cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Study of Retroviral Sequences in Human Leukaemia
Creators: name: Moore, Richard Arthur
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2001

description: Retroviruses have been closely associated with cancer and leukaemia since their first discovery in the beginning of the 20th century. Many retroviruses both endogenous and exogenous have a direct causal role in leukaemia in many animal species. However in humans the only retrovirus that has been shown to cause leukaemia to date is HTLV-I with ATL. ATL generally affects those people within HTLV-I endemic areas in particular Japan, sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean basin. ATL cases in Europeans and Caucasians in general are very rare. In this thesis the HTLV-I sequence was isolated from a Greek Caucasian patient with ATL. The virus was subtyped and shown to novel and of the Cosmopolitan type A, the most internationally found subtype, known as the transcontinental variant. This data highlights the potential for further spread of this pathogenic virus into Western Europe and illustrates that ethnicity is not a barrier to ATL. This thesis supports the expansion of a screening programme throughout Europe including the UK.

Around 10% of the human genome is composed of sequences resulting of retrotransposition. One of the main sources of this RT activity is Human Endogenous Retrovirus-like sequences (HERV). This thesis details the isolation and characterisation of two novel HERV sequences. Their phylogeny is also considered with one HERV clustering within the HERV-I family and the second clustering in the HERV-XA family. A low copy number was estimate for both elements. PAC-FISH revealed their chromosomal locations and the relevance of these regions is discussed. Expression of both elements was analysed by RT-PCR using primers directed toward putative ORFs. This analysis revealed an expressed portion of the XA related element, spanning 880bp, in PBMC. This expression was analysed in 10 leukaemia cases and was illustrated to be higher in some AML cases. This data illustrates that even highly disrupted HERV have some coding potential and supports a possible role in leukaemogenesis for HERV in general.
Bombus ruderarius
Creators: name: Gérard, Maxence
name: Fiordaliso, William
name: Ferrais, Louise
name: Fournier, Chloé
name: Hairault, Malo
name: Lheureux, Lise
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus ruderarius

description: Bombus ruderarius (Müller, 1776)
Conservation status
EN
Distribution
Bombus ruderarius has a wide distribution in the West Palearctic (Rasmont et al. 2021). In Belgium, the species has been strongly regressing over the last century (Folschweiller 2020) although its status is less critical than that of B. humilis. The subsisting locations are largely concentrated east of the Sambre and Meuse valley and in the coastal area of north-western Flanders. Habitat degradation is considered as the most threatening factor for the species, but climate change is also expected to induce substantial reductions of its European range by the end of the 21 st century (Rasmont et al. 2015, Ghisbain et al. 2024).
Notes
Bombus ruderarius, as many other species of the genus Thoracobombus, is mostly associated with open flower-rich grasslands. Its habitats of predilection also include coastal dunes, heaths and moors, woodland edge and clearings in woodlands. The diet of the species includes a large quantity of pollen from the Fabaceae family (Folschweiller 2020, Rasmont et al. 2021, Wood et al. 2021). Of the three individuals collected, two were foraging on plants from the Fabaceae family, and one on a plant from the Asteraceae family, all from mesic grasslands.
Diagnosis
In Belgium, the females of B. ruderarius (Fig. 7) can be confused with other species of black bumblebees with a ‘ red tail’, such as B. lapidarius, B. rupestris, B. soroeensis and B. cullumanus (although the latter is thought to be fully extinct in the country). However, females of B. ruderarius can be separated from all other concolour bumblebees by the combined presence of: (i) the mid-basitarsus with the distal posterior corner extended to form a sharp angle and (ii) orange fringes of hairs on the corbicula. The males of B. ruderarius can be differentiated from the males of all other bumblebee species on the basis of the morphology of their genitalia (drawn in Rasmont et al. 2021).
description: Published as part of Gérard, Maxence, Fiordaliso, William, Ferrais, Louise, Fournier, Chloé, Hairault, Malo, Lheureux, Lise, Rosa, Paolo & Ghisbain, Guillaume, 2025, Wild bee diversity of the National Park of the Semois Valley (Belgium), pp. e 144223 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e144223, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e144223
To Trust or to Stockpile: Modeling Human-Simulation Interaction in Supply Chain Shortages
Creators: name: Mohaddesi, Omid
name: Griffin, Jacqueline
name: Ergun, Ozlem
name: Kaeli, David
name: Marsella, Stacy
name: Harteveld, Casper
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Understanding decision-making in dynamic and complex settings is a challenge yet essential for preventing, mitigating, and responding to adverse events (e.g., disasters, financial crises). Simulation games have shown promise to advance our understanding of decision-making in such settings. However, an open question remains on how we extract useful information from these games. We contribute an approach to model human-simulation interaction by leveraging existing methods to characterize: (1) system states of dynamic simulation environments (with Principal Component Analysis), (2) behavioral responses from human interaction with simulation (with Hidden Markov Models), and (3) behavioral responses across system states (with Sequence Analysis). We demonstrate this approach with our game simulating drug shortages in a supply chain context. Results from our experimental study with 135 participants show different player types (hoarders, reactors, followers), how behavior changes in different system states, and how sharing information impacts behavior. We discuss how our findings challenge existing literature.
