cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Dow is Killing Me: Risky Health Behaviors and the Stock Market
Creators: name: Cotti, Chad
name: Dunn, Richard A.
name: Tefft, Nathan
name: Cotti, Chad
name: Dunn, Richard A.
name: Tefft, Nathan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: stock market
subject: risky health behaviors
subject: business cycle
subject: alcohol
subject: cigarettes

description: We investigate how risky health behaviors and self - reported health vary with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and during stock market crashes. Because stock market indices are leading indicators of economic performance, this research contributes to our understanding of the macroeconomic determinants of health. Existing studies typically rely on the unemployment rate to proxy for economic performance, but this measure captures only one of many channels through which the economic environment may influence individual health decisions. We find that large, negative monthly DJIA returns, decreases in the level of the DJIA, and stock market crashes are widely associated with worsening self-reported mental health and more cigarette smoking, binge drinking, and fatal car accidents involving alcohol. These results are consistent with predictions from rational addiction models and have implications for research on the association between consumption and stock prices.
OpenMPR: Recognize Places Using Multimodal Data for People with Visual Impairments
Creators: name: Cheng, Ruiqi
name: Wang, Kaiwei
name: Bai, Jian
name: Xu, Zhijie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Place recognition plays a crucial role in navigational assistance, and is also a challenging issue of assistive technology. The place recognition is prone to erroneous localization owing to various changes between database and query images. Aiming at the wearable assistive device for visually impaired people, we propose an open-sourced place recognition algorithm OpenMPR, which utilizes the multimodal data to address the challenging issues of place recognition. Compared with conventional place recognition, the proposed OpenMPR not only leverages multiple effective descriptors, but also assigns different weights to those descriptors in image matching. Incorporating GNSS data into the algorithm, the cone-based sequence searching is used for robust place recognition. The experiments illustrate that the proposed algorithm manages to solve the place recognition issue in the real-world scenarios and surpass the state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of assistive navigation performance. On the real-world testing dataset, the online OpenMPR achieves 88.7% precision at 100% recall without illumination changes, and achieves 57.8% precision at 99.3% recall with illumination changes. The OpenMPR is available at https://github.com/chengricky/OpenMultiPR.
description: The paper is accepted by the special issue of Measurement Science and Engineering
Three essays in commodity futures and options price performance
Creators: name: Bozic, Marin
name: Bozic, Marin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Production Economics
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: In the first essay I propose a novel pricing model for options on commodity futures motivated from the economic theory of optimal storage, and consistent with implications of plant physiology on the importance of weather stress. The model is based on a Generalized Lambda Distribution (GLD) that allows greater flexibility in higher moments of the expected terminal distribution of futures price. I find a statistically significant negative relationship between ending stocks-to-use and implied skewness, as predicted by the theory of storage. Intra-year dynamics of implied skewness reflect the fact that resolution of uncertainty in corn supply is resolved during the corn growth phase from corn silking through maturity. Impacts of storage and weather on the distribution of terminal futures prices jointly explain upward sloping implied volatility curves. In the second paper, a partially overlapping time series (POTS) model is estimated to examine price behavior in simultaneously traded Class III milk futures contracts. POTS is a latent factor model that measures price changes in futures as a linear combination of a common factor, i.e. information affecting all traded contracts, and an idiosyncratic term specific to each contract. The importance of a common factor in price volatility determination for dairy is related to capital production factors, i.e. the dairy herd. It is shown that Class III volatility decreases as contracts approach maturity. The importance of the common factor declines as one approaches maturity, implying that individual contract months are poor substitutes in hedging a specific month’s cash price risk. Thus, despite relatively low liquidity in the market, it is useful to have 12 contract delivery months per year. The third essay examines price discovery, volatility spillovers and the impacts of speculation in the dairy sector. I find that the flow of information in the mean prices is predominantly from futures to cash, while volatility spillovers are bidirectional. I propose an extension of the BEKK variance model that I refer to as GARCH-MEX. Utilizing the model to evaluate the impact of speculation I find strong evidence against the hypothesis that excessive speculation is increasing the conditional variance of futures prices.
description: Ph.D. Thesis advisor: Dr. T.Randall Fortenbery, University of Wisconsin-Madison [See http://marinbozic.info/research.php for other publications by this author]
Multi-Agent Task Allocation in Complementary Teams: A Hunter and Gatherer Approach
Creators: name: Dadvar, Mehdi
name: Moazami, Saeed
name: Myler, Harley R.
