass of the M giant is 1.22M(Sun), making it the less massive star. Derived abundances indicate a slightly subsolar metallicity. Carbon and nitrogen are in the expected ratio resulting from the red-giant first dredge-up phase. The lack of O-17 suggests that the M-giant has a mass less than 1.3M(Sun), consistent with our maximum mass. The red giant radius is 103R(Sun), much smaller than the estimated Roche lobe radius. Thus, the mass loss of the red giant is via a stellar wind. Although the M giant companion to the neutron star has a mass similar to the late-type star in low-mass X-ray binaries, its near-solar abundances and apparent runaway velocity are not fully consistent with the properties of this class of stars.
description: In press to The Astrophysical Journal (10 April 2006 issue). 23 pages
Die "Ikone des Sinai-Klosters" und verwandte Pilgerillustrationen
Creators: name: Kühnel, Gustav
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 65 (1981): Oriens christianus, Band 65
MEASUREMENT OF PRICE RISK IN REVENUE INSURANCE: IMPLICATIONS OF DISTRIBUTIONAL ASSUMPTIONS
Creators: name: Goodwin, Barry K.
name: Roberts, Matthew C.
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Goodwin, Barry K.
name: Roberts, Matthew C.
name: Coble, Keith H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: A variety of crop revenue insurance programs have recently been introduced. A critical component of revenue insurance contracts is quantifying the risk associated with stochastic prices. Forward-looking, market-based measures of price risk which are often available in form of options premia are preferable. Because such measures are not available for every crop, some current revenue insurance programs alternatively utilize historical price data to construct measures of price risk. This study evaluates the distributional implications of alternative methods for estimating price risk and deriving insurance premium rates. A variety of specification tests are employed to evaluate distributional assumptions. Conditional heteroskedasticity models are used to determine the extent to which price distributions may be characterized by nonconstant variances. In addition, these models are used to identify variables which may be used for conditioning distributions for rating purposes. Discrete mixtures of normals provide flexible parametric specifications capable of recognizing the skewness and kurtosis present in commodity prices
ALBANIA'S RADICAL AGRARIAN REFORM
Creators: name: Cungu, Azeta
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Cungu, Azeta
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Industrial Organization

description: The agrarian reform in Albania included free distribution of land to rural households and the complete break up of the former collective and state farms. These key features of the Albanian reform are in sharp contrast with other Central and Eastern European countries. Our paper explains the choice of the Albanian agricultural privatization and land reform process and the radical decollectivization of the farms as caused by a combination of several factors, including changes in political institutions, the structure of the economy, the legal status of assets under privatization, farm productivity, and the pre-1945 land distribution.
UP- AND DOWNSTREAM RESTRUCTURING, FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, AND HOLD- UP PROBLEMS IN AGRICULTURAL TRANSITION
Creators: name: Gow, Hamish R.
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Gow, Hamish R.
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Industrial Organization

description: Reform in the transitional economies can be characterized by large falls in agricultural output and by strong decapitalization of the agricultural production system. A key factor has been the disruption caused by the breakup of the pre- reform, vertically integrated, centrally planned, contracting system within the agri- food supply chain. This paper analyses how restructuring in the up- and downstream levels of the agrifood chain is affecting the production level, particularly the impacts of hold-up problems usually seen as excessively long delays in the payment for delivered product. Standard institutional solutions used to overcome hold- up problems, including supply contracting, cooperatives and vertical integration, have problems as short- to- medium term solutions. Empirical evidence indicates that FDI in the processing level can solve these hold- up problems, as well as produce important positive spillover effects within the sector and across adjacent sectors. Empirical observations indicate strong output, yield, and investment responses when hold- up problems are solved. This suggests that solving these problems should be a priority for stimulating growth, efficiency and profitability in Central and Eastern European agriculture.
Megochterus occidentalis Baehr 1990
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Carapezza, Attilio
name: Jindra, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Ochteridae
Megochterus
Megochterus occidentalis

description: Megochterus occidentalis Baehr, 1990
 Megochterus nasutus: KORMILEV (1971): 444 (partim, specimen from Kelmscott, Western Australia).
