cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CREATING A DELAER LEVEL INTEGRATED MARKETING MODEL: A GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH
Creators: name: Downey, W. Scott
name: Downey, W. Scott
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Marketing
subject: Dealers
subject: Manufacturers
subject: Culture
subject: Strategy

description: The agricultural equipment industry is going through change, driven by world demand for food and the efficient production required to produce it. Equipment dealers have traditionally existed as privately owned distributors for equipment manufacturers, but are becoming marketing organizations on their own due to consolidation. This paper uses grounded theory to describe a model of how marketing integration is emerging within agricultural equipment dealerships. It suggests that formal strategy and informal culture must both be managed in order for integration to occur in progressive dealers.
MikielHunter_MsoSbc_LinearModel_AmbbSpeech_CodeDataAnalysis.zip
Creators: name: Brughera, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Neuroscience
Computational Biology

description: Linear modelling code, data, and analysis by Jason Mikiel-Hunter, from "Auditory brainstem models: Kv1 ion-channels and depleting end-bulb synapses improve spatial encoding in reverberation"
Asclepios annadalei Distant 1915
Creators: name: Zettel, Herbert
name: Tran, A. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Asclepios
Asclepios annadalei

description: Asclepios annadalei Distant, 1915
 Material examined. – (all apterous): Pantai Rhu: 7 males, 5 females, KV4. Jalan Tanjung Rhu, mangroves: 5 males, 3 females, HZL6.
 Distribution. – From India to the Malay Peninsula (Chen et al., 2005).
description: Published as part of Zettel, Herbert & Tran, A. D., 2009, First Inventory Of The Water Bugs (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Gerromorpha) Of Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia, pp. 279-295 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (2) on page 291, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342032
Costly Inspections and Limited Abatement: The Case of North Carolina’s I/M Program
Creators: name: Giguere, Chris
name: Giguere, Chris
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: environmental regulations
subject: air quality
subject: mobile source
subject: nonpoint source
subject: emissions
subject: abatement
subject: automobile
subject: inspection and maintenance
subject: I/M
subject: efficiency
subject: net benefits
subject: benefit-cost analysis
subject: repairs
subject: scrappage
subject: social benefits
subject: emissions trajectory
subject: big data

description: Automobile emissions inspection and maintenance (I/M) programs are used by 31 states and Washington D.C. as well as a number of foreign counties to maintain or improve ambient air quality. Past literature provides evidence that the current design of most programs in the United States is ineffective. The efficiency of these programs, however, has yet to be analyzed. I fill a considerable gap in the literature by developing a comprehensive estimation framework to evaluate the efficiency of I/M. I use data from the North Carolina I/M program between 1999 and 2013 to estimate seven empirical models required by the framework. The costs and benefits from both I/M induced repairs and scrappage are then calculated for various regimes using different inspection frequencies and automobile exemptions. My results indicate that the North Carolina I/M program, as it existed between 1999 and 2013 was inefficient. The estimated mean benefits, costs, and net benefits were $28.5, $73.0, and -$44.5 per year respectively, in millions of June 2015 U.S. dollars. The recent increase in automobile exemptions (selective automobile targeting) in North Carolina’s program is estimated to decrease benefits and costs by 11 and 49 percent. Thus net benefits will increase by 63 percent to -$16.3 million per year. Further reductions to the scope of automobiles inspected are estimated to generate positive net benefits. For example, a regime that inspects only automobiles older than 5 years and are driven more than 20 thousand miles per year is estimated to generate net benefits of $2.13 million per year. These efficiency gains are possible because automobiles are selected for inspections based on where they sit on their emissions trajectory. Programs that fail to account for this “location” are estimated to inspect too many automobiles and yield negative net benefits.
Diophantine equations related to quasicrystals: a note
Creators: name: Pelantová, E.
name: Perelomov, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give the general solution of three Diophantine equations in the ring of integer of the algebraic number field ${\bf Q}[{\sqr 5}]$. These equations are related to the problem of determination of the minimum distance in quasicrystals with fivefold symmetry.
description: 4 pages
Brughera_MsoSbc_NonlinearModel_AMBB_DataAnalysis.zip
Creators: name: Brughera, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Neuroscience
Computational Biology

description: Nonlinear modelling data and data analysis scripts by Andrew Brughera, from "Auditory brainstem models: Kv1 ion-channels and depleting end-bulb synapses improve spatial encoding in reverberation"
Sensitivity of miscanthus supply: Application of Faustmann's rule in deterministic and stochastic cases
Creators: name: Ben Fradj, Nosra
name: Jayet, Pierre-Alain
name: Ben Fradj, Nosra
name: Jayet, Pierre-Alain
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: bioenergy perennial crop
subject: Faustmann rule
subject: stochastic process
subject: Present Net Value
subject: optimal rotation age
subject: land use change

