cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The ambition for Smart Energy Cities and the modern role of Universities in getting there
Creators: name: Quenette, Steve
name: Sadiq, Ayesha
name: Soo, Ai-Lin
name: Lai, Sharnelle
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Distributed computing and systems software not elsewhere classified
Electrical energy generation (incl. renewables, excl. photovoltaics)
Photovoltaic devices (solar cells)
Cloud computing

description: The Monash University Net Zero Initiative and its partners sought to establish a future-enabling energy grid for the Clayton campus as part of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) funded Smart Energy City project. The aim was to formulate strategies for energy efficiencies, campus electrification, and deploying on-site and off-site renewable Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) such as solar photovoltaic cells (PVs), battery energy storage systems (BESS), electric vehicles (EVs), etc. Smarts are needed to maintain power quality whilst optimising our financial position given market-driven responses and ensuring efficient or green energy usage across the campus. Luckily for us, the Clayton campus has an energy profile similar to a small city, liberating our focus from the modernisation of building management to how we change society. We completed the 3yr ARENA project at the end of 2021. The series of blogs on this website aims to share our learnings on the ambidextrous (or dual-speed) role Universities can play in society’s transition to modern energy.
The Design and Performance of the MINERvA Detector
Creators: name: Budd, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The MINERvA experiment is designed to make precision measurements of various neutrino cross sections in the low energy regime. We describe the detector and give the performance of some of the measured quantities.
description: 4 pages, 4 pages, 3 figures, DPF04 proceedings
Carbon Footprint: A New Farm Management Consideration in the Southern High Plains
Creators: name: Weinheimer, Justin
name: Rajan, Nithya
name: Johnson, Phillip N.
name: Maas, Stephan
name: Weinheimer, Justin
name: Rajan, Nithya
name: Johnson, Phillip N.
name: Maas, Stephan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Cape and Trade
subject: carbon
subject: farm management

description: As concerns continue to mount regarding man induced impacts to the global climate, the SHPT region could be faced with a unique scenario in which the net carbon balance should be considered in the producer’s enterprise selection and production systems. Currently, the SHPT produces nearly one third of the U.S. cotton crop. Under a potential cap and trade system the challenge for the agricultural industry in the SHPT may be how to sustain the region’s economic base and production capabilities. Thus, the objective of this study was to measure the net carbon relationships between irrigated cotton and irrigated corn production systems on the SHPT using data from the Texas Alliance for Water Conservation (TAWC, 2009). Due to the unique management and production challenges in the SHPT, additional comparisons were made regarding economic viability and irrigation efficiency. Within the parameters of this study, it is apparent that irrigated corn has an advantage over cotton in both its ability to return carbon to the soil, maintain profitability, and use water resources efficiently. If the agricultural industry is included in CO2 regulation, it would appear that irrigated agricultural producers in the SHPT who have the ability to move between irrigated cotton and corn should be aware of the advantages corn possesses. However, even under changing commodity prices and profitability scenarios, corn still presents a significant advantage over cotton in its ability to reduce atmospheric CO2 by depositing larger amounts of biomass carbon into the soil.
Evaluating Yield Models for Crop Insurance Rating
Creators: name: Lanoue, Christopher
name: Sherrick, Bruce J.
name: Woodard, Joshua D.
name: Paulson, Nicholas D.
name: Lanoue, Christopher
name: Sherrick, Bruce J.
name: Woodard, Joshua D.
name: Paulson, Nicholas D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Yield distributions
subject: Crop Insurance
subject: Weibull Distribution
subject: Beta Distribution
subject: Mixture Distribution
subject: Out-of-Sample Efficiency
subject: Goodness-of-Fit
subject: Insurance Rating Efficiency

description: Generated crop insurance rates depend critically on the distributional assumptions of the underlying crop yield loss model. Using farm level corn yield data from 1972-2008, we revisit the problem of examining in-sample goodness-of-fit measures across a set of flexible parametric, semi-parametric, and non-parametric distributions. Simulations are also conducted to investigate the out-of-sample efficiency properties of several competing distributions. The results indicate that more parameterized distributional forms fit the data better in-sample due to the fact that they have more parameters, but are generally less efficient out-of-sample–and in some cases more biased–than more parsimonious forms which also fit the data adequately, such as the Weibull. The results highlight the relative advantages of alternative distributions in terms of the bias-efficiency tradeoff in both in- and out-of-sample frameworks.
