cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Dehydroxymethylepoxyquinomicin, a novel nuclear factor-κB inhibitor, prevents the development of cyclosporine A nephrotoxicity in a rat model
Creators: name: Morita, Shinya
name: Shinoda, Kazunobu
name: Yoshida, Tadashi
name: Shimoda, Masayuki
name: Kanno, Yoshihiko
name: Mizuno, Ryuichi
name: Hidaka Kono
name: Asanuma, Hiroshi
name: Nakagawa, Ken
name: Umezawa, Kazuo
name: Oya, Mototsugu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1.
Farm Management in Australia: The Way Forward
Creators: name: Charry, Al A.
name: Cox, Rodney J.
name: Parton, Kevin A.
name: Crockett, Judith
name: Johnson, Sue
name: Bone, Zelma
name: Whiteley, Wal
name: Charry, Al A.
name: Cox, Rodney J.
name: Parton, Kevin A.
name: Crockett, Judith
name: Johnson, Sue
name: Bone, Zelma
name: Whiteley, Wal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This paper summarises the outcomes of a National Workshop in Farm Management, 5-6 December 2002, organised by the University of Sydney, Faculty of Rural Management, Orange. At this Workshop leading farmers, industry leaders, corporate representatives, academics, researchers and extension officers explored the future of farm management (education, research and consultancy) in Australia. Major outcomes were that farm management practice is proceeding informally to undertake decisions supporting socially and ecologically friendly, sustainable commercial production agriculture. However the risks of lack of integration, a reductionist approach to only on-farm practice, stagnation of academic programs to respond to leading edge industry initiatives, as well as ill-defined boundaries for farm management research were identified. The analysis indicated that formal educational models, research and extension-consultancy frameworks of an holistic nature, and a multiple bottom line perspective, were appropriate avenues for the future development of farm management practice and research. Workshop participants perceived that a farm management strand emphasising business management rather than technology could be a better educational model. Also there was an emphasis in highlighting the importance of linked development and partnership amongst the different players. The Workshop created the conditions for development of networks among industry, education and consultative research.
Farm Specific Control of the Introduction and Spread of Salmonella at Finishing Pig Farms
Creators: name: Van Der Gaag, M.A.
name: Enting, J.
name: Mul, Monique F.
name: Van Der Gaag, M.A.
name: Enting, J.
name: Mul, Monique F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: In The Netherlands, a system to control the prevalence of Salmonella in the pork supply chain is under development by the Product Boards of Livestock, Meat and Eggs. Therefore, the Animal Sciences Group-Applied Research has developed a tool to support pig-finishing farms to control Salmonella. This tool contains eight checklists. The checklists are based on the principles of the HACCP methodology. Important hazards and control measures were determined. Each checklist deals with a part of the farm procedures; supply of water, piglets, pelleted feed, cereals, roughage, liquid co-products and hygiene and daily management. By means of the developed tool, farm specific control measures to reduce the introduction and spread of Salmonella can easily be identified by the farmer. The effectiveness and practical feasibility of the checklists are determined by implementing advised measures during eight months at three finishing farms. These farms had a high Salmonella prevalence in august 2001. The finishing pigs were tested bacteriologically and serologically every three months. At the end of the testing period, the farmers completed an evaluation form to get insight in the farmers' opinion of the checklists. The farmers indicated the checklists are user-friendly, complete and recommendable to other pig farmers. The measures that were advised after completing the checklists were mostly general in nature. At one farm the percentage of positive samples decreased. The other two farms had only a few positive samples during the entire research period. To maximise the benefit of the checklists, the checklists should be completed along with a farm adviser or veterinarian.
Effect of strong magnetic field on surface electric field of strange stars
Creators: name: Xiaoping, Zheng
name: Yunwei, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We made a detailed study of the properties of the electron layer near the quark surface of strange stars with strong ($\sim 10^{14}-10^{17}$G) magnetic fields. The electrostatic potential and the electric field at the quark surface were calculated as functions of the magnetic field intensity of bare strange stars. Using an ultrastrong ($B\geq 2.5\times10^{16}$G) magnetic field, we found that the distribution of electrons becomes an exponential function of radial distance, which is quite different in a magnetic field-free case. We also calculated the variation in gap width between the strange core and the normal nuclear crust for strange stars, which is due to magnetic field effect.
description: 6pages,6figures. Acceptance for publication in Astron. & Astrophys. 2005
On the Learnability of Concepts: With Applications to Comparing Word Embedding Algorithms
Creators: name: Sutton, Adam
name: Cristianini, Nello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Word Embeddings are used widely in multiple Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. They are coordinates associated with each word in a dictionary, inferred from statistical properties of these words in a large corpus. In this paper we introduce the notion of "concept" as a list of words that have shared semantic content. We use this notion to analyse the learnability of certain concepts, defined as the capability of a classifier to recognise unseen members of a concept after training on a random subset of it. We first use this method to measure the learnability of concepts on pretrained word embeddings. We then develop a statistical analysis of concept learnability, based on hypothesis testing and ROC curves, in order to compare the relative merits of various embedding algorithms using a fixed corpora and hyper parameters. We find that all embedding methods capture the semantic content of those word lists, but fastText performs better than the others.
description: 7 Pages. AIAI 2020. 5 equations 6 tables
Additional file 7 of Differences between predicted outer membrane proteins of genotype 1 and 2 Mannheimia haemolytica
Creators: name: Clawson, Michael L.
name: Gennie Schuller
name: Dickey, Aaron M.
name: Bono, James L.
name: Murray, Robert W.
name: Sweeney, Michael T.
name: Apley, Michael D.
name: DeDonder, Keith D.
name: Capik, Sarah F.
name: Larson, Robert L.
name: Lubbers, Brian V.
name: White, Brad J.
name: Blom, Jochen
name: Chitko-McKown, Carol G.
name: Brichta-Harhay, Dayna M.
name: Smith, Timothy P. L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Figure S2. Alignment of all detected isoforms of the peptidase S6 gene specific to genotype 2 M. haemolytica and those encoded by a homologous pseudogene in genotype 1 M. haemolytica. The alignment shows all five isoforms of the peptidase S6 specific to genotype 2 M. haemolytica that were detected, and all four of the peptidase S6 homologs in genotype 1 M. haemolytica which all contained a premature stop codon. Isoform numbers in this figure correspond to the isoform numbers listed in Additional file 1: Table S1. *184 iso 1 is an abbreviation for USDA-ARS-USMARC-184 isoform 1. Areas of 51% chemical identity or greater are indicated with grey boxes.
Nonexistence of Petrov type III Space-Times on which Weyl's Neutrino Equation or Maxwell's Equations satisfy Huygens' Principle
Creators: name: McLenaghan, R. G.
name: Sasse, F. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35L05, 35L15

description: Extending previous results we show that there are no Petrov type III space-times on which either the Weyl neutrino equation or Maxwell's equations satisfy Huygens' principle. We prove the result by using Maple's NPspinor package to convert the five-index necessary condition obtained by Alvarez and Wunsch to dyad form. The integrability conditions of the problem lead to a system of polynomial equations. We then apply Maple's grobner package to show that this system has no admissible solutions.
description: 14 pages
A Lagrangian Piunikhin-Salamon-Schwarz morphism and two comparison homomorphisms in Floer homology
Creators: name: Albers, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D40, 53D12, 57R17, 37J05

description: In this article we address two issues. First, we explore to what extent the techniques of Piunikhin, Salamon and Schwarz in [PSS96] can be carried over to Lagrangian Floer homology. In [PSS96] an isomorphism between Hamiltonian Floer homology and the singular homology is established. In contrast, Lagrangian Floer homology is not isomorphic to the singular homology of the Lagrangian submanifold, in general. Depending on the minimal Maslov number, we construct for certain degrees two homomorphisms between Lagrangian Floer homology and singular homology. In degrees where both maps are defined we prove them to be isomorphisms. Examples show that this statement is sharp. Second, we construct two comparison homomorphisms between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Floer homology. They underly no degree restrictions and are proven to be the natural analogs to the homomorphisms in singular homology induced by the inclusion map of the Lagrangian submanifold into the ambient symplectic manifold.
description: 41 pages, 14 figures. v2: major revision, v3: included detailed transversality proofs. accepted by IMRN
Advanced Time Series Forecasting Using Tableau
Creators: name: MANI, Saravanan
name: KUMAR, Subashini
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The document demonstrates the practical applications of Tableau's advanced Predictive analytics using python for Time series dataset. The document also addresses the challenges organizations may face in implementing advanced analytics, emphasizing the importance of data quality, skilled analysts, and ethical considerations in predictive modelling.
title: Capital Flows to Developing Countries: Is There an Allocation Puzzle?
Creators: name: Schroth, Josef
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2016

description: Foreign direct investment inflows are positively related to growth across developing countries—but so are savings in excess of investment. I develop an explanation for this well-established puzzle by focusing on the limited availability of consumer credit in developing countries together with general equilibrium effects. In my model, fast-growing developing countries increase their holdings of safe assets, which creates net capital outflows despite inflows of foreign direct investment. The world risk-free interest rate falls as a result, and slow-growing developing countries reduce their holdings of safe assets, which creates net capital inflows despite outflows of foreign direct investment.
description: Les flux entrants d’investissements directs étrangers (IDE) présentent une relation positive avec la croissance dans l’ensemble des pays en développement – tout comme l’excédent de l’épargne sur les investissements. Pour expliquer cette énigme bien connue, je m’intéresse au rôle joué par l’accès limité au crédit à la consommation dans les pays en développement ainsi qu’aux effets d’équilibre général. Dans mon modèle, les pays en développement à forte croissance accumulent des actifs sûrs, ce qui crée des sorties nettes de capitaux, malgré les flux entrants d’IDE. Le taux d’intérêt sans risque mondial baisse en conséquence, et la détention d’actifs sûrs diminue dans les pays en développement à faible croissance, ce qui se traduit par des entrées nettes de capitaux, en dépit des flux sortants d’IDE.
Diversification in the Sugar Industry: The Grower's Perspective in Central Queensland, Australia
Creators: name: Windle, Jill
name: Rolfe, John
name: Windle, Jill
name: Rolfe, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The future viability of the sugar industry has been questioned in several major reports. It is generally agreed that the industry will have to undergo some changes. One of the key issues in the most comprehensive of these reports, the Hildebrand report (Hildebrand 2002), is the need to improve economic efficiency in the industry. At the grower level, the report considers many farms to be economically unviable and advocates the need to increase farm size to achieve better economies of scale. Some growers will not be able to expand and a more viable economic option might be to diversify farm enterprise income. Generally, the main advice farmers receive about alternative crops is based on gross margins, but there are other components of crop diversification which may influence growers' decisions, eg, changes in management effort required or changes in the level of risk associated with a new crop. This paper outlines a study that used the Choice Modelling technique to explore the trade-offs growers make between different components of diversification, when deciding on possible diversification options. The influence of socio-economic characteristics on choice is also explored.
I-BiDaaS - D5.6: Big-Data-as-a-Self-Service Test and Integration Report v3
Creators: name: Vassilis Chatzigiannakis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The current deliverable presents the final version of the Big-Data-as-a-Self-Service Test and Integration Report. The work gives important perception towards the release of the envisioned I-BiDaaS solution, ensuring a smooth and effective integration of the separate I-BiDaaS components. It also presents the revised integration plan, which details how and when the individual technical elements of the I-BiDaaS solution are adapted and integrated in a common solution.
Coherence length of an elongated condensate: a study by matter-wave interferometry
Creators: name: Hugbart, Mathilde
name: Retter, Jocelyn
name: Gerbier, Fabrice
name: Varon, Andres
name: Richard, Simon
name: Thywissen, Joseph
name: Clement, David
name: Bouyer, Philippe
name: Aspect, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the spatial correlation function of Bose-Einstein condensates in the cross-over region between phase-coherent and strongly phase-fluctuating condensates. We observe the continuous path from a gaussian-like shape to an exponential-like shape characteristic of one-dimensional phase-fluctuations. The width of the spatial correlation function as a function of the temperature shows that the condensate coherence length undergoes no sharp transition between these two regimes.
description: 8 pages, 6 figure, submitted to EPJD
Evolution of galaxies in groups in the Coma Supercluster
Creators: name: Seth, Ruchika
name: Raychaudhury, Somak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We take a close look at the galaxies in the Coma Supercluster and assess the role of the environment (in the form of cluster, group and supercluster filament) in their evolution, in particular examining the role of groups. We characterise the groups according to intrinsic properties such as richness and halo mass, as well as their position in the supercluster and proximity to the two rich clusters, Abell 1656 (Coma) and Abell 1367. We devise a new way of characterising the local environment using a kernel density estimator. We find that apart from the dominant effects of the galaxy mass, the effect of the environment on galaxies is a complex combination of the overdensities on various scales, which is characterised in terms of membership of groups, and also of the position of the galaxy on filaments and their proximity to the infall regions of clusters. Whether the gas can be turned into stars depends upon the level of pre-processing, which plays a role in how star formation is enhanced in a given environment. Our results are consistent with gas accreted in the cold mode from the filaments, being made available to enhance star formation. Finally, we show that the Abell~1367 end of the supercluster is in the process of assembly at present, leading to heightened star formation activity, in contrast with the Coma-end of the filament system.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 6 of Differences between predicted outer membrane proteins of genotype 1 and 2 Mannheimia haemolytica
Creators: name: Clawson, Michael L.
name: Gennie Schuller
name: Dickey, Aaron M.
name: Bono, James L.
name: Murray, Robert W.
name: Sweeney, Michael T.
name: Apley, Michael D.
name: DeDonder, Keith D.
name: Capik, Sarah F.
name: Larson, Robert L.
name: Lubbers, Brian V.
name: White, Brad J.
name: Blom, Jochen
name: Chitko-McKown, Carol G.
name: Brichta-Harhay, Dayna M.
name: Smith, Timothy P. L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Figure S1. Alignment of genotypes 1 and 2 peptidase S6 and S6 family IgA-specific metalloendopeptidase gene and pseudogene encoded proteins. Represented in the alignment are four peptidase S6 proteins from five genotype 1 strains that are each of a different subtype, two peptidase S6 proteins from four genotype 2 strains that are each of a different subtype, and two proteins from the same four genotype 2 strains that originated from genes annotated as S6 family IgA-specific metalloendopeptidase proteins. Areas of 51% chemical identity or greater are indicated with grey boxes within the alignment. The peptidase S6 proteins originating from a gene flagged for specificity to genotype 2 M. haemolytica by EDGAR software is annotated as “Genotype 2 specific*”. The most closely related genotype 1 protein to the genotype 2 specific peptidase S6, encoded by a pseudogene, is annotated within the alignment. Regarding the closely related genotype 1 protein, the end of the peptide, which does not contain a corresponding gene sequence stop codon, is denoted with an arrow in the alignment. Extended translation to a stop codon is shown with sequence above the alignment.
An LP-Model to Analyse Economic and Ecological Sustainability in Dutch Dairy Farming
Creators: name: Van Calker, Klaas Jan
name: Berentsen, Paul B.M.
name: De Boer, Imke J.M.
name: Giesen, G.W.J.
name: Huirne, Ruud B.M.
name: Van Calker, Klaas Jan
name: Berentsen, Paul B.M.
name: De Boer, Imke J.M.
name: Giesen, G.W.J.
name: Huirne, Ruud B.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Livestock Production/Industries

description: Since the enactment of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, owners and operators of farms and ranches have opportunities to evaluate new estate planning strategies for the transfer of farm businesses to subsequent generations. However, with provisions of the Act to be phased in over several years, consideration must be given to having a "staged" estate plan. Under provisions of the current law, estate tax is repealed in the year 2010, but if Congress does not act, the legislation sunsets and returns to prior law January 1, 2011. This fact provides planning challenges for owners and operators of farms and ranches as the phase-in of provisions, the repeal in 2010, and the return to prior law relative to estate planning and business inter-generational transfer of property. This paper investigates the planning process and options available as they relate to a family-owned property in North Carolina, USA. Plans made must take into consideration the dynamics of a changing legislative environment, special-use valuation of land, opportunity cost of alternative uses for land, and off-farm heirs.
Magnetohydrodynamics in full general relativity: Formulation and tests
Creators: name: Shibata, Masaru
name: Sekiguchi, Yu-ichiou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new implementation for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations in full general relativity (involving dynamical spacetimes) is presented. In our implementation, Einstein's evolution equations are evolved by a BSSN formalism, MHD equations by a high-resolution central scheme, and induction equation by a constraint transport method. We perform numerical simulations for standard test problems in relativistic MHD, including special relativistic magnetized shocks, general relativistic magnetized Bondi flow in stationary spacetime, and a longterm evolution for self-gravitating system composed of a neutron star and a magnetized disk in full general relativity. In the final test, we illustrate that our implementation can follow winding-up of the magnetic field lines of magnetized and differentially rotating accretion disks around a compact object until saturation, after which magnetically driven wind and angular momentum transport inside the disk turn on.
description: 28 pages, to be published in Phys. Rev. D
Farm Investments: Alternative Ownership Structures that Address the Liquidity versus Profitability Conundrum
Creators: name: Shadbolt, Nicola M.
name: Gardner, John W.G.
name: Shadbolt, Nicola M.
name: Gardner, John W.G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Investing in farmland is fraught with conflicting signals. Oltmans (2001) concludes that while investing in land may generally be profitable it is seldom, if ever, feasible on a cash flow basis. He argues that the non-depreciable nature of land and long-term capital gains are incompatible with the capital recovery terms sought by investors and lenders. He also notes that literature on this subject tends to focus on either the returns (profitability) or the cash flow (feasibility) but not on both simultaneously. To assist in the debate it is helpful to split the farm into two businesses that are often, but not necessarily, linked - the property business, where success is measured by changes in asset values over time and is driven by smart purchase and sale decisions, and the farming business, where success reflects effective and efficient sustainable operation of the resource base. By determining the profitability, liquidity and wealth creation for three ownership structures (land leasing, sharefarming, equity partnerships) from the perspective of both the farming entity and the passive investor (property owner or non-managing equity partner) it is possible to identify for each player the measures most relevant to their expectations from the investment and the factors which most influence them. If the assets of the property business and the farming business are owned by different parties there is no need for an aggregate measure of business performance. The challenge is to determine 'fair' returns to each player; is profit, cash flow or wealth creation criteria the basis for such a comparison? For the property business investors the opportunity cost of capital comes from the farming 'rent' and what they believe the property business will deliver over time (many expect at the very least an inflation proof investment). The opportunity cost of capital for the farming business investors must allow for depreciating assets. Historically the property business has out performed the farming business although its returns have been three times as volatile as farming returns (Nartea and Basanta(1998), Brown (1999)).
HiFLEx -- a highly flexible package to reduce cross-dispersed echelle spectra
Creators: name: Errmann, Ronny
name: Cook, Neil
name: Anglada-Escudé, Guillem
name: Sithajan, Sirinrat
name: Mkrtichia, David
name: Semenko, Eugene
name: Martin, William
name: Tanvir, Tabassum S.
name: Feng, Fabo
name: Collett, James L.
name: Jones, Hugh R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a flexible data reduction package for high resolution cross-dispersed echelle data. This open-source package is developed in Python and includes optional GUIs for most of the steps. It does not require any pre-knowledge about the form or position of the echelle-orders. It has been tested on cross-dispersed echelle spectrographs between 13k and 115k resolution (bifurcated fiber-fed spectrogaph ESO-HARPS and single fiber-fed spectrograph TNT-MRES). HiFLEx can be used to determine radial velocities and is designed to use the TERRA package but can also control the radial velocity packages such as CERES and SERVAL to perform the radial velocity analysis. Tests on HARPS data indicates radial velocities results within 3m/s of the literature pipelines without any fine tuning of extraction parameters.
La Gloire des Rois, ou l'Histoire de Salomon et de la reine de Saba
Creators: name: Kropp, Manfred
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 92 (2008): Oriens christianus, Band 92
The socialist minority and the Paris Commune of 1871 : a unique episode in the history of class struggles
Creators: name: Nickel, Peter Lee Thomson
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The Paris Commune of 1871 lasted only seventy-two days. Yet, hundreds of historians continue to revisit this complex event. The initial association of the 1871 Commune with the first modern socialist government in the world has fuelled enduring ideological debates. However, most historians past and present have fallen into the trap of assessing the Paris Commune by foreign ideological constructs. During the Cold War, leftist and conservative historians alike overlooked important socialist measures discussed and implemented by this firstever predominantly working-class government. Communard initiatives are viewed as having failed to live up to 'proper' definitions of Soviet socialism. In my own thesis, I argue that a specific group within the Commune—the minority—did in fact legislate and discuss many important socialist initiatives in the realm of finances, culture and women's issues. Breaking from earlier elite Utopian forms of nineteenth century French socialism, and building on the anarchist theories of Proudhon, the minorite were able to bridge the gap between labour militancy and political representation. Through the newly created International Working Men's Association, working class Parisians united, promoted and elected twenty-two socialist candidates to the Commune of 1871. This investigation aims to penetrate the socialist vision of this minorite faction within the Commune. The socialism of the minorite must be understood as a direct response to class antagonisms created from economic hardships and municipal disenfranchisement experienced by the Parisian poor under the Second Empire. Many important primary sources including memoirs of key participants, parliamentary records and contemporary journalists' reports were consulted in order to provide a detailed analysis of the unique and culturally distinct socialist programme undertaken by the minorite in 1871.
Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Farms from Three Different Brazilian Regions
Creators: name: Peres, Fernando Curi
name: De Zen, Sergio
name: Ambrosio, Luis Alberto
name: Ichihara, Silvio M.
name: Peres, Fernando Curi
name: De Zen, Sergio
name: Ambrosio, Luis Alberto
name: Ichihara, Silvio M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Farm Management

description: Using the technique of "panels" farms were drawn as representatives from three regions of Brazil: the first was a medium size farm representing the grain production area of Northern Rio Grande do Sul State; the second, a large farm from the grain and livestock production area of Mato Grosso State; the third, a very large farm from the Amazonian livestock production area of Para State. The long-term cost of production was estimated and the yearly average net income was evaluated for each typical farm. An "energy" evaluation table, prepared according to procedures described by Odum (1996), was used to estimate each farm process of incorporating energy into its production as a way to evaluate the sustainability of the farms systems. A four quadrant reference system, based on the average measurements for each vector - environmental accounting and net farm income - allowed the plotting of the three farms on the designed quadrants. The null hypothesis indicates that sustainable farms must be plotted on the southwest and on the northeast quadrants. The presence of farms on either of the two non-expected quadrants, the northwest and the southeast, poses long term problems of sustainability and indicates that new development policies are required.
Dust obscuration of DLA galaxies
Creators: name: Vladilo, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the extinction of quasar absorbers increases exponentially with the logarithmic column density of any volatile metal (e.g. zinc), with a charateristic turning point above which the quasars are severely dimmed. We derive the relation between extinction, HI column density, metallicity and fraction of iron in dust in Damped Lyman alpha (DLA) systems. We use this relation to estimate the effect of dust obscuration on the statistical distributions of N(HI) and metallicity measured in magnitude-limited surveys of DLAs. In the redshift range where the measurements of zinc column densities have sufficient statistics (1.8 = z = 3) we find that the obscuration bias affects the shapes of the observed distributions. The metallicity distribution is particularly affected by the bias, which hampers the detection of DLA galaxies with near solar metallicity. Our results perfectly reproduce, without tuning the dust parameters, the DLA observational threshold log N(ZnII) ~ 13.15 found by Boisse' and collaborators in 1998, in terms of a rapid rise of the obscuration. Our predictions of the effects of the bias on the statistics of DLAs are consistent with observational results obtained from unbiased surveys of radio-selected quasars.
description: To appear in "Probing Galaxies through Quasar Absorption Lines", Proc. IAU Coll.No.199, 2005, eds. P.R.Williams, C.Shu, and B.Menard, 6 pages, 4 figures
Comparing Profitability and Cash Flows of Agroforestry and Agriculture on Australian Farms
Creators: name: Abadi, Amir
name: Abadi, Amir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This paper is a summary of a project that compared the relative profitability of existing, emerging and prospective agroforestry systems with profitability of conventional agricultural land uses in the cropping zones of Western Australia and New South Wales. The project explored the economic boundary conditions under which several promising agroforestry systems may be viable in the lower rainfall zones. Partial budgeting and discounted cash flow techniques were used to conduct the comparative analysis of alternative land use scenarios. The profitability, cash flows and debt associated with each of the scenario are reported. The analysis underpinning this research provides estimates of the economic value of the temporal and spatial interaction effects of trees on agricultural crops and pastures.
title: Der Warschauer Aufstand 1944 / Artikeltext und Sprechtext: Christoph Kuhl ; Sprecher: Daniel Constantin Felouzis
Creators: name: Kuhl, Christoph
Publisher: name: ZMSBw
Year: 2024

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Literaturverzeichnis Seite 156. - ISBN 978-3-15-011483-4

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description: Angelesen. : das Buchjournal des ZMSBw / Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr; 105
Tenure Insecurity, Transaction Costs in the Land Lease Market and their Implications for Gendered Productivity Differentials
Creators: name: Holden, Stein T.
name: Bezabih, Mintewab
name: Holden, Stein T.
name: Bezabih, Mintewab
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: productivity
subject: female headed households
subject: contract length
subject: enforcement ability

description: This study sets out to assess the link between land leasing behavior and productivity differentials between male and female-headed households. A double-moral hazard model allows us to show that landlord's tenure insecurity leads to sub-optimal level of effort on tenant's part, via its impact on the likelihood of contract renewal. The landlord's enforcement ability is also shown to increase the optimal level of effort. The empirical findings support the hypothesis that female heads of households have higher tenant turnover and lower enforcement ability. The results, however, show that contract renewal is not strongly linked to productivity.
Wechsler, Michael G.: Evangelium Iohannis Aethiopicum
Creators: name: Wehrle, Josef
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 92 (2008): Oriens christianus, Band 92
title: Supervising Financial Regulators
Creators: name: Schroth, Josef
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2016

description: How much discretion should local financial regulators in a banking union have in accommodating local credit demand? I analyze this question in an economy where local regulators privately observe expected output from high lending. They do not fully internalize default costs from high lending since deposit insurance cannot be priced fairly. Still, output net of default costs across the banking union is highest when local regulators are rewarded rather than punished. Regulators with lower current lending receive more discretion to allow higher lending in the future, but regulators with higher current lending may not experience any limit to their discretion.
description: Quelle latitude les autorités prudentielles nationales devraient avoir dans une union bancaire pour répondre à la demande de crédit sur leur territoire? Pour analyser cette question, nous utilisons un modèle dans lequel les autorités prudentielles nationales sont seules en mesure d’observer le rendement attendu de la forte activité des prêteurs. Puisque l’assurance dépôt ne peut être tarifée de façon équitable, les autorités ne supportent pas l’intégralité des coûts de défaillance associés à la forte activité des prêteurs. Pour autant, le rendement net obtenu au sein de l’union bancaire, déduction faite des coûts de défaillance, est au plus haut quand l’autorité supranationale tend davantage à récompenser les autorités prudentielles qu’à les pénaliser. Les autorités prudentielles qui réduisent l’activité des prêteurs se voient donner plus de latitude afin de favoriser une hausse des volumes du crédit. Dans les territoires où l’activité des prêteurs s’accroît, les autorités prudentielles pourraient toutefois ne pas être soumises à des restrictions dans l’exercice de leur discrétion.
From Spatial Relations to Spatial Configurations
Creators: name: Dan, Soham
name: Kordjamshidi, Parisa
name: Bonn, Julia
name: Bhatia, Archna
name: Cai, Jon
name: Palmer, Martha
name: Roth, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Spatial Reasoning from language is essential for natural language understanding. Supporting it requires a representation scheme that can capture spatial phenomena encountered in language as well as in images and videos. Existing spatial representations are not sufficient for describing spatial configurations used in complex tasks. This paper extends the capabilities of existing spatial representation languages and increases coverage of the semantic aspects that are needed to ground the spatial meaning of natural language text in the world. Our spatial relation language is able to represent a large, comprehensive set of spatial concepts crucial for reasoning and is designed to support the composition of static and dynamic spatial configurations. We integrate this language with the Abstract Meaning Representation(AMR) annotation schema and present a corpus annotated by this extended AMR. To exhibit the applicability of our representation scheme, we annotate text taken from diverse datasets and show how we extend the capabilities of existing spatial representation languages with the fine-grained decomposition of semantics and blend it seamlessly with AMRs of sentences and discourse representations as a whole.
title: Fragility of Resale Markets for Securitized Assets and Policy of Asset Purchases
Creators: name: Kuncl, Martin
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2016

description: Markets for securitized assets were characterized by high liquidity prior to the recent financial crisis and by a sudden market dry-up at the onset of the crisis. A general equilibrium model with heterogeneous investment opportunities and information frictions predicts that, in boom periods or mild recessions, the degree of adverse selection in resale markets for securitized assets is limited because of the reputation-based guarantees by asset originators. This supports investment and output. However, in a deep recession, characterized by high dispersion of asset qualities, there is a sudden surge in adverse selection due to an economy-wide default on reputation-based guarantees, which persistently depresses the output in the economy. Government policy of asset purchases limits the negative effects of adverse selection on the real economy, but may create a negative moral hazard problem.
description: Les marchés des actifs titrisés ont été marqués par un degré élevé de liquidité avant la récente crise financière et par un assèchement soudain de la liquidité au déclenchement de la crise. Un modèle d’équilibre général intégrant des possibilités d’investissement hétérogènes et une diffusion imparfaite de l’information prévoit un degré d’antisélection restreint dans les marchés de la revente d’actifs titrisés en périodes de forte expansion ou de légère récession, en raison des garanties fondées sur la réputation des initiateurs de ces actifs. Cette situation favorise les investissements et la production. Cependant, en période de profonde récession, caractérisée par la forte dispersion de la qualité des actifs, une recrudescence soudaine de l’antisélection s’observe, imputable à une défaillance généralisée des garanties fondées sur la réputation des initiateurs, et entraîne une diminution persistante de la production. Les politiques publiques d’achat d’actifs limitent les effets négatifs de l’antisélection sur l’économie réelle; toutefois, elles peuvent engendrer un problème d’aléa moral.
Quality Premiums and the Post-Harvest Spot Market Thinness: The Case of U.S. Peanuts
Creators: name: Nadolnyak, Denis A.
name: Fletcher, Stanley M.
name: Nadolnyak, Denis A.
name: Fletcher, Stanley M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: contracts
subject: tournaments
subject: efficiency
subject: cash markets
subject: peanuts

description: In the paper, we analyze two issues that are important in the U.S. peanut markets: the absence of explicit quality premiums in the crop contracts, and the thinness of the postharvest cash/spot markets, which obstructs the operation of current production support policies. We argue that introduction of quality differentials in the form of either fixed premium or rank-order tournament contracts may kill two birds with one stone by increasing the spot market turnover and providing incentives for increasing crop quality. In addition, this arrangement is likely to reduce the costs of the federal support programs.
The relationship between temperament, moral injury appraisals, and PTSD symptoms
Creators: name: Adams, Delaney
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Temperament
moral injury
PTSD symptoms
PTSD
Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory
RST
behavioral activation system
BAS

description: Objective. Moral injury is a new stressor-related syndrome that stems from “the lasting psychological, biological, spiritual, behavioral, and social impact of perpetuating, failing to prevent, or bearing witness to acts that transgress deeply held moral beliefs and expectations” (Litz et al., 2009, p.697). Although Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) research has demonstrated connections between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the behavioral inhibition system (BIS), and behavioral activation system (BAS), there is currently no research examining the relationships of these motivational systems and moral injury appraisals, associated affective states, and specific PTSD symptoms. This study examined the moderating effects of RST temperament systems on moral injury appraisals of blame, PTSD symptoms, trauma-related guilt cognitions, shame, and anger. Method. Participants were 232 Washington State University undergraduate students who completed measures of demographics, RST temperament systems, PTSD symptoms, trauma-related guilt, trauma-related shame, and trauma-related anger from January 2024 to July 2024. Analyses were conducted using Hayes’ PROCESS macro for SPSS.
description: Results. Results indicated a significant moderating effect of BIS and BAS in predicting moral injury appraisals of self-blame, trauma-related guilt cognitions, and trauma-related shame. This effect demonstrated that high BIS temperaments predicted more moral injury appraisals of self-blame, trauma-related guilt cognitions, and trauma-related shame but only at higher levels of BAS. Conclusions. These findings indicate that the relationship between BIS, moral injury appraisals, trauma-related guilt cognitions, and trauma-related shame is contingent upon an individual’s level of BAS, but that this is not the case for appraisals of other-blame, PTSD symptoms, or trauma-related anger. Future studies should consider the importance of examining both RST temperament systems when considering moral injury appraisals and trauma symptoms.
GPIRT: A Gaussian Process Model for Item Response Theory
Creators: name: Duck-Mayr, JBrandon
name: Garnett, Roman
name: Montgomery, Jacob M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The goal of item response theoretic (IRT) models is to provide estimates of latent traits from binary observed indicators and at the same time to learn the item response functions (IRFs) that map from latent trait to observed response. However, in many cases observed behavior can deviate significantly from the parametric assumptions of traditional IRT models. Nonparametric IRT models overcome these challenges by relaxing assumptions about the form of the IRFs, but standard tools are unable to simultaneously estimate flexible IRFs and recover ability estimates for respondents. We propose a Bayesian nonparametric model that solves this problem by placing Gaussian process priors on the latent functions defining the IRFs. This allows us to simultaneously relax assumptions about the shape of the IRFs while preserving the ability to estimate latent traits. This in turn allows us to easily extend the model to further tasks such as active learning. GPIRT therefore provides a simple and intuitive solution to several longstanding problems in the IRT literature.
An Investigation of Significant Factors Influencing Western Australian Wool Producers to Produce Wool: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach
Creators: name: Quaddus, Mohammed
name: Islam, Nazrul
name: Stanton, John
name: Quaddus, Mohammed
name: Islam, Nazrul
name: Stanton, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Why Australian wool producers remained in the business despite the hardship they have experienced for much of the 1990s from low prices of wool? This question was raised frequently by research scientists and policymakers of the wool industry. A recent exploratory study gives a notion that Australian wool production could be a 'lifestyle' choice and/or a choice other than economic reasons. To validate this notion this paper investigates the factors that drive and motivate the Western Australian wool producers, as identified in the exploratory study, by applying a Structural Equation Modelling approach. An innovative mixed research method is adopted in this study. Telephone survey is conducted among a random selection of 290 wool producers in WA. The results suggest that despite some expectations lifestyle factor is not significant in influencing WA wool producers to produce wool. Income, input factor and personal motivation are significant predictors of wool production by WA wool producers. Implications of the results are discussed.
The One-Loop Effective Action in phi^4 Theory Coupled Non-Linearly with Curvature Power and Dynamical Origin of Cosmological Constant
Creators: name: Inagaki, T.
name: Nojiri, S.
name: Odintsov, S. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The functional formulation and one-loop effective action for scalar self-interacting theory non-linearly coupled with some power of the curvature are studied. After the explicit one-loop renormalization at weak curvature, we investigated numerically the phase structure for such unusual phi^4 theory. It is demonstrated the possibility of curvature-induced phase transitions for positive values of the curvature power, while for negative values the radiative symmetry breaking does not take place. The dynamical mechanism for the explanation of the current smallness of the cosmological constant is presented for several models from the class of theories under consideration.
description: 25 pages, 20 eps figures, use iopart.cls; minor corrections, references added, to appear in JCAP