cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Impacts of the Hutan Kamasyarakatan Social Forestry Program in the Sumberjaya Watershed, West Lampung District of Sumatra, Indonesia
Creators: name: Pender, John L.
name: Suyanto, S.
name: Kerr, John M.
name: Kato, Edward
name: Pender, John L.
name: Suyanto, S.
name: Kerr, John M.
name: Kato, Edward
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: rewards for environmental services
subject: land tenure contracts
subject: social forestry
subject: Indonesia
subject: impact assessment

description: This paper investigates the impacts of a social forestry program in Indonesia, Hutan Kamasyarakatan (HKm), based on analysis of a survey of 640 HKm and comparable non-HKm plots in the Sumberjaya watershed of southern Sumatra, and of the households operating those plots. The HKm program provides groups of farmers with secure-tenure permits to continue farming on state Protection Forest land and in exchange for protecting remaining natural forestland, planting multistrata agroforests, and using recommended soil and water conservation (SWC) measures on their coffee plantations. Using farmers’ perceptions, econometric techniques, and propensity score matching, we investigated the impacts of the HKm program on perceived land tenure security, land purchase prices, farmers’ investments in tree planting and SWC measures, and plot-level profits. A significant fraction of HKm group members are not aware of the program or fully aware of its requirements. Although farmers who are aware of the program perceive its strong effects on tenure security and land values, we found insignificant impacts on the actual purchase prices of plots. Nevertheless, our survey revealed that the HKm program has contributed to increased planting of timber and multipurpose trees. We did not find significant impacts on investments in SWC measures or on soil fertility management practices. HKm has had mixed impacts on profits, with timber trees reducing profitability because timber harvesting is not allowed and multipurpose nontimber trees contributing to increased profits. The policy implications of these findings are also discussed in the paper.
Finance and Cluster-Based Industrial Development in China
Creators: name: Ruan, Jianqing
name: Zhang, Xiaobo
name: Ruan, Jianqing
name: Zhang, Xiaobo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: industrialization
subject: cluster
subject: finance
subject: China
subject: growth

description: The traditional literature emphasizes the causal role of finance in promoting industrial growth. China’s rapid industrialization over the past several decades, which has occurred in the absence of well-functioning financial markets, seems to defy the conventional wisdom. By studying a cashmere sweater cluster in China, this paper argues that rural industrial clustering, as a new business model, lowers the entry barriers of initial capital investment through the division of labor. Within these clusters, enterprises can often acquire trade credits from upstream or downstream firms and obtain informal financing from friends and relatives, and use these funds to mitigate constraints of working capital. These findings help explain China’s rapid industrialization in the absence of an efficient financial market.
Avalanches and Self-Organized Criticality in Superconductors
Creators: name: Wijngaarden, Rinke J.
name: Welling, Marco S.
name: Aegerter, Christof M.
name: Menghini, Mariela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the use of superconductors as a playground for the experimental study of front roughening and avalanches. Using the magneto-optical technique, the spatial distribution of the vortex density in the sample is monitored as a function of time. The roughness and growth exponents corresponding to the vortex landscape are determined and compared to the exponents that characterize the avalanches in the framework of Self-Organized Criticality. For those situations where a thermo-magnetic instability arises, an analytical non-linear and non-local model is discussed, which is found to be consistent to great detail with the experimental results. On anisotropic substrates, the anisotropy regularizes the avalanches.
Introducing a Genetically Modified Banana in Uganda: Social Benefits, Costs, and Consumer Perceptions
Creators: name: Kikulwe, Enoch M.
name: Wesseler, Justus
name: Falck-Zepeda, Jose Benjamin
name: Kikulwe, Enoch M.
name: Wesseler, Justus
name: Falck-Zepeda, Jose Benjamin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: GM banana
subject: real option
subject: choice experiment
subject: biosafety
subject: MISTICs
subject: Uganda

description: Banana is a staple crop consumed by Ugandan households. The Uganda National Agricultural Research Organization has implemented conventional and biotechnology programs that seek improving bananas and address the crop’s most important pest and disease problems. A major thrust is the development of genetically modified (GM) bananas. The purpose of this paper is to examine potential social welfare impacts of adopting a GM banana in Uganda. The study has three objectives. First, suggest and apply an approach to calculate reversible and irreversible benefits and costs of introducing a GM banana. The study applies a real option approach to estimate, ex ante, the maximum incremental social tolerable irreversible costs (MISTICs) that would justify immediate introduction of the technology. Second, suggest an approach for assessing producer/consumer preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for introducing a GM banana. Finally, the paper discusses main implications for biosafety decision making for GM crops in Uganda. Results of MISTICs estimation for different scenarios indicate that in delaying the approval of a GM banana, Uganda foregoes potential annual benefits ranging approximately from US$179 million to US$365 million. Average annual MISTICs per household vary between US$34 and US$ 69. Results indicate that only if the average household is willing to give up at least US$38 per year to avoid introduction of a GM banana, should postponing an immediate release be considered. Results imply that although GM bananas promise vast benefits, realization of those benefits depends on consumers’ perceptions and attitudes and the willingness to pay for the GM technology.
