cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Current Trends in Training of Managers in the Field of Information And Communication Technologies And Identifying the Barriers to Education of Managers
Creators: name: Hallová, M.
name: Polakovič, P.
name: Slováková, I.
name: Hallová, M.
name: Polakovič, P.
name: Slováková, I.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Information and communication technologies
subject: business performance
subject: manager
subject: educating of managers

description: Lately lifelong learning has become an integral part of the whole society. This is also the reason for the greatest development of new concepts serving just the implementation of lifelong learning policy. These changes in the process of continuous education are in practice much more than a comprehensive adaptation of the education system, which is why this trend is currently understood mainly in the developed countries of the world as a response to the changing labor market. Lifelong learning thus provides individuals with a better perspective and at the same time increases the chances of an organization in which they succeed and differentiate themselves on a global scale. That is why we can designate lifelong learning, learning and constant improving as an essential part of the development of managers. Education and training of human resources in organizations form a significant part of lifelong learning. Employee training focuses on shaping individuals, their skills and increasing their competitiveness on the global market. In today's turbulent and difficult-to-anticipate period, educational activities in management and training are important. This brings the ever-increasing demands for expanding, specialized and retraining education and thus the constant demand for new and more efficient forms of educatio n.
How will solar magnetism evolve in the future?
Creators: name: Noraz, Quentin
name: Brun, Allan Sacha
name: Strugarek, Antoine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: differential rotation
magnetic activity
magnetic cycle
stellar magnetism

description: The solar magnetic field is generated and sustained through an internal dynamo. In stars, this process is determined by the combined action of turbulent convective motions and the differential rotation profile. It can sometimes lead to magnetic cyclic variabilities, like in the Sun with the 11 years cycle. Traces of magnetic cycles have been detected for other solar-like stars as well, ranging from a few years to a few tens of years. How are these cycles controlled? During their life, the rotation of stars is subject to complex evolution. Recent 3D numerical simulations of solar-like stars show that different regimes of differential rotation can be characterized with the Rossby number. In particular, anti-solar differential rotation (fast poles, slow equator) may exist for high Rossby number (slow rotators). If this regime occurs during the main sequence, and in general for slow rotators, we may wonder how the magnetic generation through dynamo process will be impacted, more especially if our Sun is in such a transition. In particular, can slowly rotating stars have magnetic cycles?
 We present a numerical multi-D study with the STELEM and ASH codes to understand the magnetic field generation of solar-like stars under various differential rotation regimes, and focus on the existence of magnetic cycles.
 We find that short cycles are favoured for small Rossby numbers (fast rotators), and long cycles for intermediate (solar-like) Rossby numbers. Slow rotators (high Rossby number) are found to produce only steady dynamo with no cyclic activity in most cases considered. Magnetic cycles can be produced with anti-solar differential rotation only if the alpha effect is fine tuned for this purpose.
 A detection of magnetic cycles for such stars (or lack of thereof) would therefore be a tremendous constrain on deciphering what type of dynamo is actually acting in the Sun and solar-like stars. In addition, the future out-of-the-ecliptic observations of Solar Orbiter will give fantastic constraints on the magnetic field of the solar polar caps, and thus on which type of dynamo (𝛼𝛺 vs Babcock-Leighton for instance) our Sun is the most likely to operate. Combined together, these will allow to better understand the physics in action in the complex present-day solar dynamo.
description: A poster for the Preamble to the Solar Orbiter school
Redesign of 16th Avenue / SW Marine Drive Intersection Final Design Report
Creators: name: Dhaliwal, Navroop
name: Miraki, Kimia
name: Mundi, Dharmpreet
name: Sarpong, Kelvin
name: Sital, Gurkirat
name: Soliman, Omar
name: Wang, Yuzhu
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: The intersection of SW Marine Drive and 16th Avenue is a gateway that connects UBC to Vancouver. Currently, the intersection lacks critical environmental, efficiency, and safety measures in the form of erosion, space management, and speeding. The redesign of this intersection will focus on achieving the goals of creating additional green space, promoting active transportation, reducing vehicle speeds, and creating a visual gateway. To achieve these goals, the design team focused on better utilizing the large site area and simplifying the intersection. The redesign of the intersection includes a 3-phase traffic signal that eliminates the need for slip lanes. This design creates plenty new green infrastructure, significantly lowers speeds, gives active transport users protection, and creates a informative gateway for the campus. The project is expected to take 4 months to complete with construction starting on May 6th, 2024 and ending on September 4th, 2024. The overall cost of the project is estimated to be $4,235,560.00 CAD. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Influence of randomly distributed magnetic nanoparticles on surface superconductivity in Nb films
Creators: name: Stamopoulos, D.
name: Pissas, M.
name: Karanasos, V.
name: Niarchos, D.
name: Panagiotopoulos, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on combined resistance and magnetic measurements in a hybrid structure (HS) of randomly distributed anisotropic CoPt magnetic nanoparticles (MN) embedded in a 160 nm Nb thick film. Our resistance measurements exhibited a sharp increase at the magnetically determined bulk upper-critical fields Hc2(T). Above these points the resistance curves are rounded, attaining the normal state value at much higher fields identified as the surface superconductivity fields Hc3(T). When plotted in reduced temperature units, the characteristic field lines Hc3(T) of the HS and of a pure Nb film, prepared at exactly the same conditions, coincide for H<10 kOe, while for fields H>10 kOe they strongly segregate. Interestingly, the characteristic value H=10 kOe is equal to the saturation field of the MN. The behavior mentioned above is observed only for the case where the field is normal to the HS, while is absent when the field is parallel to the film. Our experimental results suggest that the observed enhancement of surface superconductivity field Hc3(T) is possibly due to the not uniform local reduction of the external magnetic field by the dipolar fields of the MN.
description: to be published in Phys. Rev. B
Coordination strategies in the Italian agro-food supply chain: cooperatives vs. Producer organizations?
Creators: name: Ciliberti, Stefano
name: Frascarelli, Angelo
name: Martino, Gaetano
name: Ciliberti, Stefano
name: Frascarelli, Angelo
name: Martino, Gaetano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: TCE
subject: cooperation
subject: POs
subject: complementarity
subject: agri-food
subject: Italy
subject: FADN