description: This paper aims to analyze the sensitivity of the supply of a perennial crop, i.e, miscanthus for which high interest arises when it is dedicated to second generation biofuels production. We develop a methodology based on the "Faustmann's rule" usually used in forest management fields. We first determine the yield growth function over time and the discounted present value of this crop in a deterministic case. Then, a stochastic process based on a beta distribution is introduced to manage the variability of miscanthus yield. A short-term agricultural model (AROPAj) is used to highlight the large scale impact of annual yield randomization. This analysis details the impact assessment regarding optimal length cycle, land use, N input demand and nitrate losses. Ideally, miscanthus would be grown on marginal land. However, miscanthus profitability causes farmers to cultivate it on the most productive land generally devoted to food crops. An increase in yield potential leads to significant direct and indirect land re-allocation, favoring therefore the competition between food and biofuel production.This change in land use leads to a substantial decrease in N-input application and, consequently, in nitrate losses. Results significantly changes when yields are affected by annual randomized variability. Throughout a sensitivity analysis, we notice that yields, renewal cycle costs and the discount rate may interact with yield randomization and significantly affect the future profitability of miscanthus.
Algebraic maximum violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality in a two-level system under PT symmetric dynamics
Creators: name: Karthik, H. S.
name: Hejamadi, Akshata Shenoy
name: Devi, A. R. Usha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the three-term Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) for a two-level quantum system undergoing parity-time (PT ) symmetric dynamics governed by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, when a sequence of dichotomic projective measurements are carried out at different time intervals. In contrast to the case of coherent unitary dynamics, violation of LGI is shown to increase beyond the temporal Tsirelson bound approaching the algebraic maximum in the limit of the spontaneous PT symmetry breaking
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, RevTex; Comments welcome
Halobates esakii Miyamoto 1967
Creators: name: Zettel, Herbert
name: Tran, A. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Halobates
Halobates esakii

description: Halobates (sensu stricto) esakii Miyamoto, 1967
 Material examined. – (all apterous): Pantai Rhu: 1 male, 2 females, KV4. Pantai Datai: 1 female, KV5.
 Distribution. – From the Malay Peninsula (west coast) to the Philippines and Halmahera in Indonesia (Andersen & Cheng, 2004, Zettel, 2005).
description: Published as part of Zettel, Herbert & Tran, A. D., 2009, First Inventory Of The Water Bugs (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Gerromorpha) Of Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia, pp. 279-295 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (2) on page 291, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342032
Accounting for farm heterogeneity in the assessment of agricultural policy impacts on structural change
Creators: name: Saint-Cyr, Legrand D. F.
name: Saint-Cyr, Legrand D. F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Agricultural policy
subject: EM algorithm
subject: Farm structural change
subject: Mixed Markov model
subject: Unobserved heterogeneity

description: This study aims at investigating the impact of agricultural policies on structural change process in the French farming sector. As farms may behave differently, a mixture modeling approach is applied in order to account for unobserved farm heterogeneity. A multinomial logit specification is used for the transition probabilities and the parameters of the model are estimated by maximum likelihood method using the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm. An empirical application to an unbalanced panel over 2000-2013 shows that the French farming sector consists of a mixture of two types of farms with transition processes very different. The results also show that the impact of subsidies from the First and the Second Pillars of the Common Agricultural policy (CAP) depends on the type membership of farms. I thus argued that agricultural policy assessment should pay more attention on potential unobserved heterogeneity in farms’ behavior.
Fístulas duodenais tardias em transplante pancreático com drenagem vesical tratadas sem conversão.
Creators: name: SILVEIRA, FABIO
name: JOAO EDUARDO NICOLUZZI
name: Marmanillo, Carlos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine

description: Artigo publicado no Jornal Brasileiro de Transplantes (JBT), periódico da Associação Brasileira de Transplante de Órgãos (ABTO).
Nicoluzzi JE, Silveira F, Marmanillo C. Fístulas duodenais tardis em transplante pancreático com drenagem vesical tratadas sem conversão. Jornal Brasileiro de Transplantes. 2007;10(1)
Confira o volume completo no site da ABTO:
Vol. 10 - Número 1 - ABTO
Halobates hayanus White 1883
Creators: name: Zettel, Herbert
name: Tran, A. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Halobates
Halobates hayanus

