cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Jet/cloud collision, 3D gasdynamic simulations of HH 110
Creators: name: Raga, A. C.
name: Pino, E. M. de Gouveia Dal
name: Noriega-Crespo, A.
name: Mininni, P. D.
name: Velázquez, P. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present 3D, gasdynamic simulations of jet/cloud collisions, with the purpose of modelling the HH 270/110 system. From the models, we obtain predictions of H$α$ and H$_2$ 1-0 s(1) emission line maps, which qualitatively reproduce some of the main features of the corresponding observations of HH 110. We find that the model that better reproduces the observed structures corresponds to a jet that was deflected at the surface of the cloud $\sim 1000$ yr ago, but is now boring a tunnel directly into the cloud. This model removes the apparent contradiction between the jet/cloud collision model and the lack of detection of molecular emission in the crossing region of the HH 270 and HH 110 axes.
description: 11 pages, 8 figs., Latex, (AA vers. 5.1, LaTeX class for Astronomy & Astrophysics). Astron. & Astrophys. (in press)
Food prices and food security in CARICOM - The case of Trinidad and Tobago
Creators: name: Mohammed, Aziz
name: Mohammed, Aziz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Prices
subject: Food Security
subject: Trinidad and Tobago
subject: Transformation Plan

description: The unprecedented rise in food prices over the last two years sent shock waves throughout the entire world. The rise in food prices was caused by factors including increases in commodity prices, the use of corn for ethanol production, increased incidence or severity of drought and flooding and the greater demand for food and commodities, particularly in China and India. Trinidad and Tobago which is a net food importer, over TT$4 billion in 2008, experienced food inflation of 25.2 per cent in 2008. The agriculture sector has been declining over the years. Its contribution to Gross Domestic Product was 0.4 per cent in 2007. Rising costs, shortage of labour, praedial larceny all had a negative impact on production. The government response to rising food inflation has been fiscal measures through the reduction of duties as well as addressing the supply side. In its 2008-09 budget, there were increased allocations for investment in the sector, provision of credit and reduction of interest rates. A Transformational Plan was developed to address the issue of food security. The objectives outlined in this Plan is for the country to produce as least 25 per cent of its food needs from the six food groups, bringing into production an additional 20,000 acres of land (large farms and Caroni lands) and the production of targeted commodities to meet local and export market demands. There has been some evidence of success in reducing food prices through the strategies of establishing Farmers’ Markets and the implementation of the National Agricultural Market Information System (NAMIS). This paper looks at the causes of soaring food prices in Trinidad and Tobago and the government’s response to mitigate rising prices and measures to address the issue of food security.
description: Bridgetown, Barbados 6th – 10th July, 2009
MOESM2 of Trajectories of clinical and parenting outcomes following admission to an inpatient mother-baby unit
Creators: name: Reilly, Nicole
name: Elloise Brake
name: Briggs, Nancy
name: Marie-Paule Austin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Final model fit for latent classes of scores on clinical and parenting outcome measures at admission, discharge and follow-up (nâ =â 75).
Medium-induced cascade in expanding media
Creators: name: Adhya, Souvik Priyam
name: Salgado, Carlos A.
name: Spousta, Martin
name: Tywoniuk, Konrad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detailed insight into the interplay between parton energy loss and the way deconfined medium created in heavy-ion collisions expands is of great importance for improving the understanding of the jet quenching phenomenon. In this paper we study the impact of the expansion of deconfined medium on the single-gluon emission spectrum, its resummation and the jet suppression factor ($Q_{AA}$) within the BDMPS-Z formalism. We calculate these quantities for three types of expansion scenarios, namely static, exponentially decaying and Bjorken expanding media. The distribution of medium-induced gluons is calculated using an evolution equation with splitting kernels derived from the gluon emission spectra. A universal behavior of splitting kernels is derived in the regime of soft gluon emissions when evaluated at a common effective evolution time $τ_{eff}$. Novel scaling features of the resulting gluon distribution and jet $Q_{AA}$ are discussed. For realistic spectra valid beyond the soft-gluon emission limit, where the results are obtained by a numerical solution of the evolution equation, these features are partially replaced by a scaling expected from considering an averaged jet quenching parameter along the trajectory of propagation. Further we show that differences arising from different types of the medium expansion can be to a large extent scaled out by appropriate choice of the quenching parameter. Sizable differences among the values of the quenching parameter for different types of medium expansion point to the importance of the medium expansion for precise modeling of the jet quenching phenomenon.
description: 26 pages, 9 figures; 1 Table; matches the version accepted for publication in JHEP
Magnetic Phase Diagrams with Possible Field-induced Antiferroquadrupolar Order in TbB$_2$C$_2$
Creators: name: Kaneko, Koji
name: Onodera, Hideya
name: Yamauchi, Hiroki
name: Sakon, Takuo
name: Motokawa, Mitsuhiro
name: Yamaguchi, Yasuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic phase diagrams of a tetragonal antiferromagnet TbB$_2$C$_2$ were clarified by temperature and field dependence of magnetization. It is noticeable that the N{é}el temperature in TbB$_2$C$_2$ is anomalously enhanced with magnetic fields, in particular the enhancement reaches 13.5 K for the ${}$ direction at 10 T. The magnetization processes as well as the phase diagrams are well interpreted assuming that there appear field-induced antiferroquadrupolar ordered phases in TbB$_2$C$_2$. The phase diagrams of the AFQ compounds in RB$_2$C$_2$ are systematically understood in terms of the competition with AFQ and AFM interactions.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX4
MOESM3 of Trajectories of clinical and parenting outcomes following admission to an inpatient mother-baby unit
Creators: name: Reilly, Nicole
name: Elloise Brake
name: Briggs, Nancy
name: Marie-Paule Austin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Descriptive statistics for clinical and parenting outcome measures by group classification, for each final model (nâ =â 75).
Periclimenes nomadophila Berggren 1994
Creators: name: Ďuriš, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Palaemonidae
Periclimenes
Periclimenes nomadophila