name: Zargarzadeh, Hassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Consider a dynamic task allocation problem, where tasks are unknowingly distributed over an environment. This paper considers each task comprised of two sequential subtasks: detection and completion, where each subtask can only be carried out by a certain type of agent. We address this problem using a novel nature-inspired approach called "hunter and gatherer". The proposed method employs two complementary teams of agents: one agile in detecting (hunters) and another skillful in completing (gatherers) the tasks. To minimize the collective cost of task accomplishments in a distributed manner, a game-theoretic solution is introduced to couple agents from complementary teams. We utilize market-based negotiation models to develop incentive-based decision-making algorithms relying on innovative notions of "certainty and uncertainty profit margins". The simulation results demonstrate that employing two complementary teams of hunters and gatherers can effectually improve the number of tasks completed by agents compared to conventional methods, while the collective cost of accomplishments is minimized. In addition, the stability and efficacy of the proposed solutions are studied using Nash equilibrium analysis and statistical analysis respectively. It is also numerically shown that the proposed solutions function fairly, i.e. for each type of agent, the overall workload is distributed equally.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures
The structure of the perturbation series of the spin-1 Bose gas at low temperatures
Creators: name: Szepfalusy, Peter
name: Szirmai, Gergely
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of Green's functions and various correlation functions of density and spin operators are considered in a homogeneous spin-1 Bose gas in different phases. The dielectric formalism is worked out and the partial coincidence of the one-particle and collective spectra is pointed out below the temperature of Bose-Einstein condensation. As an application the formalism is used to give two approximations for the propagators and the correlation functions and the spectra of excitations including shifts and widths due to the thermal cloud.
description: 34 pages, 17 figures
Additional file 9 of Empowering individual trait prediction using interactions for precision medicine
Creators: name: Gola, Damian
name: König, Inke R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 9: Table 6. Performance in scenario 6. Performance of the algorithms MBMDRC, RANGER, and GLMNET measured as AUC over 50 replicates in scenario 6: three pairs of interacting SNPs without marginal effects (MAF 0.1, 0.2, or 0.4 and heritability 0.05, 0.1, 0.2), 94 SNPs without any effect.. The median of the AUC and the 25% and 75% quantile in parentheses over 50 replicates are given.
Supplementary document for Phase-matching of high-order harmonic generation in the extreme ultraviolet region with orbital angular momentum - 6773864.pdf
Creators: name: Gao, JiXing
name: Yang, Chun
name: ge, xiaochun
name: Zheng, Yinghui
name: Zeng, Zhinan
name: Li, Ruxin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Manuscript 504806_Supplement 1
123 Livestock Marketing Decisions Among Pastoral Communities: The Influence of Cattle Rustling in Baringo District, Kenya
Creators: name: Kinyua, Kaimba George
name: Yakub, Guliye Abdi
name: Kamau, Njehia Bernard
name: Bett, Hillary Kiplangat
name: Kinyua, Kaimba George
name: Yakub, Guliye Abdi
name: Kamau, Njehia Bernard
name: Bett, Hillary Kiplangat
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Cattle rustling
subject: Livestock Sale Decisions
subject: Poverty
subject: Livelihood Pastoralists

description: The study sought to determine whether pastoralists have resorted to sale of livestock as a form of insurance against commercialization of cattle rustling in which well structured and managed cartels have organised more intense and frequent cattle raids on pastoralist, and how their decisions have affected their herd size. The study was conducted among the pastoral Baringo community of Kenya. A sample size of 110 households was selected using multi-stage sampling procedures and interviewed using a questionnaire. Binary Probit Model and Ordinary Least Squares were used in the analysis. Results indicated that cattle rustling, particularly in its predatory state significantly contributes to spontaneous sale of livestock even under very low prices that in themselves could be described as raiding. The results further indicated that the number of livestock lost through cattle rustling dominated livestock sale and hence reduced herd size and the numbers of livestock available for sale. The insecurity generated by cattle rustling, coupled with the poor marketing infrastructure make market inaccessible by both buyers and sellers, resulting to increased poverty and dependency amongst the pastoralists. Consequently, pastoralism has become a source of misery rather than source of livelihood.
ECONOMIC AND LEGAL MECHANISM OF PUBLIC GOVERNANCE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION SYSTEM OF DEMOGRAPHIC POLICY IN UKRAINE
Creators: name: Kramar, Ruslana
name: Lyubomyr, Sopilnyk
name: Larysa, Yankovska
name: Harasym, Pavlo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The article substantiates the need for state regulation of demographic processes, defines the essence of demographic policy, clarifies its main purpose, objectives and directions of implementation. The peculiarities of the economic and legal mechanism for public administration in the system of demographic policy implementation by Ukraine are revealed
ASSESSING BRAZIL’s CERRADO AGRICULTURAL MIRACLE: AN UPDATE
Creators: name: Rada, Nicholas E.
