cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 3 of Designing a novel hybrid healthcare teleconsultation network: a benchtop study of telepathology in Iran and a systematic review
Creators: name: Taghipour, Mohammad Mahdi
name: Sepehri, Mohammad Mehdi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 3: Fig. 3 The PRISMA flow diagram of the literature search
High-Value Agricultural Products of the Fiji Islands - Performance and Prospects
Creators: name: Sharma, Kanhaiya Lal
name: Sharma, Kanhaiya Lal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: High-value products
subject: less developed countries
subject: South Pacific Islands
subject: agricultural trade

description: This paper analyses the performance of high-value agricultural products of Fiji Islands in terms of their production and exports during 1975-2004. Problems and key issues affecting this are discussed. The performance of agriculture was poor for traditional, semi- and highly processed products during 1975-2004. Primary products, such as copra declined by 51 percent, paddy rice by 27 percent, cocoa by 91 percent, and beef by 7 percent. Sugarcane production increased only by 12 percent in three decades. There was a substantial increase in pork, chicken, eggs, and fish production. Production of processed products, such as sugar and coconut oil decreased during the period. Butter of local content increased by 24 percent, saw log by 16 percent and stock feed by 134 percent. Volume of export of sugar declined by 12 percent, canned fish by 50 percent and coconut oil by 79 percent. There is a great potential for diversification of exports from traditional to semi- and highly processed products. Improvements in competitiveness coupled with favourable domestic trade policies are crucial for successful export performance.
Uncooled bolometer response of a low noise La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 thin film
Creators: name: Mechin, Laurence
name: Routoure, Jean-Marc
name: Guillet, Bruno
name: Yang, Fan
name: Flament, Stephane
name: Robbes, Didier
name: Chakalov, Radoslav A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements of the optical responses of a La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO) sample at a wavelength of 533 nm in the 300-400 K range. The 200 nm thick film was grown by pulsed laser deposition on (100) SrTiO3 substrate and showed remarkably low noise. At 335 K the temperature coefficient of the resistance of a 100 micrometers wide 300 micrometers long LSMO line was 0.017 K-1 and the normalized Hooge parameter was 9 e-30 m3, which is among the lowest reported values. We then measured an optical sensitivity at I = 5 mA of 10.4 V.W-1 and corresponding noise equivalent power (NEP) values of 8.1 e-10 W.Hz-1/2 and 3.3 e-10 W. Hz-1/2 at 30 Hz and above 1kHz, respectively. Simple considerations on bias current conditions and thermal conductance G are finally given for further sensitivity improvements using LSMO films. The performances were indeed demonstrated on bulk substrates with G of 10-3 W.K-1. One could expect a NEP reduction by three orders of magnitude if a membrane-type geometry was used, which makes this LSMO device competitive against commercially available uncooled bolometers.
description: 15 pages. Accepted for publication in Appl. Phys. Lett
New Developments in Agricultural Policy Modelling and Consequences for Managing the Policy Analysis Systems
Creators: name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
name: Lauwers, Ludwig H.
name: Fernagut, Bruno
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
name: Lauwers, Ludwig H.
name: Fernagut, Bruno
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: policy impact analysis
subject: joint production
subject: farmers' behaviour
subject: knowledge flow Organisation

description: Last decade, the importance of multifunctionality and environmental issues in agricultural policies has been growing. This shift in scope of agricultural policy instruments implies an adjustment of the conventional ex-ante policy analysis systems. New requirements on input and output parameters will be needed. The objective of this paper is to show how the input/output management can be improved. Focus is on how the information management by the system can enhance the policy analysis and decision making and facilitate information flow and social support from the stakeholder debate.
A plausible method of preparing the ideal p-n junction interface of a thermoelectric material by surface doping
Creators: name: Lee, Ji-Eun
name: Hwang, Jinwoong
name: Kang, Minhee
name: Joo, Hyun-Jeong
name: Ryu, Hyejin
name: Kim, Kyoo
name: Kim, Yongsam
name: Kim, Namdong
name: Duong, Anh Tuan
name: Cho, Sunglae
name: Mo, Sung-Kwan
name: Hwang, Choongyu
name: Yang, Imjeong Ho-Soon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent advances in two-dimensional (2D) crystals make it possible to realize an ideal interface structure that is required for device applications. Specifically, a p-n junction made of 2D crystals is predicted to exhibit an atomically well-defined interface that will lead to high device performance. Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, a simple surface treatment was shown to allow the possible formation of such an interface. Ta adsorption on the surface of a p-doped SnSe shifts the valence band maximum towards higher binding energy due to the charge transfer from Ta to SnSe that is highly localized at the surface due to the layered structure of SnSe. As a result, the charge carriers of the surface are changed from holes of its bulk characteristics to electrons, while the bulk remains as a p-type semiconductor. This observation suggests that the well-defined interface of a p-n junction with an atomically thin {\it n}-region is formed between Ta-adsorbed surface and bulk.
