cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Milk Marketing Chains in Bihar: Implications for Dairy Farmers and Traders
Creators: name: Kumar, Anjani
name: Kumar, Anjani
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The study has addressed the issues associated with the alternative milk market chains and their implications on dairy farmers and traders. It has been conducted in Bihar, where modern milk market chains especially the milk co-operatives have grown significantly. The study has shown that in spite of growing presence of modern milk supply chains, the traditional milk supply chain is still dominant. The empirical evidence does not appear to support the perceptions of exploitative nature of the traditional milk market agents. Traditional milk processing seems to offer good opportunities for the small and resource-poor milk producers and traders to enhance their income. The traditional milk sector should be addressed in a constructive manner and the policies should be evolved which would allow informal players improve their performance including quality control and their integration with the emerging modern milk supply chains.
Additional file 1 of Organellar genome dynamics of exogenous stages of Eimeria tenella
Creators: name: Kruth, Perryn S.
name: Lane, Taylor
name: Barta, John R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Text 1. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) primer validation. Supplementary Text 2. Generation of plasmid for use in primer validation and as qPCR control. Supplementary Table 1. Standard-curve determined characteristics of qPCR primer performances. Supplementary Formula S1. Copy number calculation from quantification cycle (Cq).
Studies of fall risk and bone morphology in older women with low bone mass
Creators: name: Liu-Ambrose, Teresa Yeong Lih
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Introduction: Osteoporotic fractures are a major health care problem. Fracture risk can be largely divided into two domains: fall risk and bone health, and both can be influenced by exercise. Purpose: 1) To examine the role of different types of exercise on both fall risk and bone health in older women with low bone mass. 2) To explore fall risk factors that may be unique to women with low bone mass. Methods: Subjects: Women aged 65 to 75 years with osteoporosis for Parts I and II. Women aged 75 to 85 years with low bone mass (i.e. osteoporosis or osteopenia) for Parts III, IV, and V. Study Design: Parts I and II are cross-sectional studies. Parts III, IV, and V involved a 25-week randomized controlled trial of resistance training, agility training, and stretching (sham exercise). Results: Parts I & II: Back pain was negatively associated with both postural stability (r² = 0.09, p = 0.04) and functional mobility (r² = 0.12, p = 0.001). Compared to their counterparts without osteoporosis, older women with osteoporosis had 11 to 18% greater fall risk by composite balance score and quadriceps strength (both p < 0.03). Part III to V: Both high-intensity resistance training and agility training significantly reduced fall risk compared to a general stretching program (both p < 0.01). The resistance training program reduced fall risk by 57% and the agility training program reduced fall risk by 48% without any serious adverse effects. Both exercise programs also significantly increased cortical bone density (by pQCT) in the appendicular skeleton. Fear of falling was also reduced after 13 weeks of participating in both exercise programs. Conclusions The cross-sectional studies suggest that back pain may warrant scrutiny as a fall risk factor in older women with osteoporosis and that older women with osteoporosis may be at greater risk of falls than is often recognised. The RCT indicates that in women aged 75 to 85 years with low bone mass both high-intensity resistance training and agility training reduce fall risk compared to general stretching. Also, both types of training have the potential to increase cortical bone density in a site-specific manner despite the population being elderly. Change in balance confidence may not correlate closely with changes in physiological measures of fall risk. Further studies in high-risk populations should be powered for falls as the primary outcome.
Value Chains of Milk and Milk Products in Organized Sector of Tamil Nadu —A Comparative Analysis
Creators: name: Babu, D.
name: Verma, N.K.
name: Babu, D.
name: Verma, N.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The study has analysed the value chains of milk and milk products in the co-operative and private dairy plants in the Salem district of Tamil Nadu based on the data collected from one co-operative plant, one private plant, five milk transportation routes, ten co-operative societies, ten private milk collection centres and six chilling centres for the year 2007-08. The overall average procurement cost per litre of milk has been found higher for the co-operative dairy plant than the private plant due to increased cost on milk transportation, chilling and reception. The co-operative plant has been revealed more efficient in the manufacture of toned milk, standardized milk, full cream milk and ghee whereas the private plant has an edge over co-operative dairy plant in the manufacture of butter and SMP (skimmed milk powder). The marketing cost of toned milk, standardized milk, full cream milk and SMP has been found lower for private dairy plant and of butter and ghee for the co-operative dairy plant. The products which could earn a higher value after passing through the value chain are milk peda, khoa and SMP in the co-operative plant; and ice cream, Mysorepa and ghee in the private plant. The marketing margins and marketing efficiency have been found higher in toned milk, standardized milk and butter for the private plant and in full cream milk, ghee and SMP for the co-operative plant.