description: Periclimenes nomadophila Berggren, 1994
 Periclimenes nomadophila Berggren, 1994: 783, Figs. 1–5.
 Material. 10 female paratypes, RMNH D.42893; 10 male paratypes, RMNH D.42894.
 Remarks. Specimens agree in most aspects with the original descriptions and figures provided by Berggren (1994). In addition, a fine marginal denticulation, not mentioned for that species, was found to be present on the posterior dorsal margin of the third abdominal segment. The third maxilliped possesses a small arthrobranch, not mentioned before. In two ovigerous females checked for these branchiae, both third maxillipeds bear small, but well-developed, 3–4 lamellate arthrobranch; these were reduced to 2–3 lamellae in two males specially examined for the arthobranchs’ shape.
 Berggren (1994) regarded this species as belonging to the Periclimenes obscurus group and pointed out its close relationship with P. delagoae Barnard, 1958. Both these species are morphologically intermediate between the P. obscurus and P. granulimanus species groups.
 Color. Whitish opaque with red chromatophores, major chela with white fingers and red palm distally Berggren (1994).
 Host. Rhopilema nomadica Galil, Spanier & Ferguson (Scyphozoa).
 Distribution. Inhaca Is., Moçambique, approx. 26° S 33° E (type locality).
description: Published as part of Ďuriš, Zdeněk, 2010, Periclimenes laevimanus sp. nov. from Vietnam, with a review of the Periclimenes granulimanus species group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae) *, pp. 106-125 in Zootaxa 2372 (1) on page 119, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/5308119
The agricultural production in mathematical models
Creators: name: Parlińska, Maria
name: Dareev, Galsan
name: Parlińska, Maria
name: Dareev, Galsan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: agriculture
subject: agricultural production
subject: mathematical model
subject: production function

