cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Success Strategies Being Implemented in Fresh Milk Supply Chains
Creators: name: Issar, G.
name: Cowan, R.T.
name: Wegener, Malcolm K.
name: Issar, G.
name: Cowan, R.T.
name: Wegener, Malcolm K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Deregulation of the Australian dairy industry, and ensuing supermarket strategies are transforming the fresh milk supply chains. Factors such as increasing consumer awareness, concerns about food safety and environment, innovation, supply chain integration and rationalisation of supply base are adding momentum to this transformation. Milk processors in response to changing market expectations are getting proactive in their relationship with retailers across all aspects of business, innovating to generate sufficient returns from proprietary brands and strategically orienting themselves to develop a mixed customer portfolio and appropriate management structures to service that portfolio. Milk producers are expanding businesses to achieve production and cost efficiencies and strengthening contractual relationships on input and output side for a greater security.
ﺗﺎﺛﻴﺮ ﻧﺎﺑﺎﺭﻭﺭﻱ ﺯﻧﺎﻥ ﺑﺮ ﺑﻌﺪ ﻋﻴﻨﻲ ﻛﻴﻔﻴﺖ ﺯﻧﺪﮔﻲ
Creators: name: Tavassoli, Afsaneh
name: Farsi, Tarlan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: مطالعات نشان مي دهد كه ميزان ناباروري رو به افزايش است. زوجين نابارور مشكلات بسياري را در زندگي خود تجربه مي كنند. اندازه گيري بعد عيني كيفيت زندگي سبب مي شود تا مسئولين بهداشتي،اجتماعي با آگاهي از نيازهاي آنان، بتوانندخدمات بهتري را به ايشان ارائه دهند و سنجش بعد عيني كيفيت زندگي، در برنامه ريزي براي حل ناباروري و فهم ضرورتوجود ا ين مراقبت ها، براي سياست گذاران و انجمن هاي مراقبت از سلامت اهميت دارد .تجربه ناباروري كه برخي آن را بحران ناباروري نام نهاده اند، با استرس هاي فيزيكي، اقتصادي، روان شناختي و اجتماعي همراه است كه تمامي جنبه هايزندگي فرد را تحت تأثير قرار مي دهد.اين تحقيق يك تحقيق مقايسه اي است و در دو گروه زنان بارور و زنان نابارور انجام گرفته است. جامعه آماري متشكل از 360 نفر( 180 نفر زن بارور و 180 نفرزن نابارور)است كه افراد ناباروردر 3مركز درمان ناباروري شهر تهران(دولتي-نيمه دولتي-خصوصي) مورد پژوهش قرار گرفتند و بنا به خصوصيات زنان نابارور(سن،تحصيلات فرد،تحصيلات همسر فرد،مدت زمان ازدواج،وضعيت اشتغال،ميزان هزينه زندگي)زنان بارور در شهر تهران انتخاب شدند.روش تحقيق پيمايشي و از نوع مقايسه اي است.ابزار كار پرسشنامه است كه در 60 سئوال بسته و 6 سئوال باز و نيمه باز طراحي شده است.يافته هاي تحقيق در دو صورت يافته اي آماري و يافته اي تحليلي مورد بررسي قرار گرفتند. نتايج به دست آمده حاكي از آن است زنان بارور از تمايل به شركت در فعاليت هاي اجتماعي، كيفيت زناشويي و وضعيت سلامت بيشتر و بهتري نسبت به زنان نابارور دارند. كيفيت زندگي در زنان بارور و نابارور متفاوت است و ناباروري تأثير بر بعد عيني كيفيت زندگي افراد نابارور دارد و كيفيت زندگي زنان بارور بهتر از بعد عيني كيفيت زندگي زنان نابارور است.زنان نابارور تمايل كمتري به شركت در فعاليت هاي اجتماعي دارند و همچنين كيفيت زناشويي زنان نابارور كمتر از زنان باروراست .ميزان وضعيت سلامت زنان بارور بيشتر از زنان نابارور است.
Research with Subsistence Farmers: Lessons from the Edge
Creators: name: Berhanu, Abeje
name: Cameron, Donald
name: Coutts, Jeff
name: Berhanu, Abeje
name: Cameron, Donald
name: Coutts, Jeff
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The paper highlights recent fieldwork experiences among subsistence farmers in north-central Ethiopia. It begins by describing two interrelated aspects of subsistence farmer-oriented research. These are planning the fieldwork and increasing farmer response. It is noted that activities relating to each of these two have been mainly influenced by two conventional assumptions: one is the view that farmers will not refuse to provide free information, and the other is the notion that the "village" provides the appropriate setting for gathering information. Challenges to both assumptions came in the wake of sustained fieldwork-focused interaction with subsistence farmers.
[Letter from Frans Heydrich]
Creators: name: Heydrich, Frans
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1897

description: The paper about the algae from the Bismarck Archipelago is being printed and will be published in Stuttgart in a couple of months. Has sent a sketch of Lithophyllum carpophylli. The cross section of the sprouts corresponds to Lithothamnion. Will send the Lithothamnion as soon as the last paper is printed.
description: Handwritten comments on a separate sheet of paper together with the letter: Lithophyllum melobesioides, L. incrustans.
