cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Hybrid system to optimize the value of imports for hydro systems
Creators: name: Alavi, Amir Ala
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis presents a solution methodology to optimize the value of imports for hydro systems by optimally selecting the unit commitment and loading of plants to provide the required System Rotational Energy or System Inertia. The methodology has been developed for use in short-term hydro system operations in a deregulated market environment to determine the optimal electricity import for a predominantly hydroelectric system consisting of plants with large storage facilities, multiple units and complex hydraulic configurations. The problem is formulated and solved using a hybrid system consisting of two main components. The first component consists of an expert system that is used to screen for potential and feasible system configurations given a set of rules on plant and unit operations. The second component consists of a Mixed-Integer programming algorithm that maximizes the value of import capability of the hydro system during low electricity market-price periods. The proposed solution methodology optimally schedules hydro plants at unit-level for energy and capacity markets in short-term operations while meeting the System Rotational Energy constraints. The application of the technique is demonstrated for four large plants in the B.C. Hydro system for a 24-hour time-step studies for a four-month period in 2002.
Trends in Real Food Prices in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries
Creators: name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Mukumbu, Mulinge
name: Duncan, John
name: Staatz, John M.
name: Howard, Julie A.
name: Lundberg, Mattias K.A.
name: Aldridge, Kim
name: Nakaponda, Bethel
name: Ferris, John N.
name: Keita, Francis
name: Sanankoua, Abdel Kader
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Mukumbu, Mulinge
name: Duncan, John
name: Staatz, John M.
name: Howard, Julie A.
name: Lundberg, Mattias K.A.
name: Aldridge, Kim
name: Nakaponda, Bethel
name: Ferris, John N.
name: Keita, Francis
name: Sanankoua, Abdel Kader
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: food security
subject: food policy

description: The objectives of the study are: to assess the direction and magnitude of changes in real staple food prices since the implementation of food sector policy reforms in Africa; to identify the major factors affecting changes in these food prices; and to assess the resulting effects of food system reform on household food security.
Influence of growth stages assessment on the correlation between variety of the pigment types and contents in Rice grassy stunt virus (RGSV)-free and infected standard susceptible variety Taichung Native 1 rice plant leaf crude sap test samples
Creators: name: Thanat Na Phatthalung And Wipa Tangkananond
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2021
Subjects: Rice grassy stunt virus (RGSV)
brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens St?l)
Taichung Native 1 rice plant
plant pigment content

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 49, 2, 368-380
Tegoribates americanus Hammer 1958
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Tegoribatidae
Tegoribates
Tegoribates americanus

description: Tegoribates cf. americanus Hammer, 1958
 Geographic Location and Habitats: AB: 35 km north of Fort McMurray (McAdams et al. 2018).
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 113, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Poly-MTO, {(CH_3)_{0.92} Re O_3}_\infty, a Conducting Two-Dimensional Organometallic Oxide
Creators: name: Miller, R.
name: Scheidt, E. -W.
name: Eickerling, G.
name: Helbig, C.
name: Mayr, F.
name: Herrmann, R.
name: Scherer, W.
name: von Nidda, H. -A. Krug
name: Eyert, V.
name: Schwab, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polymeric methyltrioxorhenium, {(CH_{3})_{0.92}ReO_{3}}_{\infty} (poly-MTO), is the first member of a new class of organometallic hybrids which adopts the structural pattern and physical properties of classical perovskites in two dimensions (2D). We demonstrate how the electronic structure of poly-MTO can be tailored by intercalation of organic donor molecules, such as tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) or bis-(ethylendithio)-tetrathiafulvalene (BEDT-TTF), and by the inorganic acceptor SbF$_3$. Integration of donor molecules leads to a more insulating behavior of poly-MTO, whereas SbF$_3$ insertion does not cause any significant change in the resistivity. The resistivity data of pure poly-MTO is remarkably well described by a two-dimensional electron system. Below 38 K an unusual resistivity behavior, similar to that found in doped cuprates, is observed: The resistivity initially increases approximately as $ρ\sim$ ln$(1/T$) before it changes into a $\sqrt{T}$ dependence below 2 K. As an explanation we suggest a crossover from purely two-dimensional charge-carrier diffusion within the \{ReO$_2$\}$_{\infty}$ planes at high temperatures to three-dimensional diffusion at low temperatures in a disorder-enhanced electron-electron interaction scenario (Altshuler-Aronov correction). Furthermore, a linear positive magnetoresistance was found in the insulating regime, which is caused by spatial localization of itinerant electrons at some of the Re atoms, which formally adopt a $5d^1$ electronic configuration. X-ray diffraction, IR- and ESR-studies, temperature dependent magnetization and specific heat measurements in various magnetic fields suggest that the electronic structure of poly-MTO can safely be approximated by a purely 2D conductor.
description: 15 pages, 16 figures, 2 tables
CODES: Running Mistral-7B-Instruct Locally: A Step-by-Step Guide (For Empirical Validation)
Creators: name: Bostick, Devin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Artificial intelligence
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Machine learning
subject: Machine Learning
subject: Transformers
subject: Large Language Models
subject: Mistral-7B
subject: Hugging Face
subject: Natural Language Processing
subject: Deep Learning
subject: Model Deployment
subject: Quantum Computing
subject: Python
subject: Open Source AI
subject: Local AI Inference
subject: High-Performance Computing
subject: Fine-Tuning LLMs

description: 1. Expanded CODES Framework (Empirical Studies + Theory)

🔹 CODES: The Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems (Main Paper)

2. Introduction & High-Level Overview

🔹 CODES: High-Level Introduction

3. Structured Resonance & Emergent Intelligence

🔹 Structured Resonance and the Nature of Intelligence

 

Abstract

This paper provides a structured guide on how to install, configure, and run Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1 locally using the Hugging Face Transformers library. It covers everything from setting up dependencies to optimizing inference for efficiency. The guide is designed for users without extensive coding experience and provides detailed explanations for each step.
Path Integrals for Causal Diamonds and the Covariant Entropy Principle
Creators: name: Banks, Tom
name: Draper, Patrick
name: Farkas, Szilard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study causal diamonds in Minkowski, Schwarzschild, (anti) de Sitter, and Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes using Euclidean methods. The null boundaries of causal diamonds are shown to map to isolated punctures in the Euclidean continuation of the parent manifold. Boundary terms around these punctures decrease the Euclidean action by $A_\diamond/4$, where $A_\diamond$ is the area of the holographic screen around the diamond. We identify these boundary contributions with the maximal entropy of gravitational degrees of freedom associated with the diamond.
description: 25 pages
Population fluctuation of melon thrips, Thrips palmi Karny (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and viral disease activity in 2 melon varieties under greenhouse condition
Creators: name: Ekkaphop Bunthong, Aran Ngampongsai
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2021
Subjects: melon
thrips
yellow sticky trap

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 49, 2, 381-390
Who Eats Yellow Maize? Preliminary Results of a Survey of Consumer Maize Preferences in Maputo, Mozambique
Creators: name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Santos, Ana Paula
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Santos, Ana Paula
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: maize

description: During April and May, 1994, the questionnaire was completed with the person in each household who was responsible for food purchases. At this time, white maize availability was increasing due to the recent harvest, while yellow maize availability was beginning to decline after a long period of great oversupply and very low prices. The questionnaire included sections on family structure; supply sources of maize grain and meals; purchase behavior for maize grain, maize meals, and rice; two "price games" in which consumers were asked to make choices between products at differing prices; and a series of sections meant to quantify household income, including agricultural production and remittances. This brief paper presents some preliminary results from this survey. The report consists primarily of tables, with brief discussions of the implications of each.
Plans for Kaon Physics at BNL
Creators: name: Redlinger, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I give an overview of current plans for kaon physics at BNL. The program is centered on the rare decay modes K+ --> pi+ nu nubar and KL --> pi0 nu nubar.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures. Uses espcrc2.sty. For the proceedings of HIF04: High Intensity Frontier Workshop, La Biodola, Isola D'Elba, June 5-8, 2004
Additional file 4 of Ileal proteomic changes associated with IL-25-mediated resistance against intestinal trematode infections
Creators: name: Álvarez-Izquierdo, María
name: J. Guillermo Esteban
name: Muñoz-Antoli, Carla
name: Toledo, Rafael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Table S1. Details of the computational comparison of protein expression profiles of intestinal epithelial cells isolated from control, control inoculated with rIL-25, infected and infected in presence of rIL-25 mice performed with the EDA module of DeCyder software (GE Healthcare). Manually validated spots displaying significant statistical differences (P < 0.01 in one-way ANOVA) are pairwise comparisons of groups. Comparisons are based on the presence or absence of rIL-25, i.e. infected and control against infected in the presence of rIL25, and control inoculated with rIL-25 mice. For each spot in each pair, the fold-change and average normalised volumes (ANV) are shown.
Bistable Probabilities: A Unified Framework for Studying Rationality and Irrationality in Classical and Quantum Games
Creators: name: Dehdashti, Shahram
name: Fell, Lauren
name: Obeid, Abdul Karim
name: Moreira, Catarina
name: Bruza, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 91A10

description: This article presents a unified probabilistic framework that allows both rational and irrational decision making to be theoretically investigated and simulated in classical and quantum games. Rational choice theory is a basic component of game theoretic models, which assumes that a decision maker chooses the best action according to their preferences. In this article, we define irrationality as a deviation from a rational choice. Bistable probabilities are proposed as a principled and straight forward means for modeling irrational decision making in games. Bistable variants of classical and quantum Prisoner's Dilemma, Stag Hunt and Chicken are analyzed in order to assess the effect of irrationality on agent utility and Nash equilibria. It was found that up to three Nash equilibria exist for all three classical bistable games and maximal utility was attained when agents were rational. Up to three Nash equilibria exist for all three quantum bistable games, however, utility was shown to increase according to higher levels of agent irrationality.
The Number and Observability of Population III Supernovae at High Redshifts
Creators: name: Weinmann, Simone M.
name: Lilly, Simon J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the feasibility of detecting Population III pair-instability supernovae (PISN) at very high redshifts with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Four published estimates for the PISNe rate show a rather wide dispersion, between 50-2200 deg-2 yr-1. Correcting problems with several of these, we conclude that even a fairly optimistic estimate is probably a further order of magnitude lower than this range, at a rate of order 4 deg-2 yr-1 at z \~ 15 and 0.2 deg-2 yr-1 at z ~ 25, both with substantial uncertainty. Although such supernovae would be bright enough to be readily detectable with the JWST at any relevant redshift, the lower number densities derived here will likely require either a dedicated wide-angle search strategy or a serendipitous search. We expect that typically about 1 deg2 (or 500 JWST NIRCam images) per detected supernova at 4.5 mm must be imaged to detect one PISN at z ~ 15 and about 35 deg2 to detect one at z ~ 25. If some Population III star-formation persists to lower redshifts z ~ 5, then PISNe may also be detectable in wide-angle ground-based Z-band imaging surveys at ZAB ~ 23, at a density of order 1 deg-2 of surveyed area. In an Appendix, we consider the possible effects of intergalactic dust in obscuring high redshift supernovae or other high redshift sources. We show that the obscuration at a given rest-wavelength will peak at some maximum redshift and thereafter decline. While it may be a significant effect in observations of the very high redshift Universe, it is unlikely, even under rather pessimistic assumptions, to completely obscure primordial objects.
description: To appear in the Astrophysical Journal (17 pages, 5 figures)
Network Inference from a Mixture of Diffusion Models for Fake News Mitigation
Creators: name: Sharma, Karishma
name: He, Xinran
name: Seo, Sungyong
name: Liu, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The dissemination of fake news intended to deceive people, influence public opinion and manipulate social outcomes, has become a pressing problem on social media. Moreover, information sharing on social media facilitates diffusion of viral information cascades. In this work, we focus on understanding and leveraging diffusion dynamics of false and legitimate contents in order to facilitate network interventions for fake news mitigation. We analyze real-world Twitter datasets comprising fake and true news cascades, to understand differences in diffusion dynamics and user behaviours with regards to fake and true contents. Based on the analysis, we model the diffusion as a mixture of Independent Cascade models (MIC) with parameters $θ_T, θ_F$ over the social network graph; and derive unsupervised inference techniques for parameter estimation of the diffusion mixture model from observed, unlabeled cascades. Users influential in the propagation of true and fake contents are identified using the inferred diffusion dynamics. Characteristics of the identified influential users reveal positive correlation between influential users identified for fake news and their relative appearance in fake news cascades. Identified influential users tend to be related to topics of more viral information cascades than less viral ones; and identified fake news influential users have relatively fewer counts of direct followers, compared to the true news influential users. Intervention analysis on nodes and edges demonstrates capacity of the inferred diffusion dynamics in supporting network interventions for mitigation.
Tegoribates subniger Ewing 1917
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Tegoribatidae
Tegoribates
Tegoribates subniger

description: Tegoribates subniger Ewing, 1917
 Geographic Location and Habitats: AB: ABMI Sites (Behan-Pelletier 2017).
 Distribution: Nearctic.
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 113, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Farmer's acceptance and willingness to pay for sugarcane borer parasitoid products
Creators: name: Yaowarat Sriwaranun, Nutcharee Siri
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2021
Subjects: farmer's acceptance
farmer's willingness to pay
sugarcane borer parasitoid products

