cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Antecedents Factors that Influence Soy Consumption: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Creators: name: Balasubramanian, Siva K.
name: Moon, Wanki
name: Rimal, Arbindra
name: Coker, Kesha
name: Balasubramanian, Siva K.
name: Moon, Wanki
name: Rimal, Arbindra
name: Coker, Kesha
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: We propose a structural model of antecedent factors that affect the frequency of soy consumption. This model, suggests that soy-general knowledge influences perceptions about nutrition concern, health benefits of soy, soy related personal beliefs and personal attitudes toward soy. Health benefits of soy, in turn, impacts soy-related personal beliefs and personal attitudes toward soy. Additionally, soy-related personal beliefs influence personal attitudes toward soy. Finally, both nutrition concern and personal attitudes toward soy drive the frequency of soy consumption. Elaborate tests with calibration and validation samples (derived from a large and nationally representative survey) provide robust empirical support for the proposed model. Implications for consumers and food industry are discussed.
Hitting the Ground Running: Computational physics education to prepare students for computational physics research
Creators: name: Graves, Amy Lisa
name: Light, Adam D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Momentum exists in the physics community for integrating computation into the undergraduate curriculum. One of many benefits would be preparation for computational research. Our investigation poses the question of which computational skills might be best learned in the curriculum (prior to research) versus during research. Based on a survey of computational physicists, we present evidence that many relevant skills are developed naturally in a research context while others stand out as best learned in advance.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, to appear in CiSE (2020)
VLT/UVES constraints on the cosmological variability of the fine-structure constant
Creators: name: Levshakov, S. A.
name: Centurion, M.
name: Molaro, P.
name: D'Odorico, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new methodology for probing the cosmological variability of alpha from pairs of FeII lines (SIDAM, single ion differential alpha measurement) observed in individual exposures from a high resolution spectrograph. By this we avoid the influence of the spectral shifts due to (i) ionization inhomogeneities in the absorbers and (ii) non-zero offsets between different exposures. Applied to the FeII lines of the metal absorption line system at zabs = 1.839 in the spectrum of Q1101-264 obtained by means of the UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) at the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT), SIDAM provides da/a = (2.4+/-3.8) 10^{-6}. The zabs = 1.15 FeII system toward HE0515-4414 has been re-analyzed by this method thus obtaining for the combined sample da/a = (0.4+/-1.5) 10^{-6}. These values are shifted with respect to the Keck/HIRES mean da/a = (-5.7+/-1.1) 10^{-6} (Murphy et al. 2004) at very high confidence level (95%). The fundamental photon noise limitation in the da/a measurement with the VLT/UVES is discussed to figure the prospects for future observations. It is suggested that with a spectrograph of 10 times the UVES dispersion coupled to a 100m class telescope the present Oklo level (da/a >= 4.5 10^{-8}) can be achieved along cosmological distances with differential measurements of da/a.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, corrected version, accepted for publication in Astron. Astrophys
Mystacinidae Dobson 1875
Creators: name: Don E. Wilson
name: Russell A. Mittermeier
Publisher: name: Lynx Edicions
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Mystacinidae

description: Family MYSTACINIDAE
(NEW ZEALAND SHORT-TAILED BATS)
• Medium-sized and tree-roosting, with short, dense, velvety brown fur on body and bare, gray-brown skin on ears, wings, nose, hindlegs, and tail.
• 6-9 cm.
• Australasian Region (New Zealand).
• Mostly interiors of indigenous forests from sea level to high elevations but will cross open grassland and forages in scrub and non-native forest plantations.
• 1 genus, 2 species, 4 taxa.
• 1 species Critically Endangered, 1 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Mystacinidae, pp. 394-403 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 394, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6418929
Novel evaluation of the two-pion contribution to the nucleon isovector form factors
Creators: name: Belushkin, M. A.
name: Hammer, H. -W.
name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the two-pion continuum contribution to the nucleon isovector spectral functions drawing upon the new high statistics measurements of the pion form factor by the CMD-2, KLOE, and SND collaborations. The general structure of the spectral functions remains unchanged, but the magnitude increases by about 10%. Using the updated spectral functions, we calculate the contribution of the two-pion continuum to the nucleon isovector form factors and radii. We compare the isovector radii with simple rho-pole models and illustrate their strong underestimation in such approaches. Moreover, we give a convenient parametrization of the result for use in future form factor analyses.
description: 9 pages, 2 eps figures, revtex4, CMD-2 and SND data included, conclusions unchanged, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
GMO Testing Strategies and Implications for Trade: A Game Theoretic Approach
Creators: name: Konduru, Srinivasa
name: Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas G.
name: Magnier, Alexandre
name: Konduru, Srinivasa
name: Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas G.
name: Magnier, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: GMO testing
subject: measurement uncertainty
subject: identity preservation systems
subject: agricultural trade

description: Since their commercial introduction in 1996, genetically modified (GM) crops have been quickly adopted world wide, but some GM crops/varieties have not received regulatory approval for use in some importing countries, leading to asynchronicity in regulatory approvals. In this context, the international agricultural trade relied on analytical GMO testing which is a statistical process, along with identity preserved systems to segregate GM and non-GM crops. This led to a situation where measurement uncertainty became an important issue as it can lead to potential holdups at the point of import. In this background, this paper examines the implications of measurement uncertainty associated with GMO testing on the behavior of importers and exporters in a game theoretic framework. The results indicate that relative size of identity preservation costs, testing and rejection costs, the premiums offered in the non- GM markets and measurement uncertainty all have direct impacts on the behavior of importers and exporters.
Branon Phenomenology
Creators: name: Cembranos, J. A. R.
name: Dobado, A.
name: Maroto, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In brane-world models with low tension, the fluctuations of the brane along the extra dimensions (branons) are the only relevant new low-energy modes. Such branon fields are in general massive, stable and weakly interacting, and accordingly they are natural candidates to explain the universe missing mass problem. On the other hand, the branon phenomenology is very rich because they couple to all the Standard Model particles. Distinctive branon signals could be observed in next colliders and in dark matter searches.
description: Contribution to the Proceedings of 2005 International Linear Collider Physics and Detector Workshop and Second ILC Accelerator Workshop, Snowmass, CO (Snowmass05), 3 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures
Additional file 5 of Nutrient solutions for Arabidopsis thaliana: a study on nutrient solution composition in hydroponics systems
Creators: name: Delden, Sander H. Van
name: Nazarideljou, Mohammad Javad
name: Marcelis, Leo F. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 5. Pigments, chlorophyll, and epidermal flavonol indices in response to different nutrient solutions.
The Evolutionary Value of an Aesthetic Sense
Creators: name: Davies, Stephen
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2013

description: The aesthetic sense we inherited from our successful ancestors drew them toward conditions that made for survival and reproductive success and repelled them away from conditions that impacted negatively on longevity and fertility. But for them, as for us, those desirable outcomes were incidental and uncalculated. Their search was for the beautiful and sublime. Aesthetic behaviours are apparent in our forerunner species about 400,000 years ago. They sometimes made symmetrical hand axes that were then not used. We can take an aesthetic interest in more or less anything, but the aesthetic responses that are rooted in our biology include those to landscapes and environments, to non-human animals, and to the appearance and behaviour of our fellow humans.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2013): Aesthetics and Evolutionism: Requirements, Perspectives, Issues
Economic Impacts of Soybean Rust on the US Soybean Sector
Creators: name: Gomez, Miguel I.
name: Nunez, Hector M.
name: Onal, Hayri
name: Gomez, Miguel I.
name: Nunez, Hector M.
name: Onal, Hayri
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Asian Soybean Rust
subject: Stochastic Models
subject: Dynamic Models

description: The spread of Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) represents a real threat to the U.S. soybean sector. We assess the potential impacts of ASR on domestic soybean production and commodity markets as well as the competitive position of the US in the soybean export market. We develop a mathematical stochastic dynamic sector model with endogenous prices to assess the economic impacts of ASR on US agriculture. The model takes into account the disease spread during the cropping season, the inherent uncertainty regarding the risk of infection, and the dichotomous decisions that farmers make (no treatment, preventive treatment, and curative treatment) facing the risk of infection. Our results suggest substantial impacts from potential ASR spread on agricultural output, prices and exports. Our simulation results suggest that substantial losses to the US soybean producers may be avoided by establishing effective soybean rust controls. ASR control policies can be particularly efficient if applied in the gateway regions on the path of the ASR spread. On the other hand, our results indicate a possible gradual shift in soybean production from lower-latitude states toward higher-latitude states
Constraints on proton structure from precision atomic physics measurements
Creators: name: Brodsky, S. J.
name: Carlson, C. E.
name: Hiller, J. R.
name: Hwang, D. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ground-state hyperfine splittings in hydrogen and muonium are very well measured. Their difference, after correcting for magnetic moment and reduced mass effects, is due solely to proton structure--the large QED contributions for a pointlike nucleus essentially cancel. The rescaled hyperfine difference depends on the Zemach radius, a fundamental measure of the proton, computed as an integral over a product of electric and magnetic proton form factors. The determination of the Zemach radius, (1.043 +/- 0.016) fm, from atomic physics tightly constrains fits to accelerator measurements of proton form factors. Conversely, we can use muonium data to extract an ``experimental'' value for QED corrections to hydrogenic hyperfine data; we find that measurement and theory are consistent.
description: 4 pages, RevTeX 4; corrects errors, to be consistent with published erratum
Sufficient Statistics for Measuring the Value of Changes in Local Public Goods: Does Chetty’s Framework Inform Lind?
Creators: name: Klaiber, H. Allen
name: Smith, V. Kerry
name: Klaiber, H. Allen
name: Smith, V. Kerry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Welfare Measurement
subject: Quasi-Experiment
subject: Assignment Model
subject: Perceptions
subject: Non-Marginal Change
subject: Open Space

description: The performance of quasi-experimental methods applied to changes in non-market goods depends on the ability of reduced form models to accurately measure willingness to pay. When exogenous changes are non-marginal, the accuracy of the reduced form approximations is not well understood. Further complicating the performance of reduced form models is that the true representation of the non-market good in household utility functions may differ from the perceptions of that good as captured in the reduced form model. This paper evaluates a series of before/after quasi-experiments where the true model is known and examines the performance of these methods under a variety of conditions. We find that performance is impacted by the scale of the change and that differences in perceptions of the amenity between the reduced form model and the underlying utility function play an important role in determining the performance of quasi-experimental applications. For researchers interested in non-market goods where the true representations of changes in relation to the underlying utility function are unknown, the notion of perceived measures of the non-market good in reduced form models should receive considerable attention.
Additional file 1 of Sickness absence among privately employed white-collar workers during the COVID-19 pandemic; a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Farrants, Kristin
name: Müller, Mira
name: Alexanderson, Kristina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 1
On the variability of functional connectivity and network measures in source-reconstructed EEG time-series
Creators: name: Fraschini, Matteo
name: La Cava, Simone Maurizio
name: Didaci, Luca
name: Barberini, Luigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The idea to estimate the statistical interdependence among (interacting) brain regions has motivated numerous researchers to investigate how the resulting connectivity patterns and networks may organize themselves under any conceivable scenario. Even though this idea is not at initial stages, its practical application is still far to be widespread. One concurrent cause may be related to the proliferation of different approaches that aim to catch the underlying correlation among the (interacting) units. This issue has probably contributed to hinder the comparison among different studies. Not only all these approaches go under the same name (functional connectivity), but they have been often tested and validated using different methods, therefore, making it difficult to understand to what extent they are similar or not. In this study, we aim to compare a set of different approaches commonly used to estimate the functional connectivity on a public EEG dataset representing a possible realistic scenario. As expected, our results show that source-level EEG connectivity estimates and the derived network measures, even though pointing to the same direction, may display substantial dependency on the (often arbitrary) choice of the selected connectivity metric and thresholding approach. In our opinion, the observed variability reflects ambiguity and concern that should always be discussed when reporting findings based on any connectivity metric.
Additional file 6 of Nutrient solutions for Arabidopsis thaliana: a study on nutrient solution composition in hydroponics systems
Creators: name: Delden, Sander H. Van
name: Nazarideljou, Mohammad Javad
name: Marcelis, Leo F. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 6. Photos of plants on Murashige and Skoog (MS) solution.
Have coffee reforms and coffee supply chains affected farmers' income? The case of coffee growers in Rwanda
Creators: name: Murekezi, Abdoul Karim
name: Loveridge, Scott
name: Murekezi, Abdoul Karim
name: Loveridge, Scott
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Rwanda
subject: market reforms
subject: coffee supply chains
subject: farmers’ income

description: Low prices in the international coffee markets have worsened the economic well-being among coffee farmers. In the face of this situation, the Government of Rwanda has introduced coffee sector reforms that aimed to transform the sector in a way that targets the high quality market and moves away from the bulk coffee market. The high quality coffee market has shown consistent growth over time and exhibits price premiums in international market. If these high prices are passed on to farmers who take advantage of the benefits of the new high quality market by selling coffee cherries, access to this new market could help alleviate poverty brought on by low prices in the conventional sector. However, the majority of coffee farmers in Rwanda rely on the conventional market by selling parchment coffee. The present study analyzes the effects of coffee sector reforms in terms of household expenditures, a proxy of income, on farmers selling coffee to two supply chains: parchment coffee channel and coffee cherry channel. Results from the random effects model on the two year panel data indicate that farmers benefited from coffee reforms by increasing their consumption over time. Farmers selling coffee cherries have gained from the coffee sector reforms in comparison to farmers selling parchment coffee. Based on these results, it seems that efforts to promote the production of high quality coffee would improve food security and the overall consumption expenditures of coffee growers.
Major Challenges in and Around Protected Areas in India - Addressing it through Forest Management
Creators: name: Akshay F Madiwalar1, Ghazanfer Abbas1, Rajput Nikhil Balu1, Raziya Banoo1,  Deepshikha Singh1
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: India is one of the richest biodiversity countries in the world due to its bio-geographical position and physical environmental condition. Biodiversity is conserved in the form of protected areas such as national parks and biosphere reserves. Due to anthropogenic activities, these protected areas are facing a wide number of challenges. There is a need to address the challenges through various strategies. Among many strategies forest management is one of the efficient strategies through which the challenges are addressed.
Self-induced spin pumping and inverse spin Hall effect in single FePt thin films
Creators: name: Ampuero, J. L.
name: Anadón, A.
name: Damas, H.
name: Ghanbaja, J.
name: Petit-Watelot, S.
name: Rojas-Sánchez, J. -C.
name: Rodriguez, D. Velázquez
name: Gómez, J. E.
name: Butera, A.
name: Avilés-Félix, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we investigate the spin-charge current conversion characteristics of chemically disordered ferromagnetic single FePt thin films by spin-pumping ferromagnetic resonance experiments performed on both a resonance cavity and on patterned devices. We clearly observe a self-induced signal in a single FePt layer. The sign of a single FePt spin pumping voltage signal is consistent with a typical bilayer with a positive spin Hall angle layer such as that of Pt on top of a ferromagnet (FM), substrate//FM/Pt. Structural analysis shows a strong composition gradient due to natural oxidation at both FePt interfaces, with the Si substrate and with the air. The FePt-thickness dependence of the self-induced charge current produced allowed us to obtain $λ_ \text{FePt}=(1.5\pm 0.1)$ nm and self-induced $θ_ \text{self-FePt}=0.047 \pm 0.003$, with efficiency for reciprocal effects applications $θ_ \text{self-FePt} \times λ_ \text{FePt} = 0.071$ nm which is comparable to that of Pt, $θ_ \text{SH-Pt} \times λ_ \text{Pt} = 0.2$ nm. Moreover, by studying bilayer systems such as Si//FePt/Pt and Si//Pt//FePt we independently could extract the individual contributions of the external inverse spin Hall effect of Pt and the self-induced inverse spin Hall effect of FePt. Notably, this method gives consistent values of charge currents produced due to only self-induced inverse spin Hall effect in FePt layers. These results advance our understanding of spin-to-charge interconversion mechanisms in composite thin films and pave the way for the development of next-generation spintronics devices based on self-torque.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
"param_card_dmV.dat" of "Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector"
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2015

description: Z' vector mediator model, DM mass of 400 GeV, Mediator mass of 1 TeV, mediator width 1/3 of mediator mass
description: CERN-LHC. Results of a search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum are reported. The search uses 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ of $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV data collected in 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are required to have at least one jet with $p_T > 120$ GeV and no leptons. Nine signal regions are considered with increasing missing transverse momentum requirements between $E_T^{miss} > 150$ GeV and $E_T^{miss} > 700$ GeV. Good agreement is observed between the number of events in data and Standard Model expectations. The results are translated into exclusion limits on models with large extra spatial dimensions, pair production of weakly interacting dark matter candidates, and production of very light gravitinos in a gauge-mediated supersymmetric model. In addition, limits on the production of an invisibly decaying Higgs-like boson leading to similar topologies in the final state are presented.
Additional file 7 of Nutrient solutions for Arabidopsis thaliana: a study on nutrient solution composition in hydroponics systems
Creators: name: Delden, Sander H. Van
name: Nazarideljou, Mohammad Javad
name: Marcelis, Leo F. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 7. Time course of leaf area in response to NaCl dose.
title: VARIA - Entretien avec Aitor Saraiba
Creators: name: Breysse, Maxime
Publisher: name: Savoirs en prisme
Year: 2020

description: Protéiforme, le travail d’Aitor Saraiba est avant tout autobiographique : les œuvres de cet artiste prolifique, qui prennent souvent appui sur ses expériences vitales, investissent des supports aussi divers que variés. Aitor Saraiba écrit, dessine, peint et prend des photos. Parfois même, il participe à ce qu’il appelle des « actions », happenings ou performances, comme ce fut le cas lors de l’édition 2009 de la Nuit Blanche (Madrid), durant laquelle il offrit aux habitants en mal de rêves des « dessins curatifs ». Il utilise enfin les techniques artisanales de son village natal, Talavera de la Reina, pour concevoir des objets en céramique. Il a exposé, entre autres, à Manchester, Mexico, Los Angeles, Lisbonne et, bien sûr, à Madrid où il réside actuellement. Son œuvre est empreinte d’un onirisme certain, d’une poésie indéniable, et aborde le plus souvent les thèmes de l’amour, la famille, l’enfance, la sexualité, la marginalité et la liberté. C’est à l’occasion de la publication de son dernier opus, Nada más importa, que nous avons eu l’honneur d’interviewer Aitor Saraiba. Il nous a livré, sans détour ni fausse pudeur, ses inquiétudes d’artiste, d’homme et de citoyen, que nous transcrivons ici en version originale.
description: Savoirs en prisme, No. 03 (2014): La vie des normes
D3 Brane Action and Fermion Zero Modes in Presence of Background Flux
Creators: name: Tripathy, Prasanta K.
name: Trivedi, Sandip P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the fermion bilinear terms in the world volume action for a D3 brane in the presence of background flux. In six-dimensional compactifications non-perturbative corrections to the superpotential can arise from an Euclidean D3-brane instanton wrapping a divisor in the internal space. The bilinear terms give rise to fermion masses and are important in determining these corrections. We find that the three-form flux generically breaks a U(1) subgroup of the structure group of the normal bundle of the divisor. In an example of compactification on T^6/Z_2, six of the sixteen zero modes originally present are lifted by the flux.
description: Important factor of ``i'' was overlooked in Euclidean continuation of WZ term. This changes the count of zero-modes in the T^6/Z_2 example. Main result stays unchanged. We thank Bergshoeff, Kallosh, Kashani-Poor, Sorokin and Tomasiello for pointing this out
Wal-Mart, Oligopsony Power and Entry: an Analysis of Local Labor Markets
Creators: name: Bonanno, Alessandro
name: Bonanno, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Wal-Mart
subject: oligopsony power
subject: entry
subject: wages

description: Wal-Mart, the largest retailer worldwide, has been suspected of exercising market power over input providers, both merchandise suppliers and workers. However, in spite of a growing body of literature investigating the beneficial economic impact of the company through its price-lowering effect, research analyzing the company’s economic impact over input suppliers is limited. This paper presents a general framework which can be used to investigate Wal-Mart’s market power over input suppliers, vis-à-vis a variation in input productivity, focusing on homogenous intermediate goods supplied locally. The model is general enough to account for incumbents’ reaction to Wal-Mart’s entry resulting in exit, entry and changes in the production technology. A simplified version of the theoretical model is tested using data on local labor markets. Preliminary results show Wal-Mart having a wage lowering effect due mainly to the increased productivity of labor, while the increase in oligopsony power counts only for 15% of such effect.
FOOD SAFETY INFORMATION AND MEAT DEMAND IN SPAIN
Creators: name: Radwan, Amr
name: Gil, Jose Maria
name: Ben Kaabia, Monia
name: Serra, Teresa
name: Radwan, Amr
name: Gil, Jose Maria
name: Ben Kaabia, Monia
name: Serra, Teresa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: meat consumption
subject: food safety information
subject: BSE
subject: demand systems
subject: GAIDS

description: This paper analyses the impact of food safety information about the “mad-cow” crisis on the demand for different types of fresh meat and fish in Spain. The theoretical model explicitly incorporates food safety information in the consumers’ utility function, from which demand equations are obtained. Two alternative functional forms have been considered, the standard AIDS and the Generalized Almost ideal Demand System (GAIDS) in order to overcome the problem of incorporating demand shifters in the traditional AIDS model. The food safety information has been incorporated into the demand function through a weighted information index built on the basis of the published news related to the mad-cow disease in the most popular Spanish newspaper. The comparison of elasticities from both models suggests that GAIDS elasticities are more consistent with the characteristics of meat and fish markets in Spain. Moreover, mass media information on BSE has had a statistically significant but small effect on the consumption of the different meat products in Spain.
Additional file 1 of Development and preliminary evaluation of a decision coach training module for nurses in Norway
Creators: name: Kienlin, Simone
name: Nytrøen, Kari
name: Kasper, Jürgen
name: Stacey, Dawn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
China’s growing food imports from the EU
Creators: name: Huan-Niemi, Ellen
name: Niemi, Jyrki S.
name: Huan-Niemi, Ellen
name: Niemi, Jyrki S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: EU
subject: China
subject: agricultural imports
subject: income growth
subject: tariff reductions

description: This paper examined China’s agricultural imports in regard to income growth, import price changes, and tariff reductions due to China’s trade liberalisation. More specifically, it attempted to model behavioural relationships in the agricultural trade between China and the EU by using annual trade data from 1986 to 2005. Econometric models were constructed for six agricultural products exported from the EU to China – frozen pigmeat, frozen fish, whey, barley, beer, and wine. The results indicated that China’s agricultural imports on a product basis are insensitive to absolute price changes. Therefore, the examination of the price elasticities confirmed the expectation that demand for Chinese agricultural imports is relatively inelastic to absolute price changes. However, Chinese importers are sensitive to relative price changes on a product basis due to price competition among suppliers. Chinese importers will seek for the cheaper products among the foreign suppliers. The estimations indicated that relative price changes affect significantly China’s import demand from the EU, implying that the exporter’s market share in China is influenced by price competition. China’s import demand analysis suggested that income growth effects play a dominant role in determining China’s import demand for agricultural products, both in the short and long term. Rapid income growth has fuelled most of China’s increased appetite for imported agricultural products. Strong economic growth is the major force behind the increasing buying power of the Chinese consumers.
Aesthetics and Evolution
Creators: name: Aiken, Nancy
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2013

description: Starting from the assumption that art, being a pervasive human behaviour across time and space, must have an evolutionary adaptive purpose, the Author claims in this paper that art making has evolved as a behaviour that serves to bind individuals together into cooperative groups. In more detail, the Author demonstrates here the adaptive value of art behaviour by showing how art can evoke fear and how it can evoke pleasure.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2013): Aesthetics and Evolutionism: Requirements, Perspectives, Issues
Collective Activities for the Management of Rural Common-Pool Resources: A Case Study of Irrigation System from Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Creators: name: Furuzawa, Shinichi
name: Kiminami, Lily
name: Kiminami, Akira
name: Furuzawa, Shinichi
name: Kiminami, Lily
name: Kiminami, Akira
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: common-pool resources
subject: diversification of stakeholders
subject: cost-benefit calculus

description: Generally, an appropriate maintenance and management of the common-pool resources (CPRs) in rural areas can contribute to the enhancement of the “quality of life” of inhabitants through improvement of the local environment, etc. In recent years, with the aging of farm households and the rise in the number of non-farm households, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the farm households alone to maintain and manage the CPRs in the farm villages of Japan. Therefore, the cooperation by beneficiaries including non-farm households is considered to be desirable. However such cooperation may be difficult to achieve, as the participation of non-farm households in the management of such resources leads to the diversification of stakeholders. In this study, we shall firstly review the existing studies on the collective activities for the management of irrigation system. Secondly, by using the framework of social-ecological systems, key issues for the management of the irrigation system in Japan will be clarified. Thirdly, we will clarify the mechanism involved in the management of CPRs through the identification of determinants for activities to manage agricultural irrigation and drainage channels, based on data from the rural community-level in Niigata Prefecture. Finally, we shall draw policy implications and research tasks for the management of the rural CPRs.
The Role of Bounded Rationality in Farm Financing Decisions – First Empirical Evidence –
Creators: name: Musshoff, Oliver
name: Hirschauer, Norbert
name: Wassmuss, Harm
name: Musshoff, Oliver
name: Hirschauer, Norbert
name: Wassmuss, Harm
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Financing behavior
subject: bounded rationality
subject: switching costs

description: Farmers do not often change from their house bank to another bank, even if the competing banks offer better conditions. This “reluctance to switch” can be explained, on the one hand, by the transaction costs resulting from such a change of business relation. On the other hand, it may be the result of bounded rationality. The results of a survey of North German farmers show that they are indeed bounded rational borrowers. They greatly underestimate the monetary disadvantages which are caused by the higher interest rates for loans from their house bank. In other words: They do not switch bank even if their individually perceived transaction costs are already “covered” by the lower interest rates of the alternative loan offer.
title: Paradigm Shifts Within and Between the Women’s and Gender Studies Centres at Universities in Turkey: Modernist, Feminist, and Neo-Conservative Approaches
title: Paradigmenwechsel in und zwischen Frauen- und Genderstudienzentren an türkischen Universitäten: Modernistische, feministische und neo-konservative Ansätze
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Binder, Charlotte
name: Çubukçu, Sevgi Uçan
name: Dağ, Deniz
name: Karakașoğlu, Yasemin
Publisher: name: Universität Bremen
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Frauen- und Geschlechterstudien
subject: Gendergleichheit
subject: Gendergerechtigkeit
subject: Akademischer Feminismus
subject: Hochschulbildung
subject: Türkei
subject: 370

description: https://www.uni-bremen.de/fb12/arbeitsbereiche/abteilung-a-allgemeine-erziehungswissenschaft/interkulturelle-bildung/forschung/forschungsarchiv/frauen-und-geschlechterstudien-in-der-tuerkei
description: Following the feminist movement of the 1980s, Women’s Studies as an independent academic discipline was established in the early 1990s at Turkish universities. By the year 2017, about 100 Women’s and Gender Studies Centres (WGSCs) existed at universities in Turkey. A research project at the University of Bremen has analysed the institutionalisation and transformation processes of these centres in their relation to academia, state, and civil society based on expert interviews and document collections. This article discusses how six selected WGSCs were shaped differently over the decades by diverse WGS scholars’ political-ideological stances and various scientific paradigms, such as modernist, feminist, or neo-conservative. It also investigates in how far centres’ names, topics, and terms such as ‘gen-der equality’ versus ‘gender justice’ can be identified as indicators of their different academic concepts of women and/or gender. The analysis suggests that the paradigm shifts can be explained, by considering the influential factors of generational belonging, academic feminism, and international WGS debates, as well as recognising the impacts of the relations between the civil society and the state in Turkey that undergo changes due to recent political developments.
Reshaping agricultural peatland use climate friendly in selected German regions
Creators: name: Schaller, Lena
name: Kantelhardt, Jochen
name: Hübner, Rico
name: Freibauer, Annette
name: Droesler, Matthias
name: Schaller, Lena
name: Kantelhardt, Jochen
name: Hübner, Rico
name: Freibauer, Annette
name: Droesler, Matthias
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Agricultural peatland use
subject: reduction of greenhouse gases
subject: farm survey
subject: economic consequences

description: About 30 percent of the world’s soil carbon is stored in peat soils. Peatland’s functional principle of carbon storage greatly depends on management strategies. Therefore agricultural peatland use becomes a focal point of interest in the current debate on climate protection. Agricultural management demands a drawdown of the water-level that causes aerobe degradation of the soils, as well as trace-gas emissions which have a negative impact on greenhouse-gas balance. Climate-friendly peatland management strategies, however, demand enhanced groundwater tables and decreased land-use intensity. Against this background we analyse ways of re-organising agricultural peatland use within a case study located in Germany, where intensive peatland use accounts for 2.3 – 4.5% of the country’s overall greenhouse-gas emission. In order to cover all possible socio-economic and natural conditions, the study takes place in six representative regions. To analyse the micro-economic effects of re-organising peatland use, network analysis, stakeholder workshops and extensive farm surveys were carried out. First results indicate that a re-organisation of peatland use causes severe loss of agricultural income and necessitates financial compensation for farmers. However the results also show that the potential of rearrangement varies significantly according to regional conditions.
Prima e al di là dell’arte: origine dei segni e delle figurazioni nell’arte paleolitica
Creators: name: Martini, Fabio
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2013

description: Figurative experience, as a codified system of images, emerges in Europe about 40.000 years ago. Together with the development of a figurative system, Homo sapiens acquired his modern cognitive architecture: an entirely articulated language, as well-developed as our current phonological system is, and others cognitive capacities such as basic drawing skills, self-consciousness and group cohesiveness. “Making sign”, as a complex nonverbal symbolism, is a crucial stage in human evolution: a stage of complex symbolism by means of a non-verbal language. Its value is both eidetic, when it aims at producing metaphoric and shared images, and individual, when it is involved in individual performances, that do not imply spectators.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2013): Aesthetics and Evolutionism: Requirements, Perspectives, Issues
On the universality of the KRK factorization scheme
Creators: name: Jadach, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The factorisation scheme (FS) abbreviated as KRK FS including a new definition of the PDFs for initial hadrons was formulated while developing KrkNLO scheme of matching QCD NLO corrections for the hard process with the parton shower heavy boson production in hadron-hadron collision and for deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering. KRK FS (originally called Monte Carlo FS) can be regarded as a variant of the $\overline{MS}$ system. It is therefore trivially universal, that is process independent. The question of its universality is formulated differently: As the basic role of KRK FS is to simplify drastically NLO corrections, the question is now whether the same {\em single} variant of PDFs in the KRK FS is able to achieve the same maximal simplification of the NLO corrections for {\em all processes} with one or two initial hadrons and any number of the final hadrons? Our answer is positive and the proof is elaborated in the present note within the Catani-Seymour subtraction methodology. KRK FS is mandatory in the KrkNLO method of matching NLO calculation and parton shower -- a much simpler alternative of POWHEG and/or MC\@ NLO. However, the use of KRK FS and the corresponding PDFs simplifies NLO calculations for any other method of calculating NLO corrections and for arbitrary processes as well.
description: Presented at XXV Cracow EPIPHANY Conference, January 7-10, 2020
Noctilionidae Gray 1821
Creators: name: Don E. Wilson
name: Russell A. Mittermeier
Publisher: name: Lynx Edicions
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Noctilionidae