description: Halobates (sensu stricto) hayanus White, 1883
 Material examined. – (all apterous): Jalan Tanjung Rhu, rocky shore: 5 males, 3 females, HZL7 b, 3 males, 3 females, TAD0620.
Former record from Langkawi: 1 male, “Langkawi Is., 4.IV.1934, leg. R. Birch”, in the Natural History Museum, London (HERRING 1961).
 Distribution. – Indo-West Pacific, from the Red Sea to Australia (Andersen & Cheng, 2004).
description: Published as part of Zettel, Herbert & Tran, A. D., 2009, First Inventory Of The Water Bugs (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Gerromorpha) Of Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia, pp. 279-295 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (2) on page 291, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342032
A Possibility of Gravity Control in Luminescent Materials
Creators: name: De Aquino, Fran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was demonstrated (gr-qc/9910036) that the gravitational and inertial masses are correlated by an adimensional factor, which depends on the incident (or emitted)radiation upon the particle. There is a direct correlation between the radiation absorbed(or radiated) by the particle and its gravitational mass, independently of the inertial mass. Only in the absence of electromagnetic radiation the mentioned factor becomes equal to one. On the other hand, in specific electromagnetic conditions, it can be reduced, nullified or made negative. This means that there is the possibility of the gravitational masses can be reduced, nullified or made negative by means of electromagnetic radiation. This unexpected theoretical result was confirmed by an experiment using Extra-Low Frequency(ELF) radiation on ferromagnetic material (gr-qc/0005107). Recently another experiment using UV light on phosphorescent plastic have confirmed the phenomenon. We present a complete explanation for the alterations of the gravitational field in luminescent materials. This work indicates that the alterations of the gravitational field can be sufficiently strong to invert the gravity on luminescent materials.
description: 8 pages, PDF
X-Ray Observations of XTE J1550-564 During the Decay of the 2000 Outburst - I. Chandra and RXTE Energy Spectra
Creators: name: Tomsick, John A.
name: Corbel, Stephane
name: Kaaret, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the evolution of the X-ray energy spectrum for the black hole candidate (BHC) X-ray transient XTE J1550-564 during the decay of the 2000 outburst. The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and Chandra observations span nearly five orders of magnitude in luminosity. The RXTE spectra are dominated by a power-law component and a comparatively weak soft component was also detected for the first two observations. The source made a transition to the canonical hard state near a luminosity of 9E36 erg/s over several observations as evidenced by a drop in the flux of the soft component in the RXTE energy band and a hardening of the power-law component to a photon index near 1.6. The power-law did not exhibit this behavior for the previous XTE J1550-564 outburst. For some observations, we detect a high energy cutoff and find that the cutoff is more significant and at lower energy during the transition than in the hard state. The cutoff in the hard state is at higher energy than has been seen for most previous accreting BHCs. The Chandra spectrum provides evidence for spectral evolution after the hard state transition. It is well, but not uniquely, described by a power-law with a photon index of 2.30^{+0.41}_{-0.48} (90% confidence) and interstellar absorption. Advection-dominated accretion flow models predict gradual spectral softening as the luminosity drops, but our observations do not allow us to determine if the spectral evolution is gradual or sudden. The lowest luminosity we measure for XTE J1550-564 with Chandra is 5E32 erg/s (0.5-7 keV, for a distance of 4 kpc). Although this is probably not the true quiescent luminosity, it represents a useful upper limit on this quantity.
description: 10 pages, accepted by ApJ, revisions include an additional conclusion, additions and clarifications to the discussion and some changes in the details of the RXTE spectral analysis
Superoscillations: a scale physics perspective
Creators: name: Konrad, Thomas
name: Roux, Filippus S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Arguments from scale physics, augmented by numerical and analytical investigations, are used to consider the probability and the detectability of superoscillations in generic functions. The detectability is defined as the fraction of the total power in the field that is located at regions of superoscillations. It is found that the probability for a superoscillation of a particular scale follows a quadratic power-law decay curve above the scale of the bounded support of the spectrum. The detectability is found to be even more severely suppressed, following a fourth-order power-law decay curve above the scale of the spectrum.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Uniformity of the phase space and fluctuations in thermal equilibrium
Creators: name: Majka, Arkadiusz
name: Wislicki, Wojciech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: General relations are found between the measure of the uniformity of distributions on the phase space and the first moments and correlations of extensive variables for systems close to thermal equilibrium. The role played by the parameter of the Renyi entropy for the analysis of their fluctuations and correlations is studied. Analytical results are verified and illustrated by direct simulations of quantum systems of ideal fermions and bosons. Problems of finite statistics, usual in experiments and simulations, are addressed and discussed and solved by finding unbiased estimators for Renyi entropies and uniformities.
description: 20 pages, 20 figures
Wishart and Anti-Wishart random matrices
Creators: name: Janik, Romuald A.
name: Nowak, Maciej A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a compact exact representation for the distribution of the matrix elements of the Wishart-type random matrices $A^\dagger A$, for any finite number of rows and columns of $A$, without any large N approximations. In particular we treat the case when the Wishart-type random matrix contains redundant, non-random information, which is a new result. This representation is of interest for a procedure of reconstructing the redundant information hidden in Wishart matrices, with potential applications to numerous models based on biological, social and artificial intelligence networks.
description: 11 pages; v2: references updated + some clarifications added; v3: version to appear in J. Phys. A, Special Issue on Random Matrix Theory
Acidogenic mixed consortium isolated from soil of agricultural field: acid production behaviour and growth kinetics under the influence of pretreatment hydrolysate of rice straw (RS)
Creators: name: Shiladitya Ghosh
name: Sumona Pathak
name: Dinabandhu Manna
name: Chowdhury, Ranjana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The present study was conducted to assess the possibilities of biofuel production through volatile fatty acid (VFA) platform using mixed consortia isolated from a natural source (soil of rice cultivation field). The acid production potential of the isolated acidogenic mixed consortium UACJUChE1, using pretreatment hydrolysate of rice straw as the carbohydrate source, was assessed. Growth kinetic parameters i.e. maximum specific growth rate (μmax) and substrate saturation constant (KS) of UACJUChE1 have been determined separately for both glucose and hydrolysate in the Reinforced Clostridial Medium (RCM). A summative type growth model has been observed to be valid when the combination of glucose and RS-hydrolysate (RSH) is used as the carbon sources. The summative model has been validated by successful comparison of model predictions with the experimental data. The presence of VFAs in the culture broth of the consortium grown on glucose, RS-hydrolysate and their combination (Glc:RSH: 2:3; 1:4 (w/w)) has been established. The survival and growth of solventogenic Clostridium acetobutylicum in a growth medium amended with the effluent of these batch cultures of UACJUChE1 have been ascertained. This indicates a strong potential of UACJUChE1 in the hybridisation of the VFA platform and conventional sugar platform for the generation of butanol from RS.
New localized Superluminal solutions to the wave equations with finite total energies and arbitrary frequencies
Creators: name: Zamboni-Rached, Michel
name: Recami, Erasmo
name: Harnandez-Figueroa, Hugo E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By a generalized bidirectional decomposition method, we obtain many new Superluminal localized solutions to the wave equation (for the electromagnetic case, in particular) which are suitable for arbitrary frequency bands; various of them being endowed with finite total energy. We construct, among the others, an infinite family of generalizations of the so-called "X-shaped" waves. [PACS nos.: 03.50.De; 41.20;Jb; 83.50.Vr; 62.30.+d; 43.60.+d; 91.30.Fn; 04.30.Nk; 42.25.Bs; 46.40.Cd; 52.35.Lv. Keywords: Wave equations; Wave propagation; Localized beams; Superluminal waves; Bidirectional decomposition; Bessel beams; X-shaped waves; Microwaves; Optics; Special relativity; Acoustics; Seismology; Mechanical waves; Elastic waves; Gravitational waves; Elementary particle physics].
description: plain LaTeX file (29 pages), plus 11 figures. Replaced with addition of the FIGURES that were lacking (or poor) in the previous submissions. In press in Europ. Phys. Journal-D
X-Ray Observations of XTE J1550-564 During the Decay of the 2000 Outburst - II. Timing
Creators: name: Kalemci, Emrah
name: Tomsick, John A.
name: Rothschild, R. E.
name: Pottschmidt, Katja
name: Kaaret, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the timing behavior of XTE J1550-564 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) as the source made a transition to the hard state during the decay of the 2000 outburst. We detect a high frequency QPO at 65 Hz in one observation with a fractional rms amplitude of 4.9%. This is the first time that a high frequency QPO has been detected in a transition to the hard state during outburst decay. We also observe low frequency QPOs in the 0.36-4.1 Hz range and rich aperiodic variability. The changes in the temporal properties during the decay are very similar to the state transitions observed for other sources. We find a correlation between the QPO frequency and the break frequency in the continuum power spectra. We investigate the energy dependence of rms amplitudes of the QPOs. We compare these timing properties with those previously observed for XTE J1550-564 and other Galactic black hole candidates and discuss the implications for QPO models and black hole accretion.
description: 7 pages, accepted by ApJ. Minor modifications made after the referee's Comments
Halobates proavus White 1883
Creators: name: Zettel, Herbert
name: Tran, A. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Halobates
Halobates proavus

