cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effects of Kenya’s ‘smarter’ input subsidy
Creators: name: Mason, Nicole M.
name: Wineman, Ayala
name: Kirimi, Lilian
name: Mather, David
name: Mason, Nicole M.
name: Wineman, Ayala
name: Kirimi, Lilian
name: Mather, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Kenya joined the ranks of sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries implementing a targeted input subsidy program for inorganic fertilizer and improved seed in 2007 with the establishment of the National Accelerated Agricultural Inputs Access Program’s “Kilimo Plus” initiative. Implemented from 2007/08, Kilimo Plus aimed to provide 50 kg each of basal and top dressing fertiliser, and 10 kg of improved maize seed to resource poor smallholder farmers with the goals of increasing access to inputs,raising yields and incomes, improving food security, and reducing poverty. But did the program achieve its goals, and what are the lessons learned from Kilimo Plus and other targeted input subsidy programs (ISPs) in SSA for the design and implementation of future county-level input policies and programs in Kenya? Results suggest that, despite replacing what would have been commercial fertilizer purchases by farmers, Kilimo Plus did substantially increase maize production and reduce poverty depth and severity of recipient households. Moreover, the program’s positive effects are somewhat larger than those of targeted ISPs in Malawi and Zambia. Much of Kilimo Plus’s relative success vis-à-vis the Malawi and Zambia programs is likely due to its effective targeting of relatively resource-poor farmers and its implementation through vouchers redeemable at private agro-dealer shops. Kenyan counties considering implementing ISPs should bear in mind these findings, but also carefully weigh the cost effectiveness of ISPs relative to other much-needed investments, including rural roads and agricultural research, development, and extension. Indeed, since Kilimo Plus alone is not sufficient to bring households out of poverty, a more holistic approach to improving production and sustainable intensification is required. This may imply use of vouchers for other crops and inputs, particularly those which enhance soil health such as lime, as well as an increase in complementary public/private investments in research, extension, irrigation, transport infrastructure, information, and affordable and appropriate innovations.
Decoupling of diffusion from structural relaxation and spatial heterogeneity in a supercooled simple liquid
Creators: name: Dzugutov, Mikhail
name: Simdyankin, Sergei I.
name: Zetterling, Fredrik H. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a molecular dynamics simulation of a supercooled simple monatomic glass-forming liquid. It is found that the onset of the supercooled regime results in formation of distinct domains of slow diffusion which are confined to the long-lived icosahedrally structured clusters associated with deeper minima in the energy landscape. As these domains, possessing a low-dimensional geometry, grow with cooling and percolate below $T_c$, the critical temperature of the mode coupling theory, a sharp slowing down of the structural relaxation relative to diffusion is observed. It is concluded that this latter anomaly cannot be accounted for by the spatial variation in atomic mobility; instead, we explain it as a direct result of the configuration-space constraints imposed by the transient structural correlations. We also conjecture that the observed tendency for low-dimensional clustering may be regarded as a possible mechanism of fragility.
description: To be published in PRL
Novelty Accommodating Multi-Agent Planning in High Fidelity Simulated Open World
Creators: name: Chao, James
name: Piotrowski, Wiktor
name: Stern, Roni
name: Ortiz-Peña, Héctor
name: Manzanares, Mitch
name: Mohan, Shiwali
name: Lange, Douglas S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Autonomous agents operating within real-world environments often rely on automated planners to ascertain optimal actions towards desired goals or the optimization of a specified objective function. Integral to these agents are common architectural components such as schedulers, tasked with determining the timing for executing planned actions, and execution engines, responsible for carrying out these scheduled actions while monitoring their outcomes. We address the significant challenge that arises when unexpected phenomena, termed \textit{novelties}, emerge within the environment, altering its fundamental characteristics, composition, and dynamics. This challenge is inherent in all deployed real-world applications and may manifest suddenly and without prior notice or explanation. The introduction of novelties into the environment can lead to inaccuracies within the planner's internal model, rendering previously generated plans obsolete. Recent research introduced agent design aimed at detecting and adapting to such novelties. However, these designs lack consideration for action scheduling in continuous time-space, coordination of concurrent actions by multiple agents, or memory-based novelty accommodation. Additionally, the application has been primarily demonstrated in lower fidelity environments. In our study, we propose a general purpose AI agent framework designed to detect, characterize, and adapt to novelties in highly noisy, complex, and stochastic environments that support concurrent actions and external scheduling. We showcase the efficacy of our agent through experimentation within a high-fidelity simulator for realistic military scenarios.
An Economic Analysis of Wood Production on Private Forest Land in West Central Alberta
Creators: name: Messmer, M.
name: Percy, M.
name: Phillips, W.
name: Boylen, D.
name: Messmer, M.
name: Percy, M.
name: Phillips, W.
name: Boylen, D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: The availability of fibre from private land in Alberta has been largely ignored. This is due mainly to a surplus of fibre from public land. However, much of this surplus has been allocated in recent years, so that fibre from private land is quickly becoming a potentially important wood supply for primary forest products firms in Alberta. This study concentrates on obtaining information from land owners in west-central Alberta. A market is presently available for a certain amount of fibre from private land in this area. The information from thirty-eight land owners was obtained with a personal interview survey conducted in May of 1989. Respondents were asked questions on the physical characteristics of their land, production costs from harvesting, questions realted to their socio-economic conditions, and uses of their forest land. In addition to a descriptive presentation of the survey results, the study includes the use of a model to evaluate the relative importance of certain variables as they may affect a land owner's decision to supply fibre now, and in the future. The responses from land owners that have supplied fibre, and those that have not were used in this analysis. The results from this modelling exercise show that land owners are particularly responsive to price, the amount of merchantable timber they have, and net returns from harvesting in deciding whether or not to supply wood in the future. Variables such as size of forest, presence of a management plan, and others, were not significant in predicting the supply choice variable. A discussion of market structures for private fibre is presented. The presence of transactions costs to both land owners and firms oin procuring private fibre are important characteristics of the market, and as such are analyzed in light of the modelling results. It is concluded that land owners' decisions to supply fibre can be influenced by policies that offset these transactions costs. Further conclusions illustrate how these market structure elements and the modelling results can be used to guide policies toward forest land owners.
Additional file 5 of Gut microbiome variation modulates the effects of dietary fiber on host metabolism
Creators: name: Murga-Garrido, Sofia M.
name: Qilin Hong
name: Tzu-Wen L. Cross
name: Hutchison, Evan R.
name: Han, Jessica
name: Thomas, Sydney P.
name: Vivas, Eugenio I.
name: Denu, John
name: Ceschin, Danilo G.
name: Tang, Zheng-Zheng
name: Rey, Federico E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Fig. S4. Characterization of transplanted communities in mice. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis of engrafted cecal communities. Germ-free mice were colonized with SubA or SubB and exposed to one of four diets containing a different type of fiber; (i) Cellulose; (ii) Inulin; (iii) Pectin; or (iv) Assorted fiber. A. Heatmap showing presence/absence of bacterial taxa in the gut of transplanted animals across the four different diets. Red indicates presence and black absence. Each column represents an individual mouse. B. Alpha diversity (Shannon Index) of SubA and SubB communities after dietary intervention. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001 ****P < 0.0001.
MOESM1 of Association between the use of free-of-charge intrauterine devices and a history of induced abortion: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Ulbricht, Sabina
name: Beyer, Angelika
name: John, Ulrich
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire about contraceptive methods used before the free of charge option. Questionnaire about induced abortions in the past.
Teachers’ support in developing year 7 students’ argumentation skills about water-based socioscientific issues
Creators: name: Dawson, Vaille
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Internationally, there are calls for students to be able to use their scientific understandings to make informed decisions about the world in which they live. Using a mixed methods case study design, this study investigated the impact of behaviours and strategies used by two early career science teachers who taught argumentation about a water-based socioscientific issues (SSI) to their Year 7 students. Students’ argument quality, measured using Toulmin’s argument structure, improved significantly from pre- to post-instruction (p = .0033). There was also a significant increase (p = .0037) in the number of types of categories. Qualitative data comprising classroom audio-transcripts, field notes, student work samples, teacher interviews and student reflections were analysed using inductive analysis to identify four themes related to teacher behaviours and teaching strategies: (1) developing and maintaining a safe classroom environment; (2) providing clear instructions about the features of quality arguments; (3) providing opportunities for all students to think and work individually and collaboratively; and (4) practising oral and written argument construction with gradual removal of scaffolds. While the findings are not generalisable teacher educators can use their expertise to decide the extent to which the teacher strategies and behaviours would support the development of argumentation skills in their particular context.
Complex dislocation dynamics in ice: experiments
Creators: name: Weiss, Jerome
name: Grasso, Jean-Robert
name: Miguel, M. -Carmen
name: Vespignani, Alessandro
name: Zapperi, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a statistical analysis of the acoustic emissions induced by dislocation motion during the creep of ice single crystals. The recorded acoustic waves provide an indirect measure of the inelastic energy dissipated during dislocation motion. Compression and torsion creep experiments indicate that viscoplastic deformation, even in the steady-state (secondary creep), is a complex and inhomogeneous process characterized by avalanches in the motion of dislocations. The distribution of avalanche sizes, identified with the acoustic wave amplitude (or the acoustic wave energy), is found to follow a power law with a cutoff at large amplitudes which depends on the creep stage (primary, secondary, tertiary). These results suggest that viscoplastic deformation in ice and possibly in other materials could be described in the framework of non-equilibrium critical phenomena.
Photon emission in strong fields beyond the locally-constant field approximation
Creators: name: Aleksandrov, I. A.
name: Plunien, G.
name: Shabaev, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a fundamental nonlinear process of vacuum photon emission in the presence of strong electromagnetic fields going beyond the locally-constant field approximation (LCFA), i.e., providing the exact treatment of the spatiotemporal inhomogeneities of the external field. We examine a standing electromagnetic wave formed by high-intensity laser pulses and benchmark the approximate predictions against the results obtained by means of a precise approach evaluating both the tadpole (reducible) and vertex (irreducible) contributions. It is demonstrated that the previously used approximate methods may fail to properly describe the quantitative characteristics of each of the two terms. In the case of the tadpole contribution, the LCFA considerably underestimates the number of photons emitted for sufficiently high frequency of the external field. The vertex term predicts emission of a great number of soft photons whose spectrum is no longer isotropic in contrast to the LCFA results. A notable difference among the photon yields along different spatial directions, which is not captured by the LCFA, represents an important signature for experimental studies of the photon emission process. Since this feature takes place unless the Keldysh parameter is much larger than unity, it can also be used in indirect observation of the Schwinger mechanism.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures (including proof corrections)
Enneapterygius shaoi Chiang & Chen 2008
Creators: name: Ho, Hsuan-Ching
name: Shao, Kwang-Tsao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Tripterygiidae
Enneapterygius
Enneapterygius shaoi

description: 250. Enneapterygius shaoi Chiang & Chen, 2008:189, Figs. 1c, 1d, 3
Holotype: NTOU – P 2008–06 – 304 (21.9 SL), Feng –chui–sha, Hengchun township, Pingtung County, Taiwan, 3–12 m, 21 Jul. 2007, coll. M.–C. Chiang et al.
Paratypes: NTOU – P 2008–06 – 299 (1, 19.4 SL), Chenggong Township, Taitung County, 19 Aug. 2006, coll. M.–C. Chiang e al. NTOU – P 2008–06 – 300 (1, 19.6 SL), NTOU – P 2008–06 – 301 (1, 18.7 SL), NTOU – P 2008–06 – 302 (1, 23.4), NTOU – P 2008–06 – 303 (1, 23.8); same data as holotype.
description: Published as part of Ho, Hsuan-Ching & Shao, Kwang-Tsao, 2011, 2957, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 2957 on page 53
Additional file 6 of Gut microbiome variation modulates the effects of dietary fiber on host metabolism
Creators: name: Murga-Garrido, Sofia M.
name: Qilin Hong
name: Tzu-Wen L. Cross
name: Hutchison, Evan R.
name: Han, Jessica
name: Thomas, Sydney P.
name: Vivas, Eugenio I.
name: Denu, John
name: Ceschin, Danilo G.
name: Tang, Zheng-Zheng
name: Rey, Federico E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Fig. S5. Differences in gut microbiota between SubA- and SubB-colonized animals across the different diets used. Weighted UniFrac distances between fecal microbiomes of SubA and SubB colonized mice. The UniFrac matrix was permuted 999 times; n = 7-10 animals/microbiome/diet.
Microscopic theory of vibronic dynamics in linear polyenes
Creators: name: Arrachea, L.
name: Aligia, A. A.
name: Santoro, G. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel approach to calculate dynamical processes at ultrafast time scale in molecules in which vibrational and electronic motions are strongly mixed. The relevant electronic orbitals and their interactions are described by a Hubbard model, while electron-phonon interaction terms account for the bond length dependence of the hopping and the change in ionic radii with valence charge. The latter term plays a crucial role in the non-adiabatic internal conversion process of the molecule. The time resolved photoelectron spectra are in good qualitative agreement with experiments.
description: 3 figures, other comments
Future Directions for the Alberta Sheep Industry
Creators: name: Ryan, M.M.
name: Hawkins, M.H.
name: Ryan, M.M.
name: Hawkins, M.H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The primary focus of this study is to examine the short term, medium term and long term supply response for lamb, wool and cull sheep for the Alberta sheep industry. The sensitivity of supply to changes in market prices in estimated using two alternative analytical techniques. The first technique used is the repressentative farm linear programming procedure. This technique involves the estimation of medium term supply response fro the three products from farm level information. The industry level supply response is then derived by summation of the individual farm level supply estimates. The alternative procedure relates to the estimation of short-run and long-run supply response directly from industry level data using an econometric procedure. The results from both procedures indicate that lamb supply is sensitive to changes in market prices in the medium and long term, but that the supply of wool and cull sheep are relatively stable over large price ranges. Furthermore, the stability of the sheep industry is examined using a Markov chain process. This analytical technique examines the movement of farms between different size groups over a thirty-five year period from the early 1950s to the mid 1980s. The results indicate that there is a trend toward increased concentration in the industry with medium and large size sheep producers accounting for an ever increasing share of the industry. Small sheep producers over the same time period however, have shown a dramatic decline in terms of absolute number and industry share. A minor focus of this tudy involves a preliminary analysis of the demand for fresh and frozen lamb in Alberta. The empirical estiamtes of demand indicate that the price may not be as important a variable in fluencing the demand for lamb as is the case with other red meats. This may be attributed to the special characteristics of the lamb market. These characteristics relate to the low volume, low frequency and seasonality associated with lamb consumption. In general, kamb is regarded as a speciality mean with peak consumption occurring at Easter and Christmas. For lamb, demographic and socioeconomic variables are key variables in terms of influencing aggregate demand. The marketing strategies available to the sheep industry include demand expansion programs, supply management boards and centralized selling agencies. A centralized selling agency could have a significant positive impact on the industry in terms of increasing operational efficiency and perhaps pricing efficiency. Finally, a strategically oriented demand expansion program may be a mroe useful approach to increasing the aggregate demand for lamb.
Additional file 2 of TOPDRIVER: the novel identifier of cancer driver genes in Gastric cancer and Melanoma
Creators: name: Razavi, Seyed
name: Rami, Farzaneh
name: Seyede Razavi
name: Changiz Eslahchi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: TOPDRIVER hereditary genes and their p-values. (PDF 40 kb)
Evolution of entanglement entropy at SU($N$) deconfined quantum critical points
Creators: name: Song, Menghan
name: Zhao, Jiarui
name: Cheng, Meng
name: Xu, Cenke
name: Scherer, Michael M.
name: Janssen, Lukas
name: Meng, Zi Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the past two decades, the enigma of the deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) has attracted broad attention across the condensed matter, quantum field theory, and high-energy physics communities, as it is expected to offer a new paradigm in theory, experiment, and numerical simulations that goes beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson framework of symmetry breaking and phase transitions. However, the nature of DQCP has been controversial. For instance, in the square-lattice spin-1/2 $J$-$Q$ model, believed to realize the DQCP between Néel and valence bond solid states, conflicting results, such as first-order versus continuous transition, and critical exponents incompatible with conformal bootstrap bounds, have been reported. The enigma of DQCP is exemplified in its anomalous logarithmic subleading contribution in its entanglement entropy (EE), which was discussed in recent studies. In the current work, we demonstrate that similar anomalous logarithmic behavior persists in a class of models analogous to the DQCP. We systematically study the quantum EE of square-lattice SU($N$) DQCP spin models. Based on large-scale quantum Monte Carlo computation of the EE, we show that for a series of $N$ smaller than a critical value, the anomalous logarithmic behavior always exists in the EE, which implies that the previously determined DQCPs in these models do not belong to conformal fixed points. In contrast, when $N\ge N_c$ with a finite $N_c$ that we evaluate to lie between $7$ and $8$, the DQCPs are consistent with conformal fixed points that can be understood within the Abelian Higgs field theory with $N$ complex components.
Enneapterygius sheni Chiang & Chen 2008
Creators: name: Ho, Hsuan-Ching
name: Shao, Kwang-Tsao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Tripterygiidae
Enneapterygius
Enneapterygius sheni

description: 251. Enneapterygius sheni Chiang & Chen, 2008:185, Figs. 1a, 1b, 2
Holotype: NTOU – P 208–06 – 366 (male, 23.0 SL), Feng –chui–sha, Hengchun township, Pingtung County, Taiwan, 3–12 m, 20 Jul. 2007, coll. M.–C. Chiang et al.
Paratypes: NTOU – P 2008–06 – 359 (1, female, 20.8 SL), NTOU – P 2008–06 – 363 (1, female, 20.8 SL), NTOU – P 2008–06 – 367 (1, male, 21.3 SL), NTOU – P 2008–06 – 368 (1, male, 23.2 SL), NTOU – P 2008–06 – 369 (1, male, 21.5 SL); same data as holotype.
description: Published as part of Ho, Hsuan-Ching & Shao, Kwang-Tsao, 2011, 2957, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 2957 on page 53
Additional file 7 of Gut microbiome variation modulates the effects of dietary fiber on host metabolism
Creators: name: Murga-Garrido, Sofia M.
name: Qilin Hong
name: Tzu-Wen L. Cross
name: Hutchison, Evan R.
name: Han, Jessica
name: Thomas, Sydney P.
name: Vivas, Eugenio I.
name: Denu, John
name: Ceschin, Danilo G.
name: Tang, Zheng-Zheng
name: Rey, Federico E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Fig. S6. Individual effect of dietary fibers on Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes ratio. Comparison of Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes between engrafted SubA and SubB communities across different diets. A. Relative abundance of Bacteroidetes (white) and Firmicutes (black) in SubA (magenta) and SubB (yellow) colonized mice for each dietary fiber intervention. B. Firmicutes:Bacteroidetes ratio in SubA (magenta) and SubB (yellow) for the four dietary interventions. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, ****P < 0.0001.
Speeding up adiabatic passage with an optimal modified Roland-Cerf protocol
Creators: name: Stefanatos, Dionisis
name: Paspalakis, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article we propose a novel method to accelerate adiabatic passage in a two-level system with only longitudinal field (detuning) control, while the transverse field is kept constant. The suggested method is a modification of the Roland-Cerf protocol, during which the parameter quantifying local adiabaticity is held constant. Here, we show that with a simple ``on-off" modulation of this local adiabaticity parameter, a perfect adiabatic passage can be obtained for every duration larger than the lower bound $π/Ω$, where $Ω$ is the constant transverse field. For a fixed maximum amplitude of the local adiabaticity parameter, the timings of the ``on-off" pulse-sequence which achieves perfect fidelity in minimum time are obtained using optimal control theory. The corresponding detuning control is continuous and monotonic, a significant advantage compared to the detuning variation at the quantum speed limit which includes non-monotonic jumps. The proposed methodology can be applied in several important core tasks in quantum computing, for example to the design of a high fidelity controlled-phase gate, which can be mapped to the adiabatic quantum control of such a qubit. Additionally, it is expected to find applications across all Physics disciplines which exploit the adiabatic control of such a two-level system.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1906.11493
Dynamical masses of quarks in quantum chromodynamics
Creators: name: Krasnikov, N. V.
name: Pivovarov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using Dyson-Schwinger equations we obtain an ultraviolet asymptotics for the dynamical mass of quark in QCD. We also determine a numerical value for the πmeson decay constant f_π.
description: Electronic version of the published paper, latex, 4 pages
What Makes Effective Leadership in Agile Software Development Teams?
Creators: name: Gren, Lucas
name: Ralph, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Effective leadership is one of the key drivers of business and project success, and one of the most active areas of management research. But how does leadership work in agile software development, which emphasizes self-management and self-organization and marginalizes traditional leadership roles? To find out, this study examines agile leadership from the perspective of thirteen professionals who identify as agile leaders, in different roles, at ten different software development companies of varying sizes. Data from semi-structured interviews reveals that leadership: (1) is dynamically shared among team members; (2) engenders a sense of belonging to the team; and (3) involves balancing competing organizational cultures (e.g. balancing the new agile culture with the old milestone-driven culture). In other words, agile leadership is a property of a team, not a role, and effectiveness depends on agile team members' identifying with the team, accepting responsibility, and being sensitive to cultural conflict.
MOESM3 of DeepImpute: an accurate, fast, and scalable deep neural network method to impute single-cell RNA-seq data
Creators: name: CĂŠdric Arisdakessian
name: Poirion, Olivier
name: Breck Yunits
name: Zhu, Xun
name: Garmire, Lana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 3. Summary table of the dataset used in this paper.
Doping and temperature dependence of incommensurate antiferromagnetism in underdoped lanthanum cuprates
Creators: name: Yuan, Feng
name: Feng, Shiping
name: Su, Zhao-Bin
name: Yu, Lu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The doping, temperature and energy dependence of the dynamical spin structure factors of the underdoped lanthanum cuprates in the normal state is studied within the t-J model using the fermion-spin transformation technique. Incommensurate peaks are found at $[(1\pmδ)π,π]$, $[π,(1\pmδ)π]$ at relatively low temperatures with $δ$ linearly increasing with doping at the beginning and then saturating at higher dopings. These peaks broaden and weaken in amplitude with temperature and energy, in good agreement with experiments. The theory also predicts a rotation of these peaks by $π/4$ at even higher temperatures, being shifted to $[(1\pm δ/\sqrt{2})π,(1\pm δ/\sqrt{2})π]$.
description: 11 pages, PDF file, six figures are included, accepted for publication in Physical Review B
MOESM4 of CircPTK2 (hsa_circ_0005273) as a novel therapeutic target for metastatic colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Yang, Hongbao
name: Li, Xiaobo
name: Meng, Qingtao
name: Sun, Hao
name: Wu, Shenshen
name: Hu, Weiwei
name: Liu, Guilai
name: Li, Xianjing
name: Yang, Yong
name: Chen, Rui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. The mass spectrometry of vimentin. Each mass spectrum represents a peptide. The protein binding to circPTK2 was vimentin.
MOESM2 of Sensitivity and specificity of an algorithm based on medico-administrative data to identify hospitalized patients with major bleeding presenting to an emergency department
Creators: name: Oger, Emmanuel
name: Marie-Anne Botrel
name: Juchault, Catherine
name: Bouget, Jacques
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Codes used by computerized requests made on electronic health records from emergency ward.
MOESM1 of Sensitivity and specificity of an algorithm based on medico-administrative data to identify hospitalized patients with major bleeding presenting to an emergency department
Creators: name: Oger, Emmanuel
name: Marie-Anne Botrel
name: Juchault, Catherine
name: Bouget, Jacques
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. List of ICD-10 primary hospital diagnostic discharge previously published [5].
Additional file 8 of Gut microbiome variation modulates the effects of dietary fiber on host metabolism
Creators: name: Murga-Garrido, Sofia M.
name: Qilin Hong
name: Tzu-Wen L. Cross
name: Hutchison, Evan R.
name: Han, Jessica
name: Thomas, Sydney P.
name: Vivas, Eugenio I.
name: Denu, John
name: Ceschin, Danilo G.
name: Tang, Zheng-Zheng
name: Rey, Federico E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Fig. S7. Linear discriminant analysis Effect Size (LEfSe) summary. List of taxa differentially abundant between gut community SubA (magenta) and SubB (yellow) in the four diets. LDA score (log 10) is indicated at the bottom of each graph.
Spacetime Colour Reconnection in Herwig 7
Creators: name: Bellm, Johannes
name: Duncan, Cody B
name: Gieseke, Stefan
name: Myska, Miroslav
name: Siódmok, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model for generating spacetime coordinates in the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig 7, and perform colour reconnection by minimizing a boost-invariant distance measure of the system. We compare the model to a series of soft physics observables. We find reasonable agreement with the data, suggesting that $pp$-collider colour reconnection may be able to be applied in larger systems.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures, updated to final accepted version (EPJ C)
Wearable-based Fair and Accurate Pain Assessment Using Multi-Attribute Fairness Loss in Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Zhu, Yidong
name: Liu, Shao-Hsien
name: Alam, Mohammad Arif Ul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The integration of diverse health data, such as IoT (Internet of Things), EHR (Electronic Health Record), and clinical surveys, with scalable AI(Artificial Intelligence) has enabled the identification of physical, behavioral, and psycho-social indicators of pain. However, the adoption of AI in clinical pain evaluation is hindered by challenges like personalization and fairness. Many AI models, including machine and deep learning, exhibit biases, discriminating against specific groups based on gender or ethnicity, causing skepticism among medical professionals about their reliability. This paper proposes a Multi-attribute Fairness Loss (MAFL) based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model designed to account for protected attributes in data, ensuring fair pain status predictions while minimizing disparities between privileged and unprivileged groups. We evaluate whether a balance between accuracy and fairness is achievable by comparing the proposed model with existing mitigation methods. Our findings indicate that the model performs favorably against state-of-the-art techniques. Using the NIH All-Of-US dataset, comprising data from 868 individuals over 1500 days, we demonstrate our model's effectiveness, achieving accuracy rates between 75% and 85%.
Order parameter fluctuations and thermodynamic phase transitions in finite spin systems and fragmenting nuclei
Creators: name: Carmona, J. M.
name: Richert, J.
name: Wagner, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that in small and low density systems described by a lattice gas model with fixed number of particles the location of a thermodynamic phase transition can be detected by means of the distribution of the fluctuations related to an order parameter which is chosen to be the size of the largest fragment. We show the correlation between the size of the system and the observed order of the transition. We discuss the implications of this correlation on the analysis of experimental fragmentation data.
description: 9 pages including 5 figures. Final version to appear in PLB
Symmetry and its breaking in path integral approach to quantum Brownian motion
Creators: name: Yeo, Joonhyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Caldeira-Leggett model where a quantum Brownian particle interacts with an environment or a bath consisting of a collection of harmonic oscillators in the path integral formalism. Compared to the contours that the paths take in the conventional Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, the paths in our study are deformed in the complex time plane as suggested by the recent study [C. Aron, G. Biroli and L. F. Cugliandolo, SciPost Phys.\ {\bf 4}, 008 (2018)]. This is done to investigate the connection between the symmetry properties in the Schwinger-Keldysh action and the equilibrium or non-equilibrium nature of the dynamics in an open quantum system. We derive the influence functional explicitly in this setting, which captures the effect of the coupling to the bath. We show that in equilibrium the action and the influence functional are invariant under a set of transformations of path integral variables. The fluctuation-dissipation relation is obtained as a consequence of this symmetry. When the system is driven by an external time-dependent protocol, the symmetry is broken. From the terms that break the symmetry, we derive a quantum Jarzynski-like equality for quantum mechanical work given as a function of fluctuating quantum trajectory. In the classical limit, the transformations becomes those used in the functional integral formalism of the classical stochastic thermodynamics to derive the classical fluctuation theorem.
description: 18 pages
Additional file 1 of TOPDRIVER: the novel identifier of cancer driver genes in Gastric cancer and Melanoma
Creators: name: Razavi, Seyed
name: Rami, Farzaneh
name: Seyede Razavi
name: Changiz Eslahchi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: TOPDRIVER gastrointestinal genes and their p-values. (PDF 27 kb)
Charmed Hadron Production at RHIC
Creators: name: Ohkuma, Kazumasa
name: Morii, Toshiyuki
name: Oyama, Satoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To extract information about polarized gluon distribution in the proton, charmed hadron, actually Λ_c^+, productions at RHIC experiment are studied. We found that the spin correlation asymmetry between the initial proton and the produced Λ_c^+ is enable us to distinguish parameterization models of polarized gluons.
description: 6 pages, Latex2e, 4 eps figures, Talk given at the 3rd Circum-Pan-Pacific Symposium on High Energy Spin Physics, Oct. 8-13, 2001, Beijing, China. To be published in proceedings
Zebrafish: A Model to Study Human Diseases and Behavioural Changes
Creators: name: Sabet, Saeed Shafiei
name: Ladmakhi, Fatemeh Alizadeh
name: Jami, Shaghayegh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60201 Behavioural Ecology
subject: Biological Techniques

description: Zebrafish Danio rerio is a bony fish species belonging to the carp family and native to freshwater rivers in north-eastern of India and Bangladesh. This fish is known as an aquarium fish and has a group-social life in the world. This species has many advantages in terms of laboratory studies, including easy maintenance, high reproductive rate, body transparency in embryonic and larval stages, high density and low maintenance cost. Another advantage of this species is the possibility of extensive study of egg, embryonic, larval and adult stages in various scientific studies. Nowadays, zebrafish is a well-known and prominent model in the sciences, including neurology, toxicology, genetics, endocrine disorders, vertebrate biology, biological evolution, human disease, and also well-known in behavioural studies. Here, in this review, firstly we report the importance of using zebrafish as a model and pioneer species in the study of a broad range of human diseases. As a follow up, we examine the validity of this species in behavioural studies and their behavioural responses to environmental stimuli using chemical senses, hearing and visual sensory modalities. Finally, investigators of fish behaviour should take into account animal welfare issues and consider the potential for multi modal effects on laboratory tests.
Cirripectes imitator Williams 1985
Creators: name: Ho, Hsuan-Ching
name: Shao, Kwang-Tsao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Blenniidae
Cirripectes
Cirripectes imitator

description: 255. Cirripectes imitator Williams, 1985:533, figs. 1–2
Paratypes: BPBM 23228 (12, 34.0–81.6), eastcoast off San Shien Tai, 0–2 m; NTUM 5777–1 &2 (2, 78.1–79.1), Su –ao Harbor; NTUM 5780 (1, 42.1), The –jen chuen (Lan –yu); USNM 227979 (2, 80.6–92.9), rocky headland NW of Sha Tao, Taiwan, 0–6 m [5 May 1968, coll. J. Choat et al]; USNM 227980 (6, 73.0–90.8, 1 for c & s), cut between large outstanding rock and Ch’uan –fan–shih, Taiwan, 4–6 m, [24 Apr. 1968, coll. V. G. Springer et al.]; USNM 258315 (8, 46.1–57.2); USNM 258316 (2, 47.7–50.3), 22°40’N, 121°29’E; UF 41606 (out of USNM 258315, 1, 41.4); tide pool, Green Island, Taiwan, [20 Aug. 1982, coll. Mok et al.].
Other type: FAKU 48203 (holotype) and 32 paratypes.
description: Published as part of Ho, Hsuan-Ching & Shao, Kwang-Tsao, 2011, 2957, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 2957 on page 53
Magnetism of a tetrahedral cluster spin-chain
Creators: name: Brenig, Wolfram
name: Becker, Klaus W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the magnetic properties of a dimerized and completely frustrated tetrahedral spin-1/2 chain. Using a combination of exact diagonalization and bond-operator theory the quantum phase diagram is shown to incorporate a singlet-product, a dimer, and a Haldane phase. In addition we consider one-, and two-triplet excitations in the dimer phase and evaluate the magnetic Raman cross section which is found to be strongly renormalized by the presence of a two-triplet bound state. The link to a novel tellurate materials is clarified.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 9 of Gut microbiome variation modulates the effects of dietary fiber on host metabolism
Creators: name: Murga-Garrido, Sofia M.
name: Qilin Hong
name: Tzu-Wen L. Cross
name: Hutchison, Evan R.
name: Han, Jessica
name: Thomas, Sydney P.
name: Vivas, Eugenio I.
name: Denu, John
name: Ceschin, Danilo G.
name: Tang, Zheng-Zheng
name: Rey, Federico E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Fig. S8. Relative abundance of gut bacterial taxa for SubA and SubB. Box plots indicating relative abundance of taxa of interest relevant to the diversity, association, and mediation analyses. This figure shows relative abundance of taxa that has at least one significant difference between SubA and SubB within a dietary intervention. SubA is represented with the color magenta and SubB with the color yellow. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, ****P < 0.0001.
Farmer Assessment of Velvetbean as a Green Manure in Veracruz, Mexico: Experimentation and Expected Profits
Creators: name: Soule, Meredith J.
name: Soule, Meredith J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: This study explores factors associated with farmers' decision to experiment with velvetbean (Mucuna spp.) , a green manure, as a maize intercrop in three villages of Veracruz, Mexico. T o assess whether velvetbean might be adopted on a wide scale in the region, the study also examines variation in farmers' perceptions of profits achieved by using the velvetbean intercrop compared to the farmers' usual practice. A stratified random sample of 92 households was selected from three villages reflecting differing conditions in the study area. All farmers who practiced in a velvetbean extension program in the previous year were included; a random sample was drawn of the remaining households in the villages. The analysis reveals that the current practice to which the farmers compared the maize/velvetbean intercrop played an important role in the perceived profitability of the new technology. Farmers who used neither herbicides nor fertilizer perceived a much larger positive difference in expected profits than farmers who compared the velvetbean intercrop with maize production using fertilizer or herbicides both. Farmers with opportunities to earn off-farm income were less likely to experiment with the velvetbean. Thus velvetbean may be adoptable on a wide scale by poorer farmers with limited access to chemical inputs and off-farm employment. However, these conclusions should be qualified in several ways. First, this study did not account for the full costs of using modern chemicals. Second. since the study was conducted, falling maize prices, coupled with higher prices for chemical inputs and more restricted availability of credit, may have made the intercrop more attractive to farmers. Third, the study was conducted early in the technology dissemination process, and farmers' judgements are based on only limited experience with velvetbean. Future experimentation with velvetbean, or another green manure in combination with inorganic fertilizer might prove acceptable to farmers and enhance the sustainability of maize production in ways that the use of chemical fertilizer alone could not do. It would also be useful if future research could assess whether velvetbean as an intercrop is actually more sustainable than current practices or whether social benefits of wide-scale velvetbean adoption would be greater than social costs.