cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Do USDA Announcements Affect the Correlations Across Commodity Futures Returns?
Creators: name: Karali, Berna
name: Park, ChangKeun
name: Karali, Berna
name: Park, ChangKeun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: The value of USDA reports has long been a question of interest for researchers and practitioners. Many economists have investigated whether the scheduled public report releases have any impact on commodity prices. In general, it is shown that markets are e±cient; that is, prices move only when the reports contain news". However, the impact of announcements on the correlations among related commodity prices has not been explored outside of ¯nancial asset markets. The purpose of this study is to simul- taneously measure the impact of selected USDA reports on the conditional variances and covariances of returns on related commodity futures contracts using a bivariate GARCH model. It is shown that several of the reports considered contain new informa- tion for the market participants as futures return volatilities and correlations between the returns are found to move on announcement days. The largest movements in return volatilities are observed on days with Grain Stocks, Hogs and Pigs, Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook, and WASDE releases.
Estimating ground-level particulate matter concentrations using satellite-based data: a review
Creators: name: Minso Shin
name: Yoojin Kang
name: Seohui Park
name: Jungho Im
name: Cheolhee Yoo
name: Lindi J. Quackenbush
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: Particulate matter (PM) is a widely used indicator of air quality. Satellite-derived aerosol products such as aerosol optical depth (AOD) have been a useful source of data for ground-level PM monitoring. However, satellite-based approaches for PM monitoring have limitations such as impacts of cloud cover. Recently, many studies have documented advances in modeling for monitoring PM over the globe. This review examines recent papers on ground-level PM monitoring for the past 10 years focusing on modeling techniques, sensor types, and areas. Satellite-based retrievals of AOD and commonly used approaches for estimating PM concentrations are also briefly reviewed. Research trends and challenges are discussed based on the review of 130 papers. The limitations and challenges include spatiotemporal scale issues, missing values in satellite-based variables, sparse distribution of ground stations for calibration and validation, unbalanced distribution of PM concentrations, and difficulty in the operational use of satellite-based PM estimation models. The literature review suggests there is room for further investigating: 1) the spatial extension of PM monitoring to global scale; 2) the synergistic use of satellite-derived products and numerical model output to improve PM estimation accuracy, gap-filling, and operational monitoring; 3) the use of more advanced modeling techniques including data assimilations; 4) the improvement of emission data quality; and 5) short-term (hours to days) PM forecasts through combining satellite data and numerical forecast model results.
Hypostomus froehlichi Zawadzki, Nardi & Tencatt 2021
Creators: name: De Oliveira, Rianne C.
name: Ota, Renata R.
name: Deprá, Gabriel C.
name: Zawadzki, Cláudio H.
name: Pavanelli, Carla S.
name: Da Graça, Weferson J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Siluriformes
Loricariidae
Hypostomus
Hypostomus froehlichi

description: Hypostomus froehlichi Zawadzki, Nardi & Tencatt, 2021: 102, fig. 1.
Holotype (Fig. 7): NUP 22689, 226.2 mm SL: Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul, Bodoquena, córrego Salobrinha, tributary of rio Miranda, rio Paraguai basin, 20°40’57.8”S, 56°47’09.6”W, col. O. Froehlich et al., Mar 2007.
Paratypes: 9 lots, 24 specimens —NUP 5077, 5, 52.2–201.1 mm SL: Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul, Bodoquena, rio Salobra, rio Paraguai basin, 20°29’44.0”S, 56°51’48.0”W, 27 Dec 2006, A.G. Bifi. NUP 12138, 2, 235.3– 239.1 mm SL; NUP 12139, 2, 223.0– 227.8 mm SL; NUP 12140, 2, 235.3– 241.8 mm SL; NUP 12141, 1, 225.0 mm SL: Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul, Bodoquena, rio Salobra, rio Paraguai basin, 20°46’49.0”S, 56°44’31.0”W, Dec 2005, O. Froehlich et al. NUP 13392, 4, 177.0– 200.7 mm SL: Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul, Bodoquena, córrego Salobrinha, rio Paraguai basin, 20°40’59.0”S, 56°.47’12.0”W, O. Froehlich et al, 27 Jul 2006. NUP 13387, 1, 187.3 mm SL: same locality and collector as previous, Mar 2007. NUP 12142, 4, 127.8–233.0 mm SL: Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul, Bodoquena, córrego Salobrinha, rio Paraguai basin, 20.40’12.0”S, 56°46’12.0”W, Mar 2007, O. Froehlich et al. NUP 4247, 3, 106.1– 132.9 mm SL: Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul, Bodoquena, córrego Salobrinha, rio Paraguai basin, 20°40’60.0”S, 56°47’10.0”W, O. Froehlich et al., 31 Dec 2005.
description: Published as part of De Oliveira, Rianne C., Ota, Renata R., Deprá, Gabriel C., Zawadzki, Cláudio H., Pavanelli, Carla S. & Da Graça, Weferson J., 2022, Catalog of type specimens of the fish collection of the Núcleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Ictiologia e Aquicultura (NUP), Universidade Estadual de Maringá Paraná, Brazil, pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 5128 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5128.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6479497
Inter, intra-examiner reliability and validity of inertial sensors to measure the active cervical range of motion in patients with primary headache
Creators: name: Elizagaray-García, Ignacio
name: Gil-Martínez, Alfonso
name: Navarro-Fernández, Gonzalo
name: Navarro-Moreno, Ana R.
name: Sánchez-De-Toro-Hernández, Jacqueline
name: Díaz-De-Terán, Javier
name: Lerma-Lara, Sergio
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: primary headache
reliability
validity
physical examination
range of motion

description: We analyzed the inter- and intra-examiner reliability of Werium inertial sensors and the cervical range of motion (CROM) instrument for the measurement of active CROM (AcROM) in patients with primary headache. Another objective is to analyze the validity of the inertial sensors (Werium). The literature has reported symptomatology features in patients diagnosed with primary headache similar to that of patients with cervicogenic headache. The International Classification of Headache (ICHD-III) established the presence of reduced AcROM as a diagnostic criterion for cervicogenic headache. Several instruments are used for this measurement, with limitations in their applicability in daily clinical practice. A prospective longitudinal repeated measures study was conducted to assess the intra- and inter-rater reliability and validity of Werium inertial sensors in 20 adults with chronic primary headache. For the inter-rater analysis, the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) values were above 0.75 for all movements, indicating a good level of reliability. For the intra-rater results, the ICC values obtained by the Werium inertial sensors for all cervical movements were good for rater A (ICC >0.80) and rater B (ICC >0.84). For the validity, the ICCs obtained by the Werium inertial sensors compared with the CROM instrument for all cervical movements were moderate for both raters (ICC > 0.70, respectively). Values obtained in the standard error of measurement, minimum detectable change at 90% and limits of agreement also indicated good agreement. Werium inertial sensors have shown good to excellent reliability results, both intra- and inter-examiner (ICC > 0.75). Likewise, when the sensors were compared with another validated instrument (CROM device) they obtained high reliability results (ICC > 0.70). These results plus its relatively low price and ease of use allow us to recommend it in daily clinical practice to measure AcROM in patients with chronic primary headache.
description: EXCLI Journal; 20:Doc879; ISSN 1611-2156
Long-term adherence to GnRH agonists in men with prostate cancer. A nation-wide population-based study in prostate cancer data base Sweden
Creators: name: Gincy George
name: Garmo, Hans
name: Rudman, Sarah
name: Holmberg, Lars
name: Robinson, David
name: Stattin, Pär
name: Adolfsson, Jan
name: Hemelrijck, Mieke Van
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Aim: Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists are used to treat men with prostate cancer (PCa). To date, no study has fully assessed patterns of adherence to GnRH agonists. We investigated patterns of adherence to GnRH agonists using data from Prostate Cancer data Base Sweden (PCBaSe). Methods: PCBaSe links the National Prostate Cancer Register (NPCR) Sweden to other healthcare registers and demographic databases. Men on primary or secondary GnRH agonists between 2006–2013 entered the study 45 days after GnRH agonists’ initiation (run-in period) and exited at 3 years. Medication possession ratio quantified adherents (≥80%). Multivariable logistic regression models included age, injection interval, PCa risk categories, Charlson Comorbidity Index, prior PCa treatment, civil status and year of GnRH initiation. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) expressed odds of adherence. Results: Men on primary GnRH agonists (n = 8,105) were more adherent with increasing age (75–84 years compared to ≤65 years OR: 1.49; 95% CI: 1.23–1.81), longer injection intervals (365 days compared to 90 days OR: 3.29; 95% CI: 2.52–4.30) and higher PCa risk categories at diagnosis (distant metastasis compared to low risk PCa OR: 3.56; 95% CI: 2.54–5.00). Men on secondary GnRH agonists (n = 4,738) were more adherent with increasing age (≥85 years compared to ≤65 years OR: 1.65; 95% CI: 1.23–2.22) and prior PCa treatment (anti-androgens compared to deferred treatment OR: 1.50; 95% CI: 1.23–1.82), (radiotherapy compared to deferred treatment OR: 1.35; 95% CI: 1.11–1.64). Conclusions: Longer injection intervals could be addressed in the clinical setting to improve adherence.
Jets and high $p_T$ hadrons in dense matter: recent results from STAR
Creators: name: Jacobs, Peter
name: Klay, Jennifer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent measurements of high transverse momentum (high $p_T$) hadron production in nuclear collisions by the STAR Collaboration at RHIC. The previously observed suppression in central Au+Au collisions has been extended to much higher $p_T$. New measurements from d+Au collisions are presented which help disentangle the mechanisms responsible for the suppression. Inclusive single hadron spectra are enhanced in d+Au relative to p+p, while two-particle azimuthal distributions are observed to be similar in p+p, d+Au and peripheral Au+Au collisions. The large suppression of inclusive hadron production and absence of the away-side jet-like correlations in central Au+Au collisions are shown to be due to interactions of the jets with the very dense medium produced in these collisions.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, joint proceedings for the CIPANP '03 Conference
Returns to Traders and Existence of a Risk Premium in Agricultural Futures Markets
Creators: name: Aulerich, Nicole M.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Aulerich, Nicole M.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: This paper analyzes the existence of a risk premium following the Keynesian theory of normal backwardation. A natural experiment using actual trading observations of commodity index traders is used to determine if passively holding long positions opposite hedgers earns a risk premium. Daily profits of traders are calculated in 12 markets from 2000-2009 using data from the CFTC internal large trader reporting system. Results show the commodity index traders have negative profits in 9 out of 12 commodities, resulting in an approximate net loss of -$6.9 billion. A measure of monthly return on investment does not show consistent positive profits and on average the return is negative. The evidence does not support the existence of a positive risk premium.
Multiquark-Adequate QCD Sum Rules: the Case of Flavour-Exotic Tetraquarks
Creators: name: Lucha, Wolfgang
name: Melikhov, Dmitri
name: Sazdjian, Hagop
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Frequently, theoretical discussions of multiquark hadron states prove to be contaminated or even dominated by contributions of conventional hadrons. For the approach to QCD bound states in terms of QCD sum rules, we show how to get rid of all unwanted ordinary-hadron ballast by boiling down the traditional QCD sum-rule formalism to the nonconventional aspects in the focus of interest.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, talk presented at the "XXIV International Workshop on High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory" (22 - 29 September 2019, Sochi, Russia)
A supramolecular polymeric chain in the cobalt(II) complex with diclofenac: synthesis, crystal structure, spectroscopic, thermal and antioxidant activity
Creators: name: Gacki, Michal
name: Kafarska, Karolina
name: Wolf, Wojciech M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A cobalt(II) complex with empirical formula [Co(dicl)2·(H2O)3]·MeOH (where dicl = diclofenac) was synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, flame atomic absorption spectroscopy (FAAS), infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and thermal decomposition techniques (TGA). The crystal structure of the complex was determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction technique. The compound crystallizes in the monoclinic space group I2/a. Apical water molecules link adjacent cobalt(II) ions forming polymeric chains along the crystal a axis. The thermal behavior of the complex was studied by TG/DTG/DTA, TG/MS and TG/FTIR methods under non-isothermal conditions in air. Upon heating [Co(dicl)2·(H2O)3]·MeOH decomposes progressively to metal oxides, which are the final products of pyrolysis. Furthermore, antioxidant activity of the complex was examined.
Pole dynamics for the Flierl-Petviashvili equation and zonal flow
Creators: name: Spineanu, F.
name: Vlad, M.
name: Itoh, K.
name: Sanuki, H.
name: Itoh, S. -I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a systematic method which allows us to identify a class of exact solutions of the Flierl-Petvishvili equation. The solutions are periodic and have one dimensional geometry. We examine the physical properties and find that these structures can have a significant effect on the zonal flow generation.
description: Latex 40 pages, seven figures eps included. Effect of variation of g_3 is studied. New references added
Supplementary materials from A latitudinal gradient in thermal transgenerational plasticity and a test of theory
Creators: name: Munch, Stephan B.
name: Lee, Who Seung
name: Walsh, Matthew
name: Hurst, Thomas
name: Wasserman, Ben A.
name: Mangel, Marc
name: Salinas, Santiago
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Includes 1 figure and 8 tables
Additional file 1 of Targeting WD repeat domain 5 enhances chemosensitivity and inhibits proliferation and programmed death-ligand 1 expression in bladder cancer
Creators: name: Zhang, Jingtong
name: Zhou, Qianghua
name: Xie, Keji
name: Cheng, Liang
name: Peng, Shengmeng
name: Xie, Ruihui
name: Liu, Lixuan
name: Zhang, Yangjie
name: Dong, Wen
name: Han, Jinli
name: Huang, Ming
name: Chen, Yuelong
name: Lin, Tianxin
name: Huang, Jian
name: Chen, Xu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Fig. 1. The expression of WDR5 in age, gender, T-stage, N-stage and Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) history features in TCGA cohort. Supplementary Fig. 2. The images of EdU assay of three BCa cells treated with two doses of OICR-9429 or DMSO. Supplementary Fig. 3. OICR-9429 increases apoptosis of bladder cancer cells. Supplementary Fig. 4. OICR-9429 increases cisplatin chemosensitivity of bladder cancer cells but not gemcitabine. Supplementary Fig. 5. H&E staining of kidney, liver, lung, and heart from the mice in indicated groups. Supplementary Fig. 6. The target genes of OICR-9429 are identified in bladder cancer. Supplementary Fig. 7. Pearson correlations between the expression of WDR5 and CDK1, PLK1, CCNE2, CCNB1, BIRC5, XRCC2, MCM2, AURKA and FOXM1 in TCGA cohort. Supplementary Fig. 8. OICR-9429 treatment did not affect H3K4me3 and RNA polymerase-II levels on the promoter regions of CDK1 and MCM2 in UM-UC-3 and T24 cells. Supplementary Fig. 9. Original images of western blotting. Supplementary Table 1. Univariate and multivariate analysis of factors associated with overall survival in 345 cases of bladder cancer from TCGA cohort. Supplementary Table 2. Primers used in qPCR. Supplementary Table 3. Primers used in ChIP-qPCR.