The Core of $^{25}$F in the Rotational Model
Creators: name: Macchiavelli, A. O.
name: Clark, R. M.
name: Crawford, H. L.
name: Fallon, P.
name: Lee, I. Y.
name: Morse, C.
name: Campbell, C. M.
name: Cromaz, M.
name: Santamaria, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent experiment, carried out at RIBF/RIKEN, the $^{25}$F$(p,2p)$$^{24}$O reaction was studied at 270 MeV/A in inverse kinematics. Derived spectroscopic factors suggest that the effective core of $^{25}$F significantly differs from a free $^{24}$O nucleus. We interpret these results within the Particle-Rotor Model and show that the experimental level scheme of $^{25}$F can be understood in the rotation-aligned coupling scheme, with its $5/2^+_1$ ground state as the band-head of a decoupled band. The excitation energies of the observed $1/2_1^+$ and $9/2_1^+$ states correlate strongly with the rotational energy of the effective core, seen by the odd proton, and allow us to estimate its $2^+$ energy at $\approx$ 3.2 MeV and a moderate quadrupole deformation, $ε_2 \approx 0.15$. The measured fragmentation of the $πd_{5/2}$ single-particle strength is discussed and some further experiments suggested.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Physical Review C
Large time behaviour of solutions of a system of generalized Burgers equation
Creators: name: Joseph, K T
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B40; 35L60

description: In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of solutions of a system of $N$ partial differential equations. When $N = 1$ the equation reduces to the Burgers equation and was studied by Hopf. We consider both the inviscid and viscous case and show a new feature in the asymptotic behaviour.
description: 9 pages
Global Macroeconomic Developments and Poverty
Creators: name: Bonilla, Eugenio Diaz
name: Bonilla, Eugenio Diaz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: macroeconomics
subject: poverty
subject: development
subject: agriculture

description: In the second half of the 1990s, a series of developments led to a renewed academic and policy interest in the intersection of macroeconomic policy and poverty issues in developing countries. The focus of that work was domestic macroeconomic policies. This paper, however, focuses on the international dimension and discusses the links between global macroeconomic conditions and poverty in developing countries since the 1960s. Of course, when analyzing policy impacts, both domestic and international aspects must be considered. However, debates about domestic policies, macro or otherwise, and their impacts on poverty cannot provide an accurate analysis of developing countries’ alternatives and predicaments if they ignore the role, in many cases overwhelming, of external factors. That is the story this paper tries to tell. The objectives here are to present an overview of trends and cycles in the world economy, to summarize the events of the last half century in view of the current concerns about the likely economic slowdown in the United States and other industrialized economies, and to assess the possible repercussions on the rest of the world. The hope is that the paper will serve as background material for developing countries to better characterize potential scenarios and properly define policy options for the coming years, which look like they will be far less benign than the recent past.
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of the impact of breastfeeding support groups in primary health CENTRES in Andalusia, Spain: a study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial (GALMA project)
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Gallego Isabel
name: Fatima, Leon-Larios
name: Ruiz-Ferron Cecilia
name: Lomas-Campos Maria-De-Las-Mercedes
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Appendix A. Spirit Statement Checklist.
Protocol for universal gates in optimally biased superconducting qubits
Creators: name: Rigetti, Chad
name: Devoret, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new experimental protocol for performing universal gates in a register of superconducting qubits coupled by fixed on-chip linear reactances. The qubits have fixed, detuned Larmor frequencies and can remain, during the entire gate operation, biased at their optimal working point where decoherence due to fluctuations in control parameters is suppressed to first order. Two-qubit gates are performed by simultaneously irradiating two qubits at their respective Larmor frequencies with appropriate amplitude and phase, while one-qubit gates are performed by the usual single-qubit irradiation pulses.