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 49, 2, 391-403
Gas phase Elemental abundances in Molecular cloudS (GEMS). II. On the quest for the sulphur reservoir in molecular clouds: the $H_{2}S$ case
Creators: name: Navarro-Almaida, D.
name: Gal, R. Le
name: Fuente, A.
name: Rivière-Marichalar, P.
name: Wakelam, V.
name: Cazaux, S.
name: Caselli, P.
name: Laas, Jacob C.
name: Alonso-Albi, T.
name: Loison, J. C.
name: Gerin, M.
name: Kramer, C.
name: Roueff, E.
name: Bachiller, R.
name: Commerçon, B.
name: Friesen, R.
name: García-Burillo, S.
name: Goicoechea, J. R.
name: Giuliano, B. M.
name: Jiménez-Serra, I.
name: Kirk, J. M.
name: Lattanzi, V.
name: Malinen, J.
name: Marcelino, N.
name: Martín-Domènech, R.
name: Caro, G. M. Muñoz
name: Pineda, J.
name: Tercero, B.
name: Morales, S. P. Treviño
name: Roncero, O.
name: Hacar, A.
name: Tafalla, M.
name: Ward-Thompson, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sulphur is one of the most abundant elements in the Universe. Surprisingly, sulphuretted molecules are not as abundant as expected in the interstellar medium, and the identity of the main sulphur reservoir is still an open question. Our goal is to investigate the H$_{2}$S chemistry in dark clouds, as this stable molecule is a potential sulphur reservoir. Using millimeter observations of CS, SO, H$_{2}$S, and their isotopologues, we determine the physical conditions and H$_{2}$S abundances along the cores TMC 1-C, TMC 1-CP, and Barnard 1b. The gas-grain model Nautilus is then used to model the sulphur chemistry and explore the impact of photo-desorption and chemical desorption on the H$_2$S abundance. Our model shows that chemical desorption is the main source of gas-phase H$_2$S in dark cores. The measured H$_{2}$S abundance can only be fitted if we assume that the chemical desorption rate decreases by more than a factor of 10 when $n_{\rm H}>2\times10^{4}$. This change in the desorption rate is consistent with the formation of thick H$_2$O and CO ice mantles on grain surfaces. The observed SO and H$_2$S abundances are in good agreement with our predictions adopting an undepleted value of the sulphur abundance. However, the CS abundance is overestimated by a factor of $5-10$. Along the three cores, atomic S is predicted to be the main sulphur reservoir. We conclude that the gaseous H$_2$S abundance is well reproduced, assuming undepleted sulphur abundance and chemical desorption as the main source of H$_2$S. The behavior of the observed H$_{2}$S abundance suggests a changing desorption efficiency, which would probe the snowline in these cores. Our model, however, overestimates the observed gas-phase CS abundance. Given the uncertainty in the sulphur chemistry, our data are consistent with a cosmic elemental S abundance with an uncertainty of a factor of 10.
description: 23 pages, 16 figures
Long-range radiative interaction between semiconductor quantum dots
Creators: name: Parascandolo, Gaetano
name: Savona, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a Maxwell-Schroedinger formalism in order to describe the radiative interaction mechanism between semiconductor quantum dots. We solve the Maxwell equations for the electromagnetic field coupled to the polarization field of a quantum dot ensemble through a linear non-local susceptibility and compute the polariton resonances of the system. The radiative coupling, mediated by both radiative and surface photon modes, causes the emergence of collective modes whose lifetimes are longer or shorter compared to the ones of non-interacting dots. The magnitude of the coupling and the collective mode energies depend on the detuning and on the mutual quantum dot distance. The spatial range of this coupling mechanism is of the order of the wavelength. This coupling should therefore be accounted for when considering quantum dots as building blocks of integrated systems for quantum information processing.
Supply chain management of processed agricultural products : a case study of Dok Jig Korat noodle brand
Creators: name: Prapaporn Chulilung And Panya Mankeb
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2021
Subjects: supply chain management, processed agricultural products, Dok Jig Korat Noodle Brand

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 49, 2, 404-415
Order-chaos-order and invariant manifolds in the bounded planar Earth-Moon system
Creators: name: de Oliveira, Vitor M.
name: Sousa-Silva, Priscilla A.
name: Caldas, Iberê L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this work, we investigate the Earth-Moon system, as modeled by the planar circular restricted three-body problem, and relate its dynamical properties to the underlying structure associated with specific invariant manifolds. We consider a range of Jacobi constant values for which the neck around the Lagrangian point $L_1$ is always open but the orbits are bounded due to Hill stability. First, we show that the system displays three different dynamical scenarios in the neighborhood of the Moon: two mixed ones, with regular and chaotic orbits, and an almost entirely chaotic one in between. We then analyze the transitions between these scenarios using the Monodromy matrix theory and determine that they are given by two specific types of bifurcations. After that, we illustrate how the phase space configurations, particularly the shapes of stability regions and stickiness, are intrinsically related to the hyperbolic invariant manifolds of the Lyapunov orbits around $L_1$ and also to the ones of some particular unstable periodic orbits. Lastly, we define transit time in a manner that is useful to depict dynamical trapping and show that the traced geometrical structures are also connected to the transport properties of the system.
description: 22 pages, 12 figures
Ex-Ante Evaluation of Farming Systems Research in Northeastern Mali: Implications for Research and Extension Policy
Creators: name: Frahan, Bruno Henry De
name: Frahan, Bruno Henry De
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: farming systems research

description: This paper examines the conditions that would be needed for a possible farming systems research project in the Region of Mopti (Mali) to have a significant production impact.
COVID-19, Household Resilience, and Rural Food Systems: Evidence from Southern and Eastern Africa
Creators: name: Upton, Joanna
name: Tennant, Elizabeth
name: Fiorella, Kathryn J.
name: Barrett, Christopher B.
name: Upton, Joanna
name: Tennant, Elizabeth
name: Fiorella, Kathryn J.
name: Barrett, Christopher B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Security
subject: Household Shocks
subject: Kenya
subject: Madagascar
subject: Malawi
subject: Resilience

description: Resilience offers a useful lens for studying how human well-being and the systems on which it depends can absorb and recover from a range of shocks and stressors, including events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking beyond the direct effects of observable shocks and individual or household resilience capacities to the meso-level mechanisms that shape impacts on communities, households, and individuals can both guide our understanding of COVID-19 impacts and help leverage findings from the pandemic context to better understand resilience to other food systems shocks, past, present, and future. We develop a conceptual framework for the multiple paths through which observed, exogenous shocks interact with systemic, endogenous mechanisms to influence the resilience of household well-being and supporting food systems. We illustrate this framework with reference to the COVID-19 pandemic and policy responses as they unfolded in three rural study areas in Malawi, Madagascar, and Kenya. Consistent with this framework, we find multiple pathways through which the pandemic shock affected household food security and resilience. Our findings highlight that in some settings, at some points in the multi-stressor trajectory of a shock, the more serious, direct effects – in this case, severe illness and mortality from SARS-CoV-2 – may impact far fewer people than do the substantive, indirect impacts that arise as behaviors, markets, and policies adjust to the shock. These adjustments are necessarily correlated and elicit varied household coping responses. We illustrate the degree to which, from the point of view of rural food systems and households, COVID-19 is a new shock but its massive, broad-reaching impacts manifest through familiar stressors and uncertainties that frequently burden poor rural populations in much of the lowand middle-income world
Confronting the Silent Challenge of Hunger: A Conference Synthesis
Creators: name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Rubey, Lawrence
name: Reardon, Thomas
name: Staatz, John M.
name: Weber, Michael T.
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Rubey, Lawrence
name: Reardon, Thomas
name: Staatz, John M.
name: Weber, Michael T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: food security
subject: food policy

description: This report is a synthesis of views presented at the Confronting the Silent Challenge of Hunger USAID Conference, June 28-29, 1994. The purposes of the conference were to provide information to assist AID in defining and articulating its development strategy related to agriculture and food security, to identify issues of consensus for incorporation into future AID strategy, and to identify critical issues of ongoing debate which need to be resolved.
A Model for Understanding Numerical Stability
Creators: name: Bornemann, Folkmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65G50, 65F05

description: We present a model of roundoff error analysis that combines simplicity with predictive power. Though not considering all sources of roundoff within an algorithm, the model is related to a recursive roundoff error analysis and therefore capable of correctly predicting stability or instability of an algorithm. By means of nontrivial examples, such as the componentwise backward stability analysis of Gaussian elimination with a single iterative refinement step, we demonstrate that the model even yields quantitative backward error bounds that show all the known problem-dependent terms (with the exception of dimension-dependent constants, which are the weak spot of any a priori analysis). The model can serve as a convenient tool for teaching or as a heuristic device to discover stability results before entering a further, detailed analysis.
Tegoribates Ewing 1917
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Tegoribatidae
Tegoribates

description: Tegoribates sp.
 Geographic Location and Habitats: BC: Vancouver Is., Sidney Inlet, Clayoquot Sound, Forest floor under Sitka spruce (Lindo et al. 2008b).
 Superfamily Oribatelloidea
 Family Oribatellidae
 Genus Ferolocella Grabowski, 1971
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 113, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Bundles of C*-categories and duality
Creators: name: Vasselli, Ezio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18D10, 22D25, 14F05, 55N30

description: We introduce the notions of multiplier C*-category and continuous bundle of C*-categories, as the categorical analogues of the corresponding C*-algebraic notions. Every symmetric tensor C*-category with conjugates is a continuous bundle of C*-categories, with base space the spectrum of the C*-algebra associated with the identity object. We classify tensor C*-categories with fibre the dual of a compact Lie group in terms of suitable principal bundles. This also provides a classification for certain C*-algebra bundles, with fibres fixed-point algebras of O_d.
description: 25 pages; contains the first part of the previous version, published on Journal of Functional Analysis
Additional file 1 of PODXL might be a new prognostic biomarker in various cancers: a meta-analysis and sequential verification with TCGA datasets
Creators: name: Siying He
name: Wenjie Du
name: Menglan Li
name: Yan, Ming
name: Zheng, Fang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
Linear Time LexDFS on Chordal Graphs
Creators: name: Beisegel, Jesse
name: Köhler, Ekkehard
name: Scheffler, Robert
name: Strehler, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Lexicographic Depth First Search (LexDFS) is a special variant of a Depth First Search (DFS), which was introduced by Corneil and Krueger in 2008. While this search has been used in various applications, in contrast to other graph searches, no general linear time implementation is known to date. In 2014, Köhler and Mouatadid achieved linear running time to compute some special LexDFS orders for cocomparability graphs. In this paper, we present a linear time implementation of LexDFS for chordal graphs. Our algorithm is able to find any LexDFS order for this graph class. To the best of our knowledge this is the first unrestricted linear time implementation of LexDFS on a non-trivial graph class. In the algorithm we use a search tree computed by Lexicographic Breadth First Search (LexBFS).
Oribatella banksi Behan-Pelletier and Walter 2012
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Oribatellidae
Oribatella
Oribatella banksi

description: Oribatella banksi Behan-Pelletier and Walter, 2012
 Geographic Location: BC: Vancouver Is., 48°18.8N, 123°36.07W (Behan-Pelletier & Walter 2012); AB: Wood Buffalo NP (Behan-Pelletier & Walter 2012); ABMI Sites (Walter et al. 2014).
 Habitats: mixed coniferous and deciduous forest; soil and litter under Pacific yew; mesic upland pine and aspen forests.
 Distribution: Nearctic.
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 114, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Economic worthiness of the tilapia collaborative farming extension project in Chon Buri province
Creators: name: Atiya Wongwitwichote, Kulapa Kuldilok
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2021
Subjects: economic worthiness
the tilapia collaborative farming extension project
Chon Buri province

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 49, 2, 430-441
Critical velocity in resonantly driven polariton superfluids
Creators: name: Pigeon, Simon
name: Aftalion, Amandine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the necessary condition under which a resonantly driven exciton polariton superfluid flowing against an obstacle can generate turbulence. The value of the critical velocity is well estimated by the transition from elliptic to hyperbolic of an operator following ideas developed by Frisch, Pomeau, Rica for a superfluid flow around an obstacle, though the nature of equations governing the polariton superfluid is quite different. We find analytical estimates depending on the pump amplitude and on the pump energy detuning, quite consistent with our numerical computations.
Sacha inchi meal as a novel plant protein source in common carp diet (Cyprinus carpio)
Creators: name: Nareerat Singto, Anurak Khieokhajonkhet
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2021
Subjects: sacha inchi meal
replacement
soybean meal
common carp
growth performance

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 49, 2, 442-451
Oribatella brevicornuta Jacot 1934
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Oribatellidae
Oribatella
Oribatella brevicornuta

description: Oribatella brevicornuta Jacot, 1934
 Geographic Location: QC: Parc National du Mont-Orford; Mont Joli; Cedarville, Descente 20 (Behan- Pelletier 2011); Abitibi (Déchêne & Buddle 2009, 2010); NS: Cape Breton Highlands NP, Mackenzie Mountain (Behan-Pelletier 2011).
 Habitats: beech litter, some Lycopodium; litter under Hericium on fallen dead beech; boreal mixedwood forest.
 Distribution: Holarctic
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 114, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Combing the helical phase of chiral magnets with electric currents
Creators: name: Masell, Jan
name: Yu, Xiuzhen
name: Kanazawa, Naoya
name: Tokura, Yoshinori
name: Nagaosa, Naoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The competition between the ferromagnetic exchange interaction and anti-symmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction can stabilize a helical phase or support the formation of skyrmions. In thin films of chiral magnets, the current density can be large enough to unpin the helical phase and reveal its nontrivial dynamics. We theoretically study the dynamics of the helical phase under spin-transfer torques that reveal distinct orientation processes, driven by topological defects in the bulk or induced by edges, limited by instabilities at higher currents. Our experiments confirm the possibility of on-demand switching the helical orientation by current pulses. This helical orientation might serve as a novel order parameter in future spintronics applications.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
An Analysis of Alternative Maize Marketing Policies in South Africa
Creators: name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Hajek, Milan
name: Van Zyl, Johan
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Hajek, Milan
name: Van Zyl, Johan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: maize market

description: The maize-oriented agricultural economies throughout Southern Africa are in fundamental transition. Increased recognition of the costs of historical controls on pricing and marketing already has led to partial maize market liberalization in several countries in the region. However, there is still intense debate over the appropriate scope and implementation of future food market reform. Much of the debate derives from uncertainty over the consequences of comprehensive and politically risky changes to domestic markets, especially at a time when regional market conditions are also in flux due to agricultural restructuring in neighboring countries. There is currently little information on the direction and magnitude of grain trade between South Africa, Zimbabwe, and other countries in the region under a deregulated external trading environment. There is also a lack of information on the regional consequences of alternative domestic maize policy scenarios currently under deliberation in South Africa. The purpose of this research is fourfold. First, we consider the role of food market reform in affecting future economic growth and food security in South Africa, and discuss the congruence between the government's food policy objectives and the existing marketing and pricing system. Second, trends in maize production, trade, prices and marketing costs in South Africa and Zimbabwe, the two largest maize traders in the region, are presented. Third, we present four alternative maize policy scenarios in South Africa, and then estimate their effects on maize production, gross revenues, consumer prices, and trade flows under various weather and pricing scenarios in Zimbabwe. A comparison of results across four policy scenarios clarifies the gainers, losers, and extent of income transfers between various regions and socio-economic groups within each region. The final section identifies means by which national food policy objectives in South Africa may be more cost-effectively achieved through harmonization of policies between South Africa and its regional neighbors.
Methods to generate the reference total and Pauli kinetic potentials
Creators: name: Śmiga, Szymon
name: Siecińska, Sylwia
name: Fabiano, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have derived a new method which allows to compute the full and the Pauli reference kinetic potentials for atoms and molecules in a real space representation. This is done by applying the optimized effective potential (OEP) method to {the} Kohn-Sham non-interacting kinetic energy expression. Additionally, we have also derived a simplified OEP variant based on the common energy denominator approximation which has proven to give much more stable and robust results than the original OEP one. Moreover, we have also proved that at the solution point our approach is formally equivalent to the commonly used Bartolotti-Acharya formula.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Short-Run Demand Relationships in the U.S. Fats and Oils Complex
Creators: name: Goodwin, Barry K.
name: Harper, Daniel C.
name: Schnepf, Randall D.
name: Goodwin, Barry K.
name: Harper, Daniel C.
name: Schnepf, Randall D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: fats and oils
subject: inverse demand system
subject: structural change

description: Fats and oils play a prominent role in U.S. dietary patterns. Recent concerns over the negative health consequences associated with fats and oils have led many to suspect structural change in demand conditions. Our analysis considers short run (monthly) demand relationships for edible fats and oils. In that monthly quantities of fats and oils are likely to be relatively fixed, an inverse almost ideal demand system specification is used. A smooth transition function is used to model a switching inverse almost ideal demand system that assesses short-run demand conditions for edible fats and oils in the United States. The results suggest that short-run demand conditions for fats and oils experienced a gradual structural shift that began in the late 1980s or early 1990s and persisted into the mid-1990s. Although this shift generally made price flexibilities more elastic, differences in scale flexibilities across regimes were modest in most cases. The results suggest that decreases in marginal valuations for most fats and oils in response to consumption increases are rather small. Scale flexibilities are relatively close to -1, suggesting near homothetic preferences for fats and oils.
Market Impacts of Adopting Herbicide-Resistant Rice in the Southern United States
Creators: name: Fuller, Frank H.
name: Annou, Mamane Malam
name: Wailes, Eric J.
name: Fuller, Frank H.
name: Annou, Mamane Malam
name: Wailes, Eric J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: biotechnology
subject: crop rotation
subject: herbicide resistant
subject: red rice
subject: rice
subject: simulation models
subject: technology adaptation

description: Herbicide-resistant (HR) rice varieties offer U.S. rice producers a powerful tool for control of red rice infestations. However, improved weed control can shorten crop rotations and boost yields, resulting in expanded rice production and lower domestic market prices. Declining market returns diminish the benefits of HR rice adoption and substantially reduce net returns for nonadopters. More competitive prices increase U.S. rice exports, causing a slight decline in world rice prices. The dependence of the rice marketing loan program on world prices prevents loan deficiency payments from adequately offsetting producers’ market revenue losses. U.S. consumers gain from lower rice prices.
Short on Shots: Are Calls on Cooperative Restraint Effective in Managing the Scarcity of Flu Vaccines?
Creators: name: De Janvry, Alain
name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
name: Villas-Boas, Sofia Berto
name: De Janvry, Alain
name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
name: Villas-Boas, Sofia Berto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: randomized experiment
subject: shortage
subject: cooperative restraint
subject: cheating

description: We conducted a randomized experiment at the time of the 2004 flu vaccine shortage, providing information about the sharply reduced number of clinics and their schedule, and an appeal on cooperative restraint to a campus population. This strategy was intended to reduce demand for vaccination among non-priority individuals and to free available supplies for the priority population. It failed to achieve its purpose. Information induced a net increase in vaccines distributed and, perversely, the net increase originated entirely in non-priority individuals. The surprising finding is that calls on cooperative restraint induced an uncalled for positive response among priority individuals, while they induced an increase in cheating among non-priority individuals. Age as a qualifying factor was in particular widely abused, with the number of “65 years old” more than twice the predicted value, while about half of the predicted 61-64 years old are missing.
description: This is the 3rd revision of this paper.
The role of experts in policy design: transcoding strategies in the making of the Water Framework Directive
Creators: name: Valin, Nina
name: Huitema, Dave
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The policy design literature has acknowledged that policy design is not merely a technocratic process but also a politically charged moment. The role of experts in this phase of the policy process remains unclear or is often described as limited to technical support and policy advice. Experts involved in EU policy design in particular, such as consultants, staff from the Joint Research Centre or national expert delegates, are active in providing technical support and policy advice, but the political and strategic nature of their work still needs recognition. Looking at the design of the Water Framework Directive, we argue that experts can exert agency on this process by using so-called transcoding strategies in two different ways: bricolage (i.e. assembling scattered information and adding new elements) and packaging (e.g. delaying decisions, excluding certain information), to entrench certain ideas and requirements in the legal text. We further reflect on how the making of the Water Framework Directive still holds relevance to understand the role of experts in policy design and environmental change.
Chandra Observation of the Starburst Galaxy NGC 2146
Creators: name: Inui, Tatsuya
name: Matsumoto, Hironori
name: Tsuru, Takeshi Go
name: Koyama, Katsuji
name: Matsushita, Satoki
name: Peck, Alison B.
name: Tarchi, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present six monitoring observations of the starburst galaxy NGC 2146 using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. We have detected 67 point sources in the 8'.7 x 8'.7 field of view of the ACIS-S detector. Six of these sources were Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources, the brightest of which has a luminosity of 5 x 10^{39} ergs s^{-1}. One of the source, with a luminosity of ~1 x 10^{39} ergs s^{-1}, is coincident with the dynamical center location, as derived from the ^{12}CO rotation curve. We suggest that this source may be a low-luminosity active galactic nucleus. We have produced a table where the positions and main characteristics of the Chandra-detected sources are reported. The comparison between the positions of the X-ray sources and those of compact sources detected in NIR or radio does not indicate any definite counterpart. Taking profit of the relatively large number of sources detected, we have derived a logN-logS relation and a luminosity function. The former shows a break at \~10^{-15} ergs cm^{-2} s^{-1}, that we interpret as due to a detection limit. The latter has a slope above the break of 0.71, which is similar to those found in the other starburst galaxies. In addition, a diffuse X-ray emission has been detected in both, soft (0.5--2.0keV) and hard (2.0--10.0keV), energy bands. The spectra of the diffuse component has been fitted with a two (hard and soft) components. The hard power-law component, with a luminosity of ~4 x 10^{39} ergs s^{-1}, is likely originated by unresolved point sources, while the soft component is better described by a thermal plasma model with a temperature of 0.5keV and high abundances for Mg and Si.
description: 11pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan