cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Excited hadrons in n_f=2 QCD
Creators: name: Engel, G.
name: Gattringer, C.
name: Lang, C. B.
name: Limmer, M.
name: Mohler, D.
name: Schäfer, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The chirally improved (CI) fermion action allows us to obtain results for pion masses down to 320 MeV on (in lattice units) comparatively small lattices with physical extent of 2.4 fm. We use differently smeared quarks sources to build sets of several interpolators. The variational method then leads to excellent ground state masses for most mesons and baryons. The excited state signals weaken in quality towards smaller quark masses. In particular the excited baryons come out too high.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, talk presented at the XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 26-31, 2009, Peking University, Beijing, China
Eschata miranda Bleszynski 1965
Creators: name: Léger, Théo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Eschata
Eschata miranda

description: Eschata cf. miranda Błeszyński, 1965
Figs. 40, 101, 159.
Eschata miranda Błeszyński, 1965, in Amsel et al. (eds.): 99, pl. 40 fig. 501, 2, pl. 90 fig. 50. Type locality: Taiwan.
MATERIAL
2 ♂, 6 ♀ (detailed information in Table S1; https://doi.org/ 10.5061/dryad.b8gtht7mh).
DIAGNOSIS
Eschata sp. near miranda Błeszyński, 1965 shows similarities to E. miranda (type locality: India, Darjeeling) and E. rococo Błeszyński, 1970 (type locality: India, Khasis) in male genitalia (Fig. 101): uncus parrot-beak shaped, kinked downwards at half length; gnathos arm with posterior edge protruded upwards; valva slightly curved upwards, basally with narrow costal arm projecting postero-dorsally, juxta apex deeply notched; vesica with patch of short cornuti. However, the present species shows noticeable differences to E. miranda and R. rococo: The costal arm is dorsally concave (convex in the two other species), the juxta apical arms are narrower and slightly longer, and the vesica has a large, isolated cornutus not found in the two other species. The large, isolated cornutus of the vesica is also observed in E. miranda Błeszyński, 1965 (type locality: Taiwan); however, the short and bulky costal arm of the latter species separates it from the Philippine species.
DISTRIBUTION
PHILIPPINES: Luzon (Laguna, Zambales), Marinduque, Palawan. Collected at altitudes between 40 and 500 m.
DNA BARCODING
The highest intraspecific divergence observed is of 3.8% between specimens MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL08-D11 from Luzon (Zambales) and MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL08-G11 from Palawan. Both specimens from Palawan only yielded sequences for the COI1a fragment and were thus not included in the species delimitation analysis.
REMARKS
E. rococo is a possible synonym of E. rififi. Both species are only separated by minor details of the juxta in male genitalia.
description: Published as part of Léger, Théo, 2024, Half of the Diversity Undescribed: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals 32 New Species and a High Cryptic Diversity in the Scopariinae and Crambinae of the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), pp. 1-93 in Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3 (2) on page 52, DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v3i2.9527, http://zenodo.org/record/15116964
Galactic Substructure and Dark Matter Annihilation in the Milky Way Halo
Creators: name: Kamionkowski, Marc
name: Koushiappas, Savvas M.
name: Kuhlen, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of substructure on the rate of dark-matter annihilation in the Galactic halo. We use an analytic model for substructure that can extend numerical simulation results to scales too small to be resolved by the simulations. We first calibrate the analytic model to numerical simulations, and then determine the annihilation boost factor, for standard WIMP models as well as those with Sommerfeld (or other) enhancements, as a function of Galactocentric radius in the Milky Way. We provide an estimate of the dependence of the gamma-ray intensity of WIMP annihilation as a function of angular distance from the Galactic center. This methodology, coupled with future numerical simulation results can be a powerful tool that can be used to constrain WIMP properties using Fermi all-sky data.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D; added a few references
Physical Risks in Farm Production: Selected References, 1930-1948
Creators: name: Day, Emily L.
name: Barber, E. Lloyd
name: Day, Emily L.
name: Barber, E. Lloyd
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1949
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Farm Management
Livestock Production/Industries
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Excerpts from the Introduction and Preface: Agricultural risk, as a field of research, is in need of further development. Previous studies in this field have dealt with the problems involved in insuring farm risks, but little attention has been directed to risk from the standpoint of the individual farm. The effects of risk on the organization and functioning of the farm business, and on the income of the farm family deserve careful study. This bibliography is intended to serve students and research workers who are interested in the economic problems that arise from the risks of farm production. Yield risks from insects, diseases, and adverse weather, the risk of livestock losses, property losses from fire and lightning, and the personal risks of accident and sickness constitute major classes of natural hazards that are of economic importance in farm operation. Two types of references have been included. One type consists of references with information on the nature of the hazards, their frequency of occurrence, and the extent of the losses realized under various conditions of farming. These are listed by specific risks. The other type concerns the economic incidence of risk and its effect on the structure and functioning of the farm enterprise. The references in the latter category were selected largely in terms of whether they appeared to have value for those interested in research on the economic implications of risk. Hence this category includes a rather complete listing of references from the current literature of economic theory.