Twin Jets and Close Binary Formation
Creators: name: Saiki, Yu
name: Machida, Masahiro N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation of a close binary system is investigated using a three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulation. Starting from a prestellar cloud, the cloud evolution is calculated until about 400 yr after protostar formation. Fragmentation occurs in the gravitationally collapsing cloud and two fragments evolve into protostars. The protostars orbit each other and a protobinary system appears. A wide-angle low-velocity outflow emerges from the circumbinary streams that encloses two protostars, while each protostar episodically drives high-velocity jets. Thus, the two high-velocity jets are surrounded by the low-velocity circumbinary outflow. The speed of the jets exceeds $\gtrsim 100 km s^{-1}$. Although the jets have a collimated structure, they are swung back on the small scale and are tangled at the large scale due to the binary orbital motion. A circumstellar disk also appears around each protostar. In the early main accretion phase, the binary orbit is complicated, while the binary separation is within $<30$ au. For the first time, all the characteristics of protobinary systems recently observed with large telescopes are reproduced in a numerical simulation.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures ; accepted by ApJL, Animated movies of simulation results available from https://jupiter.geo.kyushu-u.ac.jp/saiki/binarymovies/
Combined Limit on the Photon Mass with Nine Localized Fast Radio Bursts
Creators: name: Wei, Jun-Jie
name: Wu, Xue-Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A nonzero-mass hypothesis for the photon can produces a frequency-dependent dispersion of light, which results in arrival-time differences of photons with different frequencies originating from a given transient source. Extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs), with their low frequency emissions, short time durations, and long propagation distances, are excellent astrophysical probes to constrain the rest mass of the photon $m_γ$. However, the derivation of a limit on $m_γ$ is complicated by the similar frequency dependences of dispersion expected from the plasma and nonzero photon mass effects. If a handful measurements of redshift for FRBs are available, the different redshift dependences of the plasma and photon mass contributions to the dispersion measure (DM) might be able to break dispersion degeneracy in testing the photon mass. For now, nine FRBs with redshift measurements have been reported, which can turn this idea into reality. Taking into account the DM contributions from both the plasma and a possible photon mass, we use the data on the nine FRBs to derive a combined limit of $m_γ\leq7.1\times10^{-51}\;{\rm kg}$, or equivalently $m_γ\leq4.0\times10^{-15}\; {\rm eV}/c^{2}$ at 68\% confidence level, which is essentially as good as or represents a factor of 7 improvement over previous limits obtained by the single FRBs. Additionally, a reasonable estimation for the DM contribution from the host galaxy, $\rm DM_{host}$, can be simultaneously achieved in our analysis. The rapid progress in localizing FRBs will further tighten the constraints on both $m_γ$ and $\rm DM_{host}$.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in RAA
Exploring Visitors' Profiles of Pick-Your-Own Farms in Japan
Creators: name: Ohe, Yasuo
name: Ohe, Yasuo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Farm Management
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: This paper examined a recent trend of rural orientation in Japan from a perspective ofdiversification of rural economy. Firstly, recent trend of rising number of entrants to farming understood as a part of growing interest for rural life-style. Secondly,characteristics of visitors to pick-your-own farms were examined by statistical tests. Characteristics of up-market and niche market are revealed, which was roughly identical with the findings in the European countries such as those who have higher academic background, higher orientation for outdoor recreation, and are severe on quality of services and goods they receive. Thus, it is necessary to provide authentic quality of the service and goods on the one hand and preserve the rural environment on the other. Therefore farm policy integrating farming and rural policy measures will be necessary further.
On Aumann's Theorem that the sphere does not admit a mean
Creators: name: Trigos-Arrieta, F. Javier
name: Turzanski, Marian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that the circle S_1 does not have a 2-mean, i.e., S_1 times S_1 cannot have a retraction r onto its diagonal with r(x,y) = r(y,x), whenever x,y in S_1. Our proof is combinatorial and topological rather than analytical.
description: 6 pages
The Australian Farm Business Management Network: Industry, Education, Consultancy and Research Coming Together
Creators: name: Charry, Al A.
name: Parton, Kevin A.
name: Murray-Prior, Roy B.
name: Crockett, Judith
name: Gardner, M.W.
name: Johnson, Sue
name: Livingstone, S.
name: Charry, Al A.
name: Parton, Kevin A.
name: Murray-Prior, Roy B.
name: Crockett, Judith
name: Gardner, M.W.
name: Johnson, Sue
name: Livingstone, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: Under the sponsorship of the University of Sydney, on 5-6th December 2002 the future of farm management in Australia was discussed. The fundamental conclusion achieved by key primary industry representatives, corporate executives, academics, consultants and researchers is that farm management will have a more significant role to play in the future than previously in servicing the primary sector. The idea of farm management as a profession was proposed. Its basis would be business management supported by farming systems and technology, and using an holistic approach to action (i.e. finance, people and environment). The new profession of Farm Business Management would seek to influence education, research, consultancy and extension in Australia. Interested parties participating of the 2002 National Farm Management Workshop came away with the idea of championing a consultative network, constituted by interested institutions and interested individuals, as a first step in the process of nurturing the future development of farm business management. By integrating farmers and academics with corporate executives, consultants and researchers the objective is to behave as a consultative group. This group will influence educational models, implement consultancy and research strategies, and network in social and professional terms. Moreover, this network will provide a systematic opportunity for the channelling of farm business management and farming systems related information at different levels for education, extension and scientific purposes. This network is called the Australian Farm Business Management Network (AFBMnetwork).
