cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
How peers influence ethical decision-making in work organizations: Revisiting the social dimension
Creators: name: Joseph, Joshua
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Amid increasing revelations of improprieties in financial accounting, disclosure of health and safety information, and general public accountability among leading organizations, the need for research on ethical decision-making (EDM) has probably never been greater. Senior executives in organizations may "set the tone" for ethics, but their influence cannot fully explain how employees make ethical decisions. The social context for ethical practice in the workplace also depends upon regular social interactions among employee peers (coworkers). Although past research in business ethics and related fields of study offers strong evidence that employees learn from their coworkers' behavior, the details of how coworkers may influence moral choice are not well understood. Most existing models of ethical decision-making tend to summarize research on "referent others"---including employee peers and managers---without specifying either the scope of peer influence or how it may operate at different stages in the EDM process. In addition, some models do not distinguish clearly between coworker influences on ethical decision-making and those of managers. To address these gaps and limitations, this study builds on current EDM models and on theory and empirical findings from a number of related literatures. The central argument is that peer interactions uniquely affect how employees identify and respond to ethics-related information, even after accounting for other major influences. Using a national ethics data set, several hypotheses are tested. These hypotheses address peer effects on employees' moral awareness and behavior as well as on how employees experience select outcomes related to ethical culture in their organizations (e.g., satisfaction with the response to reported misconduct). The results are informative and help clarify the scope and limitations of peer influence. The primary hypotheses receive modest support, indicating that peers exert social influence at key stages in the EDM process. Importantly, these findings hold even after the effects of other study variables---including those related to management influence---are taken into account. In contrast, hypotheses that peers influence select outcomes associated with ethical culture are not supported. The results and their implications for ethics research and organizational practice are discussed.
Tables referred to in main text from Genetic evidence further elucidates the history and extent of badger introductions from Great Britain into Ireland
Creators: name: Allen, Adrian
name: Guerrero, Jimena
name: Byrne, Andrew
name: Lavery, John
name: Presho, Eleanor
name: Courcier, Emily
name: O'Keeffe, James
name: Fogarty, Ursula
name: Delahay, Richard
name: Wilson, Gavin
name: Newman, Chris
name: Buesching, Christina
name: Silk, Matthew
name: O'Meara, Denise
name: Skuce, Robin
name: Biek, Roman
name: McDonald, Robbie A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Supplementary Tables
String Form Factors
Creators: name: Manes, Juan L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the cross section for scattering of light string probes by randomly excited closed strings. For high energy probes, the cross section factorizes and can be used to define effective form factors for the excited targets. These form factors are well defined without the need for infinite subtractions and contain information about the shape and size of typical strings. For highly excited strings the elastic form factor can be written in terms of the `plasma dispersion function', which describes charge screening in high temperature plasmas.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures. Typos corrected, 1 footnote (in Section 4) and 1 reference added
Antechinus swainsonii subsp. swainsonii
Creators: name: Dyck, Steve Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuridae
Antechinus
Antechinus swainsonii
A. swainsonii swainsonii (waterhouse)

description: (1) A. arktos versus  A. swainsonii swainsonii (Waterhouse)
 Pelage: A. arktos has a brownish-grey head that changes markedly to an orange-brown rump, fuscous black hindfeet, a thick-based, finely-furred, black tail and an orange-yellow eye and cheek patch; A. s. swainsonii has more uniformly dark brown or grizzled grey fur on the head and back, with a subtly brownish rump, as well as dark brownish hindfeet and tail.
 External Measurements: A. arktos males have significantly longer tails than A. s. swainsonii (see Tables 1, 2 and 5).
 Craniodental Characters: A. arktos is smaller than A. s. swainsonii in absolute measurement for APV in males and females. A. arktos is larger than A. s. swainsonii in absolute measurement in males for the following characters: IBW, IPV, NW, R-LM 1, R-LM 3 and NWR, and in females for the following characters: IPV, TC, UML. A. arktos is also significantly larger than A. s. swainsonii in the following measures: in males, R-LC 1, SWR-LC 1 B, TC and UML; in females, M 2 W (Tables 1, 2 and 5).
 Other Comments: A. arktos occur in south-east Qld and north-east NSW in areas of high elevation and rainfall on the Tweed Volcano caldera, whereas A. s. swainsonii is known from a range of habitat types limited to Tasmania. Genetics: uncorrected pairwise range differences at the mitochondrial gene CytB between A. arktos and A. s. swainsonii are 10.8-11.8%.
description: Published as part of Dyck, Steve Van, 2014, The Black-tailed Antechinus, Antechinus arktos sp. nov.: a new species of carnivorous marsupial from montane regions of the Tweed Volcano caldera, eastern Australia, pp. 101-133 in Zootaxa 3765 (2) on page 109, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5045725
How peers influence ethical decision-making in work organizations: Revisiting the social dimension
Creators: name: Joseph, Joshua
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Amid increasing revelations of improprieties in financial accounting, disclosure of health and safety information, and general public accountability among leading organizations, the need for research on ethical decision-making (EDM) has probably never been greater. Senior executives in organizations may "set the tone" for ethics, but their influence cannot fully explain how employees make ethical decisions. The social context for ethical practice in the workplace also depends upon regular social interactions among employee peers (coworkers). Although past research in business ethics and related fields of study offers strong evidence that employees learn from their coworkers' behavior, the details of how coworkers may influence moral choice are not well understood. Most existing models of ethical decision-making tend to summarize research on "referent others"---including employee peers and managers---without specifying either the scope of peer influence or how it may operate at different stages in the EDM process. In addition, some models do not distinguish clearly between coworker influences on ethical decision-making and those of managers. To address these gaps and limitations, this study builds on current EDM models and on theory and empirical findings from a number of related literatures. The central argument is that peer interactions uniquely affect how employees identify and respond to ethics-related information, even after accounting for other major influences. Using a national ethics data set, several hypotheses are tested. These hypotheses address peer effects on employees' moral awareness and behavior as well as on how employees experience select outcomes related to ethical culture in their organizations (e.g., satisfaction with the response to reported misconduct). The results are informative and help clarify the scope and limitations of peer influence. The primary hypotheses receive modest support, indicating that peers exert social influence at key stages in the EDM process. Importantly, these findings hold even after the effects of other study variables---including those related to management influence---are taken into account. In contrast, hypotheses that peers influence select outcomes associated with ethical culture are not supported. The results and their implications for ethics research and organizational practice are discussed.
A simple Model of Equilibrium in Search Procedures
Creators: name: Fershtman, Chaim
name: Rubinstein, Ariel
name: Fershtman, Chaim
name: Rubinstein, Ariel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Financial Economics
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The paper presents a simple game theoretic model in which players decide on the search procedures for a prize which is located in one of a labeled set of boxes. The prize is awarded to the player who finds it first. A player can decide on the number of (costly) search units he employs and the order in which he conducts the search. It is shown that in equilibrium, the players employ an equal number of search units and conduct a fully random search. The paper demonstrates that the search procedure is intrinsically inefficient in two senses: the players employ a non-optimal number of search units and they may open the same empty box twice.
Epeolus tessieris Onuferko 2018
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Epeolus tessieris Onuferko, 2018
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ 4.83 km West Marana, Pima Co., USA; September 13, 1962]
Epeolus tessieris is distributed in the xeric regions of northern Mexico and the southern USA. Onuferko (2018) reported a record from September 1977 for this species in the Gulf Coast region of BCS. See fig. 131.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 202, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Three essays on balance of payments-related constraints on the growth of developing economies
Creators: name: Razmi, Arslan M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 3803
subject: Economic theory

description: This dissertation consists of three essays with balance of payments-related constraints on the growth of developing economies providing the unifying thread. The first essay develops a structuralist theoretical model of the effects of foreign direct investment inflows on the balance of payments of a stylized developing economy. The effects are shown to depend upon a number of factors such as the nature of the products produced, income distribution within the economy, the import and export intensities of production, the extent of backward linkages, the structure of internal demand, and government policies toward transnational corporations. Different sets of actors are affected differently by various policy choices, and by attempting to analyze these links this essay highlights the political economy considerations involved. The consequences of various policy choices raise concerns regarding recent trends in international investment agreements. The second essay tests the validity of the balance of payments constrained growth (BPCG) model using Indian data for the period 1950--99. Rather than assuming homogeneity or similar elasticities of substitution between goods produced in different regions, the study tests the appropriateness of these working assumptions. Johansen's cointegration technique is employed to determine India's trade parameters. Short-run adjustments in response to disequilibria are explored with the help of a vector error correction framework. The study provides support for the BPCG model only in its weak form (i.e., assuming exogenous exports) in the long run. The third essay investigates the possible existence of a fallacy of composition (FOC) resulting from the simultaneous promotion of manufactured exports by a number of developing countries. A dataset consisting of 10 industrialized and 18 developing countries is developed. The FOC hypothesis is tested using an extended version of the BPCG model. The econometric results suggest that most developing countries in the sample compete with other developing countries, and not with manufacturers in industrialized countries, both in export markets and growth opportunities. However, dividing the sample into countries that export more "high-tech" versus "low-tech" products shows different patterns of responses of each group to both income and relative price variables.
Interpreting Monetary Stabilization in a Growth Model with Credit Goods Production
Creators: name: Aiyagari, S. Rao
name: Eckstein, Zvi
name: Aiyagari, S. Rao
name: Eckstein, Zvi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This paper is motivated by observations concerning the size of the banking sector and the growth rate of the economy before and after successful stabilizations of high inflations. The facts suggest that the relative size of the banking sector increases during a period of accelerating inflation and decreases immediately following a successful monetary stabilization. Furthermore, the GDP growth rate is lower during the high inflation period than after stabilization. The goal of this paper is to develop a monetary growth model which is qualitatively consistent with these observations. The model we use is a variant of the Lucas and Stokey [1987] model of cash and credit goods. The main innovation in our model is that while cash goods and credit goods are perfect substitutes in consumption we posit different technologies for their production. We show that the model's predictions on the impact of a permanent stabilization are consistent with the main real and monetary observations on high inflation countries.
Data Management Plan
Creators: name: Prades, Ana
name: Lechón, Yolanda
name: Nokkala, Terhi
name: Mykrä, Niina
name: Lehtonen, Markku
name: Espluga, Josep
name: Almeida, Marta
name: Marqués, Israel
name: Stratis, Antonis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This document summarizes the Data Management Plan of the ECF4CLIM project. The purpose of the data collection is to generate suitable empirical evidence for the validation of both the Roadmap and the impact of the interventions, which are two of the main objectives in the project.Several datasets will be collected and generated along the project. The initial development of the ECF4CLIM competence framework entails a crowdsourcing exercise (workshops and eDelphi exercise) that generates data related to the perceptions and attitudes on factors impeding and facilitating a shift towards a more sustainable school. The assessment of the individual and collective competences as well as the assessment of the environmental performance of the demonstration sites also generates several types of data. The sensors and meters installed in our demonstration sites also generate real time data of some parameters. Finally, the process of designing, implementing and evaluating the interventions will generate data sets describing the interventions proposed and implementedThis document has been produced following the updated version of the “Guidelines on Data Management in Horizon 2020” released by the European Commission Directorate - General for Research & Innovation.The Data Management Plan covers the complete research data life cycle. It describes the types of research data that has been and will be generated or collected during the project, the standards used, how the research data will be preserved and what parts of the datasets will be shared for verification or reuse
Impacts of Expert Information on Prices for an Experience Good across Product Segments: Tasting Notes andWine Prices
Creators: name: Chen, Kuan-Ju
name: McCluskey, Jill J.
name: Chen, Kuan-Ju
name: McCluskey, Jill J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: expert evaluation
subject: hedonic prices

description: When purchasing experience goods, consumers often rely on information from expert evaluations. In this article, we quantify how expert information impacts prices across product segments. For higher-end products, consumers have the incentive to invest more time in research prior to purchase. Thus, expert evaluations should have a greater impact on the price of higher-end segments. We analyze the effects of tasting notes on wine prices across price categories and find that certain keywords used in tasting notes to describe wine characteristics exert a significant influence on wine prices. These effects vary across different segments, with the greatest impact on the premium segment.
Public Opinion on ColoradoWater Rights Transfers: Are Policy Preferences Consistent with Concerns over Impacts?
Creators: name: Stone, Janine
name: Costanigro, Marco
name: Goemans, Christopher
name: Stone, Janine
name: Costanigro, Marco
name: Goemans, Christopher
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: agriculture
subject: best-worst scaling
subject: choice experiment
subject: latent-class model
subject: municipal water demand

description: We evaluate Coloradans’ preferences for policies decreasing the need for agricultural water transfers using two choice experiments with different frames—one highlighting policy choices and one emphasizing ex post impacts on prices, urban landscaping, and base charges. We find that a majority of users state a willingness to face private costs to reduce agricultural water transfers. Latent-class analysis is used to describe heterogeneity in opinion groups, showing that a minority of urban, lower-income participants would prefer to fallow agricultural land than to pay for alternative policies. This opinion group increases in size in the impact-framed survey.
Three essays on balance of payments-related constraints on the growth of developing economies
Creators: name: Razmi, Arslan M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation consists of three essays with balance of payments-related constraints on the growth of developing economies providing the unifying thread. The first essay develops a structuralist theoretical model of the effects of foreign direct investment inflows on the balance of payments of a stylized developing economy. The effects are shown to depend upon a number of factors such as the nature of the products produced, income distribution within the economy, the import and export intensities of production, the extent of backward linkages, the structure of internal demand, and government policies toward transnational corporations. Different sets of actors are affected differently by various policy choices, and by attempting to analyze these links this essay highlights the political economy considerations involved. The consequences of various policy choices raise concerns regarding recent trends in international investment agreements. The second essay tests the validity of the balance of payments constrained growth (BPCG) model using Indian data for the period 1950--99. Rather than assuming homogeneity or similar elasticities of substitution between goods produced in different regions, the study tests the appropriateness of these working assumptions. Johansen's cointegration technique is employed to determine India's trade parameters. Short-run adjustments in response to disequilibria are explored with the help of a vector error correction framework. The study provides support for the BPCG model only in its weak form (i.e., assuming exogenous exports) in the long run. The third essay investigates the possible existence of a fallacy of composition (FOC) resulting from the simultaneous promotion of manufactured exports by a number of developing countries. A dataset consisting of 10 industrialized and 18 developing countries is developed. The FOC hypothesis is tested using an extended version of the BPCG model. The econometric results suggest that most developing countries in the sample compete with other developing countries, and not with manufacturers in industrialized countries, both in export markets and growth opportunities. However, dividing the sample into countries that export more "high-tech" versus "low-tech" products shows different patterns of responses of each group to both income and relative price variables.
The Impact of Agri-Environmental Policies and Production Intensification on the Environmental Performance of Dutch Dairy Farms
Creators: name: Skevas, Ioannis
name: Zhu, Xueqin
name: Shestalova, Victoria
name: Emvalomatis, Grigorios
name: Skevas, Ioannis
name: Zhu, Xueqin
name: Shestalova, Victoria
name: Emvalomatis, Grigorios
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: hyperbolic efficiency
subject: policy evaluation subsidies

description: This study examines the impact of policies and intensification on the environmental performance of Dutch dairy farms in the period 2001–2010 using a hyperbolic distance function. The results indicate that the change from the Mineral Accounting System to the combination of the Application Standards Policy with decoupled payments has not significantly changed farms’ hyperbolic efficiency. Farms receiving agri-environmental and animal welfare payments are less hyperbolically efficient than those that do not, highlighting greater decreases in desirable outputs than decreases in undesirable outputs. Finally, intensification increases hyperbolic efficiency, suggesting that intensive practices may increase production without harming the environment.
Concentration and Liquidity Costs in Emerging Commodity Exchanges
Creators: name: Costa, Geraldo
name: Trujillo-Barrera, Andres
name: Pennings, Joost M.E.
name: Costa, Geraldo
name: Trujillo-Barrera, Andres
name: Pennings, Joost M.E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: bid-ask spread
subject: volatility
subject: volume

description: We analyze the relationships among liquidity costs, volume, and volatility in the Brazilian agricultural futures market, along with the role of market concentration. We estimate a structural three-equation IV–GMM model using data from Bolsa, Brasil, Balcão corn and live cattle contracts from March 2014 to February 2016. Results show a negative association between liquidity costs and volume and a positive association between liquidity costs and volatility. Market concentration impacts corn and live cattle differently. Concentration contributes to volume reduction for live cattle and to liquidity costs reduction for corn. Our findings shed light on the microstructure of emerging markets.
Experimental Study of Acoustic Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino Detection
Creators: name: Vandenbroucke, J.
name: Gratta, G.
name: Lehtinen, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An existing array of underwater, large-bandwidth acoustic sensors has been used to study the detection of ultra-high-energy neutrinos in cosmic rays. Acoustic data from a subset of 7 hydrophones located at a depth of $\sim 1600$ m have been acquired for a total live time of 195 days. For the first time, a large sample of acoustic background events has been studied for the purpose of extracting signals from super-EeV showers. As a test of the technique, an upper limit for the flux of ultra-high-energy neutrinos is presented along with considerations relevant to the design of an acoustic array optimized for neutrino detection.
description: 17 figures, 3 need color for optimal rendition
The singularity in mimetic Kantowski-Sachs cosmology
Creators: name: de Cesare, Marco
name: Seahra, Sanjeev S.
name: Wilson-Ewing, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of the vacuum Kantowski-Sachs space-time are studied in the so-called limiting curvature mimetic gravity theory. It is shown that in this theory the vacuum Kantowski-Sachs space-time is always singular. While the departures from general relativity due to the limiting curvature mimetic theory do provide an upper bound on the magnitude of the expansion scalar, both its rate of oscillations and the magnitude of the directional Hubble rates increase without bound and cause curvature invariants to diverge. Also, since the radial scale factor does not vanish in finite (past) time, in this particular theory the Kantowski-Sachs space-time cannot be matched to a null black hole event horizon and, therefore, does not correspond to the interior of a static and spherically symmetric black hole.
description: 24 pages + appendices and references, 10 figures; v2: matches version accepted for publication in JCAP
Evaluating the USDA’s Net Farm Income Forecast
Creators: name: Kuethe, Todd H.
name: Hubbs, Todd
name: Sanders, Dwight R.
name: Kuethe, Todd H.
name: Hubbs, Todd
name: Sanders, Dwight R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: fixed-event forecasts
subject: forecast evaluation
subject: net farm income

description: The USDA produces four forecasts of net farm income for each year; these forecasts are closely monitored by decision makers across the agricultural sector. However, little is known about the performance of these forecasts. Traditional forecast evaluation tests suggest that between 1975 and 2016, the long-horizon forecasts systematically under-predicted realized values. In addition, the shorter-horizon forecast revisions overreact to new information. The findings suggest that forecast users should adjust their expectations and that the USDA may want to consider other forecast approaches to supplement current procedures.
Epeolus minimus
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Epeolus minimus (Robertson, 1902)
[Holotype: INHS; ♀ Carlinville, Macoupin Co., Illinois, USA; July 8, 1901]
This species is distributed from northern Canada to BC, Mexico. Onuferko (2018), reported three males collected in San Vicente in the Coastal Sage Matorral of BC July 1963. Additionally, we reviewed two females from two localities of the Baja California Mountains in Sierra San Pedro Mártir, one collected in “San Pedro Mártir Corona Abajo ” in July 1973 (CASC), and the other in “ SSPM Slope NE vallecitos” in June 1980 (SDNHM). See fig. 131.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 202, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Behavioral Approach to Organizational Choice in Tajikistan’s Agriculture
Creators: name: Muller, Malte
name: Rommel, Jens
name: Muller, Malte
name: Rommel, Jens
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Central Asia
subject: decollectivization
subject: experimental economics
subject: farm structure
subject: social preferences
subject: structural change
subject: transition
subject: ultimatum game

description: Most communist economies were dominated by large collective farms. Today, smaller family farms often coexist with larger corporate and collective farms in these countries. The roles of other-regarding preferences and social norms have been largely neglected in the debate on farmers’ organizational choices. We conducted lab-in-the-field ultimatum game experiments with 397 cotton farmers from collective and family farms. Large and statistically significant differences existed in the rejection behavior among the two farm types. Punishment of unfair behavior explained organizational choice, both with and without controlling for other factors. We conclude that the continuation of dual farm structures requires tailored policy support.
title: Genetic analysis and functional characterization of factors affecting BM-derived myogenesis
Creators: name: Xynos, Alexandros
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: Numerous common and severe human muscle disorders could benefit from stem cell therapy that would allow replacement of degenerating muscle. A recent upsurge of reports, claiming that readily accessible haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) participate in muscle regeneration, raises hopes for their clinical application. However, the biology of this process and the proof of the ability of HSCs to be reprogrammed remain elusive. Using murine bone marrow (BM) cells, carrying different reporter cassettes controlled by elements of the muscle-specific Myf5, MLC3F and MCK promoters, we demonstrated that haematopoietic cells in co-culture with myoblasts express muscle-specific genes. In spite of this, these cells show limited regeneration of muscle in Pax7-/- mice and never give rise to myoblast clones. Correspondingly, the gene expression profiling of haematopoietic CD45+/Sca1+ cells revealed partial but extended myogenic reprogramming, despite the absence of key myogenic transcription factors such as Pax7 and MyoD. Indeed, BM transplantation and co-culture experiments, using BM cells from Pax7-/- or MyoD-/- mice, suggested that neither Pax7 nor MyoD are essential for the participation of haematopoietic cells in muscle regeneration, indicating that the Pax7 pathway is not active in these cells. In-vitro experiments with muscle cells from Pax7-/- /Myf5nlacZ/+ and Pax7-/-/MLC3F-nlacZ-E mice confirmed the tight association of Pax7 with the muscle-stem-cell characteristics. Additionally, the Pax7 ectopic expression in BM cells infused to them the ability to generate myogenic clones "and increased their in-vivo myogenic potential. Overall, our results demonstrate that BM-derived CD45+/Sca1+ cells, while undergoing myogenic specification and differentiation, cannot be considered muscle stem cells, and this latter distinction from the satellite cells is most probably due to the inactivity of the Pax7 pathway.
Elderly long -term care: A historical comparative analysis of *policy decisions and "policy lags"
Creators: name: Silver, Kay W.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research project analyzes four policy decisions: the Kerr-Mills Act of 1960, The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, the 1999 United States Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. L.C., and the Older Americans Act Amendments of 2000. The issue of long-term care for the elderly is examined in relation to these four policy decisions. The Kerr-Mills Act of 1960 constitutes a benchmark in policy because it legislated federal and state matching funding for the assistance of community-based home care for the elderly. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 resulted in broadening community-based services in the form of the social services block grant and the home and community-based services waiver program. The 1999 United States Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. L.C. was a landmark case for institutionalized disabled persons. The Older Americans Act Amendments of 2000 (amendments of a law originally enacted in 1965) brought forth the National Family Caregiver Support Program which marks another benchmark in policy legislation: the first time that the Federal government has officially recognized the role of informal, unpaid family caregivers. The historical comparative research method is used to examine these four policy decisions. Primary and secondary archival data and historical documents are used to analyze the policies. Five research questions are posed regarding each policy decision. The concept of the social construction of aging is used to analyze the influence it had on policy outcomes. During the time frame of 1960 to 2000, other policies were enacted that impacted the lives of the elderly but were not the subject of this investigation. A paucity of policies were enacted that attempted to ameliorate the plight of the elderly in seeking the provision of community-based long-term care. There was a mismatch between needs and the policies intended to ameliorate the situation, ultimately resulting in policy lags. New comprehensive policies are called for that will resolve the community-based long-term care needs of the elderly.
On the newtonian limit and cut--off scales of isothermal dark matter halos with cosmological constant
Creators: name: Sussman, Roberto A.
name: Hernandez, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine isothermal dark matter halos in hydrostatic equilibrium with a cosmological constant Lambda =Omega_Λrho_{crit}c^2, where Omega_Λ=0.7, and rho_{crit} is the present value of the critical density with h=0.65. The Newtonian limit of General Relativity yields equilibrium equations that are different from those arising by merely coupling an ``isothermal sphere'' to the Lambda-field within a Newtonian framework. The conditions for the existence and stability of circular geodesic orbits show the existence of (I) an ``isothermal region'' (0r_1) dominated by the Lambda-field, where the Newtonian potential oscillates and circular orbits exist in disconnected patches of the domain of r; (III) a ``transition region'' (r_20.008 M_\odot {pc}^3, in agreement with rotation curve studies of dwarf galaxies. Since r_2 marks the largest radius of a stable circular orbit, it provides a ``cut off'' radius. For current estimates of rho_c and velocity dispersion of galactic structures, this is around five times larger than the virialization radius. The effects of the Lambda$--field can hence be ignored in structure formation models, but could be significant in the dynamics of superclusters in the linear regime or of gravitational clustering at large scales.
description: 13 pages, 19 figures, Accepted in MNRAS, includes minor corrections suggested by the referee
Antechinus swainsonii subsp. insulanus Davison 1991
Creators: name: Dyck, Steve Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuridae
Antechinus
Antechinus swainsonii
A. swainsonii insulanus davison

description: (3) A. arktos versus  A. swainsonii insulanus Davison
 Pelage: A. arktos has a brownish-grey head that changes markedly to an orange-brown rump, fuscous black hindfeet, a thick-based, finely-furred, black tail and an orange-yellow eye and cheek patch; A. s. insulanus has more uniformly dark brown or grizzled grey fur on the head and back, with a subtly brownish rump, as well as dark brownish hindfeet and tail.
 External Measurements: A. arktos is similar in external body measurements to A. s. insulanus (see Tables 1, 4 and 5).
 Craniodental Characters: A. arktos is smaller than A. s. insulanus in absolute measurement at APV in males and females. A. arktos is smaller than A. s. insulanus in absolute measurement at M 2 W in males (Tables 1, 4 and 5).
 Other Comments: A. arktos occur in south-east Qld and north-east NSW in areas of high elevation and rainfall on the Tweed Volcano caldera, whereas A. s. insulanus is limited to the Grampians Range in western Victoria, some 1200km to the south-west. Genetics: uncorrected pairwise difference at the mitochondrial gene CytB between A. arktos and A. s. insulanus is 9.8%.
description: Published as part of Dyck, Steve Van, 2014, The Black-tailed Antechinus, Antechinus arktos sp. nov.: a new species of carnivorous marsupial from montane regions of the Tweed Volcano caldera, eastern Australia, pp. 101-133 in Zootaxa 3765 (2) on page 111, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5045725
Elderly long -term care: A historical comparative analysis of *policy decisions and "policy lags"
Creators: name: Silver, Kay W.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This research project analyzes four policy decisions: the Kerr-Mills Act of 1960, The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, the 1999 United States Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. L.C., and the Older Americans Act Amendments of 2000. The issue of long-term care for the elderly is examined in relation to these four policy decisions. The Kerr-Mills Act of 1960 constitutes a benchmark in policy because it legislated federal and state matching funding for the assistance of community-based home care for the elderly. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 resulted in broadening community-based services in the form of the social services block grant and the home and community-based services waiver program. The 1999 United States Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. L.C. was a landmark case for institutionalized disabled persons. The Older Americans Act Amendments of 2000 (amendments of a law originally enacted in 1965) brought forth the National Family Caregiver Support Program which marks another benchmark in policy legislation: the first time that the Federal government has officially recognized the role of informal, unpaid family caregivers. The historical comparative research method is used to examine these four policy decisions. Primary and secondary archival data and historical documents are used to analyze the policies. Five research questions are posed regarding each policy decision. The concept of the social construction of aging is used to analyze the influence it had on policy outcomes. During the time frame of 1960 to 2000, other policies were enacted that impacted the lives of the elderly but were not the subject of this investigation. A paucity of policies were enacted that attempted to ameliorate the plight of the elderly in seeking the provision of community-based long-term care. There was a mismatch between needs and the policies intended to ameliorate the situation, ultimately resulting in policy lags. New comprehensive policies are called for that will resolve the community-based long-term care needs of the elderly.
Antechinus minimus
Creators: name: Dyck, Steve Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuridae
Antechinus
Antechinus minimus

description: (4) A. arktos versus  A. minimus (Geoffroy)
 Pelage: A. arktos has a brownish-grey head that changes markedly to an orange-brown rump, fuscous black hindfeet, a thick-based, finely-furred, black tail and an orange-yellow eye and cheek patch; A. minimus has coarser fur and a leaden grey head that merges to brownish yellow fur on the rump and flanks.
 External Measurements: A. arktos is larger than A. minimus in absolute measurement for tv and hf in males and females (see Table 5).
 Craniodental Characters: A. arktos is larger than A. minimus in absolute measurement for a range of craniodental characters in males and females, as follows: in males APV, BL, Dent, IBW, IOW, NW OBW, PL, NWR, UML, I 1 -P 3, LML, I 1 -P 3 and UPL; in females APV, BL, Dent, IOW, PL, PML, UML, BuL, I 1 -P 3, LML, I 1 -P 3, M 2 W and UPL. A. arktos is significantly larger than A. minimus for a range of characters: in males PPV, TC, PML, BuL and M 2 W and in females at TC (Table 5).
 Other Comments: A. arktos occur in south-east Qld and north-east NSW in areas of high elevation and rainfall on the Tweed Volcano caldera, whereas A. minimus is limited to damp habitats of coastal South Australia, Victoria and throughout Tasmania. Genetics: uncorrected pairwise range differences at the mitochondrial gene CytB between A. arktos and A. minimus are 9.8–10.4%.
description: Published as part of Dyck, Steve Van, 2014, The Black-tailed Antechinus, Antechinus arktos sp. nov.: a new species of carnivorous marsupial from montane regions of the Tweed Volcano caldera, eastern Australia, pp. 101-133 in Zootaxa 3765 (2) on pages 111-112, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5045725
Mediators and moderators of the relationship between maternal depression and negative child outcomes
Creators: name: Sirian, Lisa M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5201
subject: Applied and developmental psychology
classificationCode: 5204
subject: Cognitive and computational psychology

description: Research has shown that children of depressed mothers have more negative outcomes than children of nondepressed mothers, including increased behavior problems and psychopathology. The purpose of the current study was to explore this association by examining possible mediating and moderating variables in the relationship between maternal depression and negative child outcomes in a low-income ethnic minority population of ninety-one children ages four to seven. As impaired parenting skills of depressed mothers have been suggested as a mechanism through which children are negatively impacted, parenting behaviors were studied as potential mediating variables, using both observational and self-report measures. Outcome measures in this study were mother, father figure, and teacher reports of child externalizing and internalizing behavior problems and adaptive skills. Consistent with previous research, maternal depression in this sample was associated with increased child externalizing and internalizing behavior problems, and fewer adaptive skills. However, this difference was found only for mothers' reports, and not for teacher or father figure reports. In studying possible mediators, there were no differences in observational ratings of parenting between depressed and nondepressed mothers, and only maternal self-report of rejection was found to partially mediate the relationship between maternal depression and mothers' ratings of their children's externalizing and internalizing behaviors. Moderating variables were also studied, which found a significant effect for child gender on the relationship between maternal depression and child outcomes. Depressed mothers were found to rate their daughters as having significantly more internalizing behavior problems than did nondepressed mothers, whereas the difference for boys was not significant. Ethnicity and child age were not found to be moderating variables in this sample. Characteristics of mothers' depression, severity and recurrence, were also studied to examine their impact on child outcomes within the depressed sample. Recurrence of maternal depressive episodes was found to impact child outcomes, with the children of women with recurrent depression (defined as three or more episodes) rated by father figures as having more externalizing and internalizing behavior problems, and by teachers as having fewer adaptive skills. Severity of maternal depression was not found to impact child outcomes.
Affective Automotive User Interfaces -- Reviewing the State of Emotion Regulation in the Car
Creators: name: Braun, Michael
name: Weber, Florian
name: Alt, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Affective technology offers exciting opportunities to improve road safety by catering to human emotions. Modern car interiors enable the contactless detection of user states, paving the way for a systematic promotion of safe driver behavior through emotion regulation. We review the current literature regarding the impact of emotions on driver behavior and analyze the state of emotion regulation approaches in the car. We summarize challenges for affective interaction in form of cultural aspects, technological hurdles and methodological considerations, as well as opportunities to improve road safety by reinstating drivers into an emotionally balanced state. The purpose of this review is to outline the community's combined knowledge for interested researchers, to provide a focussed introduction for practitioners and to identify future directions for affective interaction in the car.
Symmetry breaking transition and appearance of compactons in a mechanical system
Creators: name: Arodz, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently we have described a mechanical system which exhibits spontaneous breaking of Z_2 symmetry and related topological kinks called compactons. The corresponding field potential is not differentiable at its global minima. Therefore, standard derivation of dispersion relation $ω(k)$ for small perturbations around the ground state can not be applied. In the present paper we obtain the dispersion relation. It turns out that evolution equation remains nonlinear even for arbitrarily small perturbations. The shape of the resulting running wave is piecewise combined from cosh functions. We also analyse dynamics of the symmetry breaking transition. It turns out that the number of produced compacton-anticompacton pairs strongly depends on the form of initial perturbation of the unstable former ground state.
description: New reference added
Effect of water stress and electrical conductivity of nutrient solution on the growth of rice
Creators: name: Halder, K. P.
name: Burrage, S. W.
name: Halder, K. P.
name: Burrage, S. W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Water stress
subject: Solution EC
subject: Rice

description: The effect of intermittent water stress in relation to solar radiation (0.60 MJ m-2) received by the plant and nutrient solution electrical conductivity (EC) on dry matter production in rice crop was studied. The rice plants were grown using nutrient film technique (NFT). Two intermittent water stress treatments [CC= Continuous circulation of nutrient solution throughout the life cycle and RS= Water stress was imposed from panicle initiation (PI) to maturity of the crop) and two levels of nutrient solution EC (3.0 mS cm-1 and 2.0 mS cm-1) were used. Results revealed that drought stress significantly decreased the dry weight (DW) of leaf, stem, panicle, root and whole plant. Plant grown in EC 3.0 solution produced more DW than EC 2.0 solution. Due to drought stress, DW decreased more in the EC 3.0 plants than in the EC 2.0 plants. Tiller and leaf number did not decrease due to drought stress but plant height, leaf area and panicle number decreased.