cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
buffalo share in small farmer welfare under intensive agricultural system: the case study of Egypt
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Soliman
name: Ibrahim, Soliman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Agricultural resources
subject: Equity
subject: Farm Income
subject: Poverty Alleviation

description: The study focused on the share of buffalo in generating income for small farm household, and its relation to crossing the poverty line. Such farm category represents the majority of farmers in the countries raising buffaloes in Asia and Africa. The small farmers in Egypt are the holders of less than 2 ha. Such category represents about 92% of the total agricultural holders. Even though, they hold only less than 50% of agricultural area, 72% of cattle and 87% of buffaloes. 10% of buffalo holders are without agricultural land holding and 14% of cattle holders are also without land holding. The study used a farm sample survey of 120 small farms in rural Egypt to achieve its objectives. The analysis of the sample survey data showed that the average land holding of the small farmer is less than 1 ha and the average household size is 5 persons. The average buffaloes stock on farm is almost one head and its followers. The main feed source is the cultivated winter green fodder " Berseem, which occupies on the average about 25% of the farm land. While 62% of the farm managers are fulltime males 20% are fulltime females. Whereas, 77% of wives share in farm labor 56% of them share in livestock operations. The estimated total annual income of small farm's household is about US$ 4,170. Livestock generates more than one third of this income, poultry share is 1%, and crop income share is only 18%. i.e., around 52% of the small farm income is generated by agricultural enterprises .The rest, i.e. 48% is from off farm income. The sources of off farm income are, 3% from off farm agricultural work, 40% regular salaries, 5% from remittance of the farmer's work abroad. The study estimated the daily per capita income per household as US$ 2.3, which just passes the poverty line. Milking buffalo has a significant role in alleviation of poverty that might face small farm households. Without milking buffaloes holding on farm the household would suffer from being significantly below the poverty borders. To raise milk productivity is the proper approach to increase the income generated by buffalo, once there is no room for horizontal expansion. It requires an (A.I.) program using imported semen of potential high milk yield from e.g. Italy. Such program should be associated with reform of the institutional framework in the Egyptian village and establishment of an efficient marketing system, modern animals' health care and a non conventional feed regime.
description: Conference: 10th World Buffalo Congress & 7th Asian Buffalo Congress, 6-8 May,Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort and Spa,Thailand, Buffalo Bulletin 2013 Vol.32 (Special Issue 1): 132-140
Derivative moments in stationary homogeneous shear turbulence
Creators: name: Schumacher, Joerg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A statistically stationary and nearly homogeneous turbulent shear flow is established by an additional volume forcing in combination with stress-free boundary conditions in the shear direction. Both turbulent energy and enstrophy are stationary to a much better approximation than in previous simulations that use remeshing. The temporal fluctuations decrease with increasing Reynolds number. Energy spectra and shear-stress cospectra show that local isotropy is satisfactorily obeyed at the level of second-order moments. However, derivative moments of high-order up to n=7 yield increasing moments for n>=4 for the spanwise vorticity and the transverse derivative of the streamwise velocity in the range of Taylor Reynolds numbers 59
description: 10 pages, 5 Postscript figures
Sexuelle Bildung als Allgemeingut im Kontext institutioneller schulischer Arbeit : Das Schaffen zielführender Voraussetzungen in der Bevölkerung für gelingende Sexualpädagogik in Schulen ländlicher Gemeinden
Creators: name: Bühler, Rahel
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sexuelle Bildung
subject: ländliche Gemeinden
subject: Deutschschweiz
subject: erfolgreiche Sexualpädagogik in Schulen
subject: 370

description: Diese Masterarbeit untersucht die Situation Sexueller Bildung in ländlichen Gemeinden der Deutschschweiz. Das zentrale Anliegen der Arbeit ist, die Rahmenbedingungen für eine erfolgreiche Sexualpädagogik in Schulen dieser Regionen zu analysieren und zu verbessern. Die Arbeit beleuchtet die theoretischen Grundlagen von Sexueller Bildung, einschließlich ihrer Bedeutung für die sexuelle Gesundheit und Gerechtigkeit. Eine detaillierte Betrachtung der sozialen und politischen Herausforderungen sowie der institutionellen schulischen Arbeit bildet den Hintergrund der Untersuchung. Methodisch stützt sich die Arbeit auf ein qualitatives Untersuchungsdesign. Im Zuge dessen werden halbstrukturierte Interviews mit Expert:innen und Schulakteur:innen durchgeführt. Daraus entsteht ein Bild der Situation anhand von unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass eine erfolgreiche Sexualpädagogik von mehreren Faktoren abhängt: den politischen Rahmenbedingungen, der Handlungssicherheit der Lehrpersonen, der Vernetzung mit Fachstellen sowie systemischen Herangehensweisen. Abschließend wird ein Vorgehensraster für systemische Sexualpädagogik erstellt, das die Entwicklung eines Sexualpädagogikkonzepts einer ländlichen Schule erleichtern soll. Diese Masterarbeit leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Diskussion über die Verbesserung der Sexuellen Bildung in ländlichen Regionen und bietet praktische Empfehlungen für die erfolgreiche Implementierung von Sexualpädagogik in Schulen. Durch die Berücksichtigung der spezifischen Herausforderungen ländlicher Gemeinden kann Sexuelle Bildung gefördert werden, die zur Gesundheit und Gleichstellung in der Bevölkerung beiträgt.