Understanding Value Addition in Indian Dairy Sector: Some Perspectives
Creators: name: Singh, Shiv Raj
name: Datta, K.K.
name: Singh, Shiv Raj
name: Datta, K.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Indian dairy sector has shown tremendous growth in terms of milk production, from 17 million tonnes (1950-51) to 112 million tonnes (2009-10). This transition from deficiency to sufficiency has been achieved by a series of policy interventions by the government. It has been found that in the first phase of ‘Operation Flood’, growth rate of value-added products was 0.93 per cent per annum, but in the third phase, it became 9.10 per cent per annum. Milk processing in India is around 35 per cent, of which the organized dairy industry accounts for only 13 per cent of the milk produced, the remaining 22 per cent is processed in the unorganized sector. To explore the diversity and market exploration for enhancing the value in milk, the study has identified the untapped demand of different dairy and dairy products in ethnically diversified rural urban groups. The paper has highlighted certain dairy development policies to encourage growth of the dairy sector. While value addition in milk is unavoidable if one has to enhance sector profitability, the same does not seem feasible unless the organized sector improves its penetration. Because, it is the involvement of the organized sector that will drive the growth by resorting to value addition in basic product and harnessing the consumer market. The mechanics of the organized sector penetration could be agency-specific as also area-specific.
Lessons from Innovative Institutions in the Marketing of Fish and Fishery Products in India
Creators: name: Kumar, Ganesh
name: Ravisankar, T.
name: Suresh, R.
name: Ramachandra, Bhatta
name: Vimla, D. Deboral
name: Kumaran, M.
name: Mahalakshmi, P.
name: Shivasakthi Devi, T.
name: Kumar, Ganesh
name: Ravisankar, T.
name: Suresh, R.
name: Ramachandra, Bhatta
name: Vimla, D. Deboral
name: Kumaran, M.
name: Mahalakshmi, P.
name: Shivasakthi Devi, T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: This study has been conducted with the objective of understanding the process of innovative marketing models in the fisheries sector and to draw lessons from the success stories to upscale and replicate in a similar socio-politico-economic scenario in other parts of the country. It has been conducted to provide a better understanding of fish marketing by self-help groups (SHGs), producer associations, fisheries development corporations, fisherman cooperatives and private institutions in the southern states of India, namely Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh with the hypothesis that the institutional arrangements in the marketing of fish and fishery products reduce the transaction cost and improve the market access and its efficiency. The study has reported the primary activities of those institutions in the efficient fish marketing, such as inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics, marketing and sales promotion and support activities like infrastructural facilities, technological backstopping, price information and procurement. Through these advantages, the fishermen have been found to achieve economies of scale, technological innovations, capacity development, linkage among activities, degree of vertical integration, timing of market entry, product differentiation, market access, credit access, etc. The study has suggested replication of such successful innovative institutions in marketing the fish and fishery products through appropriate policies and programmes. It has also suggested to promote institutions like SHGs, producer / fishermen associations, cooperatives, etc. and allow the entry of private agencies with appropriate regulatory mechanism to improve the efficiency of fish marketing in the country.
Additional file 2 of Organellar genome dynamics of exogenous stages of Eimeria tenella
Creators: name: Kruth, Perryn S.
name: Lane, Taylor
name: Barta, John R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Text 3. Putatively single-copy nuclear genes used in estimating copy number of 18s rDNA and Tn-E03-1161 sequences in Eimeria tenella. Supplementary Formula 2. Average depth of coverage (DOC) formula. Supplementary Table 2. Putatively single-copy nuclear genes and relative depth of coverage calculations for estimation of nuclear 18S rDNA and Tn-E03-1161 copy numbers in Eimeria tenella. Supplementary Text 4. Further investigation of the ratio of 18S rDNA to Tn E03 1161.
Conformal continuations and wormhole instability in scalar-tensor gravity
Creators: name: Bronnikov, K. A.
name: Grinyok, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the stability of static, spherically symmetric, traversable wormholes existing due to conformal continuations in a class of scalar-tensor theories with zero scalar field potential (so that Fisher's well-known scalar-vacuum solution holds in the Einstein conformal frame). Specific examples of such wormholes are those with nonminimally (e.g., conformally) coupled scalar fields. All boundary conditions for scalar and metric perturbations are taken into account. All such wormholes are shown to be unstable under spherically symmetric perturbations. The instability is proved analytically with the aid of the theory of self-adjoint operators in Hilbert space and is confirmed by a numerical computation.
description: 8 two-column pages, latex, gc style
Additional file 2 of DNA interference is controlled by R-loop length in a type I-F1 CRISPR-Cas system
Creators: name: Tuminauskaite, Donata
name: Danguole Norkunaite
name: Fiodorovaite, Marija
name: Sarunas Tumas
name: Songailiene, Inga
name: Giedre Tamulaitiene
name: Sinkunas, Tomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Cas2/3 nuclease and ATPase activity dependence on divalent metal ions. (A) Cas2/3-catalysed hydrolysis of ssDNA in the presence of different divalent metals. (B) Cas2/3-catalysed hydrolysis of ATP in the presence of different divalent metals.
Structure, Conduct and Performance of Value Chain in Seaweed farming in India
Creators: name: Krishnan, M.
name: Narayanakumar, R.
name: Krishnan, M.
name: Narayanakumar, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Among the three types of technologies available in the fisheries sector in India, seaweed farming, initially promoted as a livelihood option, has emerged as the one area which probably has the maximum potential for up-scaling. This paper has examined the structure, conduct and performance of the value chain in seaweed farming in India inquiring into the production, institutional, marketing, social and community relationships in small-scale seaweed farming in the Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu and the concept of self-help groups (SHG) as an increasingly workable option for coastal resources management. The value chain analysis of the sector has substantially proved that committed and synergistic production, marketing and institutional arrangements enabled by corporate leadership, offers considerable savings in transaction costs. The SHG model has also shown strong gender orientation in the initial years of seaweed culture in the district contributing to strong structural foundations to the movement. The seaweed sector in the coastal India has all the potential to rise from the low-income conditions normally associated with basic livelihood activities to higher levels of employment-income-consumption relationships.
The Rashba Scale: Emergence of Band Anti-Crossing as a Design Principle for Materials with Large Rashba coefficient
Creators: name: Acosta, Carlos Mera
name: Ogoshi, Elton
name: Fazzio, Adalberto
name: Dalpian, Gustavo
name: Zunger, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spin-orbit -induced spin splitting of energy bands in low symmetry compounds (the Rashba Effect) has a long-standing relevance to spintronic applications and to the fundamental understanding of symmetry breaking in solids, yet the knowledge of what controls its magnitude in different materials is difficult to anticipate. Indeed, rare discoveries of compounds with large Rashba coefficients are invariably greeted as pleasant surprises. We advance the understanding of the "Rashba Scale" using the "inverse design" approach by formulating theoretically the relevant design principle and then identifying compounds that satisfy it. We show that the presence of energy band anti-crossing provides a causal design principle of compounds with large Rashba coefficients, leading to the identification via first-principles calculations of 34 rationally designed strong-Rashba compounds. Since topological insulators must have band anti crossing, this leads us to establish an interesting cross functionality of "Topological Rashba Insulators" (TRI) that may provide a platform for the simultaneous control of spin splitting and spin-polarization.
description: 24 pages and 9 figures
Value Chain Analysis and Financial Viability of Agro-Processing Industries in Himachal Pradesh
Creators: name: Sharma, K.D.
name: Pathania, M.S.
name: Lal, Harbans
name: Sharma, K.D.
name: Pathania, M.S.
name: Lal, Harbans
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The paper has studied the structure and extent of value addition in different agro-processing units in Himachal Pradesh. It has also examined the financial viability of agro-processing industries in the state. The break-even analysis has shown enough leverage for processing units to stay in the business even at low capacity utilization. The extent of value addition has been about 53 per cent in the processing sector. The maximum value addition has been observed in fruits/vegetable processing (133%), followed by bakery and confectionery units. The financial viability ratios computed from financial accounts have revealed high current ratio but lower quick ratio (acid test) in most of the processing industries, showing that many industries have substantial unsold inventories. However, financial ratios have been found more favourable in case of small units as compared to large units. A direct relationship has been found between size of the firm and number of its backward and forward linkages. An average processing industry has 85 backward linkages and 123 forward linkages. It is found that geographical concentration of the processing industries in the state is influenced more by demand rather than supply factors . The suggestions and recommendations emerging from the investigation include policy thrust and emphasis on developing industrial areas in raw material producing regions, thrust on small-scale industries for self-employment in micro enterprises in rural areas, promotion of supporting and subsidiary (intermediate) industries to diversify value addition activities, cost effective and adequate supply of raw material by strengthening direct linkages through suitable contract farming models, liberal credit policy to modernize processing units and encouraging formation of small industries consortia or associations for collective marketing and sales promotion.
Potential Capabilities of Lunar Laser Ranging for Geodesy and Relativity
Creators: name: Mueller, Juergen
name: Williams, James G.
name: Turyshev, Slava G.
name: Shelus, Peter J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR), which has been carried out for more than 35 years, is used to determine many parameters within the Earth-Moon system. This includes coordinates of terrestrial ranging stations and that of lunar retro-reflectors, as well as lunar orbit, gravity field, and its tidal acceleration. LLR data analysis also performs a number of gravitational physics experiments such as test of the equivalence principle, search for time variation of the gravitational constant, and determines value of several metric gravity parameters. These gravitational physics parameters cause both secular and periodic effects on the lunar orbit that are detectable with LLR. Furthermore, LLR contributes to the determination of Earth orientation parameters (EOP) such as nutation, precession (including relativistic precession), polar motion, and UT1. The corresponding LLR EOP series is three decades long. LLR can be used for the realization of both the terrestrial and selenocentric reference frames. The realization of a dynamically defined inertial reference frame, in contrast to the kinematically realized frame of VLBI, offers new possibilities for mutual cross-checking and confirmation. Finally, LLR also investigates the processes related to the Moon's interior dynamics. Here, we review the LLR technique focusing on its impact on Geodesy and Relativity. We discuss the modern observational accuracy and the level of existing LLR modeling. We present the near-term objectives and emphasize improvements needed to fully utilize the scientific potential of LLR.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Talk given at `Dynamic Planet 2005: Monitoring and Understanding a Dynamic Planet with Geodetic and Oceanographic Tools,'' a Joint Assembly of International Associations: IAG, IAPSO and IABO, Cairns, Australia, 22-26 August 2005
Additional file 3 of Organellar genome dynamics of exogenous stages of Eimeria tenella
Creators: name: Kruth, Perryn S.
name: Lane, Taylor
name: Barta, John R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table 3. DNA recovered from Eimeria tenella oocyst timepoint samples. Supplementary Figure 1. DNA recovered from oocyst timepoint samples and % NGS reads mapped per sample. Supplementary Table 4. Nuclear-targeting qPCR primer BLAST results. Supplementary Figure 2. Ratios of mitochondrial and apicoplast to nuclear qPCR targets in sporulating and sporulated oocysts of Eimeria tenella.
Optical study of orbital excitations in transition-metal oxides
Creators: name: Rückamp, R.
name: Benckiser, E.
name: Haverkort, M. W.
name: Roth, H.
name: Lorenz, T.
name: Freimuth, A.
name: Jongen, L.
name: Möller, A.
name: Meyer, G.
name: Reutler, P.
name: Büchner, B.
name: Revcolevschi, A.
name: Cheong, S. -W.
name: Sekar, C.
name: Krabbes, G.
name: Grüninger, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The orbital excitations of a series of transition-metal compounds are studied by means of optical spectroscopy. Our aim was to identify signatures of collective orbital excitations by comparison with experimental and theoretical results for predominantly local crystal-field excitations. To this end, we have studied TiOCl, RTiO3 (R=La, Sm, Y), LaMnO3, Y2BaNiO5, CaCu2O3, and K4Cu4OCl10, ranging from early to late transition-metal ions, from t_2g to e_g systems, and including systems in which the exchange coupling is predominantly three-dimensional, one-dimensional or zero-dimensional. With the exception of LaMnO3, we find orbital excitations in all compounds. We discuss the competition between orbital fluctuations (for dominant exchange coupling) and crystal-field splitting (for dominant coupling to the lattice). Comparison of our experimental results with configuration-interaction cluster calculations in general yield good agreement, demonstrating that the coupling to the lattice is important for a quantitative description of the orbital excitations in these compounds. However, detailed theoretical predictions for the contribution of collective orbital modes to the optical conductivity (e.g., the line shape or the polarization dependence) are required to decide on a possible contribution of orbital fluctuations at low energies, in particular in case of the orbital excitations at about 0.25 eV in RTiO3. Further calculations are called for which take into account the exchange interactions between the orbitals and the coupling to the lattice on an equal footing.
description: published version, discussion of TiOCl extended to low T, improved calculation of orbital excitation energies in TiOCl, figure 16 improved, references updated, 33 pages, 20 figures
Value Chain in Poverty Alleviation — A Model for Institutional Initiatives for Organizing and Capacity Building of Farm Work Force
Creators: name: Indira Devi, P.
name: Hema, M.
name: Jaikumaran, U.
name: Indira Devi, P.
name: Hema, M.
