cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Perception of welfare and poverty: Analysis of Qualitative Responses of a Panel of Urban Households in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Tadesse
name: Mekonnen, Tadesse
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: welfare
subject: poverty
subject: Urban
subject: Ethiopia

description: In this study we attempted to apply the subjective definition of poverty based on a version of the income evaluation question to analyses the perception of households about their welfare and to derive the poverty line and poverty measures in developing country setting. The results are encouraging and indicate that meaningful responses can be obtained to the income evaluation question. The findings show that in general households are more concerned about their absolute welfare than their welfare in comparison with others. In addition, we found that household needs rise with the size of the household, sex of the head of the household and the education of the head of the household.
description: Special Issue: Poverty and Poverty |Determinants in Ethiopia(Financed by Action Aid-Ethiopia)
Preregistration - Bringing transparency to animal research
Creators: name: Heinl, Céline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The majority of animal experiments can only be justified by a gain of knowledge for the society. Several studies, however, indicate that a large part of animal experiments is never published. This non-publication does not only lead to a distorted view of the state of research but also strongly contradicts ethical principles. We propose preregistration of studies involving animals in animalstudyregistry.org to address this problem. Preregistration could help to improve transparency, reproducibility and animal welfare at the same time.
Changes in Welfare and poverty: An application of Stochastic Dominance Criteria
Creators: name: Bigsten, Arne
name: Abebe, Shimeles
name: Mekonnen, Tadesse
name: Bigsten, Arne
name: Abebe, Shimeles
name: Mekonnen, Tadesse
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Welfare
subject: poverty

description: The study analyses changes in urban and rural poverty levels in Ethiopia between 1994 and 1997 using stochastic dominance criteria. The results show that there are only small differences in urban and rural poverty levels. Rural poverty was significantly reduced between 1994 and 1997, will urban poverty remained largely unchanged. Both urban and rural areas saw an increase in average incomes combined with an increase in inequality. The welfare evaluation of these changes depends on one's valuation of efficiency or mean income change relative to equity change. We use a welfare criterion proposed by Tam and Zhang, by which rural welfare can be see to have increased even for relatively egalitarian preferences, while urban welfare did not increase even in the case of little concern for equality.
description: Special Issue: Poverty and Poverty |Determinants in Ethiopia(Financed by Action Aid-Ethiopia)
Aphanipathes Brook 1889
Creators: name: Opresko, D. M.
name: Wagner, D.
name: Montgomery, A. D.
name: Brugler, M. R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Antipatharia
Aphanipathidae
Aphanipathes

description: Aphanipathes Brook 1889
 Type species. Aphanipathes sarothamnoides Brook 1889 (see Opresko 2004 for discussion).
 Diagnosis. Colony sparsely to densely, irregularly branched, bushy, sometimes broom-like, with short to long, straight or curved, often ascending branches. Branches not pinnulated.
description: Published as part of Opresko, D. M., Wagner, D., Montgomery, A. D. & Brugler, M. R., 2012, Discovery of Aphanipathes verticillata (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia) in the Hawaiian Islands, pp. 24-39 in Zootaxa 3348 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3348.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5251708
Signature of Quantum Entanglement in NH4CuPO4.H2O
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Tanmoy
name: Singh, Harkirat
name: Mitra, Chiranjib
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entangled solid state systems have gained a great deal of attention due to their fruitful applications in modern quantum technologies. Herein, detection of entanglement content from experimental magnetic susceptibility and specific heat data is reported for NH4CuPO4.H2O in its solid state crystalline form. NH4CuPO4.H2O is a prototype of Heisenberg spin 1/2 dimer system. Temperature dependent magnetic susceptibility and specific data are fitted to an isolated dimer model and the exchange coupling constant is determined. Field dependent magnetization isotherms taken at different temperatures are plotted in a three dimensional plot. Subsequently, entanglement is detected both from susceptibility and specific heat through two different entanglement measures; entanglement witness and entanglement of formation. The temperature evolution of entanglement is studied and the critical temperature is determined up to which entanglement exists. Temperature dependent nature of entanglement extracted from susceptibility and specific heat shows good consistency with each other. Moreover, the field dependent entanglement is also investigated.
Additional file 7 of circNFIB1 inhibits lymphangiogenesis and lymphatic metastasis via the miR-486-5p/PIK3R1/VEGF-C axis in pancreatic cancer
Creators: name: Kong, Yao
name: Li, Yuting
name: Luo, Yuming
name: Zhu, Jiang
name: Zheng, Hanhao
name: Gao, Bowen
name: Guo, Xiaofeng
name: Li, Zhihua
name: Chen, Rufu
name: Chen, Changhao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 7 Table S5. Antibodies used in the experiments.
An optical fiber based interferometer to measure velocity profiles in sheared complex fluids
Creators: name: Salmon, Jean-Baptiste
name: Manneville, Sebastien
name: Colin, Annie
name: Pouligny, Bernard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe an optical fiber based interferometer to measure velocity profiles in sheared complex fluids using Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS). After a review of the theoretical problem of DLS under shear, a detailed description of the setup is given. We outline the various experimental difficulties induced by refraction when using a Couette cell. We also show that homodyne DLS is not well suited to measure quantitative velocity profiles in narrow-gap Couette geometries. On the other hand, the heterodyne technique allows us to determine the velocity field inside the gap of a Couette cell. All the technical features of the setup, namely its spatial resolution ($\approx 50$--$100 μ$m) and its temporal resolution ($\approx 1$ s per point, $\approx 1$ min per profile) are discussed, as well as the calibration procedure with a Newtonian fluid. As briefly shown on oil-in-water emulsions, such a setup permits one to record both velocity profiles and rheological data simultaneously
description: 13 pages, 16 figures, Submitted to Eur. Phys. J. AP
title: Hive propagation and resin foraging behaviour of the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria
Creators: name: Newis, Ryan J
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: stingless bees
subject: resin
subject: propolis
subject: pollination