name: Rada, Nicholas E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Brazilian biomes
subject: Cerrado
subject: total factor productivity
subject: technical change
subject: efficiency change

description: Brazil’s emergence as a primary global agricultural producer is often credited to production expansion into soils of the Brazilian savannah or Cerrado. These soils are, however, deficient in important nutrients and prone to degradation, requiring input-intensive processes that suggest a low level of productive efficiency. Employing a sequence of agricultural censuses and a biome approach for characterizing agricultural zones, the present study evaluates the Cerrado’s total factor productivity growth and productive potential. The analysis highlights the resource cost of Brazil’s “Cerrado Miracle,” the role of paved road infrastructure in expanding production opportunities, and the significant production gains that the Cerrado may yet achieve. Results suggest a substantial productivity gap between the Cerrado’s most efficient and average producers, implying that Cerrado production might well be further boosted if average producers succeed in adopting the technologies and management practices of the more efficient operators. More generally, and to the extent the Cerrado model is generalizable elsewhere, agricultural development of the world’s savannahs, such as sub-Saharan Africa’s Guinea regions, into breadbaskets will be expensive in terms of material inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides, depending for their success therefore on the real prices of these inputs.
Nutritional Management of Broiler Rearing Farms in Guilan, Iran
Creators: name: Esteghamati, Hossein Zaker
name: Hosseini, Sayed Abdoullah
name: Tabrizi, Hamid Reza Mohamadian
name: Palizdar, Mohamad Hossein
name: Meimandipour, Amir
name: Esteghamati, Hossein Zaker
name: Hosseini, Sayed Abdoullah
name: Tabrizi, Hamid Reza Mohamadian
name: Palizdar, Mohamad Hossein
name: Meimandipour, Amir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Development
subject: Nutrition management
subject: Broiler chickens’ rearing farms
subject: Guilan province

description: From a total of 656 broiler farms with the permission of exploitation in Guilan province, data was gathered from 20% of active farms including 85 units (Capacity of over 1663000 portions of broiler chickens) to evaluate the management of nutrition and nourish using questionnaire. The questionnaires were completed by the interview method. The methods of making feed, feed formulation, the shape of grain, the frequency of feeding, the type of dietary supplement and food additives, the use of experts, feed conversion ratio, causes of mortality, the age of mortality, drinking and feeding systems, and how to use fine nourishing (in the shape of supplement or concentrate) were considered in this study. The performance was calculated for each broiler farm. According to the production index, the farms were divided into three groups of weak (200+25), medium (250+25), and good (300+25) and their differences were compared. According to the results, among the managerial factors, the factors such as: feeding system, water quality, the conformity of ration in nutrition with the needs of commercial strains and drinking management, have the most portion in creating the three groups of good, medium and weak, among the broiler rearing farms. Thus, in the study of each group’s feeding system, the good group has the highest percentage of using automatic systems (86/60) and the weak group has the highest percentage of using manual systems. In comparing three groups regarding the drinking water quality, it was observed that good, medium and weak groups drink 92%, 61.84%, and 75% fresh water, respectively. Furthermore, in the weak group, most of the farms have used the water with tolerable hardness or saltiness. Finally, the conformity of strain’s requirement with diet was examined among groups. The results showed that 16.5% of units followed this conformity and the percentages of the good, medium, weak groups was 11.12%, 28%, 53.5%, respectively.
Amaryllidinae Lowry & Stoddart 2002, n.subfam.
Creators: name: Lowry, J. K.
name: Stoddart, H. E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Amaryllidaceae

description: Amaryllidinae n.subfam.   Diagnosis. Mouthpart bundle subconical or conical. Gnathopod 1 propodus without robust setae along posterior margin. Epimeron 3 without a notch or with notch slightly or well above posteroventral corner.
 Type genus. Amaryllis Haswell, 1879.
 Generic composition. The subfamily contains four genera: Amaryllis Haswell, 1879; Bamarooka n.gen.; Erikus Lowry & Stoddart, 1987; and Wonga n.gen.
