cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Degradação Ambiental nos Municípios do Rio Grande do Sul e Relação com os Fatores de Desenvolvimento Rural
Creators: name: Pinto, Nelson Guilherme Machado
name: Coronel, Daniel Arruda
name: Pinto, Nelson Guilherme Machado
name: Coronel, Daniel Arruda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural environmental degradation
subject: Rio Grande do Sul
subject: Rural development.

description: This study aimed to analyze the pattern of agricultural environmental degradation of the cities in Rio Grande do Sul State in Brazil and verify how this pattern is affected by the factors of rural development in these same cities in two different periods of time. In this sense, the methodology used was the Agricultural Environmental Degradation Index (IDAA) as a proxy for agricultural environmental degradation and the technique of factor analysis was used to find the determinants of rural development. In order to study the impact of these factors on agricultural environmental degradation of Rio Grande do Sul, a regression model with panel data was estimated by the method of Fixed Effects. The values of agricultural environmental degradation for the mesoregions in Rio Grande do Sul shown to be high and the central-eastern mesoregion presented the greatest degradation averages. In the relationship between IDAA and the factors, all coefficients were statistically significant. The factors Conditions of Housing and Rural Education, Leverage and Correction of Rural Production and Rural Electricity presented a positive relationship with degradation and Structure and Performance of the Agricultural Sector, Agricultural Production Area and Economic and Financial Rural showed a negative relationship. This aspect demonstrates divergent effects between the areas studied.
Mudanças Organizacionais em Empreendimentos de Agricultura Familiar a partir do Acesso ao Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar
Creators: name: Silva, Marcio Gomes
name: Dias, Marcelo Miná
name: Amorim Junior, Paulo Cesar Gomes
name: Silva, Marcio Gomes
name: Dias, Marcelo Miná
name: Amorim Junior, Paulo Cesar Gomes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Family farming
subject: Cooperatives
subject: Access to markets.

description: This paperwork examines the organizational changes that have occurred in the family farming enterprises from the county of Espera Feliz (Minas Gerais State) through the operationalization of actions of the Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (PNAE). The case of the Cooperativa da Agricultura Familiar e Solidária de Espera Feliz (Coofeliz), of Espera Feliz (Coofeliz), was analyzed from the economical sociology approach to identify and understand the changes that occur as more people participated in PNAE. The analysis allowed identifying processes of productive organization of the cooperative members and the cooperative management organization that were significantly affected by the set of rules and procedures established by the program. The institutional news promoted by the program influenced the emergence of organizational innovations, whose main example was the “Vale Solidário”, created to supply the payment for farmers due to the lack of working capital. The relationship established between cooperative members and the agents involved in the food acquisition process for school feeding allowed the creation of market standards closer to the family farmer’s reality. In the end, the accessibility to PNAE also caused changes in the cooperative members’ production head, in the sense of greater productive diversification, instead of the specialization focused in a commodity.
title: Professional registration and the discursive construction of social work students' identities
Creators: name: Wiles, Frances
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2011

description: My research is concerned with the development of social work students’ personal and professional identities in the light of policy changes introduced into social work education. Since April 2005, social work students have had to register with the General Social Care Council and ‘sign up to’ the Codes of Practice. The Codes specify that social workers must not ‘behave in a way, in work or outside work, which would call into question [their] suitability to work in social care services’. The research is of particular interest because the participants were among the first social work students to be registered; I hope that it will contribute to academic and professional debates. The study is informed by a poststructuralist approach to identity and discourse. I argue that social work education and professional registration are part of a regulatory discourse. The research questions explore some of the discursive resources that social work students draw on to construct their personal and professional identities. I begin by locating the study within contemporary debates in higher and professional education, and then review the literature about social work registration and its implications for students and social work education. These policy and educational developments are considered through the lens of poststructuralist concepts: discourse, power and subject positions; governmentality and resistance. Finally, my literature review explores some concepts of identity and professional identity. The empirical data is derived from seven semi-structured interviews with social work students. The transcripts were interrogated using a form of discourse analysis developed from the work of Potter and Wetherell (1987). The research findings suggest that this group of students see professional registration as an integral part of social work education and becoming qualified. Their talk indicates that registration brings students’ private lives into a more public domain than previously. However, the data suggests that social work education itself challenges and de-stabilises identity as students negotiate the boundary between being ‘unqualified’ and ‘professional’. So while registration does impact on how students behave and how they see themselves, this must be placed in the broader context of learning to be a professional social worker. The study concludes by considering the practical implications for social work education.
Análise de Cointegração com Threshold nos Mercados Exportadores de Mel Natural no Brasil
Creators: name: Costa Júnior, Manoel Pedro Da
name: Khan, Ahmad Saeed
name: Sousa, Eliane Pinheiro De
name: Lima, Patrícia Verônica Pinheiro Sales
name: Costa Júnior, Manoel Pedro Da
name: Khan, Ahmad Saeed
name: Sousa, Eliane Pinheiro De
name: Lima, Patrícia Verônica Pinheiro Sales
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Market integration
subject: Threshold cointegration
subject: Raw honey.