description: Stingless bees are important pollinators in natural, agricultural, and urban landscapes, and there are over 500 species of stingless bees in tropical and subtropical regions. Stingless bee colonies are increasingly in demand for crop pollination, and by hobbyist beekeepers. Propagation techniques such as hive splitting are being successfully used to multiply existing colonies to meet demand, however the impacts of hive splitting on colony foraging are largely unknown. Stingless bees are known to forage on a diversity of floral resources for pollen and nectar, however, knowledge of stingless bee foraging behaviour on another vital resource, resin, is lacking in comparison. Therefore, this thesis investigated how hive splitting impacts colony foraging on pollen, nectar and resin, and how long colony foraging takes to recover (Chapter 2). This thesis also investigated the resin foraging behaviour and resin sources collected by stingless bees (Tetragonula carbonaria) in two landscapes they commonly inhabit: forests (high resin diversity) and gardens (low resin diversity) (Chapter 3). Finally, this thesis explored the relative importance of extrinsic factors such as resource availability and intrinsic colony needs and preferences in determining the network complexity, network overlap and exclusivity of resin choices by stingless bee colonies within and between sites in high (forests) and low (gardens) resin diversity landscapes (Chapter 4). [...]
SANOAT ZONALARI KORXONALARIDAGI SAMARADORLIKNI OSHIRISHNING NAZARIY-AMALIY ASOSLARI
Creators: name: Eshmurzaev, Obidjon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Jahonda kechayotgan global inqiroz va geosiyosiy vaziyatning hozirgi sharoitida sanoat tarmog‘ida iqtisodiy va texnologik samaradorlik darajasi pasayishi, xususan tarmoqda mehnat va boshqa iqtisodiy resurslar samaradorligining kamayishi kuzatilmoqda. Vaholanki,sanoat ishlab chiqarishda samaradorlikning oshishi har doim jamiyatlarning uzoq muddatli farovonligi va rivojlanish imkoniyatlarining asosiy ko‘rsatkichi bo‘lib kelgan.
Relics of the Buddha: Body, Essence, Text
Creators: name: Willis, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008

description: Michael Willis, "Relics of the Buddha: Body, Essence, Text," in Buddhist Stupas in South Asia: Recent Archaeological, Art-historical, and Historical Perspectives, edited by Jason Hawkes and Akira Shimada (Delhi; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 41-50. Stupas -- South Asia -- History.
 Buddhist antiquities -- South Asia.
 Buddhist decoration and ornament -- South Asia.
description: Upload in accord with Plan S protocol
Observing Spontaneous Strong Parity Violation in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Creators: name: Chikanian, A.
name: Finch, L. E.
name: Longacre, R. S.
name: Sandweiss, J.
name: Thomas, J. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the problem of observing spontaneous parity and CP violation in collision systems. We discuss and propose observables which may be used in heavy-ion collisions to observe such violations, as well as event-by-event methods to analyze the data. Finally, we discuss simple monte-carlo models of these CP violating effects which we have used to develop our techniques and from which we derive rough estimates of sensitivities to signals which may be seen at RHIC.
An agent based analysis of the impacts of land use restriction and network structures on participation in conservation reserve programs
Creators: name: Sayed, Iftekhar
name: John, Tisdell
name: Sayed, Iftekhar
name: John, Tisdell
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Conservation covenants
subject: Land use restrictions
subject: Multi-agent systems
subject: Simulation
subject: Network analysis