Continuous Optimization Benchmarks by Simulation
Creators: name: Zaefferer, Martin
name: Rehbach, Frederik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Benchmark experiments are required to test, compare, tune, and understand optimization algorithms. Ideally, benchmark problems closely reflect real-world problem behavior. Yet, real-world problems are not always readily available for benchmarking. For example, evaluation costs may be too high, or resources are unavailable (e.g., software or equipment). As a solution, data from previous evaluations can be used to train surrogate models which are then used for benchmarking. The goal is to generate test functions on which the performance of an algorithm is similar to that on the real-world objective function. However, predictions from data-driven models tend to be smoother than the ground-truth from which the training data is derived. This is especially problematic when the training data becomes sparse. The resulting benchmarks may not reflect the landscape features of the ground-truth, are too easy, and may lead to biased conclusions. To resolve this, we use simulation of Gaussian processes instead of estimation (or prediction). This retains the covariance properties estimated during model training. While previous research suggested a decomposition-based approach for a small-scale, discrete problem, we show that the spectral simulation method enables simulation for continuous optimization problems. In a set of experiments with an artificial ground-truth, we demonstrate that this yields more accurate benchmarks than simply predicting with the Gaussian process model.
THE SPECIAL SAFEGUARD MECHANISM IN THE DOHA DEVELOPMENT AGENDA: A CASE STUDY OF SOYBEANS
Creators: name: Weeks, Heather
name: Grant, Jason H.
name: McConnell, Michael
name: Meilke, Karl D.
name: Weeks, Heather
name: Grant, Jason H.
name: McConnell, Michael
name: Meilke, Karl D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: The Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) proposed for developing countries has become a thorny issue in the Doha Development Agenda’s (DDA) agricultural negotiations. Proponents of the mechanism argue that it is a necessary compromise to counter sharp price declines or rapid import surges in staple commodity markets of developing nations. Opponents of the SSM, which include many developed exporters, contend that the policy flexibility contained in current SSM proposals would severely limit market access if the mechanism is triggered. The impact of the SSM depends on a number of parameters: the number of times the SSM is triggered, whether the price or volume SSM is triggered, the size of current tariffs, the magnitude with which tariffs are reduced in the DDA, and the number of times a developing country will actually make use of the SSM. This study introduces a static, synthetic, global, partial equilibrium model of the world soybean complex to assess the preliminary aspects of the DDA’s proposed tariff cuts. Future work on this project will extend the model to a stochastic framework from which to simulate the effects of an SSM combined with the DDA tariff cutting formulas for developing nations.
Bose-Einstein or HBT correlations and the anomalous dimension of QCD
Creators: name: Csorgo, T.
name: Hegyi, S.
name: Novak, T.
name: Zajc, W. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bose-Einstein (or HBT) correlation functions are evaluated for the fractal structure of QCD jets. These correlation functions have a stretched exponential (or Levy-stable) form. The anomalous dimension of QCD determines the Levy index of stability, thus the running coupling constant of QCD becomes measurable with the help of two-particle Bose-Einstein correlation functions. These considerations are tested on NA22 and UA1 two-pion correlation data.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, presented by T. Csorgo at the XXXIV International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Sonoma County, California, USA, July 2004, to appear in Acta Physica Polonica B
Optimal Design of DER Volt/VAR Control Rules in Distribution Grids
Creators: name: Wei, Jinlei
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 400805
subject: Electrical energy transmission, networks and systems

description: Deciding setpoints for distributed energy resources (DERs) via local control rules rather than centralized optimization offers significant autonomy. The IEEE Standard 1547 recommends deciding DER setpoints using Volt/VAR rules. Although such rules are specified as non-increasing piecewise-affine, their exact shape is left for the utility operators to decide and possibly customize per bus and grid conditions. To address this need, this thesis optimally designs Volt/VAR rules to minimize ohmic losses on lines while maintaining voltages within allowable limits. This is practically relevant as excessive reactive injections could reduce equipment's lifetime due to overloading. First, we consider a linearized single-phase grid model. Even under this setting, optimal rule design (ORD) is technically challenging as Volt/VAR rules entail mixed-integer models, stability implications, and uncertainties in grid loading. Uncertainty is handled by minimizing the average losses under voltage chance constraints. To cope with the piecewise-affine shape of the rules, we build upon our previous reformulation of ORD as a deep learning task. A recursive neural network (RNN) surrogates Volt/VAR dynamics and thanks to back-propagation, we expedite this chance-constrained ORD. RNN weights coincide with rule parameters, and are trained using primal-dual decomposition. Second, we consider a multi-phase grid model with alternating current power flow (AC-PF). Different from the single-phase model, we additionally add imbalance chance constraints and use chain rule differentiation to obtain derivatives during the primal-dual updates. Numerical tests corroborate the efficacy of this novel ORD formulation and solution methodology.