description: Halobates (sensu stricto) proavus White, 1883
 Material examined. – (all apterous): Pantai Kok: 1 female, KV1. Pantai Datai: 40 males, 34 females, KV5.
 Distribution. – From the Nicobar Islands and southern Thailand until Vanuatu (Andersen & Cheng, 2004).
description: Published as part of Zettel, Herbert & Tran, A. D., 2009, First Inventory Of The Water Bugs (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Gerromorpha) Of Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia, pp. 279-295 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (2) on page 291, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342032
Launching a Blue Economy: crucial first steps in designing a contextually sensitive and coherent approach
Creators: name: Voyer, Michelle
name: Quirk, Genevieve
name: Farmery, Anna K.
name: Kajlich, Lana
name: Warner, Robin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The Blue Economy is an emerging framework through which sustainable development is being pursued within the oceans. To date there is limited guidance into how a Blue Economy should be enacted. We propose four initial steps in the development of Blue Economy policies and plans. Firstly, we argue for early deliberation over what is meant by the Blue Economy within the relevant context. Secondly, consideration of the sectors that make up a Blue Economy should be articulated. Thirdly, we argue that Blue Economy plans should aim to be coherent within the existing policy framework. Therefore, an assessment is required of the existing policy settings for the relevant marine and coastal sectors, and the degree to which they are already coherent, or ‘mutually consistent’ with each other. Finally, a contextually sensitive and coherent Blue Economy policy can be designed which plugs policy gaps and adds value to the existing situation. We test the application of these four steps in two different case study areas, a region of Australia and Timor Leste. Despite substantial differences in context, the process identified ways in which Blue Economy policies could add value to existing governance arrangements in both settings.
The Effect of HPAI on ECOWAS Meat prices Using Price Transmission Analysis
Creators: name: Taha, Fawzi A.
name: Shkrelja, Anthony
name: Taha, Fawzi A.
name: Shkrelja, Anthony
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: HPAI-impacts on ECOWAS meat imports
subject: price transmission elasticity
subject: integration/segregation in ECOWAS meat markets
subject: exchange rate impacts
subject: connectivity of ECOWAS-international meat markets
subject: Impulse Response Functions (IRFs)