Producers’ Grain Marketing Decisions: A Study in the Canadian Markets
Creators: name: Fryza, Stefanie
name: Mattos, Fabio
name: Fryza, Stefanie
name: Mattos, Fabio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: This paper investigates the dynamics in the decision-making process of producers in Western Canada, where they must market their crop through the Canadian Wheat Board(CWB). The CWB offers several marketing alternatives to producers, which provide distinct combinations of return, risk, and cash flow. Pool pricing is the default alternative in which the CWB markets the grain for producers, while Producer Payment Options (PPO) represent instruments that producers can use to price their grain by themselves through the CWB. Preliminary analysis of 13,335 producers suggests that there is great heterogeneity in individuals marketing behaviour and that almost all producers who use PPO contracts deliver part of their crop to the pool accounts. This suggests that pool pricing is still largely used as the main marketing alternative, although producers seem to respond to price signals provided by the CWB and futures markets. Additionally, no clear evidence that producers who use PPO contracts are able to consistently outperform the pool was found. There also appears to be no direct relationship between PPO usage and pricing performance, implying that the adoption of PPO contracts appears not to be related to better or worse marketing performance. However, this point still needs further investigation with the complete data set and estimation of the regression models adopted in this study.
Painleve test and higher order differential equations
Creators: name: Mugan, Ugurhan
name: Jrad, Fahd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from the second Painlevé equation, we obtain Painlevé type equations of higher order by using the singular point analysis.
description: arxiv version is already official
A Comparison of Hedging Strategies and Effectiveness for Storable and Non-Storable Commodities
Creators: name: Mann, Janelle
name: Sephton, Peter
name: Mann, Janelle
name: Sephton, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: This research questions whether the hedging potential of a futures market differs between storable and non-storable commodities. The relationship between asset storability and hedging effectiveness was examined using five years of daily cash and futures data for eight commodities. Three hedge ratios were estimated for each commodity – the naive (1:1) hedge ratio, the OLS hedge ratio, and either the BEKK-GARCH hedge ratios or the ECM-GARCH hedge ratios depending on whether or not the cash and futures price series were cointegrated. Results indicate that the futures market for livestock performed poorly in its hedging function compared to the futures market for other commodities; however, there was insufficient evidence to conclude that this holds for all non-storable commodities.
Role of interfacial elasticity for the rheological properties of saponin-stabilized emulsions
Creators: name: Tsibranska, Sonya
name: Tcholakova, Slavka
name: Golemanov, Konstantin
name: Denkov, Nikolai
name: Pelan, Eddie
name: Stoyanov, Simeon D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hypothesis Saponins are natural surfactants which can provide highly viscoelastic interfaces. This property can be used to quantify precisely the effect of interfacial dilatational elasticity on the various rheological properties of bulk emulsions. Experiments We measured the interfacial dilatational elasticity of adsorption layers from four saponins (Quillaja, Escin, Berry, Tea) adsorbed on hexadecane-water and sunflower oil-water interfaces. In parallel, the rheological properties under steady and oscillatory shear deformations were measured for bulk emulsions, stabilized by the same saponins (oil volume fraction between 75 and 85 %). Findings Quillaja saponin and Berry saponin formed solid adsorption layers (shells) on the SFO-water interface. As a consequence, the respective emulsions contained non-spherical drops. For the other systems, the interfacial elasticities varied between 2 mN/m and 500 mN/m. We found that this interfacial elasticity has very significant impact on the emulsion shear elasticity, moderate effect on the dynamic yield stress, and no effect on the viscous stress of the respective steadily sheared emulsions. The last conclusion is not trivial, because the dilatational surface elasticity is known to have strong impact on the viscous stress of steadily sheared foams. Mechanistic explanations of all observed effects are described.
Hypostomus guajupia Penido, Pessali & Zawadzki 2021
Creators: name: De Oliveira, Rianne C.
name: Ota, Renata R.
name: Deprá, Gabriel C.
name: Zawadzki, Cláudio H.
name: Pavanelli, Carla S.
name: Da Graça, Weferson J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Siluriformes
Loricariidae
Hypostomus
Hypostomus guajupia

description: Hypostomus guajupia Penido, Pessali & Zawadzki, 2021: 9, fig. 8.
Holotype (Fig. 8): NUP 22601, 196.7 mm SL: Brazil, Minas Gerais, Curvelo, rio Paraopeba, downstream to Retiro Baixo hydroelectric dam, 18°52’23.2”S, 44°46’51.9”W, T. Barroso & A.A. Rodrigues, 23 Mar 2016.
Paratypes: 1 lot, 11 specimens —NUP 22604, 11, 160.6– 207.7 mm SL: collected with holotype.
description: Published as part of De Oliveira, Rianne C., Ota, Renata R., Deprá, Gabriel C., Zawadzki, Cláudio H., Pavanelli, Carla S. & Da Graça, Weferson J., 2022, Catalog of type specimens of the fish collection of the Núcleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Ictiologia e Aquicultura (NUP), Universidade Estadual de Maringá Paraná, Brazil, pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 5128 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5128.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6479497
Nutritional strategies for improving sarcopenia outcomes in older adults: A narrative review
Creators: name: R. Goes-Santos, Beatriz
name: Carson, Brian
name: Fonseca, Guilherme Wesley Peixoto da
name: von Haehling, Stephan
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 321006
subject: Sport and exercise nutrition

description: Sarcopenia is characterized by a decline in muscle strength, generalized loss of skeletal muscle mass, and impaired physical performance, which are common outcomes used to screen, diagnose, and determine severity of sarcopenia in older adults. These outcomes are associated with poor quality of life, increased risk of falls, hospitalization, and mortality in this population. The development of sarcopenia is underpinned by aging, but other factors can lead to sarcopenia, such as chronic diseases, physical inactivity, inadequate dietary energy intake, and reduced protein intake (nutrition-related sarcopenia), leading to an imbalance between muscle protein synthesis and muscle protein breakdown. Protein digestion and absorption are also modified with age, as well as the reduced capacity of metabolizing protein, hindering older adults from achieving ideal protein consumption (i.e., 1–1.5 g/kg/day). Nutritional supplement strategies, like animal (i.e., whey protein) and plant-based protein, leucine, and creatine have been shown to play a significant role in improving outcomes related to sarcopenia. However, the impact of other supplements (e.g., branched-chain amino acids, isolated amino acids, and omega-3) on sarcopenia and related outcomes remain unclear. This narrative review will discuss the evidence of the impact of these nutritional strategies on sarcopenia outcomes in older adults
Collinear Reaction Dynamics and Hydrodynamic Analysis of the Vibrationally Excited Cl + HCl → ClH + Cl, Cl + DCl → ClD + Cl and Cl + TCl → ClT + Cl Reactions on Two Leps Surfaces
Creators: name: Stroud, Carrie Kim
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1994
Subjects: Chemistry

description: Quantum dynamical calculations for the collinear Cl + HCl → ClH + Cl, Cl + DCl → ClD + Cl, and Cl + TCl → ClT + Cl reactions on low and high barrier potential energy surfaces are presented and discussed within the framework of the hyperspherical coordinate representation. Vibrational excitation of the reagent diatomic is found to decrease the reaction rate for the low barrier surface and increase the reaction rate for the high barrier surface. Quantum mechanical streamline calculations and tunneling fractions are used for analysis, and discussion of the results is made in terms of the topology of the potential surface, in which the skew angle and barrier height of the system play a leading role in explaining the dynamics of the reaction.
What is the physics behind the Larson mass-size relation?
Creators: name: Ballesteros-Paredes, Javier
name: Román-Zúñiga, Carlos
name: Salomé, Quentin
name: Zamora-Avilés, Manuel
name: Jiménez-Donaire, María Jesús
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Different studies have reported a power-law mass-size relation $M \propto R^q$ for ensembles of molecular clouds. In the case of nearby clouds, the index of the power-law $q$ is close to 2. However, for clouds spread all over the Galaxy, indexes larger than 2 are reported. We show that indexes larger than 2 could be the result of line-of-sight superposition of emission that does not belong to the cloud itself. We found that a random factor of gas contamination, between 0.001\%\ and 10\%\ of the line-of-sight, allows to reproduce the mass-size relation with $q \sim 2.2-2.3$ observed in Galactic CO surveys. Furthermore, for dense cores within a single cloud, or molecular clouds within a single galaxy, we argue that, even in these cases, there is observational and theoretical evidence that some degree of superposition may be occurring. However, additional effects may be present in each case, and are briefly discussed. We also argue that defining the fractal dimension of clouds via the mass-size relation is not adequate, since the mass is not {necessarily} a proxy to the area, and the size reported in $M-R$ relations is typically obtained from the square root of the area, rather than from an estimation of the size independent from the area. Finally, we argue that the statistical analysis of finding clouds satisfying the Larson's relations does not mean that each individual cloud is in virial equilibrium.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Design of a testbed for the study of system interference in space CMB polarimetry
Creators: name: Ghigna, Tommaso
name: Matsumura, Tomotake
name: Hazumi, Masashi
name: Stever, Samantha Lynn
name: Sakurai, Yuki
name: Katayama, Nobuhiko
name: Suzuki, Aritoki
name: Westbrook, Benjamin
name: Lee, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: LiteBIRD is a proposed JAXA satellite mission to measure the CMB B-mode polarization with unprecedented sensitivity ($σ_r\sim 0.001$). To achieve this goal, $4676$ state-of-the-art TES bolometers will observe the whole sky for 3 years from L2. These detectors, as well as the SQUID readout, are extremely susceptible to EMI and other instrumental disturbances e.g. static magnetic field and vibration. As a result, careful analysis of the interference between the detector system and the rest of the telescope instruments is essential. This study is particularly important during the early phase of the project, in order to address potential problems before the final assembly of the whole instrument. We report our plan for the preparation of a cryogenic testbed to study the interaction between the detectors and other subsystems, especially a polarization modulator unit consisting of a magnetically-rotating half wave plate. We also present the requirements, current status and preliminary results.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, submitted to the Journal of Low Temperature Physics: LTD18 Special Edition
Automatic detection and diagnosis of sacroiliitis in CT scans as incidental findings
Creators: name: Shenkman, Yigal
name: Qutteineh, Bilal
name: Joskowicz, Leo
name: Szeskin, Adi
name: Azraq, Yusef
name: Mayer, Arnaldo
name: Eshed, Iris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Early diagnosis of sacroiliitis may lead to preventive treatment which can significantly improve the patient's quality of life in the long run. Oftentimes, a CT scan of the lower back or abdomen is acquired for suspected back pain. However, since the differences between a healthy and an inflamed sacroiliac joint in the early stages are subtle, the condition may be missed. We have developed a new automatic algorithm for the diagnosis and grading of sacroiliitis CT scans as incidental findings, for patients who underwent CT scanning as part of their lower back pain workout. The method is based on supervised machine and deep learning techniques. The input is a CT scan that includes the patient's pelvis. The output is a diagnosis for each sacroiliac joint. The algorithm consists of four steps: 1) computation of an initial region of interest (ROI) that includes the pelvic joints region using heuristics and a U-Net classifier; 2) refinement of the ROI to detect both sacroiliac joints using a four-tree random forest; 3) individual sacroiliitis grading of each sacroiliac joint in each CT slice with a custom slice CNN classifier, and; 4) sacroiliitis diagnosis and grading by combining the individual slice grades using a random forest. Experimental results on 484 sacroiliac joints yield a binary and a 3-class case classification accuracy of 91.9% and 86%, a sensitivity of 95% and 82%, and an Area-Under-the-Curve of 0.97 and 0.57, respectively. Automatic computer-based analysis of CT scans has the potential of being a useful method for the diagnosis and grading of sacroiliitis as an incidental finding.
Ethanol Futures: Thin but Effective? —Why?
Creators: name: Dahlgran, Roger A.
name: Dahlgran, Roger A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: This study examines the paradox where the ethanol futures market provides effective hypothetical hedges yet the use of this market is shunned by those with ethanol cash market positions because of its limited volume and open interest. Examining this issue requires describing ethanol cash, futures, and swaps markets, and ethanol contracting practices. We observe that ethanol futures open interest is about two percent of annual U.S. usage compared to nine percent in gasoline markets. We also observe that an attempt by a single refiner to fully hedge its production would significantly alter the volume/open interest profile of the ethanol futures market. In this respect, the ethanol futures market is thin. The ethanol futures market is nonetheless efficient except in the final month of a contract’s life. We examine causality relationships between the ethanol futures and swaps markets and find that the futures market adjusts to swaps market disequilibrium but the converse does not hold. The implications of these findings are (1) because futures equilibrium open interest adjusts to changes in swaps equilibrium open interest, the futures price reflects conditions in the deeper swaps market as well as in the futures market, (2) because of (1) using the futures settlement price for marking swaps to market provides secure bonding in the over-the-counter ethanol derivatives (swaps) market, and (3) inefficiencies in the futures market during the last month of a contract’s life are likely due to the swaps market’s use of the cumulative average of the futures prices during the last month of the swap contract’s life.
Examining the Risk-Return Relationship between Agribusiness Stocks and the Market
Creators: name: Dorfman, Jerey H.
name: Park, Myung D.
name: Dorfman, Jerey H.
name: Park, Myung D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: Volatility and the trade-off between risk and returns have been considered key components of finance theory at least since Merton's intertemporal capital asset pricing model (ICAPM, 1973). In this study, we employ several bivariate GARCH-M models to investigate Merton's ICAPM for agribusiness industries and examine the best speci_x000C_cation to use in estimating the relationship of asset returns in these industries with the broader market. The expected positive relation between stock return and its risk holds for both industries and we found a high posterior probability of a positive tradeo_x000B_ for the agricultural production portfolio.
二カ国語併用と国風文化の創造の問題－『土佐日記』に於ける唐風文化との対話の視点から (Dwujęzyczność a problem kształtowania kultury narodowej – z perspektywy dialogu z kulturą chińską z czasów dynastii Tang na kartach „Pamiętnika z Tosy")
Creators: name: Olszewski, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200312 Japanese Language
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In this paper I would like to explain – taking a history of the early Heian period as a background – the process of creation of national (i.e. Japanese) culture by the aristocracy who – since the An Lu-Shan’s Rebellion – could observe from the Japanese Archipelago the first symptoms of the decline of the Tang dynasty in China. The Japanese of the Heian period, who – from the Chinese perspective – “lived at the frontiers of culture” (see: Umehara Takeshi, 2001) while being almost perfectly bilingual , did not deny Chinese culture, but on the other hand, they adapted from it the best and the most suitable aspects for their artistic images. I would like to show that process of aesthetical adaptation on the basis of an analysis of the part of “The Tosa Diary”, which is called to be a representative literary work in the Japanese literature of the 10th century. I think that the so often mentioned eclecticism of the work was not Ki no Tsurayuki’s isamiashi, i.e. literary failure (see: Hagitani Boku, 2000). In this paper I would like to prove that “The Tosa Diary” is a completed and intentionally written literary work (with the most important goal to discuss with the Chinese culture of the Tang dynasty), and its eclecticism was rather a result of groping for new expressions and a new literary genre in the process of creation of national culture.
Experimental investigation of second sound shock waves in liquid helium II
Creators: name: Rogers, Philip Louis
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1979
Subjects: Aeronautics

description: Second sound shock waves in liquid helium II were studied experimentally using superconducting thin film detectors. The temperature waves were generated electrically using an evaporated thin film heater and the effects of variations in pulse power (input power to the heater as large as 150 Watts/cm(2)) and pulse duration (from less than 100 µsec to 10 msec) were examined. A number of different materials were tested for use as detectors with the best results obtained from evaporated gold on tin.

Qualitative agreement with Khalatnikov's theory was obtained; however, breakdown of the theoretical model was observed for heater input powers greater than 20 - 30 Watts/cm(2), in agreement with other known results. Quantitative data for shock strength, i.e., temperature amplitude, wave speed, and pulse power, were obtained. The critical counterflow velocities calculated from these data, w = 2.51 to 3.77 m/sec, indicate that heat fluxes at least an order of magnitude greater than those reported for steady channel flow can be transported using the pulsed techniques.
Romuald Huszcza, Maho Ikushima, Jan Majewski, Gramatyka japońska - recenzja
Creators: name: Olszewski, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200312 Japanese Language
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Recenzja I tomu "Gramatyki japońskiej" pod red. R. Huszczy, M. Ikushimy i J. Majewskiego.
Additional file 10 of Phytohormone and integrated mRNA and miRNA transcriptome analyses and differentiation of male between hermaphroditic floral buds of andromonoecious Diospyros kaki Thunb
Creators: name: Li, Huawei
name: Wang, Liyuan
name: Mai, Yini
name: Han, Weijuan
name: Suo, Yujing
name: Diao, Songfeng
name: Sun, Peng
name: Fu, Jianmin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10: Table S9.
Synthesis and crystal structure of bis(O-methyl hydrogenato carbonodithioate)-Pb(II): structural, optical and photocatalytic studies of PbS nanoparticles from the complex
Creators: name: Ajibade, Peter A.
name: Abimbola E. Oluwalana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Lead(II) methyl xanthate [Pb(S2COMe)2] was synthesized and characterized by single crystal X-ray crystallography. The molecular structure showed a distorted tetrahedral geometry around Pb(II) with each monomeric unit linked with another through Pb···S interactions. The compound was used to prepare hexadecylamine capped PbS (HDA-PbS) and oleylamine capped PbS (OLA-PbS) nanoparticles. The PbS nanoparticles were indexed to the cubic PbS crystalline phase with particle sizes of 4.5 – 34.5 nm. The estimated optical bandgaps obtained from the tauc’s plots were 3.47 and 3.30 eV for HDA-PbS and OLA-PbS, respectively, which are blue shifted in comparison to bulk PbS. The photodegradation of methylene blue using PbS as photocatalyst shows that HDA-PbS have the best degradation efficiency of 77.70% after 240 min.
Impact of Mandatory Price Reporting on Hog Market Integration
Creators: name: Franken, Jason
name: Parcell, Joe
name: Franken, Jason
name: Parcell, Joe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: We examine whether mandatory price reporting (MPR), which is intended to facilitate transparent pricing, has impacted pricing relationships among U.S. hog markets. Hog markets are cointegrated both prior to and following enactment of MPR, but are not fully integrated in either period. That is, prices at alternative locations do not adjust one-for-one with price changes in other locations. Further, markets adjust to price shocks in other locations more slowly following MPR, which may be a coincidence associated with decreases in the proportion of spot market hog transactions.
Using the local density approximation and the LYP, BLYP, and B3LYP functionals within Reference--State One--Particle Density--Matrix Theory
Creators: name: Finley, James P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For closed-shell systems, the local density approximation (LDA) and the LYP, BLYP, and B3LYP functionals are shown to be compatible with reference-state one-particle density-matrix theory, where this recently introduced formalism is based on Brueckner-orbital theory and an energy functional that includes exact exchange and a non-universal correlation-energy functional. The method is demonstrated to reduce to a density functional theory when the exchange-correlation energy-functional has a simplified form, i.e., its integrand contains only the coordinates of two electron, say r1 and r2, and it has a Dirac delta function -- delta(r1 - r2) -- as a factor. Since Brueckner and Hartree--Fock orbitals are often very similar, any local exchange functional that works well with Hartree--Fock theory is a reasonable approximation with reference-state one-particle density-matrix theory. The LDA approximation is also a reasonable approximation. However, the Colle--Salvetti correlation-energy functional, and the LYP variant, are not ideal for the method, since these are universal functionals. Nevertheless, they appear to provide reasonable approximations. The B3LYP functional is derived using a linear combination of two functionals: One is the BLYP functional; the other uses exact exchange and a correlation-energy functional from the LDA.
description: 26 Pages, 0 figures, RevTeX 4, Submitted to Mol. Phys
Potential of deep features for opinion-unaware, distortion-unaware, no-reference image quality assessment
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Subhayan
name: Valenzise, Giuseppe
name: Cheng, Irene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image Quality Assessment algorithms predict a quality score for a pristine or distorted input image, such that it correlates with human opinion. Traditional methods required a non-distorted "reference" version of the input image to compare with, in order to predict this score. However, recent "No-reference" methods circumvent this requirement by modelling the distribution of clean image features, thereby making them more suitable for practical use. However, majority of such methods either use hand-crafted features or require training on human opinion scores (supervised learning), which are difficult to obtain and standardise. We explore the possibility of using deep features instead, particularly, the encoded (bottleneck) feature maps of a Convolutional Autoencoder neural network architecture. Also, we do not train the network on subjective scores (unsupervised learning). The primary requirements for an IQA method are monotonic increase in predicted scores with increasing degree of input image distortion, and consistent ranking of images with the same distortion type and content, but different distortion levels. Quantitative experiments using the Pearson, Kendall and Spearman correlation scores on a diverse set of images show that our proposed method meets the above requirements better than the state-of-art method (which uses hand-crafted features) for three types of distortions: blurring, noise and compression artefacts. This demonstrates the potential for future research in this relatively unexplored sub-area within IQA.
description: International Conference on Smart Multimedia (Springer), 16-18 December 2019, San Diego, California, USA
The Basis Effects of Failures to Converge
Creators: name: Karali, Berna
name: McNew, Kevin
name: Karali, Berna
name: McNew, Kevin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: We study the spatial patterns to wheat basis (spot price minus futures price) for wheat contracts between 2005 and 2009. Restricting our attention to a single delivery market—Toledo, Ohio— and to cash markets within 100 miles of Toledo, we measure the co-movement of basis at inland markets with basis at Toledo. We examine the degree to which that co-movement is disrupted for contracts that failed to converge at delivery time.
A qualitative study exploring the suitability of Informed Health Choices resources translated into Kinyarwanda for use in primary schools: Case Of Remera Protestant Primary School In Kigali City
Creators: name: Ikirezi, Aline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Public Health in the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda.
Low velocity impact damage and its propagation under compressive load in curved, graphite/epoxy panels
Creators: name: Magaldi, Tony
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1983
Subjects: Aeronautics

description: An experimental study was conducted to investigate the influence of plate curvature on low-velocity impact damage and its propagation under compressive load in thick, Graphite/Epoxy laminates. High-speed photography coupled with the oblique-shadow moire technique indicates that initial impact damage and its subsequent propagation through delamination buckling act as separate mechanisms during the catastrophic failure process.

Results of an initial-postbuckling analysis for the buckling of thin cylindrical plates in axial compression were used to assess the effect of plate curvature on the conditions necessary for delamination buckling. Although curvature was found to increase the buckling load at the expense of a greater imperfection sensitivity, the effect is insignificant in thin shells if the plate width (i.e. initial delamination width) is small compared to the plate's radius.

When compared with the experimental and analytic findings of similar studies involving flat Gr/Ep laminates, results reveal that the 15 inch plate radius used for this series of experiments had a negligible influence on the inital damage and delamination propagation mechanisms.