cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Consumer Willingness to Pay for Swiss Chicken Meat: An In-store Survey to Link Stated and Revealed Buying Behaviour
Creators: name: Bolliger, Conradin
name: Reviron, Sophie
name: Bolliger, Conradin
name: Reviron, Sophie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: contingent valuation method
subject: country-of-origin
subject: willingness-to-pay

description: In a global economy food origin is gaining increasing attention as determining purchase criterion in food consumption. Consequently, for many consumers a product’s country-of-origin (COO) is an important cue in evaluating both domestic and foreign products. A double-bounded dichotomous choice approach in an in-store setting was used to assess consumers’ preference and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for the product attribute “Swiss origin” relative to “European origin” for chicken meat. Data collection took place in the poultry section of six grocery stores in Francophone Switzerland. Sample selection was based on the consumer’s purchase decision, that is only actual chicken buyers were questioned. During the survey product data of participants’ actual purchase were recorded. Thus, both hypothetical stated and revealed consumer behaviour data were collected. Based on 450 records we highlight four different consumer segments, notably “Loyal Swiss”, “Low Price Swiss Zappers”, “Price Orientated”, and „The Gourmets”. At an equal price, 90% of the entire sample prefers Swiss chicken meat. To elicit mean WTP for “Swiss origin” we used logit analysis. The results indicate that mean WTP differs significantly between the highlighted consumer segments. “Loyal Swiss” – medium to high priced Swiss chicken meat consumers – are willing to pay a premium of about 7.40 Euros per kilo chicken breast of Swiss origin. This premium corresponds with actual price differences of at most 7.50 €/kg for Swiss chicken breast relative to European found in the researched grocery stores. “Low Price Swiss Zappers” are willing to pay a premium of 2.10 €/kg chicken breast of Swiss origin. In contrast, the “Price Orientated” and „The Gourmets” are not willing to pay any premium for Swiss origin. This corresponds with their revealed purchase behaviour as they bought imported European chicken. Considering mean WTP for the entire sample of 3.00 €/kg for Swiss origin, we conclude that this is not a good predictor for specific consumer segments. It over-, or underestimates mean WTP of the highlighted consumer segments. Using both stated and revealed consumer behaviour data, we are able to calculate consumer group specific mean WTP which leads to more appropriate results for agribusiness and marketing purposes.
Representing Vancouver’s working girls, 1890-1930
Creators: name: McMaster, Lindsey
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: My dissertation addresses representations of the young women of Vancouver's working class, who, in the first part of the twentieth century, became touchstones for judgements on city life, work, and morality. Young, single, wage-earning women were something new and troubling to the middleclass administrators and social critics of the time. While the city's numerous single working men, with their overcrowded dwellings and tendencies to unionize, were considered somewhat disorderly, the necessity of their presence was never questioned. "Working girls,"on the other hand, seemed to embody all that was unnerving and unnatural about modern times: the disintegration of the family, the independence of women, and the promiscuity of city life. These kinds of anxieties were not unique to Vancouver: the issue of wage-earning women was deemed a "social problem" in various western cities. But Vancouver's singular geopolitical situation meant that these anxieties were exacerbated and amplified in distinct and curious ways. In 1922, for instance, a law was passed "for the protection of women and girls" which prohibited white women from working alongside Asian men. What combination of racism, paternalism, and moral panic gave rise to such legislation? And how did the women react to being controlled and judged by such assumptions? Rather than viewing the problems of wage-earning women as coextensive with those of working men - problems of wages, working conditions, and workers' rights - social administrators and reformers focussed largely on the moral implications of women's entrance into the workplace, particularly insofar as it represented a break from traditional Victorian ideals of domestic femininity. Denied the recognition afforded male workers as members of the labour force and economic agents, working women suffered various disadvantages in the workplace, their wages barely enough to survive on, and their rights as workers ignored by employers and union leaders alike. The tendency in historical accounts of Canada to overlook or underestimate the importance of women's work is undoubtedly in part due to the ideological disinclination to see or to represent women as workers rather than as wives and mothers. This is why my analysis focusses on the politics of gender and representation, for it is through representational conventions that women were pressured to embody a traditional domestic role, and likewise it is through a representational agenda that women were denied recognition as valuable workers.
