cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Paying for Safety: Preferences for Mortality Risk Reductions on Alpine Roads
Creators: name: Rheinberger, Christoph M.
name: Rheinberger, Christoph M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Value of Statistical Life
subject: Choice Experiment
subject: Natural Hazard Mitigation
subject: Traffic Safety

description: This paper presents a choice experiment, which values reductions in mortality risk on Alpine roads. These roads are on one hand threatened by common road hazards, on the other hand they are also endangered by natural hazards such as avalanches and rockfalls. Drawing on choice data from frequently exposed and barely exposed respondents, we are not only able to estimate the VSL but to explore how the respondents differ in their individual willingness-to-pay depending on personal characteristics. To address heterogeneity in preferences for risk reduction, we use a non-linear conditional logit model with interaction effects. The best estimate of the VSL in the context of fatal accidents on Alpine roads is in the range of €4.9–5.4 million with distinct differences between the urban and the mountain sample groups. We find the VSL to be significantly altered by socio-economic factors but only marginally altered by the type of hazard.
The Transmission of Exchange Rate Changes to Agricultural Prices
Creators: name: Liefert, William M.
name: Persuad, Suresh
name: Liefert, William M.
name: Persuad, Suresh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Agricultural infrastructure
subject: agricultural policy
subject: agricultural trade
subject: exchange rates
subject: exchange rate transmission
subject: imperfect markets
subject: institutions
subject: price transmission.

description: Movements in countries’ exchange rates can substantially change the prices of goods faced by producers and consumers and thereby affect incentives to produce, consume, and trade goods. Exchange rate changes, however, might not be completely transmitted (passed through) to domestic prices. Empirical evidence shows that price and exchange rate transmission for agricultural products is low in most developing economies, partly because of trade policies but also because of inadequate infrastructure and other market deficiencies. During the last 20 years, developed and developing countries generally have moved away from support policies that impede price and exchange rate transmission toward trade policies that allow transmission, such as tariffs. The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture of 1994 strongly encouraged this development. Despite these policy changes, market deficiencies remain as a cause of incomplete transmission. Incomplete transmission weakens countries’ integration into world agricultural markets and thereby reduces agricultural trade potential. Low transmission in developing countries also decreases their own benefits from trade, including the gains they could realize if there is further global agricultural liberalization.
Liouville and Toda dyonic branes: regularity and BPS limit
Creators: name: Gal'tsov, Dmitri V.
name: Orlov, Dmitri G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reconsider dyonic p-brane solutions derivable from Liouville and Toda integrable systems and investigate their geometric structure. It is shown that the non-BPS non-black dyonic branes are not regular on the horizon.
description: 16 pages
Factors associated with cancer family history communication between African American men and their relatives
Creators: name: Mitchell, Jamie A.
name: Hawkins, Jaclynn
name: Watkins, Daphne C.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: cancer
subject: African American
subject: communication
subject: family history
subject: men
subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Social Sciences

description: African American men bear a disproportionately high burden from cancer in the U.S. The American Cancer Society reports that for all cancer sites combined, African American men are 32% more likely to die than white men (American Cancer Society, 2011). Having a family history of cancer elevates an individual’s risk for the disease and should inform decision-making around the use of specific cancer screening tests as well as earlier onset and frequency of cancer screening. Adult African American men who attended an annual hospital-based community health fair in the Midwest which targeted minority men, were approached to complete a paper-based survey. Participants were asked “have you ever talked with any of your relatives about your family history of cancer (about any members of your family who have been diagnosed with cancer)?” Predictors were evaluated using bivariate analysis and logistic regression; they included socio-demographic, health access, health behavior, health status, and communication variables. Participants were 558 African American men with a mean age of 54 years old. African American men were most likely to have ever discussed their family history of cancer with a relative if they had specific knowledge of their family history of cancer and if they had ever talked to a physician about their family history of cancer. For African American men with a familial predisposition to cancer, further examination of barriers and facilitators to discussion with relatives, specifically those related to health access and knowledge, is warranted.
Robust and parsimonious realisations of unitaries in the one-way model
Creators: name: Danos, Vincent
name: Kashefi, Elham
name: Panangaden, Prakash
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new set of generators for unitary maps over \otimes^n(C^2) which differs from the traditional rotation-based generating set in that it uses a single-parameter family of 1-qubit unitaries J(a), together with a single 2-qubit unitary controlled-Z. Each generator is implementable in the one-way model using only two qubits, and this leads to both parsimonious and robust implementations of general unitaries. As an illustration, we give an implementation of the controlled-U family which uses only 14 qubits, and has a 2-colourable underlying entanglement graph (known to yield robust entangled states).