Gravitational positivity bounds
Creators: name: Tokuda, Junsei
name: Aoki, Katsuki
name: Hirano, Shin'ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the validity of positivity bounds in the presence of a massless graviton, assuming the Regge behavior of the amplitude. Under this assumption, the problematic $t$-channel pole is canceled with the UV integral of the imaginary part of the amplitude in the dispersion relation, which gives rise to finite corrections to the positivity bounds. We find that low-energy effective field theories (EFT) with "wrong" sign are generically allowed. The allowed amount of the positivity violation is determined by the Regge behavior. This violation is suppressed by $M_{\rm pl}^{-2}α'$ where $α'$ is the scale of Reggeization. This implies that the positivity bounds can be applied only when the cutoff scale of EFT is much lower than the scale of Reggeization. We then obtain the positivity bounds on scalar-tensor EFT at one-loop level. Implications of our results on the degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor (DHOST) theory are also discussed.
description: figures and references added, typos and eqs. (4.31) (4.33) corrected, improved explanations
Additional file 5 of Fibroblast growth factor (FGF), FGF receptor (FGFR), and cyclin D1 (CCND1) DNA methylation in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas is associated with transcriptional activity, gene amplification, human papillomavirus (HPV) status, and sensitivity to tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Creators: name: Bao, Yilin
name: Gabrielpillai, Jennis
name: Dietrich, Jörn
name: Zarbl, Romina
name: Strieth, Sebastian
name: Schröck, Friederike
name: Dietrich, Dimo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Fig. S3. This figure illustrates correlation and association of FGF19, FGF4, and FGF3 DNA methylation with mRNA expression, HPV status, copy number variation, and sensitivity to the FGFR-targeted TKIs PD 173074 and AZD4547. Exemplarily, results of 11 selected CpG sites within FGF19, FGF4; and FGF3 are illustrated.
Additional file 1 of Effectiveness of exergames for improving mobility and balance in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pacheco, T. B. F.
name: C. S. P. De Medeiros
name: V. H. B. De Oliveira
name: E. R. Vieira
name: F. A. C. De Cavalcanti
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) 2009 checklist.
Quantum measurement act as a "speech act"
Creators: name: Schneider, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I show that the quantum measurement problem can be understood if the measurement is seen as a ``speech act'' in the sense of modern language theory. The reduction of the state vector is in this perspective an intersubjectice -- or better a-subjective -- symbolic process. I then give some perspectives on applications to the ``Mind-Body problem''.
description: submitted to "Endophysics, Time, Quantum and the Subjective,", R. Buccheri, A.C. Elitzur and M. Saniga (eds.), World Scientific
Marriage Behavior Response to Prime-Age Adult Mortality: Evidence from Malawi
Creators: name: Ueyama, Mika
name: Yamauchi, Futoshi
name: Ueyama, Mika
name: Yamauchi, Futoshi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: HIV/AIDS
subject: marriage
subject: sexual behavior
subject: Malawi

description: This paper examines the effect of AIDS-related mortality of the prime-age adult population on marriage behavior among women in Malawi. A rise in prime-age adult mortality increases risks associated with the search for a marriage partner in the marriage market. A possible behavioral change in the marriage market in response to an increase in prime-age adult mortality is for marriage to occur earlier to avoid women’s exposure to HIV/AIDS risks under the condition that the risks are higher during singlehood. We test this hypothesis using micro data from Malawi, where prime-age adult mortality has drastically increased. In the analysis, we estimate prime-age adult mortality that sample women have observed during the adolescent period by utilizing retrospective information on the death of their siblings. Empirical analysis shows that excess prime-age adult mortality observed in the local marriage market (district) lowers the marriage age for females and reduces their premarital sexual activities. Since a lower age for first marriage implies less schooling completed, we expect that the average schooling achievement among women would decline. This behavioral change also implies a longer reproduction period during their marriage, which may lead to a higher fertility rate. However, the second implication should be discounted if the reduction of sexual activities also applies to the married population. Lower schooling attainment among women has further implications on human capital formation in the next generation.
A Linear Mixed Model Formulation for Spatio-Temporal Random Processes with Computational Advances for the Separable and Product-Sum Covariances
Creators: name: Dumelle, Michael
name: Hoef, Jay M. Ver
name: Fuentes, Claudio
name: Gitelman, Alix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe spatio-temporal random processes using linear mixed models. We show how many commonly used models can be viewed as special cases of this general framework and pay close attention to models with separable or product-sum covariances. The proposed linear mixed model formulation facilitates the implementation of a novel algorithm using Stegle eigendecompositions, a recursive application of the Sherman-Morrison-Woodbury formula, and Helmert-Wolf blocking to efficiently invert separable and product-sum covariance matrices, even when every spatial location is not observed at every time point. We show our algorithm provides noticeable improvements over the standard Cholesky decomposition approach. Via simulations, we assess the performance of the separable and product-sum covariances and identify scenarios where separable covariances are noticeably inferior to product-sum covariances. We also compare likelihood-based and semivariogram-based estimation and discuss benefits and drawbacks of both. We use the proposed approach to analyze daily maximum temperature data in Oregon, USA, during the 2019 summer. We end by offering guidelines for choosing among these covariances and estimation methods based on properties of observed data.
description: 43 pages (including an Appendix) and 8 figures
Farmers’ acceptance of further strengthening of private certification systems
Creators: name: Mondelaers, Koen
name: Garreyn, F.
name: Steurbaut, W.