ﺗﺎﺛﻴﺮ ﻧﺎﺑﺎﺭﻭﺭﻱ ﺯﻧﺎﻥ ﺑﺮ ﺑﻌﺪ ﻋﻴﻨﻲ ﻛﻴﻔﻴﺖ ﺯﻧﺪﮔﻲ.pdf
Creators: name: Tavassoli, Afsaneh
name: Farsi, Tarlan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: مطالعات نشان مي دهد كه ميزان ناباروري رو به افزايش است. زوجين نابارور مشكلات بسياري را در زندگي خود تجربه مي كنند. اندازه گيري بعد عيني كيفيت زندگي سبب مي شود تا مسئولين بهداشتي،اجتماعي با آگاهي از نيازهاي آنان، بتوانندخدمات بهتري را به ايشان ارائه دهند و سنجش بعد عيني كيفيت زندگي، در برنامه ريزي براي حل ناباروري و فهم ضرورتوجود ا ين مراقبت ها، براي سياست گذاران و انجمن هاي مراقبت از سلامت اهميت دارد .تجربه ناباروري كه برخي آن را بحران ناباروري نام نهاده اند، با استرس هاي فيزيكي، اقتصادي، روان شناختي و اجتماعي همراه است كه تمامي جنبه هايزندگي فرد را تحت تأثير قرار مي دهد.اين تحقيق يك تحقيق مقايسه اي است و در دو گروه زنان بارور و زنان نابارور انجام گرفته است. جامعه آماري متشكل از 360 نفر( 180 نفر زن بارور و 180 نفرزن نابارور)است كه افراد ناباروردر 3مركز درمان ناباروري شهر تهران(دولتي-نيمه دولتي-خصوصي) مورد پژوهش قرار گرفتند و بنا به خصوصيات زنان نابارور(سن،تحصيلات فرد،تحصيلات همسر فرد،مدت زمان ازدواج،وضعيت اشتغال،ميزان هزينه زندگي)زنان بارور در شهر تهران انتخاب شدند.روش تحقيق پيمايشي و از نوع مقايسه اي است.ابزار كار پرسشنامه است كه در 60 سئوال بسته و 6 سئوال باز و نيمه باز طراحي شده است.يافته هاي تحقيق در دو صورت يافته اي آماري و يافته اي تحليلي مورد بررسي قرار گرفتند. نتايج به دست آمده حاكي از آن است زنان بارور از تمايل به شركت در فعاليت هاي اجتماعي، كيفيت زناشويي و وضعيت سلامت بيشتر و بهتري نسبت به زنان نابارور دارند. كيفيت زندگي در زنان بارور و نابارور متفاوت است و ناباروري تأثير بر بعد عيني كيفيت زندگي افراد نابارور دارد و كيفيت زندگي زنان بارور بهتر از بعد عيني كيفيت زندگي زنان نابارور است.زنان نابارور تمايل كمتري به شركت در فعاليت هاي اجتماعي دارند و همچنين كيفيت زناشويي زنان نابارور كمتر از زنان باروراست .ميزان وضعيت سلامت زنان بارور بيشتر از زنان نابارور است.
[Letter from Frederick Ernest Weiss]
Creators: name: Weiss, Frederick Ernest
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1899

description: Handwritten comments on a separate sheet of paper – Weiss, Owens College, Manchester. A: L. squarrulosum off Valencia Island, B: L. coralloides, C: f. [flabelligera] from Portmagee Channel between Valencia Island and the mainland.
Agricultural Policy Assessment and Development by Stakeholders: A Cross-Country Analysis of National Organic Farming Policy in 11 European Countries
Creators: name: Vairo, Daniela
name: Haring, Anna Maria
name: Dabbert, Stephan
name: Zanoli, Raffaele
name: Vairo, Daniela
name: Haring, Anna Maria
name: Dabbert, Stephan
name: Zanoli, Raffaele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: There is no single 'best way' of policy development. Bottom-up approaches to policy design and a broad debate among stakeholders facilitate policy learning and innovation. A novel approach of a bottom-up policy design process involving stakeholders is introduced. First results obtained by this methodology are presented. The outcomes of an international effort for a development of policies for organic food and farming in Mai 2004 in Europe are analyzed: the synthesized results from 11 European countries (AT, CH, CZ, DE, DK, EE, GB, HU, IT, PL, SI) on the current situation of policies related to the organic food and farming sector in Europe are highlighted and policy recommendations for the development of the sector formulated. Specifically, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of policies related to organic food market are identified and policy instruments to address these aspects are developed.
Grillmeier, Alois: Jesus der Christus im Glauben der Kirche
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. 91 (2007): Oriens christianus, Band 91
A Subtlety of the Schrödinger Picture Dynamics
Creators: name: Garbaczewski, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address a mathematical and physical status of exotic (like e.g. fractal) wave packets and their quantum dynamics. To this end, we extend the formal meaning of the Schrödinger equation beyond the domain of the Hamiltonian. The dynamical importance of the finite mean energy condition is elucidated.
description: Minor amendments, typos corrected, to appear in Rep. Math. Phys
Hyperspectral Super-Resolution via Interpretable Block-Term Tensor Modeling
Creators: name: Ding, Meng
name: Fu, Xiao
name: Huang, Ting-Zhu
name: Wang, Jun
name: Zhao, Xi-Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This work revisits coupled tensor decomposition (CTD)-based hyperspectral super-resolution (HSR). HSR aims at fusing a pair of hyperspectral and multispectral images to recover a super-resolution image (SRI). The vast majority of the HSR approaches take a low-rank matrix recovery perspective. The challenge is that theoretical guarantees for recovering the SRI using low-rank matrix models are either elusive or derived under stringent conditions. A couple of recent CTD-based methods ensure recoverability for the SRI under relatively mild conditions, leveraging on algebraic properties of the canonical polyadic decomposition (CPD) and the Tucker decomposition models, respectively. However, the latent factors of both the CPD and Tucker models have no physical interpretations in the context of spectral image analysis, which makes incorporating prior information challenging---but using priors is often essential for enhancing performance in noisy environments. This work employs an idea that models spectral images as tensors following the block-term decomposition model with multilinear rank-$(L_r, L_r, 1)$ terms (i.e., the LL1 model) and formulates the HSR problem as a coupled LL1 tensor decomposition problem. Similar to the existing CTD approaches, recoverability of the SRI is shown under mild conditions. More importantly, the latent factors of the LL1 model can be interpreted as the key constituents of spectral images, i.e., the endmembers' spectral signatures and abundance maps. This connection allows us to easily incorporate prior information for performance enhancement. A flexible algorithmic framework that can work with a series of structural information is proposed to take advantage of the model interpretability. The effectiveness is showcased using simulated and real data.
Land Management Decisions and Agricultural Productivity in the Hillsides of Honduras
Creators: name: Jansen, Hans G.P.
name: Pender, John L.
name: Damon, Amy L.
name: Schipper, Robert A.
name: Jansen, Hans G.P.
name: Pender, John L.
name: Damon, Amy L.
name: Schipper, Robert A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: agricultural productivity
subject: hillsides
subject: Honduras
subject: land management
subject: soil conservation

description: Increasing land degradation and concomitant low agricultural productivity are important determinants of rural poverty in the hillside areas of Honduras. Using data at the levels of the farm household, parcel and plot, we develop an econometric modeling framework to analyze land management decisions and their impact on crop productivity. Our econometric model allows for endogenous household decisions regarding livelihood strategy choice, use of labor and external inputs, and participation in organizations. We found support for the inverse farm size-land productivity relationship which suggests that improved land access could increase total crop production. Land tenure has no impact on crop productivity, but adoption of soil conservation practices is higher on owner-operated than leased plots. Ownership of machinery and equipment and livestock ownership both positively influence crop productivity. Education positively affects perennial crop productivity. The gender of the household head has no significant effect on crop productivity, but does influence some land management and input use decisions. Even though household participation in training programs and organizations has only limited effects on crop productivity, agricultural extension plays a key role in promoting adoption of soil conservation practices. Location assets have limited impacts on crop productivity but do influence land management decisions. Road density and better market access have a positive effect on perennial crop productivity. Population density has limited direct impact on crop productivity, though it may have indirect effects by affecting farm size and livelihood strategies.
Participation in community planning : youth and their allies develop healthier practices
Creators: name: Ross, Sally
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In the context of community development planning, this paper discusses youth activism around issues of social/environmental justice and population health. Through social science research methodologies and qualitative analytical approaches, including personal interviews, focus groups and participant observation, the study leads to findings related to (1) the various ways that youth organizations are contributing to healthy community development, (2) the enabling factors that facilitate this process and (3) the innovative strategies that youth and their allies can provide to community organizing and the theory and practice of participatory planning. Key theorists from the literature, namely Paulo Freire, John Friedmann and John Forester, orient the study's ideological foundation in critical theory. Recent models of social capital theory inform the development of a new framework for analysis of the findings, based on social capital. A data analysis within this model reveals the valuable techniques of social organisation that youth and their allies are developing in their efforts to advance critical education and social change. These techniques are the practical organizational dynamics of an emerging civic culture that emphasizes the values of inclusion, respect, equity and solidarity. The thesis concludes with suggestions of its broader implications for health, for planning theory and practice and for the conceptualization and treatment of work in our lives.
A Precursor of Market Crashes
Creators: name: Kaizoji, Taisei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this paper, we quantitatively investigate the properties of a statistical ensemble of stock prices. We focus attention on the relative price defined as $ X(t) = S(t)/S(0) $, where $ S(0) $ is the initial price. We selected approximately 3200 stocks traded on the Japanese Stock Exchange and formed a statistical ensemble of daily relative prices for each trading day in the 3-year period from January 4, 1999 to December 28, 2001, corresponding to the period in which the {\it internet Bubble} formed and {\it crashes} in the Japanese stock market. We found that the upper tail of the complementary cumulative distribution function of the ensemble of the relative prices in the high value of the price is well described by a power-law distribution, $ P(S>x) \sim x^{-α} $, with an exponent that moves over time. Furthermore, we found that as the power-law exponents $ α$ approached {\it two}, the bubble burst. It is reasonable to assume that when the power-law exponents approached {\it two}, it indicates the bubble is about to burst. PACS: 89.65.Gh; Keywords: Market crashes, Power law, Precursor
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, forthcoming into European Physical Journal B
title: Anigozanthos :
title: Principes directeurs pour la conduite de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Group identity.
New Varieties of Plants
Kangaroo Paw

description: Ces principes directeurs (“principes directeurs d’examen”) visent à approfondir les principes énoncés dans l’introduction générale (document TG/1/3) et dans les documents TGP qui s’y rapportent afin de donner des indications concrètes détaillées pour l’harmonisation de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité (DHS) et, en particulier, à identifier des caractères convenant à l’examen DHS et à la production de descriptions variétales harmonisées.
Why Research on Test-Driven Development is Inconclusive?
Creators: name: Ghafari, Mohammad
name: Gross, Timm
name: Fucci, Davide
name: Felderer, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: [Background] Recent investigations into the effects of Test-Driven Development (TDD) have been contradictory and inconclusive. This hinders development teams to use research results as the basis for deciding whether and how to apply TDD. [Aim] To support researchers when designing a new study and to increase the applicability of TDD research in the decision-making process in the industrial context, we aim at identifying the reasons behind the inconclusive research results in TDD. [Method] We studied the state of the art in TDD research published in top venues in the past decade, and analyzed the way these studies were set up. [Results] We identified five categories of factors that directly impact the outcome of studies on TDD. [Conclusions] This work can help researchers to conduct more reliable studies, and inform practitioners of risks they need to consider when consulting research on TDD.
description: ESEM '20: ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), October 8--9, 2020, Bari, Italy
The Demand for Loans for Major Rice in the Upper North of Thailand
Creators: name: Wiboonpongse, Aree
name: Sriboonchitta, Songsak
name: Chaovanapoonphol, Yaovarate
name: Wiboonpongse, Aree
name: Sriboonchitta, Songsak
name: Chaovanapoonphol, Yaovarate
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Upper North of Thailand
subject: Tobit type-II model
subject: Probability of loans for rice
subject: Amount of loans
subject: Rural financial sources

description: Though Thailand is the largest rice exporting country, its yield is relatively low. This might be a result of the under use of purchased input factors. Amongst other factors, high input prices and capital constraints could be some reasons. The latter could be removed by loans providing favorable market conditions exist. This paper seeks to investigate factors affecting the decision to borrow, and the demand for loans, for rice. The Tobit type-II models are estimated using the survey data collected from 656 rice farmers in the Upper North of Thailand in 2004. It is found that significant factors affecting the decision of borrowing include; the land planted to rice, dummy variable for off-farm income sources, and annual interest rates. In the second step, the farmers who borrowed from the rural financial sources, including 202 and 250 farmers from Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai respectively, are considered. According to the OLS estimation, only the land planted to rice has a positive significant effect on the amount of loans for major rice. Further, the interest rate affects the probability of loans but has no impact on the amount of loans, for rice.
A new jet algorithm based on the k-means clustering for the reconstruction of heavy states from jets
Creators: name: Chekanov, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A jet algorithm based on the k-means clustering procedure is proposed which can be used for the invariant-mass reconstruction of heavy states decaying to hadronic jets. The proposed algorithm was tested by reconstructing E+ E- to ttbar to 6 jets and E+ E- to W+W- to 4 jets processes at \sqrt{s}=500 GeV using a Monte Carlo simulation. It was shown that the algorithm has a reconstruction efficiency similar to traditional jet-finding algorithms, and leads to 25% and 40% reduction of reconstruction width for top quarks and W bosons, respectively, compared to the kT (Durham) algorithm. In addition, it is expected that the peak positions measured with the new algorithm have smaller systematical uncertainty.