La funzione nomofilattica nella Giustizia Amministrativa: il problema del coordinamento fra le giurisdizioni apicali
Creators: name: Cusenza, Giulia Giusy
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2020

description: Giving real substance to the value of "legal certainty" is a common goal of contemporary democratic legal systems. This is the genesis of research.
The nomophylactic function has the primary objective of guaranteeing a coherent and constant interpretation of the law and a general uniformity of jurisprudence, so as to ensure the unity of the law within the legal system.
This objective clashes with the instability of the sources of law, an expression of a wider phenomenon of a general nature - the so-called "crisis of legality" - which has led to a new centrality for the work of the judge of last instance and imposed a strengthening of the implementation methods of the nomophylactic function.
The strengthened role assumed by the nomophylachia guarantees the uniformity of the law within the jurisdictional orders but, in the absence of appropriate instruments of institutional connection, it calls into question the overall capacity of the system to guarantee the functional unity of the jurisdiction.
Therefore, the research moves from the identification of the institutional mechanisms which aim at coordinating the apical jurisdictions, the existing criticalities and the prospects.
First of all, the existing correlations between the structure of the jurisdictional function and the nomophylactic function have been studied in depth, paying attention on the peculiar characteristics of this relationship within the national system.
Eventually the exercise of the nomophylactic function was analyzed, looking at the recent legislative reforms, with reference to the three superior jurisdictions. The mechanisms through which the national legal system tends to ensure the connection between the apical judge have also been outlined. Specifically, two different problems emerged, which the system does not provide effective solutions for: conflicts in terms of jurisdictional distribution and the consolidation of interpretative contrasts between the apical judges.
Considering these findings, a comparative analysis was carried out in order to verify - with reference to other jurisdictions - the existence or not of similar critical issues and resolution tools, so as to better interpret the systematic nature of national problems.
Finally, specific assumptions have been proposed to guarantee the functional unity of the jurisdiction. Those proposals led to the achievement of an effective coordination within jurisdictions; it also means that every legal system, although devoted to a structural pluralism of the jurisdiction, can only know one way to do justice.
The star-formation rate in the host of GRB 990712
Creators: name: Vreeswijk, P. M.
name: Fender, R. P.
name: Garrett, M. A.
name: Tingay, S. J.
name: Fruchter, A. S.
name: Kaper, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have observed the host galaxy of GRB 990712 at 1.4 GHz with the Australia Telescope Compact Array, to obtain an estimate of its total star-formation rate. We do not detect a source at the position of the host. The 2 sigma upper limit of 70 microJy implies that the total star-formation rate is lower than 100 Msun/yr, using conservative values for the spectral index and cosmological parameters. This upper limit is in stark contrast with recent reports of radio/submillimeter-determined star-formation rates of roughly 500 Msun/yr for two other GRB host galaxies. Our observations present the deepest radio-determined star-formation rate limit on a GRB host galaxy yet, and show that also from the unobscured radio point-of-view, not every GRB host galaxy is a vigorous starburst.
description: A&A Letters, in press, 5 pages; a high-resolution color gif version of the paper figure is also supplied
Major Constraints of Water Management in El-fayoum Governorate
Creators: name: Soliman, Ibrahim
name: Mahdy, El-Sayed
name: Mohamed, Gaber
name: Soliman, Ibrahim
name: Mahdy, El-Sayed
name: Mohamed, Gaber
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Land Economics/Use
Political Economy

description: water management,El-fayoum Governorate
description: 2nd Conference of Egyptian Agricultural Economists(Agricultural policies in the framework of the economic reform program, "a regional and international perspective."), Egyptian Association of agricultural Economics, Agriculturalists Club. Dokki-Cairo
Professionalisierungsdiskurse der Sozialen Arbeit als Mittel zur Emanzipation von aktivierungspolitischen Erwartungen
Creators: name: Schreiber, Wenzel
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soziale Arbeit
subject: sozialpolitische Prozesse
subject: Weiterentwicklung
subject: DDC::300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::302 Soziale Interaktion

description: Der Fokus meiner Arbeit liegt auf eben jener „Neugestaltung des Sozialen […] insbesondere in ihrer Dynamisierung seit dem Ende der 1990er Jahre“, mit einem Hauptaugenmerk auf die davon abgeleiteten Veränderungen für das sozialstaatliche Mandat der Sozialen Arbeit und die Frage, ob professionelles sozialarbeiterisches Handeln unter diesen Umständen möglich ist.
Geschlagen hat er Mama nie - Zur Bedeutung innerfamiliärer emotionaler Misshandlung für die psychosoziale Entwicklung von Kindern
Creators: name: Tischer, Jessica
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: emotionale Gewalt
subject: psychosoziale Entwicklung
subject: Kind
subject: seelische Mißhandlung
subject: Sozialarbeit
subject: DDC::100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::155 Differentielle Psychologie, Entwicklungspsychologie

description: In dieser Arbeit wird das Miterleben des Kindes von emotionaler Gewalt des Vaters gegen die Mutter erfasst. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, die daraus resultierenden Auswirkungen auf die psychosoziale Entwicklung des Kindes festzustellen. Dafür wird als Grundlage die emotionale Misshandlung in Partnerschaften untersucht. Anschließend wird die gesunde psychosoziale Entwicklung der Kindheit betrachtet. Dafür findet besonders das Modell nach Erikson Anwendung. Kern der Thesis sind die Reaktionen des Kindes auf die seelische Misshandlung des Vaters gegen die Mutter sowie die kurzfristigen und langfristigen Auswirkungen auf die psychosoziale Entwicklung. Diese werden mit den Erkenntnissen der vorangegangenen Kapitel verknüpft. Abschließend wird das Thema auf die Sozialarbeit übertragen. Das Fazit umfasst die zentralen Erkenntnisse. Das vorliegende Werk wurde als Literaturarbeit verfasst.
Optimal-Rate Characterisation for Pliable Index Coding using Absent Receivers
Creators: name: Ong, Lawrence
name: Vellambi, Badri N.
name: Kliewer, Jörg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We characterise the optimal broadcast rate for a few classes of pliable-index-coding problems. This is achieved by devising new lower bounds that utilise the set of absent receivers to construct decoding chains with skipped messages. This work complements existing works by considering problems that are not complete-S, i.e., problems considered in this work do not require that all receivers with a certain side-information cardinality to be either present or absent from the problem. We show that for a certain class, the set of receivers is critical in the sense that adding any receiver strictly increases the broadcast rate.
description: Authors' copy
title: Investigation of genomic and phenotypic plasticity in the lignocellulose-bioconverting and xylose-fermenting yeast Scheffersomyces stipitis
Creators: name: Vega Estevez, Samuel
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: Eukaryotic genomes are often described as stable structures with well-preserved chromosome organisation. Consequently, genome instability is viewed as a deleterious event. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that genomes can be plastic, and that genome instability can be advantageous for adaptation to challenging environment. The overall goal of this project was to understand whether and how genome plasticity contributes to environment adaptation in Scheffersomyces stipitis, one of the most promising yeast for the production of second-generation bioethanol. S. stipitis belongs to the CTG clade, formed several yeasts (such as C. albicans) whose genomes have been widely described as plastic. To do so, the karyotype of 27 strains isolated from different habitats and countries was studied by CHEF electrophoresis. This allowed us to discover that two of the most used strains in S. stipitis research (NRRL Y-11545 and NRRL Y-7124) exhibited differences in their genome structures. Therefore, we compared the publicly available genome of the strain Y-11545 to the genome sequence of the natural isolate Y-7124, sequenced in this study by a hybrid TGS approach, based on the combination of Illumina and Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT). Moreover, to elucidate whether genomic plasticity conditions short-term evolution in S. stipitis, we analysed the karyotype of strains derived from the natural isolate Y-7124 after an adaptation experiment. Our results prove that the genome of S. stipitis is plastic, since different genome conformations are observed among the natural isolates studied. We have also shown that this plasticity is strongly associated to repetitive regions, at least in the two natural isolates whose genome is available. The major contributors to repetitive regions in S. stipitis genome are transposable elements, altogether with subtelomeres, telomeres, (all of them described in this study for the first time) and centromeres. Moreover we have detected several chromosome modifications: (i) A reciprocal chromosome translocation between the natural isolates Y-11545 and Y-7124 (ii) An aneuploidy consisting of an extra chromosome in the evolved strain Y-50859, (iii) A reciprocal chromosome translocation between the strain Y-7124 and its derived strain Y-50859. Both modifications (i) and (ii) are associated to repetitive DNA. In conclusion this project has demonstrated that the genome of S. stipitis is highly variable, and this plasticity is conditioned by repetitive DNA. Moreover, we have shown that strains with improved phenotypic traits related to fermentation are influenced by genome conformational changes.
Laboratory studies of the pyrolysis of organic wastes for obtaining useful products
Creators: name: Mayer, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: pyrolysis of organic wastes
subject: mesocarp oil palm fibre
subject: bio-oil
subject: DDC::5** Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::54* Chemie::547 Organische Chemie

description: This work investigated the influence of different set-point temperatures from 550 °C to 950 °C on the performance of the pyrolysis process of mesocarp oil palm fibre (OPF). The experiments were performed in a fixed bed reactor with a length of 780 mm and an inner diameter of 97 mm, with a split furnace; the temperature difference between the experiments was 100 °C. For all the experiments, the heating rate was set to 20 °C⋅min-1 and the fixed N2 flow rate of 2.463 g⋅min-1 was used. To assess pyrolysis performance, the yields of each phase were determined and its products were characterized. The results show, that the char yield slightly decreased with the increase of temperature, while the liquid yield had its maximum at a set-point temperature of 850 °C. The gas yield was calculated by mass difference. The higher heating value (HHV) of the char and the liquid was nearly constant around 28 MJ⋅kg-1, and only in the liquid phase the value dropped at a set-point temperature of 850 °C. The HHV of the gas phase increased with rising temperature and the maximum obtained value was 2.2 MJ⋅(Nm3)-1. Regarding char properties, with increasing temperature, the fixed carbon content in the char increased until a temperature of 850 °C, and its maximum was 79 %. Its ash content was constant around 12 % for all experiments. The bio-oil may have several compounds in its composition like carboxylic acid, ketones, aldehydes, alcohols, aromatic, acyl and alkoxy groups that were determined by FTIR. In the gas composition the production of H2 increased more than six times along the tested temperatures, with a maximum value of 10.96 mol⋅(kg OPF)-1, at the highest tested temperature. The CO production increased rapidly with increasing temperature as well. For the CO and CH4 production the increase was not as high. This work shows that products obtained from the OPF pyrolysis can be used as energy sources and for obtaining chemicals.
Well-Posed Initial-Boundary Evolution in General Relativity
Creators: name: Szilagyi, Bela
name: Winicour, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Maximally dissipative boundary conditions are applied to the initial-boundary value problem for Einstein's equations in harmonic coordinates to show that it is well-posed for homogeneous boundary data and for boundary data that is small in a linearized sense. The method is implemented as a nonlinear evolution code which satisfies convergence tests in the nonlinear regime and is robustly stable in the weak field regime. A linearized version has been stably matched to a characteristic code to compute the gravitational waveform radiated to infinity.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures; added another convergence plot to Fig. 2 + minor changes
Incommensurate Magnetism around Vortices and Impurities in High-$T_c$ Superconductors
Creators: name: Zhu, Jian-Xin
name: Martin, Ivar
name: Bishop, A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By solving self-consistently an effective Hamiltonian including interactions for both antiferromagnetic spin-density wave (SDW) and d-wave superconducting (DSC) orderings, a comparison study is made for the local magnetic structure around superconducting vortices and unitary impurities. To represent the optimally doped regime of cuprates, the parameter values are chosen such that the DSC is dominant while the SDW is vanishingly small. We show that when vortices are introduced into the superconductor, an oscillating SDW is induced around them. The oscillation period of the SDW is microscopically found, consistent with experiments, to be eight lattice constants ($8a_0$). The associated charge-density wave (CDW) oscillates with a period of one half ($4a_0$) of the SDW. In the case of unitary impurities, we find a SDW modulation with identical periodicity, however without an associated CDW. We propose neutron scattering experiments to test this prediction.
description: 5 pages, 4 eps figures (color) included in the text
New centrality and causality metrics assessing air traffic network interactions
Creators: name: Mazzarisi, Piero
name: Zaoli, Silvia
name: Lillo, Fabrizio
name: Delgado, Luis
name: Gurtner, Gérald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In ATM systems, the massive number of interacting entities makes it difficult to identify critical elements and paths of disturbance propagation, as well as to predict the system-wide effects that innovations might have. To this end, suitable metrics are required to assess the role of the interconnections between the elements and complex network science provides several network metrics to evaluate the network functioning. Here we focus on centrality and causality metrics measuring, respectively, the importance of a node and the propagation of disturbances along links. By investigating a dataset of US flights, we show that existing centrality and causality metrics are not suited to characterise the effect of delays in the system. We then propose generalisations of such metrics that we prove suited to ATM applications. Specifically, the new centrality is able to account for the temporal and multi-layer structure of ATM network, while the new causality metric focuses on the propagation of extreme events along the system.
title: Investigating the potential of Succinate dehydrogenase as an anti-fungal drug target in Candida glabrata
Creators: name: Currie, Andrew
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: Candida glabrata is an opportunist human fungal pathogen which causes disease in immuno-compromised patients and is highly drug resistant to commonly prescribed anti-fungal drugs such as Fluconazole. This project tested whether Lonidamine (LND) has potential as a new antifungal agent. LND has shown to be safe in the mouse model so suggests it can be used in humans and has also recently been shown to inhibit Succinate dehydrogenase (complex II of the mitochondrial respiratory chain). LND caused a reduction in the C. glabrata biofilm and its ability to form colonies. Flocculation during growth assays suggested that LND causes disruptions of the cell wall. Respirometry analysis suggested LND does not utilise the ETC when SDH is inhibited and relies on the compensatory metabolic pathway known as the glyoxylate cycle. Through S. cerevisiae mutant studies, weak points within metabolic pathways were found to be ICL1 (within the glyoxylate cycle) and LSC2 (within the TCA cycle). Future research on combinational drug therapy of using LND alongside inhibitors of ICL1 or LSC2 would be crucial.
A ?Human Growth? Perspective on Organizational Resources and Firm Performance
Creators: name: Tortia, Ermanno Celeste
name: Sacchetti, Silvia
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Economia, Universita' di Trento
Year: 2012

description: We define immaterial satisfaction as the degree of wellbeing that workers derive from creativity, autonomy, and personal growth, overall self-fulfillment. These are dimensions of satisfaction that we relate, from American pragmatism, to the use of creative intelligence. The paper deals with the mediating role of immaterial satisfaction between organizational processes (defined by teamwork, on-the-job autonomy and involvement) and organizational performance (defined in terms of improvements in product quality and innovation). We address this relationship in the Italian social service sector. To this end, we implement a
structural equation model including both observed and latent variables using a survey dataset that concerns 4134 workers and 320 not-for-profit social cooperatives. The analysis of direct,
indirect and total effects in the structural model shows that autonomous innovation positively influences performance. It also shows that impact immaterial satisfaction adds to the impact
of worker involvement in making involvement bear positively on performance, while it also reduces the negative impact of task-autonomy. Common method bias is controlled for by
resorting to post-hoc testing and by introducing three distal sources of subjective data from directors, managers and paid workers.
Additional file 1: of LRRK2 contributes to monocyte dysregulation in Parkinsonâ s disease
Creators: name: Bliederhaeuser, Corinna
name: Zondler, Lisa
name: Grozdanov, Veselin
name: Ruf, Wolfgang
name: Brenner, David
name: Melrose, Heather
name: Bauer, Peter
name: Ludolph, Albert
name: Gillardon, Frank
name: Kassubek, Jan
name: Weishaupt, Jochen
name: Danzer, Karin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary materials and methods. (PDF 1185 kb)
Black hole evolution in quantum-gravitational framework
Creators: name: Park, I. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We found black hole evolution on a quantum-gravitational scattering framework with an aim to tackle the black hole information paradox. With this setup, various pieces of the system information are explicit from the start and unitary evolution is manifest throughout. The scattering amplitudes factorize into the perturbative part and nonperturbative part. The nonperturbative part is dominated by an instanton-type contribution, i.e., a black hole analogue of the Coleman-De Luccia's bounce solution, and we propose that the Hawking radiation be identified with the particles generated by the vacuum decay. Our results indicate that the black hole degrees of freedom are entangled not only with the Hawking modes but also with the pre-Hawking modes. The Wald's entropy charge measures their entanglement. The full quantum-gravitational entropy is defined as the vev of the Wald entropy charge. With this definition a {\em shifted} Page-like curve is generically generated and its quantum extension is readily defined.
description: 37 (29+8) pages, expanded (details added; discussion on the vacuum transition probability added), references added, to appear in PTEP
The Tachyon does Matter
Creators: name: Buchel, A.
name: Walcher, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the concept of S-branes introduced by Gutperle and Strominger hep-th/0202210. Using the effective spacetime description of the rolling tachyon worldsheets discussed by Sen, we analyze the possibility that the gravitational backreaction of tachyon matter is important in the time-dependent process. We show that this is indeed the case in the example of the S0-brane in 4-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory. This talk is based on hep-th/0207235.