description: The study of institutions in the agro-food systems is gaining momentum since it represents an intricate and undoubtedly relevant case study as concerns intermediate-product markets. Moreover, traditionally there is a problem of organization among farmers mainly due to the scarce attitude to pool decisional and property rights on input and/or output. According to the Transaction Costs Economics framework, the paper aims to investigate which are the main drivers of the collective forms of organization in the Italian agro-food system, paying particular attention to transaction costs’ attributes and to the increasing role played by the institutional environment as well. The choice to join to cooperative or producer organization is conceptualized as a governance structure choice, also paying attention to the complementarity between the two alternatives. Based on the Italian version of the Farm Accountancy Data Network, bivariate probit and multinomial are estimated in order to account for three organizational alternatives (participation in cooperative, in OP and join participation in all the three alternatives) and to test the complementarity between the two organizational forms entailed.
title: Verticillium wilt of crucifers: characterising novel interspecific fungal hybrids
Creators: name: Collins, Alexandra
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2002

description: Earlier studies by other workers have suggested that isolates of Verticillium dahliae from crucifers have unusual properties suggesting novel origins. The aims of the current study were to determine whether distinct interspecific hybridisations have given rise to these isolates and to gain a clearer understanding of the origins and most appropriate taxonomy for V. dahliae crucifer isolates. The existence of distinct populations within V. dahliae was established by examining the spore length and DNA content of crucifer isolates from Europe, Japan, Russia and USA and a range of other isolates. These measurements were then correlated with molecular studies on (i) the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and internal intergenic spacer (IGS) regions of the rRNA genes, (ii) random genomic sequences, (iii) mitochondrial DNA and (iv) the whole genome using amplified restriction fragment length polymorphism (AFLP). On the basis of this work it is suggested that V. dahliae crucifer isolates are natural interspecific hybrids which have arisen via two separate and one probable hybridisation events. Furthermore it is suggested that both the V. alboatrum and V. dahliae parental isolates are distinct from any other isolates of either species previously studied. Vegetative incompatibility studies showed that this is unlikely to be a major barrier to the formation of hybrids, therefore the possible mechanisms by which hybrids arose are considered. The genetic status of these hybrid isolates is also discussed and the term ‘amphihaploid’ (by analogy with amphidiploid as used for plants) is suggested as better than the ill-defined ‘near-diploid' used by some authors. Some isolates are also proposed to be ‘secondary haploids' derived from amphihaploid interspecific hybrids. It is suggested that all amphihaploid hybrid isolates should be included in a single new taxon, V. x dahlatrum, which reflects their mode of origin, parental species and genome complement.
Hypothenemus crudiae
Creators: name: Atkinson, Thomas H.
name: Flechtmann, Carlos A. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Hypothenemus
Hypothenemus crudiae

description: Hypothenemus crudiae (Panzer, 1791)
 Bostrichus crudiae Panzer 1791: 25
 Hypothenemus crudiae (Panzer). Wood and Bright 1992: 914. Complete synonymy given.
 Hypothenemus ebenus Wood 2007: 520. New synonymy.
 Hypothenemus crudiae is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas and Africa. The holotype of H. ebenus Wood was described from the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil, in Wood’s (2007) monograph of the South American species. The holotype is in the Museu de Entomologia in Ilha Solteira (MEFEIS, not the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo as stated in the description. While the holotype of H. crudiae Panzer has been lost, the material used by Wood in his monographs of North and Central America (1982) and South America (2007) has been examined by the first author. The holotype and other specimens identified by Wood as H. ebenus fall completely within the range of variation of H. crudiae sensu Wood.
description: Published as part of Atkinson, Thomas H. & Flechtmann, Carlos A. H., 2021, New species, new records and synonymy of Brazilian species of Hypothenemus Westwood, 1834 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), pp. 1-33 in Insecta Mundi 2021 (846) on pages 2-3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5041370
Constraining symmetron dark energy using atom interferometry
Creators: name: Chiow, Sheng-wey
name: Yu, Nan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Symmetron field is one of the promising candidates of dark energy scalar fields. In all viable candidate field theories, a screening mechanism is implemented to be consistent with existing tests of general relativity. The screening effect in the symmetron theory manifests its influence only to the thin outer layer of a bulk object, where inside a dense material the symmetry of the field is restored and no force exists. For pointlike particles such as atoms, the depth of screening is larger than the size of the particle, such that the screening mechanism is ineffective and the symmetron force is fully expressed on the atomic test particles. Extra force measurements using atom interferometry are thus much more sensitive than bulk mass based measurements, and indeed have placed the most stringent constraints on the parameters characterizing symmetron field in certain region. There is however no clear direct connection between the laboratory measurements and astrophysical observations, where the constraints are far separated by 10 orders of magnitude in the parameter space. In this paper, we present a closed-form expression for the symmetron acceleration of realistic atomic experiments. The expression is validated through numerical simulations for a terrestrial fifth-force experiment using atom interferometry. As a result, we show the connection of the atomic measurement constraints to the astrophysical ones. We also estimate the attainable symmetron constraints from a previously proposed experiment in space intended for test of chameleon theory. The atomic constraints on the symmetron theory will be further improved by orders of magnitude.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
title: Functional analysis of the mouse CBP gene in the adult central nervous system
Creators: name: Zhang, Zuwen
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2002

description: CBP (CREB-binding protein) was originally characterized as a transcriptional coactivator of CREB (cAMP response element-binding protein) which is implicated in many processes including the formation of long-term memory. CBP itself is regulated by nuclear Ca2+ and Ca2+/Calmodulin kinase IV, suggesting a crucial role in synaptic plasticity. Mutations in human CBP gene are associated with the Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RTS) characterized by mental retardation and patterning abnormalities. These features suggest that CBP plays a central role in cAMP-mediated gene expression, which in turn is implicated in the formation of long-term memory.

The expression patterns of CBP and its homologue p300 were analyzed. Both are expressed in most of forebrain areas, with particularly high expression in the hippocampus. Parts of the mouse CBP gene were characterized. Six exons encode the CREB-binding domain (CBD). Two gene targeting experiments were performed to generate mouse lines with mutations in the CBP gene. The first was a deletion of the CBD exon 2, resulting in a frameshift and, thus, a truncated CBP protein (CBPstop523). In the second experiment, a point mutation was aimed to be introduced in the CBD exon 5 (CBPTyr658Ala). After germline transmission, three mouse lines were obtained from CBPstop523 allele: CBD2+/-, a general deletion of the CBD exon 2; CBD2.floxed, which will be crossed with different Cre mouse lines for tissue-specific mutants; and CBD2.floxed.neo, which might be a hypomorphic allele due to the Neo cassette. For the construct CBPTyr658Ala none of the chimeras gave germline transmission, as apparently the splicing of the inverted allele was incorrect, possibly leading to strong reduction of vitality. Meantime, six CBP mutants were generated to elucidate functional domains of CBP in vitro: a deletion mutation CBPACBD2-5; CBPllOOaa, which was reported in mutant mice displaying RTS-like phenotypes; and a point mutation CBP658Ala, which was shown to be critical for interaction with phospho-CREB. The other three mutants retain different sizes of truncated N-terminal CBP and similar proteins were observed in RTS. Both CBP658Ala and CBPACBD2-5 interferred with the cAMP pathway, but not with nuclear receptor-mediated functions. RTS mutants showed strong inhibitory effects on the cAMP pathway.
Influence of Aging Trend on Consumption Rate of Rural Residents —— Empirical Analysis Based on Provincial Panel Data
Creators: name: JIANG, Yuhua
name: CHANG, Feng
name: JIANG, Yuhua
name: CHANG, Feng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Population aging, Consumption of rural residents, Empirical study, Recommendations