description: Conservation covenants are a policy tool for biodiversity and environmental conservation on private lands. They are associated with the withdrawal of development rights by the landholder over a particular piece of land in exchange for financial benefits. Previous studies suggest that existing network structure could influence an individual’s decision to enrol in conservation programs, but there is a lack of comparative analysis of network types to promote more cost-effective results. In this paper, we develop an agent based simulation model to demonstrate the evolution and impact of future land use restrictions on the enrolment of landholders in conservation covenant programs under different network structure. We observe that the nature of the network has a significant impact on program performance. We obtain a lower response to (and higher cost of) conservation covenanting programs when agents are part of a random matching network compared to other networks options. On the other hand, program costs are lower when agents are part of a local uniform matching network. The outcomes indicate that it might be beneficial for the representations to conduct network analysis the project planning stage to fix their programs more attractive to the landowners.
Lattice quantum magnetometry
Creators: name: Razzoli, Luca
name: Ghirardi, Luca
name: Siloi, Ilaria
name: Bordone, Paolo
name: Paris, Matteo G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We put forward the idea of lattice quantum magnetometry, i.e. quantum sensing of magnetic fields by a charged (spinless) particle placed on a finite two-dimensional lattice. In particular, we focus on the detection of a locally static transverse magnetic field, either homogeneous or inhomogeneous, by performing ground state measurements. The system turns out to be of interest as quantum magnetometer, since it provides a non-negligible quantum Fisher information (QFI) in a large range of configurations. Moreover, the QFI shows some relevant peaks, determined by the spectral properties of the Hamiltonian, suggesting that certain values of the magnetic fields may be estimated better than the others, depending on the value of other tunable parameters. We also assess the performance of coarse-grained position measurement, showing that it may be employed to realize nearly optimal estimation strategies.
The Jet-Disk Connection and Blazar Unification
Creators: name: Maraschi, Laura
name: Tavecchio, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the relation between the power carried by relativistic jets and the nuclear power provided by accretion, for a group of blazars including FSRQs and BL Lac objects. They are characterized by good quality broad band X-ray data provided by the Beppo SAX satellite. The jet powers are estimated using physical parameters determined from uniformly modelling their spectral energy distributions (SEDs). Our analysis indicates that for Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars the total jet power is of the same order as the accretion power. We suggest that blazar jets are likely powered by energy extraction from a rapidly spinning black hole through the magnetic field provided by the accretion disk. FSRQs must have large BH masses (10^8 - 10^9 solar masses) and high, near Eddington accretion rates. For BL Lac objects the jet luminosity is larger than the disk luminosity. This can be understood within the same scenario if BL Lac objects have masses similar to FSRQ but accrete at largely subcritical rates, whereby the accretion disk radiates inefficiently. Thus the ``unification'' of the two classes into a single blazar population, previously proposed on the basis of a spectral sequence governed by luminosity, finds a physical basis.
description: 27 pages, 3 figures, ApJ in press
title: Infectious and non-infectious causes for pregnancy loss in South American camelids – A review
Creators: name: Eggimann, Hannah
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 630 Agriculture

description: South American camelids (SAC) are gaining popularity for various purposes, including fiber production, trekking, and companionship. High abortion rates pose a significant health issue in SAC herds, leading to substantial economic losses for breeders. Often, the causes of these abortions remain unidentified. This review provides a comprehensive summary of the known infectious and non-infectious causes of abortions in SAC.
description: Neuweltkameliden (NWK) erfreuen sich zunehmender Beliebtheit. Sie werden für unterschiedliche Zwecke genutzt, zum Beispiel zur Faserproduktion, als Trekkingtiere und als Haustiere. Hohe Abortraten stellen ein erhebliches Gesundheitsproblem in NWK-Herden dar und führen zu beachtlichen wirtschaftlichen Verlusten für die Züchter. Die Ursachen für die Aborte bleiben oft unerkannt. Dieses Review gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die bekannten infektiösen und nicht-infektiösen Abortursachen bei NWK.
Climate Change and Individual Decision Making: An Examination of Knowledge, Risk Perception, Self-interest and Their Interplay
Creators: name: Pongiglione, Francesca
name: Pongiglione, Francesca
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Individual Behavior
subject: Climate-Change
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Uncertainty

