cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Identifying silicate-absorbed ULIRGs at z~1-2 in the Bootes Field using Spitzer/IRS
Creators: name: Kasliwal, M. M.
name: Charmandaris, V.
name: Weedman, D.
name: Houck, J. R.
name: Floc'h, E. Le
name: Higdon, S. J. U.
name: Armus, L.
name: Teplitz, H. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the 16$μ$m peakup imager on the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on Spitzer, we present a serendipitous survey of 0.0392 deg$^{2}$ within the area of the NOAO Deep Wide Field Survey in Bootes. Combining our results with the available Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) 24$μ$m survey of this area, we produce a catalog of 150 16$μ$m sources brighter than 0.18 mJy (3$σ$) for which we derive measures or limits on the 16/24$μ$m colors. Such colors are especially useful in determining redshifts for sources whose mid infrared spectra contain strong emission or absorption features that characterize these colors as a function of redshift. We find that the 9.7$μ$m silicate absorption feature in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs) results in sources brighter at 16$μ$m than at 24$μ$m at z $\sim$ 1--1.8 by at least 20%. With a threshold flux ratio of 1.2, restricting our analysis to $>5σ$ detections at 16$μ$m, and using a $3σ$ limit on 24$μ$m non-detections, the number of silicate-absorbed ULIRG candidates is 36. This defines a strong upper limit of $\sim$920 sources deg$^{-2}$, on the population of silicate-absorbed ULIRGs at z $\sim$ 1--1.8. This source count is about half of the total number of sources predicted at z $\sim$ 1--2 by various phenomenological models. We note that the high 16/24$μ$m colors measured cannot be reproduced by any of the mid-IR spectral energy distributions assumed by these models, which points to the strong limitations currently affecting our phenomenological and theoretical understanding of infrared galaxy evolution.
description: Accepted for Publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Supplementary Document from Identifying density-dependent interactions in collective cell behaviour
Creators: name: Browning, Alexander P.
name: Jin, Wang
name: Plank, Michael J.
name: Simpson, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Supplementary document containing additional results and full details of the computational algorithms used in the work.
Acoustic spin-1 Weyl semimetal
Creators: name: Deng, Weiyin
name: Huang, Xueqin
name: Lu, Jiuyang
name: Li, Feng
name: Ma, Jiahong
name: Chen, Shuqi
name: Liu, Zhengyou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological semimetal, hosting spin-1 Weyl point beyond Dirac and Weyl points, has attracted a great deal of attention. However, the spin-1 Weyl semimetal, which possesses exclusively the spin-1 Weyl points in a clean frequency window, without shadowed by any other nodal points, is yet to be discovered. Here, we report for the first time a spin-1 Weyl semimetal in a phononic crystal. Its spin-1 Weyl points, touched by two linear dispersions and an additional flat band, carry monopole charges (-2,0,2) or (2,0,-2) for the three bands from bottom to top, and result in double Fermi arcs existing both between the 1st and 2nd bands, as well as between the 2nd and 3rd bands. We further observe robust propagation against the multiple joints and topological negative refraction of acoustic surface arc wave. Our results pave the way to explore on the macroscopic scale the exotic properties of the spin-1 Weyl physics.
title: Participação, colaboração, confrontação e criação: a viragem educacional em contextos socioeducativos não formais
Creators: name: Wemans, Mariana Oliveira
Publisher: name: Escola Superior de Educação, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
Year: 2021

description: A escrita desta reflexão tem como propósito abordar um posicionamento teórico-prático que se tornou visível no mundo da arte contemporânea ao longo dos últimos anos, e que diz respeito à entrada da educação em ‘projetos artísticos’. Dito de outro modo, trata-se de um posicionamento através do qual a educação e a pedagogia se tornam, elas mesmas, objetos estéticos e artísticos produzidos a partir (ou no interior) dos discursos da arte contemporânea. Esta mudança de paradigma tem sido chamada de ‘viragem educacional’ ou educational turn (Rogoff, 2008), e tem sido analisada e discutida por vários autores do mundo da arte e da cultura (teóricos e críticos de arte, artistas, curadores, educadores).
Agricultural sector in Bulgaria during the transition to market economy and the integration into the European Union
Agricultural sector in Bulgaria during the transition to market economy and the integration into the European Union
Creators: name: Rangelova, R.
name: Vladimirova, K.
name: Rangelova, R.
name: Vladimirova, K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: agriculture
subject: Bulgaria
subject: transition to market economy
subject: ЕU integration