description: 8 pages, Talk given at 35th Symposium Ahrenshoop, Contribution to the Proceedings
Exploring the Facebook Networks of German Anti-Immigration Groups
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Matthias Christoph
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2020

description: This dissertation investigates the role of digital media for contentious collective action. More precisely, it focuses on German anti-asylum-shelter (AAS) groups on Facebook and the way these organizations? usage of platform affordances can be read from an adaptation of the framework of Modes of Coordination (MoC) of collective action. To do so, the thesis starts with an inquiry of the theoretical debate on the role of information and communication technology for social movements and collective action and highlights some misconceptions and discrepancies, especially on the role of formal organizations (chapter II). It argues to carefully explore the different interorganizational ties that form between AAS-groups and the networks that emerge from these in light of the two dimensions of resource exchange and boundary definition. After that, chapter III provides detailed accounts of case selection and data collection and of the research questions that structure the subsequent analyses. To answer these, chapter IV-i explores the temporal and spatial activity patterns of AAS-groups both on- and offline, finding a clear correspondence between the two. Chapter IV-ii uses topic modelling to explore the content of groups? communication, identifying a narrative of the reasonable and peaceful in-group and a combination of criminal (asylum-seekers), treacherous (politicians) and lying (press) outgroups. This clearly debunks a narrative of centrist ?concerned citizens? and shows the deeply racist and right-wing extremist nature of AAS activity. The third empirical part (chapter IV-iii) discusses five types of networks that emerge from groups? activities and combines these into four different MoC. We can identify a prevalence of the organizational mode of coordination, that involves limited exchange in terms of both resource exchange and boundary definition. However, a small but dense network also emerges from those ties that are defined by the social movement mode. Exponential Random Graph Modelling shows that while spatial proximity is a key determinant for tie formation across all modes, the role of formal organizations (right-wing parties) must not be dismissed. In fact, it differs both by party and by MoC in question. Overall, as chapter V sums up, the dissertation proves the relevance of a relational perspective to the study of digitally mediated collective action in general, as well as of an adapted framework of MoC in particular.
LEGAL AND ADAMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF LAND REFORM MEASURES AND AGRARIAN WELFARE IN BANGLADESH
Creators: name: Khan, A. Z. M. Obaidullah
name: Ali, A. M. M. Shawkat
name: Khan, A. Z. M. Obaidullah
name: Ali, A. M. M. Shawkat
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: This paper presetts an analytical overview of the agrarian reform measures which resulted from the commendations of the Land Reforms Committee, 1983. The recommendations have beet gives legislative shape, first in the Land Reforms Ordinance, 1984 and secondly in the Agricultural Labour (Minimum Wages) Ordinance, 1984. The overview is presented in respect of the ownership ceiling on land, protection of the rights of the sharecropper, legally establishing the minimum wages for agricultural labourers, establishing a decentralised and strengthened survey and settlement administration, initiation of stops to expand the resource base of local government institutions.
Additional file 2: of LRRK2 contributes to monocyte dysregulation in Parkinsonâ s disease
Creators: name: Bliederhaeuser, Corinna
name: Zondler, Lisa
name: Grozdanov, Veselin
name: Ruf, Wolfgang
name: Brenner, David
name: Melrose, Heather
name: Bauer, Peter
name: Ludolph, Albert
name: Gillardon, Frank
name: Kassubek, Jan
name: Weishaupt, Jochen
name: Danzer, Karin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: LRRK2 protein expression is significantly upregulated in monocytes from PD patients. (PDF 303 kb)
CASH FLOWS OF RURAL HOUSEHOLDS: A MICRO LEVEL STUDY IN BANGLADESH
Creators: name: Jaim, W. M. H.
name: Rahman, M. Lutfor
name: Jaim, W. M. H.
name: Rahman, M. Lutfor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Income-expenditure and investment-disinvestment behaviour of different groups of households in a small rural community of Bangladesh has been investigated by cash flow approach. Both cash inflows and outflows of rich and middle households were much higher than those of poor and landless. The latter two groups were heavily dependent on disinvestment of assets, loans and gifts for their survival. Although they spent most of the income for consumption, particularly for foodgrain, their level of consumption was very low. While the poor and landless households felt the need for credit throughout the whole year, the rich and middle households felt that need seasonally, particularly in hero season. To reduce rural poverty, credit programmes for the rural poor should be designed for both on-farm and off-farm activities.
Display to Labeled Proofs and Back Again for Tense Logics
Creators: name: Ciabattoni, Agata
name: Lyon, Tim S.
name: Ramanayake, Revantha
name: Tiu, Alwen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce translations between display calculus proofs and labeled calculus proofs in the context of tense logics. First, we show that every derivation in the display calculus for the minimal tense logic Kt extended with general path axioms can be effectively transformed into a derivation in the corresponding labeled calculus. Concerning the converse translation, we show that for Kt extended with path axioms, every derivation in the corresponding labeled calculus can be put into a special form that is translatable to a derivation in the associated display calculus. A key insight in this converse translation is a canonical representation of display sequents as labeled polytrees. Labeled polytrees, which represent equivalence classes of display sequents modulo display postulates, also shed light on related correspondence results for tense logics.