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
name: Mondelaers, Koen
name: Garreyn, F.
name: Steurbaut, W.
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: choice preference
subject: pesticides
subject: certification

description: In their continuous quest for ecologic improvements, private voluntary certification initiatives might undermine the willingness to continue of the participating farmers. In this research, the ecologic contribution and the farmers’ acceptance of changing the pesticide policy of a private certification initiative is presented. To measure the perceived farmers’ disutility, the choice preference technique is used. We can conclude that there is room for ecologic improvements but that farmers are in general change averse, primarily because of the fear that price compensation will remain largely absent.
Additional file 6 of Fibroblast growth factor (FGF), FGF receptor (FGFR), and cyclin D1 (CCND1) DNA methylation in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas is associated with transcriptional activity, gene amplification, human papillomavirus (HPV) status, and sensitivity to tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Creators: name: Bao, Yilin
name: Gabrielpillai, Jennis
name: Dietrich, Jörn
name: Zarbl, Romina
name: Strieth, Sebastian
name: Schröck, Friederike
name: Dietrich, Dimo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Fig. S4. This figure illustrates correlation and association of FGF5 DNA methylation with mRNA expression, HPV status, copy number variation, and sensitivity to the FGFR-targeted TKIs PD 173074 and AZD4547. Exemplarily, results of three selected CpG sites within FGF5 are illustrated.
The $\hat W$-orbit of $ρ$, Kostant's formula for powers of the Euler product and affine Weyl groups as permutations of Z
Creators: name: Cellini, Paola
name: Frajria, Pierluigi Moseneder
name: Papi, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let an affine Weyl group $\hat W$ act as a group of affine transformations on a real vector space V. We analyze the $\hat W$-orbit of a regular element in V and deduce applications to Kostant's formula for powers of the Euler product and to the representations of $\hat W$ as permutations of the integers.
description: Latex, 27 pages, minor corrections, to appear in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
Additional file 7 of Fibroblast growth factor (FGF), FGF receptor (FGFR), and cyclin D1 (CCND1) DNA methylation in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas is associated with transcriptional activity, gene amplification, human papillomavirus (HPV) status, and sensitivity to tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Creators: name: Bao, Yilin
name: Gabrielpillai, Jennis
name: Dietrich, Jörn
name: Zarbl, Romina
name: Strieth, Sebastian
name: Schröck, Friederike
name: Dietrich, Dimo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Fig. S5. This figure illustrates correlation and association of FGF23 and FGF6 DNA methylation with mRNA expression, HPV status, copy number variation, and sensitivity to the FGFR-targeted TKIs PD 173074 and AZD4547. Exemplarily, results of five selected CpG sites within FGF23 and FGF6 are illustrated.
FATORES RELEVANTES NA DECISÃO DE COMPRA DE FRANGO CAIPIRA E SEU IMPACTO NA CADEIA PRODUTIVA
Creators: name: Crabone, Gleriani Torres
name: Moori, Roberto Giro
name: Sato, Geni Satiko
name: Crabone, Gleriani Torres
name: Moori, Roberto Giro
name: Sato, Geni Satiko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: organic chicken
subject: agribusiness
subject: production chain.

description: Consumers’ attitude about health, food safety and the environment has increased the demand for organic food products such as meat, chicken and others. The purpose of this exploratory research was to identify the relevant factors for organic chicken purchase decision. A survey with 110 consumers from São Paulo city and others cities in the state of São Paulo was conducted. We performed a descriptive analysis as well an inferential (Mann-Whitney U e de Kruskal-Wallis tests) and multivariate (factorial) analysis. The results indicate two relevant factors: (1) the conduction of chicken growing (2) label certification and brand. These results varied depending on variables such as region, age, education level and household income. For consumers committed to antibiotic-free chicken, the organic chicken is an option to the conventional chicken.
Chadbschaba, Bar: Geschichte der um der Wahrheit willen verfolgen Väter
Creators: name: Quecke, Hans
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 47 (1963): Oriens christianus, Band 47
title: Assessment of the Effects of Macroprudential Tightening in Canada
Creators: name: Kuncl, Martin
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2016

description: During the period of 2008 to 2012, the rules for government-backed mortgage insurance were tightened on four occasions. In this note, we estimate the effects through a simple econometric exercise using a vector error-correction model (VECM). Both a descriptive analysis of the raw data and an event-study analysis based on the output from the VECM suggest that while the tightening of the mortgage rules contributed to slower growth of both credit and residential investment, the effects were not always immediate. In some episodes, a tightening was followed by a temporary increase in residential mortgage credit growth (a finding that persists even after controlling for other events in the economy), possibly in anticipation of additional tightenings. In the long run, however, the residential mortgage growth rate was reduced. The consequences of rule changes were more persistent for residential mortgage growth than for the more volatile residential investment growth.
description: Entre 2008 et 2012, les règles applicables à l’assurance hypothécaire garantie par l’État ont été durcies quatre fois. Dans la présente note, nous analysons les effets de ce resserrement, dans le cadre d’une simulation économétrique réalisée au moyen d’un modèle vectoriel à correction d’erreurs (MVCE). Tout comme l’analyse descriptive des données brutes, l’analyse de l’étude événementielle fondée sur les résultats du modèle indique que les effets n’ont pas toujours été immédiats, bien que les durcissements successifs aient contribué au ralentissement de la croissance du crédit à l’habitation et de l’investissement résidentiel. Ils ont donné lieu dans certains cas à une hausse temporaire du crédit hypothécaire à l’habitation, un effet qui persiste même après la prise en compte d’autres phénomènes conjoncturels et qui est probablement causée par une réaction aux autres resserrements anticipés. Cependant, à long terme, le rythme de croissance du crédit hypothécaire a fini par baisser. Les conséquences des modifications apportées se sont fait sentir plus longtemps sur la croissance du crédit hypothécaire à l’habitation que sur la croissance de l’investissement résidentiel, plus volatile.
Generalised 3D-reconstruction method of a dipole anisotropy in cosmic-ray distributions
Creators: name: Aublin, J.
name: Parizot, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a method to study the anisotropy of a cosmic-ray angular distribution, using both the right ascension and the declination of the arrival directions. It generalises the full-sky coverage method of Sommers (2001) to partial-sky coverage experiments. When the angular distribution consists of a dipolar modulation of an otherwise isotropic flux, the method allows one to reconstruct the dipole amplitude and the dipole orientation in 3D space. We analyse in detail the statistical properties of the method, introducing the concept of reconstruction power, and show that it is generally more powerful than the standard Rayleigh analysis in right ascension. We clarify the link between the traditionally-used first harmonic amplitude and the true, physical dipole amplitude, and we investigate the variation of the reconstruction powers as a function of the dipole orientation. We illustrate the method by computing the amplitude and angular reconstruction powers of the Pierre Auger Observatory, with the Southern site alone and with both Southern and Northern sites. In this particular case, we find that the building of a similar site in the Northern hemisphere would decrease the time needed for the method to reveal a significant departure from an isotropic cosmic-ray distribution by a factor of about eight.
description: 9 pages, 10 figure, accepted for publication in A&A
XENON1T excess in local $Z_2$ DM models with light dark sector
Creators: name: Baek, Seungwon
name: Kim, Jongkuk
name: Ko, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently XENON1T Collaboration announced that they observed some excess in the electron recoil energy around a 2-3 keV. We show that this excess can be interpreted as exothermic scattering of excited dark matter (XDM), $XDM + e_{atomic} \rightarrow DM + e_{free}$ on atomic electron through dark photon exchange. We consider DM models with local dark $U(1)$ gauge symmetry that is spontaneously broken into its $Z_2$ subgroup by Krauss-Wilczek mechanism. In order to explain the XENON1T excess with the correct DM thermal relic density within freeze-out scenario, all the particles in the dark sector should be light enough, namely $\sim O(100)$ MeV for scalar DM and $\sim O(1-10)$ MeV for fermion DM cases. And even lighter dark Higgs $ϕ$ plays an important role in the DM relic density calculation: $X X^\dagger \rightarrow Z' ϕ$ for scalar DM ($X$) and $χ\barχ \rightarrow ϕϕ$for fermion DM ($χ$) assuming $m_{Z'} > m_χ$. Both of them are in the $p$-wave annihilation, and one can easily evade stringent bounds from Planck data on CMB on the $s$-wave annihilations, assuming other dangerous $s$-wave annihilations are kinematically forbidden.
description: References and a plot updated. Additional discussions on Neff
شبهة إباحة الاغتيالات لدى الجماعات الإسلامية ‏المتطرفة.
Creators: name: Bellil, Abdelkarim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 220403 Islamic Studies
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: المجتمعون ، جاؤوا إلى المجتمعين ، جاؤوا إلى المجتمعين ، جاؤوا من المجتمعين ، نشر ثقافة القتل ، والجماعة دون الرجوع للأئمة الدين فيها ، بل غرتهم حميتهم و استبدادهم بآرائهم ؛ حتى بلغ جرمهم ، في شروط الأحكام ، شروط الأحكام.
Terminology Services 4 NFDI (TS4NFDI) - Initialisation Phase Proposal
Creators: name: Koepler, Oliver
name: Sasse, Julia
name: Karam, Naouel
name: Baum, Roman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ontology
subject: Semantic web

description: Terminologies play a critical role in semantically linking research data management (RDM) across disciplines. They provide the basis for consensus definitions of entities, thereby ensuring conceptual alignment, even when the nomenclature differs between domains. The use of standardised terminologies promotes interoperability and data integration, as data described through common terminologies can be understood and used across different sources and disciplines significantly improving their reusability. Currently, NFDI consortia are working with terminologies at different stages of maturity and FAIRness. Terminologies are used in various services and tools to annotate and link research. To support these tasks, several terminology services (TSs) have been developed to publish, provide, describe, and curate terminologies.Their alignment, management, curation, and further development are challenging but necessary tasks. They involve consensus building and harmonisation across disciplines. The envisaged Terminology Services 4 NFDI (TS4NFDI) aims to standardise and harmonise terminology management within the NFDI, thereby facilitating consensus-building and interoperability of services across disciplines to achieve a shared knowledge representation and knowledge engineering framework. The service seeks to integrate and converge individual solutions into a standardised, interoperable, and sustainable service suite with Service Wrapper, API Gateway, mapping service, and re-usable GUI widgets.
Additional file 1 of Child abuse in the West Bank of the occupied Palestinian territory (WB/oPt): social and political determinants
Creators: name: Harsha, Nouh
name: Lynch, Margaret A.
name: Giacaman, Rita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Index 1. Physical and emotional child abuse questions (adapted from ICAST-P questionnaire).
O PAPEL DAS ALIANÇAS ESTRATÉGICAS NA COMPETITIVIDADE DAS COOPERATIVAS DE LEITE
Creators: name: Souza, Dercio Bernardes De
name: Baldin, Celia
name: Souza, Dercio Bernardes De
name: Baldin, Celia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: milk chain
subject: milk cooperatives
subject: strategic associations

description: The present article aimed at analyzing some characteristics of the milk cooperatives from Brazil, as well as to show the competitive difficulties faced by this part of the milk chain. Therefore, it was necessary to investigate the bases that contributed to the formation of the current competitive environment in which such milk chain is inserted. Thus, it is observed that the market has become dynamic, complex and challenging, demanding quick responses from the companies in what concerns the new tendencies. Based on such new tendencies a conceptual theoretical discussion of several authors found in the literature was carried out in this study in order to incorporate key-elements that could configure an appropriate analysis of the mentioned issue. By admitting such analysis, it was possible to verify the difficulties faced by the milk cooperatives in the sense of meeting certain minimum requirements of competitiveness. The adoption of strategic associations among milk cooperatives in order to assure a better competitive performance was a solution suggested for such problem.
The outside-in formation of elliptical galaxies
Creators: name: Pipino, Antonio
name: Matteucci, Francesca
name: Chiappini, Cristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we compare the predictions of a detailed multi-zone chemical evolution model for elliptical galaxies with the very recent observations of the galaxy NGC 4697. As a consequence of the earlier development of the wind in the outer regions with respect to the inner ones, we predict an increase of the mean stellar [] ratio with radius, in very good agreement with the data for NGC4697. This finding strongly supports the proposed outside-in formation scenario for ellipticals. We show that, in spite of the good agreement found for the [] ratio, the predicted slope of the mass-weighted metallicity gradient does not reproduce the one derived from observations, once a calibration to convert indices into abundances is applied. This is explained as the consequence of the different behaviour with metallicity of the line-strength indices as predicted by a Single Stellar Population (SSP) and those derived by averaging over a Composite Stellar Population (CSP). In order to better address this issue, we calculate the theoretical ``G-dwarf'' distributions of stars as functions of both metallicity ([Z/H]) and [Fe/H], showing that they are broad and asymmetric that a SSP cannot correctly mimick the mixture of stellar populations at any given radius. We find that these distributions differ from the ``G-dwarf'' distributions especially at large radii,except for the one as a function of [Mg/Fe]. Therefore, we conclude that in ellipticals the [Mg/Fe] ratio is the most reliable quantity to be compared with observations and is the best estimator of the star formation timescale at each radius.(abridged)
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, ApJ accepted
Gene interactions during Neurospora development
Creators: name: Gavric, Olivera
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: There are more than 100 loci that encode products that can affect tip growth and branching in Neurospora crassa. In order to dissect the genetics of branching the functional relationship between 36 of those loci have been examined. By using epistasis analysis some of these genes were grouped into common developmental pathways. Double mutants were obtained through ascus analysis. In most cases double mutants show a phenotype more severe than either single mutant alone, indicating that each mutant probably affects separate pathways involved in hyphal tip growth and branching. Several double mutants were found to closely resemble one of the parental strains in hyphal morphology. This suggests both genes are part of a single developmental pathway, with the epistatic gene acting before the hypostatic one. However, about half of the double mutants obtained in this study did not fit the traditional view of epistasis. The presented analysis gave a provisional characterization of four pathways involved in tip growth and branching. In addition, all these morphogenes were phenotypicaly characterized and screened for their response to exogenous Ca²⁺ and Mn²⁺. Mutant phenotypes of snowflake, smco-1 and smco-6 were corrected to wild type phenotype either by addition of exogenous Ca²⁺ or Mn²⁺. Some mutants were partially corrected by only Ca²⁺ or Mn²⁺. Also, growth of several mutants was inhibited either by Ca²⁺ or Mn²⁺or both.
Modeling of Lifeline Infrastructure Restoration Using Empirical Quantitative Data
Creators: name: Martell, Matthew
name: Miles, Scott
name: Choe, Youngjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Disaster recovery is widely regarded as the least understood phase of the disaster cycle. In particular, the literature around lifeline infrastructure restoration modeling frequently mentions the lack of empirical quantitative data available. Despite limitations, there is a growing body of research on modeling lifeline infrastructure restoration, often developed using empirical quantitative data. This study reviews this body of literature and identifies the data collection and usage patterns present across modeling approaches to inform future efforts using empirical quantitative data. We classify the modeling approaches into simulation, optimization, and statistical modeling. The number of publications in this domain has increased over time with the most rapid growth of statistical modeling. Electricity infrastructure restoration is most frequently modeled, followed by the restoration of multiple infrastructures, water infrastructure, and transportation infrastructure. Interdependency between multiple infrastructures is increasingly considered in recent literature. Researchers gather the data from a variety of sources, including collaborations with utility companies, national databases, and post-event damage and restoration reports. This study provides discussion and recommendations around data usage practices within the lifeline restoration modeling field. Following the recommendations would facilitate the development of a community of practice around restoration modeling and provide greater opportunities for future data sharing.
description: 29 pages (42 including citations), 9 figures
On infinite walls in deformation quantization
Creators: name: Kryukov, S.
name: Walton, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the deformation quantization of a single particle moving in one dimension (i) in the presence of an infinite potential wall, (ii) confined by an infinite square well, and (iii) bound by a delta function potential energy. In deformation quantization, considered as an autonomous formulation of quantum mechanics, the Wigner function of stationary states must be found by solving the so-called $\*$-genvalue (``stargenvalue'') equation for the Hamiltonian. For the cases considered here, this pseudo-differential equation is difficult to solve directly, without an ad hoc modification of the potential. Here we treat the infinite wall as the limit of a solvable exponential potential. Before the limit is taken, the corresponding $\*$-genvalue equation involves the Wigner function at momenta translated by imaginary amounts. We show that it can be converted to a partial differential equation, however, with a well-defined limit. We demonstrate that the Wigner functions calculated from the standard Schrödinger wave functions satisfy the resulting new equation. Finally, we show how our results may be adapted to allow for the presence of another, non-singular part in the potential.
description: 22 pages, to appear in Annals of Physics
Additional file 2 of Child abuse in the West Bank of the occupied Palestinian territory (WB/oPt): social and political determinants
Creators: name: Harsha, Nouh
name: Lynch, Margaret A.
name: Giacaman, Rita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Index 2. Parental nurturing questions (developed by Samia Halileh, a senior Palestinian paediatrician, from her local research and practice).
Disorder Potentials near Lithographically Fabricated Atom Chips
Creators: name: Kruger, P.
name: Andersson, L. M.
name: Wildermuth, S.
name: Hofferberth, S.
name: Haller, E.
name: Aigner, S.
name: Groth, S.
name: Bar-Joseph, I.
name: Schmiedmayer, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that previously observed large disorder potentials in magnetic microtraps for neutral atoms are reduced by about two orders of magnitude when using atom chips with lithographically fabricated high quality gold layers. Using one dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates, we probe the remaining magnetic field variations at surface distances down to a few microns. Measurements on a 100 um wide wire imply that residual variations of the current flow result from local properties of the wire.
description: submitted on September 24th, 2004
Terminology Services 4 NFDI (TS4NFDI) - Integration Phase Proposal
Creators: name: Baum, Roman
name: Bailly, Kolja
name: Bouazzouni, Syphax
name: Fillies, Jan
name: Karam, Naouel
name: Mühlhaus, Timo
name: Posthumus, Etienne
name: Oladazimi, Pooya
name: Sasse, Julia
name: Voß, Jakob
name: Koepler, Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ontology
subject: Semantic web

description: Terminologies are essential for semantically linking research data across disciplines, ensuring conceptual alignment even with different nomenclatures. Standardised terminologies promote interoperability and data integration, making data understandable and reusable across various sources and fields. Terminologies are used in services and tools for annotating and linking research, necessitating the development of several terminology services (TSs) for publishing, describing, and curating terminologies. Aligning, managing, and developing these TSs is challenging but crucial for consensus building and harmonisation across disciplines. Terminology Services 4 NFDI (TS4NFDI) aims to standardise and harmonise terminology management within NFDI, facilitating consensus and interoperability across disciplines to achieve a shared knowledge representation framework. During the integration phase, we will consolidate the service design of the API Gateway, Service Wrappers, Mapping Service, and reusable GUI widgets. We will extend the coverage of disciplines and integrate additional terminology sources and services to meet the requirements gathered during the initialization phase.
Oxadiazoles for Covid-19?
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Covid-19
Oxadiazoles
Raltegravir
Celebrex
COX-2 inhibition
Oxolamine
Sars-cov-2
N-acetyl neuraminic acid
SARS-COV-2 spikes
Sialic acids
Pleconaril
Linoleic acid
Sialoquake
hydroxychloroquine
Sars-Cov

description: Oxadiazoles are a class of heterocyclic aromatic chemical compounds, having different isomeric forms. They appear in a variety of pharmaceutical drugs. Among the drugs based on the 1,3,4-oxadiazole ring, we find for instance an antiviral such as Raltegravir, which is used to treat HIV/AIDS. Here we will discuss Raltegravir and in-silico simulations concerning SARS-COV-2. Besides the compounds based on 1,3,4 rings, there exist those with 1,2,4-oxadiazole rings which are reported as anti-inflammatory and analgesic agents. One of these drugs is Oxolamine. Of this drug we will stress the fact that it is an inhibitor of the formation of N-acetylneuraminic acid, a sialic acid. Let us stress that the main target of SARS-COV-2 is considered the ACE2 receptor. Then, is the sialic acid supporting the virus to enter the cell? A study, 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00855, that used a glyco-nanoparticle platform, reported the discovery that N-acetyl neuraminic acid has affinity toward the SARS-COV-2 spike glycoprotein, that is a glycan-binding function. However, a recent study, 10.1016/j.scib.2021.01.010, which has investigated the binding of the spikes of the virus by means of micro-arrays, tells that no binding with sialic acid residues was detected. On 8 March 2021, a bioRxiv preprint 10.1101/2021.03.08.434228 has been published evidencing a sialic acid-dependent binding and viral entry of SARS-CoV-2. In any case, since the sialic acids have an antiviral protective role, it could be relevant to investigate carefully any ligand/protein docking property of Oxolamine (docking with human enzymes, virus enzymes and proteins). Based on the 1,2,4-oxadiazole scaffold, we have also the antiviral Pleconaril, that has been investigated by means of in-silico simulated interactions with SARS-COV-2 proteins. We will discuss also some news oxadiazole compounds, which are given as selective COX-2 inhibitors, antioxidant agents and inhibitors of proteins of the virus, according to in-silico simulations. Therefore, can these drugs have a possible role in the treatment of Covid-19? Or, why can't they be used for?
$e^{+}e^{-}$ pairs from a nuclear transition signaling an elusive light neutral boson
Creators: name: Krasznahorkay, A.
name: de Boer, F. W. N.
name: Csatlós, M.
name: Csige, L.
name: Gácsi, Z.
name: Gulyás, J.
name: Hunyadi, M.
name: Ketel, T. J.
name: van Klinken, J.
name: Krasznahorkay, A.
name: Vitéz, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron-positron pairs have been observed in the 10.95-MeV $0^-\to0^+$ decay in $^{16}$O. The branching ratio of the e$^+$e$^-$ pairs compared to the 3.84-MeV $0^-\to2^+$ $γ$ decay of the level is deduced to be $20(5)\times10^{-5}$. This magnetic monopole (M0) transition cannot proceed by $γ$-ray decay and is, to first order, forbidden for internal pair creation. However, the transition may also proceed by the emission of a light neutral $0^{-}$ or $1^{+}$ boson. Indeed, we do observe a sharp peak in the $e^{+}e^{-}$ angular correlation with all the characteristics belonging to the intermediate emission of such a boson with an invariant mass of 8.5(5) MeV/c$^2$. It may play a role in the current quest for light dark matter in the universe.
description: 6 pages
Dalglish, E. R.: Psalm Fifty-one in the Light of Ancient Near Eastern Patternism
Creators: name: Nötscher, F.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 47 (1963): Oriens christianus, Band 47