cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modelling forest lines and forest distribution patterns with remote sensing data in a mountainous region of semi-arid Central Asia
Creators: name: Klinge, M.
name: Böhner, J.
name: Erasmi, S.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2014

description: Satellite images and digital elevation models provide an excellent database to analyze forest distribution patterns and forest limits in the mountain regions of semiarid central Asia on the regional scale. For the investigation area in the northern Tien Shan, a strong relationship between forest distribution and climate conditions could be found. Additionally areas of potential human impact on forested areas are identified at lower elevations near the edge of the mountains based on an analysis of the differences in climatic preconditions and the present occurrence of forest stands. The distribution of spruce (Picea schrenkiana) forests is hydrologically limited by a minimum annual precipitation of 250mm and thermally by a minimum monthly mean temperature of 5 C during the growing season. While the actual lower forest limit increases from 1600ma.s.l. (above sea level) in the northwest to 2600ma.s.l. in the southeast, the upper forest limit rises in the same direction from 1800ma.s.l. to 2900ma.s.l.. In accordance with the main wind directions, the steepest gradient of both forest lines and the greatest local vertical extent of the forest belt of 500 to 600m to a maximum of 900m occur at the northern and western mountain fronts. The forests in the investigation area are strongly restricted to north-facing slopes, which is a common feature in semiarid central Asia. Based on the presumption that variations in local climate conditions are a function of topography, the potential forest extent was analyzed with regard to the parameters slope, aspect, solar radiation input and elevation. All four parameters showed a strong relationship to forest distribution, yielding a total potential forest area that is 3.5 times larger than the present forest remains of 502 km2.
description: Open-Access Publikationsfonds 2014
Vertical Price Transmission in Milk Supply Chain: Market Changes and Asymmetric Dynamics
Creators: name: Antonioli, Federico
name: Santeramo, Fabio
name: Antonioli, Federico
name: Santeramo, Fabio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Demand and Price Analysis

description: The milk supply chain has been interested by great changes during the last two decades and, in particular, there has been a great trade liberalization and a conspicuous policy change due to the abolition of milk quotas. These market changes are likely to have had a large impact on the transmission of price along the supply chain. Our analysis aims at exploring how market changes have altered vertical price transmission, and, in particular, how asymmetries have changes over tims. We use an asymmetric error correction model to infer on short run and long-run adjustments and conclude on the potential role played by market changes.
Free energy sources in current sheets formed in collisionless plasma turbulence
Creators: name: Jain, Neeraj
name: Büchner, Jörg
name: Comişel, Horia
name: Motschmann, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Collisionless dissipation of macroscopic energy into heat is an unsolved problem of space and astrophysical plasmas, e.g., solar wind and Earth's magnetosheath. The most viable process under consideration is the turbulent-cascade of macroscopic energy to kinetic-scales where collisionless-plasma-processes dissipate the energy. Space observations and numerical simulations show the formation of kinetic scale current sheets in turbulent plasmas. Instabilities in these CS can provide collisionless dissipation and influence the turbulence. Spatial gradients of physical quantities and non-Maxwellian velocity distribution functions provide the free-energy-sources for CS plasma instabilities. To determine the free-energy-sources provided by the spatial gradients of plasma density and electron/ion bulk velocities in CS formed in collisionless turbulent plasmas with an external magnetic field $\mathbf{B}_0$, we carried out two-dimensional PIC-hybrid simulations and interpret the results within the limitations of the simulation model. We found that ion-scale CS in a collisionless turbulent plasma are formed primarily by electron shear flows, i.e., electron bulk velocity inside CS is much larger than ion bulk velocity while the density variations through the CS are relatively small ($
description: Accepted in The Astrophysical Journal, 28 Pages
title: Religion als Ressource politischen Handelns – Chancen und Herausforderungen für die innerchristliche Ökumene
Creators: name: Heimbach-Steins, Marianne
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 241 Christian ethics

description: In dem Beitrag geht es um Religion als Faktor politischen Handelns und um das Potential, das die christliche Ökumene für solches Handeln darstellen kann. Beides wird zum Gegenstand kritischer Reflexion unter dem Vorzeichen, dass die Freiheit der Religion und der Religionsausübung in der gegenwärtigen religiös-weltanschaulichen Lage der Gesellschaft in Deutschland, in Europa und weit darüber hinaus vielfältig problematisiert wird. Der Beitrag stellt ein Panorama dar, das nur erste Problemanzeigen und Hinweise auf Fragestellungen, die gründlicher zu erörtern sind, gibt und soll eine Diskussion anregen.
description: 1. Einleitung ..... 1 2. Religion in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft – Bedingungen christlicher Ökumene ..... 2 a. Öffentliche Präsenz ..... 2 b. Plurale Präsenz ..... 3 c. Ambivalente Präsenz..... 4 3. Christliches Engagement ist im doppelten Sinn „angefragt“ ..... 6 a. Gefragt: Solidarität..... 6 b. Angefragt: Öffentlich-politische Rolle ..... 6 c. Christliche Ökumene unter den Bedingungen der Pluralität ..... 7 4. Ökumenische Wahrnehmung gesellschaftlich-politischer Verantwortung muss sich konkret bewähren (exemplarische Felder) ..... 9 a. Einsatz für Religions– und Weltanschauungsfreiheit ..... 9 b. Hilfe für Asylsuchende, Flüchtlinge und MigrantInnen – Beitrag zur Integration der Gesellschaft ..... 10 c. Sozialpolitisches Engagement für gerechte Teilhabe ..... 12 d. Auseinandersetzung mit dem (Rechts-)Populismus ..... 12 5. Schluss ..... 13 Literatur ..... 15 Die Autorin ..... 15 Bisher erschienene Sozialethische Arbeitspapiere des ICS ..... 16
An upper bound on the total cross-section for electroweak baryon number violation
Creators: name: Ringwald, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An upper bound on the total cross-section of s-wave electroweak instanton/sphaleron induced baryon plus lepton number violating processes is presented. It is obtained by exploiting a recently reported lower bound on the corresponding tunneling suppression exponent and by estimating the pre-exponential factor. We find that the present knowledge about electroweak baryon plus lepton number violating processes still allows their eventual observability at the Very Large Hadron Collider, even as pure s-wave scattering. A possibly observable rate at cosmic ray facilities and neutrino telescopes is presently not excluded, but requires a substantial contribution from higher partial waves.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Coalition Building Among Feminist Student Groups At American University : Case Study
Creators: name: Scrimshire, Kerrigan
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies

description: Coalitions challenge group members’ assumptions and categorical memberships through the incorporation of varying standpoints, subsequently shifting discourse in accordance with coalition members’ aims. The collective “we” of coalescing individuals must acknowledge their imperfect knowledge and intersecting privileges and oppressions in order to interrogate and dismantle systemic disadvantage while moving toward the ultimate goal of reallocation of power through coalition. This study examines the coalition process through interviews with leaders of locationally similar student groups at AU which ally/network under a “feminist umbrella.” This feminist umbrella includes student organizations focused on promoting gender equality, social justice, diversity and inclusiveness through their initiatives on campus. Investigating student organizations’ coalition building activities sheds light on 1. the standpoints and intersectionalities involved as groups work jointly and 2. the challenges these pose in the process of creating alliances and networks among campus groups.
Additional file 5 of Species and sex-specific chemosensory gene expression in Anopheles coluzzii and An. quadriannulatus antennae
Creators: name: Giridhar Athrey
name: Popkin-Hall, Zachary
name: Cosme, Luciano Veiga
name: Takken, Willem
name: Slotman, Michel Andre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S2. Levels of Ir expression in An. coluzzii male antennae observed in this study vs that of Pitts et al. [5].
Consumers’ preferences for private health-related and public environmentally friendly food attributes: New insights from an ABR approach
Creators: name: De Francesco, Edi
name: Perito, Maria Angela
name: Bozzolan, Irene
name: Stefani, Gianluca
name: Cei, Leonardo Cei
name: De Francesco, Edi
name: Perito, Maria Angela
name: Bozzolan, Irene
name: Stefani, Gianluca
name: Cei, Leonardo Cei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: environmental food attributes, health food attributes, attribute-based (ABR) model

description: Paper explores Italian consumer appreciation for health-related and environmental friendly attributes of whole-wheat pasta and compares two approaches in the information provision: a “holistic” approach (inform consumer on the overall product characteristics) with an “attribute-specific” one. A modified version of the attribute-based referenda model (ABR) has been estimated on sequence of two dichotomous choice questions randomly administered to a sample of households, starting only with a one attribute version (“adding” treatment) or the complete product one (“subtracting”). Results suggest that taste and habits are great barriers to overcome, since only whole-wheat pasta consumers are willing to pay for the health-related attribute. It gets worse for the environmental attribute for which people are not willing to pay even if informed on the environmental-friendly method of production. However, the way in which information is provided, holistically or attribute-based, is important, with higher value attached to attributes when evaluated in the subtracting context, supporting prospect theory and endowment effect.
Diversity and composition of herbaceous angiosperms along gradients of elevation and forest-use intensity.
Creators: name: Gómez-Díaz, Jorge Antonio
name: Krömer, Thorsten
name: Kreft, Holger
name: Gerold, Gerhard
name: Carvajal-Hernández, César Isidro
name: Heitkamp, Felix
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2017

description: Terrestrial herbs are important elements of tropical forests; however, there is a lack of research on their diversity patterns and how they respond to different intensities of forest-use. The aim of this study was to analyze the diversity of herbaceous angiosperms along gradients of elevation (50 m to 3500 m) and forest-use intensity on the eastern slopes of the Cofre de Perote, Veracruz, Mexico. We recorded the occurrence of all herbaceous angiosperm species within 120 plots of 20 m x 20 m each. The plots were located at eight study locations separated by ~500 m in elevation and within three different habitats that differ in forest-use intensity: old-growth, degraded, and secondary forest. We analyzed species richness and floristic composition of herb communities among different elevations and habitats. Of the 264 plant species recorded, 31 are endemic to Mexico. Both α- and γ-diversity display a hump-shaped relation to elevation peaking at 2500 m and 3000 m, respectively. The relative contribution of between-habitat β-diversity to γ-diversity also showed a unimodal hump whereas within-habitat β-diversity declined with elevation. Forest-use intensity did not affect α-diversity, but β-diversity was high between old-growth and secondary forests. Overall, γ-diversity peaked at 2500 m (72 species), driven mainly by high within- and among-habitat β-diversity. We infer that this belt is highly sensitive to anthropogenic disturbance and forest-use intensification. At 3100 m, high γ-diversity (50 species) was driven by high α- and within-habitat β-diversity. There, losing a specific forest area might be compensated if similar assemblages occur in nearby areas. The high β-diversity and endemism suggest that mixes of different habitats are needed to sustain high γ-richness of terrestrial herbs along this elevational gradient.
description: Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2017
Gender differentials in agricultural productivity: an empirical evidence from Uganda
Creators: name: Campus, Daniela
name: Campus, Daniela
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: agricultural productivity, gender gap, land, Uganda.

description: This paper contributes to the empirical evidence on the gender differences in agricultural productivity. Using detailed household and individual data from the Uganda LSMS-ISA (2009-10; 2010-11) we estimate the value of productivity of crops grown per acre of harvested land at the household level, based on the gender of the land manager. Results from the Tobit model with fixed effects confirm the findings of the existing literature: controlling also for socio-economic variables and plot characteristics (soil quality, topography, distance from the homestead), as well as for the use of inputs (both labour and other inputs than labour) female managed plots are less productive than plots managed by men. Better individual agricultural data disaggregated by gender may allow to better identify the reasons of such productivity gap.
On the vanishing of Tor of the absolute integral closure
Creators: name: Schoutens, Hans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13H05, 13D07, 13C14

description: Let $R$ be an excellent local domain of positive characteristic with residue field $k$ and let $R^+$ be its absolute integral closure. If $\text{Tor}^R_1(R^+,k)$ vanishes, then $R$ is Cohen-Macaulay, normal, F-rational and F-pure. If $R$ has at most an isolated singularity or has dimension at most two, then $R$ is regular.
The Impact of Agro-food Frauds on the Italian Economy
Creators: name: Zucaro, Raffaella
name: Manganiello, Veronica
name: Zucaro, Raffaella
name: Manganiello, Veronica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: agro food frauds, regulations, law, value chain, wine, olive oil

description: The European Union has adopted a comprehensive strategy to prevent and fight agro-food frauds (AFFs).This strategy is based on many Regulations focusing in several aspects of AFFs. The most important are:- Regulation (EC) n.178/2002, setting up the general principles and requirements of a food law, establishing the European Food Authority (EFSA) and laying down procedures regarding matters of food safety. In addition, it has set up a regulatory system according to the principles of subsidiary principle and risk analysis. From this regulation, a set of EU regulations has emerged under the so-called the “hygiene package”; - Regulation (EU) No. 1169/2011, setting the rules for the provision of food information to consumers, harmonizing the various national laws and overcoming the requirements of the previous Directive 2000/13/EC; - Regulation (EU) no. 1151/2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs produced with designation of origin, geographical indication or traditional speciality. This Regulation, known as “Quality Package”. After a general overview, the main normative issue of two important sector are analysed: the wine and olive oil sectors. Both of them are regulated by several regulations, law and decree in order to coverage all the aspect of value chain to prevent and fight agro foods frauds.
title: The history of the British Meteorological Office to 1905
Creators: name: Burton, James Michael Crowther
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1989

description: This thesis covers the first half century of the British Metorological Office and events leading to its foundation. After an introductory chapter the narrative describes how growth of marine transportation led to awareness of possible benefits from knowledge of wind patterns. Moves to collect marine weather statistics worldwide were supported with reluctance by Britain, but eventually resulted in the foundation of a new Department of the Board of Trade devoted to collection of marine observations. Robert FitzRoy, its first head, later transformed this work into provision of the world's first operational weather forecasting system. After FitzRoy's death an investigation into the Department was followed by a complete re-organization that replaced it by a Meteorological Office under the control of an unpaid supervisory Committee (later a paid Council) financed by an annual grant. The subsequent evolution of the Office is described. Its relationships with other bodies were not always smooth, nor was its development rapid, but it laid a foundation for what was to follow. The Office's story impinges upon many aspects of the contemporary scene and is set within their context. The reaction of Treasury to its financing is dealt with at some length. The gradual growth of' public services is recounted and it is noted that, at a time of' supposed laissez-faire, there was no attempt to turn the Office into a revenue raising organization, the primacy of public service always being evident. A characteristic of science has been the division arising from the dichotomy between "pure" and "applied" approaches to problems, and this is highlighted within the narrative. Despite its disappointing role at the turn of the century, the Meteorological Office is seen as a prime force in the emergence of meteorology as a science within this country. The thesis closes with a glance to the future.
Close-Packing of Clusters: Application to Al_100
Creators: name: Manninen, K.
name: Akola, J.
name: Manninen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The lowest energy configurations of close-packed clusters up to N=110 atoms with stacking faults are studied using the Monte Carlo method with Metropolis algorithm. Two types of contact interactions, a pair-potential and a many-atom interaction, are used. Enhanced stability is shown for N=12, 26, 38, 50, 59, 61, 68, 75, 79, 86, 100 and 102, of which only the sizes 38, 75, 79, 86, and 102 are pure FCC clusters, the others having stacking faults. A connection between the model potential and density functional calculations is studied in the case of Al_100. The density functional calculations are consistent with the experimental fact that there exist epitaxially grown FCC clusters starting from relatively small cluster sizes. Calculations also show that several other close-packed motifs existwith comparable total energies.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
title: Effect of Respiratory Syncytial Virus infection on Streptococcus pneumoniae colonisation and invasive disease
Creators: name: Shadia, K
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2020

description: Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) are two major pathogens commonly found to coexist in respiratory secretions in patients with acute upper respiratory tract infections. Though there is increasing evidence of synergistic interplay between these pathobionts, the exact mechanisms remain obscure. The aim of my study was to decipher whether and how RSV viral co-infection alters pneumococcal metabolism and host immunity, and how, altogether, it affects the colonisation and invasive properties of the pneumococcus. To this end, I exploited in vitro respiratory epithelial cell culture and in vivo mouse coinfection models as well as global proteomic analysis. In all in vivo and in vitro models, pneumococcal infection or colonisation was carried out prior to RSV superinfection. Through my murine models, I made the striking observation that upon pneumococcal and viral co-infection, bacterial density was significantly enhanced in the nasopharynx and pneumococci were more prone to disseminate to the lower respiratory tract. Nasopharyngeal carriage was maintained as a result of the combined effect of defective clearance of pneumococci by macrophages and enhanced T regulatory cell response. Upon viral RSV co-infection in a pneumococcal pneumonia mouse model, no immune impairment was observed, though a higher number of viable bacteria were measured in the lungs of co-infected animals. These animals also presented heightened weight loss and delayed recovery compared to mono-infected animals and showed significant differences in pro-inflammatory cytokine levels consistent with their respective infection profile. Using an in vitro transepithelial electrical resistance (TEER) model I also demonstrated that, during RSV coinfection, pneumococcal transmigration through the epithelial barrier occurs at a significantly lower rate than single bacterial infection, in the absence of any variations in epithelial integrity. These observations were supported by my proteomic data showing that RSV-pneumococcal coinfection drives significant changes in both host and bacterial proteomic expression. Significant changes observed in the protein abundance of host interferon signalling pathway, epithelial intermediate filaments and proinflammatory cytokine Interleukin-1β. Similarly, significant variations were noted in the abundance of pneumococcal proteins involved in growth, survival and virulence. My results shed light on the complex interaction between pneumococci, RSV and host and will contribute towards the development of novel preventive and therapeutic strategies against bacterial-viral co-infection.
Peierls instability, periodic Bose-Einstein condensates and density waves in quasi-one-dimensional boson-fermion mixtures of atomic gases
Creators: name: Miyakawa, Takahiko
name: Yabu, Hiroyuki
name: Suzuki, Toru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) spin-polarized bose-fermi mixture of atomic gases at zero temperature. Bosonic excitation spectra are calculated in random phase approximation on the ground state with the uniform BEC, and the Peierls instabilities are shown to appear in bosonic collective excitation modes with wave-number $2k_F$ by the coupling between the Bogoliubov-phonon mode of bosonic atoms and the fermion particle-hole excitations. The ground-state properties are calculated in the variational method, and, corresponding to the Peierls instability, the state with a periodic BEC and fermionic density waves with the period $π/k_F$ are shown to have a lower energy than the uniform one. We also briefly discuss the Q1D system confined in a harmonic oscillator (HO) potential and derive the Peierls instability condition for it.
description: 9 pages, 3figures
Immigration and trade: the case study of Veneto region in Italy
Creators: name: Fiorentini, Riccardo
name: Verashchagina, Alina
name: Fiorentini, Riccardo
name: Verashchagina, Alina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: immigration, exports, imports, gravity model, dose-response function.

description: This paper investigates the relation between immigration and trade by focusing on Veneto region in Italy. The reference period is 2008-2015, interfering with the economic crisis, thus the results obtained can be time specific. The presence of immigrants in Veneto was constantly on the rise, also during the crisis, although at a slower pace compared to pre-crisis years. The question is which role could this play in ascertaining the stability, if not expansion, of trade relations between the region and the countries of immigrants' origin. The estimates of gravity model suggest a non-linear relationship between the number of immigrants and total exports from (imports to) the host-province to (from) the country of origin. The type of this relation moreover differs by sector of origin of trade. The effect on imports is mainly concentrated in manufacturing, whereas that on exports is more evenly distributed among several sectors. In particular, agriculture, mining, manufacturing, water supply and wastes managements are the ones which react positively by exporting more in response to increase in the number of immigrants. This could mean that further inflow of immigrants can potentially induce shifts in the structure of local economy of Veneto region which is highly dependent on international trade.
Zurück zu grünen Weinbergen? Werden positive Effekte für die Bodenbiodiversität auch die Erlöse der Winzer steigern?
Creators: name: Plaas, Elke
name: Hervé, Morgane
name: Guernion, Muriel
name: Nicolai, Annegret
name: Cluzeau, Daniel
name: Bergmann, Holger
name: Plaas, Elke
name: Hervé, Morgane
name: Guernion, Muriel
name: Nicolai, Annegret
name: Cluzeau, Daniel
name: Bergmann, Holger
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Biodiversität
subject: Ökosystemdienstleistungen
subject: Weinbau
subject: Weintourismus
subject: Bodenbiodiversität

description: Frankreich ist eines der führenden Weinexportierenden Länder weltweit. Durch die Weinproduzenten der sog. Neuen Welt ist der Wettbewerbsdruck merklich gestiegen. Um die Risiken von Ertragsverlusten zu minimieren und Erträge zu maximieren, werden im französischen Weinbau vergleichsweise hohe Mengen an Pestiziden eingesetzt. Da dieser hohe Einsatz an Pestiziden stark umstritten ist, gibt es ein Bestreben, die Weinberge wieder zu begrünen. Durch die Einsaat von bestimmten Bodendeckern und Blühpflanzen soll die Bodenbiodiversität gesteigert werden und der Einsatz der Herbizide auf ein geringes Maß reduziert werden. Im Rahmen des BiodivERsA “VineDivers” Projektes werden dazu Weinbauregionen in vier EU-Staaten analysiert von denen eine Länderstudie hier vorgestellt wird. Die Feldversuche in den Weingärten der Coteaux du Layon (Loire Tal, Frankreich) zeigen deutliche Zuwächse der Regenwurmpopulation durch die Begrünung zwischen den Reihen am Weinberg. Daneben zeigen die sozio-ökonomischen Ergebnisse, dass die Rückkehr zu grünen Weinbergen von dem Tourismus in der Region positiv bewertet wird. Abschließend erfolgte eine betriebswirtschaftliche Analyse des Weinbaus, da ökonomische Faktoren aus Sicht der Winzer den größten Anreiz für eine Veränderung des Anbaumanagements darstellen.
Additional file 4 of Prevalence, knowledge, attitude and practices of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) among United Arab Emirates population
Creators: name: Shamsa Al Awar
name: Moamar Al-Jefout
name: Osman, Nawal
name: Zuhur Balayah
name: Nourah Al Kindi
name: Ucenic, Teodora
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. Female Circumcision Study Questionnaire, MALE Arabic version.
RIESENWEIZENGRAS ALS RENTABLE ALTERNATIVE IN DER BIOGASPRODUKTION?
Creators: name: Müller, Janine
name: Aurbacher, Joachim
name: Müller, Janine
name: Aurbacher, Joachim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Riesenweizengras
subject: Biogassubstrat
subject: Alternative Kulturpflanze
subject: ökonomische Bewertung

description: Die Ergebnisse des Teilprojektes 2 -Ökonomische Bewertung- des Verbundvorhabens „Bewertung von Riesenweizengras im Vergleich mit praxisüblichen Anbausubstraten unter Aspekten des Pflanzenbaus, der Wirtschaftlichkeit und des Umweltschutzes (BRAWU) zeigen, dass Riesenweizengras als mehrjährige Kulturpflanzen mit einer Nutzungsdauer von mindestens drei Jahren eine positive Erweiterung des Anbauspektrums zur Biogasproduktion darstellt, die auch wirtschaftlich konkurrenzfähig ist und sich gut in etablierte Anbausysteme integrieren lässt.
Making Fe0-Based Filters a Universal Solution for Safe Drinking Water Provision
Creators: name: Naseri, Elham
name: Ndé-Tchoupé, Arnaud
name: Mwakabona, Hezron
name: Nanseu-Njiki, Charles
name: Noubactep, Chicgoua
name: Njau, Karoli
name: Wydra, Kerstin
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2017

description: Metallic iron (Fe0)-based filtration systems have the potential to significantly contribute to the achievement of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of substantially improving the human condition by 2030 through the provision of clean water. Recent knowledge on Fe0-based safe drinking water filters is addressed herein. They are categorized into two types: Household and community filters. Design criteria are recalled and operational details are given. Scientists are invited to co-develop knowledge enabling the exploitation of the great potential of Fe0 filters for sustainable safe drinking water provision (and sanitation).
description: Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2017
WHAT'S BEST FOR PHILIPPINE NURSING EDUCATION? A REFLECTIVE APPROACH
Creators: name: ABIDIN, BASMA MUSAHARI JAINAL
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Significant improvements to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and continuing education of nurses will be necessary to suit the enormous changes occurring in the nursing education and practice contexts in the Philippines. This reflective study aimed to explore the best practices in nursing education in the Philippines, with a focus on curriculum design, faculty development, student support and mentoring, clinical training and experiential learning, and ethics and professionalism. The study utilized qualitative content analysis to analyze data collected from key informants. This reflective study explored major themes in Philippine nursing education, including the need for a comprehensive and innovative curriculum, ongoing professional development for faculty, a supportive learning environment for students, practical clinical training, and a strong foundation in ethics and professionalism. The results also highlighted the importance of practical training and hands-on experience in preparing nursing students for the complexities of patient care, and the need for partnerships with healthcare institutions to provide students with diverse clinical experiences. The study emphasized the significance of nursing education programs in instilling a strong foundation in ethics and professionalism in their students, promoting a culture of patient-centered care and respect for diversity in nursing practice. This study provides valuable insights for nursing educators and policymakers in the Philippines and beyond, as they strive to train competent, caring nurses who can adapt to the demands of the ever-changing healthcare system.
Building an excellency network for heightening agricultural economic research and education in Romania
Creators: name: Walder, Peter
name: Fîntîneru, Gina
name: Mann, Stefan
name: Herzfeld, Thomas
name: Wolz, Axel
name: Kantelhardt, Jochen
name: Walder, Peter
name: Fîntîneru, Gina
name: Mann, Stefan
name: Herzfeld, Thomas
name: Wolz, Axel
name: Kantelhardt, Jochen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: twinning
subject: agricultural science education
subject: active learning

description: This contribution describes the Twinning Programme within H2020 by reporting about the ENHANCE project “Building an Excellency Network for Heightening Agricultural ecoNomic researCh and Education in Romania (ENHANCE)” via its objectives, measures and intermediate results. The importance of integrating evidence based methods into the training of not only post-graduate students but also into the advanced training of staff members will be shown. The Twinning Programme offers an effective tool to efficiently advance the scientific excellence of staff members and post-graduate students via the cooperation and intensified interlinkages with high performing partner institutes and researchers.
Reaching Burmese Refugee and Migrant Communities through Education : U.S. and U.K.-based funding agencies and Scholarships for Burma
Creators: name: Acevedo, Kirk
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: Description to be added
A phase transition in random coin tossing
Creators: name: Levin, David A.
name: Pemantle, Robin
name: Peres, Yuval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G30 (Primary) 60K35 (Secondary)

description: Suppose that a coin with bias theta is tossed at renewal times of a renewal process, and a fair coin is tossed at all other times. Let mu_θbe the distribution of the observed sequence of coin tosses, and let u_n denote the chance of a renewal at time n. Harris and Keane showed that if sum_{n=1}^infty u_n^2=\infty, then mu_theta and μ_0 are singular, while if sum_{n=1}^{infty} u_n^2theta_c, they are singular. We also prove that when u_n=O(n^{-1}), the measures mu_theta for theta in [-1,1] are all mutually absolutely continuous.
description: 48 pages
Determining the equation of state of dark energy from angular size of compact radio sources and X-ray gas mass fraction of galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Zhu, Zong-Hong
name: Fujimoto, Masa-Katsu
name: He, Xiang-Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using recent measurements of angular size of high-z milliarcsecond compact radio sources compiled by Gurvits, Kellermann and Frey (1999) and X-ray gas mass fraction of galaxy clusters published by Allen et al. (2002,2003), we explore their bounds on the equation of state, omega_x = p_x/rho_x, of the dark energy, whose existence has been congruously suggested by various cosmological observations. We relaxe the usual constraint omega_x >= -1, and find that combining the two databases yields a nontrivial lower bound on omega_x. Under the assumption of a flat universe, we obtain a bound -2.22 < omega_x < -0.62 at 95.4% confidence level. The 95.4% confidence bound goes to -1 =< omega_x < -0.60 when the constraint omega_x >= -1 is imposed.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Rooted NNI moves on tree-based phylogenetic networks
Creators: name: Erdős, Péter L.
name: Francis, Andrew
name: Mezei, Tamás Róbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 92B10 (Primary) 05C90 (Secondary)

description: We show that the space of rooted tree-based phylogenetic networks is connected under rooted nearest-neighbour interchange (rNNI) moves.
description: Fixed typos and references to labels in the last subsection
Implementing smoking cessation interventions in community mental health settings : exploring nurses' readiness to change, perceived barriers and overall perceptions using a mixed methods design
Creators: name: Holehouse, Rosanna
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Tobacco use is deeply entrenched in the culture of psychiatry. Historically, nurses condoned smoking and at times even encouraged it. Despite the vast research examining smoking cessation interventions for the general public, little is known about the barriers health care professionals face while working in community mental health settings and their 'readiness' to change in regards to implementing smoking cessation interventions into their practice. This study is part of a growing body of research examining tobacco in the context of mental illness. A mixed methods research design was utilized for this project. The first phase of the study consisted of the analysis of a self-report questionnaire completed by 282 health care providers working within the community mental health field in the Greater Vancouver area. The Transtheoretical Model: Stages of Change Method was applied to this largely untapped source of health providers to determine their 'readiness' to a) talk to clients about their smoking habits, and b) provide smoking cessation support to their clients. The second phase consisted of a focused ethnographic design in which semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 13 community mental health nurses. This first Canadian investigation of community mental health nurses' 'readiness' to implement smoking cessation interventions into their practice revealed that the majority of nurses were in the preparation stage for both a) talking to clients about their smoking and b) providing smoking cessation support to their clients. Barriers to providing smoking cessation included lack of knowledge, time and appropriate resources. The ethnographic profile of the sociocultural and organizational context of community mental health nursing revealed the structure of the nursing subculture within the mental health teams (Brokers, Conductors, and Connectors) and highlighted the impact of these roles on nurses' readiness to change. Findings from both phases of the study were synthesized and results indicate a need for 1) the development of smoking cessation interventions specifically tailored to community mental health nurses' roles, 2) the incorporation of smoking cessation intervention education into the community mental health workplace, and 3) placing equal emphasis on the role and value of mental health nursing in undergraduate nursing programs.
Additional file 3 of Species and sex-specific chemosensory gene expression in Anopheles coluzzii and An. quadriannulatus antennae
Creators: name: Giridhar Athrey
name: Popkin-Hall, Zachary
name: Cosme, Luciano Veiga
name: Takken, Willem
name: Slotman, Michel Andre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. Level of gene expression and LogFC between (a) male antennae of An. coluzzii and An. quadriannulatus, (b) male and female An. coluzzii antennae, and (c) male and female An. quadriannulatus antennae. Genes with significantly enhanced expression are indicated by a red dot.
title: 01_1688
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Women Under U.S. and Islamic Laws : Islam Synonomous with Women Oppression?
Creators: name: Coulibaly, Mounira
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 48
subject: Law and legal studies
classificationCode: 5004
subject: Religious studies

description: Even though Women’s situation worldwide has greatly improved nowadays, women still constitutes a population that is still oppressed in many places in this world. From employment, to social and political representation, women are still behind men. Many women earn less than men with the same qualifications and position and fewer women than men occupy seats on legislative bodies. However, many believe that countries where women are the most kept from having any social role are countries evolving under Islamic laws. Indeed, the idea of a Muslim women wearing a veil symbolizes for many and especially westerners the oppression of women. Nevertheless, this paper aims at demonstrating through a comparison of gender equality under U.S. laws and under Islamic laws that Islamic laws do not necessarily results in women oppression. Nevertheless, I also want to make it clear that U.S laws generally provide more protections to women than Islamic laws, but there are some areas where U.S Laws have failures. In an effort to prove this point, this paper will first explore how patriarchal notions have influenced interpretations of gender equality under U.S. and Islamic laws. This will lead us to conclude that depending on the method of interpretations, gender equality exists under Islamic laws. Then, the paper will analyze the issues of marriage and violence against women under U.S laws and Islamic laws. Finally, we will expose Islamic and American feminists’ views on gender equality and understand what the future holds for women under these legal systems.
Sudakov resummation of multiparton QCD cross sections
Creators: name: Bonciani, R.
name: Catani, S.
name: Mangano, M. L.
name: Nason, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the general expressions for the resummation, up to next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy, of Sudakov-type logarithms in processes with an arbirtrary number of hard-scattering partons. These results document the formulae used by the authors in several previous phenomenological studies. The resummation formulae presented here, which are valid for phase-space factorizable observables, determine the resummation correction in a process-independent fashion. All process dependence is encoded in the colour and flavour structure of the leading order and virtual one-loop amplitudes, and in Sudakov weights associated to the cross section kinematics. We explicitly illustrate the application to the case of Drell--Yan and prompt-photon production.
description: 13 pages, LaTeX
Die Einstellung der Gesellschaft gegenüber der landwirtschaftlichen Nutztierhaltung
Creators: name: Christoph-Schulz, Inken
name: Rovers, Anja
name: Bruemmer, Nanke
name: Christoph-Schulz, Inken
name: Rovers, Anja
name: Bruemmer, Nanke
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Nutztierhaltung
subject: Gesellschaft
subject: Einstellung
subject: Faktoranalyse
subject: Clusteranalyse

description: Seit Jahren ist die Nutztierhaltung ein kontrovers diskutiertes Thema in Deutschland. Die Kluft zwischen der gängigen Praxis und den gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen scheint zu wachsen. Mittels einer Onlinebefragung wurde eine Faktoranalyse durchgeführt, um die Einstellung der deutschen Gesellschaft gegenüber der Nutztierhaltung zu untersuchen. Die zu bewertenden Aussagen basierten auf einem Gutachten des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats für Agrarpolitik des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft. Darauf aufbauend wurde eine Clusteranalyse angefertigt, die die befragten Personen bezüglich ihrer Einstellung gruppiert. Dabei konnten drei Cluster ermittelt werden: Befürworter einer auf Effizienz ausgerichteten Nutztierhaltung, Gegner einer solchen Praxis und die Gruppe der pro und contra abwägenden Personen.
Lamprophis olivaceus
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lamprophiidae
Lamprophis
Lamprophis olivaceus

description: Lamprophis olivaceus (Duméril, 1856)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — No specimen available.
 DISTRIBUTION. — Lamprophis olivaceus has been mentioned from Togo by Sternfeld (1908b, 1909: 11), from Missahohe. Chippaux (2006) also cited this species from Togo, probably on the basis of Sternfeld (1908b: 213, 1909). It is mostly a forest dwelling species which is widespread in Western and Central Africa.
 CONSERVATION STATUS. — See under L. virgatus.
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on pages 342-343, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017