description: Population is a basic factor that affects consumption of residents. In China, insufficient demand of residents, especially low consumption demand of rural residents, directly weakens the promotion of consumption for economic growth. This drives the study on the relationship between the aging trend and consumption of rural residents. In this paper, the current situation of population aging in China was firstly analyzed. Then a dynamic macroeconomic model was established using the cointegration theory and selecting related time series data such as per capita consumption expenditure of rural residents (Con), per capita net income of rural residents (Rev), urban-rural income gap (RU), children dependency ratio (CDR), and old-age dependency ratio (ODR), to test the correlation between variables. The results show that the decline in the children dependency ratio promotes the increase of consumption willingness of rural residents, while the rise in the old-age dependency ratio inhibits the consumption willingness of rural residents. Finally, it came up with pertinent recommendations for guiding and promoting the consumption level of rural residents in China.
Profit Efficiency of Ghana's Maize Farmers
Creators: name: Wongnaa, C.A.
name: Awunyo-Vitor, D.
name: Mensah, A.
name: Wongnaa, C.A.
name: Awunyo-Vitor, D.
name: Mensah, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The study analysed the factors influencing profit and its efficiency for smallholder maize farmers in Ghana. The data used was collected from 576 maize farmers in Ghana s four main agro ecological zones using structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and the stochastic frontier translog profit function were the methods of analysis employed. The results showed that generally, an increase in the prices of fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide, seed and labour decreased the profitability of maize production in Ghana. Also, an increase in farm size by Ghanaian maize farmers decreased their profit levels. Furthermore, the maize farmers were found to be seriously profit inefficient as the mean profit efficiency was 48.4%. Maize farmers in the transitional zone of the country were also found to be more efficient in their profit levels than those in other zones. Finally, male gender, formal education, extension contact, access to good roads and credit as well as uses of fertilizer, pesticides and improved seeds were found to be positively related to profit efficiency of the farmers. Recommendations aimed at improving profit efficiency of maize farmers are suggested. Acknowledgement : We are especially indebted to the staff of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the West Mamprusi, East Gonja, Nkoranza, Ejura Sekyedumase, Fanteakwa, Sekyere South, Gomoa and Ketu districts/municipalities of Ghana for the information they provided about the maize crop and also assisting in the data collection. We are also grateful to the respondent maize farmers in the aforementioned districts/municipalities without whose co-operation the study could not have taken place.
Concircular curvature on warped product manifolds and applications
Creators: name: De, Uday Chand
name: Shenawy, Sameh
name: Unal, Bulent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study aims mainly at investigating the effects of concircular flatness and concircular symmetry of a warped product manifold on its fibre and base manifolds. Concircularly flat and concircularly symmetric warped product manifolds are investigated. The divergence free concircular curvature tensor on warped product manifolds is considered. Finally, we apply some of these results to generalized Robertson-Walker and standard static space-times.
Dilute Multi Alpha Cluster States in Nuclei
Creators: name: Yamada, Taiichi
name: Schuck, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dilute multi $α$ cluster condensed states with spherical and axially deformed shapes are studied with the Gross-Pitaevskii equation and Hill-Wheeler equation, where the $α$ cluster is treated as a structureless boson. Applications to self-conjugate $4N$ nuclei show that the dilute $Nα$ states of $^{12}$C to $^{40}$Ca with $J^π=0^+$ appear in the energy region from threshold up to about 20 MeV, and the critical number of $α$ bosons that the dilute $Nα$ system can sustain as a self-bound nucleus is estimated roughly to be $N_{cr}\sim10$. We discuss the characteristics of the dilute $Nα$ states with emphasis on the $N$ dependence of their energies and rms radii.
description: 44 pages, 8 figures
Synchronization of active mechanical oscillators by an inertial load
Creators: name: Vilfan, Andrej
name: Duke, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Motivated by the operation of myogenic (self-oscillatory) insect flight muscle, we study a model consisting of a large number of identical oscillatory contractile elements joined in a chain, whose end is attached to a damped mass-spring oscillator. When the inertial load is small, the serial coupling favors an antisynchronous state in which the extension of one oscillator is compensated by the contraction of another, in order to preserve the total length. However, a sufficiently massive load can sychronize the oscillators and can even induce oscillation in situations where isolated elements would be stable. The system has a complex phase diagram displaying quiescent, synchronous and antisynchrononous phases, as well as an unsual asynchronous phase in which the total length of the chain oscillates at a different frequency from the individual active elements.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Information Framing Effects in Biotechnology Communication A Comparison between Logical-scientific and Narrative Information
Creators: name: Yang, Y.
name: Hobbs, J.
name: Yang, Y.
name: Hobbs, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Research and Development/ Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Abstract This study explores information framing effects by comparing the effectiveness of using logical-scientific vs. narrative information to communicate about food biotechnology to consumers. An online survey was conducted in the summer of 2016 with 804 Canadian adults. Data were collected on attitudes towards food biotechnology and food choice behaviours. In particular, a choice experiment was included in the online survey to elicit preferences for diverse novel food attributes and technologies. Each respondent was randomly assigned to an information condition. A logical-scientific information condition about biotechnology was developed and written in a scientific style using the passive voice with generalized and impersonal language. In contrast, a narrative-style information condition about the technology was written in a more lively and vivid personal style. Results indicate that information about food biotechnology shown in different formats (logical-scientific vs. narrative) or being accessed by respondents in different manners (forced exposure or voluntary choice) can have differing impacts on perceptions and preferences. Compared with logical-scientific information, narratives and/or voluntary information access could help to reduce the opposition to biotechnology. Keywords: Biotechnology Communication, Choice Experiment, Information Framing Effect, Narratives Acknowledgement : The authors would like to acknowledge the assistance of the Social Sciences Research Laboratories (SSRL) at the University of Saskatchewan in collecting the data. Funding support from AFBI (Alliance for Food and Bioproducts Innovation) Scholars Program, Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture is also acknowledged.
Age of the Universe in the Cardassian Model
Creators: name: Savage, Christopher
name: Sugiyama, Noriyuki
name: Freese, Katherine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The age of the universe is obtained in a subset of Cardassian models by using WMAP data. Cardassian expansion is a modification to the Friedmann equation that allows the universe to be flat, matter dominated, and accelerating, without a vacuum component. Since this model changes the evolution of the universe, we should not a priori expect the Cardassian age to be the same as the WMAP Friedmann derived result of 13.7 +/- 0.2 Gyrs. However, in the subset of Cardassian models we consider, we discover that the age of the universe varies from 13.4 - 13.8 Gyr over the range of parameter space we explore, a result close to that of the standard Lambda Cold Dark Matter model. The Hubble constant h, which may also vary in these models, likewise varies little from the Friedmann result.
description: 11 pages, two eps figures. v2: clarified choice of parameters, other minor changes. v3: added references, other changes to match version to be published in JCAP
title: The Legacy of the Controversies: The Continuing Impact on Interfaith Encounters in Sri Lanka of Nineteenth-Century controversies between Buddhists and Christians
Creators: name: Vasanthakumar, Michael Solomon
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2001

description: The Buddhist-Christian encounter of the late nineteenth-century Sri Lanka was an important episode in the history of the country. The nineteenth-century Christian missionaries who were influenced by the eighteenth-century Enlightenment legacy forced the Buddhist monks to engage in debates with them on the relative merits of both religions with the view to demonstrating the superiority and authenticity of their religion and Christianising Sri Lanka. However, it became counterproductive and inspired a revival in Buddhism instead of winning Buddhists to Christianity. The outcome of those controversies still affects the Buddhist-Christian relationship in Sri Lanka. Since the major hindrance to the harmonious co-existence of the Buddhist and Christian communities was the continuing impact of the nineteenth-century controversies, this dissertation makes an attempt to discover the causes, origin, and consequences of those controversies, and to analyse them in order to trace its legacy and impact on the development of both religious communities and their faith to the present day.

 In Chapter One, the British missionaries’ encounters with the Buddhists are described in order to highlight the dramatic changes that took place in the Buddhist attitude towards Christianity. The inclusive and tolerant spirit of the Buddhists was provoked to such an extent that they abandoned their traditional approach to other religions and adopted the methodology of the missionaries in condemning Christianity and eventually met the Christians in public debates. A critical analysis of the subjects that were debated in the controversies is given in the second chapter. Each party criticised and ridiculed their opponent’s religions. Both parties used their intellectual skills and religious knowledge to demonstrate that their religion was superior and authentic.

The Buddhists with their oratorical skills and knowledge of Western biblical criticism defeated the Christians in the public debates. Since this victory gave tremendous confidence and enthusiasm to the Buddhists, they began to revive and reform their religion by utilising the methods used by the Christian missionaries while undermining Christian faith and mission. This development in Buddhism is analysed in the third chapter. In the fourth chapter, the contemporary Buddhist attitude towards Christian doctrines and mission is analysed since the nineteenth-century controversies conditioned the Buddhist perception of Christianity even to the present day. The dissertation concludes by reflecting on the controversies and their continuing impact upon contemporary Buddhist-Christian relationship in Sri Lanka and recommending a context-sensitive attitude and approach in contemporary interfaith encounters.
Excepional Points from Hamiltonians of hybrid physical systems: Squeezing and anti-Squeezing
Creators: name: Ramirez, Romina
name: Reboiro, Marta
name: Tielas, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the appearance of Exceptional Points in a hybrid system composed of a superconducting flux-qubit and an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy colour centres in diamond. We discuss the possibility of controlling the generation of Exceptional Points, by the analysis of the model space parameters. One of the characteristic features of the presence of Exceptional Points, it is the departure from the exponential decay behaviour of the observables as a function of time. We study the time evolution of different initial states, in the presence of the hybrid system, by computing the reduced density matrix of each subsystem. We present the results we have obtained for the steady behaviour of different observables. We analyse the appearance of Squeezed Spin States and of anti-Squeezed Spin States.
Appendix 2 : Detailed bibliographic search strategy
Creators: name: FISCHER, Matthieu
name: BUI, Emilie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This appendix provides a detailed overview of the methodologies and search strategies employed across various databases, including PubMed, Embase, and others, to gather literature on the impact of direct access to physical therapy on primary care practices, with a particular focus on musculoskeletal disorders.

It outlines the specific filters applied, justifications for their use, and the limitations encountered during the search process. Additionally, it presents the results obtained from each database, ensuring a thorough and systematic approach to the research.

The content is presented in English to facilitate international readability, while the second part of the document contains the original French version of the study, providing a comprehensive view of the research methodology and findings.
The analogy of K-correction in the topic of gamma-ray bursts
Creators: name: Borvák, Levente
name: Mészáros, Attila
name: Řípa, Jakub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well-known that there are two types of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs): short/hard and long/soft ones, respectively. The long GRBs are coupled to supernovae, but the short ones are associated with the so called macronovae (also known as kilonovae), which can serve as the sources of gravitational waves as well. The kilonovae can arise from the merging of two neutron-stars. The neutron stars can be substituded by more massive black holes as well. Hence, the topic of gamma-ray bursts (mainly the topic of short ones) and the topic of massive binaries, are strongly connected. In this contribution, the redshifts of GRBs are studied. The surprising result - namely that the apparently fainter GRBs can be in average at smaller distances - is discussed again. In essence, the results of Mészáros et al. (2011) are studied again using newer samples of GRBs. The former result is confirmed by the newer data.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures, published in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Hypothenemus plumeriae
Creators: name: Atkinson, Thomas H.
name: Flechtmann, Carlos A. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Hypothenemus
Hypothenemus plumeriae

description: Hypothenemus plumeriae (Nordlinger, 1856), status restored
 Bostrichus plumeriae Nordlinger 1856: 74
 Hypothenemus plumeriae (Nordlinger). Wood and Bright 1992: 938. Complete synonymy given.
 Hypothenemus eruditus Westwood 1834. Bright 2019: 136 plumeriae = eruditus
 Stephanoderes parallelus Hopkins, 1915: 25. New synonymy.
 Wood (1982: 905) questioned the validity of H. parallelus and suggested that it might be a synonym of H. eruditus Westwood. Later he suggested that it might be synonymous with H. plumeriae (Wood 2007). Large numbers of specimens of H. plumeriae were collected from traps in Brazil by the second author and collaborators and we were concerned that the differences given in his 2007 key between H. parallelus and H. plumeriae were extremely minor and variable. The holotype of S. parallelus (USNM) was compared by the first author with those of S. cylindricus Hopkins (USNM), H. pallidus Hopkins (USNM), and H. guadaloupensis Schedl (USNM), all of which have previously been synonymized with H. plumeriae by Wood. Likewise, all of the specimens in Wood’s collection identified as H. plumeriae were studied. We conclude that parallelus Hopkins falls within the range of H. plumeriae sensu Wood (2007). Bright (2019: 136) treated H. plumeriae as a synonym of eruditus Westwood without mentioning H. parallelus because the small frontal elevation on the frons was difficult to see. While this character is subtle, it is consistent and typical “ eruditus ” and “ plumeriae ” are often found in the same trap samples with no intergradation. There is a great deal of variation within what is currently referred to H. eruditus which is most likely a complex of cryptic species (Kambestad et al. 2017), but all of these forms have the frons completely convex apart from a slight transverse impression above the epistoma. In specimens of H. plumeriae there is a distinct concavity above the epistoma with an impunctate elevation above it in the middle of the frons.
description: Published as part of Atkinson, Thomas H. & Flechtmann, Carlos A. H., 2021, New species, new records and synonymy of Brazilian species of Hypothenemus Westwood, 1834 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), pp. 1-33 in Insecta Mundi 2021 (846) on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5041370
title: Characterisation of HIV-specific Immunity in a Cohort of High-risk Kenyan Sex Workers
Creators: name: Kaul, Rupert
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2002

description: A clearer understanding of HIV-specific immune responses in highly-exposed, persistently seronegative (HEPS) subjects is important in developing models of HIV-l protective immunity, and ultimately for vaccine development. Various HIV-specific immune responses have been described in HEPS cohorts, including cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses, T helper (Th) responses, and IgA specific for HIV-1 envelope proteins. The presence and correlates of these responses were examined in a Kenyan cohort of HEPS sex workers, and the frequency, specificity, and clinical significance of HTV-specific CD8+ responses were studied. Systemic HIV-1 Env-specific CTL and CD8+ lymphocyte responses against predefined CTL epitopes were present in most HEPS sex workers, as were HIV-1 Env-specific IgA and Th responses. The proportion of HEPS women with HIV-specific CTL or CD8+ responses increased with the duration of uninfected sex work, suggesting that responses were acquired over time. CD8+ responses were also found in the genital tract of HEPS sex workers, where they were enhanced in comparison to seropositive women. Overall, while systemic CD8+ responses in HEPS women were approximately tenfold weaker than those in infected women, they also targeted different epitopes. This suggests that qualitative rather than quantitative differences may explain HIV-1 protection. Several HIV-1 ‘resistant’ sex workers became infected by HTV-1 despite pre-existing HIV-specific immune responses (CTL, CD8+ responses, and/or IgA), possibly related to the waning of HIV-specific immunity after a temporary break from sex work. These findings imply that vaccine-induced protective HIV immunity may be possible, but that vaccine strategies of boosting or persistent antigen may be necessary for long-lived protection.
Determinants of Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change among Rice Farmers in Southwestern Nigeria: A Multivariate Probit Approach
Creators: name: Ojo, T.
name: Baiyegunhi, L.
name: Ojo, T.
name: Baiyegunhi, L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The study analyzed the determinants of rice farmers climate change adaptation strategies in Southwestern Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was used to collect cross sectional data from 360 rice farmers selected from three States in the region. Out of 11 adaptation strategies identified by the farmers, the five main identified adaptation strategy options were subsequently used as the dependent variables in the multivariate probit model. The result of the Multivariate Probit Model indicated that some household characteristics, access to services and location significant and statistically influenced the choice of adaptation strategies employed by the farmers in the study area. It is obvious the farmers are aware of long-term changes in climatic factors (temperature and rainfall, for example), they are unable to identify these changes as climate change. However, the positive pair wise correlation matrix from the MVP model indicate complementarities among all the adaptation strategies used by the farmers. The government could build the capacity of agricultural extension systems and make available climate change education scheme with ICT innovations. Government policies and investment strategies must be geared towards the support of education, credit and information about adaptation to climate change, including technological and institutional methods, particularly for smallholder farmers in the country. Acknowledgement :
The role of institutions in international coconut trade: a gravity model approach
Creators: name: Lin, J.
name: Lin, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: There is hardly a debate surrounding the influence of institutional quality on a country s economy. In the last few decades, many studies have attempted to assess the effects of institutions on international trade. Yet, few studies have attempted to look at single commodities. We study the role of different institutional actors on global trade of coconuts products. The coconuts trade has its history from colonial roots and has recently been changed by the trend of branding coconuts as a healthy alternative to other oil fats. We utilize an extended gravity model to measure how institutions affect the trade performance of 26 coconut exporting countries to the top three coconut importing countries. We fail to find a significance when measuring the effect of the quality of domestic institutions on the coconut trade flow. At the same time, foreign institutions can have an influence through agreements such as the EU-ACP partnership. Acknowledgement : I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel for his guidance and encouragement thourghout the process of this paper. I would also like to acknolwedge Luis de los Santos for the many inspiring discussions that we've had during the past year. Thank you to Dela-Dem Doe Fiankor and Eva Hasiner for assistsing me on the specifics of the gravity model. Thanks also to everyone at GlobalFood RTG for all the thought provoking discussions!
Hylaeus incongruus Forster 1871
Creators: name: Gérard, Maxence
name: Fiordaliso, William
name: Ferrais, Louise
name: Fournier, Chloé
name: Hairault, Malo
name: Lheureux, Lise
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Hylaeus
Hylaeus incongruus

description: Hylaeus incongruus Forster, 1871
Conservation status
DD
description: Published as part of Gérard, Maxence, Fiordaliso, William, Ferrais, Louise, Fournier, Chloé, Hairault, Malo, Lheureux, Lise, Rosa, Paolo & Ghisbain, Guillaume, 2025, Wild bee diversity of the National Park of the Semois Valley (Belgium), pp. e 144223 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e144223, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e144223
Heterogeneous Demand for Quality Soybean in Northern Ghana
Creators: name: Martey, E.
name: Martey, E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Agricultural commercialization is considered a critical pathway for economic development in Sub Saharan Africa. However, lack of market information and poor infrastructure may impede this development. We employ discrete choice models to investigate traders preferences for high quality soybean traits and explore heterogeneity across traders using primary data from northern Ghana. Random parameter logit (RPL) and latent class logit (LCL) models were both fit to the data and used to estimate marginal willingness to pay (MWTP) for soybean trade attributes. Results suggest that traders significantly discount the price of soybean attributes such as light brown, small size, varieties other than Jenguma" and soybean mixed with foreign materials like stones, straw and husk. However, traders were willing to pay a higher price for a bag of soybean that meets all the preferred trade attributes. We also find significant heterogeneity among traders explained partly by socioeconomic and trade characteristics of the respondents. Three distinct classes were identified per the LCL results with unique preferences, suggesting both skepticism and high price discounting. To ensure consistent information on quality and price of soybean among supply chain actors, there is the need for establishment of multi-stakeholder platform for consensus building on quality standards. Acknowledgement : This material is based upon work supported by the United States Agency for International Development, as part of the Feed the Future initiative, under the CGIAR Fund, award number BFS?G?11?00002, and the predecessor fund the Food Security and Crisis Mitigation II grant, award number EEM?G?00?04?00013. The data was partly funded by the Office of International Program (OIP), UIUC; Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL) and the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI).
title: Neural Networks and Nonlinear Optimisation Applied to the Approximation of Functions
Creators: name: Hamilton-Hopkins, Graham M.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2002

description: The literature abounds with papers on the subject of function approximation using neural networks. Many of these attempt to improve some aspect of the approximation by imposing a constraint, or introducing a new algorithm.
 The underlying strategy of our work has been to attempt to pull together some of these strands as part of an overall aim of establishing the parameters of networks which will be more robust function approximators.
 The underlying strategy of our work has been to attempt to pull together some of these strands as part of an overall aim of establishing the parameters of networks which will be more robust function approximators.
 Rather than exploring a few topics in depth, the scope has been broad; searching for more general properties and behaviour of different networks, with a view to designing more focused studies in the future.
 We studied the ability of neural networks with different architectures, and with either sigmoid or radial basis node activation functions, to approximate a variety of target functions. Some of the properties of these networks were investigated by studying the behaviour of the networks’ variables during training.
Smart Polymeric Recognition of a Hexagonal Monolayer
Creators: name: Liewehr, Benjamin
name: Bachmann, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the adsorption of a flexible polymer at a hexagonally patterned monolayer. All conformational polymer phases are identified, which enables the construction of a hyperphase diagram, parameterized by temperature and monolayer adsorption strength. The energy scale associated with the adsorption strength is a material parameter of the hybrid system that generically accommodates the behavior of entire classes of polymers interacting with hexagonal substrates. We also discuss a bridge-building mechanism for the formation of unique layered polymer structures with potential for applications in nanoscale transport. High-quality data sets necessary for the statistical analysis of the structural phase behavior of the system were obtained in extensive generalized-ensemble Monte Carlo computer simulations.