cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
`Flat Phase' Loading of a Bose-Einstein Condensate into an Optical Lattice
Creators: name: Sklarz, Shlomo E.
name: Friedler, Inbal
name: Tannor, David J.
name: Band, Yehuda B.
name: Williams, Carl J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been proposed that the adiabatic loading of a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) into an optical lattice via the Mott-insulator transition can be used to initialize a quantum computer [D. Jaksch, {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 81}, 3108 (1998)]. The loading of a BEC into the lattice without causing band excitation is readily achievable; however, unless one switches on an optical lattice very slowly, the optical lattice causes a phase to accumulate across the condensate. We show analytically and numerically that a cancellation of this effect is possible by adjusting the harmonic trap force-constant of the magnetic trap appropriately, thereby facilitating quick loading of an optical lattice for quantum computing purposes. A simple analytical theory is developed for a non-stationary BEC in a harmonic trap.
description: LaTeX 11 Pages, 6 figures
Rural Dwellers’ Perception of Human Trafficking and its Implication for Agricultural Production in Edo State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Ofuoku, A.U.
name: Uzokwe, U.N.
name: Ofuoku, A.U.
name: Uzokwe, U.N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Rural dwellers
subject: human trafficking
subject: push factors and pull factors

description: This study was carried out to ascertain the perception of rural dwellers on human trafficking in relation to its effect on agricultural production in the three Senatorial Districts of Edo State, Nigeria. A sample size of 120 household heads was used for the study. Structured questionnaire and interview schedule were used to collect data for the study. The data were analyzed using frequency counts, means and percentage while Chi-Square statistical model and Tobit regression analytical model were used to test the hypotheses. It was discovered that the household members were trafficked as a result of push and pull factors. The trafficked members of household were actively involved in farming practices before being trafficked. There is significant relationship between human trafficking and agriculture production. Shortage of farm labor, decreased farm size, reduced farm income, reduced farm output, extra expenditure on hired labor and storage of food supply by the community were perceived as effect of human trafficking on agriculture. Age of the household head and the household size had significant effect on the number of household member trafficked. Human trafficking has an adverse effect on agricultural production. Extension department should therefore integrate anti-human trafficking campaigns with their services to the farming population.
The Effect of Agricultural Development Project (ADP) on the Rural Farmers in Adamawa State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Madu, Umar Adamu
name: Wakili, Abba Mohammed
name: Madu, Umar Adamu
name: Wakili, Abba Mohammed
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm Management
subject: Effect
subject: ADPs
subject: Rural
subject: Farmers

description: Majority of communities in Nigeria are rural dwellers and agrarian by occupation. Development strategy for a country whose rural population are mainly farmers cannot be achieved without first sustained growth in rural income and standard of living primarily from agriculture. It was based on this that the state wide Agricultural Development Project (ADP) was established to raise productivity, income and standard of living of rural farmers in Nigeria. This study assesses the effect of the ADP activities on the wellbeing of the rural farmers in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Data for this study were collect on annual crop output, annual income, farm size, use of improved technology, access to credit among farmers, farmers’ training and rural infrastructure development. The data were sourced using structured questionnaire and personal interviews. The statistical analysis used to determine the effect to the project on the participating farmers include, descriptive statistics and comparability test for difference (T-test) analysis. The results indicates that Adamawa ADP had positive and significant impact on rural farmers productivity, income, access to credit, standard of living as measured by assets ownership. However, the project did not have significant impact on the rural infrastructure, adoption of improved technologies and farm sizes, even though the change from before and after ADP activities was positive. The study recommends that much attention should be paid to the provision of rural infrastructure and the needed improved technologies. The study also recommends that the two tiers of government in Nigeria should adequately fund the project to efficiently cope with its responsibility of developing the rural sector.
Kaella Amrine, Stasny & Flechtmann 2003
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Actinedida
Diptilomiopidae
Kaella

description: Kaella Amrine, Stasny & Flechtmann, 2003
 Type species. Vimola flacourtiae Chandrapatya & Boczek, 2002b: 138–141.
 Diagnosis. Body fusiform; gnathosoma large, abruptly curved and bent down near base; scapular setae (sc) absent; paraxial tibial seta (l’) absent, empodium divided; anterolateral setae on coxisternum І (1b) absent; opisthosomal setae e absent.
 This genus is monotypic (Amrine et al. 2003).
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 98
Climate Change and Variability: Farmers’ Perception, Experience and Adaptation Strategies in Makueni County, Kenya
Creators: name: Kitinya, Kirina T.
name: Onwonga, Richard N.
name: Onyango, Cecilia
name: Mbuvi, Joseph P.
name: Kironchi, Geoffrey
name: Kitinya, Kirina T.
name: Onwonga, Richard N.
name: Onyango, Cecilia
name: Mbuvi, Joseph P.
name: Kironchi, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Arid and semiarid lands
subject: climate change and variability
subject: decision support tools
subject: Traditional Technical knowledge

description: A better understanding of climate change and variability (CCV) from the farmer’s perspective is a key to prioritizing measures to address and prepare for its consequences. A survey involving 150 farmers was thus conducted in Makueni County, Kenya to document farmers’; perception, experience and adaptation strategies to CCV. About 86% of farmers perceived CCV as a major challenge with 53% indicating that significant changes in climate would manifest in 10-20 years. Significant changes in rainfall amounts and distribution had occurred over the years and were rated by 60% of farmers as the frequently experienced aspect of CCV. About 33% of farmers had heard of but not used decision support tools (DST) to inform their agricultural activities. Workshops and seminars were reported by 67% of farmers as principal sources of information on CCV. Additionally, 50% of farmers relied on traditional knowledge for weather prediction. Only 20% of farmers had alternative strategies; agroforestry and growing drought tolerant crops particularly sorghum and cowpea, to minimize effects of CCV. Another 67% of farmers prioritized; terracing, ridging and water harvesting as adaptation strategies to minimize negative effects of CCV. The farmers were thus aware of CCV and through experience, backed with traditional technical knowledge, had gained prerequisite skills for addressing its negative effects. Nevertheless farmers’ agricultural practices could be improved by use of forecasted weather data and application of DST. Consequently enhancing farmers’ preparedness to tackle challenges posed by CCV.
Uncertainty relations and fluctuation theorems for Bayes nets
Creators: name: Wolpert, David H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent research has considered the stochastic thermodynamics of multiple interacting systems, representing the overall system as a Bayes net. I derive fluctuation theorems governing the entropy production (EP)of arbitrary sets of the systems in such a Bayes net. I also derive ``conditional'' fluctuation theorems, governing the distribution of EP in one set of systems conditioned on the EP of a different set of systems. I then derive thermodynamic uncertainty relations relating the EP of the overall system to the precisions of probability currents within the individual systems.
description: 5 pages main text, 10 pages appendices, 1 figure - typos fixed from earlier version
Additional file 1 of Pre-depletion of TRBC1+ T cells promotes the therapeutic efficacy of anti-TRBC1 CAR-T for T-cell malignancies
Creators: name: Zhang, Chaoting
name: Palashati, Heyilimu
name: Rong, Zhuona
name: Lin, Ningjing
name: Shen, Luyan
name: Liu, Ying
name: Li, Shance
name: Yu, Bentong
name: Yang, Wenjun
name: Lu, Zheming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Participation in Development: A Case Study on Local Participation in Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in Vietnam
Creators: name: Toan, Dang Ngoc
name: Toan, Dang Ngoc
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Industrial Organization

description: Since the adoption of Doi Moi (reform) policy in 1986, local participation has attracted special attention in development projects in Vietnam. In particular, the questions of whether local participation in development projects should be promoted and whether it would be feasible became a major concern among development practitioners, as the debates on participation and project sustainability continued. While some argued that although socio-economic, cultural, ethnic and political obstacles were always present, many also believed that the promises of participation in development projects in Vietnam had been strengthened in recent times especially when the Government realised that its top-down approach in implementing development projects could only weaken local capacity. This article is an examination of how participatory approach was promoted in two villages in Daklak province, Vietnam, where a Danish-funded RWSS (Rural water supply and sanitation) project was implemented. It investigates how development was perceived differently by local people and other major stakeholders, and in turn, how participation was exercised. It also identifies the obstacles that emerged that hampered local participation and discusses how locals responded with appropriate solutions.
Levonga Manson 1984
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Actinedida
Diptilomiopidae
Levonga

description: Levonga Manson, 1984
 Type species. Levonga papaitongensis Manson, 1984a: 30.
 Diagnosis. Body fusiform; gnathosoma large, abruptly curved and bent down near base; scapular setae (sc) minute; genu II seta absent, paraxial tibial seta (l’) absent, empodium divided; anterolateral setae on coxisternum І (1b) absent.
 This genus consists of 6 species (Amrine et al. 2003). Only one species has been recorded from Southeast Asia.
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 99
Role of causality in ensuring unconditional security of relativistic quantum cryptography
Creators: name: Molotkov, S. N.
name: Nazin, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of unconditional security of quantum cryptography (i.e. the security which is guaranteed by the fundamental laws of nature rather than by technical limitations) is one of the central points in quantum information theory. We propose a relativistic quantum cryptosystem and prove its unconditional security against any eavesdropping attempts. Relativistic causality arguments allow to demonstrate the security of the system in a simple way. Since the proposed protocol does not employ collective measurements and quantum codes, the cryptosystem can be experimentally realized with the present state-of-art in fiber optics technologies. The proposed cryptosystem employs only the individual measurements and classical codes and, in addition, the key distribution problem allows to postpone the choice of the state encoding scheme until after the states are already received instead of choosing it before sending the states into the communication channel (i.e. to employ a sort of ``antedate'' coding).
description: 9 pages
MECHANISM OF PINK1-MEDIATED UBIQUITIN PHOSPHORYLATION
Creators: name: Schubert, Alexander Fabian
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: PINK1
Kinase
Parkinson's disease
Structural biology
Ubiquitin
Mitophagy

description: Ubiquitin phosphorylation by PINK1 (PTEN-induced Putative Kinase 1) is crucial for mitochondrial quality control and loss or mutation of PINK1 can lead to autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism (AR-JP). PINK1 is an unusual kinase, as it is characterised by three unique insertions in its kinase N lobe and a C-terminal region after the kinase domain. Despite great effort, a structure of PINK1 could not be determined and the molecular mechanism of ubiquitin phosphorylation and the effect of the PINK1 AR-JP patient mutations remained elusive. The versatile modifier ubiquitin (Ub) is also an unusual kinase substrate, as its phosphorylation site (Ser65) is not exposed, but protected by the Ub fold. Hence, it was not clear how a kinase would be able to target Ser65 of Ub. This work shows that Ub needs to adopt a previously described conformation in order to be efficiently phosphorylated by PINK1. NMR experiments revealed that in a small population of Ub the last β-strand is retracted, resulting in a more accessible Ser65 loop. It could be shown that PINK1 binds the Ser65 loop in this C-terminally retracted conformation (Ub-CR), but not in the ‘common’ conformation. In addition, it could be shown that Ub trapped in the Ub-CR conformation by point mutations (Ub TVLN) is phosphorylated significantly faster than Ub wt, which only adopts the Ub-CR conformation at very low frequency. To further elucidate how PINK1 binds and phosphorylates Ub, the kinase domain of Pediculus humanus corporis (Ph)PINK1 was crystallised in complex with Ub TVLN stabilised by a nanobody. The structure revealed many peculiarities of PINK1, such as the architecture of the unique insertions and the C-terminal region. Together with NMR and mass spectrometry studies, the structure explains how PINK1 interacts with ubiquitin via insertion-3 and its activation segment, and how PINK1 utilises the Ub- CR conformation for efficient Ser65 phosphorylation. In addition, the structure shows that two autophosphorylation sites in the N lobe regulate PINK1, by stabilising the functionally important insertions. The structure helped our understanding of the molecular basis of over 40 AR-JP patient mutations and may guide the design of ARJP therapeutics in the future.
description: MRC Research Studentship program
Transport of interacting electrons through a double barrier in quantum wires
Creators: name: Polyakov, D. G.
name: Gornyi, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize the fermionic renormalization group method to describe analytically transport through a double barrier structure in a one-dimensional system. Focusing on the case of weakly interacting electrons, we investigate thoroughly the dependence of the conductance on the strength and the shape of the double barrier for arbitrary temperature T. Our approach allows us to systematically analyze the contributions to renormalized scattering amplitudes from different characteristic scales absent in the case of a single impurity, without restricting the consideration to the model of a single resonant level. Both a sequential resonant tunneling for high T and a resonant transmission for T smaller than the resonance width are studied within the unified treatment of transport through strong barriers. For weak barriers, we show that two different regimes are possible. Moderately weak impurities may get strong due to a renormalization by interacting electrons, so that transport is described in terms of theory for initially strong barriers. The renormalization of very weak impurities does not yield any peak in the transmission probability; however, remarkably, the interaction gives rise to a sharp peak in the conductance, provided asymmetry is not too high.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures; figures added, references updated, extended discussion
Persistent Haldane Phase in Carbon Tetris Chains
Creators: name: Abdelwahab, Anas
name: Karrasch, Christoph
name: Rausch, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the concept of tetris chains, which are linear arrays of 4-site molecules that differ by their intermolecular hopping geometry. We investigate the fermionic symmetry-protected topological Haldane phase in these systems using Hubbard-type models. The topological phase diagrams can be understood via different competing limits and mechanisms: strong-coupling $U\gg t$, weak-coupling $U\ll t$, and the weak intermolecular hopping limit $t'\ll t$. Our particular focus is on two tetris chains that are of experimental relevance. First, we show that a Y-chain of coarse-grained nanographene molecules (triangulenes) is robustly in the Haldane phase in the whole $t'-U$ plane due to the cooperative nature of the three limits. Secondly, we study a near-homogeneous Y$^{\prime}$-chain that is closely related to the electronic model for poly(p-phenylene vinylene). In the latter case, the above mechanisms compete, but the Haldane phase manifests robustly and is stable when long-ranged Pariser-Parr-Popple interactions are added. The site-edged Hubbard ladder can also be viewed as a tetris chain, which gives a very general perspective on the emergence of its fermionic Haldane phase. Our numerical results are obtained by large-scale, SU(2)-symmetric tensor network calculations. We employ the density-matrix-renormalization group as well as the variational uniform matrix-product state (VUMPS) algorithms for finite and infinite systems, respectively. The numerics are supplemented by analytical calculations of the bandstructure winding number.
Levonga caseariae Xue & Zhang 2009, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Actinedida
Diptilomiopidae
Levonga
Levonga caseariae

description: Levonga caseariae (Chandrapatya, 1997) comb. nov.
 Pseudodiptacus caseariae Chandrapatya in Chandrapatya & Boczek, 1997b: 32–33.
 Host. Casearia grewiaefolia (Flacourtiaceae).
 Habit. Vagrant.
 Distribution. Thailand (Rayong).
 Remarks. Amrine et al (2003) assign Pseudodiptacus as a junior synonym to Levonga.
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 99
THE CURRENT STATE OF THE THEORY OF FINANCIAL STABILITY
Creators: name: Chernyakov, M.
name: Gromov, S.
name: Akberov, K.
name: Shuraev, I.
name: Ibishov, G.
Publisher: name: Deutsche Internationale Zeitschrift für zeitgenössische Wissenschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: financial stability
market stability
economic stability
financial strategy
investment

description: The article systematizes modern concepts of financial stability. Practical significance: the main provisions and conclusions of the article can be used to assess the financial stability of Russian companies.
Hot Bed & Cold Frame Construction and Use
Creators: name: Singh, Pradeep Kumar
name: Singh, Pradeep Kumar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Farm Management

description: Hot beds and cold frames are used by gardeners for propagating vegetables, flowers and ornamentals. Hot beds are used for starting the plants and cold frames for tempering or hardening plants to outdoor conditions before transplanting. For most home gardeners the same frame can serve both purposes. The principle difference between the two is that hot beds have a heat source. Traditionally, hot beds and cold frames were built even with or slightly below ground level and covered by glass sash. Present-day frames are often completely above ground and plastic covered because film is generally available at a reasonable cost.
Quantum thermodynamic cooling cycle
Creators: name: Palao, Jose P.
name: Kosloff, Ronnie
name: Gordon, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum-mechanical and thermodynamic properties of a 3-level molecular cooling cycle are derived. An inadequacy of earlier models is rectified in accounting for the spontaneous emission and absorption associated with the coupling to the coherent driving field via an environmental reservoir. This additional coupling need not be dissipative, and can provide a thermal driving force - the quantum analog of classical absorption chillers. The dependence of the maximum attainable cooling rate on temperature, at ultra-low temperatures, is determined and shown to respect the recently-established fundamental bound based on the second and third laws of thermodynamics.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures
Sustainable diet and changes in food consumption in chosen European Union countries
Creators: name: Rejman, Krystyna
name: Halicka, Ewa
name: Kowrygo, Barbara
name: Rejman, Krystyna
name: Halicka, Ewa
name: Kowrygo, Barbara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: sustainability
subject: food
subject: consumption trends
subject: sustainable diet
subject: EU countries

description: The most important challenges of food policy and public health in the 21 Century include fighting high levels of obesity and food waste. Both issues are linked to the necessity of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and inhibiting climate change. Diet modification towards a more sustainable and healthy model, based in greater extent on plant-derived (vegetal) food and not animal products is seen as a chance to improve this situation. Taking these aspects into consideration, an analysis of consumption trends (1991-2011) of 6 food groups, known as markers of sustainable diet, was carried out in 7 EU countries. The study was based on FAO Food Balance Sheet statistical data. The current consumption structures in the selected countries was compared to recommended, sustainable and healthy diets. It was shown that in general homogenization of food consumption, a decrease of pulses and increase of fruit consumption had taken place. In each country the share of cereals & potatoes, fruit & vegetables, milk & dairy products, and meat did not meet the recommendations. The consumption of the first two groups was too low, the remaining two – too high.
The impact of availability of means of transport on agricultural production in selected European countries
Creators: name: Rokicki, Tomasz
name: Rokicki, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: means of transport
subject: number of tractors
subject: agricultural production

description: The object of the paper is to determine the relationship between the number of tractors and production results. Seven European countries with diverse land, production and human resources and different natural and topographic conditions were selected by the application of the purposive sampling method and included in the study. The study period spans from 2004 to 2009. In the analysed population, production results were not in correlation with the number of tractors. When examining the relationship only in some selected countries, the author discovered the existence of differences in the correlation between the number of tractors and the value of agricultural production. The resulting correlation values for developed countries were positive, whereas in the case of developing countries, the values were negative. Thus, the number of tractors influences the value of agricultural production in harmonised economies. Nevertheless, we should also consider a number of additional factors, such as price volatility, weather conditions, etc.
Reframing Excess: Death and Power in Contemporary Mexican Literary and Visual Culture
Creators: name: Bollington, Lucy J
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Necropolitics
Mexican visual culture
Mexican literary culture
posthumanism
violence
the 'War on Drugs'
Excess
Biopolitics

description: My PhD is a study of the politically charged literary and visual works that have emerged in response to escalating violence in contemporary Mexico. Providing close, comparative readings of fictional, theoretical and documentary works by critically-acclaimed authors Jorge Volpi, Cristina Rivera Garza, Mario Bellatin and Juan Pablo Villalobos, and award-winning filmmakers Carlos Reygadas, Amat Escalante and Natalia Almada, my chapters examine explicit and oblique cultural engagements with topics such as the political assassinations of the 1990s, the dispossession brought on by the neoliberal restructuring of the economy, and the violence prompted by the so-called ‘War on Drugs’. The cultural texts I examine share a concern with visualising and deconstructing the close relationship between death and power that marks the contemporary political terrain. I contend that narrative has become a critical site of cultural contestation, and discuss the ways in which experiments with the assemblage and frustration of narrative intertwine with issues related to visuality, embodiment and the nonhuman. Through my discussion of these themes, I trace out the ways in which cultural texts frequently employ narrative strategies that are rooted in dispersal, displacement and loss when engaging with destructive power. These strategies, I argue, pose urgent questions about the interrelation of violence and aesthetics, speak to critical shifts in the relationship between culture and the nation-state, and are marshalled to launch tentative appeals to forms of politics and ethics that work through spaces of shared dispossession. My thesis offers an innovative framework through which to theorise these cultural processes by reframing the notion of ‘excess’, a foundational concept in scholarship on death and power that has seen a resurgence in contemporary political philosophy. In dialogue with authors such as Georges Bataille, Achille Mbembe, Adriana Cavarero, Roberto Esposito, Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière, and with close reference to the ‘necropolitical’ theory and cultural texts authored in Mexico, I posit excess as an analytical term that can encompass both reflexive critiques of spectacular violence and latent forms of resistance to this violence that proceed through loss and displacement.
description: My thesis was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
SLOTT-AGAPE Data Processing
Creators: name: Iovane, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MEDEA Program (Microlensing Experiment Data-Analysis Software for Event with Amplification) is here presented. It is developed to the pixel lensing analysis used by SLOTT-AGAPE (Systematic Lensing Observation at Toppo Telescope - Andromeda Gravitational Amplification Pixel Experiment) Collaboration. All software components are fully automated and they can be used on-line and off-line.
description: Short paper to be published in the Proceedings of the MG 9 Meeting. July 2000, Rome
Scalable Byzantine Reliable Broadcast (Extended Version)
Creators: name: Guerraoui, Rachid
name: Kuznetsov, Petr
name: Monti, Matteo
name: Pavlovic, Matej
name: Seredinschi, Dragos-Adrian
name: Vonlanthen, Yann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Byzantine reliable broadcast is a powerful primitive that allows a set of processes to agree on a message from a designated sender, even if some processes (including the sender) are Byzantine. Existing broadcast protocols for this setting scale poorly, as they typically build on quorum systems with strong intersection guarantees, which results in linear per-process communication and computation complexity. We generalize the Byzantine reliable broadcast abstraction to the probabilistic setting, allowing each of its properties to be violated with a fixed, arbitrarily small probability. We leverage these relaxed guarantees in a protocol where we replace quorums with stochastic samples. Compared to quorums, samples are significantly smaller in size, leading to a more scalable design. We obtain the first Byzantine reliable broadcast protocol with logarithmic per-process communication and computation complexity. We conduct a complete and thorough analysis of our protocol, deriving bounds on the probability of each of its properties being compromised. During our analysis, we introduce a novel general technique we call adversary decorators. Adversary decorators allow us to make claims about the optimal strategy of the Byzantine adversary without having to make any additional assumptions. We also introduce Threshold Contagion, a model of message propagation through a system with Byzantine processes. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first formal analysis of a probabilistic broadcast protocol in the Byzantine fault model. We show numerically that practically negligible failure probabilities can be achieved with realistic security parameters.
description: This is an extended version of a conference article, appearing (best paper award) in the proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2019), October 14--18, 2019, Budapest, Hungary
The growth and performance of the Belarusian agro-food industry in 2004-2012
Creators: name: Shpak, Alexander
name: Pilipuk, Andrei
name: Shpak, Alexander
name: Pilipuk, Andrei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Belarusian agro-food industry
subject: food processing
subject: competitiveness

description: This paper provides an analysis of agro-food industry growth in Belarus, which is one of the key industries in the economy. Such an analysis allowed us to understand the main forces of relatively successful development. We pointed out that state owned companies in the Belarusian agro- food industry operate as de facto strongly integrated corporate groups which ensures reliable supply of raw materials. In addition, we looked at the government directed lending programs which, through allocation of credit, push funds toward priority subsectors.
MOESM4 of Cloning and functional analysis of the FAD2 gene family from desert shrub Artemisia sphaerocephala
Creators: name: Xiumei Miao
name: Lijing Zhang
name: Xiaowei Hu
name: Shuzhen Nan
name: Xiaolong Chen
name: Fu, Hua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S2. The alignment of the putative polypeptide sequences of AsFAD2 genes together with those of selected ortholog plants.
Large-N bounds on, and compositeness limit of, gauge and gravitational interactions
Creators: name: Veneziano, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a toy model of gauge and gravitational interactions in $D \ge 4$ dimensions, endowed with an invariant UV cut-off $Λ$, and containing a large number $N$ of non-self-interacting matter species, the physical gauge and gravitational couplings at the cut-off, $α_g \equiv g^2 Λ^{D-4}$ and $α_G \equiv G_N Λ^{D-2}$, are shown to be bounded by appropriate powers of ${1\over N}$. This implies that the infinite-bare-coupling (so-called compositeness) limit of these theories is smooth, and can even resemble our world. We argue that such a result, when extended to more realistic situations, can help avoid large-N violations of entropy bounds, solve the dilaton stabilization and GUT-scale problems in superstring theory, and provide a new possible candidate for quintessence.
description: 8 pages, Latex, minor modifications in notations and references
Evaluation of critical limit of Zn in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) growing soils of West Bengal, India
Creators: name: Dhar, Debabrata
name: Saha, Bholanath
name: Padhan, Dhaneshwar
name: Chatterjee, Nitin
name: Basak, Piu
name: Saha, Sushanta
name: Batabyal, Kaushik
name: Dutta, Swaraj Kumar
name: Hazra, Gora Chand
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Potato is an important vegetable crop as well as the most important staple food crop in India after rice and wheat. Being one of the cheapest sources of energy rich natural nutritive foods, potato contains several antioxidant in minute quantities. Potato is highly sensitive to Zn deficiency and the yield and quality of tuber is affected in Zn deficient soils. Establishing the critical limit of Zn in soil and plant is highly essential for optimizing the Zn fertilization dose. Therefore, the present study was conducted to evaluate the critical limit of Zn in soil and plant. To assess the critical limit of Zn, four graded doses of Zn was administered in the form of ZnSO4.7H2O like Zn0: 0 kg Zn ha−1, Zn5.0: 5 kg Zn ha−1, Zn10.0: 10 kg Zn ha−1 and Zn20.0: 20 kg Zn ha−1. The result indicated Zn concentration below 0.49 mg kg−1 in soil showed Zn deficiency while the Zn concentration below 7.0 mg kg−1 would indicate deficiency of Zn in potato tuber in respect of yield and quality of potato. Similarly, the critical concentration of Zn in potato shoot was found to be 32.7 mg kg−1 (average of values determined by both graphical and statistical method). Below this concentration, it was considered to be deficiency of Zn in potato shoot which can influence yield and quality of potato. Moreover, the application of Zn @ 20.0 kg ha−1 showed higher response to biomass yield of potato and may be recommended for quality tuber production.
Visegrad countries - agrarian foreign trade development in relation to their total merchandise trade performance
Creators: name: Svatoš, Miroslav
name: Smutka, Luboš
name: Svatoš, Miroslav
name: Smutka, Luboš
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Visegrad
subject: V4
subject: agriculture
subject: food
subject: merchandise
subject: trade
subject: mutual
subject: external
subject: EU
subject: competitiveness
subject: Poland

description: The paper analyzes merchandise and especially agrarian trade of Visegrad (V4) countries. It especially analyzes their mutual trade relations. The main aim is to identify changes in the agricultural sector which have happened during the last decade and to compare differences existing in the area of merchandise and agricultural trade development. Another very important objective is related to mutual trade realized among V4 countries. In this case the paper identifies basic trends in the area of each country’s trade development. Mutual agrarian trade competitiveness is also analyzed. On the basis of the findings, it can be said that merchandise and agricultural trade for each V4 country changed significantly during the analysed time period. In relation to agricultural trade it can be mentioned that it represents only a marginal part of the total merchandise trade. Agrarian trade for individual V4 countries’ commodity structures as well as the territorial structure are very significantly concentrated. The predominant majority of agricultural trade – export as well as import – is carried out with EU countries. In this case it is necessary to emphasize that V4 countries are also important trade partners for each other. On the basis of Visegrad countries’ mutual trade analysis it is possible to say that the main traders active on the V4 market are the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The most competitive actors operating in the V4 market are Poland and Hungary. If we analyze each country’s export performance we can see that the V4 market is dominated by Poland and the Czech Republic.
Lithocarus Chandrapatya & Boczek 2000
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Actinedida
Diptilomiopidae
Lithocarus

description: Lithocarus Chandrapatya & Boczek, 2000
 Type species. Lithocarus thomsoni Chandrapatya & Boczek, 2000e: 306, 307–308.
 Diagnosis. Body fusiform; gnathosoma large, abruptly curved and bent down near base; scapular setae (sc) minute; genual setae absent, paraxial tibial seta (l’) absent, empodium divided; coxae I and coxae II each with 3 setae; opisthosoma with 3 ridges, setae c2 absent.
 This genus is monotypic (Amrine et al. 2003).
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 99
MOESM7 of Chemokines modulate the tumour microenvironment in pituitary neuroendocrine tumours
Creators: name: Marques, Pedro
name: Sayka Barry
name: Carlsen, Eivind
name: Collier, David
name: Ronaldson, Amy
name: Sherine Awad
name: Dorward, Neil
name: Grieve, Joan
name: Mendoza, Nigel
name: Samiul Muquit
name: Grossman, Ashley
name: Balkwill, Frances
name: Korbonits, Márta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 7: Table S4. Cytokine secretome from GH3 cells at baseline (untreated) and after treatment with PMA-activated RAW 264.7 macrophage-CM (+PMA_Raw-CM) for 24 h (n = 3). Data are shown in concentration (pg/mL) ± standard error of the mean (SEM) for the cytokines/chemokines/growth factors with detectable concentrations as identified by the rat Millipore MILLIPLEX cytokine 27-plex array. CCL5, CCL11, G-CSF, GM-CSF, IL-1α, IL-12, IL-17A, TNF-α, EGF, Leptin and LIX were not detected in the GH3 supernatants (i.e. concentration below the lowest standard curve point and/or serum-free medium quantification). Mean ratio ± SEM between untreated vs + PMA_Raw-CM GH3 cells-treated is also shown in the table, with significant p values indicated in the same column as asterisks. *,
On the Source Position and Duration of a Solar Type III Radio Burst Observed by LOFAR
Creators: name: Zhang, PeiJin
name: Yu, SiJie
name: Kontar, Eduard
name: Wang, ChuanBing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar type III radio bursts are excited by electron beams propagating outward from the Sun. The flux of type III radio burst has a time profile of rising and decay phase at a given frequency, which has been actively studied since 1970s. Several factors that may influence the duration of a type III radio burst has been proposed. However, the major cause of the duration is still an open question. In this work, to study the dominant cause of the duration, we investigate the source positions of the front edge, the peak, and the tail edge in the dynamic spectrum of a single and clear type III radio burst. The duration of this type III burst at a given frequency is about 3 second for decameter wave. The beam-formed observations by the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) are used, which can provide the radio source positions and the dynamic spectra at the same time. We find that, for this burst, the source positions of the front edge, the peak, and the tail edge split with each other spatially. The radial speed of the front edge, the peak, and the tail edge is 0.42 c, 0.25 c, and 0.16 c, respectively. We estimate the influences of the corona density fluctuation and the electron-velocity dispersion on the duration, and the scattering effect by comparison with a few short-duration bursts from the same region. The analysis yields that, in the frequency range of 30 - 41 MHz, the electron-velocity dispersion is the dominant factor that determines the time duration of type III radio bursts with long duration, while scattering may play important role in the duration of short bursts.
description: 12 pages
PhishIntel: Toward Practical Deployment of Reference-Based Phishing Detection
Creators: name: Li, Yuexin
name: Tan, Hiok Kuek
name: Meng, Qiaoran
name: Lock, Mei Lin
name: Cao, Tri
name: Deng, Shumin
name: Oo, Nay
name: Lim, Hoon Wei
name: Hooi, Bryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Phishing is a critical cyber threat, exploiting deceptive tactics to compromise victims and cause significant financial losses. While reference-based phishing detectors (RBPDs) have achieved notable advancements in detection accuracy, their real-world deployment is hindered by challenges such as high latency and inefficiency in URL analysis. To address these limitations, we present PhishIntel, an end-to-end phishing detection system for real-world deployment. PhishIntel intelligently determines whether a URL can be processed immediately or not, segmenting the detection process into two distinct tasks: a fast task that checks against local blacklists and result cache, and a slow task that conducts online blacklist verification, URL crawling, and webpage analysis using an RBPD. This fast-slow task system architecture ensures low response latency while retaining the robust detection capabilities of RBPDs for zero-day phishing threats. Furthermore, we develop two downstream applications based on PhishIntel: a phishing intelligence platform and a phishing email detection plugin for Microsoft Outlook, demonstrating its practical efficacy and utility.
description: Accepted by WWW 2025 (Demo Track)
Lithocarus thomsoni Chandrapatya & Boczek 2000
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Actinedida
Diptilomiopidae
Lithocarus
Lithocarus thomsoni

description: Lithocarus thomsoni Chandrapatya & Boczek, 2000
 Lithocarus thomsoni Chandrapatya & Boczek, 2000e: 306, 307–308.
 Host. Lithocarpus thomsonii (Fagaceae).
 Habit. Vagrant.
 Distribution. Thailand (Chiang Mai).
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 99
THE METHODOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE FORMATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF FUTURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS THROUGH CASE-STUDY TECHNOLOGY
Creators: name: Parmanova, A.B.
Publisher: name: Deutsche Internationale Zeitschrift für zeitgenössische Wissenschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: foreign language communicative competence
case study

description: The article describes the model of future foreign language teachers’ foreign language communicative competence development through case-study technology. The model is based on objective, conceptual, subject-content, process-technological, and performance-evaluation blocks
Teachers leading school improvement and education reconstruction in Palestine
Creators: name: Ramahi, Hanan
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Leadership
Teacher leadership
Professional development
Professional learning
Transformational learning
Agency
Change management
Organisational change
School improvement
Reform
Policy
Context
Palestine
Arab countries
Middle East and North Africa

description: This dissertation presents an intervention-based study that aimed to enable teachers to improve teaching and learning in one school in Ramallah, Palestine. The non-positional approach to teacher leadership was adopted as a means to mobilise all teachers in the drive towards bottom-up, participatory school change processes that increase teacher self-efficacy and collaboration, build professional capacity and social capital, and promote sustainability. The Teachers Leading the Way programme provided a contextually tailored strategy, and set of instruments and tools that through reflective exercises and dialogic activities aimed to support teachers to innovate practice, and impact organisational structures and professional culture. This is significant in the Palestine setting for facilitating the building of locally based and sourced knowledge to inform an authentic Palestinian vision and agenda for policy-making and education reconstruction, with implications for countries of the Middle East and North Africa region. In the process, a grassroots change movement is intended to shift historical and continued reliance on foreign intervention and international assistance, and lay the foundation for democratisation and social transformation. The intervention was investigated using a critical action-based, participatory methodology that emphasised context and researcher reflexivity in one school and amongst a cohort of 12 participants. Data were collected using a range of research-designed and programme-based methods and instruments, analysed deductively and inductively, and narrated critically to maintain coherence, and convey experiential and temporal dimensions. The study outcomes indicate that teachers in Palestine are capable of leading school improvement, and impacting school structures and professional culture for system-wide change, when the proper support is provided. Non-positional teacher leadership is the vehicle and can be developed through Teachers Leading the Way. At the individual level, this is enabled through a transformation in teachers’ perspective towards a self-empowered, agential mindset that leads to action on ways to improve practice. The transition process underscores the role of effective facilitation as an enabling condition for developing non-positional teacher leadership in Palestine and similar settings.