cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 6 of Development of a dissolution method for lumefantrine and artemether in immediate release fixed dose artemether/lumefantrine tablets
Creators: name: Sileshi Belew
name: Suleman, Sultan
name: Duguma, Markos
name: Henok Teshome
name: Wynendaele, Evelien
name: Duchateau, Luc
name: Spiegeleer, Bart De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6: Table S6. 95% CI for mean (%) release of ART and LUM at different time points.
Simultaneous Error Components Models When Panel Data are Incomplete
Creators: name: Matyas, Laszlo
name: Lovrics, Laszlo
name: Matyas, Laszlo
name: Lovrics, Laszlo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Panel data
subject: simultaneous error components model
subject: missing observations
subject: unbalanced panels
subject: Monte—Carlo experiment
subject: risk function

description: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the loss of efficiency of the simultaneous error components model's estimators in the case of incomplete panels. The static and the dynamic cases were analysed, when from a panel data base those individuals are dropped for which the observations are not complete.
NGC 2580 and NGC 2588: Two open clusters in the Third Galactic Quadrant
Creators: name: Baume, G.
name: Moitinho, A.
name: Giorgi, E.
name: Carraro, G.
name: Vazquez, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present CCD broad band photometric observations in the fields of the Third Galactic Quadrant open clusters NGC 2580 and NGC 2588 ($V(I)_C$ and $UBV(RI)_C$ respectively). From the analysis of our data we found that NGC 2580 is located at a distance of about 4 kpc and its age is close to 160 Myr. As for NGC 2588, it is placed at about 5 kpc from the Sun and is 450 Myr old. This means that NGC 2588 belongs to the extension of the Perseus arm, whereas NGC 2580 is closer to the local arm structure. The luminosity functions (LFs) have been constructed for both clusters down to $V \sim 20$ together with their initial mass functions (IMFs) for stars with masses above $M \sim 1-1.5 M_{\sun}$. The IMF slopes for the most massive bins yielded values of $x \approx 1.3$ for NGC 2580 and $x \approx 2$ for NGC 2588. In the case of this latter cluster we found evidence of a core-corona structure produced probably by dynamical effect. In the main sequences of both clusters we detected gaps, which we suggest could be real features.
description: 12 pages, 10 eps figures, in press in A&A
title: The Role of Customer Emotions in a Call Center Setting
Creators: name: Rychalski, Aude N.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: This thesis investigates the role of customer emotions in a call center setting. Three empirical studies are presented: 1. An exploratory qualitative study shows that emotions play an important role in a call center encounter. A measurement scale is developed using the negative emotions reported: frustration, anger, powerlessness, discouragement and stress, and positive emotions: happiness and relief. 2. A survey of 1440 customers of a French call center and subsequent Structural Equation Modeling shows that emotions have a significant effect on satisfaction and loyalty. 3. A follow-up qualitative study indicates that emotions change during the process of a call, and are accompanied by appraisals of reduced certainty and control. Frustration is shown to be a major customer emotional experience due to the set-up of call center services which generate reduced certainty and control, attributions of employee or company responsibility and appraisals of goal-blocking. The main theoretical contributions come from a) the finding that emotions have a stronger effect on loyalty than does satisfaction, b) empirical testing of a widely acknowledged (but not explicitly tested) notion that negative emotions decrease loyalty more than positive emotions increase it. In a call center context callers begin the call with some negative emotional ‘baggage’ which may enhance the effect on loyalty as compared to positive emotions, c) empirical support for Barrett et al. (2007) and Elfenbein (2007) who suggest that an emotional process characterizes emotional experience better than emotions alone. Managerial implications are a) that the call center industry needs to move away from its traditional performance-metrics basis for measuring customer satisfaction and take customer emotions into account, and b) that to ensure loyalty call center managers should focus more strongly on strategies for avoiding negative customer emotional states than for promoting positive emotions.
title: Taking the lead in the preparation of future teachers
title: exploring a school-led route of Initial Teacher Education in England through the lens of a selection of primary Headteachers
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Mills, Karen Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis seeks to explore the realities of taking the lead in the SD (School Direct) model of school-led model of Initial Teacher Training (ITT). It focuses on the perceptions of a selected group of 12 Primary Head Teachers across two School Direct Alliances in England as they embark upon their first experience of training a cohort of PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate in Education) student teachers. The study is situated at a time when school-led routes for the preparation of future teachers are gaining ground and partnership agreements between schools and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are evolving. The study is situated in the non-positivist qualitative paradigm of phenomenology and gave Headteachers a voice to explore their experiences over their first year taking the lead in a PGCE route of ITT. The detailed evidence was gained from interviews with each participant at the beginning and the end of their first year taking the lead in the preparation of future teachers by way of the SD model. The narratives of the HTs revealed their perceptions of ITE and their belief in the role of schools for the preparation of future teachers. Furthermore, the evidence shows how these beliefs and perceptions shaped their reality of taking the lead in ITT working in partnership with a Higher Education Institution. Critiqued against a background of the reform of ITE, the research findings will inform future partnerships between HEIs and schools and show how these can be sustained and developed at a point where the role of HEIs is being weakened as a consequence of recent legislation. Furthermore, it is envisaged that findings will contribute to the debate on ITE by giving primary HTs a voice to explain why schools might seek to move away from the traditional model of ITE.
The Barn : moving towards a socially vibrant, sustainable restaurant
Creators: name: Billey, Danielle
name: Douwes, Monica
name: Johnston, Kiel
name: Liu, Tiffany
name: Mulligan, Corrine
name: Siu, Gabriel
name: Wang, Wendy
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The Barn Coffee Shop is a University of British Columbia (UBC) food service operation that caters to numerous students, staff and faculty. Being a part of UBC food services indicates that many of the inputs are sourced from outside of the Lower Mainland, and have traveled long distances. This places a burden on global sustainability, shipping raw materials increases fossil fuel consumption. Local and seasonal products are essential to making any food system more sustainable. To date The Barn has adopted several sustainability initiatives, however there is still opportunity to enhance the reputation of The Barn on “Sustainability Street”. This paper focuses on adapting the menu to incorporate more local and seasonal foods, and altering various social facets to create a more vibrant destination on campus. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Cu NMR Study of Detwinned Single Crystals of Ortho--II YBCO6.5
Creators: name: Yamani, Z.
name: MacFarlane, W. A.
name: Statt, B. W.
name: Bonn, D.
name: Liang, R.
name: Hardy, W. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Copper NMR has been used as a local probe of the oxygen ordering in Ortho--II YBa2Cu3O6.5 crystals grown in BaZrO3 crucibles. Line assignments have been made to each of the expected crystallographically inequivalent sites. The presence of distinct and narrow lines for these sites as well as the lack of a line known to be associated with oxygen defects indicates that these crystals are highly stoichiometric. Our estimate of the lower limit on the chain length is consistent with that derived from X-ray diffraction measurements. In addition, we have found no evidence for static magnetic moments, in contrast to some previous results.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Physica C
Additional file 1 of Bidirectional screening and treatment outcomes of diabetes mellitus (DM) and Tuberculosis (TB) patients in hospitals with measures to integrate care of DM and TB and those without integration measures in Malawi
Creators: name: Nyirenda, John L. Z.
name: Wagner, Dirk
name: Ngwira, Bagrey
name: Lange, Berit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Supplementary Data on distribution of both TB patients and people living with DM as stratified by sex and age per study site.
An Analysis of Fines Default in English Magistrates' Courts
Creators: name: Stagoll, Jane M.
name: Fry, Tim R. L.
name: Stagoll, Jane M.
name: Fry, Tim R. L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: fines default
subject: sequential Probit
subject: unemployment
subject: Magistrates' court

description: Data collected by the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) on fines default in English Magistrates' courts is analysed using a sequential probability model. It is found that an offender's previous history and employment status play a significant role in determining fines default behaviour.
Comment on "Critique of q-entropy for thermal statistics" by M. Nauenberg
Creators: name: Tsallis, Constantino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was recently published by M. Nauenberg [1] a quite long list of objections about the physical validity for thermal statistics of the theory sometimes referred to in the literature as {\it nonextensive statistical mechanics}. This generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) statistical mechanics is based on the following expression for the entropy: S_q= k\frac{1- \sum_{i=1}^Wp_i^q}{q-1} (q \in {\cal R}; S_1=S_{BG} \equiv -k\sum_{i=1}^W p_i \ln p_i) . The author of [1] already presented orally the essence of his arguments in 1993 during a scientific meeting in Buenos Aires. I am replying now simultaneously to the just cited paper, as well as to the 1993 objections (essentially, the violation of "fundamental thermodynamic concepts", as stated in the Abstract of [1]).
description: 7 pages including 2 figures. This is a reply to M. Nauenberg, Phys. Rev. E 67, 036114 (2003)
Spectroscopy of three-particle entanglement in a macroscopic superconducting circuit
Creators: name: Xu, Huizhong
name: Strauch, Frederick W.
name: Dutta, S.K.
name: Johnson, Philip
name: Ramos, R.C.
name: Berkley, A.J.
name: Paik, H.
name: Anderson, J.R.
name: Dragt, A.J.
name: Lobb, C.J.
name: Wellstood, F.C.
Publisher: name: University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum mechanical behavior of a macroscopic, three-body, superconducting circuit. Microwave spectroscopy on our system, a resonator coupling two large Josephson junctions, produced complex energy spectra well explained by quantum theory over a large frequency range. By tuning each junction separately into resonance with the resonator, we first observe strong coupling between each junction and the resonator. Bringing both junctions together into resonance with the resonator, we find spectroscopic evidence for entanglement between all three degrees of freedom, and suggest a new method for controllable coupling of distant qubits, a key step toward quantum computation.
Inverse Problem for Static Electromagnetic Field in a Dipole Approximation
Creators: name: Epp, V. Ya.
name: Kopytov, G. F.
name: Mitrofanova, T. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The following inverse problem is discussed. A static electromagnetic field generated by a limited system of charges and currents is supposed to be known with its first derivatives at a point somewhere far from the system. This allows to reconstruct the position of the system, its net charge, and the electric and magnetic moments of the system.
description: 5 pages
From Cappuccino City to Chocolate City : Shaw to Anacostia : Making the Nation’s Capital More Equitable
Creators: name: Moulden, Dominic
name: Hyra, Derek
name: Fullilove, Mindy
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Description to be added
Advancing the chemotherapy of tuberculous meningitis: a consensus view.
Creators: name: Wasserman, Sean
name: Donovan, Joseph
name: Kestelyn, Evelyne
name: Watson, James A
name: Aarnoutse, Robert E
name: Barnacle, James R
name: Boulware, David R
name: Chow, Felicia C
name: Cresswell, Fiona V
name: Davis, Angharad G
name: Dooley, Kelly E
name: Figaji, Anthony A
name: Gibb, Diana M
name: Huynh, Julie
name: Imran, Darma
name: Marais, Suzaan
name: Meya, David B
name: Misra, Usha K
name: Modi, Manish
name: Raberahona, Mihaja
name: Ganiem, Ahmad Rizal
name: Rohlwink, Ursula K
name: Ruslami, Rovina
name: Seddon, James A
name: Skolimowska, Keira H
name: Solomons, Regan S
name: Stek, Cari J
name: Thuong, Nguyen Thuy Thuong
name: van Crevel, Reinout
name: Whitaker, Claire
name: Thwaites, Guy E
name: Wilkinson, Robert J
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: Infectious Disease
subject: Infectious Disease
classificationCode: Immunology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: Neurosciences
subject: Neurosciences
classificationCode: Research Support
subject: Research Support

description: Tuberculous meningitis causes death or disability in approximately 50% of affected individuals and kills approximately 78 200 adults every year. Antimicrobial treatment is based on regimens used for pulmonary tuberculosis, which overlooks important differences between lung and brain drug distributions. Tuberculous meningitis has a profound inflammatory component, yet only adjunctive corticosteroids have shown clear benefit. There is an active pipeline of new antitubercular drugs, and the advent of biological agents targeted at specific inflammatory pathways promises a new era of improved tuberculous meningitis treatment and outcomes. Yet, to date, tuberculous meningitis trials have been small, underpowered, heterogeneous, poorly generalisable, and have had little effect on policy and practice. Progress is slow, and a new approach is required. In this Personal View, a global consortium of tuberculous meningitis researchers articulate a coordinated, definitive way ahead via globally conducted clinical trials of novel drugs and regimens to advance treatment and improve outcomes for this life-threatening infection.
Space-Time Collocation Method: Loop Quantum Hamiltonian Constraints
Creators: name: Yonika, Alec
name: Heryudono, Alfa
name: Khanna, Gaurav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A space-time collocation method (STCM) using asymptotically-constant basis functions is proposed and applied to the quantum Hamiltonian constraint for a loop-quantized treatment of the Schwarzschild interior. Canonically, these descriptions take the form of a partial-difference equation (PDE). The space-time collocation approach presents a computationally efficient, convergent, and easily parallelizable method for solving this class of equations, which is the main novelty of this study. Results of the numerical simulations will demonstrate the benefit from a parallel computing approach; and show general flexibility of the framework to handle arbitrarily-sized domains. Computed solutions will be compared, when applicable, to a solution computed in the conventional method via iteratively stepping through a predefined grid of discrete values, computing the solution via a recursive relationship.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures, submitted to IJMPC
Non-thermal radio emission from single hot stars
Creators: name: Van Loo, S.
name: Runacres, M. C.
name: Blomme, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theoretical model for the non-thermal radio emission from single hot stars, in terms of synchrotron radiation from electrons accelerated in wind-embedded shocks. The model is described by five independent parameters each with a straightforward physical interpretation. Applying the model to a high-quality observation of Cyg OB2 No. 9 (O5 If), we obtain meaningful constraints on most parameters. The most important result is that the outer boundary of the synchrotron emission region must lie between 500 and 2200 stellar radii. This means that shocks must persist up to that distance. We also find that relatively weak shocks (with a compression ratio < 3) are needed to produce the observed radio spectrum. These results are compatible with current hydrodynamical predictions. Most of our models also show a relativistic electron fraction that increases outwards. This points to an increasing efficiency of the acceleration mechanism, perhaps due to multiple acceleration, or an increase in the strength of the shocks. Implications of our results for non-thermal X-ray emission are discussed.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, article will appear in A&A
Accelerated Expansion of the Universe in Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
Creators: name: Dehghani, M. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that in Gauss-Bonnet gravity with negative Gauss-Bonnet coefficient and without a cosmological constant, one can explain the acceleration of the expanding Universe. We first introduce a solution of the Gauss-Bonnet gravity with negative Gauss-Bonnet coefficient and no cosmological constant term in an empty $(n+1)$-dimensional bulk. This solution can generate a de Sitter spacetime with curvature $n(n+1)/\{(n-2)(n-3)|α|\}$. We show that an $(n-1)$-dimensional brane embedded in this bulk can have an expanding feature with acceleration. We also considered a 4-dimensional brane world in a 5-dimensional empty space with zero cosmological constant and obtain the modified Friedmann equations. The solution of these modified equations in matter-dominated era presents an expanding Universe with negative deceleration and positive jerk which is consistent with the recent cosmological data. We also find that for this solution, the $"n"th$ derivative of the scale factor with respect to time can be expressed only in terms of Hubble and deceleration parameters.
description: 12 pages, no figure, references added, typos corrected, Section 4 ammended, an appndix added, version to be appeared in Phys. Rev. D
The orbital content of bars: The origin of 'non-x1-tree', bar-supporting orbits
Creators: name: Patsis, P. A.
name: Athanassoula, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, many orbital studies in barred galaxy potentials have revealed the existence of orbits which are not trapped around x1 tree orbits, but could be potentially appropriate building blocks for bars. These findings question the uniqueness of the x1 family as the standard paradigm of orbital motion in galactic bars. The main goal of this paper is to investigate the role that such orbits could play in shaping the morphology of bars. We trace the morphological patterns appearing in the face-on and edge-on views of the non-periodic orbits presented in these studies and we show that they are introduced in the system by second type bifurcations of x1. For this purpose, we use a typical 3D Ferrers bar model and follow the radial and vertical bifurcations of the x1 family considered as being multi periodic, with multi = 2, 3, 5. The variation of the stability indices of x1 in the multi = 2, 3 cases give us also the four- and six- periodic orbits, respectively. We tabulate these orbits including all information necessary to assess their role as appropriate building blocks. We discuss their stability and their extent, as well as their size and morphological evolution, as a function of energy. We conclude that even the most important of the multi-periodic orbits presented in Tables 2 to 5 are less appropriate building blocks for bars than the families of the x1 tree at the same energy.
description: 20 pages, 16 figures, 4 tables with small figures, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Towards a High Energy Theory for the Higgs Phase of Gravity
Creators: name: Graesser, Michael L.
name: Low, Ian
name: Wise, Mark B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spontaneous Lorentz violation due to a time-dependent expectation value for a massless scalar has been suggested as a method for dynamically generating dark energy. A natural candidate for the scalar is a Goldstone boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of a U(1) symmetry. We investigate the low-energy effective action for such a Goldstone boson in a general class of models involving only scalars, proving that if the scalars have standard kinetic terms then at the {\em classical} level the effective action does not have the required features for spontaneous Lorentz violation to occur asymptotically $(t \to \infty)$ in an expanding FRW universe. Then we study the large $N$ limit of a renormalizable field theory with a complex scalar coupled to massive fermions. In this model an effective action for the Goldstone boson with the properties required for spontaneous Lorentz violation can be generated. Although the model has shortcomings, we feel it represents progress towards finding a high energy completion for the Higgs phase of gravity.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures;fixed typos and added references
Additional file 1 of Correction to: Modeling mortality risk effects of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco: results from the national health interview survey linked mortality file data
Creators: name: Salazar, Esther
name: Ren, Chunfeng
name: Rostron, Brian L.
name: Solomon, Ghideon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S3. Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics (weighted estimates and 95% CIs) for NHIS participants aged 35+ at the time of interview.a
Additional file 3 of Development of a dissolution method for lumefantrine and artemether in immediate release fixed dose artemether/lumefantrine tablets
Creators: name: Sileshi Belew
name: Suleman, Sultan
name: Duguma, Markos
name: Henok Teshome
name: Wynendaele, Evelien
name: Duchateau, Luc
name: Spiegeleer, Bart De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Results of mass uniformity test.
Additional file 1 of Hyperandrogenism and menstrual imbalance are the best predictors of metformin response in PCOS patients
Creators: name: Garzia, Emanuele
name: Galiano, Valentina
name: Marfia, Giovanni
name: Navone, Stefania
name: Grossi, Enzo
name: Marconi, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1..
Learning in repeated multiple unit combinatorial auctions: An experimental study
Creators: name: Iftekhar, M. S.
name: Tisdell, J. G.
name: Iftekhar, M. S.
name: Tisdell, J. G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Experience Weighted Attraction Learning
subject: best response bidding strategy
subject: multiple unit combinatorial auctions
subject: package selection

description: The motivation of this paper is to understand trader behaviour and learning in a complex setting where finding a best strategy might not be intuitive. The assertion made is that feedback information can help in updating strategies through repeated bidding processes. The paper explores this assertion through the results of a series of repeated multiple unit combinatorial auction laboratory experiments where item and package traders interact under three information treatments: 1) basic information feedback on market prices and status of their own bids; 2) basic information feedback and all winning bids; and 3) market prices and the status of all bids. We compare bidding behavior with a local optimal package selection model. We then estimate an experience weighted attraction learning (EWA) model of bidding behavior. We observe that package traders follow price feedback information more closely than item traders, especially in the basic treatment information. With additional information package traders substantially deviate from best response bidding strategy resulting in a loss of efficiency. Finally, item traders tend to remember their past experiences more than package traders in low information environments. In high information environments the trend is reversed. The implications of this study could be significant for market design. The standard assumption that more information in combinatorial market design is better for traders may not hold in all cases.
Additional file 1 of Dual regulation of lipid droplet-triacylglycerol metabolism and ERG9 expression for improved β-carotene production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Creators: name: Bu, Xiao
name: Lin, Jing‑Yuan
name: Duan, Chang‑Qing
name: Koffas, Mattheos A. G.
name: Yan, Guo‑Liang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Observation of yeast lipid droplets by transmission electron microscopy. Figure S2. The intracellular TAG content (A) and the relative expression of lipid droplets synthesis genes (B) between the wild-type strain YBX-B and β-carotene synthesizing strain YBX-01. Figure S3. Effects of adding different concentration of oleic acid on cell growth of the parent strain YBX-01. Figure S4. The relative expression of target genes in strain YBX-01 after treated with 2 mM of OA for 2 h and 12 h relative to the control without addition by qRT-PCR. Table S1. Primers used for plasmid construction in this work. Table S2. Primers for genotype identification of promoter replaced strains. Table S3. Primers for quantitative real-time PCR in this work. Table S4. Down-regulated genes in strain YBX-01 after treated with oleic acid for 2 h and 12 h by transcriptome analysis.
KOMPARACIA VYBRANYCH NATURALNYCH A HODNOTOVYCH UKAZOVATEL'OV PRODUKCIE PSENICE V SLOVENSKEJ REPUBLIKE S NIEKTORYMI KRAJIMAMI EU
COMPARISON OF SELECTED PHYSICAL AND VALUE INDICATORS OF THE WHEAT PRODUCTION IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC WITH SOME COUNTRIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Creators: name: SIMO, Dusan
name: SIMO, Dusan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: comparison
subject: physical and value indicators
subject: selected counties

description: The comparison of physical indicators showed an important position of the Slovak and Czech Republics, Hungary and Poland in wheat production, as compared to chosen EU countries, namely Germany and Austria. Although the Slovak Republic achieved higher wheat yield per hectare only in comparison with Poland, compared to Germany and Austria it was just 0.53 and 0.80 point lower, respectively. Sale profit is limited by wheat prices fixed by producers and hectare yield. In the area of wheat growing Slovakia also keeps behind in selected variable costs of seeds, fertilizers and chemical protective agents. As to producer's wheat prices, further development is supposed to be positive for Slovak farmers after the accession of Slovakia to the EU
Cocaine cues retain silent traces of an excitatory history after conversion into conditioned inhibitors : 'the ghost in the addict' : The ghost in the addict
Creators: name: Weiss, Stanley J.
name: Kearns, David
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The present experiment investigated the extent to which the A+/AB- conditioned inhibition procedure could counteract an excitatory drug-related conditioning history. In two groups of rats, a light stimulus was established as a signal for the absence of cocaine. For the History group, the light had previously been a discriminative stimulus (S-D) that occasioned cocaine self-administration and could thus be classified as a cocaine excitor. In comparison, the No-History group first encountered the light during conditioned inhibition training. During conditioned inhibition training, both groups self-administered cocaine during tone as well as during click S(D)s, whereas drug seeking was eliminated in click-plus-light, wherein cocaine was not available (A+/AB-). Drug seeking was essentially eliminated in both groups. Nevertheless, on a summation test the light reduced cocaine seeking occasioned by the tone S-D by 95% in the No-History group, but by less than 50% in the History group. This summation test result showed that the effects of a drug-related history persisted even after the light was converted into an effective conditioned inhibitor on the training baseline through the powerful A+/AB- procedure. Future research should seek procedures that produce even stronger conditioned inhibition that eliminates such residual silent' drug excitation, the ghost in the addict'.
KONKURENCIESCHOOPNOST SLOVENSKYCH PRODUCENTOV
COMPETITIVENESS OF SLOVAK AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS
Creators: name: BIELIK, Peter
name: BIELIK, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: restructuring
subject: competitiveness
subject: strong points
subject: weak points
subject: threats
subject: opportunities
subject: SWOT analysis

description: The market mechanism's operation in the sectors of agriculture and food industry is characterized by particularities which are manifest differently at macro - and microeconomic levels in comparison to other production sectors. The question of competitiveness of home agro-producers has become one of the topical themes connected with the accession of the Slovak Republic to the European Union. It is related to the fact that agrarian markets, especially food ones, have their own spectacular particularities showing themselves in high sensitivity to the effects of outside environment and in strong motivation of the enterprise for becoming involved in competition. Liberalized economy versus Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU might be a potential source of disharmony of economic development in the common European area.
Additional file 4 of Development of a dissolution method for lumefantrine and artemether in immediate release fixed dose artemether/lumefantrine tablets
Creators: name: Sileshi Belew
name: Suleman, Sultan
name: Duguma, Markos
name: Henok Teshome
name: Wynendaele, Evelien
name: Duchateau, Luc
name: Spiegeleer, Bart De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Results of response variables from DoE experiment.
Expanding the UBC Farm Market
Creators: name: Bailey, Jade
name: Chow, Amanda
name: Ho, Florence
name: Lee, Nicole
name: Rodrigues, Sara
name: Tsui, Anthony
name: Yu, Eva
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: This report will address the social, environmental, and economical feasibility of expanding the UBC Farm Market (FM) in order to account for its increasing consumer demand. Community-Based Action Research (CBAR) provides the foundation for our research, and it is from this foundation that we, Group 7 of the 2007 UBC Food Security Project, have explored the following factors of FM expansion: the type and quality of products that represent consumer demand; the desirability among BC vendors to join the FM; the logistics of insurance, table fees, and parking space; and the overall feasibility of expanding this popular 'niche'1 market. Primary methods of data collection include surveys, interviews, and secondary research. Data is then used to make the following key recommendations: that current information on parking and insurance be further pursued; that future surveys include more vendors; and that the FM consider the Market Layout Plan and Vendor Application which are offered in this report. We have concluded our research by stating that FM expansion is feasible from a slow starting pace (i.e., with the addition of one or two vendors during it first year) and with the continued support of its community-wide stakeholders. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Order and disorder in the Local Evolutionary Minority Game
Creators: name: Burgos, E.
name: Ceva, Horacio
name: Perazzo, R. P. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a modification of the Evolutionary Minority Game (EMG) in which agents are placed in the nodes of a regular or a random graph. A neighborhood for each agent can thus be defined and a modification of the usual relaxation dynamics can be made in which each agent updates her decision scheme depending upon the options made in her immediate neighborhood. We name this model the Local Evolutionary Minority Game (LEMG). We report numerical results for the topologies of a ring, a torus and a random graph changing the size of the neighborhood. We focus our discussion in a one dimensional system and perform a detailed comparison of the results obtained from the random relaxation dynamics of the LEMG and from a linear chain of interacting spin-like variables at a finite temperature. We provide a physical interpretation of the surprising result that in the LEMG a better coordination (a lower frustration) is achieved if agents base their actions on local information. We show how the LEMG can be regarded as a model that gradually interpolates between a fully ordered, antiferromagnetic system and a fully disordered system that can be assimilated to a spin glass.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures, RevTex; omission of a relevant reference corrected
title: Early Jurassic Palaeoenvironmental Change – A North African Perspective
Creators: name: Saker-Clark, Matthew
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: Extreme palaeoclimate change events from Earth history can be used to further our understanding of the Earth’s potential responses to anthropogenic climate change. The geological record of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE; ~183 million years ago) provides an opportunity to study a period of extreme palaeoclimate change that was associated with global carbon release and global warming. This research presents: evidence for the effects of T-OAE climate change at tropical latitudes; a more efficient technique for high-resolution proxy dataset production, and an astronomical timescale for the T-OAE. In this study, protocols for elemental analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pXRF) have been optimised for the production of high quality, high-resolution proxy data from sedimentary successions. The new protocols have been used to demonstrate that these data are suitable for cyclostratigraphic studies, and that they provide the opportunity to produce astronomical timescales more quickly, cheaply and more easily than commonly-used combustion analyses. Three published and two previously unstudied successions of early Toarcian strata along a proximal to distal profile in the Middle Atlas Basin, Morocco were investigated and recorded. Sedimentological and geochemical analyses show widespread deposition of storm beds and increased sedimentation rates within the T-OAE, providing evidence for acceleration of the tropical hydrological cycle due to global warming associated with the T-OAE. High-resolution sedimentological and geochemical records of a T-OAE succession reveal an -8‰ carbon isotope excursion over 66.6 m of strata coincident with evidence for enhanced storm activity. Cyclostratigraphic analysis of the sedimentological and geochemical data show that T-OAE enhanced storm activity lasted for >950 kyr and was modulated by 100 kyr and 21 kyr astronomical cycles in seasonality. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that intense tropical storm frequency increased in response to increasing temperature, and that the T-OAE carbon cycle perturbation lasted ~1.3 Myr.
Cocaine cues retain silent traces of an excitatory history after conversion into conditioned inhibitors : 'the ghost in the addict' : The ghost in the addict
Creators: name: Weiss, Stanley J.
name: Kearns, David
Publisher: name: Behav Pharmacol
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The present experiment investigated the extent to which the A+/AB- conditioned inhibition procedure could counteract an excitatory drug-related conditioning history. In two groups of rats, a light stimulus was established as a signal for the absence of cocaine. For the History group, the light had previously been a discriminative stimulus (S-D) that occasioned cocaine self-administration and could thus be classified as a cocaine excitor. In comparison, the No-History group first encountered the light during conditioned inhibition training. During conditioned inhibition training, both groups self-administered cocaine during tone as well as during click S(D)s, whereas drug seeking was eliminated in click-plus-light, wherein cocaine was not available (A+/AB-). Drug seeking was essentially eliminated in both groups. Nevertheless, on a summation test the light reduced cocaine seeking occasioned by the tone S-D by 95% in the No-History group, but by less than 50% in the History group. This summation test result showed that the effects of a drug-related history persisted even after the light was converted into an effective conditioned inhibitor on the training baseline through the powerful A+/AB- procedure. Future research should seek procedures that produce even stronger conditioned inhibition that eliminates such residual silent' drug excitation, the ghost in the addict'.
Reinforcement Learning Enhanced Quantum-inspired Algorithm for Combinatorial Optimization
Creators: name: Beloborodov, Dmitrii
name: Ulanov, A. E.
name: Foerster, Jakob N.
name: Whiteson, Shimon
name: Lvovsky, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum hardware and quantum-inspired algorithms are becoming increasingly popular for combinatorial optimization. However, these algorithms may require careful hyperparameter tuning for each problem instance. We use a reinforcement learning agent in conjunction with a quantum-inspired algorithm to solve the Ising energy minimization problem, which is equivalent to the Maximum Cut problem. The agent controls the algorithm by tuning one of its parameters with the goal of improving recently seen solutions. We propose a new Rescaled Ranked Reward (R3) method that enables stable single-player version of self-play training that helps the agent to escape local optima. The training on any problem instance can be accelerated by applying transfer learning from an agent trained on randomly generated problems. Our approach allows sampling high-quality solutions to the Ising problem with high probability and outperforms both baseline heuristics and a black-box hyperparameter optimization approach.
description: Submitted to ICML 2020. 9 pages, 3 pdf figures. V2: fixed acknowledgements
Nature of the insulating phases in the half-filled ionic Hubbard model
Creators: name: Kampf, A. P.
name: Sekania, M.
name: Japaridze, G. I.
name: Brune, Ph.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the ground-state phase diagram of the one-dimensional "ionic" Hubbard model with an alternating periodic potential at half-filling by numerical diagonalization of finite systems with the Lanczos and density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) methods. We identify an insulator-insulator phase transition from a band to a correlated insulator with simultaneous charge and bond-charge order. The transition point is characterized by the vanishing of the optical excitation gap while simultaneously the charge and spin gaps remain finite and equal. Indications for a possible second transition into a Mott-insulator phase are discussed.
description: final form
Additional file 2 of Development of a dissolution method for lumefantrine and artemether in immediate release fixed dose artemether/lumefantrine tablets
Creators: name: Sileshi Belew
name: Suleman, Sultan
name: Duguma, Markos
name: Henok Teshome
name: Wynendaele, Evelien
name: Duchateau, Luc
name: Spiegeleer, Bart De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Factor settings.
“Now We Are Seeing the Tides Wash In”: Trauma and the Opioid Epidemic in Rural Appalachian Ohio
Creators: name: Schalkoff, Christine A.
name: Richard, Emma L.
name: Piscalko, Hannah M.
name: Adams L. Sibley
name: Brook, Daniel L.
name: Lancaster, Kathryn E.
name: Miller, William C.
name: Go, Vivian F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: Ohio’s opioid epidemic continues to progress, severely affecting its rural Appalachian counties—areas marked by high mortality rates, widespread economic challenges, and a history of extreme opioid overprescribing. Substance use may be particularly prevalent in the region due to interactions between community and interpersonal trauma. Purpose/Objectives: We conducted qualitative interviews to explore the local context of the epidemic and the contributing role of trauma. Methods: Two interviewers conducted in-depth interviews (n = 34) with stakeholders in three rural Appalachian counties, including healthcare and substance use treatment professionals, law enforcement officials, and judicial officials. Semi-structured interview guides focused on the social, economic, and historical context of the opioid epidemic, perceived causes and effects of the epidemic, and ideas for addressing the challenge. Results: Stakeholders revealed three pervasive forms of trauma related to the epidemic in their communities: environmental/community trauma (including economic and historical distress), physical/sexual trauma, and emotional trauma. Traumas interact with one another and with substance use in a self-perpetuating cycle. Although stakeholders in all groups discussed trauma from all three categories, their interpretation and proposed solutions differed, leading to a fragmented epidemic response. Participants also discussed the potential of finding hope and community through efforts to address trauma and substance use. Conclusions: Findings lend support to the cyclical relationship between trauma and substance use, as well as the importance of environmental and community trauma as drivers of the opioid epidemic. Community-level and trauma-informed interventions are needed to increase stakeholder consensus around treatment and prevention strategies, as well as to strengthen community organization networks and support community resilience. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2021.1887248.