cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Farming for Conservation of the Upland Landscape and Biodiversity in the Burren
Creators: name: Van Rensburg, Thomas
name: Kelley, Hugh
name: Yadav, Lava
Publisher: name: National University of Ireland, Galway
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Economics

description: The Burren landscape which stands out as one of the most magnificent managed landscapes in all of Europe has recently come under threat due to a shift in farm management practices. As a result of evolving market trends and social structures, traditional farming methods are being replaced by more conventional/commercial practices and in some cases a gradual abandonment of the lands for off farm income sources is occurring. Agri-environmental schemes such as the Rural Environmental Protection Scheme (REPS) with its generic farm management prescriptions have not proved to be effective in conserving this landscape along with its natural and cultural values. The BurrenLIFE initiative which has been experimenting on 20 farms over the last five years have targeted their efforts specifically on the Burren region to find the best scientific practices required for farming for conservation. In this study we investigate whether the farming practices recommended by BurrenLIFE project (BLP) are economically viable in providing a desirable public good. This work employs a survey based valuation technique (Choice Experiments) as well as a relatively new valuation approach (using a prediction technique) to estimate the value of some of the positive externalities generated by the BurrenLIFE management practices. Along with the positive externalities, the multiplier effect related to tourism is estimated and incorporated into a Land Portfolio Allocation (LPA) model to examine the effect of various policies and subsidies on the farming practices of the 20 BurrenLIFE farms (¿Burren 20 farms¿). Our results indicate that even with the most conservative reported willingness to pay from survey data, the rate of return on government support for these systems is no less than 235%. However, we also find that these farming practices are sensitive to the various government and BurrenLIFE subsidies to the farms; thus highlighting the importance of these payments in encouraging farmers to farm for conservation.
Success and failure factors of European diversification experiences
Creators: name: Drexler, Dora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: DiverIMPACTSPA

description: Lock-ins of crop diversification can prevent cropping systems from becoming more diversified. Identification of success and failure factors, as well as enablers and drawbacks of crop diversification initiatives are thus important for upscaling crop diversification. A database was built from the 128 valid responses of the survey performed in 12 European countries. While the most important failure factors were economic (e.g., market conditions and amount of financial resources), the technological factors (e.g., availability of inputs, technical solutions) were also very important. The most important success factors were related to social factors (e.g., professional expertise and commitment of actors, general public interest). The three most frequently mentioned target outcomes of European crop diversification experiences were improved environmental sustainability, improved agricultural production stability and increased income.
Additional file 1 of Novel DNA methylation signatures of tobacco smoking with trans-ethnic effects
Creators: name: Christiansen, C.
name: J. E. Castillo-Fernandez
name: A. Domingo-Relloso
name: W. Zhao
name: J. S. El-Sayed Moustafa
name: P.-C. Tsai
name: J. Maddock
name: K. Haack
name: S. A. Cole
name: S. L. R. Kardia
name: M. Molokhia
name: M. Suderman
name: C. Power
name: C. Relton
name: A. Wong
name: D. Kuh
name: A. Goodman
name: K. S. Small
name: J. A. Smith
name: M. Tellez-Plaza
name: A. Navas-Acien
name: G. B. Ploubidis
name: R. Hardy
name: J. T. Bell
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Note.
Derivative Dispersion Relations for the Amplitude Slopes in pp and p-pbar Scattering
Creators: name: Ferreira, Erasmo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the use of derivative dispersion relations to the study of slopes of the real and imaginary amplitudes in pp and p-pbar elastic scattering. The new relations are tested against the solutions for the amplitudes obtained in the analysis of the high energy data. Extensions beyond the forward direction are investigated.
description: 5 pages and 2 figures
Additional file 3 of Novel DNA methylation signatures of tobacco smoking with trans-ethnic effects
Creators: name: Christiansen, C.
name: J. E. Castillo-Fernandez
name: A. Domingo-Relloso
name: W. Zhao
name: J. S. El-Sayed Moustafa
name: P.-C. Tsai
name: J. Maddock
name: K. Haack
name: S. A. Cole
name: S. L. R. Kardia
name: M. Molokhia
name: M. Suderman
name: C. Power
name: C. Relton
name: A. Wong
name: D. Kuh
name: A. Goodman
name: K. S. Small
name: J. A. Smith
name: M. Tellez-Plaza
name: A. Navas-Acien
name: G. B. Ploubidis
name: R. Hardy
name: J. T. Bell
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves predicting current smokers and smoke exposure. a Top 5 CpG from 450 k only predicting smoke exposure and b Top 5 CpG from EPIC predicting smoke exposure.
title: Modelling access to the Irish Coastline: a contingent behavioural approach.
Creators: name: Barry, Luke
name: Van Rensburgh, Tom
name: Hynes, Stephen
Publisher: name: National University of Ireland, Galway
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Coastal resources
subject: Willingness to pay
subject: Contingent behaviour
subject: Negative binomial

description: This paper measures willingness to pay (WTP) for public access and trail improvements to a coastal recreational site in the west of Ireland. The Contingent Behaviour model is used to measure the increased number of trips associated with improved public access using recreational trails along a stretch of Irish coastline. Results show that improving access through the use of trails increases consumer surplus by 111.15 euro per person per annum. We argue that in designing new regulation such as Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) for the management of Ireland¿s coastline, an understanding of the values the Irish public place on coastal recreational access will be important to manage the resource in a sustainable manner.
Associated production of the charged Higgs boson and single top quark at the LHC
Creators: name: Liu, Yao-Bei
name: Shen, Jie-Fen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The left-right twin Higgs(LRTH) model predicts the existence of the charged Higgs $ϕ^{\pm}$. In this paper, we study the production of the charged Higgs boson $ϕ^{-}$ with single top quark via the process $bg\to tϕ^{-}$ at the $CERN$ Large Hadron Collider(LHC). The numerical results show that the production cross section can reach the level of $10 pb$ in the reasonable parameter space of the LRTH model. We expect that, as long as it is not too heavy, the possible signatures of the heavy charged Higgs boson $ϕ^{-}$ might be detected via the decay mode $ϕ^{-}\to \bar{t}b$ at the LHC experiments.
description: This paper has been withdrawn by the author(s) due to some mistakes in this paper
A new synthesis of unsaturated nitriles : total synthesis of stephalic acid
Creators: name: Fleming, Fraser Fergusson
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis describes the total synthesis of (±)-stephalic acid (96), the development of methodology for the conversion of ketones into α,β-unsaturated nitriles and exploratory studies aimed at developing a synthetic approach to cis-clerodane diterpenoids. In the total synthesis of (±)-stephalic acid (96), the ketone 94 (previously synthesized from 3-methyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one (105)) was converted into the enol trifluoromethanesulfonate (triflate) 108. The enol triflate 108 was coupled with lithium cyanide in the presence of a Pd(0) catalyst to provide the α,β-unsaturated nitrile 102. The latter substance was transformed into the α,β-unsaturated aldehyde 104, which was stereoselectively converted into the enol silyl ether 111. A novel triisobutylaluminum-promoted Claisen rearrangement-reduction process converted the enol allyl ether 103, obtained from the enol silyl ether 111, into the diene alcohol 118. The diene alcohol 118 was transformed via a series of reactions into (±)-stephalic acid (96). Conversion of the ketone 94 into the α,β-unsaturated nitrile 102 required the development of new methodology for the conversion of ketones into the corresponding α,β-unsaturated nitrites. Reaction of the enol triflates 158 and 162-167 with lithium cyanide in benzene (room temperature) in the presence of catalytic amounts of 12-crown-4 and tetrakistriphenylphosphinepalladium(0) provided the α,β-unsaturated nitriles 168 and 170-175, respectively. Conversion of the ketone 92 (previously synthesized from 2-methyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one (191)) into the enol silyl ether 204 was accomplished via an eight step sequence. Several features of this sequence should prove useful in the development of synthetic routes to the cw-clerodane family of diterpenoids. [diagrams omitted]
title: Measuring public preferences for the conservation of the traditional farm landscape
Creators: name: Howley, Peter
name: Hynes, Stephen
name: O'Donoghue, Cathal
Publisher: name: National University of Ireland, Galway
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Farm landscape
subject: Willingness to pay
subject: Factor analysis
subject: Multifunctional agriculture
subject: Common Agricultural Policy

description: This paper explores individuals' attitudes towards the traditional farm landscape. Results from a Generalised Tobit Interval model of willingness to pay for traditional farm landscape protection suggest that individuals are more willing to pay to support agricultural activities aimed at protecting landscape features associated with the wider biological and cultural diversity of the countryside (such as woodland, bogland, wild flora and fauna, water quality and aspects associated with our cultural heritage) than what could be described as more obvious and scenic landscapes associated with farming activities (such as open grass covered fields, grazing farm animals and well maintained traditional farm buildings). More generally, the results indicate broad public support for second pillar objectives under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) such as the protection of the traditional farm landscape.
Additional file 1 of School-based vision screening in Quetta, Pakistan: a qualitative study of experiences of teachers and eye care providers
Creators: name: Bechange, Stevens
name: Munazza Gillani
name: Jolley, Emma
name: Iqbal, Robina
name: Ahmed, Leena
name: Bilal, Muhammed
name: Itfaq Khaliq Khan
name: Sumrana Yasmin
name: Schmidt, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Is Small Perfect? Size Limit to Defect Formation in Pyramidal Pt Nanocontacts
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Varlei
name: Sato, Fernando
name: Galvao, Douglas S.
name: Ugarte, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report high resolution transmission electron microscopy and ab initio calculation results for the defect formation in Pt nanocontacts (NCs). Our results show that there is a size limit to the existence of twins (extended structural defects). Defects are always present but blocked away from the tip axes. The twins may act as scattering plane, influencing contact electron transmission for Pt NC at room temperature and Ag/Au NC at low temperature.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 2 of School-based vision screening in Quetta, Pakistan: a qualitative study of experiences of teachers and eye care providers
Creators: name: Bechange, Stevens
name: Munazza Gillani
name: Jolley, Emma
name: Iqbal, Robina
name: Ahmed, Leena
name: Bilal, Muhammed
name: Itfaq Khaliq Khan
name: Sumrana Yasmin
name: Schmidt, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
Additional file 3 of School-based vision screening in Quetta, Pakistan: a qualitative study of experiences of teachers and eye care providers
Creators: name: Bechange, Stevens
name: Munazza Gillani
name: Jolley, Emma
name: Iqbal, Robina
name: Ahmed, Leena
name: Bilal, Muhammed
name: Itfaq Khaliq Khan
name: Sumrana Yasmin
name: Schmidt, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3.
title: Accountability and Audit in the Saudi Arabian Government Sector
Creators: name: Quota, B. M. N
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 1977

description: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was founded in 1932 by King Abdul Aziz who led the people of Arabia from a state of nomadism and tribal rivalry to a settled agricultural community, relatively poor but with a sense of citizenship. Less than fifty years later oil has made this nation one of the richest in the world, with a strong sense of urgency to use those riches wisely, but with a severe shortage of skilled manpower. This thesis is a study of the system of accountability and audit in the government sector of Saudi Arabia to-day. The analysis shows that the system is not able to meet the demands made upon it. A scheme for reform is suggested, drawing upon a comparative study of Anglo-American experience of control of "big government", but taking account also of the unique Saudi situation. In Chapter I, the system of government and administration in Saudi Arabia is outlined. In Chapter II, the regulations governing financial control and auditing in the Saudi government sector are studied in more detail. In Chapter III, evidence is reviewed relating to. how this financial control system works in practice; sources include the writer's own experience as an auditor and financial manager, the annual report of the General Auditing Bureau, some correspondence between the General Auditing Bureau and the writer, as a financial manager, and a questionnaire answered by 4+3 respondents, (auditors, financial comptrollers, financial managers, chief accountants) and interviewing © government officials. Chapter IV, is a comparative study, especially of Anglo American systems, and a consideration of their relevance to the Saudi, situation. Chapter V draws out the weaknesses of the present Saudi system and suggests a programme of improvement; the key factor in this is the breaking of. the "vicious circle" of lack of time and of skilled personnel to improve systems because they are overworked operating existing cumbersome and ineffective systems.
Bericht über die Tätigkeit der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission in der Zeit vom 1. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2003
Creators: name: Schnurbein, Siegmar Von
name: Sievers, Susanne
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 84 2003: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Additional file 1 of Genetic variants related to physical activity or sedentary behaviour: a systematic review
Creators: name: Aasdahl, Lene
name: Nilsen, Tom Ivar Lund
name: Ingebrigt Meisingset
name: Nordstoga, Anne Lovise
name: Evensen, Kari Anne I.
name: Paulsen, Julie
name: Mork, Paul Jarle
name: Skarpsno, Eivind Schjelderup
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Search strategies.
Additional file 2 of Genetic variants related to physical activity or sedentary behaviour: a systematic review
Creators: name: Aasdahl, Lene
name: Nilsen, Tom Ivar Lund
name: Ingebrigt Meisingset
name: Nordstoga, Anne Lovise
name: Evensen, Kari Anne I.
name: Paulsen, Julie
name: Mork, Paul Jarle
name: Skarpsno, Eivind Schjelderup
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Data extraction form.
Graphene oxide influence in soil bacteria is dose dependent and changes at osmotic stress: growth variation, oxidative damage, antioxidant response, and plant growth promotion traits of a Rhizobium strain
Creators: name: Lopes, Tiago
name: Cardoso, Paulo
name: Matos, Diana
name: Rocha, Ricardo
name: Pires, Adília
name: Marques, Paula
name: Figueira, Etelvina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Climate change events, such as drought, are increasing and soil bacteria can be severely affected. Moreover, the accumulation of emerging pollutants is expected to rapidly increase, and their impact on soil organisms, their interactions, and the services they provide is poorly known. The use of graphene oxide (GO) has been increasing due to its enormous potential for application in several areas and it is expected that concentration in soil will increase in the future, potentially causing disturbances in soil microorganisms not yet identified. Here we show the effects that GO nanosheets can cause on soil bacteria, in particular those that promote plant growth, in control and 10% polyethylene glycol (PEG) conditions. Low concentrations of GO nanosheets did not affect the growth of Rhizobium strain E20-8, but under osmotic stress (PEG) GO decreased bacterial growth even at lower concentrations. GO caused oxidative stress, with antioxidant mechanisms being induced to restrain damage, effectively at lower concentrations, but less effective at higher concentrations, and oxidative damage overcame. Under osmotic stress, alginate and glycine betaine osmoregulated the bacteria. Simultaneous exposure to PEG and GO induced oxidative damage. Plant growth promotion traits (indole acetic acid and siderophores production) were increased by osmotic stress and GO did not disturb these abilities. In the context of climate change, our findings might be relevant as they can form the premises for the implementation of crop production methodologies adapted to the new prevailing conditions, which include the presence of nanoparticles in the soil and more frequent and severe drought.
Gräberfelder der Černjachov-Kultur von Kosanovo und Gavrilovka – eine vergleichende Studie zu Chronologie, Bestattungssitten und ethnokulturellen Besonderheiten
Creators: name: Petrauskas, Oleg V.
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 84 2003: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Additional file 3 of Genetic variants related to physical activity or sedentary behaviour: a systematic review
Creators: name: Aasdahl, Lene
name: Nilsen, Tom Ivar Lund
name: Ingebrigt Meisingset
name: Nordstoga, Anne Lovise
name: Evensen, Kari Anne I.
name: Paulsen, Julie
name: Mork, Paul Jarle
name: Skarpsno, Eivind Schjelderup
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. References for included articles.
title: The Impact of Health Status on the Duration of Unemployment Spells and the Implications for Studies of the Impact of Unemployment on Health Status
Creators: name: Stewart, Jennifer
Publisher: name: National University of Ireland, Galway
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Duration
subject: Unemployment
subject: Health status

description: This paper examines the impact of health status on the duration of unemployment spells and finds that individuals with impaired health will have significantly longer unemployment spells. These longer unemployment spells will result in the stock of the unemployed being composed of a larger proportion of individuals with impaired health than the stock of the employed. Although this difference in composition between the stock of unemployed and stock of employed accounts for some of the difference in mortality rates, it cannot explain all of the difference observed in earlier studies.
title: Nonmonotonic Reasoning and the Foundations of Rational Choice
Creators: name: Gekker, Ruvin
Publisher: name: National University of Ireland, Galway
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Internal consistency conditions
subject: Nonmonotonic reasoning

description: The paper applies a technique developed in artificial intelligence to frame and analyze on the foundational level A. Sen's critique of internal consistency conditions in various choice situations.
Well-posed initial-boundary value problem for the harmonic Einstein equations using energy estimates
Creators: name: Kreiss, H. -O.
name: Reula, O.
name: Sarbach, O.
name: Winicour, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent work, we used pseudo-differential theory to establish conditions that the initial-boundary value problem for second order systems of wave equations be strongly well-posed in a generalized sense. The applications included the harmonic version of the Einstein equations. Here we show that these results can also be obtained via standard energy estimates, thus establishing strong well-posedness of the harmonic Einstein problem in the classical sense.
description: More explanatory material and title, as will appear in the published article in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Additional file 4 of Genetic variants related to physical activity or sedentary behaviour: a systematic review
Creators: name: Aasdahl, Lene
name: Nilsen, Tom Ivar Lund
name: Ingebrigt Meisingset
name: Nordstoga, Anne Lovise
name: Evensen, Kari Anne I.
name: Paulsen, Julie
name: Mork, Paul Jarle
name: Skarpsno, Eivind Schjelderup
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4. Overview of genotype-phenotype associations for all included GWAS.
Vortrag zur Jahressitzung 2003 der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Creators: name: Freeden, Uta Von
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 84 2003: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
title: Arrow's theorem and max-star transitivity
Creators: name: Duddy, Conal
name: Piggins, Ashley
Publisher: name: National University of Ireland, Galway
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Economics

description: In the literature on social choice and fuzzy preferences, a central question is how to represent the transitivity of a fuzzy binary relation. Arguably the most general way of doing this is to assume a form of transitivity called max-star transitivity. The star operator in this formulation is commonly taken to be a triangular norm. The familiar max-min transitivity condition is a member of this family, but there are infinitely many others. Restricting attention to fuzzy aggregation rules that satisfy counterparts of unanimity and independence of irrelevant alternatives, we characterise the set of max-star transitive relations that permit preference aggregation to be non-dictatorial. This set contains all and only those triangular norms that contain a zero divisor.
title: Worte der Erinnerung an Georg Christian Keller, Pfarrer und Schulinspektor in Schleitheim
title: geboren am 21. Februar 1846, entschlafen am 21. November 1906
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Frauenfelder, Eduard
name: Enderis, Theodor
Publisher: name: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
Year: 1906
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Keller, Christian Georg
subject: Schleitheim
subject: Schaffhausen

description: Inhalt: Grabrede, gehalten von Herrn Pfr. Eduard Frauenfelder am 23. November 1906 in der Kirche zu Schleitheim ; Nachruf des Herrn Antistes Enderis, Schaffhausen
Superfluid-Insulator Transition and Fermion Pairing in Bose-Fermi Mixtures
Creators: name: Yang, Kun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that bosons on an optical lattice undergo a second-order superfluid-insulator transition (SIT) when the lattice potential increases. In this paper we study SIT when fermions coexist with the bosons. We find that the critical properties of particle-hole symmetric SIT with dynamical exponent z=1 is modified when fermions are present; it either becomes a fluctuation-driven first order transition or a different second-order transition. On the other hand the more generic particle-hole asymmetric (with z=2) SIT is stable against coupling with fermions. We also discuss pairing interaction between fermions mediated by quantum critical fluctuations near SIT.
description: Expanded version as appeared in print
A fluorescence study of horse plasma gelsolin labelled with 6-acryloyl-2-dimethylaminonapthalene
Creators: name: Reid, Scott William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Gelsolin was labelled with the sulphydryl-specific fluorescent reagent 6-acryloyl-2-dimethylaminonaphthalene (acrylodan). The degree of labelling using non-denaturing conditions was 1.9 ± 0.5 acrylodans per gelsolin molecule. Circular dichroism and viscosity studies showed no significant effect on gelsolin structure and function on incorporation of the label. Circular dichroism studies did not detect Ca²⁺ effects on aerylodan-labelled gelsolin, but fluorescence studies detected subtle changes in the protein. The presence of Ca²⁺ causes a decrease and red-shift in fluorescence emission, an increase in sensitivity to quenching by I⁻ and a decrease in fluorescence polarisation of the acrylodan-labelled gelsolin. These indicate an increased degree of exposure of the fluorescent label to the solvent environment on interaction of gelsolin with Ca²⁺. Actin binding to gelsolin was evident from a decrease in fluorescence intensity, an increase in sensitivity to quenching and an increase in fluorescence polarisation. Actin binding increases the exposure of the acrylodan label to solvent, as does Ca²⁺ binding.
title: Möglichkeiten der Nachqualifizierung für Quereinsteiger*innen in wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken
Creators: name: Tödter, Marieke
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Der Fachkräftemangel und die Verschiebung und Diversifizierung von Tätigkeiten prägen die derzeitige Personalsituation in deutschen wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken. In dieser Arbeit wird die Gruppe der Quereinsteiger*innen auf der Ebene des gehobenen Dienstes definiert und in den Fokus genommen: Anhand einer Umfrage, Recherche und Mailkontakt werden Möglichkeiten der Nachqualifizierung dieser heterogenen Zielgruppe eruiert. Dies betrifft sowohl die externe Personalentwicklung beziehungsweise Weiterbildung (Studiengänge und Zertifikatsprogramme) als auch die interne Personalentwicklung durch die Arbeitgeber. Durch die Perspektive auf die Personalentwicklungsmaßnahmen der Länder Niederlande, Großbritannien und Österreich werden Optimierungsmöglichkeiten für die Personalentwicklung in Deutschland aufgezeigt.
Insights into apprenticeship completion: perspectives from apprentice experience
Creators: name: McMahon, Elma
name: Spillane, John
name: Bradley, Jim
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: This exploratory study delves into the experiences of newly registered apprentices in the built environment sector, focusing on themes influencing apprenticeship completion. 33 apprentices were surveyed across carpentry and joinery, electrical, and plumbing trades in November and December 2023 at an Irish apprenticeship training centre. Drawing from a combination of systematic literature review findings and direct input from apprentices, the research offers a multifaceted perspective on factors influencing apprenticeship completion. A positive relationship with employers (48%) and satisfactory wages (45%) were deemed most significant for apprenticeship completion, particularly in the electrical trade. By comprehending the challenges apprentices encounter during their apprenticeship, educational institutions, employers, and mentors can design more effective support systems to assist apprentices in overcoming these challenges. The study aims to contribute to body of knowledge in this sector and the improvement of apprenticeship programmes, recommending further research with larger sample sizes and qualitative methods.
title: Farming on commonage is it a constraint to recreational access
Creators: name: Buckley, Cathal
name: Van Rensburg, Thomas M.
Publisher: name: National University of Ireland, Galway
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Commonage
subject: Common property
subject: Returns to agriculture
subject: Recreation
subject: Economics

description: Commonage in the Republic of Ireland has traditionally been used for agricultural activity, mainly livestock grazing. In recent times due to its prevailing common property characteristics and upland landscape, this resource is increasingly attracting the interest of recreational enthusiasts. However, the potential opportunity costs associated with recreation ¿ namely the commercial value of sheep and cattle grazing on commonage remains to be investigated. This paper aims to fill this gap in the literature by analysing the agricultural returns from livestock rearing enterprises on commonage land for a sample of farmers in the west of Ireland. Results indicate that stocking rates are three times higher on privately owned land compared to shared commonage. Over 80 per cent of the farms in the sample had a gross margin under ¿20,000. In total, 96 per cent of gross margin was found to be attributable to Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments; with area based payments twice as important as direct livestock subsidies.
title: Bilateral FDI and Canadian Export Activity
Creators: name: Mullen, John K.
Publisher: name: National University of Ireland, Galway
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Economics

description: This study examines how Canadian exports to a specific trading partner are influenced by outward and inward direct investment flows to/from that country. A gravity-type empirical model guides a dynamic panel analysis which utilizes OECD country-level data from 1989-2007. Besides refuting the contention that outward FDI displaces exports, the findings also imply a strong role for intra-firm based export growth in response to inward FDI. The analysis is enriched by explicitly accounting for the dominant position of the U.S. within the context of Canada¿s overall trade and investment flows.
Additional file 5 of Genetic variants related to physical activity or sedentary behaviour: a systematic review
Creators: name: Aasdahl, Lene
name: Nilsen, Tom Ivar Lund
name: Ingebrigt Meisingset
name: Nordstoga, Anne Lovise
name: Evensen, Kari Anne I.
name: Paulsen, Julie
name: Mork, Paul Jarle
name: Skarpsno, Eivind Schjelderup
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5. Overview of associations between candidate genes and physical activity or sedentary behavior in all included candidate gene studies.
Extension of symmetries on Einstein manifolds with boundary
Creators: name: Anderson, Michael T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate the validity of the isometry extension property for (Riemannian) Einstein metrics on manifolds with boundary. Given a metric on the boundary, this is the issue of whether any Killing field of the boundary metric extends to a Killing field of any bulk or filling Einstein metric inducing the given data on the boundary. Under a mild condition on the fundamental group, this is proved to be the case at least when the Killing field preserves the mean curvature of the boundary.
description: Correction to proof of main result given in new Appendix
Additional file 6 of Genetic variants related to physical activity or sedentary behaviour: a systematic review
Creators: name: Aasdahl, Lene
name: Nilsen, Tom Ivar Lund
name: Ingebrigt Meisingset
name: Nordstoga, Anne Lovise
name: Evensen, Kari Anne I.
name: Paulsen, Julie
name: Mork, Paul Jarle
name: Skarpsno, Eivind Schjelderup
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6. Effect size, standard error and p-value for genetic variants from candidate genes studies associated with accelerometry defined phenotypes reported in summary statistics from the high quality GWAS.
title: Many-valued judgment aggregation: characteriing the possibility/impossibility boundary for an important class of agendas
Creators: name: Duddy, Conal
name: Piggins, Ashley
Publisher: name: National University of Ireland, Galway
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Economics

description: A general model of judgment aggregation is presented in which judgments on propositions are not binary but come in degrees. The primitives of the model are a set of propositions, an entailment relation, and a "triangular norm" which establishes a lower bound on the degree to which a proposition is true whenever it is entailed by a set of propositions. For an important class of agendas, we identify a necessary and sufficient condition for judgment aggregation to be free from veto power. This condition says that the triangular norm used to establish the lower bound must contain a zero divisor.
Supplementary Table 1 from Evaluating refugia in recent human evolution in Africa
Creators: name: Blinkhorn, James
name: Timbrell, Lucy
name: Grove, Matt
name: Scerri, Eleanor M. L.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Eastern African Late Pleistocene sites, assemblages and age ranges derived from the literature, identifying whether each site/assemblage is examined as part of the North or South group of sites, and their position with respect to the refugia we identify
PAH Emission from Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies
Creators: name: Desai, V.
name: Armus, L.
name: Spoon, H. W. W.
name: Charmandaris, V.
name: Bernard-Salas, J.
name: Brandl, B. R.
name: Farrah, D.
name: Soifer, B. T.
name: Teplitz, H. I.
name: Ogle, P. M.
name: Devost, D.
name: Higdon, S. J. U.
name: Marshall, J. A.
name: Houck, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the relationships between the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) feature strengths, mid-infrared continuum luminosities, far-infrared spectral slopes, optical spectroscopic classifications, and silicate optical depths within a sample of 107 ULIRGs observed with the Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope. The detected 6.2 micron PAH equivalent widths (EQWs) in the sample span more than two orders of magnitude (0.006-0.8 micron), and ULIRGs with HII-like optical spectra or steep far-infrared spectral slopes (S_{25} / S_{60} < 0.2) typically have 6.2 micron PAH EQWs that are half that of lower-luminosity starbursts. A significant fraction (~40-60%) of HII-like, LINER-like, and cold ULIRGs have very weak PAH EQWs. Many of these ULIRGs also have large (tau_{9.7} > 2.3) silicate optical depths. The far-infrared spectral slope is strongly correlated with PAH EQW, but not with silicate optical depth. In addition, the PAH EQW decreases with increasing rest-frame 24 micron luminosity. We argue that this trend results primarily from dilution of the PAH EQW by continuum emission from dust heated by a compact central source, probably an AGN. High luminosity, high-redshift sources studied with Spitzer appear to have a much larger range in PAH EQW than seen in local ULIRGs, which is consistent with extremely luminous starburst systems being absent at low redshift, but present at early epochs.
description: 15 pages, 9 Figures; Accepted for publication in ApJ
The design and synthetic studies of N ∝-[1-(carboxy)-9,11,21-(trioxo)-heneicosyl]-l-aspartyl-l-lysyl-(tert-butyl)-l-asparaginate, a tripeptide analogue of ionomycin
Creators: name: Putland, Michael Stuart
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Ionomycin is a stereochemically complex calcium ionophore. An analogue (34) of ionomycin has been designed and its synthesis initiated. Regions of the analogue which parallel portions of ionomycin do not incorporate any of the chiral centers found in the natural product. The analogue 34 also incorporates a highly conserved tripeptide found in the calcium binding site of troponin C proteins. [ Formula omitted ]
Parsimony via concensus
Creators: name: Bruen, Trevor
name: Bryant, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The parsimony score of a character on a tree equals the number of state changes required to fit that character onto the tree. We show that for unordered, reversible characters this score equals the number of tree rearrangements required to fit the tree onto the character. We discuss implications of this connection for the debate over the use of consensus trees or total evidence, and show how it provides a link between incongruence of characters and recombination.
description: Final published version of article
title: Common Property Resource Management and REPS Uptake in Ireland: the case of Irish Commonage
Creators: name: Murphy, Eithne
name: Van Rensburg, T.M.
Publisher: name: National University of Ireland, Galway
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agri-environment
subject: Common pool resource
subject: Economics

description: This paper looks at the factors determining REPS participation among commonage farmers in the West of Ireland and on the impact REPS has had on participating farmers¿ income and on their environmental practices and attitudes. The study reveals that sheep farmers are less likely to join REPS than cattle farmers and that being in receipt of other sources of State income acted as a deterrent to participation. REPS had a positive impact on participants¿ income and was most successful in changing farmer practices in a more environmentally benign direction, when doing so imposed no additional costs on the farmer. Environmental awareness among all farmers appears to be poor although REPS farmers display more appreciation of the degraded state of commonage than do non-REPS farmers. Farmers preference for a continuation of the status quo with respect to commonage management and a lack of discontent with respect to the distribution of past commonage rights points to the potential of building on a more co-operative approach to environmental management.
title: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 84 2003: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
title: Bd. 84 2003: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bericht Der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Hinweise für Publikationen der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission Ortsregister...380-382 Bericht über die Tätigkeit der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission in der Zeit vom 1. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2003...353-377 Die Gräberfelder der Černjachov-Kultur von Kosanovo und Gavrilovka – eine vergleichende Studie zu Chronologie, Bestattungssitten und ethnokulturellen Besonderheiten...223-351 Vortrag zur Jahressitzung 2003 der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission...5-48 Inhaltsverzeichnis Titelei
Quantile and Probability Curves Without Crossing
Creators: name: Chernozhukov, Victor
name: Fernandez-Val, Ivan
name: Galichon, Alfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Econometrics (econ.EM)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper proposes a method to address the longstanding problem of lack of monotonicity in estimation of conditional and structural quantile functions, also known as the quantile crossing problem. The method consists in sorting or monotone rearranging the original estimated non-monotone curve into a monotone rearranged curve. We show that the rearranged curve is closer to the true quantile curve in finite samples than the original curve, establish a functional delta method for rearrangement-related operators, and derive functional limit theory for the entire rearranged curve and its functionals. We also establish validity of the bootstrap for estimating the limit law of the the entire rearranged curve and its functionals. Our limit results are generic in that they apply to every estimator of a monotone econometric function, provided that the estimator satisfies a functional central limit theorem and the function satisfies some smoothness conditions. Consequently, our results apply to estimation of other econometric functions with monotonicity restrictions, such as demand, production, distribution, and structural distribution functions. We illustrate the results with an application to estimation of structural quantile functions using data on Vietnam veteran status and earnings.
description: 29 pages, 4 figures
Siker- és kudarctényezők az európai diverzifikációs kezdeményezésekben
Creators: name: Drexler, Dora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: DiverIMPACTSPA

description: Növénytermesztési rendszereink sokszínűbbé válását különböző tényezők gátolhatják. A sikereket és kudarcokat okozó tényezők, valamint a diverzifikációra irányuló kezdeményezések előnyeinek és hátrányainak azonosítása kulcsszerepet játszhat a növénytermesztési sokszínűség elősegítésében. A felmérés során 12 európai országból 128 érvényes válaszból egy átfogó adatbázist hoztunk létre. A tapasztalatokból kiderült, hogy a legfontosabb diverzifikációs kudarctényezők gazdasági eredetűek voltak (pl. piaci viszonyok, anyagi források hiánya) illetve szintén jelentős szerepet játszottak a technológiai tényezők (pl. az input anyagok elérhetősége, technikai megoldások). A legfontosabb sikertényezők az emberi erőforrások voltak, így a szakértelem, a szereplők elkötelezettsége és az általános közérdeklődés (lásd 1. ábra). Az európai diverzifikációs tapasztalatoknak három, leggyakrabban említett célkitűzése a fenntarthatóság fokozása, az agrárium termelékenységének javítása, valamint jövedelmezőségének növelése volt.
On the interaction of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and zonal jet streams
Creators: name: Shetty, Sushil
name: Asay-Davis, Xylar S.
name: Marcus, Philip S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) is used to determine properties of the Jovian atmosphere that cannot otherwise be found. These properties include the potential vorticity of the GRS and its neighboring jet streams, the shear imposed on the GRS by the jet streams, and the vertical entropy gradient (i.e., Rossby deformation radius). The cloud cover of the GRS, which is often used to define the GRS's area and aspect ratio, is found to differ significantly from the region of the GRS's potential vorticity anomaly. The westward-going jet stream to the north of the GRS and the eastward-going jet stream to its south are each found to have a large potential vorticity ``jump''. The jumps have opposite sign and as a consequence of their interaction with the GRS, the shear imposed on the GRS is reduced. The east-west to north-south aspect ratio of the GRS's potential vorticity anomaly depends on the ratio of the imposed shear to the strength of the anomaly. The aspect ratio is found to be $\approx$2:1, but without the opposing jumps it would be much greater. The GRS's high-speed collar and quiescent interior require that the potential vorticity in the interior be approximately half that in the collar. No other persistent geophysical vortex has a significant minimum of potential vorticity in its interior and laboratory vortices with such a minimum are unstable.
description: Manuscript accepted to Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, March 2007. v2: minor stylistic changes (after journal proof reading)
title: Are the US current account deficits really sustainable?
Creators: name: Fountas, Stilianos
Publisher: name: National University of Ireland, Galway
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Current account deficits
subject: Cointegration
subject: Sustainability

description: We have tested for a long-run relationship between four US export measures and analogous import measures (measured in nominal and real terms, levels and deflated by GNP) in the 1967-1994 period using quarterly data. Using various econometric tests that include standard Engle-Granger cointegration tests and two tests that allow for test-determined breaks in the cointegrating relationship, we have shown that the hypothesis of no long-run relationship between exports and imports cannot be rejected. This finding contrasts sharply with earlier literature and carries the important policy implication that US current account deficits are not sustainable.