description: This paper assesses impacts of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreaks on meat prices in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). It analyzes price-transmission, applying innovative techniques, spatial models and a temporal dynamic structural model using VAR analysis coupled with impulse response functions (IRF’s), to assess the magnitude of shocks on meat prices and length of time over which their effects persist. Results find that the shock of HPAI outbreaks had a stronger negative impact on ECOWAS poultry prices than on the international prices, but weaker positive impact on ECOWAS beef and pork prices than on international prices. Poultry in ECOWAS was perfectly segmented during the pre-HPAI, but became more integrated post-HPAI, due to rising import demand for poultry evidenced by an average of 23 percent per year in the post-HPAI years 2009-2012. Block-exogeneity-Wald tests indicated weak connectivity of international markets to ECOWAS poultry markets and strong connectivity of ECOWAS to the international markets. This means that if international prices of poultry are high (low), we can predict high (low) prices in ECOWAS, ceteris paribus, while prices in international markets do not follow ECOWAS prices, being a small market. There is strong connectivity between international and ECOWAS beef and pork prices, but weak relationships between ECOWAS prices and international markets. Linkages in both directions are significant for sheep and goat prices. Inference from Impulse Response Functions indicated that speed recovery from price shocks in international markets are faster than in ECOWAS.
Discordipinna griessingeri Hoese & Fourmanoir 1978
Creators: name: Chen, I-Shiung
name: Suzuki, Toshiyuki
name: Shao, Kwang-Tsao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Gobiidae
Discordipinna
Discordipinna griessingeri

description: Discordipinna griessingeri Hoese & Fourmanoir, 1978
(Japanese name: Homura-haze)
(Fig. 1)
 Discordipinna griessingeri Hoese & Fourmanoir, 1978: 21 (El Himeira, Sinai, Egypt, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea). — Hagiwara et al. 1996: 2. — Akihito et al. 2002: 1250. — Suzuki & Shibukawa 2004: 443. — Motomura et al. in Motomura & Matsuura 2010: 208.
 Materials examined. NTOUP-2011-01-001, 3 specimens, 13.3–13.7 mm SL, Cebu Island, the Philippines, coll. A. Chen et al., 8 Nov., 2009.
 Diagnosis. This species can be well distinguished from congeners by the unique combination of the following features: (1) fins: first dorsal fin rays V; pectoral fin rays 17–20 (modally 18); and first dorsal fin with the longest anterior two rays in male and the fin membrane deeply indented between the first two dorsal spines; (2) squamation: longitudinal scale rows 22–25; transverse scale rows usually 6–7 and predorsal naked; (3) dorsal pterygiophore formulae 3/41001/8; 10 + 16 = 26 vertebrae; (4) head lateral-line system: reduced, longitudinal pattern of infraorbital papilla and anterior oculoscapular canal present (with pore λ singular on middle of interorbital region, pore κ singular on posterior interorbital region and lateral section as pores α, β, and ρ) but lacking both preopercular and posterior oculoscapular canals; and (5) coloration pattern: body creamy yellow with wide longitudinal brown band on ventral half; head with many round brownish black spots; first dorsal fin orange red; pectoral fin orange with an oblique translucent band; second dorsal and caudal fins with several deep brown blotches each having a central black spot.
 Distribution. This species is distributed from the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean to the tropical West Pacific region in countries including the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan (Ryukyu Islands to Wakayama Prefecture, middle of the main island, Japan) (Hagiwara et al. 1996; Akihito et al. 2002; Suzuki & Shibukawa 2004; Chen unpublished data).
description: Published as part of Chen, I-Shiung, Suzuki, Toshiyuki & Shao, Kwang-Tsao, 2012, A new deepwater goby of the genus Discordipinna Hoese & Fourmanoir, 1978 (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Kumejima of the Ryukyus, Japan *, pp. 274-280 in Zootaxa 3367 on pages 275-276
Signal processing approach to mesh refinement in simulations of axisymmetric droplet dynamics
Creators: name: Koga, Kazuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 76B07, 76B45, 65M50

