cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Scoping review of bullying and harassment in nonprofit and voluntary organizations
Creators: name: Hodgins, Margaret
name: Pursell, Lisa
name: Itzkovich, Yariv
name: Mac Curtain, Sarah Anne
name: Rayner, Charlotte
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 350507
subject: Workplace wellbeing and quality of working life

description: Approximately 15% of workers are exposed to bullying in their workplace. However, few studies appear to have been conducted in nonprofit and voluntary organizations. This scoping review explored prevalence and structural and contextual factors that influence bullying in nonprofit and voluntary organizations. From a capture of 671 papers, 54 were assessed for eligibility and 18 full-text articles were reviewed. Bullying is prevalent in nonprofit and voluntary organizations at the same or higher levels as other sectors, with sexual harassment appearing to be a serious problem in the context of fundraising. A synthesis of papers found a suite of factors presented in four themes; complex and unique power relations, the exploitation of virtuosity, the exercise of hegemonic power, and asymmetrical power and extreme dependency, which together act to stabilize the presence of bullying in nonprofit and voluntary organizations. Such dynamics need to be disrupted for intervention to occur. Further research is needed on how volunteers “sense-make” in the face of dissonance between organizational mission and behavior, intervention evaluation, and regulating philanthropic donation to reduce donor dependence
L’art désœuvré, modes d’emploi. Entre esthétique et théorie de la restauration
Creators: name: Fimiani, Filippo
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: In the ontology of the work of art and its regimes of existence, Gérard Genette gives but little room to the theory and practice of restoration. However, restoration is seen in relation to the identity of the work itself and to its material and pragmatic temporality and anachronism. In the wake of Nelson Goodman, it is also understood as a form of actuation of the aesthetic experience. Starting from these premises, the present essay intends to examine the relationship between Genette’s and Daniel Arasse’s reflections on restoration and the history of art, highlighting their similarities and differences with Cesare Brandi’s theory of restoration and, therefore, pointing out their as yet undischarged debts to Sartre’s phenomenology of image.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2011): L'estetica all'opera. Focus Genette
Structural change in agribusiness: The case of Potgietersrusse Tabak Kooperasie (PTK)
Creators: name: Doyer, Ockert T.
name: Van Rooyen, C.J.
name: Doyer, Ockert T.
name: Van Rooyen, C.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Farm Management

description: In response to the structural changes in the South African agricultural sector, Potgieterusse Tabakkooperasie (PTK) extended its operations to include marketing activities. This article introduces the theme of structural change/industrialisation in the South African agricultural sector and explores the complexity of structural options and decision-making variables that managers have to face when considering vertical expansion. A case study approach is followed at the hand of new institutional economics to explain strategic choices by PTK management. The results from organisational theory and transaction cost theory, as applied to the same problem, yields complimentary and robust results.
Clues on the Structure and Composition of Galactic Disks from Studies of "Superthin" Spirals: the Case of UGC3697
Creators: name: Matthews, Lynn D.
name: Uson, Juan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarize results from an HI+optical imaging study of the ``Integral Sign'' galaxy, UGC3697. UGC3697 is a low-mass, Sd spiral that exhibits a ``superthin'' disk morphology despite a prounced gasous and stellar warp. Our new observations show evidence for a recent minor merger in this system that could account for its large-scale warp and a number of other properties of this galaxy. We speculate that UGC3697 has been caught in a rather short-lived dynamical state, and may soon undergo significant structural and morphological changes.
description: 4 pages; to appear in Baryons in Dark Matter Halos, SISSA Proceedings of Science, edited by R.-J. Dettmar, U. Klein, and P. Salucci, in press
Early Biomarkers and Intervention Programs for the Infant Exposed to Prenatal Stress
Creators: name: Antonelli, Marta C.
name: Frasch, Martin G.
name: Rumi, Mercedes
name: Sharma, Ritika
name: Zimmermann, Peter
name: Molinet, Maria Sol
name: Lobmaier, Silvia M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Functional development of affective and reward circuits, cognition and response inhibition later in life exhibits vulnerability periods during gestation and early childhood. Extensive evidence supports the model that exposure to stressors in the gestational period and early postnatal life increases an individual's susceptibility to future impairments of functional development. Recent versions of this model integrate epigenetic mechanisms of the developmental response. Their understanding will guide the future treatment of the associated neuropsychiatric disorders. A combination of non-invasively obtainable physiological signals and epigenetic biomarkers related to the principal systems of the stress response, the Hypothalamic-Pituitary axis (HPA) and the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), are emerging as the key predictors of neurodevelopmental outcomes. Such electrophysiological and epigenetic biomarkers can prove to timely identify children benefiting most from early intervention programs. Such programs should ameliorate future disorders in otherwise apparently healthy children. The recently developed Early Family-Centered Intervention Programs aim to influence the care and stimuli provided daily by the family and improving parent/child attachment, a key element for healthy socio-emotional adult life. Although frequently underestimated, such biomarker-guided early intervention strategy represents a crucial first step in the prevention of future neuropsychiatric problems and in reducing their personal and societal impact.
description: 18 pages-Review
Characteristics of the agricultural sector of the 21st Century
Creators: name: Troskie, Dirk P.
name: Mathijs, Erik
name: Vink, Nick
name: Troskie, Dirk P.
name: Mathijs, Erik
name: Vink, Nick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The objective of this paper is to identify some of the salient characteristics of agriculture in the new millennium. The driving force behind economic change is technology and information, and information and knowledge will replace land, labour and capital as the sources of wealth in agriculture. The resultant cognitive-technical complex in farm production will lead to the true industrialisation of farming and thus placing the traditional family farmer at a distinct disadvantage. Technology developments combined with inverse population growth and ageing population, will not only negate Malthusian visions, but also lead to downward pressure on farm commodity prices, and thus increase the adoption rates of new technology. However, in reaction to the increasingly complex nature of modern society a demand is developing for terroir-based products. This range of products may not only significantly change some characteristics of agriculture, but also provide a new set of opportunities for farmers. Agricultural policy and development strategies should also be reconsidered in the light of this new environment.
Technical innovation and farm productivity growth in dryland Africa: The effects of structural adjustment on smallholders in Kenya
Creators: name: Nyariki, D.M.
name: Thirtle, Colin G.
name: Nyariki, D.M.
name: Thirtle, Colin G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Farm Management
Productivity Analysis
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: This paper uses non-parametric approach to measure technical innovation and productivity growth at the smallholder farm-level in dry-land sub-Saharan Africa during the initial years of the structural adjustment programmes for agriculture. Data from Kenya for two production years, 1991/2 and 1995/6 are used to construct a Malmquist productivity index. The results show that the rise in input prices led to reduced use of modern inputs, so that efficiency increased at 12% per year. However, lower use of modern varieties and less fertiliser also gave technological regression at 2.5% per annum, so that the overall outcome was productivity growth of 3% per annum. However, productivity improvement cannot be sustainable without technological progress.
A Note on Energy-Momentum Conservation in Palatini Formulation of L(R) Gravity
Creators: name: Wang, Peng
name: Kremer, Gilberto M.
name: Alves, Daniele S. M.
name: Meng, Xin-He
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By establishing that Palatini formulation of $L(R)$ gravity is equivalent to $ω=-3/2$ Brans-Dicke theory, we show that energy-momentum tensor is covariantly conserved in this type of modified gravity theory.
description: 7 pages
Classifying relaxed highest-weight modules for admissible-level Bershadsky-Polyakov algebras
Creators: name: Fehily, Zachary
name: Kawasetsu, Kazuya
name: Ridout, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Bershadsky-Polyakov algebras are the minimal quantum hamiltonian reductions of the affine vertex algebras associated to $\mathfrak{sl}_3$ and their simple quotients have a long history of applications in conformal field theory and string theory. Their representation theories are therefore quite interesting. Here, we classify the simple relaxed highest-weight modules, with finite-dimensional weight spaces, for all admissible but nonintegral levels, significantly generalising the known highest-weight classifications [arxiv:1005.0185, arxiv:1910.13781]. In particular, we prove that the simple Bershadsky-Polyakov algebras with admissible nonintegral $\mathsf{k}$ are always rational in category $\mathscr{O}$, whilst they always admit nonsemisimple relaxed highest-weight modules unless $\mathsf{k}+\frac{3}{2} \in \mathbb{Z}_{\ge0}$.