Modelling Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Forestry with the Extended LTEM (Lincoln Trade and Environment Model)
Creators: name: Saunders, Caroline M.
name: Kaye-Blake, William
name: Saunders, Caroline M.
name: Kaye-Blake, William
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: In the land-based sectors, agricultural production generally is a source of carbon, while forestry may be thought to act as a sink. This paper focuses on new research examining the interaction of the two. The core of the research is the Lincoln Trade and Environment model (LTEM), a partial equilibrium model which links trade in NZ with the main trading countries overseas, through to production and associated environmental consequences . This paper reports on research expanding the model to include forestry from incorporating the capabilities of the Global Forest Products Model (GFPM) into the LTEM and hence producing an integrated model of agricultural and forestry land-uses for NZ and overseas. The paper extends the environmental modelling capabilities of the LTEM to include the impacts of climate change. The paper thereby reports on the development of a model of international trade that encompasses major agricultural commodities and forestry, complete with linkages and feedback with the environment and differentiated international markets. The paper then presents results of scenarios around changes in consumer behaviour and production using the new model.
ESM for S2, S3, S4 from Contrasting the ecological effects of decreasing ice cover versus accelerated glacial melt on the High Arctic's largest lake
Creators: name: Michelutti, Neal
name: Douglas, Marianne S. V.
name: Antoniades, Dermot
name: Lehnherr, Igor
name: Louis, Vincent L. St.
name: Pierre, Kyra St.
name: Muir, Derek C. G.
name: Brunskill, Gregg
name: Smol, John P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Lake Hazen, the High Arctic's largest lake, has received an approximately 10-fold increase in glacial meltwater since its catchment glaciers shifted from net mass gain to net mass loss in 2007 CE, concurrent with recent warming. Increased glacial meltwater can alter the ecological functioning of recipient aquatic ecosystems via changes to nutrient budgets, turbidity and thermal regimes. Here, we examine a rare set of five high-resolution sediment cores collected in Lake Hazen between 1990 and 2017 CE to investigate the influence of increased glacial meltwater versus alterations to lake ice phenology on ecological change. Subfossil diatom assemblages in all cores show two major shifts over the past approximately 200 years including: (i) a proliferation of pioneering, benthic taxa at approximately 1900 CE from previously depauperate populations; and (ii) a rise in planktonic taxa beginning at approximately 1980 CE to present-day dominance. The topmost intervals from each sequentially collected core provide exact dates and demonstrate that diatom regime shifts occurred decades prior to accelerated glacial inputs. These data show that diatom assemblages in Lake Hazen are responding primarily to intrinsic lake factors linked to decreasing duration of lake ice and snow cover rather than to limnological impacts associated with increased glacial runoff.
The counselling needs of British Columbia student-athletes : a preliminary study
Creators: name: Lawley, Greg Donald
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study is to explore some of the counselling needs of British Columbian post-secondary student athletes and discover what services are being provided for them. Student athletes at one British Columbia institution- The University-College of the Fraser Valley (U.C.F.V.) were interviewed. Data was collected by interviewing 12 male and female student athletes, in their 1st to 4th year of eligibility. U.C.F.V. student athletes expressed the need for counselling services relating to the challenges they face in regards to Academics; Personal, social, and leisure demands; Health and injury; Retirement and transition; Career development. According to the results of the study, U.C.F.V. 1st and 2nd year student athletes were not aware of available counselling services or where to find them. U.C.F.V. 3rd and 4th year student athletes were only slightly more aware. As a group U.C.F.V. student athletes felt that counselling services were not promoted or provided to them as either students or athletes. Student athletes suggested various methods of increasing athletes' awareness of and comfort using counselling services, including having an individual responsible for coordinating services for student athletes. Counselling services could be provided in group or individualized formats depending on the nature of the service. The results suggest that B.C. post-secondary institutions should recognize the unique counselling needs of their student athletes and make an effort to investigate ways to provide and promote services to address these needs. Areas of future research include expanding the study to see what other colleges/universities in B.C. and Canada are providing for student athletes. A comprehensive counselling program should be designed and implemented, then researched for effectiveness, at a B.C. post-secondary school. The effectiveness of the program could then be measured by academic progress, attrition rates, graduation rates, drug and alcohol use, and the use of coping mechanisms by student athletes. Research needs to be undertaken that measures the rate of attrition and reasons for attrition at B.C. universities for student athletes before they graduate with a certificate, diploma, or degree. It would be useful to compare the daily life of a student athlete with that of a non-athlete.
Archaeological Investigation and Remote Operated Vehicle Documentation: Confederate Commerce Raider CSS Alabama - Report (Legacy 02-109)
Creators: name: Watts, Gordon
Publisher: name: DoD Legacy Resource Management Program
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85503/cherbourg-en-cotentin-france
subject: Mobile, AL
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/79770/mobile-al
subject: Civil War
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/3089/civil-war
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Water-Related
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/365/water-related
subject: Shipwreck
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/367/shipwreck
subject: Archaeological Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/339/archaeological-feature
subject: Wood
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/15/wood
subject: Textile
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/16/textile
subject: Ceramic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/1/ceramic
subject: Glass
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/6/glass
subject: Metal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/11/metal
subject: CSS Alabama
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/166483/css-alabama
subject: Shipwreck
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/137042/shipwreck
subject: Archaeological Data Recovery
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/159015/archaeological-data-recovery
subject: Underwater Archaeology
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/4198/underwater-archaeology
subject: Archaeological Investigation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/46172/archaeological-investigation
subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/5/data-recovery-excavation
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: This report presents a discussion of the diving operations, artifact recovery, and imaging of the CSS Alabama conducted in French waters in 2002. Efforts were hampered by technical and weather difficulties.
Probing the structure of the initial state of heavy-ion collisions with $p_T$-dependent flow fluctuations
Creators: name: Hippert, Maurício
name: Barbon, João Guilherme Prado
name: Chinellato, David Dobrigkeit
name: Luzum, Matthew
name: Noronha, Jorge
name: da Silva, Tiago Nunes
name: Serenone, Willian Matioli
name: Takahashi, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The connection between initial-state geometry and anisotropic flow can be quantified through a well-established mapping between $p_T$-integrated flow harmonics and cumulants of the initial transverse energy distribution. In this paper we successfully extend this mapping to also include $p_T$-differential flow. In doing so, we find that subleading principal components of anisotropic flow can reveal previously unobserved details of the hydrodynamic response, in both the linear and the nonlinear regimes. Most importantly, we show that they provide novel information on the small-scale structures present in the initial stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures. Published version
Hoiho tracking: 21 May - 19 June 2020
Creators: name: Mattern, Thomas
name: Young, Melanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60201 Behavioural Ecology
subject: 60205 Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
subject: 60207 Population Ecology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Tracking work resumed at Papanui Beach in the second week of May to obtain movement data representing winter behaviour. On 16 May 2020, a total of six adult hoiho, four males and two females were fitted with GPS dive loggers. All birds were recovered on 29 May 2020. Unfortunately, one device malfunctioned and failed to record any viable data. The remaining five deployments all yielded full sets of GPS, dive and accelerometer data. Full analysis of recorded GPS and dive data revealed that it encompassed a total of 51 foraging trips comprising of 10,458 dive events. At-sea movements of the tracked birds were consistent within individuals but varied between birds. Overall, a broad region was utilized ranging from the Northeast to the South of Papanui Beach. Two birds had been tracked during the post-guard period in January 2020 and tracks from that period turned out to be remarkably similar to what was recorded during the deployments reported on here.
Valcour Bay Research Project: 1999-2002 Results from the Archaeological Investigation of a Revolutionary War Battlefield in Lake Champlain, Clinton County, New York - Report (Legacy 02-162)
Creators: name: Cohn, Arthur
name: Kane, Adam
name: Sabick, Christopher
name: Scallon, Edwin
Publisher: name: DoD Legacy Resource Management Program
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Lake Champlain
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/35028/lake-champlain
subject: American Revolutionary War
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7782/american-revolutionary-war
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Euroamerican
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/28/euroamerican
subject: Water-Related
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/365/water-related
subject: Shipwreck
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/367/shipwreck
subject: Archaeological Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/339/archaeological-feature
subject: Artifact Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/340/artifact-scatter
subject: Wood
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/15/wood
subject: Metal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/11/metal
subject: Battlefield
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/7118/battlefield
subject: Revolutionary War
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/86496/revolutionary-war
subject: Mapping
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/19875/mapping
subject: General Benedict Arnold
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/166481/general-benedict-arnold
subject: Valcour Island
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/166482/valcour-island
subject: Underwater Archaeology
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/4198/underwater-archaeology
subject: Archaeological Investigation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/46172/archaeological-investigation
subject: Lake Champlain
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/145082/lake-champlain
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey

description: This report discusses a project to map and otherwise document a submerged Revolutionary War battlefield where General Benedict Arnold intentionally destroyed five of his own vessels to deprive the British of battle prizes. The project was designed to systematically map the submerged Valcour Island battlefield while providing sport divers a way to channel their interest in history and archaeology into a formally permitted project.
Reasonable Machines: A Research Manifesto
Creators: name: Benzmüller, Christoph
name: Lomfeld, Bertram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.0; I.2.3; I.2.4
subject: 68T01 03Bxx 68T27

description: Future intelligent autonomous systems (IAS) are inevitably deciding on moral and legal questions, e.g. in self-driving cars, health care or human-machine collaboration. As decision processes in most modern sub-symbolic IAS are hidden, the simple political plea for transparency, accountability and governance falls short. A sound ecosystem of trust requires ways for IAS to autonomously justify their actions, that is, to learn giving and taking reasons for their decisions. Building on social reasoning models in moral psychology and legal philosophy such an idea of >>Reasonable Machines<< requires novel, hybrid reasoning tools, ethico-legal ontologies and associated argumentation technology. Enabling machines to normative communication creates trust and opens new dimensions of AI application and human-machine interaction. Keywords: Trusthworthy and Explainable AI, Ethico-Legal Governors, Social Reasoning Model, Pluralistic and Expressive Normative Reasoning
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
title: Komunikacja a zmiana społeczna. Wstęp
Creators: name: Kędzior, Jolanta
name: Krawiec, Beata
name: Biedroń, Małgorzata
name: Mitręga, Anna
Publisher: name: Instytut Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Year: 2018

description: Szukając punktów stycznych między komunikacją a zmianą społeczną, można zauważyć, że oba pojęcia wymienione w tytule książki wzajemnie na siebie oddziałują. Nie ma bowiem lepszego sposobu informowania o dokonanej zmianie, przekonywania do wprowadzonych modyfikacji, jak sięgnięcie po skuteczne narzędzia komunikacji. Jednocześnie przeobrażenia obserwowane w procesie komunikacji pozwalają również zakwalifikować je do analizowanej kategorii zmian. W tym przypadku pojawiające się nowe warianty komunikowania tworzą zmiany expressis verbis, a równocześnie w tle wyraźnie widać, jak rysują się zmiany społeczne, np. samotność, niepewność młodych ludzi, którzy uczą się i żyją w cyfrowej, rozszerzonej rzeczywistości, a także szukają w niej informacji, inspiracji bądź pomocy w wypełnianiu ról rodzicielskich. Przemianom komunikacji towarzyszą bowiem przekształcenia społeczne.
UK Consumers Priorities for Sustainable Food Purchases
Creators: name: Clonan, Angie
name: Holdsworth, Michelle
name: Swift, Judy
name: Wilson, Paul
name: Clonan, Angie
name: Holdsworth, Michelle
name: Swift, Judy
name: Wilson, Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Consumer
subject: sustainable food
subject: purchasing behaviour
subject: free range
subject: local
subject: animal welfare

description: Although interest in ‘sustainable food’ has grown substantially in recent years, an official definition for sustainability has yet to be agreed upon. ‘Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming’ provide guidance to consumers wishing to make more sustainable food purchases, in the form of seven guiding principles. Using these principles, this study seeks to assess UK consumer’s priorities towards sustainable food. A detailed structured questionnaire explored shopping habits, attitudes to sustainable food components (organic, fair-trade, local food and animal welfare), stated purchasing behaviour and demographic information. Questionnaires were sent to 2,500 randomly selected Nottinghamshire (UK) residents. A response rate of 35.6% was achieved. The data reveals that consumers prioritise packaging, how food is produced and animal welfare when considering sustainable food components. Stated purchasing behaviour demonstrates that ‘free range’ and ‘local’ products are more likely to take precedence over other sustainability aspects. Future research will seek to compare and contrast stated and actual preferences by comparing the population survey results to actual purchasing behaviour from supermarket data.
Empirica: a virtual lab for high-throughput macro-level experiments
Creators: name: Almaatouq, Abdullah
name: Becker, Joshua
name: Houghton, James P.
name: Paton, Nicolas
name: Watts, Duncan J.
name: Whiting, Mark E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Virtual labs allow researchers to design high-throughput and macro-level experiments that are not feasible in traditional in-person physical lab settings. Despite the increasing popularity of online research, researchers still face many technical and logistical barriers when designing and deploying virtual lab experiments. While several platforms exist to facilitate the development of virtual lab experiments, they typically present researchers with a stark trade-off between usability and functionality. We introduce Empirica: a modular virtual lab that offers a solution to the usability-functionality trade-off by employing a "flexible defaults" design strategy. This strategy enables us to maintain complete "build anything" flexibility while offering a development platform that is accessible to novice programmers. Empirica's architecture is designed to allow for parameterizable experimental designs, reusable protocols, and rapid development. These features will increase the accessibility of virtual lab experiments, remove barriers to innovation in experiment design, and enable rapid progress in the understanding of distributed human computation.
description: 36 pages, 6 figures. Accepted to Behavioral Research Methods. Behav Res (2021)
PAH emission variations within the resolved starbursts of NGC253 and NGC1808
Creators: name: Tacconi-Garman, L. E.
name: Sturm, E.
name: Lehnert, M.
name: Lutz, D.
name: Davies, R. I.
name: Moorwood, A. F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (ABRIDGED) We have undertaken a programme of 3 micron narrowband imaging of a sample of nearby template galaxies covering a wide range of metallicity, star formation activity, and nuclear activity. In the present paper we present first results: high spatial resolution images of PAH emission and the adjacent continuum emission from the central regions of the nearby starburst galaxies NGC253 and NGC1808. Globally, the PAH emission is seen to peak on the central starburst regions of both sources. On smaller scales, however, we see no general spatial correlation or anti-correlation between the PAH emission and the location of sites of recent star formation, suggesting that the degree to which PAH emission traces starburst activity is more complicated than previously hypothesized based on results from data with lower spatial resolution. We do find spatial correlations, though, when we consider the PAH-to-continuum ratio, which is low at the positions of known super star clusters in NGC1808 as well as at the position of the IR peak in NGC253. We take this to imply a decrease in the efficiency of PAH emission induced by the star formation, caused by mechanical energy input into the ISM or photoionisation or photodissociation of the PAH molecules. All three hypotheses are discussed. In addition, for the first time we present observations of PAH emission in the superwind of a starbursting system (NGC253), providing strong support that winds are heavily mass-loaded and entrain substantial amounts of ambient ISM. We have also found a plausible connection between observed NaD absorption, H2, and PAHs above the plane of NGC253. This observation has important implications for enriching galaxy halos and possibly the intergalactic medium with small dust grains.
description: A&A Accepted, for a version with higher quality figures see http://www.eso.org/~ltacconi/PAPERS
Performance evaluation of the aerogel RICH counter for the Belle II spectrometer using early beam collision data
Creators: name: Yonenaga, M.
name: Adachi, I.
name: Burmistrov, L.
name: Diberder, F. Le
name: Iijima, T.
name: Iwata, S.
name: Kakimoto, S.
name: Kakuno, H.
name: Karyan, G.
name: Kawai, H.
name: Kawasaki, T.
name: Kindo, H.
name: Kitamura, H.
name: Kobayashi, M.
name: Kohriki, T.
name: Konno, T.
name: Korpar, S.
name: Križan, P.
name: Kumita, T.
name: Kuze, K.
name: Lai, Y.
name: Mrvar, M.
name: Nazaryan, G.
name: Nishida, S.
name: Nishimura, M.
name: Ogawa, K.
name: Ogawa, S.
name: Pestotnik, R.
name: Seljak, A.
name: Shoji, M.
name: Sumiyoshi, T.
name: Tabata, M.
name: Tamechika, S.
name: Yusa, Y.
name: Šantelj, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Aerogel Ring Imaging Cherenkov (ARICH) counter serves as a particle identification device in the forward end-cap region of the Belle II spectrometer. It is capable of identifying pions and kaons with momenta up to $4 \, {\rm GeV}/c$ by detecting Cherenkov photons emitted in the silica aerogel radiator. After the detector alignment and calibration of the probability density function, we evaluate the performance of the ARICH counter using early beam collision data. Event samples of $D^{\ast +} \to D^0 π^+ (D^0 \to K^-π^+)$ were used to determine the $π(K)$ efficiency and the $K(π)$ misidentification probability. We found that the ARICH counter is capable of separating kaons from pions with an identification efficiency of $93.5 \pm 0.6 \, \%$ at a pion misidentification probability of $10.9 \pm 0.9 \, \%$. This paper describes the identification method of the counter and the evaluation of the performance during its early operation.
description: To be published in Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys
Deviations from passive evolution - star formation and the UV excess in z~1 radio galaxies
Creators: name: Inskip, K. J.
name: Best, P. N.
name: Longair, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxy colours are determined for two samples of 6C and 3CR radio sources at z~1, differing by a factor of ~6 in radio power. Corrections are made for emission line contamination and the presence of any nuclear point source, and the data analysed as a function of both redshift and the radio source properties. The galaxy colours are remarkably similar for the two populations, and the UV excess evolves with radio source size similarly in both samples, depsite the fact that the alignment effect is more extensive for the more powerful 3CR radio galaxies. These results seem to suggest that the alignment effect at these redshifts does not scale strongly with radio power, and is instead more closely dependent on galaxy mass (which is statistically comparable for the two samples). However, it is likely that the presence of relatively young (< several 10^8 years old) stellar populations has considerably contaminated the K-band flux of these systems, particularly in the case of the more powerful 3CR sources, which are ~0.5mag more luminous than the predictions of passive evolution models at z~1. The higher luminosity of the 3CR alignment effect is balanced by emission at longer wavelengths, thereby leading to comparable colours for the two samples.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 16 pages, 9 figures
Dexamethasone - Molecule of the Month July 2020 [Archived version]
Creators: name: May, Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: This is the Molecule of the Month entry for July 2020 about dexamethasone. It is a pdf archive version of the HTML webpage.
Vortices and Ring Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Creators: name: Carr, L. D.
name: Clark, Charles W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The form and stability properties of axisymmetric and spherically symmetric stationary states in two and three dimensions, respectively, are elucidated for Bose-Einstein condensates. These states include the ground state, central vortices, and radial excitations of both. The latter are called ring solitons in two dimensions and spherical shells in three. The nonlinear Schrodinger equation is taken as the fundamental model; both extended and harmonically trapped condensates are considered. It is found that the presence of a vortex stabilizes ring solitons in a harmonic trap, in contrast to the well known instability of such solutions in the optics context. This is the first known example of a dark soliton in the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation which is stable in a number of dimensions greater than one.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures -- final version
Turbulent model of Crab nebula radiation
Creators: name: Luo, Yonggang
name: Lyutikov, Maxim
name: Temim, Tea
name: Comisso, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a turbulent model of the Crab Nebula's non-thermal emission. The present model resolves a number of long-standing problems of the Kennel-Coroniti (1984) model: (i) the sigma problem; (ii) the hard spectrum of radio electrons; (iii) the high peak energy of gamma-ray flares; (iv) and the spacial evolution of the infrared (IR) emission. The Nebula contains two populations of injected particles: Component-I accelerated at the wind termination shock via Fermi-I mechanism, and Component-II accelerated in reconnecting turbulence in highly magnetized ($σ$ $\gg 1$) plasma in the central part of the Crab Nebula. The reconnecting turbulence Component-II extends from radio to gamma rays: it accelerate radio electrons with a hard spectrum, destroy the large scale magnetic flux (and thus resolves the sigma-problem), and occasionally produces gamma-ray flares (from the largest scale reconnection events). The model reproduces the broad-band spectrum of the Crab Nebula, from low-frequency synchrotron emission in radio to inverse-Compton emission at TeV energies, as well as spatially resolved evolution of the spectral indices in IR and optical bands.
Antiterrorism Measures for Historic Properties - Report (Legacy 03-176)
Creators: name: Webster, Julie
name: Reicher, Patrick
name: Cohen, Gordon
Publisher: name: DoD Legacy Resource Management Program
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: United States
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/10460/united-states
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Building Materials
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/8/building-materials
subject: Department of Defense
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/123614/department-of-defense
subject: Electrical and Mechanical Design
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/166479/electrical-and-mechanical-design
subject: Building Modifications
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/166480/building-modifications
subject: Structural Design
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/166477/structural-design
subject: Architectural Design
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/166478/architectural-design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: UFC 4-010-01 (DoD Minimum Antiterrorism Standards for Buildings)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/166468/ufc-4-010-01-dod-minimum-antiterrorism-standards-for-buildings
subject: Antiterrorism Measures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/166466/antiterrorism-measures
subject: National Historic Preservation Act
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/46790/national-historic-preservation-act
subject: Historic Buildings
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/10151/historic-buildings
subject: Site Planning
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/166476/site-planning
subject: Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/6/methodology-theory-or-synthesis
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: The objectives of this study were to: identify common circumstances in which Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) 4-010-01 undertakings for minimum antiterrorism (AT) standards for DoD building will conflict with the requirements of the NHPA, and; develop specific guidelines that will help installation command, AT, cultural resources, and facilities personnel to rapidly resolve those conflicts in a way that satisfies both sets of requirements.
Understanding farmers’ uptake of organic farming: An application of the theory of planned behaviour
Creators: name: Lapple, Doris
name: Kelley, Hugh
name: Lapple, Doris
name: Kelley, Hugh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Organic farming
subject: Theory of planned behaviour
subject: Principal component analysis
subject: Heterogeneity

description: Whilst the adoption of agricultural techniques has received considerable attention in the literature, the ability and willingness of potential adopters to change their current farming system is often overlooked. This paper is concerned with the intention of conventional farmers to convert to organic farming by using the social-psychology theory of planned behaviour. Drivers and barriers of conversion to organic farming are identified by applying a belief based concept, which is confirmed using principal component analysis. In addition, accounting for heterogeneity regarding farmers‟ environmental attitudes masks considerable differences, notably at intention, attitudes and control perceptions. Overall, results reveal that conversion is indeed affected by attitudes of the farmer, perceived social pressure and ability to convert.
Cattle farmers’ preferences for Disease Free Zones: A choice experiment analysis in Kenya
Creators: name: Otieno, David Jakinda
name: Ruto, Eric
name: Hubbard, Lionel J.
name: Otieno, David Jakinda
name: Ruto, Eric
name: Hubbard, Lionel J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Farmer preferences
subject: Disease Free Zone
subject: choice experiment
subject: Random Parameter Logit
subject: Kenya

description: Management of food-borne illnesses is important in ensuring food safety to consumers in both domestic and export markets. In livestock trade, various measures are prescribed under the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards (SPS) agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO). With regard to food safety, the SPS agreement recommends establishment of Disease Free Zones (DFZs)in order to manage the spread of trans-boundary cattle diseases. DFZs have been successfully implemented in major beef exporting countries such as Australia, Botswana, Brazil and Namibia. In Kenya however, the DFZs are still in a pilot stage and it is important to understand farmers’ preferences on the type of DFZ that would be readily acceptable to them. A choice experiment survey was conducted in Kenya using a D-optimal design to determine the main attributes that farmers prefer in a DFZ. A total of 343 farmers were interviewed and the data analysed using random parameter logit models. Results showed that farmers would be willing to participate in a DFZ where they are provided with adequate training on pasture development, record keeping and disease monitoring skills; cattle are properly labelled for ease of identification; market information and sales contract opportunities are guaranteed; and some monetary compensation is provided in case cattle die due to severe disease outbreaks. Preferences for the DFZ attributes are heterogeneous across different cattle production systems in Kenya. These findings have important implications for policy on the design of DFZ programmes in Kenya and other countries that face cattle disease challenges.
LANDWIRTSCHAFT IN MOLDOVA
Creators: name: Petrick, Martin
name: Petrick, Martin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Production Economics
subject: Moldova
subject: agriculture
subject: transition
subject: Landwirtschaft
subject: Transformation im Agrarsektor.

description: This paper provides an overview of the economic situation of agriculture in the Republic of Moldova. Emphasis is laid on the natural conditions for production, its structure, trade, as well as the historical development of agriculture and its transition to the market after 1991.
PPFP Choices Kenya and Indonesia Policy Maker Key Informant Interview Guide
Creators: name: Charurat, Elaine
name: Breithaupt, Lindsay
name: Kennedy, Sara
name: Christofield, Megan
name: Schuster, Anne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: 111707 Family Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This is the Kenya and Indonesia Policy Maker Key Informant Interview tool for Jhpiego's Post Pregnancy Family Planning Choices (PPFP Choices) operations research study in Kenya and Indonesia. Included are the English and Bahasa version of the consent and interview tools (Kenyan interviews are completed in English).