cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Producer Preferences for Contracts on a Risky Bioenergy Crop
Creators: name: Krah, Kwabena
name: Petrolia, Daniel
name: Coble, Keith
name: Williams, Angelica
name: Harri, Ardian
name: Krah, Kwabena
name: Petrolia, Daniel
name: Coble, Keith
name: Williams, Angelica
name: Harri, Ardian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Giant Miscanthus
subject: Contracts Attributes
subject: Choice Experiment

description: This study employs a stated choice experiment survey to identify producer preferences for contracts to produce Giant Miscanthus. Preliminary results indicate that price offered per ton of harvested Miscanthus, yield insurance availability, and biorefinery harvest have significant positive effects on the probability of a producer accepting a contract to produce Giant Miscahthus. The results show that risk-neutral farmers as more willing to accept contracts relative to risk-loving farmers, ceteris paribus. Farmers who perceive yield risk of Miscathus to be greater than their current crop are less likely to accept Giant Miscanthus contracts.
Profitability of Variable-Rate Technology in Cotton Production
Creators: name: Stefanini, Melissa
name: Larson, James A.
name: Boyer, Christopher N.
name: Cho, Seong-Hoon
name: Lambert, Dayton
name: Yin, Xinhua
name: Stefanini, Melissa
name: Larson, James A.
name: Boyer, Christopher N.
name: Cho, Seong-Hoon
name: Lambert, Dayton
name: Yin, Xinhua
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Production Economics
subject: Cotton
subject: Tennessee
subject: Mississippi
subject: Louisiana

description: Precision agriculture has the capability to reduce excess nitrogen (N) from crop production being released into the environment. This research evaluates the profitability and N use efficiency of utilizing real-time optical sensing with variable-rate technologies (VRT) to manage spatial variability in cotton production in the Mississippi River Basin states (Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi). Two forms of VRT and the existing farmer technology (control) were used to determine N fertilizer rates applied to sub-plots within the fields. Cotton yields generated and N fertilizer rates determined by the sensor technology are used to determine the changes in yields and N rates due to VRT, thus N use efficiency and net returns. Results indicate no differences in control and VRT yields. Although N savings using VRT were identified in four fields, they were not enough to produce significant differences in net returns between VRT and control.
The impact of the assimilation of migrants on the well-being of native inhabitants: A theory
Creators: name: Stark, Oded
name: Bielawski, Jakub
name: Jakubek, Marcin
name: Stark, Oded
name: Bielawski, Jakub
name: Jakubek, Marcin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Migrants’ assimilation
subject: The well-being of native inhabitants

description: We present a theory that systematically and causally links the well-being of native inhabitants with variation in the extent of the assimilation of migrants. Recent empirical findings are yielded as predictions of the theory.
Siamina Boczek 1993
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Actinedida
Eriophyidae
Siamina

description: Siamina Boczek, 1993
 Type species. Siamina cuminae Boczek, 1993 in Chandrapatya & Boczek, 1993a: 69–70.
 Diagnosis. Body fusiform; empodium entire; scapular setae (sc) ahead of rear shield margin, prodorsal shield with u-shaped notch, each fork bearing 3 or 4 points; opisthosoma with 3 ridges.
 This genus is monotypic (Amrine et al. 2003).
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 59
The Effects of Expert Selection, Elicitation Design, and R&D Assumptions on Experts’ Estimates of the Future Costs of Photovoltaics
Creators: name: Verdolini, Elena
name: Diaz Anadon, Laura
name: Lu, Jiaqi
name: Nemet, Gregory F.
name: Verdolini, Elena
name: Diaz Anadon, Laura
name: Lu, Jiaqi
name: Nemet, Gregory F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Photovoltaic Costs
subject: Energy R&D
subject: Expert Elicitation
subject: Survey Design
subject: Heuristics

