cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Brachinus vigilans Chaudoir 1876
Creators: name: Akhil, S. V.
name: Divya, M.
name: Sabu, K. Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Brachinus
Brachinus vigilans

description: Brachinus vigilans Chaudoir, 1876
Fig. 3c
 Brachinus vigilans Chaudoir, 1876: 68; Bates, 1891: cccxxxvi; Andrewes, 1930a: 53.
 Type locality. India: North India, coll. Dr. Bacon.
 Type depository. MNHN.
 Specimen examined (n=1). Syntype labelled “‘Ind.or.bor’, coll. Dr. Bacon, det. Chaudoir.
 Description. Length 7.5 mm. Head, pronotum, first two antennal segments, scutellum, region around scutellum and sutural line dark reddish yellow; antennal segments 3–11 dark reddish brown; legs pale reddish yellow; eyes greyish black; lateral margin of pronotum dark brown; elytra brownish black.
Head stout, wider than long, rough, punctated, pubescent; eyes moderately protruding; antennae short, segments stout, not reaching the middle of elytra, antennal segment 3 shorter than segment 1.
Pronotum broad, wider than long, rough, matt, punctated, pubescent; disc with apical margin outwardly sinuate, lateral region of apical margin projecting slightly forward, basal margin straight; disc laterally with anterior threefourths convex, posterior fourth divergent, hind angle blunt, obtuse, projecting laterally; median groove shallow, not reaching the apical and basal margins; lateral bead broad.
Elytra convex, matt, punctated, densely pubescent, with golden brown short setae; base narrowed, humerus rounded; apex without re-entrant angle; scutellum long, pointed; striations moderate, shallow, narrow, intervals broad, both striations and intervals covered by setae; sutural line narrow, widest at base, narrowing suddenly after the tip of scutellum, extending till apex.
 Distribution. INDIA: Jharkhand: Tetara; Maharashtra: Nagpur; Tamil Nadu: Chennai.
description: Published as part of Akhil, S. V., Divya, M. & Sabu, K. Thomas, 2020, Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India, pp. 576-600 in Zootaxa 4816 (4) on page 594, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/3954685
A Pilot Program to Assist CAFOs in Using Weather Data to Minimize Manure Management Risk
Creators: name: Massey, Raymond E.
name: Boessen, Christian R.
name: Massey, Raymond E.
name: Boessen, Christian R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: This paper summarizes a pilot project to disseminate site specific weather information that has been processed to estimate field runoff potential of land applied manure. Preliminary feedback indicate the program has value but that additional information is needed to understand how farmers use weather information to make decisions within the regulatory constraints they face.
Patchlets : a method of interpreting correlation stereo 3D data
Creators: name: Murray, Donald R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis describes methods for fitting local planar surface elements, that we call patchlets, to 3D data obtained from correlation stereo images. We use these patchlets to robustly extract and estimate bounded planar surfaces from complex and noisy stereo scenes. The patchlet element is a small planar surface the size of a pixel projected onto a world surface. It has a position, a normal direction, a size, and confidence metrics on its position and orientation. The confidence metrics are generated from the noise model of the stereo vision system, which are propagated to 3D point data and then to the patchlet parameters. The patchlets are used to extract larger bounded planar surfaces that are useful for environment modeling. We use a region-growing approach to identify how many surfaces exist in a stereo image and an initial estimate of the surface parameters. We then use Expectation-Maximisation (EM) to refine these surface parameters to an optimal estimate using a probability maximisation approach. The confidence metrics of the patchlet parameters allow proper weighting of patchlet contributions to the probability maximisation solution. We verify by experimental means the accuracy of correlation stereo matching and demonstrate that the patchlet confidence metrics obtained from that accuracy fit expected normal distributions. We compare the results of the patchlet-based surface segmentation to manually constructed ground-truth segmentation and find the segmentation accuracy for a scene ranged from 82% to 93%. We also present a method for filtering noise from correlation stereo disparity images.
Supplementary Figure S3 from Antibacterial activity of graphene oxide nanosheet against multidrug resistant superbugs isolated from infected patients
Creators: name: Md. Toasin Hossain Aunkor
name: Topu Raihan
name: Shamsul H. Prodhan
name: H. S. C. Metselaar
name: Malik, Syeda Umme Fahmida
name: Abul Kalam Azad
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 100799 Nanotechnology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology

description: The corresponding height profile of (a) GO thickness (manuscript figure 8a) and (b) GO lateral dimension (manuscript figure 8b)
Surface wave non-reciprocity via time-modulated metamaterials
Creators: name: Palermo, Antonio
name: Celli, Paolo
name: Yousefzadeh, Behrooz
name: Daraio, Chiara
name: Marzani, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate how Rayleigh waves interact with modulated resonators located on the free surface of a semi-infinite elastic medium. We begin by studying the dynamics of a single resonator with time-modulated stiffness. In particular, we evaluate the accuracy of an analytical approximation of the resonator response and identify the parameter ranges in which its behavior remains stable. Then, we develop an analytical model to describe the interaction between surface waves and an array of resonators with spatio-temporally modulated stiffness. By combining our analytical models with full-scale numerical simulations, we demonstrate that spatio-temporal stiffness modulation of this elastic metasurface leads to the emergence of non-reciprocal features in the Rayleigh wave spectrum. Specifically, we show how the frequency content of a propagating signal can be filtered and converted when traveling through the modulated medium, and illustrate how surface-to-bulk wave conversion plays a role in these phenomena. Throughout this article, we indicate bounds of modulation parameters for which our theory is reliable, thus providing guidelines for future experimental studies on the topic.
Der Leydener griechisch-arabische Perikopenbuch für die Kar- und Osterwoche
Creators: name: Baumstark, Anton
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 12 Nr. 1 (1915): Oriens christianus, Band 12, Heft 1
Managing an Industry in Crisis: BSE in Canada
Creators: name: Carlberg, Jared G.
name: Brewin, Derek G.
name: Carlberg, Jared G.
name: Brewin, Derek G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: A BSE discovery in a downer cow in May 2003 in Alberta caused the closure of all international markets to live cattle exports. The Canadian cattle industry has lost $5.5 billion as a result. This paper describes the BSE threat, the border closures, and policy responses & their efficacy.
Die apokryphe Erzählung des Joseph von Arimathäa über den Bau der ersten christlichen Kirche in Lydda
Creators: name: Kluge, Theodor
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 12 Nr. 1 (1915): Oriens christianus, Band 12, Heft 1
O'ZBEKISTON REPUBLIKASIDA TO'LOVGA QOBILIYATSIZLIK(BANKROTLIK) TIZIMIDA QONUNCHILIK ASOSINING TASHKIL TOPISH VA RIVOJLANISHI BOSQICHLARI TAHLILI.
Creators: name: Husainova, Sabina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu tatqiqotning maqsadi O’zekiston Respublikasida to’lovga qobiliyatsizlik (bankrotlik) insititutining huquqiy asoslarini rivojlantirish uchun qonunchilikka kiritilgan asosiy o’zgartishlarni tahlil qilish va ularning samaradorlik darajasini o’rganishdir. Maqolada tadqiqot maqsadini aniq ifoda etish uchun tarixiy-huquqiy hamda qiyosiy taqqoslash metodikalaridan foydalanilgan.
An experimental investigation of textural controls on the brittle deformation of dolomite
Creators: name: Austin, Nicholas J.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The brittle deformation of dolomite, which is a common lithology in numerous thrust systems and hydrocarbon reservoirs around the world, is strongly related to its textural features. Generally for the purpose of characterizing rock deformation these diverse features are shoehorned under the headings of porosity and grain size, based on the assumption that the concentration and length of the initial flaws vary proportionally with either one or both of these properties. In dolomite there is often substantial textural variation that influences the nature of the initial flaws, yet does not relate to grain size and/or porosity. In order to investigate the role of texture on the brittle deformation of dolomite, a series of 23 triaxial deformation experiments were performed at confining pressures of 25, 50, and 100 MPa, dry, at room temperature, on dolomite from three texturally distinct sample suites: the Badshot Formation, the Niagara Formation, and the Rock Creek quarry. The variations in the mechanical response of these mineralogically and chemically similar dolomites, and the ensuing microstructures, indicate that differences in texture can promote the transition from brittle faulting to cataclastic flow, and can vary the peak strength. Grain boundary textures promote or inhibit the ability of grains to shear and rotate with respect to one another, whereas the presence of intragranular flaws, such as cleavage, that act as weaknesses, promote intragranular deformation. Both grain and grain boundary textures strongly influence the mechanics of deformation, including the peak strength, due to their influence on the length and concentration of the initial flaws. An empirical failure criterion for the peak strength of dolomite is formulated that includes only the effective Young's modulus, the confining pressure, and the empirically defined uniaxial compressive strength; when a grain size term is added, the quality of fit to the experimental data is significantly reduced. Porosity and the concentration and length of the initial flaws are embedded in the effective Young's modulus, which is measured from the differential stress-axial strain curve for each deformation experiment.
Supplementary Figure S1 from Antibacterial activity of graphene oxide nanosheet against multidrug resistant superbugs isolated from infected patients
Creators: name: Md. Toasin Hossain Aunkor
name: Topu Raihan
name: Shamsul H. Prodhan
name: H. S. C. Metselaar
name: Malik, Syeda Umme Fahmida
name: Abul Kalam Azad
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 100799 Nanotechnology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology

description: EDX of (a) Graphite and (b) GO
Dual S-matrix Bootstrap I: 2D Theory
Creators: name: Guerrieri, Andrea L
name: Homrich, Alexandre
name: Vieira, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using duality in optimization theory we formulate a dual approach to the S-matrix bootstrap that provides rigorous bounds to 2D QFT observables as a consequence of unitarity, crossing symmetry and analyticity of the scattering matrix. We then explain how to optimize such bounds numerically, and prove that they provide the same bounds obtained from the usual primal formulation of the S-matrix Bootstrap, at least once convergence is attained from both perspectives. These techniques are then applied to the study of a gapped system with two stable particles of different masses, which serves as a toy model for bootstrapping popular physical systems.
description: 39 pages, 9 figures
Dairy Supply Response under Stochastic Trend and Seasonality: A Structural Time Series Analysis
Creators: name: Paudel, Laxmi
name: Houston, Jack E.
name: Devkota, Nirmala
name: Paudel, Laxmi
name: Houston, Jack E.
name: Devkota, Nirmala
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: A structural time series methodology was used to examine the role of stochastic trend and seasonality in dairy supply response model. In our analysis, the dairy supply model with stochastic seasonality and deterministic trend performs best in terms of diagnostic tests, goodness-of-fit measures, and forecasting accuracy.
PT-symmetric supersymmetry in a solvable short-range model
Creators: name: Bagchi, B.
name: Bila, H.
name: Jakubsky, V.
name: Mallik, S.
name: Quesne, C.
name: Znojil, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The simplest purely imaginary and piecewise constant $\cal PT$-symmetric potential located inside a larger box is studied. Unless its strength exceeds a certain critical value, all the spectrum of its bound states remains real and discrete. We interpret such a model as an initial element of the generalized non-Hermitian Witten's hierarchy of solvable Hamiltonians and construct its first supersymmetric (SUSY) partner in closed form.
description: 3 figures, 1 table
Supplementary Figure S2 from Antibacterial activity of graphene oxide nanosheet against multidrug resistant superbugs isolated from infected patients
Creators: name: Md. Toasin Hossain Aunkor
name: Topu Raihan
name: Shamsul H. Prodhan
name: H. S. C. Metselaar
name: Malik, Syeda Umme Fahmida
name: Abul Kalam Azad
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 100799 Nanotechnology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology

description: SEM of (a) Graphite and (b) GO
THE INTEGRATION AND IMPORTANCE OF UZBEK FOLKTALES IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SECONDARY CLASSES
Creators: name: Tashpulatova, Madina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In an increasingly globalized world, effective second language acquisition is critical for communication and academic success. However, language learning is not just about mastering grammar and vocabulary; it is deeply connected to culture. For English language learners (ELLs) in Uzbekistan, integrating cultural elements into the language-learning process can enhance both linguistic and cultural understanding. This thesis explores the use of Uzbek folktales as a method for teaching English to secondary school students, focusing on how these traditional stories not only improve language skills but also foster a deeper connection between the students' native culture and the foreign language.
System Level Economic Analysis of Swine Diet Modifications
Creators: name: Stoecker, Arthur L.
name: Lin, Yi-Hung
name: Stoecker, Arthur L.
name: Lin, Yi-Hung
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Experimental data from low nitrogen and phosphorus diets (Carter et al, 1999, 2000, 2003) are being used to validate and/or modify the NRC swine growth model. A profit maximizing daily growth model that considers feed costs, excretion, waste management costs, and length of feeding period is being developed.
Supplementary Table S1 from Antibacterial activity of graphene oxide nanosheet against multidrug resistant superbugs isolated from infected patients
Creators: name: Md. Toasin Hossain Aunkor
name: Topu Raihan
name: Shamsul H. Prodhan
name: H. S. C. Metselaar
name: Malik, Syeda Umme Fahmida
name: Abul Kalam Azad
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 100799 Nanotechnology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology

description: MIC and MBC of GO
A new interpretation of the experimental data for the OH+SO collision considering the recrossing reaction
Creators: name: Garrido, Juan De Dios
name: Ellakkis, Samah
name: Ballester, Maikel Y.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Complexes formed in reactive collisions highlight the nature of intramolecular interactions. The present work reports a detailed quasi-classical trajectory study of the reaction OH(vi′,ji′=1)+SO(vi″=0,ji″=0)→HOSO→OH(vf′,jf′)+SO(vf″,jf″) considering the vibrational quantum numbers in the interval 0≤vi′≤5 and several initial relative translational energies in the range 0.2≤Etr/kcalmol−1≤10.0. In the study, a global DMBE PES for the ground electronic state of the HSO2 system was used. Here, specific initial-state reactive cross sections and specific initial-state thermal rate coefficients for the recrossing reaction OH+SO are reported for the first time. Similar properties for the formation of the H+SO2 products are also presented. The interaction between these allowed reaction channels is studied in detail. A comparison with the experimental data previously reported for the formation of H+SO2 is shown and a new theoretical interpretation of these results, considering the recrossing reaction, is raised.
CREDENCE ATTRIBUTES, CONSUMER VALUATION, AND ENDOWMNET EFFECTS IN AUCTIONS: THE CASE OF SWEET POTATOES
Creators: name: Nalley, Lawton Lanier
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Parkhurst, Gregory M.
name: Nalley, Lawton Lanier
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Parkhurst, Gregory M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: There have been few studies that examine valuations of location of origin before and after consumers have consumed the product (or health advertising). Results of non-hypothetical experiments show that knowledge of origin does have an impact on valuation as well as the taste attribute (experience) and the health attribute (credence).
The Preference for Round Number Prices
Creators: name: Klumpp, Joni M.
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Anderson, Kim B.
name: Klumpp, Joni M.
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Anderson, Kim B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: This study determines if a preference for round prices exists in the wheat market and how wheat sales react to price movements around whole dollar amounts. The results show round prices are slightly more prevalent than non-round prices and that transactions increase when price moves above a whole dollar amount.
Long-term evolution of FU Orionis objects at infrared wavelengths
Creators: name: Ábrahám, P.
name: Kóspál, Á.
name: Csizmadia, Sz.
name: Kun, M.
name: Moór, A.
name: Prusti, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the brightness evolution of 7 FU Orionis systems in the 1-100 micrometer wavelength range using data from the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). The ISO measurements were supplemented with 2MASS and MSX observations performed in the same years as the ISO mission (1995-98). The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) based on these data points were compared with earlier ones derived from the IRAS photometry as well as from ground-based observations carried out around the epoch 1983. In 3 cases (Z CMa, Parsamian 21, V1331 Cyg) no difference between the two epochs was seen within the measurement uncertainties. V1057 Cyg, V1515 Cyg and V1735 Cyg have become fainter at near-infrared wavelengths while V346 Nor has become slightly brighter. V1057 Cyg exhibits a similar flux change also in the mid-infrared. At lambda >= 60 micrometer most of the sources remained constant; only V346 Nor seems to fade. Our data on the long-term evolution of V1057 Cyg agree with the model predictions of Kenyon & Hartmann (1991) and Turner et al. (1997) at near- and mid-infrared wavelengths, but disagree at lambda > 25 micrometer. We discuss if this observational result at far-infrared wavelengths could be understood in the framework of the existing models.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics
A Standard-based Open Source IoT Platform: FIWARE
Creators: name: Cirillo, Flavio
name: Solmaz, Gürkan
name: Berz, Everton Luís
name: Bauer, Martin
name: Cheng, Bin
name: Kovacs, Ernoe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The ever-increasing acceleration of technology evolution in all fields is rapidly changing the architectures of data-driven systems towards the Internet-of-Things concept. Many general and specific-purpose IoT platforms are already available. This article introduces the capabilities of the FIWARE framework that is transitioning from a research to a commercial level. We base our exposition on the analysis of three real-world use cases (global IoT market, analytics in smart cities, and IoT augmented autonomous driving) and their requirements that are addressed with the usage of FIWARE. We highlight the lessons learnt during the design, implementation and deployment phases for each of the use cases and their critical issues. Finally we give two examples showing that FIWARE still maintains openness to innovation: semantics and privacy.
description: 8 pages, 4 figure, 2 tables, Published IEEE IoT Magazine article
The fleeting existence of the classical vinyl cation structure
Creators: name: Varras, Panayiotis C.
name: Siskos, Michael G.
name: Gritzapis, Panagiotis S.
name: Gerothanassis, Ioannis P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Using a hyperbolic function type-potential and Schrödinger’s equation transformed into a hypergeometric differential equation along with the results presented from an ab-initio CASSCF(10,11)/cc-pVTZ calculation we show that the potential well of the classical vinyl cation minimum is incapable of supporting a zero point vibrational motion for the protons. Furthermore, as opposed to the previously found transition state linking the classical and bridged vinyl cations, we suggest that it becomes a transition state for the interconversion or tautomerization of the bridged vinyl cation.
Government Payments: Economic Impact on Southeastern Peanut Farms
Creators: name: Fletcher, Stanley M.
name: Flanders, Archie
name: Smith, Nathan B.
name: McCorvey, Allen E.
name: Fletcher, Stanley M.
name: Flanders, Archie
name: Smith, Nathan B.
name: McCorvey, Allen E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Southeastern peanut farms with diversified field crops utilize government payments to supplement market receipts. Production in 2002 represented growing conditions under adverse weather, while 2003 represented optimal conditions. Representative farm analysis provides insight into allocation of market receipts and government payments for meeting variable costs and fixed costs.
Environmental Regulation and Horizontal Mergers in the Eco-industry
Creators: name: Canton, Joan
name: David, Maia
name: Sinclair-Desgagne, Bernard
name: Canton, Joan
name: David, Maia
name: Sinclair-Desgagne, Bernard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Eco-Industry
subject: Environmental Policy
subject: Horizontal Mergers

description: This paper considers the environmental policy and welfare implications of a merger between environment firms (i.e., firms managing environmental resources or supplying pollution abatement goods and services). The traditional analysis of mergers in Cournot oligopolies is extended in two ways. First, we show how environmental policy affects the incentives of environment firms to merge. Second, we stress that mergers in the eco-industry impact welfare beyond what is observed in other sectors, due to an extra effect on pollution abatement efforts; this might lead to disagreements between an anti-trust agency seeking to limit market concentration which can be detrimental to consumer surplus and a benevolent regulator who maximizes total welfare.
Special Interests Versus the Public Interest: The Determination of Policy Instruments
Creators: name: Rausser, Gordon C.
name: Roland, Gerard
name: Rausser, Gordon C.
name: Roland, Gerard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: public policy
subject: public economics
subject: politics and government
subject: market structures
subject: sector mobility

description: This paper focuses on recent theoretical developments in political economy and what role they might play in explaining and reforming individual country and global distortions in food and agriculture. Four groups of forces are isolated: political governance structures emphasizing the role of democratic mechanisms; the design of polycentric structures for assigned governmental authority for setting policy instruments; market structure and other socioeconomic characteristics; and the role of sector mobility and asset diversification. Each of these forces are distilled and data sources are reviewed that will allow econometric specifications that have both explanatory and policy reform implications.
Toward a Normative Theory of Crop Yield Skewness
Creators: name: Hennessy, David A.
name: Hennessy, David A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: conditional distribution
subject: crop insurance
subject: negative skewness
subject: spatial heterogeneity
subject: statistical laws.

description: While the preponderance of empirical studies point to negative crop yield skewness in a wide variety of contexts, the literature provides few clear insights on why this is so. The purpose of this paper is to make three points on the matter. We show formally that statistical laws on aggregates do not suggest a normal yield distribution. We explain that whenever the weather-conditioned mean yield has diminishing marginal product, then there is a disposition toward negative skewness in aggregate yields. This is because a high marginal product in bad weather states stretches out the left tail of the yield distribution relative to that of the weather distribution. Turning to disaggregated yields, we decompose unconditional skewness into weather-conditioned skewness plus two other terms and study each in turn.
Impact of using virtual reality technology on the creative thinking and technical skills in soccer for middle school students
Creators: name: هيثم فتح الله, عبد الحفيظ
name: بن عبد الله, عبد القادر
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: virtual reality- technology - creative thinking - technical skills - soccer -( Middle school students)

description: The current research aims to identify the impact of using virtual reality technology on the creative thinking and technical skills in soccer for middle school students inl-Sharkia governorate ,Egypt, The experimental method was used, and applied to the research sample of 30 pupils from the first grade of the middle school and divided into two groups one experimental and on group each one (15) pupils from the first grade, tools included a virtual reality program, physical tests, Torrens creative thinking test and the technical skills tests, theMean ,standard deviation and T. test were used for data treatment. and the most important results that the virtual reality program has a positive impact on learning and developing the use of virtual reality technology on the technical skills, in soccer for first year middle school students, and there are statistically significant differences ,between the two posttests for each of the experimental, and control groups in the posttests of the creative thinking, and the technical skills, in soccer in favor of the posttests of the experimental group.
Single-top production in MC@NLO
Creators: name: Frixione, S.
name: Laenen, E.
name: Motylinski, P.
name: Webber, B. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We match next-to-leading order QCD results for single-top hadroproduction with parton shower Monte Carlo simulations, according to the prescription of the MC@NLO formalism. In this way, we achieve the first practical implementation in MC@NLO of a process that has both initial- and final-state collinear singularities. We show that no difficulties of principle arise from this complication, and present selected results relevant to the Tevatron.
description: 31 pages Latex; 13 figures included.Minor modifications to the text
Anisotropy and Field-Dependence of the Spin-Density-Wave Dynamics in the Quasi One-Dimensional Conductor (TMTSF)_2PF_6
Creators: name: Zornoza, P.
name: Petukhov, K.
name: Dressel, M.
name: Biskup, N.
name: Vuletic, T.
name: Tomic, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anisotropic and non-linear transport properties of the quasi one-dimensional organic conductor (TMTSF)_2PF_6 have been studied by dc, radiofrequency, and microwave methods. Microwave experiments along all three axes reveal that collective transport, which is considered to be the fingerprint of the spin-density-wave condensate, also occurs in the perpendicular b' direction. The pinned mode resonance is present in the $a$ and b'-axes response, but not along the least conducting c* direction. The ac-field threshold, above which the spin-density-wave response is non-linear, strongly decreases as the temperature drops below 4 K. With increasing strength of the microwave electric field and of the radiofrequency signal, the pinned mode and the screened phason loss-peak shift to lower frequencies. In the non-linear regime, in addition to the phason relaxation mode with Arrhenius-like resistive decay, an additional mode with very long and temperature-independent relaxation time appears below 4 K. We attribute the new process to short-wavelength spin-density-wave excitations associated with discommensurations in a random commensurate N=4 domain structure.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures, submitted to EPJ B. ***N.Biskup - Present address: Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid, Spain}
Systematic Matter and Binding-Energy Distributions from a Dispersive Optical Model Analysis
Creators: name: Pruitt, C. D.
name: Charity, R. J.
name: Sobotka, L. G.
name: Atkinson, M. C.
name: Dickhoff, W. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first systematic nonlocal dispersive optical model analysis using both bound-state and scattering data of $^{16,18}$O, $^{40,48}$Ca, $^{58,64}$Ni, $^{112,124}$Sn, and $^{208}$Pb. In all systems, roughly half the total nuclear binding energy is associated with the most-bound 10% of the total nucleon density. The extracted neutron skins reveal the interplay of asymmetry, Coulomb, and shell effects on the skin thickness. Our results indicate that simultaneous optical model fits of inelastic scattering and structural data on isotopic pairs are effective for constraining asymmetry-dependent nuclear structural quantities otherwise difficult to observe experimentally.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Evaluating Target Achievements in the Public Sector: An Application of a Rare Non-Parametric DEA and Malmquist Indices
Creators: name: Odeck, James
name: Odeck, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: target achievement
subject: traffic safety
subject: data envelopment analysis
subject: Malmquist indices

description: This paper provides an assessment of the extent to which targets set by a public authority are achieved by its operational units. A rare DEA framework and its subsequent Malmquist indices are applied on data comprising 19 units over a four year period of 1996 to 1999. The mean efficiency scores by which targets are achieved across the sample years are moderate, in the range 0.81 to 0.93. Average productivity progress across the sample years has been 26 percent. The results illustrate the usefulness of DEA even when there are no inputs and the decomposable Malmquist index for productivity is an asset in exploring causes of productivity growth.
Nonlinearity in the Return to Education
Creators: name: Trostel, Philip A.
name: Trostel, Philip A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: return to education
subject: nonlinearity
subject: instrumental variables

description: This study estimates marginal rates of return to investment in schooling in 12 countries. Significant systematic nonlinearity in the marginal rate of return is found. In particular, the marginal rate of return is increasing significantly at low levels of education, and decreasing significantly at high levels of education. This may help explain why estimates of the return to schooling are often considerably higher when instrumenting for education.
Panzeria connivens
Creators: name: Shima, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Panzeria
Panzeria connivens

description: Panzeria connivens (Zetterstedt)
(Figs 3–4)
 Tachina connivens Zetterstedt, 1844: 1116. Holotype male (MZLU, not examined). Type locality: Sweden, Skåne.
 [For other synonyms see Herting (1984: 104, as Eurithia).]
 Diagnosis. This species is characteristic in having a triangularly expanded mid-basal area of the male cerci and a mid-ventral narrow longitudinal membranous incision on more than basal 1/2 of the female 6th abdominal sternite. This species usually bears only 1 posthumeral seta (Mesnil 1944: 6, fig. 6, Ph; Tschorsnig & Herting 1994: 97, fig. 1, Posthumeralborsten) instead of 2 setae in the similar species P. consobrina. If two setae are present in P. connivens, then the posterior seta is very fine or on only one side of the mesonotum.
 Redescription of terminalia. Male: 6th abdominal tergite fused medially with syntergosternite 7+8 and about 1/5 as long as the latter, bearing a row of long and strong setae with fine hairs among them; syntergosternite 7+8 and epandrium shining brown-black, without pruinosity. Female: 6th tergite separated medially into two hemitergites, each hemitergite narrowed above in lateral view, with a row of long and strong setae on posterior margin of upper 2/3; 6th sternite more than 2 times as long as 6th tergite, with many strong setae on posterior 1/2, anteromedian longitudinal portion narrowly incised; 7th tergite separated into hemitergites, shorter than 6th tergite, with a row of rather strong setae on posterior margin; 7th sternite about 3/5 as long as 6th sternite, posteromedian narrow longitudinal portion membranously excavated to more than 1/2 of its length, with fine hairs on posterior 1/2; 8th tergite absent; 8th sternite short and rather wide, with several hairs; epiproct quadrate, with 2 pairs of setae.
 Material examined from Japan (all in KUM). Hokkaido: 41 males, 8 females from following localities: Mt. Rausu, 200–900 m; Shiretoko Pass; Kushiro, Akan-machi; Sibecha, Shirarutoro; Mts. Daisetsu, Yukomanbetsu and Aizankei; Ashoro, Berabonai and Kiyokawa; Sorach, Yubaridakei. Honshu: 62 males, 9 females from following localities: Aomori Pref., Towada Lake; Niigata Pref., Mikuni Pass; Gunma Pref., Mt. Akagi; Nagano Pref., Mt. Hachimori, Shimashima-tani and Karuizawa; Yamanashi Pref., Mt. Kitadake & Sannose; Saitama Pref., Mt. Buko, Chichibu and Otaki.
 Distribution. Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu); China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Xinjiang, Xizang), Europe (northward to Ireland, central Sweden), Russia (St Petersburg, Siberia, Far East), Transcaucasia.
 Remarks. This species is widely distributed in the Palearctic Region, and commonly found in northern Japan.
description: Published as part of Shima, Hiroshi, 2020, The genus Panzeria Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Japan, pp. 541-575 in Zootaxa 4816 (4) on page 552, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/3954659
Supplementary Information;Raw data tables from The evolution of multicellular complexity: the role of relatedness and environmental constraints
Creators: name: R. M. Fisher
name: J. Z. Shik
name: J. J. Boomsma
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A major challenge in evolutionary biology has been to explain the variation in multicellularity across the many independently evolved multicellular lineages, from slime moulds to vertebrates. Social evolution theory has highlighted the key role of relatedness in determining multicellular complexity and obligateness; however, there is a need to extend this to a broader perspective incorporating the role of the environment. In this paper, we formally test Bonner's 1998 hypothesis that the environment is crucial in determining the course of multicellular evolution, with aggregative multicellularity evolving more frequently on land and clonal multicellularity more frequently in water. Using a combination of scaling theory and phylogenetic comparative analyses, we describe multicellular organizational complexity across 139 species spanning 14 independent transitions to multicellularity and investigate the role of the environment in determining multicellular group formation and in imposing constraints on multicellular evolution. Our results, showing that the physical environment has impacted the way in which multicellular groups form, highlight that environmental conditions might also have affected the major evolutionary transitions.
Die Anaphora des hl. Jakobus, des Bruders des Herrn
Creators: name: Euringer, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 12 Nr. 1 (1915): Oriens christianus, Band 12, Heft 1
South Africa’s new Cooperatives Act: A missed opportunity for small farmers and land reform beneficiaries
Creators: name: Lyne, Michael C.
name: Collins, Ray
name: Lyne, Michael C.
name: Collins, Ray
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural cooperatives
subject: small farmers
subject: new institutional economics
subject: strategic partnerships
subject: land reform beneficiaries

description: Agricultural cooperatives are often viewed as appropriate vehicles to facilitate vertical coordination with, or horizontal integration between, small farmers who would otherwise be excluded from value-adding opportunities and discerning markets. In South Africa, renewed interest in development-oriented cooperatives saw the introduction of a new Cooperatives Act in 2005, along with support measures dedicated to ‘emerging’ cooperatives. This paper contends that the architects of the new Act discounted important trends in international legislation that would have made development-oriented cooperatives more versatile and given their members better access to capital and expertise through equity partnerships with private agribusiness firms. It is concluded that the new Act should be amended to admit non-patron investors as members, and to allow for non-redeemable and hence appreciable and tradable shares. Such innovations are emerging internationally, usually with a cap on non-patron voting power.
Parmalat
Creators: name: Dobson, William D.
name: Dobson, William D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Parmalat
subject: Fraud
subject: Bankruptcy
subject: Distribution Channels
subject: Brand Proliferation
subject: Fragmented Industries
subject: Debt Aquisition

description: This Discussion Paper describes developments affecting Parmalat of Italy, once one of the world's leading dairy-food firms, which filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2003. After the bankruptcy, it was discovered that fraud on a massive scale had occurred at Parmalat, putting the firm in the infamous category occupied by Enron, Tyco International, and WorldCom. This paper analyzes the origins, growth, strategies, downfall, and restructuring of Parmalat, and identifies implications for the U.S. and world dairy industries and international businesses that flow from the firm's experiences.
Smart Money? The Forecasting Ability of CFTC Large Traders
Creators: name: Sanders, Dwight R.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Merrin, Robert P.
name: Sanders, Dwight R.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Merrin, Robert P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Commitment’s of Traders
subject: futures markets
subject: forecasting

description: The forecasting ability of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Commitment’s of Traders data set is investigated. Bivariate Granger causality tests show very little evidence that traders’ positions are useful in forecasting (leading) market returns. However, there is substantial evidence that traders respond to price changes. In particular, non-commercial traders display a tendency for trend-following. The other trader classifications display mixed styles, perhaps indicating that those trader categories capture a variety of traders. The results generally do not support the use of the Commitment’s of Traders data in predicting market movements.
Inventory and Transformation Hedging Effectiveness in Corn Crushing
Creators: name: Dahlgran, Roger A.
name: Dahlgran, Roger A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: ethanol futures
subject: hedging
subject: cross hedging
subject: corn crushing
subject: processing hedge

description: In response to the development of the U.S. ethanol industry, the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) launched the ethanol futures contract in March 2005. This contract is promoted by the CBOT as allowing ethanol producers to hedge corn crushing using strategies similar to those used in soybean crushing. The similarities end, however, when the lack of short-term correlation between corn and ethanol prices is compared to the strong correlation between soybean and soy product prices. This contrast motivates the examination of the price risk management capabilities of the CBOT’s ethanol futures contract. Standard hedging methodology is applied to weekly cash and futures price data from March 23, 2005 through March 7, 2007. Findings include (1) for two- to eight-week hedging horizons, the ethanol futures contract effectively hedges ethanol inventory price risk. The effectiveness of the hedge increases with the hedging horizon. Thus, ethanol producers and brokers can use the ethanol futures market to reduce the price risk of holding ethanol inventories. (2) Contrary to anecdotal evidence, ethanol futures are not significantly inferior to gasoline futures for hedging ethanol price risk and for a four-week hedge they are significantly superior to gasoline futures. Thus, ethanol producers and brokers get greater price risk protection from hedging with ethanol futures than with gasoline futures. (3) The corn crushing hedge, utilizing corn and ethanol futures contracts, is an effective means to “lock in” a processing margin. The effectiveness of this hedge increases as the hedging horizon increases. Finally, to understand the processing hedge, the corn crush hedge and the soybean crush hedge were compared. I found that (4) the price risk of corn crushing is greater than that of soybean crushing and the effectiveness of corn crush hedging exceeds that of soybean crush hedging. This difference is explained by the high correlations in the soybean complex.
Complex magnetic structure in Ba5Ru3O12 with isolated Ru3O12-trimer
Creators: name: Basu, T.
name: Wei, F. Y.
name: Zhang, Q.
name: Fang, Y.
name: Ke, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report detailed magnetic, transport, heat-capacity, and neutron diffraction measurements of Ba5Ru3O12, a compound consisting of isolated Ru3O12 trimers. We show that this system develops long-range antiferromagnetic ordering at 60 K (TN) without structural distortion and metal-insulator-type transition, which is in sharp contrast to other Barium Ruthenate trimer systems such as 9R-BaRuO3 and Ba4Ru3O10. A complex magnetic structure is revealed which is attributable to the magnetic frustration due to competing exchange interactions between Ru ions on different crystallographic sites within the Ru3O12 trimer.
description: Accepted in Phys. Rev. Materials https://journals.aps.org/prmaterials/accepted/cf07fZefHf11420400e49e11582929adccbfd2b66