Additional file 5 of A pay for performance scheme in primary care: Meta-synthesis of qualitative studies on the provider experiences of the quality and outcomes framework in the UK
Creators: name: Khan, Nagina
name: Rudoler, David
name: McDiarmid, Mary
name: Peckham, Stephen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. Table. 7 Application of the Third Order Constructs to the Ten Motivational Values
Consumer Food Safety Risk Attitudes and Perceptions Over Time: The Case of BSE Crisis
Creators: name: Kalogeras, Nikos
name: Pennings, Joost M.E.
name: Van Ittersum, Koert
name: Kalogeras, Nikos
name: Pennings, Joost M.E.
name: Van Ittersum, Koert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: consumer risk behaviour
subject: food safety
subject: risk attitude
subject: risk perception
subject: time

description: Recent research has shown that by decoupling the risk response behaviour of consumers into the separate components of risk perception and risk attitude, a more robust conceptualization and prediction of consumers’ reactions to food safety issues is possible. Furthermore, it has been argued that the influence of risk attitudes and risk perceptions on consumer risk behaviour for contaminated food products can be used to formulate effective agricultural policies and strategies in case of a food crisis. The question arises whether or not the influence and magnitude of these risk variables changes over time and, hence, whether policies and strategies must be adapted. The BSE (mad cow disease) crises in the USA, Germany and The Netherlands in 2001 and 2004 provided us with a natural experiment to examine the relationship between risk attitudes and perceptions and behaviour over time. The results show that in some countries consumers risk behaviour changed, whereas in others not. These results are useful to policy makers and decision makers in food industry in developing more efficient supply chain management and public policies.
Jamming transition in granular media: A mean field approximation and numerical simulations
Creators: name: Fierro, A.
name: Nicodemi, M.
name: Tarzia, M.
name: de Candia, A.
name: Coniglio, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to study analytically the nature of the jamming transition in granular material, we have considered a cavity method mean field theory, in the framework of a statistical mechanics approach, based on Edwards' original idea. For simplicity we have applied the theory to a lattice model and a transition with exactly the same nature of the glass transition in mean field models for usual glass formers is found. The model is also simulated in three dimensions under tap dynamics and a jamming transition with glassy features is observed. In particular two step decays appear in the relaxation functions and dynamic heterogeneities resembling ones usually observed in glassy systems. These results confirm early speculations about the connection between the jamming transition in granular media and the glass transition in usual glass formers, giving moreover a precise interpretation of its nature.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures
Additional file 2 of A pay for performance scheme in primary care: Meta-synthesis of qualitative studies on the provider experiences of the quality and outcomes framework in the UK
Creators: name: Khan, Nagina
name: Rudoler, David
name: McDiarmid, Mary
name: Peckham, Stephen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Table 4. Contextual Information for the 18 Published Papers
Current preferences of Southern Mediterranean Countries and their erosion after variations of the entry price system
Creators: name: Martinez-Gomez, Victor
name: Martinez-Gomez, Victor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Entry prices
subject: erosion of trade preferences
subject: Euro-Mediterranean trade
subject: fruits and vegetables

description: It has been calculated the value of the preference margin granted to Euro-Mediterranean partners in the cases of reduced entry prices in force, and then it has been simulated the impact of EU trade liberalisation for F&V on such values after two different alternatives of EP system variations resulting from a WTO agreement. The results of current preferences indicate that in monetary terms there is only a significant relevance of the preferential EPs in the case of Moroccan tomatoes and, to a lesser extent, in Moroccan clementines. Very little is the relevance for Jordanian tomatoes and cucumbers and Moroccan courgettes, cucumbers and artichokes. In the cases of oranges from Egypt, Morocco, Israel and Jordan, preferential EP has not meant potential monetary transfers to these preference-receiver countries. Instead, the ad valorem tariff exoneration seems crucial in almost all the products. With regard to the erosion of preferences as a result of a WTO agreement, the magnitude of the erosion depends crucially on the variation/no-variation of the current trigger EPs, and the undermining of preferences is concentrated mostly on Moroccan tomatoes.
Additional file 3 of A pay for performance scheme in primary care: Meta-synthesis of qualitative studies on the provider experiences of the quality and outcomes framework in the UK
Creators: name: Khan, Nagina
name: Rudoler, David
name: McDiarmid, Mary
name: Peckham, Stephen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Table. 5 First and Second Order Constructs from the Published Papers
Bias field effect on the temperature anomalies of dielectric permittivity in PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3- PbTiO3 single crystals
Creators: name: Raevski, I. P.
name: Prosandeev, S. A.
name: Emelyanov, A. S.
name: Raevskaya, S. I.
name: Colla, Eugene V.
name: Viehland, D.
name: Kleemann, W.
name: Vakhrushev, S. B.
name: Dellis, J-L.