description: The theoretical questions of mathematical modeling of agricultural production processes are described. Production of agricultural goods and foodstuffs is modeled except for the production of forage and involvement of equipment and techniques, buildings, infrastructure etc. The model is based on a division of economic and technological processes in agriculture into four stages specific for agribusiness. A mathematical description of four stages in used production functions is provided.
Charged scalar production at the Compact Linear Collider for the $S_3 \otimes \mathbb{Z}_2$ model
Creators: name: De Conto, G.
name: Machado, A. C. B.
name: Montaño, J.
name: Chimenti, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model with $S_3 \otimes \mathbb{Z}_2$ model plus a sterile neutrino and its phenomenological expectations for the production of charged scalars at the Compact Linear Collider. At tree level, our model predicts a total cross section in between 0.1 and $10^{-5}$ pb for the $e^- e^+ \to H^+ H^-$ process, considering all possible mass values for the charged scalar in the CLIC experiment. We also show that this prediction holds regardless of the masses of the other exotic particles and their couplings.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1810.02818; text overlap with arXiv:0808.3902 by other authors
Additional file 2 of Increased PARylation impacts the DNA methylation process in type 2 diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Zampieri, Michele
name: Bacalini, Maria Giulia
name: Barchetta, Ilaria
name: Scalea, Stefania
name: Cimini, Flavia Agata
name: Bertoccini, Laura
name: Tagliatesta, Stefano
name: De Matteis, Giovanna
name: Zardo, Giuseppe
name: Cavallo, Maria Gisella
name: Reale, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Supplentary Tables (Tables S1–S6).
Negative Parity 70-plet Baryon Masses in the 1/Nc Expansion
Creators: name: Goity, J. L.
name: Schat, C. L.
name: Scoccola, N. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The masses of the negative parity SU(6) 70-plet baryons are analyzed in the 1/Nc expansion to order 1/Nc and to first order in SU(3) breaking. At this level of precision there are twenty predictions. Among them there are the well known Gell-Mann Okubo and equal spacing relations, and four new relations involving SU(3) breaking splittings in different SU(3) multiplets. Although the breaking of SU(6) symmetry occurs at zeroth order in 1/Nc, it turns out to be small. The dominant source of the breaking is the hyperfine interaction which is of order 1/Nc. The spin-orbit interaction, of zeroth order in 1/Nc, is entirely fixed by the splitting between the singlet states Lambda(1405) and Lambda(1520), and the spin-orbit puzzle is solved by the presence of other zeroth order operators involving flavor exchange.
description: 31 pages, 3 figures
Austinian Disjunctivism Defended: A Presentational Theory of Visual Experience
Creators: name: Moran, Alexander Paul
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Naïve Realism
Visual Experience
Philosophy of Perception
Philosophy of Mind
Metaphysics

description: PhD thesis in Philosophy
description: This thesis develops a general theory about the nature of conscious visual experience. My starting point is with the naïve realist theory of visual perception. Whilst naïve realism is by no means universally endorsed, I begin with the assumption that we have good reason to accept it. The central question that the thesis then pursues is how to integrate naïve realism into a general theory of visual experience as such. One of the first main claims the dissertation argues for is that visual experience is presentational in nature. The rest of the dissertation is then concerned with developing a presentationalist theory of visual experience that is compatible with naïve realism and that can handle the problems of illusion and of hallucination that naïve realists face. The resulting view I call ‘Austinian Disjunctivism’, inspired as it is by cetain central ideas from J. L. Austin’s (1962) Sense and Sensibilia. Essentially, this is the view that whilst genuinely perceptual experiences consist in the visual presentation of the external items that the subject sees, hallucinatory experiences consist instead in the visual presentation of sense-data, conceived as sui generis mental items that depend for their existence on the mind of the hallucinating subject. The central claim that the dissertation advances is that naïve realists both can and should endorse Austinian Disjunctivism. It is my view that by adopting this theory, naïve realists end up with a plausible and attractive view of visual experience, which, moreover, should be taken just as seriously as any other theory about the nature of visual experience that is discussed in the contemporary perception literature.
description: AHRC-Walker Studentship (hosted by the Faculty of Philosophy and Queens’ College as part of the AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership). Jacobsen Studentship. Aristotelian Society Bursary. Mind Studentship.
The evolution of the agricultural protectionism and its measures
Creators: name: Pawlak, Karolina
name: Pawlak, Karolina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: protectionism
subject: agricultural trade
subject: tariff barriers
subject: non-tariff barriers