description: In this essay, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: (a) knowledge, in the form of basic scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, (b) risk perception, as it relates to an individual’s direct experience of climate change and (c) self-interest, either monetary or status-driven. Drawing on a variety of sources in public policy, psychology, and economics, I examine the role of these concepts in inducing or discouraging pro-environmental behavior. Past researches have often overemphasized the weight of just one of those variables in the decision making. I argue, instead, that none of them alone is capable of bringing about the behavioral change required by the environmental crisis. Evidence shows that increasing the public’s scientific knowledge of climate change cannot unilaterally bring about a strong behavioral change. The same can be noticed even when knowledge is joined by risk-perception: deep psychological mechanisms may steer people towards inaction and apathy, despite their direct experience of the detrimental effects of climate change on their lives. Focusing on self-interest alone is similarly unable to induce pro-environmental behavior, due to a host of psychological factors. Instead, in all of the above cases an important missing ingredient may be found in providing the public with locally contextualized procedural knowledge in order to translate its knowledge and concern into action. The importance of this kind of practical knowledge has solid empirical and theoretical underpinnings, and is often overlooked in the climate-change debate that tends to focus on more high-level issues. Yet, for all its essential simplicity, it may carry important public-policy implications.
Simultaneous X-Ray and TeV Gamma-Ray Observations of the TeV Blazar Markarian 421 during February and May 2000
Creators: name: Krawczynski, H.
name: Sambruna, R.
name: Kohnle, A.
name: Coppi, P. S.
name: Collaboration, The HEGRA
name: Aharonian, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present the results of simultaneous observations of the TeV blazar Markarian 421 (Mrk 421) at X-ray and TeV Gamma-ray energies with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and the stereoscopic Cherenkov Telescope system of the HEGRA (High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy) experiment, respectively. The source was monitored from February 2nd to February 16th and from May 3rd to May 8th, 2000. We discuss in detail the temporal and spectral properties of the source. Remarkably, the TeV observations of February 7th/8th showed statistically significant evidence for substantial TeV flux variability on 30 min time scale. We show the results of modeling the data with a time dependent homogeneous Synchrotron Self-Compton (SSC) model. The X-ray and TeV gamma-ray emission strengths and energy spectra together with the rapid flux variability strongly suggest that the emission volume is approaching the observer with a Doppler factor of 50 or higher. The different flux variability time scales observed at X-rays and TeV Gamma-rays indicate that a more detailed analysis will require inhomogeneous models with several emission zones.
description: Accepted for Publication in ApJ, 21 Pages, 5 Figures
Graph-based Transforms for Video Coding
Creators: name: Egilmez, Hilmi E.
name: Chao, Yung-Hsuan
name: Ortega, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In many state-of-the-art compression systems, signal transformation is an integral part of the encoding and decoding process, where transforms provide compact representations for the signals of interest. This paper introduces a class of transforms called graph-based transforms (GBTs) for video compression, and proposes two different techniques to design GBTs. In the first technique, we formulate an optimization problem to learn graphs from data and provide solutions for optimal separable and nonseparable GBT designs, called GL-GBTs. The optimality of the proposed GL-GBTs is also theoretically analyzed based on Gaussian-Markov random field (GMRF) models for intra and inter predicted block signals. The second technique develops edge-adaptive GBTs (EA-GBTs) in order to flexibly adapt transforms to block signals with image edges (discontinuities). The advantages of EA-GBTs are both theoretically and empirically demonstrated. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed transforms can significantly outperform the traditional Karhunen-Loeve transform (KLT).
description: To appear in IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (14 pages)
Chaetocladius (Chaetocladius) ligni Cranston et Oliver
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Bilyj, Bohdan
name: Beresford, David V.
name: Somers, Keith M.
name: Dillon, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Chaetocladius
Chaetocladius ligni

description: Chaetocladius (Chaetocladius) ligni Cranston et Oliver
Figs 11A–E
 Diagnosis. Labrum as in Fig. 11A, SI seta simple; premandible (Fig. 11B) with one apical and one inner tooth, and weak brush; antenna (Fig. 11C) 5-segmented, with 3 rd segment subequal to 4 th, large LO, AR 1.2; mandible (Fig. 11D) with 4 inner teeth; mentum (Fig. 11E) with broad bifid median tooth, 4 lateral teeth (5 th vestigial or absent), with pale vertical “grooves”; VM plates small originating from 1 st lateral tooth; (abdomen missing).
 Notes. The species is not typical in having a simple SI (usually serrated or divided), single apical tooth (usually two) on premandible and an overhanging abdominal segment 9, with the procerci directed posteriorly (Cranston & Oliver 1988).
 Ecology and habitat. As xylophagous species, larvae are wood miners (Cranston & Oliver 1988, Saether 1983). Unlike Orthocladius (S.) lignicola larvae that were often encountered when sorting through the samples, larvae of this species were only found by detailed examinations of woody debris. Generally Chaetocladius species have a temperature preference of 6.6–9.3°C (Rossaro 1991).
 Sampling sites. Killarney and Arrowhead Provincial Parks and Muskoka District
 Nearctic distribution. First published record for Canada: Ontario. USA: Oregon, North and South Carolina.
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin, Bilyj, Bohdan, Beresford, David V., Somers, Keith M. & Dillon, Peter J., 2012, 3324, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3324 on page 18
Using the Market to Address Climate Change: Insights from Theory and Experience
Creators: name: Aldy, Joseph E.
name: Stavins, Robert N.
name: Aldy, Joseph E.
name: Stavins, Robert N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Global Climate Change
subject: Market-Based Instruments
subject: Carbon Pricing
subject: Carbon Taxes
subject: Cap-And-Trade
subject: Clean Energy Standards

description: Emissions of greenhouse gases linked with global climate change are affected by diverse aspects of economic activity, including individual consumption, business investment, and government spending. An effective climate policy will have to modify the decision calculus for these activities in the direction of more efficient generation and use of energy, lower carbon-intensity of energy, and – more broadly – a more carbon-lean economy. The only approach to doing this on a meaningful scale that would be technically feasible and cost-effective is carbon pricing, that is, market-based climate policies that place a shadow-price on carbon dioxide emissions. We examine alternative designs of three such instruments – carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, and clean energy standards. We note that the U.S. political response to possible market-based approaches to climate policy has been and will continue to be largely a function of issues and structural factors that transcend the scope of environmental and climate policy.
Inducing Low-Carbon Investment in the Electric Power Industry through a Price Floor for Emissions Trading
Creators: name: Brauneis, Alexander
name: Loretz, Michael
name: Roland, Mestel
name: Palan, Stefan
name: Brauneis, Alexander
name: Loretz, Michael
name: Roland, Mestel
name: Palan, Stefan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Carbon price
subject: price floor
subject: technological change
subject: investment decision
subject: real option approach

description: Uncertainty about long-term climate policy is a major driving force in the evolution of the carbon market price. Since this price enters the investment decision process of regulated firms, this uncertainty increases the cost of capital for investors and might deter invest-ments into new technologies at the company level. We apply a real options-based approach to assess the impact of climate change policy in the form of a constant or growing price floor on investment decisions of a single firm in a competitive environment. This firm has the opportunity to switch from a high-carbon “dirty” technology to a low-carbon “clean” technology. Using Monte Carlo simulation and dynamic programming techniques for real market data, we determine the optimal CO2 price floor level and growth rate in order to induce investments into the low-carbon technology. We show these findings to be robust to a large variety of input parameter settings.
title: Revolutionising concrete: Geopolymers and waste materials in sustainable construction
Creators: name: Dinh, Hong Lich
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: geopolymer concrete
subject: waste materials
subject: carbon emissions

description: Cement is the basic ingredient of concrete, the most widely used construction material in the world. Around 8% of global CO2 emissions come from cement production. Typically, over half of cement CO2 emissions come from making clinker, one of its major components. Since this CO2 is released through a chemical reaction (calcination), it cannot be eliminated by changing fuel or increasing energy efficiency. The production of Portland cement clinker, which acts as the binder, is a crucial step in making Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC). Limestone (CaCO3) is "calcinated" at high temperatures in a cement kiln to produce lime (CaO), leading to the release of waste CO2. Meanwhile, the floor area of the world's buildings is projected to double in the next 40 years. This means cement production is set to reach around five billion tonnes by 2030, a 25% increase from today, reaching over four times the level of 1990. Some companies have been researching "novel" concrete, which do away with the need for Portland clinker. If these alternatives could rival the cost and performance of Portland cement, they would offer a way to significantly reduce emissions. Furthermore, it is noteworthy that less than 5% of the world's sand supply is suitable for concrete production, this is primarily due to the inadequacy of desert sand, which is characterised by its rounded granules, that hinder effective binding with binders. The rampant extraction of river sand for use as fine aggregate in concrete stands out as a major contributor to the degradation of riverbeds. This prevalent practice poses a serious threat to the biodiversity of river ecosystems, underscoring the urgent requirement for the implementation of sustainable sand mining policies and practices. Currently, the use of recycled materials, such as ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS), fly ash (FA) and waste glass (WG) have received augmented attention in the concrete industry as it can partially replace OPC. The mixes were reported to achieve better physical and durability properties than OPC or serve as a pozzolanic alternative. However, the full replacement of OPC by these recycled materials is unsuitable for concrete mixtures based on the synthetic consideration of its mechanical behaviour and economic cost. Fortunately, aluminosilicate inorganic polymers called geopolymers have been proposed as a viable alternative to cement in concrete, which also provides an opportunity to convert a variety of waste by-products into useful construction materials. However, controlling and optimising these properties remain challenges for researchers. The main objective of this study is to investigate the use of waste glass cullet and powder as a primary component for fine aggregate and binder in geopolymer mortar. To achieve this goal, over one thousand destructive samples were cast and tested in three stages. [...]
Cricotopus (Cricotopus) tremulus
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Bilyj, Bohdan
name: Beresford, David V.
name: Somers, Keith M.
name: Dillon, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Cricotopus
Cricotopus tremulus

description: Cricotopus (Cricotopus) tremulus (Linnaeus)
Figs 16A–E
 Diagnosis. Head (Fig. 16A) pale brown; SI seta bifid; pecten epipharyngis consisting of 3 equal sized scales; premandible simple with brush; antenna (Fig. 16B) AR 1.5; mandible (Fig. 16C) brownish with crenulate outer margin; mentum (Fig. 16D) with median tooth 2x the width of 1 st lateral; 2 nd lateral smaller and pressed against 1 st; abdomen with long setal tufts (Fig. 16E); anal tubules cylindrical about as long as posterior parapods.
 Notes. The base of mandible is not quite as dark as shown in Epler (2001).
 Ecology and habitat. Larvae prefer temperatures near 18 °C but will tolerate from 14– 21 °C (Rossaro 1991). This is a lotic species feeding on plant debris, detritus and diatoms (McSchaffrey & Olive 1985). This species occurred in all habitats in the study streams (i.e. pools, riffles and moss).
 Sampling sites. Arrowhead Provincial Park and Muskoka District.
 Nearctic distribution. Canada: Alberta, Nova Scotia, Québec, Saskatchewan, first Ontario record USA: Georgia, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon.
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin, Bilyj, Bohdan, Beresford, David V., Somers, Keith M. & Dillon, Peter J., 2012, 3324, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3324 on page 22
Additional file 8 of circNFIB1 inhibits lymphangiogenesis and lymphatic metastasis via the miR-486-5p/PIK3R1/VEGF-C axis in pancreatic cancer
Creators: name: Kong, Yao
name: Li, Yuting
name: Luo, Yuming
name: Zhu, Jiang
name: Zheng, Hanhao
name: Gao, Bowen
name: Guo, Xiaofeng
name: Li, Zhihua
name: Chen, Rufu
name: Chen, Changhao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 8 Figure S2. Full uncut original pictures.
Excitations of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices
Creators: name: Braun-Munzinger, K.
name: Dunningham, J. A.
name: Burnett, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we examine the excitations observable in atoms confined in an optical lattice around the superfluid-insulator transition. We use increases in the number variance of atoms, subsequent to tilting the lattice as the primary diagnostic of excitations in the lattice. We show that this locally determined quantity should be a robust indicator of coherence changes in the atoms observed in recent experiments. This was found to hold for commensurate or non-commensurate fillings of the lattice, implying our results will hold for a wide range of physical cases. Our results are in good agreement with the quantitative factors of recent experiments. We do, howevers, find extra features in the excitation spectra. The variation of the spectra with the duration of the perturbation also turns out to be an interesting diagnostic of atom dynamics.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, using Revtex4; changes to version 2: new data and substantial revision of text
ERICC Working Paper _ ERICC Research Agenda for Nigeria
Creators: name: ERICC Consortium
name: Akogun, Oladele
name: Adesina, Adedoyin
name: Njobdi, Sani
name: Salmon-Letelier, Marlana
name: Diazgranados Ferrans, Silvia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 390201
subject: Education policy
classificationCode: 390407
subject: Inclusive education

description: The Nigeria research agenda outlines the research direction based on the co-construction of evidence and sets out the co-creative principles for implementing the research agenda. The research themes that constitute the Nigeria research agenda were identified through consultations with key in-country stakeholders at the Federal level and in Borno, Adamawa, and Kaduna States.The stakeholders identified the priority research concerns around access, quality, continuity and coherence of education in conflict and crisis-affected contexts in Nigeria as the following, in sequence to be addressed: (1) policy, systems and sustainability; (2) teacher issues; (3) data; and (4) social and emotional learning. The stakeholder concerns were cross-checked with the literature for gaps in evidence. The research problems were then proposed as knowledge gaps where the concerns had not been addressed in the literature, where the research problems were the broad articulation of the stakeholder's concerns about an issue for which there is little or weak evidence in the literature that decision-makers can use for addressing it. The research problems in the research agenda will be further broken up into specific, policy-relevant research questions (and objectives) that will bridge current gaps in evidence for decision-making.The programme will leverage existing partnerships, build new ones and explore opportunities for funding evidence generation that the FCDO is unable to cover. Our primary method for evidence generation will continue to be a collaborative, co-constructive approach with participatory end-users. The end-users will participate in the research design, data collection, analysis, reflection, and evidence application for addressing the problems and gaps identified by the stakeholders.
Calculation of the number of partitions with constraints on the fragment size
Creators: name: Desesquelles, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article introduces recursive relations allowing the calculation of the number of partitions with constraints on the minimum and/or on the maximum fragment size.
Convergence of the random Abelian sandpile
Creators: name: Bou-Rabee, Ahmed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that Abelian sandpiles with random initial states converge almost surely to unique scaling limits. The proof follows the Armstrong-Smart program for stochastic homogenization of uniformly elliptic equations. Using simple random walk estimates, we prove an analogous result for the divisible sandpile and identify its scaling limit as exactly that of the averaged divisible sandpile. As a corollary, this gives a new quantitative proof of known results on the stabilizability of Abelian sandpiles.
description: 31 pages, 5 figures; minor revisions addressing comments from anonymous referees
The stellar content, metallicity and ionization structure of HII regions
Creators: name: Martin-Hernandez, N. L.
name: Vermeij, R.
name: Tielens, A. G. G. M.
name: van der Hulst, J. M.
name: Peeters, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of infrared fine-structure lines provide direct information on the metallicity and ionization structure of HII regions and indirectly on the hardness of the radiation field ionizing these nebulae. We have analyzed a sample of Galactic and Magellanic Cloud HII regions observed by the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) to examine the interplay between stellar content, metallicity and the ionization structure of HII regions. The observed [SIV]10.5/[SIII]18.7 mum and [NeIII]15.5/[NeII]12.8 mum line ratios are shown to be highly correlated over more than two orders of magnitude. We have compared the observed line ratios to the results of photoionization models using different stellar energy distributions. The derived characteristics of the ionizing star depend critically on the adopted stellar model as well as the (stellar) metallicity. We have compared the stellar effective temperatures derived from these model studies for a few well-studied HII regions with published direct spectroscopic determinations of the spectral type of the ionizing stars. This comparison supports our interpretation that stellar and nebular metallicity influences the observed infrared ionic line ratios. We can explain the observed increase in degree of ionization, as traced by the [SIV]\[SIII] and [NeIII]\[NeII] line ratios, by the hardening of the radiation field due to the decrease of metallicity. The implications of our results for the determination of the ages of starbursts in starburst galaxies are assessed.
description: 9 pages; accepted for publication in A&A; figure 3 modified
The economics of industrial property rights: use of geographical indications as marketing strategy for competitiveness of wine sub-sector in Republic of Macedonia
Creators: name: Nacka, Marina
name: Georgiev, Nenad
name: Dabovic Anastasovska, Jadranka
name: Nacka, Marina
name: Georgiev, Nenad
name: Dabovic Anastasovska, Jadranka
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Geographical indications
subject: marketing
subject: competitiveness
subject: wine sub-sector
subject: trade indicators
subject: geografsko podrijetlo
subject: konkurentnost
subject: podsektor vinarstvo
subject: trgovinski pokazatelj

description: We analyze the importance of the industrial property rights and the competitiveness of wine sub-sector in four wine-producing countries in order to present geographical indications as a powerful marketing strategy for competitiveness. In the Macedonian agricultural sector, there is a low level of awareness for the economic benefits of industrial property rights. Macedonia has a competitive wine sector, as result of the factor conditions, particularly in tradition, geographic and climate conditions (Balassa index 3.83), but unfortunately the bulk wine has the largest share in export of 87%. The consequences of neglecting the legal protection of industrial property rights could lead to losing the market position of the producers or unsuccessful promotion and export orientation of the products.....U radu se analizira značenje prava industrijskog vlasništva i konkurentnosti podsektora vinarstva u četiri regije koje se koje se bave proizvodnjom vina, kako bi se prikazalo geografsko podrijetlo kao snažna marketinška strategija za konkurentnost. U makedonskom poljoprivrednom sektoru vrlo je niska svijest o ekonomskim pogodnostima koje donosi pravo industrijskog vlasništva. Makedonija ima konkurentan vinarski sektor, što proizlazi iz čimbenika uvjeta, posebice tradicije, geografskih i klimatskih uvjeta (Balassa index 3.83). Nažalost, glavnina vina se izvozi (87%). Posljedice zanemarivanja pravne zaštite u smislu prava industrijskog vlasništva mogle bi dovesti proizvođače do gubljenja pozicija na tržištu ili neuspješne promocije i izvozne orijentacije proizvoda.
Kahler metrics whose geodesics are circles
Creators: name: Timorin, Vladlen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53B35; 53C22

description: We classify all Kahler metrics in an open subset of $C^2$ whose real geodesics are circles. All such metrics are equivalent (via complex projective transformations) to Fubini metrics (i.e. to Fubini-Study metric on $CP^2$ restricted to an affine chart, to the complex hyperbolic metric in the unit ball model or to the Euclidean metric).
description: 10 pages
Rewards and Incentives for Open Science: A global registry, a global collaboration
Creators: name: Hanahoe, Hilary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The Open Science Rewards and Incentives Registry will support the development of an academic career structure that fosters outputs, practices and behaviours to maximise contributions to a shared research knowledge system. In short, the registry aims to inspire best practices and the creation of new assessment mechanisms to support Open Science practices. The registry is being designed and developed in an open and collaborative way and the success of this evidence-based registry relies crucially on the involvement of all stakeholders at each stage.
Extended van Royen-Weisskopf formalism for lepton-antilepton meson decay widths within non-relativistic quark models
Creators: name: Blanco, L. A.
name: Bonnaz, R.
name: Silvestre-Brac, B.
name: Fernandez, F.
name: Valcarce, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classical van Royen-Weisskopf formula for the decay width of a meson into a lepton-antilepton pair is modified in order to include non-zero quark momentum contributions within the meson as well as relativistic effects. Besides, a phenomenological electromagnetic density for quarks is introduced. The meson wave functions are obtained from two different models: a chiral constituent quark model and a quark potential model including instanton effects. The modified van Royen-Weisskopf formula is found to improve systematically the results for the widths, giving an overall good description of all known decays.
description: 22 pages, 3 figures, RevTex, epsfig. To be published in Nucl. Phys. A
Eukiefferiella brehmi Gouin 1943
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Bilyj, Bohdan
name: Beresford, David V.
name: Somers, Keith M.
name: Dillon, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Eukiefferiella
Eukiefferiella brehmi

description: Eukiefferiella brehmi group
Figs 17A–D
 Diagnosis. Head (Fig. 17A) dark brown, except pale around the eyespots. SI seta simple; premandible simple; antenna (Fig. 17B) 5-segmented, with large LO, AR 2.0; mandible (Fig. 17C) with 3 inner teeth, inner margin with two long setae-like spines; mentum (Fig. 17D) with bifid median tooth and 5 lateral teeth, basolaterally with angulate shoulders; VM plates narrow with straight outside margin, connected basally to dark circular sclerite; seta submenti posteriad of plates; abdomen with short body setae, 0.4–0.5x the length of subtending segments.
 Notes. This larva is similar to the one described and figured in Bode (1983: 21) for E. brehmi group, although the antennal ratios are somewhat lower (1.2–1.5).
 Ecology and habitat. Species in this group have a temperature preference of 11.2–12.4°C (Rossaro 1991). Larvae prefer middle mountain brook habitats with flow rates of up to 0.9 m /s and prefers gravel and stony substrates (Thienemann 1954).
 Sampling sites. Mississagi, Massasauga, Arrowhead and Algonquin Provincial Parks.
 Nearctic distribution. Canada: Ontario.
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin, Bilyj, Bohdan, Beresford, David V., Somers, Keith M. & Dillon, Peter J., 2012, 3324, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3324 on page 23
Rotational velocities of A-type stars II. Measurement of vsini in the northern hemisphere
Creators: name: Royer, F.
name: Grenier, S.
name: Baylac, M. -O.
name: Gomez, A. E.
name: Zorec, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work is the second part of the set of measurements of vsini for A-type stars, begun by Royer et al. (2002). Spectra of 249 B8 to F2-type stars brighter than V=7 have been collected at Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP). Fourier transforms of several line profiles in the range 4200--4600 A are used to derive vsini from the frequency of the first zero. Statistical analysis of the sample indicates that measurement error mainly depends on vsini and this relative error of the rotational velocity is found to be about 5% on average. The systematic shift with respect to standard values from Slettebak et al. (1975), previously found in the first paper, is here confirmed. Comparisons with data from the literature agree with our findings: vsini values from Slettebak et al. are underestimated and the relation between both scales follows a linear law: vsini(new) = 1.03 vsini(old) + 7.7. Finally, these data are combined with those from the previous paper (Royer et al. 2002), together with the catalogue of Abt & Morrell (1995). The resulting sample includes some 2150 stars with homogenized rotational velocities.
description: 16 pages, includes 13 figures, accepted in A&A
Aspirations and income, food security and subjective well-being in rural Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew
name: Gerber, Nicolas
name: Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew
name: Gerber, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Aspirations
subject: income
subject: poverty
subject: food security
subject: subjective well-being
subject: Ethiopia

description: Despite some improvements in recent years, poverty and food insecurity remain widespread and the main challenges in Ethiopia. Using individual and household level data collected in rural Ethiopia, we examine if aspirations are strongly associated with well-being outcomes, as posited in the aspirations failure framework articulated by Ray (2006) and others. We employ both bivariate and multivariate analyses. We find that aspirations (particularly that of the household head) are indeed strongly associated with the household per-capita income and expenditure and with various triangulating measures of household food (in)security including per-capita calorie consumption, the food consumption score (FCS), the household dietary diversity score (HDDS), and the household food insecurity access scale (HFIAS). Contrary to a few other studies, we also find strong evidence that, in rural Ethiopia, aspirations are positively associated with satisfaction in life and/or happiness. Findings in this study provide suggestive evidence that policies aimed at improving well-being outcomes might benefit from multiple effects (both direct and indirect) if they incorporate aspirations raising strategies.