name: Marssi, M. El
name: Jastrabik, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In contrast to ordinary ferroelectrics where the temperature, Tm, of the permittivity maximum monotonically increases with bias field, E, in (1-x)PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3-(x)PbTiO3 (0
description: to be submitted to Physical Review B, 27 pages, 9 figures
Semi-analytic expressions for quasinormal modes of slowly rotating Kerr black holes
Creators: name: Hatsuda, Yasuyuki
name: Kimura, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide semi-analytic expressions for quasinormal mode frequencies of slowly rotating Kerr black holes to the quadratic order in the rotation parameter. We apply the parametrized black hole quasinormal mode ringdown formalism to the Chandrasekhar-Detweiler equation and the Sasaki-Nakamura equation instead of the Teukolsky equation, and compare our result with the previous numerical calculations.
description: 19 pages, 22 figures, v2: minor revisions, v3: minor revisions, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Upstream Competition and Downstream Labelling
Creators: name: Bonroy, Olivier
name: Lemarie, Stephane
name: Bonroy, Olivier
name: Lemarie, Stephane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Label
subject: Imperfect information
subject: Vertical product differentiation
subject: Vertical relations
subject: Regulation

description: This paper analyses the impact of labelling in a context where the products come from a rather long supply chain. We consider a case where there is an information problem about the product quality in the downstream part of the chain, but not in the upstream part. We show that the implementation of a label to solve this information problem affects the competition in the upstream part of the chain. In particular, competition may be soften up to a point where both the high and the low quality upstream suppliers both benefit from labelling while all the intermediary producers or final consumers loose from labelling. This result is established on the basis of a simple model with two vertically related markets (a competitive downstream market which is supplied by an upstream duopoly) and where the quality of the output downstream is determined by the quality of the input upstream. This analysis is informative to understand the impact of labelling in different cases concerning the agricultural sector (poultry meat, GMOs).
description: Paper removed at the request of the author 12/04/08.
An IR-Selected Galaxy Cluster at z = 1.41
Creators: name: Stanford, S. A.
name: Eisenhardt, Peter R.
name: Brodwin, Mark
name: Gonzalez, Anthony H.
name: Stern, Daniel
name: Jannuzi, Buell
name: Dey, Arjun
name: Brown, Michael J. I.
name: McKenzie, Eric
name: Elston, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a galaxy cluster at z = 1.41. ISCS J143809+341419 was found in the Spitzer/IRAC Shallow Survey of the Bootes field in the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey carried out by IRAC. The cluster candidate was initially identified as a high density region of objects with photometric redshifts in the range 1.3 < z < 1.5. Optical spectroscopy of a limited number of objects in the region shows that 5 galaxies within a ~120 arcsec diameter region lie at z = 1.41 +/- 0.01. Most of these member galaxies have broad--band colors consistent with the expected spectral energy distribution of a passively--evolving elliptical galaxy formed at high redshift. The redshift of ISCS J143809+341419 is the highest currently known for a spectroscopically-confirmed cluster of galaxies.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters; 5 pages and 5 figures
Self-Channelling of Electric Current in a Quantum Well
Creators: name: Emelyanov, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have directly demonstrated that homogeneous photoexcitation of a quantum well in presence of uniform tilted magnetic field gives rise to a set of bypass in-plane electric currents of a different value which may flow even in the opposite directions simultaneously. The effect has been observed in an asymmetric InAs quantum well under the Landau quantization. Theoretical model of the effect are discussed as well as the related problems.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Homola Leach 1815
Creators: name: Ng, Peter K. L.
name: Forges, Bertrand Richer De
name: Martin, Joel W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Homolidae
Homola

description: Genus Homola Leach, 1815
 Type species. Homola spinifrons Leach, 1815 , by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Ng, Peter K. L., Forges, Bertrand Richer De & Martin, Joel W., 2020, The Homolidae of the Hawaiian Islands, with notes on the taxonomy of Moloha major (Kubo, 1936) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 306-328 in Zootaxa 4809 (2) on page 307, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4809.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3934146
Additional file 4 of A pay for performance scheme in primary care: Meta-synthesis of qualitative studies on the provider experiences of the quality and outcomes framework in the UK
Creators: name: Khan, Nagina
name: Rudoler, David
name: McDiarmid, Mary
name: Peckham, Stephen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. Table. 6 Identifying Third Order Constructs
Understanding rural areas dynamics from a complex perspective. An application of Prospective Structural Analysis
Creators: name: Ambrosio Albala, Mateo
name: Delgado, Maria Del Mar
name: Ambrosio Albala, Mateo
name: Delgado, Maria Del Mar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: territorial rural development
subject: complexity
subject: prospective structural analysis

description: The development of rural areas continues to be an international priority. The urgent need to fight poverty (mainly concentrated in rural areas) in developing countries, and the demand for increasing economic and social cohesion in developed countries, explain this priority on the political agendas of multilateral bodies, the EU and most other countries. When Development Economics was acknowledged as part of the social and economic theory in the 50’s, different theories and models have tried to explain the unevenness of development and the key elements or conditions that foster it. Traditional rural development programmes were characterised by the implementation of non coordinated, sectoral, horizontal and top-down policies and strategies. The lack of effectiveness and the failures prompted by these policies have propelled the development of new approaches. Territorial rural development is a policy approach embracing contributions from different theoretical frameworks that attempt to foster development strategies based on the consideration of territory as a social construction. Thus, the territory (including all the existing elements and its interactions) has become a key actor for development. However, most of these approaches contemplate rural world through simplistic and monodimensional analysis based on methodologies from single disciplines and on quantitative and/or qualitative morphological descriptions. The pretended multidisciplinarity, frequently ends up on an addition of mono-disciplinary analysis around the object of study. The objective of the present paper is to check the role different elements considered relevant for development by literature´s recent approaches play or can play in rural territories with a very different development situation, using techniques and tools that allow the analysis of rural areas from a complex perspective.
Analysis of Vibrations in Large Flexible Hybrid Systems
Creators: name: Mul, Olena V.
name: Torres, Delfim F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93C20; 74H10; 74H15; 74H45

description: The mathematical model of a real flexible elastic system with distributed and discrete parameters is considered. It is a partial differential equation with non-classical boundary conditions. Complexity of the boundary conditions results in the impossibility to find exact analytical solutions. To address the problem, we use the asymptotical method of small parameter together with the numerical method of normal fundamental systems of solutions. These methods allow us to investigate vibrations, and a technique for determination of complex eigenvalues of the considered boundary value problem is developed. The conditions, at which vibration processes of different character take place, are defined. Dependence of the vibration frequencies on physical parameters of the hybrid system is studied. We show that introduction of different feedbacks into the system allow one to control the frequency spectrum, in which excitation of vibrations is possible.
description: Accepted for publication by the Global Journal of "Pure and Applied Mathematics". To be partially presented at the Sixth International Conference "Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics", June 20-26, 2005, Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine
Weighted Accuracy Algorithmic Approach In Counteracting Fake News And Disinformation
Creators: name: Bonsu, Kwadwo Osei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: As the world is becoming more dependent on the internet for information exchange, some overzealous journalists, hackers, bloggers, individuals and organizations tend to abuse the gift of free information environment by polluting it with fake news, disinformation and pretentious content for their own agenda. Hence, there is the need to address the issue of fake news and disinformation with utmost seriousness. This paper proposes a methodology for fake news detection and reporting through a constraint mechanism that utilizes the combined weighted accuracies of four machine learning algorithms.
"Small Chandigarh" : reproduction of cultural space and identity in Surrey, BC : implications for multicultural planning
Creators: name: Heer, Preet
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: A key defining characteristic of Canadian Cities today is the increasing ethnic diversity created by changing immigration patterns over the past twenty years. In order to accommodate and ease the transition towards diversity, policy makers have created frameworks that respond to this multicultural context. Despite policy formation, however, changes in the ethnic composition of communities often manifest into tensions and conflict relating to changes in the physical landscape. Using a case study approach, this research explores the dynamics of diversity exemplified in the mega house issue in Surrey, BC from 1990 to 1998. A review of secondary sources such as planning documents, public hearing minutes, bylaw amendments and newspaper articles provided an initial framework for the mega house issue. As well, in-depth interviews with planners, developers and residents were conducted in order to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the multiple perspectives. During the investigation, key questions for consideration were, how is urban planning as a public institution currently responding to the needs of a multicultural society? What kinds of approaches are utilized to encourage or discourage community participation? How are issues defined and by whom? The analysis of the mega house issue underscores that while the ethnoracial composition of the population is changing, specific mechanisms and methods of planning are not available to address emerging issues of a diverse population. In order to work toward solutions, the planning profession needs to evaluate its current practices and approaches. Specifically when planning for diversity, participation and access to process and knowledge need to be important considerations. In particular, approaches need to promote wide representation and acknowledge barriers in order to give voice to the full scope of perspectives in a diverse community. Furthermore, planners need to be cognisant of the way they are delivering knowledge because this delivery in fact shapes perceptions and actions. Finally, planning for social issues and fostering community cohesion today is an integral part of the process in working toward building healthy sustainable communities for tomorrow.
Asymptotic behavior and halting probability of Turing Machines
Creators: name: D'Abramo, Germano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Through a straightforward Bayesian approach we show that under some general conditions a maximum running time, namely the number of discrete steps performed by a computer program during its execution, can be defined such that the probability that such a program will halt after that time is smaller than any arbitrary fixed value. Consistency with known results and consequences are also discussed.
description: Plain LaTeX, 8 pages. In press
Broadband X-ray Spectral Study of Ultra-luminous X-ray Source M81 X--6
Creators: name: Jithesh, V.
name: Anjana, C.
name: Misra, Ranjeev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are a class of extra-galactic, point-like, off-nuclear X-ray sources with X-ray luminosity from $\sim 10^{39}$~erg s$^{-1}$ to $10^{41}$~erg s$^{-1}$. We investigated the temporal and broadband X-ray spectral properties of the ULX M81~X--6 using simultaneous \textit{Suzaku} and \textit{NuSTAR} observations. To understand the nature of the source, we searched for pulsating signals from the source using the \textit{NuSTAR} observation. However, we failed to identify any strong pulsating signals from the source. Alternatively, the broadband spectral modelling with accreting magnetic neutron star continuum model provides a statistically acceptable fit, and the inferred spectral parameters and X-ray colours are consistent with other pulsating ULXs. Thus, our analysis suggests that M81~X--6 is another candidate ULX pulsar.
description: Accepted for Publication in MNRAS, 6 Pages, 4 Figures, 1 Table
Lamoha Ng 1998
Creators: name: Ng, Peter K. L.
name: Forges, Bertrand Richer De
name: Martin, Joel W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Homolidae
Lamoha

description: Genus Lamoha Ng, 1998
 Type species. Hypsophrys superciliosa Wood-Mason, in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Ng, Peter K. L., Forges, Bertrand Richer De & Martin, Joel W., 2020, The Homolidae of the Hawaiian Islands, with notes on the taxonomy of Moloha major (Kubo, 1936) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 306-328 in Zootaxa 4809 (2) on page 310, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4809.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3934146
HEMATOLOGICAL CHANGES IN DOMESTIC DOGS WITH HYPOTHYROIDISM
Creators: name: Lokes-Krupka Tereziia
name: Tsvilichovsky Mykola Kanivets
name: Liudmyla, Nataliia Karysheva
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2021
Subjects: thyroid gland
decreased organ function
hemoglobin
erythrocytes
leukocytes.

description: The analysis of general clinical indicators of blood of dogs at a hypothyroidism with a clinical sign of weight loss (the first experimental group) and with obesity (the second experimental group) is carried out. To compare the results, some hematological parameters of domestic dogs with alimentary obesity are given. In dogs with hypothyroidism, anemia was found, which manifested itself in a decrease in the number of erythrocytes compared to the control group by 33.8 and 26.5% and hemoglobin content by 32.1 and 24.7%, respectively. Meanwhile, in the course of the study there was no significant difference in the average values of these hematological parameters of dogs with hypothyroidism, with different fatness. In dogs of the first group the content of leukocytes was 1.8 times higher than the indicated indicator of clinically healthy animals, and in dogs of the second group 1.5 times, respectively.
Discovery of a bright X-ray transient in the Galactic Center with XMM-Newton
Creators: name: Porquet, D.
name: Grosso, N.
name: Burwitz, V.
name: Andronov, I. L.
name: Aschenbach, B.
name: Predehl, P.
name: Warwick, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a bright X-ray transient object, XMMU J174554.4-285456, observed in outburst with XMM-Newton on October 3, 2002,and located at 6.3' from SgrA*, the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center.This object exhibits a very large X-ray luminosity variability of a factor of about 1300 between two X-ray observations separated by four months. The X-ray spectrum is best fitted by a power-law with a photon index of 1.6+/-0.2 and absorption column density of 14.1 (+1.6,-1.4) x 10^22 cm^-2. This large absorption suggests this source is located at the distance of the Galactic center, i.e., 8 kpc. The 2-10 keV luminosity is about 1.0 x 10^35(d/8kpc)^2 erg/s. A pulsation period of about 172 s is hinted by the timing analysis. The X-ray properties strongly suggest a binary system with either a black hole or a neutron star for the compact object.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A Letters, 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Additional file 1 of Progesterone receptor membrane component 1 regulates lipid homeostasis and drives oncogenic signaling resulting in breast cancer progression
Creators: name: Asperger, Hannah
name: Stamm, Nadia
name: Gierke, Berthold
name: Pawlak, Michael
name: Hofmann, Ute
name: Zanger, Ulrich M.
name: Marton, Annamaria
name: Katona, Robert L.
name: Buhala, Andrea
name: Vizler, Csaba
name: Jan-Philipp Cieslik
name: Ruckhäberle, Eugen
name: Niederacher, Dieter
name: Fehm, Tanja
name: Neubauer, Hans
name: Ludescher, Marina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
ORGANIZATION OF COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY IN AGRICULTURAL FOOD MARKETS
Creators: name: Krasnyak O.Р.