 Megochterus occidentalis Baehr, 1990a: 198–202 (key to species, description, illustrations). HOLOTYPE:, Australia: Western Australia: ʻ 3 km N.E. Broke Inlet, E. of Walpole’ (WAMA).
 Megochterus occidentalis: CASSIS & GROSS (1995): 259 (catalogue); ANDERSEN & WEIR (2004): 264 –265, 335 (key to species, illustrations, checklist).
  Distribution. Australian Region:  Australia: Western Australia (BAEHR 1990 a, ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004).
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 23-64 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3879659
An emerging role for calpain in skeletal muscle adaptation
Creators: name: Shewchuk, Leann Dawn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In skeletal muscle, molecular and cellular adaptation occurs in response to changes in functional demand. The changes in phenotype are well described, however the signalling mechanisms which lead to adaptation are poorly understood. Our purpose was to determine whether acute changes in myofibril integrity caused by calpain activation are related to changes in myoblast proliferation and differentiation. We hypothesized that degradation products of muscle, capable of stimulating myogenesis, are produced in response to acute exercise. Wistar rats ran downhill on a motorized treadmill (16% grade, 30 m/min) for 60 min or remained sedentary. Saline extracts prepared from hindlimb muscle following exercise increased L6 myoblast proliferation and differentiation (p<0.01). Extracts from sedentary animals had no effect (p=NS). The active factor(s) had an apparent molecular weight of > 10 kDa. A subset of animals in each group received E64c, a cysteine protease (calpain) inhibitor. The inhibitor attenuated the increase in differentiation associated with exercise (p<0.05), suggesting that a cysteine protease was involved in the release of soluble factors that affect myogenesis. Many of the proteins that undergo remodelling in response to exercise are calpain substrates, therefore we further hypothesized that calpainderived myofibril fragments are capable of stimulating myoblast proliferation and differentiation. Purified myofibrils were treated with m-calpain in the presence of calcium. The autolysis of calpain was followed under the same conditions in the absence of myofibrils. Both preparations showed equal ability to stimulate myoblast proliferation and differentiation. Therefore, the primary finding of this study was that autolytic fragments of m-calpain stimulate myogenesis and calpain-derived myofibril fragments do not. Further studies showed that autolytic fragments of u.-calpain also stimulate myoblast proliferation and differentiation. The active fragment was a low molecular weight peptide (<10 kDa) and was an early product of calpain autolysis. The results suggest a novel consequence for calpain activation. Overall, the results support a relationship between the acute changes in myofibril integrity caused by calpain activation and adaptation in muscle.
THE ECONOMICS OF AGRICULTURAL DECOLLECTIVIZATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Creators: name: Mathijs, Erik
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Mathijs, Erik
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Industrial Organization
Production Economics

description: The break-up of large-scale agricultural production units into individually operated farms differs considerably across Central and Eastern European countries. Family farming is not well developed in countries where large-scale successor organizations to the former state and collective farms still dominate, such as Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic. However, family farms are important in Albania and Latvia, where a massive break-up of the collective farms resulted in a domination of small-scale production units. Also within countries there exist wide variations in the decollectivization of different regions and agricultural subsectors. We develop an economic model of decollectivization to explain these variations and derive a series of propositions regarding factors affecting the decollectivization process. Our empirical analysis presents remarkable correlations between decollectivization and our explanatory variables. Specifically, they suggest the importance of relative productivity, factor intensity and privatization procedures in explaining differences between countries in decollectivization.
A luminosity monitor for the A4 parity violation experiment at MAMI
Creators: name: Hammel, T.
name: Achenbach, P.
name: Baunack, S.
name: Capozza, L.
name: Diefenbach, J.
name: Grimm, K.
name: vonHarrach, D.
name: Imai, Y.
name: Kabuss, E.
name: Kothe, R.
name: Lee, J. H.
name: LopesGinja, A.
name: Maas, F. E.
name: SanchezLorente, A.
name: Schilling, E.
name: Stephan, G.
name: Weinrich, C.
name: Altarev, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A water Cherenkov luminosity monitor system with associated electronics has been developed for the A4 parity violation experiment at MAMI. The detector system measures the luminosity of the hydrogen target hit by the MAMI electron beam and monitors the stability of the liquid hydrogen target. Both is required for the precise study of the count rate asymmetries in the scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons on unpolarized protons. Any helicity correlated fluctuation of the target density leads to false asymmetries. The performance of the luminosity monitor, investigated in about 2000 hours with electron beam, and the results of its application in the A4 experiment are presented.
description: 22 pages, 12 figures, submitted to NIM A
Aplicación de Lean Six Sigma en una industria del conocimiento : Un caso de estudio del negocio de la auditoría = Application of Lean Six Sigma in a knowledge industry : A case study of the audit business
Creators: name: Brashaw, Nigel Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Audit practice management
Sharing economy
Lean Six Sigma
Gestión de la práctica de auditoría
Eficiencia
Efficiency

description: This dissertation explores the application and associated challenges of applying Lean Six Sigma in a knowledge work context, using the US asset management audit practice of a large professional services firm as a large-scale case study. This environment is significantly different from the manufacturing and services repetitive operations use-cases hitherto explored by the academic literature and process improvement practitioners.We explore the specific implementation challenges, or ‘restricting factors’ associated with the audit industry: high turnover/long-cycle times, significant seasonality and team composition, and then present the results of a two-part experimentation involving 97 engagement teams. Our results demonstrate that LSS can meaningfully improve efficiency while maintaining quality. In addition to the efficiency improvements observed, we identify ancillary benefits through the adoption of improvement initiatives. This study also discusses the implications of technology change – in particular Robotic Process Automation and the impact of this developing technology on the relevancy of Lean Six Sigma. Esta tesis explora la aplicación de Lean Six Sigma en un contexto de trabajo del conocimiento y los retos asociados de aplicarlo en él usando la práctica de auditoría de gestión de activos de EE. UU. de una compañía de servicios profesionales de gran tamaño como caso de estudio a gran escala. Este entorno es sustancialmente distinto al de los casos de uso de manufactura y operaciones repetitivas de servicios explorados hasta la fecha por la literatura académica y los profesionales de mejora de procesos.Exploramos los diversos desafíos de implantación o ‘factores restrictivos’ asociados a la industria auditora: alta rotación/ciclo largo, elevada estacionalidad y composición de equipos, y a continuación presentamos los resultados como un experimento de dos partes que implica a 97 equipos de encargo. Nuestros resultados demuestran que LSS puede mejorar significativamente la eficiencia sin sacrificar la calidad. Además de las mejoras de eficiencia observadas, identificamos beneficios complementarios a través de la adopción de iniciativas de mejora.El presente estudio también analiza las implicaciones del cambio tecnológico, concretamente la automatización robótica de procesos y el impacto que tiene esta tecnología en desarrollo sobre la importancia de Lean Six Sigma.
Additional file 1 of Seed dormancy release of Halenia elliptica in response to stratification temperature, duration and soil moisture content
Creators: name: Chen, Da Li
name: Luo, Xin Ping
name: Yuan, Zhen
name: Bai, Meng Jie
name: Hu, Xiao Wen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Effect of incubation temperature and light on germination of freshly-matured seeds.
Quantum States, Groups and Monotone Metric Tensors
Creators: name: Ciaglia, Florio M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel link between monotone metric tensors and actions of suitable extensions of the unitary group on the manifold of faithful quantum states is presented here by means of three illustrative examples related with the Bures-Helstrom metric tensor, the Wigner-Yanase metric tensor, and the Bogoliubov-Kubo-Mori metric tensor.
description: 16 pages. Minor adjustments. Comments are welcome!
SKATING ON THIN ICE: RULE CHANGES AND TEAM STRATEGIES IN THE NHL
Creators: name: Banerjee, Anurag N.
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Weersink, Alfons
name: Banerjee, Anurag N.
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Weersink, Alfons
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: In an effort to stimulate a more exciting and entertaining way of play, the NHL changed the rewards associated with the results of overtime games. This paper presents a theoretical model to explain the effect of the rule change on the strategy of play during both the overtime period and the regulation time game. Empirical data confirm the theoretical results.
THE TRANSITION OF THE WINE INDUSTRY, POLICY AND TRADE IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
Creators: name: Noev, Nivelin
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Noev, Nivelin
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Industrial Organization
International Relations/Trade

description: In the transition economies of central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, economic and institutional reforms had important impacts on wine production, consumption, prices, and policies. The paper discusses the transition changes in wine consumption and production, and how reforms have affected them. It analyzes the restructuring of the production system and the wine chain and the impacts of the changes on wine trade, and discusses the policy changes and the expected effects of integration of the central European countries into the EU, the so-called "Eastern EU enlargement".
Combinatorics of partial wreath power of finite inverse symmetric semigroup $\mathcal{IS}_d$
Creators: name: Kochubinska, Eugenia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study some combinatorial properties of partial wreath $k$-th power of the semigroup $\mathcal{IS}_d$. In particular, we calculate its order, the number of idempotents and the number of D-classes.
Discrete and higher-form symmetries in SCFTs from wrapped M5-branes
Creators: name: Bah, Ibrahima
name: Bonetti, Federico
name: Minasian, Ruben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze topological mass terms of BF type arising in supersymmetric M-theory compactifications to $AdS_5$. These describe spontaneously broken higher-form gauge symmetries in the bulk. Different choices of boundary conditions for the BF terms yield dual field theories with distinct global discrete symmetries. We discuss in detail these symmetries and their 't Hooft anomalies for 4d $\mathcal N = 1$ SCFTs arising from M5-branes wrapped on a Riemann surface without punctures, including theories from M5-branes at a $\mathbb Z_2$ orbifold singularity. The anomaly polynomial is computed via inflow and contains background fields for discrete global 0-, 1-, and 2-form symmetries and continuous 0-form symmetries, as well as axionic background fields. The latter are properly interpreted in the context of anomalies in the space of coupling constants.
description: 65 pages, 2 figures
Listen To The Radio! Media and Corruption: Evidence from Madagascar
Creators: name: Francken, Nathalie
name: Minten, Bart
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Francken, Nathalie
name: Minten, Bart
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: This paper investigates the role of the media in reducing corruption. We analyze data on personal capture of public education expenditures by local officials in Madagascar. We find that corruption can be successfully constrained through a combination of media programs and monitoring. More transparent funding mechanisms and access to mass media reduce capture. However, the impact of the media is conditional on the characteristics of the population. With high illiteracy in poor regions, the effectiveness of newspaper and poster campaigns is limited, and radio programs are more important to reduce capture.
Die Nischen-Fresken im Roten Kloster bei Sohâg
Creators: name: Meinardus, Otto F. A.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 65 (1981): Oriens christianus, Band 65
Photon statistics from coupled quantum dots
Creators: name: Gerardot, Brian D.
name: Strauf, Stefan
name: de Dood, Michiel J. A.
name: Bychkov, Andrey M.
name: Badolato, Antonio
name: Hennessy, Kevin
name: Hu, Evelyn L.
name: Bouwmeester, Dirk
name: Petroff, Pierre M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an optical study of closely-spaced self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots. The energy spectrum and correlations between photons subsequently emitted from a single pair provide not only clear evidence of coupling between the quantum dots but also insight into the coupling mechanism. Our results are in agreement with recent theories predicting that tunneling is largely suppressed between nonidentical quantum dots and that the interaction is instead dominated by dipole-dipole coupling and phonon-assisted energy transfer processes.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev
Distribution of species from the Merodon aureus Fabricius group (Diptera, Syrphidae)
Creators: name: Vujić Ante
name: Jelena, Ačanski
name: Marija, Miličić
name: Likov Laura
name: Šašić Zorić Ljiljana
name: Radenković Snežana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: The Merodon aureus group consists of species sharing similar morphological characters with species Merodon aureus Fabricius, 1805 (Diptera, Syrphidae). The group comprises five subgroups defined based on morphological variations (Šašić et al. 2016). Presence of very subtle differences in morphological characters within the species of this group was formerly interpreted as great intraspecific variability. Veselić et al (2017) indicated that this morphological variability is due to presence of cryptic species complexes and provided evidence of 39 taxa within M. aureus group, including 13 undescribed cryptic species.
 The aim of this study was to establish the distribution of all taxa identified within the M. aureus group. Results show that the genus has a broad range over the Mediterranean region, but all species of the M. aureus group exhibit patchy distributions, meaning that they represent regional or local endemics.
TRANSITION AND TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY IN AGRICULTURE 1992 - 1999
Creators: name: Cungu, Azeta
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Cungu, Azeta
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: This study measures multifactor agricultural productivity for 23 transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) and the Former Soviet Union (FSUs), studied over 1992 to1999. During the reform period, almost all countries in the CEEC have shown continuous productivity improvements compared to 1992, while in more than half of the FSUs productivity was still below its 1992 levels. On the average, aggregate productivity has increased by 20.9 percent in the CEECs and declined by 4.7 percent in the FSUs. These developments reflect changes in resource use and technical progress in 1999 compared to 1992. Technological change has been slow or declining in many of the former soviet republics while contributing positively to productivity changes in almost all CEECs.
Strong QCD Insights from Excited Nucleon Structure Studies with CLAS and CLAS12
Creators: name: Carman, D. S.
name: Joo, K.
name: Mokeev, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studies of the spectrum of hadrons and their structure in experiments with electromagnetic probes offer unique insight into many facets of the strong interaction in the regime of large quark-gluon running coupling, {\it i.e.} the regime of strong QCD. The experimental program within Hall~B at Jefferson Laboratory based on data acquired with the CLAS spectrometer using electron and photon beams with energies up to 6~GeV has already considerably extended the scope of research in hadron physics in joint efforts between experiment and phenomenological data analysis. Impressive progress in relating the hadron structure observables inferred from the data to the strong QCD mechanisms underlying hadron mass generation has been achieved in the past decade. These results will be considerably extended with data from the experimental program with the new CLAS12 spectrometer that has begun data taking using electron beams with energies up to 11~GeV. With this extended kinematic reach the structure of nucleon resonances will be probed at the highest photon virtualities ever achieved in the studies of exclusive electroproduction, which will allow for the exploration of the distance scale where $>$98\% of light hadron mass emerges from QCD in the transition of the strong interaction from the regime of quark-gluon confinement to perturbative QCD.
description: 24 pages, 12 figures, review paper for topical FBS issue
THE PATTERN OF AGRICULTURAL PRICE DISTORTIONS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, AN UPDATE: 1990-1995
Creators: name: Bojnec, Stefan
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Bojnec, Stefan
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Nominal and adjusted protection rates for nine agricultural commodities in seven Central European and three Baltic states are estimated for the transition period 1990-1995. Our estimates indicate that agricultural and food price distortions differ strongly between Central and East European countries, between commodities, and varied over time. The average level of price distortions decreased in 1991 and 1992 after price and trade liberalization, but increased again in 1993 as many of these countries re-introduced protectionist price and trade policy measures. Since 1994, the average level of price distortions has declined again. Accounting for exchange rate policy effects further reduces estimates of protection of agricultural producers.
Noise and Bistabilities in Quantum Shuttles
Creators: name: Flindt, Christian
name: Novotny, Tomas
name: Jauho, Antti-Pekka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of current fluctuations in two models proposed as quantum shuttles. Based on a numerical evaluation of the first three cumulants of the full counting statistics we have recently shown that a giant enhancement of the zero-frequency current noise in a single-dot quantum shuttle can be explained in terms of a bistable switching between two current channels. By applying the same method to a quantum shuttle consisting of a vibrating quantum dot array, we show that the same mechanism is responsible for a giant enhancement of the noise in this model, although arising from very different physics. The interpretation is further supported by a numerical evaluation of the finite-frequency noise. For both models we give numerical results for the effective switching rates.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, Contribution to ICNF 2005, Salamanca, Spain, September, 2005
Considerations for Atmospheric Retrieval of High-Precision Brown Dwarf Spectra
Creators: name: Piette, Anjali A. A.
name: Madhusudhan, Nikku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Isolated brown dwarfs provide remarkable laboratories for understanding atmospheric physics in the low-irradiation regime, and can be observed more precisely than exoplanets. As such, they provide a glimpse into the future of high-SNR observations of exoplanets. In this work, we investigate several new considerations that are important for atmospheric retrievals of high-quality thermal emission spectra of sub-stellar objects. We pursue this using an adaptation of the HyDRA atmospheric retrieval code. We propose a parametric pressure-temperature (P-T) profile for brown dwarfs consisting of multiple atmospheric layers, parameterised by the temperature change across each layer. This model allows the steep temperature gradient of brown dwarf atmospheres to be accurately retrieved while avoiding commonly-encountered numerical artefacts. The P-T model is especially flexible in the photosphere, which can reach a few tens of bar for T-dwarfs. We demonstrate an approach to include model uncertainties in the retrieval, focusing on uncertainties introduced by finite spectral and vertical resolution in the atmospheric model used for retrieval (~8\% in the present case). We validate our retrieval framework by applying it to a simulated data set and then apply it to the HST/WFC3 spectrum of the T-dwarf 2MASS J2339+1352. We retrieve sub-solar abundances of H2O and CH4 in the object at ~0.1 dex precision. Additionally, we constrain the temperature structure to within ~100 K in the photosphere. Our results demonstrate the promise of high-SNR spectra to provide high-precision abundance estimates of sub-stellar objects.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 21 pages, 15 figures
An Efficient Binary Harris Hawks Optimization based on Quantum SVM for Cancer Classification Tasks
Creators: name: Houssein, Essam H.
name: Abohashima, Zainab
name: Elhoseny, Mohamed
name: Mohamed, Waleed M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cancer classification based on gene expression increases early diagnosis and recovery, but high-dimensional genes with a small number of samples are a major challenge. This work introduces a new hybrid quantum kernel support vector machine (QKSVM) combined with a Binary Harris hawk optimization (BHHO) based gene selection for cancer classification on a quantum simulator. This study aims to improve the microarray cancer prediction performance with the quantum kernel estimation based on the informative genes by BHHO. The feature selection is a critical step in large-dimensional features, and BHHO is used to select important features. The BHHO mimics the behavior of the cooperative action of Harris hawks in nature. The principal component analysis (PCA) is applied to reduce the selected genes to match the qubit numbers. After which, the quantum computer is used to estimate the kernel with the training data of the reduced genes and generate the quantum kernel matrix. Moreover, the classical computer is used to draw the support vectors based on the quantum kernel matrix. Also, the prediction stage is performed with the classical device. Finally, the proposed approach is applied to colon and breast microarray datasets and evaluated with all genes and the selected genes by BHHO. The proposed approach is found to enhance the overall performance with two datasets. Also, the proposed approach is evaluated with different quantum feature maps (kernels) and classical kernel (RBF).
Stokes parameters spectral distortions due to the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and an independent estimation of the CMB low multipoles
Creators: name: Novikov, D. I.
name: Pilipenko, S. V.
name: de Petris, M.
name: Luzzi, G.
name: Mihalchenko, A. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the Stokes parameters' frequency spectral distortions arising due to Compton scattering of the anisotropic cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, the Sunyaev-Zel' dovich effect (SZ), towards clusters of galaxies. We single out a very special type of such distortions and find simple analytical formulas for them. We show that this kind of distortion has a very distinctive spectral shape and can be separated from other kinds of contaminants. We demonstrate that this effect gives us an opportunity for an independent estimation of the low-multipole angular CMB anisotropies, such as the dipole, the quadrupole, and the octupole. We also show that, using distorted signals from nearby and distant clusters, one can distinguish between the Sachs-Wolfe and the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effects. The detection of such distortions can be feasible with high-angular resolution and high-sensitivity space missions, such as the upcoming Millimetron Space Observatory experiment.
Additional file 1 of Bibliometric analysis of scientific publications on “sustainable development goals” with emphasis on “good health and well-being” goal (2015–2019)
Creators: name: Sweileh, Waleed M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Theory of momentum resolved tunneling into a short quantum wire
Creators: name: Fiete, Gregory A.
name: Qian, Jiang
name: Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav
name: Halperin, Bertrand I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent tunneling experiments in the parallel wire geometry, we calculate results for momentum resolved tunneling into a short one-dimensional wire, containing a small number of electrons. We derive some general theorems about the momentum dependence, and we carry out exact calculations for up to N=4 electrons in the final state, for a system with screened Coulomb interactions that models the situation of the experiments. We also investigate the limit of large $N$ using a Luttinger-liquid type analysis. We consider the low-density regime, where the system is close to the Wigner crystal limit, and where the energy scale for spin excitations can be much lower than for charge excitations, and we consider temperatures intermediate between the relevant spin energies and charge excitations, as well as temperatures below both energy scales.
description: 19 pages, 13 figures, clarified text in a few points, added 1 figure, updated references
Ochterus acutangulus
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Carapezza, Attilio
name: Jindra, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Ochteridae
Ochterus
Ochterus acutangulus

description: Ochterus acutangulus (Champion, 1901)
 Pelogonus acutangulus Champion, 1901: 345–346, Pl. XX: fig. 11 (key, original description, illustration). HOLOTYPE: ♀, Guatemala: ‘ Rio Naranjo’ (BMNH).
 Ochterus acutangulus: KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO (1909): 179 (catalogue); BARBER (1913):214 (key to species); SCHELL (1943b): 38 –39 (original description repeated);? DRAKE (1952):73 –74 (checklist, comparative note, illustration); ALAYO (1971): 4 –5 (key to species); ALAYO (1974): 34 –35 (key to species); HECKMAN (2011): 459 –460 (key to species, illustration); POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS (2016), 17–20 (key to species, redescription, illustrations).
  Distribution. Neotropical Region:  Central America: Belize (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Guatemala (CHAM- PION 1901, KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909, DRAKE 1952, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Mexico (DRAKE 1952): Chiapas (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016).
 Notes. Comprative notes and record of O. acutangulus from Mexico: Tejupilco by SCHELL (1943b) actually refers to O. schellae (see DRAKE 1952), also her records from Mexico: Veracruz and Panama: Porto Bello (SCHELL 1943b) seem doubtful and require revision. DRAKE (1952: 74) provided an illustration of a female from Cuba. The distribution in Cuba was accepted by ALAYO (1971, 1974). However, there is no other record from Cuba (MUÑOZ RIVIAUX et al. 2010a,b; NARANJO et al. 2010), and its presence on the island is considered doubtful by POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS (2016).
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 23-64 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3879659
Lyman Alpha Radiative Transfer in a Multi-Phase Medium
Creators: name: Hansen, Matthew
name: Oh, S. Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hydrogen Ly-alpha is our primary emission-line window into high redshift galaxies. Surprisingly, despite an extensive literature, Ly-alpha radiative transfer in the most realistic case of a dusty, multi-phase medium has not received detailed theoretical attention. We investigate resonant scattering through an ensemble of dusty, moving, optically thick gas clumps. We treat each clump as a scattering particle and use Monte Carlo simulations of surface scattering to quantify continuum and Ly-alpha surface scattering angles, absorption probabilities, and frequency redistribution, as a function of the gas dust content. This atomistic approach speeds up the simulations by many orders of magnitude, making possible calculations which are otherwise intractable. With these surface scattering results, we develop an analytic framework for estimating escape fractions and line widths as a function of gas geometry, motion, and dust content. We show that the key geometric parameter is the average number of surface scatters for escape in the absence of absorption. We consider two interesting applications: (i) Equivalent widths. Ly-alpha can preferentially escape from a dusty multi-phase ISM if most of the dust lies in cold neutral clouds, possibly explaining anomalously high EWs seen in many high redshift/submm sources. (ii) Multi-phase galactic outflows. We show the characteristic profile is asymmetric with a broad red tail, and relate the profile features to the outflow speed and gas geometry. Many future applications are envisaged. [Abridged]
description: Submitted to MNRAS. 27 pages, 25 figures
Boosted Neutrinos and Relativistic Dark Particles as Messengers from Reheating
Creators: name: Jaeckel, Joerg
name: Yin, Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Usually information from early eras such as reheating is hard to come by. In this paper we argue that, given the right circumstances, right-handed sterile neutrinos decaying to left-handed active ones at relatively late times can carry information from reheating by propagating freely over the thermal history. For not too small mixing angles, suitable right-handed neutrino masses are around ${\cal O}$(MeV-GeV). We identify the typical spectra and argue that they provide information on the ratio of the inflaton mass to the reheating temperature. This primordial neutrino signal can be strong enough that it can be detected in IceCube. More speculatively, for a reheating temperature and inflaton mass satisfying $T_R={\cal O}(1-100)\, {\rm MeV}$, and $m_ϕ={\cal O}(10^{16-19})\,$GeV they may even explain the observed PeV events. Also more general relativistic dark particles can play the role of such messengers, potentially not only allowing for the PeV events but also alleviating the $H_0$-tension .
description: 38pages, 7figures
Additional file 4 of Outcomes of wildlife translocations in protected areas: what is the type and extent of existing evidence? A systematic map protocol
Creators: name: Langridge, Joseph
name: Sordello, Romain
name: Reyjol, Yorick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4. Web of Science Core Collection database subscription details.
U.S. FRESH PRODUCE MARKETS: MARKETING CHANNELS, TRADE PRACTICES, AND RETAIL PRICING BEHAVIOR
Creators: name: Dimitri, Carolyn
name: Tegene, Abebayehu
name: Kaufman, Phillip R.
name: Dimitri, Carolyn
name: Tegene, Abebayehu
name: Kaufman, Phillip R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Fresh fruits and vegetables
subject: fresh produce
subject: fresh produce marketing channels
subject: supermarket
subject: market power
subject: competition
subject: trading practices

description: Retail consolidation, technological change in production and marketing, and growing consumer demand for produce have altered the traditional market relationships between producers, wholesalers, and retailers. Increasingly, produce suppliers are asked to provide additional marketing services and incentives in exchange for volume purchases and other commitments by buyers. This report synthesizes the results from a multiphase project that examined the dynamics of produce marketing, the produce shipper-retailer relationship, and how changes in the produce market affect the relative market influence of producers, retailers, and consumers.
AN INTRODUCTION TO STATE TRADING IN AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Ackerman, Karen Z.
name: Dixit, Praveen M.
name: Ackerman, Karen Z.
name: Dixit, Praveen M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: State trading enterprises are far more prevalent in agriculture than in other industries. STEs account for significant shares of world trade in grains, dairy products, and sugar. Attempts to measure the impacts of STEs and their activities on international agricultural trade have just begun. This report presents a classification scheme for STEs that provides a qualitative index of an STE's ability to control domestic markets and its ability to influence external trade. We applied the classification scheme to nine major agricultural STEs and concluded that only a few of them are able to affect international trade substantially. Recent policy reforms have eroded some of the nine's powers to influence trade.