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, keywords: unitary transformations, measurement-based quantum computing
Additional file 7 of Lipidome analysis of milk composition in humans, monkeys, bovids, and pigs
Creators: name: Mitina, Aleksandra
name: Mazin, Pavel
name: Vanyushkina, Anna
name: Anikanov, Nikolay
name: Mair, Waltraud
name: Guo, Song
name: Khaitovich, Philipp
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 7: Table S3. Signal intensities and fold change for annotated TAG features. Average values for upper-quartile normalized, log2 transformed signal intensities for seven species, with minimal (Min) and maximal (Max) values across species, difference between the minimum and maximum (log2FC) and fold change (FC).
Half the entanglement in critical systems is distillable from a single specimen
Creators: name: Orus, R.
name: Latorre, J. I.
name: Eisert, J.
name: Cramer, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish that the leading critical scaling of the single-copy entanglement is exactly one half of the entropy of entanglement of a block in critical infinite spin chains in a general setting, using methods of conformal field theory. Conformal symmetry imposes that the single-copy entanglement for critical many-body systems scales as E_1(ρ_L)=(c/6) \log L- (c/6) (π^2/\log L) + O(1/L), where L is the number of constituents in a block of an infinite chain and c corresponds to the central charge. This proves that from a single specimen of a critical chain, already half the entanglement can be distilled compared to the rate that is asymptotically available. The result is substantiated by a quantitative analysis for all translationally invariant quantum spin chains corresponding to general isotropic quasi-free fermionic models. An analytic example of the XY model shows that away from criticality the above simple relation is only maintained near the quantum phase transition point.
description: 4 pages RevTeX, 1 figure, final version
title: Ανάπτυξη κλινικού συστήματος υποστήριξης απόφασης για τη διάγνωση της καρδιακής στεφανιαίας νόσου
title: Development of a clinical decision support system for the diagnosis of coronary heart disease
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Πολυέζος, Κωνσταντίνος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2021
Subjects: Καρδιακές παθήσεις
Μηχανική μάθηση
Συστήματα υποστήριξης απόφασης
Στεφανιαία νόσος
Τεχνητή νοημοσύνη
R

description: Η αρτηριακή αποφρακτική νόσος, που συναντάται σε διάφορες μορφές, είναι στις μέρες μας η μεγαλύτερη αιτία θανάτου στις αναπτυγμένες χώρες. Η απόφραξη των αγγείων-αρτηριών οφείλεται σε μεγάλο ποσοστό στη δημιουργία της αθηρωματικής πλάκας. Ο προσδιορισμός και ο εντοπισμός της προδιάθεσης της αθηροσκλήρωσης αποτελεί πάρα πολύ σημαντικό βήμα για τη πρόληψη της αρτηριακής αποφρακτικής νόσου και συνεπώς την ελάττωση της νοσηρότητας και θνησιμότητας από αυτήν. Σκοπός της εργασίας είναι η ανάπτυξη ενός συστήματος υποβοήθησης διάγνωσης της αθηρωματικής νόσου, το οποίο βασίστηκε σε αλγόριθμους Μηχανικής Μάθησης. Προς την κατεύθυνση αυτή, το σύνολο της μεταπτυχιακής εργασίας επικεντρώθηκε στην αξιολόγηση της συνεισφοράς πέντε τεχνικών Μηχανικής Μάθησης (Λογιστικής Παλινδρόμησης, Μηχανών Διανυσματικής Υποστήριξης, Απλού Μπέυζ ταξινομητή, Πολυεπίπεδου Νευρωνικού Δικτύου Perceptron-MLP, Δέντρων Απόφασης) για τη κατασκευή ενός αυτοµατοποιηµένου συστήµατος πρόγνωσης της καρδιακής αρτηριακής αποφρακτικής νόσου. Για το σκοπό αυτό, με τη βοήθεια της γλώσσας προγραμματισμού ανοικτού κώδικα R, συγκρίθηκαν οι πέντε αλγόριθµοι με βάση το πλαίσιο δεδομένων Statlog (Heart) και αντιπαραβλήθηκαν τα αποτελέσματα των πέντε μεθόδων. Στη συνέχεια, στα πλαίσια της υλοποίησης ενός συστήματος υποστήριξης απόφασης, σχεδιάστηκε και η αντίστοιχη διαδραστική web εφαρμογή με τη βοήθεια της πλατφόρμας R Shiny. Τα αποτελέσματα της επικύρωσης των μοντέλων, ανέδειξαν την υπεροχή του Νευρωνικού Δικτύου Perceptron με μέθοδο βελτιστοποίησης την αποσύνθεση βαρών (weight decay). Με αυτή τη πλέον πρόσφορη επιλογή αλγορίθμου, υλοποιήθηκε το κλινικό σύστημα υποστήριξης απόφασης για τη διάγνωση της καρδιακής ισχαιμικής νόσου. Στο τελευταίο μέρος της εργασίας συνοψίζονται τα αποτελέσματα της μελέτης και επιχειρείται η ερμηνεία τους.
Impact of chemical structure on the dynamics of mass transfer of water in conjugated microporous polymers: A neutron spectroscopy study
Creators: name: Guilbert, Anne A. Y.
name: Bai, Yang
name: Aitchison, Catherine M.
name: Sprick, Reiner S.
name: Zbiri, Mohamed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hydrogen fuel can contribute as a masterpiece in conceiving a robust carbon-free economic puzzle if cleaner methods to produce hydrogen become technically efficient and economically viable. Organic photocatalytic materials such as conjugated microporous materials (CMPs) are potential attractive candidates for water splitting as their energy levels and optical bandgap as well as porosity are tunable through chemical synthesis. The performances of CMPs depend also on the mass transfer of reactants, intermediates and products. Here, we study the mass transfer of water (H2O and D2O), and of triethylamine used as a hole scavenger for hydrogen evolution, by means of neutron spectroscopy. We find that the stiffness of the nodes of the CMPs is correlated with an increase in trapped water, reflected by motions too slow to be quantified by quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS). Our study highlights that the addition of the polar sulfone group results in additional interactions between water and the CMP, as evidenced by inelastic neutron scattering (INS), leading to changes in the translational diffusion of water, as determined from the QENS measurements. No changes in triethylamine motions could be observed within CMPs from the present investigations.
Trade and Development When Exports Lack Diversification: A Case Study From Malawi
Creators: name: Persaud, Suresh Chand
name: Meade, Birgit Gisela Saager
name: Persaud, Suresh Chand
name: Meade, Birgit Gisela Saager
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Production Economics
subject: Malawi
subject: tobacco
subject: export-led growth
subject: asymmetry
subject: volatility
subject: productivity
subject: trade
subject: development
subject: marketing efficiency
subject: price transmission

description: Developing countries, particularly those that depend heavily on a small number of agricultural exports, are vulnerable to domestic and international shocks. These countries often have difficulty achieving sustained economic growth. This analysis uses Malawi, a country that earns most of its foreign exchange from tobacco, as a case study of export concentration and heavy exposure to volatility. The econometric results suggest that the decline in Malawi’s gross domestic product (GDP) when tobacco exports are falling is almost three times greater than the increase in GDP when exports are rising. Model-based simulations indicate that variability in tobacco exports leads to slower economic growth because GDP falls by a relatively large amount in response to a given decrease in exports, while recovering little during an upswing in exports. Gains in tobacco yield and improvements in marketing efficiency, however, can help buffer Malawi’s GDP from variability in export revenues.
The politics of intellectual property rights in post-Mao China : technocratization of power, corporate coalitions and multilateral legalism
Creators: name: Garcia, Marcelo
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This is a multidisciplinary analytical effort intended to grasp the rapid development of a market-oriented intellectual property regime in post-Mao China. The time framework covered in this study originates in the early years of reforms conducted under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, and stretches its scope until the latest set of amendments before China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. This thesis postulates that, despite the great attention given to intellectual property rights protection issues in economic and legal circles, the process of domestic reforms in that field remains fundamentally political, deeply embedded in particular historical legacies, particularly influenced by the norms and values of international trade institutions, and at times, subject to diplomatic pressures from commercially-driven corporate coalitions. In order to understand the dynamics and political interactions behind China's intellectual property reforms, two systemic variables have been considered. First, the nature of the international trade regime, namely its norms, rules, principles and internal functioning. Second, the configuration and distribution of power among state and non-state actors in the international sphere. At the same time, the relationship between these two extraterritorial variables and the ongoing process of disaggregation of power within the Chinese political system has been closely examined. The conclusion adopted is that the evolutionary process of intellectual property reforms in post-Mao China was affected by three main variables. First, it was reinforced by the growing importance of IPR protection concerns among intellectual property-dependent multinationals and technologically-advanced countries in the late 1980s. Second, and perhaps more explicitly during the 1990s, China's intellectual property reforms were shaped by the norms, rules, principles of an emerging world trade system built around multilateral legalism. Finally, at the domestic level, its evolution was facilitated by a pro-liberalization economic agenda during the initial phase of reforms, and increasingly framed within a process of continuous bureaucratization and depoliticization of IPR issues in the past decade. Especially in the wake of China's WTO accession, it can be observed that a new elite of highly educated technocrats speaking the language of market economics has started to dominate the process of intellectual property reforms.
Additional file 6 of Lipidome analysis of milk composition in humans, monkeys, bovids, and pigs
Creators: name: Mitina, Aleksandra
name: Mazin, Pavel
name: Vanyushkina, Anna
name: Anikanov, Nikolay
name: Mair, Waltraud
name: Guo, Song
name: Khaitovich, Philipp
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6: Table S2. Computationally annotated TAG features. The feature annotation was based on m/z values of the intact ions and, therefore, informed about the cumulative length and unsaturation degree of three fatty acid residues.
Η συμβολή των μεταπτυχιακών σπουδών στην αποτελεσματικότερη διεξαγωγή του έργου των διευθυντών / διευθυντριών στο δημοτικό σχολείο
Creators: name: Μητσογιάννη, Δήμητρα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές
subject: Έργο διευθυντών
subject: Δημοτικό σχολείο

description: Ο διευθυντής Δημοτικού σχολείου, ως ηγέτης, θεωρείται ακρογωνιαίος λίθος στην επίτευξη των οραμάτων και των στόχων της σχολικής μονάδας. Για τον λόγο αυτό, δίνεται μεγάλη σημασία στη διαδικασία επιλογής των διευθυντών στις σχολικές μονάδες. Στην παρούσα διερευνητική μελέτη εξετάζονται οι απόψεις διευθυντών και εκπαιδευτικών σχολείων ως προς τη συμβολή των Μεταπτυχιακών σπουδών στην αποτελεσματικότερη διεξαγωγή του έργου των διευθυντών/-ντριών στο Δημοτικό Σχολείο. Οι συμμετέχοντες στην έρευνα ήταν εκατόν πενήντα εννέα (159), εκ των οποίων οι είκοσι ένας (21) ήταν διευθυντές Δημοτικών σχολείων και οι υπόλοιποι εκατόν τριάντα οκτώ (138) ήταν εκπαιδευτικοί οι οποίοι δεν υπηρετούν στη θέση του διευθυντή στα σχολεία τους. Κατά την ανάλυση των αποτελεσμάτων οι απόψεις διευθυντών και εκπαιδευτικών συγκρίθηκαν μεταξύ τους. Τα βασικά συμπεράσματα της έρευνας είναι τα εξής: α) εκπαιδευτικοί και διευθυντές των Δημοτικών σχολείων δε θεωρούν τις Μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές απαραίτητο προσόν ενός διευθυντή, κατατάσσουν δε τον τομέα «Οργάνωσης και Διοίκησης σχολικής μονάδας» πολύ πιο ψηλά από εκείνον των «Οικονομικών της Εκπαίδευσης», ως τομέα επιμόρφωσης των διευθυντών και επισημαίνουν ότι η σεμιναριακού τύπου επιμόρφωση είναι προτιμότερη από την κατάκτηση κάποιου μεταπτυχιακού τίτλου, β) οι εκπαιδευτικοί δείχνουν να γνωρίζουν ποιες είναι οι προϋπηρεσίες και οι τίτλοι που κατέχουν οι διευθυντές τους, ενώ οι διευθυντές θεωρούν ότι κατέχουν σε μεγαλύτερο βαθμό το προσόν του να έχουν όραμα, το οποίο έρχεται σε αντίθεση με τις απόψεις των εκπαιδευτικών, οι οποίοι θεωρούν ότι οι διευθυντές τους κατέχουν σε μεγαλύτερο βαθμό το προσόν του να παρέχουν βοήθεια στους εκπαιδευτικούς τους, όταν τους ζητείται και γ) οι απόψεις διευθυντών και εκπαιδευτικών παρουσιάζουν τεράστια απόκλιση ως προς τη συμμετοχή του Συλλόγου Διδασκόντων στη διαδικασία επιλογής διευθυντών, με τους εκπαιδευτικούς να τη θεωρούν αρκετά πιο σημαντική από τους διευθυντές τους.
And In The Darkness Unbind Them: High-Resolution Simulations of Dark Matter Subhalo Disruption in a Milky Way-like Tidal Field
Creators: name: Webb, Jeremy J.
name: Bovy, Jo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the results of high-resolution simulations of individual dark matter subhalos evolving in external tidal fields with and without baryonic bulge and disk components, where the average dark matter particle mass is three orders of magnitude smaller than cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation. The Via Lactea II simulation is used to setup our initial conditions and provides a basis for our simulations of subhalos in a dark matter-only tidal field, while an observationally motivated model for the Milky Way is used for the tidal field that is comprised of a dark matter halo, a stellar disk, and a stellar bulge. Our simulations indicate that including stellar components in the tidal field results in the number of subhalos in Milky Way-like galaxies being only $65\%$ of what is predicted by $Λ$ Cold Dark Matter ($Λ$CDM). For subhalos with small pericentres $(r_p \lesssim 25$ kpc), the subhalo abundance is reduced further to $40\%$, with the surviving subhalos being less dense and having a tangentially-anisotropic orbital distribution. Conversely, subhalos with larger pericentres are minimally affected by the inclusion of a stellar component in the tidal field, with the total number of outer subhalos $\approx 75\%$ of the $Λ$CDM prediction. The densities of outer subhalos are comparable to predictions from $Λ$CDM, with the subhalos having an isotropic distribution of orbits. These ratios are higher than those found in previous studies that include the effects baryonic matter, which are affected by spurious disruption caused by low resolution.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures, 1 table, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Broadband Internet's Value for Rural America
Creators: name: Stenberg, Peter L.