description: The aim of the article was to present the premises and evolution of protectionism in agricultural trade and to show the changes in significance of tariff and non-tariff barriers of intervention for the trade in agricultural products. The abolition of customs duties entails an increase in the number and the role of non-tariff barriers in trade policy applied by individual countries. The factors determining the degree of intensity in the use of protective instruments include the level of GDP per capita. In the agri-food sector, an intensified protectionism can be observed along with an increased degree of economic development. In spite of the fact that richer countries declare their support for free trade, they take intense actions to protect their domestic production from the competitive imports and are unwilling to abandon this policy, which can be observed e.g. in prolonged negotiations on further liberalisation of world agricultural trade in the WTO forum.
Lensing and the Centers of Distant Early-Type Galaxies
Creators: name: Keeton, Charles R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational lensing provides a unique probe of the inner 10-1000 pc of distant galaxies (z=0.2-1). Lens theory predicts that every strong lens system should have a faint image near the center of the lens galaxy, which should be visible in radio lenses but have not been observed. We study these ``core'' images using models derived from the stellar distributions in nearby early-type galaxies. We find that realistic galaxies predict a remarkably wide range of core images, with lensing magnifications spanning some six orders of magnitude. More concentrated galaxies produce fainter core images, although not with any simple, quantitative, model independent relation. Some real galaxies have diffuse cores and predict bright core images (magnification mu>~0.1), but more common are galaxies that predict faint core images (mu
description: 13 pages, emulateapj; submitted to ApJ
Finite-density QCD transition in magnetic field background
Creators: name: Braguta, V. V.
name: Chernodub, M. N.
name: Kotov, A. Yu.
name: Molochkov, A. V.
name: Nikolaev, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using numerical simulations of lattice QCD with physical quark masses, we reveal the influence of magnetic-field background on chiral and deconfinement crossovers in finite-temperature QCD at low baryonic density. In the absence of thermodynamic singularity, we identify these transitions with inflection points of the approximate order parameters: normalized light-quark condensate and renormalized Polyakov loop, respectively. We show that the quadratic curvature of the chiral transition temperature in the ``temperature--chemical potential'' plane depends rather weakly on the strength of the background magnetic field. At weak magnetic fields, the thermal width of the chiral crossover gets narrower as the density of the baryon matter increases, possibly indicating a proximity to a real thermodynamic phase transition. Remarkably, the curvature of the chiral thermal width flips its sign at $eB_{\mathrm{fl}} \simeq 0.6\,\mathrm{GeV}^2$, so that above the flipping point $B > B_{\mathrm{fl}}$, the chiral width gets wider as the baryon density increases. Approximately at the same strength of magnetic field, the chiral and deconfining crossovers merge together at $T \approx 140\,\mathrm{MeV}$. The phase diagram in the parameter space ``temperature-chemical potential-magnetic field'' is outlined, and single-quark entropy and single-quark magnetization are explored. The curvature of the chiral thermal width allows us to estimate an approximate position of the chiral critical endpoint at zero magnetic field: $(T_c^{\text{CEP}}, μ_B^{\text{CEP}})= (100(25)\, \text{MeV},\ 800(140)\,\text{MeV})$.
description: 22 pages, 17 figures; a video file revealing the evolution of the phase diagram is attached
LionForests: Local Interpretation of Random Forests
Creators: name: Mollas, Ioannis
name: Bassiliades, Nick
name: Vlahavas, Ioannis
name: Tsoumakas, Grigorios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.0; I.2.6

description: Towards a future where machine learning systems will integrate into every aspect of people's lives, researching methods to interpret such systems is necessary, instead of focusing exclusively on enhancing their performance. Enriching the trust between these systems and people will accelerate this integration process. Many medical and retail banking/finance applications use state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to predict certain aspects of new instances. Tree ensembles, like random forests, are widely acceptable solutions on these tasks, while at the same time they are avoided due to their black-box uninterpretable nature, creating an unreasonable paradox. In this paper, we provide a methodology for shedding light on the predictions of the misjudged family of tree ensemble algorithms. Using classic unsupervised learning techniques and an enhanced similarity metric, to wander among transparent trees inside a forest following breadcrumbs, the interpretable essence of tree ensembles arises. An interpretation provided by these systems using our approach, which we call "LionForests", can be a simple, comprehensive rule.
description: 8 Pages, 4 Tables, 6 Figures, Submitted to NeHuAI-2020 Workshop of ECAI2020
Additional file 1: of Diagnostic performance of machine learning applied to texture analysis-derived features for breast lesion characterisation at automated breast ultrasound: a pilot study
Creators: name: Marcon, Magda
name: Ciritsis, Alexander
name: Rossi, Cristina
name: Becker, Anton
name: Berger, Nicole
name: Wurnig, Moritz
name: Wagner, Matthias
name: Frauenfelder, Thomas
name: Boss, Andreas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Table S1. Inter-reader agreement for the different TA features was evaluated using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). Figure S1. Correlation matrix generated from the full texture feature set for the sub-datasets lesions versus normal tissue (A) and malignant versus benign solid lesions (B) as well as from the corresponding reduced feature set (C) and (D). A significant co-correlation of several features is present in particular among the higher order features in A (e.g., SRE[GLCM] and HGRE[GLCM]) as possible reflection of underlying common biological properties. Figure S2. Heatmaps depicting the optimal hyperparameters for the full feature (A, B) and the reduced feature training datasets (C, D). The hyperparameter tuning was implemented via nested grid search on the SVM classifier by specifying the parameter for gamma and (C) in a logarithmic scale from 0.00001 to 0.001 and 1 to 1000, respectively. (DOCX 4241 kb)
ORP: Optimización by Rapid Prototyping
Creators: name: ITI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: ORP
2021
optimization
design
scheduling
complex problems
operational research

description: ORP is a project funded by the Valencian Institute for Business Competitiveness (IVACE) and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER).
 ORP project is aimed at developing a solution to implement quickly and easily, and at low cost, technologies that help to optimize decision-making processes in companies for the resolution of complex problems with various decision levels.
 To create algorithms to solve these problems efficiently, we have developed a prototype platform that applies the most advanced techniques of operational research to optimize decision-making and that continues to evolve in the ORP project.
 This deliverable is part of the PT3 work package "Dissemination", which aims to disseminate the scientific and technical results of the project, once the dissemination strategy has been defined at the beginning of the project; the results of the different dissemination activities carried out continuously have been evaluated. out and adapting the plan according to the results of it.
description: ORP. Project funded by the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) and European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), within the public grant program adressed to Technological Institutes of the Valencian Community for the development of non-economic R&D projects carried out in cooperation with companies during 2021 with 227.327,31€. File number: IMDEEA/2020/75
Hypotheses for re-launch of the pig farming sector of Piedmont: medium heavy swine as raw material for feeding the speck supply chain
Creators: name: Peira, Giovanni
name: Aceto, Paolo
name: Bonadonna, Alessandro
name: Peira, Giovanni
name: Aceto, Paolo
name: Bonadonna, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: medium heavy swine
subject: breeding of swine
subject: Piedmont
subject: supply chain
subject: speck

description: As a part of the strategies identified during the Estates General of livestock farming, the Region of Piedmont has financed a project in order to verify the level of appreciation of medium heavy swine in the swine sector. The Region has involved the Department of Commodity Science of Turin University and APS Piemonte (pig farmers association) in carrying out a specified study [Aceto et al. 2011; Peira et al. 2011]. The results of the study intended to investigate the speck supply chain are set forth below.
Vibronic mechanism of high-Tc superconductivity
Creators: name: Tachiki, Masashi
name: Machida, Masahiko
name: Egami, Takeshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dispersion of the in-plane Cu-O bond-stretching LO phonon mode in the high-$T_{C}$ superconducting cuprates shows strong softening with doping near the zone boundary. We suggest that it can be described with a negative electronic dielectric function that results in overscreening of inter-site Coulomb interaction due to phonon-induced charge transfer and vibronic electron-phonon resonance. We propose that such a strong electron-phonon coupling of specific modes can form a basis for the phonon mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. With the Eliashberg theory using the experimentally determined electron dispersion and dielectric function, we demonstrate the possibility of superconductivity with the order parameter of the $d_{k_{x}^{2}-k_{y}^{2}}$ symmetry and the transition temperature well in excess of 100K.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to Phys.Rev.B
Animal welfare: the EU policy and consumers' perspectives
Creators: name: Peneva, Mariya
name: Peneva, Mariya
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: animal welfare
subject: consumers
subject: willingness to pay
subject: Bulgaria

description: The awareness of animal welfare and animal well-being is growing all over Europe and the world. The concerns are related to the applied policy regimes, economic sustainability of the production methods, food quality and safety, consumers’ health and behaviour and their willingness to pay for animal products obtained in animal-friendly conditions. The paper aims to analyse the consumers’ awareness and its effect on consumers’ purchasing behaviour in Bulgaria. The data were collected under the WELANIMAL project, based on a questionnaire. Later a statistical analysis was done. At the end it is concluded that consumers still need to be educated and there are opportunities to enhance their awareness of animal welfare standards through marketing actions.
Sustainable policies for the development of beekeeping in Romania
Creators: name: Pocol, Cristina Bianca
name: Pocol, Cristina Bianca
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: International Development
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: policies
subject: beekeeping
subject: Romania
subject: development
subject: European Union

description: The present research aims to achieve a retrospective analysis of sustainable policies for the development of beekeeping in Romania, an important sector that contributes to the development of rural areas. Romanian’s objectives regarding the development of this sector are based on the adoption of a clear vision and on the support of state, materialised by the National Beekeeping Program. The assessment of the program implementation reveals the following aspect: in the analyzed period 2008- 2010, an improvement of the access to funds can be observed, the level of absorption increasing from 16.8% in 2008 to 99.8% in 2010. The consequences following the funds accession are an increase of associative forms and a restoration of beekeeping exploitations. Nevertheless, there are still problems in the North East regions of the country, due to lack of information regarding the accession to funds. These problems could be solved by creating a platform that should constantly reunite beekeepers, researchers and specialists of the sector that share their experience and skills, establishing a dialogue between all the actors in the beekeeping chain.
Environmental stimuli shape adaptive immunity by enhancing T helper cell differentiation and the germinal centre response
Creators: name: Stebegg, Marisa
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: germinal centre (GC)
T follicular helper (Tfh) cell
dendritic cell
ageing
gut microbiome
Peyer's patch
T helper 17 (Th17) cell
endoplasmic reticulum stress

