cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Impact of bulky manures and fermented liquid formulations in enhancing the quality parameters of sweet pepper
Creators: name: Brar, Perminder Singh
name: Bhardwaj, Gitika
name: Kaushal, Rajesh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Indigenous fermented liquid formulations (Panchagavya, Jeevamrut and Amritpani) are rich sources of beneficial microflora and fauna, vitamins, minerals and growth-promoting hormones. Small and marginal farmers of North-West Himalayan region popularly grow sweet pepper as commercial crop. Poultry manure and vermicompost are two cheap nutrient sources, popular among these growers. So, inorder to investigate the combined effect of these organic inputs, two-year field experiment with seven treatments and three replications; with randomized block design; comprised of 100, 90, 80, 70, 60, 50, 40 per cent recommended dose of nutrients (RDN) which was applied through vermicompost and poultry manure along with Panchagavya (5%), Jeevamrut (5%), Amritpani (5%) and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria which was isolated from experimental location, applied to all treatments, except T1; was carried out to study the response of these inputs on quality parameters of sweet pepper. Results revealed that treatment T2 that comprised of 90% RDN including Panchagavya, Jeevamrut, Amritpani and PGPR led to noticeably improvement in growth and quality parameters viz. chlorophyll-a (0.52 mg g−1), chlorophyll-b (0.73 mg g−1), ascorbic acid (29.47 mg 100 g−1), protein content (28.90%), capsaicin content (0.23 mg g−1), number of primary branches (8.20), average fruit weight (62 g), fruit yield (290.58 quintals ha−1), number of flowers per plant (24.97), leaf area index (4.73) and shelf life (6.03 days). Hence, it is concluded that the combined use of these inputs has the potential to enhance growth and quality characteristics of sweet pepper in achieving sustainable crop productivity.
Billiards, invariant measures, and equilibrium thermodynamics. II
Creators: name: Kozlov, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The kinetics of collisionless continuous medium is studied in a bounded region on a curved manifold. We have assumed that in statistical equilibrium, the probability distribution density depends only on the total energy. It is shown that in this case, all the fundamental relations for a multi-dimensional ideal gas in thermal equilibrium hold true.
description: 10 pages
Regional Trade and the Economic Development of Northern Mozambique
Creators: name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Tschirley, David L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Mozambique
subject: economic development

description: Production potential in Mozambique, based on the reliability of rainfall and fertility of soils, is much greater north of the Zambezi than south of it. This fact is reflected in the regularly higher yields obtained in the central and northern regions of the country than in the south, despite all three regions primarily using production systems with no purchased inputs; and by the fact that central Zambezia and areas north of it were little affected by the 1992 drought, which devastated the rest of the country and the Southern African region as a whole. Nonetheless, this agro-climatically favored zone also suffers from geographical and infrastructural characteristics which to date have made it very difficult for the region to develop its production potential.
description: Resultados das investigações do Projecto de Segurança Alimentar em Moçambique MAP-Direcção de Economía
Algumas Reflexões sobre a Pobreza e as Perspectivas para o Crescimento do Sector Rural de Moçambique
Creators: name: De Marrule, Higino Francisco
name: Benfica, Rui M.S.
name: Strasberg, Paul J.
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Weber, Michael T.
name: De Marrule, Higino Francisco
name: Benfica, Rui M.S.
name: Strasberg, Paul J.
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Weber, Michael T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Mozambique

description: Resultados das investigações do Projecto de Segurança Alimentar em Moçambique MAP-Direcção de Economía
Large basis ab initio shell model investigation of 9-Be and 11-Be
Creators: name: Forssen, C.
name: Navratil, P.
name: Ormand, W. E.