Damages of Surface Ozone: Evidence from Agricultural Sector in China
Creators: name: Yi, F.
name: McCarl, B.
name: Zhou, X.
name: Yi, F.
name: McCarl, B.
name: Zhou, X.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: This study measures the damages that surface ozone pollution causes within the Chinese agricultural sector. We find substantial spatially differing damages that are greatest in wheat growing areas with higher ozone concentrations. The total damage in China s agricultural sector probably ranges between CNY 1,630 billion and CNY 2,238 billion, which accounts for one fifth of agricultural revenue in 2014. A moderate ozone reduction by 30% benefits the agricultural sector by CNY 678 billion. The benefits largely fall to consumers with producers losing as the production gains lead to lower prices lessening food costs and simultaneously farm income. Acknowledgement :
Women in Agriculture: Application of Alkire Foster Method of Counting Multidimensional Deprivation towards building a Human Recognition Index for Women in Malawi.
Creators: name: Maduekwe, E.
name: Maduekwe, E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: Evidence suggests that intangible components of wellbeing like human recognition impacts development. However, human recognition has been hardly examined because of measurement difficulties. In agrarian-based Malawian economy, access to agricultural resources such as land depends heavily on gendered norms. Women s ability to overcome poverty is severely affected by societal norms in which recognition flows. Negative human recognition like violence limits women s ability to control their economic destiny. Thus, we investigate human recognition deprivation among women in Malawi. We adapted the Alkire Foster method of multidimensional poverty to measure human recognition within domains of deprivation using nationally representative datasets. We combine indicators of violence, freedom and autonomy to build a human recognition deprivation index. We found that 84.8% of women in Malawi are recognition deprived. Women working in agriculture account for 47% of the overall deprivation experienced by women in Malawi and have inadequate recognition in 31.7 % of the weighted indicators. In the northern Malawi, women exhibit disproportionally high deprivation levels relative to population size. We recommend that development measures for agrarian economies like Malawi should include the impact of how women are recognized as humans on resource access. Acknowledgement :
Universality of the Lyapunov regime for the Loschmidt echo
Creators: name: Cucchietti, Fernando M.
name: Pastawski, Horacio M.
name: Jalabert, Rodolfo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Loschmidt echo (LE) is a magnitude that measures the sensitivity of quantum dynamics to perturbations in the Hamiltonian. For a certain regime of the parameters, the LE decays exponentially with a rate given by the Lyapunov exponent of the underlying classically chaotic system. We develop a semiclassical theory, supported by numerical results in a Lorentz gas model, which allows us to establish and characterize the universality of this Lyapunov regime. In particular, the universality is evidenced by the semiclassical limit of the Fermi wavelength going to zero, the behavior for times longer than Ehrenfest time, the insensitivity with respect to the form of the perturbation and the behavior of individual (non-averaged) initial conditions. Finally, by elaborating a semiclassical approximation to the Wigner function, we are able to distinguish between classical and quantum origin for the different terms of the LE. This approach renders an understanding for the persistence of the Lyapunov regime after the Ehrenfest time, as well as a reinterpretation of our results in terms of the quantum--classical transition.
description: 33 pages, 17 figures, uses Revtex 4
Hylaeus difformis
Creators: name: Gérard, Maxence
name: Fiordaliso, William
name: Ferrais, Louise
name: Fournier, Chloé
name: Hairault, Malo
name: Lheureux, Lise
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Hylaeus
Hylaeus difformis

description: Hylaeus difformis (Eversmann, 1852)
Conservation status
LC
description: Published as part of Gérard, Maxence, Fiordaliso, William, Ferrais, Louise, Fournier, Chloé, Hairault, Malo, Lheureux, Lise, Rosa, Paolo & Ghisbain, Guillaume, 2025, Wild bee diversity of the National Park of the Semois Valley (Belgium), pp. e 144223 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e144223, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e144223
Thermodynamics for the k-essence Emergent Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter Spacetime
Creators: name: Manna, Goutam
name: Majumder, Bivash
name: Das, Ashoke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The {\bf k-}essence emergent Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter spacetime has exactly mapped on to the Robinson-Trautman (RT) type spacetime with cosmological constant $Ł$ for certain configuration of {\bf k-}essence scalar field. Theoretically, we evaluated that the thermodynamical quantities for the RT type emergent black hole is different from the usual one in the presence of kinetic energy of the {\bf k-}essence scalar field i.e., the dark energy density. We restrict ourselves into the fact that the dark energy density (K) is to be unity, then the effective temperature and pressure both are negative for the RT type emergent black hole which implies that the system is thermodynamically unstable when the charge $Q\neq 0$ and the emergent spacetime is only dark energy dominated and it does not radiate when $Q=0$. The thermodynamically unstable situation is physically plausible only when we consider spin degrees of freedom of a system. We have made this analysis in the context of dark energy in an emergent gravity scenario having {\bf k-}essence scalar fields $ϕ$ with a Dirac-Born-Infeld type lagrangian. The scalar field also satisfies the emergent equation of motion at $r\rightarrow\infty$.
description: 7 pages, Accepted from EPJ Plus
Identifying the Effects of Migration on Parental Health: Evidence from Left-Behind Elders in China
Creators: name: Liu, C.
name: Yi, F.
name: Xu, Z.
name: Liu, C.
name: Yi, F.
name: Xu, Z.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy

description: This study pioneers the application of the New Economics of Labor Migration theory to outline and estimate two opposite effects of labor loss driven by the migration and remittances of adult children on the health of left-behind elderly parents through the changing rural market constraints. We use China's rural household survey data and simultaneous equation econometric techniques to estimate the effects of migration on the physical and mental health of left-behind elders. Results indicate that the loss of labor to migration has a significantly negative effect on the health of left-behind elders, but remittances from migrants can compensate for the adverse effect. This study provides a comprehensive understanding that remittances from migration relax the constraints on household resource allocations in undeveloped rural areas with imperfect market conditions. Overall, left-behind elderly parents benefit from migrant children both physically and mentally. Acknowledgement : Authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support by National Science Foundation of China (Grants: 71673137), Nanjing Agricultural University (Grants: Y0201400037, SKCX2015004), Education department of Jiangsu province (Grant: 2014SJD069), Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD), China Center for Food Security Studies at Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu Rural Development and Land Policy Research Institute, and Jiangsu Agriculture Modernization Decision Consulting Center. All remaining errors are ours.
In-silico investigation of RPS6KB1 associated cancer inhibitor: a drug repurposing study
Creators: name: Rajendrasozhan, Saravanan
name: Ahmad, Irfan
name: Rab, Safia Obaidur
name: Alshahrani, Mohammad Y.
name: Almuqri, Eman Abdullah
name: Siddiqui, Jamshaid Ahmad
name: Mushtaque, Md
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: The ribosomal protein S6 kinase beta-1 (RPS6KB1), also known as p70S6 kinase, plays a crucial role in various disease-related conditions such as diabetes, obesity, and cancer. Its activity is regulated by phosphorylation events, including phosphorylation of Threonine 389 in the hydrophobic motif by the mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) and phosphorylation of Threonine 229 in the activation loop by PDK1 (phosphoinositide-dependent kinase 1). However, other phenomena connected to RPS6KB1 remain unknown. In this study, we employed virtual screening and molecular docking techniques on the molecules in the ZINC library to identify potential inhibitors. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and MMGBSA calculations were carried out on promising compounds to determine their binding affinity and stability. We also evaluated the drug-likeness properties of the selected compounds. A comparative study between the native RPS6KB1 structure, co-crystal ligands, and the shortlisted molecules from the ZINC dataset was carried out. The identified molecules possess significant potential for future in vitro and in vivo studies, paving the way for developing effective cancer treatments. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Chromospheric UV bursts and turbulent driven magnetic reconnection
Creators: name: Wu, Pin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft data to study a group of Chromospheric ultraviolet bursts (UVBs) associated with an active region. We classify the UVBs into two types: smaller ones that can only be measured once by the scanning slit, and larger UVBs that are measured twice by the slit. The UVBs' optically thin Si IV 1402.77 Å line profiles are studied intensively. By fitting the smaller UVBs' lines with 1-2 Gaussians, we obtain a variety of line-of-sight flow measurements that hint various 3-D orientations of small scale magnetic reconnections, each associated with a UVB. The larger UVBs are, however, unique in a way that they each have two sets of measurements at two slit locations. This makes it possible to unambiguously detect two oppositely directed heated flows jetting out of a single UVB, a signature of magnetic reconnection operating at the heart of the UVB. Here we report on the first of such an observation. Additionally, all the optically thin Si IV 1402.77 Å line profiles from those UVBs consistently demonstrate excessive broadening, an order of magnitude larger than would be expected from thermal broadening, suggesting that those small scale reconnections could be driven by large scale (macro-scale) turbulence in the active region.
description: Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal on 30.09.2019
Price Transmission within the Citrus Sector in Brazil: Evidence of Market Inefficiency
Creators: name: Alam, M.J.
name: Gomez, M.I.
name: Patino, M.
name: Alam, M.J.
name: Gomez, M.I.
name: Patino, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: The orange juice chain is still a representative sector of the Brazilian agribusiness and its performance needs to be analyzed, allowing the definition of strategies to enhance competitiveness. We investigated the threshold, short and long-run asymmetries of price transmission from international-to-domestic prices of oranges in Brazil, using the threshold asymmetry error correction model. Monthly data on international Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice (FCOJ) prices and domestic prices of oranges in Brazil for the period from January 1996 to February 2014 were used as well as producers price of oranges converted to US dollars per pound equivalent to one pound of FCOJ received by the producers in Brazil and international prices from the New York Board of Trade for FCOJ. We found evidence of threshold and asymmetries in short- and long-run price transmission and asymmetric adjustment towards a long-run equilibrium relationship between international-to-domestic prices in Brazil. We also find evidence of asymmetries in short-run price transmission. The decreases in international prices that lead to shrinkage in marketing margins are passed on more quickly to domestic prices than increases are that lead to expanding marketing margins. Acknowledgement :
Stigmatized versus Capitalization Effect on Farmland Prices - Application to the Agricultural Disaster Relief Program in Taiwan
Creators: name: Chang, H.H.
name: Chang, H.H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Literature on capitalization of agricultural policies documents that government subsidies can increase farmland values, and empirical evidence has been found in a variety of agricultural programs. However, little attention has been paid on agricultural disaster relief programs (ADRP). This paper argues that the well-documented capitalization effect of agricultural subsidies on farmland prices may not be directly applied to the ADRP because disaster shocks may also result in a negative effect on farmland values due to their stigmatized effect on the affected farmland. This paper empirically examines the effect of the ADRP payments on farmland prices using the case of Taiwan as an illustration. A unique dataset of 97,864 parcels of farmland transacted in the farmland market is used. Information of ADRP payments was drawn from the administrative profile. By estimating the fixed effect and instrumental variable fixed effect model, a negative effect of the incidence and level of the ADRP payments on farmland prices is evident. Moreover, the effect is more pronounced among farmland that is located in urban areas. This finding provides evidence that the negative stigmatized effect dominants the positive capitalization effect of the ADRP payments on farmland values, especially for farmland that is located in urban areas. Acknowledgement : The author thanks technical assistance provided from the Council of Agriculture, Ministry of Interior, the Central of Weather Bureau in Taiwan. This project was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under Grant No.106-2410-H-002-019-MY2. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not reflect the policies of the institutes above. All remaining errors are mine.
Lasioglossum sexnotatum
Creators: name: Gérard, Maxence
name: Fiordaliso, William
name: Ferrais, Louise
name: Fournier, Chloé
name: Hairault, Malo
name: Lheureux, Lise
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum sexnotatum

description: Lasioglossum sexnotatum (Kirby, 1802)
Conservation status
LC
description: Published as part of Gérard, Maxence, Fiordaliso, William, Ferrais, Louise, Fournier, Chloé, Hairault, Malo, Lheureux, Lise, Rosa, Paolo & Ghisbain, Guillaume, 2025, Wild bee diversity of the National Park of the Semois Valley (Belgium), pp. e 144223 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e144223, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e144223
Convenient parameterizations of matrices in terms of vectors
Creators: name: Bruschi, M.
name: Calogero, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Convenient parameterizations of matrices in terms of vectors transform (certain classes of) matrix equations into covariant (hence rotation-invariant) vector equations. Certain recently introduced such parameterizations are tersely reviewed, and new ones introduced.
Tisane: Authoring Statistical Models via Formal Reasoning from Conceptual and Data Relationships
Creators: name: Jun, Eunice
name: Seo, Audrey
name: Heer, Jeffrey
name: Just, René
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Other Statistics (stat.OT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Proper statistical modeling incorporates domain theory about how concepts relate and details of how data were measured. However, data analysts currently lack tool support for recording and reasoning about domain assumptions, data collection, and modeling choices in an integrated manner, leading to mistakes that can compromise scientific validity. For instance, generalized linear mixed-effects models (GLMMs) help answer complex research questions, but omitting random effects impairs the generalizability of results. To address this need, we present Tisane, a mixed-initiative system for authoring generalized linear models with and without mixed-effects. Tisane introduces a study design specification language for expressing and asking questions about relationships between variables. Tisane contributes an interactive compilation process that represents relationships in a graph, infers candidate statistical models, and asks follow-up questions to disambiguate user queries to construct a valid model. In case studies with three researchers, we find that Tisane helps them focus on their goals and assumptions while avoiding past mistakes.
Determinants and Overuse of Pesticides in Grain Production: A Comparison of Rice, Maize and Wheat in China
Creators: name: Sun, S.
name: Zhang, C.
name: Hu, R.
name: Sun, S.
name: Zhang, C.
name: Hu, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Despite the contribution of pesticide use to agricultural production, the negative externalities due to pesticide overuse increasingly concern the public. As the largest pesticide user, China aims to reduce its pesticide use in agriculture. However, the empirical analysis on the driving forces of pesticide use and to what extent pesticides are overused across different crops is far from enough. This paper aims to investigate the determinants and overuse of pesticides in grain production in China using provincial data. The results suggest that the prices of pesticides and grain products show a negative and positive relationship with pesticide use, respectively. The public agricultural extension system reform induces an increase in pesticide use. The estimation of a damage-control production function illustrates that pesticides significantly increase grain productivity but are commonly overused in grain production. It implies that the government's policy options with regard to the prices of pesticides and grain products as well as reform of agricultural extension system have played a crucial role in forming pesticide overuse in grain production in China. Acknowledgement : This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 71333006], the Ministry of Science and Technology of China [grant number 2016YFD0201301] and the Beijing Institute of Technology [grant number 20172242001].
Farm economic resilience, land diversity and environmental uncertainty
Creators: name: Vigani, M.
name: Berry, R.
name: Vigani, M.
name: Berry, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Economic resilience is a concept used for farms facing shocks and their capacity to resist, adapt and achieve new equilibria enhancing their long term viability. Operationalizing the resilience concept is a difficult task due to its multidimensional and dynamic nature. Based on literature and risk management theory, this paper develops a composite index of economic resilience based on five dimensions, namely farm s vulnerability, intensification, biodiversity, diversification and performance. In a second step, the composite index is used to estimate the impact of climatic, environmental and telecommunications infrastructure factors on the economic resilience of farms in England and Wales, using multilevel models with mixed effects estimators. Results show that CAP subsidies, soil erosion and drought have a negative impact on the economic resilience of English and Welsh farms, but that a more diversified land use reduces farms vulnerability, by providing more opportunities for agricultural diversification. Finally, extensive telecommunications infrastructure has a particularly important role in the economic resilience of the pigs sector. Acknowledgement :
Poverty Reduction Effects of Technology Adoption: Evidence from Nigeria
Creators: name: Alene, A.D.
name: Wossen, T.
name: Abdoulaye, T.
name: Alene, A.D.
name: Wossen, T.
name: Abdoulaye, T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: This paper uses a DNA-fingerprinting based varietal identification approach to estimate adoption rates of improved cassava varieties in Nigeria. By applying a procedure that combines marginal treatment effects with a market-level model, the paper measures the counterfactual household income distributions for adopters. The paper then estimates poverty impacts of adoption of improved cassava varieties based on the differences between observed and counterfactual income distributions. Our results suggest that adoption of improved cassava varieties has led to a 4.7 percentage points poverty reduction at a poverty line of $1.25 per person per day (or 2.7% points poverty reduction if poverty line of $1.9 per person per day poverty line was considered). The analysis further suggests that farmers who are more likely to adopt improved varieties are also likely to face higher structural costs. Relaxing structural barriers that make improved technologies inaccessible and less profitable for poor households would therefore be important to maximize the poverty reduction roles of improved technologies such as cassava varieties. Further, we find that the poverty effects of adoption are very sensitive to the measurement of adoption status. Therefore, proper measurement of adoption status is crucial for estimating the poverty reduction effects of adoption accurately. Acknowledgement : This research was co-supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) under the grant the Cassava Monitoring Survey in Nigeria , the Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) Research Program of the CGIAR and the ISPC-SPIA under the grant Strengthening Impact Assessment in the CGIAR System (SIAC). The contributions of Godwin Ashumuga, Peter Kulakow and Alfred Dixon to the conceptualization and design of this project is gratefully acknowledged. Field supervisors, enumerators, extension agents, NRCRI staffs and IITA staff from socioeconomics, bioscience, and cassava breeding units are recognized and thanked for their contributions.
Additional file 12 of Hemispheric asymmetry in the human brain and in Parkinson’s disease is linked to divergent epigenetic patterns in neurons
Creators: name: Peipei Li
name: Ensink, Elizabeth
name: Lang, Sean
name: Marshall, Lee
name: Schilthuis, Meghan
name: Lamp, Jared
name: Vega, Irving
name: Labrie, Viviane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Review history.
Anthidium oblongatum
Creators: name: Gérard, Maxence
name: Fiordaliso, William
name: Ferrais, Louise
name: Fournier, Chloé
name: Hairault, Malo
name: Lheureux, Lise
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Anthidium
Anthidium oblongatum

description: Anthidium oblongatum (Illiger, 1806)
Conservation status
LC
description: Published as part of Gérard, Maxence, Fiordaliso, William, Ferrais, Louise, Fournier, Chloé, Hairault, Malo, Lheureux, Lise, Rosa, Paolo & Ghisbain, Guillaume, 2025, Wild bee diversity of the National Park of the Semois Valley (Belgium), pp. e 144223 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e144223, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e144223
Priocera theresae PIC 1950
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Priocera
Priocera theresae

description: Priocera theresae PIC, 1950 (Figs 76, 99, 168)
 Priocera theresae PIC, 1950: 9.
LECTOTYPE: Gender not known. Herein designated. Type locality: Amazones (Peru) (MNHN). CORPORAAL 1950: 100. It is not known how many specimens were available to Pic. He did not select a holotype, therefore, I invoke Recommendation 73F of the ICZN (1999) and designate a lectotype for this nominal species.
 A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d (Fig. 99): In addition to the lectotype, I examined 6 specimens from: Peru: Provincia de San Marti n, Tarapoto,?-V-VIII-1886, M. de Mathan, Specimens are deposited in: BMNH, MNHN, and WOPC.
D i a g n o s i s: Forebody, antennae, pterothorax, legs, and abdomen castaneous; elytra mostly castaneous, each elytron with 4 yellow markings, one covering elytral base, one large, triangular conjoined with epipleural margin just anterior to elytral middle, one short, oblique line just behind elytral middle near sutural margin, one oval marking near elytral apex.
R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.3 mm; width 1.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 168. Head: Frons narrower than length of antennal pedicel, EW/FW 50/5. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses (PW/PL 88/135); elytral disc sculptured with asetiferous punctures, latter seriate in basal 1/2, absent in apical 1/2, elytral apex rounded (EL/EW 340/60); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 75.
V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 8.3-10.0 mm; width 1.8-2.2 mm. Except for body size, the specimens examined are quite homogeneous.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during a time between May and August.
N o t e s: Although the type was examined, the description is based on a homotype specimen.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1145-1255 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on pages 1201-1202, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038854
Measuring turbulent motion in planet-forming disks with ALMA: A detection around DM Tau and non-detections around MWC 480 and V4046 Sgr
Creators: name: Flaherty, Kevin
name: Hughes, A. Meredith
name: Simon, Jacob B.
name: Qi, Chunhua
name: Bai, Xue-ning
name: Bulatek, Alyssa
name: Andrews, Sean M.
name: Wilner, David J.
name: Kospal, Agnes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Turbulence is a crucial factor in many models of planet formation, but it has only been directly constrained among a small number of planet forming disks. Building on the upper limits on turbulence placed in disks around HD 163296 and TW Hya, we present ALMA CO J=2-1 line observations at $\sim0.3"$ (20-50 au) resolution and 80 ms$^{-1}$ channel spacing of the disks around DM Tau, MWC 480, and V4046 Sgr. Using parametric models of disk structure, we robustly detect non-thermal gas motions around DM Tau of between 0.25 c$_s$ and 0.33 c$_s$, with the range dominated by systematic effects, making this one of the only systems with directly measured non-zero turbulence. Using the same methodology, we place stringent upper limits on the non-thermal gas motion around MWC 480 ($
description: 21 pages, 10 figures, accepted to ApJ
U.S. GRAIN SORGHUM PRODUCTION PRACTICES AND COSTS
Creators: name: Grant, Warren R.
name: Krenz, Ronald D.
name: Grant, Warren R.
name: Krenz, Ronald D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Grain sorghum
subject: production costs
subject: production practices
subject: production inputs

description: This report, summarizing information on grain sorghum production in the United States for 1982 and 1983, shows marked regional differences in production practices and costs. Fertilizer and chemical inputs are major components of total cash expenses for producing grain sorghum in all areas. Irrigation is a major cost item for grain sorghum in all irrigated areas.
Heegaard splittings of graph manifolds
Creators: name: Schultens, Jennifer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57N10, 57N25

description: Let M be a totally orientable graph manifold with characteristic submanifold T and let M = V cup_S W be a Heegaard splitting. We prove that S is standard. In particular, S is the amalgamation of strongly irreducible Heegaard splittings. The splitting surfaces S_i of these strongly irreducible Heegaard splittings have the property that for each vertex manifold N of M, S_i cap N is either horizontal, pseudohorizontal, vertical or pseudovertical.
description: Published by Geometry and Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol8/paper22.abs.html Version 2: reference [24] corrected
The Effect of Nudges on Likelihood to Travel to Tree-shaded Areas in Heatwaves
Creators: name: Group 9: Climate Crew
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Given the benefits that tree-shading provides, and the proven effectiveness of effort-based nudges, our research question was “How do convenience and tree-shading impact students’ likelihood to go to designated indoor cooling area?”. We recruited students from UBC campus, and administered a survey. In the survey, we used Google Maps link and a visual map with the designated area’s address inputed for our convenience nudge, and presence of tree-shading for our environmental nudge. A 7-point Likert scale was used to measure student response for likelihood of going. Our results found no main effect for either convenience or tree-shading nudging. Neither convenience nor environmental nudging increased students’ likelihood of going. Results suggest that manipulation of the independent variables was poor. Limitations to our study suggest that students may lack motivation to travel in a heatwave. Other possibilities include, failure to include enough information, lacking student awareness or care for the environment. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
The Demand for Natural Gas and Electricity for Nine Northeastern States
Creators: name: Beierlein, James G.
name: Dunn, James W.
name: McConnon, James C.
name: Beierlein, James G.
name: Dunn, James W.
name: McConnon, James C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Classification of energy demand into groups with homogeneous uses and motives, the use of simple demand theory and a quantitative technique that allows combining of time-series and seemingly unrelated regression resulted in six demand equations that are effective. Differences in the long price elasticity for natural gas and electricity are found between sectors.
Metastable Interlayer Frenkel Pair Defects by Dipole-like Strain Fields for Dimensional Distortion in Black Phosphorus
Creators: name: Kripalani, Devesh R.
name: Cai, Yongqing
name: Xue, Ming
name: Zhou, Kun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low formation energy of atomic vacancies in black phosphorus allows it to serve as an ideal prototypical system for exploring the dynamics of interlayer interstitial-vacancy (I-V) pairs (i.e. Frenkel defects) which account for Wigner energy release. Based on a few-layer model of black phosphorus, we conduct discrete geometry analysis and investigate the structural dynamics of intimate interlayer Frenkel pairs from first-principles calculations. We reveal a highly metastable I-V pair state driven by anisotropic dipole-like strain fields which can build strong connections between neighbouring layers. In the 2D limit (monolayer), the intimate I-V pair exhibits a relatively low formation energy of 1.54 eV and is energetically favoured over its isolated constituents by up to 1.68 eV. The barrier for annihilation of the Frenkel pair is 1.46 eV in the bilayer, which is remarkably higher than that of similar defects in graphite. The findings reported in this work suggest that there exist rich bridging pathways in black phosphorus, leading to stable dimensional reduction and structural condensation on exposure to moderate electron excitation or thermal annealing. This study paves the way for creating novel dimensional-hybrid polymorphs of phosphorus via the introduction of such metastable interlayer I-V pair defects.
Melitta nigricans Alfken 1905
Creators: name: Gérard, Maxence
name: Fiordaliso, William
name: Ferrais, Louise
name: Fournier, Chloé
name: Hairault, Malo
name: Lheureux, Lise
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Melittidae
Melitta
Melitta nigricans

description: Melitta nigricans Alfken, 1905
Conservation status
LC
description: Published as part of Gérard, Maxence, Fiordaliso, William, Ferrais, Louise, Fournier, Chloé, Hairault, Malo, Lheureux, Lise, Rosa, Paolo & Ghisbain, Guillaume, 2025, Wild bee diversity of the National Park of the Semois Valley (Belgium), pp. e 144223 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e144223, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e144223
Steppingstones in Hamiltonian dynamics
Creators: name: Jordan, Thomas F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Easy steps through essential Hamiltonian dynamics are outlined, from necessary definitions of Poisson brackets and canonical transformations, to a quick proof that Hamiltonian evolution is made by canonical transformations, the quickest proof of Liouville's theorem, and on to Poincare-Cartan integral invariants and completely integrable dynamics, making room, providing tools, and setting the stage for more recent developments.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures, submitted to American Journal of Physics, refereed, revised, recommended for publication by referee
The symmetry algebras of Euclidean M-theory
Creators: name: Lukierski, Jerzy
name: Toppan, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Euclidean supersymmetric D=11 M-algebras. We consider two such D=11 superalgebras: the first one is N=(1,1) self-conjugate complex-Hermitean, with 32 complex supercharges and 1024 real bosonic charges, the second is N=(1,0) complex-holomorphic, with 32 complex supercharges and 528 bosonic charges, which can be obtained by analytic continuation of known Minkowski M-algebra. Due to the Bott's periodicity, we study at first the generic D=3 Euclidean supersymmetry case. The role of complex and quaternionic structures for D=3 and D=11 Euclidean supersymmetry is elucidated. We show that the additional 1024-528=496 Euclidean tensorial central charges are related with the quaternionic structure of Euclidean D=11 supercharges, which in complex notation satisfy SU(2) pseudo-Majorana condition. We consider also the corresponding Osterwalder-Schrader conjugations as implying for N=(1,0) case the reality of Euclidean bosonic charges. Finally, we outline some consequences of our results, in particular for D=11 Euclidean supergravity.
description: LaTex, 12 pages. Minor corrections and acknowledgment added. The text as appeared in PLB
Stenus hypostenoides PUTHZ 1971
Creators: name: Mainda, Tobias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stenus
Stenus hypostenoides

description: Stenus hypostenoides PUTHZ, 1971 M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: 1♂: West-Papua, Cyclops Mountains, 2°32'10.52"S 140°30'46.71"E, 440 m, loamy and mossy wall, stream, 18.05.2019; 1♂: West-Papua, Foja Mountains, 2°26'27.87"S 138°46'27.283, 280 m, Timua river, small loamy waterfall, 27.05.2019; 3♀♀: West-Papua, Foja Mountains, 2°28'18.14"S 138°46'27.98"E, 350 m, Timua river, loamy bluish grey wall, 29.05.2019. This species was collected together with S. attenboroughi nov.sp. in the Cyclops Mountains, where it lives in the same habitat. In the Foja Mountains it was only collected on bluish grey loamy walls in the valley of the Timua river, where it lives together with S. balkei and S. prismalis.
description: Published as part of Mainda, Tobias, 2021, Stenus attenboroughi nov. sp. and records of Stenus LATREILLE, 1797 from New Guinea (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 1005-1012 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 1010, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038723
description: {"references": ["PUTHZ V. (1971): Revision of the Stenus species of New Guinea. Part I. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). - Pacific Insects 13 (3 - 4): 447 - 469."]}
Priocera trituberosa Opitz 2021, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Priocera
Priocera trituberosa

description: Priocera trituberosa OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 91, 170)
HOLOTYPE: ♀. Type locality: Colombia, Cauca, PNN Gorgona, El Saman, 5 m, 2°58'N 78°11'W, Malaise. A second label reads: 13-iv-7v-2001, T. Helmer, leg. M.1648 (CSCA).
 D i a g n o s i s: Cranium testaceous, upper frons infuscated; antennae testaceous; prothoracic sternum and pterothoracic venter black, except mesepisternum flavotestaceous; pronotum mostly flavotestaceous, tubercles, paralateral foveae, and region behind anterior tubercles linearly brown; elytra mostly flavotestaceous, basal 2/3 rd nearly white, asetiferous punctures brown, apical 1/3 rd somewhat infuscated; legs mostly flavotestaceous, brown in front of femoral capitulum; abdomen flavotestaceous.
 D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.5 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 170. Head: Cranium finely punctate; frons wider than length of antennal pedicel (EW /FW 40/15). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 3 tumescenses and 2 paralateral foveae, anterior tumescences spherical, posterior tumescence linear (PW /PL 83/120); elytral disc with basal tumescenses, middle of disc concave, disc sculptured with asetiferous punctures haphazardly distributed and extend to elytral distal 2/3 rd, apex rounded (EL /EW 320/70); metathoracic femur capitate. Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The holotype was collected in a Malaise trap during a time frame that spans from April 13 to May 7. The trap was set at an elevation of 0.5 m.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (Fig. 91): This species is known from Colombia.
 E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, trituberosa, is a Latin compound name that stems from the prefix tri- (= three) and the noun tuber (= swelling). With reference to the 3 tumescenses on the pronotal disc.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1145-1255 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 1203, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038854
THE DERIVED DEMAND FOR REAL CASH BALANCES IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
Creators: name: LeBlanc, Michael
name: Yanagida, John F.
name: Conway, Roger K.
name: LeBlanc, Michael
name: Yanagida, John F.
name: Conway, Roger K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Cost functions
subject: real cash balances
subject: duality theory
subject: input demand

description: Implications of real cash balances as a productive input in agricultural production are explored. A system of aggregate input demand functions for agriculture including real cash balances is formulated and estimated, assuming that producers minimize input costs for a given output level. Empirical results suggest real cash balances are an important contributor to agricultural production. Their exclusion from production studies may lead to serious specification biases. Tests herein indicate that the demand for cash balances is relatively elastic with respect to changes in the user cost of money, and that real cash balances are a substitute for machinery and capital.