description: 4 figures
Peaceful Co-existence? What Role for Personal Wealth and Entitlement in Conflict Mitigation in Unfavorable Areas of Eastern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Bogale, Ayalneh
name: Korf, Benedikt
name: Hagedorn, Konrad
name: Bogale, Ayalneh
name: Korf, Benedikt
name: Hagedorn, Konrad
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: Capitalizing on the mobility of livestock is one of the major ways in which pastoralists have managed ecological uncertainties and risks, as it enables them the opportunistic use of the resources. However, agricultural encroachment onto rangelands by nearby agro-pastoralists has led to a shortage in grazing area and threatened the mobility of the pastoralists. As this process leads to a significant disruption and weakening of the risk-management systems of pastoralists, they seek for various institutional arrangements with agropastoralists to enable them access to common grazing land. Based on an exploratory survey and data derived from interview of 146 households in ea stern Ethiopia, this paper uses an adaptation of the sequential rationality game theoretical model and institutional analysis to discrete choice models. The analytical framework, in its entirety, presents a simple model of household and community level decision-making, in which they are concerned about t heir welfare along many different dimensions. Choice of institutional arrangement, namely no opinion, reciprocal, sharing milk and the right to use milk, is modelled using multinomial logit discrete choice procedure. The model chi-squared statistic is significant at the 1% level of probability. For all arrangements, there are three to five observable characteristics of household that provide statistically significant predictive power for practicing a given arrangement. The paper argues resource scarcity may enhance the bargaining position of asset-poor members of an agro-pastoral society and urges the wealthier agropastoralists to comply with a non-violent resolution of competing claims towards a resource sharing arrangement.
Consumer Knowledge and Meat Consumption in the US
Creators: name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
name: Yen, Steven T.
name: Davis, Christopher G.
name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
name: Yen, Steven T.
name: Davis, Christopher G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: We investigate the roles of consumer knowledge and sociodemographic factors in the consumption of meat products at home and away from home, using data from the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals and its companion Diet and Health Knowledge Survey conducted by the US Department of Agriculture. The sample used contains individuals not consuming some of the products. In addition, diet knowledge is potentially endogenous because it is likely to be affected by unobserved factors which also affect meat consumption. It is well known that traditional estimation procedures not accounting for censored dependent variables or simultaneity produce biased estimates. These econometric issues are addressed by developing a simultaneous -equations system, estimated with the maximum simulated likelihood procedure. Results suggest endogeneity of knowledge and support the system approach to the estimation of demand functions for meats. Health knowledge decreases consumption of beef and pork at home and away from home; it increases consumption of poultry at and away from home but does not affect fish consumption in either occasion. Our findings on the effects of sociodemographic factors are in general consistent with a priori expectations: men eat more meat and fish than women, meat and fish consumption generally declines with age among adults, and regional and racial/ethnic differences in meat and fish consumption are observed. The simultaneous-equations model can be extended to one with multiple endogenous variables and can be a useful tool in other analyses of consumer demand with micro survey data, which have become available in many developing countries.
Single Particle Operators and their Correlators in Free $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM
Creators: name: Aprile, F.
name: Drummond, J. M.
name: Heslop, P.
name: Paul, H.
name: Sanfilippo, F.
name: Santagata, M.
