cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Cohort Approach for Predicting Future Eating Habits: The Case of At-Home Consumption of Fresh Fish and Meat in an Aging Japanese Society
Creators: name: Mori, Hiroshi
name: Clason, Dennis L.
name: Mori, Hiroshi
name: Clason, Dennis L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Due to a rapidly aging society, stagnating per capita income and rather stable prices, traditional economic analyses methods lost their power in the 1990s to predict future food product consumption in Japan. This study, in part, remedies this problem by projecting future consumption of selected products, using a cohort approach with economic factors tentatively set aside. Per capita consumption of individual household members by age was derived by incorporating family age composition into household data classified by age groups of household head (HH). Individual consumption estimates were decomposed into age, cohort and time effects, using the Nakamura's Bayesian cohort model. These effects were synthesized to predict per capita consumption in each population age cell in 2010 and 2020. Although some method refinement is warranted, the cohort approach proves a useful tool in improving prediction of future food product consumption and, combined with economic factors, may prove useful in future economic forecasting.
U.S. Executives' Views on International Agribusiness Education in the United States: An IAMA Membership Survey
Creators: name: Wachenheim, Cheryl J.
name: Lesch, William C.
name: Wachenheim, Cheryl J.
name: Lesch, William C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Agricultural Economics
subject: Agribusiness
subject: Curriculum
subject: Education
subject: International Education

description: Industry members of the International Agribusiness Management Association were surveyed regarding agribusiness education. Respondents agreed that an ability to communicate and work with others are the most important skills for new graduates to possess. Skills and experiences related to international business were considered less important. Most respondents indicated that they do or are willing to assist the academic community with curricular design or implementation. Viewpoints of firms more actively involved in the academic curriculum concerning student qualifications and design of an international study program differed from those of other firms that also employ new graduates, but were not so engaged.
O'QUVCHILAR TA'LIM-TARBIYASIDA TASVIRIY SAN'AT ROLI VA O'RNI
Creators: name: Sarsenova, Gulnur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqola eng avvalo tasviriy san'at fanining bugungi kunda umumta'lim maktablari o'quvchilarining aqliy, ma'naviy, ekologik tarbiyalangan, intensiv fikrlaydigan hamda tashabbuskor bo'lib komil topishiga ko'mak beruvchi omillar xaqida yozilgan. Maqolada shuningdek buyuk mutafakkirlarning fikrlari, fanning yurtimizda olib borilayotgan izchil bunyodkorlik ishlariga kelajakda qo'shadigan xissasi xaqida xam yoritib ketilgan.
The origin and chemical evolution of carbon in the Galactic thin and thick disks
Creators: name: Bensby, T.
name: Feltzing, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [ABRIDGED] In order to trace the origin and evolution of carbon in the Galactic disk we have determined carbon abundances in 51 nearby F and G dwarf stars. The sample is divided into two kinematically distinct subsamples with 35 and 16 stars that are representative of the Galactic thin and thick disks, respectively. The analysis is based on spectral synthesis of the forbidden [C I] line at 872.7 nm using spectra of very high resolution (R~220000)and high signal-to-noise (S/N>300) that were obtained with the CES spectrograph on the ESO 3.6-m telescope on La Silla in Chile. We find that [C/Fe] versus [Fe/H] trends for the thin and thick disks are totally merged and flat for sub-solar metallicities. The thin disk that extends to higher metallicities than the thick disk,shows a shallow decline in [C/Fe] from [Fe/H]=0 and up to [Fe/H]=+0.4. The [C/O] versus [O/H] trends are well separated between the two disks (due to differences in the oxygen abundances)and bear a great resemblance to the [Fe/O] versus [O/H] trends. Our interpretation of our abundance trends is that the sources that are responsible for the carbon enrichment in the Galactic thin and thick disks have operated on a time-scale very similar to those that are responsible for the Fe and Y enrichment (i.e., SNIa and AGB stars, respectively)...... For the Galaxy we hence conclude that the carbon enrichment at metallicities typical of the disk is mainly due to low and intermediate mass stars, while massive stars are still the main carbon contributor at low metallicities (halo and metal-poor thick disk).
description: 15 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS
A Spatial-Temporal asymptotic preserving scheme for radiation magnetohydrodynamics in the equilibrium and non-equilibrium diffusion limit
Creators: name: Jin, Shi
name: Tang, Min
name: Zhang, Xiaojiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The radiation magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) system couples the ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations with a gray radiation transfer equation. The main challenge is that the radiation travels at the speed of light while the magnetohydrodynamics changes with the time scale of the fluid. The time scales of these two processes can vary dramatically. In order to use mesh sizes and time steps that are independent of the speed of light, asymptotic preserving (AP) schemes in both space and time are desired. In this paper, we develop an AP scheme in both space and time for the RMHD system. Two different scalings are considered. One results in an equilibrium diffusion limit system, while the other results in a non-equilibrium system. The main idea is to decompose the radiative intensity into three parts, each part is treated differently with suitable combinations of explicit and implicit discretizations guaranteeing the favorable stability conditionand computational efficiency. The performance of the AP method is presented, for both optically thin and thick regions, as well as for the radiative shock problem.
description: 29 pages, 40 figures
Can the Private Sector be Competitive and Contribute to Development through Sustainable Agricultural Business? A Case Study of Coffee in Latin America
Creators: name: Kilian, Bernard
name: Pratt, Lawrence
name: Jones, Connie
name: Villalobos, Andres
name: Kilian, Bernard
name: Pratt, Lawrence
name: Jones, Connie
name: Villalobos, Andres
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Sustainable coffee
subject: Certification
subject: Economics
subject: Central America

description: Latin America's coffee market continues in economic crisis. Sustainable coffee production and certification is one option for economic recuperation and social and environmental sustainability for the region's coffee producers. This paper explores four viable certification processes (Organic, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, and Utz Kapeh) by first defining their requirements. Then, an assessment of microeconomic impacts is given, where the production processes of sustainable and conventional coffee are evaluated and compared. Finally, the paper presents their future relevance and entrepreneurial potential by considering long-term market perspectives. Information about sustainable production in Latin America was gathered through primary sources in interviews and markets analyses conducted by the CIMS Foundation.
Heteragrion cauei Avila Junior, Lencioni & Carneiro 2017
Creators: name: Vilela, Diogo Silva
name: Lencioni, Frederico A. A.
name: Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A.
name: Ware, Jessica L.
name: Bispo, Pitágoras C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Megapodagrionidae
Heteragrion
Heteragrion cauei

description: Heteragrion cauei Ávila-Jr., Lencioni & Carneiro, 2017
(Figs. 21a–e)
[Key locator: Key to Group A species, couplet 22 (21)]
 Heteragrion cauei: Ávila-Jr. et al. 2017: 275–286 (description of ♁ and ♀ from Minas Gerais state, Brazil; diagnosis and comparison with other congeners; figs. 2–7);— Ávila Jr. et al. 2021: 3, 5–6 (list of species, IUCN status; figs. 3a, 5);— Guedes et al. 2022: 5 (list of species).
 Material examined. 1♁ (PARATYPE) BRAZIL, Minas Gerais state, Ouro Preto, Cachoeira Catarina Mendes, 18.iii.2016, (-20.3447, -43.4986, 1082m asl), W.F. Ávila-Jr. leg., ABMM; 1♁ same date, but 2.iii.1987, A.B.M. Machado leg., ABMM.
 Known distribution. Brazil (Southern Minas Gerais state).
 Diagnosis and remarks. Heteragrion cauei is close morphologically to H. consors, sharing the large upper plate on ML. It can be separated from the latter by the shape of upper and lower plates. The following character combination distinguishes this species from the remainder of Group A species: upper plate subequal in size with lower plate (Fig. 21e), rounded shape, wider than lower plate, bearing a posterior row of teeth, not centered with lower plate (Figs. 21c–e); lower plate narrow, bearing two carinae and squared apex (Fig. 21e). Heteragrion cauei has been assessed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, as it currently is known from only a limited region with continuous habitat quality decline (Vilela & Guillermo-Ferreira 2021c).
description: Published as part of Vilela, Diogo Silva, Lencioni, Frederico A. A., Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A., Ware, Jessica L. & Bispo, Pitágoras C., 2023, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Heteragrion Selys, 1862 (Zygoptera: Heteragrionidae): male morphology, new species and illustrated key, pp. 1-96 in Zootaxa 5356 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5356.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10008529
Consumer Attitudes towards Genetically Modified Foods in Emerging Markets: The Impact of Labeling in Taiwan
Creators: name: Ganiere, Pierre
name: Chern, Wen S.
name: Hahn, David E.
name: Chiang, Fu-Sung
name: Ganiere, Pierre
name: Chern, Wen S.
name: Hahn, David E.
name: Chiang, Fu-Sung
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Genetically modified food
subject: Consumer attitudes
subject: Taiwan
subject: Telephone survey

description: In 2001, Taiwan enacted a law for genetically modified food (GM foods) labeling. Beginning January 1st 2003, food containing more than 5% of GM ingredients must be labeled. Taiwan imports most of its soybeans from the United States. In order to assess the effects of the new policy, a telephone survey was conducted in 2002. A total of 257 interviews were completed. A typology of consumers' attitudes towards GM foods is constructed from the use of a multiple correspondence analysis and a classification method. Four profiles are identified: proponents, 52%, moderate opponents, 32.5%, extreme opponents, 12.5%, and those with no opinion, 5.5%.
Instruments Reducing Climatic Risk for Russian Agriculture
Creators: name: Sannikova, Marina
name: Bukusheva, Raushan
name: Sannikova, Marina
name: Bukusheva, Raushan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Risk-management instruments
subject: climatic risk
subject: index-based crop insurance
subject: utility efficiency programming model
subject: Russia

description: The paper evaluates technical solutions and two main tapes of index-based insurance: area yield insurance and weather-based index insurance regarding their efficiency in reducing climatic risks of Russian farms in the steppes zone. The analysis considers area yield insurance at two levels of aggregation - oblast and rayon (county) level. Weather-based index insurance products are drawn up by combining two weather parameters - daily precipitation and daily average air temperature. We employ yield and weather data of an experimental station in the Central Volga Russia for the period from 1979 to 2000. In addition experts' assessments are used to specify alternative levels of production technology and respective yield distributions for the considered region. To assess utilityefficiency of the defined insurance products a programming model were formulated for 22 states of nature and 3 levels of the decision-maker risk aversion. The model estimation results show that area yield insurance based on oblast and rayon yields stabilize farm income mostly efficiently. The weather-based index insurance follows immediately after. So, both index-based insurance types provide the considered farm with a higher utility than farm yield insurance with deductibles. This points at a high potential of index-based insurance as an instrument reducing climatic risk of Russian farms situated in the steppes zone.
Additional file 8 of Enhancing backcross programs through increased recombination
Creators: name: Tourrette, Elise
name: Falque, Matthieu
name: Martin, Olivier C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Figure S7: Effect of selecting the top 1% best plants rather than the best one. (a) Mean size of the heterozygous segment around the target locus, in Mb, according to generations, in B.rapa. (b) Mean proportion of the donor genome, in percentage, according to generations. The insert represents a zoom on the last generations, from BC2 onwards. (c) Ratio of the mean proportion of donor genome under WT to the proportion under Boost or HR according to generations. A value above 1 means that there is more remaining donor genome in the WT than under modified recombination rates (Boost or HR). (d) Mean proportion of the remaining donor genome that results from linkage drag, calculated as the part of the remaining donor genome that comes from the heterozygous segment around the target locus, according to generations. The measures for WT, Boost and HR are represented in black, red, and green, respectively. Either the best (solid lines) or the best four (top 1%; dashed lines) plants are kept at each generation. In the situations represented in this figure, the target locus is in a cold region, there are 400 plants per generations and the selection scheme goes up to BC3S1. The error bars represent the confidence intervals at 95%.
T-homotopy and refinement of observation (II) : Adding new T-homotopy equivalences
Creators: name: Gaucher, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55U35 ; 55P99 ; 68Q85

description: This paper is the second part of a series of papers about a new notion of T-homotopy of flows. It is proved that the old definition of T-homotopy equivalence does not allow the identification of the directed segment with the 3-dimensional cube. This contradicts a paradigm of dihomotopy theory. A new definition of T-homotopy equivalence is proposed, following the intuition of refinement of observation. And it is proved that up to weak S-homotopy, a old T-homotopy equivalence is a new T-homotopy equivalence. The left-properness of the weak S-homotopy model category of flows is also established in this second part. The latter fact is used several times in the next papers of this series.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures
Die dogmatische Relevanz der Ergebnisse theologischer Gespräche zwischen römisch-katholischen und evangelischen Theologen
Creators: name: Fries, Heinrich
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 29 Nr. 3 (1980): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 29, Heft 3
Creating insurance markets for natural disaster risk in lower income countries: the potential role for securitization
Creators: name: Skees, Jerry R.
name: Barnett, Barry J.
name: Murphy, Anne G.
name: Skees, Jerry R.
name: Barnett, Barry J.
name: Murphy, Anne G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Catastrophe risk
subject: index insurance
subject: weather risks
subject: socially responsible investing
subject: reinsurance

description: This paper considers the potential for securitizing index-based insurance products that transfer weather and natural disaster risks from lower income countries. The paper begins with a brief overview of why markets for natural disaster risks are important in lower income countries and a review of some recent activities using index-based weather insurance. Next, the paper explains how natural disaster risks are handled in higher income countries. These examples along with the example of an innovative index-based livestock insurance pilot project in Mongolia illustrate how layers, or tranches, of natural disaster risk can be financed during the product development phase by creating structures similar to the Special Purpose Vehicles used in catastrophe bond, mortgage bond, and the emerging microfinance bond markets. We refer to these investment alternatives as micro-CAT bonds since the principal amounts would be small relative to the existing CAT bond market.
Electric field induced topological phase transition and large enhancements of spin-orbit coupling and Curie temperature in two-dimensional ferromagnetic semiconductors
Creators: name: You, Jing-Yang
name: Dong, Xue-Juan
name: Gu, Bo
name: Su, Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tuning topological and magnetic properties of materials by applying an electric field is widely used in spintronics. In this work, we find a topological phase transition from topologically trivial to nontrivial states at an external electric field of about 0.1 V/A in MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ monolayer that is a topologically trivial ferromagnetic semiconductor. It is shown that when electric field increases from 0 to 0.15 V/A, the magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) increases from about 0.1 to 6.3 meV, and the Curie temperature Tc increases from 13 to about 61 K. The increased MAE mainly comes from the enhanced spin-orbit coupling due to the applied electric field. The enhanced Tc can be understood from the enhanced $p$-$d$ hybridization and decreased energy difference between $p$ orbitals of Te atoms and $d$ orbitals of Mn atoms. Moreover, we propose two novel Janus materials MnBi$_2$Se$_2$Te$_2$ and MnBi$_2$S$_2$Te$_2$ monolayers with different internal electric polarizations, which can realize quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) with Chern numbers $C$=1 and $C$=2, respectively. Our study not only exposes the electric field induced exotic properties of MnBi2Te4 monolayer, but also proposes novel materials to realize QAHE in ferromagnetic Janus semiconductors with electric polarization.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Agricultural yield expectations under climate change - a Bayesian approach
Creators: name: Krause, Jette
name: Krause, Jette
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Bayesian updating
subject: agricultural yields
subject: expectation
subject: risk
subject: climate change
subject: trend
subject: variance
subject: volatility

description: In the years to come, German wheat, corn and aggregated cereal yields can be expected to show growing deviations from a linearly increasing trend. This results from the Bayesian Updating approach I apply to agricultural yield data. The updating procedure is carried out on a set of hypotheses on yield development, which are weighted in the light of yield data from 1950 through 2006. All hypotheses share the assumption of a linear yield trend with normally distributed variance of actual data from this trend, but differ in regard to possible future developments. The set of hypotheses allows for both the trend and the variance of data to stay unchanged, increase or decrease by 20 per cent from one period to the next. As a result, yield expectations converge to favor a stable positive linear trend with increasing variance by 1990, at latest. Expectations for the future are stabilized, as the present weight of this hypothesis is at least 99.5 per cent for all crops considered. Impacts of climate change may have contributed to this development in the past, and current knowledge on its effects on agricultural production augments the credibility of these expectations for the future. From the increase in variance, it follows that the risk of losses for agricultural actors increases and should be backed up with the help of hedging or insurances instruments.
Slip-Form Paving
Creators: name: Magan, Kerry P.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The proper placement, consolidation, and finishing of low-slump concrete without the aid of pre-erected side, forms has been widely acclaimed as an economical and effective procedure in the construction of portland cement concrete pavements. This construction procedure, commonly referred to as slip-form paving, depends upon the ability of low-slump concrete to remain in place after consolidation and removal of forms.  Slip-form pavers differ from conventional pavers in that no fixed side forms are required inasmuch as the slip-form paver has side forms that advance with the machine. Concrete is merely deposited on the prepared subgrade in front of the machine, which strikes off and consolidates the concrete. The slab is then shaped by an extrusion plate and given an initial floating. The slab is given another floating and then dragged with a burlap drag. All that remains to be done is curing the concrete and sawing the joints. A slip-form paver replaces several pieces of equipment that are normally required for conventional paving. Not only is a reduction in capital investment brought about by the use of slip-form pavers, but a savings is also realized in the accompanying reduction of labor. Savings from 20 to 45 cents per square yard have been reported by other states.
Legal Aspects and Guidelines Pertaining to Drainage of Surface Waters
Creators: name: McLellan, D. W.
name: Fox, Victor
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: A previous study ("Research Relating to State Highway Laws", reported January 1967) afforded us an opportunity to review a vast array of literature and statutory law pertaining to enabling legislation and administrative authority to construct and maintain highways. It was surprising to find that the statutes are void of guidance on certain subjects: there are great "bodies" of unwritten or non-statutory laws which are referred to as "common law" and "civil law", which are deeply rooted in the past; many are doctrinal or equitable; many are extraordinary and argumentative -- they should not be confused with Civil Procedure. They have been described as the laws of "private rights" and offer redress of grievances when statutory or constitutional laws are not specific.  The right to own and possess land is constitutional; riparian rights attach -- some authorities contend that riparian rights cannot be severed and sold. Formerly, the attitude toward ownership of land was that rights extended from the center of the earth to the sky above and that owners rights were inviolable except through eminent domain and "due process". Modern attitudes superimpose a limited-use or "public interest" condition upon private ownership. Even so, an owner of land may not perpetuate a nuisance or use his land in ways which are injurious or damaging to others. Interestingly enough, a nuisance does not exist until someone is injured by it; priority of occupation does not constitute a prescriptive right.  The Department incurs liabilities when private rights are invaded or usurped. In some jurisdicions the state has been held liable in the same manner as a private owner; where sovereign immunity persists, damage to private property may be described as "nuisance", "trespass", or "negligence". Ultimately, such actions are held as a taking of or adverse possession of private property.
Tests of Quantum Gravity near Measurement Events
Creators: name: Kent, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experiments have recently been proposed testing whether quantum gravitational interactions generate entanglement between adjacent masses in position superposition states. We propose potentially less challenging experiments that test quantum gravity against theories with classical space-times defined by postulating semi-classical gravity (or classical effects of similar scale) for mesoscopic systems.
description: Small typos corrected and clarifications added
Hunting for the alpha: $B\to ρρ$, $B \to ππ$, $B \toπρ$
Creators: name: Ovanesyan, G. G.
name: Vysotsky, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hypothesis of the smallness of penguin contribution to charmless strangeless $B_d (\bar B_d)$ decays allows to determine with high accuracy the value of angle $α$ from the currently available $B \to ρρ$, $B \to ππ$ and $B\to ρπ$ decay data.
description: 9 pages
Relationship Between Soil Support Value and Kentucky CBR
Creators: name: Hopkins, Tommy C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Three slightly different correlations between Kentucky CBR's and the AASHO Road Test soil support values were developed. The first relationship was made by assuming a logarithmic scale between Kentucky CBR's of 5.2 and 100, which corresponded to values on the soil support scale of 3 and 10, respectively. The Kentucky CBR of 5.2 was determined by performing tests on the AASHO road subgrade soils. For practical purposes, the AASHO Road Test crushed stone base material was assumed to be a "100 percent CBR material" (this assumption was based on CBR data previously reported by Shook and Fang). The second correlation was obtained by assuming a logarithmic scale between Kentucky CBR's of 5.2 and 90, corresponding to values on the soil support scale of 3 and 10, respectively. The third relationship was constructed through computations using actual traffic data, the Kentucky flexible pavement design curves and the AASHO Design Chart (PT = 2.5). Computed soil support values of 3 and 10 corresponded to Kentucky CBR's of 6 and 90, respectively. Computed values of soil support were plotted to an arithmetic scale and Kentucky CBR's were plotted to a logarithmic scale. In a range of Kentucky CBR's varying from about 4 to 40, the relationship was linear, while from 40 to 90, the curve was concave upward. There was reasonable agreement between a Kentucky CBR of 5.2, determined by tests, and 6, determined through computations.  Comments are made regarding the Kentucky CBR testing procedure. In particular, it is noted that Nomographs C and D in Appendix A of the AASHO Guide which relate Kentucky CBR's and soil support values are not valid because the Kentucky CBR testing procedure does not permit the substitution of dynamic compaction in lieu of static compaction for molding CBR soil specimens.  Several ASTM and Kentucky CBR tests were performed at different molding moisture contents and compactive energies on the AASHO embankment soil, four representative Kentucky soils, and one soil from the state of Ohio. These data were compared to CBR data previously reported by Shook and Fang. For CBR's ranging from about 4 to 12, a relationship was developed between Kentucky and ASTM CBR's. Within this range of values, Kentucky and ASTM CBR's are approximately equal. Molding specimens under the static pressure of 2000 pounds per square inch as used in the Kentucky CBR procedure produced specimens with initial dry densities that averaged about six percent higher than those obtained by AASHO Designation: T99-57. CBR's and axial swell values were also higher. For soil specimens molded at the same initial dry densities, CBR's of statically compacted specimens are distinctively lower than those observed for dynamically compacted specimens. For relatively small decreases in initial dry densities, there were very large decreases in CBR's. This probably accounts for discrepancies that have been observed between field and laboratory CBR's.
Risk management, vulnerability, and risk perception of organic farmers in Spain
Creators: name: Medina, Felipe
name: Iglesias, Ana
name: Mateos, Carlos
name: Medina, Felipe
name: Iglesias, Ana
name: Mateos, Carlos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Risk management
subject: organic farming
subject: vulnerability
subject: risk perception
subject: stochastic simulation and agricultural insurance.

description: This study analyses the specific risks that organic farmers must manage. Due to the special features of management of their productive system, and due to the specific characteristics of their cultivations, they must face different risks than conventional farmers. Even if the Spanish farmers rely on the insurance system to manage their risks, today organic farmers do not have specific insurance products to manage them. The methodology and results presented in this study include the following: First, the primary information is compiled after the elaboration of more than 500 questionnaires to organic farmers of diverse Spanish regions. Second, the risk analysis is carried out by evaluating statistical, probabilistic, and stochastic properties of the organic production data. We evaluate and discuss the aspects of our study that relate to other international studies. Productions considered in this research are olive grove, vineyard, cereals, fruits, vegetables, nuts and, citrus fruit. Specific risks of organic farming - in contrast with conventional farming - have been identified and quantified, showing the existing differences of perception, vulnerability and risk management, as well as the different risk level and recovery after an event of adverse climatic conditions. This research lays the foundations for the elaboration of a specific agrarian insurance for organic productions, which will serve in a near future, as a tool for the management of the specific risks of Spanish organic farmers.
Additional file 1 of Antitumor activities of Aspiletrein A, a steroidal saponin from Aspidistra letreae, on non-small cell lung cancer cells
Creators: name: Nguyen, Hien Minh
name: Nguyen, Hoai Thi
name: Suthasinee Seephan
name: Do, Hang Bich
name: Nguyen, Huy Truong
name: Ho, Duc Viet
name: Pongrakhananon, Varisa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. The original blot for Fig. 2d. Fig. S2. The original blot for Fig. 2e. Fig. S3 The original blot for Fig. 2f. Fig. S4 The original blot for Fig. 6.
Tight Closure of Finite Length Modules in Graded Rings
Creators: name: Dietz, Geoffrey D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13A35 (Primary) 13B22, 13C11 (Secondary)

description: We look at how the equivalence of tight closure and plus closure (or Frobenius closure) in the homogeneous m-coprimary case implies the same closure equivalence in the non-homogeneous m-coprimary case in standard graded rings. Although our result does not depend upon dimension, the primary application is based on results known in dimension 2 due to the recent results of H. Brenner. We also show that unlike the Noetherian case, the injective hull of the residue field over $R^+$ or $R^\infty$ contains elements that are not killed by any power of the maximal ideal of R.
description: 14 pages, minor revisions made
Heteragrion cyane : Machado & Souza 2014
Creators: name: Vilela, Diogo Silva
name: Lencioni, Frederico A. A.
name: Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A.
name: Ware, Jessica L.
name: Bispo, Pitágoras C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Megapodagrionidae
Heteragrion
Heteragrion cyane

description: Heteragrion cyane Machado & Souza, 2014
(Figs. 28a–d)
[Key locator: Key to Group A species, couplet 10 (9)]
 Heteragrion obsoletum: Souza et al. 2013: 1369 (misidentification; mention of specimen in checklist as H. obsoletum).
 Heteragrion cyane: Machado & Souza 2014: 95–99 (description and diagnosis of ♁; discussion on species with blue coloration; figs. 1–6);— Lencioni 2017: 139–140 (general taxonomic information; distribution; fig. 65);— Vilela et al. 2019b: 591–593 (comparison with H. denisye and original description of H. obsoletum; figs. 4f–h);— Cezário & Guillermo-Ferreira 2021: 78–86 (comparison with Heteragrion “blue species”).
 Material examined. 1♁ (HOLOTYPE) BRAZIL, Minas Gerais state, Barroso, Mata do Baú, 27.iii.2010, (- 21.1869, -43.9761, centroid), M.M. Souza leg., ABMM.
 Known distribution. Brazil (Southern Minas Gerais state).
 Diagnosis and remarks. Heteragrion cyane is one of the “blue species” of Group A, along with H. denisye and H. gorbi. This species is poorly known, being described from a single male (Machado & Souza 2014), with very few specimens found after its description (Walter Ávila pers. comm.). For this reason and for inhabiting an area threatened with deforestation, its conservation status has been assessed as Vulnerable by the IUCN Red List (Cano-Cobos & Lozano 2021). The following character combination distinguishes this species from the remainder of Group A species: overall body coloration consisting of shades of blue and green, with black background (Figs. 28a–b); ML ridge not reaching its apex (Fig. 28c); ML apex rounded (Figs. 28c–d).
description: Published as part of Vilela, Diogo Silva, Lencioni, Frederico A. A., Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A., Ware, Jessica L. & Bispo, Pitágoras C., 2023, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Heteragrion Selys, 1862 (Zygoptera: Heteragrionidae): male morphology, new species and illustrated key, pp. 1-96 in Zootaxa 5356 (1) on pages 43-44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5356.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10008529
Low Energy measurement of the $^{96}\mathrm{Zr}(α,n)^{99}\mathrm{Mo}$ reaction cross section and its impact on weak r-process nucleosynthesis
Creators: name: Kiss, G. G.
name: Szegedi, T. N.
name: Mohr, P.
name: Jacobi, M.
name: Gyürky, Gy.
name: Huszánk, R.
name: Arcones, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lighter heavy elements beyond iron and up to around silver can form in neutrino-driven ejecta in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. Slightly neutron-rich conditions favour a weak r-process that follows a path close to stability. Therefore, the beta decays are slow compared to the expansion time scales, and ($α$,n) reactions become critical to move matter towards heavier nuclei. The rates of these reactions are calculated with the statistical model and their main uncertainty, at energies relevant for the weak r-process, is the $α$+nucleus optical potential. There are several sets of parameters to calculate the $α$+nucleus optical potential leading to large deviations for the reaction rates, exceeding even one order of magnitude. Recently the $^{96}$Zr($α$,n)$^{99}$Mo reaction has been identified as a key reaction that impacts the production of elements from Ru to Cd. Here, we present the first cross section measurement of this reaction at energies (6.22 MeV $\leq$ E$_\mathrm{c.m.}$ $\leq$ 12.47 MeV) relevant for the weak r-process. The new data provide a stringent test of various model predictions which is necessary to improve the precision of the weak r-process network calculations. The strongly reduced reaction rate uncertainty leads to very well-constrained nucleosynthesis yields for $Z = 44 - 48$ isotopes under different neutrino-driven wind conditions.
Alternative Hedging Strategies in Maize Production to Cope with Climate Variability and Change
Creators: name: Fuhrer, Jurg
name: Beniston, Martin
name: Calanca, Pierluigi
name: Torriani, Daniele Simone
name: Fuhrer, Jurg
name: Beniston, Martin
name: Calanca, Pierluigi
name: Torriani, Daniele Simone
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Climatic change
subject: climate risks
subject: drought
subject: maize production
subject: weather derivatives
subject: hedging

description: Climate change with increasing climate variability is likely to alter risks in agricultural production. The effectiveness of using weather derivatives to hedge against drought risks for rain-fed grain maize production was investigated for current (1981-2003) and future (2070- 2100) climates in Switzerland. The climate change scenario was extrapolated from results of a regional climate model (HIRHAM4) based on the IPCC A2 emission scenario. In addition, a sensitivity analysis was performed by varying the mean and variance of the initial probability space for the seasonal precipitation sum. Profits and risks with and without hedging were compared using the analogy of the value-at-risk measure (VaR), i.e., a quantile-based measure of risk. A Monte Carlo chain composed of different models was used, with each model consisting of functions translating weather variables into the stochastic distributions for grain yield and economic returns. Depending on location, hedging reduced VaR to a variable degree under both current and future climatic conditions, with a considerable basis risk due to spatial heterogeneity of precipitation. The results also showed that hedging might provide a valid risk transfer since loading of 90 to 240% of the fair premium can be paid to obtain a hedged situation with improved outcomes relative to the business-as-usual reference. However, due to the uncertainty attached to climate scenarios and a strong bias in precipitation scenarios for the European alpine region, application of weather derivatives would require continuous re-equilibration and recalculation of the premiums. Depending on local conditions, the fair premium of a specific contract for hedging against weather risks in grain maize production may vary by a factor of two to four over the 70-year period considered. This represents a substantial uncertainty for both the underwriter (farmer) and the institution writing the contract.
Recent developments in heterotic compactifications
Creators: name: Sharpe, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this short review, we outline three sets of developments in understanding heterotic string compactifications. First, we outline recent progress in heterotic analogues of quantum cohomology computations. Second, we discuss a potential swampland issue in heterotic strings, and new heterotic string constructions that can be used to fill in the naively missing theories. Third, we discuss recent developments in string compactifications on stacks and their applications, concluding with an outline of work-in-progress on heterotic string compactifications on gerbes.
description: 24 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the Virginia Tech Sowers workshop, May 2007
An Analysis of the Relationship Between Supply-Chain Management Practices and New Product Development Time: A Case of the North American Confectionery Manufacturers
Creators: name: Spaulding, Aslihan D.
name: Woods, Timothy A.
name: Spaulding, Aslihan D.
name: Woods, Timothy A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: This paper describes the relationship between supply-chain management practices and new product development over time in the North American confectionery manufacturing industry. Using data from a survey of new product development managers, results indicate that buyer involvement and supplier involvement do not have a statistically significant impact on development time. Outsourcing of activities, however, does significantly impact new product development time. Findings of this study have important implications for supply-chain management practices of the food-manufacturing industry.
Phenotypic mapping of the rubella virus genome
Creators: name: Lund, Karen Diane
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: An infectious clone of the Cendehill vaccine strain of rubella virus (RV) has been constructed, as well as two chimeric clones containing cDNAs from Cendehill and Therien (wt+) strains. These clones were used to map the regions of the genome responsible for restriction of the Cendehill strain in human synovial cells (SC). Attenuating mutations have been mapped to two of the nonstructural gene regions. Substitution of Cendehill cDNA representing nts 2803 - 5355 into the Therien infectious clone (pROBO302) resulted in a decreased yield of progeny following electroporation of RNA transcripts into SC. This region contained five mutations, at nts 2829, 3060, 3164, 3528 and 4530, in the COOH-third of P150. Substitution of the Cendehill sequence representing nts 1 - 2803 contributed to a further restriction of the progeny in SC. This region contained two mutations at nts 37 and 55, within the 5' stem-loop structure. The further observation that Cendehill bound equally well to SC and the permissive Vero cell line indicated that restriction was not at the level of receptor binding, a function of the envelope proteins. Moreover, substitution of the Cendehill structural gene region into pROBO302 had no effect on replication of the progeny of transfection suggesting that the structural genes were not involved in restriction. In addition it was found that transfection of RV RNA resulted in progeny with an altered phenotype relative to the parental strain. Phenotypic alteration remained stable after six consecutive passages in Vero cells and occurred regardless of. the cell type being transfected, the transfection reagent or whether replicative intermediates or purified genomic RNAs were used. Phenotypic properties that were altered were: plaque morphology, growth rate, temperature sensitivity and cell tropism.
The Role of Business Expectations for New Product Introductions: A Panel Analysis for the German Food Industry
Creators: name: Hartl, Jochen
name: Herrmann, Roland
name: Hartl, Jochen
name: Herrmann, Roland
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Theory suggests that business expectations are crucial for investment in research and development (R&D) as well as for process and product innovations. However, there are controversial theoretical predictions about the causal linkage between business expectations and new product introductions. In addition, most empirical studies have so far neglected business expectations as an important determinant of new product introductions due to absence of data. To address this shortcoming, this study investigates whether business expectations do affect new product introductions and whether the net impact is positive or negative. The empirical analysis is based on panel data from 14 branches of the German food industry over six years (1993-1998). Our findings suggest that a strong pressure exists in stagnating or declining food industries to respond to unfavourable expectations through new product introductions. In addition, we identify the influence of market structure and industry-specific variables as significant for new product introductions.
Additional file 1 of Proximal deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Longchamp, Gregoire
name: Manzocchi-Besson, Sara
name: Longchamp, Alban
name: Righini, Marc
name: Helia Robert-Ebadi
name: Blondon, Marc
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1 Search strategies. Table S1. PRISMA checklist. Table S2. Newcastle-Ottawa scale for included cohort studies. Table S3. Detailed characteristics of included studies.Table S4. Detailed characteristics of participants. Table S5. VTE stratified by the type of anticoagulation (none, prophylactic, therapeutic). Figure S1. Funnel plot of:1a studies in medical ward ± ICU inpatients;1b studies in ICU only. Figure S2. Forrest plot of the estimated incidence of proximal DVT:2a stratified by medical ward and ICU;2b stratified by location and screening. Figure S3. Forrest plot of the estimated incidence of PE:3a stratified by general ward and ICU;3b stratified by location and screening. Figure S4. Forrest plot of the meta-analytic risk of VTE, restricted to medical inpatients without ICU stay. Figure S5. Sensitivity analysis, restricting to high-quality studies:5a stratified by location; b stratified by location and screening.
Heteragrion demarmelsi Stand-Perez, Bota-Sierra & Perez-Gutierrez 2019
Creators: name: Vilela, Diogo Silva
name: Lencioni, Frederico A. A.
name: Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A.
name: Ware, Jessica L.
name: Bispo, Pitágoras C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Megapodagrionidae
Heteragrion
Heteragrion demarmelsi

description: Heteragrion demarmelsi Stand-Pérez, Bota-Sierra & Pérez-Gutiérrez, 2019
(Figs. 29a–e)
[Key locator: Key to Group B species, couplet 28 (26)]
 Heteragrion demarmelsi: Stand-Pérez et al. 2019: 90–112 (key to species, ♁ in couplet 9, ♀ in couplet 7’; description and diagnosis of specimens from Colombia; comparison with H. inca and H. chlorotaeniatum; figs. 5c–d, 9a–c, 14g –i, 16d–e, h–i, 18).
 Material examined. 1♁ (HOLOTYPE) COLOMBIA, Amazonas Department, Leticia Municipality, Monifue Amena Center, Tacana River, 6.x.2005, (-4.0953, -69.9305, 71m asl), (Code MPUJ_ENT 0061372), MPUJ; 15♁♁ Amazona Department, Leticia Municipality, Monifue Amena Center, Tacana River, 6.x.2005, (-4.0952, -69.9305, 71m asl), MPUJ; 1♁ (PARATYPE) Amazonas Departament, Leticia Municipality, Km 11 Multi-ethnic Refuge Ticuna-Uitoto, Road to Zafire, Tacana River, (80m asl), A. Clavijo leg., CEUA.
 Known distribution. Colombian Amazon.
 Diagnosis and remarks. This newly described species was already assessed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List, as it “occurs in a small area threatened by urban and agricultural expansion” (Bota-Sierra & Sandoval 2021). Regarding its identity, it is close to H. inca, being separated by the lateral view of cercus and some head coloration patterns. The following character combination distinguishes this species from the remainder of Group B species: ridge above ML with a single row of teeth (Figs. 29c–d); male postclypeus yellow with brown transverse line (Fig. 29a); in dorsal view, cercus slightly elbowed along its midlength (Fig. 29e).
description: Published as part of Vilela, Diogo Silva, Lencioni, Frederico A. A., Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A., Ware, Jessica L. & Bispo, Pitágoras C., 2023, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Heteragrion Selys, 1862 (Zygoptera: Heteragrionidae): male morphology, new species and illustrated key, pp. 1-96 in Zootaxa 5356 (1) on pages 44-45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5356.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10008529