description: This study analyzes the spatial integration of exporting markets of raw honey in Brazil, taking into account the presence of transaction costs, since such costs may generate asymmetries in the relationships of prices among the markets under analysis. In order to achieve this goal, the analytical method of threshold cointegration by means of the estimation of the TAR and M-TAR models was used. The data were obtained in the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Commerce for the period from January 2002 to July 2011. The results indicate the presence of asymmetries in the transmission of the price established in the central market, represented by Rio Grande do Sul, and the other states under consideration. In addition, negative and low magnitude shocks were excluded differently from the positive shocks. Therefore, one may conclude that the transaction costs influence the spatial interaction among the markets.
Evolução da Ocupação e do Rendimento das Pessoas no Espaço Rural Brasileiro no Período de 2001 a 2009
Creators: name: Laurenti, Antonio Carlos
name: Pellini, Tiago
name: Telles, Tiago Santos
name: Laurenti, Antonio Carlos
name: Pellini, Tiago
name: Telles, Tiago Santos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural economically active population
subject: agricultural occupation
subject: off-agricultural occupation
subject: National Household Sample Survey
subject: Gini index.

description: In the last decade of the 20th century it was observed an increasing diversification in the composition of the agricultural occupation and a slow increasing of Brazilian rural population in productive age. The aim of this study was to report the main tendencies on occupation and income of population in the rural space of Brazil in the 2001-2009 period. From the data of National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) and based in a log-linear regression model, an analysis on variation in population, income, average income and Gini index was made. It was identified that, despite the continuous decline of the total economically active population (EAP) occupied in the mercantile agriculture, the Brazilian rural population remained stable, mainly due to the expansion of EAP with off-agricultural occupation. The change on the profile of Brazilian rural space was more evident in the population income. These tendencies are associated with the diversification of the occupational composition, the increase of the acquisitive power, the reduction of the access to income inequality and the decrease of informal employment in the rural space. The continuity of these trends may lead to, in the rural area, both occupation and income from agricultural activities are surpassed by those originated from off-agricultural activities. Therefore, the readjustment of the rural development initiatives, which are mainly focused in the agricultural activities, is necessary.
PRODUKCJA BIOKOMPONENTÓW I BIOPALIW CIEKŁYCH W POLSCE – TENDENCJE ROZWOJU I REGIONALNE ZRÓŻNICOWANIE
Creators: name: Piwowar, Arkadiusz
name: Piwowar, Arkadiusz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: renewable energy sources
subject: biofuels
subject: biocomponents

description: Liquid biofuels in Poland are used on a small scale, liquid fuels with an admixture of bio-components (bioethanol and esters) are more commonly used. The main aim of this paper was a comparative analysis of the production of biofuels and biocomponents in Poland between 2011 and 2014. As the analyses show, in this period the amount of biocomponents produced in Poland increased by more than 300,000 tons and the production of liquid biofuels decreased by almost 94,000 tons. A characteristic feature of the market of biocomponents and liquid biofuels in Poland is the concentration of supply in spatial terms.
UBEZPIECZENIE ROLNIKÓW WYKONUJĄCYCH UMOWY CYWILNO-PRAWNE I PROWADZĄCYCH DZIAŁALNOŚĆ GOSPODARCZĄ W KASIE ROLNICZEGO UBEZPIECZENIA SPOŁECZNEGO
Creators: name: Puślecki, Damian
name: Puślecki, Damian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: farmers’ social insurance
subject: business activity
subject: farmer-enterpreneur
subject: farmer performing civil law agreements

description: The paper describes the problems of insuring farmers that are performing civil law agreements and conducting nonagricultural business in the Agricultural Social Insurance Fund. The attention is paid to the individual elements of the statutory definition of a farmer and an attempt to define the term of non-agricultural economic activities. The main purpose of this elaboration is to define the exposure of farmers – entrepreneurs and farmers insurance providers of civil contracts in ASIF on the conditions of the Act of 20 December 1990. It should be also analyzed the personal scope of the subject of insurance through the prism of the social security protection. In the final part of the aticle the conclusions and de lege ferenda arguments are presented.
Unitarity violation of the CKM matrix in a nonuniversal gauge interaction model
Creators: name: Lee, Kang Young
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the unitarity violation of the CKM matrix in the model in which the third generation fermions are subjected to the separate SU(2)$_L$ gauge interaction. With the recent LEP and SLC data at $Z$-pole and low-energy neutral current interaction data, the analysis on the parameter space of the model is updated, and the unitary violation is predicted under the constraint.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Methods for forecasting the effect of exogenous risk on stock markets
Creators: name: Arias-Calluari, Karina
name: Alonso-Marroquin, Fernando
name: Nattagh-Najafi, Morteza
name: Harré, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: F.2.1; G.3; J.1; J.4
subject: 03H10, 01-11, 03D15