Re-examination of Polytropic Spheres in Palatini f(R) Gravity
Creators: name: Olmo, Gonzalo J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate spherically symmetric, static matter configurations with polytropic equation of state for a class of f(R) models in Palatini formalism and show that the surface singularities recently reported in the literature are not physical in the case of Planck scale modified lagrangians. In such cases, they are just an artifact of the idealized equation of state used. In fact, we show that for the models f(R)=R\pmλR^2, with λon the order of the Planck length squared, the presence of a single electron in the Universe would be enough to cure all stellar singularities of this type. From our analysis it also follows that the stellar structure derived from these lagrangians is virtually undistinguishable from that corresponding to General Relativity. For ultraviolet corrected models far from the Planck scale, however, the surface singularities may indeed arise in the region of validity of the polytropic equation of state. This fact can be used to place constraints on the parameters of particular models.
First Principle Simulations of Heavy Fermion Cerium Compounds Based on the Kondo Lattice
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Munehisa
name: Han, Myung Joon
name: Otsuki, Junya
name: Savrasov, Sergey Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new framework for first-principle calculations of heavy-fermion materials. These are described in terms of the Kondo lattice Hamiltonian with the parameters extracted from a realistic density functional based calculation which is then solved using continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method and dynamical mean field theory. As an example, we show our results for the Neel temperatures of Cerium-122 compounds (CeX2Si2 with X=Ru, Rh, Pd, Cu, Ag, and Au) where the general trend around the magnetic quantum critical point is successfully reproduced. Our results are organized on a universal Doniach phase diagram in a semi-quantitative way.
description: revised to fit in 4 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
PR - PRECISION AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION IN U.S. CROP PRODUCTION
Creators: name: Mintert, James
name: Thompson, Nathanael
name: Widmar, David
name: Bir, Courtney
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Precision agriculture technology adoption
subject: yield monitors
subject: auto-steer

description: The objective of this research was to obtain updated estimates of the usage of precision agriculture technology on commercial scale U.S. crop farms. Over 800 U.S. farms with corn, soybean, wheat or cotton enterprises were surveyed to learn of their usage of the following key precision agriculture technologies; yield monitoring, guidance and auto-steer for tractors and harvesters, precision soil sampling and variable rate fertilizer application, variable rate seeding, use of drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UMAV) and satellite/aerial imagery. Results indicated that these key precision agriculture technologies were more widely used among commercial scale U.S. crop farms than reported previously, ranging as high as 93 and 91 percent for auto-steer and yield monitors, respectively. Variable rate fertilizer application and variable rate seeding were being used by 73 and 60 percent of farms, respectively. Only drones/UMAV were being used by less than half of the farms surveyed. Sixty-nine percent of survey respondents reported that the biggest barrier to adoption of precision agriculture technology was cost suggesting that a majority of U.S. crop producers still find precision agriculture technologyâ€™s value proposition at least somewhat problematic.
description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
PR - EVALUATING LAND PRICES UNDER ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION
Creators: name: Olsen, Jakob Vesterlund
name: Panduro, Toke Emil
name: Jensen, Cathrine Ulla
name: Schou, Jesper S.
name: Bramsen, Jens-Martin Roikjer
name: Lautrup, Marie
name: Pedersen, Michael Friis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: land
subject: buffer
subject: zone

description: In this paper we present a novel application of the difference-in- difference method to analyse the effect of regulation on agricultural land prices in the case of implementation of mandatory riparian buffer zones. The buffer zones are adjacent to streams and lakes and are designated as part of the Danish implantation of the EU Water Framework Directive. The buffer zone regulation existed from 2012 to 2015 when the regulation was suspended. Using a hedonic price model we do a difference- and-difference estimation of the development in regional farm land prices for farms with land subject to the buffer zone regulation compared to farms not subject to buffer zones. A number of model specifications are tested but no significant effect on land prices of the buffer zone regulation is identified. This is explained by the fact, that the regulation was based on a subsidy scheme offering flat rate compensation to farmers obliged to establish buffer zones. Thus, results suggest that due to the subsidies, farmersâ€™ expectations for the future economic rent are unchanged and, thus, no significant effects on the land prices are identified.
description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
Decaffeination of wastewater using activated carbon produced from velvet tamarind-pericarp (Dialium Guineense)
Creators: name: Oni, Babalola Aisosa
name: Sanni, Samuel Eshorame
name: Dahunsi, Samuel Olatunde
name: Egere, Bisike Chidiebere
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology

description: Adsorption of caffeine from an aqueous solution was carried out using Velvet Tamarind-Pericarp, activated with H3PO4. The adsorbent was characterized using a scanning-electron microscope and the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller. Parameters such as activating agent concentration (80 wt.% in 100 mL solution), initial caffeine concentration of 5−40 g/L, pH of 0−14, and residence time 0−90 minutes, were investigated. Improved adsorptive capacities were seen at increased acid concentrations, with the highest removal rate obtained at a pH of 6. The highest residence time and adsorbent concentrations were obtained at 40 min and 10 g/L. The surface adsorption of the adsorbent obeyed the Langmuir Isotherm, while the regression coefficients conformed to the pseudo-second-order kinetic model for the remediation of caffeine with DG-AC. The highest amount of caffeine removed per gram DG is 72.60 mg.g−1. From the thermodynamic study, the caffeine adsorption was feasible, spontaneous, entropy-driven, and endothermic. These data show that the use of DG-AC can be a good alternative to other expensive methods for caffeine remediation. The Pseudo – first/second-order kinetic results gave R2 values of 0.95 and 0.99, other parameters such as entropy (ΔS°) and enthalpy (ΔH°) are 0.06 (kJmolK) and (19.21) (kJmolK). Novelty statement The novelty of the work is that the adsorption of caffeine from an aqueous solution/pharmaceutical wastewater was carried out on activated carbon produced from African velvet tamarind (pericarp) and phosphoric acid as activating agent.
PR - MULTIFUNCTIONAL LAND CONSOLIDATION EVALUATION FROM AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVE
Creators: name: Schou, Jesper S.
name: Olsen, Jakob Vesterlund
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Land consolidation
subject: Collective policy formation
subject: Denmark

description: The paper presents preliminary results form a real-life project in which five economic services are pursued through multifunctional land consolidation processes: Farm economics; Biodiversity; Clean water; Recreational opportunities; and Development of rural communities. The analysis is based on the first results from three Danish case studies where land consolidation is used to facilitate multifunctional land consolidation. We find that the multifunctional goals are generally aligned with agricultural economics goals and the optimal consolidation of land plots are not fundamentally differing between economic services with different goals. The fundamental benefit from this approach is local ownership to process and results due to the collective policy formulation. One more specific lesson learned is though, that access to recreational activities such as hunting and horseback riding, which is tied to the ownership of land, may indeed represent significant value to the landowner and this can highly influence the scale and scope of the consolidation.
description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
On the impedance realizing ability of minimal two-element-kind networks
Creators: name: Tarnai, Ernest John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The impedance realizing ability of minimal two-element kind networks is considered. As a preamble, a comprehensive survey of relevant mathematics and existing results is presented. An argument based on group theory is used to demonstrate the complex nature of the solution for non-canonic networks. The modal matrix of normal co-ordinate transformation on the cut set admittance matrix is interpreted geometrically as a set of vectors satisfying certain conditions, imposed by the topology and the parameters of the input function of the network, in two Euclidean vector spaces. The existence of the modal matrix, hence the existence of these vectors, is the necessary and sufficient condition for physical realizability. Explicit formulas are developed for third order networks and numerical algorithms for the fourth order networks. A necessary condition is given on the parameters of Z(s) for realizability for networks containing a linear tree of one kind of element.
NPR - FUTURE DAIRY FARM SYSTEMS: A BIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Firpo, Felix
name: Ramilan, Thiagarajah
name: Shadbolt, Nicola M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Farm systems
subject: Modelling
subject: Dairy farming

description: The dairy industry is an important component of New Zealand economy particularly in terms of foreign exchange earnings, local communities and employment, contributing around 3.5% of NZâ€™s total GDP annually. The future of the dairy industry can be influenced by consumer trends, the volatility of production, input and output prices, the environmental footprint, and stricter regulations on trade and animal welfare. In a previous study, a series of likely future scenarios had been developed conceptually through a rigorous analysis that involved farmers, researchers, industry participants and a multitude of stakeholders. However, the likely impact of these scenarios at a farm level has not yet been quantified. In an attempt to quantify the implications of these scenarios, this study developed a bio-economic analytical framework. This framework has been empirically applied on a case study dairy farm using FARMAXÂ® whole-farm system software. Future scenarios simulated are â€œConsumer is Kingâ€, â€œGovernments Dictateâ€, and â€œRegulation Rulesâ€. Determining the on-farm adjustments and then modelling the impact of these on the case study farm enabled in-depth analysis to occur. The feasibility of each and the economic implications of the changes differed between scenarios. For two of the scenarios, if they eventuate, further on-farm adjustments will be required.
description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
Foliar application of silver nanoparticles differentially intervenes remediation statuses and oxidative stress indicators in Abelmoschus esculentus planted on gold-mined soil
Creators: name: Azeez, Luqmon
name: Adebisi, Segun A.
name: Adetoro, Rasheed O.
name: Oyedeji, Abdulrasaq O.
name: Agbaje, Wasiu B.
name: Olabode, Olalekan A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: The study assessed the intervention of foliar application of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on heavy metal toxicity and phytoremediation status of Abelmoschus esculentus planted in gold-mined soil. The green synthesized AgNPs absorbed maximally at 425 nm, had an average particle size of 55 ± 2.3 nm and peaks at 3,443 and 1,636 cm−1. A. esculentus seeds were grown in gold-mined soil and its seedlings were wetted with water and different concentrations of AgNPs (0.75, 0.50 and 0.25 mg/mL). Foliar applications of AgNPs significantly improved percentage heavy metal remediation and reduced contamination intensity by 60% and 44%, respectively in A. esculentus. Heavy metals induced oxidative stress in A. esculentus wetted with water which manifested in the reduction of growth performance and photosynthetic pigments by 43% and 15% in that order. Significant overexpression of superoxide dismutase activity and malondialdehyde by 70% and 86%, respectively together with a significant reduction in carotenoid contents and antioxidant activity by 92% and 15%, respectively were obtained for A. esculentus in control. The intervention of foliar application considerably protected A. esculentus with improved physiology, enzymic and non-enzymic antioxidant activities. These results conclude that foliar application AgNPs beneficially mediated toxicities of heavy metals in plants. Novelty statement Gold mining is an economic venture but contamination of ecological matrixes by heavy metals usually accompanies it. Farming on either an active or abandoned gold site can predispose residents to the toxicity of heavy metals. Therefore, remediation before or during cultivation is key to ensuring safety. Silver nanoparticles have proved effective in remediating heavy metals and improving biochemical activities in plants due to their intrinsic properties and adsorptive potentials.
The size--density relation of extragalactic HII regions
Creators: name: Hunt, L. K.
name: Hirashita, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the size--density relation in extragalactic HII regions, with the aim of understanding the role of dust and different physical conditions in the ionized medium. First, we compiled several observational data sets for Galactic and extragalactic HII regions and confirm that extragalactic HII regions follow the same size (D)--density (n) relation as Galactic ones. Motivated by the inability of static models to explain this, we then modelled the evolution of the size--density relation of HII regions by considering their star formation history, the effects of dust, and pressure-driven expansion. The results are compared with our sample data whose size and density span roughly six orders of magnitude. We find that the extragalactic size--density relation does not result from an evolutionary sequence of HII regions but rather reflects a sequence with different initial gas densities (``density hierarchy''). Moreover, the size of many HII regions is limited by dust absorption of ionizing photons, rather than consumption by ionizing neutral hydrogen. Dust extinction of ionizing photons is particularly severe over the entire lifetime of compact HII regions with typical gas densities of greater than 10^3 cm^{-3}. Hence, as long as the number of ionizing photons is used to trace massive star formation, much star-formation activity could be missed. Such compact dense environments, the ones most profoundly obscured by dust, have properties similar to ``maximum--intensity starbursts''. This implies that submillimeter and infrared wavelengths may be necessary to accurately assess star formation in these extreme conditions both locally and at high redshift.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
MOESM10 of Comprehensive analysis of miRNA profiles reveals the role of Schistosoma japonicum miRNAs at different developmental stages
Creators: name: Yu, Jie
name: Yu, Ying
name: Li, Qing
name: Chen, Muxin
name: Shen, Haimo
name: Zhang, RuiXiang
name: Song, Mingxin
name: Hu, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 10. miRNAs and their targets enrichments in different developmental stages in male and female.
PR - CHOOSING BETWEEN AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FREE STATE PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA: A MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Van Der Merwe, J.D.
name: Spies, D.C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural development
subject: selection criteria
subject: multiple criteria analysis

description: Since the abolishment of Apartheid after 1994, one of the major sectors earmarked by the South African government to correct the injustices of the past, to improve inclusion, job creation and food security is the Agricultural sector. Various land reform programmes was initiated but the success rate was very low due to various reasons. One initiative was to create â€œmaster plansâ€ for agricultural development on a provincial basis. These plans includes the identification and selection of possible agricultural production enterprises for implementation. A total of 13 possible enterprises was identified in the Free State province and a multiple criteria approach was used to rank the best fitting combination of enterprises given the specified goals/criteria. The results show that extensive beef and sheep production and intensive vegetable production is the enterprises that is most likely to improve the success of agricultural development, and by doing so, improve the welfare of the province
description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
GameVibe: A Multimodal Affective Game Corpus
Creators: name: Barthet, Matthew
name: Kaselimi, Maria
name: Pinitas, Kosmas
name: Makantasis, Konstantinos
name: Liapis, Antonios
name: Yannakakis, Georgios N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As online video and streaming platforms continue to grow, affective computing research has undergone a shift towards more complex studies involving multiple modalities. However, there is still a lack of readily available datasets with high-quality audiovisual stimuli. In this paper, we present GameVibe, a novel affect corpus which consists of multimodal audiovisual stimuli, including in-game behavioural observations and third-person affect traces for viewer engagement. The corpus consists of videos from a diverse set of publicly available gameplay sessions across 30 games, with particular attention to ensure high-quality stimuli with good audiovisual and gameplay diversity. Furthermore, we present an analysis on the reliability of the annotators in terms of inter-annotator agreement.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Electron-Phonon Interactions for Optical Phonon Modes in Few-Layer Graphene
Creators: name: Yan, Jia-An
name: Ruan, W. Y.
name: Chou, M. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a first-principles study of the electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions and their contributions to the linewidths for the optical phonon modes at $Γ$ and K in one to three-layer graphene. It is found that due to the interlayer coupling and the stacking geometry, the high-frequency optical phonon modes in few-layer graphene couple with different valence and conduction bands, giving rise to different e-ph interaction strengths for these modes. Some of the multilayer optical modes derived from the $Γ$-$E_{2g}$ mode of monolayer graphene exhibit slightly higher frequencies and much reduced linewidths. In addition, the linewidths of K-$A'_1$ related modes in multilayers depend on the stacking pattern and decrease with increasing layer numbers.
description: 6 pages,5 figures, submitted to PRB
Nuclear dependence of azimuthal asymmetry in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering
Creators: name: Gao, Jian-Hua
name: Liang, Zuo-tang
name: Wang, Xin-Nian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the framework of a generalized factorization, semi-inclusive deeply inelastic scattering (SIDIS) cross sections can be expressed as a series of products of collinear hard parts and transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) parton distributions and correlations. The azimuthal asymmetry $ of unpolarized SIDIS in the small transverse momentum region will depend on both twist-2 and 3 TMD quark distributions in target nucleons or nuclei. Nuclear broadening of these twist-2 and 3 quark distributions due to final-state multiple scattering in nuclei is investigated and the nuclear dependence of the azimuthal asymmetry $$ is studied. It is shown that the azimuthal asymmetry is suppressed by multiple parton scattering and the transverse momentum dependence of the suppression depends on the relative shape of the twist-2 and 3 quark distributions in the nucleon. A Gaussian ansatz for TMD twist-2 and 3 quark distributions in nucleon is used to demonstrate the nuclear dependence of the azimuthal asymmetry and to estimate the smearing effect due to fragmentation.
description: 9 pages in RevTex with 2 figures
PR - FROM LAKE ERIE TO THE OHIO RIVER: A SUMMARY OF NUTRIENT LOSS IMPACTS IN OHIO
Creators: name: Watters, Harold D.
name: Douridas, Amanda
name: Bruynis, Chris
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: phosphorus
subject: nutrients
subject: HABs

description: Ohio residents have been calling for changes in agricultural practices since harmful algal blooms have disrupted recreational use of lakes and drinking water supplies in the Western Lake Erie Basin. These blooms are a result of phosphorus (P) loading into waterways from a number of sources, including agriculture fertilizer and manure use on fields. P loss only accounts for about 0.49 lb/A but equates to roughly 2 million pounds of P each year being dumped into the Basin. Regulations have been put in place to educate farmers on nutrient management and reduce nutrient losses. Three tools have been updated and developed to help farmers reduce P losses: 1.) Updated Tri-State Fertilizer Recommendations, 2.) Updated Ohio Phosphorus Risk Index tool, 3.) Field Application Resource Monitor. These tools address the source, rate and timing of nutrient applications. The cost of implementing these practices varies from farm to farm. Some farms may see no change to their budgets where other farms may see an increase in expenses.
description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
Shoot potassium content provides a physiological marker to screen cotton genotypes for osmotic and salt tolerance
Creators: name: Chattha, Waqas Shafqat
name: Patishtan, Juan
name: Shafqat, Waqar
name: Maathuis, Frans J. M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Drought and salinity are considered two major abiotic stresses that diminish cotton production worldwide. Studying common morphological and physiological responses in cotton cultivars may help plant biologists to develop and apply standard screening criteria for either of these stresses and for their combination. Therefore, this research aimed to assess the suitability of several physiological parameters as diagnostic to report on osmotic and salinity tolerance in six elite cotton genotypes. Data for relative growth rate (RGR), RGR-reduction, potassium (K+) concentrations in roots, xylem sap and shoots, stomatal conductance (gs) and net photosynthesis rate (Pn) were assessed. Based on RGR and RGR-reduction, we observed an association between osmotic tolerance and salinity tolerance of cotton genotypes. Furthermore, this study found that tolerant cotton genotypes were better able to maintain high RGR, tissue K+, and gas exchange under both hyperosmotic and saline conditions. Shoot K+ levels showed high negative correlations with both osmotic and salinity stress and emerged as a convenient and suitable parameter to assess cotton tolerance to either stress. Novelty statement Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is a leading fiber crop that is cultivated in more than 52 countries. Much of the land where cotton is grown faces co-occurring drought and salinity abiotic stress which negatively impacts cotton yield and fiber quality. In the present study, cotton genotypes were identified with tolerance to both hyperosmolarity and salinity. Furthermore, we show that shoot potassium content is a diagnostic trait that reports on both osmotic and salinity stress and hence a convenient tool for screening cotton germplasm.
PR - NEW ZEALAND DAIRY FARMERSâ€™ DEBT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
Creators: name: Khatami, Koohyar
name: Shadbolt, Nicola
name: Dooley, Anne
name: Gray, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: dairy farming
subject: New Zealand
subject: financial management

description: New Zealandâ€™s dairy farming sector has changed dramatically over the last two decades. As a result of growth in demand, dairy farms have become more intensive in production, more capital- intensive and have more debt. Previous empirical studies show, rather than keeping debt low, dairy farmers in New Zealand are more focused on monitoring and managing debt to control financial risk. Despite this, little is known about the structure of debt and the debt management strategies that dairy farmers use within their farm businesses. So, the objectives of this study are to provide insights into New Zealand dairy farmersâ€™ debt structure and the strategies they use to manage debt. Results on farmer determinants for leverage ratios indicate an awareness of the reality of farming in an unprotected environment and the need to have their own backstop for poor years, at the same time as having the agility to capture opportunities when they arise. While adopting floating rates has taken precedence over fixed rates in recent years the most important determinant of debt amortization policies is debt repayment. This strategy suggests a strong focus on liquidity, or cash, with the farmers maintaining control on when cash is spent.
description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
Rayleigh--Taylor instability in a viscoelastic binary fluid
Creators: name: Boffetta, G.
name: Mazzino, A.
name: Musacchio, S.
name: Vozella, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of polymer additives on Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) instability of immiscible fluids is investigated using the Oldroyd-B viscoelastic model. Analytic results obtained exploiting the phase-field approach show that in polymer solution the growth rate of the instability speeds up with elasticity (but remains slower than in the pure solvent case). Numerical simulations of the viscoelastic binary fluid model confirm this picture.
Calamotropha Zeller 1863
Creators: name: Léger, Théo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Calamotropha

description: Calamotropha Zeller, 1863
Calamotropha Zeller, 1863 b: 8, 9.
Type species: Tinea paludella Hübner, [1824] 1796
= Aurelianus Błeszyński, 1962 d: 2. Type species: Chilo discellus Walker, 1863
= Myeza Walker, 1863 b: 190. Type species: Myeza tonsalis Walker, 1863
DIAGNOSIS
Calamotropha was revised by Błeszyński (1961) and the genus was redescribed by Landry (1995). The combination of forewing Rs4 vein stalked with Rs2+Rs3 and the open hindwing cell characterize the genus (Landry, 1995; Léger et al., 2019). Forewing white or brown, generally with a median and a subterminal fascia, margin with several small dots (W. Li & Li, 2012a; pers. obs.). Male genitalia with hairs at base of uncus; tegumen usually with short dorsal roof; valva relatively short; pseudosaccus present; vinculum subtriangular, conspicuously protruding anterad, saccus blunt (Landry, 1995; W. Li & Li, 2012a). Female genitalia with papillae anales coalesced dorsally and ventrally; posterior apophyses roughly as long as tergite VIII; anterior apophyses short or absent; antrum often sclerotized; ductus bursae usually slender; corpus bursae usually without signum.
DISTRIBUTION
Known from the Afrotropical, the Palearctic, Oriental, and Australasian regions (Błeszyński, 1961). Seven species are reported here from the Philippines, of which five can be confidently named: Calamotropha anacantha sp. n., Calamotropha atkinsoni Zeller, 1863, Calamotropha obliterans (Walker, 1863), Calamotropha philippinensis sp. n., Calamotropha unicolorellus (Zeller, 1863).
PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS
Calamotropha is part of the Calamotrophini, also including Pseudocatharylla Błeszyński, 1961 and Vaxi Błeszyński, 1962 (Léger et al., 2019).
description: Published as part of Léger, Théo, 2024, Half of the Diversity Undescribed: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals 32 New Species and a High Cryptic Diversity in the Scopariinae and Crambinae of the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), pp. 1-93 in Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3 (2) on pages 52-57, DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v3i2.9527, http://zenodo.org/record/15116964
Decision making in rural-urban migration from a low income area
Creators: name: Kovacsics, Miklos Peter
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This is a study of migration. The Report of the Federal Task Force of Agriculture in 1969 defined increased mobility out of agriculture as a farm policy goal. This goal was seen as a means to help reduce the incidence of poverty in farming. Economic theory identifies costs and benefits as deterring and motivating factors for migration respectively. This study is a study of individual decision making. Retaining a basic cost-benefit framework, decision making is examined with the aid of a model where a decision to migrate is some function of economic and non-economic expectations, and expectations in turn are some function of information about events, and finally information about events is a function of perception. A sample area was selected within Census Division 16 in Saskatchewan and two parallel surveys were conducted in July 1971. Residents of the sample area were interviewed, and outmigrants from the area during the previous five years were located and interviewed. Parametric variables were evaluated via one way analysis of variance producing the F statistic, and non-parametric variables were evaluated using cross tabulations producing the chi square statistic. The study findings and conclusions provide the following information. Rural people do expect a higher level of income as a result of migration. The experience of migrants seems to support these expectations but at a lower level. Job expectations are generally non-specific, any kind of steady employment is seen as desirable. Costs, particularly costs of moving are not perceived as a significant deterrent to moving. Failing health, low incomes and inadequate acreage are the most common motivating events (factors) towards the decision to migrate. Information about an urban environment is most effectively transmitted by personal contact, friends and relatives are most effective in transmitting relevant and reasonably accurate information.
NPR - ECONOMIC OUTLOOK FOR FARM SURVIVAL IN THE CURRENT FARM ECONOMY DOWNTURN
Creators: name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Richardson, James W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Economy
subject: Farm Crisis
subject: Economic Downturn

description: Agricultural producers in the U.S. are currently struggling financially. Farms and ranches are losing money and some are going out of business. The farm economy downturn is not confined to the United States, based on the recent decreases in farmland values around the World. Many farmers and politicians are asking if the current downturn is going to be like the farm crisis of the 1980s. This paper reviews why the current conditions are not the same as the 1980s and projects the likely economic situation for representative commercial farms in the United States given sustained low prices. Underlying economic conditions in the general economy do not suggest that a repeat of the Farm Crisis of the 1980s. However, just because economic conditions are not as bad as the 1980s does not mean things are not bad. Results from simulating 63 U.S. representative crop farms indicates that 30 will face high probabilities of liquidity and equity issues through 2025, to the extent that their overall ranking for economic viability will decrease one or two levels. Thirty-three of the 63 crop farms will be able to weather the crisis.
description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
V405 Peg (RBS 1955): A Nearby, Low-Luminosity Cataclysmic Binary
Creators: name: Thorstensen, J. R.
name: Schwarz, R.
name: Schwope, A. D.
name: Staude, A.
name: Vogel, J.
name: Krumpe, M.
name: Kohnert, J.
name: Gomez-Moran, A. Nebot
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged). The cataclysmic binary V405 Peg, originally discovered as ROSAT Bright Source (RBS) 1955 (= 1RXS J230949.6+213523), shows a strong contribution from a late-type secondary star in its optical spectrum, which led Schwope et al. to suggest it to be among the nearest cataclysmic binaries. We present extensive optical observations of V405 Peg. Time-series spectroscopy shows the orbital period, Porb, to be 0.1776469(7) d (= 4.2635 hr), or 5.629 cycle/d. We classify the secondary as M3 - M4.5. Astrometry with the MDM 2.4m telescope gives a parallax 7.2 +- 1.1 milli-arcsec, and a relative proper motion of 58 mas/yr. Our best estimate of the distance yields d = 149 (+26, -20) pc. The secondary stars's radial velocity has K2 = 92 +- 3 km/s, indicating a fairly low orbital inclination if the masses are typical. Extensive I-band time-series observations in the show the system varying between a minimum brightness level of I = 14.14 and states of enhanced activity about 0.2 mag brighter. While the low-state shows an ellipsoidal modulation, an additional photometric modulation appears in the high state, with 0.1 mag amplitude and period 220-280 min. The frequency of this modulation appears to be stable for a month or so, but no single period was consistently detected from one observing season to the next. We estimate the system luminosity by combining optical measurements with the archival X-ray spectrum. The implied mass accretion rate is orders of magnitudes below the predictions for the standard angular momentum loss above the period gap. The system may possibly belong to a largely undiscovered population of hibernating CVs.
description: 11 figures; 7 of these are .png or .jpg to save space. In press for Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
The Weinberg Operator and a Lower String Scale in Orientifold Compactifications
Creators: name: Cvetič, Mirjam
name: Halverson, James
name: Langacker, Paul
name: Richter, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the interplay between the string scale and phenomenological scales in orientifold compactifications. Specifically, we discuss in generality the tension that often arises in accounting for neutrino masses, Yukawa couplings, and a mu-term of the correct order and show that it often constrains the string scale M_s. The discussion focuses on two scenarios where, (1) the observed order of the neutrino masses are accounted for by a D-instanton induced "stringy" Weinberg operator, or (2) effectively via the type I seesaw mechanism with an instanton induced Majorana mass term. In both scenarios, the string scale might be further constrained if the suppression factor of a single D-instanton must account for two of the phenomenological scales. For the sake of concreteness, we present phenomenologically viable quivers which exhibit these effects and perform a systematic analysis of four-stack and five-stack quivers which give rise to the exact MSSM spectrum and account for the order of the neutrino masses via the stringy Weinberg operator.
description: 27 pages
Equation of state of zero-temperature quark matter with finite quark masses
Creators: name: Vuorinen, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We outline the key elements of a recent calculation aimed at determining the equation of state of deconfined (but unpaired) quark matter at zero temperature and high density, using finite quark masses. The computation is performed in perturbation theory up to three loops, and necessitates the development and application of some novel computational tools. In this talk, we introduce the basic features of these new techniques and review the main sources of motivation for considering finite quark mass effects in perturbation theory.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of SEWM08, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 26-29, 2008
PR - A COMPARISON OF SUCCESSION PLANNING CONSULTANCY PROCESSES
Creators: name: Dooley, Anne Elizabeth
name: McCarthy, Iona Anne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Succession planning
subject: Consultancy processes
subject: Farm consultants

description: Farm succession planning is becoming increasingly complex requiring technical and process consultancy input from a range of rural professionals. However, despite the impact RPs have on succession planning, research on RPsâ€™ farm succession consultancy is scarce. A case study with six rural professionals experienced in succession planning consultancy was conducted to seek information on farm succession consultancy roles and processes. This paper reports on the processes of the four who facilitated the entire process. All four incorporated the aspects recognised as being important in succession consultancy. However, there was considerable variation between their processes in the manner in which they processed through the steps, how they addressed issues, and managed people dynamics, their time frames and their emphasis on certain aspects. Their professional roles, client relationships, clientâ€™ expectations, their beliefs, skills and knowledge, confidence and background all contributed to these differences. This variability in their process suggests that defining a prescriptive process for effective succession planning consultancy beyond general guidelines is impractical. A range of approaches is likely to be effective, although some practices could be more effective than others and this may be worth further exploration.
description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019