cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Macroilleis Miyatake
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Macroilleis

description: Genus Macroilleis Miyatake
Macroilleis Miyatake, 1965: 71.
Type species: Halyzia hauseri Mader, 1930, by original designation.
Anchilleis Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1979: 63. Type species: Thea chapuisi Crotch, 1874, by original designation. Synonymized by Kovář 2007: 72; Li et al. 2010: 16.
Diagnosis. Form elongate oval, dorsum convex and glabrous. Head with large eyes and comparatively narrow frons. Antenna with 11 antennomeres, long and slender, antennomeres 3–8 much longer than wide, 9–11 forming a loosely jointed, elongate club. Terminal maxillary palpomere transverse, but to a lesser degree than in Illeis. Abdominal postcoxal line incomplete, very short and apically barely recurved. Male genitalia with penis capsule prominent with an indistinct inner process, parameres characteristic with two lobes, the inner, subapical lobe shorter than the outer lobe, both covered with dense pubescence. Spermatheca strongly curved and C-shaped, with a well-differentiated ramus and nodulus, infundibulum distinct, tubular, enclosing the sperm duct.
Distribution. India, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Central and southern part of China, Vietnam, northeastern Borneo and Java (Miyatake 1965; Poorani 2002; Li et al. 2010).
Affinities. Tomaszewska et al. (2021) included it in the Synonycha -group of genera and recovered the genera of the former tribe Halyziini including Psyllobora, Oxytella, Illeis, Vibidia, Macroilleis, and Halyzia as a major subclade in this group.
Included species. Li et al. (2010) revised this genus and included three species, of which only Macroilleis hauseri (Miyatake) is distributed in this region. Rafi et al. (2005) reported “ Illeis (Anchilleis) chappuisi Crotch ” (= Macroilleis chapuisi (Crotch 1874)), from Pakistan and it appears to be an erroneous / unverified record as it is known only from Indonesia (Li et al. 2010).
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 171, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Metric-scalar gravity with torsion and the measurability of the non-minimal coupling
Creators: name: Accioly, A.
name: Blas, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The "measurability" of the non-minimal coupling is discussed by considering the correction to the Newtonian static potential in the semi-classical approach. The coefficient of the "gravitational Darwin term" (GDT) gets redefined by the non-minimal torsion-scalar couplings. Based on a similar analysis of the GDT in the effective field theory approach to non-minimal scalar we conclude that for reasonable values of the couplings the correction is very small.
description: 10 pages, LaTex. Accepted for publication in Mod. Phys. Lett. A
Spectroscopic signatures of next-nearest-neighbor hopping in the charge and spin dynamics of doped one-dimensional antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Kumar, Umesh
name: Price, Gregory
name: Stiwinter, Kenneth
name: Nocera, Alberto
name: Johnston, Steven
name: Datta, Trinanjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the impact of next-nearest-neighbor (nnn) hopping on the low-energy collective excitations of strongly correlated doped antiferromagnetic cuprate spin chains. Specifically, we use exact diagonalization and the density matrix renormalization group method to study the single-particle spectral function, the dynamical spin and charge structure factors, and the Cu $L$-edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) intensity of the doped $t$-$t^\prime$-$J$ model for a set of $t^\prime$ values. We find evidence for the breakdown of spin-charge separation as $|t^\prime|$ increases and identify its fingerprints in the dynamical response functions. The inclusion of nnn hopping couples the spinon and holon excitations, resulting in the formation of a spin-polaron, where a ferromagnetic spin polarization cloud dresses the doped carrier. The spin-polaron manifests itself as additional spectral weight in the dynamical correlation functions, which appear simultaneously in the spin- and charge-sensitive channels. We also demonstrate that RIXS can provide a unique view of the spin-polaron, due to its sensitivity to both the spin and charge degrees of freedom.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Analysis of Value-Added Meat Product Choice Behaviour by Canadian Households
Creators: name: Zhang, Xu
name: Goddard, Ellen W.