description: Markets are subjected to both endogenous and exogenous risks that have caused disruptions to financial and economic markets around the globe, leading eventually to fast stock market declines. In the past, markets have recovered after any economic disruption. On this basis, we focus on the outbreak of COVID-19 as a case study of an exogenous risk and analyze its impact on the Standard and Poor's 500 (S\&P500) index. We assumed that the S\&P500 index reaches a minimum before rising again in the not-too-distant future. Here we present two cases to forecast the S\&P500 index. The first case uses an estimation of expected deaths released on 02/04/2020 by the University of Washington. For the second case, it is assumed that the peak number of deaths will occur 2-months since the first confirmed case occurred in the USA. The decline and recovery in the index were estimated for the following three months after the initial point of the predicted trend. The forecast is a projection of a prediction with stochastic fluctuations described by $q$-gaussian diffusion process with three spatio-temporal regimes. Our forecast was made on the premise that any market response can be decomposed into an overall deterministic trend and a stochastic term. The prediction was based on the deterministic part and for this case study is approximated by the extrapolation of the S\&P500 data trend in the initial stages of the outbreak. The stochastic fluctuations have the same structure as the one derived from the past 24 years. A reasonable forecast was achieved with 85\% of accuracy.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, journal paper
title: Assembling for sustainable urban energy transition: UK institutional property owners’ consideration on deploying solar panels on buildings
Creators: name: Du, Dexter
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2022

description: Against the background of climate change, achieving sustainable urban energy transition is 
claimed to be urgent. Deploying building-applied solar panels can contribute to reducing 
carbon emission in cities. Since many buildings in the UK cities are owned by institutions, this 
study enquiries into the consideration of these institutional property owners over solar panel 
deployment on their buildings. Literature suggests that such consideration is likely to, firstly, 
engage a wider range of actors than solely the property owners, and secondly, concern specific 
situations of particular cases. Assemblage theory is adopted to define and analyse this study’s 
main interest in the assemblage of institutional property owners’ deployment of building�applied solar panels. A local level focus helps methodologically match the likely case 
specificity while at the same time manage the scope of empirical fieldwork consisting of in�depth interviews. Nottingham in the UK appears to be a place of best-practice which can enable 
both a focused scope and sufficient data availability for the fieldwork. The relational 
perspectives of institutional property ownership help engage the variant interactions among 
heterogeneous human and non-human actors in the assemblage of institutional property owners’ 
deployment of solar panels on buildings. Under such assemblage understanding, solar panel 
deployment progresses through contingent processes, and outcomes emerge from such 
progression. Institutional property owners’ consideration can be conceptualised as the virtual 
space of possibilities. In such virtual space, heterogeneous elements throughout social-material 
processes are virtually assembled. The empirical data suggest that only the highly cost-effective 
projects are likely to be territorialised to the degree of enabling the assemblage to empirically 
emerge. Payback period and scale of projects are important coding components that reinforce 
cost-effectiveness as territorialisation. The assemblage of institutional property owners’ 
deployment of building-applied solar panels often emerges together with other assemblages of 
assemblages, such as holistic programmes of building retrofit.
Charged Lepton Flavour and CP Violations: Theoretical Impact of Present and Future Experiments
Creators: name: Masina, I.
name: Savoy, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We shortly review and emphasize how l_j -> l_i gamma experiments and the searches for lepton e.d.m. are constraining New Physics model building. They are pure signals of new phenomena around the TeV scale since the SM contributions are definitely negligible. It is quite remarkable that they also give effective tests of the LFV & CPV in seesaw couplings and in grand-unified theories. In particular, the limits on d_e nicely complement the proton decay bounds in selecting O(10) models.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of Neutrino 04 (College de France, Paris)
Impact of external knowledge acquisition strategies on innovation: A comparative study based on Dutch and Swiss panel data
Creators: name: Arvanitis, Spyros
name: Lokshin, Boris
name: Mohnen, Pierre
name: Wörter, Martin
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2013
Subjects: KNOW-HOW (PATENT LAW, TRADEMARK LAW)
KNOW-HOW (PATENT-, MARKENRECHT)
INNOVATION MANAGEMENT (BUSINESS MANAGEMENT)
TECHNISCHE BERATUNG (UNTERNEHMENSBERATUNG)
Open innovation
Buy strategies
R&D collaboration
TECHNICAL CONSULTING
INNOVATIONSMANAGEMENT (UNTERNEHMENSFÜHRUNG)
Make
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/620
Engineering & allied operations

description: KOF Working Papers, 325
Time and sustainability: Exploring the cases of refrigeration and artificial lighting
Creators: name: Derrick, Stephen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160507 Environment Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 140205 Environment and Resource Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This thesis investigates tensions between the short-term, everyday activities of humans and the long-term environmental future of the Earth. It examines these time tensions through two case studies of technology use; namely refrigeration with particular reference to its use for the storage and transport of food and artificial lighting. The thesis builds on and develops the concept of the commodification of time as a way of connecting the temporal dimensions of the use of artificial light and refrigeration with their environmental impacts. By exploring the time dimensions of sustainability, this thesis highlights the need for a new approach to sustainability policy.
KOF Analysen 2013, Nr. 1, Frühjahr
Creators: name: KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle der ETH Zürich
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2013
Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Analysen, 2013 (1)
description: ISSN:1662-3517
Facial recognition technology and human raters can predict political orientation from images of expressionless faces even when controlling for demographics and self-presentation
Creators: name: Kosinski, Michal
name: Khambatta, Poruz
name: Wang, Yilun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Carefully standardized facial images of 591 participants were taken in the laboratory, while controlling for self-presentation, facial expression, head orientation, and image properties. They were presented to human raters and a facial recognition algorithm: both humans (r=.21) and the algorithm (r=.22) could predict participants' scores on a political orientation scale (Cronbach's alpha=.94) decorrelated with age, gender, and ethnicity. These effects are on par with how well job interviews predict job success, or alcohol drives aggressiveness. Algorithm's predictive accuracy was even higher (r=.31) when it leveraged information on participants' age, gender, and ethnicity. Moreover, the associations between facial appearance and political orientation seem to generalize beyond our sample: The predictive model derived from standardized images (while controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity) could predict political orientation (r=.13) from naturalistic images of 3,401 politicians from the U.S., UK, and Canada. The analysis of facial features associated with political orientation revealed that conservatives tended to have larger lower faces. The predictability of political orientation from standardized images has critical implications for privacy, the regulation of facial recognition technology, and understanding the origins and consequences of political orientation.
description: Now published at American Psychologist (2024)
PRODUKCJA OWCZARSKA JAKO PODSYSTEM ZRÓWNOWAŻONEJ BIOGOSPODARK
Creators: name: Rokicki, Tomasz
name: Rokicki, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: bioeconomy
subject: sheep production
subject: healthy food

description: The paper presents the characteristics of sheep production as a subsystem of the sustainable bioeconomy. The potential of this production is very large. Sheep provide many products that have multiple uses. Key features of sheep production is the production of healthy food, utilization of resources of agricultural origin in the industry, supporting of ecology and tourism, generation of renewable energy from biogas. It all makes the sheep production is a subsystem of the sustainable bioeconomy.
KOF Analysen 2013, Nr. 2, Sommer
Creators: name: KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle der ETH Zürich
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2013
Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Analysen, 2013 (2)
description: ISSN:1662-3517
title: Non-functional testing in cloud environments
Creators: name: Naderer-Puiu, Philipp
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cloud Computing
subject: PaaS
subject: Google App Engine
subject: Nichtfunktionale Anforderungen
subject: Lasttests
subject: Skalierbarkeitstests
subject: NoSQL Datastore
subject: Cloud-Migration