description: Immune cells have evolved to respond to external danger signals and to incorporate information about environmental cues to adapt their differentiation and effector function. Because of this, it is important that immune cells are studied in the context of their surroundings. In this thesis, I investigated the roles of environmental endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, the gut microbiome and ageing on adaptive immunity. Immune cells have been shown to integrate inflammatory signalling with the ER stress response pathway. This response is triggered by a variety of environmental stresses such as low nutrient availability, hypoxia and mechanical stress. I found that the ER stress response acts as a potent driver of T helper 17 (Th17) cell differentiation resulting in Th17 cells with a pathogenic gene expression signature. This suggests a link between ER stress-inducing conditions such as low nutrient availability, and the pathology of Th17 cell-mediated autoimmune diseases. Another physiological scenario in which the immune microenvironment changes is during ageing. Ageing-related changes of the gut microbiome have recently been linked to increased frailty and systemic inflammation. This change in microbial composition with age occurs in parallel with a decline in function of the gut immune system, however it is not clear if there is a causal link between the two. Here, I establish that the defective germinal centre (GC) reaction in Peyer’s patches in the small intestine of aged mice can be rescued by co-housing of adult and aged mice, and via faecal transfers from adult into aged mice. This demonstrates that the poor GC reaction in aged animals is not irreversible, and that it is possible to improve immune responses in older individuals by replenishing the gut microbiome. To determine whether GC responses can also be improved in peripheral lymph nodes, we investigated the role of defective helper T cell priming in aged mice. We observed that the age-associated defect in the GC reaction is partly due to impaired T cell priming by dendritic cells (DCs). By boosting type I interferon signalling in DCs at the time of immunisation, I was able to improve T cell priming and GC formation in aged mice. This demonstrates that not only the gut microbiome, but also DCs are exciting targets to improve GC responses in ageing and highlights the importance of environmental stimuli in shaping adaptive immunity.
description: PhD funding was provided by the EU-funded Horizon 2020 ENLIGHT-TEN project No. 675395 and additional consumables funding was provided by Marc Veldhoen and Michelle Linterman.
Optimal cloning for two pairs of orthogonal states
Creators: name: Bruss, Dagmar
name: Macchiavello, Chiara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the optimal cloning transformation for two pairs of orthogonal states of two-dimensional quantum systems, and derive the corresponding optimal fidelities.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
MOESM1 of High-resolution 3D earthquake forecasting beneath the greater Tokyo area
Creators: name: Yosihiko Ogata
name: Koich Katsura
name: Tsuruoka, Hiroshi
name: Naoshi Hirata
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary text and figures. This consists of sections on the estimation methods of magnitude frequency distribution on 3D space (Figs. S1 to S3 for b-values), and estimation methods of the extended 3D HIST-ETAS model and its optimal coefficients images (Figs. S4 to S8), together with a summary of the adopted empirical Bayesian method.
A Hierarchical O(N) Force Calculation Algorithm
Creators: name: Dehnen, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel code for the approximate computation of long-range forces between N mutually interacting bodies is presented. The code is based on a hierarchical tree of cubic cells and features mutual cell-cell interactions which are calculated via a Cartesian Taylor expansion in a symmetric way, such that total momentum is conserved. The code benefits from an improved and simple multipole acceptance criterion that reduces the force error and the computational effort. For N>10^4, the computational costs are found empirically to rise sub-linear with N. For applications in stellar dynamics, this is the first competitive code with complexity O(N), it is faster than the standard tree code by a factor ten or more.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication: Journal of Computaional Physics
Additional file 1 of Mixed mode monolithic sorbent in pipette tip for extraction of ractopamine and clenbuterol prior to analysis by HPLC-UV and UHPLC-Q ExactiveTM Plus Orbitrap MS
Creators: name: Kesara Ar-Sanork
name: Chanpen Karuwan
name: Nakin Surapanich
name: Prapin Wilairat
name: Duangjai Nacapricha
name: Patcharin Chaisuwan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Chromatograms of standard solution containing 1000 ng mL-1 RAC and 1000 ng mL-1 CLEN a) before and b) after loading on the IT monolithic μ-SPE. Separation condition: column C8, mobile phase of 25:75 (v/v) ACN:20 mM acetate buffer pH 4.0 containing 2 mM triethylamine, injection volume of 20 μL, flow rate of 0.7 mL min-1 and detection at 210 nm. Fig. S2. Effect of ACN concentration in washing solvent on extraction of spiked urine sample containing 1000 ng mL-1 RAC and 1000 ng mL-1 CLEN. Conditioning solvent: 300 μL MeOH and 50 μL water; sample loading: 2.00 mL; washing solvent: 800 μL of ACN and water mixture; eluting solvent: 150 μL 30:70 (v/v) ACN:200 mM acetate buffer pH 4.0.
Additional file 8: of Functional outcomes in adults with tuberculous meningitis admitted to the ICU: a multicenter cohort study
Creators: name: Cantier, Marie
name: Morisot, Adeline
name: Guérot, Emmanuel
name: Megarbane, Bruno
name: Razazi, Keyvan
name: Contou, Damien
name: Mariotte, Eric
name: Canet, Emmanuel
name: De Montmollin, Etienne
name: Dubée, Vincent
name: Boulet, Eric
name: Gaudry, Stéphane
name: Voiriot, Guillaume
name: Mayaux, Julien
name: Pène, Frédéric
name: Neuville, Mathilde
name: Mourvillier, Bruno
name: Ruckly, Stéphane
name: Bouadma, Lila
name: Wolff, Michel
name: Timsit, Jean-François
name: Sonneville, Romain
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S6. Patients’ characteristics according to study periods. (DOCX 20 kb)
The economics of oil-seed crops for energy use: a case study in an agricultural European region
Creators: name: Robles, Rita
name: Robles, Rita
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: energy crops
subject: profitability
subject: Rural Rapid Appraisal (RRA)
subject: Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA)
subject: renewable energy

description: There’s a strong link between the production of biofuels and energy crops. The first of these activities may contribute to the appearance of new products in agriculture, besides giving a boost to activities such as provision of services and aiding in the diversification of economic activities in rural areas. Farmers’ final decision to include energy crops into or exclude them from their productive alternatives depends on various factors of a different nature (political, legal, technical, economic or socio-cultural). This paper analyzes the socio-economic aspects related to the introduction of oil-seeds (sunflower and rape seed) as energy crops in one of the most important agricultural regions in Spain (Castile and Leon). Thus, using RRA (Rural Rapid Appraisal) and the Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA), the study provides an evaluation of the main economic accounts of these crops and an idea of their profitability, impact on the level of employment and environmental consequences.
Weakly Nonlinear Theory for Oscillatory Dynamics in a One-Dimensional PDE-ODE Model of Membrane Dynamics Coupled by a Bulk Diffusion Field
Creators: name: Paquin-Lefebvre, Frédéric
name: Nagata, Wayne
name: Ward, Michael J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37N30, 37N25, 65P30, 35B36, 35B35

description: We study the dynamics of systems consisting of two spatially segregated ODE compartments coupled through a one-dimensional bulk diffusion field. For this coupled PDE-ODE system, we first employ a multi-scale asymptotic expansion to derive amplitude equations near codimension-one Hopf bifurcation points for both in-phase and anti-phase synchronization modes. The resulting normal form equations pertain to any vector nonlinearity restricted to the ODE compartments. In our first example, we apply our weakly nonlinear theory to a coupled PDE-ODE system with Sel'kov membrane kinetics, and show that the symmetric steady state undergoes supercritical Hopf bifurcations as the coupling strength and the diffusivity vary. We then consider the PDE diffusive coupling of two Lorenz oscillators. It is shown that this coupling mechanism can have a stabilizing effect, characterized by a significant increase in the Rayleigh number required for a Hopf bifurcation. Within the chaotic regime, we can distinguish between synchronous chaos, where both the left and right oscillators are in-phase, and chaotic states characterized by the absence of synchrony. Finally, we compute the largest Lyapunov exponent associated with a linearization around the synchronous manifold that only considers odd perturbations. This allows us to predict the transition to synchronous chaos as the coupling strength and the diffusivity increase.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures
Additional file 4 of Physiological and transcriptome analysis of Poa pratensis var. anceps cv. Qinghai in response to cold stress
Creators: name: Dong, Wenke
name: Ma, Xiang
name: Jiang, Hanyu
name: Zhao, Chunxu
name: Ma, Huiling
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S1. Functional annotation of assembled transcriptome. (A) Species distribution of the top BLAST hits; (B) Map of GO functional categories; (C) Map of COG function classifcations.
Numbers and spatial distribution of payments granting decisions within the Common Agricultural Policy measures implemented in Poland over years 2002-2010
Creators: name: Rudnicki, Roman
name: Rudnicki, Roman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: payment granting decisions
subject: agricultural holdings

description: The article offers an assessment of spatial differences in the structure of payment granting decisions under the EU Common Agricultural Policy. The analysis was conducted for individual EU assistance measures divided into two groups: 1) intensifying measures, intended to step up production and improve the competitiveness of agriculture and 2) extensifying measures, intended to improve the environment and to help rural areas to diversify into non-agricultural activities. It was demonstrated that payments of group 2 prevailed in numerical terms, which was largely a result of the high participation of agricultural holdings in the agri-environmental programme.
Coherent interaction between free electrons and a photonic cavity
Creators: name: Wang, Kangpeng
name: Dahan, Raphael
name: Shentcis, Michael
name: Kauffmann, Yaron
name: Hayun, Adi Ben
name: Reinhardt, Ori
name: Tsesses, Shai
name: Kaminer, Ido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since its inception, research of cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) has extended our understanding of light-matter interactions and our ability to utilize them. Thus far, all the work in this field has been focused on light interacting with bound electron systems - such as atoms, molecules, quantum dots, and quantum circuits. In contrast, markedly different physical phenomena are found in free-electron systems, the energy distribution of which is continuous and not discrete, implying tunable transitions and selection rules. In addition to their uses for electron microscopy, the interaction of free electrons with light enables important phenomena such as Cherenkov radiation, Compton scattering, and free-electron lasing. However, no experiment has shown the integration of free electrons into the framework of CQED, because the fundamental electron-light interaction is limited in strength and lifetime. This limit explains why many phenomena have remained out of reach for experiments with free electrons. In this work, we developed the platform for studying CQED at the nanoscale with free electrons and demonstrated it by observing their coherent interaction with cavity photons for the first time. We also directly measure the cavity photon lifetime via a free electron probe and show more than an order of magnitude enhancement in the electron-photon interaction strength. These capabilities may open new paths toward using free electrons as carriers of quantum information, even more so after strong coupling between free electrons and cavity photons will have been demonstrated. Efficient electron-cavity photon coupling could also allow new nonlinear phenomena of cavity opto-electro-mechanics and the ultrafast exploration of soft matter or other beam-sensitive materials using low electron current and low laser exposure.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures
Irrigation of farm land under the EU Water Framework Directive
Creators: name: Theuvsen, Ludwig
name: Battermann, Henning W.
name: Theuvsen, Ludwig
name: Battermann, Henning W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: farm income
subject: irrigation
subject: linear programming
subject: Water Framework Directive
subject: water permits
subject: water price

description: With the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Union has established a legal framework for the protection of all aquatic ecological systems, including groundwater. This directive may have advantages for the water regime in ecologically sensitive areas but may also bring some economic disadvantages for farmers. The economic implications of the WFD for irrigated agriculture with regard to various scenarios and the implementation of alternative water policy measures are analysed. The results show that demand for irrigation water, farmers’ reactions with regard to operational and strategic decisions and income effects strongly depend on the water policy measures implemented.
In vitro selection of a single-strand DNA aptamer targeting the receptor-binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
Creators: name: Chen, Yongjun
name: Yang, Xuefeng
name: Liu, Jian
name: Zhang, Dandan
name: He, Jun
name: Tang, Liang
name: Li, Jianming
name: Xiang, Qin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Nucleic acid aptamers are developed from a pool of random oligonucleotide libraries with an in vitro selection through systematic evolution of ligands via exponential enrichment (SELEX) process, which are capable of specific and high-affinity molecular binding against targets. The receptor-binding domain (RBD) of spike protein from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which is involved in the early stages of viral infection, is a promising target for aptamer selection. Currently, there are no effective approaches to prevent virus from spreading. In this study, a new ssDNA aptamer RBD/S-A1 binding to the RBD of spike protein from SARS-CoV-2 with high affinity (Kd=1.74 ± 0.2 nM) and low cross-binding activity was selected and evaluated. Although aptamers targeting the RBD of spike protein from SARS-CoV-2 have been described in a handful of previous studies, the RBD/S-A1 aptamer identified in this work may be considered as a potential supplementation for the current diagnosis and research of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.