name: Zhang, Xu
name: Goddard, Ellen W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: consumer behaviour
subject: store loyalty
subject: meat demand
subject: value-added meat
subject: national/store brand choice

description: The competitive landscape in retailing has changed over the past decade. Moreover, the degree of product differentiation has been increasing: households are able to choose between an increasing number of store brands and national brands of similar products. The value added meat market is no different than any other sector of the grocery market – both national brands and private label brands are being developed to appeal to the consumer‘s desire for convenience, health, production and environmental attributes. Understanding the factors that are influencing consumers‘ value added meat product preferences is important for meat manufacturers who wish to add value to their firm‘s performance and increase market share. This knowledge is required in order to predict changes in demand and develop new products and marketing strategies that respond to changing consumer needs. The objective of the paper is to provide information on value added meat consumption patterns in Canada at the household level using household purchase information from a representative sample of the Canadian population collected through Nielsen Homescan™. Specifically the focus is on how meat consumers make their decision to purchase value-added meat products – the impact of value added meat types, store choices and brands preference on meat demand. The study undertakes an empirical investigation of Canadian household value added meat demand for the period 2002 to 2007. A comparison of consumers‘ preferences is performed with respect to store-switching, brand loyalty and meat expenditure. Multivariate regression analysis is employed to explain consumer preferences for the examined stores, products and brands. We find that meat price, advertising, the number of stores visited, household socio-demographic characteristics and regional segments are strongly related to meat expenditure levels. Value added meat product preferences vary widely across meat types - for example, consumer behaviour towards pork is not a good predictor of behaviour towards poultry, in terms of national brand/store brand choice. The data developed in this analysis can highlight6 marketing opportunities that exist for meat producers and processors to increase the value of total sales for their particular products. The results of this study highlight the impact of number of stores regularly shopped at on purchases of national brand versus private label meat products, the impact of expenditure on meat by product form on national brand versus private label and the impact of demographic and regional variables on all meat purchases, by animal species.
The Dubrovin threefold of an algebraic curve
Creators: name: Agostini, Daniele
name: Çelik, Türkü Özlüm
name: Sturmfels, Bernd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The solutions to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation that arise from a fixed complex algebraic curve are parametrized by a threefold in a weighted projective space, which we name after Boris Dubrovin. Current methods from nonlinear algebra are applied to study parametrizations and defining ideals of Dubrovin threefolds. We highlight the dichotomy between transcendental representations and exact algebraic computations. Our main result on the algebraic side is a toric degeneration of the Dubrovin threefold into the product of the underlying canonical curve and a weighted projective plane.
description: 28 pages
Regional Food Clusters and Government Support for Clustering: Evidence for a ‘Dynamic Food Innovation Cluster’ in Alberta, Canada?
Creators: name: Steiner, Bodo E.
name: Ali, Jolene
name: Steiner, Bodo E.
name: Ali, Jolene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: location-based clustering
subject: food clusters
subject: networks
subject: innovation
subject: government support
subject: Alberta
subject: Canada

description: This paper analyzes government support for networking and regional cluster growth in the food sector. It is, to the best of our knowledge, the first paper to provide a literature review of studies on regional food clusters, focusing on key features that characterize successful regional food clusters. The review compares key characteristics of such clusters with characteristics of clusters from other industrial sectors. The insights from these studies on clustering success and the role of government are contrasted with empirical evidence on government support for clustering in the Canadian food sector, specifically in the province of Alberta. The empirical evidence is based on two small industry surveys, one conducted in March 2005, and the second in August 2009. Considering this empirical evidence, we have little support for an emerging food (innovation) cluster in Alberta, and little evidence for effective government support toward food cluster development in Alberta.
Progressive aspect and distributively quantified objects : a semantic/pragmatic account
Creators: name: Jones, Susan Joanne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis is concerned with progressivize verbs that take distributively quantifying objects. Sentences like (1) are typically judged to be odd or incoherent: (1) ?Charlotte was eating every cookie. However, in the special discourse context of (2), the sentence is coherent. In this context, it is true to say that at a reference time, Charlotte is simultaneously eating every cookie in the quantified set: (2) a. Context: Charlotte was eating all the cookies by taking one bite from each cookie in turn; b. Charlotte was eating every cookie. Distributive determiners require the predicate to apply to each member of the QP's restrictor set individually, rather than to the set as a whole. One of the basic assumptions about progressives is that they describe events that are not yet completed at the reference time. My hypothesis is that use of the progressive in (1a-b) creates a context where the distributive property of "every" cannot be met. The lack of entailment from progressive to perfective displayed by progressive accomplishments presents a problem when there os a distributively quantifying object. This is shown in (1), where the more expected context is the one in which Charlotte eat up each cookie sequentially. The problem created by interpreting (1) in the sequential context is that if the event does not complete, it means that Charlotte does not eat every cookie. Consequently, the predicate will not apply to every single cookie in the quantified set, and "every"'s property of distributivity is not satisfied. My analysis makes use of Tunstall's (1998) treatment of the preference of distributively quantified phrases for wide scope: she proposed that distributive determiners require distribution of events, such that every member of the restrictor set is associated with the predicate in its own distinct subevent. Distributive QPs take wide scope when necessary, in order to meet this requirement. (1) must be interpreted in the context of (2), where every has scope over the progressive operator, and I assume that this context is required because, given Tunstall's analysis of distributivity, for each cookie, a different in-progress subevent is found. It follows from this that the predicate applies to every single cookie. The context in (2) is therefore required because it satisfies the distributive property of "every", while the more expected sequential context does not.
Electronic Supplementary Material Increasing numbers of killer whale individuals use fisheries as feeding opportunities within subantarctic populations
Creators: name: Amelot, Morgane
name: Plard, Floriane
name: Guinet, Christophe
name: Arnould, John P. Y.
name: Gasco, Nicolas
name: Tixier, Paul
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Fisheries can generate feeding opportunities for large marine predators in the form of discards or accessible catch. How the use of this anthropogenic food may spread as a new behaviour, across individuals within populations over time, is poorly understood. This study used a 16-year (2003–2018) monitoring of two killer whale Orcinus orca subantarctic populations (regular and Type-D at Crozet), and Bayesian multistate Capture-Mark-Recapture models, to assess temporal changes in the number of individuals feeding on fish caught on hooks (‘depredation’ behaviour) of a fishery started in 1996. For both populations, the number of depredating individuals increased during the study period (34 to 94 for regular; 19 to 43 for Type-D). Increasing abundance is unlikely to account for this and rather, the results suggest depredation was acquired by increasing numbers of existing individuals. For regular killer whales, a plateau reached from 2014 suggests that it took 18 years for the behaviour to spread across the whole population. A more recent plateau was apparent for Type-Ds but additional years are needed to confirm. These findings show how changes in prey availability caused by human activities lead to rapid, yet progressive, innovations in killer whales, likely altering the ecological role of this top-predator.
Dark Scalars and Heavy Neutral Leptons at DarkQuest
Creators: name: Batell, Brian
name: Evans, Jared A.
name: Gori, Stefania
name: Rai, Mudit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proposed DarkQuest beam dump experiment, a modest upgrade to the existing SeaQuest/SpinQuest experiment, has great potential for uncovering new physics within a dark sector. We explore both the near-term and long-term prospects for observing two distinct, highly-motivated hidden sector benchmark models: heavy neutral leptons and Higgs-mixed scalars. We comprehensively examine the particle production and detector acceptance at DarkQuest, including an updated treatment of meson production, and light scalar production through both bremsstrahlung and gluon-gluon fusion. In both benchmark models, DarkQuest will provide an opportunity to probe previously inaccessible interesting regions of parameter space on a fairly short timescale when compared to other proposed experiments.
description: 30 pages, 11 figures
Absorption by deformed black holes
Creators: name: Magalhães, Renan B.
name: Leite, Luiz C. S.
name: Crispino, Luís C. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Alternative theories of gravity and the parameterized deviation approach allow black hole solutions to have additional parameters beyond mass, charge and angular momentum. Matter fields could be, in principle, affected by the additional parameters of these solutions. We compute the absorption cross section of massless spin-0 waves by static Konoplya-Zhidenko black holes, characterized by a deformation parameter introduced in the mass term, and compare it with the well-known absorption of a Schwarzschild black hole with the same mass. We compare our numerical results with the sinc approximation in the high-frequency limit, finding excellent agreement.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
The Futures of Bianchi type VII0 cosmologies with vorticity
Creators: name: Hervik, S.
name: Hoogen, R. J. van den
name: Lim, W. C.
name: Coley, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use expansion-normalised variables to investigate the Bianchi type VII$_0$ model with a tilted $γ$-law perfect fluid. We emphasize the late-time asymptotic dynamical behaviour of the models and determine their asymptotic states. Unlike the other Bianchi models of solvable type, the type VII$_0$ state space is unbounded. Consequently we show that, for a general non-inflationary perfect fluid, one of the curvature variables diverges at late times, which implies that the type VII$_0$ model is not asymptotically self-similar to the future. Regarding the tilt velocity, we show that for fluids with $γ<4/3$ (which includes the important case of dust, $γ=1$) the tilt velocity tends to zero at late times, while for a radiation fluid, $γ=4/3$, the fluid is tilted and its vorticity is dynamically significant at late times. For fluids stiffer than radiation ($γ>4/3$), the future asymptotic state is an extremely tilted spacetime with vorticity.
description: 23 pages, v2:references and comments added, typos fixed, to appear in CQG
Sequence Effects on Internal Structure of Droplets of Associative Polymers
Creators: name: Singh, Kulveer
name: Rabin, Yitzhak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used Langevin dynamics simulations of short associative polymers with two stickers placed symmetrically along their contour to study the effect of the primary sequence of these polymers on their organization inside condensed droplets. We observed that the shape, size and number of sticker clusters inside the condensed droplet change from a single cylindrical fiber to many compact clusters, as one varies the location of stickers along the chain contour. Aging due to conversion of intramoleclular to intermolecular associations was observed in droplets of telechelic polymers, but not for other sequences of associating polymers. The relevance of our results to condensates of intrinsically disordered proteins is discussed.
MAKROELEMENTLARNING MEVALI DARAXTLARGA TA'SIRI
Creators: name: Atamuratov, Bekmurat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada zamonaviy intensiv bog‘larning afzalliklari, bog‘ yaratish  va undan samarali foydalanish yo‘llari haqida ma’lumotlar keltirilgan. Shuningdek, sifatli ko‘chat  ekishning ahamiyati yoritilgan. Shuningdek,  makroelementlarning mevali daraxtlarga ta’siri o‘rganildi..
Appendix 1 from Revealing regional disparities in the transmission potential of SARS-CoV-2 from interventions in Southeast Asia
Creators: name: Lim, Jue Tao
name: Borame Sue Lee Dickens
name: Choo, Esther Li Wen
name: Chew, Lawrence Xiong Zheng
name: Koo, Joel Rui Han
name: Tam, Clarence
name: Park, Minah
name: Cook, Alex R.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: SARS-CoV-2 is a new pathogen responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Southeast Asia was the first region to be affected outside China, and although COVID-19 cases have been reported in all countries of Southeast Asia, both the policies and epidemic trajectories differ substantially, potentially due to marked differences in social distancing measures that have been implemented by governments in the region. This paper studies the across-country relationships between social distancing and each population's response to policy, the subsequent effects of these responses to the transmissibility and epidemic trajectories of SARS-CoV-2. The analysis couples COVID-19 case counts with real-time mobility data across Southeast Asia to estimate the effects of host population response to social distancing policy and the subsequent effects on the transmissibility and epidemic trajectories of SARS-CoV-2. A novel inference strategy for the time-varying reproduction number is developed to allow explicit inference of the effects of social distancing on the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 through a regression structure. This framework replicates the observed epidemic trajectories across most Southeast Asian countries, provides estimates of the effects of social distancing on the transmissibility of disease and can simulate epidemic histories conditional on changes in the degree of intervention scenarios and compliance within Southeast Asia.
title: ТИПОЛОГИЯ АТРИБУТОВ ИНАКОВОСТИ В РУССКОЙ ИКОНОГРАФИИ АНТИЧНЫХ ФИЛОСОФОВ
Creators: name: Зотов, Сергей
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Русская православная иконография античных философов и мыслителей давно привлекает внимание западных и российских исследователей. Греческие и римские философы, изображённые в российских церквях, не имели почти ничего общего с настоящими историческими философами: их образы основывались на византийских апокрифах, в которых философы были провозглашены праведными язычниками, описавшими грядущее пришествие Христа задолго до Его рождения. Однако, вопреки распространённому мнению, русская иконография античных философов представлена в гораздо большем объёме источников, чем те, что были исследованы до сих пор. Автор отмечает уже изученные источники XVI века, в том числе важнейшие фрески западной галереи Благовещенского собора Московского Кремля, а также изображения с золочёных ворот в Благовещенском соборе и с золотых ворот Ипатьевского монастыря в Костромской области.
Consumers' Perception of Sustainably Produced Food: The case of local and organic production technologies
Creators: name: Whorton, Carly S.
name: Amanor-Boadu, Vincent
name: Whorton, Carly S.
name: Amanor-Boadu, Vincent
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: consumer preferences
subject: sustainability
subject: organic
subject: local
subject: willingness to value

description: This paper identifies ways to improve on the current literature regarding sustainable production technologies, in this case, organic and local products. A survey method is used to examine organic and local markets in place of a single product to gain a better understanding of consumers‟ response to these products, their reactions to price differences of these products, and how their preferences change based on changing income level and prices. The sample was drawn from a commercial database and was attempted to be made random across the U.S. population. In place of results, hypotheses are presented as data were late coming back.
Macroilleis hauseri
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Macroilleis
Macroilleis hauseri

description: Macroilleis hauseri (Mader)
(Fig. 122)
Halyzia hauseri Mader, 1930: 162 (Type locality: China).
Macroilleis hauseri: Miyatake 1965: 71; Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982: 216–217; Hoang 1983: 39; Poorani 2002a: 342; Yu 2010: 152; Li et al. 2010: 17.
Diagnosis. Length: 5.50–7.80 mm; width: 4.10–5.80 mm. Form elongate oval, widest around middle of elytra; dorsum moderately convex and glabrous. Dorsal side yellow, pronotum with a yellowish brown, indistinct to Mshaped marking, elytra bright yellow with four white to paler creamy yellow stripes, the first and second pair of stripes apically fused (Fig. 122a, b). Prosternal carinae anteriorly incomplete. Abdominal postcoxal line very short and incomplete. Posterior margins of abdominal ventrite 5 posteriorly medially produced, ventrite 6 broadly rounded to subtruncate in female (Fig. 122d); ventrite 5 and 6 broadly and very deeply emarginate in male (Fig. 122e). Male genitalia (Fig. 122f–i) as illustrated.
Distribution. India: Northeastern region (Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Sikkim, West Bengal); Bhutan; Nepal; Pakistan; China; Taiwan; Vietnam; Laos.
Prey / associated habitat. Macroilleis is a mycophagous genus of Coccinellini and probably feeds on powdery mildew fungi. Liu (1950) studied its life history in China on the mildew fungus Podosphaera leucotricha (Ellis & Everhart) Salmon. The report by Khan et al. (2006) recording M. hauseri as a predator of San José scale (Comstockaspis perniciosa (Comstock)) is probably erroneous and it is quite possible that the ladybeetle was actually feeding on sooty mould fungi growing on the honeydew produced by the scale (Li et al. 2010).
Collected on Alnus sp. (label data). Attracted to light (label data). It is known to feed on powdery mildews, including Phyllactinia corylea, Podosphaera leucotricha and Erysiphe cichoracearum (Liu 1950; Li et al. 2010).
Notes. Macroilleis hauseri has a superficial resemblance to Calvia flaveola Booth and can be readily identified by the distinct elytral stripes that are often obsolete and not very clearly demarcated in the latter. The species described and illustrated as Macroilleis hauseri from Jammu & Kashmir by Kundoo (2019) and Pakistan by Rafi et al. (2005) and Hayat et al. (2017) is certainly C. flaveola. Khan et al. (2006) recorded it as a predator of San Jose scale which is likely to be based on a misidentification.
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during May–June (label data).
Notes. Miyatake (1965) and Li et al. (2010) described and illustrated this species in detail. Ren et al. (2009) and Yu (2010) included it in their conspectus on Chinese Coccinellidae.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 173-174, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Hispanic Consumer's Preferences for Genetically Modified Ethnic Produce: An Econometric Analysis
Creators: name: Govindasamy, Ramu
name: Puduri, Venkata S.
name: Govindasamy, Ramu
name: Puduri, Venkata S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: This study predicts Hispanic consumer’s willingness to buy genetically modified (GM) ethnic produce. Specifically, this paper analyzes the effects of Hispanic consumers’ socio-economic characteristics and their expressed value judgments on their willingness to buy genetically modified ethnic produce using an ordered probit model. An ordered probit model framework is used and the dependent variable is defined with three possible answers which include willing, indifferent, and less willing to buy genetically modified ethnic produce. The results from the analysis can be used by GM produce growers and marketers to target consumers.
Food Safety and Demand: Consumer Preferences for Imported Pork in Urban China
Creators: name: Ortega, David L.
name: Wang, H. Holly
name: Wu, Laping
name: Ortega, David L.
name: Wang, H. Holly
name: Wu, Laping
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Livestock Production/Industries

description: China’s transition into a developed economy is driving changes in consumer preferences and demand for foods. The objective of this study is to assess and measure consumers’ preferences for and attitudes toward imported pork in urban China. Estimated logit models based on a consumer survey conducted in 2008 reveal that individuals’ age, shopping location, and food safety concerns significantly influence their willingness to pay for U.S. pork. Factors affecting purchasing behavior of Western-style pork cuts versus traditional Chinese cuts are also evaluated. Consumers’ food safety concerns were linked to a previous lean-meat additive scare and a lack of confidence in the Chinese food inspection system.
Megalocaria Crotch
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Megalocaria

description: Genus Megalocaria Crotch
Megalocaria Crotch, 1871: 6.
Type species: Neda reichei Mulsant, 1850, by monotypy.— Ślipiński et al. 2020: 78.
Archaeoneda Crotch, 1874: 169. Type species: Coccinella tricolor Fabricius, 1787, by original designation.—Synonymized by Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982: 520.
Diagnosis. Size large (9–18 mm long), form round, dorsum strongly convex and glabrous. Head with eyes strongly divergent apically, closer near vertex than near clypeus; anterior clypeal margin straight between lateral projections (Fig. 123c); antennal grooves straight and long, reaching distinctly beyond eyes. Antenna 11-segmented (Fig. 123b), with a large scape and three-segmented club. Prothoracic hypomeron without foveae. Prosternal process with parallel carinae. Anterior margin of mesoventrite deeply emarginate. Elytra broadly explanate, without a marginal bead; epipleuron broad and concave, not foveolate. Middle and hind tibiae with a pair of apical spurs. Tarsal claw appendiculate.Abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 123d) incomplete, approaching posterior margin, without an associated line. Female genitalia with a distinct, prominent infundibulum.
Distribution. About 20 species are known exclusively from the Old World (Africa, Asia and the Australo-Pacific region) (Ślipiński et al. 2020).
Affinities. Tomaszewska et al. (2021) included it under the Synonycha- group of genera and recovered it as a sister-group of Synonycha. The composition of Megalocaria and its distinctiveness from related genera such as Docimocaria, Anisolemnia, Synonycha and other large-bodied Coccinellini are not clear and need further study (Ślipiński et al. 2020).
Included species. Megalocaria includes some of the largest known ladybird beetles, some reaching up to 18 mm in length and is represented by two species in the Indian subcontinent, M. dilatata (F.) and M. reichei pearsoni Crotch, the first being more widespread and the second rare and restricted to the Eastern Himalayas.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 174, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
title: ОБРАЗНОСТЬ КАК ПЕРЕСЕЧЕНИЕ ДВУХ РЕАЛЬНОСТЕЙ В РАННЕХРИСТИАНСКИХ ФИЛОСОФСКИХ МОДЕЛЯХ МИРОЗДАНИЯ
Creators: name: Стефанова, Любомира
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Проблема интерпретации образного мышления ранних христианских писателей и художников связана с анализом и пониманием того, как они выражают сложные богословские идеи, сформировавшиеся в первые века зарождения христианской философии. В христианском мышлении идея связи Божественного с человеком воплощается посредством образов. Это основа не только богатого метафорического и аллегорического словесного выражения, но и визуальной интерпретации той же идеи в искусстве. В этом исследовании внимание автора сосредоточено по преимуществу на абстрактных геометрических формах в мозаиках ранних христианских храмов.
An Evaluation of the Economic Impacts of Oklahoma Farmers Markets
Creators: name: Henneberry, Shida Rastegari
name: Whitacre, Brian E.
name: Agustini, Haerani N.
name: Henneberry, Shida Rastegari
name: Whitacre, Brian E.
name: Agustini, Haerani N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The contribution of farmers markets to the U.S. economy has become more significant due to the increased demand for fresh, locally produced products. However, compared to other marketing outlets, the economic contribution of farmers markets often goes unrecognized. This study focuses on farmers markets in Oklahoma and uses the IMPLAN model to estimate the impacts of farmers markets to Oklahoma’s economy. The results from this study show that farmers market activities are a vital part of Oklahoma’s economy, generating total direct sales of $3.3 million, with a total economic impact of almost $6 million.
Copula-Based Nonlinear Models of Spatial Market Linkages
Creators: name: Goodwin, Barry K.
name: Holt, Matthew T.
name: Onel, Gulcan
name: Prestemon, Jeffrey P.
name: Goodwin, Barry K.
name: Holt, Matthew T.
name: Onel, Gulcan
name: Prestemon, Jeffrey P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Spatial Market Linkages
subject: Copula Models
subject: State-dependence
subject: Forest Products

description: An extensive empirical literature has addressed a wide array of issues pertaining to price linkages over space and across time. Empirical models of price linkages have been used to measure market power and to characterize the operation of markets that are separated by space, time, and product form. The long history of these empirical models extends from simple tests of price correlation, to conventional regression tests, to modern time series models that account for nonstationarity, nonlinearities, and threshold behavior in market linkages. This paper proposes an entirely different and potentially novel approach to analyzing these same types of time series data in a nonlinear fashion. Copula-based models that consider the joint distribution of prices separated by space are developed and applied to weekly prices for important lumber products at geographically distinct markets. In particular, we consider prices taken from weekly editions of the Random Lengths publication for homogeneous OSB products.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 06/28/11.
Possible evolutionary transition from rapidly rotating neutron stars to strange stars due to spin-down
Creators: name: Yasutake, Nobutoshi
name: Hashimoto, Masa-aki
name: Eriguchi, Yoshiharu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a scenario of formation of strange stars due to spin-down of {\it rapidly rotating} neutron stars left after supernova explosions . By assuming a process where the total baryon mass is conserved but the angular momentum is lost due to emission of gravitational waves and/or the magnetic braking, we find that the transition from rapidly rotating neutron stars to slowly rotating strange stars is possible; a large amount of energy $\sim 10^{53} ergs $ could be released. The liberated energy might become a new energy source for a delayed explosion of supernova. Furthermore, our scenario suggests that the supernova associated with gamma-ray bursts could become candidates for targets in the future observation of gravitational waves.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, Received November 5, 2004
title: ХРИСТИАНСКИЕ МОЗАИКИ ИОРДАНИИ: К ВОПРОСУ О ВИЗУАЛЬНОМ КОНСТРУИРОВАНИИ САКРАЛЬНОГО ПРОСТРАНСТВА
Creators: name: Крейдун, Юрий
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Территория современной Иордании тесно связана с разными историческими эпохами. Многие древние цивилизации и народы оставили здесь свой след. Немало событий вошли в библейскую историю. Но в связи с нестабильной политической ситуацией на Ближнем Востоке и, в частности, в Иордании полноценное изучение археологических памятников в регионе стало возможным только во второй половине XX столетия. В последние десятилетия исследователи открыли множество археологических памятников ранневизантийской эпохи. Работа посвящена описанию наиболее сохранившихся ранневизантийских напольных мозаик, обнаруженных в Джераше, Петрах, Умм-эр-Расас, на горе Нево и в других исторических местах Иордании.
Appendix 2 from Revealing regional disparities in the transmission potential of SARS-CoV-2 from interventions in Southeast Asia
Creators: name: Lim, Jue Tao
name: Borame Sue Lee Dickens
name: Choo, Esther Li Wen
name: Chew, Lawrence Xiong Zheng
name: Koo, Joel Rui Han
name: Tam, Clarence
name: Park, Minah
name: Cook, Alex R.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: SARS-CoV-2 is a new pathogen responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Southeast Asia was the first region to be affected outside China, and although COVID-19 cases have been reported in all countries of Southeast Asia, both the policies and epidemic trajectories differ substantially, potentially due to marked differences in social distancing measures that have been implemented by governments in the region. This paper studies the across-country relationships between social distancing and each population's response to policy, the subsequent effects of these responses to the transmissibility and epidemic trajectories of SARS-CoV-2. The analysis couples COVID-19 case counts with real-time mobility data across Southeast Asia to estimate the effects of host population response to social distancing policy and the subsequent effects on the transmissibility and epidemic trajectories of SARS-CoV-2. A novel inference strategy for the time-varying reproduction number is developed to allow explicit inference of the effects of social distancing on the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 through a regression structure. This framework replicates the observed epidemic trajectories across most Southeast Asian countries, provides estimates of the effects of social distancing on the transmissibility of disease and can simulate epidemic histories conditional on changes in the degree of intervention scenarios and compliance within Southeast Asia.
CMB polarization as a tool to constrain the optical properties of the Universe
Creators: name: Lembo, Margherita
name: Lattanzi, Massimiliano
name: Pagano, Luca
name: Gruppuso, Alessandro
name: Natoli, Paolo
name: Forastieri, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel formalism to describe the $in$ $vacuo$ conversion between polarization states of propagating radiation, also known as generalized Faraday effect (GFE), in a cosmological context. Thinking of GFE as a potential tracer of new, isotropy- and/or parity-violating physics, we apply our formalism to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarized anisotropy power spectra, providing a simple framework to easily compute their observed modifications. In so doing, we re-interpret previously known results, namely the $in$ $vacuo$ rotation of the linear polarization plane of CMB photons (or cosmic birefringence) but also point out that GFE could lead to the partial conversion of linear into circular polarization. We notice that GFE can be seen as an effect of light propagating in an anisotropic and/or chiral medium (a "dark crystal") and recast its parameters as the components of an effective "cosmic susceptibility tensor". For a wave number-independent susceptibility tensor, this allows us to set an observational bound on a GFE-induced CMB circularly polarized power spectrum, or $VV$, at $C_{\ell}^{VV} < 2 \times 10^{-5} μK^2$ (95 \% C.L.), at its peak $\ell\simeq 370$, which is some 3 orders of magnitude better than presently available direct $VV$ measurements. We argue that, unless dramatic technological improvements will arise in direct $V$-modes measurements, cosmic variance-limited linear polarization surveys expected within this decade should provide, as a byproduct, superior bounds on GFE-induced circular polarization of the CMB.
description: Matches published version (7 pages, 2 figures, 1 appendix)
title: THE SEVENTH SEAL: THE HISTORY OF VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE CONFESSION OF FAITH
Creators: name: Sukhorukova, Olga
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: The article is devoted to the meaning and role of cinematography in modern culture. The screen image of one or another concept or meaning can influence the formation of historical and religious-philosophical ideas of society. Ingmar Bergman’s film The Seventh Seal tells the story of the historical events of medieval Europe. The phenomena and facts that are shown in the film do not always correspond to the historical past. The director’s task was different: to answer the questions that the representatives of the post-war generation were contemplating on, using the basis of historical materials. The visual imagery of The Seventh Seal became the basis for the cultural analysis in this article.