description: 35 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Lateral shift of the transmitted light beam through a left-handed slab
Creators: name: Chen, Xi
name: Li, Chun-Fang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is reported that when a light beam travels through a slab of left-handed medium in the air, the lateral shift of the transmitted beam can be negative as well as positive. The necessary condition for the lateral shift to be positive is given. The validity of the stationary-phase approach is demonstrated by numerical simulations for a Gaussian-shaped beam. A restriction to the slab's thickness is provided that is necessary for the beam to retain its profile in the traveling. It is shown that the lateral shift of the reflected beam is equal to that of the transmitted beam in the symmetric configuration.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Juliane Brauer, Zeitgefühle – Wie die DDR ihre Zukunft besang. Eine Emotionsgeschichte, Bielefeld (transcript) 2020
Creators: name: Corbin, Anne-Marie
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2021

description: Juliane Brauer, Zeitgefühle – Wie die DDR ihre Zukunft besang. Eine Emotionsgeschichte, Bielefeld (transcript) 2020, 427 S., 54 s/w Abb., ISBN 978-3-8376-5285-7, EUR 45,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2021/4
Aby Warburg e il dramma barocco
Creators: name: Cieri Via, Claudia
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: Analogies, contaminations and assonances between certain aspects of the thought of Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin are still at the center of the contemporary theoretical debate. In the absence of tangible and documented exchanges, the similarities between the two scholars can be found in the structure of their most original and significant works, the Atlas of Memory and the Passagen-Werk, and in the adoption of the fragment as a conceptual language. Of particular interest is the reflection on baroque which, for both scholars, involves the relation with the ancient tragedy and the modern drama.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 3 No. 2 (2010): Costellazioni tempestive. Warburg- Adorno-Benjamin, Adorno
Additional file 2 of A genome-scale CRISPR interference guide library enables comprehensive phenotypic profiling in yeast
Creators: name: McGlincy, Nicholas J.
name: Zuriah A. Meacham
name: Reynaud, Kendra K.
name: Muller, Ryan
name: Baum, Rachel
name: Ingolia, Nicholas T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figures S1 and S2. Detailed strategy for library construction and sequencing.
Randomized Block-Diagonal Preconditioning for Parallel Learning
Creators: name: Mendler-Dünner, Celestine
name: Lucchi, Aurelien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study preconditioned gradient-based optimization methods where the preconditioning matrix has block-diagonal form. Such a structural constraint comes with the advantage that the update computation is block-separable and can be parallelized across multiple independent tasks. Our main contribution is to demonstrate that the convergence of these methods can significantly be improved by a randomization technique which corresponds to repartitioning coordinates across tasks during the optimization procedure. We provide a theoretical analysis that accurately characterizes the expected convergence gains of repartitioning and validate our findings empirically on various traditional machine learning tasks. From an implementation perspective, block-separable models are well suited for parallelization and, when shared memory is available, randomization can be implemented on top of existing methods very efficiently to improve convergence.
description: improvement in Theorem 3 compared to ICML 2020 version
3532: Martin Quinn, R.E.
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Framed photo of the owner's grandfather, Martin Quinn, R.E. Service No. 606234, 1874-1956. He enlisted in 1897 and was a career soldier. Martin was injured at the Somme, participated in other battles, also serving with the R.A., R.A.F. after that war, and with the Irish Fusiliers. There are also 3 medals, two awarded while serving and one presented by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh on returning after the war.
Additional file 1 of Efficiency and efficacy of planning and care on a post-anesthesia care unit: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Tunen, Bart Van
name: Klimek, Markus
name: Leendertse-Verloop, Karin
name: Stolker, Robert J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Appendices.
Nils Bennemann, Rheinwissen. Die Zentralkommission für die Rheinschifffahrt als Wissensregime, 1817–1880, Göttingen (V&R) 2021
Creators: name: Libera, Martial
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2021

description: Nils Bennemann, Rheinwissen. Die Zentralkommission für die Rheinschifffahrt als Wissensregime, 1817–1880, Göttingen (V&R) 2021, 314 S., zahlr. Kt. (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, 260), ISBN 978-3-525-33605-2, EUR 70,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2021/4
Dynamics of Antimembranes in the Maximally Supersymmetric Eleven-Dimensional pp Wave
Creators: name: Michelson, Jeremy
name: Wu, Xinkai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a spherical antimembrane in the eleven dimensional pp wave. In this background, a single antimembrane breaks all the supersymmetries because its dipole is misaligned with the background flux. Using the BMN matrix theory we compute the one-loop potential for the antimembrane. Then we put the antimembrane in the field produced by a source spherical membrane and compute the velocity-dependent part of the interaction between them on both the supergravity side and the BMN matrix theory side. Despite the aforementioned nonsupersymmetry of the antimembrane, it is found that the results on the two sides completely agree.
description: 14 pages REVTeX and AMSLaTeX, plus appendices, for a total of 29 pages; v2: reference added; v3: minor changes (footnote and clarification added)
K-Shot Contrastive Learning of Visual Features with Multiple Instance Augmentations
Creators: name: Xu, Haohang
name: Xiong, Hongkai
name: Qi, Guo-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose the $K$-Shot Contrastive Learning (KSCL) of visual features by applying multiple augmentations to investigate the sample variations within individual instances. It aims to combine the advantages of inter-instance discrimination by learning discriminative features to distinguish between different instances, as well as intra-instance variations by matching queries against the variants of augmented samples over instances. Particularly, for each instance, it constructs an instance subspace to model the configuration of how the significant factors of variations in $K$-shot augmentations can be combined to form the variants of augmentations. Given a query, the most relevant variant of instances is then retrieved by projecting the query onto their subspaces to predict the positive instance class. This generalizes the existing contrastive learning that can be viewed as a special one-shot case. An eigenvalue decomposition is performed to configure instance subspaces, and the embedding network can be trained end-to-end through the differentiable subspace configuration. Experiment results demonstrate the proposed $K$-shot contrastive learning achieves superior performances to the state-of-the-art unsupervised methods.
Participation in Conservation Programs by Targeted Farmers: Beginning, Limited-Resource, and Socially Disadvantaged Operators' Enrollment Trends
Creators: name: Nickerson, Cynthia J.
name: Hand, Michael S.
name: Nickerson, Cynthia J.
name: Hand, Michael S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Conservation programs
subject: Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
subject: Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)
subject: Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
subject: beginning farmers
subject: limited-resource producers
subject: socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers

description: Beginning, limited-resource, and socially disadvantaged farmers make up as much as 40 percent of all U.S. farms. Some Federal conservation programs contain provisions that encourage participation by such “targeted” farmers and the 2008 Farm Act furthered these efforts. This report compares the natural resource characteristics, resource issues, and conservation treatment costs on farms operated by targeted farmers with those of other participants in the largest U.S. working-lands and land retirement conservation programs. Some evidence shows that targeted farmers tend to operate more environmentally sensitive land than other farmers, have different conservation priorities, and receive different levels of payments. Data limitations preclude a definitive analysis of whether efforts to improve participation by targeted farmers hinders or enhances the conservation programs’ ability to deliver environmental benefits cost effectively. But the different conservation priorities among types of farmers suggest that if a significantly larger proportion of targeted farmers participates in these programs, the programs’ economic and environmental outcomes could change.
Additional file 8 of A genome-scale CRISPR interference guide library enables comprehensive phenotypic profiling in yeast
Creators: name: McGlincy, Nicholas J.
name: Zuriah A. Meacham
name: Reynaud, Kendra K.
name: Muller, Ryan
name: Baum, Rachel
name: Ingolia, Nicholas T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Table S8. Table of custom oligonucleotide sequences used in this study.
The world food situation: New driving forces and required actions
Creators: name: Von Braun, Joachim
name: Von Braun, Joachim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: World food situation
subject: Globalization
subject: food security
subject: agricultural production
subject: markets
subject: food prices
subject: climate change

description: The world food situation is currently being rapidly redefined by new driving forces. Income growth, climate change, high energy prices, globalization, and urbanization are transforming food consumption, production, and markets. The influence of the private sector in the world food system, especially the leverage of food retailers, is also rapidly increasing. Changes in food availability, rising commodity prices, and new producer–consumer linkages have crucial implications for the livelihoods of poor and food-insecure people. Analyzing and interpreting recent trends and emerging challenges in the world food situation is essential in order to provide policymakers with the necessary information to mobilize adequate responses at the local, national, regional, and international levels. It is also critical for helping to appropriately adjust research agendas in agriculture, nutrition, and health. Not surprisingly, renewed global attention is being given to the role of agriculture and food in development policy, as can be seen from the World Bank’s World Development Report, accelerated public action in African agriculture under the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), and the Asian Development Bank’s recent initiatives for more investment in agriculture, to name just a few examples.
3538: George Keppie
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: 2 photographs of Jim's father, George Paterson Keppie, who served with the Royal Scots, 9th battalion ("Dandy Ninth") as a private, before becoming an officer and reaching the rank of Lieutenant. The photo was taken while the soldiers were awaiting orders/inspection by Sir Arthur Fitzroy Paget. Location unknown, on the Western Front. Also newspaper report re Arthur Ernest Keppie, cousin to George, served with the Australian Army, died at Gallipoli, as did George's brother, James Keppie.
Additional file 7 of A genome-scale CRISPR interference guide library enables comprehensive phenotypic profiling in yeast
Creators: name: McGlincy, Nicholas J.
name: Zuriah A. Meacham
name: Reynaud, Kendra K.
name: Muller, Ryan
name: Baum, Rachel
name: Ingolia, Nicholas T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Figure S3. Receiver operating characteristic for logistic regression models of guide activity.
Half-magnetization plateau stabilized by structural distortion in the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a pyrochlore lattice
Creators: name: Penc, K.
name: Shannon, N.
name: Shiba, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetization plateaus, visible as anomalies in magnetic susceptibility at low temperatures, are one of the hallmarks of frustrated magnetism. We show how an extremely robust half-magnetization plateau can arise from coupling between spin and lattice degrees of freedom in a pyrochlore antiferromagnet, and develop a detailed symmetry of analysis of the simplest possible scenario for such a plateau state. The application of this theory to the spinel oxides CdCr2O4 and HgCr2O4, where a robust half magnetization plateau has been observed, is discussed.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Agricultural research: a growing global divide?
Creators: name: Pardey, Philip G.
name: Beintema, Nienke M.
name: Dehmer, Steven
name: Wood, Stanley
name: Pardey, Philip G.
name: Beintema, Nienke M.
name: Dehmer, Steven
name: Wood, Stanley
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Sustained, well-targeted, and effectively used investments in R&D have reaped handsome rewards from improved agricultural productivity and cheaper, higher quality foods and fibers. As we begin a new millennium, the global patterns of investments in agricultural R&D are changing in ways that may have profound consequences for the structure of agriculture worldwide and the ability of poor people in poor counties to feed themselves. This report documents and discusses these changing investment patterns, highlighting developments in the public and private sectors. It revises and carries forward to 2000 data that were previously reported in the 2001 IFPRI Food Policy Report Slow Magic: Agricultural R&D a Century After Mendel. Some past trends are continuing or have come into sharper focus, while others are moving in new directions not apparent in the previous series. In addition, this report illustrates the use of spatial data to analyze spillover prospects among countries or agroecologies and the targeting of R&D to address specific production problems like drought-induced production risks. More detailed data on the agricultural research investment trends summarized here can be accessed at www.asti.cgiar.org.
Modeling Caricature Expressions by 3D Blendshape and Dynamic Texture
Creators: name: Chen, Keyu
name: Zheng, Jianmin
name: Cai, Jianfei
name: Zhang, Juyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The problem of deforming an artist-drawn caricature according to a given normal face expression is of interest in applications such as social media, animation and entertainment. This paper presents a solution to the problem, with an emphasis on enhancing the ability to create desired expressions and meanwhile preserve the identity exaggeration style of the caricature, which imposes challenges due to the complicated nature of caricatures. The key of our solution is a novel method to model caricature expression, which extends traditional 3DMM representation to caricature domain. The method consists of shape modelling and texture generation for caricatures. Geometric optimization is developed to create identity-preserving blendshapes for reconstructing accurate and stable geometric shape, and a conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) is designed for generating dynamic textures under target expressions. The combination of both shape and texture components makes the non-trivial expressions of a caricature be effectively defined by the extension of the popular 3DMM representation and a caricature can thus be flexibly deformed into arbitrary expressions with good results visually in both shape and color spaces. The experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
description: Accepted by the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2020)
Additional file 1 of Self-perception of dietary quality and adherence to food groups dietary recommendations among Mexican adults
Creators: name: Batis, Carolina
name: Analí Castellanos-Gutiérrez
name: Aburto, Tania C.
name: Jiménez-Aguilar, Alejandra
name: Rivera, Juan A.
name: Ramírez-Silva, Ivonne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Sensitivity analyses excluding under reporters of total energy intake and comparing the intake according to the perception of consuming ≥5 fruits and vegetables per day.1
Vacuum polarization around stars: nonlocal approximation
Creators: name: Satz, Alejandro
name: Mazzitelli, Francisco D.
name: Alvarez, Ezequiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the vacuum polarization associated with quantum massless fields around stars with spherical symmetry. The nonlocal contribution to the vacuum polarization is dominant in the weak field limit, and induces quantum corrections to the exterior metric that depend on the inner structure of the star. It also violates the null energy conditions. We argue that similar results also hold in the low energy limit of quantum gravity. Previous calculations of the vacuum polarization in spherically symmetric spacetimes, based on local approximations, are not adequate for newtonian stars.
description: 8 pages, no figures
Private security companies and human security : assessing the impact of new actors on a new process
Creators: name: Spearin, Christopher Robert
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation assesses the presence of internationally oriented private security companies (PSCs), a form of modern-day mercenarism, upon the promotion of human security. This assessment is a considered response, employing multiple cases, PSCs, and services, to those who espouse the use of PSCs. It is also fitting given the holistic nature of human security with its emphasis upon multiple actors and diffused responsibility. Using two human security characteristics of organized force, good conduct and good governance, the dissertation examines PSCs in terms of their application of armed force, their work in security-sector training, and their interaction with humanitarian endeavours. Accompanying this analysis is a consideration of the present state of regulation and the degree to which it does, and might in the future, respond to the need to promote human security. The dissertation makes four findings with relevance both for PSCs and the promotion of human security. One is that firms, on their own merits, have a relatively positive direct impact upon human security. The second finding, however, is that their indirect impact is less promising. The third finding is that potential regulators, whether they are international or regional organizations or supplier states, are not yet ready, or perhaps even willing, to implement human-security-centric regulation of PSCs. The fourth and more general finding of this dissertation is that the promotion of human security must be seen as a process rather than an end goal. This is due to the indirect effects and negligent character of various actors' conduct both on their own and in combination with those of others. In sum, the PSC is a "neutral" instrument to be employed in a variety of ways. But given the nature of the marketplace, client relations, regulatory standards, and in some cases the poor judgments of the PSCs in response to client demands, human security promotion is not always at the fore.
Hidden harvest: U.S. benefits from international research aid
Creators: name: Pardey, Philip G.
name: Alston, Julian M.
name: Christian, Jason E.
name: Fan, Shenggen
name: Pardey, Philip G.
name: Alston, Julian M.
name: Christian, Jason E.
name: Fan, Shenggen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Agricultural assistance
subject: American
subject: economic aspects
subject: developing countries
subject: agricultural research
subject: finance
subject: investments

description: This report spells out the benefits to the United States from its partnership with the CGIAR. Using wheat and rice to illustrate the gains from international research on important food crops, the report shows that U.S. investments in CGIAR wheat and rice research have paid off many times over for U.S. farmers
Additional file 6 of Phytochemical profile and antiproliferative effect of Ficus crocata extracts on triple-negative breast cancer cells
Creators: name: Sánchez-Valdeolívar, Carlos A.
name: Alvarez-Fitz, Patricia
name: Zacapala-Gómez, Ana E.
name: Macdiel Acevedo-Quiroz
name: Cayetano-Salazar, Lorena
name: Olea-Flores, Monserrat
name: Jhonathan U. Castillo-Reyes
name: Napoleón Navarro-Tito
name: Ortuño-Pineda, Carlos
name: Leyva-Vázquez, Marco A.
name: Ortíz-Ortíz, Julio
name: Yaneth Castro-Coronel
name: Mendoza-Catalán, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Table S1. Phytochemical profile of the dichloromethane extract fractions of F. crocata leaves.
3389: Boroughmuir High School Magazine
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Two volumes Boroughmuir High School Magazine, Vols. 10,11,12 School magazines include:
- photos of former pupils, obituaries
- war effort in school, cadets
- events in Edinburgh
- letters from former pupils about their service 170 former pupils of the school served and died in the First World War.
Analytical representations of unified equations of state of neutron-star matter
Creators: name: Haensel, P.
name: Potekhin, A. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analytical representations are derived for two equations of state (EOSs) of neutron-star matter: FPS and SLy. Each of these EOSs is unified, that is, it describes the crust and the core of a neutron star using the same physical model. Two versions of the EOS parametrization are considered. In the first one, pressure and mass density are given as functions of the baryon density. In the second version, pressure, mass density, and baryon density are given as functions of the pseudo-enthalpy, which makes this representation particularly useful for 2-D calculations of stationary rotating configurations of neutron stars.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, accepted by A&A. In v.2, auxiliary fits (15) and (16) are corrected
L’ontologie de régime de Gérard Genette
Creators: name: Pouivet, Roger
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: What does Gérard Genette mean by ontology of art ? In order to answer this question, one may distinguish two forms of ontology. The first type answers the question What things do exist and what is their nature ? The second type is about the things’ modes of existence, as distinct from the nature of things. The first part of The Work of Art, with the fundamental distinction it makes between immanence and transcendence, aims to address the questions raised by by the modes of existence of artworks identified as such by the usages and practices of the artworld. Thus, Genette’s ontology is of the second type. However, does Genette succeed in his attempt to eschew the two major question of the first type o ontology—the existence and the nature of artworks ? To what extent may one suggest that these two questions pervade his whole ontology of art ?
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2011): L'estetica all'opera. Focus Genette
Regional boundary exponential reduced observability in distributed parameter systems
Creators: name: Al-Saphory, Raheam A.
name: Kolaib, Hind K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The aim of this chapter is to introduce the concept of regional boundary exponential reduced observability in connection with the sensors characterizations on a sub-region on boundary of the considered domain boundary. More precisely, we explore the original results devoted to this concept in linear dynamical systems which is generated by a strongly continuous semi-group in Hilbert space of order one. Thus, the existence of sufficient conditions is presented and examined for regional boundary exponential reduced estimator in parabolic infinite dimensional systems. Finally, we apply these results to the exchange systems with various strategic sensors.
description: Pages 18, 5 figures, regular paper
Elena Aronova, Scientific History. Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War, Chicago, London (The University of Chicago Press) 2021
Creators: name: Schöttler, Peter
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2021

description: Elena Aronova, Scientific History. Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War, Chicago, London (The University of Chicago Press) 2021, X–243 p., 5 ill., ISBN 978-0-226-76138-1, USD 45,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2021/4
Additional file 1 of Incidence of antidepressant use among community dwellers with and without Parkinson’s disease – a nationwide cohort study
Creators: name: Hentilä, Eerik
name: Tiihonen, Miia
name: Taipale, Heidi
name: Hartikainen, Sirpa
name: Anna-Maija Tolppanen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Exclusion diagnoses for the PD cohort. Supplementary Table 2. Antidepressants and ATC-codes. Supplementary Table 3. Incidence rates of antidepressant initiation in people with and without Parkinson’s disease in different time periods. Supplementary Figure 1. Formation of study population. Supplementary Figure 2. Incidence of any antidepressant use in those with at least 10 years of purchase data before the index date (index date 1.1.2006–31.12.2015).
A FPGA-Based Broadband EIT System for Complex Bioimpedance Measurements -- Design and Performance Estimation
Creators: name: Kusche, Roman
name: Malhotra, Ankit
name: Ryschka, Martin
name: Ardelt, Gunther
name: Klimach, Paula
name: Kaufmann, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is an imaging method that is able to estimate the electrical conductivity distribution of living tissue. This work presents a field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based multi-frequency EIT system for complex, time-resolved bioimpedance measurements. The system has the capability to work with measurement setups with up to 16 current electrodes and 16 voltage electrodes. The excitation current has a range of about 10 $μ$A to 5 mA, whereas the sinusoidal signal used for excitation can have a frequency of up to 500 kHz. Additionally, the usage of a chirp or rectangular signal excitation is possible. Furthermore, the described system has a sample rate of up to 3480 impedance spectra per second (ISPS). The performance of the EIT system is demonstrated with a resistor-based phantom and tank phantoms. Additionally, first measurements taken from the human thorax during a breathing cycle are presented.
On the Three-Dimensional Pauli Equation in Noncommutative Phase-Space
Creators: name: Haouam, Ilyas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we obtained the three-dimensional Pauli equation for a spin-1/2 particle in the presence of an electromagnetic field in noncommutative phase-space, as well the corresponding deformed continuity equation, where the cases of a constant and non-constant magnetic field are considered. Due to the absence of the current magnetization term in the deformed continuity equation as expected, we had to extract it from the noncommutative Pauli equation itself without modifying the continuity equation. It is shown that the non-constant magnetic field lifts the order of the noncommutativity parameter in both the Pauli equation and the corresponding continuity equation. However, we successfully examined the effect of the noncommutativity on the current density and the magnetization current. By using a classical treatment, we derived the semi-classical noncommutative partition function of the three-dimensional Pauli system of the one-particle and N-particle systems. Then, we employed it for calculating the corresponding Helmholtz free energy followed by the magnetization and the magnetic susceptibility of electrons in both commutative and noncommutative phase-spaces. Knowing that with both the three-dimensional Bopp-Shift transformation and the Moyal-Weyl product, we introduced the phase-space noncommutativity in the problems in question.
Additional file 1 of Phylogeography and population genetic structure of red muntjacs: evidence of enigmatic Himalayan red muntjac from India
Creators: name: Bhim Singh
name: Kumar, Ajit
name: Virendra Prasad Uniyal
name: Gupta, Sandeep Kumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional tables and figure.
Parity-to-charge conversion in Majorana qubit readout
Creators: name: Munk, Morten I. K.
name: Schulenborg, Jens
name: Egger, Reinhold
name: Flensberg, Karsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the time-dependent effect of Markovian readout processes on Majorana qubits whose parity degrees of freedom are converted into the charge of a tunnel-coupled quantum dot. By applying a recently established effective Lindbladian approximation [1-3], we obtain a completely positive and trace preserving Lindblad master equation for the combined dot-qubit dynamics, describing relaxation and decoherence processes beyond the rotating-wave approximation. This approach is applicable to a wide range of weakly coupled environments representing experimentally relevant readout devices. We study in detail the case of thermal decay in the presence of a generic Ohmic bosonic bath, in particular for potential fluctuations in an electromagnetic circuit. In addition, we consider the nonequilibrium measurement environment for a parity readout using a quantum point contact capacitively coupled to the dot charge.
description: References updated in v2. 21 pages, 9 figures
Ethanol and a Changing Agricultural Landscape
Creators: name: Malcolm, Scott A.
name: Aillery, Marcel P.
name: Weinberg, Marca
name: Malcolm, Scott A.
name: Aillery, Marcel P.
name: Weinberg, Marca
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Biofuels
subject: corn ethanol
subject: regional crop mix
subject: regional environmental effects
subject: water quality
subject: water use
subject: cellulosic ethanol
subject: crop residues
subject: livestock
subject: Regional Environment and Agriculture Programming (REAP) Model
subject: renewable fuel standard

description: The Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 established specific targets for the production of biofuel in the United States. Until advanced technologies become commercially viable, meeting these targets will increase demand for traditional agricultural commodities used to produce ethanol, resulting in land-use, production, and price changes throughout the farm sector. This report summarizes the estimated effects of meeting the EISA targets for 2015 on regional agricultural production and the environment. Meeting EISA targets for ethanol production is estimated to expand U.S. cropped acreage by nearly 5 million acres by 2015, an increase of 1.6 percent over what would otherwise be expected. Much of the growth comes from corn acreage, which increases by 3.5 percent over baseline projections. Water quality and soil carbon will also be affected, in some cases by greater percentages than suggested by changes in the amount of cropped land. The economic and environmental implications of displacing a portion of corn ethanol production with ethanol produced from crop residues are also estimated.
Constantin Ardeleanu, The European Commission of the Danube, 1856–1948. An Experiment in International Administration, Leiden (Brill Academic Publishers) 2020
Creators: name: Bioteau, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2021

description: Constantin Ardeleanu, The European Commission of the Danube, 1856–1948. An Experiment in International Administration, Leiden (Brill Academic Publishers) 2020, XIV–380 p., num. ill. (Balkan Studies Library, 27), ISBN 978-90-04-41253-8, EUR 149,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2021/4
Regional Boundary Strategic Sensors Characterizations
Creators: name: Al-Saphory, Raheam A.
name: Kolaib, Hind K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper, deals with the linear infinite dimensional distributed parameter systems in a Hilbert space where the dynamics of the system is governed by strongly continuous semi-groups. More precisely, for parabolic distributed systems the characterizations of regional boundary strategic sensors have been discussed and analyzed in different cases of regional boundary observability in infinite time interval. Furthermore, the results so obtained are applied in two-dimensional systems and the sensors are studied under which conditions guarantee regional boundary observability in a sub-region of the system domain boundary. Also, the authors show that, the existence of a given sensor for the diffusion system is not strategic in the usual sense, but it may be regional boundary strategic of this system.
description: 17 Pages, 13 figures. regular paper. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2005.02301