cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Constrained deepest descent in the 2-Wasserstein metric
Creators: name: Carlen, E. A.
name: Gangbo, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study several constrained variational problem in the 2-Wasserstein metric for which the set of probability densities satisfying the constraint is not closed. For example, given a probability density $F_0$ on $\R^d$ and a time-step $h>0$, we seek to minimize $I(F) = hS(F) + W_2^2(F_0,F)$ over all of the probability densities $F$ that have the same mean and variance as $F_0$, where $S(F)$ is the entropy of $F$. We prove existence of minimizers. We also analyze the induced geometry of the set of densities satisfying the constraint on the variance and means, and we determine all of the geodesics on it. From this, we determine a criterion for convexity of functionals in the induced geometry. It turns out, for example, that the entropy is uniformly strictly convex on the constrained manifold, though not uniformly convex without the constraint. The problems solved here arose in a study of a variational approach to constructing and studying solutions of the nonlinear kinetic Fokker-Planck equation, which is briefly described here and fully developed in a companion paper.
description: 40 pages published version
The role of social location in shaping johns' perceptions and reported treatment of female sex workers
Creators: name: Mancini, Tara
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Western Feminists have long debated the circumstances under which sex work can either be empowering or detrimental for sex workers. It has been argued that prostitution studies often lacked feminist theory, while theoretical work has failed to engage with the empirical. Recently, more comprehensive studies have emerged, but many still do not take into account the demand for sex. This research considers johns' perceptions and reported treatment of sex workers. Rather than regarding johns as a unitary group, I use Connell's masculinities theory and Collins' concept of the matrix of domination, to draw on semi-structured interviews with johns. The analysis takes into account how a john's location within the matrix may influence his perception and treatment of a sex worker based on her perceived social location. I suggest implications of the research as well as new areas for future research.
Particles and energy fluxes from a CFT perspective
Creators: name: Fabbri, A.
name: Navarro-Salas, J.
name: Olmo, G. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the creation of particles in two dimensions under the action of conformal transformations. We focus our attention on Mobius transformations and compare the usual approach, based on the Bogolubov coefficients, with an alternative but equivalent viewpoint based on correlation functions. In the latter approach the absence of particle production under full Mobius transformations is manifest. Moreover, we give examples, using the moving-mirror analogy, to illustrate the close relation between the production of quanta and energy.
description: Revised version. To appear in Phys.Rev. D
Neutrino Mixing and Lepton Flavor Violation in SUSY-GUT Models
Creators: name: Illana, J. I.
name: Masip, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In supersymmetric (SUSY) models the misalignment between fermion and sfermion families introduces unsuppressed flavor-changing processes. Even if the mass parameters are chosen to give no flavor violation, family dependent radiative corrections make this adjustment not stable. In particular, due to the observed large neutrino mixings and potentially large neutrino Yukawa couplings, sizable lepton flavor violation (LFV) is expected. After introducing the basic concepts, the framework and the main assumptions, we report on a recent study of rare leptonic decays in a class of SUSY-GUT models with three quasi-degenerate neutrinos. We show that LFV effects are likely visible in forthcoming experiments.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the XXVII International Conference of Theoretical Physics, Ustron, Poland, September 15-21, 2003
Quantum Statistics: Is there an effective fermion repulsion or boson attraction?
Creators: name: Mullin, W. J.
name: Blaylock, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Physicists often claim that there is an effective repulsion between fermions, implied by the Pauli principle, and a corresponding effective attraction between bosons. We examine the origins of such exchange force ideas, the validity for them, and the areas where they are highly misleading. We propose that future explanations of quantum statistics should avoid the idea of a effective force completely and replace it with more appropriate physical insights, some of which are suggested here.
description: 26 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to American Journal of Physics
Foreclosing the political: State-building and the management of difference in Afghanistan
Creators: name: White, Christopher Charles
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: State-building has become the technique used by networks of liberal global governance to bring order to a seemingly chaotic world. This paper tracks how this series of practices is genealogically linked to the idea of the liberal peace and how it consequently is helping to realize an idea openly disavowed by the Western world, the End of History. Using discourse analysis, I explain how the state-building program in Afghanistan is furthering liberal efforts to eliminate space for a non-liberal other. This paper argues that state-building and the West's reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan present the deeply political activity of hiving off difference internationally as a technical, non-political activity. After the mixed results of relying on disaggregated networks to deliver services, the state has returned in a big way by guaranteeing liberal subjectivity and serving as a means of regulating the everyday politics of Afghanistan.
Agricultural Technology Adoption for Food and Nutrition Security: Evidence from Ethiopia
Creators: name: Fetene, G.M.
name: Getehun, T.D.
name: Fetene, G.M.
name: Getehun, T.D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Using a unique panel data, we investigate whether the technologies that the farmers adopted three and five years ago have effects on food and nutrition security of the adopters. Secondly, we analyze the adoption decisions of a comprehensive of eight modern inputs and labor-intensive technologies including improved seed varieties, inorganic fertilizer, chemicals, organic fertilizer, extension service, irrigation, soil conservation and mechanism of planting seeds. Finally, we investigate the determinants of adoptions. The results reveal that the higher the number of technologies that the farmers adopted, the higher the likelihood of food and nutrition security, implying that farmers have to get a package of inputs to best benefit from the technologies. Most of the technologies have statistically significant effects on food and nutrition security individually as well. We also find complementarity between modern inputs and labor-intensive technologies, perhaps indicating that adoption of modern inputs induces farmers to adopt labor-intensive technologies. The results further reveal that farmers who adopt technologies once are more likely to adopt the technologies again, perhaps indicating that adoption of these technologies is profitable. Acknowledgement :
NPLDA: A Deep Neural PLDA Model for Speaker Verification
Creators: name: Ramoji, Shreyas
name: Krishnan, Prashant
name: Ganapathy, Sriram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The state-of-art approach for speaker verification consists of a neural network based embedding extractor along with a backend generative model such as the Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis (PLDA). In this work, we propose a neural network approach for backend modeling in speaker recognition. The likelihood ratio score of the generative PLDA model is posed as a discriminative similarity function and the learnable parameters of the score function are optimized using a verification cost. The proposed model, termed as neural PLDA (NPLDA), is initialized using the generative PLDA model parameters. The loss function for the NPLDA model is an approximation of the minimum detection cost function (DCF). The speaker recognition experiments using the NPLDA model are performed on the speaker verificiation task in the VOiCES datasets as well as the SITW challenge dataset. In these experiments, the NPLDA model optimized using the proposed loss function improves significantly over the state-of-art PLDA based speaker verification system.
description: Published in Odyssey 2020, the Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (VOiCES Special Session). Link to GitHub Implementation: https://github.com/iiscleap/NeuralPlda. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2001.07034
Polarimetry in the Visible and Infrared: Application to CMB Polarimetry
Creators: name: Jones, Terry J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interstellar polarization from aligned dust grains can be measured both in transmission at visible and near-infrared wavelengths and in emission at far-infrared and sub-mm wavelengths. These observations can help predict the behavior of foreground contamination of CMB polarimetry by dust in the Milky Way. Fractional polarization in emission from aligned dust grains will be at the higher range of currently observed values of 4-10%. Away from the galactic plane, fluctuations in Q and U will be dominated by fluctuations in intensity, and less influenced by fluctuations in fractional polarization and position angle.
description: To be published in the proceedings of "The Cosmic Microwave Background and its Polarization", New Astronomy Reviews, (eds. S. Hanany and K.A. Olive)
Additional file 1 of RASflow: an RNA-Seq analysis workflow with Snakemake
Creators: name: Xiaokang Zhang
name: Jonassen, Inge
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1 Figure S1. An overview of output folder of example data.
Tyrinthia patula Galileo & Martins, 2005, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Galileo, Maria Helena M.
name: Martins, Ubirajara R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Tyrinthia
Tyrinthia patula

description: Tyrinthia patula sp. nov.
(Fig. 1)
 Etimologia. Latim, patulus = largo, alusivo à forma do corpo.
Cabeça alaranjada com mancha preta nos tubérculos anteníferos que se prolonga pela borda interna dos lobos oculares superiores. Antenas apenas ultrapassam o ápice dos élitros. Escapo preto. Pedicelo branco. Antenômero III preto, com pequena região apical branca. Antenômero IV preto nos dois terços basais e branco no terço apical. Antenômeros V, VI e VII brancos. Antenômeros VIII-XI pretos. Franja de pêlos longos e densos nos antenômeros III e IV. Pronoto laranja-avermelhado com mancha basal, transversal, preta e semi-elíptica. Partes laterais do protórax e prosterno pretos. Escutelo preto. Élitros pretos, aplanados e gradualmente expandidos para o ápice. Carena elitral muito saliente, prolongada até o terço apical. Extremidades elitrais arredondadas. Procoxas acastanhadas, profêmures amarelados e protarsos pretos. Mesocoxas acastanhadas com bases amareladas; mesotrocanteres amarelados, mesofêmures pretos com mancha amarelada dorsal no terço apical; mesotíbias e mesotarsos pretos. Metatrocanteres amarelados e o restante das pernas posteriores pretos. Urosternito V amarelado.
Dimensões em mm, macho. Comprimento total, 10,2; comprimento do protórax, 1,5; maior largura do protórax, 1,9; comprimento do élitro, 0,8; largura umeral, 2,6.
Material-tipo. Holótipo macho, COSTA RICA, San José: Pérez Zeledón (Estación Santa Elena, 1650 m), 21-29. VII.1999, J. Rodríguez col., L S 373000 507500 # 57318 (INBio).
 Discussão. Tyrinthia patula sp. nov. assemelha-se a T. photurina Bates, 1885, mas difere pelo vértice inteiramente alaranjado; pelo antenômero VII branco; pelo pronoto sem áreas de pubescência branca nos lados; pela carena dos élitros preta e pelo último urosternito amarelado. Em T. photurina o vértice é preto, o antenômero VII é preto, o pronoto tem grandes áreas de pubescência branca nos lados, a carena dos élitros é amarelada e o último urosternito é parcialmente amarelado.
description: Published as part of Galileo, Maria Helena M. & Martins, Ubirajara R., 2005, Contribuição aos Hemilophini Da Costa Rica (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), pp. 103-109 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 45 (10) on page 105, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492005001000001, http://zenodo.org/record/4900803
Symmetry-protected Topological Phases in Spinful Bosons with a Flat Band
Creators: name: Yang, Hong
name: Nakano, Hayate
name: Katsura, Hosho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically demonstrate that interacting symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases can be realized with ultracold spinful bosonic atoms loaded on the lattices which have a flat band at the bottom of the band structure. Ground states of such systems are not conventional Mott insulators in the sense that the ground states possess not only spin fluctuations but also non-negligible charge fluctuations. The SPT phases in such systems are determined by both spin and charge fluctuations at zero temperature. We find that the many-body ground states of such systems can be exactly obtained in some special cases, and these exact ground states turn out to serve as representative states of the SPT phases. As a concrete example, we demonstrate that spin-1 bosons on a sawtooth chain can be in an SPT phase protected by $\mathbb{Z}_2 \times \mathbb{Z}_2$ spin rotation symmetry or time-reversal symmetry, and this SPT phase is a result of spin fluctuations. We also show that spin-3 bosons on a kagome lattice can be in an SPT phase protected by $D_2$ point group symmetry, but this SPT phase is, however, a result of charge fluctuations.
description: 24 pages, 17 figures
Adoption of Recommended Doses of Fertilisers on Soil Test Basis by Small and Marginal Farmers in Gujarat, India
Creators: name: Kalamkar, S.
name: Kalamkar, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Adoption of Recommended Doses of Fertilisers on Soil Test Basis by Small and Marginal Farmers in Gujarat, India ABSTRACT The study examines the prospects and constraints in implementation of Soil Health Card (SHC) Programme in Gujarat, India, covering sample of 160 control farmers and 240 soil test farmers. It was observed that it is an important and beneficial programme, however, was not implemented in proper manner. In view to achieve the quantity targets fixed, quality norms were not given proper attention. The level of adoption of recommended doses by soil test farmers was reasonably less (around 40%). However, the adoption of recommended doses of fertiliser based on soil test has helped the farmers in increasing the agricultural productivity and income. The The due . Besides, inadequate staff strength, unavailability of required number of soil test laboratories and lack of upgradation of skills of the personnel were major bottleneck in success of program. Acknowledgement : This study is a part of all-India level coordinated project sponsored by Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India.
Additional file 4 of Frequency of discussing and documenting advance care planning in primary care: secondary analysis of a multicenter cross-sectional observational study
Creators: name: Hamano, Jun
name: Oishi, Ai
name: Morita, Tatsuya
name: Kizawa, Yoshiyuki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. Relationships between physician background factors and the ACP discussion.
Quantum Tomography and the Quantum Radon Transform
Creators: name: Ibort, Alberto
name: López-Yela, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A general framework in the setting of $C^*$-algebras for the tomographical description of states, that includes, among other tomographical schemes, the classical Radon transform, quantum state tomography and group quantum tomography, is presented.
 Given a $C^*$-algebra, the main ingredients for a tomographical description of its states are identified: A generalized sampling theory and a positive transform. A generalization of the notion of dual tomographic pair provides the background for a sampling theory on $C^*$-algebras and, an extension of Bochner's theorem for functions of positive type, the positive transform.
 The abstract theory is realized by using dynamical systems, that is, groups represented on $C^*$-algebra. Using a fiducial state and the corresponding GNS construction, explicit expressions for tomograms associated with states defined by density operators on the corresponding Hilbert spade are obtained. In particular a general quantum version of the classical definition of the Radon transform is presented. The theory is completed by proving that if the representation of the group is square integrable, the representation itself defines a dual tomographic map and explicit reconstruction formulas are obtained by making a judiciously use of the theory of frames. A few significant examples are discussed that illustrates the use and scope of the theory.
Finding Fair and Efficient Allocations When Valuations Don't Add Up
Creators: name: Benabbou, Nawal
name: Chakraborty, Mithun
name: Igarashi, Ayumi
name: Zick, Yair
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we present new results on the fair and efficient allocation of indivisible goods to agents whose preferences correspond to {\em matroid rank functions}. This is a versatile valuation class with several desirable properties (such as monotonicity and submodularity), which naturally lends itself to a number of real-world domains. We use these properties to our advantage; first, we show that when agent valuations are matroid rank functions, a socially optimal (i.e. utilitarian social welfare-maximizing) allocation that achieves envy-freeness up to one item (EF1) exists and is computationally tractable. We also prove that the Nash welfare-maximizing and the leximin allocations both exhibit this fairness/efficiency combination, by showing that they can be achieved by minimizing any symmetric strictly convex function over utilitarian optimal outcomes. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first valuation function class not subsumed by additive valuations for which it has been established that an allocation maximizing Nash welfare is EF1. Moreover, for a subclass of these valuation functions based on maximum (unweighted) bipartite matching, we show that a leximin allocation can be computed in polynomial time. Additionally, we explore possible extensions of our results to fairness criteria other than EF1 as well as to generalizations of the above valuation classes.
Perdita (Perdita) obliqua Timberlake 1928
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita obliqua

description: Perdita (Perdita) obliqua Timberlake, 1928
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ Baboquivari Mountains, Arizona, USA; August 20, 1924]
This species occurs in northwestern Mexico and the southwestern USA in Arizona and California. In the BCP, it has been recorded in the Gulf Coast and the Sarcocaulescent Shrubland ecoregions in BCS. Specimens are preserved in the UCRC, SEMC, and INHS collections. We reviewed six specimens, one male collected in the Gulf Coast 15 mi. W. La Paz, in September 1959, and the Magdalena Plains in July 1938 (3♀, 1♂; CASC). See fig. 55.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 106, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Soil and Water Management in West Africa: An Economic Analysis
Creators: name: Day, John C.
name: Day, John C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Sahel
subject: Mali
subject: rain-fed farming
subject: water conservation
subject: economics

description: Water conservation is a necessary component in efforts to raise the productivity of traditional rain-fed farming in West Africa. Soil-water balance relationships and a whole-farm modeling approach are used to estimate benefits of conservation on a typical farm in Mali. Increased rainfall infiltration could quadruple income and raise food grain production from 60 to 90 percent in combination with small amounts of fertilizer.
Foreclosing the political: State-building and the management of difference in Afghanistan
Creators: name: White, Christopher Charles
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: State-building has become the technique used by networks of liberal global governance to bring order to a seemingly chaotic world. This paper tracks how this series of practices is genealogically linked to the idea of the liberal peace and how it consequently is helping to realize an idea openly disavowed by the Western world, the End of History. Using discourse analysis, I explain how the state-building program in Afghanistan is furthering liberal efforts to eliminate space for a non-liberal other. This paper argues that state-building and the West's reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan present the deeply political activity of hiving off difference internationally as a technical, non-political activity. After the mixed results of relying on disaggregated networks to deliver services, the state has returned in a big way by guaranteeing liberal subjectivity and serving as a means of regulating the everyday politics of Afghanistan.
Additional file 1 of Understanding implementation barriers in the national scale-up of differentiated ART delivery in Uganda
Creators: name: Zakumumpa, Henry
name: Rujumba, Joseph
name: Japheth Kwiringira
name: Katureebe, Cordelia
name: Spicer, Neil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Topic guide for focus group discussions with patients enrolled in DSD models.
Fredlanea hovorei Galileo & Martins, 2005, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Galileo, Maria Helena M.
name: Martins, Ubirajara R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Fredlanea
Fredlanea hovorei

description: Fredlanea hovorei sp. nov.
(Fig. 6)
Etimologia. Epíteto em homenagem a Frank T. Hovore a quem devemos a remessa de vultoso material costarriquenho para estudo.
Colorido geral laranja-avermelhado recoberto por pubescência alaranjada. Escapo e pedicelo pretos; flagelômeros acastanhados na face dorsal e mais amarelados na face ventral. Metade apical das tíbias e tarsos pretos. Região centro-posterior do metasterno com área preta. Urosternito I preto nos lados e na orla posterior e alaranjados no centro; urosternito II preto com áreas alaranjadas; urosternitos III-V amarelados.
Escapo curvo e estreito na base; lado interno do antenômero III com pêlos esparsos.
Protórax mais largo do que longo, mais estreito na base do que na região anterior. Metade basal dos lados do pronoto com faixa larga de pubescência amarelada. Carena elitral manifesta, prolongada até próximo à extremidade. Ápice dos élitros emarginados com espinhos nos ângulos sutural e marginal.
Dimensões em mm, holótipo macho. Comprimento total, 9,1; comprimento do protórax, 1,5; maior largura do protórax, 1,9; comprimento do élitro, 7,0; largura umeral, 2,3.
Material-tipo. Holótipo macho, COSTA RICA, Puntarenas: Z.P. Arenal-Monteverde (Estación Biológica Monteverde, 1600 m), 30.IX-8.X.1999, J. Rodríguez col., L N 255900 447900 # 55352 (INBio). Parátipo macho, Guanacaste: Monteverde, 8-9. V.1989, D.B. Thomas col. (FSCA).
O parátipo é um macho mal-formado e difere do holótipo pela face ventral inteiramente alaranjada.
 Discussão. Fredlanea hovorei difere de todas as espécies com élitros laranja-avermelhados [por exemplo, F. flavipennis (Lane, 1966), F. aequatoria (Bates, 1881), F. maculata Martins & Galileo, 1996] pelo protórax e fêmures laranja-avermelhado. Em todas essas espécies o protórax e os fêmures são pretos.
description: Published as part of Galileo, Maria Helena M. & Martins, Ubirajara R., 2005, Contribuição aos Hemilophini Da Costa Rica (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), pp. 103-109 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 45 (10) on pages 105-106, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492005001000001, http://zenodo.org/record/4900803
Effects of Population Growth and County Type on Farm Structure, 1970-80
Creators: name: Brooks, Nora
name: Reimund, Donn
name: Peterson, R. Neal
name: Brooks, Nora
name: Reimund, Donn
name: Peterson, R. Neal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Farm structure
subject: metro-nonmetro status
subject: population growth
subject: structural change

description: The impact of county level population change on farm structure between 1970 and 1980 was examined for regions with varying growth rates using an analysis of variance technique. Eight States representing four regions with different growth rates were used as the study area. Counties in these States were stratified into three types on the basis of their metro-nonmetro status. Farm structure variables examined were related to aggregate farm structure, tenancy, and operator off-farm employment. Both the region (growth rate) and county type variables had significant effects on most aggregate farm structure variables. The full-owner and tenant operator variables were strongly related to the region classification variable.
Using Student Goals for Growth and Mastery in the COVID Educational Era
Creators: name: Mabry, Brooke
name: Nordengren, Chase
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: goal setting
formative assessment

description: It’s never been more important to help students set goals that are meaningful, realistic, and inspire them to own their learning. In this session, we’ll share NWEA tools for setting long-term goals using MAP Growth scores, and how short-term goal setting practices can support robust and authentic learning throughout the school year. You’ll engage in a hands-on experience where you’ll work through exercises and scenarios to prepare you for setting goals with your own students.
AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE IN EASTERN EUROPE, 1988
Creators: name: Cochrane, Nancy
name: Cochrane, Nancy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Eastern Europe
subject: agricultural production
subject: agricultural trade
subject: agricultural policy
subject: economic conditions
subject: reforms

description: Farm output in Eastern Europe was nearly stagnant in 1988 and held down national income growth. Agricultural trade balances improved in most of the countries, as feed imports leveled off, livestock product exports rose, and domestic consumption declined. Unusually high rates of inflation were registered in the countries that are reforming their economies. The sharply increased prices of basic commodities, particularly food, led to considerable social unrest, which has had political consequences.
Static solutions of a 6-dimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills model
Creators: name: Brihaye, Yves
name: Clement, Fabien
name: Hartmann, Betti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Einstein-Yang-Mills equations in a 6-dimensional space-time. We make a self-consistent static, spherically symmetric ansatz for the gauge fields and the metric. The metric of the manifold associated with the two extra dimensions contains off-diagonal terms. The classical equations are solved numerically and several branches of solutions are constructed. We also present an effective 4-dimensional action from which the equations can equally well be derived. This action is a standard Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs theory extended by three scalar fields. Two of the scalar fields are interpreted as dilatons, while the one associated with the off-diagonal term of the metric induces very specific interactions.
description: 10 REVTEX pages, 3 eps-figures
Serving Student Needs: The Role of Formative Assessment in Hybrid Learning
Creators: name: Mabry, Brooke
name: Nordengren, Chase
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: formative assessment

description: Explore using formative assessment tools to understand what students are ready to learn in constantly evolving educational environments. Drawing on best practices for in-person and hybrid instructional environments, we’ll discuss building scaffolded and differentiated instruction to both meet students where they are and push them to achieve mastery. You will reflect on your context and consider ways to tailor your approach given where your school and community sit in this world of flux.
Robust Output Regulation: Optimization-Based Synthesis and Event-Triggered Implementation
Creators: name: Sarafraz, Mohammad Saeed
name: Proskurnikov, Anton V.
name: Tavazoei, Mohammad Saleh
name: Esfahani, Peyman Mohajerin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We investigate the problem of practical output regulation, i.e., to design a controller that brings the system output in the vicinity of a desired target value while keeping the other variables bounded. We consider uncertain systems that are possibly nonlinear and the uncertainty of their linear parts is modeled element-wise through a parametric family of matrix boxes. An optimization-based design procedure is proposed that delivers a continuous-time control and estimates the maximal regulation error. We also analyze an event-triggered emulation of this controller, which can be implemented on a digital platform, along with an explicit estimates of the regulation error.
CovTracer-EN: The Journey of Covid-19 Digital Contact Tracing in Cyprus (slides)
Creators: name: Isaia, Philippos
name: Laoudias, Christos
name: Kamilaris, Andreas
name: Panayiotou, Christos G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Presentation slides for the publication P. Isaia, C. Laoudias, A. Kamilaris and C. G. Panayiotou, "CovTracer-EN: The Journey of Covid-19 Digital Contact Tracing in Cyprus," 2021 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), 2021, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/IPIN51156.2021.9662621.
description: The CovTracer-EN project has received funding from the European Union's Emergency Support Instrument programme under grant agreement No. CYPRUS-LC-01591248.
Explanatory Guide to the ERS Metro and Nonmetro Labor Force and Income Data Diskette
Creators: name: Frederick, Martha
name: Frederick, Martha
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Metro
subject: nonmetro
subject: employment
subject: earnings
subject: personal income
subject: jobs
subject: workers
subject: statistics

description: This guide explains the labor force, employment, and income data included on the ERS "Metro and Nonmetro Labor Force and Income Data Diskette." The data for 1969-87 are compiled from county estimates developed by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The guide also provides background information on what the statistics measure, how they are estimated, and how the BEA and BLS employment series differ.
PENDAMPINGAN OPEN JURNAL SYSTEM (OJS) PERGURUAN TINGGI DI LINGKUNGAN LEMBAGA LAYANAN PENDIDIKAN TINGGI WILAYAH II di Univ. Muhammadiyah Kotabumi
Creators: name: Sumartono, Eko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Publikasi karya ilmiah bagi dosen dan mahasiswa merupakan salah satu kegiatan yang harus terus dilakukan sebagai bentuk publikasi hasil penelitian mereka. Keharusan publikasi tersebut mendorong penerbitan jurnal terbitan berkala ilmiah online sebagai wadah untuk mendesiminasikan hasil-hasil penelitian dosen dan mahasiswa secara luas. Sistem jurnal online atau e-journal dilakukan melalui perangkat lunak Open Journal System (OJS) untuk mengerjakan pengaturan dan penerbitan jurnal ilmiah secara online (daring). Sistem terbitan berkala ilmiah elektronik ini diharapkan dapat mempermudah dan mempercepat proses pengiriman naskah, penyuntingan, penelaahan, dan penerbitan naskah ilmiah. Perubahan proses penerbitan karya ilmiah secara online ini juga mendorong penerbitan dan oerbaikan OJS jurnal online oleh program studi di lingkungan Se-Universitas di Lingkungan Layanan Pendidikan Tinggi Wilayah II (LLDIKTI 2). Secara kuantitas, telahlebih dari 15 jurnal online yang sudah Sebagian besar melakukan perbaikan peningkatan di dalam OJS di lingkungan LLDIKTI 2. Peningkatan kuantitas ini terutama didorong karena setiap dosen wajib mempublikasikan artikel ilmiah sebagai syarat sertifikasi dosen dan Jenjang Akademik dan serta mahasiswa sebagai syarat kelulusan. Keharusan ini difasilitasi untuk mendorong penerbitan jurnal online di setiap program studi di Universitas dengan pertimbangan tingginya daftar antrian penerbitan di sejumlah jurnal di Wilayah LLDIKTI 2. Hal ini tentu saja dianggap telah cukup membantu dosen dan mahasiswa untuk memenuhi tuntutan publikasi ilmiah. Namun secara kualitas, baik dari aspek teknis hardware dan software, maupun pengelolaan jurnal dan kualitas isi naskah yang diterbitkan secara umum masih belum memenuhi standar-standar yang ada. Permasalahan utama yang terjadi di Indonesia dan hal ini juga terjadi dalam pengelolaan jurnal online di Universitas wilayah LLDIKTI 2 yaitu belum memperhatikan kriteria-kriteria sesuai panduan pedoman pengelolaan jurnal dan akreditasi terbitan berkala ilmiah yang diterbitkan Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi (DIKTI). Pendampingan yang dilakukan pada saat di Universitas Muhammadiyah Kotabumi diharapkan sebuah jurnal penting untuk meningkatkan kualitas pengelolaan dan kualitas naskah yang diterbitkan masing-masing jurnal. Tidak hanya untuk kepentingan akreditasi institusi namun juga secara tidak langsung akan berdampak pada peningkatan kualitas penulisan ilmiah dosen dan mahasiswa. Karena semakin baik standar yang dicapai oleh suatu jurnal online maka hanya artikel berkualitas baik pula yang dapat diterbitkan di jurnal tersebut. Laporan ini kami tulis dengan tujuan untuk : memaparkan kemajuan yang telah dicapai dalam Pengelolaan Open Jurnal System dari media cetak menjadi media online dan berstandar sesuai dengan aturan penerbitan Jurnal Ilmiah.
Government Intervention in the Mexican Crop Sector
Creators: name: Mielke, Myles J.
name: Mielke, Myles J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Agricultural policies
subject: Mexico
subject: producer subsidies
subject: PSE's
subject: trade liberalization

description: Although Mexican agriculture is still regulated by nontariff barriers and domestic price controls, there has been some movement toward liberalization during the 1980's. There was less regulation of wheat and sesameseed in 1986 and 1987 than in previous years, for example. To simulate a gradual reduction in government intervention of the agricultural sector, a likely result of the current GATT negotiations, this report modeled a 50-percent reduction in Mexico's producer price subsidies over 5 years. Preliminary results indicate a substantial effect on the production and trade of corn and sorghum, but a relatively small effect on soybeans.
Soybeans: Background for 1990 Farm Legislation
Creators: name: Crowder, Brad
name: Davison, Cecil
name: Crowder, Brad
name: Davison, Cecil
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Soybeans
subject: protein meal
subject: vegetable oil
subject: farm programs
subject: agricultural trade

description: U.S. soybean production increased rapidly during the 1960's and 1970's and is second in production value only to corn. While the growth arose largely from export demand, the United States faces increasing competition in world markets for soybeans. Soybean meal also competes with other protein meals for livestock feed, and soybean oil competes with substitutable fats and oils. Lower prices and greater incentives to participate in Federal commodity programs for other crops have reduced soybean acreage and production during the 1980's. Soybean production areas have shifted somewhat during the 1980's as well. Although soybeans are relatively free from direct Government programs, production levels are affected by agricultural programs for other commodities. Soybeans are supported by a price support loan which, in most years, has been below prices received by farmers. Issues for legislation in 1990 will probably center on trade issues, the support level, crop substitution on program crop acreage bases, and a marketing loan for soybeans.
Additional file 2 of Frequency of discussing and documenting advance care planning in primary care: secondary analysis of a multicenter cross-sectional observational study
Creators: name: Hamano, Jun
name: Oishi, Ai
name: Morita, Tatsuya
name: Kizawa, Yoshiyuki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2 Backgrounds of participating physicians (n = 22).
Ultrasound Detection Arrays Via Coded Hadamard Apertures
Creators: name: Hahamovich, Evgeny
name: Rosenthal, Amir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the medical fields, ultrasound detection is often performed with piezoelectric arrays that enable one to simultaneously map the acoustic fields at several positions. In this work, we develop a novel method for transforming a single-element ultrasound detector into an effective detection array by spatially filtering the incoming acoustic fields using a binary acoustic mask coded with cyclic Hadamard patterns. By scanning the mask in front of the detector, we obtain a multiplexed measurement dataset from which a map of the acoustic field is analytically constructed. We experimentally demonstrate our method by transforming a single-element ultrasound detector into 1D arrays with up to 59 elements.
description: 8 pages
Tracing Accretion onto Herbig Ae/Be Stars using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Ancker, M. E. van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detection and characterization of accretion processes in the disks surrounding young stars may be directly relevant to studies of planet formation. Especially the study of systems with very low accretion rates (<< 10^{-10} M_sun yr^{-1}) is important, since at those rates radial mixing becomes inefficient and disk material will have to be dissipated into larger bodies at its present location. In these proceedings, we compare the different methods of tracing accretion onto Herbig Ae/Be stars and conclude that high-resolution infrared spectroscopy is currently the only reliable method that offers the required sensitivity to shed light on this problem.
description: To appear in proc. ESO workshop on "High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy in Astronomy", eds. H.-U. K\"aufl, R. Siebenmorgen & A. Moorwood
The role of the United States in Syrian-Israeli negotiations: 1990--present
Creators: name: Hark, Nicole Modeen
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: In the last two decades, there has been little direct negotiation between Syria and Israel, marking a conflict that remains rooted in and stagnated by distrust and conflicting claims to territory. Today's conventional wisdom suggests that Syrian-Israeli peace talks are ongoing, but there is little concrete evidence that supports that position. In preparation for peace talks, it is important to review the progress and stumbling blocks of previous Syrian-Israeli negotiations, and determine what new strategies, if any, can be employed in the future. Since the United States has served as the leading communication facilitator between Syria and Israel, this paper focuses on the U.S.'s role as a mediator and makes recommendation for its future mediation efforts. Through an analysis of the core concepts of mediation theory, it provides an overall framework and definition of mediation, and hones in on key characteristics of the ideal mediator: impartiality, status and leverage. This paper adds a thorough overview of the history of both the conflict itself, and U.S. mediation efforts from 1990 to the present. This allows for a better understanding of the positions and interests of each party, and sheds light on the challenges to identifying a ripe moment for intervention. Finally, in reviewing the many roles and strategies that can be utilized by a mediator, it is clear that American mediation efforts would benefit from: (1) utilizing leverage to a greater degree, (2) being more purposeful in the management and facilitation of talks, and (3) increasing the communication among all parties with regard to the framework and vision of future Syrian-Israeli negotiations.
Direct payments and competitiveness. Assessing redistributive effects of internal convergence in Italy
Creators: name: Bonfiglio, Andrea
name: Henke, Roberto
name: Pierangeli, Fabio
name: D’Andrea, Maria Rosaria Pupo
name: Bonfiglio, Andrea
name: Henke, Roberto
name: Pierangeli, Fabio
name: D’Andrea, Maria Rosaria Pupo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: direct payments
subject: internal convergence
subject: technical efficiency
subject: data envelopment analysis
subject: double bootstrapped left-truncated regression

description: The objective of the paper is twofold. Firstly, investigating the relationship between competitiveness, measured by technical efficiency, and direct payments of a sample of Italian farms prior to the application of the 2014-2020 CAP reform. Secondly, evaluating possible implications of alternative scenarios about distribution of direct payments on technical efficiency. To these aims, a data envelopment analysis approach in conjunction with a double bootstrapped left-truncated regression model are adopted. Results indicate that direct payments are negatively associated with technical efficiency. Moreover, they show that redistribution of policy subsidies especially towards more inefficient farms provokes a decrease in overall technical efficiency.
Does the basic payment efficiently enhance farm incomes? Evidences from Italy
Creators: name: Ciliberti, Stefano
name: Frascarelli, Angelo
name: Ciliberti, Stefano
name: Frascarelli, Angelo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: direct payments
subject: CAP
subject: farm incomes
subject: FADN
subject: Italy

description: The debate on the CAP after 2020 is mainly focused on making more effective the public expenditure for agriculture. In this regard, the present paper aims to evaluate whether and how the choice of land as a criterion for redistributing aids direct payments affects the ability of the Basic payment scheme (BPS) to enhance farm incomes in Italy. To this aim, a proper quantitative analysis is provided by using the Italian version of the Farm Accountancy Data Network. Main findings show that there are other specific parameters – such as work and value added – that should be taken into account in order to improve the effectiveness of the BPS in enhancing farm incomes.
Recent progress in molecular simulation methods for drug binding kinetics
Creators: name: Nunes-Alves, Ariane
name: Kokh, Daria B.
name: Wade, Rebecca C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Due to the contribution of drug-target binding kinetics to drug efficacy, there is a high level of interest in developing methods to predict drug-target binding kinetic parameters. During the review period, a wide range of enhanced sampling molecular dynamics simulation-based methods has been developed for computing drug-target binding kinetics and studying binding and unbinding mechanisms. Here, we assess the performance of these methods considering two benchmark systems in detail: mutant T4 lysozyme-ligand complexes and a large set of N-HSP90-inhibitor complexes. The results indicate that some of the simulation methods can already be usefully applied in drug discovery or lead optimization programs but that further studies on more high-quality experimental benchmark datasets are necessary to improve and validate computational methods.
description: Figure 3 was improved. A definition of PIB was included. Reference to WE was added (ref. 20), reference to RAMD was corrected (ref. 43)