An Economic Analysis and Assessment of Impacts of Conservation Practices on Agro-Environmental Conditions in the Lower Bad River Basin of South Dakota
Creators: name: Parvez, Md Rezwanul
name: Janssen, Larry
name: Stover, Ronald
name: Reitsma, Kurt D.
name: Smart, Alexander
name: Parvez, Md Rezwanul
name: Janssen, Larry
name: Stover, Ronald
name: Reitsma, Kurt D.
name: Smart, Alexander
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: rangeland conservation
subject: cost-sharing
subject: conservation practices
subject: conservation assessment
subject: conservation programs
subject: resource economics
subject: Bad River Water Quality project

description: In this poster, we report selected socio-economic findings from analysis of the Bad River Water Quality project (BRWQ) implemented in western South Dakota from 1990 through 2004. An overview of various BRWQ project phases are presented, along with analysis of cost of conservation practices applied and local landowners current assessment of the practices implemented from 1990 – 2004.
A POLLUTION TRADING SYSTEM WITH COST ASSYMETRY: An Application to Nonpoint Source Trading in the Boone River Watershed
Creators: name: Valcu, Adriana M.
name: Kling, Catherine L.
name: Valcu, Adriana M.
name: Kling, Catherine L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The goal of watershed scale analysis is to assign to each field unit the best set of agricultural practices in order to achieve a maximum outcome from both environmental and economic perspectives. Watershed physically based models linked to multiobjective optimization models can overcome the high dimensionality of watershed pollution problem. Market based instruments such as permit trading settings which consider abatement measures’ cost heterogeneity have been regarded as being superior to command and control programs. Empirical analysis reveals that when local environmental authority and farmers have different cost information, a permit trading program has the potential to offer cost savings.
Scaling the training of particle classification on simulated MicroBooNE events to multiple GPUs
Creators: name: Hagen, Alex
name: Church, Eric
name: Strube, Jan
name: Bhattacharya, Kolahal
name: Amatya, Vinay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Measurements in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detectors, such as the MicroBooNE detector at Fermilab, feature large, high fidelity event images. Deep learning techniques have been extremely successful in classification tasks of photographs, but their application to LArTPC event images is challenging, due to the large size of the events. Events in these detectors are typically two orders of magnitude larger than images found in classical challenges, like recognition of handwritten digits contained in the MNIST database or object recognition in the ImageNet database. Ideally, training would occur on many instances of the entire event data, instead of many instances of cropped regions of interest from the event data. However, such efforts lead to extremely long training cycles, which slow down the exploration of new network architectures and hyperparameter scans to improve the classification performance. We present studies of scaling a LArTPC classification problem on multiple architectures, spanning multiple nodes. The studies are carried out on simulated events in the MicroBooNE detector. We emphasize that it is beyond the scope of this study to optimize networks or extract the physics from any results here. Institutional computing at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the SummitDev machine at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Leadership Computing Facility have been used. To our knowledge, this is the first use of state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Networks for particle physics and their attendant compute techniques onto the DOE Leadership Class Facilities. We expect benefits to accrue particularly to the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) LArTPC program, the flagship US High Energy Physics (HEP) program for the coming decades.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics: Conference Series - Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research
Using a Modified Payment Card Survey on Chinese Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Fair Trade Coffee: Would the Starting Point Matter
Creators: name: Yang, Shang-Ho
name: Hu, Wuyang
name: Yang, Shang-Ho
name: Hu, Wuyang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: coffee
subject: fair trade
subject: payment card
subject: starting point bias
subject: willingness to pay

description: Coffee consumption in China is increasing rapidly over the recent years. This study offers one of the few initial attempts to not only understand general consumption behavior associated with Chinese coffee, but to explore the viability of niche markets for coffee with the credence attribute “fair trade”. A modified payment card approach was adopted as the consumer willingness to pay elicitation method. Survey results of 564 consumers from the city of Wuhan, China suggest a positive attitude toward coffee as an alternative drink and a willingness to pay a premium for “fair trade” coffee. This study also explores and describes the potential impact of starting point bias, which has been relatively well documented in the dichotomous choice literature but has not been thoroughly addressed in a payment card context.