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2021
Subjects: food security
market
commercial activity
marketing
products
competition
efficiency.

description: In the conditions of intensive globalization of the world community the importance of the level of self-sufficiency of the population with food grows. The protection of national and state vital interests in the field of food security is part of the complex problems of national security and is one of the most acute problems of the XXI century, which requires detailed consideration to ensure the security and real sovereignty of Ukraine. The author reveals the interpretation of the term "food security" as the ability of the state, regardless of the international situation, to provide all segments of the population with access to safe, quality food in the amount necessary to lead an active and healthy life. The issues of functioning of the agri-food market as an element of the market infrastructure and a means of ensuring the development of the agrarian business are considered, as well as ways to increase the efficiency of its functioning to ensure food security of the state.
Cooperative Directors: Perspective and Leadership
Creators: name: Adrian, John L.
name: Kiser, Stephen L.
name: Adrian, John L.
name: Kiser, Stephen L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Cooperative directors’ perceptions of their roles, knowledge, and implementation of cooperative principles, business decision making, financial analysis, cooperative law, and division of responsibility with management were analyzed using data from forty-eight agricultural and thirty-one rural electric directors. Directors performed well in these areas with the best performance being related to decision-making scenarios. Self-assessments and performance for capabilities/situational items were consistent and favorable. However, opportunities exist to strengthen directors’ informational bases, especially for cooperative law, roles and responsibilities of directors and managers, and financial analysis.
Suburban Sprawl and Market Segments Facing Supply Cooperatives
Creators: name: Fulton, Joan R.
name: Hine, Susan E.
name: Black, Dennis
name: Fulton, Joan R.
name: Hine, Susan E.
name: Black, Dennis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Cooperatives today face the challenge of dealing with a segmented customer base where customers in different segments have different needs. In particular, they face the challenge of how to serve different customer groups at the same time. Hobby farmers represent one market segment or group that is becoming increasingly important for farm supply cooperatives located near urban areas. This paper examines factors hobby farmers and traditional farmers value when dealing with a cooperative to identify how managers can better serve both customer segments. The results of a survey of customers of farm supply cooperatives along the front range region of Colorado are analyzed and presented in this paper. The most important factors for both groups of customers were price, quality, and timely delivery. The hobby farmer group also valued service factors like location, efficient service, hours of operation, and cleanliness. The results suggest agribusiness managers need to place greater emphasis on service components when targeting the hobby farmer group as compared with the traditional farmer group.
PDF in PDFs from Hadronic Tensor and LaMET
Creators: name: Liu, Keh-Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out a problem of the phenomenological definition of the valence partons as the difference between the partons and antipartons in the context of the NNLO evolution equations. After demonstrating that the classification of the parton degrees of freedom (PDF) of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) are the same in the QCD path-intergral formulations of the hadronic tensor and the quasi-PDF with LaMET, we resolve the problem by showing that the proper definition of the valence should be in terms of those in the connected insertions only. We also prove that the strange partons appear as the disconnected sea in the nucleon.
description: References added, version to be published in PRD
Additional file 1 of A pay for performance scheme in primary care: Meta-synthesis of qualitative studies on the provider experiences of the quality and outcomes framework in the UK
Creators: name: Khan, Nagina
name: Rudoler, David
name: McDiarmid, Mary
name: Peckham, Stephen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Search Strategy
Tunable THz Switch-Filter Based on Magneto-Plasmonic Graphene Nanodisk
Creators: name: Dmitriev, Victor
name: Melo, Geraldo
name: Castro, Wagner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We propose and analyze a multifunctional THz device which can operate as a tunable switch and a filter. The device consists of a circular graphene nanodisk coupled to two nanoribbons oriented at $90^\circ$ to each other. The graphene elements are placed on a dielectric substrate. The nanodisk is magnetized by a DC magnetic field normal to its plane. The physical principle of the device is based on the propagation of surface plasmon-polariton waves in the graphene nanoribbons and excitation of dipole modes in the nanodisk. Numerical simulations show that 0.61T DC magnetic field provides transmission (regime ON) at the frequency 5.33 THz with the bandwidth 12.7$\%$ and filtering with the Q-factor equals to 7.8. At the central frequency, the insertion loss is around -2 dB and the reflection coefficient is -43 dB. The regime OFF can be achieved by means of switching DC magnetic field to zero value or by switching chemical potential of the nanodisk to zero with the ON/OFF ratio better than 20 dB. A small central frequency tuning by chemical potential is possible with a fixed DC magnetic field.
Lamoha personata
Creators: name: Ng, Peter K. L.
name: Forges, Bertrand Richer De
name: Martin, Joel W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Homolidae
Lamoha
Lamoha personata

description: Lamoha personata (Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1981)
 Hypsophrys personata Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1981: 543, figs. 4A, 5B, B1, 7D, pl. 4 fig. 3, 3a, b, 4, pl. 7 fig. 3, 3a; Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995: 453, figs. 3, 58A, B, 59a, b, 61a, b; Ng et al. 2008: 40.
 Hypsophrys williamsi — Titgen 1988: 144 (not Hypsophrys williamsi Takeda, 1980).
 Hypsophrys aff. williamsi — Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995: 453, figs. 59 e–f, 61 e, f, k.
 Lamoha williamsi — Castro 2011: 35.
 Material examined. Hawaiian Islands: 1 male (33.0 × 29.4 mm), 2 females (30.0 × 28.3 mm, 30.0 × 26.7 mm) (BPBM S10614), Kona, 666 m, from Heterocarpus trap, coll. R. H. Titgen, 15 January 1987.— 1 male (37.0 × 33.0 mm), 1 ovigerous female (31.3 × 29.0 mm) (BPBM-S10628), 400 m, in shrimp trap, coll. R. H. Titgen, 5 October 1980.
 Remarks. Titgen (1988: 144) recorded two males and three females from Kona in the island of Hawai‘i and identified them with L. williamsi (Takeda, 1980) (as a Hypsophrys). Guinot & Richer de Forges (1995: 453, figs. 59 e–f, 61 e–f, k) examined the material, figured a specimen and doubted the identity of the specimens, preferring to refer to them only as “ Hypsophrys aff. williamsi ”.
 Ng & Wang (2002: 21) examined material of L. personata (Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1981), from Guam and on the basis of the structure of the chela, ambulatory leg proportions, and armature on the dorsal margin of the P2–P4 merus, commented that Titgen’s (1988) record of “ H. williamsi ” from the Hawaiian Islands is clearly L. personata.
 Distribution. Known from Vanuatu (type locality), Guam, Samoa, French Polynesia, Austral Islands, Kiribati, and the Hawaiian Islands (Kona), 450–900 m (Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995; Ng & Wang 2002).
description: Published as part of Ng, Peter K. L., Forges, Bertrand Richer De & Martin, Joel W., 2020, The Homolidae of the Hawaiian Islands, with notes on the taxonomy of Moloha major (Kubo, 1936) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 306-328 in Zootaxa 4809 (2) on page 310, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4809.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3934146
Interplay between the glassy transition and granular superconductivity in organic materials
Creators: name: Senoussi, S.
name: Tirbiyine, A.
name: Ramzi, A.
name: Haouam, A.
name: Pesty, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is known that some (BEDT-TTF)2X layered organic superconductors undergo a glassy transition near 80 K. Our purpose is to exploit quenched disorder to get new insights on both the superconducting state (T < 12 K) and the glassy transition by studying the superconducting properties as functions of annealing time (ta) and temperature (Ta) around 80 K. The main results on the fully deuterated kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br compound are: 1) The data can be described by a percolation cluster model. 2) At short time scales, the clusters grow with ta following a power law. 3) At large time scales the clusters grow toward a thermodynamic state following a stretched exponential law in (1 - exp(-(t/tau)beta)with beta varying from about 0.5 to 1 in our Ta range (65 - 110 K). 4) The relaxation time follows an Arrhenius law tau(T)=tau0exp(U/T) with U around 2660 K and 1/tau0 around 2x1013 s-1. 5) The asymptotic magnetization fits with a scaling law with Tg around 55K and n around 3.2. The results are consistent with a Ising spin-glass-like model.
description: 17 pages; 4 figures
Do Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives Advertise Less Intensively Than Investor-Owned Food-Processing Firms?
Creators: name: Gruber, Jennifer E.
name: Rogers, Richard T.
name: Sexton, Richard J.
name: Gruber, Jennifer E.
name: Rogers, Richard T.
name: Sexton, Richard J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: A common belief is that agricultural marketing cooperatives advertise less than their investor-owned counterparts, holding other factors constant. This paper presents both a conceptual and an empirical analysis that questions this conventional wisdom. Our conceptual model analyzes a cooperative’s optimal advertising-to-sales (A/S) ratio under three alternative objective functions. In each instance, the optimal A/S ratio is characterized by the well-known Dorfman-Steiner condition that also characterizes optimal advertising for an investor-owned firm. The empirical analysis examines forty-nine processed food markets, each containing at least one cooperative. The results do no support the conventional wisdom that cooperatives advertise less, ceteris paribus. The appearance that cooperatives advertise less is due to their predominance in industries with low margins and little product differentiation, factors that are associated with low advertising intensity regardless of a firm’s organizational form.