description: 11 pages, 3 eps figures (Eur. Phys. J. C, in press)
Stability of relativistic stars with scalar hairs
Creators: name: Kase, Ryotaro
name: Kimura, Rampei
name: Sato, Seiga
name: Tsujikawa, Shinji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the stability of relativistic stars in scalar-tensor theories with a nonminimal coupling of the form $F(ϕ)R$, where $F$ depends on a scalar field $ϕ$ and $R$ is the Ricci scalar. On a spherically symmetric and static background, we incorporate a perfect fluid minimally coupled to gravity as a form of the Schutz-Sorkin action. The odd-parity perturbation for the multipoles $l \geq 2$ is ghost-free under the condition $F(ϕ)>0$, with the speed of gravity equivalent to that of light. For even-parity perturbations with $l \geq 2$, there are three propagating degrees of freedom arising from the perfect-fluid, scalar-field, and gravity sectors. For $l=0, 1$, the dynamical degrees of freedom reduce to two modes. We derive no-ghost conditions and the propagation speeds of these perturbations and apply them to concrete theories of hairy relativistic stars with $F(ϕ)>0$. As long as the perfect fluid satisfies a weak energy condition with a positive propagation speed squared $c_m^2$, there are neither ghost nor Laplacian instabilities for theories of spontaneous scalarization and Brans-Dicke (BD) theories with a BD parameter $ω_{\rm BD}>-3/2$ (including $f(R)$ gravity). In these theories, provided $0
description: 24 pages, 2 figures
ﺗﺄﺛﯿﺮ ﺷﺮاﯾﻂ اﺟﺘﻤﺎﻋﯽ و ﻓﮑﺮی زﻧﺎن ﺑﺮ ﮐﺎرآﻣﺪی ﻗﻮاﻧﯿﻦ ﻣﺮﺑﻮط ﺑﻪ آﻧﻬﺎ
Creators: name: Tavassoli, Afsaneh
name: امیر نیک پی
name: شیوا مدرس زاده
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: پژوهش حاضر به دنبال مطالعه ی تأثیر شرایط اجتماعی و فکری زنان بر کارآیی قوانین مربوط به آنها در ایران است. در این راستا،با گردآوری اطلاعات لازم درباره ی تغییرات و تحولات شرایط اجتماعی و فکری زنان از رهگذرزمصاحبه با کنشگران زن و مطالعه ی آثار و تحلیل گفتمان های ایشان، مختصاتی از شرایط عینی و ذهنی آنها شناسایی می شود. بدِین منظور، در ابتدا به مطالعه ی متغیرهای موجود در شرایط اجتماعی زنان پرداخته و سپس آنها را به عرصه های خانواده، آموزش (عالی و عمومی)، اشتغال زنان شاخص بندی می گردد.در ادامه به شاخص بندی گرایش های فکری موجود در میان زنان در دهه ی اخیر پرداخته شده و آنها را در دو مورد مطالعه قرار می گیرد. بدین منظور -« زنان مدرن -غیردیندار » و - « زنان مدرن -دیندار » دسته ی فکری، یعنی با مستند سازی رویدادها و اقدامات جمعی کنشگران زن، عینیت مبارزات برای کسب مطالباتشان نشان داده می شود. سپس قوانین مربوط به زنان را بر اساس شاخص بندی متغیرهای شرایط اجتماعی ، مورد مداقه قرار می دهیم.بر مبنای یافته های این پژوهش، بسیاری از قوانین مربوط به زنان در عرصه های خانواده و بخشی از مفاد قانونی در حوزه های آموزش، اشتغال و مشارکت سیاسی زنان بایدمطابق باتغییرات اجتماعی و فکری آنهااصلاح شوند. هرچند که به لحاظ عملی غیر ممکن است که قوانین بتوانند به سرعت انعکاس دهنده ی تک تک تغییرات اجتماعی و فکری باشند، اما باید دانست که بایستی منطقی میان شرایط اجتماعی و فکری جامعه و قوانین وجود داشته باشد.
Entanglement of a photon and a collective atomic excitation
Creators: name: Matsukevich, D. N.
name: Chaneliere, T.
name: Bhattacharya, M.
name: Lan, S. -Y.
name: Jenkins, S. D.
name: Kennedy, T. A. B.
name: Kuzmich, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a new experimental approach to probabilistic atom-photon (signal) entanglement. Two qubit states are encoded as orthogonal collective spin excitations of an unpolarized atomic ensemble. After a programmable delay, the atomic excitation is converted into a photon (idler). Polarization states of both the signal and the idler are recorded and are found to be in violation of the Bell inequality. Atomic coherence times exceeding several microseconds are achieved by switching off all the trapping fields - including the quadrupole magnetic field of the magneto-optical trap - and zeroing out the residual ambient magnetic field.
description: Phys. Rev. Lett., in press (submitted April 29, 2005), 4 pages, 3 figures
Lang, Uwe Michael: John Philoponus and the Controversies over Chelcedon in the Sixth Century
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. 91 (2007): Oriens christianus, Band 91
The Impact of Small Holder Commercialisation of Organic Crops on Food Consumption Patterns in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Creators: name: Hendriks, Sheryl L.
name: Msaki, Mark M.
name: Hendriks, Sheryl L.
name: Msaki, Mark M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food consumption
subject: nutrition
subject: farm households
subject: small holder

description: The impact of smallholder commercialisation on food consumption patterns in a rural community of South Africa was investigated. The consumption patterns, dietary diversity and nutrient intakes of certified and partially certified members of an organic farmers' organisation were compared to data from a random sample of non-member households. Two consecutive survey rounds (n = 200) conducted in November 2004 and March 2005 enabled comparison of dietary diversity, nutrient adequacy (in terms of per household adult female equivalents for energy, iron, and vitamin A) and expenditure elasticities between seasons. Households with members engaged in certified comm ercial organic farming enjoyed greater dietary diversity, improved nutrient intakes com pared to households with members in conversion to organic production and households not engaged in commercial organic farming. Farm and non-farm income strongly and positively influenced nutritional adequacy for households of partially certified and certified members of the organisation. Marked differences in expenditure elasticities were found between the three groups. The results suggested that commercialisation of small holder agriculture has potential to improve food consumption patterns and food quality directly through income generated and indirectly through increased labour opportunities that result in wages and inkind food transfers. While commerciali sation of small holder agriculture shows potential for improving nutrition, caution should be exercised before claiming that such commercialisation can alleviate food insecurity and solve hunger in South Africa.
Interactive canvas : a new conception of the female portraits in three novellas by Su Tong
Creators: name: Zhao, Fang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study consists of an analysis of the major female characters in Su Tong's three novellas: "Wives and Concubines," "Embroidery," and "Lives of Women." Beginning with a brief introduction to the progress of Chinese literature to the emergence of the avant-garde to which Su Tong belongs, an introduction to Su Tong and his three novellas follows. The analysis of the novellas focuses on the character portraits painted by Su Tong that depict the twelve female characters' fates, characters and thoughts. Su Tong's artistic style and elements such as symbolism, imagery, the yin principle and magic realism are analysed in detail. I subjected my study to a traditional formal analysis as articulated by Norman Friedman in Form and Meaning in Fiction, then examined the novellas in light of David Der-wei Wang's evaluations of Chinese contemporary literature from Running Wild: New Chinese Writers. When the results of both analyses were compared, then combined with Wayne C. Booth's The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction, the resulting impasse evolved into common ground. I propose that each reader, in the 'trying on' of alternatives discovered in narratives, makes personally meaningful interpretations that are relevant to his/her own particular life situation. Literature is still meamngful for the reader, but the source of the meaning or messages that the reader finds in literary works derives from the reader in an interaction with the characters and implied author of the narrative that engages him/her.
[Letter from Arthur Disbrave Cotton]
Creators: name: Cotton, Arthur Disbrave
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1905

description: Requests the papers on Lithothamnia from the Kgl. Norske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter for the Kew Herbarium Library
description: Handwritten comments on the letter: Lithoth. calcareum (Pall.) Aresch., Lithoph. incrustans, Phym. polymorphum Fosl., Lithoph. orbiculatum, Lithoth. [sondri], Lithoph. fasciculatum, Lithoph. dentatum (Kütz) Fosliei
Virtual Spatial Graphs
Creators: name: Fleming, Thomas
name: Mellor, Blake
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Two natural generalizations of knot theory are the study of spatially embedded graphs, and Kauffman's theory of virtual knots. In this paper we combine these approaches to begin the study of virtual spatial graphs.
description: 15 pages, many figures; substantially revised
title: Developing a Hybrid Neuro-Fuzzy Method to Predict Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) Permeability in Mixed Matrix Membranes Containing SAPO-34 Zeolite
Creators: name: Alibak, Ali Hosin
name: Alizadeh, Seyed Mehdi
name: Davodi Monjezi, Shaghayegh
name: Alizadeh, As’ad
name: Alobaid, Falah
name: Aghel, Babak
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: This study compares the predictive performance of different classes of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems (ANFIS) in predicting the permeability of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in mixed matrix membrane (MMM) containing the SAPO-34 zeolite. The hybrid neuro-fuzzy technique uses the MMM chemistry, pressure, and temperature to estimate CO₂ permeability. Indeed, grid partitioning (GP), fuzzy C-means (FCM), and subtractive clustering (SC) strategies are used to divide the input space of ANFIS. Statistical analyses compare the performance of these strategies, and the spider graph technique selects the best one. As a result of the prediction of more than 100 experimental samples, the ANFIS with the subtractive clustering method shows better accuracy than the other classes. The hybrid optimization algorithm and cluster radius = 0.55 are the best hyperparameters of this ANFIS model. This neuro-fuzzy model predicts the experimental database with an absolute average relative deviation (AARD) of less than 3% and a correlation of determination higher than 0.995. Such an intelligent model is not only straightforward but also helps to find the best MMM chemistry and operating conditions to maximize CO₂ separation.
[Letter from Arthur Disbrave Cotton]
Creators: name: Cotton, Arthur Disbrave
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1905

description: Expresses gratitude for the identification of the Lithothamnia and the promise of the papers on Lithothamnia. Number 12 (Lithophyllum fasciculatum or L. dentatum) was collected at Roundstone Bay, Galway, on the west coast of Ireland.
Multigap Diffraction at LHC
Creators: name: Goulianos, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The large rapidity interval available at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) offers an arena in which the QCD aspects of diffraction may be explored in an environment free of gap survival complications using events with multiple rapidity gaps.
description: 4 pages, Presented at DIS-2005, Madison, WI, USA, April 27 - May 1, 2005
Extending General Equilibrium to the Tariff Line: U.S. Dairy in the DOHA Development Agenda
Creators: name: Grant, Jason H.
name: Hertel, Thomas W.
name: Rutherford, Thomas F.
name: Grant, Jason H.
name: Hertel, Thomas W.
name: Rutherford, Thomas F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: agricultural trade
subject: mixed-complementarity problem
subject: partial equilibrium
subject: general equilibrium
subject: Doha Development Agenda
subject: WTO

description: Market access has been at the core of eight negotiating rounds of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Yet, agricultural trade remains a heavily protected sector, characterized by higher tariffs relative to industrial goods, large tariff dispersions, numerous specific tariffs and systems of tariff-rate-quotas. This has made the analysis of trade liberalization a formidable task among policy analysts. Previous studies of agricultural trade liberalization have used partial or general equilibrium models of trade. However, each of these modeling strategies has their drawbacks. General equilibrium (GE) models have been criticized because they face serious aggregation issues and miss much of the policy detail that occurs at the tariff line. Partial equilibrium (PE) models on the other hand are often more disaggregated but lack internal consistency and have nothing to say about the economy-wide effects from trade reform. The purpose of this paper is threefold. One, we develop a methodology that combines PE and GE modeling techniques permitting us to extend GE to the tariff line. Two, we introduce a fully disaggregated U.S. dairy sector and compare PE and GE liberalization results from global dairy reform, thereby offering some insight into the potential errors implicit in current GE studies. Finally, we illustrate how our methodology allows for an explicit treatment of tariff rate quotas in the U.S. dairy sector on a bilateral basis for narrowly defined product lines.
Dynamics of undulatory fluctuations of semiflexible filaments in a network
Creators: name: Kernes, Jonathan
name: Levine, Alex J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of a single semiflexible filament coupled to a Hookean spring at its boundary. The spring produces a fluctuating tensile force on the filament, whose value depends on the filament's instantaneous end-to-end length. The spring thereby introduces a nonlinearity, which mixes the undulatory normal modes of the filament and changes their dynamics. We study these dynamics using the Martin-Siggia-Rose-Janssen-de-Domincis formalism, and compute the time-dependent correlation functions of transverse undulations and of the filament's end-to-end distance. The relaxational dynamics of the modes below a characteristic wavelength $\sqrt{κ/τ_R}$, set by the filament's bending modulus $κ$ and spring-renormalized tension $τ_{R}$, are changed by the boundary spring. This occurs near the cross-over frequency between tension- and bending-dominated modes of the system. The boundary spring can be used to represent the linear elastic compliance of the rest of the filament network to which the filament is cross-linked. As a result, we predict that this nonlinear effect will be observable in the dynamical correlations of constituent filaments of networks and in the networks' collective shear response. The system's dynamic shear modulus is predicted to exhibit the well-known crossover with increasing frequency from $ω^{1/2}$ to $ω^{3/4}$, but the inclusion of the the network's compliance in the analysis of the individual filament dynamics shifts this transition to a higher frequency.
description: 20 pages, 11 figures
[Letter from Edward Perceval Wright]
Creators: name: Wright, Edward Perceval
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1900
Subjects: Harvey, William Henry

description: In his Nereis Australis, on page 109, Harvey describes Melobesia mamillaris, referring to three specimens from Bahia collected by C. Darwin. Number 3854 was figured and that was the one sent to Foslie in 1898. Has sent the specimens numbered 3855 and 3856. Harvey's Melobesia agariciformis and M. fasciculata, collected by McCalla are lost.
description: Encloses a one page list of 14 Lithothamnion specimens, 2 Lithophyllum specimens and 12 Melobesia specimens.
An Initial Look at the Far Infrared-Radio Correlation within Nearby Star-forming Galaxies using the Spitzer Space Telescope
Creators: name: Murphy, E. J.
name: Braun, R.
name: Helou, G.
name: Armus, L.
name: Kenney, J. D. P.
name: Gordon, K. D.
name: Bendo, G. J.
name: Dale, D. A.
name: Walter, F.
name: Oosterloo, T. A.
name: Kennicutt, R. C.
name: Calzetti, D.
name: Cannon, J. M.
name: Draine, B. T.
name: Engelbracht, C. W.
name: Hollenbach, D. J.
name: Jarrett, T. H.
name: Kewley, L. J.
name: Leitherer, C.
name: Li, A.
name: Meyer, M. J.
name: Regan, M. W.
name: Rieke, G. H.
name: Rieke, M. J.
name: Roussel, H.
name: Sheth, K.
name: Smith, J. D. T.
name: Thornley, M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) We present an initial look at the far infrared-radio correlation within the star-forming disks of four nearby, nearly face-on galaxies (NGC 2403, NGC 3031, NGC 5194, and NGC 6946). Using Spitzer MIPS imaging and WSRT radio continuum data, observed as part of the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS), we are able to probe variations in the logarithmic 24mu/22cm (q_24) and 70mu/22cm (q_70) surface brightness ratios across each disk at sub-kpc scales. We find general trends of decreasing q_24 and q_70 with declining surface brightness and with increasing radius. The residual dispersion around the trend of q_24 and q_70 versus surface brightness is smaller than the residual dispersion around the trend of q_24 and q_70 versus radius, on average by ~0.1 dex, indicating that the distribution of star formation sites is more important in determining the infrared/radio disk appearance than the exponential profiles of disks. We have also performed preliminary phenomenological modeling of cosmic ray electron (CRe^-) diffusion using an image-smearing technique, and find that smoothing the infrared maps improves their correlation with the radio maps. Exponential kernels tend to work better than Gaussian kernels which suggests that additional processes besides simple random-walk diffusion in three dimensions must affect the evolution of CRe^-s. The best fit smoothing kernels for the two less active star-forming galaxies (NGC 2403 and NGC 3031) have much larger scale-lengths than those of the more active star-forming galaxies (NGC 5194 and NGC 6946). This difference may be due to the relative deficit of recent CRe^- injection into the interstellar medium (ISM) for the galaxies having largely quiescent disks.
description: 41 pages including 6 tables and 12 figures; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. A full-resolution color version can be found at http://www.astro.yale.edu/murphy/a-ph/murphy_FIR-radio.pdf ; Corrected typos
Grypeou, Emmanouela: >>Das vollkommene Pascha
Creators: name: Pinggéra, Karl
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 91 (2007): Oriens christianus, Band 91