cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Multiple Diffusion-Freezing Mechanisms in Molecular Hydrogen Films
Creators: name: Makiuchi, Takahiko
name: Yamashita, Katsuyuki
name: Tagai, Michihiro
name: Nago, Yusuke
name: Shirahama, Keiya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular hydrogen is a fascinating candidate for quantum fluid showing bosonic and fermionic superfluidity. We have studied diffusion dynamics of thin films of H$_2$, HD and D$_2$ adsorbed on a glass substrate by measurements of elasticity. The elasticity shows multiple anomalies well below bulk triple point. They are attributed to three different diffusion mechanisms of admolecules and their "freezing" into localized state: classical thermal diffusion of vacancies, quantum tunneling of vacancies, and diffusion of molecules in the uppermost surface. The surface diffusion is active down to 1 K, below which the molecules become localized. This suggests that the surface layer of hydrogen films is on the verge of quantum phase transition to superfluid state.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Surface modification of pH-responsive poly(2-(tert-butylamino)ethyl methacrylate) brushes grafted on mesoporous silica nanoparticles
Creators: name: Alswieleh, Abdullah M.
name: Mufleh M. Alshahrani
name: Alzahrani, Khalid E.
name: Hamdan S. Alghamdi
name: Niazy, Abdurahman A
name: Alsilme, Abdulilah S
name: Beagan, Abeer M.
name: Alsheheri, Bayan M.
name: Abdulaziz A. Alghamdi
name: Almeataq, Mohammed S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Poly(2‑(tert-butylamino)ethyl methacrylate) brushes (PTBAEMA) are grown from mesoporous silica nanoparticles via surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP). Linear PTBAEMA brushes are protonated and highly swollen at low pH; brushes are collapsed at pH higher than 7.7 due to deprotonation, as determined by dynamic light scattering (DLS). Quaternization of these brushes is conducted using 2-iodoethanol in alkali media. DLS measurement of nanoparticles shows that surface-confined quaternization occurs and produces pH-responsive brushes with a hydrophobic upper surface. Variation of the 2-iodoethanol reaction time enables the mean degree of surface quaternization. The pH-responsive behaviour of quaternized PTBEAMA brushes at 1 h reaction time indicates low degrees of surface quaternization, dictated by the spatial location of 2-iodoethanol. Almost uniformly quaternized brushes prepared when the conducted for 3 h and became less swollen at low pH than brushes that conducted for 1 h. The intensity of the C − C − O component (286.5 eV) in the C1s X-ray photoelectron spectrum increased, suggesting that the reaction with iodoethanol was successful occurred.
DiscoTK: Using Discourse Structure for Machine Translation Evaluation
Creators: name: Joty, Shafiq
name: Guzman, Francisco
name: Marquez, Lluis
name: Nakov, Preslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7
subject: 68T50

description: We present novel automatic metrics for machine translation evaluation that use discourse structure and convolution kernels to compare the discourse tree of an automatic translation with that of the human reference. We experiment with five transformations and augmentations of a base discourse tree representation based on the rhetorical structure theory, and we combine the kernel scores for each of them into a single score. Finally, we add other metrics from the ASIYA MT evaluation toolkit, and we tune the weights of the combination on actual human judgments. Experiments on the WMT12 and WMT13 metrics shared task datasets show correlation with human judgments that outperforms what the best systems that participated in these years achieved, both at the segment and at the system level.
description: machine translation evaluation, machine translation, tree kernels, discourse, convolutional kernels, discourse tree, RST, rhetorical structure theory, ASIYA
The Policy Environment for Food Safety and Nutrition: Regulating Quality and Quality Signaling
Creators: name: Caswell, Julie
name: Caswell, Julie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food safety
subject: salmonella
subject: e coli
subject: health regulations

description: The policy environment surrounding issues of the safety and nutritional quality of the U.S. food supply is in considerable,although not unusual,turmoil. Calls for reform touch on every aspect of the regulatory effort,including standards,methods of achieving standards,and the choice of agencies for regulatory responsibility. The most recent large scale incident was in Washington,Idaho,California,and Nevada in early 1993 where approximately 500 people suffered cases of hemorrhagic colitis associated with E. coli 0157:H7 and three children died from eating contaminated hamburgers served at a fast food restaurant chain (U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) 1993,Schneider 1993). Another significant incident was the 1985 Chicago outbreak of salmonellosis associated with tainted pasteurized milk (Ryan et al. 1987),while concerns mount about salmonella in chicken,Alar on apples.
Scalar Particles in Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Kunihiro, Teiji
name: Muroya, Shin
name: Nakamura, Atushi
name: Nonaka, Chiho
name: Sekiguchi, Motoo
name: Wada, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a project to study scalar particles by lattice QCD simulations. After a brief introduction of the current situation of lattice study of the sigma meson, we describe our numerical simulations of scalar mesons, $σ$ and $κ$. We observe a low sigma mass, $m_π
description: 4 figures, to be published in Proceedings of `International Symposium on Hadron Spectroscopy, Chiral Symmetry and Relativistic Description of Bound Systems' (in a series of KEK proceedings)
title: 13 Dinge
title: 13 things
Creators: name: Stabenau, Edlef
name: Hauschke, Christian
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Der Web-2.0-Selbstlernkurs "13 Dinge" wird vorgestellt.
Effect of embedding eggshells to form calcium feldspar as flux in porcelain via slip casting process for bio-dental and medical applications
Creators: name: Nuchnapa Tangboriboon
name: Sairung Changkhamchom
name: Anuvat Sirivat
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Bio-dental and medical porcelain products embedded with eggshell as a calcium flux were prepared by slip casting and fired at 600°C, 700°C, 800°C, and 900°C for 1 h, 3 h, and 5 h. The main composition of eggshell was calcium carbonate at 96.35 wt%, it is an inorganic material used to enhance mechanical, thermal, and physical properties of porcelain in the glassy phase formation during sintering. The obtained porcelain products, with embedded eggshell powder and fired at the low temperatures at 600°C, 700°C, 800°C, and 900°C for 1 h, 3 h, and 5 h, possessed relatively low thermal expansion coefficients, good true density values with high densification, high compressive strength, and high hardness. Scanning electron micrographs, X-ray diffraction patterns, Vickers micro-hardness, thermal expansion coefficient and physical properties (bulk density, true density, densification and shrinkage) were utilised to investigate and identify the microstructure, phase composition, hardness, thermal properties and characteristics of the porcelain products. The obtained soft porcelain products are potential in dental and medical applications such as artificial bone, teeth and joint, and medical glove formation.
From Classical Trajectories to Quantum Commutation Relations
Creators: name: Ciaglia, Florio M.
name: Marmo, Giuseppe
name: Schiavone, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In describing a dynamical system, the greatest part of the work for a theoretician is to translate experimental data into differential equations. It is desirable for such differential equations to admit a Lagrangian and/or an Hamiltonian description because of the Noether theorem and because they are the starting point for the quantization. As a matter of fact many ambiguities arise in each step of such a reconstruction which must be solved by the ingenuity of the theoretician. In the present work we describe geometric structures emerging in Lagrangian, Hamiltonian and Quantum description of a dynamical system underlining how many of them are not really fixed only by the trajectories observed by the experimentalist.
description: 25 pages. Comments are welcome!
title: 03_0927
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Development of Efficiency in Alpine Farming - A Combination of the Malmquist Index Approach and Matching–
Creators: name: Kantelhardt, Jochen
name: Kapfer, Martin
name: Franzel, Martin
name: Kirchweger, Stefan
name: Kantelhardt, Jochen
name: Kapfer, Martin
name: Franzel, Martin
name: Kirchweger, Stefan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Malmquist total factor productivity index
subject: technical progress
subject: Alpine farming
subject: data envelopment analysis
subject: matching

description: In comparison to flatland agriculture mountainous agriculture is often shaped by small plot sizes, unfavourable climatic conditions and steep slopes. All those conditions make it extraordinarily expensive to implement new technologies and to modernise farms. Consequently our research hypothesis is that technical progress in mountainous regions is slower in comparison to flatland regions. In order to test this hypothesis we develop a model combining a Malmquist index approach with a matching analysis. We apply our model in Austria, using a panel data set comprising the data of 1034 Austrian voluntarily bookkeeping farms and ranging from 2003 to 2009. On basis of the Austrian Mountain Farm Cadastre the farms are classified into five categories expressing the degree of disadvantage which farms are exposed from being located in a mountainous area. Our results show that technical change in mountain regions is significantly lower than in flatland regions and continuously decreasing with increasing disadvantage. Matching our results shows that this result is mainly based on farm grassland share, while farm size is of minor importance. With regard to efficiency change and change of total factor productivity we do not find any significant results.
title: Qualifizierung von Informationsfachleuten für Museumsbibliotheken
Creators: name: Behm-Steidel, Gudrun
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Der folgende Beitrag zeigt auf, welche Wege die Fachhochschule Hannover, Fakultät Medien, Information und Design (MID) in der Abteilung Information und Kommunikation bei der Qualifizierung von Informationsfachleuten für Museumsbibliotheken beschreitet. Nach der kurzen Analyse des Kompetenzprofils wird der Studienschwerpunkt „Interne Informationseinrichtungen“ mit Lernzielen, Lerninhalten und Methodik vorgestellt. Durch die hohe Praxisorientierung laden viele aktuelle Themen zu Kooperationsmöglichkeiten zwischen Museumsbibliotheken oder der AKMB und der FH Hannover ein.
Radiative muon (pion) pair production in high energy electron-positron annihilation (the case of small invariant pair mass)
Creators: name: Arbuzov, A. B.
name: Bartos, E.
name: Bytev, V. V.
name: Kuraev, E. A.
name: Silagadze, Z. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The process of the muon (pion) pair production with small invariant mass in the electron--positron high--energy annihilation, accompanied by emission of hard photon at large angles, is considered. We find that the Drell--Yan picture for differential cross section is valid in the charge--even experimental set--up. Radiative corrections both for electron block and for final state block are taken into account.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures
Rhoptromeris armeniaca  1966
Creators: name: Costa Baião, Guilherme
name: Forshage, Mattias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Figitidae
Rhoptromeris
Rhoptromeris armeniaca

description: Rhoptromeris armeniaca (Belizin), 1966
 Diagnosis
Known from a single female deposited in ZIN. Type specimen small, brown, with slender build. Scutellum partly obscured by a glued wing, scutellar plate very narrow, dorsal surface of scutellum smooth. Anteroventral cavity of metapleura present. First flagellomere subequal to second, third flagellomere smaller than first two, fourth subequal to third. Front and middle legs missing.
 The poor condition of the type made its study inconclusive. The specimen is most similar to R. villosa due to the small, slender body and narrow scutellar plate, but differs in the proportion of antennal segments. No specimens similar to the holotype were found among the material examined from Western and Northern Europe or from the Macaronesian islands. We suggest that it is either a representative of an eastern species or an aberrant specimen of R. villosa.
 Distribution
The holotype and only known specimen was collected in Armenia.
 Biology
 Rhoptromeris armeniaca is probably a parasitoid of Chloropidae, as are other known Rhoptromeris species.
description: Published as part of Costa Baião, Guilherme & Forshage, Mattias, 2018, Revision of the West Palaearctic species of Rhoptromeris Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae), pp. 1201-1224 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 52 (17 - 20) on pages 1210-1211, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1447154, http://zenodo.org/record/5174636
title: Qualitätsentwicklung in Schulen des Gesundheitswesens : Bestimmung übergreifender (Aus-)Bildungsziele (schulinternes Zielkonzept), Gestaltung kompetenzförderlichen Unterrichts (schulinternes Unterrichtskonzept)
Creators: name: Oelke, Uta-Karola
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Ein zentraler Ausgangs- und Bezugspunkt schulischer Reform- sowie Qualitätsentwicklungsprozesse ist die Klärung der Frage: Welche Ziele verfolgen wir mit unseren pädagogischen Bemühungen? Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage stellt sich speziell bei Lehrenden an Schulen des Gesundheitswesens eine nächste Grundsatzfrage: Zielen wir darauf ab, unsere SchülerInnen ausschließlich für berufliche Tätigkeiten zu qualifizieren, oder möchten wir sie auch in ihrer Persönlichkeit bilden? Dass sie sich diese Qualifizierungs- bzw. Bildungsfrage stellen können und ihnen die Antwortoptionen tatsächlich offen stehen, hängt mit der Sonderstellung der Schulen des Gesundheitswesens im bundesdeutschen Bildungssystem zusammen. Für alle anderen Lehrenden an öffentlichen berufsbildenden Schulen gibt es diesbezüglich keine Wahl: Für sie ist ein Bildungsauftrag über die Schulgesetze der Länder verpflichtend, und die von der Kultusministerkonferenz (KMK) erlassenen Rah-
 menlehrpläne geben ihnen sowohl Bildungs- als auch Qualifizierungsziele vor.

 Die vorliegenden Ausführungen sollen den Teams an den Schulen des Gesundheitswesens eine Orientierungsgrundlage bei der Klärung und - möglichst konsensuellen – Bestimmung ihrer eigenen Bildungs- und/oder Qualifizierungsziele bieten.
Acceleration Method of Neighbor Search with GRAPE and Morton-ordering
Creators: name: Saitoh, T. R.
name: Koda, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a new method to accelerate neighbor searches on GRAPE, i.e. a special purpose hardware that efficiently calculates gravitational forces and potentials in $N$-body simulations. In addition to the gravitational calculations, GRAPE simultaneously constructs the lists of neighbor particles that are necessary for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). However, data transfer of the neighbor lists from GRAPE to the host computer is time consuming, and can be a bottleneck. In fact, the data transfer can take about the same time as the calculations of forces themselves. Making use of GRAPE's special treatment of neighbor lists, we can reduce the amount of data transfer if we search neighbors in the order that the neighbor lists, constructed in a single GRAPE run, overlap each other. We find that the Morton-ordering requires very low additional calculation and programming costs, and results in successful speed-up on data transfer. We show some benchmark results in the case of GRAPE-5. Typical reduction in transferred data becomes as much as 90%. This method is suitable not only for GRAPE-5, but also GRAPE-3 and the other versions of GRAPE.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ
Validity of Harris criterion for two-dimensional quantum spin systems with quenched disorder
Creators: name: Peng, Jhao-Hong
name: Huang, L. -W.
name: Tan, D. -R.
name: Jiang, F. -J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inspired by the recent results regarding whether the Harris criterion is valid for quantum spin systems, we have simulated a two-dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the square lattice with a specific kind of quenched disorder using the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations. In particular, the considered quenched disorder has a tunable parameter $0\le p \le 1$ which can be considered as a measure of randomness. Interestingly, when the magnitude of $p$ increases from 0 to 0.9, at the associated quantum phase transitions the numerical value of the correlation length exponent $ν$ grows from a number compatible with the $O(3)$ result 0.7112(5) to a number slightly greater than 1. In other words, by varying $p$, $ν$ can reach an outcome between 0.7112(5) and 1 (or greater). Furthermore, among the studied values of $p$, all the associated $ν$ violate the Harris criterion except the one corresponding to $p=0.9$. Considering the form of the employed disorder here, the above described scenario should remain true for other randomness if it is based on the similar idea as the one used in this study. This is indeed confirmed by our preliminary results stemming from investigating another disorder distribution.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, 7 tables
Revealing the Nature of Dark Energy Using Bayesian Evidence
Creators: name: Saini, T. D.
name: Weller, J.
name: Bridle, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the Bayesian concept of `evidence' to reveal systematically the nature of dark energy from present and future supernova luminosity distance measurements. We express the unknown dark energy equation of state w(z) as a low order polynomial in redshift and use evidence to find the polynomial order, thereby establishing the minimum order required by the data. We apply this method to the current supernova data, and with a prior -1 < w(z) < 1 and Omega_m = 0.3 \pm 0.05, obtain a large probability of 91% for the cosmological constant model, with the remaining 9% assigned to the two more complex models tested. We also investigate the use of evidence for future supernova data sets such as distances obtainable from surveys like the Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP). Given a low uncertainty on the present day matter density we find that, if the underlying dark energy model is only modestly evolving, then a constant $w(z)$ fit is sufficient. However, if the evolution of the dark energy equation of state to linear order is larger than |w_1| ~ 0.5, then the evolution can be established with statistical significance. For models where we can assume the prior -1 < w(z) < 1, the correct polynomial order can be established even for modestly evolving equations of state.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS
AGRARIAN TRANSFORMATION: POWER AND DOMINANCE IN MARKETS
Creators: name: Bor, Özgür
name: Bor, Özgür
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: power
subject: vertical integration
subject: agricultural transformation

description: This paper argues that there is a dominancy of globalized capital over agriculture after 1980s and thus, the relations of production have transformed to a more market oriented system. New institutions have come into the picture establishing the links between small producers and larger markets. This process of transformation structured globally in which the principles, norms and rules of behavior, regulating the agriculture are restructured by the dominant powers on the basis of mutual dependency and cooperation. The policies consistent to the current neoliberal paradigm are established in the agriculture where the solutions are generalized by ignoring the differences in structures. Finally, the capital gains dominancy over the stages of food system from production to selves.
title: Die Online-Auskunft der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf : erste Evaluation eines Erfolgsmodells
Creators: name: Hauschke, Christian
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Vorstellung der Online-Auskunft der ULB Düsseldorf. Erläutert werden technische Grundlagen, Personalschulungen, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und die Annahme des Modells durch die Nutzer. Es handelt sich hier um eine leicht modifizierte Fassung des ursprünglich in ProLibris erschienenen Artikels.
Quantum Hypergraph States in Continuous Variables
Creators: name: Moore, Darren W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measurement based, or one-way, model of quantum computation for continuous variables uses a highly entangled state called a cluster state to accomplish the task of computing. Cluster states that are universal for computation are a subset of a class of states called graph states. These states are Gaussian states and therefore require that the homodyne detection (Gaussian measurement) scheme is supplemented with a non-Gaussian measurement for universal computation, a significant experimental challenge. Here we define a new non-Gaussian class of states based on hypergraphs which satisfy the requirements of the Lloyd-Braunstein criteria while restricted to a Gaussian measurement strategy. Our main result is to show that, taking advantage of the intrinsic multimode nonlinearity, a hypergraph consisting of 3-edges can be used to apply a three-mode operation to an input three-mode state. As a special case, this technique can be used to apply the cubic phase gate to a single mode.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Political Threat Assessment in Eastern Neighbourhood & Western Balkan Countries
Creators: name: Burmester, Isabell
name: Bieber, Florian
name: Blockmans, Steven
name: Delcour, Laure
name: Ermurachi, Adrian
name: Kakachia, Kornely
name: Osypchuk, Anna
name: Petrovic, Predrag
name: Pollozhani, Lura
name: Suslov, Anton
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This working paper assesses political threats to democratisation and EU integration in the Eastern Neighbourhood (EN) and Western Balkans (WB). These regions are vital for the European Union’s strategic goals, yet their progress is hindered by geopolitical interference from actors such as Russia, China, Türkiye, and the Gulf states.

The geopolitical context highlights how EN and WB countries are navigating a complex landscape of influence. Russia remains the most disruptive external actor, employing political interference, disinformation, and cultural diplomacy to destabilise governments and impede EU alignment. Countries like Serbia, Georgia, and Moldova are particularly vulnerable to Russian tactics, which include support for separatist movements and anti-EU political narratives. China’s approach is more subtle, focusing on economic investments and promoting its governance model as an alternative to liberal democracy, with notable impacts in Serbia and Montenegro. Türkiye and the Gulf states primarily use cultural and religious diplomacy, leveraging historical and religious ties to expand their influence, although their impact is less destabilising compared to Russia.
SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS AS DETERMINANTS OF POVERTY IN CRUDE OIL POLLUTED CROP FARMS IN RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA
Creators: name: Ojimba, Thankgod Peter
name: Ojimba, Thankgod Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Tobit regression analysis
subject: socio-demographic factors
subject: crude oil polluted crop farms
subject: incidence of poverty
subject: probability of poverty
subject: intensity of poverty
subject: Rivers State Nigeria

description: This paper focused on use of socio-demographic factors as determinants of poverty using tobit analysis in crude oil polluted crop farms in Rivers State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling was used to obtain data from 17 local government areas. A total of 296 questionnaires were used for analysis. The results showed that dependency ratio, household size, mean adult equivalent expenditure, ratio of food expenditure to total expenditure were factors that significantly decreased incidence of poverty, while marital type, age and occupation marginally increased poverty. Increase in mean adult equivalent expenditure reduced probability of poverty by 8.66% and 6.70%; intensity of poverty by 4.31% and 4.56% in crude oil polluted and non-polluted farm-households respectively. Decrease in ratio of food expenditure to total expenditure reduced probability of poverty by 5.02% and 0.85%; intensity of poverty by 2.50% and 0.58% in crude oil polluted and non-polluted farm-households. Poverty was higher in crude oil polluted farm-households.
Additional file 2: of Imaging glial activation in patients with post-treatment Lyme disease symptoms: a pilot study using [11C]DPA-713 PET
Creators: name: Coughlin, Jennifer
name: Yang, Ting
name: Rebman, Alison
name: Bechtold, Kathleen
name: Du, Yong
name: Mathews, William
name: Lesniak, Wojciech
name: Mihm, Erica
name: Frey, Sarah
name: Marshall, Erica
name: Rosenthal, Hailey
name: Reekie, Tristan
name: Kassiou, Michael
name: Dannals, Robert
name: Soloski, Mark
name: Aucott, John
name: Pomper, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Figure S2. Correlation matrix using [11C]DPA-713 binding data from the eight regions of interest. All correlation coefficients are greater than or equal to 0.97 (indicating very strong correlations). Abbreviations: cb, cerebellum; hp., hippocampus; oc, occipital cortex; fc, frontal cortex; pc, parietal cortex; th, thalamus, tc, temporal cortex; cc, cingulate cortex. (PDF 233 kb)
ON THE LIMIT OF BORDERS: MIGRATION UNDER THE GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIEW
Creators: name: AICHA DE ANDRADE QUINTERO EROUD
name: MANOELA MARLI JAQUEIRA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: O conceito de fronteiras, hodiernamente, ultrapassa a compreensão geográfica, rompendo com os antigos paradigmas correlatos à construção dos limites territoriais e da soberania estatal. Na Sociedade global contemporânea, o zelo pela prevalência dos Direitos Humanos e pelo desenvolvimento pacífico mundial com base na cooperação internacional, objetiva, principalmente, sólidas relações internacionais entre os Estados soberanos em nome do Bem Comum. Para tanto, com o fito de assegurar a pacificação e o bom relacionamento entre os Estados Soberanos, criou-se documentos internacionais, os quais vinculam os Estados Partes ao seu devido cumprimento. Com efeito, o acordo mútuo entre os países por meio da adesão de tratados ou convenções internacionais causa uma mitigação no conceito de soberania em nome da harmonização internacional e do desenvolvimento econômico, social e cultural mundial. Nesse cenário, as fronteiras geográficas se desvanecem aos poucos, permitindo maior conexão entre as pessoas de diferentes países, dando ênfase a mobilidade humana. [...]
FOOD PRICE INFLATION AND CONSUMER WELFARE IN GHANA
Creators: name: Osei-Asare, Yaw Bonsu
name: Eghan, Mark
name: Osei-Asare, Yaw Bonsu
name: Eghan, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Compensating variation
subject: Food price
subject: Inflation
subject: Welfare
subject: Elasticities

description: The paper analyses the effects of food price inflation on Ghanaian households using GLSS-5 household data. Expenditure endogeneity and truncated expenditures were controlled in the estimation process using the “Augmented Regression Approach” and Heckman’s two-stage procedure, respectively. Symmetry and homogeneity conditions were rejected in the unconstrained LA/AIDS model. The study reveals that cereals and bread; fish; vegetables; and roots and tubers will continue to constitute important share of Ghanaian food expenditure as they collectively constitute 67% of future food expenditure. Food price inflation between 2005 and 2011 has eroded real household food purchasing power by 47.18%.
Energy landscape of relaxed amorphous silicon
Creators: name: Valiquette, Francis
name: Mousseau, Normand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the structure of the energy landscape of a well-relaxed 1000-atom model of amorphous silicon using the activation-relaxation technique (ART nouveau). Generating more than 40,000 events starting from a single minimum, we find that activated mechanisms are local in nature, that they are distributed uniformly throughout the model and that the activation energy is limited by the cost of breaking one bond, independently of the complexity of the mechanism. The overall shape of the activation-energy-barrier distribution is also insensitive to the exact details of the configuration, indicating that well-relaxed configurations see essentially the same environment. These results underscore the localized nature of relaxation in this material.
description: 8 pages, 12 figures
MODELLING THE LESOTHO ECONOMY: A SOCIAL ACCOUNTING MATRIX APPROACH
Creators: name: Bahta, Yonas Tesfamariam
name: Bahta, Yonas Tesfamariam
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Political Economy
subject: SAM
subject: Lesotho economy
subject: Agricultural sector
subject: Multiplier analysis

description: Using a 2000 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Lesotho, this paper investigates the key features of the Lesotho economy and the role played by the agricultural sector. A novel feature of the SAM is the elaborate disaggregation of the agricultural sector into finer subcategories. The fundamental importance of agriculture development emerges clearly from a descriptive review and from SAM multiplier analysis. It is dominant with respect to income generation and value of production. It contributes 23 percent of gross domestic product and 12 percent of the total value of production. It employs 26 percent of labour and 24 percent of capital. The construction sector has the highest open SAM output multiplier (1,588) and SAM output multiplier (1.767). The household multipliers indicate that in the rural and urban areas, agriculture and mining respectively generate most household income. Agriculture has the highest employment coefficient. Agriculture and mining sectors also have the largest employment multipliers in Lesotho.
On definition of quantum tomography via the Sobolev embedding theorem
Creators: name: Amosov, G. G.
name: Korennoy, Ya. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81P16, 46E35

description: We obtain sufficient conditions on kernels of quantum states under which Wigner functions, optical quantum tomograms and linking their formulas are correctly defined. Our approach is based upon the Sobolev embedding theorem. The transition probability formula and the fractional Fourier transform are discussed in this framework.
description: 10 pages
title: Figures in Scientific Open Access Publications
Creators: name: Sohmen, Lucia
name: Charbonnier, Jean
name: Blümel, Ina
name: Wartena, Christian
name: Heller, Lambert
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: This paper summarizes the results of a comprehensive statistical analysis on a corpus of open access articles and contained figures. It gives an insight into quantitative relationships between illustrations or types of illustrations, caption lengths, subjects, publishers, author affiliations, article citations and others.
Rhoptromeris carinata Ionescu 1969
Creators: name: Costa Baião, Guilherme
name: Forshage, Mattias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Figitidae
Rhoptromeris
Rhoptromeris carinata

description: Rhoptromeris carinata Ionescu, 1969
 Diagnosis
Species known from female holotype, one paratype and two additional specimens, all deposited in MGAB. Body small, pale, stout, antennae and legs remarkably short. Globular head with broad genae. Anteroventral metapleural cavity present, posteroventral incision of metapleura absent. Elongate metasoma with lateral hairy ring. Holotype wings damaged, paratype wings missing.
 The stout body, short appendages and antennal characters suggest this species is most similar to Rhoptromeris heptoma or possibly a synonym of it. No specimens similar to the holotype were found among the material examined from Western and Northern Europe or from the Macaronesian islands. We suggest that the known individuals are either representatives of an eastern or rare species, or perhaps even aberrant specimens of R. heptoma.
 Distribution
All four known specimens were collected in Romania.
 Biology
 Rhoptromeris carinata is probably a parasitoid of Chloropidae, as are other known Rhoptromeris species.
description: Published as part of Costa Baião, Guilherme & Forshage, Mattias, 2018, Revision of the West Palaearctic species of Rhoptromeris Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae), pp. 1201-1224 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 52 (17 - 20) on page 1211, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1447154, http://zenodo.org/record/5174636
“DENY NOBODY”: THE CONDITION OF BLACK WOMAN IN THE CONTEMPORARY LABOR MARKET
Creators: name: LARYSSA FARIA
name: CAIO AUGUSTO SOUZA LARA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: O tema-problema da pesquisa que se pretende desenvolver é a situação da mulher negra no ramo laboral, desde o período escravocrata até à sociedade hodierna brasileira. A Constituição Federal de 1988 – norma de maior hierarquia no sistema jurídico brasileiro – assegura a todos os indivíduos à dignidade. Entretanto, a condição da mulher negra no mercado de trabalho contemporâneo reflete que esse direito não é resguardado a todos na prática. Logo, faz-se necessário analisar os fatores e efeitos dessa problemática complexa, mas não recente. Apesar de a Abolição da escravidão ter sido efetivada no papel, seus resquícios ainda refletem na sociedade contemporânea, visto que a condição degradante da mulher negra no mercado de trabalho hodierno enfrenta diversos desafios, como o machismo, o racismo e a falta de oportunidades nos ramos educacionais e trabalhistas. [...]
Structure of baryons in a relativistic quark model
Creators: name: Metsch, Bernard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Baryonic excitation spectra, electroweak and strong decay properties are discussed within a relativistically covariant constituent quark model based on the instantaneous approximation to the three-body Bethe-Salpeter equation.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, Contribution to the Proceedings of the 17th International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Durham, North Carolina, USA, 5-10 June 2003
Analysis of food prices in Uzbekistan (2002-2010)
Creators: name: Mori-Clement, Yadira
name: Bhaduri, Anik
name: Djanibekov, Nodir
name: Mori-Clement, Yadira
name: Bhaduri, Anik
name: Djanibekov, Nodir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Price analysis
subject: ARIMA models with exogenous variables
subject: Price volatility
subject: World-price transmission

description: This study identifies the main determinants of food price fluctuations in Uzbekistan with a focus on the Khorezm region. We investigate the price behavior of ten agricultural commodities using the weekly data collected from local markets in the Khorezm region during 2002-2010. For the analysis, we used Autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models with exogenous variables such as water inflow, oil prices and international prices of selected commodities imported to Uzbekistan such as rice and wheat, and market exchange rate. The results show two general patterns of agricultural price fluctuations...
Empirical Analysis of Biomass and Energy Price Volatility
Creators: name: Kristöfel, Christa
name: Morawetz, Ulrich
name: Schmid, Erwin
name: Strasser, Christoph
name: Kristöfel, Christa
name: Morawetz, Ulrich
name: Schmid, Erwin
name: Strasser, Christoph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Price volatility
subject: woody biomass
subject: energy market

description: The current debate on biomass price volatility mainly refers to increased market dynamics and integration as well as renewable energy policy intervention. Higher price volatility leads to additional costs that are often shared and transmitted along the supply chain to the final consumers. We empirically analyze whether or not price volatility of woody biomass commodities has increased in recent years. Results indicate that the price volatility of some woody biomass commodities has increased, but it is still lower than of fossil fuels.
Additional figures and tables from Sex-dependent differences in central artery haemodynamics in normal and fibulin-5-deficient mice: implications for ageing
Creators: name: Cuomo, Federica
name: Ferruzzi, Jacopo
name: Agarwal, Pradyumn
name: Li, Chen
name: Zhuang, Zhen W.
name: Humphrey, Jay D.
name: Figueroa, C. Alberto
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018

description: This document contains additional figures and tables reporting tissue properties values, external tissue support parameters, separation of total resistances and compliances into central and peripheral components, pressure and diameters values. Our observations regarding the effects of structural stiffness heterogeneity on Pulse Wave Velocity are also reported.
Semiconductive and Photoconductive Properties of the Single Molecule Magnets Mn$_{12}$-Acetate and Fe$_8$Br$_8$
Creators: name: North, J. M.
name: Zipse, D.
name: Dalal, N. S.
name: Choi, E. S.
name: Jobiliong, E.
name: Brooks, J. S.
name: Eaton, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resistivity measurements are reported for single crystals of Mn$_{12}$-Acetate and Fe$_8$Br$_8$. Both materials exhibit a semiconductor-like, thermally activated behavior over the 200-300 K range. The activation energy, $E_a$, obtained for Mn$_{12}$-Acetate was 0.37 $\pm$ 0.05 eV, which is to be contrasted with the value of 0.55 eV deduced from the earlier reported absorption edge measurements and the range of 0.3-1 eV from intramolecular density of states calculations, assuming $2E_a$= $E_g$, the optical band gap. For Fe$_8$Br$_8$, $E_a$ was measured as 0.73 $\pm$ 0.1 eV, and is discussed in light of the available approximate band structure calculations. Some plausible pathways are indicated based on the crystal structures of both lattices. For Mn$_{12}$-Acetate, we also measured photoconductivity in the visible range; the conductivity increased by a factor of about eight on increasing the photon energy from 632.8 nm (red) to 488 nm (blue). X-ray irradiation increased the resistivity, but $E_a$ was insensitive to exposure.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
Rhoptromeris heptoma
Creators: name: Costa Baião, Guilherme
name: Forshage, Mattias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Figitidae
Rhoptromeris
Rhoptromeris heptoma

description: Rhoptromeris heptoma (Hartig, 1840)
(Figure 5a,b)
 Diagnosis
Common species easily identified by the enlarged femora in the fore and middle legs and by antennal characters.
 Redescription
Compound eyes relatively small. Male antennae dark, flagellomeres stout, F2 strongly enlarged and clearly longer than F1. Female antennae with F1 subequal to F2 and F3 subequal to F4, the first pair longer than the second. Pre club flagellomeres yellow or light brown, club distinct, 7-segmented, flagellomeres dark. Pronotal fovea separated by a medial bridge. Scutellar dorsal surface weakly sculptured. Anteroventral cavity of metapleura present, posterior incision of metapleura absent. Legs rather short, femora of fore and middle legs expanded. Wings relatively narrow.
 Distribution
Very widespread species. Records listed here follow Fauna Europaea, Nordlander (1978) and Quinlan (1986) (African records), with additions by the authors. AFRICA: Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa. ASIA: China. EUROPE: Austria, British Islands, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy (including Sardinia), Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (uncertain: ‘USSR’ records), Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine.
 Biology
 Rhoptromeris heptoma is one of the main parasitoids of the agricultural pest Oscinella frit (Linnaeus, 1758). Details about the interaction of R. heptoma with its host are given by Nordlander (1978). The species is readily collected in grassy areas (Nordlander 1978).
description: Published as part of Costa Baião, Guilherme & Forshage, Mattias, 2018, Revision of the West Palaearctic species of Rhoptromeris Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae), pp. 1201-1224 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 52 (17 - 20) on page 1214, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1447154, http://zenodo.org/record/5174636
Coffee Innovation Systems in Ethiopia and Rwanda
Creators: name: Mequaninte, Teferi
name: Müller, Ulrike
name: Mequaninte, Teferi
name: Müller, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Networks
subject: Knowledge management
subject: Innovations
subject: Ethiopia
subject: Rwanda

description: We use Social Network Analysis (SNA) to investigate the networking and knowledge management in the coffee value chain in Ethiopian and Rwanda and its applicability to the agricultural innovation system (AIS). The AIS aims at putting farmers at the center of the knowledge management and innovation system. Results of the SNA show that farmers from both Ethiopia and Rwanda are not at the center of the innovation system. In the Ethiopian coffee value chain, cooperatives are at the center of the knowledge management and innovation system. In Rwanda, NGOs play a central role in the knowledge management...
Inflation and Braneworlds
Creators: name: Lidsey, James E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An introductory review of the Randall-Sundrum type II braneworld scenario is presented, with emphasis on the relationship between the density and gravitational wave perturbations that are generated during inflation. The implications of relaxing the reflection symmetry in the fifth dimension are considered. The effects of including a Gauss-Bonnet combination of higher-order curvature invariants in the bulk action are briefly discussed.
description: 24 pages, 2 figures. Invited plenary talk presented at the Fifth Mexican School of Gravitation and Mathematical Physics: The Early Universe and Observational Cosmology, Nov 2002