name: Caurier, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We are presenting the first ab initio structure investigation of the loosely bound 11-Be nucleus, together with a study of the lighter isotope 9-Be. The nuclear structure of these isotopes is particularly interesting due to the appearance of a parity-inverted ground state in 11-Be. Our study is performed in the framework of the ab initio no-core shell model. Results obtained using four different, high-precision two-nucleon interactions, in model spaces up to 9\hbarΩ, are shown. For both nuclei, and all potentials, we reach convergence in the level ordering of positive- and negative-parity spectra separately. Concerning their relative position, the positive-parity states are always too high in excitation energy, but a fast drop with respect to the negative-parity spectrum is observed when the model space is increased. This behavior is most dramatic for 11-Be. In the largest model space we were able to reach, the 1/2+ level has dropped down to become either the first or the second excited state, depending on which interaction we use. We also observe a contrasting behavior in the convergence patterns for different two-nucleon potentials, and argue that a three-nucleon interaction is needed to explain the parity inversion. Furthermore, large-basis calculations of 13-C and 11-B are performed. This allows us to study the systematics of the position of the first unnatural-parity state in the N=7 isotone and the A=11 isobar. The 11-B run in the 9\hbarΩmodel space involves a matrix with dimension exceeding 1.1 x 10^9, and is our largest calculation so far. We present results on binding energies, excitation spectra, level configurations, radii, electromagnetic observables, and 10-Be+n overlap functions.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures To be published in Phys. Rev. C Resubmitted version. Minor changes
Faster Wasserstein Distance Estimation with the Sinkhorn Divergence
Creators: name: Chizat, Lenaic
name: Roussillon, Pierre
name: Léger, Flavien
name: Vialard, François-Xavier
name: Peyré, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The squared Wasserstein distance is a natural quantity to compare probability distributions in a non-parametric setting. This quantity is usually estimated with the plug-in estimator, defined via a discrete optimal transport problem which can be solved to $ε$-accuracy by adding an entropic regularization of order $ε$ and using for instance Sinkhorn's algorithm. In this work, we propose instead to estimate it with the Sinkhorn divergence, which is also built on entropic regularization but includes debiasing terms. We show that, for smooth densities, this estimator has a comparable sample complexity but allows higher regularization levels, of order $ε^{1/2}$, which leads to improved computational complexity bounds and a strong speedup in practice. Our theoretical analysis covers the case of both randomly sampled densities and deterministic discretizations on uniform grids. We also propose and analyze an estimator based on Richardson extrapolation of the Sinkhorn divergence which enjoys improved statistical and computational efficiency guarantees, under a condition on the regularity of the approximation error, which is in particular satisfied for Gaussian densities. We finally demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed estimators with numerical experiments.
The Cashew Debate in Mozambique: Are There Alternative Strategies?
Creators: name: Mole, Paulo Nicua
name: Weber, Michael T.
name: Mole, Paulo Nicua
name: Weber, Michael T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Mozambique
subject: cashew

description: This flash evaluates the short, medium and long-term effects of the Proposed Bill for the Cashew Sub-Sector Re-Industrialization in Mozambique on smallholder cashew producers, industrial processors, and government, while providing some insights about alternative strategies to establishing an export ban.
description: Research Findings from the Food Security Project in Mozambique MAP-Direcção de Economía
Malay ethnicity in aesthetic transformation: analysis in the creative exploration of North Sumatra painting
Creators: name: Zulkifli
name: Atmojo, Wahyu Tri
name: Kartono, Gamal
name: Kifli, Barli
name: Sanjaya, Dedi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: The Malay ethnicity in North Sumatra is rich in artistic traditions, including visual arts. Malay aesthetics, encompassing high aesthetic values, are commonly expressed through applied arts such as decorative motifs, traditional attire, and everyday objects. These Malay artistic expressions serve as the basis and reference for the creative exploration of North Sumatran painting art. This article examines how aesthetic transformation is revealed in the efforts to preserve Malay visual cultural forms. The socio-cultural approach is presented descriptively and qualitatively, emphasising the appreciative aspect. The methods employed include observation and creative endeavours, with the inventive method referring to Graham Wallas’s theory of creativity. Aesthetic evaluation from audience responses was obtained through observation. The conclusions drawn from the study are as follows: 1) Malay ethnicity, as a traditional identity, is manifested in the aesthetic transformation of its visual culture, transitioning from functional aesthetics (applied art) to pure expressive aesthetics (fine art); 2) Aesthetic transformation gives rise to new values through elements of concept, form, utility, and iconography; and 3) Aesthetic transformation impacts the strength of North Sumatran painting art and contributes to the resilience of local culture.
Additional file 1 of Museomics of tree squirrels: a dense taxon sampling of mitogenomes reveals hidden diversity, phenotypic convergence, and the need of a taxonomic overhaul
Creators: name: Abreu-Jr, Edson Fiedler De
name: Pavan, Silvia E.
name: Tsuchiya, Mirian T. N.
name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Percequillo, Alexandre R.
name: Maldonado, Jesús E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Mitogenome recovery success (completeness) obtained from historical samples according to tissue type and museum location. (a) Tissue type: osteocrust samples (N = 70, X = 52.7%) and skin clips (N = 10, X = 37.6%). (b) Location of scientific collection: North America (N = 66, X = 55.9%) and South America (N = 14, X = 26.7%). Samples from both NA and SA collections are included on the tissue type comparison, while both osteocrusties and skin clips are included on the museum location comparison.
O Debate sobre o Cajú em Moçambique: Que vias Alternativas?
Creators: name: Mole, Paulo Nicua
name: Weber, Michael T.
name: Mole, Paulo Nicua
name: Weber, Michael T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Mozambique
subject: cashew

description: This flash evaluates the short, medium and long-term effects of the Proposed Bill for the Cashew Sub-Sector Re-Industrialization in Mozambique on smallholder cashew producers, industrial processors, and government, while providing some insights about alternative strategies to establishing an export ban.
description: Resultados das investigações do Projecto de Segurança Alimentar em Moçambique MAP-Direcção de Economía
Higher Calorie Intakes Related to Higher Incomes in Northern Mozambique
Creators: name: Rose, Donald
name: Strasberg, Paul J.
name: Jeje, Jose Jaime
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Rose, Donald
name: Strasberg, Paul J.
name: Jeje, Jose Jaime
name: Tschirley, David L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Mozambique
subject: food consumption

description: This flash presents results from a detailed exploration of household food consumption behavior in a rural area of northern Mozambique. Smallholder households were studied in Montepuez District in Cabo Delgado and in Monapo and Meconta Districts of Nampula. These areas are typical of the interior of northern Mozambique, where maize- and manioc-based cropping systems predominate and where cotton and cashew are often grown.
description: Resultados das investigações do Departamento de Análise de Políticas MAP-Direcção de Economía
The shapes of an epidemic: using Functional Data Analysis to characterize COVID-19 in Italy
Creators: name: Boschi, Tobia
name: Di Iorio, Jacopo
name: Testa, Lorenzo
name: Cremona, Marzia A.
name: Chiaromonte, Francesca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.3
subject: 62P10, 62R10

description: We investigate patterns of COVID-19 mortality across 20 Italian regions and their association with mobility, positivity, and socio-demographic, infrastructural and environmental covariates. Notwithstanding limitations in accuracy and resolution of the data available from public sources, we pinpoint significant trends exploiting information in curves and shapes with Functional Data Analysis techniques. These depict two starkly different epidemics; an "exponential" one unfolding in Lombardia and the worst hit areas of the north, and a milder, "flat(tened)" one in the rest of the country -- including Veneto, where cases appeared concurrently with Lombardia but aggressive testing was implemented early on. We find that mobility and positivity can predict COVID-19 mortality, also when controlling for relevant covariates. Among the latter, primary care appears to mitigate mortality, and contacts in hospitals, schools and work places to aggravate it. The techniques we describe could capture additional and potentially sharper signals if applied to richer data.
Universal conditional distribution function of [OII] luminosity of galaxies, and prediction for the [OII] luminosity function at redshift $z<3$
Creators: name: Gao, Hongyu
name: Jing, Y. P.
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: The star-forming emission line galaxies (ELGs) with strong [OII] doublet are one of the main spectroscopic targets for the ongoing and upcoming fourth generation galaxy redshift surveys. In this work, we measure the [OII] luminosity $L_{\mathrm{[OII]}}$ and the near-ultraviolet band absolute magnitude $M_{\mathrm{NUV}}$ for a large sample of galaxies in the redshift range of $0.6\leq z <1.45$ from the Public Data Release 2 (PDR-2) of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). We aim to construct the intrinsic relationship between the $L_{\mathrm{[OII]}}$ and $M_{\mathrm{NUV}}$ through Bayesian analysis. In particular, we develop two different methods to properly correct for the incompleteness effect and observational errors in the [OII] emission line measurement. Our results indicate that the conditional distribution of $L_{\mathrm{[OII]}}$ at a given $M_{\mathrm{NUV}}$ can be well described by a universal probability distribution function (PDF), which is independent of $M_{\mathrm{NUV}}$ or redshift. Convolving the $L_{\mathrm{[OII]}}$ conditional PDF with the NUV Luminosity function (LF) available in the literature, we make a prediction for [OII] LFs at $z<3$. The predicted [OII] LFs are in good agreement with the observational results from the literature. Finally, we utilize the predicted [OII] LFs to estimate the number counts of [OII] emitters for the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) survey. This universal conditional PDF of $L_{\mathrm{[OII]}}$ provides a novel way to optimize the source targeting strategy for [OII] emitters in future galaxy redshift surveys, and to model [OII] emitters in theories of galaxy formation.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures, accepted by ApJ
New evolutionary models for massive ZZ Ceti stars. II. The effects of crystallization on their pulsational properties
Creators: name: Corsico, A. H.
name: Althaus, L. G.
name: Montgomery, M. H.
name: Garcia-Berro, E.
name: Isern, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present in this work new pulsational calculations for improved carbon-oxygen DA white dwarf models suitable for the study of massive ZZ Ceti stars. The background models employed in this study, presented in detail in a recent paper by Althaus et al. (2003), are the result of the complete evolution of massive white dwarf progenitors from the zero-age main sequence through the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) and mass loss phases to the white dwarf regime. Abundance changes are accounted for by means of a full coupling between nuclear evolution and time-dependent mixing due to convection, salt fingers, and diffusive overshoot. In addition, time-dependent element diffusion for multicomponent gases has been considered during the white dwarf evolution. Crystallization and chemical rehomogenization due to phase separation upon crystallization in the core of our models have been fully considered. The effects of crystallization on the period spectrum of these massive white dwarf models are assessed by means of a detailed pulsational analysis. We find that the theoretical pulsation spectrum is strongly modified when crystallization is considered, in particular concerning the mode trapping properties of the equilibrium models. We also discuss at some length the implications of our study for BPM 37093, the most massive ZZ Ceti star presently known. We find that if BPM 37093 has a stellar mass of $\approx 1.00$ \msun its observed spectrum could bear the signature of overshoot episodes during the helium core burning.
description: 15 Pages, including 17 Postscript figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Bayesian model averaging for randomized dose optimization trials in multiple indications
Creators: name: Wei, Wei
name: Lin, Jianchang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: In oncology dose-finding trials, small cohorts of patients are often assigned to increasing dose levels, with the aim of determining the maximum tolerated dose. In the era of targeted agents, this practice has come under intense scrutiny as treating patients at doses beyond a certain level often results in increased off-target toxicity without significant gains in antitumor activity. Dose optimization for targeted agents becomes more challenging in proof-of-concept trials when the experimental treatment is tested in multiple indications of low prevalence and there is the need to characterize the dose−response relationship in each indication. To provide an alternative to the conventional “more is better” paradigm in oncology dose finding, we propose a Bayesian model averaging approach based on robust mixture priors (rBMA) for identifying the recommended phase III dose in randomized dose optimization studies conducted simultaneously in multiple indications. Compared to the dose optimization strategy which evaluates the dose−response relationship in each indication independently, we demonstrate the proposed approach can improve the accuracy of dose recommendation by learning across indications. The performance of the proposed approach in making the correct dose recommendation is examined based on systematic simulation studies.
Improving Phase Change Memory Performance with Data Content Aware Access
Creators: name: Song, Shihao
name: Das, Anup
name: Mutlu, Onur
name: Kandasamy, Nagarajan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Operating Systems (cs.OS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A prominent characteristic of write operation in Phase-Change Memory (PCM) is that its latency and energy are sensitive to the data to be written as well as the content that is overwritten. We observe that overwriting unknown memory content can incur significantly higher latency and energy compared to overwriting known all-zeros or all-ones content. This is because all-zeros or all-ones content is overwritten by programming the PCM cells only in one direction, i.e., using either SET or RESET operations, not both. In this paper, we propose data content aware PCM writes (DATACON), a new mechanism that reduces the latency and energy of PCM writes by redirecting these requests to overwrite memory locations containing all-zeros or all-ones. DATACON operates in three steps. First, it estimates how much a PCM write access would benefit from overwriting known content (e.g., all-zeros, or all-ones) by comprehensively considering the number of set bits in the data to be written, and the energy-latency trade-offs for SET and RESET operations in PCM. Second, it translates the write address to a physical address within memory that contains the best type of content to overwrite, and records this translation in a table for future accesses. We exploit data access locality in workloads to minimize the address translation overhead. Third, it re-initializes unused memory locations with known all-zeros or all-ones content in a manner that does not interfere with regular read and write accesses. DATACON overwrites unknown content only when it is absolutely necessary to do so. We evaluate DATACON with workloads from state-of-the-art machine learning applications, SPEC CPU2017, and NAS Parallel Benchmarks. Results demonstrate that DATACON significantly improves system performance and memory system energy consumption compared to the best of performance-oriented state-of-the-art techniques.
description: 18 pages, 21 figures, accepted at ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM)
Aumento de Ingestão de Calorias Relacionada ao Aumento de Renda no Norte d e Moçambique
Creators: name: Rose, Donald
name: Strasberg, Paul J.
name: Jeje, Jose Jaime
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Rose, Donald
name: Strasberg, Paul J.
name: Jeje, Jose Jaime
name: Tschirley, David L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Mozambique
subject: food consumption

description: This flash presents results from a detailed exploration of household food consumption behavior in a rural area of northern Mozambique. Smallholder households were studied in Montepuez District in Cabo Delgado and in Monapo and Meconta Districts of Nampula. These areas are typical of the interior of northern Mozambique, where maize- and manioc-based cropping systems predominate and where cotton and cashew are often grown.
description: Resultados das investigações do Departamento de Análise de Políticas MAP-Direcção de Economia
Additional file 1 of Imaging the aging brain: study design and baseline findings of the SENIOR cohort
Creators: name: Haeger, Alexa
name: Jean-François Mangin
name: Vignaud, Alexandre
name: Poupon, Cyril
name: Grigis, Antoine
name: Boumezbeur, Fawzi
name: Frouin, Vincent
name: Jean-Robert Deverre
name: Sarazin, Marie
name: Hertz-Pannier, Lucie
name: Bottlaender, Michel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1 Model comparison for multiple regression analysis for prediction of White matter lesion volume (A) and White matter, Cortical Gray matter, Left HC and Right HC (B). The selected model with lowest bias-corrected RMSE is represented in bold print.
The Effects of Maize Trade with Malawi on Price Levels in Mozambique: Implications for Trade and Development Policy
Creators: name: Santos, Ana Paula
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Santos, Ana Paula
name: Tschirley, David L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Mozambique
subject: maize trade

description: This paper sheds light on evaluating the impacts of the opening of trade in maize with Malawi on producer and consumer maize prices in selected markets of Mozambique.
description: Resultados das investigações do Departamento de Análise de Políticas MAP-Direcção de Economía
Additional file 1 of Barriers and facilitators of patient centered care for immigrant and refugee women: a scoping review
Creators: name: Filler, Tali
name: Bismah Jameel
name: Gagliardi, Anna R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Search strategy. Strategy used to search databases for relevant studies.
Eschatology in Ming-Qing sectarian precious volumes (baojuan) and its daoist elements
Creators: name: Sze, Tak Pui
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The Ming-Qing era (1368-1912) was an important period in the history of Chinese popular religious sects. Modem scholars have paid attention to their development for a long time, and have conducted a lot of studies, some of which deal with the relationship of popular sects to Daoism. Few scholars focus on Daoist elements in sectarian eschatology although it is one of the important themes of sectarian teachings in the Ming and Qing. What are the contents of Daoist eschatology? Are there any similarities and differences between Daoist and sectarian views on the end of the world and collective suffering and salvation? What was the early development of sectarian eschatology? The intention of this thesis is to investigate these issues. This thesis is mainly based on textual studies; the two main kinds of primary sources are the Daoist texts of the Six Dynasties (220 A.D.-589) collected in the Daoist Canon (Daozang), and precious volumes (baojuan), the scriptures of popular sects. The Six-Dynasties period was a chaotic period after the collapse of the Han empire (206 B.C.-220 AD), a dynasty that had been one of golden ages of Chinese history. The scriptures composed during this period present us with contemporary understandings of collective sufferings and prophecies. Baojuan literature appeared in the mid-Ming, and was devoted to sectarian doctrines and myths. From the discussions of this thesis, it can be concluded that the eschatological belief was not exclusive to the common people in China, and it was an indigenous tradition shared by ordinary sectarian members and literati Daoist believers. Although there are exceptions in early scriptures, in most Ming-Qing precious volumes the explanation of disasters and the expectation of a blissful age came from Daoist tradition. Buddhist terminology and narratives about universal crises made a contribution to sectarian eschatology, but sectarian writers do not adopt many important Buddhist philosophical ideas. Compared with their Daoist counterparts, Buddhist borrowings are superficial.
Spin fluctuations in the stacked-triangular antiferromagnet YMnO3
Creators: name: Roessli, B.
name: Gvasaliya, S. N.
name: Pomjakushina, E.
name: Conder, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectrum of spin fluctuations in the stacked-triangular antiferromagnet YMnO3 was studied above the Neel temperature using both unpolarized and polarized inelastic neutron scattering. We find an in-plane and an out-of-plane excitation. The in-plane mode has two components just above TN, a resolution-limited central peak and a Debye-like contribution. The quasi-elastic fluctuations have a line-width that increases with q like Dq^z and the dynamical exponent z=2.3. The out-of-plane fluctuations have a gap at the magnetic zone center and do not show any appreciable q-dependence at small wave-vectors.
description: JETP LETTERS, in press
Representative Characteristics of Rural Households in Areas of Central and Southern Mozambique Affected by the 2000 Floods
Creators: name: Benfica, Rui M.S.
name: Arlindo, Pedro
name: Weber, Michael T.
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Benfica, Rui M.S.
name: Arlindo, Pedro
name: Weber, Michael T.
name: Tschirley, David L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Mozambique
subject: rural household

description: The primary objective of the report is to utilize an existing rural household data base to describe key social and economic characteristics of smallholder farmers in the flood areas.
description: Research Results from the Department of Policy Analysis MADR-Directorate of Economics
The production of excited states of doubly heavy baryons at the Large Hadron Collider
Creators: name: Berezhnoy, A. V.
name: Belov, I. N.
name: Likhoded, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of diquark model for production we discuss the yields and observation prospects for excited states of doubly heavy baryons at LHC kinematic conditions.
Anti-biofilm effect of ferulic acid against Enterobacter hormaechei and Klebsiella pneumoniae: in vitro and in silico investigation
Creators: name: Vaikkathillam, Parvathi
name: Mini, Minsa
name: Mohan, Aparna
name: Jayakumar, Devi
name: Rajan, Pooja P.
name: Asha, Sneha
name: Kumar, Praveen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Enterobacter hormaechei and Klebsiella pneumoniae, key members of the ESKAPE group of hospital-acquired pathogens, are driving forces behind numerous infections due to their potent biofilm formation and the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. Ferulic acid (FA) is known for its strong antioxidant properties and is recognized for its numerous physiological benefits, including anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, anticancer, and antidiabetic effects. The current investigation delves into the antimicrobial and antibiofilm ability of FA against E. hormaechei and K. pneumoniae. Using different assays, we confirmed that FA inhibits the biofilm formation of these pathogens. Through computational studies involving molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations, it was found that FA exhibits a strong affinity for binding with MrkB in E. hormaechei and MrkH in K. pneumoniae, crucial proteins involved in biofilm formation. We hypothesise that FA might interfere with adhesion-associated molecules and inhibit biofilms through the c-di-GMP pathway and proves as an effective antibiofilm compound.
A two-species competition model on Z^d
Creators: name: Kordzakhia, George
name: Lalley, Steven P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J25, 60K35

description: We consider a two-type stochastic competition model on the integer lattice Z^d. The model describes the space evolution of two ``species'' competing for territory along their boundaries. Each site of the space may contain only one representative (also referred to as a particle) of either type. The spread mechanism for both species is the same: each particle produces offspring independently of other particles and can place them only at the neighboring sites that are either unoccupied, or occupied by particles of the opposite type. In the second case, the old particle is killed by the newborn. The rate of birth for each particle is equal to the number of neighboring sites available for expansion. The main problem we address concerns the possibility of the long-term coexistence of the two species. We have shown that if we start the process with finitely many representatives of each type, then, under the assumption that the limit set in the corresponding first passage percolation model is uniformly curved, there is positive probability of coexistence.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Prediction of lymph node metastasis by tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in T1 breast cancer
Creators: name: Takada, Koji
name: Kashiwagi, Shinichiro
name: Asano, Yuka
name: Goto, Wataru
name: Kouhashi, Rika
name: Akimichi Yabumoto
name: Morisaki, Tamami
name: Masatsune Shibutani
name: Takashima, Tsutomu
name: Fujita, Hisakazu
name: Kosei Hirakawa
name: Masaichi Ohira
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Correlation between TILs and clinicopathological features in cT1N0M0 breast cancer patients undergoing SLNB by intrinsic subtype.
Input Use and Conservation Investments among Farm Households in Rwanda: Patterns and Determinants
Creators: name: Clay, Daniel C.
name: Kelly, Valerie A.
name: Mpyisi, Edson
name: Reardon, Thomas
name: Clay, Daniel C.
name: Kelly, Valerie A.
name: Mpyisi, Edson
name: Reardon, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Africa
subject: food security
subject: Rwanda
subject: inputs
subject: conservation
subject: households

description: One of the Government of Rwanda’s key post-war policy objectives has been to increase agricultural productivity and ensure food security by promoting a transition from semi-subsistence production and marketing practices to intensive production and highly commercialized agricultural markets. The government wants farmers to increase land and labor productivity through the use of modern inputs, thereby generating substantial surpluses which can be sold to pay for inputs and generate increases in farm incomes.
The general 1D Schrödinger equation as an exactly solvable problem
Creators: name: Voros, André
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34B24; 34L05; 34M37; 34M60; 37N20; 81Q05; 81Q20

description: We review an exact WKB resolution method for the stationary 1D Schrödinger equation with a general polynomial potential. This contribution covers already published material: we supply a commented summary here, stressing a few aspects which were less highlighted before. As some of our earlier papers needed later corrections, we also recapitulate these here in footnotes in the bibliography. The latter, not meant to be exhaustive, focuses on narrowly relevant works plus some broader ones that do offer more extensive bibliographies.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures; proceedings, Recent trends in exponential asymptotics (RIMS, Kyoto 2004), to appear in RIMS Kokyuroku, 2005
Aggression in the workplace makes social distance difficult
Creators: name: Kokubun, Keisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The spread of new coronavirus (COVID-19) infections continues to increase. The practice of social distance attracts attention as a measure to prevent the spread of infection, but it is difficult for some occupations. Therefore, in previous studies, the scale of factors that determine social distance has been developed. However, it was not clear how to select the items among them, and it seemed to be somewhat arbitrary. In response to this trend, this paper extracted eight scales by performing exploratory factor analysis based on certain rules while eliminating arbitrariness as much as possible. They were Adverse Conditions, Leadership, Information Processing, Response to Aggression, Mechanical Movement, Autonomy, Communication with the Outside, and Horizontal Teamwork. Of these, Adverse Conditions, Response to Aggression, and Horizontal Teamwork had a positive correlation with Physical Proximity, and Information Processing, Mechanical Movement, Autonomy, and Communication with the Outside had a negative correlation with Physical Proximity. Furthermore, as a result of multiple regression analysis, it was shown that Response to Aggression, not the mere teamwork assumed in previous studies, had the greatest influence on Physical Proximity.
description: implication enriched
Channel Estimation for One-Bit Multiuser Massive MIMO Using Conditional GAN
Creators: name: Dong, Yudi
name: Wang, Huaxia
name: Yao, Yu-Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Channel estimation is a challenging task, especially in a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADC). Traditional deep learning (DL) methods, that learn the mapping from inputs to real channels, have significant difficulties in estimating accurate channels because their loss functions are not well designed and investigated. In this paper, a conditional generative adversarial networks (cGAN) is developed to predict more realistic channels by adversarially training two DL networks. cGANs not only learn the mapping from quantized observations to real channels but also learn an adaptive loss function to correctly train the networks. Numerical results show that the proposed cGAN based approach outperforms existing DL methods and achieves high robustness in massive MIMO systems.
description: 5 pages;7 figures; 1 Table
Thiosemicarbazones and analogues as potential biofilm inhibitors of Candida albicans
Creators: name: do Rosário Esteves Guimarães, Carolina
name: Galvão, Danilo Santana
name: do Desterro Cunha, Silvio
name: de Freitas, Humberto Fonseca
name: Barros, Tânia Fraga
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Biofilms are a virulence factor for Candida albicans, a common pathogen in human fungal infections, making them resistant to many commercial antifungals. Therefore, the discovery of compounds that inhibit and eradicate biofilms is a priority. As thiosemicarbazones have had their effect on Candida biofilms little explored, this study investigated the inhibitory and eradication activity of 30 thiosemicarbazones and analogues against C. albicans biofilms. After initial screening, four compounds were selected and compound 28 emerged as the most potent with BIC50 at 31.55 ± 1.18 µM. By scanning electron microscopy analysis, blastoconidia adhered to the reduced surface and reduced formation of pseudohyphae and hyphae was revealed. Despite the inhibitory activity, the four compounds failed to eradicate the biofilm by more than 50%. Thus, the results suggest that the compounds evaluated are very promising for the development of effective antibiofilm compounds and open up new perspectives for elucidating the mechanism of action.
Population and Sustainability: Understanding Population, Environment, and Development Linkages
Creators: name: Clay, Daniel C.
name: Reardon, Thomas
name: Clay, Daniel C.
name: Reardon, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Africa
subject: agriculture
subject: Rwanda
subject: population
subject: sustainability
subject: environment
subject: food security

description: The triple challenge of rapid population growth, declining agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are not isolated from one another; they are intimately related. However, strategic planning and development programming tend to focus on individual sectors such as the environment, agriculture, and population; they do not explicitly take into account the compatibilities and inconsistencies among them. Farm households and their livelihood strategies are at the core of the intersectoral linkages approach advocated in this chapter. Three key aspects of the population-environment-development debate are discussed: first, the finding that inconsistencies between public and individual household behavior regarding childbearing and family planning constitute a veritable "demographic tragedy of the commons;" second, the tendency to conceptualize population variables as "unmanageable," and exogenous to environmental and economic change; third, the importance of land markets and land tenure as critical population-sustainability policy issues.
Out-of-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics in the Bloch sphere: temperature and internal entropy production
Creators: name: Vallejo, Andrés
name: Romanelli, Alejandro
name: Donangelo, Raúl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An explicit expression for the temperature of an open two-level quantum system is obtained as a function of local properties, under the hypothesis of weak interaction with the environment. This temperature is defined for both equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium states, and coincides with the environment temperature if the system reaches thermal equilibrium with a heat reservoir. Additionally, we show that within this theoretical framework the total entropy production can be partitioned into two contributions: one due to heat transfer, and another, associated to internal irreversibilities, related to the loss of internal coherence by the qubit. The positiveness of the heat capacity is established, as well as its consistency with the well known results at thermal equilibrium. We apply these concepts to two different systems, and show that they behave in analogous ways as their classical counterparts.
The Impact of Temperature Fluctuations on the Lyman-alpha Forest Power Spectrum
Creators: name: Lai, Kamson
name: Lidz, Adam
name: Hernquist, Lars
name: Zaldarriaga, Matias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the impact of spatial fluctuations in the intergalactic medium temperature on the Lyman-alpha forest flux power spectrum near z ~ 3. We develop a semianalytic model to examine temperature fluctuations resulting from inhomogeneous HI and incomplete HeII reionizations. Detection of these fluctuations might provide insight into the reionization histories of hydrogen and helium. Furthermore, these fluctuations, neglected in previous analyses, could bias constraints on cosmological parameters from the Lyman-alpha forest. We find that the temperature fluctuations resulting from inhomogeneous HI reionization are likely to be very small, with an rms amplitude of < 5%, $σ_{T_0}/ < 0.05$. More important are the temperature fluctuations that arise from incomplete HeII reionization, which might plausibly be as large as 50%, $σ_{T_0}/ ~ 0.5$. In practice, however, these temperature fluctuations have only a small effect on flux power spectrum predictions. The smallness of the effect is possibly due to density fluctuations dominating over temperature fluctuations on the scales probed by current measurements. On the largest scales currently probed, k ~ 0.001 s/km (~0.1 h/Mpc), the effect on the flux power spectrum may be as large as ~10% in extreme models. The effect is larger on small scales, up to ~20% at k = 0.1 s/km, due to thermal broadening. Our results suggest that the omission of temperature fluctuations effects from previous analyses does not significantly bias constraints on cosmological parameters.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, ApJ accepted
The rate of period change in pulsating DB white dwarf stars
Creators: name: Corsico, A. H.
name: Althaus, L. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we present the theoretically expected rates of pulsation period change for V777 Her (DBV) variable stars. To this end we employ new evolutionary models representative of pulsating DB white dwarf stars computed in a self-consistent way with the predictions of time-dependent element diffusion. At the hot edge of the DB instability strip, the envelopes of the models are characterized by a diffusion-induced double-layered chemical structure. We compute the numerical values of rates of period change by solving the equations of linear, adiabatic, nonradial stellar oscillations. We examine the effects of varying the stellar mass, the mass of the helium envelope and the neutrino emission on the expected period changes. We present extensive tabulations of our results which could be useful for comparison with future detections of the rate of period change in pulsating DB white dwarfs.
description: 13 pages, including 5 postscript figures and 9 tables. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics