cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption whilst incorporating consumer preferences
Creators: name: Chalmers, N.
name: Revoredo-Giha, C.
name: Chalmers, N.
name: Revoredo-Giha, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: All the main demographic groups (Female and Males aged 11 upwards) in the United Kingdom (UK) do not consume the government s recommended 5 a day target for fruit and vegetables. Understanding how a 50 percent increased consumption of fruit or vegetables would impact on the whole diet of these demographic groups requires the incorporation of price and income elasticities and a diet model similar to Irz et al (2015). This study used data from the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) and price data from Kantar Worldpanel for the period 2008 to 2013. This study has estimated eight demand systems which represent the eight demographic groups of interest. This is a departure from the previous literature which has relied on household level demand systems to represent the different demographic groups. This study estimated similar diet models to Irz et al (2015) and found that increasing fruit consumption would have the most beneficial change in diet as measured by the Mean Adequacy Ratio (MAR). The demographic group of Males aged 11 to 15 resulted in an approximate increase in the MAR of 5 percent thus experienced the largest improvement in diets as a result of a 50 percent increase in fruit. Acknowledgement : This work was funded by the Scottish Government s Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (RESAS) Theme 3 programme (Food, Health and Wellbeing).
Through Ups and Downs : The Effect of Real-Time Feedback on Food Waste Behavior in a University Dining Hall
Creators: name: Dela Cruz, Elijah
name: Zhang, Xiao Yu
name: De Souza-Diop, Théa
name: Bratina, Rheanne
name: Mizumoto, Chisato
name: Tan, Xin Jie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Introduction UBC Vancouver’s all-access dining model implemented in 2022 has presented challenges to reducing post-consumer food waste. While informational feedback has been widely used to combat food waste behavior, there is a lack of research on the combined effects of informational feedback with other forms of interventions. Consequently, as part of UBC’s goal to reduce food waste by 50% by 2030, our study examines how the combination of informational feedback and normative prompt can influence post-consumer food waste. Research Question How does signage displaying daily fluctuations in food waste (percent change) affect the total food waste weight in kilograms at an all-access dining hall? Methods We designed signs placed in three locations at Open Kitchen displaying daily food waste percentage change along with a prompt to reduce food waste. Our condition 1 is when there is a displayed decrease, and condition 2 is when there is a displayed increase. Over 14 days, food waste data from Open Kitchen was collected to update the percentage change in food waste. Results Results show that combining a normative prompt and feedback effectively reduces food waste at Open Kitchen, specifically by 40.5%. Furthermore, when comparing the effectiveness of a displayed decrease and a displayed increase, there are no statistically significant differences in food waste behavior. Recommendations We recommend that UBC dining halls display waste data in the three first year dining halls: Gather, Feast, and Open Kitchen. We also recommend that UBC continue collecting waste data so that future research can utilize a larger data sample which accounts for time-of-year as a confounding factor. UBC dining halls may also benefit from tracking waste in relation to dining options and adjusting their menus accordingly. Finally, we recommend the implementation of a food waste tracking system, such as LeanPathTM, that provides data collection tools and analytics across UBC’s dining halls. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
On the Enhanced Interstellar Scattering Toward B1849+005
Creators: name: Lazio, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) This paper reports new Very Large Array (VLA) and Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations of the extragalactic source B1849+005 at frequencies between 0.33 and 15 GHz and the re-analysis of archival VLA observations at 0.33, 1.5, and 4.9 GHz. The structure of this source is complex but interstellar scattering dominates the structure of the central component at least to 15 GHz. An analysis of the phase structure functions of the interferometric visibilities shows the density fluctuations along this line of sight to be anisotropic (axial ratio = 1.3) with a frequency-independent position angle, and having an inner scale of roughly a few hundred kilometers. The anisotropies occur on length scales of order 10^{15} cm (D/5 kpc), which within the context of certain magnetohydrodynamic turbulence theories indicates the length scale on which the kinetic and magnetic energy densities are comparable. A conservative upper limit on the velocity of the scattering material is 1800 km/s. In the 0.33 GHz field of view, there are a number of other sources that might also be heavily scattered. Both B1849+005 and PSR B1849+00 are highly scattered, and they are separated by only 13'. If the lines of sight are affected by the same ``clump'' of scattering material, it must be at least 2.3 kpc distant. However, a detailed attempt to account for the scattering observables toward these sources does not produce a self-consistent set of parameters for such a clump. A clump of Hαemission, possibly associated with the H II region G33.418-0.004, lies between these two lines of sight, but it seems unable to account for all of the required excess scattering.
description: 23 pages, LaTeX2e AASTeX, 13 figures in 14 PostScript files, accepted for publication in ApJ
Additional file 1 of Results from extended lymphadenectomies with [111In]PSMA-617 for intraoperative detection of PSMA-PET/CT-positive nodal metastatic prostate cancer
Creators: name: Jilg, Cordula
name: Reichel, Kathrin
name: Stoykow, Christian
name: H. Rischke
name: Bartholomä, Mark
name: Drendel, Vanessa
name: Büren, Moritz
name: Schultze-Seemann, Wolfgang
name: Meyer, Philipp
name: Mix, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. PSA-response and clinical course after surgery.
Natural resource extraction and household welfare in rural Laos
Creators: name: Grote, U.
name: Nguyen, T.T.
name: Grote, U.
name: Nguyen, T.T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: Human induced degradation of land due to over-extraction of water and forest resources is a threat to sustainable development in many developing countries. Solving this requires an understanding of the factors affecting the extraction and its impacts on rural welfare. In this study, we determine the factors affecting the extraction of and dependence on forest and water resources and examine the impacts of the extraction on rural household welfare in Laos. We address our research questions with an econometric framework that models the extraction and its implications simultaneously. We use the data of 430 rural households from a survey undertaken in 2013 in 38 villages of Savannakhet province. Our findings show that extraction is a shock-coping strategy of rural households but contributes to reducing household income inequality. For extracting households, extraction increases household income, consumption and food security. However, for non-extracting households, although extraction would increase food security, it would reduce their income and consumption. We suggest that promoting rural education and off-farm employment opportunities, enhancing investments in physical infrastructure, and developing livestock rearing would reduce the extraction of and the dependence on the resources of extractors and prevent non-extractors from being forced to extract the resources. Acknowledgement : We thank the farmers in Savannakhet province for their support and cooperation. We also acknowledge the support and appreciate the efforts of our partners in Lao PDR as well as all our colleagues at the Leibniz University Hannover for data collection.
Chiral symmetry breaking for deterministic switching of perpendicular magnetization by spin-orbit torque
Creators: name: Wu, Hao
name: Nance, John
name: Razavi, Seyed Armin
name: Lujan, David
name: Dai, Bingqian
name: Liu, Yuxiang
name: He, Haoran
name: Cui, Baoshan
name: Wu, Di
name: Wong, Kin
name: Sobotkiewich, Kemal
name: Li, Xiaoqin
name: Carman, Gregory P.
name: Wang, Kang L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Symmetry breaking is a characteristic to determine which branch of a bifurcation system follows upon crossing a critical point. Specifically, in spin-orbit torque (SOT) devices, a fundamental question arises: how to break the symmetry of the perpendicular magnetic moment by the in-plane spin polarization? Here, we show that the chiral symmetry breaking by the DMI can induce the deterministic SOT switching of the perpendicular magnetization. By introducing a gradient of saturation magnetization or magnetic anisotropy, non-collinear spin textures are formed by the gradient of effective SOT strength, and thus the chiral symmetry of the SOT-induced spin textures is broken by the DMI, resulting in the deterministic magnetization switching. We introduce a strategy to induce an out-of-plane (z) gradient of magnetic properties, as a practical solution for the wafer-scale manufacture of SOT devices.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Nudging farmers to comply with water protection rules Experimental evidence from Germany
Creators: name: Peth, D.
name: Mushoff, O.
name: Funke, K.
name: Hirschauer, N.
name: Peth, D.
name: Mushoff, O.
name: Funke, K.
name: Hirschauer, N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Resource/Energy Economics and Policy

description: Nitrogen runoffs induced by agricultural fertilisation cause serious environmental damage to surface waters. Environmental and consumer protectionists demand government intervention to mitigate these externalities. With this in mind, the present study examines the effects of nudge-based regulatory strategies. We use an incentivised single-player multi-period business management game as an experimental device to study how nudges affect compliance with the minimum-distance-to-water rule in a sample of German farmers. We investigate two different nudge treatments: a nudge with information and pictures showing environmental and health damages that are presumably caused by breaching the minimum-distance-to-water rule, and a nudge with an additional social comparison suggesting that the majority of farmers in the same region comply with the rule. We observe three core experimental outcomes: first, nudging has a preventive effect and reduces the share of non-compliant participants. Second, against all expectations, the preventive effect of the nudge with an additional social comparison is weaker than that of the nudge with information and pictures alone. Third, despite the overall positive effects of nudging, the nudge with social comparison even increased the severity of non-complying behaviour in the deviant subpopulation. Acknowledgement : The authors gratefully acknowledge ?nancial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG). We thank Dr. Matthias Buchholz, Dr. Daniel Hermann and the Centre for Statistics of the University of G ttingen for helpful comments and statistical advice. We also thank Manfred Tietze for support by programming of the experiment.
Additional file 1 of Effect of alcohol consumption on oncological treatment effectiveness and toxicity in patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Fountoukidis, Georgios
name: Schiza, Aglaia
name: Smith, Daniel
name: Othman, Mukhrizah
name: Bergman, Marie
name: Ahlgren, Johan
name: Lambe, Mats
name: Irenaeus, Sandra
name: Valachis, Antonis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
OVERVIEW OF THE FINANCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF U.S. FARMS, JANUARY 1, 1986
Creators: name: Ryan, Jim
name: Ryan, Jim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Assets
subject: balance sheet
subject: cash flow
subject: debt
subject: Farm Costs and Returns Survey
subject: financial stress
subject: insolvency
subject: region
subject: sales class
subject: type of farm

description: High direct Government payments and increased Commodity Credit Corporation loans improved the cash income of farmers in 1985. The continuing decline in real estate values reduced farmers' asset and equity levels. Financial difficulties varied widely. Family-size commercial farms and Midwestern cash grain farms experienced the greatest stress. Farms in the Lake States, Corn Belt, and Northern Plains held almost 54 percent of all farm debt. Nationwide, highly leveraged farms (debt/asset ratio greater than 0.4) owed almost two-thirds of all farm debt. Total debt declined by over $7 billion.
Additional file 1 of Additional effect of azithromycin over β-lactam alone for severe community-acquired pneumonia-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Suzuki, Jun
name: Sasabuchi, Yusuke
name: Hatakeyama, Shuji
name: Matsui, Hiroki
name: Sasahara, Teppei
name: Morisawa, Yuji
name: Yamada, Toshiyuki
name: Fushimi, Kiyohide
name: Yasunaga, Hideo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Data 1. ICD-10 codes for sepsis.
THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ON AGRICULTURAL TRADE PATTERNS
Creators: name: Christiansen, Robert E.
name: Christiansen, Robert E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Agricultural trade
subject: income elasticities of demand
subject: developing countries

description: This report investigates the relationship between economic development, as measured by two indicators, per capita income and an index of health and educational indicators, and the consumption, production, and trade of selected agricultural commodities. The results indicate that development is strongly correlated with increased levels of certain food grains in developing countries. The evidence indicates that developing country imports of certain feed grains and oilseeds are strongly correlated with economic growth.
Additional file 2 of Increasing health service access by expanding disease coverage and adding patient navigation: challenges for patient satisfaction
Creators: name: Schutt, Russell
name: Woodford, Mary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Care Coordination Program Survey. Questionnaire for survey of Care Coordination Program patients (post-survey).
Dasyproctus pentheri Leclercq 1956
Creators: name: Binoy, C.
name: Kumar, P. Girish
name: Santhosh, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Dasyproctus
Dasyproctus pentheri

description: 11. Dasyproctus pentheri Leclercq 1956
 Dasyproctus pentheri Leclercq 1956: 160. ♂ corrected: ♀ Leclercq, 1957: 55.
 Diagnosis. (based on the original description, as no specimen was available for study).
 Female. Body length 8 mm.
 Body black; punctation of head and mesosoma similar, moderate, with regular well-spaced pits; frons with distinct longitudinal groove reinforced with short carina, disappearing before anterior ocellus; clypeus quadridentate with median indentation formed from overhanging prolongation of median carina (c.f. Fig. 24 of Leclercq (1958: 47); POD distinctly shorter than OOD; tibiae mostly brownish or blackish-brown ventrally; Gt 1 finely punctured; propodeum with fine rugulose enclosure, interstices microsculptured.
 Male. Clypeus with distinct longitudinal carina, apically truncated; frons with distinct IOC followed by broad depression; mandible brownish black; Gt 1 sturdy; Gt 2 impunctate; Gt 2 –Gt 4 bimaculate, spots of Gt 2 smaller than patches on following terga; Gt 5 –Gt 6 with wide yellow band; frons with scattered punctation, interstices smooth; punctation on mesosoma fine, moderately dense; pronotum without rugae on anterior part.
 Distribution. India: Tamil Nadu. Elsewhere: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines; Sri Lanka; Thailand (Pulawski 2021).
description: Published as part of Binoy, C., Kumar, P. Girish & Santhosh, S., 2021, Review of Indian Dasyproctus Lepeletier & Brullé 1835 (Hymenoptera Crabronidae) with description of four new species, pp. 467-498 in Zootaxa 4991 (3) on page 491, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4991.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5042450
The energy of muscle contraction. I. Tissue force and deformation during isometric contractions
Creators: name: Wakeling, J. M.
name: Ross, S. A.
name: Ryan, D. S.
name: Bolsterlee, B.
name: Konno, R.
name: Domínguez, S.
name: Nigam, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: During contraction the energy of muscle tissue increases due to energy from the hydrolysis of ATP. This energy is distributed across the tissue as strain-energy potentials in the contractile elements, strain-energy potential from the 3D deformation of the base-material tissue (containing cellular and ECM effects), energy related to changes in the muscle's nearly incompressible volume and external work done at the muscle surface. Thus, energy is redistributed through the muscle's tissue as it contracts, with only a component of this energy being used to do mechanical work and develop forces in the muscle's line-of-action. Understanding how the strain-energy potentials are redistributed through the muscle tissue will help enlighten why the mechanical performance of whole muscle in its line-of-action does not match the performance that would be expected from the contractile elements alone. Here we demonstrate these physical effects using a 3D muscle model based on the finite element method. The tissue deformations within contracting muscle are large, and so the mechanics of contraction were explained using the principles of continuum mechanics for large deformations. We present simulations of a contracting medial gastrocnemius muscle, showing tissue deformations that mirror observations from MRI-based images. This paper tracks the redistribution of strain-energy potentials through the muscle tissue during isometric contractions, and shows how fibre shortening, pennation angle, transverse bulging and anisotropy in the stress and strain of the muscle tissue are all related to the interaction between the material properties of the muscle and the action of the contractile elements.
description: 42 pages, 12 figures. Manuscripts submitted to Frontiers in Physiology
title: Investigation of keyboard and speech based text entry on mobile devices
Creators: name: Reyal, Shyam Mehraaj
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2019

description: This work presents four in-depth empirical investigations on the performance and user experience of three popular mainstream mobile text entry methods: Touch Typing on a Software Keyboard (STK), the Gesture Typing on a Software Keyboard (SGK), and Speech Based Text Entry. The first and third studies are lab-based longitudinal text entry experiments. In the second and fourth studies, we use a new text entry evaluation methodology based on the experience sampling method (ESM). In the ESM based studies, participants installed an Android app on their own mobile phones that periodically sampled their text entry performance and user experience amid their everyday activities for four weeks. The studies show that text can be entered at an average speed of 24 to 41 WPM using software keyboards, and 49 to 59 WPM using speech, depending on the method and the user's experience, with 0.9% to 3.6% character error rates remaining for software keyboard and 3.0% to 5.8% for speech. Error rates of SGK and speech based input are a major challenge; and reducing out-of-vocabulary errors is particularly important. Both typing and speech have strengths, weaknesses, and different individual awareness and preferences. Two-thumb touch typing in a focused setting is particularly effective on STK, whereas one-handed SGK typing with the thumb is particularly effective in more mobile situations. Speech is more effective when convenience and constraints take priority, whereas typing is more preferable in public – due to social concerns, network latency issues and background noise. When exposed, users showed a trend to migrate from STK to SGK. We also conclude that studies in the lab and in the wild can both be informative to reveal different aspects of keyboard and speech based text entry, but used in conjunction is more reliable in comprehensively assessing input technologies of current and future generations.
On the Electric Charge of the Neutrino
Creators: name: Sarafiddinov, Rasulkhozha S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exact expression is obtained for the differential cross section of elastic electroweak scattering of longitudinal polarized massive Dirac neutrinos with the electric charge and anomalous magnetic moment on a spinless nucleus. This formula contains all necessary information about the nature of the neutrino mass, charge and magnetic moment. Some of them state that between the mass of the neutrino its electric charge there exists an interconnection.
description: 5 pages, LaTex. This version is better for pdf
Additional file 1 of Increasing health service access by expanding disease coverage and adding patient navigation: challenges for patient satisfaction
Creators: name: Schutt, Russell
name: Woodford, Mary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Women’s Health Network Survey. Questionnaire for survey of Women’s Health Network patients (pre-survey).
ENERGY AND U.S. AGRICULTURE: STATE AND NATIONAL FUEL USE TABLES, 1978, 1980, AND 1981
Creators: name: Torgerson, David
name: Duncan, John
name: Dargan, Annette
name: Torgerson, David
name: Duncan, John
name: Dargan, Annette
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Agricultural energy use
subject: gasoline
subject: diesel fuel
subject: LP gas
subject: electricity
subject: natural gas
subject: fuel oil
subject: energy

description: This report contains estimates of energy use in U.S. agriculture for the years T978, 1980, and 1981. The estimates presented in this report reflect information from the 1978 Census of Agriculture, the 1980 Farm Production Expenditure Survey and the Firm Enterprise Data System for 1978.1 Energy use estimates for 1981 are based on that year's crop production and invated energy data, using 1980 updated fuel use coefficients. State energy use estimates are summarized by type of farm operation under the two primary agricultural categories, crops and livestock. Total energy use in U.S. agriculture increased 7 percent from 1974 to 1978, and declined 2.4 percent from 1978 to 1980. In the later period, direct energy use in onf arm production decreased 10 percent, while invested energy use increased 12 percent. National farm energy use from 1980 to 1981 rose only slightly, 2.7 percent, while invested energy use increased 3.6 percent.
Flux-induced Soft Supersymmetry Breaking in Chiral Type IIB Orientifolds with D3/D7-Branes
Creators: name: Lust, D.
name: Reffert, S.
name: Stieberger, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss supersymmetry breaking via 3-form fluxes in chiral supersymmetric type IIB orientifold vacua with D3- and D7-branes. After a general discussion of possible choices of fluxes allowing for stabilizing of a part of the moduli, we determine the resulting effective action including all soft supersymmetry breaking terms. We also extend the computation of our previous work concerning the matter field metrics arising from various open string sectors, in particular focusing on the 1/2 BPS D3/D7-brane configuration. Afterwards, the F-theory lift of our constructions is investigated.
description: 55 pages, harvmac
Additional file 2 of Additional effect of azithromycin over β-lactam alone for severe community-acquired pneumonia-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Suzuki, Jun
name: Sasabuchi, Yusuke
name: Hatakeyama, Shuji
name: Matsui, Hiroki
name: Sasahara, Teppei
name: Morisawa, Yuji
name: Yamada, Toshiyuki
name: Fushimi, Kiyohide
name: Yasunaga, Hideo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Data 2. Classification of β-lactam antibiotics.
Promoting Reusable Coffee Cup Use Through A Probabilistic Reward
Creators: name: Desvaux, Juliette
name: Kramer, Sophia
name: Taylor-Ryan, Jade
name: Winfield, Jessica
name: Zimmer, Nick
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Introduction This study assesses the impacts of a probabilistic reward on disposable mug use at Blue Chip Cafe on the University of British Columbia campus. Research Question and Hypothesis The research question asks how a probabilistic reward intervention, in the form of a spin-thewheel, will impact reusable mug use among patrons at the Cafe. The research hypothesis suggests that reusable mug usage will increase during the implementation of a probabilistic reward intervention strategy in the form of a spin-the-wheel when compared to baseline. Methods This between-subjects design study consisted of a baseline condition and an intervention condition with 216 and 189 participants, respectively. Data was collected by three researchers observing customers as they entered, purchased, and received their beverages. The independent variable was the spin-the-wheel intervention, and the dependent variable was the rate at which patrons brought a reusable mug. Results The findings of this study exhibited weak strength, yet it held statistical significance. Recommendations Given this, we recommend some alterations such as implementing this as an electronic system. This would allow Blue Chip Cafe, as well as the wider UBC community, to reduce disposable mug usage. If successful at these local locations, this study has the potential to be implemented in other places too. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
MODELING BILATERAL TRADE FLOWS WITH THE STATIC WORLD POLICY SIMULATION (SWOPSIM) MODELING FRAMEWORK
Creators: name: Dixit, Praveen M.
name: Roningen, Vernon Oley
name: Dixit, Praveen M.
name: Roningen, Vernon Oley
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Armington
subject: bilateral trade
subject: free trade area
subject: trade
subject: trade modeling

description: This report documents the method for constructing a bilateral trade flow model of the Armington type within the SWOPSIM (Static World Policy Simulation) framework. The logic of the Armington bilateral trade flow model is presented and its paramaterization in SWOPSIM is illustrated. Appendices document recent improvements made in SWOPSIM computer program and procedures including the capacity to generate bilateral trade flow models.
THE ESSENCE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF SCIENTIFIC AND  TECHNOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL  ENTERPRISES
Creators: name: Khakimova Nasiba Kakhramonovna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: implementing technological, industrial enterprises, competitiveness and sustainability

description: Abstract This article explores the essence and characteristics of scientific and technological modernization in industrial enterprises. In the context of global economic challenges, modernization plays a crucial role in enhancing the competitiveness and sustainability of industrial sectors. The focus of the research is on understanding how technological innovation, research, and development influence the efficiency and productivity of industries. The article also examines strategies for implementing technological upgrades in industrial enterprises and their implications for long-term economic growth.
Additional file 3 of Additional effect of azithromycin over β-lactam alone for severe community-acquired pneumonia-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Suzuki, Jun
name: Sasabuchi, Yusuke
name: Hatakeyama, Shuji
name: Matsui, Hiroki
name: Sasahara, Teppei
name: Morisawa, Yuji
name: Yamada, Toshiyuki
name: Fushimi, Kiyohide
name: Yasunaga, Hideo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table 3. Patients’ characteristics in the IPTW analysis groups.
Supersymmetry Tests from a Combined Analysis of Chargino and Charged Higgs Boson Pair Production at a 1 TeV Linear Collider
Creators: name: Beccaria, M.
name: Eberl, H.
name: Renard, F. M.
name: Verzegnassi, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the production of chargino and charged Higgs boson pairs at future linear colliders for c.m. energies in the one TeV range. Working in the MSSM under the assumption of a "moderately" light SUSY scenario, we compute the leading (double) and next-to leading (linear) supersymmetric logarithmic terms of the so-called "Sudakov expansion" at one loop. We show that a combined analysis of the slopes of the chargino and of the charged Higgs production cross sections would offer a simple possibility for determining $\tanβ$ for large ($\gtrsim 10$) values and an allowed strip in the ($M_2,μ$) plane. This could provide a strong consistency test of the considered supersymmetric model.
description: 4 pages, 4 Encapsulated PostScript Figures
Linear Perturbations in Brane Gas Cosmology
Creators: name: Watson, Scott
name: Brandenberger, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the effect of string inhomogeneities on the time dependent background of Brane Gas Cosmology. We derive the equations governing the linear perturbations of the dilaton-gravity background in the presence of string matter sources. We focus on long wavelength fluctuations and find that there are no instabilities. Thus, the predictions of Brane Gas Cosmology are robust against the introduction of linear perturbations. In particular, we find that the stabilization of the extra dimensions (moduli) remains valid in the presence of dilaton and string perturbations.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure
The Complete One-Loop Dilatation Operator of N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory
Creators: name: Beisert, Niklas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We continue the analysis of hep-th/0303060 in the one-loop sector and present the complete psu(2,2|4) dilatation operator of N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory. This operator generates the matrix of one-loop anomalous dimensions for all local operators in the theory. Using an oscillator representation we show how to apply the dilatation generator to a generic state. By way of example, we determine the planar anomalous dimensions of all operators up to and including dimension 5.5, where we also find some evidence for integrability. Finally, we investigate a number of subsectors of N=4 SYM in which the dilatation operator simplifies. Among these we find the previously considered so(6) and su(2) subsectors, a su(2|4) subsector isomorphic to the BMN matrix model at one-loop, a u(2|3) supersymmetric subsector of nearly eighth-BPS states and, last but not least, a non-compact sl(2) subsector whose dilatation operator lifts uniquely to the full theory.
description: 39 pages, 1 figure, v2,v3: typos, minor corrections and references added, v4: minor corrections, accepted for publication in Nucl. Phys. B, v5: intermediate results (B.16/B.18) in Appendix B corrected, thanks to Pedro Liendo for pointing out my mistake
NATIONAL AND RURAL HOUSING POLICY: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND EMERGING ISSUES
Creators: name: Reeder, William J.
name: Lerman, Donald L.
name: Hession, John C.
name: Sullivan, Patrick J.
name: Reeder, William J.
name: Lerman, Donald L.
name: Hession, John C.
name: Sullivan, Patrick J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Housing finance
subject: housing affordability
subject: homeownership
subject: rural development

description: The Nation's housing finance system has undergone dramatic changes in the past 50 years. This report traces the historical development of Federal housing policy and presents emerging housing policy concerns. The proper Government role in the areas of mortgage credit and insurance in the primary and secondary mortgage markets, homeownership policies, rental subsidy programs, housing affordability, and rural housing are discussed.
Additional file 4 of Additional effect of azithromycin over β-lactam alone for severe community-acquired pneumonia-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Suzuki, Jun
name: Sasabuchi, Yusuke
name: Hatakeyama, Shuji
name: Matsui, Hiroki
name: Sasahara, Teppei
name: Morisawa, Yuji
name: Yamada, Toshiyuki
name: Fushimi, Kiyohide
name: Yasunaga, Hideo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Table 4. Risk differences for 28-day mortality and in-hospital mortality in the unmatched, propensity score-matched, and IPTW analysis groups.
Giant spontaneous exchange bias in an antiperovskite structure driven by a canted triangular magnetic structure
Creators: name: Ding, Lei
name: Chu, Lihua
name: Manuel, Pascal
name: Orlandi, Fabio
name: Li, Meicheng
name: Guo, Yanjiao
name: Liu, Zhuohai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exchange bias (EB) refers to a shift of the hysteresis loop along the field axis in materials consisting of ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) layers, generally after a cooling procedure in high magnetic field. This effect is highly desirable for technological applications ranging from spintronics to magnetic recording. Achieving giant EB effect near room temperature in a small cooling field is thus an on-going technologically relevant challenge for the materials science community. In this work, we present the experimental realization of such a fundamental goal by demonstrating the existence of giant EB after a zero field cooled (ZFC) procedure in antiperovskite Mn3.5Co0.5N below 256 K. We found that it exhibits an EB field of 0.28 T at 50 K after a ZFC procedure accompanied by a large vertical magnetization shift (VMS). Interestingly, this EB field can be elevated up to 1.2 T after a cooling procedure with a small applied field of just 500 Oe. Mn3:5Co0:5N bears the first intermetallic material showing a strong correlation between EB and VMS.We attribute the observed EB effect to a completely new canted triangular magnetic structure determined by neutron diffraction experiment. Finally, we discuss the striking effect of Co substitution on the physical properties of antiperovskite materials and put forward a new strategy for antiperovskite lattice to exploit new single phase materials showing large EB effect at room temperature.
description: first published on 18 Oct 2018
PATTERNS AND TRENDS IN WORLD WHEAT COMPETITIVENESS
Creators: name: Shane, Mathew
name: Shane, Mathew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: World wheat trade
subject: international competitiveness
subject: patterns
subject: trends
subject: U.S. wheat export competitiveness

description: World wheat trade is highly concentrated. Thirteen countries accounted for 95 percent of wheat exports and 18 countries accounted for more than 71 percent of imports during 1981-83. The United States is the dominant exporter with more than 44 percent of world exports during 1981-83, but that position of dominance is coming into increasing competition. The U.S. export share is projected to erode substantially over the years ahead. Eight major exporters in 1981-83 were importers in 1961-63. Similarly, there have been substantial changes on the importer side. The major importers, who accounted for 71 percent in 1981-83, accounted for only 25 percent of wheat imports in 1961-63. The USSR, a significant exporter in 1961-63, was the largest single importer in 1981-83, with more than 20 percent of wheat imports.
THE DOLLAR TURNAROUND AND U.S. AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS
Creators: name: Krissoff, Barry
name: Morey, Art
name: Krissoff, Barry
name: Morey, Art
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Exchange rates
subject: international trade
subject: wheat
subject: corn
subject: soybeans
subject: simulation model

description: U.S. agricultural exports have deteriorated substantially in the 1980's. One explanation for this decline is the appreciation of the dollar over the 1979-85 period making U.S. exports less competitive in world markets. In 1986, in a sharp turnaround, the dollar's value has depreciated strongly against some of our trading partners' currencies. To analyze the movements in the value of the dollar including the 1986 turnaround, we developed a three-region world model. The model indicates that the 1984 and 1985 dollar appreciations outweigh the positive effect of the 1986 depreciation for wheat exports but the reverse is true for corn and soybean exports.
From Pennies to Prizes : Assessing Incentive Strategies for Reusable Cups
Creators: name: Duwel, Clara
name: Montens, Caeden
name: Wan, Stella
name: Basheer, Rayyan
name: Gelman, Charles
name: Thompson, Timothea
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Introduction This study investigated whether there was a more efficient incentive strategy to encourage reusable cup usage than the current policy of a 25-cent fee on disposable cups. We wanted to examine if a lottery approach, a 5% chance to win a $5 credit, influenced the perceived likelihood of using personal reusable mugs compared to the current policy. Research Question How do lottery-based incentive strategies, compared to the current policy, influence the perceived likelihood of bringing personal reusable mugs? Methods A between-subjects survey presented participants with hypothetical scenarios reflecting the current policy and lottery approach. Additional measures captured participants' preferences and motivations for reusable mug usage, disposable cup usage, and feedback on other incentives. Results Mann-Whitney U test results indicated no significant difference in perceived likelihood between the control (M = 3.81) and lottery approach (M = 3.91) conditions (p = .77). The exploratory analysis suggested motivations for reusable cup use included environmental concerns (76.00%) and saving money (74.00%), with a strong preference (56.80%) for a points-based reward system over other incentives. Recommendations The exploratory analysis indicated that a points-based reward system is a more favorable option. This study recommends investigating points-based rewards programs, like stamp cards, to encourage reusable cup usage and support UBC's zero-waste action plan. Partnerships with organizations offering mug-share programs like CLUBZERØ or Circular & Co. could streamline operations with digital points-based incentive systems. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Hook variables: cut-and-join operators and $τ$-functions
Creators: name: Mironov, A.
name: Morozov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Young diagrams can be parameterized with the help of hook variables, which is well known but never studied in big detail. We demonstrate that this is the most adequate parameterization for many physical applications: from the Schur functions, conventional, skew and shifted, which all satisfy their own kinds of determinant formulas in these coordinates, to KP/Toda integrability and related basis of cut-and-join $\hat W$-operators, which are both actually expressed through the single-hook diagrams. In particular, we discuss a new type of multi-component KP $τ$-functions, Matisse $τ$-functions. We also demonstrate that the Casimir operators, which are responsible for integrability, are single-hook, with the popular basis of "completed cycles" being distinguished by especially simple coefficients in the corresponding expansion. The Casimir operators also generate the $q=t$ Ruijsenaars Hamiltonians. However, these properties are broken by the naive Macdonald deformation, which is the reason for the loss of KP/Toda integrability and related structures in $q$-$t$ matrix models.
description: 15 pages
title: Long-term genetic modification of the ocular outflow tract and the retinal pigment epithelium with feline immunodeficiency viral vectors
Creators: name: Loewen, Nils Axel
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2008

description: The central goal to engineer feline immunodeficiency viral (FIV) vectors into a more modular platform for long-term ocular gene therapy was accomplished collaboratively by separating envelope, packaging and transfer function, the latter of which I optimized. FIV mediated gene transfer to the aqueous humor outflow tract and to the retina was established and long-term vector function and biocompatibility were confirmed. Transduction of the outflow tract was highly efficient and resulted in genetic modification of nearly the entire trabecular meshwork. For this purpose, I developed methods for administration and sensitive monitoring of FIV vectors in the anterior chamber and a novel subretinal injection technique.

 Bicistronic FIV vectors generated high levels of two different transgenes eGFP and β-galactosidase, which allowed live in vivo tracking and sensitive yet specific cell labeling in tissue specimen, respectively. An integrase mutant control vector that differed in only one amino acid resulted in no significant transduction while preserving all other biochemical properties.

 I developed a novel protocol for scaled-up production FIV vectors using cell factories and large-volume concentration that proved useful in the animal studies of this thesis. Especially the results achieved in the larger animal model, the domestic cat, validated the protocol for large-scale production. Transient transfection of 10 times lessDNA into 293T cells within high surface area cell factories and high volume, fixed-angle ultracentrifugation resulted in high titer vectors.
Long Abelian ideals
Creators: name: Panyushev, Dmitri I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study Abelian ideals of a Borel subalgebra consisting of long roots. It is shown that methods of Cellini and Papi can be extended to this situation. A uniform expression for the number of long Abelian ideals is given. We also show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the long Abelian ideals and B-stable commutative subalgebras in the little adjoint representation of the Langlands dual Lie algebra.
description: LaTeX2e, 8 pages