description: We propose a novel mesh refinement scheme based on signal processing for boundary integral simulations of inviscid droplet dynamics with axial symmetry. A key idea is to directly access the Fourier coefficients of a principal curvature as a function of the arclength through a natural change of variables. The trapezoidal rule is applied to those Fourier-type integrals and the resulting formula fits in the framework of the non-uniform fast Fourier transform. This observation enables to efficiently use an envelope analysis and smoothing filter to generate guidelines for mesh refinement in two singularity formation scenarios. Applications also include a non-iterative construction of the uniform parametrization for an important class of plane curves, which is used in a convergence study of the time-stepping procedure implemented in the previous work by Nitsche and Steen [J. Comput. Phys. 200 (2004) 299].
description: 22 pages, 12 figures
Aging at Criticality in Model C Dynamics
Creators: name: Calabrese, Pasquale
name: Gambassi, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the off-equilibrium two-point critical response and correlation functions for the relaxational dynamics with a coupling to a conserved density (Model C) of the O(N) vector model. They are determined in an ε=4-d expansion for vanishing momentum. We briefly discuss their scaling behaviors and the associated scaling forms are determined up to first order in epsilon. The corresponding fluctuation-dissipation ratio has a non trivial large time limit in the aging regime and, up to one-loop order, it is the same as that of the Model A for the physically relevant case N=1. The comparison with predictions of local scale invariance is also discussed.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure
Halobates sexualis Distant 1903
Creators: name: Zettel, Herbert
name: Tran, A. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Halobates
Halobates sexualis

description: Halobates (sensu stricto) sexualis Distant, 1903
 Material examined. – Pantai Rhu: 3 males, 4 females (apterous), KV4.
 Distribution. – Malay Peninsula and Sri Lanka (Andersen & Cheng, 2004).
description: Published as part of Zettel, Herbert & Tran, A. D., 2009, First Inventory Of The Water Bugs (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Gerromorpha) Of Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia, pp. 279-295 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (2) on page 291, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342032
Characterization of High Entropy Alloys for Magnetocaloric Applications
Creators: name: Perrin, Alice
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Magnetocaloric refrigeration offers more energy efficiency than conventional gas compression refrigeration by up to 20%, and has the additional advantage of being environmentally friendly as it does not require the use of ozone depleting gases. The primary challenge in developing magnetocaloric refrigerators for commercial use is in developing suitable materials with large room temperature magnetocaloric effects. Critical rare earths metals (REs)
and compounds have been studied because of their large magnetocaloric response and working temperatures close to room temperature. However, the scarcity, high price and corrosion of REs limit their commercial use, leading to the investigation of more sustainable transition metal-based alloys. I explore the possibility of developing high performance high entropy alloys for magnetocaloric applications, and my approach to this problem follows on the materials paradigm: 1) synthesis, 2) structure, 3) properties, and 4) performance. Synthesis requires determining the best conditions for producing the alloys in the proper form, and this is important both for the initial production of my bulk alloys through rapid solidi fication.

The structure of high entropy alloys is necessarily a random distribution of atoms, and an investigation of the homogeneity of this condition through electron dispersive spectroscopy is vital for determining the stability of the alloy. I investigate the magnetic and thermal properties of these alloys both to assess their fitness for speci fic magnetocaloric applications, and also to better understand the relationship between their structure and properties.
Mossbauer spectroscopy experiments for magnetic data was performed in collaboration with Monica Sorescu at Duquesne University. I extend this exploration through high pressure and low temperature studies to to develop a fundamental understanding of the magnetic
interactions in these alloys, including a novel approach to visualizing exchange using the Bethe-Slater curve that explore the importance of considerations of the d-orbital extent on changes in exchange. High pressure magnetic measurements were performed in collaboration
with Scott McCall at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. I began this study with a focus on performance in commercial refrigeration applications, but the complex magnetic
and structural attributes of these materials require rigorous study for a better understanding of magnetic high entropy alloys, and this work contributes to this relatively unexplored
but growing field.
Gonodactylaceus glabrous
Creators: name: Ahyong Kumejima, Shane T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Stomatopoda
Gonodactylidae
Gonodactylaceus
Gonodactylaceus glabrous

description: Gonodactylaceus glabrous (Brooks, 1886) *#
(Fig. 1G–I)
 Gonodactylus glabrous Brooks, 1886: 22, 64, pl. 14: fig. 5, pl. 15: figs. 7, 9 [type locality: Samboangan reefs, Philippines].
 Gonodactylus bossorotundus Roxas & Estampador, 1930: 94, 122, pl. 6: figs. 1, 2 [type locality: Samboangan reefs, Philippines, by neotype designation (Ahyong 2001)].
 Gonodactylus chiragra var. crescentus Roxas & Estampador, 1930: 94, 120, pl. 5: fig. 3 [type locality: Samboangan reefs, Philippines, by neotype designation (Ahyong 2001)].
 Gonodactylaceus glabrous. — Ahyong 2001: 38–40, fig. 18.
 Material. RUMF-ZC-01249, 1 male (TL 25 mm), 26° 19.714 –19.579´N, 126° 45.649 –45.707´E, 17.9–42.5 m, rubble, dredge 44, 14 Nov 2009; RUMF-ZC-01250, 1 female (TL 28 mm), 26° 19.449 –19.478´N, 126° 45.748 –45.800´E, 8.9–9.3 m, dead coral branches, rubble, dredge 51, 16 Nov 2009; RUMF-ZC-01251, 1 female (TL 39 mm), 26° 20.409 –20.018´N 126° 49.675 –49.224´E, 5.1– 4.5 m, dead coral branches, rubble, dredge 52, 17 Nov 2009; RUMF-ZC-01252, 1 female (TL 29 mm), 26° 19.456 –19.400´N, 126° 49.450 –49.182´E, 4.5–9.0 m, dead coral blocks, trawl 54, 17 Nov 2009; RUMF-ZC-01253, 1 female (TL 40 mm), 26° 20.307 –20.158´N, 126° 49.360 –49.334´E, 5.1–6.4 m, trawl 59, 18 Nov 2009; AM P87562, 1 female (TL 39 mm), 26° 20.307 –20.158´N, 126° 49.360 –49.334´E, 5.1–6.4 m, trawl 59, 18 Nov 2009; ZRC 2011.0820, 2 females (TL 18–19 mm), Koukou-mae (in front of high school), 26°19.885´N, 126°45.616´E, <4 m, mud, dead coral rubble, yabby pump, dive 16, 14 Nov 2009.
 Remarks. The specimens represent the first record of G. glabrous sensu stricto from Japanese waters. Previous records of G. glabrous from Japan (e.g., Fukuda 1908, 1910, 1913) are based on G. falcatus. Gonodactylaceus glabrous exhibits highly variable body patterning similar to that of G. falcatus reported above, but the meral spot of raptorial claw is orange rather than yellow (Fig. 1G–I).
 Distribution. Western Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and now from Japanese waters; intertidal to 42.5 m.
description: Published as part of Ahyong Kumejima, Shane T., 2012, Stomatopod Crustacea of the KUMEJIMA 2009 Expedition, Japan *, pp. 232-251 in Zootaxa 3367 on pages 234-235
Consumption Patterns of Urban Punjab of Pakistan: Evidence from HIES 2013-14
Creators: name: Akram, Waqar
name: Henneberry, Shida
name: Akram, Waqar
name: Henneberry, Shida
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Urban food consumption
subject: LA-AIDS
subject: expenditure elasticities

description: We have analyzed the food consumption patterns and then estimated consumption elasticities for Urban Punjab. For this purpose we used LA-AIDS model specification by forming ten food groups using HIES 2013-14 data and applied seemingly unrelated regression (SUR). We found that, people of Pakistan with the passage of time consuming less amount of wheat and wheat flour, it may be due to the shifting towards fast foods and other substitutes such as rice, corn, and backing flour. Our study suggest that, urbanization and exclusion of the livestock from the main cities may be a threat to food security. Appropriate measures must be taken by the Government to ensure the food availability and to keep the prices smooth.
An Empirical Study on the Social Integration of Young Migrant Workers: A Case Study of Nanjing City
Creators: name: WANG, Tingting
name: WANG, Tingting
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Young migrant workers
subject: Social integration
subject: Nanjing City

description: Based on the empirical survey of 184 young migrant workers in Nanjing City, this paper makes an in-depth analysis of issues concerning the social integration of young migrant workers from economic integration, cultural integration and psychological integration. The survey results show that the overall level of social integration of young migrant workers is low; the dualistic household registration management system of urban and rural areas is the root cause, the lack of human capital, cultural capital and social capital is the underlying causes, and urban residents' discrimination and exclusion is the external cause; to speed up the social integration of young migrant workers, the key is based on the actual needs of youth migrant workers to take practical measures to gradually integrate them into the city.
Gonodactylellus rubriguttatus Erdmann & Manning 1998
Creators: name: Ahyong Kumejima, Shane T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Stomatopoda
Gonodactylidae
Gonodactylellus
Gonodactylellus rubriguttatus

description: Gonodactylellus rubriguttatus Erdmann & Manning, 1998 *#
(Fig. 2G–H)
 Gonodactylus incipiens. — Moosa, 1991: 158 [part].
 Gonodactylellus rubriguttatus Erdmann and Manning, 1998: 619–620, fig. 1d [type locality: Tanjung Torosie, Komodo/Rinca, Indonesia]. — Ahyong 2001: 60–61, fig. 29; 2007: 334.
 Material. RUMF-ZC-01264, 1 male (TL 18 mm), 26° 23.090 –22.966´N, 126° 47.832 –47.937´E, 82.0– 81.3 m, rubble, trawl 7, 10 Nov 2009; RUMF-ZC-01265, 1 female (TL 13 mm), 26° 22.806 –22.670´N, 126° 48.035 –48.327´E, 68 m, dredge 11, 10 Nov 2009; RUMF-ZC-01266, 1 female (TL 24 mm), 26° 16.961 –17.028´N, 126° 52.508 –51.952´E, 136– 126 m, trawl 27, 12 Nov 2009; RUMF-ZC-01268, 1 female (TL 19 mm), 26° 16.775 –16.759´N, 126° 48.050 –47.810´E, 67.3–73.3 m, iron anchor, dead coral blocks, rubble, trawl 32, 13 Nov 2009; AM P87565, 2 males (TL 17–23 mm), 1 female (TL 23 mm), 26° 19.907 –20.056´N, 126° 43.191 –42.622´E, 67.5–76 m, dead coral blocks, rubble, trawl 45, 16 Nov 2009; ZRC 2011.0821, 1 male (TL 24 mm), 26° 19.553 –19.463´N, 126° 49.510 –49.491´E, 9.1–13.3 m, sand, dredge 58, 17 Nov 2011; ZRC 2011. 0822, 1 female (TL 16 mm), 26° 19.672 –19.698´N, 126° 43.328 –42.957´E, 101– 93.2 m, rubble, dredge 76, 19 Nov 2009; RUMF-ZC-01269, 1 female (TL 14 mm), 26° 15.271 –15.475´N, 126° 47.659 –47.224´E, 116–125 m, shells, rubble, dredge 81, 20 Nov 2009.
 Remarks. The present specimens are the first record of G. rubriguttatus from Japanese waters. The lateral lobe of the distal endite of pleopod 1 is well-developed in all males examined.
 Distribution. Northern Australia, Indonesia, New Caledonia and now from Japanese waters; 6– 136 m.
description: Published as part of Ahyong Kumejima, Shane T., 2012, Stomatopod Crustacea of the KUMEJIMA 2009 Expedition, Japan *, pp. 232-251 in Zootaxa 3367 on pages 239-240
Changes and Influencing Factors of Maize Production Pattern in China
Creators: name: TANG, Haiyang
name: ZHOU, Jin
name: TANG, Haiyang
name: ZHOU, Jin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Maize
subject: Production pattern
subject: Influencing factors

description: Since the founding of new China, the maize production pattern took on characteristic of “northern expansion and western movement”: there were great changes in ranking of main producing provinces; southern planting area gradually shrank, while central and northern planting area gradually expanded; apart from traditional main producing regions such as northeastern, north China, and southwestern regions, Shanxi-Shaanxi region and northwest region are gradually forming. To further analyze factors promoting changes in maize production pattern, based on 1987-2013 panel data, we carried our empirical study and obtained five influencing factors: resource endowment, economic environment, market environment, technical conditions, and policies. Per capita farmland, multiple cropping index, water conservancy and irrigation, and benefit cost ratio, and traffic and transportation policies exert positive effect, non-agricultural employment level exerts negative effect, and the significance of natural disasters, market price, and science and technology are inadequate.
On Topology optimization with elliptical masks and honeycomb tessellation with explicit length scale constraints
Creators: name: Singh, Nikhil
name: Kumar, Prabhat
name: Saxena, Anupam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Topology optimization using gradient search with negative and positive elliptical masks and honeycomb tessellation is presented. Through a novel skeletonization algorithm for topologies defined using filled and void hexagonal cells/elements, explicit minimum and maximum length scales are imposed on solid states in the solutions. An analytical example is presented which suggests that for a skeletonized topology, optimal solutions may not always exist for any specified volume fraction, minimum and maximum length scales, and that there may exist implicit interdependence between them. A Sequence for Length Scale (SLS) methodology is proposed wherein solutions are sought by specifying only the minimum and maximum length scales with volume fraction getting determined systematically. Through four benchmark problems in small deformation topology optimization, it is demonstrated that solutions by-and-large satisfy the length scale constraints though the latter may get violated at certain local sites. The proposed approach seems promising, noting especially that solutions, if rendered perfectly {\it black and white} with minimum length scale explicitly imposed and boundaries smoothened, are quite close in performance compared to the parent topologies. Attaining {\it volume distributed} topologies, wherein members are more or less of the same thickness, may also be possible with the proposed approach.
description: 36 pages, 24 figures
The Changes in Guilin Paddy Soil Organic Matter and Rice Yield under Long-Term Fertilization
Creators: name: YU, Qiuliang
name: TANG, Zheng
name: LI, Zhongfang
name: CHEN, Chunlan
name: TANG, Xiaoxian
name: LIN, Yanli
name: YU, Qiuliang
name: TANG, Zheng
name: LI, Zhongfang
name: CHEN, Chunlan
name: TANG, Xiaoxian
name: LIN, Yanli
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Long-term fertilization
subject: Waterloggogenic paddy soil
subject: Soil organic matter (SOM)
subject: Yield change

description: Rational fertilization is an important measure to increase crop yield and soil fertility. Through analysis, this paper aims to master the change characteristics of soil organic matter and rice yield under different fertilizer treatments, in order to provide an important reference for the sustainable use of soil and effective fertilization. Long-term (19 years) rice crop rotation experiments in waterloggogenic paddy soil were conducted to investigate the change trend of crop grain yield and soil organic matter with time, reveal the dynamic characteristics and relationship between main fertility factors and crop yields using comparative analysis at three sites with conventional fertilization and non-fertilization in Guilin. The results showed that compared with previous years, the rice yield increased by 53% under the fertilization treatment and degreased by 66% under the control. Over the years, the average soil organic matter (SOM) content under fertilization treatment was 23% higher than under CK treatment. This indicates that chemical fertilizer and organic manure application can increase the rice yield and soil organic matter, and high rice yield can be attributed to the SOM increase.