name: Stewart, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a set of half-BPS operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory which are appropriate for describing single-particle states of superstring theory on AdS${}_5 \times S^5$. These single-particle operators are defined to have vanishing two-point functions with all multi-trace operators and therefore correspond to admixtures of single- and multi-traces. We find explicit formulae for all single-particle operators and for their two-point function normalisation. We show that single-particle $U(N)$ operators belong to the $SU(N)$ subspace, thus for length greater than one they are simply the $SU(N)$ single-particle operators. Then, we point out that at large $N$, as the length of the operator increases, the single-particle operator naturally interpolates between the single-trace and the $S^3$ giant graviton. At finite $N$, the multi-particle basis, obtained by taking products of the single-particle operators, gives a new basis for all half-BPS states, and this new basis naturally cuts off when the length of any of the single-particle operators exceeds the number of colours. From the two-point function orthogonality we prove a multipoint orthogonality theorem which implies vanishing of all near-extremal correlators. We then compute all maximally and next-to-maximally extremal free correlators, and we discuss features of the correlators when the extremality is lowered. Finally, we describe a half-BPS projection of the operator product expansion on the multi-particle basis which provides an alternative construction of four- and higher-point functions in the free theory.
description: 46 pages, appendices A,B,C,D and many illustrations
Additional file 10 of Designing a novel hybrid healthcare teleconsultation network: a benchtop study of telepathology in Iran and a systematic review
Creators: name: Taghipour, Mohammad Mahdi
name: Sepehri, Mohammad Mehdi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 10: Appendix I. The Search Strategy
Right from the start: a study of provision for under-fives in two Leicestershire libraries
Creators: name: Gill, Kuldip K.
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Right from the start: a study of provision for under-fives in two Leicestershire libraries
Turning point principle for relativistic stars
Creators: name: Hadzic, Mahir
name: Lin, Zhiwu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q75, 35Q35, 35B35

description: Upon specifying an equation of state, spherically symmetric steady states of the Einstein-Euler system are embedded in 1-parameter families of solutions, characterized by the value of their central redshift. In the 1960's Zel'dovich [50] and Wheeler [22] formulated a turning point principle which states that the spectral stability can be exchanged to instability and vice versa only at the extrema of mass along the mass-radius curve. Moreover the bending orientation at the extrema determines whether a growing mode is gained or lost. We prove the turning point principle and provide a detailed description of the linearized dynamics. One of the corollaries of our result is that the number of growing modes grows to infinity as the central redshift increases to infinity.
description: 33 pages, 1 figure
Determination of Littlest Higgs model parameters at the ILC
Creators: name: Conley, John A.
name: Hewett, JoAnne
name: Le, My Phuong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the effects of the extended gauge sector of the Littlest Higgs model in high energy e+e- collisions. We find that the search reach in e+e- -> f fbar at a 500 GeV center-of-mass energy International Linear Collider covers essentially the entire parameter region where the Littlest Higgs model is relevant to the gauge hierarchy problem. In addition, we show that this channel provides an accurate determination of the fundamental model parameters, to the precision of a few percent, provided that the LHC measures the mass of the heavy neutral gauge field. Additionally, we show that the couplings of the extra gauge bosons to the light Higgs can be observed from the process e+e- -> Z higgs for a significant region of the parameter space. This allows for confirmation of the structure of the cancelation of the Higgs mass quadratic divergence and would verify the little Higgs mechanism.
description: 21 pages, 15 Postscript figures
An Assessment of Risk Attitude of Dairy Farmers in Uttaranchal (India)
Creators: name: Bardhan, Dwaipayan
name: Dabas, Y.P.S.
name: Tewari, S.K.
name: Kumar, Avadhesh
name: Bardhan, Dwaipayan
name: Dabas, Y.P.S.
name: Tewari, S.K.
name: Kumar, Avadhesh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: The study was carried out in the Tarai area of Uttaranchal state to (i) identify the sources of risks perceived to be relevant by the farmers, (ii) examine farmers' risk attitude, (iii) identify the factors that affect risk attitudes and (iv) evaluate the relative importance of different risk management strategies. Adverse effect on family health was perceived as a major source of risk by the dairy farmers, indicating the crucial role that surplus family labour plays in dairy farming in India. Lack of institutional support in dairying was also perceived to be a major source risk. Farmers' risk attitude was measured using an attitudinal scale approach. The attitudinal scale consisted of a series of different risk management strategies and the farmers' attitude was measured by his rating of each of those strategies. The analysis establishes a refined 22-item scale that can be applied by researchers to measure the risk attitude of dairy farm ers in Indian context. The refined scale has high degree of reliability as farmers' responses to the items of the scale revealed a communal variation of 85%, which is higher than the minimally acceptable range of 65% to 70%. The study further revealed slight degree of risk aversion among farmers as revealed by the adoption such risk management tools like vaccinating the animals, calling a veterinarian, prevention of illness, maintaining hygienic conditions, and feeding adequate concentrates. Hence, there is a strong tendency on the part of the farmers to mitigate the production risks at farm level by adapting appropriate measures. But, a certain degree of risk taking behaviour was also seen in regard to certain risk management tools, especially livestock insurance. Regression analysis to ascertain relationship between socio-economic factors with risk attitudes, revealed largely insignificant influence of the variables considered in the study. Herd size and hours spent in off-farm work showed negative and significant impact upon the risk attitude score. Number of dependents showed significant and positive relationship with the total score. The variables included in the study explained 54.5 per cent of variation in risk attitude score. As regards to relative importance of different risk management tools, carrying adequate cash reserve was cited by the farmers as relevant, which is against the general perception that Indian farmers, mostly being subsistent can not afford to hold cash reserve to meet future crisis.
Absolutely Continuous Spectra of Quantum Tree Graphs with Weak Disorder
Creators: name: Aizenman, Michael
name: Sims, Robert
name: Warzel, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the Laplacian on a rooted metric tree graph with branching number $ K \geq 2 $ and random edge lengths given by independent and identically distributed bounded variables. Our main result is the stability of the absolutely continuous spectrum for weak disorder. A useful tool in the discussion is a function which expresses a directional transmission amplitude to infinity and forms a generalization of the Weyl-Titchmarsh function to trees. The proof of the main result rests on upper bounds on the range of fluctuations of this quantity in the limit of weak disorder.
Ajjoub, Maxime (Leila): Livre d'heures du Sinaï (Sinaiticus Graecus 864)
Creators: name: Bruns, Peter
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 93 (2009): Oriens christianus, Band 93
157. Many more Gaia sources in Omega Cen
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In essay 40 I described the first Gaia-based estimates of the distance to the globular cluster Omega Cen. Gaia DR3 contained 321,698 cluster sources. A series of special observations, and part of ESA's October 2023 'Focused Product Release', results in a further 526,587 sources in its core region. I also summarise other results on Omega Cen to date.
The Efficiency-Equity Tradeoffs in Agricultural Research Priority Setting: The Potential Impacts of Agricultural Research on Economic Surplus and Poverty Reduction in Nigeria
Creators: name: Alene, Arega D.
name: Manyong, Victor M.
name: Tollens, Eric
name: Abele, Steffen
name: Alene, Arega D.
name: Manyong, Victor M.
name: Tollens, Eric
name: Abele, Steffen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: poverty reduction
subject: economic surplus
subject: research priority setting
subject: Nigeria

description: Public agricultural research has come under increasing pressure to redefine its strategic priorities to contribute to poverty alleviation goals. However, the issue of whether the poor benefit more from agricultural research that pursues efficiency or equity objectives remains unresolved, largely due to lack of empirical evidence on the nature and magnitude of the efficiency-equity tradeoffs. This paper estimates the potential impacts of agricultural research on economic surplus and poverty reduction in Nigeria, identifies strategic priorities according to both efficiency and equity criteria, and examines the nature and magnitude of the efficiency-equity tradeoffs. The results show that there are no significant efficiency-equity tradeoffs because the rural poor in Nigeria depend mainly on the production of food staples for both consumption and household income. Although introducing a poverty dimension does not result in a significant shift in strategic priorities, greater benefits to the poor are possible through poverty-based targeting without compromising total benefits. However, efforts made towards the realization of potential benefits to the poor from pursuing either efficiency or equity objectives would be more important than mere targeting of research. Therefore, both agricultural research and support services, including extension, credit, input supply, and infrastructure, should be targeted to the poor to achieve poverty alleviation goals through agricultural research.
title: Data as the new driver for growth? European and Chinese perspectives on the new factor of production
title: Sind Daten der neue Wachstumstreiber? Europäische und chinesische Perspektiven auf den neuen Produktionsfaktor
Creators: name: Krause, Theresa
name: Fischer, Doris
Publisher: name: Universität Würzburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 330 Wirtschaft
subject: 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr

description: CBE Research Note; 1
Additional file 1 of Prevalence of hookworm infection and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care at governmental health centers in DEMBECHA district, north West Ethiopia, 2017
Creators: name: Sewnet Wongiel Misikir
name: Moges Wobie
name: Mengistie Kassahun Tariku
name: Simachew Animen Bante
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire (Amharic and English language version)
Functional renormalization group with vacuum expectation values and spontaneous symmetry breaking
Creators: name: Schuetz, Florian
name: Kopietz, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize our recently developed super-field functional renormalization group (RG) method involving both Fermi and Bose fields [F. Schuetz, L. Bartosch, and P. Kopietz, Phys. Rev. B 72, 035105 (2005)] to include the possibility that some bosonic components of the field have a finite vacuum expectation value. We derive an exact hierarchy of flow equations for the one-line irreducible vertices and the vacuum expectation value of the field. We apply our method to an interacting Fermi system where the interaction can be decoupled in the zero-sound channel and is then mediated by a collective bosonic field. The vacuum expectation value of the zero-frequency and zero-momentum component of the bosonic field is then closely related to the fermionic density. This can be exploited to calculate the compressibility of the interacting system. By using a cutoff in the bosonic propagator, the RG can be set up such that the self-consistent Hartree approximation is imposed as initial condition for the RG flow and the corrections to this approximation are generated as the remaining degrees of freedom are successively eliminated by the RG procedure.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures; published version, some typos corrected; special issue "Renormalization Group 2005" of JPA. (proc. of Helsinki conference)
Cassingena-Trévedy, François: Éphrem de Nisibe
Creators: name: Bruns, Peter
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 93 (2009): Oriens christianus, Band 93
Mixing, Ergodicity and the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem in complex systems
Creators: name: Vainstein, M. H.
name: Costa, I. V. L.
name: Oliveira, F. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complex systems such as glasses, gels, granular materials, and systems far from equilibrium exhibit violation of the ergodic hypothesis (EH) and of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT). Recent investigations in systems with memory have established a hierarchical connection between mixing, the EH and the FDT. They have shown that a failure of the mixing condition (MC) will lead to the subsequent failures of the EH and of the FDT. Another important point is that such violations are not limited to complex systems: simple systems may also display this feature. Results from such systems are analytical and obviously easier to understand than those obtained in complex structures, where a large number of competing phenomena are present. In this work, we review some important requirements for the validity of the FDT and its connection with mixing, the EH and anomalous diffusion in one-dimensional systems. We show that when the FDT fails, an out-of-equilibrium system relaxes to an effective temperature different from that of the heat reservoir. This effective temperature is a signature of metastability found in many complex systems such as spin-glasses and granular materials.
description: to be published in the Proceedings of the XIX Sitges Conference on ''Jammming, Yielding and Irreversible Deformation in Condensed Matter'', M.-C.Miguel and M. Rubi eds., Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer Verlag, Berlin
Additional file 2 of Effect of sub-chronic exposure to cigarette smoke, electronic cigarette and waterpipe on human lung epithelial barrier function
Creators: name: Baishakhi Ghosh
name: Reyes-Caballero, Hermes
name: Akgün-Ölmez, Sevcan Gül
name: Nishida, Kristine
name: Lakshmana Chandrala
name: Smirnova, Lena
name: Biswal, Shyam
name: Venkataramana K. Sidhaye
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
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: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Showed is the heat map analysis of a single image taken during recording time-lapse video of HBECs exposed to (left to right) control air, CS, EC (0%) nicotine and EC (1.2%) nicotine.
Heterogeneous Seasonal Patterns in Agricultural Data and Evolving Splines
Creators: name: Caceres-Hernandez, Jose Juan
name: Martin-Rodriguez, Gloria
name: Caceres-Hernandez, Jose Juan
name: Martin-Rodriguez, Gloria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Farm Management

description: In this paper an appropriate model of the seasonal pattern in high frequency agricultural data is proposed that takes the specific nature of such a pattern into account. The methodological proposal is based on evolving splines that are shown to be a tool capable of modelling seasonal variations in which either the period or the magnitude of the seasonal fluctuations do not remain the same over time. The seasonal pattern in each year or agricultural campaign is modelled in such a way that the seasonal effect at each season is a function of the seasonal effects corresponding to some fixed seasons that act as reference points. The spline function is enforced to satisfy several conditions that provide some regularity in the adjusted seasonal fluctuation; on the other hand, the main source of changes in the adjusted seasonal pattern is obtained by assuming that the values of the seasonal effects at the fixed reference seasons do not remain the same year by year. If the length of the period in which the seasonal fluctuation is completed does not change, the proposed specification is flexible enough to test the hypothesis that the seasonal pattern in several consecutive years is fixed by using simple statistical procedures. This proposal is applied to capture the movements in a weekly tomato export series and the analysis is carried out inside the frame delimited by the structural approach to time series.
A place for memory, history and community : a study of identity at the Vancouver Japanese Language School
Creators: name: Anzenavs, Lori Kathleen Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study discusses the influence of history on identity for those who are involved with the Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall (also know as the VJLS). The historical significance of a recognized landmark such as the VJLS creates a unique atmosphere that allows the past to be very much part of the present. In addition to many types of commemoration, memory and imagination provide links to the past. The community at the VJLS was very diverse including both recent immigrants and those with family connections to the Internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II. As a result, the feeling of a connection to the past was discussed in many different ways. These discussions are used in this study to explore the question of what it means to be Japanese Canadian and to be Canadian. At the VJLS, the history of Japanese Canadians is shown to belong to all Canadians rather than just to a separate ethic group within Canada.
Geometric Flow Equations for Schwarzschild-AdS Space-time and Hawking-Page Phase Transition
Creators: name: De Biasio, Davide
name: Lust, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following the recent observation that the Ricci flow and the infinite distance swampland conjecture are closely related to each other, we will investigate in this paper geometric flow equations for AdS space-time geometries. First, we consider the so called Yamabe and Ricci-Bourguignon flows and we show that these two flows - in contrast to the Ricci flow - lead to infinite distance fixed points for product spaces like $AdS_d\times S^p$, where $AdS_d$ denotes d-dimensional AdS space and $S^p$ corresponds to a p-dimensional sphere. Second, we consider black hole geometries in AdS space time geometries and their behaviour under the Yamabe and Ricci-Bourguignon flows. Specifically we will examine if and how the AdS black holes will undergo a Hawking-Page phase transition under the Ricci flow, the Yamabe flow and under the general Ricci-Bourguignon flow.
description: 35 pages, one additional reference in revised version
Self-force on a scalar charge in radial infall from rest using the Hadamard-WKB expansion
Creators: name: Anderson, Paul R.
name: Eftekharzadeh, Ardeshir
name: Hu, B. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analytic method based on the Hadamard-WKB expansion to calculate the self-force for a particle with scalar charge that undergoes radial infall in a Schwarzschild spacetime after being held at rest until a time t = 0. Our result is valid in the case of short duration from the start. It is possible to use the Hadamard-WKB expansion in this case because the value of the integral of the retarded Green's function over the particle's entire past trajectory can be expressed in terms of two integrals over the time period that the particle has been falling. This analytic result is expected to be useful as a check for numerical prescriptions including those involving mode sum regularization and for any other analytical approximations to self-force calculations.
description: 22 pages, 2 figures, Physical Review D version along with the corrections given in the erratum
Explaining Differences in Farm Sustainability: Evidence from Flemish Dairy Farms
Creators: name: Van Passel, Steven
name: Mathijs, Erik
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
name: Van Passel, Steven
name: Mathijs, Erik
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: sustainability assessment
subject: efficiency
subject: dairy farming
subject: performance measurement

description: An important objective of European agricultural policy is to have a sustainable, efficient farming sector, which uses environmentally-friendly production methods. Agricultural policy makers aim to combine strong economic performance with a sustainable use of natural resources. There is thus a need for tools allowing quantification of farm sustainability as well as for empirical research assessing, analysing and explaining differences in farm sustainability. Using a large dataset of dairy farms, we apply the concept of sustainable value creation to benchmark farm sustainability performance. An effect model captures the determinants of the differences in sustainability among Flemish dairy farms. Our empirical model shows that both managerial and structural farm characteristics are significant in explaining differences in sustainability performance and that the most important factors are farm size, farmer's age and the dependency on support payments. Furthermore, we observe a high sustainability performance on farms with higher levels of economic efficiency.
Systematic review of self-report measures of depression, suitable for use with people with progressive neurological conditions; and, an examination of the relationship between psychological flexibility; and loneliness in older adults
Creators: name: Holly, Deirdre
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2020
Subjects: assessment
measurement
depression
progressive neurological condition
self-report
reliability
validity
psychological flexibility
older adults
loneliness
attachment
interpersonal difficulties

description: Portfolio Abstract Background: Ageing is associated both with a higher likelihood of developing a progressive neurological condition, such as dementia, or for a neurological condition such as MS to deteriorate. The impact of these on social relationships and on depression are likely, and yet reliable measurement in this area is not well developed. This thesis therefore sought to contribute to research and practice in this field by reviewing available measures of depression for people with neurological conditions, and assessing relationships between age, loneliness, interpersonal difficulties and psychological flexibility. Methods: A systematic review of studies assessing the validity and reliability of self-report measures of depression for use with people with progressive neurological conditions was carried out. The studies were quality assessed using COSMIN criteria. Findings of studies were pooled to allow overall recommendations about the use of the identified measures to be made. A cross-sectional study was carried out with older adults using standardised measures to identify the relationship between loneliness and psychological flexibility and the subsequent impact on anxiety, depression and quality of life. A step-by-step process was used to develop statistical models of these relationships. Conditional process analysis was used to identify mediating and moderating factors in these relationships. Results: The systematic review identified 14 studies assessing the validity and reliability of six different measures. The approaches used to assess the validity and reliability of measures varied, as did the quality of the evidence. It is suggested that the Geriatric Depression Scale may be the most appropriate self-report measure for use with people with progressive neurological conditions. Regression analysis showed that loneliness, interpersonal difficulties, attachment anxiety and psychological flexibility were significant predictors of anxiety, depression and quality of life. Using conditional process analysis, psychological flexibility significantly moderated the relationships between attachment anxiety and the outcome variables. Conclusion: Recommendations for how validation studies could be improved are made, in the hopes that this may allow those carrying out future reviews to be able to draw sound conclusions from a larger body of evidence. Psychological flexibility may play an important role in the mitigation of loneliness in older adults and may help protect against the development of mental health difficulties.
Additional file 1 of Relationship of flow-volume curve pattern on pulmonary function test with clinical and radiological features in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Creators: name: Nakagawa, Hiroaki
name: Otoshi, Ryota
name: Isomoto, Kohsuke
name: Katano, Takuma
name: Baba, Tomohisa
name: Komatsu, Shigeru
name: Hagiwara, Eri
name: Nakano, Yasutaka
name: Kuwahira, Ichiro
name: Ogura, Takashi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Comparison of %HA/%sLAA-ratio Between Concave Pattern and Non-concave Pattern of Flow-volume Curve. Table S2. Comparison of %HA/%sLAA-ratio Between Convex Pattern and Non-convex Pattern of Flow-volume Curve. Figure S1. Kaplan-Meier plots of survival probability. (A) The patients with a concave pattern (red line) had better survival than those with a non-concave pattern (blue line; log-rank test; p = 0.026). (B) There was no significant difference between the convex pattern (red line) and non-convex pattern (blue line; log-rank test; p = 0.234). (C) Mixed convex and concave patterns, i.e., the C group (blue line), had worse survival than the other groups (A group: red line, B group: green line, and D group: black line; log-rank test; p = 0.080). Figure S2. Median flow values at different expiratory flow levels in each group. The flow values in the A group (blue line) and C group (green line) had convex patterns. The forced expiration at the PEF level in the C group was low compared with that in the other groups. PEF = peak expiratory flow, MEF = maximal expiratory flow.
Time and Thermodynamics Extended Discussion on "Time & clocks: A thermodynamic approach"
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Atanu
name: Iannacchione, Germano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the paper, "Time & clocks: A thermodynamic approach" Lucia and Grisolia describe the connections between the physical nature of time and macroscopic irreversibility in thermodynamics. They also discuss the possibility of constructing a thermodynamic clock that links the two, through an approach based on the behaviour of a black body. Their work primarily focuses on the macroscopic irreversibilty, and their attempt to define 'thermodynamic time' is grounded on the concepts from non-equilibrium thermodynamics such as, entropy generation and time-dependent thermodynamic fluxes - in and out of the system. In this letter, we present a first principles approach based on the Maupertuis principle to describe the connection between time and thermodynamics for equilibrium phenomena. Our novel interpretation of the temperature as a functional allows us to extend our formalism to irreversible processes when the local equilibrium hypothesis is satisfied. Through our framework we also establish a functional relationship between equilibrium and non-equilibrium time-scales while distinguishing between the two.
The behavior of $π$-submaximal subgroups under homomorphisms with $π$-separable kernels
Creators: name: Revin, Danila O.
name: Zavarnitsine, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20E28, 20E34

description: We explore the extent to which constructing the inductive theory of $\mathfrak{X}$-submaximal subgroups is possible. To this end, we study the behavior of $π$-submaximal subgroups under homomorphisms with $π$-separable kernels and construct examples where such behavior is irregular.
The Long-Term Impacts of Orphanhood on Education Attainment and Land Inheritance among Adults in Rural Kenya
Creators: name: Yamano, Takashi
name: Yamano, Takashi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: HIV/AIDS
subject: Orphans
subject: Land Inheritance
subject: Schooling
subject: Kenya

description: The long-term economic impacts of the AIDS epidemic on orphans have been major concerns in countries hit by the epidemic. Responding to these concerns, previous studies have investigated the schooling of orphans. Yet, few studies have investigated the impacts of orphan status into adulthood. Therefore, this paper examines the education attainment and land inheritance of former orphans, who have lost at least one parent before reaching 15, by using a survey of 889 households in Kenya in 2004. In the survey, we have asked the ages of household members when they lost their parents, if they have suffered such a loss, and identified former orphans. Among individuals who started schooling before the Free Education Program introduced in 1974, we find about a one year lower educational attainment among former maternal orphans compared with former non-orphans. We do not find a similar difference in education attainment among the younger cohorts, who started schooling after 1974. Even the Cost-Sharing Scheme introduced in 1988 does not seem to lower the educational attainment of former orphans. On inherited land, we find no significant difference between households headed by former orphans and non-orphans.
Additional file 1 of Effect of sub-chronic exposure to cigarette smoke, electronic cigarette and waterpipe on human lung epithelial barrier function
Creators: name: Baishakhi Ghosh
name: Reyes-Caballero, Hermes
name: Akgün-Ölmez, Sevcan Gül
name: Nishida, Kristine
name: Lakshmana Chandrala
name: Smirnova, Lena
name: Biswal, Shyam
name: Venkataramana K. Sidhaye
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
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: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Exposure of epithelial cell monolayer to EC or CS shows dysregulation of CBF. The heat map is an overlap of a single field of view of HBECs at ALI. Hz (Hertz). Panels: control air (a), EC aerosol with 0% nicotine (b), EC aerosol with 1.2% of nicotine (c), CS (d).
Exact form factors in integrable quantum field theories: the scaling Z(N)-Ising model
Creators: name: Babujian, H.
name: Foerster, A.
name: Karowski, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general form factor formula for the scaling Z(N)-Ising model is constructed. Exact expressions for matrix elements are obtained for several local operators. In addition, the commutation rules for order, disorder parameters and para-Fermi fields are derived. Because of the unusual statistics of the fields, the quantum field theory seems to be not related to any classical Lagrangian or field equation.
description: 36 pages
Scale-dependent statistics of inertial particle distribution in high Reynolds number turbulence
Creators: name: Matsuda, Keigo
name: Schneider, Kai
name: Yoshimatsu, Katsunori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiscale statistical analyses of inertial particle distributions are presented to investigate the statistical signature of clustering and void regions in particle-laden incompressible isotropic turbulence. Three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of homogeneous isotropic turbulence at high Reynolds number ($Re_λ\gtrsim 200$) with up to $10^9$ inertial particles are performed for Stokes numbers ranging from $0.05$ to $5.0$. Orthogonal wavelet analysis is then applied to the computed particle number density fields. Scale-dependent skewness and flatness values of the particle number density distributions are calculated and the influence of Reynolds number $Re_λ$ and Stokes number $St$ is assessed. For $St \sim 1.0$, both the scale-dependent skewness and flatness values become larger as the scale decreases, suggesting intermittent clustering at small scales. For $St \le 0.2$, the flatness at intermediate scales, i.e. for scales larger than the Kolmogorov scale and smaller than the integral scale of the flow, increases as $St$ increases, and the skewness exhibits negative values at the intermediate scales. The negative values of the skewness are attributed to void regions. These results indicate that void regions at the intermediate sales are pronounced and intermittently distributed for such small Stokes numbers. As $Re_λ$ increases, the flatness increases slightly. For $Re_λ\ge 328$, the skewness shows negative values at large scales, suggesting that void regions are pronounced at large scales, while clusters are pronounced at small scales.
description: 26 pages, 9 figures