description: Durch die stetige Verbreitung von Cloud Computing in der IT-Industrie müssen auch Strategien zum Testen von Software hinterfragt und adaptiert werden. Zwar lassen sich viele Methoden zur funktionalen Prüfung gut in Cloud-Umgebungen übertragen, jedoch sind gerade nicht-funktionale Anforderungen durch die dynamische Bereitstellung von IT-Ressourcen schwieriger zu überprüfen. Anhand von Google App Engine, welches eine Platform as a Service-Umgebung unter anderem für Java-Applikationen bereitstellt, werden Skalierbarkeit und Elastizität von Anwendungen untersucht. Dabei sind drei wesentliche Fragen zu beantworten: Eignet sich JMeter als Lasttestgenerator für verteilte Cloud-Anwendungen? Wie reagiert App Engine auf eine hohe Anzahl an Zugriffen? Wie wirken sich spezifische Eigenschaften des Google Cloud Datastore, wie beispielsweise das Entity Group Write Limit, in der Praxis aus? Die Beantwortung dieser Fragen führt zur übergeordneten Fragestellung: Eignet sich Google App Engine als Zielplattform für Migrationen von bestehenden Java-Applikationen in die Cloud? Dabei fokussiert sich diese Arbeit nicht nur auf die Überprüfung von funktionalen Anforderungen, sondern legt besonderen Wert auf nichtfunktionale Anforderungen und die daraus entstehenden Konsequenzen für Migrationsprozesse.
description: Cloud computing became the dominant computing model in the IT industry today. With this rapid adoption new questions arise in the area of software testing. Many of the existing functional testing methods can be transferred to cloud-based environments. Though, non-functional testing became a many-faceted problem due to the distributed and dynamic nature of cloud systems. With Google App Engine as an example for an established and widespread implementation of the Platform as a Service model, this thesis examines two in cloud-based software important non-functional requirements: scalability and elasticity. For this goal three questions have been elaborated: Is JMeter a load generator tool suitable for cloud-based applications? How does Google App Engine handle high traffic scenarios? What are the consequences of the limitations enforced by the Google Cloud Datastore, e.g. the entity group write limit? Thereby a special focus is on the migration from existing Java-based applications into the Cloud.
Carroll versus Galilei from a Brane Perspective
Creators: name: Bergshoeff, Eric
name: Izquierdo, José Manuel
name: Romano, Luca
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 show that our previous work on Galilei and Carroll gravity, apt for particles, can be generalized to Galilei and Carroll gravity theories adapted to p-branes (p = 0, 1, 2, ...). Within this wider brane perspective, we make use of a formal map, given in the literature, between the corresponding p-brane Carroll and Galilei algebras where the index describing the directions longitudinal (transverse) to the Galilei brane is interchanged with the index covering the directions transverse (longitudinal) to the Carroll brane with the understanding that the time coordinate is always among the longitudinal directions. This leads among other things in 3D to a map between Galilei particles and Carroll strings and in 4D to a similar map between Galilei strings and Carroll strings. We show that this formal map extends to the corresponding Lie algebra expansion of the Poincaré algebra and, therefore, to several extensions of the Carroll and Galilei algebras including central extensions. We use this formal map to construct several new examples of Carroll gravity actions. Furthermore, we discuss the symmetry between Carroll and Galilei at the level of the p-brane sigma model action and apply this formal symmetry to give several examples of 3D and 4D particles and strings in a curved Carroll background.
description: 20 pages
PROJEKCJA ZMIAN WIELKOŚCI PLONÓW PSZENICY W POLSCE I UNII EUROPEJSKIEJ W LATACH 2030 I 2050 NA PODSTAWIE MODELU CAPRI
Creators: name: Syp, Alina
name: Syp, Alina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: wheat
subject: yields
subject: scenarios
subject: climate changes

description: The aim of the study was to determine the dynamics of changes in wheat yield in Poland and the European Union in 2030 and 2050. The analysis was performed using the model CAPRI (The Common Agricultural Policy Regional Impact) for the reference of socio-economic scenario. Based on the CAPRI model in 2030 , an average increase of 24% in wheat yield is projected in the 27 European Union countries compared to 2010. In 2050, the average wheat yield will be by 40% higher than in 2010. In Poland, an increase of wheat yields by 37 and 61%, respectively, is forecasted for 2030 and 2050. The increase of yield will be possible due to the implementation of new wheat varieties adapted to adverse soil and climatic conditions, as well as the organizational and economic changes in agricultural holdings.
POZIOM WIEDZY FINANSOWEJ WŁAŚCICIELI DROBNYCH GOSPODARSTW ROLNYCH W MAŁOPOLSCE
Creators: name: Szafrańska, Monika
name: Szafrańska, Monika
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: small farms
subject: financial literacy

description: The purpose of this paper was to determine the level of financial knowledge among owners of small agricultural holdings as participants in the financial system. The objective of the paper was realized using primary sources (a questionnaire designed to conduct a direct interview with farmers, 300 respondents) and secondary sources. Three domains were evaluated, which make up the overall level of financial knowledge: basic financial knowledge, financial behaviours, attitudes and preferences. The study shows that in the case nearly 30% of the interviewed farmers the level of financial knowledge was high, in 35% intermediate, and in 40% low. In the group of farmers, an area that requires urgent, educational action is module on basic financial knowledge.
PREFERENCJE KONSUMENTÓW NA RYNKU RYB I PRZETWORÓW RYBNYCH
Creators: name: Ślaska-Grzywna, Beata
name: Andrejko, Dariusz
name: Stoma, Monika
name: Dudziak, Agnieszka
name: Kamińska, Agnieszka
name: Sagan, Agnieszka
name: Ślaska-Grzywna, Beata
name: Andrejko, Dariusz
name: Stoma, Monika
name: Dudziak, Agnieszka
name: Kamińska, Agnieszka
name: Sagan, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: fish
subject: fish products
subject: consumer choices
subject: attitudes
subject: preferences