name: Morehart, Mitchell J.
name: Vogel, Stephen J.
name: Cromartie, John
name: Breneman, Vincent E.
name: Brown, Dennis M.
name: Stenberg, Peter L.
name: Morehart, Mitchell J.
name: Vogel, Stephen J.
name: Cromartie, John
name: Breneman, Vincent E.
name: Brown, Dennis M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Internet
subject: broadband
subject: high-speed Internet
subject: rural economies
subject: rural economic growth
subject: digital economy
subject: telemedicine
subject: rural
subject: urban
subject: Census data
subject: June Agricultural Survey
subject: Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS)
subject: ERS
subject: USDA

description: As broadband—or high-speed—Internet use has spread, Internet applications requiring high transmission speeds have become an integral part of the “Information Economy,” raising concerns about those who lack broadband access. This report analyzes (1) rural broadband use by consumers, the community-at-large, and businesses; (2) rural broadband availability; and (3) broadband’s social and economic effects on rural areas. It also summarizes results from an ERS-sponsored workshop on rural broadband use, and other ERS-commissioned studies. In general, rural communities have less broadband Internet use than metro communities, with differing degrees of broadband availability across rural communities. Rural communities that had greater broadband Internet access had greater economic growth, which conforms to supplemental research on the benefits that rural businesses, consumers, and communities ascribe to broadband Internet use.
Déjà Vu: Side-Channel Analysis of Mozilla's NSS
Creators: name: Hassan, Sohaib ul
name: Gridin, Iaroslav
name: Delgado-Lozano, Ignacio M.
name: García, Cesar Pereida
name: Chi-Domínguez, Jesús-Javier
name: Aldaya, Alejandro Cabrera
name: Brumley, Billy Bob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent work on Side Channel Analysis (SCA) targets old, well-known vulnerabilities, even previously exploited, reported, and patched in high-profile cryptography libraries. Nevertheless, researchers continue to find and exploit the same vulnerabilities in old and new products, highlighting a big issue among vendors: effectively tracking and fixing security vulnerabilities when disclosure is not done directly to them. In this work, we present another instance of this issue by performing the first library-wide SCA security evaluation of Mozilla's NSS security library. We use a combination of two independently-developed SCA security frameworks to identify and test security vulnerabilities. Our evaluation uncovers several new vulnerabilities in NSS affecting DSA, ECDSA, and RSA cryptosystems. We exploit said vulnerabilities and implement key recovery attacks using signals---extracted through different techniques such as timing, microarchitecture, and EM---and improved lattice methods.
description: To appear at ACM CCS 2020
Theoretical investigation of the quantum noise in ghost imaging
Creators: name: Cheng, Jing
name: Han, Shensheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ghost imaging is a method to nonlocally image an object by transmitting pairs of entangled photons through the object and a reference optical system respectively. We present a theoretical analysis of the quantum noise in this imaging technique. The dependence of the noise on the properties of the apertures in the imaging system are discussed and demonstrated with a numerical example. For a given source, the resolution and the signal-to-noise ratio cannot be improved at the same time .
Census of Agriculture Highlights, New York State, 2007
Creators: name: Bills, Nelson L.
name: Stanton, Bernard F.
name: Bills, Nelson L.
name: Stanton, Bernard F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance
Farm Management

description: The Census of Agriculture provides a continuing historical record of what has happened on New York State farms and its wider rural economy. The purpose of this report is to provide readily accessible information on basic historical facts about agriculture in New York State such as land in farms, numbers of farms, acreage of major crops and numbers of livestock for census years dating back to 1992. Census results for 2007 show that 24 percent (7.5 million acres) of the State’s land area was in farms. This acreage is roughly equal to the land in farms reported in the early 1990s but far below the peak acreage in the early 1900s. Much of the land formerly in farms has reverted to forest or brush. Total cropland in 2007 was 4.31 million acres of which 79 percent was harvested. Some of these results trace to data adjustments made in conjunction with the 2002 and 2007 census tabulations. These adjustments accounted for under enumeration and helped boost harvested cropland acreage above levels reported in the late 1980s. Looking at farm numbers, New York has not shared in the 2002-2007 net increase in farm numbers reported nationally by the USDA for this decade; New York is among 11 states with net farm decreases between 2002 and 2007. This information must be interpreted with care because of important structural changes in acquisition, management, and reporting of census data in the last decade. Current census procedures involve USDA determinations on potential crop/ livestock commodity sales, along with the practice of counting participants in federal conservation programs as farms, if federal payments are sufficient to meet the $1,000 threshold required to qualify such a unit as a farm. In 2007, nearly 10,000 New York farms (27% of all farms) had commodity sales below $1,000 during the census year. The comparable percentage for the entire US is 31%.
Additional file 3 of Conjunctival structure of glaucomatous eyes treated with anti-glaucoma eye drops: a cross-sectional study using anterior segment optical coherence tomography
Creators: name: Gozawa, Makoto
name: Takamura, Yoshihiro
name: Iwasaki, Kentaro
name: Arimura, Shogo
name: Inatani, Masaru
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Supplemental file 3. The univariate and general linear mixed model (GLMM) analyses on the conjunctival epithelium/conjunctival stroma preservation rate. a. The effects of background characteristics. b. The effects of anti-glaucoma eye drops.
Additional file 2 of Conjunctival structure of glaucomatous eyes treated with anti-glaucoma eye drops: a cross-sectional study using anterior segment optical coherence tomography
Creators: name: Gozawa, Makoto
name: Takamura, Yoshihiro
name: Iwasaki, Kentaro
name: Arimura, Shogo
name: Inatani, Masaru
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplemental file 2. The combination of anti-glaucoma eye drops.
Do educators realise the value of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in fieldwork learning?
Creators: name: Clark, Katherine A.
name: Welsh, Katharine E.
name: Mauchline, Alice L.
name: France, Derek
name: W. Brian Whalley
name: Park, Julian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This paper explores the benefits, barriers and challenges of BYOD (Bring Your Own [mobile] Device) in fieldwork teaching through the views of Higher Education practitioners who have and have not used BYOD in fieldwork. While the use of BYOD has been explored within classroom settings, there are few studies on the use and impact on BYOD in fieldwork. This study investigated the educational benefits of BYOD and the barriers and challenges associated with BYOD in the field. Students were willing to use their own devices in the field and were engaged through the use of BYOD. Practitioners noted various benefits to using BYOD, including student engagement and familiarity with their own devices, potentially increasing time available in the field. Practitioners also highlighted a number of challenges and potential challenges with BYOD including supporting a range of devices, incompatibility and the potential for inequality. This paper also explores the use of mobile technology in fieldwork through the SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) model and discusses the potential for BYOD to change practice.
Self Flower drop.pdf
Creators: name: Nautiyal, Pankaj
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 70601 Horticultural Crop Growth and Development
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: The Yield of fruit tree crops are determined with the aid of using flowering efficiency and successive fruit set from the ones flowers. Many factors of the abscission manner were reviewed with inside the past but in this review, we discussed the causes and control of flower drop in fruit trees. Abscission has been defined as the natural process of detachment of parts of a plant from the main body of the plant. In other words, we can say that it is a natural feature or characteristics of plant development which incorporates the loss of fruit, leaves, sepals, stamens, petals, style and flowers. Numerous studies have shown that the various causes of fruit drop that highlights the high Abscisic acid (ABA) content and low Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and low deliver of photosynthate and improper Nitrogen application, improper fertilization, Auxin deficiency, heavy crop load. The reduction of this problem has been successfully controlled through the application of some plant growth hormones including GA3 with Zn and ethylene and 1-MCP. The research revealed from the findings that the major reasons of flower detachment is related to ethylene production in a specific amount. And also, the status of the leaf NPK is not the main concern of flower drooping/ drop.
Power spectrum and correlation function errors: Poisson vs. Gaussian shot noise
Creators: name: Cohn, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Poisson distributed shot noise is normally considered in the Gaussian limit in cosmology. However, if the shot noise is large enough and the correlation function/power spectrum conspires, the Gaussian approximation mis-estimates the errors and their covariance significantly. The power spectrum, even for initially Gaussian densities,acquires cross correlations which can be large, while the change in the correlation function error matrix is diagonal except at zero separation. Two and three dimensional power law correlation function and power spectrum examples are given. These corrections appear to have a large effect when applied to galaxy clusters, e.g. for SZ selected galaxy clusters in 2 dimensions. This can increase the error estimates for cosmological parameter estimation and consequently affect survey strategies, as the corrections are minimized for surveys which are deep and narrow rather than wide and shallow. In addition, a rewriting of the error matrix for the power spectrum/correlation function is given which eliminates most of the Bessel function dependence (in two dimensions) and all of it (in three dimensions), which makes the calculation of the error matrix more tractable. This applies even when the shot noise is in the (usual) Gaussian limit.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures, 3 equations corrected/figures updated, results unchanged
Baby Boom Migration and Its Impact on Rural America
Creators: name: Cromartie, John
name: Nelson, Peter
name: Cromartie, John
name: Nelson, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Baby boomers
subject: migration
subject: rural development
subject: life-cycle migration
subject: population projections.

description: Members of the baby boom cohort, now 45-63 years old, are approaching a period in their lives when moves to rural and small-town destinations increase. An analysis of age-specific, net migration during the 1990s reveals extensive shifts in migration patterns as Americans move through different life-cycle stages. Assuming similar age patterns of migration, this report identifies the types of nonmetropolitan counties that are likely to experience the greatest surge in baby boom migration during 2000-20 and projects the likely impact on the size and distribution of retirement-age populations in destination counties. The analysis finds a significant increase in the propensity to migrate to nonmetro counties as people reach their fifties and sixties and projects a shift in migration among boomers toward more isolated settings, especially those with high natural and urban amenities and lower housing costs. If baby boomers follow past migration patterns, the nonmetro population age 55-75 will increase by 30 percent between now and 2020.
Fruit Farm Business Summary, Lake Ontario Region New York, 2008
Creators: name: White, Gerald B.
name: DeMarree, Alison M.
name: Neyhard, James
name: White, Gerald B.
name: DeMarree, Alison M.
name: Neyhard, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agribusiness
Farm Management

description: This report is a summary of 2008 farm business data collected from 25 fruit farm businesses located in western New York State. Apples are the predominant fruit crop. The data are presented as averages for all 25 farms. The business analysis includes a balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, and several financial and production analyses for the farms. Also included are blank columns for the user to enter his or her own farm data for comparison purposes.
title: Die Manifestation und Aushandlung von Institutionen in Märkten und Organisationen: eine genderdifferenzierte Analyse des Konzepts unternehmerischer Ökosysteme
Creators: name: Roski, Melanie
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geschlechterinstitutionen
subject: Geschlechterstereotyp
subject: Karriere
subject: Neoinstitutionalismus
subject: Unternehmen
subject: Unternehmerische Ökosysteme
subject: Women’s Entrepreneurship
subject: ddc:330

description: Die Wirkung institutionalisierter Geschlechterbilder und -stereotype innerhalb von Organisationen kann nur unter Berücksichtigung der organisationalen Umwelt nachvollzogen werden. Denn erst der übergeordnete Handlungskontext, in dem eine Organisation sich bewegt, bestimmt, welche Institutionen wie bedeutsam werden. Eine Branche oder ein spezifischer regionaler Markt sind Beispiele für solche Handlungskontexte. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, anhand theoretischer Überlegungen und gestützt durch empirisches Material zu Unternehmensgründungen durch Frauen in einer spezifischen Branche einen solchen übergreifenden Handlungskontext herauszuarbeiten. Geschlechterbezogene institutionalisierte Normen und Regeln verknüpfen sich hier mit anderen handlungsleitenden Institutionen, die beispielsweise fachkulturell oder branchenspezifisch geprägt sind und erst im Zusammenspiel das individuelle Handeln der Akteure beeinflussen. Genderspezifische Institutionalisierungen werden auf diese Weise oft verdeckt oder überlagert.
Applications of coherent classical communication and the Schur transform to quantum information theory
Creators: name: Harrow, Aram W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum mechanics has led not only to new physical theories, but also a new understanding of information and computation. Quantum information began by yielding new methods for achieving classical tasks such as factoring and key distribution but also suggests a completely new set of quantum problems, such as sending quantum information over quantum channels or efficiently performing particular basis changes on a quantum computer. This thesis contributes two new, purely quantum, tools to quantum information theory--coherent classical communication in the first half and an efficient quantum circuit for the Schur transform in the second half.
description: 176 pages. Chapters 1 and 4 are a slightly older version of quant-ph/0512015. Chapter 2 is quant-ph/0205057 plus unpublished extensions (slightly outdated by quant-ph/0511219) and chapter 3 is quant-ph/0307091, quant-ph/0412126 and change. Chapters 5-8 are based on quant-ph/0407082, but go much further
title: Wirksamkeit marktförmiger Leistungsnormen in Karrierestrategien des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Creators: name: Kahlert, Heike
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
subject: Frauenforschung
subject: Leistungsnormen
subject: Neoliberalismus
subject: Wissenschaft
subject: Wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs
subject: Wissenschaftskarrieren
subject: ddc:370

description: Im Beitrag wird am Beispiel der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung erörtert, wie sich die mit der Neoliberalisierung von Hochschule und Forschung verbundenen Leistungsnormen Publikationen, Drittmittelakquise und Internationalisierung in den Qualifizierungsprozessen und Karrierestrategien des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem widerspiegeln und von diesem bewertet werden. Basierend auf einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse von 20 problemzentrierten Interviews mit Prä- und Postdocs in der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung zeigt sich erstens, wie tief der wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs diese Leistungsnormen verinnerlicht hat, an ihnen leidet und zugleich mit ihrer Erfüllung ringt. Zweitens wird deutlich, dass sich die Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung hinsichtlich der Leistungsnormen in Bezug auf Wissenschaftskarrieren zwar kaum von anderen Disziplinen unterscheidet, deren Erfüllung aber für bestimmte Themenbereiche und Fragestellungen der Grundlagenforschung erschwert ist. Dies ist in ihrer Besonderheit begründet, zumeist als Element der etablierten Disziplinen und nur in Einzelfällen als eigene Disziplin institutionalisiert zu sein.
Long range alternating spin current order in a quantum wire with modulated spin-orbit interactions
Creators: name: Rossini, G. L.
name: Cabra, D. C.
name: Japaridze, G. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A key concept in the emerging field of spintronics is the electric field control of spin precession via the effective magnetic field generated by the Rashba spin orbit interaction (RSOI). Here, by extensive Density Matrix Renormalization Group computations, we demonstrate the presence of alternating spin current order in the gapped phases of a quantum wire with spatially modulated RSOI and repulsive electron-electron interactions. Our results are analytically supported by bosonization and by a mapping to a locally rotated spin basis.
description: 15 pages, 15 figures
Quantum integrability of quadratic Killing tensors
Creators: name: Duval, Christian
name: Valent, Galliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum integrability of classical integrable systems given by quadratic Killing tensors on curved configuration spaces is investigated. It is proven that, using a "minimal" quantization scheme, quantum integrability is insured for a large class of classic examples.
description: LaTeX 2e, no figure, 35 p., references added, minor modifications. To appear in the J. Math. Phys
On the inversion of isobaric-analogue states in nuclei
Creators: name: Henderson, J.
name: Stroberg, S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Isospin is an approximate symmetry in atomic nuclei, arising from the rather similar properties of protons and neutrons. Perhaps the clearest manifestation of isospin within nuclei is in the near-identical structure of excited states in mirror nuclei: nuclei with inverted numbers of protons and neutrons. Isospin symmetry, and therefore mirror-symmetry, is broken by electromagnetic interactions and the difference in the masses of the up and down quarks. A recent study by Hoff and collaborators presented evidence that the ground-state spin of $^{73}$Sr is different from that of its mirror, $^{73}$Br, due to an inversion of the ground- and first-excited states, separated by only 27 keV in the $^{73}$Br system. In this brief note, we place this inversion within the necessary context of the past half-century of experimental and theoretical work, and show that it is entirely consistent with normal behaviour, and affords no new insight into isospin-symmetry breaking. The essential point is that isospin-breaking effects due to the Coulomb interaction frequently vary from level to level within a given medium-mass nucleus by as much as 200 keV. Any level splitting smaller than this is liable to manifest a level inversion in the mirror partner which, absent disagreement with an appropriate nuclear model, does not challenge our understanding. While we note the novelty of an inversion in nuclear ground states, we emphasize that in the context of isospin there is nothing specifically illuminating about the ground state, or a level inversion.
Educating for citizenship : transformation and activism through reflective accountability
Creators: name: Dow, Martha Christine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study examines the connections between a commitment to educating for citizenship in the university and pedagogical strategies used to realize the goals associated with this commitment. One of the most common themes of the political philosophy and education literature regarding citizenship has to do with communicating across our differences. I used Jodi Dean's (1996) concept of reflective solidarity to explore the possibilities of this communication, particularly in the face of claims to morality. Reflective solidarity focuses on the communicative nature of solidarity by exploring contestation across our differences as we work toward understanding. I interviewed ten educators from a variety of disciplines at the University of British Columbia to explore their experiences translating this commitment to social justice into practice. My analysis of their contributions resulted in three primary categories and numerous sub-categories of data that I referred to as (a) perspective on theory (the university as a site for citizenship education, defining educating for citizenship); (b) perspective on self (curriculum as contested space, teacher's role, selfreflective practice, solidarity through difference); and (c) perspective on other (voice, silence, listening, pluralism, safety and risk, power). All of the participants discussed the dynamics of power, voice, silence, risk, pluralism and resistance that characterize their efforts to educate in a manner that promotes social justice. The pedagogical challenge of responding to heterosexism and homophobia in the classroom was specifically identified as difficult and increasingly contentious. This theme became central as I wove together the literature, the participants' contributions and my own experiences. As a response to Dean's inattention to the context of the communicative relationships at the core of reflective solidarity, I propose the idea of reflective accountability. Reflective accountability challenges critical educators to think deeply about the sometimes taken-for-granted aspects of educating for social justice. Reflective accountability necessitates a critique of open public discourse and understanding as the unassailable cornerstone of education and highlights the possibility that there may be times when certain points of view need to be more critically examined, challenged and perhaps silenced when they are grounded in oppression.
Supplementary Material from The human HELQ helicase and XRN2 exoribonuclease cooperate in R-loop resolution
Creators: name: Pan, J.M.
name: Betts, H.
name: Cubbon, A.
name: He, L.
name: Bolt, E.L.
name: Soultanas, Panos
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310199
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified

description: Pan et al 2024_Supplementary_OB_R1.pdf
Manifolds homotopy equivalent to P^n # P^n
Creators: name: Brookman, Jeremy
name: Davis, James F.
name: Khan, Qayum
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R67 (Primary), 19J25 (Secondary)

description: We classify, up to homeomorphism, all closed manifolds having the homotopy type of a connected sum of two copies of real projective n-space.