INT088.pdf
Creators: name: Seisdedos, Carlos Román Vázquez
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: The analysis of sinusoidal pursuit eye movements is used for the diagnosis of diseases related to the nervous system. Spite of the diversity of equipment manufactured in Cuba for studying the nervous system, there is not equipment for electroculographic signal analysis due to the sinusoidal tracking stimuli. In the present work is proposed a software tool for the analysis of smooth-pursuit eye movements with sinusoidal stimulus. The signals were acquired with OTOSCREEN system. We describe the processing and analysis methods which sup-port the software tool design SACADEX 3. The validation of the tool with synthetic and real signals shows, from the qualitative point of view, an appropriate performance of the processing and analysis methods embedded
STRUCTURAL CHANGES OF RURAL CREDIT OVER TIME IN TWO VILLAGES OF BANGLADESH
Creators: name: Bashar, Md. Abul
name: Alam, Md. Ferdous
name: Bashar, Md. Abul
name: Alam, Md. Ferdous
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: This is a follow-up study of a research conduced i41968. Significant socioeconomic structural hang" in the field of rural credit took place over time. The institutional sources of credit have replaced the noninstitutional lenders to a greater extent. The amount of credit received in real terms, however, did not increase. The bulk of the institutional credit has been appropriated by large farmers as observed in 1968. Significant overlapping of loan cases have been observed due to involvement of various agencies in agricultural credit. The pattern of loan utilization registered significant improvement over time. The study recommends for extending the lead bank system to all the farm credit programmes of the country with a view to avoiding overlapping of loan cases.
Multiparameter squeezing for optimal quantum enhancements in sensor networks
Creators: name: Gessner, Manuel
name: Smerzi, Augusto
name: Pezzè, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Squeezing currently represents the leading strategy for quantum enhanced precision measurements of a single parameter in a variety of continuous- and discrete-variable settings and technological applications. However, many important physical problems including imaging and field sensing require the simultaneous measurement of multiple unknown parameters. The development of multiparameter quantum metrology is yet hindered by the intrinsic difficulty in finding saturable sensitivity bounds and feasible estimation strategies. Here, we derive the general operational concept of multiparameter squeezing, identifying metrologically useful states and optimal estimation strategies. When applied to spin- or continuous-variable systems, our results generalize widely-used spin- or quadrature-squeezing parameters. Multiparameter squeezing provides a practical and versatile concept that paves the way to the development of quantum-enhanced estimation of multiple phases, gradients, and fields, and for the efficient characterization of multimode quantum states in atomic and optical sensor networks.
description: 8 + 10 pages, 4 + 1 figures
Domestic and trade impacts of foot-and-mouth disease on the Australian beef industry
Creators: name: Tozer, Peter
name: Marsh, Thomas
name: Tozer, Peter
name: Marsh, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: agricultural policy
subject: biosecurity
subject: international trade
subject: trade analysis and policy

description: Australia is the sixth largest producer of beef and the second largest exporter of beef. Average beef exports from Australia are approximately 65 per cent of the total amount of beef produced, about 1.3 million tonnes. Australia is particularly vulnerable to diseases that are not endemic to the country and could close or disrupt its export markets for beef. In this study, we construct a bioeconomic optimisation model of the Australian beef industry that captures production and consumption decisions, domestically and internationally, and the impacts on the beef industry of a potentially catastrophic disease, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). This study analyses localised to large-scale outbreaks and suggests that changes in economic surplus because of FMD range from a positive net gain of $57 million to a net loss of $1.7 billion, with impacts on producers and consumers varying depending on the location of the outbreak, control levels and the nature of any trade ban.
Porcellanidae Haworth 1825
Creators: name: Ahyong, Shane T.
name: Baba, Keiji
name: Macpherson, Enrique
name: Poore, Gary C. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Porcellanidae

description: Porcellanidae Haworth, 1825  Porcellanidae Haworth, 1825: 184.
 Diagnosis. Rostrum well developed to obsolete, if well-developed, broad, subtriangular, flattened. Supraocular spines present or absent. Carapace (excluding rostrum) longer than wide to wider than long; dorsal surface smooth or variously ornamented with faint striae or tubercles. Tailfan well developed, folded against preceding somite, telson distinctly subdivided into 5 or 7 plates. Eyes with well-developed cornea. Antennal peduncle directed laterally or posteriorly. Maxilliped 1 exopod flagellum well developed. Maxilliped 3 operculiform; ischium and merus elongate, broad, expanded mesially; epipod absent. Chelipeds flattened.