description: The paper presents the results obtained from survey conducted among clients. The study was designed to test consumer preferences and attitudes on the fish and fish products market. Were used nonprobability method - quota sampling due to gender, age, education and place of residence. The research was conducted using an anonymous questionnaire, developed specifically for this work. The own research results demonstrated that education and age are factors differing opinions on the assessment of market fish and fish products. Both, the education of the respondents and their age made it possible to distinguish two segments of differentiating consumers. The first focus, represented mainly by the elderly, with higher education, characterized by an increased awareness of pro health fish products and they can discerned their taste compared to the second cluster composed mainly by younger people with primary education or vocational education.
Localized convolutional neural networks for geospatial wind forecasting
Creators: name: Uselis, Arnas
name: Lukoševičius, Mantas
name: Stasytis, Lukas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6
subject: 68T05

description: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) possess many positive qualities when it comes to spatial raster data. Translation invariance enables CNNs to detect features regardless of their position in the scene. However, in some domains, like geospatial, not all locations are exactly equal. In this work, we propose localized convolutional neural networks that enable convolutional architectures to learn local features in addition to the global ones. We investigate their instantiations in the form of learnable inputs, local weights, and a more general form. They can be added to any convolutional layers, easily end-to-end trained, introduce minimal additional complexity, and let CNNs retain most of their benefits to the extent that they are needed. In this work we address spatio-temporal prediction: test the effectiveness of our methods on a synthetic benchmark dataset and tackle three real-world wind prediction datasets. For one of them, we propose a method to spatially order the unordered data. We compare the recent state-of-the-art spatio-temporal prediction models on the same data. Models that use convolutional layers can be and are extended with our localizations. In all these cases our extensions improve the results, and thus often the state-of-the-art. We share all the code at a public repository.
Renormalization group in the internal space
Creators: name: Polonyi, J.
name: Sailer, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Renormalization group in the internal space consists of the gradual change of the coupling constants. Functional evolution equations corresponding to the change of the mass or the coupling constant are presented in the framework of a scalar model. The evolution in the mass which yields the functional generalization of the Callan-Symanzik equation for the one-particle irreducible effective action is given in its renormalized, cutoff-independent form. The evolution of the coupling constant generates an evolution equation for the two-particle irreducible effective action.
description: 18 pages, no figures
Accuracy of neural networks for the simulation of chaotic dynamics: precision of training data vs precision of the algorithm
Creators: name: Bompas, S.
name: Georgeot, B.
name: Guéry-Odelin, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the influence of precision of the data and the algorithm for the simulation of chaotic dynamics by neural networks techniques. For this purpose, we simulate the Lorenz system with different precisions using three different neural network techniques adapted to time series, namely reservoir computing (using ESN), LSTM and TCN, for both short and long time predictions, and assess their efficiency and accuracy. Our results show that the ESN network is better at predicting accurately the dynamics of the system, and that in all cases the precision of the algorithm is more important than the precision of the training data for the accuracy of the predictions. This result gives support to the idea that neural networks can perform time-series predictions in many practical applications for which data are necessarily of limited precision, in line with recent results. It also suggests that for a given set of data the reliability of the predictions can be significantly improved by using a network with higher precision than the one of the data.
description: 10 pages, 15 figures, additonal data provided, published version
On the nature of the reentrant effect in susceptibility of mesoscopic cylindrical samples
Creators: name: Gogadze, G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theory of the reentrant effect in susceptibility of mesoscopic cylindrical NS samples is proposed, which is essentially based on the properties of the Andreev levels. The specific feature of the quantum levels of the structure is that in a varying magnetic field (or temperature) each level periodically comes into coincidence with the chemical potential of the metal. As a result, the state of the system becomes strongly degenerate and the amplitude of the paramagnetic contribution to the susceptibility increases sharply.
description: 6 pages. "Low Temperature Physics" to be published
Estimation of COVID-19 spread curves integrating global data and borrowing information
Creators: name: Lee, Se Yoon
name: Lei, Bowen
name: Mallick, Bani K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Currently, novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a big threat to global health. The rapid spread of the virus has created pandemic, and countries all over the world are struggling with a surge in COVID-19 infected cases. There are no drugs or other therapeutics approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to prevent or treat COVID-19: information on the disease is very limited and scattered even if it exists. This motivates the use of data integration, combining data from diverse sources and eliciting useful information with a unified view of them. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian hierarchical model that integrates global data for real-time prediction of infection trajectory for multiple countries. Because the proposed model takes advantage of borrowing information across multiple countries, it outperforms an existing individual country-based model. As fully Bayesian way has been adopted, the model provides a powerful predictive tool endowed with uncertainty quantification. Additionally, a joint variable selection technique has been integrated into the proposed modeling scheme, which aimed to identify possible country-level risk factors for severe disease due to COVID-19.
Fragmentation of a Circular Disc by Impact on a Frictionless Plate
Creators: name: Behera, Bhupalendra
name: Kun, Ferenc
name: McNamara, Sean
name: Herrmann, Hans J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The break-up of a two-dimensional circular disc by normal and oblique impact on a hard frictionless plate is investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. The disc is composed of numerous unbreakable randomly shaped convex polygons connected together by simple elastic beams that break when bent or stretched beyond a certain limit. It is found that for both normal and oblique impacts the crack patterns are the same and depend solely on the normal component of the impact velocity. Analysing the pattern of breakage, amount of damage, fragment masses and velocities, we show the existence of a critical velocity which separates two regimes of the impact process: below the critical point only a damage cone is formed at the impact site (damage), cleaving of the particle occurs at the critical point, while above the critical velocity the disc breaks into several pieces (fragmentation). In the limit of very high impact velocities the disc suffers complete disintegration (shattering) into many small fragments. In agreement with experimental results, fragment masses are found to follow the Gates-Gaudin-Schuhmann distribution (power law) with an exponent independent of the velocity and angle of impact. The velocity distribution of fragments exhibit an interesting anomalous scaling behavior when changing the impact velocity and the size of the disc.
description: submitted to J. Phys: Condensed Matter special issue on Granular Media
PRÓBA OKREŚLENIA PRZYCZYN MARNOTRAWIENIA ŻYWNOŚCI W GOSPODARSTWACH DOMOWYCH NA PRZYKŁADZIE PIECZYWA
Creators: name: Śmiechowska, Maria
name: Chrzanowska, Beata
name: Śmiechowska, Maria
name: Chrzanowska, Beata
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: food waste
subject: household
subject: bread

description: Bread accompanies man since the dawn of history, and in accordance with nutritional recommendations should, along with other cereal products form the basis of the diet. However, the consumption of bread in recent years decreased, while increase in the amount of wasted breads. The aim of this study was to diagnose the factors limiting the consumption of bread and favoring its wastage. Tests of consumers has shown that a decrease in the consumption of bread is affected include Factors such as low quality breads and use in feeding frozen bread dough, belonging to the global food and comfortable, which after baking it quickly loses its freshness and palatability. The globalization of production and consumption of food with one hand increases access to food products, on the other hand, result in disappearance of tradition and eliminates the regional and local food. The implementation of quality assurance systems of food and food safety systems enforces certain behaviors and handling food.
title: Maximal Strength Training Increases Metabolic Energy Expenditure in Sedentary Adults Classified as Obese
Creators: name: Anderson III, Robert E.
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Health sciences
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: Background: Metabolic adaptations reduce resting and non-resting energy expenditure to account for approximately 120 kcal/day. Weight loss promotes greater skeletal muscle efficiency, reducing the energy cost of physical activity and is correlated with declines in skeletal muscle glucose oxidation. Maximal Strength Training (MST) has the potential to upregulate glucose utilization and may offset these metabolic adaptations. Objective: To determine if MST offsets markers of metabolic adaptation by increasing resting and non-resting energy expenditure in sedentary individuals classified as obese. Methods: Five (5) participants (2 females, 3 males), ages 18-35 years, with obesity (BMI 30–45 kg/m2) were enrolled in an 8-week MST intervention. Participants completed 3 MST sessions per week on non-consecutive days. Resting Energy Expenditure (REE) via indirect calorimetry and Skeletal Muscle Work Efficiency (SME) via graded exercise cycle ergometer test were assessed pre and post intervention. Results: REE (in kcal/kg FFM/24hrs) increased from 30.51 at baseline to 37.37 post (a 22.48% increase, P=0.02) with no significant changes in Body Fat (BF) or FFM. Skeletal Muscle Efficiency (SME) calculated as (watts converted to kcal/min)/ [energy expended (kcal/min) – resting energy expenditure (kcal/min) adjusted for fat-free mass) trended towards a significant decrease at 25 W (-6.51%, P=0.435) and at 50 W (-4.01%, P=0.579). Conclusions: These results suggest that an 8-week MST intervention can significantly increase REE in individuals classified as obese and shows trends towards decreasing SME at low intensity exercise. Therefore, MST may be a useful strategy to attenuate metabolic compensation.
description: © 2022 Robert E. Anderson, III
PRAWNO-EKONOMICZNE ASPEKTY DZIERŻAWY ROLNICZEJ W ŚWIETLE OBOWIĄZUJĄCYCH REGULACJI I PROJEKTU USTAWY O DZIERŻAWIE ROLNICZEJ
Creators: name: Tańska-Hus, Bożena
name: Tańska-Hus, Bożena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: agricultural leasing
subject: legal regulations
subject: agreements of leasing

description: The paper presents the issue of agricultural lease rules. The author analyzed the current legal regulations regarding the lease in the period 1964-2014 and discussed the new lease rules in the draft law of 3 November 2014 on agricultural lease. In the article were used descriptive method, descriptive and comparative method as well as historical and doctrinal law interpretation.
Forecasting High-Yield Bond Spreads Using the Loan Market as Leading Indicator
Creators: name: Simmons-Süer, Banu
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2013
Subjects: BETRIEBSWIRTSCHAFTLICHE PROGNOSE
ANLEIHEN (FINANZEN)
BONDS (FINANCE)
BUSINESS FORECASTS
FINANCIAL MARKETS
FINANZMÄRKTE
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Working Papers, 328
The Performance Effect of Environmental Innovations
Creators: name: Soltmann, Christian
name: Stucki, Tobias
name: Wörter, Martin
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2013
Subjects: ANGEPASSTE TECHNOLOGIEN + NACHHALTIGE TECHNOLOGIEN
Environment
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES + SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES
MEMBER COUNTRIES OF THE OECD (ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT)
Patents
TECHNOLOGICAL CHOICE (TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT)
BUSINESS EFFICIENCY
FORSCHUNG UND ENTWICKLUNG
OECD-MITGLIEDSLÄNDER (ORGANISATION FÜR WIRTSCHAFTLICHE ZUSAMMENARBEIT)
INNOVATION + MODERNIZATION
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
PRODUCTION (BUSINESS ECONOMICS)
Technological change
TECHNOLOGIEWAHL (TECHNOLOGIEMANAGEMENT)
INNOVATION + MODERNISIERUNG
PRODUKTION (BETRIEBSWIRTSCHAFT)
Innovation
R&D
BETRIEBSEFFIZIENZ
Performance
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Working Papers, 330
Effective Supergravity Actions for Conifold Transitions
Creators: name: Mohaupt, Thomas
name: Saueressig, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct gauged supergravity actions which describe the dynamics of M-theory on a Calabi-Yau threefold in the vicinity of a conifold transition. The actions explicitly include N charged hypermultiplets descending from wrapped M2-branes which become massless at the conifold point. While the vector multiplet sector can be treated exactly, we approximate the hypermultiplet sector by the non-compact Wolf spaces X(1+N). The effective action is then uniquely determined by the charges of the wrapped M2-branes.
description: 57 pages, no figures
WYKSZTAŁCENIE LUDNOŚCI NA OBSZARACH WIEJSKICH A STOPIEŃ WYKORZYSTANIA NOWOCZESNYCH TECHNOLOGII INFORMACYJNYCH
Creators: name: Wojnar, Jolanta
name: Wojnar, Jolanta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: level of education
subject: information technology
subject: rural areas

description: In the paper the structure and dynamics of changes in education of residents in rural areas and in cities were compared. Based on a survey, the influence of a place of residence and level of education on the scope of use of information technologies was analyzed. For the analysis, the chi-squared statistic was used. Education of rural population has no effect on the equipment of households with computers and Internet access, however, it is a significantly differentiating factor in terms of digital literacy
Second law of thermodynamics for relativistic fluids formulated with relative entropy
Creators: name: Dowling, Neil
name: Floerchinger, Stefan
name: Haas, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The second law of thermodynamics is discussed and reformulated from a quantum information theoretic perspective for open quantum systems using relative entropy. Specifically, the relative entropy of a quantum state with respect to equilibrium states is considered and its monotonicity property with respect to an open quantum system evolution is used to obtain second law-like inequalities. We discuss this first for generic quantum systems in contact with a thermal bath and subsequently turn to a formulation suitable for the description of local dynamics in a relativistic quantum field theory. A local version of the second law similar to the one used in relativistic fluid dynamics can be formulated with relative entropy or even relative entanglement entropy in a space-time region bounded by two light cones. We also give an outlook towards isolated quantum field theories and discuss the role of entanglement for relativistic fluid dynamics.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures