cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An alternative approach to measuring demand changes in meat markets
Creators: name: Bekkerman, Anton
name: Brester, Gary W.
name: Tonsor, Glynn T.
name: Bekkerman, Anton
name: Brester, Gary W.
name: Tonsor, Glynn T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: beef
subject: demand index
subject: lamb
subject: meat
subject: pork
subject: poultry
subject: quantity demanded

description: Commodity groups, academics, government agencies, and marketing analysts often have strong interests in understanding changes in demand for products. It is often the case, however, that only equilibrium price and quantity data are available for identifying changes in demand. But, such equilibria are the result of both changes in demand and changes in supply – the latter of which causes changes in quantity demanded. Although an existing index-based method is widely used to identify demand shifts, we consider its theoretical foundation and empirical performance against a proposed alternative. We find that when using widely available but highly aggregated annual-level price and quantity data, our alternative better characterizes demand shifts for goods such as beef, pork, poultry, and lamb. For many agribusinesses that require information about market dynamics in their industry, our method is likely to provide a more accurate, low-cost assessment of demand changes over time.
Additional file 2 of Vascular access for renal replacement therapy among 459 critically ill patients: a pragmatic analysis of the randomized AKIKI trial
Creators: name: Benichou, Nicolas
name: Saïd Lebbah
name: Hajage, David
name: Martin-Lefèvre, Laurent
name: Pons, Bertrand
name: Boulet, Eric
name: Boyer, Alexandre
name: Chevrel, Guillaume
name: Lerolle, Nicolas
name: Carpentier, Dorothée
name: De Prost, Nicolas
name: Lautrette, Alexandre
name: Bretagnol, Anne
name: Mayaux, Julien
name: Nseir, Saad
name: Megarbane, Bruno
name: Thirion, Marina
name: Forel, Jean-Marie
name: Maizel, Julien
name: Hodane Yonis
name: Markowicz, Philippe
name: Thiery, Guillaume
name: Schortgen, Frederique
name: Tubach, Florence
name: Jean-Damien Ricard
name: Dreyfuss, Didier
name: Gaudry, Stéphane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Catheter-related bacteremia or fungemia definitions (from Guidelines IDSA 2009, CID 2009 Dec 1 ;49:1-45).
RIVEAL Factsheet #1 - The RIVEAL Project
Creators: name: Aguiar, F. C.
name: Rivaes, R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: RIVEAL team
Ecosystem services
Case studies
Activities
Results & Outreach
Tools

description: First factsheet of the project RIVEAL: RIparian forest Values and Ecosystem services in uncertain freshwater futures and Altered Landscapes (PTDC/CTA-AMB/29790/2017) presenting the project.
Extended main sequence turnoffs in open clusters as seen by Gaia -- II. The enigma of NGC 2509
Creators: name: Ovelar, M. de Juan
name: Gossage, S.
name: Kamann, S.
name: Bastian, N.
name: Usher, C.
name: Cabrera-Ziri, I.
name: Conroy, C.
name: Lardo, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the morphology of the colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) of the open cluster NGC 2509 in comparison with other Galactic open clusters of similar age using Gaia photometry. At $\sim900$ Myr Galactic open clusters in our sample all show an extended main sequence turn off (eMSTO) with the exception of NGC 2509, which presents an exceptionally narrow CMD. Our analysis of the Gaia data rules out differential extinction, stellar density, and binaries as a cause for the singular MSTO morphology in this cluster. We interpret this feature as a consequence of the stellar rotation distribution within the cluster and present the analysis with MIST stellar evolution models that include the effect of stellar rotation on which we based our conclusion. In particular, these models point to an unusually narrow range of stellar rotation rates ($Ω/Ω_{\rm{crit,ZAMS}} = [0.4, 0.6]$) within the cluster as the cause of this singular feature in the CMD of NGC 2509. Interestingly, models that do not include rotation are not as good at reproducing the morphology of the observed CMD in this cluster.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
The RASS-SDSS galaxy cluster survey
Creators: name: Popesso, P.
name: Boehringer, H.
name: Voges, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solid observational evidences indicate a strong dependence of the galaxy formation and evolution on the environment. In order to study in particular the interaction between the intracluster medium and the evolution of cluster galaxies, we have created a large database of clusters of galaxies based on the largest available X-ray and optical surveys: the ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS), and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We analyzed the correlation between the total optical and the X-ray cluster luminosity. The resulting correlation of L_X and L_{op} shows a logarithmic slope of 0.6, a value close to the self-similar correlation. We analysed also the cluster mass to light ratio, by finding a significant dependence of M/L on the cluster mass with a logarithmic slope ranging from 0.27 in the i and r bands to 0.22 in the z band.
description: proceedings of 'Multiwavelength mapping of galaxy evolution' conference held in Venice (Italy), October 2003, A. Renzini and R. Bender (Eds.), 2 pages, 1 figure
Setting up Norms to Regulate Foreign Investments in Serbia
Creators: name: Stankovic, Nebojsa
name: Stankovic, Nebojsa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: foreign investments
subject: foreign exchange operations
subject: normative solutions
subject: legal regulations

description: Setting up norms to regulate foreign investments is a prerequisite for attracting foreign investments with a major effect on the investors’ decision to invest in Serbia. Inconsistency and uncertainty in the application of the legal solutions are the main problems that Serbia must solve in order to attract foreign investors.
Combining water supply and flood control purposes in the Coghinas Basin (Sardinia, Italy)
Creators: name: A. Sulis
name: S. Frongia
name: S. Liberatore
name: R. Zucca
name: G. M. Sechi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular 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: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The increased level of impact on life and infrastructure and the environment caused by flooding in Sardinia (Italy) has resulted in the need for the Flood Risk Management Plans (FRMP). The FRMP has been developed by Sardinian Region Administration that selected the Coghinas Basin (North Sardinia) as a pilot basin in according with the EU and National legislation. Recently, the European Flood Directive 2007/60/CE has stated that the flood-risk evaluation should include a cost–benefit analysis and an integrated decision-making tool should help optimize operating rules for multipurpose reservoirs, primarily with regard to the mitigation of flood risks and high priority demand supplies, and selected flood control works. The main purpose of this study was to develop an integrated flood management model to predict flood inundation in the flood-prone areas for various probabilities of occurrence, identify the flood operating rules in a multipurpose reservoir which accomplish a reduction in flood risk, and assess the total damage due to flooding. The FRMP is currently assessing the impacts of new reservoir operating rules reservoir and new works for flood damage mitigation. Based on a calibrated benefit–cost analysis, the proposed model suggested the best scenario of reservoir operating rules and flood control works with a significant saving of money compared to the actual scenario in the FRMP.
Modern Concept of Approach to Human Resources in the Business
Creators: name: Stokanovic, Dragica
name: Stokanovic, Dragica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: organization
subject: human resource management
subject: the new concept of human resource management
subject: competitive advantage

description: We live in the time where human resources are the key driving force of economic and technological development and the quality of life is based on this. In the process of organizational transformation and the crisis the human resources management activities are becoming increasingly important. This means a change in business philosophy and strategy, and maximum improvement of human resource management. The activities of the human resources management ond the methodology of their implementation in the business are the subject of this paper.
Recovery of Mycobacteria from Heavily Contaminated Environmental Matrices
Creators: name: Ulmann, V
name: Modrá, H
name: Babak, V
name: Weston, Ross
name: Pavlik, I
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: For epidemiology studies, a decontamination method using a solution containing 4.0% NaOH and 0.5% tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide (TDAB) represents a rela-tively simple and universal procedure for processing heavily microbially contaminated matrices together with increase of mycobacteria yield and elimination of gross contami-nation. A contamination rate only averaging 7.3% (2.4% in Cluster S; 6.9%% in Cluster R and 12.6%% in Cluster E) was found in 787 examined environmental samples. Mycobac-teria were cultured from 28.5% of 274 soil and water sediments samples (Cluster S), 60.2% of 251 samples of raw and processed peat and other horticultural substrates (Cluster R), and 29.4% of 262 faecal samples along with other samples of animal origin (Cluster E). A total of 38 species of slow and rapidly growing mycobacteria were isolated. M. avium ssp. hominissuis, M. fortuitum, and M. malmoense were the species most often isolated. The pa-rameters for the quantitative detection of mycobacteria by PCR can be significantly re-fined by treating the sample suspension before DNA isolation with PMA (propidium monoazide) solution. This effectively eliminates DNA residue from both dead mycobac-terial cells and potentially interfering DNA segments present from other microbial flora. In terms of human exposure risk assessment, the potential exposure to live non‐tubercu-lous mycobacteria can be more accurately determined.
Steneotarsonemus (Steneotarsonemus) Beer 1954: 1229
Creators: name: Lin, Jian-Zhen
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Tarsonemidae
Steneotarsonemus

description: Steneotarsonemus (Steneotarsonemus) Beer
 Steneotarsonemus (Steneotarsonemus) Beer 1954: 1229. Type species by original designation: Steneotarsonemus hyaleos Beer, 1954.
 Only a single species, S. spirifex, has been recorded thus far from New Zealand (Martin 1983). Further collecting and study of this subgenus in New Zealand will no doubt add many more species.
description: Published as part of Lin, Jian-Zhen & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2005, New Zealand species of Steneotarsonemus Beer (Acari: Tarsonemidae), pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 1028 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1028.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5050127
Studies of Mass and Size Effects in Three-Dimensional Vibrofluidized Granular Mixtures
Creators: name: Krouskop, Peter E.
name: Talbot, Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the steady state properties of binary systems of driven inelastic hard spheres. The spheres, which move under the influence of gravity, are contained in a vertical cylinder with a vibrating base. We computed the trajectories of the spheres using an event-driven molecular dynamics algorithm. In the first part of the study, we chose simulation parameters that match those of experiments performed by Wildman and Parker. Various properties computed from the simulation including the density profile, granular temperature and circulation pattern are in good qualitative agreement with the experiments. We then studied the effect of varying the mass ratio and the size ratio independently while holding the other parameters constant. The mass and size ratio are shown to affect the distribution of the energy. The changes in the energy distributions affect the packing fraction and temperature of each component. The temperature of the heavier component has a non-linear dependence on the mass of the lighter component, while the temperature of the lighter component is approximately proportional to its mass. The temperature of both components is inversely dependent on the size of the smaller component.
description: 14 Pages, 12 Figures, RevTeX4
Consumer acceptance and preference for brown rice—A mixed‐method qualitative study from Nepal
Creators: name: Gyawali, Pratiksha
name: Tamrakar, Dipesh
name: Shrestha, Abha
name: Shrestha, Himal
name: Karmacharya, Sanju
name: Bhattarai, Sanju
name: Bhandari, Niroj
name: Malik, Vasanti
name: Mattei, Josiemer
name: Spiegelman, Donna
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 30
subject: Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
classificationCode: 3006
subject: Food sciences
classificationCode: 3210
subject: Nutrition and dietetics

description: Background: Brown rice consumption reduces the risk of diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes is increasing in Nepal; however, dietary preference remains for white rice. This study aimed to understand the perception, enablers, barriers, and facilitators of acceptance brown rice at a worksite cafeteria.
Methods: We conducted a mixed-method qualitative research among 42 employees of a hospital in central Nepal. The participants tasted and rated the qualities of five different combinations of brown and white rice on a hedonic scale. We conducted eight focus group discussions (FGDs)—four before and four after tasting rice combinations. FGDs were recorded, transcribed, and coded verbatim and analyzed manually using inductive–deductive thematic method.
Results: Before tasting, the participants perceived brown rice as poor in quality. After tasting, the participants found that brown rice had better quality and were willing to switch gradually starting with a 25B ratio. Eighty-three percent of participants liked a combination of 25B. Major barriers were poor perception of its quality, tradition, unavailability, lack of awareness of health benefits, and high price. Major facilitators were availability, self and family awareness about the health benefits, knowledge, the brown rice cooking process, serving with side dishes, prior tasting, and gradual substitution of brown rice.
Conclusion: We found that brown rice should be promoted stepwise, first as a mixture with white rice and gradually increasing the proportion of brown rice. Brown rice acceptance can be increased by improved knowledge of its nutrition and health benefits, increasing availability, and affordability.
Update on Coupled Dark Energy and the $H_0$ tension
Creators: name: Gómez-Valent, Adrià
name: Pettorino, Valeria
name: Amendola, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we provide updated constraints on coupled dark energy (CDE) cosmology with Peebles-Ratra (PR) potential and constant coupling strength $β$. This modified gravity scenario introduces a fifth force between dark matter particles, mediated by a scalar field that plays the role of dark energy. The mass of the dark matter particles does not remain constant, but changes with time as a function of the scalar field. Here we focus on the phenomenological behavior of the model, and assess its ability to describe updated cosmological data sets that include the Planck 2018 cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature, polarization and lensing, baryon acoustic oscillations, the Pantheon compilation of supernovae of Type Ia, data on $H(z)$ from cosmic chronometers, and redshift-space distortions. We also study which is the impact of the local measurement of $H_0$ from SH0ES and the strong-lensing time delay data from the H0LICOW collaboration on the parameter that controls the strength of the interaction in the dark sector. We find a peak corresponding to a coupling $β> 0$ and to a potential parameter $α> 0$, more or less evident depending on the data set combination. We show separately the impact of each data set and remark that it is especially CMB lensing the one data set that shifts the peak the most towards $Λ$CDM. When a model selection criterion based on the full Bayesian evidence is applied, however, $Λ$CDM is still preferred in all cases, due to the additional parameters introduced in the CDE model.
description: 15 pages, 3 tables, and 4 figures; references updated, minor typos corrected; matches version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Advanced High-Performance Large Diameter Cs2HfCl6 (CHC) and Mixed Halides Scintillator
Creators: name: Hawrami, Rastgo
name: Ariesanti, Elsa
name: Buliga, Vlad
name: Matei, Liviu
name: Motakef, Shariar
name: Burger, Arnold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reports on successful growth and performance evaluation of two large diameter Cs2HfCl6 (CHC) and Cs2HfCl4Br2 (CHCB), both recently developed scintillator crystals. The discovery of Cs2HfCl6 (CHC) as a scintillator has lately generated much interest in this material and its family, which belongs to the K2PtCl6 cubic crystal structure. CHC is an intrinsic scintillator that is non-hygroscopic, has no self-radioactivity, provides excellent energy resolution, and has excellent non-proportionality. CHC has a moderate density of 3.9 g/cm3 and an effective atomic number of 58. Reported in this paper are transparent crack-free single crystal CHC and CHCB boules of one inch in diameter, both grown using the vertical Bridgman method. Samples retrieved from the boules, sized 23mm dia. x 30mm and 23mm dia. x 26mm, respectively, are characterized for their optical and scintillation properties. Energy resolutions of 3.5% and 3.7% (FWHM) at 662 keV, respectively, are reported. Results comparable to previously reported results for smaller crystals have been obtained. Studies on light yield, decay time, non-proportionality, as well as detector characterization are also reported.
Συγκεντρώσεις θειούχων και μη θειούχων πτητικών οργανικών ενώσεων στο παραλιακό μέτωπο της Θεσσαλονίκης
Creators: name: Γεωργιάδου, Ελένη Παύλου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Συγκεντρώσεις VOCs
Εποχιακή και χωρική διακύμανση
Παραλιακό μέτωπο Θεσσαλονίκης
Concentrations of VOCs
Seasonal and spatial variation
Coastal front of Thessaloniki

description: Oι πτητικές οργανικές ενώσεις του θείου (VOSCs) αποτελούν μία σημαντική κατηγορία οσμηρών ενώσεων, καθώς ορισμένες από αυτές χαρακτηρίζονται από ιδιαίτερα διαπεραστική και αποκρουστική οσμή, η οποία γίνεται αντιληπτή ακόμα και σε πολύ χαμηλές συγκεντρώσεις. VOSCs εκλύονται στην ατμόσφαιρα τόσο από φυσικές πηγές (αναγωγή θειικών στο θαλάσσιο περιβάλλον, αναερόβια αποικοδόμηση σε επιφανειακά νερά και ιζήματα), όσο και από ανθρωπογενείς δραστηριότητες (διυλιστήρια πετρελαίου και βιομηχανίες πετροχημικών, βιομηχανίες χαρτοπολτού, εγκαταστάσεις επεξεργασίας λυμάτων και ιλύος, χώροι απόθεσης ιλύος, κ.ά.). Επιπλέον, ορισμένες από τις ενώσεις αυτές (π.χ. μερκαπτάνες, θειοφαίνια) χρησιμοποιούνται ως οσμηροί ιχνηθέτες στο υγραέριο LPG και στο φυσικό αέριο. Σκοπός της εργασίας αυτής είναι o προσδιορισμός και η αξιολόγηση της διακύμανσης των συγκεντρώσεων και της προέλευσης των κύριων θειούχων και μη θειούχων VOCs στο παραλιακό μέτωπο της Θεσσαλονίκης. Η δειγματοληψία πραγματοποιήθηκε με προσροφητικές στήλες σε 3 σημεία κατά μήκος του παραλιακού μετώπου της πόλης (ανατολικά, κέντρο και δυτικά). Για τη χημική ανάλυση, χρησιμοποιήθηκε σύστημα Αέριας Χρωματογραφίας συζευγμένης με Φασματογράφο Μάζας και μονάδα Θερμικής Εκρόφησης (TD- GC/MS).
description: Sulfur containing volatile organic compounds (VOSCs) constitute a major category of malodorous compounds since some of them are characterized by intense odor and low odor thresholds. VOSCs are released in the air either from natural sources (reduction of sulfate in marine environment, anaerobic degradation in surface waters and sediments) or anthropogenic activities (oil refineries and petrochemical plants, sewage treatments, landfills, etc). The purpose of this study is to assess the variations of concentrations and determine the sources of major sulfur and non sulfur VOCs along the coastal front of Thessaloniki. The sampling was carried out with adsorbent columns at 3 sampling points along the coastal front of the city (east, center and west). The chemical analysis was performed on a Thermal Desorption - Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy (TD-GC/MS) system.
Calibrate, Emulate, Sample
Creators: name: Cleary, Emmet
name: Garbuno-Inigo, Alfredo
name: Lan, Shiwei
name: Schneider, Tapio
name: Stuart, Andrew M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many parameter estimation problems arising in applications are best cast in the framework of Bayesian inversion. This allows not only for an estimate of the parameters, but also for the quantification of uncertainties in the estimates. Often in such problems the parameter-to-data map is very expensive to evaluate, and computing derivatives of the map, or derivative-adjoints, may not be feasible. Additionally, in many applications only noisy evaluations of the map may be available. We propose an approach to Bayesian inversion in such settings that builds on the derivative-free optimization capabilities of ensemble Kalman inversion methods. The overarching approach is to first use ensemble Kalman sampling (EKS) to calibrate the unknown parameters to fit the data; second, to use the output of the EKS to emulate the parameter-to-data map; third, to sample from an approximate Bayesian posterior distribution in which the parameter-to-data map is replaced by its emulator. This results in a principled approach to approximate Bayesian inference that requires only a small number of evaluations of the (possibly noisy approximation of the) parameter-to-data map. It does not require derivatives of this map, but instead leverages the documented power of ensemble Kalman methods. Furthermore, the EKS has the desirable property that it evolves the parameter ensembles towards the regions in which the bulk of the parameter posterior mass is located, thereby locating them well for the emulation phase of the methodology. In essence, the EKS methodology provides a cheap solution to the design problem of where to place points in parameter space to efficiently train an emulator of the parameter-to-data map for the purposes of Bayesian inversion.
Repositioning students as co-creators of curriculum for online learning resources
Creators: name: McDonald, Aaron
name: McGowan, Heath
name: Dollinger, Mollie
name: Naylor, Ryan
name: Khosravi, Hassan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Amid increasing calls for universities to transition to online learning, there is a need to explore how platforms and technology can provide positive student experiences and support learning. In this paper, we discuss the implementation of an online peer learning and recommender platform in a large, multi-campus, first-year health subject (n = 2095). The Recommendation in Personalised Peer Learning Environments (RiPPLE) platform supports student’s co-creation of learning resources and allows for students to provide feedback and rate their peers’ submissions. Our results indicated that both student engagement and academic performance were positively impacted for users by the introduction of the RiPPLE platform, but that academic preparedness, in the form of students’ ATAR scores, strongly influenced their engagement and the benefits received. Implications for practice or policy: We explored if students were willing to co-create learning resources online. Our study piloted an online platform known as Recommendation in Personalised Peer Learning Environments (RiPPLE). Critical analysis provides insights into fostering online engagement and peer learning. We further offer recommendations for future practice on how to embed online student co-creation of curriculum.
Steneotarsonemus (Steneotarsonemus) spirifex
Creators: name: Lin, Jian-Zhen
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Tarsonemidae
Steneotarsonemus
Steneotarsonemus spirifex

description: Steneotarsonemus (Steneotarsonemus) spirifex (Marchal)
 Tarsonemus spirifex: Martin 1983: 17.
See Lin & Zhang (2002) for a full synonymy list.
 Material examined. New Zealand: WI: Palmerston North, 4 females, 21 May 1986, C.F. Mercer, ex ryegrass/fescue hybrid. NN: The Glen, Dixons Farm, 1 female, 20. Nov. 1971, host/habitat not recorded but presumably soil sample (site 2, sample 39).
 Remarks. Martin (1983) recorded this species from soil samples collected from the Parks and Sons Farm in Wakefield, Nelson. He noted that the pasture consisted of mainly ryegrass (Lolium spp.) and clovers (Trifolium dubium, T. repens and T. subterraneum).
description: Published as part of Lin, Jian-Zhen & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2005, New Zealand species of Steneotarsonemus Beer (Acari: Tarsonemidae), pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 1028 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1028.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5050127
title: Synthese und Evaluation neuer biogener Stabilisatoren für Polypropylen
Creators: name: Markus, Katrin
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2025

description: Angesichts der wachsenden Bedeutung nachhaltiger Materialien und der begrenzten Verfügbarkeit fossiler Ressourcen untersucht diese Arbeit die Entwicklung und Evaluierung biobasierter Stabilisatoren für Polypropylen. Der Schwerpunkt lag auf der Synthese neuartiger, biotechnologisch zugänglicher Phenolsäure-Derivate sowie der Analyse ihrer Struktur-Eigenschafts-Beziehungen hinsichtlich Verarbeitungs- und Langzeitstabilisierung.

Durch systematische Modifikation von 4-Hydroxybenzoesäure, 4-Hydroxyzimtsäure und 3-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)propionsäure wurden verschiedene Ester, ein Amid und ein Imin synthetisiert und hinsichtlich ihrer thermischen Stabilität sowie antioxidativen Wirkung charakterisiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass insbesondere hydroxylierte Cinnamate und Phenylpropionate eine hohe Effizienz in der Verarbeitungsstabilisierung von Polypropylen aufweisen. DFT-Berechnungen lieferten dabei grundlegende Erkenntnisse über die zugrunde liegenden Stabilisierungseffekte, wobei sich eine Rangfolge der Stabilisatoreffizienz ergab: Phenylpropionate > Cinnamate > Benzoate.
Zudem wurde ein weitgehend biobasiertes Phosphit als sekundäres Antioxidans untersucht. Die Kombination dieses Phosphits mit biobasierten Phenolen zeigte eine synergistische Wirkung, die insbesondere die Langzeitwärmestabilisierung erheblich verbesserte und industriellen Benchmarks mit tert-Butylsubstituenten sogar überlegen war.

Die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse tragen zur Entwicklung nachhaltigerer polymerer Materialien bei und können zukünftig insbesondere für Anwendungen in Lebensmittelverpackungen und Kreislaufwirtschaftskonzepten weiter erforscht werden. Die Kombination biobasierter Antioxidantien mit Phosphiten stellt einen vielversprechenden Ansatz zur Optimierung der Stabilisierungsleistung dar.
Exact solution of a anisotropic $J_1-J_2$ spin chain with antiperiodic boundary condition
Creators: name: Qiao, Yi
name: Wang, Jian
name: Cao, Junpeng
name: Yang, Wen-Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exact solution of an integrable anisotropic Heisenberg spin chain with nearest-neighbour, next-nearest-neighbour and scalar chirality couplings is studied, where the boundary condition is the antiperiodic one. The detailed construction of Hamiltonian and the proof of integrability are given. The antiperiodic boundary condition breaks the $U(1)$-symmetry of the system and we use the off-diagonal Bethe Ansatz to solve it. The energy spectrum is characterized by the inhomogeneous $T-Q$ relations and the contribution of the inhomogeneous term is studied. The ground state energy and the twisted boundary energy in different regions are obtained. We also find that the Bethe roots at the ground state form the string structure if the coupling constant $J=-1$ although the Bethe Ansatz equations are the inhomogeneous ones.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1902.00688
The Size Evolution of High Redshift Galaxies
Creators: name: Ferguson, Henry C.
name: Dickinson, Mark
name: Giavalisco, Mauro
name: Kretchmer, Claudia
name: Ravindranath, Swara
name: Idzi, Rafal
name: Taylor, Edward
name: Conselice, Christopher J.
name: Fall, S. Michael
name: Gardner, Jonathan P.
name: Livio, Mario
name: Madau, Piero
name: Moustakas, Leonidas A.
name: Papovich, Casey M.
name: Somerville, Rachel S.
name: Spinrad, Hyron
name: Stern, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hubble Space Telescope images of high-redshift galaxies selected via color and photometric redshifts are used to examine the size and axial-ratio distribution of galaxies as a function of redshift at lookback times t > 8 Gyr. These parameters are measured at rest-frame UV wavelengths (1200-2000 Angstroms) on images with a rest-frame resolution of less than 0.8 kpc. Galaxy radii are found to scale with redshift approximately as the inverse of the Hubble parameter H(z). This is in accord with the theoretical expectation that the typical sizes of the luminous parts of galaxies should track the expected evolution in the virial radius of dark-matter halos. The mean ratio of semi-major to semi-minor axis for a bright well-resolved sample of galaxies at z ~ 4 is b/a = 0.65, suggesting that these Lyman break galaxies are not drawn from a spheroidal population. However the median concentration index of this sample is C = 3.5, which is closer to the typical concentration indices, C ~ 4, of nearby elliptical galaxies than to the values, C<2 for local disk galaxies of type Sb and later.
description: 5 pages, including 3 figures; uses emulateapj style; accepted by ApJL for publication in a special issue of early GOODS results
Value Added Tax as an Element of Modern Tax Systems
Creators: name: Robajac, Aleksandar
name: Robajac, Aleksandar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: value added tax
subject: sales tax
subject: the tax system
subject: tax forms
subject: tax rates
subject: tax liabilities
subject: inflationary effects
subject: regression
subject: efficiency
subject: equity
subject: inflation

description: In this study the author presents the importance and role of value added tax (VAT), as an element of the tax systems of modern states, starting with its appearance in mid-twentieth century in France, up to nowdays. In addition to the elaboration of value added tax appearance and its basic types and classifications , special attention is given to the comparative review of the advantages and disadvantages of value added tax and sales tax at retail. All the reasons why the sales tax on retail is replaced by a new tax form are listed, with a comparative view of value added tax introduction years and tax rates levels in the Member States of the European Union and the Republic of Serbia. Also, all the major features of the value added tax as the modern tax form are covered, including analysis of its relation to other existing tax forms and comparison of the degree of conformity of the tax legislation of the Republic of Serbia with the relevant European Union Directive on value added tax. All the functions of value added tax are highlighted, as well as its potential impact on the inflationary effects in the state, concluding that the introduction of new tax forms in the tax system of the Republic of Serbia led to the fact that it became a very important element of public budget revenues. It is also emphasized that the entire tax policy is one of the main instruments of stabilization policy which affects the development and stability of the economy, the establishment of savings, movement of investment and employment, the distribution of national income, relations in foreign trade and so on.
Cooperation and Self-Regulation in a Model of Agents Playing Different Games
Creators: name: Fort, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple model for cooperation between "selfish" agents, which play an extended version of the Prisoner's Dilemma(PD) game, in which they use arbitrary payoffs, is presented and studied. A continuous variable, representing the probability of cooperation, $p_k(t) \in$ [0,1], is assigned to each agent $k$ at time $t$. At each time step $t$ a pair of agents, chosen at random, interact by playing the game. The players update their $p_k(t)$ using a criteria based on the comparison of their utilities with the simplest estimate for expected income. The agents have no memory and use strategies not based on direct reciprocity nor 'tags'. Depending on the payoff matrix, the systems self-organizes - after a transient - into stationary states characterized by their average probability of cooperation $\bar{p}_{eq}$ and average equilibrium per-capita-income $\bar{p}_{eq},\bar{U}_\infty$. It turns out that the model exhibit some results that contradict the intuition. In particular, some games which - {\it a priory}- seems to favor defection most, may produce a relatively high degree of cooperation. Conversely, other games, which one would bet that lead to maximum cooperation, indeed are not the optimal for producing cooperation.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, keybords: Complex adaptive systems, Agent-based models, Social systems
Procedural Content Generation for the Lode Runner Game using Deep Learning
Creators: name: Χατζηκιοσέ, Ζωγραφιά Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Συναρτησιακή Δημιουργία Περιεχομένου
Βαθιά Μάθηση
Βιντεοπαιχνίδια
Procedural Content Generation
Deep Learning
Video Games

description: Procedural Content Generation (PCG) for games is a set of methods in which game data are generated automatically by using algorithms, without human meddling. The goal of this thesis is the automatic level generation for the video game Lode Runner. Lode Runner is a tile based video game, consisting of eight tiles: Non-diggable Ground, Diggable Ground, Empty Space, Rope, Ladder, Gold, Enemy, Player. We took the 150 levels of Lode Runner from the VGLC corpus. Data augmentation was applied on the initial data through: horizontal flipping, converting 50% of non-diggable ground to diggable ground, removing 20% of gold, converting 20% of ropes into ladders. One-hot encoding was applied to the augmented dataset. The main approach for this thesis project was a GAN architecture applied on the augmented one-hot encoded dataset. Our experiments showed that the aforementioned approach gave levels that are novel but also quite similar the originals.
description: Η συναρτησιακή δημιουργία περιεχομένου (Procedural Content Generation, PCG) για παιχνίδια είναι μία μέθοδος κατά την οποία παράγονται αυτόματα τέτοια δεδομένα (επίπεδα παιχνιδιού, αντικείμενα κ.α.), χρησιμοποιώντας αλγορίθμους χωρίς ανθρώπινη διαμεσολάβηση. H διπλωματική εργασία αφορά την αυτόματη παραγωγή επιπέδων για τον παιχνίδι Lode Runner. Το παιχνίδι Lode Runner είναι βασισμένο σε πλακίδια μεγέθους 8x8 pixels. Τα πλακίδια αυτά είναι: μη προσβάσιμο έδαφος, έδαφος που μπορεί να σκαφτεί, κενός χώρος, σχοινί, σκάλα, χρυσός, εχθρός και παίκτης. Τα datasets που χρησιμοποιήσαμε αρχικά είναι τα 150 επίπεδα του παιχνιδιού Lode Runner, που προήρθαν από το σύνολο δεδομένων VGLC. Στην συνέχεια, επαυξήσαμε τα δεδομένα μας με τους εξής τρόπους: καθρεφτισμός των αυθεντικών επιπέδων, μετατροπή του 50% των μη προσβάσιμων πλακιδίων σε προσβάσιμα, αφαίρεση του 20% των χρυσών αντικειμένων, μετατροπή του 20% των σχοινιών σε σκάλες. Έπιτα, εφαρμόστηκε one-hot κωδικοποίηση στα επαυξημένα σύνολα δεδομένων. Τα κύρια εργαλεία που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν για τον σκοπό της διπλωματικής είναι one-hot κωδικοποίηση των δεδομένων και GAN μοντέλα. Τα πειράματά μας έδειξαν ότι η προαναφερθείσα προσέγγιση έδωσε επίπεδα που είναι καινοτόμα και επίσης αρκετά όμοια με τα αυθεντικά.
Letter from the editor
Creators: name: Kwon, Jae-Young
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: [A letter from Jae-Young Kwon, the UBC-NSJ Coordinator and Editor of the University of British Columbia nursing student journal.][The complete version of the University of British Columbia journal is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42286]
Application of the Concept of the Banking Secotr in Serbian Banking
Creators: name: Velickovic, Jelena
name: Velickovic, Dragisa
name: Velickovic, Jelena
name: Velickovic, Dragisa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: a bank product
subject: needs clients
subject: market
subject: information

description: A bank is a market institution which aims at achieving the best possible compatition possition within the financial market. Within a strong financial competition the only banks that survive are the ones which have a good product. Bank product is intended for a client as well as, satisfying their needs. A banking product, like any other, is preceded by market research, and thereafter marketed with full promotional support. The innovation strategy for banking product assortment is an essential part of banks’ business and development strategies. Transformed banks in Serbia have endorsed this concept, and keep enhancing the assortment of banking products in each segment of business. The Serbian banks’ planning of banking “productive” activities is becoming the basis for a strategic approach to the profit-based development.
Investigating surface correction relations for RGB stars
Creators: name: Jørgensen, Andreas Christ Sølvsten
name: Montalbán, Josefina
name: Miglio, Andrea
name: Rendle, Ben M.
name: Davies, Guy R.
name: Buldgen, Gaël
name: Scuflaire, Richard
name: Noels, Arlette
name: Gaulme, Patrick
name: García, Rafael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: State-of-the-art stellar structure and evolution codes fail to adequately describe turbulent convection. For stars with convective envelopes, such as red giants, this leads to an incomplete depiction of the surface layers. As a result, the predicted stellar oscillation frequencies are haunted by systematic errors, the so-called surface effect. Different empirically and theoretically motivated correction relations have been proposed to deal with this issue. In this paper, we compare the performance of these surface correction relations for red giant branch stars. For this purpose, we apply the different surface correction relations in asteroseismic analyses of eclipsing binaries and open clusters. In accordance with previous studies of main-sequence stars, we find that the use of different surface correction relations biases the derived global stellar properties, including stellar age, mass, and distance estimates. We furthermore demonstrate that the different relations lead to the same systematic errors for two different open clusters. Our results overall discourage from the use of surface correction relations that rely on reference stars to calibrate free parameters. Due to the demonstrated systematic biasing of the results, the use of appropriate surface correction relations is imperative to any asteroseismic analysis of red giants. Accurate mass, age, and distance estimates for red giants are fundamental when addressing questions that deal with the chemo-dynamical evolution of the Milky Way galaxy. In this way, our results also have implications for fields, such as galactic archaeology, that draw on findings from stellar physics.
Δέσμιοι κι όμως ελεύθεροι; Η θεοδικία του Αυγουστίνου και η ανθρώπινη ιστορία
Creators: name: Μάγιατζη, Χρύσα Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Το πρόβλημα του κακού
H θεοδικία του Αυγουστίνου
Eλεύθερη βούληση και θεολογικός ντετερμινισμός
Τhe problem of evil
Αugustine's theodicy
Free will and theological determinism

description: Το πρόβλημα του κακού απασχολεί τον Αυγουστίνο ήδη από τα νεανικά του χρόνια. Μετά τη στροφή του στο Χριστιανισμό, οι απόπειρες του Αυγουστίνου να απαντήσει στο πρόβλημα του κακού, παίρνουν τη μορφή μιας θεοδικίας που στηρίζεται στην ελεύθερη βούληση του ανθρώπου. Το περιεχόμενο που αποδίδει ο Αυγουστίνος στην ανθρώπινη ελευθερία διαμορφώνεται από τη θεολογία του, καθώς και από τις εκάστοτε προκλήσεις. Στο πρώιμο σύγγραμμά του, De libero arbitrio, που στρέφεται ενάντια στο φαταλισμό των Μανιχαίων, ο Αυγουστίνος υπερτονίζει το αυτεξούσιο του ανθρώπου. Αργότερα, η εξέλιξη της διδασκαλίας του περί του προπατορικού αμαρτήματος και της προηγούμενης χάρης, καθώς και η αντιπαράθεση του με τους Πελαγιανούς, τον οδηγούν σε έναν σκληρό θεολογικό ντετερμινισμό που περιορίζει στο έπακρο την ανθρώπινη ελευθερία. Η διαφοροποίηση του πρώιμου από τον ύστερο Αυγουστίνο δεν περνά απαρατήρητη από τους αντιπάλους του και τους σύγχρονος μελετητές του. Η θεολογία του, στην τελική της μορφή, καθιστά τον άνθρωπο έρμαιο του θείου θελήματος και ενοχοποιεί τον Θεό για την αμαρτία.
description: Since his youth, Augustine is occupied with the problem of evil. After his conversion to Christianity, Augustine's efforts to solve the problem of evil take the form of a theodicy based on human free will. The scope which Augustine ascribes to human freedom is shaped by his theology and the specific challenges he confronted. On his early work De libero arbitrio, which is directed against the Manichaeism's fatalism, he exaggerates human's free agency. However, later on the development of his theories of First Sin and divine grace as well as the Pelagian controversy lead Augustine to a hard theological determinism that severely restricts human freedom. The difference between early and later Augustine did not go unnoticed by his opponents and contemporary scholars. Augustine's theology, in its final form, makes human beings preys to divine will and fails to absolve God of the moral evil.
Additional file 4 of Vascular access for renal replacement therapy among 459 critically ill patients: a pragmatic analysis of the randomized AKIKI trial
Creators: name: Benichou, Nicolas
name: Saïd Lebbah
name: Hajage, David
name: Martin-Lefèvre, Laurent
name: Pons, Bertrand
name: Boulet, Eric
name: Boyer, Alexandre
name: Chevrel, Guillaume
name: Lerolle, Nicolas
name: Carpentier, Dorothée
name: De Prost, Nicolas
name: Lautrette, Alexandre
name: Bretagnol, Anne
name: Mayaux, Julien
name: Nseir, Saad
name: Megarbane, Bruno
name: Thirion, Marina
name: Forel, Jean-Marie
name: Maizel, Julien
name: Hodane Yonis
name: Markowicz, Philippe
name: Thiery, Guillaume
name: Schortgen, Frederique
name: Tubach, Florence
name: Jean-Damien Ricard
name: Dreyfuss, Didier
name: Gaudry, Stéphane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Covariate balance between femoral and jugular groups before and after propensity score weighting for first catheter insertion.
Household vulnerability to food insecurity in the face of climate change in Paraguay
Creators: name: Ervin, Paul A.
name: Gayoso De Ervin, Lyliana
name: Ervin, Paul A.
name: Gayoso De Ervin, Lyliana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Security and Poverty
Risk and Uncertainty

description: This working paper analyses the effect climate change is expected to have on agricultural productivity, caloric consumption, and vulnerability to food insecurity of household agricultural producers in Paraguay. Our results suggest that increasing temperatures and reduced precipitation will reduce agricultural productivity and caloric consumption, and increase vulnerability to food insecurity. Specifically, a 1 percent increase in average maximum temperatures is associated with a 5 percent reduction in agricultural productivity. A 5 percent reduction in agricultural productivity translates into nearly a 1 percent reduction in caloric consumption. Vulnerability to food insecurity in Paraguay is expected to increase by 28 percentage points by 2100 due to climate change, increasing fastest in areas where temperatures are increasing and rainfall is diminishing. We explore a number of interventions that policy makers can pursue to limit the impact of climate change on food insecurity.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/ca3391en/CA3391EN.pdf
The Strange Eigenmode in Lagrangian Coordinates
Creators: name: Thiffeault, Jean-Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a distribution advected by a simple chaotic map with diffusion, the "strange eigenmode" is investigated from the Lagrangian (material) viewpoint and compared to its Eulerian (spatial) counterpart. The eigenmode embodies the balance between diffusion and exponential stretching by a chaotic flow. It is not strictly an eigenmode in Lagrangian coordinates, because its spectrum is rescaled exponentially rapidly.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures. RevTeX4 format with psfrag
Additional file 5 of Vascular access for renal replacement therapy among 459 critically ill patients: a pragmatic analysis of the randomized AKIKI trial
Creators: name: Benichou, Nicolas
name: Saïd Lebbah
name: Hajage, David
name: Martin-Lefèvre, Laurent
name: Pons, Bertrand
name: Boulet, Eric
name: Boyer, Alexandre
name: Chevrel, Guillaume
name: Lerolle, Nicolas
name: Carpentier, Dorothée
name: De Prost, Nicolas
name: Lautrette, Alexandre
name: Bretagnol, Anne
name: Mayaux, Julien
name: Nseir, Saad
name: Megarbane, Bruno
name: Thirion, Marina
name: Forel, Jean-Marie
name: Maizel, Julien
name: Hodane Yonis
name: Markowicz, Philippe
name: Thiery, Guillaume
name: Schortgen, Frederique
name: Tubach, Florence
name: Jean-Damien Ricard
name: Dreyfuss, Didier
name: Gaudry, Stéphane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S1. Cumulative incidence of catheter replacement and death, for first catheter, according to insertion site (jugular and femoral).