Learning difference : the impact of university education on competing conceptions of equality in Canada
Creators: name: Brodhead, John Dalzell
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This paper analyzes the constitutional discourse in Canada with specific reference to university education and its effect on the opinions of individuals. It proposes that competing conceptions of equality may lie at the heart of Canada's constitutional stalemate, and that university education influences which conception will be supported. Differentiated equality is equality defined as universal basic human rights augmented by group-specific rights where necessary. This contrasts with the more, traditional definition of equality, undifferentiated equality, where equality requires identical treatment of all citizens by the state. The university-educated appear to be far more likely to have the cognitive capacities and social experience to come to support claims for differentiated equality than are the non-university-educated. This paper looks at the literature on the university experience, and what it may be from this experience that leads individuals to become more likely to support group-specific rights. The paper looks at the reasoning chains used by individuals, and posits that the university-educated employ more complex reasoning chains that include ideas as well as feelings. The statistical analysis yields some interesting and significant results. There is a consistent difference between the university-educated and those who have never attended university on support for differentiated equality. Whether it is group specific rights for Aboriginal people, for Quebec, or for ethnic minorities in Canada, a 15-20% gap consistently appears between the university and non-university educated. The paper also attempts to gauge statistically what factors of the university experience are important in the development of support for either of the conceptions of equality. If differentiated equality is the chosen route for resolving Canada's constitutional challenge, this paper reveals a number of hurdles, both conceptual and practical, that will have to be cleared before Canada will be able to move forward.
Electromagnetic & Weak Probes: Experimental Overview
Creators: name: Geurts, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electromagnetic and electroweak probes are the most versatile probes in the study of heavy-ion collisions. Produced at every stage in the evolution of QCD matter, its messengers are practically inert to the strongly interacting medium they travel through. In this contribution, I will discuss a selection of new results from experiments at the LHC, RHIC, and SIS facilities, spanning almost four orders of magnitude in beam energy. I will conclude with a brief overview of the experimental landscape in the near future.
description: Contribution to the QM2019 proceedings
Map and photographs;Meteorological Data;Study species details;Breakdown of low fluoresence yield samples;Figure S3. Sphagnum δ18OC and water content, separated by species from Stable isotope signals provide seasonal climatic markers for moss functional groups
Creators: name: Royles, Jessica
name: Young, Sophie
name: Griffiths, Howard
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S1: a) Map of UK, with magnified region showing location of field sites and other locations mentioned in the text; b) Moss growing at Wicken Fen; c) Sphagnum moss on Dersingham Bog; d) Polytrichastrum formosum at Brandon Country Park; e) Dersingham Bog.;Figure S2: a) Meteorological records for Cambridge during 2017 and 2018. Monthly maximum temperature (dashed line), minimum temperature (dotted line) and mean monthly (solid line) temperatures, along side monthly total rainfall (white bars) and sunshine (yellow bars). b) Monthly maximum temperature (dashed line), minimum temperature (dotted line) and mean monthly (solid line) temperatures and mean monthly relative humidity (red) measured at the surface of moss growing under partial shading in Cambridge during 2017 and 2018.;Table S1: Summary of field sites, habitats and study species;able S3: Breakdown by moss lifeform and location of the moss samples for the 46 samples with a mean dark yield less than 0.5. Session 1 was in April 2017, and progressed monthly until Session 18 in September 2018.;Figure S3. Sphagnum δ18OC, separated by species, as a function of water content (An expansion of figure 3d to show the individual Sphagnum species)
The One Member-One Vote Rule in Cooperatives
Creators: name: Reynolds, Bruce J.
name: Reynolds, Bruce J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Cooperative s can achieve better business decisions when their boards of directors maintain a commitment to member consensus. Directors usually try to avoid making decisions by votes, especially by narrow majority victories. Governance on the basis of one member-one vote promotes the search for broad-based consensus that improves board representation of membership interests, but it also leads to more analysis of decision and search for innovative alternatives. By contrast, proportional voting for electing directors creates incentives for large patron members to form coalitions for controlling the board. Pursing such incentives would tend to undermine membership consensus and the motivation to develop new solutions to business problems.