name: Jaikumaran, U.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: This paper has looked into the concept of value chain system in a different perspective, viewing capacity building of farm workers similar to human resource development. The agricultural sector, which was agricultural labour surplus has become labour deficit due to its migration to non-agricultural sector for better employment and higher income. On the other side, in the total cost of cultivation of paddy (Cost A1), almost 50 percentage has been the labour cost. Under this situation, Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) initiated a novel programme in 2008 with the aim of effective utilization of educated unemployed youth of Kerala for promoting mechanization in paddy farming by constituting a group called Food Security Army (FSA). The intervention to organize, train and assure the supply of labour to the agricultural sector has resulted in better living conditions of the FSA members. Apart from considerable socio-economic upliftment of these members, the intervention could facilitate the increase in the coverage of paddy cultivation in Kerala. The annual income per member upon joining FSA has been found one-and-a-half times of what they were earning earlier, from Rs 333/day (average for male and female) to Rs 448/day (up by nearly 35%). On hourly basis the rise has been found 20 per cent which is due to difference in work hours per day. Further, they could get work for 7 (range of 6-9) months in a year, which is up by 17 per cent. Though the current signals project a prospective future, some potential threats are to be considered. The programme has created additional income for their better livelihood, but in some cases it may prompt them to leave the profession to move up further on the economic and social ladder. Therefore, there should be a continuing programme to build up the capacity to make good of the exit.
Window function dependence of the novel mass function of primordial black holes
Creators: name: Tokeshi, Koki
name: Inomata, Keisuke
name: Yokoyama, Jun'ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the ambiguity of the novel mass function of primordial black holes, which has succeeded in identifying the black hole mass in a given configuration of fluctuations, due to the choice of window function of smoothed density fluctuations. We find that while the window function dependence of the exponential factor in the novel mass function is the same as the one in the conventional mass function around the top-hat scale, the dependences are different on other scales, which leads to the narrower mass function in the novel formulation for some window functions.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures
Risikowahrnehmung und Verbrauchervertrauen nach einem Lebensmittelskandal - Eine experimentelle Studie
Creators: name: Bocker, Andreas
name: Albrecht, Silke
name: Bocker, Andreas
name: Albrecht, Silke
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: trust
subject: consumer behaviour
subject: food safety
subject: experimental economics

description: An expected utility model with Baysean information processing that explains the extent of consumer reaction to a food scare by the degree of supplier differentiation with respect to reliability is put to an experimental test. The empirical results offer no support for the theoretical prediction that post food scare consumer trust in a particular supplier decreases with an increasing degree of differentiation. While gender and personal experience with a food poisoning contribute significantly to the explanation of the individual level of consumer trust after the – hypothetical – food safety incident, perceived characteristics of the specific risk factor listeriosis chosen for this study had by far the biggest impact.
Quantum entanglement recognition
Creators: name: Khoo, Jun Yong
name: Heyl, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement constitutes a key characteristic feature of quantum matter. Its detection, however, still faces major challenges. In this letter, we formulate a framework for probing entanglement based on machine learning techniques. The central element is a protocol for the generation of statistical images from quantum many-body states, with which we perform image classification by means of convolutional neural networks. We show that the resulting quantum entanglement recognition task is accurate and can be assigned a well-controlled error across a wide range of quantum states. We discuss the potential use of our scheme to quantify quantum entanglement in experiments. Our developed scheme provides a generally applicable strategy for quantum entanglement recognition in both equilibrium and nonequilibrium quantum matter.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
The effect of a cardiac rehabiltation exercise program on plasma viscosity, fibrinogen concentration, Hematocrit, blood lipids and exercise capacity
Creators: name: Velzen, Minetaro Vincent Naruki-Van
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Hemorheological variables are strong predictors of coronary heart disease. Several cross-sectional and longitudinal training studies on healthy populations suggest that physical activity improves hemorheological profile through a decrease in whole blood viscosity, plasma viscosity (VIS), hematocrit (HCT), and fibrinogen (FIB). Although cardiac rehabilitation programs (CRP) have proven to be effective at reducing mortality, morbidity and improving cardiac risk factors, it is unclear whether CRPs improve hemorheological profile in secondary prevention patients. The purpose of this study was to determine if CRP improves plasma rheology, HDL cholesterol, triglyceride levels and exercise capacity. Fifteen subjects enrolled in a three month CRP program had HCT, FIB, and VIS measured on three occasions: twice before the CRP intervention, and once at the end of the CRP intervention. Changes in HDL, triglycerides, and exercise capacity were measured before and after the CRP intervention. There were no significant differences in any of the hemorheological variables over time [HCT (p=0.330); FIB (p=0.275); VIS (p=0.533)]. There was a modest, but statistically significant correlation between fibrinogen and plasma viscosity (p=0.035, r = 0.319). Exercise capacity, as measured by time completed on the Bruce treadmill protocol, improved significantly (p<0.00l). HDL cholesterol levels and triglyceride levels just failed to reach significance (p=0.08 and p = 0.123 respectively). This study suggests that CRP provides enough exercise stimulus to increase exercise capacity; however, CRP does not provide adequate stimulus to bring about the hemorheological changes observed in other studies.
Semantic-diversity transfer network for generalized zero-shot learning via inner disagreement based OOD detector
Creators: name: Liu, Bo
name: Dong, Qiulei
name: Hu, Zhanyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects from unseen classes, where the kernel problem is to transfer knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes by establishing appropriate mappings between visual and semantic features. The knowledge transfer in many existing works is limited mainly due to the facts that 1) the widely used visual features are global ones but not totally consistent with semantic attributes; 2) only one mapping is learned in existing works, which is not able to effectively model diverse visual-semantic relations; 3) the bias problem in the generalized ZSL (GZSL) could not be effectively handled. In this paper, we propose two techniques to alleviate these limitations. Firstly, we propose a Semantic-diversity transfer Network (SetNet) addressing the first two limitations, where 1) a multiple-attention architecture and a diversity regularizer are proposed to learn multiple local visual features that are more consistent with semantic attributes and 2) a projector ensemble that geometrically takes diverse local features as inputs is proposed to model visual-semantic relations from diverse local perspectives. Secondly, we propose an inner disagreement based domain detection module (ID3M) for GZSL to alleviate the third limitation, which picks out unseen-class data before class-level classification. Due to the absence of unseen-class data in training stage, ID3M employs a novel self-contained training scheme and detects out unseen-class data based on a designed inner disagreement criterion. Experimental results on three public datasets demonstrate that the proposed SetNet with the explored ID3M achieves a significant improvement against $30$ state-of-the-art methods.
description: 35 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 13 of DNA interference is controlled by R-loop length in a type I-F1 CRISPR-Cas system
Creators: name: Tuminauskaite, Donata
name: Danguole Norkunaite
name: Fiodorovaite, Marija
name: Sarunas Tumas
name: Songailiene, Inga
name: Giedre Tamulaitiene
name: Sinkunas, Tomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 13: Table S3. Oligonucleotides.
Temporally-decoherent and spatially-coherent vibrations in metal halide perovskite
Creators: name: Zhang, Depei
name: Hu, Xiao
name: Chen, Tianran
name: Abernathy, Douglas L.
name: Kajimoto, Ryoichi
name: Nakamura, Mitsutaka
name: Kofu, Maiko
name: Foley, Benjamin J.
name: Yoon, Mina
name: Choi, Joshua J.
name: Lee, Seung-Hun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The long carrier lifetime and defect tolerance in metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are major contributors to the superb performance of MHP optoelectronic devices. Large polarons were reported to be responsible for the long carrier lifetime. Yet microscopic mechanisms of the large polaron formation including the so-called phonon melting, are still under debate. Here, time-of-flight (TOF) inelastic neutron scattering (INS) experiments and first-principles density-functional theory (DFT) calculations were employed to investigate the lattice vibrations (or phonon dynamics) in methylammonium lead iodide ($\rm{MAPbI_3}$), a prototypical example of MHPs. Our findings are that optical phonons lose temporal coherence gradually with increasing temperature which vanishes at the orthorhombic-to-tetragonal structural phase transition. Surprisingly, however, we found that the spatial coherence is still retained throughout the decoherence process. We argue that the temporally decoherent and spatially coherent vibrations contribute to the formation of large polarons in this metal halide perovskite.
Additional file 1 of Incidence and predictors of in-stent restenosis following intervention for pulmonary vein stenosis due to fibrosing mediastinitis
Creators: name: Jia, Mengfei
name: Su, Hongling
name: Jiang, Kaiyu
name: Wang, Aqian
name: Guo, Zhaoxia
name: Zhu, Hai
name: Zhang, Fu
name: Sun, Xuechun
name: Shi, Yiwei
name: Pan, Xin
name: Cao, Yunshan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
Finite volume effects using lattice chiral perturbation theory
Creators: name: Borasoy, Bugra
name: Lewis, Randy
name: Mazur, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice regularization is used to perform chiral perturbation theory calculations in finite volume. The lattice spacing is chosen small enough to be irrelevant, and numerical results are obtained from simple summations.
description: Lattice2004(spectrum), 3 pages
Sub-vector Efficiency analysis in Chance Constrained Stochastic DEA: An application to irrigation water use in the Krishna river basin, India
Creators: name: Chellattan Veettil, Prakashan
name: Ashok, Arathy
name: Speelman, Stijn
name: Buysse, Jeroen
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
name: Chellattan Veettil, Prakashan
name: Ashok, Arathy
name: Speelman, Stijn
name: Buysse, Jeroen
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Stochastic DEA
subject: sub-vector efficiency
subject: chance constrained programming
subject: irrigation water use efficiency

description: All deviations from the frontier is inefficiency in deterministic DEA (DDEA); thus making the DDEA unable to accommodate the measurement and specification errors. But, most of the production relationships are stochastic in nature with some inputs fixed in the short run. This paper addressed the above two issues by formulating a sub-vector efficiency model in a Stochastic DEA (SDEA) framework to analyze the efficiency of sub vector of inputs. The results illustrate that there is a wide scope for stochastic efficiency analysis. The overall efficiency in SDEA is higher than DDEA under both Constant and Variable Return to Scale frameworks. SDEA revealed that some efficient producers are not sub-vector efficient in our case study. Thus, overall efficiency oriented policy may not be sufficient for optimizing water use. The proposed model has limitations in terms of the degree of stochastic variability and the level of tolerance that the model can accommodate
Farmers’ Adoption of Extensive Wheat Production - Determinants and Implications
Creators: name: Finger, Robert
name: El Benni, Nadja
name: Finger, Robert
name: El Benni, Nadja
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Extensive wheat production
subject: agri-environmental programme
subject: adoption analysis
subject: Switzerland

description: Using FADN data, we analyse farmers’ adoption decisions with respect to extensive wheat production, which is supported in Switzerland since 1992 with an ecological direct payment scheme. It shows that first year adoption was mainly characterized by free-riding effects. In particular small farms with low levels of input use and wheat yields adopted extensive wheat production. If later adoption phases are included, these differences in farm size between adopters and non-adopters vanish. However, the level of wheat yields is still an important adoption determinant. Less intensive producing farms (with lower yield levels) are much more likely to adopt extensive wheat production. In contrast, more intensively producing farms, i.e. those farms that may actually harm the environment, usually not adopt extensive wheat production. Thus, aggregated environmental effects of this programme may be limited and the effectiveness of voluntary participation in agricultural environmental protection programmes should be re-considered.
Waking the Colored Plasma
Creators: name: Ruppert, Jorg
name: Muller, Berndt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the wake induced in a hot, dense QCD medium by a fast parton in the framework of linear response theory. We discuss two different scenarios: a weakly coupled quark gluon plasma (pQGP) described by hard-thermal loop (HTL) perturbation theory and a strongly coupled QGP (sQGP), which had the properties of a quantum liquid.
description: Fig. 1 revised. Version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Sesir Stock 1967
Creators: name: Kim, Il-Hoi
name: Boxshall, Geoff A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Copepoda
Cyclopoida
Notodelphyidae
Sesir

description: Genus Sesir Stock, 1967
Diagnosis. Female body elongate, cylindrical; 4 pedigerous somites discernible by weak constrictions: second tofourth pedigeroussomites forming brood pouch. Freeurosome cylindrical, unsegmented. Caudalramus armedwith 6 setae. Antennule 8-segmented. Antenna 4-segmented; comprising coxa, basis and 2-segmented endopod; exopod absent. Mandible with 1 setaon basis; 5 setaeon exopod, endopod 2-segmented, armedwith 4 and 9 setae on first and second segments, respectively. Maxillule with 6 setae on arthrite; coxal endite and epipodite absent; basiswith 1 seta mediodistally; exopod and endopod lobate and not articulated from basis, each armed with 3 setae distally. Maxilla 5-segmented; syncoxa with 5 setae, basiswith 2 setae; endopodwith 1, 1, and 3 setae on first to third segments, respectively. Maxilliped unsegmented, armed with 8 medial and 2 apical setae. Legs 1–3 with 3-segmented rami, leg 4 with 3-segmented exopod and 2-segmented endopod. Legs 1–4 lacking inner coxal seta. Outer seta on basis absent in leg 4. Basis, exopods and endopods heavily ornamented with rows of spinules. Armature formula for legs 1–4 as follows:
Leg 5 consistingof unarmed protopod fusedto somite plus free exopodal segment with 1 distal seta.
Type species: Sesir parvipes Stock, 1967, by original designation.
Remarks. This genus is monotypic. The typespecies is redescribed below based on the study of new material.
description: Published as part of Kim, Il-Hoi & Boxshall, Geoff A., 2020, Untold diversity: the astonishing species richness of the Notodelphyidae (Copepoda: Cyclopoida), a family of symbiotic copepods associated with ascidians (Tunicata), pp. 1-6 in Megataxa 4 (1) on page 409, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.4.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4591138
Understanding high pressure hydrogen with a hierarchical machine-learned potential
Creators: name: Zong, Hongxiang
name: Wiebe, Heather
name: Ackland, Graeme J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hydrogen phase diagram has a number of unusual features which are generally well reproduced by density functional calculations. Unfortunately, these calculations fail to provide good physical insights into why those features occur. In this paper, we parameterize a model potential for molecular hydrogen which permits long and large simulations. The model shows excellent reproduction of the phase diagram, including the broken-symmetry Phase II, an efficiently-packed phase III and the maximum in the melt curve. It also gives an excellent reproduction of the vibrational frequencies, including the maximum in the vibrational frequency $ν(P)$ and negative thermal expansion. By detailed study of lengthy molecular dynamics, we give intuitive explanations for observed and calculated properties. All solid structures approximate to hexagonal close packed, with symmetry broken by molecular orientation. At high pressure, Phase I shows significant short-ranged correlations between molecular orientations. The turnover in Raman frequency is due to increased coupling between neighboring molecules, rather than weakening of the bond. The liquid is denser than the close-packed solid because, at molecular separations below 2.3Å, the favoured relative orientation switches from quadrupole-energy-minimising to steric-repulsion-minimising. The latter allows molecules to get closer together, without atoms getting closer but this cannot be achieved within the constraints of a close-packed layer.
Twisted Alexander polynomials of periodic knots
Creators: name: Hillman, Jonathan A
name: Livingston, Charles
name: Naik, Swatee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57M27

description: Murasugi discovered two criteria that must be satisfied by the Alexander polynomial of a periodic knot. We generalize these to the case of twisted Alexander polynomials. Examples demonstrate the application of these new criteria, including to knots with trivial Alexander polynomial, such as the two polynomial 1 knots with 11 crossings. Hartley found a restrictive condition satisfied by the Alexander polynomial of any freely periodic knot. We generalize this result to the twisted Alexander polynomial and illustrate the applicability of this extension in cases in which Hartley's criterion does not apply.
description: This is the version published by Algebraic & Geometric Topology on 24 February 2006
A regional analysis of CAP expenditure in Austria
Creators: name: Strahl, Wibke
name: Dax, Thomas
name: Hovorka, Gerhard
name: Strahl, Wibke
name: Dax, Thomas
name: Hovorka, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: CAP expenditure
subject: regional analysis
subject: territorial effectiveness

description: This paper reflects the demand for taking account of the territorial dimension in the application of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) more comprehensively. While this has been addressed in rural development discourse to a wide extent over the last two decades and consensus for regionalized strategies is emerging, programme evaluation is in general still limited to the analysis of policy interventions at the national level. This implies that conclusions on the territorial effects of CAP are largely missing. Therefore the intention of this paper is to provide a regional analysis of CAP expenditures for pillar 1 and pillar 2, and to demonstrate and assess their actual territorial impacts, represented on the basis of the NUTS 3 region ‘Obersteiermark West’: The territorial analysis presented is an example to reduce this gap (national vs territorial) in the evaluation of CAP.
Additional file 12 of DNA interference is controlled by R-loop length in a type I-F1 CRISPR-Cas system
Creators: name: Tuminauskaite, Donata
name: Danguole Norkunaite
name: Fiodorovaite, Marija
name: Sarunas Tumas
name: Songailiene, Inga
name: Giedre Tamulaitiene
name: Sinkunas, Tomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 12: Table S2. Expression vectors and plasmid substrates.
Additional file 1 of Exercise, disease state and sex influence the beneficial effects of Fn14-depletion on survival and muscle pathology in the SOD1G93A amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) mouse model
Creators: name: Hazell, Gareth
name: McCallion, Eve
name: Ahlskog, Nina
name: Sutton, Emma R.
name: Okoh, Magnus
name: Shaqoura, Emad I. H.
name: Hoolachan, Joseph M.
name: Scaife, Taylor
name: Iqbal, Sara
name: Bhomra, Amarjit
name: Kordala, Anna J.
name: Scamps, Frederique
name: Raoul, Cedric
name: Wood, Matthew J. A.
name: Bowerman, Melissa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Survival of SOD1G93A;Fn14+/-> and are not significantly different. Survival curves of SOD1G93A;Fn14+/- and SOD1G93A; Fn14-/- mice that performed both the rotarod and grid test weekly from 8 weeks to humane endpoint (males and females combined). Data are represented as Kaplan-Meier survival curves, n= 12-13 animals per experimental group, Log-rank (Mantel-Cox), ns = not significant.