cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Systematic Risk in Agriculture: A Case of Slovakia
Creators: name: Tóth, M.
name: Lančarič, D.
name: Piterková, A.
name: Savov, R.
name: Tóth, M.
name: Lančarič, D.
name: Piterková, A.
name: Savov, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Agriculture
subject: systematic risk
subject: unquoted companies
subject: legal form
subject: return on equity

description: The paper uses the alternative Markowitz portfolio theory approach, by replacing the stock return with return on equity (ROE) and estimates the systematic risk of unquoted agricultural farms. The systematic risk is standardly measured by the mean-variance model and standard deviation of stock return. In case of unquoted firms the information regarding the market rate of return is missing. To assess the risk and return, the use of individual financial statements is necessary. The systematic risk in Slovak agriculture over the period 2009-2012 was 3% of equity or capital invested with the average return 0,048%. We calculated the systematic risk separately for two prevailing legal forms in Slovak agriculture: cooperatives and companies (JSC., Ltd.). Cooperatives represent farms with lower individual risk and lower ROE, but higher systematic risk. Companies represent farms established after 1989. These farms generate higher profit for the owner with lower systematic risk.
Penrose Limit of AdS_4 x V_{5,2} and Operators with Large R Charge
Creators: name: Ahn, Changhyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider M-theory on AdS_4 x V_{5,2} where V_{5,2}= SO(5)/SO(3) is a Stiefel manifold. We construct a Penrose limit of AdS_4 x V_{5,2} that provides the pp-wave geometry. There exists a subsector of three dimensional N=2 dual gauge theory, by taking both the conformal dimension and R charge large with the finiteness of their difference, which has enhanced N=8 maximal supersymmetry. We identify operators in the N=2 gauge theory with supergravity KK excitations in the pp-wave geometry and describe how the gauge theory operators made out of chiral field of conformal dimension 1/3 fall into N=8 supermultiplets.
description: 13 pp, to appear in MPLA
Unified approach to hard diffraction
Creators: name: Peschanski, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a combination of S-Matrix and perturbative QCD properties in the small x_{Bj} regime, we propose a formulation of hard diffraction unifying the partonic (Ingelman-Schlein) Pomeron, Soft Colour Interaction and QCD dipole descriptions.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Proceedings of 9th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and QCD (DIS 2001), Bologna, Italy, 27 Apr-1 May 2001
Symmetry and block structure of the Liouvillian superoperator in partial secular approximation
Creators: name: Cattaneo, Marco
name: Giorgi, Gian Luca
name: Maniscalco, Sabrina
name: Zambrini, Roberta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the structure of the Liouvillian superoperator for a broad class of bosonic and fermionic Markovian open systems interacting with stationary environments. We show that the accurate application of the partial secular approximation in the derivation of the Bloch-Redfield master equation naturally induces a symmetry on the superoperator level, which may greatly reduce the complexity of the master equation by decomposing the Liouvillian superoperator into independent blocks. Moreover, we prove that, if the steady state of the system is unique, one single block contains all the information about it, and that this imposes a constraint on the possible steady-state coherences of the unique state, ruling out some of them. To provide some examples, we show how the symmetry appears for two coupled spins interacting with separate baths, as well as for two harmonic oscillators immersed in a common environment. In both cases the standard derivation and solution of the master equation is simplified, as well as the search for the steady state. The block-diagonalization does not appear when a local master equation is chosen.
description: Accepted version
Architectural Issues of a Location-Aware System Applied in Fruit Fly E-Monitoring and Spraying Control
Creators: name: Tsiligiridis, T.
name: Pontikakos, C.
name: Perdikis, D.
name: Tsiligiridis, T.
name: Pontikakos, C.
name: Perdikis, D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Fruit flies
subject: invasive species
subject: traps
subject: monitoring
subject: sensors
subject: spraying control
subject: decision support

description: In the present paper we describe an e-monitoring location-aware system, based on a real-time Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network (WMSN), integrated with a semi-automatic trapping and insect counting, based on existing traps, able to acquire and transmit data to a remote server, and a Decision Support System (DSS) that will perform the final optimization of the control treatments. In spite the tremendous technological advances in recent years, WSNs cannot meet all the requirements of ubiquitous intelligent environment mainly because scalar data such as temperature, air humidity, air pressure, etc., are not able to detect all environmental events, like insect detection. For this reasons the efforts are concentrated on the design issues of a WMSN platform, able to collect and integrate multimedia data from the field. Further, a flexible architecture needs to be adopted for integration of a WMSN to the cloud for multimedia sensor data collection and sharing using Web services.
Analysis of Some Drivers of Cocoa Export in Nigeria in the Era of Trade Liberalization
Creators: name: Verter, N.
name: Bečvářová, V.
name: Verter, N.
name: Bečvářová, V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Cocoa export
subject: cointegration
subject: trade liberalization
subject: world price

description: This contribution analysis some determinants of cocoa export in Nigeria in the era of free trade. Using Johansen cointegration and OLS regression methods, the cointegration results show there exists a long- run equilibrium relationship between cocoa exports and the explanatory variables such as quantity of cocoa production, domestic consumption and the world price in Nigeria. More so, the OLS results provide a positive relationship between cocoa export and world price, trade openness, REER, and quantity of world cocoa export (statistically significant at the 0.01 and 0.05 levels). However, the results show an inverse association between cocoa export and domestic cocoa consumption (statistically significant at 0.01 level). The findings indicate that Nigeria has a comparative advantage in cocoa export. The Nigerian government and partners should create an enabling environment and some incentives to stimulate cocoa producers and traders by subsidizing farm inputs, and providing affordable loans to them to ensure sustainable cocoa production and export in the country.
Star Algebra Projectors
Creators: name: Gaiotto, Davide
name: Rastelli, Leonardo
name: Sen, Ashoke
name: Zwiebach, Barton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Surface states are open string field configurations which arise from Riemann surfaces with a boundary and form a subalgebra of the star algebra. We find that a general class of star algebra projectors arise from surface states where the open string midpoint reaches the boundary of the surface. The projector property of the state and the split nature of its wave-functional arise because of a nontrivial feature of conformal maps of nearly degenerate surfaces. Moreover, all such projectors are invariant under constant and opposite translations of their half-strings. We show that the half-string states associated to these projectors are themselves surface states. In addition to the sliver, we identify other interesting projectors. These include a butterfly state, which is the tensor product of half-string vacua, and a nothing state, where the Riemann surface collapses.
description: 65 pages, 23 figures, LaTeX
Lifestyle factors, dietary quality and health: Econometric evidence from US micro data
Creators: name: Demydas, Tetyana
name: Demydas, Tetyana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
Health Economics and Policy

description: The study applies household production theory to investigate how socioeconomic characteristics and behavioural choices affect health status of an individual (here related to cardiovascular diseases). Structural equation modelling (SEM) is used as an estimation approach, which allows to model health inputs as endogenous variables, to test the hypothesized linkages among them (e.g., between smoking and weight) and to investigate their contribution to a production of a particular health state. Moreover, direct effects of exogenous personal characteristics on health can be disentangled from their indirect impact via lifestyle choices. To improve its measurement properties, health status is modelled via SEM as a latent variable. The results indicate a multidimensionality of cardiovascular health, which is more adequately represented by a two-factor latent variable model rather than by a single-factor model. Moreover, the specified two health dimensions (hypertension and lipids) are (partly) differently explained by the model variables. While higher weight negatively and significantly impacts both health dimensions, a diet rich in F&V (Fruit & Vegetable) has stronger contribution to a lower hypertension risk. At the same time, higher educational level showed to be rather related to lower measurements of blood fat. A special focus in the model is given to the (in)direct impact of education and income. Both variables showed to be related to less frequent smoking and engaging in sedentary leisure time activities. However, their impact on diet was rather indirect through their positive contribution to nutrition knowledge.
MOESM1 of Effect of blood contamination of cerebrospinal fluid on amino acids, biogenic amines, pterins and vitamins
Creators: name: Batllori, Marta
name: Casado, Mercedes
name: Sierra, Cristina
name: Salgado, Maria Del Carmen
name: Marti-Sanchez, Laura
name: Maynou, Joan
name: Guerau Fernandez
name: Angels Garcia-Cazorla
name: Ormazabal, Aida
name: Molero-Luis, Marta
name: Artuch, Rafael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. CSF blood spiking protocol. A total of 20 CSF aliquots were analysed. In the picture, the colours of the 5 CSF sample are presented. Even in the 2.5% spiking condition, the red colour was intense. The median CSF blood contamination observed in our laboratory typically ranged from 0.01 to 0.035 g/dL of a haemoglobine, which is lower than the 0.35 g/dL observed in the 2.5% blood contamination condition.
Additional file 1 of Cross-cultural adaptation and validation for central sensitization inventory: based on Chinese patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty for knee osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Xu, Chao
name: Yao, Shuxin
name: Wei, Wei
name: Zhang, Haiyue
name: Ma, Jianbing
name: Shang, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Simplified Chinese version of the Central Sensitization Inventory.
Counterfactual approach for assessing agri-environmental policy: The case of the Finnish water protection policy
Creators: name: Lankoski, Jussi
name: Lankoski, Jussi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: This paper applies counterfactual approach to assess the impacts of agri-environmental programs. We focus on ex-post policy evaluation in a case where the control group is de facto non-existent and treatment group covers the whole population. We employ a theoretical framework based on profit maximization and the interlinkages between the behavior of agents and the response of environmental systems to the economic decisions. Optimization in the absence of policies produces the control case, while optimization under the policies fits to the treatment case. We apply our model to assess the performance of the Finnish Agri-Environmental Programme to reduce agricultural nutrient runoff to the Baltic Sea. We demonstrate that the Finnish Agri-Environmental Programme does not achieve its goals, because it fails to anticipate farmers’ responses to incentives created by the Common Agricultural Policy and the Agri-Environmental Programme itself. The social cost-benefit analysis of the Programme shows negative net benefits.
Local Ferroelectricity in SrTiO_3 Thin Films
Creators: name: Tikhomirov, Oleg
name: Jiang, Hua
name: Levy, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The temperature-dependent polarization of SrTiO_3 thin films is investigated using confocal scanning optical microscopy. A homogeneous out-of-plane and inhomogeneous in-plane ferroelectric phase are identified from images of the linear electrooptic response. Both hysteretic and non-hysteretic behavior are observed under a dc bias field. Unlike classical transitions in bulk ferroelectrics, local ferroelectricity is observed at temperatures far above the dielectric permittivity maximum. The results demonstrate the utility of local probe experiments in understanding inhomogeneous ferroelectrics.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in PRL
$\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}(n)_N$ WZW conformal blocks from $SU(N)$ instanton partition functions on ${\mathbb {C}}^2/{\mathbb {Z}}_n$
Creators: name: Foda, Omar
name: Macleod, Nicholas
name: Manabe, Masahide
name: Welsh, Trevor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generalizations of the AGT correspondence between 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ $SU(2)$ supersymmetric gauge theory on ${\mathbb {C}}^2$ with $Ω$-deformation and 2D Liouville conformal field theory include a correspondence between 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ $SU(N)$ supersymmetric gauge theories, $N = 2, 3, \ldots$, on ${\mathbb {C}}^2/{\mathbb {Z}}_n$, $n = 2, 3, \ldots$, with $Ω$-deformation and 2D conformal field theories with $\mathcal{W}^{\, para}_{N, n}$ ($n$-th parafermion $\mathcal{W}_N$) symmetry and $\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}(n)_N$ symmetry. In this work, we trivialize the factor with $\mathcal{W}^{\, para}_{N, n}$ symmetry in the 4D $SU(N)$ instanton partition functions on ${\mathbb {C}}^2/{\mathbb {Z}}_n$ (by using specific choices of parameters and imposing specific conditions on the $N$-tuples of Young diagrams that label the states), and extract the 2D $\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}(n)_N$ WZW conformal blocks, $n = 2, 3, \ldots$, $N = 1, 2, \ldots\, .$
description: 47 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor changes, section 5 improved, appendix A added, references added; v3: minor corrections, published version
Generalized Fibonacci numbers and dimer statistics
Creators: name: Lu, W. T.
name: Wu, F. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We establish new product identities involving the $q$-analogue of the Fibonacci numbers. We show that the identities lead to alternate expressions of generating functions for close-packed dimers on non-orientable surfaces.
description: 4 pages, no figure, International Symposium on Frontiers of Science - In celebration of the 80th birthday of C. N. Yang, to appear in Modern Physics Letters B
APPLICATION OF DEA METHODOLOGY IN MEASURING EFFICIENCY IN THE BANKING SECTOR
Creators: name: Maletic, Radojka
name: Kreća, Marija
name: Maletić, Predrag
name: Maletic, Radojka
name: Kreća, Marija
name: Maletić, Predrag
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Banks
subject: DEA
subject: business efficiency
subject: super efficiency
subject: BCG matrix

description: The most important aspect of any business is efficiency. The goal is to achieve greater outputs with lower inputs, or to use the available inputs to the maximum. In this paper, the use of DEA technique will be illustrated in case of measuring operation efficiency of the banking sector in Serbia, which currently has 33 banks. The efficiency of banks will be measured using two models with different input-output indicators, followed by a comparative analysis of the results using the BCG matrix. Banks are ranked according to their efficiency, and the similarities and differences that were observed in the study were commented.
description: Review Article
Surprising variants of Cauchy's formula for mean chord length
Creators: name: Shukla, Prabodh
name: Thongjaomayum, Diana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine isotropic and anisotropic random walks which begin on the surface of linear ($N$), square ($N \times N$), or cubic ($N \times N \times N$) lattices and end upon encountering the surface again. The mean length of walks is equal to $N$ and the distribution of lengths $n$ generally scales as $n^{-1.5}$ for large $n$. Our results are interesting in the context of an old formula due to Cauchy that the mean length of a chord though a convex body of volume $V$ and surface $S$ is proportional to $V/S$. It has been realized in recent years that Cauchy's formula holds surprisingly even if chords are replaced by irregular insect paths or trajectories of colliding gas molecules. The random walk on a lattice offers a simple and transparent understanding of this result in comparison to other formulations based on Boltzmann's transport equation in continuum.
description: Replaced by the published version
What Drives Local Wine Expenditure in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania? A Consumer Behavior and Wine Market Segmentation Analysis
Creators: name: Deng, Xueting
name: Woods, Timothy
name: Deng, Xueting
name: Woods, Timothy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: local wine
subject: market segmentation
subject: wine expenditure

description: This study explores wine expenditure driven factors for consumers in the United States by employing a four-state consumer behaviors study. A market segmentation method is applied to investigate spending patterns of wine consumers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Determinants including market segmentation measurements, lifestyle factors and demographic variables are investigated and compared for their significance in driving local wine expenditure, local wine purchase probability, and local wine to total wine expenditure ratio. This study also recommends market strategic insights for wine business stakeholders.
Indications on neutrino oscillations parameters from initial K2K and current SK data
Creators: name: Fogli, G. L.
name: Lisi, E.
name: Marrone, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We briefly discuss the impact of initial data from the KEK-to-Kamioka (K2K) neutrino experiment on the nu_mu-->nu_tau oscillation parameters (m^2,tan^2 psi) currently indicated by the Super-Kamiokande (SK) atmospheric neutrino experiment. After showing the very good agreement between K2K and SK, we combine the two separate pieces of information. We find that the 99% C.L. range for m^2 allowed by SK only, m^2=[1.3, 5.6]x10^-3 eV^2, is reduced to [1.5, 4.8]x10^-3 eV^2 by including K2K data. By halving the uncertainties of the K2K total rate (with central value unchanged), the m^2 range would be ulteriorly reduced to [1.8, 4.0]x10^-3 eV^2. Such information appears to be already useful in planning (very) long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments.
description: 6 pages + 3 figures
Pseudopalicus undulatus Castro 2000
Creators: name: Published, First
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Palicidae
Pseudopalicus
Pseudopalicus undulatus

description: Pseudopalicus undulatus Castro, 2000
(Figs. 14a, b)
 Pseudopalicus undulatus Castro, 2000: 483, figs 12f, 14, 53.
 Material Examined. East of North Cape: 1 ovigerous female, 11.0 mm x 9.1 mm, 34° 06 34.22’S, 174° 08 18.05’E, 600– 562 m, Kaharoa, stn KAH0204/09, 14 Apr. 2002 (NIWA 48577).
 Remarks. The genus Pseudopalicus contains 11 species found in the Indo-West Pacific region, from the coast of Africa to French Polynesia and as far north as Japan and as far south as New Zealand. The first reported palicid from New Zealand waters was P. oahuensis (Rathbun, 1906) by Takeda & Webber (2006) collected in 1975, from a depth of 530–585 m off Raoul I., northeast of New Zealand. P. undulatus Castro, 2000 is the second species recorded and comes from a similar depth East of North Cape, so is much closer to the New Zealand mainland. This record considerably extends the southernmost limit for this species from around 18°S (Fiji) to 34°S (New Zealand). It has also been recorded from the Coral Sea, Indonesia, South China Sea and Japan. Castro (2000) gave the reliably known depth as 206–410 m, but the New Zealand specimen came from 600– 562 m, thereby extending the lower depth limit. These species can be distinguished the number of anterolateral teeth, 3 for P. undulatus, 4 for P. oahuensis.
 Three other species, P. acanthodactylus Castro, 2000, P. declivis Castro, 2000 and P. glaber Castro, 2000 are known from the Norfolk Ridge. Thus 5 of the 11 species in the genus are known from the warmer waters of New Zealand and nearby areas to the north. Other palicid species occurring near New Zealand include Crossotonotus spinipes (De Man, 1888) also from the Norfolk Ridge. The excellent revision by Castro (2000) provides keys to identify the genera and species of the Indo-West Pacific Palicidae.
 The ovigerous female P. undulatus carried around 800 small eggs (diameter = 0.45 mm) that are protected by a brood chamber formed by the swollen abdomen fitting tightly with the elevated sternal rim. In this respect palicids are similar to leucosiids. The small egg size indicates that this species has indirect development.
 Distribution includes the Coral Sea, Indonesia, South China Sea, Japan, Fiji and now New Zealand. Depth range is 206– 600 m.
description: Published as part of Published, First, 2009, New records of crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the New Zealand region, including a new species of Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 (Majidae), and a revision of the genus Dromia Weber, 1795 (Dromiidae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 2111 on pages 33-34
ANALYSIS OF SUPPLY RESPONSE AND PRICE RISK ON RICE PRODUCTION IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Ayinde, Opeyemi Eyitayo
name: Bessler, David A.
name: Oni, F. E.
name: Ayinde, Opeyemi Eyitayo
name: Bessler, David A.
name: Oni, F. E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Demand and Price Analysis
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
International Relations/Trade
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Rice, which is one of the major sources of energy, vital nutrients and a staple food, is in short supply in many Nigerian households. Nigeria is among many African countries that have engaged in agricultural liberalization since 1986 in the hope that reforms emphasizing price incentives will encourage producers to respond. Hitherto, the reforms seem to have introduced greater uncertainty into the market given increasing rates of price volatility (Ajetomobi 2010). This study therefore models supply responses in Nigerian Rice production that include the standard arguments as well as price risk. Statistical information on domestic and imported quantities of rice was obtained for 41 years (1970 to 2011) from the AGROSTAT system of the statistical division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Federal Ministry of Agriculture statistical bulletins, Central Bank of Nigeria statistical bulletins and National Bureau of Statistic. (NBS). The data are analyzed using descriptive, equilibrium output supply function and co-integration models and vector autoregressive distributed lag. Producer price of rice was positive and statistically significant with coefficient 0.6334. The output response of rice to hectarage was statistically significant but was negative with the coefficient 1.5135. Rice importation showed a negative sign and was statistically significant in Nigeria at 0.05, with Changes in output also responsive to changes in price. There is the tendency for the price of agricultural products to drop, which may consequently reduce the level of domestic production and thus discourage commercial production. The results indicate that producers are more responsive not only to price and non-price factor but to price risk and exchange rate. It is therefore imperative to reduce price risk as to increase the response of producer to supply by bridging the gap in production.
Scale invariant Euclidean field theory in any dimension
Creators: name: Haba, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss D-dimensional scalar field interacting with a scale invariant random metric which is either a Gaussian field or a square of a Gaussian field. The metric depends on d-dimensional coordinates (where d is less than D). By a projection to a lower dimensional subspace we obtain a scale invariant non-Gaussian model of Euclidean quantum field theory in D-d or d dimensions.
description: Latex, 16 pages
The Role of Amenities in a Regional Economy: A Meta-Analysis Approach
Creators: name: Hong, Junpyo
name: Hong, Junpyo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: amenities
subject: regional economy
subject: meta-analysis
subject: limited dependent variable model
subject: economic growth

description: This paper seeks to address whether and how amenities are related to regional economic growth by using meta-analysis. Findings imply which amenity-related economic growth strategy should be taken into consideration when interpreting research results from diverse studies. Research results are summarized as follows. First, research methodologies do not deviate much from the mainstream. Second, spatial autocorrelation correction components seem to yield contradictory results to a conventional logic but they in fact restore neighborhood effects. Last, different types of amenities (natural v.s. man-made) have distinctive relationships with economic growth. Natural amenity growth derives lower-wage employment growth, while man-made amenities drive creative class growth. The results from meta-analysis on amenity-related economic growth provide policy decision makers with more consistent understanding than each literature's various political implication.
Microclimate Effect of Artificial Caragana microphylla Communities in Horqin Sandy Land
Creators: name: HE, Shanfeng
name: QIU, Lanlan
name: JIANG, Deming
name: LUO, Yongming
name: HE, Shanfeng
name: QIU, Lanlan
name: JIANG, Deming
name: LUO, Yongming
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Caragana microphylla
subject: Microclimate effect
subject: Wind-breaking effect
subject: Relative humidity
subject: Soil temperature

description: Caragana microphylla is one of the key species for vegetation restoration in Horqin Sandy Land. Adopting field investigation and outdoor experiments, the microclimate effect of artificial C. microphylla communities with different restoration years were studied by observing wind velocity, air temperature, relative humidity and soil temperature. The results show that: (1) Caragana microphylla community has an obvious wind-breaking effect near ground surface. Compared with shifting dunes, the wind velocity in the 6-year-old and 11-year-old C. microphylla shrubs at the height of 30 cm separately decreases by 71.9% and 76.0%. (2) Mean daily temperature in the 6-year-old and 11-year-old C. microphylla communities is 3.7 ℃ and 4.9 ℃ lower than in shifting dunes, respectively. (3) The relative humidity of air in the Caragana microphylla shrubs is higher than in shifting dunes. (4) Soil temperature in C. microphylla plantation is lower than in shifting dunes. These results are significant in further exploring material and energy exchange near surface layer of artificial vegetation in the extremely arid condition.
A Blueprint for the Milky Way's Stellar Populations: The Power of Large Photometric and Astrometric Surveys
Creators: name: An, Deokkeun
name: Beers, Timothy C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent advances from astronomical surveys have revealed spatial, chemical, and kinematical inhomogeneities in the inner region of the stellar halo of the Milky Way Galaxy. In particular, large spectroscopic surveys, combined with Gaia astrometric data, have provided powerful tools for analyzing the detailed abundances and accurate kinematics for individual stars. Despite these noteworthy efforts, however, spectroscopic samples are typically limited by the numbers of stars considered; their analysis and interpretation are also hampered by the complex selection functions that are often employed. Here we present a powerful alternative approach $-$ a synoptic view of the spatial, chemical, and kinematical distributions of stars in the Milky Way based on large photometric survey databases, enabled by a well-calibrated technique for obtaining individual stellar metal abundances from broad-band photometry. We combine metallicities with accurate proper motions from the Gaia mission along the Prime Meridian of the Galaxy, and find that various stellar components are clearly separated from each other in the metallicity versus rotation-velocity space. The observed metallicity distribution of the inner-halo stars deviates from the traditional single-peaked distribution, and exhibits complex substructures comprising varying contributions from individual stellar populations, sometimes with striking double peaks at low metallicities. The substructures revealed from our less-biased, comprehensive maps demonstrate the clear advantages of this approach, which can be built upon by future mixed-band and broad-band photometric surveys, and used as a blueprint for identifying the stars of greatest interest for upcoming spectroscopic studies.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal after minor revision
PDF uncertainties: A strong test of goodness of fit to multiple data sets
Creators: name: Collins, John
name: Pumplin, Jon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new criterion for the goodness of global fits. It involves an exploration of the variation of χ^2 for subsets of data.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure. To appear in Proceedings of 9th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and QCD (DIS 2001), Bologna, Italy, 27 Apr-1 May 2001
Additional file 1 of In-hospital clinical outcomes in diffusion weighted imaging-negative stroke treated with intravenous thrombolysis
Creators: name: Li, Guangshuo
name: Feng, Xueyan
name: Wang, Chuanying
name: Hao, Yahui
name: Wang, Shang
name: Xiong, Yunyun
name: Zhao, Xingquan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supple. Table 1. Baseline characteristics between ENI and no ENI group in patients treated with IV tPA.
On the Origin of Solar Torsional Oscillations and Extended Solar Cycle
Creators: name: Pipin, V. V.
name: Kosovichev, A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a nonlinear mean-field model of the solar interior dynamics and dynamo, which reproduces the observed cyclic variations of the global magnetic field of the Sun, as well as the differential rotation and meridional circulation. Using this model, we explain, for the first time, the extended 22-year pattern of the solar torsional oscillations, observed as propagation of zonal variations of the angular velocity from high latitudes to the equator during the time equal to the full dynamo cycle. In the literature, this effect is usually attributed to the so-called "extended solar cycle". In agreement with the commonly accepted idea our model shows that the torsional oscillations can be driven by a combinations of magnetic field effects acting on turbulent angular momentum transport, and the large-scale Lorentz force. We find that the 22-year pattern of the torsional oscillations can result from a combined effect of an overlap of subsequent magnetic cycles and magnetic quenching of the convective heat transport. The latter effect results in cyclic variations of the meridional circulation in the sunspot formation zone, in agreement with helioseismology results. The variations of the meridional circulation together with other drivers of the torsional oscillations maintain their migration to the equator during the 22-year magnetic cycle, resulting in the observed extended pattern of the torsional oscillations.
description: 22 pages, 10 Figures, v3, accepted in ApJ
Soil Erodibility of Slope Farmland in Guizhou Mountain Areas
Creators: name: Li, Jian
name: Cheng, Li
name: Chen, Zhenggang
name: Zhu, Qing
name: Li, Jian
name: Cheng, Li
name: Chen, Zhenggang
name: Zhu, Qing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Slope farmland
subject: Soil erodibility
subject: K value

description: This paper studied soil erodibility of slope farmland in Guizhou mountain areas by the plot runoff method, analysis and test. Results show that the variation coefficient of erodibility K value calculated according to formula introduced by Sharply is low and relatively stable and accurate, so it is a suitable method for calculating erodibility K value of slope farmland in Guizhou mountain areas. K value of layer A slope farmland decreases with increase of years. The erodibility of entire soil layer is high, and the erosion resistance is weak. From the influence of different planting system and use types in 4 years, K values of different soil layers decrease, average reduction of A, B and C layers reaches 3.17%-11.64% (1.26%-12.34% for layer A, 1.29%-13.80% for layer B, and 1.26%-10.80% for layer C). Except engineering terraced treatment, the decline of K value of grassland, zoning crop rotation, economic fruit forest, grain and grass intercropping, plant hedge, and mixed forest treatment is higher than farmers’ treatment, and the decline level is grassland ＞ zoning crop rotation ＞ economic fruit forest ＞ grain and grass intercropping ＞ plant hedge ＞ and mixed forest treatment. Planting grass and trees is favorable for lowering erodibility of slope farmland and improving farmland quality. Interplanting of corns with other plants can increase plant coverage and species, so it is favorable for improving erodibility of slope farmland.
Quantum railroads and directed localization at the juncture of quantum Hall systems
Creators: name: Nonoyama, Shinji
name: Kirczenow, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The integer quantum Hall effect (QHE) and one-dimensional Anderson localization (AL) are limiting special cases of a more general phenomenon, directed localization (DL), predicted to occur in disordered one-dimensional wave guides called "quantum railroads" (QRR). Here we explain the surprising results of recent measurements by Kang et al. [Nature 403, 59 (2000)] of electron transfer between edges of two-dimensional electron systems and identify experimental evidence of QRR's in the general, but until now entirely theoretical, DL regime that unifies the QHE and AL. We propose direct experimental tests of our theory.
description: 11 pages revtex + 3 jpeg figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B
MOESM2 of Applying behavioural science to increase uptake of the NHS Health Check: a randomised controlled trial of gain- and loss-framed messaging in the national patient information leaflet
Creators: name: Gold, Natalie
name: Durlik, Caroline
name: Sanders, Jet
name: Thompson, Katherine
name: Chadborn, Tim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: NHS Health Check Intervention Leaflets.
MOESM1 of Applying behavioural science to increase uptake of the NHS Health Check: a randomised controlled trial of gain- and loss-framed messaging in the national patient information leaflet
Creators: name: Gold, Natalie
name: Durlik, Caroline
name: Sanders, Jet
name: Thompson, Katherine
name: Chadborn, Tim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: NHS Health Check Current National Leaflet.
Additional file 2 of In-hospital clinical outcomes in diffusion weighted imaging-negative stroke treated with intravenous thrombolysis
Creators: name: Li, Guangshuo
name: Feng, Xueyan
name: Wang, Chuanying
name: Hao, Yahui
name: Wang, Shang
name: Xiong, Yunyun
name: Zhao, Xingquan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Supple. Table 2. Baseline characteristics between mRS≥2 and mRS 0-1 group in patients treated with IV tPA.
Research on the Geographical Indication and Cultural Heritage of China's Yellow Tea
Creators: name: Tian, Min
name: Sun, Zhiguo
name: Liu, Zhiyang
name: Ding, Guangping
name: Tian, Min
name: Sun, Zhiguo
name: Liu, Zhiyang
name: Ding, Guangping
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Yellow tea
subject: Geographical indication
subject: Intangible cultural heritage
subject: Tangible cultural heritage
subject: Brand cultural heritage
subject: Important agricultural cultural heritage

description: The yellow tea falls within one of the six basic categories of tea, and it is a type of unique and ancient tea in China. Junshan Yinzhen is one of China's Top Ten Teas, and Yueyang City in Hunan Province is the hometown of yellow tea. The yellow tea now has 2 national geographical indication products, 4 national geographical indication trademarks, 1 national geographical indication of agricultural products, and 3 items of provincial intangible cultural heritage. The famous brand of yellow tea is just the brand cultural heritage. This article expounds the current situation of geographical indication and cultural heritage protection, and put forth the corresponding recommendations.
Dromia McLay 1993
Creators: name: Published, First
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Dromiidae
Dromia

description: Dromia McLay, 1993 (part)
 Definition Carapace wider than long (ratio = 1.1–1.2), surface smooth, covered by short, even velvety tomentum, not hirsute. Rostrum tridentate, median tooth longer than lateral teeth, clearly visible dorsally. Female sternal grooves converge gradually anteriorly, ending with divergent tips between bases of chelipeds, separated by a prominent smooth ridge. Chelipeds (P1) massive, inner superior margin with 4 tubercles, epipod present. Sternite 4 T-shaped (inverted), episternites extend laterally between coxae of cheliped, P2 to form cross-piece of “T”, stem of “T” formed by sternite narrowing anteriorly, tip truncate, ratio of distance across episternites to sternite length 1.9 (males) to 2.2 (females). Walking legs (P2–P5) not knobbed or ridged, dactyli much shorter than propodi, inner margins armed with 4 or 5 strong spines. Carrying legs (P4 & P5) shorter. P4 dactylus opposed by a single propodal spine, no spine on outer propodal margin. P5 slightly shorter than third, dactylus opposed by 2 spines with another on the outer propodal margin. Margin of telson rounded. Uropod plates well developed, visible externally, used in male abdominal locking mechanism by fitting in front of serrated flange on bases of first legs. Joint between last two abdominal somites freely movable.
 Etymology. The new generic name is derived from the Latin tumidus and the name of the genus Dromia, the type species of the family, alluding to the swollen inflated shape of the carapace.
 Distribution Tumidodromia has a wide spread Indo-West Pacific distribution, associated with coral reefs, inhabiting shallow depths down to around 100 m. Its sole species, T. dormia, is the largest known dromiid crab, growing to around CW = 200mm.
description: Published as part of Published, First, 2009, New records of crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the New Zealand region, including a new species of Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 (Majidae), and a revision of the genus Dromia Weber, 1795 (Dromiidae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 2111 on page 19
W(E_10) Symmetry, M-Theory and Painleve Equations
Creators: name: Mizoguchi, Shun'ya
name: Yamada, Yasuhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Weyl group symmetry W(E_k) is studied from the points of view of the E-strings, Painleve equations and U-duality. We give a simple reformulation of the elliptic Painleve equation in such a way that the hidden symmetry W(E_10) is manifestly realized. This reformulation is based on the birational geometry of the del Pezzo surface and closely related to Seiberg-Witten curves describing the E-strings. The relation of the W(E_k) symmetry to the duality of M-theory on a torus is discussed on the level of string equations of motion.
description: 14 pages, dedicated to the memory of Sung-Kil Yang, references added
Geographical Indication Characteristics and Agricultural Intellectual Property Protection of the Tea in Enshi Prefecture
Creators: name: Dai, Guangzhong
name: Dai, Guangzhong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Enshi Prefecture
subject: World selenium capital
subject: Natural selenium-enriched tea
subject: Geographical indication
subject: Agricultural intellectual property

description: Agricultural intellectual property rights can protect the innovation of agricultural science and technology. Enshi Prefecture is China's important tea-producing area. Its tea industry has become a pillar industry. The prefecture enjoys a reputation of “world selenium capital”, and is the best birthplace of natural selenium-enriched tea. The national geographical indication protection has been implemented for Enshi Yulu Tea, Enshi selenium-enriched tea, Wujiatai Tribute Tea, Hefeng Tea, Mapo Tea, etc. This paper introduces the geographical indication characteristics and agricultural intellectual property protection of the tea in this world selenium capital, analyses the countermeasures for agricultural intellectual property protection, and puts forward some constructive suggestions.
The Current Situation and the Development Strategies of Rubber
Creators: name: HUANG, Huide
name: ZHANG, Wanzhen
name: ZHANG, Xizhu
name: HUANG, Haolun
name: HUANG, Huide
name: ZHANG, Wanzhen
name: ZHANG, Xizhu
name: HUANG, Haolun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rubber
subject: Farmers
subject: Cooperatives
subject: Current situation
subject: Development strategies

description: This article describes the distribution, member structure and industrial operation structure of the rubber farmer cooperatives in Hainan Province, and points out some problems in the cooperatives, such as small member scale, unbalanced regional development, lack of standardization in operation, and industrial operation structure imbalance. Finally some development strategies are put forward as follows: building large-scale cooperatives; attaching importance to the development of rubber farmer cooperatives, standardizing the cooperatives management, and guiding the adjustment of operating structure of rubber farmer cooperatives; attracting the college graduates to work in the cooperatives.
title: Synthesis of donor-substituted meso-phenyl and meso-ethynylphenyl BODIPYs with broad absorption
Creators: name: Gräf, Katja
name: Körzdörfer, Thomas
name: Kümmel, Stephan
name: Thelakkat, Mukundan
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 540

description: We report the synthesis of meso-ethynylphenyl BODIPYs and compare their properties with the corresponding meso-phenyl derivatives. Both types of BODIPYs carry a 2-cyano-3-acrylic acid anchoring moiety and either methyl groups or 4,4′-dimethoxytriphenylamine (MeOTPA) donor groups at positions 3 and 5. All compounds were characterized by NMR, UV/vis and cyclic voltammetry. The MeOTPA-substituted BODIPYs show an excellent panchromatic absorption with high molar extinction coefficients over the whole UV/vis range up to the near-IR region. The most impressive absorption was exhibited by the MeOTPA-substituted meso-ethynylphenyl BODIPY which strongly absorbs up to 1030 nm. By cyclic voltammetry measurements, all compounds were identified to be electrochemically stable in solution. Further, it was observed that the value of the LUMO level can be tuned by the meso-substituent. The HOMO level is determined by the donor substituents (−5.41 ± 0.03 eV and −4.84 ± 0.01 eV for BODIPYs with methyl groups and MeOTPA donor groups, respectively). These findings were further supported by DFT calculations. To evaluate the potential of the BODIPYs as sensitizers, the incident photon-to-current conversion efficiencies of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells were measured. The photoaction spectra clearly show that the BODIPYs contribute to the photocurrent generation over their entire absorption region.