description: Family NOCTILIONIDAE
(BULLDOG BATS)
• Medium to large bats with very short fur; large, flappy cheek pouches and pointy, elongated ears; dull grayto bright orange pelage, with adult males tending to be brighter than females; very broad uropatagium; and medium to very large hindclaws.
• 813 cm.
• Neotropical and Nearctic (marginally) Regions.
• Forests and savannas as long as there are some trees for roosting and water bodies for foraging.
•] genus, 2 species, 7 taxa.
• No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Noctilionidae, pp. 404-411 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 404, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6606979
Evidence for Uniform Coexistence of Ferromagnetism and Unconventional Superconductivity in UGe_2: A ^73Ge-NQR Study under Pressure
Creators: name: Kotegawa, H.
name: Harada, A.
name: Kawasaki, S.
name: Kawasaki, Y.
name: Kitaoka, Y.
name: Haga, Y.
name: Yamamoto, E.
name: Onuki, Y.
name: Itoh, K. M.
name: Haller, E. E.
name: Harima, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the itinerant ferromagnetic superconductor UGe_2 through ^73Ge-NQR measurements under pressure (P). The P dependence of the NQR spectrum signals a first-order transition from the low-temperature (T) and low-P ferromagnetic phase (FM2) to high-T and high-P one (FM1) around a critical pressure of P_x ~ 1.2 GPa. The superconductivity exhibiting a maximum value of T_sc=0.7 K at P_x ~ 1.2 GPa, was found to take place in connection with the P-induced first-order transition. The nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T_1 has probed the ferromagnetic transition, exhibiting a peak at the Curie temperature as well as a decrease without the coherence peak below T_sc. These results reveal the uniformly coexistent phase of ferromagnetism and unconventional superconductivity with a line-node gap. We remark on an intimate interplay between the onset of superconductivity and the underlying electronic state for the ferromagnetic phases.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures. to appear in J. Phys. Soc. JPN, 74 No.2 (2005)
Degenerate manifolds, helimagnets, and multi-$\mathbf{Q}$ chiral phases in the classical Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the face-centered-cubic lattice
Creators: name: Balla, Péter
name: Iqbal, Yasir
name: Penc, Karlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed study of the ground state phase diagram of the classical frustrated Heisenberg model on the face-centered-cubic lattice. By considering exchange interactions up till third nearest neighbors, we find commensurate, helimagnetic, as well as noncollinear multi-{\bf Q} orders which include noncoplanar and chiral spin structures. We reveal the presence of subextensively degenerate manifolds that appear at triple points and certain phase boundaries in the phase diagram. Within these manifolds, the spin Hamiltonian can be recast as a complete square of spins on finite motifs, permitting us to identify families of exact ground state spin configurations in real space -- these include randomly stacked ferro- or antiferromagnetically ordered planes and interacting ferromagnetic chains, among others. Finally, we critically investigate the ramifications of our findings on the example of the Ising model, where we exactly enumerate all the states numerically for finite clusters.
description: 26 pages, 10 figures, 10 tables, small corrections and clarifications
"param_card_EffDMS.dat" of "Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector"
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2015

description: Scalar DM models (C1, C5) , M* of 1 TeV, DM mass of 10 GeV
description: CERN-LHC. Results of a search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum are reported. The search uses 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ of $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV data collected in 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are required to have at least one jet with $p_T > 120$ GeV and no leptons. Nine signal regions are considered with increasing missing transverse momentum requirements between $E_T^{miss} > 150$ GeV and $E_T^{miss} > 700$ GeV. Good agreement is observed between the number of events in data and Standard Model expectations. The results are translated into exclusion limits on models with large extra spatial dimensions, pair production of weakly interacting dark matter candidates, and production of very light gravitinos in a gauge-mediated supersymmetric model. In addition, limits on the production of an invisibly decaying Higgs-like boson leading to similar topologies in the final state are presented.