cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Agricultural productivity in New Zealand: First estimates from the Longitudinal Business Database
Creators: name: Apatov, Eyal
name: Fabling, Richard
name: Jaffe, Adam
name: Morris, Michele
name: Thirtkettle, Matt
name: Apatov, Eyal
name: Fabling, Richard
name: Jaffe, Adam
name: Morris, Michele
name: Thirtkettle, Matt
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Firm-level productivity
subject: dairying
subject: sheep-beef farming
subject: Translog
subject: fixed effects

description: Exports of dairy and sheep/beef products account for over 40% of New Zealand's aggregate merchandise exports. As a consequence, the performance of farms in these industries has a significant impact on the New Zealand economy. In this study, we link financial and agricultural data from the New Zealand Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) to estimate production functions of dairy and sheep/beef firms in New Zealand. Overall, we find that the data enables us to explain much of the industry-level variation in productivity and output, offering greater flexibility and insight than simply examining the official (aggregated) statistics. We find that variation in output can be largely explained by variation in capital, labour, intermediate expenditure, and productive land. We also find differences across industries in the way various farm practices (e.g. stocking rates, fertilizer use, supplementary activities, etc.) and area characteristics (including weather) relate to output. Finally, we find that estimating firm productivity at the industry level is less likely to accurately model the relationships for some sub-groups of firms (e.g. firms with different land size). We believe that our methodology could be useful for future studies addressing research questions relevant to this sector.
A comparative study of distillery spent wash with NPK (standard chemical fertilizers) at seedling stage of sorghum (Sorghum Bicolor L.)
Creators: name: Aijaz, Ahmed Soomro
name: Ayaz, Ahmed Soomro
name: Aijaz, Ahmed Soomro
name: Ayaz, Ahmed Soomro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Distillery spent wash
subject: sorghum
subject: root
subject: shoot
subject: NPK

description: The price of commercial chemical fertilizers is beyond the purchasing power of farming community of world’s developing countries. Therefore, to find out the substitute of these commercial chemical fertilizers a comparative study was conducted at seedling stage of sorghum variety named Sarokartuho in seed testing laboratory. The experiment was carried out in completely randomized design (CRD) with three replications and three treatments, i.e. only drinking water (as check), recommended dose of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium (NPK commercial fertilizer), 30%+70% of distillery spent wash + water, 50%+50% distillery spent wash + water respectively. The results for spent wash (T2) were at seed germination% (95.33%), shoot length (6.62 cm), root length (5.49 cm), shoot fresh weight (0.18 mg), root fresh weight (0.019 mg), shoot dry weight (0.017 mg) and root-dry weight (0.005 mg) of sorghum. However, the maximum values for these all traits of observations except seed germination were recorded at recommended dose of NPK (chemical fertilizers).
Non-iterative methods to estimate the in-flight noise properties of CMB detectors
Creators: name: Natoli, P.
name: Marinucci, D.
name: Cabella, P.
name: de Gasperis, G.
name: Vittorio, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new approach for statistical inference on noise properties of CMB anisotropy data. We consider a Maximum Likelihood parametric estimator to recover the full dependence structure of the noise process. We also consider a semiparametric procedure which is only sensitive to the low frequency behavior of the noise spectral density. Both approaches are statistically robust and computationally convenient in the case of long memory noise, even under nonstationary circumstances. We show that noise properties can be consistently derived by such procedures without resorting to currently used iterative noise-signal methods. More importantly, we show that optimal (GLS) CMB maps can be obtained from the observed timestream with the only knowledge of the noise memory parameter, the outcome of our estimators.
description: Minor corrections. A&A in press
Digitale Zwillinge in der Industrie 4.0 : Gegenüberstellung der Softwarepakete SIMIT und Factory IO
Creators: name: Dorta Pérez, Rico
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Vergleich der Simulationssoftware
subject: SIMIT
subject: Factory IO
subject: Schaffung eines digitalen Zwillings
subject: Erstellung und Programmierung einer Förderstrecke
subject: 005
subject: 629

description: Das Ziel dieser Bachelorarbeit besteht darin, einen detaillierten Vergleich zwischen den Simulationssoftwarepaketen SIMIT und Factory IO durchzuführen. Hierbei wird jeweils ein Anlagenmodell erstellt, das die Grundlage für die Schaffung eines digitalen Zwillings bildet. Dieser Ansatz dient dazu, einen Einblick in die vielseitige Welt der digitalen Zwillinge zu gewinnen und ihre praktische Anwendung zu untersuchen. Aufgrund von Budgetbeschränkungen und nicht vorhandener Lizenzen wird das Anlagenmodell "Sortieranlage" in der SIMIT Simulationsplattform durch ein Modell aus einem Projektheft des Verlags der Westermann Gruppe ersetzt, dass ausschließlich als Referenzobjekt für das Modell in Factory IO dient. Daher wird eine detaillierte Untersuchung des SPS-Programms in dieser Arbeit nicht durchgeführt. Jedoch lässt sich auch dieses Modell vollumfänglich testen, sodass ein Vergleich beider Anlagen möglich ist. Die hauptsächliche praktische Tätigkeit dieser Arbeit beinhaltet die Erstellung und Programmierung einer Förderstrecke, die einen Kartonpalettierer und einen Sortierer in der Simulationssoftware Factory IO umfasst. In diesem Prozess werden Kartons in drei verschiedenen Größen zufällig ausgegeben und anschließend auf verschiedene Förderbänder entsprechend ihres Gewichts verteilt. Die Programmierung erfolgt mithilfe von CODESYS, während die Kommunikation und Datenübertragung zwischen beiden Programmen durch die Verwendung von OPC UA realisiert wird. Diese Bachelorarbeit zielt darauf ab, die Stärken und Schwächen der beiden Simulationssoftwarepakete im Hinblick auf die Erstellung digitaler Zwillinge für industrielle Anwendungen herauszuarbeiten und wertvolle Erkenntnisse zur Auswahl der geeigneten Softwarelösung zu bie-ten.
Pelmatops Enderlein 1912
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaolin
name: Zhang, Yanzhou
name: Li, Jie
name: Zhu, Chaodong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Pelmatops

description: Pelmatops Enderlein, 1912
 Pelmatops Enderlein, 1912: 355. Type-species: Achias ichneumoneus Westwood, 1850, by original designation.
 Diagnosis. Head of both sexes strongly prolonged laterally, eyes borne at the ends of stalks, the length of which usually is as long as or longer than the abdomen in males or much shorter than the abdomen in females (Fig. 2, 4); antenna shorter than face; arista plumose; chaetotaxy greatly reduced: head with one or two pairs of vertical setae; thorax with only one pair of apical scutellar setae, one pair of scapular and two notopleural setae, postsutural supra-alar, postalar, intra-alar, and anepisternal setae presenr; postpronotal seta present or absent; anatergite covered with fine and long erect microtrichia; wing predominantly hyaline tinged with illdefined pale yellowish-brown markings; cell sc yellow-brown; vein R 4+5 sparsely setose up to slightly beyond level of crossvein R-M, the latter situated well beyond middle of cell dm; legs slender and long, femora lacking setae or spines ventrally; abdomen elongate, syntergite 1+2 nearly parallel-sided. Metathoracic postcoxal bridge broadly sclerotised. Female terminalia: oviscape tapering and somewhat cylindrical; aculeus more or less rectangular in ventral view, apically tapered to relatively sharp tip and with 4 large, broad serrations on lateral margin. Male terminalia: epandrium large and broad, nearly oval in posterior view; lateral surstylus small and short, apex rounded in lateral view; medial surstylus with 1 black prensiseta.
 Pelmatops is very similar to Pseudopelmatops Shiraki in general appearance, especially in having the head being strongly prolonged laterally, eyes borne at the ends of stalks; chaetotaxy of head and thorax reduced; femora lacking setae or spines ventrally; and abdomen long and slender, syntergite 1+2 almost parallel-sided, about equal in length to tergites 3-5. It differs by the absence of orbital and genal setae, the eye stalks comparatively long in males, aculeus apically tapered to relatively sharp tip and with 4 large, broad serrations on each side in female.
Three species are known and restricted to the Oriental Region.
description: Published as part of Chen, Xiaolin, Zhang, Yanzhou, Li, Jie & Zhu, Chaodong, 2010, A review of stalk-eyed fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetinae), pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 2654 (1) on pages 2-3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2654.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5301417
Meldedaten und KiTa-Register ergänzen sich in der Bewertung der Dynamik der SARS-CoV-2-Ausbrüche in Kindertageseinrichtungen
Creators: name: Lehfeld, Ann-Sophie
name: Buchholz, Udo
name: Grgic, Mariana
name: Neuberger, Franz
name: Kruger, Susanne
name: Diercke, Michaela
name: Rexroth, Ute
name: Hamouda, Osamah
name: Haas, Walter
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: COVID-19
subject: SARS-CoV-2-Ausbruch
subject: KiTa-Register
subject: Kindertagesbetreuung
subject: Surveillance
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Daten zu SARS-CoV-2-bedingten Ausbrüchen in Kitas können wichtige Hinweise zur Einschätzung des Infektionsgeschehens im Kita-Setting liefern und sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil in der Gesamtbewertung des Pandemiegeschehens. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wurden SARS-CoV-2-Ausbrüche in Kitas anhand der Daten aus zwei verschiedenen Systemen (IfSG-Meldedaten und KiTa-Register) untersucht.
Investigation of high voltage discharges in low pressure gases through large ceramic superconducting electrodes
Creators: name: Podkletnov, Evgeny
name: Modanese, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A device has been built and tested, in which a ceramic superconducting cathode and a copper anode cause electrical discharges in low pressure gases, at temperatures between 50 and 70 K. The electrodes are connected to a capacitors array charged up to 2000 kV; peak currents are of the order of 10^4 A. The cathode has the diameter of 10 cm and is fabricated by OCMTG technology. In discharges at voltage above 500 kV two new phenomena were observed, probably related to each other. First, the discharge does not look like a spark, but is a flat, glowing discharge, which originates from the whole surface of the superconducting electrode. Furthermore, a radiation pulse is emitted at the discharge, which propagates orthogonally to the cathode, towards the anode and beyond it, in a collimated beam, apparently without any attenuation. The radiation pulse carries an energy of 10^-3 J at least. The features and the nature of this radiation have been investigated by several means, still it was not possible to identify it; we can only exclude that it is electromagnetic radiation or any other radiation with energy-momentum relationship E=cp.
description: PDF, 18 pages, 5 figures. Final journal version. Regrettably, there are two misprints. The correct version is as follows. Page 8, 1st paragraph: "Taking an emitter area ... one finds j=10^6 A/m." Page 8, 2nd paragraph: "The electrostatic energy ... is of the order of 10^3 J."
Super Yang-Mills With Flavors From Large N_f Matrix Models
Creators: name: Hofman, Christiaan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the exact effective superpotential of N=1 U(N_c) super Yang-Mills theory with N_f massive flavors an additional adjoint Higgs field. We use the proposal of Dijkgraaf and Vafa to calculate the superpotential in terms of a matrix model with a large number of flavors. We do this by gauging the flavor symmetry and forcing this sector in a classical vacuum. This gives rise to a 2-matrix model of ADE type A_2, and large flavors. This approach allows us to add an arbitrary polynomial tree level superpotential for the Higgs field, and use strict large N methods in the matrix model.
description: 17 p. LaTeX, 17 p. v2: ref added, typos corrected. v3: typos corrected. v4: typos corrected, extended discussion on classical solutions
Effect of forest ecotourism on socioeconmic conditions of local community
Creators: name: Rukhsana, Kausar
name: Sarwat N., Mirza
name: Saira, Akhtar
name: Rukhsana, Kausar
name: Sarwat N., Mirza
name: Saira, Akhtar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Forest
subject: ecotourism
subject: nature conservation

description: Pakistan is having scarcity of forests, with the total area covered under forest being 5%, while it must be 25%. Inspite of the fact that we have to protect and expand our forests, many other alternative land cover and land use practices are going to be more common. Current study is a part of that effort. To have panel discussion and interviews of activists and key persons of the rural areas in the vicinity of major ecotourism spots that is Mall, Bhurban, Patriata 2-3 workshops were arranged in which a semi structured questionnaire was followed to assess the role of ecotourism in the livelihood and socioeconomic conditions of the local community. This study shows that most of the people get 5000-10000 ($49.30-98.60), rupees increase in the income per month while some earn 11000-20000 ($108.45-197.19). Even (4%, who have rented houses and restaurants) think that the raise of income is PKR 21000-50000($207.5-492.98). The local villager’s perceptions about the ecological negative and positive aspects of ecotourism show that the forest based tourism has more positive effects on the lives of people as well as for biodiversity and nature conservation, as it develops the wildlife reserves, promotes the awareness of forests, environment and biodiversity, it also proves a good source of knowledge and motivation of visitors that increases the stewardship, to love and conserve natural resources.
The $O(N)$ Model in $4
Creators: name: Giombi, Simone
name: Huang, Richard
name: Klebanov, Igor R.
name: Pufu, Silviu S.
name: Tarnopolsky, Grigory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the scalar $O(N)$ model in the dimension range $4
description: 56 pages, 4 figures; v2: refs added, minor improvements; v3: minor changes, journal version
GIS and remote sensing techniques for measuring agriculture land loss in balik pulau region of Penang state, Malaysia
Creators: name: Khalid, Sabbar Mohammed
name: Yasin, Elhadary
name: Narimah, Samat
name: Najat, Qader Omar
name: Khalid, Sabbar Mohammed
name: Yasin, Elhadary
name: Narimah, Samat
name: Najat, Qader Omar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Agriculture
subject: urbanization
subject: land use changes
subject: GIS
subject: remote sensing
subject: Malaysia

description: Currently, Malaysia like other Asian countries has experienced rapid expansion of urbanization due to economic development, industrialization, massive migrations as well as natural population growth. This expansion particularly unplanned consumed a huge amount of arable land in the urban milieu and in its surrounding areas. This paper aims to measure arable land loss due to massive urbanization in Balik Pulau region of Penang State, Malaysia. Landsat TM (Thematic Mapper) images of 1992 and 2002 at the resolution of 30 m and Landsat ETM (Enhanced Thematic Mapper) 2010 have been used to measure the rate of urban expansion and its impact on agricultural land. The integration of Remote Sensing and Geographical information system GIS were used to quantify the conversion of arable land to built-up areas in Penang State. The result reveals that built-up areas have expanded rapidly during the last four decades at the expense of agricultural land in Balik Pulau Region. Built-up areas had increased from 1793.22 ha in 1992 to 3235.38 ha in 2002, while agricultural areas decreased from 6171.32 to 4727.83 ha during the same period. The expansion of Built-up area is directed towards low-lying areas with less topographical barrier causing heavy loss in productive land and environmental degradation. In order to safeguard the environment and maintain arable land, urbanization should be controlled and rationalized through legislative measures, wise policy and public awareness. More attention should be given to the areas that have witnessed massive urbanization and coordination between various sectors involved in development is a must.
Periodic Chaotic Billiards: Quantum-Classical Correspondence in Energy Space
Creators: name: Luna-Acosta, G. A.
name: Méndez-Bermúdez, J. A.
name: Izrailev, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the properties of eigenstates and local density of states (LDOS) for a periodic 2D rippled billiard, focusing on their quantum-classical correspondence in energy representation. To construct the classical counterparts of LDOS and the structure of eigenstates (SES), the effects of the boundary are first incorporated (via a canonical transformation) into an effective potential, rendering the one-particle motion in the 2D rippled billiard equivalent to that of two-interacting particles in 1D geometry. We show that classical counterparts of SES and LDOS in the case of strong chaotic motion reveal quite a good correspondence with the quantum quantities. We also show that the main features of the SES and LDOS can be explained in terms of the underlying classical dynamics, in particular of certain periodic orbits. On the other hand, statistical properties of eigenstates and LDOS turn out to be different from those prescribed by random matrix theory. We discuss the quantum effects responsible for the non-ergodic character of the eigenstates and individual LDOS that seem to be generic for this type of billiards with a large number of transverse channels.
description: 13 pages, 18 figures
Robust stimulated Raman exact passage using shaped pulses
Creators: name: Laforgue, Xavier
name: Guérin, Stéphane
name: Chen, Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We developed single-shot shaped pulses for ultra high fidelity (UH-fidelity) population transfer on a 3-level quantum system in lambda configuration. To ensure high fidelity, we use the Lewis-Riesenfeld (L-R) method to derive a family of solutions leading to an exact transfer, where the solutions follow a single dynamical mode of the L-R invariant. Among this family, we identify a tracking solution with a single parameter to control simultaneously the fidelity of the transfer, the population of the excited state, and robustness. We define a measure of the robustness of an UH-fidelity transfer as the minimum percentile deviation on the pulse areas at which the infidelity rises above $10^{-4}$. The robustness of our shaped pulses is found superior to that of Gaussian and adiabatically-optimized pulses for moderate pulse areas.
Additional file 7: of Musical patterns for comparative epigenomics
Creators: name: Brocks, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Embryonic Stem Cell Long. (PDF 69 kb)
title: 02_1660
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Assessing the extension service needs of credit officers of microfinance banks in Anambra state: implications for rural finance intermediation
Creators: name: Onugu, Charles Uchenna
name: Taiwo, Abdulahi Olabisi
name: Agbasi, Obianuju E.
name: Lawal, Kamaldeen
name: Onugu, Charles Uchenna
name: Taiwo, Abdulahi Olabisi
name: Agbasi, Obianuju E.
name: Lawal, Kamaldeen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Micro finance banks
subject: rural finance intermediation
subject: credit officers
subject: credit extension service

description: The credit officers of Microfinance Banks (MFBs) are key players in rural finance intermediation for economic development. The paper assessed their extension service needs in Anambra State. Thirty-six (36) credit officers drawn from eleven (11) rural based MFBs in Anambra State were the respondents. Data was collected and analyzed using descriptive statistics of simple percentage, frequency table and mean. Three (3) hypotheses were tested with the use of Chi square (x2). The findings of the study revealed that the credit officers are sufficiently knowledgeable about credit extension service delivery. However, they were found not involved in designing, and implementation of effective credit policies for their clients. Also, they are not adequately motivated to carry out their duties. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the board of directors and management of the MFBs should provide capacity building program for credit officers to improve and sustain their knowledge and skills, also they should improve their welfare especially, attractive and encouraging salary, incentives and insurance cover which are paramount to performance.
ПСИХОЛОГО-ПЕДАГОГІЧНІ ІННОВАЦІЙНІ ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ В РЕАЛІЗАЦІЇ БАЗОВОГО КОМПОНЕНТА ДОШКІЛЬНОЇ ОСВІТИ
Creators: name: Грубська Я. І.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Дошкільна освіта повинна гнучко реагувати на сучасні соціокультурні запити, збагачувати знання дитини необхідною якісною інформацією, допомагати їй реалізувати свій природний потенціал, орієнтуватися у загальнолюдських і національних цінностях. Основним її завданням є своєчасне становлення і повноцінний розвиток життєво-компетентної творчої особистості з раннього дитинства. Тому актуальною стала розробка Базового компонента дошкільної освіти як Державного стандарту, що визначає вимоги до рівня розвиненості, освіченості та вихованості дитини 6 (7) років як сумарний показник набутих компетенцій випускником дошкільного навчального закладу перед вступом його до школи. Зміст Базового компонента побудовано відповідно до вікових можливостей дітей на основі компетентнісного підходу, тобто спрямованості навчально-виховного процесу на досягнення соціально закріпленого результату, що зумовлює необхідність чіткого
Technical and economic efficiency of rice production in the KOU valley (Burkina Faso): Stochastic frontier approach
Creators: name: Souleymane, Ouedraogo
name: Souleymane, Ouedraogo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Technical efficiency
subject: allocative efficiency
subject: economic efficiency
subject: rice
subject: Kou valley
subject: Burkina Faso

description: The present paper seeks to deal with the issue of technical and economic efficiency of rice producers in the Kou valley, located in the region of the high basins in the western part of Burkina Faso. The stochastic frontier approach was used to estimate the production function, from a Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier function and its dual which allow the estimation of the technical, allocative and economic efficiencies. The determinants of efficiency were simultaneously assessed along with the frontier functions through the FRONTIER 4.1 software. The data used herein are from a survey encompassing 130 rice producers, randomly chosen. Results show that farm size, fertilizer used, years of experience and literacy are the explicative factors of rice production in the Kou valley. The costs of the different production factors significantly contribute to explain the total production cost, and that is in concordance with the economic theory. The technical, allocative and economic efficiencies of producers are, on average, 80.15%, 92.7% and 74.43% respectively. A 25% improvement of rice production is possible if producers optimize their economic efficiency.
Pseudopelmatops Shiraki 1933
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaolin
name: Zhang, Yanzhou
name: Li, Jie
name: Zhu, Chaodong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Pseudopelmatops

description: Pseudopelmatops Shiraki
 Pseudopelmatops Shiraki, 1933: 49. Type-species: P. nigricostalis Shiraki, 1933, by original designation.
 Diagnosis. This is another distinctive genus of Tephritidae characterized by the head of both sexes prolonged laterally, eyes borne at the ends of stalks, the eye stalk in the male shorter than the abdomen (Fig.6, 8,9); antenna almost equal to face or longer than face; arista plumose; chaetotaxy reduced: head with orbital, medial vertical and genal setae present, frontal setae present or absent; thorax with 1 notopleural, 1 postalar and 1 apical scutellar setae present; anatergite covered with fine erect setulae; wing predominantly hyaline; cell sc yellow-brown; vein R 4+5 bare or setose; legs slender and long, femora lacking setae or spines ventrally; abdomen elongate, syntergite 1+2 nearly parallel-sided. Metathoracic postcoxal bridge broadly sclerotised. Female terminalia: oviscape yellow-brown, tapering and somewhat cylindrical, aculeus more or less rectangular in ventral view, with a small and round apex, apicolaterally not serrated. Male terminalia: epandrium large and broad, rounded in posterior view; lateral surstylus small and short, apex rounded in lateral view; medial surstylus with 1 black prensiseta.
 Pseudopelmatops is closely related to Pelmatops Enderlein in the head being strongly prolonged laterally, eyes borne at the ends of stalks; chaetotaxy of head and thorax reduced; femora lacking setae or spines ventrally; and abdomen long and slender, syntergite 1+2 almost parallel-sided, about equal in length to tergites 3–5. It can be recognized by the presence of orbital setae; the eye stalk in the male distinctly shorter than the abdomen; palpus narrow, parallel-sided and densely covered with strong, black setulae (except for Ps. indiaensis Chen sp. nov.).
Five species are known and restricted to the Oriental Region.
description: Published as part of Chen, Xiaolin, Zhang, Yanzhou, Li, Jie & Zhu, Chaodong, 2010, A review of stalk-eyed fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetinae), pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 2654 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2654.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5301417
Universal Upper Bound on the Inflationary Energy Scale from the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture
Creators: name: Mizuno, Shuntaro
name: Mukohyama, Shinji
name: Pi, Shi
name: Zhang, Yun-Long
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the constraint on the inflationary energy scale from the recently proposed Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC). We find a universal upper bound on the inflationary Hubble expansion rate $H_\text{inf}$ which is solely determined by the reheating temperature $T_\text{rh}$: $H_\text{inf}/M_\text{Pl}\lesssim T_0/T_\text{rh}$, where $T_0$ is the photon temperature today. The upper limit can be saturated by a post-inflationary oscillatory stage with the critical equation-of-state parameter $w\approx-1/3$, or by an inflation model with multiple stages. In the lowest reheating temperature required for big bang nucleosynthesis, the upper bound on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ at the CMB scales is $r\lesssim10^{-8}$, which can be realized in many string-inspired inflation models.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Mkn 463 field observed by BeppoSAX
Creators: name: Landi, R.
name: Bassani, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present the observation of the Mkn 463 field performed with the MECS instrument on-board BeppoSAX in the 1.8-10.5 keV band. The Mkn 463 field is an example of an extragalactic field crowded with absorbed X-ray sources: apart from the Seyfert 2 galaxy Mkn 463 and the well known QSO PG 1352+183 (the only object showing no absorption), two other objects are detected with a column density in excess to the galactic value. The first 1SAX J1353.9+1820 is a red QSO from the BeppoSAX High Energy Large Area Survey (HELLAS). The second 1SAX J1355.4+1815 is optically unidentified, but its X-ray spectral characteristics indicate that it too is an AGN hidden behind a large column density.
description: 5 pages, 3 PostScript figures, LaTeX manuscript, new A&A file style included, accepted for publication on Astronomy and Astrophysics
Entitlement to food security approach explaining food security in the southern highlands of Tanzania more than other theories
Creators: name: Dorah, H. Mende
name: Maulid, W. Mwatawala
name: Kim, A. Kayunze
name: Dorah, H. Mende
name: Maulid, W. Mwatawala
name: Kim, A. Kayunze
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Entitlement
subject: food security theories
subject: Southern highlands
subject: Tanzania

description: Data for this paper were collected in Mbeya and Makete Districts, Tanzania, in 2012 from 233 households with the specific objectives to determine proportions of food secure and food insecure households; rank some indicators of entitlements and those of Malthusians, Anti-Malthusians and Woldemeskel’s contentions with regard to their relationship with food security; and determine the impact of the above indicators on dietary energy consumed per adult equivalent per day, which was the dependent variable. The independent variables were household size, number of agricultural technologies used, number of cattle owned, income from non-agricultural activities, monetary values of household assets, farmer group membership, years of schooling of household head and kilograms of fertilizer used. The dependent variable was regressed on the eight independent variables to find the impact of each of them on it. Entitlement to food security in terms numbers of cattle owned, farmers’ group membership and non-agricultural activities were found to be more important factors enhancing food security. Addressing these factors could improve food security in the study area. It is recommended that the government and policy makers should support farmers in other income generating activities besides agriculture to increase their purchasing power for higher food security.
title: Advanced highly reliable DC-DC power electronics converters for battery charging systems
Creators: name: Khan, Jamil Muhammad
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The thesis focuses on the development and analysis of advanced DC-DC converters, incorporating coupled inductors and interleaved PWM switching schemes to enhance efficiency and compactness. The proposed converters address key challenges in power conversion, including minimizing current ripples, reducing filter inductor size, and improving overall reliability. By leveraging high-frequency operation, these converters achieve smaller passive components and eliminate reverse recovery issues associated with MOSFET body diodes, enabling high-efficiency performance. A family of non-isolated converters was designed with features such as the doubling of effective switching frequency, common ground between input and output terminals, and the elimination of short-circuit risks. Furthermore, a novel single-phase non-isolated buck converter prototype demonstrated low current ripples and enhanced efficiency. Additionally, an isolated DC-DC buck converter was developed for renewable energy applications, incorporating phase-shift interleaving to reduce voltage stress and further optimize inductor size. The experimental results validate the proposed converters, showcasing their potential to significantly improve efficiency, reliability, and size for energy storage and electric vehicle battery charging systems.
Das Jugendamt als Akteur im Sozialhilfesystem der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Creators: name: Tietz, Maximilian
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Jugendamt
subject: Sozialamt
subject: Geschichte des Jugendamtes
subject: Hilfen zur Erziehung
subject: Allgemeiner Sozialer Dienst
subject: Besonderer Sozialer Dienst
subject: Kommunale Selbstverwaltung
subject: Sozialhilfe
subject: Inobhutnahme
subject: 360

description: Der Text bietet eine Übersicht über die Jugendämter in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Dabei behandelt er neben der Geschichte dieser Institution auch deren Aufgaben und ihre Organisation, wobei hier sowohl auf die Binnengliederung als auch auf ihre Verankerung in das Sozialhilfesystem eingegangen wird. Weiterführend werden bestimmte Aspekte der Zukunft und der Kritik an dieser Institution beleuchtet.
title: Intracranial and optic nerve MRI findings from methanol toxicity in a young adult male patient presenting with blurring of vision
Creators: name: Viterbo, Gerard
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Toxicity
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 21-year-old male patient was brought to the emergency room due to nausea, vomiting, and blurring of vision. A day prior, the patient had a drinking spree consuming locally-made alcohol, lambanog. Physical examination revealed only light perception on both eyes. The rest of the findings were unremarkable.

description: 21 years, male
Adaptation strategies to climate variability and change and its limitations to smallholder farmers. A literature search
Creators: name: Frank, Phillipo
name: Magreth, Bushesha
name: Zebedayo, S. K. Mvena
name: Frank, Phillipo
name: Magreth, Bushesha
name: Zebedayo, S. K. Mvena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Adaptation
subject: climate variability
subject: climate change
subject: adaptive strategies and smallholder farmer

description: In sub-Saharan Africa, knowledge on adaptation strategies to climate variability and change are scattered and fragmented due to lack of standpoints adaptation framework. This paper intends to analyse differences in adaptation strategies across agro-ecological zones, and finding out factors dictating adaptation to climate variability and change to smallholder farmers. The paper is based on documentary review methodology in which journals and books on adaptation were used as the main sources of information. The collected information were analysed by using content analysis. This paper found that smallholder farmers use a variety of practices to adapt to climate variability and change. These practices include: crop management, livestock management, diversification of livelihood strategies and land use management. Availability of extension services, climate change information and membership to social networks were among the factors identified dictating smallholder farmers adaptation to climate variability and change. The paper recommends to the Government of sub-Saharan Africa and development partners to come up with adaptation framework that takes into consideration differences in geographical location. They are needed also to provide enabling conditions to smallholder farmers through strengthening farmers’ supportive services to enhance their adaptive capacities
Molecular Wires Acting as Coherent Quantum Ratchets
Creators: name: Lehmann, Jörg
name: Kohler, Sigmund
name: Hänggi, Peter
name: Nitzan, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of laser fields on the electron transport through a molecular wire being weakly coupled to two leads is investigated. The molecular wire acts as a coherent quantum ratchet if the molecule is composed of periodically arranged, asymmetric chemical groups. This setup presents a quantum rectifier with a finite dc-response in the absence of a static bias. The nonlinear current is evaluated in closed form within the Floquet basis of the isolated, driven wire. The current response reveals multiple current reversals together with a nonlinear dependence (reflecting avoided quasi-energy crossings) on both, the amplitude and the frequency of the laser field. The current saturates for long wires at a nonzero value, while it may change sign upon decreasing its length.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX4
Free energy asymptotics of the quantum Heisenberg spin chain
Creators: name: Napiorkowski, Marcin
name: Seiringer, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the ferromagnetic quantum Heisenberg model in one dimension, for any spin $S\geq 1/2$. We give upper and lower bounds on the free energy, proving that at low temperature it is asymptotically equal to the one of an ideal Bose gas of magnons, as predicted by the spin-wave approximation. The trial state used in the upper bound yields an analogous estimate also in the case of two spatial dimensions, which is believed to be sharp at low temperature.
description: LaTeX, 22 pages; revised version
Additional file 3 of Spatial quorum sensing modelling using coloured hybrid Petri nets and simulative model checking
Creators: name: Gilbert, David
name: Heiner, Monika
name: Ghanbar, Leila
name: Chodak, Jacek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Supplementary material for model validation. Additional explanations and figures illustrating various aspects of the model validation performed. (PDF 3614 KB)
Household Market Participation Behavior in Small Ruminants in the Highlands of Ethiopia: The Role of Herd Size, Herd Structure and Institutional Services
Creators: name: Gebremedhin, Berhanu
name: Hoekstra, Dirk
name: Tegegne, Azage
name: Shiferaw, Kaleb
name: Bogale, Aklilu
name: Gebremedhin, Berhanu
name: Hoekstra, Dirk
name: Tegegne, Azage
name: Shiferaw, Kaleb
name: Bogale, Aklilu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: International Development
Land Economics/Use

description: Small ruminants, which account for more than half of the domesticated ruminants in the world, are an important component of the farming systems in most developing countries. Despite their economic and social importance, socio-economic and marketing research on small ruminants has so far been limited, a fact which also holds strongly true in Ethiopia. This study, based on survey data of 5004 Ethiopian smallholder households, uses analysis of descriptive information and econometric analysis to draw implications to promote market orientation. Econometric results are based on estimation of bivariate, ordinal, and multinomial probit models. We find that small ruminant herd size, large ruminant herd size, herd structure, access to livestock market, and involvement in the institutional services of extension and credit stand out as important factors affecting market participation behavior of households. We find optimal herd size of 41 heads of animals after which probability of participation as seller declines and an optimal herd size of 21 heads of animals after which probability of participation as buyer declines. Our results imply that an effective package of interventions to promote market oriented small ruminant production will need to include development of livestock market infrastructure and market institutions, improved access to extension and credit use, efficient animal reproduction and management, and proper animal health care.
Supplementary Results for GWAS meta-analysis of major depression (PGC MDD2025)
Creators: name: Adams, Mark James
name: Lewis, Cathryn
name: Mcintosh, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 320221
subject: Psychiatry (incl. psychotherapy)
classificationCode: 310509
subject: Genomics

description: Supplementary results tables and figures for sample QC and downstream analysis for genome-wide association study of major depression.
Tablesmulti-SNP-based conditional and joint (COJO) associations [Online Results (COJO).xlsx]fastBAT gene association tests [Online Results (fastBAT).xlsx]Hi-C chromatin mapping [Online Results (hiC).xlsx]LDSC genetic correlation estimates [Online Results (ldsc with OpenGWAS).xlsx]DrugTargetor enrichment tests [Online Results (DrugTargetor).xlsx]Figures
Principal components plots for genotyped studies [Online Results (QC PCA plot).docx]Single cell enrichment results [Online results (Bulk and Cell enrich)- combine.docx]Polygenic risk score results [Online results (various PRS plots).docx]fastBAT gene association manhattan plot [Online Results (fastBAT Manhattan).docx]
Topological Effects in Matrix Models representing Lattice Gauge Theories at Large N
Creators: name: Neuberger, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quenched reduction is revisited from the modern viewpoint of field-orbifolding. Fermions are included and it is shown how the old problem of preserving anomalies and field topology after reduction is solved with the help of the overlap construction.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX, Contribution to TH2002
MOESM1 of Accuracy of abdominal ultrasound for the diagnosis of pneumoperitoneum in patients with acute abdominal pain: a pilot study
Creators: name: Peiman Nazerian
name: Tozzetti, Camilla
name: Vanni, Simone
name: Bartolucci, Maurizio
name: Gualtieri, Simona
name: Trausi, Federica
name: Vittorini, Marco
name: Catini, Elisabetta
name: Cibinel, Gian
name: Grifoni, Stefano
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Standardized form.
Opportunities to profit under competitive market conditions: The case of the Macedonian wineries
Creators: name: Georgiev, Nenad
name: Gjosevski, Dragon
name: Simonovska, Ana
name: Nacka, Marina
name: Georgiev, Nenad
name: Gjosevski, Dragon
name: Simonovska, Ana
name: Nacka, Marina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: profitability strategy
subject: marketing strategy
subject: intellectual property rights
subject: brand equity
subject: competitive position.

description: Building a recognizable brand for the Macedonian wine and higher values in intellectual property assets is the core for strengthening the wineries’ international market position. This paper attempts to identify Macedonian wineries’ opportunities to profit under competitive market conditions. Therefore, we first interpret evidence on determinants of their profitability, then we present their commitment towards intellectual property rights, and finally we describe a successful case of a winery that has a recognized brand internationally. The results indicated that wineries are not attractive investments if intensive marketing strategies in creation of strong brand equity are not strongly supported. The use of innovations, creativity and protection of intellectual property rights, could be successful strategy in increasing the opportunities to profit. The defined winery as distinctive case may be used as a guideline to reinforce wineries’ possibilities to follow future market signals, while struggling to adjust to the imposed market oriented production.