description: Expert elicitations of future energy technology costs can improve energy policy design by explicitly characterizing uncertainty. However, the recent proliferation of expert elicitation studies raises questions about the reliability and comparability of the results. In this paper, we standardize disparate expert elicitation data from five EU and US studies, involving 65 experts, of the future costs of photovoltaics (PV) and evaluate the impact of expert and study characteristics on the elicited metrics. The results for PV suggest that in-person elicitations are associated with more optimistic 2030 PV cost estimates and in some models with a larger range of uncertainty than online elicitations. Unlike in previous results on nuclear power, expert affiliation type and nationality do not affect central estimates. Some specifications suggest that EU experts are more optimistic about breakthroughs, but they are also less confident in that they provide larger ranges of estimates than do US experts. Higher R&D investment is associated with lower future costs. Rather than increasing confidence, high R&D increases uncertainty about future costs, mainly because it improves the base case (low cost) outcomes more than it improves the worst case (high cost) outcomes.
MOESM3 of Genome-wide prediction and prioritization of human aging genes by data fusion: a machine learning approach
Creators: name: Arabfard, Masoud
name: Ohadi, Mina
name: Tabar, Vahid Rezaei
name: Delbari, Ahmad
name: Kavousi, Kaveh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3: A list of all huma candidate positive aging genes.
Capital-embodied Technologies in CGE Models
Creators: name: Lennox, James
name: Parrado, Ramiro
name: Lennox, James
name: Parrado, Ramiro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Climate Change Mitigation
subject: Capital-Embodiment
subject: Technological Change
subject: CGE Models

description: Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are widely used to analyse macroeconomic and sectoral effects of climate policies. Developing new and improving existing carbon-free energy technologies will be crucial to limit the long-term economic costs of mitigation policies. Such technologies are largely embodied in capital goods; yet conventionally structured CGE models cannot capture capital-embodiment of sector-specific technologies. In this paper, we clarify the conceptual nature of the capital embodiment problem in multisector CGE models. Aggregating productive sectors and investment goods eliminates channels whereby specific technological changes are embodied in specific capital stocks. Nevertheless, capital-embodiment of sector-specific Hicks-neutral technical changes can be directly represented as investment-specific technical change (ISTC).
MOESM2 of Genome-wide prediction and prioritization of human aging genes by data fusion: a machine learning approach
Creators: name: Arabfard, Masoud
name: Ohadi, Mina
name: Tabar, Vahid Rezaei
name: Delbari, Ahmad
name: Kavousi, Kaveh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 2: Results of 10-fold cross-validation in the trained and test data.
Economic effects of water recovery on irrigated agriculture in the Murray-Darling Basin
Creators: name: Grafton, Rupert
name: Jiang, Qiang
name: Grafton, Rupert
name: Jiang, Qiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Murray-Darling Basin
subject: water modelling
subject: water reform

description: In October 2010, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) proposed that a range of 3000–4000 GL per year, on average, of additional water be made available for the environment in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) to mitigate the effects of what it considers to be inadequate environmental flows. To help quantify the costs of this water reallocation, a hydro-economic model was constructed based on the 19 regions of the MDB. The model results indicate the following: (i) substantial reductions in surface water extractions of up to 4400 GL per year impose only a moderate reduction on net profits in irrigated agriculture, Basin wide, given competitive water markets, but the effects are much more pronounced in particular regions/catchments and (ii) the costs of the water reallocation are comparable with the amount budgeted by the Australian government to acquire water from willing sellers and increase environmental flows if inter-regional water trade is unrestricted.
A Control Chart Approach to Power System Line Outage Detection Under Transient Dynamics
Creators: name: Yang, Xiaozhou
name: Chen, Nan
name: Zhai, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Online transmission line outage detection over the entire network enables timely corrective action to be taken, which prevents a local event from cascading into a large scale blackout. Line outage detection aims to detect an outage as soon as possible after it happened. Traditional methods either do not consider the transient dynamics following an outage or require a full Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) deployment. Using voltage phase angle data collected from a limited number of PMUs, we propose a real-time dynamic outage detection scheme based on alternating current (AC) power flow model and statistical change detection theory. The proposed method can capture system dynamics since it retains the time-variant and nonlinear nature of the power system. The method is computationally efficient and scales to large and realistic networks. Extensive simulation studies on IEEE 39-bus and 2383-bus systems demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, under review for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Probabilistic prediction in scale-free networks: Diameter changes
Creators: name: Kim, J. -H.
name: Goh, K. -I.
name: Kahng, B.
name: Kim, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In complex systems, responses to small perturbations are too diverse to predict how much they would be definitely, and then such diverse responses can be predicted in a probabilistic way. Here we study such a problem in scale-free networks, for example, the diameter changes by the deletion of each node for various in silico and real world scale-free networks. We find that the diameter changes are indeed diverse and exhibit an algebraic decay with an exponent ζasymptotically. Interestingly, the exponent ζis robust as ζ\simeq 2.2(1) for most scale-free networks, insensitive to the degree exponents γas long as 2 < γ\le 3. However, there is another type with ζ\simeq 1.7(1) and its examples include the Internet and its related in silico model.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, final version appeared in PRL
Spinacus Keifer 1979
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Spinacus

description: Spinacus Keifer, 1979
 Type species. Spinacus pagonis Keifer, 1979: 11–12.
 Diagnosis. Body fusiform; empodium entire; scapular setae (sc) on rear shield margin, spine-like, prodorsal shield with anterior lobe; opisthosoma with weak furrow.
 This genus consists of 3 species (Amrine et al. 2003). One species has been recorded from Southeast Asia.
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 60
MOESM2 of A randomized cross-over trial to determine the effect of a protein vs. carbohydrate preload on energy balance in ad libitum settings
Creators: name: Gibson, Madeline
name: Dawson, John
name: Nadeeja Wijayatunga
name: Ironuma, Bridget
name: Idah Chatindiara
name: Ovalle, Fernando
name: Allison, David
name: Dhurandhar, Emily
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 2. CONSORT 2010 checklist of information to include when reporting a randomised trial.
Evaluating environmental policies under uncertainty through application of robust nonlinear programming
Creators: name: Doole, Graeme
name: Pannell, David J.
name: Doole, Graeme
name: Pannell, David J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: nonpoint pollution
subject: policy evaluation
subject: water quality.

description: Environmental policy evaluation is characterised by a paucity of information. The novel technique of robust mathematical programming is introduced as a means to proactively account for this uncertainty in policy analysis. The procedure allows identification of expected bounds on the range of abatement costs associated with environmental policy. It also has the advantage of not limiting conclusions to realisations of specific point estimates or probability distributions. Empirical insights are provided in an application to a New Zealand inland lake threatened by nitrate pollution from dairy farming. Overall, this novel framework is demonstrated to have several key advantages, including explicit treatment of severe uncertainty, capacity to bound the range of expected abatement costs accruing to a given policy instrument, and the opportunity to identify robust plans that are immune to parametric variation.
The determinants of technology adoption by UK farmers using Bayesian model averaging: the cases of organic production and computer usage
Creators: name: Tiffin, Richard
name: Balcombe, Kelvin
name: Tiffin, Richard
name: Balcombe, Kelvin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Bayesian model averaging
subject: reversible jump algorithm
subject: technology adoption.

description: We review and implement a reversible jump approach to Bayesian model averaging for the Probit model with uncertain regressors. Two applications are investigated. The first is the adoption of organic systems in UK farming, and the second is the influence of farm and farmer characteristics on the use of a computer on the farm. While there is a correspondence between the conclusions we would obtain with and without model averaging results, we find important differences, particularly in smaller samples. Concerning the adoption of an organic system, we find that attitudes to the sustainability of the current system along with the ability of organic farms alone to satisfy society’s needs for food are influential. Additionally, the source of management information used by the farmer has a significant impact. Regarding the adoption of computers, we confirm the findings of previous work that the level of education affects uptake and that age is a factor determining adoption. We also find that dairy and organic farms are more likely to use a computer. The physical size of the farm is positively associated with the probability of computer use while net farm income has a limited impact.
On the Multiple Descent of Minimum-Norm Interpolants and Restricted Lower Isometry of Kernels
Creators: name: Liang, Tengyuan
name: Rakhlin, Alexander
name: Zhai, Xiyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the risk of minimum-norm interpolants of data in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces. Our upper bounds on the risk are of a multiple-descent shape for the various scalings of $d = n^α$, $α\in(0,1)$, for the input dimension $d$ and sample size $n$. Empirical evidence supports our finding that minimum-norm interpolants in RKHS can exhibit this unusual non-monotonicity in sample size; furthermore, locations of the peaks in our experiments match our theoretical predictions. Since gradient flow on appropriately initialized wide neural networks converges to a minimum-norm interpolant with respect to a certain kernel, our analysis also yields novel estimation and generalization guarantees for these over-parametrized models. At the heart of our analysis is a study of spectral properties of the random kernel matrix restricted to a filtration of eigen-spaces of the population covariance operator, and may be of independent interest.
A linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO) model for deterministically placed acceptor arrays in silicon
Creators: name: Zhu, Jianhua
name: Wu, Wei
name: Fisher, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a tight-binding model based on linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO) methods to describe the electronic structure of arrays of acceptors, where the underlying basis states are derived from an effective-mass-theory solution for a single acceptor in either the spherical approximation or the cubic model. Our model allows for arbitrarily strong spin-orbit coupling in the valence band of the semiconductor. We have studied pairs and dimerised linear chains of acceptors in silicon in the `independent-hole' approximation, and investigated the conditions for the existence of topological edge states in the chains. For the finite chain we find a complex interplay between electrostatic effects and the dimerisation, with the long-range Coulomb attraction of the hole to the acceptors splitting off states localised at the end acceptors from the rest of the chain. A further pair of states then splits off from each band, to form a pair localised on the next-to-end acceptors, for one sense of the bond alternation and merges into the bulk bands for the other sense of the alternation. We confirm the topologically non-trivial nature of these next-to-end localised states by calculating the Zak phase. We argue that for the more physically accessible case of one hole per acceptor these long-range electrostatic effects will be screened out; we show this by treating a simple phenomenologically screened model in which electrostatic contributions from beyond the nearest neighbours of acceptor each pair are removed. Topological states are now found on the end acceptors of the chains. In some cases the termination of the chain required to produce topological states is not the one expected on the basis of simple geometry (short versus long bonds); we argue this is because of a non-monotonic relationship between the bond length and the effective Hamiltonian matrix elements between the acceptors.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Temporal and Spectral Properties of Gamma-Ray Flashes
Creators: name: Feng, Hua
name: Li, T. P.
name: Wu, Mei
name: Zha, Min
name: Zhu, Q. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The temporal and spectral properties of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) are studied. The delay of low energy photons relative to high energy ones in the gamma-ray variations of the TGFs with high signal to noise ratio has been revealed by an approach of correlation analysis in the time domain on different time scales. The temporal structures of the TGFs in high energy band are usually narrower than that in low energy band. The spectral hardness has a general trend of decreasing with time in a flash. The observed temporal and spectral characteristics give constraints and valuable hints on the flash production mechanism.
description: accepted for publication in GRL (7 pages, 3 figures)
Agricultural Use of Untreated Urban Wastewater in Pakistan
Creators: name: Khalil, Samina
name: Kakar, Mehmood Khan
name: Khalil, Samina
name: Kakar, Mehmood Khan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Untreated wastewater is used for irrigation in over 80% of all Pakistani communities with a population of over 10,000 inhabitants. The absence of a suitable alternative water source, wastewater’s high nutrient value, reliability, and its proximity to urban markets are the main reasons for its use. Two case studies in Pakistan studied the impact of untreated wastewater use on health, environment, and income. The results showed a high increase in hookworm infections among wastewater users and a clear over-application of nutrients through wastewater. Heavy metal accumulation in soil over a period of 30 years was minimal in Haroonabad, a small town with no industry, but showed initial signs of excess levels in soil and plant material in Faisalabad, a city with large-scale industry. The impact of wastewater irrigation on household income was considerable as wastewater farmers earned approximately US$300/annum more than farmers using freshwater. Both case studies showed the importance of wastewater irrigation on local livelihoods. The lack of financial resources at municipal and provincial levels for wastewater treatment calls for other measures to reduce the negative impact of untreated wastewater use on health and environment, for example to manage groundwater, regular (canal) irrigation water, and wastewater conjunctively, and regular deworming treatment of those exposed to wastewater.
Spinacus pagonis Keifer 1979
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Spinacus
Spinacus pagonis

description: Spinacus pagonis Keifer, 1979 (Fig. 2A)
 Spinacus pagonis Keifer, 1979: 11–12.
 Taspinus mangiferae Chandrapatya in Chandrapatya & Boczek, 1991c: 446–447.
 Spinacus pagonis; Chandrapatya et al., 2000: 83–85.
 Spinacus pagonis; Amrine & Stasny, 1994: 288.
 Host. Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae).
 Habit. Vagrant.
 Distribution. Thailand (KU Bangkok campus), Brazil (Brasilia, Sao Paulo), Samoa (Tuituila).
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 60
Pseudo Cuntz Algebra and Recursive FP Ghost System in String Theory
Creators: name: Abe, Mitsuo
name: Kawamura, Katsunori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Representation of the algebra of FP (anti)ghosts in string theory is studied by generalizing the recursive fermion system in the Cuntz algebra constructed previously. For that purpose, the pseudo Cuntz algebra, which is a $\ast$-algebra generalizing the Cuntz algebra and acting on indefinite-metric vector spaces, is introduced. The algebra of FP (anti)ghosts in string theory is embedded into the pseudo Cuntz algebra recursively in two different ways. Restricting a certain permutation representation of the pseudo Cuntz algebra, representations of these two recursive FP ghost systems are obtained. With respect to the zero-mode operators of FP (anti)ghosts, it is shown that one corresponds to the four-dimensional representation found recently by one of the present authors (M.A.) and Nakanishi, while the other corresponds to the two-dimensional one by Kato and Ogawa.
description: 18 pages, LaTeX
Tegonotus Nalepa 1890
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Tegonotus