 Remarks. De Grave et al. (2009) provide a checklist of extant and fossil porcellanid genera and Osawa & McLaughlin (2010) list the extant porcellanid species.
description: Published as part of Ahyong, Shane T., Baba, Keiji, Macpherson, Enrique & Poore, Gary C. B., 2010, A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), pp. 57-68 in Zootaxa 2676 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2676.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5302184
Gamma-Ray Bursts - a Primer For Relativists
Creators: name: Piran, Tsvi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) - short bursts of 100-1MeV photons arriving from random directions in the sky are probably the most relativistic objects discovered so far. Still, somehow they did not attract the attention of the relativistic community. In this short review I discuss briefly GRB observations and show that they lead us to the fireball model - GRBs involve macroscopic relativistic motion with Lorentz factors of a few hundred or more. I show that GRB sources involve, most likely, new born black holes, and their progenitors are Supernovae or neutron star mergers. I show that both GRB progenitors and the process of GRB itself produce gravitational radiation and I consider the possibility of detecting this emission. Finally I show that GRBs could serve as cosmological indicators that could teach us about the high redshift ($z \approx 5-15$) dark ages of the universe.
description: Review talk given at GR16
The impact of the "American Society Of Breast Surgeons' 2019 consensus guidelines on genetic testing for hereditary breast cancer" on cancer genetic counselors
Creators: name: Tokarczyk, Jillian
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: In February 2019, the American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBrS) released a guideline recommending genetic testing be made available to all women with a breast cancer diagnosis. This guideline was based on findings in several papers outlining the number of individuals harboring mutations in a breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene who would not otherwise be found given the current National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines for cancer genetic testing (National Comprehensive Cancer Network, V1 2020). To determine the impact of this guideline on practicing cancer genetic counselors (GC), we created a survey asking GCs about their initial observations of the impact of the guideline on referral patterns from breast surgeons. Results showed 59% of respondents noted a change in referral patterns with breast surgeons referring more patients after the release of the ASBrS guideline. Thirty-seven percent of GCs reported that breast surgeons are referring all patients with breast cancer. GCs did not significantly change which breast cancer patients to whom they offered genetic testing. Our study found over 50% of cancer GCs agree that all women with a personal history of breast cancer should be offered genetic testing. This data supports increased coverage of genetic testing for these individuals as well as exemplifies the increased demand for GCs in the cancer genetics setting.
The Sound of Silence. On the (In)visibility of Economists in the Media
Creators: name: Wehrheim, Lino
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: economic experts
subject: economic narratives
subject: media analysis
subject: topic modelling
subject: sentiment analysis
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: One way for economists to influence economic policy and society as a whole is to shape what Robert Shiller has called “economic narratives”. This, in turn, puts the media in their role as professional storytellers in a central position. In this paper, I investigate how economists have been covered by the media in a long-term perspective. Particularly, I address two questions: How has the quantitative visibility of economists in the media developed over time? And how can news stories covering economists be characterized in terms of their content? I answer these questions in two steps. First, I provide a comparison of economists’ quantitative media visibility in international newspapers. Second, building on a corpus of more than 12,000 newspaper articles, I conduct a case study on the German Council of Economic Experts. Using various text mining approaches, I survey four features of newspaper coverage: topics, tonality, temporal perspective, and the role of individuals. Finally, based on extensive close reading, I briefly discuss two key turning points in the media history of economists, namely the 1980s and the late 1990s/early 2000s. The main finding is that economists have indeed become silent compared to their heyday of economic expertise in the 1960s, but that they have not been as silent as is often claimed.
U.S. demand for organic and conventional vegetables: a Bayesian censored system approach
Creators: name: Kasteridis, Panagiotis
name: Yen, Steven
name: Kasteridis, Panagiotis
name: Yen, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Bayesian MCMC
subject: censored equation system
subject: linear approximate Almost Ideal Demand System
subject: national organic standard
subject: Nielsen Homescan
subject: organic vegetables

description: Demand for organic and conventional vegetables is investigated using data from A.C. Nielsen’s 2006 Homescan panel. We use a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo technique, along with data augmentation, to estimate a large linear approximate Almost Ideal Demand System with censored dependent variables. Demands are price elastic, and expenditure elasticities are very high for organic vegetables, whilst demands for conventional vegetables are primarily inelastic. We find a mix of gross substitution and complementarity among the vegetable products, but net substitution is the dominant pattern. Socio-demographic characteristics also play important roles in demands. These findings can inform deliberations about marketing campaigns, nutrition education and policy interventions.
Additional file 1: of A novel SPEG mutation causes non-compaction cardiomyopathy and neuropathy in a floppy infant with centronuclear myopathy
Creators: name: Haicui Wang
name: SchĂ¤Nzer, Anne
name: Kampschulte, Birgit
name: HĂźlya-Sevcan DaimagĂźler
name: Thushiha Logeswaran
name: Schlierbach, Hannah
name: Petzinger, Jutta
name: Ehrhardt, Harald
name: Hahn, Andreas
name: Cirak, Sebahattin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

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