description: The paper is aimed at outlining the main features of the reforms in the agricultural sector and development in Bulgaria from 1989 onwards. This is the period of transition from centrally planned to market economy and the following integration into the European Union (EU). Firstly, the reforms in agriculture during the early transition to market economy in the 1990s are discussed. Further on the reforms in agriculture related to the integration of Bulgaria into the EU are described. Problems and challenges for the agricultural sector in Bulgaria under the conditions of EU membership, including the role of CAP are analyzed. The two periods for financing and development of the agricultural sector in Bulgaria are considered: First programming period (2007–2013) and Second programming period (2014–2020). Finally recommendations are given concerning building competitive Bulgarian agriculture in the conditions of the CAP.
Comparative analyses on radical scavenging and cytotoxic activity of phenolic and flavonoid content from selected medicinal plants
Creators: name: Ng, Zhi Xiang
name: Koick, Yvonne Tyng Tying
name: Phaik Har Yong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: This study aimed to compare the total phenolic (TPC), flavonoid (TFC), radical scavenging and cytotoxic activities in the aqueous methanolic extracts of Angelica sinensis, Dioscorea polystachya, Ginkgo biloba, Glycyrrhiza uralensis and Lycium barbarum with two dietary plants: Brassica oleracea and Zingiber officinale. The TPC and TFC in medicinal plant extracts were 12–93% lower than Z. officinale as follows: L. barbarum > G. uralensis > A. sinensis > G. biloba > D. polystachya. The decreasing radical scavenging activity in medicinal plant extracts shared similar trend: G. uralensis > L. barbarum > A. sinensis > G. biloba > D. polystachya. Both TPC and TFC were positively correlated with radical scavenging and cytotoxic activities. All medicinal plants were considered inactive (LC50 > 0.2 mg/ml) and safe for consumption. The TPC, TFC, radical scavenging and cytotoxic activities in the medicinal plants were plant-part dependant, in particular L. barbarum and G. uralensis.
NRG study of the Kondo effect in the presence of itinerant-electron ferromagnetism
Creators: name: Martinek, J.
name: Sindel, M.
name: Borda, L.
name: Barnaś, J.
name: König, J.
name: Schön, G.
name: von Delft, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kondo effect in quantum dots (QDs) - artificial magnetic impurities - attached to ferromagnetic leads is studied with the numerical renormalization group (NRG) method. It is shown that the QD level is spin-split due to presence of ferromagnetic electrodes, leading to a suppression of the Kondo effect. We find that the Kondo effect can be restored by compensating this splitting with a magnetic field. Although the resulting Kondo resonance then has an unusual spin asymmetry with a reduced Kondo temperature, the ground state is still a locally-screened state, describable by Fermi liquid theory and a generalized Friedel sum rule, and transport in the unitary limit is not spin dependent.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Belostoma fittkaui De Carlo 1966
Creators: name: Stefanello, Fabiano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Belostomatidae
Belostoma
Belostoma fittkaui

description: Belostoma fittkaui group
 Diagnosis. This group is recognized by the following combination of characters: eyes triangular, article II of the labium distinctly shorter than III, prosternal keel quite elevated with the apex rounded and projecting forward, pilosity covering the entirety of the sterna and connexivum including the second and seventh segments (Fig. 1).
description: Published as part of Stefanello, Fabiano, 2021, The new Belostoma fittkaui species group with supplemental descriptions of B fittkaui De Carlo and B. sayagoi De Carlo, pp. 583-591 in Zootaxa 4942 (4) on page 584, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4942.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4612918
Domestic Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol : Potential for WTO Conflict
Creators: name: Jinnah, Sikina
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Kyoto Protocol provides general terms dictating that members adopt policies aimed at the promotion of sustainable development; however the Protocol does not stipulate the specific methods by which members should design and implement these policies. Lack of harmonization in domestic implementation of the Protocol’s commitments makes it more likely that trade conflicts will arise. Though a review of the relevant literature, this paper discusses the potential arenas for conflict between domestic implementation of the Protocol and member obligations under the WTO. This article focuses on domestic implementation of the Protocol’s sustainable development requirements contained in Article 2, and discusses how various implementation strategies may create conflict of obligations under the WTO. The specific strategies discussed include government subsidies, product regulations, energy efficiency standards, eco-labeling, carbon taxes, procurement policies, and border tax adjustments. I conclude that while careful domestic implementation of many of these policies may rule out some possibilities for conflict, it is difficult to assess how effective (in terms of problem solving) these policies will be. Furthermore, I conclude that while the Kyoto Protocol is relatively “WTO proof”, it weakens regime requirements in terms of problem solving, as well as disharmonizes domestic implementation strategies. In doing so, it displaces the risk of non-compliance onto individual states and effectively removes the protective MEA framework, under which conflict is less likely to occur.
Regional diversification of fruit production in Poland
Creators: name: Rysz, M.
name: Szymańska, E. J.
name: Rysz, M.
name: Szymańska, E. J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: fruit production
subject: regional diversification
subject: area of orchards

description: The aim of the study was to identify the spatial differentiation of cultivated area and fruit harvest in Poland in year 2015. The sources of data for the study were based on studies of subject literature and statistical publications of the Central Statistical Office of Poland. The research shows that the location of orchards is primarily determined by natural conditions, such as temperature, precipitation, sun exposure, length of vegetation period, level of groundwater retention and slope exposure to sun. The largest fruit orchards in Poland are located in Grójec-Warka area in Mazowsze, near Sandomierz and Lublin. According to the administrative system most of the orchards are located in Mazowieckie, Lubelskie, Łódzkie, Świętokrzyskie, Wielkopolskie and Lubuskie Voivodeships. In addition, various socio-economic determinants of the development of fruit production are determined by the different socio-economic conditions. It contains closeness to the absorptive markets, price to costs relation, processing base, specialized equipment and storage facilities.
Isolate record for VAFB-ISO-818
Creators: name: Holloway, Corinne
Year: 1900
Subjects: subject: Santa Barbara (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3486/santa-barbara-county
subject: Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85469/vandenberg-air-force-base-vafb
subject: Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85584/vandenberg-space-force-base-vsfb
subject: California (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/1484/california-state-territory
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey

description: This document is the isolated find record for VAFB-ISO-818. The artifact is a secondary flake.
Oxygen saturation dependent effects on blood transverse relaxation at low fields
Creators: name: Thomas, Dion
name: Teal, Paul
name: Galvosas, Petrik
name: Wright, G
name: Harrison, F
name: Tzeng, Y-C
name: Obruchkov, Sergei
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Objective: Blood oxygenation can be measured using magnetic resonance using the paramagnetic effect of deoxy-haemoglobin, which decreases the T2 relaxation time of blood. This T2 contrast has been well characterised at the B fields used in MRI (1.5 T and above). However, few studies have characterised this effect at lower magnetic fields. Here, the feasibility of blood oximetry at low field based on T2 changes that are within a physiological relevant range is explored. This study could be used for specifying requirements for construction of a monitoring device based on low field permanent magnet systems. Methods: A continuous flow circuit was used to control parameters such as oxygen saturation and temperature in a sample of blood. It flowed through a variable field magnet, where CPMG experiments were performed to measure its T2. In addition, the oxygen saturation was monitored by an optical sensor for comparison with the T2 changes. Results: These results show that at low B fields, the change in blood T2 due to oxygenation is small, but still detectable. The data measured at low fields are also in agreement with theoretical models for the oxy-deoxy T2 effect. Conclusion: T2 changes in blood due to oxygenation were observed at fields as low as 0.1 T. These results suggest that low field NMR relaxometry devices around 0.3 T could be designed to detect changes in blood oxygenation.
Formation of the organizational-economic mechanism of agricultural enterprises energy efficiency
Creators: name: Stativka, N.
name: Lialina., N.
name: Stativka, N.
name: Lialina., N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: organizational-economic mechanism
subject: energy efficiency
subject: energy saving
subject: fuel energy resources
subject: renewable energy sources
subject: systemic approach

description: The purpose of the article – the deepening of the theoretical positions of the energy efficiency by studying of the organizational-economic mechanism of its provision in the agricultural enterprises, the definition of its main components. Improving the efficiency of the domestic economy is a crucial macroeconomic challenge that requires a systematic approach to strategic management processes, energy efficiency, energy saving. The article deals with the organizational-economic mechanism of energy efficiency assurance of agricultural enterprises, that will contribute to raising its level of competitiveness, sustainability and protection of the natural environment, the increase in the social component of the enterprise, region, state. The main components of the proposed mechanism are specified: the factors and components that should be considered when establishing a mechanism of energy efficiency assurance; energy saving assurance; state regulation of the national economy in the field of building energy efficiency, particularly in agriculture.
Magnetic Braking at work in binaries
Creators: name: van Rensbergen, Walter
name: de Greve, Jean Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our binary evolutionary code predicted until now the position of both stars in the HRD, the characteristics of the accretion disk around the gainer in the case that there is enough space between both stars for this disk. Our code includes a complete description of the tidal interaction. The code was now extended with the action of magnetic braking. Without this phenomenon the rotational velocity of the gainer can not be predicted.Magnetic braking and tides act together and the evolution of the equatorial velocity can now be followed up from birth to death of the binary. From Figure (1) in the text one sees that the equatorial velocity is kept most of the time far below critical. When the equatorial velocity is large a magnetic field is created. The subsequent magnetic braking is applied on a large number of binaries for which the equatorial velocity is measured. The result is encouraging: a large fraction of observed equatorial velocities is reproduced by our calculations.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
Electroproduction, photoproduction, and inverse electroproduction of pions in the first resonance region
Creators: name: Surovtsev, Yu. S.
name: Blokhintseva, T. D.
name: Bydzovsky, P.
name: Nagy, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Methods are set forth for determining the hadron electromagnetic structure in the sub-$N\bar{N}$-threshold timelike region of the virtual-photon ``mass'' and for investigating the nucleon weak structure in the spacelike region from experimental data on the process $πN\to e^+e^- N$ at low energies. These methods are formulated using the unified description of photoproduction, electroproduction, and inverse electroproduction of pions in the first resonance region in the framework of the dispersion-relation model and on the basis of the model-independent properties of inverse electroproduction. Applications of these methods are also shown.
description: The revised published version; Revtex4, 18 pages, 6 figures
Belostoma sayagoi De Carlo 1966
Creators: name: Stefanello, Fabiano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Belostomatidae
Belostoma
Belostoma sayagoi

description: Belostoma sayagoi De Carlo
(Figure 2B)
 Belostoma sayagoi De Carlo, 1966: 101.
 Belostoma hirsutum Roback and Nieser, 1974: 39 syn. n.
 Supplemental description. Size and shape. Length: male (n=4) = 23.5–26.7, female (n=7) = 24.2–26.8; width: male = 10.4–12.2, female = 10.7–11.8. Body narrow.
 External morphology. Head: eyes triangular, with lateral borders straight; anteoculus as long as interoculus, about 0.94–0.98× (Fig. 1D); vertex with a poorly elevated carina; article II of labium distinctly shorter than III, about 0.58–0.68×. Thorax: prosternal keel quite elevated with apex rounded, projecting forward; pronotum trapezoidal with lateral margins straight and a narrow fold extending to posterior portion; fore femur slender, subequal in width to middle femur; scutellum distinctly carinate. Abdomen: pilosity entirely covering sterna and connexivum, including second through seventh segments.
 Male genitalia. Dorsal arms of phallosoma convergent, covering lateral margins of diverticulum and extending to distal portion of diverticulum in dorsal view; phallosoma slightly curved downward; diverticulum with a poorly developed ventral protuberance in lateral view; diverticulum trapezoidal, with lateral margins straight, becoming abruptly narrow in mesal portion in ventral view.
 Diagnosis. Article II of the labium distinctly shorter than III and about 0.58–0.68×, pilosity entirely covering the sterna and connexivum, and the body narrow about 2.3× as long as broad are diagnostic for this species.
 Material examined. COLOMBIA, Meta, Puerto Gaitán municipality, F. Stefanello, 2019 det., 2 ³ (MPUJ _ ENT); VENEZUELA, Apure, morichal between Orinoco and Cinaruco rivers, 06°30’53.9”N 67°32’36.2”W, 17.I.2009, A.E.Z. Short et al. colls., F. Stefanello, 2019 det., 1 ♀ (SEMC); Bolívar, morichal between Caicara and Los Pijiguaos, 07°20’59.5”N 66°17’54.2”W, A.E.Z. Short et al. colls., F. Stefanello, 2019 det., 1 ♀ (SEMC); Guárico, San Nicolasito field station, Aguaro river, 08°06’13.5”N 66°26’13.6”W, A.E.Z. Short et al. colls., F. Stefanello, 2019 det., 2 ³ and 5 ♀ (SEMC). The holotype of B. sayagoi housed in the MACN has been examined by photos of the habitus, head and abdominal pilosity. Unfortunately, the holotype of B. hirsutum deposited in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP) as appointed by Roback and Nieser (1974) has been lost.
 Distribution. Previous records include Pará state in Brazil (De Carlo 1966) and Meta Department in Colombia (Roback & Nieser 1974). New records include Apure, Bolívar and Guárico states in Venezuela (Fig. 3).
description: Published as part of Stefanello, Fabiano, 2021, The new Belostoma fittkaui species group with supplemental descriptions of B fittkaui De Carlo and B. sayagoi De Carlo, pp. 583-591 in Zootaxa 4942 (4) on pages 586-587, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4942.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4612918
A hybrid P3HT-Graphene interface for efficient photostimulation of neurons
Creators: name: DiFrancesco, Mattia L.
name: Colombo, Elisabetta
name: Papaleo, Ermanno D.
name: Maya-Vetencourt, José Fernando
name: Manfredi, Giovanni
name: Lanzani, Guglielmo
name: Benfenati, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene conductive properties have been long exploited in the field of organic photovoltaics and optoelectronics by the scientific community worldwide. We engineered and characterized a hybrid biointerface in which graphene is coupled with photosensitive polymers, and tested its ability to elicit lighttriggered neural activity modulation in primary neurons and blind retina explants. We designed such a graphene-based device by modifying a photoactive P3HT-based retinal interface, previously reported to rescue light sensitivity in blind rodents, with a CVD graphene layer replacing the conductive PEDOT:PSS layer to enhance charge separation. The new graphene-based device was characterized for its electrochemical features and for the ability to photostimulate primary neurons and blind retina explants, while preserving biocompatibility. Light-triggered responses, recorded by patch-clamp in vitro or MEA ex vivo, show a stronger light-transduction efficiency when the neurons are interfaced with the graphene-based device with respect to the PEDOT:PSS-based one. The possibility to ameliorate flexible photo-stimulating devices via the insertion of graphene, paves the way for potential biomedical applications of graphenebased neuronal interfaces in the context of retinal implants.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Power-efficient frequency switching of a locked laser
Creators: name: Cornelussen, R. A.
name: Huussen, T. N.
name: Spreeuw, R. J. C.
name: Heuvell, H. B. van Linden van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a new and efficient laser-locking technique that enables making large frequency jumps while keeping the laser in lock. A diode laser is locked at a variable offset from a Doppler-free spectral feature of rubidium vapor. This is done by frequency shifting the laser before sending the light to a spectroscopy cell with an acousto-optic modulator (AOM). The frequency of the locked laser is switched quasi-instantaneously over much more than the width of the spectral features, i.e. the usual locking range. This is done by simultaneously switching the AOM frequency and applying feed-forward to the laser current. The advantage of our technique is that power loss and beam walk caused by the AOM do not affect the main output beam, but only the small fraction of light used for the spectroscopy. The transient excursions of the laser frequency are only a few MHz and last approximately 0.2 ms, limited by the bandwidth of our locking electronics. We present equations that describe the transient behavior of the error signal and the laser frequency quantitatively. They are in good agreement with the measurements. The technique should be applicable to other types of lasers.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, some revisions made
Attitude and perceptions of local communities towards the conservation value of gibe Sheleko national park, Southwestern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tilahun, B.
name: Abie, K.
name: Feyisa, A.
name: Amare, A.
name: Tilahun, B.
name: Abie, K.
name: Feyisa, A.
name: Amare, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Attitude
subject: awareness
subject: conservation value
subject: Gibe Sheleko National Park
subject: local community
subject: perception

description: The study assessed the attitude and perceptions of the local communities towards Gibe Sheleko National Park. The data was collected from three districts of Gurage Zone. Ten sample kebeles of the selected districts were selected by purposive sampling method based on the level interaction, distance from the park, and dependency on the park. The sample size of the respondents was 5% of the total households from each selected kebeles. Household survey, key informant interview, field observation, and focus group discussion were employed to collect the data. Data was analyzed by SPSS version 23 software. Descriptive statistics and Chi-square test were used to analysis major determinant factors for perception and attitude of the local communities. The perception and attitude of the local communities towards the conservation values of Gibe Sheleko National Park showed a significant difference in education level, sex of respondents, distance from the park, and land owning inside or adjoin the park. Therefore, it can be concluded that sex, distance of settlement from the park, academic level and land owning inside or adjoining the park were the major determinant factors that influence perception and attitude of the local communities. Attending high level of education, far proximity from the park and male communities better understood the importance of wildlife and park. Therefore, to encourage partnership with adjacent community and implement conservation measure and awareness creation for local communities by considering these factors that affect on the attitude and perception of local communities towards Gibe Sheleko National Park.
On Double Gauging of U(1) Symmetry on Noncommutative Space
Creators: name: Liao, Yi
name: Sibold, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out that a field ϕcharged under a global U(1) symmetry generally allows for a starred localized extension with the transformation rule, ϕ\to U_L\starϕ\star U_R^{-1}. This results in a double gauging of the global U(1) symmetry on noncommutative space. We interpret the gauge theory so obtained in terms of the gauge fields that in the commutative limit appear naturally and are respectively the gauge field responsible for the charge and a decoupled vector field. The interactions are shown to be very different from those obtained by assigning a transformation rule of ϕ\to U\starϕor ϕ\star U^{-1}.
description: 8 pages, no figures
Fast radio bursts from activities of neutron stars newborn in BNS mergers: offset, birth rate and observational properties
Creators: name: Wang, F. Y.
name: Wang, Y. Y.
name: Yang, Yuan-Pei
name: Yu, Y. W.
name: Zuo, Z. Y.
name: Dai, Z. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Young neutron stars (NSs) born in core-collapse explosions are promising candidates for the central engines of fast radio bursts (FRBs), since the first localized repeating burst FRB 121102 happens in a star forming dwarf galaxy, which is similar to the host galaxies of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) and long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs). However, FRB 180924 and FRB 190523 are localized to massive galaxies with low rates of star formation, compared with the host of FRB 121102. Meanwhile, the offsets between the bursts and host centers are about 4 kpc and 29 kpc for FRB 180924 and FRB 190523, respectively. These properties of hosts are similar to short gamma-ray bursts \textbf{(SGRBs)}, which are produced by mergers of binary neutron star (BNS) or neutron star-black hole (NS-BH). Therefore, the NSs powering FRBs may be formed in BNS mergers. In this paper, we study the BNS merger rates, merger times, and predict their most likely merger locations for different types of host galaxies using population synthesis method. We find that the BNS merger channel is consistent with the recently reported offsets of FRB 180924 and FRB 190523. The offset distribution of short GRBs is well reproduced by population synthesis using galaxy model which is similar to GRB hosts. The event rate of FRBs (including non-repeating and repeating), is larger than those of BNS merger and short GRBs, which requires a large fraction of observed FRBs emitting several bursts. Using curvature radiation by bunches in NS magnetospheres, we also predict the observational properties of FRBs from BNS mergers, including the dispersion measure, and rotation measure. At late times ($t\geq1$yr), the contribution to dispersion measure and rotation measure from BNS merger ejecta could be neglected.
description: 29 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Moduli Stabilization in String Gas Cosmology
Creators: name: Brandenberger, Robert H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: String gas cosmology is an approach towards studying the effects of superstring theory on early universe cosmology which is based on new symmetries and new degrees of freedom of string theory. Within this context, it appears possible to stabilize the moduli which describe the size and shape of the extra spatial dimensions without the need of introducing many extra tools such as warping and fluxes. In this lecture, the recent progress towards moduli stabilization in string gas cosmology is reviewed, and outstanding problems for the scenario are discussed.
description: 15 pages, 1 figure to be published in the proceedings of YKIS05, Yukawa Institute, Kyoto University, June 27 - July 1, 2005 (one reference updates)
Revised positions for the CIG galaxies
Creators: name: Leon, S.
name: Verdes-Montenegro, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present revised positions for the 1051 galaxies belonging to the Karachentseva Catalog of Isolated Galaxies (CIG). New positions were calculated by applying SExtractor to the Digitized Sky Survey CIG fields with a spatial resolution of 1.2''. We visually checked the results and for 118 galaxies had to recompute the assigned positions due to complex morphologies (e.g. distorted isophotes, undefined nuclei, knotty galaxies) or the presence of bright stars. We found differences between older and newer positions of up to 38'' with a mean value of 2.96'' relative to SIMBAD and up to 38'' and 2.42'' respectively relative to UZC. Based on star positions from the APM catalog we determined that the DSS astrometry of five CIG fields has a mean offset in (RA, Dec) of (-0.90'',0.93'') with a dispersion of 0.4''. These results have been confirmed using the 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources. The intrinsic errors of our method combined with the astrometric ones are of the order of 0.5''.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A. The data can be downloaded at http://www.iaa.csic.es/AMIGA.html
Статистична оцінка діяльності підприємств галузі тваринництва
Statistical evaluation of enterprises of livestock sector
Creators: name: Vasylenko, S.
name: Vasylenko, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: enterprise activity
subject: production
subject: marketing
subject: animal products

description: One of the leading sectors of agriculture in Ukraine is livestock, which provides population with food as well as light and food industry with raw materials. The objective of the article is to study the activities of enterprises dealing with producing and marketing animal products in Ukraine. The level of satisfying the population's needs for high-quality products influences the food security of the country and each region in particular. This sector is a major producer of milk, beef, veal, pork, eggs, poultry meat, skins and other products that are essential to other economic sectors of the state. On the basis of conducted analysis the reasons for the decrease in sales, which led to the decline in industrial output, are revealed. It is found out that the major part of the products was sold to processing enterprises at prices higher than average. Ways of improving the efficiency of the livestock sector are suggested.
Crossover between mean-field and Ising critical behavior in a lattice-gas reaction-diffusion model
Creators: name: Liu, Da-Jiang
name: Pavlenko, N.
name: Evans, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice-gas models for CO oxidation can exhibit a discontinuous nonequilibrium transition between reactive and inactive states, which disappears above a critical CO-desorption rate. Using finite-size-scaling analysis, we demonstrate a crossover from Ising to mean-field behavior at the critical point, with increasing surface mobility of adsorbed CO or with decreasing system size. This behavior is elucidated by analogy with that of equilibrium Ising-type systems with long-range interactions.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Domestic Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol : Potential for WTO Conflict
Creators: name: Jinnah, Sikina
Publisher: name: University of California Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The Kyoto Protocol provides general terms dictating that members adopt policies aimed at the promotion of sustainable development; however the Protocol does not stipulate the specific methods by which members should design and implement these policies. Lack of harmonization in domestic implementation of the Protocol’s commitments makes it more likely that trade conflicts will arise. Though a review of the relevant literature, this paper discusses the potential arenas for conflict between domestic implementation of the Protocol and member obligations under the WTO. This article focuses on domestic implementation of the Protocol’s sustainable development requirements contained in Article 2, and discusses how various implementation strategies may create conflict of obligations under the WTO. The specific strategies discussed include government subsidies, product regulations, energy efficiency standards, eco-labeling, carbon taxes, procurement policies, and border tax adjustments. I conclude that while careful domestic implementation of many of these policies may rule out some possibilities for conflict, it is difficult to assess how effective (in terms of problem solving) these policies will be. Furthermore, I conclude that while the Kyoto Protocol is relatively “WTO proof”, it weakens regime requirements in terms of problem solving, as well as disharmonizes domestic implementation strategies. In doing so, it displaces the risk of non-compliance onto individual states and effectively removes the protective MEA framework, under which conflict is less likely to occur.
Death House Desiderata : A Hunger for Justice, Unsated
Creators: name: Johnson, Robert
name: Kelly, Alexa Marie
name: Bousquet, Sarah
name: Nagelson, Susan
name: Mavaddat, Carla
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The death penalty lives on in America, with some 1350 prisoners put to death since 1976, when the modern American death penalty was reborn. Most prisoners get a last meal of their choice, though that choice is constrained by cost and, often, the stock in the prison kitchen. Last meals can be thought of as brief moments of autonomy in a relentlessly dehumanizing execution process. They also entail a distinctive cruelty. At their lowest point, prisoners seek comfort food but are never comforted. This meal is no entre to a relationship, but instead a recipe for abandonment. Dignity is nowhere to be found on the death house menu. Yet hope lingers, even here; human beings, it seems, cannot live or die without hope. Justice, the most profound human hunger, goes unsated by design.
title: Predicting anti-arthritic drug effects in collagen-induced arthritis using short-term mechanistic models of collagen II immunity
Creators: name: Vugler, Alexander David
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2008

description: Novel anti-arthritic drugs are often assessed in murine collagen-induced arthritis (CIA), which is a widely used pre-clinical model of rheumatoid arthritis. However, CIA studies are lengthy, development of arthritis is not synchronised and not all animals develop disease. Work conducted in this thesis addressed some of these issues by developing short-term mechanistic models of collagen II (CII) immunity. Drug effects on CII-induced hypersensitivity, anti-CII antibodies and ex vivo CII stimulated CD4+ T cell proliferation in mice 14 days post-CII sensitisation were assessed and compared to their anti-arthritic effect in CIA.

As this thesis progressed, it was reported that IL-17 secreting CD4+ T helper (Th17) cells represent a population of cells distinct from interferon gamma (IFNγ) secreting Th1 and IL-4 secreting Th2 cells and may be involved in autoimmune disease. However, the role of IL-17 and Th17 cells in CIA and CII immunity was not defined. The role of IL-17 and its relationship with Th1 and Th2 cells was investigated in the CII stimulated CD4+ T cell assay. Results showed that CII specific Th1 and Th17, but not Th2 cells, are present in cultures of cells from CII sensitised mice. Addition of anti-IL-17 to these cultures increased the number of CII specific IFNγ secreting CD4+ T cells. Literature evidence suggests that IFNγ is protective in CIA. This increase in IFNγ may therefore represent a novel mechanism of action by which anti-IL-17 exerts some of its anti-arthritic activity.

This thesis has shown that short-term models of CII immunity can predict anti-arthritic drug effects in CIA. A novel screening cascade has been proposed which could be used in drug discovery and may reduce the number of animals required for CIA studies. Moreover, the differential effect of anti-arthritic drugs in these models suggests they can discriminate between drugs and identify novel mechanisms of action.
Death House Desiderata : A Hunger for Justice, Unsated
Creators: name: Johnson, Robert
name: Kelly, Alexa Marie
name: Bousquet, Sarah
name: Nagelson, Susan
name: Mavaddat, Carla
Publisher: name: Open Access Laws
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3699
subject: Other creative arts and writing
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law

description: The death penalty lives on in America, with some 1350 prisoners put to death since 1976, when the modern American death penalty was reborn. Most prisoners get a last meal of their choice, though that choice is constrained by cost and, often, the stock in the prison kitchen. Last meals can be thought of as brief moments of autonomy in a relentlessly dehumanizing execution process. They also entail a distinctive cruelty. At their lowest point, prisoners seek comfort food but are never comforted. This meal is no entre to a relationship, but instead a recipe for abandonment. Dignity is nowhere to be found on the death house menu. Yet hope lingers, even here; human beings, it seems, cannot live or die without hope. Justice, the most profound human hunger, goes unsated by design.
Упровадження інвестиційно-інноваційних проектів в агробізнесі
Implementation of investment-innovation projects in agribusiness
Creators: name: Kucher, L.
name: Kucher, L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: investment-innovation projects
subject: implementation
subject: agribusiness
subject: agricultural enterprise
subject: competence

description: The purpose of the article is to present the results of a study on the current state of implementation of investment and innovation projects in agribusiness in Ukraine. The article examines the scientific and applied aspects of the implementation of investment-innovation projects in the agricultural enterprises of Ukraine. The current state of implementation of the most important agricultural investment projects and their financing sources are analyzed. Increase in the number of projects and volume of investments in agricultural sector indicates an improvement in investment attractiveness and positive expectations of agricultural enterprises. Key problems (institutional, financial and human) of the implementation of studied projects and perspective directions of their solution are outlined: formation of favorable institutional climate in Ukraine for the implementation of innovative projects and attract foreign investment; economic stimulation of implementation of national innovative techniques and technologies; overcome of existing gaps in professional competence, which graduates of institutions of higher agricultural education have received with those which employers require, and bringing the number of graduates (especially agronomists and of technical specialists) to the real needs of specialists and expectations of agribusiness.
title: House of Words: Home, (Be)Longing, and Identity in “Thief of Cities and My Heartbreak Homes”
Creators: name: Lyubova, Anastasija
Publisher: name: Universität Graz
Year: 2021
Subjects: home
belonging
identity
migration literature
imagined landscape

description: This entry of the student anthology was created through a process of reflecting on a literary
seminar carried out by the Center for Inter-American Studies from the University of Graz and
was inspired by the work in Marjorie Agosín edited volume Home – An Imagined Landscape. This
article discusses the concepts of home, (be)longing, and identity in “Thief of Cities and My
Heartbreak Homes”.
Hydrodynamic flow of expanding Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Brazhnyi, V. A.
name: Kamchatnov, A. M.
name: Konotop, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study expansion of quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) after switching off the confining harmonic potential. Exact solution of dynamical equations is obtained in framework of the hydrodynamic approximation and it is compared with the direct numerical simulation of the full problem showing excellent agreement at realistic values of physical parameters. We analyze the maximum of the current density and estimate the velocity of expansion. The results of the 1D analysis provides also qualitative understanding of some properties of BEC expansion observed in experiments.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX4. To appear in Physical Review A
Comparative Study of Fully Pre-Cross-Connected Protection Architectures for Transparent Optical Networks
Creators: name: Grue, Aden
name: Grover, Wayne D.
name: Clouqueur, Matthieu
name: Schupke, Dominic A.
name: Doucette, John
name: Forst, Brian E.
name: Onguetou, Diane
name: Baloukov, Dimitri
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Protection architectures that have the property of pre- cross-connection are advantageous to the implementation of transparent optical paths. A pre-cross-connected protection path can be in a known-good working condition before use, whereas on-the-fly assembly of a protection path through transparent concatenation of optical channels may not rapidly satisfy the optical path integrity objective. In this study, several pre-cross- connected architectures were compared on the basis of spare capacity cost for 100% single failure restorability, the dual failure restorability of these designs, and the ability of each architecture to support a feasible wavelength assignment and limits on the maximum length of transparent optical paths. The architectures considered were p-cycles, failure independent path- protecting (FIPP) p-cycles, demand-wise shared protection (DSP), pre-cross-connected trails (PXTs), span-protecting p-trees, and path-protecting p-trees. The results give insight into the relative merits and demerits of these architectures.
Additional information from Wild dogs at stake: deforestation threatens the only Amazon endemic canid, the short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis)
Creators: name: Rocha, Daniel Gomes
name: Ferraz, Katia
name: Silva, Lucas Goncalves Da
name: Tan, Cedric Kai Wei
name: Lemos, Frederico Gemesio
name: Ortiz, Carolina
name: Peres, Carlos
name: Negrões, Nuno
name: Antunes, André
name: Rohe, Fabio
name: Abrahams, Mark
name: Zapata-Rios, Galo
name: Davi Teles
name: Tadeu Oliveira
name: Mühlen, Eduardo M. Von
name: Venticinque, Eduardo
name: Gräbin, Diogo Maia
name: Mosquera, Diego
name: Blake, John
name: Lima, Marcela
name: Sampaio, Ricardo
name: Percequillo, Alexandre
name: Peters, Felipe
name: Payán, Esteban
name: Luiz Henrique Medeiros Borges
name: Calouro, Armando Muniz
name: Whaldener Endo
name: Pitman, Renata
name: Haugaasen, Torbjørn
name: Silva, Diego
name: Melo, Fabiano Rodrigues De
name: Moura, André Luis
name: Costa, Hugo
name: Camile Lugarini
name: Ilnaiara Sousa
name: Nienow, Samuel
name: Santos, Fernanda
name: Oliveira, Ana Cristina Mendes De
name: Wezddy Del Toro-Orozco
name: D'Amico, Ana Rafaela
name: Albernaz, Ana Luisa
name: Ravetta, André
name: Carmo, Elaine Oliveira Do
name: Ramalho, Emiliano
name: Valsecchi, João
name: Giordano, Anthony
name: Wallace, Robert
name: Macdonald, David
name: Sollmann, Rahel
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supporting tables, graphics and analyses.