description: Tegonotus Nalepa, 1890
 Type species. Acanthonotus heptacanthus Nalepa, 1889: 116.
 Diagnosis. Body fusiform; legs with usual setae, empodium entire; scapular setae (sc) ahead of rear shield margin; coxae I and coxae II each with 3 setae.
 This genus consists of 46 species (Amrine et al. 2003). Seven of these have been recorded from Southeast Asia.
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 60
Hermione and the Secretary: How gendered task division in introductory physics labs can disrupt equitable learning
Creators: name: Doucette, Danny
name: Clark, Russell
name: Singh, Chandralekha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Physics labs provide a unique opportunity for students to grow their physics identity and science identity in general since they provide students with opportunity to tinker with experiments and analyze data in a low-stakes environment. However, it is important to ensure that all students are benefiting from the labs equally and have a positive growth trajectory. Through interviews and reflexive ethnographic observations, we identify and analyze two common modes of work that may disadvantage female students in introductory physics labs. Students who adopt the Secretary archetype are relegated to recording and analyzing data, and thus miss out on much of the opportunity to grow their physics and science identities by engaging fully in the experimental work. Meanwhile, students in the Hermione mode shoulder a disproportionate amount of managerial work, and also do not get adequate opportunity to engage with different aspects of the experimental work that are essential for helping them develop their physics and science identities. Using a physics identity framework, we analyze interviews and observational data to investigate how students under these modes of work may experience stunted growth in their physics and science identity trajectories in their physics lab course. This stunted growth then perpetuates and reinforces societal stereotypes and biases about who does physics. This categorization not only gives a vocabulary to discussions about equity in the lab, but can also serve as a useful touchstone for those who seek to center equity in efforts to transform physics instruction.
Entrance-channel potentials in the synthesis of the heaviest nuclei
Creators: name: Denisov, V. Yu.
name: Noerenberg, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entrance-channel potentials in nucleus-nucleus collisions, relevant for the synthesis of superheavy elements, are systematically studied within a semi-microscopic approach, where microscopic nuclear densities of the colliding spherical or deformed nuclei are used in semi-classical expressions of the energy-density functional. From experimental data on fusion windows evidence is found that the existence of pockets in the entrance-channel potentials is crucial for fusion. Criteria for the choice of best collision systems for the synthesis of superheavy elements are discussed.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J. A. In LaTeX file Springer-Verlag and AMS styles are used
Determinants of Farmer’s Participation in Off-Farm Employment: A Case Study in Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia
Creators: name: Abdul-Hakim, Roslan
name: Hadijah Che-Mat, Siti
name: Abdul-Hakim, Roslan
name: Hadijah Che-Mat, Siti
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Determinants
subject: farmer’s participation
subject: off-farm employment
subject: Malaysia

description: This paper investigates the determinants of agricultural households’participation in off-farm employment. Towards this end, a logit model is employed to identify factors that determine the participation in off-farm employment. Here, determinants of participation in off-farm employment are divided into four categories – individual, household, farm and local area characteristics. With regards to the local area characteristics, the analysis is extended by including a new variable, which is the economic characteristic of the area. The results of the analysis show that the main determinants that influence the farmer’s decision to participate in off-farm employment are age, gender, household size, dependency ratio, remittance, land size, types of agricultural activities, working hours allocated to the farm, the ratio of income from agricultural sources in total income of the farmer. Furthermore, this study uncovers that the economic characteristic of the area where the farmer reside is important determinant of the farmer’s decision to participate in off-farm job.One of the policy implications from the finding of this study is that, if the agricultural households are to be encouraged to participate in off-farm jobs, a balanced development in the rural areas must be pursued.
Low-temperature Conductance Measurements On Single Molecules
Creators: name: Reichert, J.
name: Weber, H. B.
name: Mayor, M.
name: Löhneysen, H. v.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An experimental protocol which allows to perform conductance spectroscopy on organic molecules at low temperatures (T~30 K) has been developed. This extends the method of mechanically controlled break junctions which has recently demonstrated to be suitable to contact single molecules at room temperature. The conductance data obtained at low T with a conjugated sample molecule show a highly improved data quality with a higher stability, narrower linewidth and substantially reduced noise. Thus the comparability of experimental data with other measurements as well as with theoretical simulations is considerably improved.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures, submittet to Appl. Phys. Lett
Magnetic domain dynamics in an insulating quantum ferromagnet
Creators: name: Silevitch, D. M.
name: Xu, J.
name: Tang, C.
name: Dahmen, K. A.
name: Rosenbaum, T. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The statistics and form of avalanches in a driven system reveal the nature of the underlying energy landscape and dynamics. In conventional metallic ferromagnets, eddy-current back action can dominate the dynamics. Here, we study Barkhausen noise in Li(Ho,Y)F4, an insulating Ising ferromagnet that cannot sustain eddy currents. For large avalanches at temperatures approaching the Curie point, we find a symmetric response free of drag effects. In the low temperature limit, drag effects contribute to the dynamics, which we link to enhanced pinning from local random fields that are enabled by the microscopic dipole-coupled Hamiltonian (the Ising model in transverse field).
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
title: A core outcome set for clinical trials in oropharyngeal cancer
Creators: name: Waters, AM
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2018

description: The impact of randomized controlled trials is frequently diminished by disparate outcome reporting, precluding the comparison of results between trials or synthesis of data in meta-analyses. This is particularly problematic in lower incidence conditions such as oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC), where the need to synthesise data from competing trials is greater. Minimum outcome reporting standards, known as Core Outcome Sets (COS) have been shown to increase the consistency of outcome reporting between trials of comparable interventions, thus facilitating the comparison or synthesis of trial data. The objective of the work in this thesis was to identify outcomes of importance to patients, carers and healthcare professionals and define a COS for OPSCC. The methods used comprised a systematic review of OPSCC RCTs to identify the outcomes reported and establish whether there was outcomes heterogeneity as suggested by other studies; semi-structured qualitative interviews with patients and carers to establish their outcomes of importance; a Delphi Study of patients, carers and healthcare professionals, to reach consensus on the outcomes that should be included in a COS for OPSCC. The systematic review described in chapter two identified significant heterogeneity in outcome reporting; 58 outcomes were reported in 43 RCTs, only three outcomes were measured in more than 50% of studies, and only 41% of outcomes were measured in more than one study. The qualitative study identified 136 outcomes. Survival and late adverse effects of treatment are of greatest priority to patients and carers. The Delphi study successfully reached consensus on eight outcomes for inclusion in the COS. There is substantial heterogeneity in the outcomes measured in contemporary RCTs in OPSCC. Yet, there is strong consensus between stakeholder groups in the outcomes of importance. Implementation of the COS will increase the consistency of outcome reporting thus facilitating the comparison of data from competing trials and synthesis of data in meta-analyses. Further consideration must be given to ways in which the uptake of COS can be maximised to have the highest impact. The COS is applicable to trials of interventions used in current clinical practice, however the advent of new treatment strategies may require that this is reviewed and adapted.
MOESM1 of Genome-wide prediction and prioritization of human aging genes by data fusion: a machine learning approach
Creators: name: Arabfard, Masoud
name: Ohadi, Mina
name: Tabar, Vahid Rezaei
name: Delbari, Ahmad
name: Kavousi, Kaveh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Comparison of evaluation metric of three algorithms in the UCI databases.
Tegonotus anthocephali Boczek & Chandrapatya 2000
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Tegonotus
Tegonotus anthocephali

description: Tegonotus anthocephali Boczek & Chandrapatya, 2000
 Tegonotus anthocephali Boczek & Chandrapatya, 2000d: 355–358.
 Host. Anthocephalus chinensis (Rubiaceae).
 Habit. Vagrant.
 Distribution. Thailand (Ayuthaya).
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 60
Measurement of the jet mass distribution and top quark mass in hadronic decays of boosted top quarks in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A measurement is reported of the jet mass distribution in hadronic decays of boosted top quarks produced in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV. The data were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$. The measurement is performed in the lepton+jets channel of $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ events, where the lepton is an electron or muon. The products of the hadronic top quark decay t $\to$ bW $\to$ bq$\mathrm{\bar{q}}'$ are reconstructed as a single jet with transverse momentum larger than 400 GeV. The $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ cross section as a function of the jet mass is unfolded at the particle level and used to extract a value of the top quark mass of 172.6 $\pm$ 2.5 GeV. A novel jet reconstruction technique is used for the first time at the LHC, which improves the precision by a factor of three relative to an earlier measurement. This highlights the potential of measurements using boosted top quarks, where the new technique will enable future precision measurements.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables, including additional supplementary figures and tables, can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/TOP-19-005 (CMS Public Pages)
MOESM1 of A randomized cross-over trial to determine the effect of a protein vs. carbohydrate preload on energy balance in ad libitum settings
Creators: name: Gibson, Madeline
name: Dawson, John
name: Nadeeja Wijayatunga
name: Ironuma, Bridget
name: Idah Chatindiara
name: Ovalle, Fernando
name: Allison, David
name: Dhurandhar, Emily
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Snack and Buffet Menus. listing of food items offered as snacks and buffet meals.
The Fröhlich-Morchio-Strocchi mechanism and quantum gravity
Creators: name: Maas, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Taking manifest invariance under both gauge symmetry and diffeomorphisms as a guiding principle physical objects are constructed for Yang-Mills-Higgs theory coupled to quantum gravity. These objects are entirely classified by quantum numbers defined in the tangent space. Applying the Fröhlich-Morchio-Strocchi mechanism to these objects reveals that they coincide with ordinary correlation functions in quantum-field theory, if quantum fluctuations of gravity and curvature become small. Taking these descriptions literally exhibits how quantum gravity fields need to dress quantum fields to create physical objects, i.e. giving a graviton component to ordinary observed particles. The same mechanism provides access to the physical spectrum of pure gravitational degrees of freedom.
description: 22 pages; v3: Some clarifications and consequences added; v2: Some extensions and slight corrections on spin; various improvements of presentation and additional details
Restoration of fertility of gleyic fluvisols to increase rice yields using shellfish products in Toumbokro, Côte d'Ivoire
Creators: name: Kouadio, Koffi Patrice
name: Yao-Kouame, Albert
name: Alui, Konan Alphonse
name: Kwadjo, Koffi Eric
name: Kouadio, Koffi Patrice
name: Yao-Kouame, Albert
name: Alui, Konan Alphonse
name: Kwadjo, Koffi Eric
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm Management
subject: Amendments
subject: shells products
subject: gleyic fluvisols
subject: yields
subject: rice
subject: Toumbokro
subject: Yamoussoukro
subject: Côte d'Ivoire

description: A study designed to characterize the effects of shellfish products on the chemical properties of fluvisols gleyic and yield of rice was carried out in Toumbokro, Yamoussoukro’s region, Côte d'Ivoire. The work has been focused on soil amendment by three types of shells (Achatina spp Donax spp and Ostrea spp). Three doses of shellfish products (500, 1000 and 1500 kg.ha- 1) and NPK fertilizer were tested in a split-plot design with three repetitions. At ground level, the study showed that the shellfish products have positive effects very marked on all the physical and chemical characteristics. The effects of these shellfish products on the richness of the soil occur gradually. The increase of pH, due to the products made, creates a condition favorable to microorganisms that become active and mineralize sufficient organic substances. The study indicates that shellfish products induce high levels of production of rice cultivation. The average of yield of the experiments carried out is set at 5.41 t.ha-1 in Toumbokro. These performances, never recorded in subsistence agriculture, are explained by the effective correction of mineral deficiencies unsuspected soil by the flow of shellfish products. All the variables studied define the contribution of 1000 kg.ha-1 shredded shells of Achatina spp, as the optimum for soil amendment.
NMR, magnetization, and heat capacity studies of the uniform spin-1/2 chain compound Bi6V3O16
Creators: name: Chakrabarty, T.
name: Heinmaa, I.
name: Verchenko, V. Yu.
name: Paulose, P. L.
name: Stern, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the local (NMR) and bulk (magnetization and heat capacity) properties of the vanadium-based S=1/2 uniform spin chain compound Bi6V3O16(Bi4V2O10.66). In the low-temperature α phase, the magnetic ions (V4+) are arranged in one-dimensional chains. The magnetic susceptibility shows a broad maximum around 50 K signifying a short-range magnetic order. Heat capacity measurements also reveal low-dimensional magnetism. The 51V magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance measurements clearly show that the magnetic V4+ and nonmagnetic V5+ species are located on different crystallographic sites with no mixed occupation. The spin susceptibility calculated from the shift of the 51V NMR spectra reproduces the behavior observed in magnetic susceptibility and agrees well with the S=1/2 uniform spin chain model with J=113(5) K.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures
The Relevance Of A Rules-Based Freshmilk Price Structure Policy In East Java : An Evidence Based Assesment
Creators: name: Nugroho, Bambang Ali
name: Nugroho, Bambang Ali
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Price structure
subject: dairy farming
subject: dairy cooperative
subject: dairy industry

description: At present, Indonesia is still lack of freshmilk supply, domestic freshmilk production is covered only 30% national freshmilk processing industry needed and is about 70% milk industry material should be imported, mainly from New Zealand, Australia, EU and USA. The following actors are active in the formal dairy supply chain in Indonesia: (1) Milk producers, (2) The primary dairy/ village cooperatives (KUD), (3) The overall dairy cooperative (GKSI), (4) The milk processors/ dairy industry, (5) Based on that situation, and to improve the development of smallscale dairy farming activities in East Java, this paper have an objective to examine the relevance of a rules-based freshmilk price structure policy in East Java. East Java dairy supply chain inefficiencies are reflected in a relatively large difference between farm gate milk price and consumer prices of milk products. Factors like the dependency on imported milk powder and the strongly fluctuating world market prices, the lack of protection against world market fluctuations for the local milk producers, the scale and structure of dairy farming, and poor raw milk quality affect the development of East Java dairy supply chain.
Food Security In Nigeria: Government’s Intervention And The Place Of Effective Storage
Creators: name: Adegbola, J.A.
name: Bamishaiye, E.I.
name: Daura, A.M.
name: Adegbola, J.A.
name: Bamishaiye, E.I.
name: Daura, A.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: security
subject: food
subject: storage
subject: economy

description: The paper discusses the importance of agriculture to a people, its economy and its place at achieving food security for nations, Nigeria Inclusive. Furthermore, it talked about food security and insecurity and its indices. It delved into prospects for increased agricultural production and how this can be achieved. Again, it discussed efforts that have been put in place by past Nigerian governments at meeting food need of Nigerians and making the country food secured. It maintained that food shortages in Nigeria are due not primarily to underproduction but agreed that more crops should be grown to meet production shortfall. The paper indicted lack of adequate postharvest practices as the chief bane of food security in Nigeria and posits that more should be done to see that food are adequately stored after they are produced to nip wastages and scarcity in the bud. Finally, it recommended that agricultural support programmes, projects, and research institutes that have been put in place be spurred towards stepping up production and do even much more at storage.
Framework for finite alternative theories to a quantum field theory
Creators: name: Ribaric, Marijan
name: Sustersic, Luka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the path-integral formalism, we generalize the 't Hooft-Veltman method of unitary regulators to put forward a framework for finite, alternative quantum theories to a given quantum field theory. Feynman-like rules of such a finite, alternative quantum theory lead to alternative, perturbative Green functions. Which are acceptably regularized perturbative expansions of the original Green functions, causal, and imply no unphysical free particles. To demonstrate that the proposed framework is feasible, we take the quantum field theory of a single, self-interacting real scalar field and show how we can alter, covariantly and locally, its free-field Lagrangian to obtain finite, alternative perturbative Green functions.
description: 14 pages v.2: 15 pages; modified generating functional to include renormalization constants; v.3: some small corrections to synchronize with the printed version
Tegonotus convolvuli
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Tegonotus
Tegonotus convolvuli

description: Tegonotus convolvuli (Channabasavanna, 1966)
 Oxypleurites convolvuli Channabasavanna, 1966: 94–96.
 Tegonotus convolvuli; Keifer & Knorr, 1978: 19.
 Tegonotus convolvuli; Amrine & Stasny, 1994: 295.
 Host. Ipomoea batatas, I. aquatica (Convolvulaceae).
 Habit. Rust.
 Distribution. Thailand (Bangkok), India (Mysore).
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 60