 Remarks. The amaryllidines are found in shallow temperate and tropical seas of the southern hemisphere. The largest diversity of genera and species is currently known from Australian waters, but the African and South American faunas have not been adequately described.
description: Published as part of Lowry, J. K. & Stoddart, H. E., 2002, The Amaryllididae of Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea), pp. 129-214 in Records of the Australian Museum 54 on page 132
Extent of Rural Women’s Participation in Agricultural Activities
Creators: name: Luqman, Muhammad
name: Ashraf, Ejaz
name: Hussan, Muhammad Zakaria Yousuf
name: Butt, Tahir Munir
name: Iftikhar, Naveed
name: Luqman, Muhammad
name: Ashraf, Ejaz
name: Hussan, Muhammad Zakaria Yousuf
name: Butt, Tahir Munir
name: Iftikhar, Naveed
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Extent
subject: Rural women
subject: Crop production activities
subject: Livestock production activities

description: Rural women in Pakistan, under a small holding system of farming, play a pivotal role in farming. They actively participate in a range of activities related to crop production and livestock management. Rural women remain busy from dawn to dusk in various agricultural activities, including pre-harvest, post-harvest and livestock management. Their participation is well dispersed but less perceived because of insufficient data to show their active involvement in various agricultural activities. Keeping these points in mind, this study was designed to explore the extent of women’s participation in various agricultural activities in district Bahawalpur (Southern Punjab, Pakistan). A total of 125 rural women were selected through multistage random sampling technique and interviewed with a well-designed, pre-tested interview schedule, and the data was analyzed using SPSS. The results of the data analysis revealed that rural women’s participation level was at the top (M = 2.87 and SD = 0.42) in picking of cotton while their participation level was found low (M = 1.78 and SD = 0.88) in broadcasting of seed/fertilizer among different crop production and management related activities. While on the other hand their extent of participation was found at the top (M = 2.90 and SD = 0.30) in cleaning of animal’s sheds and found low (M = 2.02 and SD = 0.83) in calf rearing among different livestock production and management which were being performed by rural women. Regarding daily time given by rural women to perform various crop production, livestock production and household activities majority of rural women they devote > than 8 hours in a day to perform these activities as reported by 27.2%, 32.8% and 76.8% of the respondents, respectively. It is recommended that national commission should be established to recognize and documented the participation of rural women at various national and international forums. It is also recommended that women training wing should be established at national level under the supervision of district administration to train rural women in different areas of crop and livestock production so that they can contribute in a better way in the national economy.
The detectable subspace for the Friedrichs model
Creators: name: Brown, B. M.
name: Marletta, M.
name: Naboko, S. N.
name: Wood, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper discusses how much information on a Friedrichs model operator can be detected from `measurements on the boundary'. We use the framework of boundary triples to introduce the generalised Titchmarsh-Weyl $M$-function and the detectable subspaces which are associated with the part of the operator which is `accessible from boundary measurements'. The Friedrichs model, a finite rank perturbation of the operator of multiplication by the independent variable, is a toy model that is used frequently in the study of perturbation problems. We view the Friedrichs model as a key example for the development of the theory of detectable subspaces, because it is sufficiently simple to allow a precise description of the structure of the detectable subspace in many cases, while still exhibiting a variety of behaviours. The results also demonstrate an interesting interplay between modern complex analysis, such as the theory of Hankel operators, and operator theory.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1404.6820
Magnetic structures and reorientation transitions in noncentrosymmetric uniaxial antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Bogdanov, A. N.
name: Roessler, U. K.
name: Wolf, M.
name: Muller, K. -H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A phenomenological theory of magnetic states in noncentrosymmetric tetragonal antiferromagnets is developed, which has to include homogeneous and inhomogeneous terms (Lifshitz-invariants) derived from Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya couplings. Magnetic properties of this class of antiferromagnets with low crystal symmetry are discussed in relation to its first known members, the recently detected compounds Ba2CuGe2O7 and K2V3O8. Crystallographic symmetry and magnetic ordering in these systems allow the simultaneous occurrence of chiral inhomogeneous magnetic structures and weak ferromagnetism. New types of incommensurate magnetic structures are possible, namely, chiral helices with rotation of staggered magnetization and oscillations of the total magnetization. Field-induced reorientation transitions into modulated states have been studied and corresponding phase diagrams are constructed. Structures of magnetic defects (domain-walls and vortices) are discussed. In particular, vortices, i.e. localized non-singular line defects, are stabilized by the inhomogeneous Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in uniaxial noncentrosymmetric antiferromagnets.
description: 18 pages RevTeX4, 13 figures
A mixed Finite Element method for 3D elasticity problems at large strains with weakly imposed symmetry
Creators: name: Christophe-Alexandre Chalons-Mouriesse
name: Lukasz Kaczmarczyk
name: Pearce, Chris
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Since the 1970’s, mixed formulations have arisen as an alternative to the classical one-field formulation. In particular, in the realm of physical problems, it appears as a natural solution to solve numerical issues related to incompressibility and localisation phenomena, notably thanks to the introduction of physical variables that are treated as unknowns in the physical equations (in contrast with the classical formulation where typically only one unknown is sought). The finite element methods based on mixed formulations come with ”in-built” a priori error estimators which allows one to control the error in the approximated solution for different fields independently [2]. Another interesting feature of the mixed formulations is that they usually require less regularity for the underlying fields, making those methods applicable to more general problems. However, those methods come with the price of stability. Therefore, compared to classical formulations, extra-carefulness has to be observed in the choice of discretisation spaces. So far, stable mixed finite elements have been proposed for mixed problems in small strain elasticity in 3D. In the context of our work, we show an extension of the mixed finite element for small strain elasticity to large strain problems. In our approach, we use a polar decomposition of the deformation gradient and we approximate simultaneously the rotation and the stretch tensors as two independent fields. Piola Kirchhoff stress and spatial displacements are independent variable fields. We exploit the orthonormality of the rotation tensor using exponential map. From the computational point of view, we use an opensource software, MoFEM [1], developed at the University of Glasgow. MoFEM provides many tools that considerably simplify the analyses like hierarchical shape functions which makes p-refinement effortless or shape functions for (discretised) Hdiv space. Recently, the implementation of the Schur complement procedure significantly helped to improve the efficiency of the code. Numerical examples demonstrate performance of this approach. To improve the stability for 3D mixed problems we introduce a viscosity parameter. The effect of this parameter on load-displacement path is shown and compared with the results obtained by other authors. Further developments allow the inclusion of dissipative phenomena (like plasticity) in the theoretical model using concepts from configurational mechanics.
Bamarooka Lowry & Stoddart 2002, n.gen.
Creators: name: Lowry, J. K.
name: Stoddart, H. E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Amaryllididae
Bamarooka

description: Bamarooka n.gen.
 Diagnosis. Mouthpart bundle subconical. Mandible palp article 3 without A3-seta. Pereopod 4 coxa with anterior margin slightly obtuse, posterior margin rounded. Pereopods 5–7 with distal articles elongate. Uropod 3 rami lanceolate; without plumose setae in male and female; outer ramus 1- articulate.
 Type species. Amaryllis bathycephala Stebbing, 1888.
 Species composition. Bamarooka contains six species: B. anomala n.sp.; B. bathycephala (Stebbing, 1888); B. dinjerra n.sp.; B. endota n.sp.; B. kimbla n.sp. and B. tropicalis n.sp.
 Etymology. Bamarooka is an Australian Aboriginal word meaning “oval shield”, an allusion to coxa 4.
 Remarks. Species of Bamarooka are mainly tropical amphipods distinguished from other amaryllidines by their strangely shaped coxa 4. Species level variation in Bamarooka is high, particularly in the eyes and the basis of pereopods 5 to 7. Bamarooka also occurs outside Australia, in New Caledonia (unpublished records) (see Fig. 41).
 Distribution. Northwestern, northern and eastern coasts of Australia; New Caledonia; 2–175 m depth.
description: Published as part of Lowry, J. K. & Stoddart, H. E., 2002, The Amaryllididae of Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea), pp. 129-214 in Records of the Australian Museum 54 on page 175
One new xanthenone from the marine-derived fungus Aspergillus versicolor MF160003
Creators: name: Song, Zhijun
name: Gao, Jieyu
name: Hu, Jiansen
name: He, Hongtao
name: Huang, Pei
name: Zhang, Lixin
name: Song, Fuhang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: A new xanthenone derivative, 3-hydroxy pinselin (1), together with five known analogues (2–6) were isolated from the marine-derived fungus Aspergillus versicolor MF160003. Their structures were identified by extensive 1D- and 2D-NMR, and high-resolution mass spectrometry data. Compounds 5 and 6 showed moderate bioactivities against BCG with MIC values of 40 and 20 μg/mL, respectively.
LSST Survey Strategy
Creators: name: Jones, Lynne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Rubin's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) survey strategy has evolved as a partnership between the project and the community.  This presentation describes its current state, as the Survey Cadence Optimization Committe (SCOC) prepares to hand their recommendations over to the Rubin Operations Project.
Production Efficiency of Farmers under National Fadama II Project in Oyo State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Balogun, Olubunmi L.
name: Adeoye, A.
name: Yusuf, S.A
name: Akinlade, Roseline J.
name: Carim-Sanni, A.
name: Balogun, Olubunmi L.
name: Adeoye, A.
name: Yusuf, S.A
name: Akinlade, Roseline J.
name: Carim-Sanni, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Rural infrastructure
subject: Infrastructural Index
subject: Gross margin
subject: Agricultural production
subject: Technical inefficiency

description: The study examines production efficiency of farmers under National Fadama-II Project in Oyo State Nigeria. Primary data were collected from two hundred and sixty-four farmers using multistage sampling technique. The analytical framework used for the study include: descriptive, infrastructure index, gross margin and stochastic frontier production function. Average infrastructural index in the area was 0.42. The gross margin for IDV was ₦445, 968.30 while for IUV for under-developed in Fadama villages is ₦357, 805.00. Gross margin was higher for Fadama II farmers than non Fadama-II farmers in IDV. The mean technical efficiency were 0.69 and 0.59 for Fadama and non-Fadama farmers respectively. The result showed that technical inefficiency of female Fadama-II farmers reduced by 0.19% while that of non-Fadama II farmers by 1.23%. Similarly, extension contact, marital status and infrastructural status reduced technical inefficiency of Fadama-II farmers by 2.8%, 0.3% and 2.6% respectively. Presence of infrastructure of Fadama-II project has imparted on efficiency of resource use among the beneficiary. There is therefore need to improve on Community Driven Development programme like Fadama-II and on coming Fadama-III project or any developmental project, so as to further impart more technical and economic knowledge to farmers.
title: Smart Dashboard of Water Distribution Network Operation: A Case Study of Tehran
Creators: name: Kiyan, Amirhossein
name: Gheibi, Mohammad
name: Moezzi, Reza
name: Behzadian, Kourosh
Publisher: name: Environmental Industry Letters
Year: 2023

description: Numerous water supply utilities around the world face challenges in successfully distributing water in distribution networks due to increased urbanization, population growth, and climate change. The age of the water supply facilities is a particular issue, which is aggravated by their inadequate maintenance and operation. Due of this, many water utilities have recently adopted integrated and intelligent water supply solutions that leverage information technology, artificial intelligence, big data, and IOT (Internet of Things) to handle water supply system issues. In this study, a smart dashboard of water distribution network operation was developed to improve the effectiveness of Tehran, Iran's water delivery system. In order to properly manage water resources, the article proposes adopting knowledge management systems in Tehran's municipal water distribution and transmission networks.
description: Environmental Industry Letters, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): Environmental Industry Letters (EIL)
Wonga Lowry & Stoddart 2002, n.gen.
Creators: name: Lowry, J. K.
name: Stoddart, H. E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Amaryllididae
Wonga

description: Wonga n.gen.
 Diagnosis. Mouthpart bundle conical. Mandible palp article 3 without A3-seta. Pereopod 4 coxa with anterior and posterior margins subparallel. Pereopods 5–7 with distal articles short. Uropod 3 rami clasper-like; without plumose setae in female [male not known]; outer ramus 1-articulate.
 Type species. Wonga wonga n.sp.
 Species composition. Wonga contains one species: Wonga wonga n.sp.
 Etymology. The genus takes its name from the Australasian Steam Navigation Company’s screw steamer Wonga Wonga, introduced as a Bass Strait ferry in 1855.
 Distribution. Southeastern Australia; 140 m depth (see Fig. 61).
description: Published as part of Lowry, J. K. & Stoddart, H. E., 2002, The Amaryllididae of Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea), pp. 129-214 in Records of the Australian Museum 54 on pages 195-196
Towards Cosmological Concordance on Galactic Scales
Creators: name: Bosch, Frank C. van den
name: Mo, H. J.
name: Yang, Xiaohu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the observed abundance and clustering of galaxies from the 2dFGRS to determine the matter density Omega_m and the linear amplitude of mass fluctuations sigma_8. We use a method based on the conditional luminosity function, which allows straightforward computation of the luminosity dependent bias of galaxies. In addition, it allows the inclusion of constraints on the redshift space distortion parameter beta=Omega_m^{0.6}/b, and yields average mass-to-light ratios as function of halo mass. Using only the luminosity function and the correlation lengths as function of luminosity we obtain constraints on Omega_m and sigma_8 that are in good agreement with COBE. Using additional constraints on the mass-to-light ratios of clusters and on the value of beta as determined from the 2dFGRS yields Omega_m = (0.27 +/- 0.06) and sigma_8 = (0.77 +/- 0.06). Adding further constraints from current CMB data, we obtain Omega_m = (0.25 +/- 0.04) and sigma_8 = (0.78 +/- 0.06). Thus, we find strong indications that both Omega_m and sigma_8 are significantly lower than their ``standard'' concordance values of 0.3 and 0.9, respectively. Finally, we show that the cosmologies favored here predict dark matter haloes that are significantly less centrally concentrated than for the standard LCDM concordance model. This may solve both the problem with the rotation curves of dwarf and LSB galaxies, as well as the problem of simultaneously matching the galaxy luminosity function and the Tully-Fisher zero-point. (Abridged)
description: Due to a normalization error in the luminosity function provided to us, and used to constrain the models, the normalization of our models was wrong by about 15 percent. In this new version of the paper we use the properly normalized data, which results in small changes to most figures and to the actual constraints on the cosmological parameters. This version supersedes the version published in MNRAS
Regionalization of the Iowa State University Extension System: Lessons Learned by Key Administrators
Creators: name: Holz-Clause, Mary S.
name: Koundinya, Vikram Swaroop Chandra
name: Glenn, Sherry
name: Payne, Jack M.
name: Holz-Clause, Mary S.
name: Koundinya, Vikram Swaroop Chandra
name: Glenn, Sherry
name: Payne, Jack M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Administration
subject: Restructuring
subject: Regionalization of services
subject: Cooperative Extension System
subject: Organizational development

description: The cyclical economic downturn in the United States has forced many Extension administrators to rethink and adjust services and programming. The Cooperative Extension System (CES), the organization primarily responsible for governmental Extension work in the United States, at Iowa State University responded to this economic downturn by restructuring its organization from county based to a regional model. This paper shares the experiences of key administrators in planning this restructuring process and the lessons learned. This experience and the restructuring processes used have implications for administrators in all organizational settings.
Frictionless Random Dynamics: Hydrodynamical Formalism
Creators: name: Czopnik, R.
name: Garbaczewski, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate an undamped random phase-space dynamics in deterministic external force fields (conservative and magnetic ones). By employing the hydrodynamical formalism for those stochastic processes we analyze microscopic kinetic-type "collision invariants" and their relationship to local conservation laws (moment equations) in the fully nonequlibrium context. We address an issue of the continual heat absorption (particles "energization") in the course of the process and its possible physical implementations.
description: Physica A 317, (2003), 449-471
Dual-drug amorphous formulation of gliclazide
Creators: name: Marwah Aljohani
name: McArdle, Patrick
name: Erxleben, Andrea
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Amorphization is a well-established strategy to enhance the dissolution properties of poorly water-soluble drugs. However, the amorphous state is inherently unstable toward recrystallization. Coamorphous systems of a drug and a small-molecule excipient or of two complementary drugs often show an enhanced stability. Diabetes and hypertension are frequently coexistent. In this paper a study on the coamorphization of the poorly water-soluble antidiabetic drug gliclazide (glz) and the antihypertensive drug valsartan (val) is reported. Amorphous glz recrystallized after 1 d under ambient conditions, whereas coamorphous glz-val containing glz and val in a 1:1 or 1:2 molar ratio was stable for at least four months at 20 °C and 56% relative humidity. The dissolution rate of glz increased in the order crystalline glz
Observation of $D^+\toηηπ^+$ and improved measurement of $D^{0(+)}\toηπ^+π^{-(0)}$
Creators: name: BESIII Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using an $e^+e^-$ annihilation data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $2.93\,\rm fb^{-1}$ collected at the center-of-mass energy of 3.773\,GeV with the BESIII detector, we measure the absolute branching fractions of $D^+\toηηπ^+$, $D^+\toηπ^+π^0$, and $D^0\toηπ^+π^-$ to be $(2.96 \pm 0.24 \pm 0.13)\times 10^{-3}$, $(2.23 \pm 0.15 \pm 0.11)\times 10^{-3}$, and $(1.20 \pm 0.07 \pm 0.04)\times 10^{-3}$, respectively, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second ones systematic. The $D^+\toηηπ^+$ decay is observed for the first time and the branching fractions of $D^{+(0)}\toηπ^+π^{0(-)}$ are measured with much improved precision. In addition we test for $CP$ asymmetries in the separated charge-conjugate branching fractions; no evidence of $CP$ violation is found.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Stack Pressure Considerations for Room Temperature All-Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries
Creators: name: Doux, Jean-Marie
name: Nguyen, Han
name: Tan, Darren H. S.
name: Banerjee, Abhik
name: Wang, Xuefeng
name: Wu, Erik A.
name: Jo, Chiho
name: Yang, Hedi
name: Meng, Ying Shirley
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: All-solid-state batteries are expected to enable batteries with high energy density with the use of lithium metal anodes. Although solid electrolytes are believed to be mechanically strong enough to prevent lithium dendrites from propagating, various reports today still show cell failure due to lithium dendritic growth at room temperature. While cell parameters such as current density, electrolyte porosity and interfacial properties have been investigated, mechanical properties of lithium metal and the role of applied stack pressure on the shorting behavior is still poorly understood. Here, we investigated failure mechanisms of lithium metal in all-solid-state batteries as a function of stack pressure, and conducted in situ characterization of the interfacial and morphological properties of the buried lithium in solid electrolytes. We found that a low stack pressure of 5 MPa allows reliable plating and stripping in a lithium symmetric cell for more than 1000 hours, and a Li | Li6PS5Cl | LiNi0.80Co0.15Al0.05O2 full cell, plating more than 4 um of lithium per charge, is able to cycle over 200 cycles at room temperature. These results suggest the possibility of enabling the lithium metal anode in all-solid-state batteries at reasonable stack pressures.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Shake-up and shake-off excitations with associated electron losses in X-ray studies of proteins
Creators: name: Persson, Petter
name: Lunell, Sten
name: Szoeke, Abraham
name: Ziaja, Beata
name: Hajdu, Janos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Photoionisation of an atom by X-rays usually removes an inner-shell electron from the atom, leaving behind a perturbed "hollow ion" whose relaxation may take different routes. In light elements, emission of an Auger electron is common. However, the energy and the total number of electrons released from the atom may be modulated by shake-up and shake-off effects. When the inner-shell electron leaves, the outer-shell electrons may find themselves in a state that is not an eigen-state of the atom in its surroundings. The resulting collective excitation is called shake-up. If this process also involves the release of low energy electrons from the outer shell, then the process is called shake-off. It is not clear how significant shake-up and shake-off contributions are to the overall ionisation of biological materials like proteins. In particular, the interaction between the out-going electron and the remaining system depends on the chemical environment of the atom, which can be studied by quantum chemical methods. Here we present calculations on model compounds to represent the most common chemical environments in proteins. The results show that the shake-up and shake-off processes affect about 20% of all emissions from nitrogen, 30% from carbon, 40% from oxygen, and 23% from sulphur. Triple and higher ionisations are rare for carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, but are frequent for sulphur. The findings are relevant to the design of biological experiments at emerging X-ray free-electron lasers.
description: 14 pages, latex, 1 figure
ElNoury–Webster bundle: a preemptive surgical approach with a modified lower B-Lynch compression suture to manage morbidly low or adherent placenta
Creators: name: ElNoury, Mohamed Amr H.
name: Webster, Sophia NE.
name: Abdelhalim, Diaa A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To report the technique and outcomes of a surgical care bundle, which preemptively and prophylactically reduces intrapartum bleeding during cesarean sections for these conditions and hence reducing the risk for a cesarean hysterectomy. In this report, we present the surgical and clinical outcomes of a case series of 16 patients presenting with a morbidly low or adherent placenta on whom this technique was piloted. Seven of the sixteen patients (44%) required a blood transfusion ranging from 1 to 5 units of packed RBCs. None of the neonates required neonatal unit admissions. One woman had a subsequent pregnancy, with normal placentation and an uncomplicated delivery by cesarean section. None of the patients in our series had a hysterectomy, needed to return to theater after the initial surgery or had secondary postpartum hemorrhage. The ElNoury–Webster Bundle is a stepwise surgical technique for the conservative management of morbidly low or adherent placenta particularly in low and middle-income healthcare settings.
Searching for dark photons in hyperon decays
Creators: name: Su, Jhih-Ying
name: Tandean, Jusak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: That massless dark photons could exist and have flavor-changing magnetic-dipole interactions with down-type light quarks is an attractive possibility which may be realized in various new-physics scenarios. It is potentially testable not only in kaon processes but also via two-body hyperon decays involving missing energy carried away by the massless dark photon. We explore the latter within a simplified model approach and take into account constraints from the kaon sector. We find that the branching fractions of some of these hyperon modes are allowed to be as high as a few times $10^{-4}$. Such numbers are likely to be within the sensitivity reaches of ongoing experiments like BESIII and future ones at super charm-tau factories.
description: 8 pages, no figure, somewhat expanded, references added, matches publication
Candidate Tidal Dwarf Galaxies in the Compact Group CG J1720-67.8
Creators: name: Temporin, S.
name: Weinberger, R.
name: Galaz, G.
name: Kerber, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the second part of a detailed study of the ultracompact group CG J1720-67.8: in the first part we have focused the attention on the three main galaxies of the group and we have identified a number of candidate tidal dwarf galaxies (TDGs). Here we concentrate on these candidate TDGs. Absolute photometry of these objects in BVRJHKs bands confirms their relatively blue colors, as we already expected from the inspection of optical and near-infrared color maps and from the presence of emission-lines in the optical spectra. The physical conditions in such candidate TDGs are investigated through the application of photoionization models, while the optical colors are compared with grids of spectrophotometric evolutionary synthesis models from the literature. Although from our data self-gravitation cannot be proved for these objects, their general properties are consistent with those of other TDG candidates. Additionally we present the photometry of a few ``knots'' detected in the immediate surroundings of CG J1720-67.8 and consider the possibility that these objects might belong to a dwarf population associated with the compact group.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal