cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Transcript of Rightscon 2023 session "Crying shame: The supply chain of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII)"
Creators: name: Lakshané, Rohini
Publisher: name: FactorDaily
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sexual violence
subject: non-consensual intimate images
subject: vita activa
subject: image-based abuse
subject: VAW
subject: GBV
subject: TFGBV
subject: NCII
subject: IBSA
subject: Image-based sexual abuse

description: This is an edited and redacted version of a transcript of the video of the online session titled "Crying shame: The supply chain of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII)" held at Rightscon 2023. 

Date: 8 June 2023

Facilitator: Becky Faith (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)

Speakers: Rohini Lakshané (FactorDaily), Erika Smith (Association of Progressive Communications), Luisa Ortiz Pérez, Ph.D (Vita Activá).

Session details and URL: https://rightscon.summit.tc/t/rightscon-costa-rica-2023/events/crying-shame-the-supply-chain-of-non-consensual-intimate-imagery-ncii-azTJKk1gEkgvy3wKf8Pgiz (Accessible to registered participants of Rightscon 2023)

Rohini’s slide deck from the session: https://zenodo.org/records/12701227

The transcript was generated automatically from the video recording of the session. It has been edited for fixing mis-transcribed words, spelling, punctuation, grammar and for removing superfluous words. 

The names of session participants who asked questions have been redacted in this transcript. This is because an announcement was made at the start of the session that it was being videographed but will not be made publicly available. So, we do not have explicit consent from the participants to include their names or other identifying information in this transcript.
Preparation of reference standard extract of Lonicera hypoglauca Miq. with macroporous resin following a scale-up separation
Creators: name: Zhong, Jia-Lun
name: Muhammad, Nadeem
name: Ping-Feng Bian
name: Shan, Ying-Ying
name: Yan, Wei-Dong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Bench-scale and pilot-scale methods were developed for the separation of extracted caffeoylquinic acids (CQAs) also called reference standard extracts (RSE) from defined source Lonicerae species using macroporous resin. Various separation parameters of the process were optimized such as Lonicera hypoglauca Miq. batch No. 4, 75% ethanol as extraction solvent, SD3000 macroporous resin, 3 mg/mL of total CQA loading solutions, 2 BV/h of adsorption and desorption flow rates and ethanol-water (30:70, 80:20, v/v) as eluent in gradient mode. The pilot-scale experiments were evaluated in six cycles. The quantitative analysis of CQA using RSE and mixed external standards were compared.
An Appraisal of Composite Forecasting Methods
Creators: name: Park, David W.
name: Tomek, William G.
name: Park, David W.
name: Tomek, William G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: In forecasting, the challenge faced by analysts is to select the "optimal" forecast and forecasting procedure. One approach to selecting such forecasts is to use composite forecasting methods. This paper views the conceptual framework for forming optimal composite forecasts and attempts to identify circumstances when composite forecasts might work best. Then, Monte Carlo simulations and real world examples are used to compare composite forecasts with individual forecasts and to compare alternative methods of making composite forecasts. The appraisal is intended to provide insights into the potential benefits of composite forecasts and thereby provide some practical guides to the use of composite methods.
MOESM1 of Advancing successful implementation of task-shifted mental health care in low-resource settings (BASIC): protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial
Creators: name: Dorsey, Shannon
name: Gray, Christine
name: Wasonga, Augustine
name: Cyrilla Amanya
name: Weiner, Bryan
name: C. Belden
name: Prerna Martin
name: Meza, Rosemary
name: Weinhold, Andrew
name: Soi, Caroline
name: Murray, Laura
name: Lucid, Leah
name: Turner, Elizabeth
name: Mildon, Robyn
name: Whetten, Kathryn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT protocol checklist.
Interactions of Satellite Galaxies in Cosmological Dark Matter Halos
Creators: name: Knebe, Alexander
name: Gill, Stuart P. D.
name: Gibson, Brad K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a statistical analysis of the interactions between satellite galaxies in cosmological dark matter halos taken from fully self-consistent high-resolution simulations of galaxy clusters. We show that the number distribution of satellite encounters has a tail that extends to as many as 3-4 encounters per orbit. On average 30% of the substructure population had at least one encounter (per orbit) with another satellite galaxy. However, this result depends on the age of the dark matter host halo with a clear trend for more interactions in younger systems. We also report a correlation between the number of encounters and the distance of the satellites to the centre of the cluster: satellite galaxies closer to the centre experience more interactions. However, this can be simply explained by the radial distribution of the substructure population and merely reflects the fact that the density of satellites is higher in those regions. In order to find substructure galaxies we applied (and present) a new technique based upon the N-body code MLAPM. This new halo finder MHF (MLAPM's-Halo-Finder) acts with exactly the same accuracy as the N-body code itself and is therefore free of any bias and spurious mismatch between simulation data and halo finding precision related to numerical effects.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted by PASA (refereed contribution to the 5th Galactic Chemodynamics workshop, July 2003)
Quantifying mobile ions in perovskite-based devices with temperature-dependent capacitance measurements: frequency versus time domain
Creators: name: Futscher, Moritz H.
name: Gangishetty, Mahesh K.
name: Congreve, Daniel N.
name: Ehrler, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perovskites have proven to be a promising candidate for highly-efficient solar cells, light-emitting diodes, and X-ray detectors, overcoming limitations of inorganic semiconductors. However, they are notoriously unstable. The main reason for this instability is the migration of mobile ions through the device during operation, as they are mixed ionic-electronic conductors. Here we show how measuring the capacitance in both the frequency and the time domain can be used to study ionic dynamics within perovskite-based devices, quantifying activation energy, diffusion coefficient, sign of charge, concentration, and the length of the ionic double layer in the vicinity of the interfaces. Measuring the transient of the capacitance furthermore allows for distinguishing between ionic and electronic effects.
Using the Microcomputer to Build and Operate a Grain, Oilseeds, and Livestock (GOL) Simulation Model
Creators: name: Wainio, John
name: Liu, Karen
name: Wainio, John
name: Liu, Karen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: The advent of the microcomputer has changed the environment for the economic model builder and potential user of these models. It is now possible to have large economic models operating within spreadsheets. This approach has proven to be far cheaper, simpler, and quicker to use than any mainframe modeling system.
title: Understanding morphological variation of the elbow joint in the Ursidae: Insights from 3D Geometric Morphometrics
Creators: name: Leeming , Samuel, Joseph
name: Nyakatura, John
name: Heteren , Anneke, H.
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: Universitat Graz, Austria (1); Sektion Mammalogie, Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, Munich, Germany (2); Institut für Biologie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany (3); GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany (4); Department Biologie II, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany (5) Variation in the skeletal morphology within the Carnivora has long been demonstrated as a predictor of a species’ ecological habits. The elbow joint in particular is a clear indicator of predation strategy[1]. Members of the Ursidae display significant diversity of locomotory and foraging habits and fall into three distinct subfamilies, thus proving to be an excellent group in which to study the interplay of ecology and phylogeny on elbow joint morphology. Previous work using 2D Geometric Morphometrics has revealed an effect of both phylogeny and ecology yet did not discriminate between all locomotory groups[2]. However, given the complexity of the elbow joint, 2D Geometric Morphometrics may be insufficient to fully capture the complexity of this feature. A 3D Geometric Morphometric approach was applied to thirty Ursid specimens with the aim of exploring how ecology and phylogeny can explain morphological variation at the elbow joint. Morphological variation was a good predictor of both locomotory and foraging habits. However, the relative importance of these two ecological factors cannot be easily separated. Furthermore, phylogeny also contributes to variation in the shape of the elbow joint although to a lesser extent than the above-mentioned ecological factors. In contrast to previous work, we demonstrate morphological differences between all ursid groups based on locomotory and foraging habits. This confirms elbow joint morphology as both a clear adaptation to the many ecological niches the Ursidae has occupied since its Oligocene emergence and an excellent illustration of the adaptive radiation of mammalian carnivores throughout the Cenozoic. 1. Andersson, K. I. (2004) ‘Elbow‐joint morphology as a guide to forearm function and foraging behaviour in mammalian carnivores-’, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 142, pp. 91–104. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00129.x 2. Meloro, C. and Marques de Oliveira, A. (2017) ‘Elbow Joint Geometry in Bears (Ursidae, Carnivora): a Tool to Infer Paleobiology and Functional Adaptations of Quaternary Fossils’, Journal of Mammalian Evolution. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, pp. 1–14. doi: 10.1007/s10914-017-9413-x
Clustering Wi-Fi Fingerprints for Indoor-Outdoor Detection
Creators: name: Shtar, Guy
name: Shapira, Bracha
name: Rokach, Lior
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a method for continuous indoor-outdoor environment detection on mobile devices based solely on WiFi fingerprints. Detection of indoor outdoor switching is an important part of identifying a user's context, and it provides important information for upper layer context aware mobile applications such as recommender systems, navigation tools, etc. Moreover, future indoor positioning systems are likely to use Wi-Fi fingerprints, and therefore Wi-Fi receivers will be on most of the time. In contrast to existing research, we believe that these fingerprints should be leveraged, and they serve as the basis of the proposed method. Using various machine learning algorithms, we train a supervised classifier based on features extracted from the raw fingerprints, clusters, and cluster transition graph. The contribution of each of the features to the method is assessed. Our method assumes no prior knowledge of the environment, and a training set consisting of the data collected for just a few hours on a single device is sufficient in order to provide indoor-outdoor classification, even in an unknown location or when using new devices. We evaluate our method in an experiment involving 12 participants during their daily routine, with a total of 828 hours' worth of data collected by the participants. We report a predictive performance of the AUC (area under the curve) of 0.94 using the gradient boosting machine ensemble learning method. We show that our method can be used for other context detection tasks such as learning and recognizing a given building or room.
Cosmological gamma ray and neutrino backgrounds due to neutralino dark matter annihilation
Creators: name: Elsaesser, Dominik
name: Mannheim, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the cosmological background radiation of gamma rays and neutrinos due to neutralino annihilation in evolving dark matter halos, assuming the observed dark matter is comprised of thermally excited neutralinos in the MSSM. The spectrum of this gamma-ray background radiation does not show strong annihilation line features, but could amount to a significant fraction of the extragalactic gamma ray continuum flux observed by EGRET above a few GeV. The corresponding cosmological neutrino background is weak compared to the atmospheric foreground. Assuming full mixing, however, the cosmological tau-neutrino background could be detectable with a flavor-discriminating neutrino telescope in the energy range 10 GeV - 1 TeV. A small anisotropy of the background radiation is expected, reflecting the local clustering of dark matter halos along the supergalactic plane.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures; Accepted for publication by Astroparticle Physics
Interference fragmentation functions in electron-positron annihilation
Creators: name: Boer, Daniel
name: Jakob, Rainer
name: Radici, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the process of electron-positron annihilation into back-to-back jets, where in each jet a pair of hadrons is detected. The orientation of these two pairs with respect to each other can be used to extract the interference fragmentation functions in a clean way, for instance from BELLE or BABAR experiment data. This is of relevance for studies of the transversity distribution function. In particular, we focus on two azimuthal asymmetries. The first one has already been studied by Artru and Collins, but is now expressed in terms of interference fragmentation functions. The second asymmetry is new and involves a function that is related to longitudinal jet handedness. This asymmetry offers a different way of studying handedness correlations.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures in .eps format
A Review of Quantum and Hybrid Quantum / Classical Blockchain Protocols
Creators: name: Edwards, Marcus
name: Mashatan, Atefeh
name: Ghose, Shohini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Blockchain technology is facing critical issues of scalability, efficiency and sustainability. These problems are necessary to solve if blockchain is to become a technology that can be used responsibly. Useful quantum computers could potentially be developed by the time that blockchain will be widely implemented for mission-critical work at financial and other institutions. Quantum computing will not only cause challenges for blockchain, but can also be harnessed to better implement parts of blockchain technologies including cryptocurrencies. We review the work that has been done in the area of quantum blockchain and hybrid quantum-classical blockchain technology and discuss open questions that remain.
description: 27 pages, 1 figure
title: Cassino: un'area emergente nel Lazio meridionale
Creators: name: Visocchi, Paola
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2019

description: La guida del Lazio edita dal T.C.I. nel 1964 definiva Cassino "moderna cittadina e importante centro agricolo e commerciale, risorta dopo la totale distruzione avvenuta durante la II guerra mondiale". Chi si reca oggi a Cassino trova un centro dalle dimensioni contenute ma denso di funzioni urbane, tali e tante da richiedere un potenziamento delle strutture per renderle più adeguate al livello della città nella armatura urbana del Lazio meridionale. La molteplicità delle funzioni inoltre la porta a rivendicare il riconoscimento del suo ruolo guida nei confronti del territorio circostante, fino alla richiesta dell'istituzione nel Lazio meridionale di una nuova provincia nella quale svolgere il ruolo di capoluogo.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (1991)
title: Modelling 2 Phase Flow in Heterogeneous and Anisotropic Rocks using AFRMs
Creators: name: William, Paul
name: Glover, John
name: Lorinczi, Piroska
name: Sinan, Saddam
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: University of Leeds, United Kingdom

 Geological modelling and flow simulation in the subsurface in heterogeneous and anisotropic media is increasingly common. Unfortunately, conventional modelling using statistical techniques, up-scaling and interpolation to populate the inter-well volume of sparse datasets have a low resolution (> 50 m). Consequently they have difficulty modelling heterogeneous and anisotropic reservoirs. This paper focusses on modelling and simulation of heterogeneous and anisotropic reservoirs using a fractal approach (Advanced Fractal Reservoir Models; AFRMs), which includes variability at all scales such that it can represent the heterogeneity correctly at each scale. These three-dimensional AFRMs can be used to model any fractally complex volume with applications well outside geosciences. In our application AFRMs can be used in generic modelling to understand the effects of heterogeneity and anisotropy, but can also be conditioned to represent real reservoirs. This paper will show how 3D AFRMs can be constructed to represent reservoir parameters (e.g., porosity, permeability, water saturation, relative permeabilities). Results of generic modelling and simulation with AFRMs will be given for a 2 phase system, which show how total and incremental fluid flow and breakthrough all depend strongly on heterogeneity as represented by the fractal dimension the reservoir, and also depends upon anisotropy. The real test of AFRMs is their capacity to be conditioned to real scenarios. Results for moderate to high heterogeneity reservoirs comparing the flow characteristics of such an approach to a conventional kriging/upscaling show that AFRMs was always within 5% of ideal, compared with underestimations by over 70% for the conventional approach.
IL-10, IL-18 Gene Polymorphisms Might Influence Predisposition to Coronary Artery Disease in East Asians: A Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Jianwu Zheng
name: Tielong Chen
name: Huafang Lin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: The results of already published studies regarding relationship between interleukin-10 (IL-10), interleukin-18 (IL-18) polymorphisms and predisposition to coronary artery disease (CAD) were still controversial. So the authors designed this meta-analysis to more precisely estimate relationship between IL-10, IL-18 polymorphisms and CAD by pooling the results of already published studies. The authors searched Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science and CNKI for already published studies. The authors used Review Manager to pool the results of already published studies. Thirty-four studies were pooled analyzed in this meta-analysis. The pooled meta-analyses results showed that IL-18 rs187238, IL-18 rs1946518 and IL-18 rs1946519 polymorphisms were all significantly associated with predisposition to CAD in the general population. We also detected similar significant results for IL-10 rs1800871, IL-10 rs1800896, IL-18 rs187238 and IL-18 rs1946518 polymorphisms in East Asians in further subgroup analyses. In conclusion, this meta-analysis suggested that IL-10 rs1800871, IL-10 rs1800896, IL-18 rs187238 and IL-18 rs1946518 polymorphisms might influence predisposition to CAD in East Asians.
Entanglement entropy and the large $N$ expansion of two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory
Creators: name: Donnelly, William
name: Timmerman, Sydney
name: Valdés-Meller, Nicolás
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory is a useful model of an exactly solvable gauge theory with a string theory dual at large $N$. We calculate entanglement entropy in the $1/N$ expansion by mapping the theory to a system of $N$ fermions interacting via a repulsive entropic force. The entropy is a sum of two terms: the "Boltzmann entropy", $\log \dim (R)$ per point of the entangling surface, which counts the number of distinct microstates, and the "Shannon entropy", $- \sum p_R \log p_R$, which captures fluctuations of the macroscopic state. We find that the entropy scales as $N^2$ in the large $N$ limit, and that at this order only the Boltzmann entropy contributes. We further show that the Shannon entropy scales linearly with $N$, and confirm this behaviour with numerical simulations. While the term of order $N$ is surprising from the point of view of the string dual - in which only even powers of $N$ appear in the partition function - we trace it to a breakdown of large $N$ counting caused by the replica trick. This mechanism could lead to corrections to holographic entanglement entropy larger than expected from semiclassical field theory.
description: 31 pages, 8 figures
Analysis of the radio-frequency single-electron transistor with large quality factor
Creators: name: Turin, Valentin O.
name: Korotkov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have analyzed the response and noise-limited sensitivity of the radio-frequency single-electron transistor (RF-SET), extending the previously developed theory to the case of arbitrary large quality factor Q of the RF-SET tank circuit. It is shown that while the RF-SET response reaches the maximum at Q roughly corresponding to the impedance matching condition, the RF-SET sensitivity monotonically worsens with the increase of Q. Also, we propose a novel operation mode of the RF-SET, in which an overtone of the incident rf wave is in resonance with the tank circuit.
description: 4 pages, submitted to Appl.Phys.Lett
title: UN Framework Classification - a tool for Sustainable Resource Management
Creators: name: Horváth (1), Zoltán
name: de Oliveira (2), Daniel
name: Aasly (3), Kari Aslaksen
name: Simoni (3), Mark
name: Flindt Jørgensen (4), Lisbeth
name: Whitehead (4), David
name: Wittenberg (5), Antje
name: Kral (6), Ulrich
name: Griffiths (7), Charlotte
name: Tulsidas (7), Harikrishnan
name: Solar (8), Slavko
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: Mining and Geological Suvey of Hungary (MBFSZ), Budapest, Hungary (1); National Laboratory for Energy and Geology (LNEG), Amadora, Portugal (2); The Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway (3); Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Copenhagen K, Denmark (4); Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, BGR, Hannover, Germany (5); Technische Universität Wien, Faculty of Civil Engineering Research Center for Waste and Resource Management, Vienna, Austria (6); United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland (7); EuroGeoSurveys, Brussels, Belgium (8).

 With the global increase of raw material consumption there is a growing need for standardized decision support tools for sustainable resource management both at global and EU-levels. The United Nations Framework Classification for Resources (UNFC) integrated into the UN Resource Management System (UNRMS) might be such a tool by handling the level of confidence (geological knowledge), feasibility of a project and economic and social-environmental considerations. UNFC provides a uniform approach to understanding and managing the full diversity of earth resources ranging from energy and non-energy minerals over renewables and anthropogenic resources to groundwater. It provides a set of rules for bridging between national/regional and internationally recognized systems (e.g. CRIRSCO family) and provides flexibility to and assess projects according to national/regional legislations. Many European countries have related publications, tests and developed guidance documents. EuroGeoSurveys (https://www.eurogeosurveys.org), as the community of European National Geological Surveys have supported projects for the development of a common language for raw materials and co-operatation with the Expert Group on Resource Management (EGRM) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE, https://www.unece.org). Applications have been proved in former EU-cofinanced projects. MINERALS4EU (http://www.minerals4eu.eu) and ORAMA (https://orama-h2020.eu) dealt with the mineral intelligence and raw materials data optimization for Europe. Through GeoERA (https://geoera.eu/) the MINTELL4EU (https://geoera.eu/projects/mintell4eu7) is developing number of test cases on the applicability the UNFC in practice. The FRAME (http://www.frame.lneg.pt) project provides UNFC case studies for strategic raw materials and MINEA (www.minea-network.eu) deals with secondary resources. This publication presents EuroGeoSurveys activites with UNFC and demonstrates practical case studies.
Gaussian relative entropy of entanglement
Creators: name: Chen, Xiao-yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For two gaussian states with given correlation matrices, in order that relative entropy between them is practically calculable, I in this paper describe the ways of transforming the correlation matrix to matrix in the exponential density operator. Gaussian relative entropy of entanglement is proposed as the minimal relative entropy of the gaussian state with respect to separable gaussian state set. I prove that gaussian relative entropy of entanglement achieves when the separable gaussian state is at the border of separable gaussian state set and inseparable gaussian state set. For two mode gaussian states, the calculation of gaussian relative entropy of entanglement is greatly simplified from searching for a matrix with 10 undetermined parameters to 3 variables. The two mode gaussian states are classified as four types, numerical evidence strongly suggests that gaussian relative entropy of entanglement for each type is realized by the separable state within the same type.For symmetric gaussian state it is strictly proved that it is achieved by symmetric gaussian state.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
The role of scarcity in global virtual water flows
Creators: name: Lenzen, Manfred
name: Bhaduri, Anik
name: Moran, Daniel
name: Kanemoto, Keiichiro
name: Bekchanov, Maksud
name: Geschke, Arne
name: Foran, Barney
name: Lenzen, Manfred
name: Bhaduri, Anik
name: Moran, Daniel
name: Kanemoto, Keiichiro
name: Bekchanov, Maksud
name: Geschke, Arne
name: Foran, Barney
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Virtual water
subject: multi-region input-output analysis
subject: regional aggregation
subject: scarcity
subject: international trade

description: Recent analyses of the evolution and structure of trade in virtual water revealed that the number of trade connections and volume of virtual water trade have more than doubled over the past two decades, and that developed countries increasingly draw on the rest of the world to alleviate the pressure on their domestic water resources. Our work builds on these studies, but fills three important gaps in the research on global virtual water trade. First, we note that in previous studies virtual water volumes are lumped together from countries experiencing vastly different degrees of water scarcity. We therefore incorporate water scarcity into assessments of virtual water flows. Second, we note that some previous studies assess virtual water networks only in terms of immediate water used for food production, but omit indirect virtual water used throughout the supply chains underlying all traded goods. In our analysis we therefore use input-output analysis to also include indirect virtual water. We note existing conflicting views about whether trade in virtual water can lead to overall savings in global water resources. We re-visit the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem in the context of direct as well as indirect virtual water in order to determine whether international trade can be seen as a feasible demand management instrument in alleviating water scarcity. We find that the structure of global virtual water networks changes significantly after adjusting for water scarcity. In addition, when indirect virtual water is appraised the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem can be validated.
The Origin of Massive O-type Field Stars. Part I: A Search for Clusters
Creators: name: de Wit, W. J.
name: Testi, L.
name: Palla, F.
name: Vanzi, L.
name: Zinnecker, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study aimed at clarifying the birthplace for 43 massive O-type field stars. In this first paper we present the observational part: a search for stellar clusters near the target stars. We derive stellar density maps at two different resolving scales, viz. 0.25pc and 1.0pc from NTT and TNG imaging and the 2MASS catalogue. These scales are typical for cluster sizes. The main result is that the large majority of the O-type field population are isolated stars: only 12% (5 out of 43) of the O-type field stars is found to harbour a small-scale stellar cluster. We review the literature and aim at characterizing the stellar field of each O-type field star with the emphasis on star formation and the presence of known young stellar clusters. An analysis of the result of this paper and a discussion of the O-type field population as products of a dynamical ejection event is presented in an accompanying paper.
description: 22 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
MOESM4 of Community youth teams facilitating participatory adolescent groups, youth leadership activities and livelihood promotion to improve school attendance, dietary diversity and mental health among adolescent girls in rural eastern India: protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Rath, Suchitra
name: Prost, Audrey
name: Subhashree Samal
name: Hemanta Pradhan
name: Copas, Andrew
name: Gagrai, Sumitra
name: Shibanand Rath
name: Gope, Raj
name: Nair, Nirmala
name: Tripathy, Prasanta
name: Komal Bhatia
name: Rose-Clarke, Kelly
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. SPIRIT 2013 checklist.
title: Phase mixing in the Lanzo upper mantle shear zone (Italy)
Creators: name: Tholen, Sören
name: Linckens, Jolien
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany.

 How fine-grained, well-mixed (ultra)mylonitic layers in the upper mantle form is still unclear. Here, microfabrics displaying the transition from porphyroclasts to mixed assemblages were analyzed regarding their phase assemblage, grain size and shape, mixing patterns and crystallographic orientations for insights into the interplay of phase mixing and recrystallization. Olivine recrystallization starts in porphyroclastic textures and continues until ultramylonites. Ol microfabrics are divided in neoblasts in multiphase assemblages, recrystallized porphyroclasts and neoblast layers. Both latter microfabrics are ±monomineralic (ol~90 area%) with low mixing intensities (>90% ol-ol boundaries). However, olivine is the dominant mixing phase during opx/cpx porphyroclast recrystallization. Up to mylonitic textures orthopyroxenes occur as porphyroclasts and bands. In mylonites both recrystallize, forming an instant fine-grained mixture of ol (~56 area%, ~13µm) and opx (~37 area%, ~14µm). The phase mixing intensity is high (63% phase boundaries). Clinopyroxene porphyroclasts recrystallize from protomylonites onwards forming an instant mixture of cpx (~61 area%, ~21µm) and ol (~31 area%, ~18µm) in mylonites. Cpx generally displays bigger grain sizes and higher abundances than opx in ol+opx assemblages. Mixing intensities are high (66% phase boundaries). Beside few thoroughly mixed areas, cpx/opx+ol bands are still distinguishable in (ultra)mylonitic layers. They can largely be traced back to recrystallized opx/cpx porphyroclasts. At their boundaries, high abundances of ol neoblasts are present, mixing with host porphyroclast neoblasts. Opx and cpx porphyroclasts that recrystallized isolated from ol-bearing matrix have significantly lower mixing intensities. Phase mixing is therefore assumed to occur simultaneous during porphyroclast recrystallization, and to be strongly dependent on ol nucleation.
Creating Sustainable Businesses by Reducing Food Waste: A Value Chain Framework for Eliminating Inefficiencies
Creators: name: Kouwenhoven, Gerry
name: Reddy Nalla, Vijayender
name: Lossonczy Von Losoncz, Ton
name: Kouwenhoven, Gerry
name: Reddy Nalla, Vijayender
name: Lossonczy Von Losoncz, Ton
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Keywords: profitability with sustainability
subject: value chain interventions
subject: market intelligence
subject: innovative entrepreneurship
subject: food waste

description: This study proposes a systematic value chain approach to helping businesses identify and eliminate inefficiencies. The authors have developed a robust framework, which food-sector entrepreneurs can use to increase profitability of an existing business or to create new profitable opportunities. The value chain approach provides win-win opportunities for players within the value chain. To test the robustness of the framework, the authors use food waste as an example of a critical inefficiency and apply it to two different food sector business cases, each operating in diverse conditions. Because the suggested framework addresses the core elements and parameters for the existence and competitiveness of a business, the model can be adapted to other sectors.
description: The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review. Complete library is located at www.ifama.org
Factors Affecting the Export Demand for U.S. Pistachios
Creators: name: Zheng, Zijuan
name: Saghaian, Sayed H.
name: Reed, Michael R.
name: Zheng, Zijuan
name: Saghaian, Sayed H.
name: Reed, Michael R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: export demand
subject: food safety
subject: marketing orders
subject: pistachio nuts

description: This study evaluates the U.S. role in world production and trade of pistachios and identifies major factors affecting export demand for U.S. pistachios. We incorporate 21 major markets accounting for 78 percent of total U.S. pistachio exports. The impacts of market conditions and the effects of food safety shocks are investigated. The results indicate U.S. pistachio producers should take advantage of their advanced technology and reputation for higher food safety standards to enhance international market share. Necessary ingredients for a successful marketing strategy include compliance with marketing order regulations, improved food safety, and product diversification.
description: The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review. Complete library is located at www.ifama.org
Oltre le mura dell'aula: un viaggio tra settimane fuori sede e outdoor education
Creators: name: Albergati, Bea
Publisher: name: Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
Year: 2025
Subjects: Outdoor Education
settimana fuori sede
Piano di Studio
esplorare
apprendimento

description: Questo lavoro scandaglia le diverse modalità con cui il processo di esplorazione, elemento centrale dell'Outdoor Education (OE) e del Piano di Studi (PdS) ticinese, viene attuato durante le settimane verdi. Attraverso un’analisi qualitativa, supportata dall’osservazione diretta di tre settimane verdi (Scruengo, Olivone e Château-d'OEx) e dall'analisi di documenti didattici (griglie, elenchi di attività, feedback degli allievi), la ricerca si concentra su ventuno attività, spazi di svago inclusi. L'indagine valuta come le attività proposte si intersechino con il modello concettuale di Higgins per l'OE e come si allineino con il PdS con un focus sul processo di "esplorare", utilizzando i tre livelli del processo (interpretazione, azione e autoregolazione) come criterio di valutazione. L'analisi considera anche l'interdisciplinarità, gli ambiti di competenza e le competenze trasversali, per comprendere l'interazione degli allievi con l'ambiente esterno. I risultati evidenziano una varietà di approcci all'esplorazione, con diverse attività che stimolano l'apprendimento esperienziale, la connessione con il mondo e lo sviluppo personale e sociale, con particolare attenzione al legame tra teoria e pratica.
First Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Creators: name: Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, H. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Double beta decay is indispensable to solve the question of the neutrino mass matrix together with $ν$ oscillation experiments. Recent analysis of the most sensitive experiment since nine years - the HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW experiment in Gran-Sasso - yields a first indication for the neutrinoless decay mode. This result is the first evidence for lepton number violation and proves the neutrino to be a Majorana particle. We give the present status of the analysis in this report. It excludes several of the neutrino mass scenarios allowed from present neutrino oscillation experiments - only degenerate scenarios and those with inverse mass hierarchy survive. This result allows neutrinos to still play an important role as dark matter in the Universe. To improve the accuracy of the present result, considerably enlarged experiments are required, such as GENIUS. A GENIUS Test Facility has been funded and will come into operation by early 2003.
description: 16 pages, latex, 10 figures, Talk was presented at Zacatecas Forum in Physics 2002, 11-13 MAY, 2002, Zacatecas, Mexico, eds. M. Kirchbach and D. V. Ahluwalia (2003), and see Home Page of Heidelberg Non-Accelerator Particle Physics Group: http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/non_acc/
Chikungunya Virus Infection Outcome: A Systematic Review of Host Genetics
Creators: name: Ferreira, Jean Moisés
name: Santos, Leandro Douglas Silva
name: Oliveira, Susana Paiva
name: Santos, Bárbara Rayssa Correia Dos
name: Santos, Ana Caroline Melo Dos
name: Edilson Leite De Moura
name: De Souza, Elaine Virginia Martins
name: De Lima Filho, José Luiz
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Background: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a global concern, inducing chikungunya fever and trigging an arthritogenic chronic phase beyond some severe forms. Outcomes of CHIKV infections in humans are dependent on genetic variations. Here, a systematic review was performed to show evidence of genetic variations on infection outcomes of patients. Methods: Searches were performed in Scopus, SciELO, MEDLINE/PubMed, Web of Science, OneFile (GALE), Periódicos CAPES and ScienceDirect Journals databases. The PICOS approach was used to assess the eligibility of records. A meta-analysis was also conducted to show an association between described alleles/genes and CHIKV infection outcome. Results: Reviews of genetic variants were conducted on genes: CD 209, OAS1, OAS2, OAS3, MIF, TLR-3, TLR-7, TLR-8, MYD-88, KIR, HLA-B; HLA-C; DRB1 and DQB1. Studies were performed on Gabon, Singapore, and India, including Indians, Malay, Gabonese and Chinese ethnicities and published between 2009–2017. The meta-analysis was performed with DRB1 *01; *03; *04; *07; *10; *11; *13; *14 and *15 and DQB1 *02; *03; *05 and *06 alleles with Indian population sample. Sampling power was >80% and a significant positive association between DRB1*14 and CHIKV infection was found (OR = 1.67, 95% CI = 1.04–2.67; p = .03). Conclusion: Majority of the studies were conducted in India. Meta-analysis suggests that DRB1*14 is related to the susceptibility of symptomatic CHIKV infection in Indian population. The literature about CHIKV infection and genetic variations is scarce. The precise role of genetic variation in CHIKV is not clear yet. Further studies are necessary to provide more concrete evidences.
Weight Determining of Factors Influencing Grain Output Based on Entropy Weight Method
Creators: name: Li, Jun
name: Li, Jun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Grain output
subject: Entropy weight method
subject: Factors
subject: Weight

description: This article selects 8 main factors (the number of rural employees, total power of agricultural machinery, effective irrigation area of crops, growing area of grain crops, fertilizer consumption, electricity consumption in rural areas, area affected and area covered) as the factors influencing grain output, and offers the method of determining weight of factors influencing grain output using entropy weight method. According to the relevant data in the period 1985-2005, we analyze the weight of factors influencing grain output in China by example. The results show that the electricity consumption in rural areas has the greatest impact on grain output, followed by total power of agricultural machinery, fertilizer consumption and area covered. To increase grain output, we must enhance the degree of mechanization, free people from the former process of direct cultivation, strengthen water conservancy construction, and do a good job in disaster prevention and mitigation.
Strategic Research of Xinjiang Forestry and Fruit Industry Based on “Smile Curve”
Creators: name: Han, Yang
name: Han, Yang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Smile Curve
subject: Xinjiang forestry and fruit industry
subject: Value-adding strategy

description: Based on theory of “Smile Curve”, this paper analyzes industrial composition and current development situation of Xinjiang forestry and fruit industry. The “Smile Curve” theory indicates that research development and marketing sections have advantages of high added value, while processing and manufacturing sections have lower profitability. In line with these situations, strategic countermeasures are put forward for improving competitive power and increasing values of Xinjiang forestry and fruit industry. Countermeasures include seeking balance of ecological, social and economic benefits, and guiding investment in science and technology; energetically developing refined and deep processing through building industrial bases by leading enterprises; energetically developing informationization and logistics construction and catching major points of forestry and fruit industrial construction; stressing regional characteristics and implementing independent brand strategy from the “Green” concept.
Empirical Analysis of Agricultural Production Efficiency in Shaanxi Province
Creators: name: Wan, Sheng-Xin
name: Wan, Sheng-Xin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Data envelopment analysis
subject: Agricultural production efficiency
subject: Scale efficiency
subject: Technical efficiency

description: This article analyses the agricultural production efficiency of all cities and areas in Shaanxi Province in the period 2006-2009 using data envelopment analysis method, and compares the agricultural production efficiency between all cities and areas. The results show that the agricultural production efficiency and scale efficiency of agriculture of Shaanxi Province are high on the whole, but the efficiency of agricultural technology is very low, agricultural development still relies on factor inputs, and the driving role of technological progress is not conspicuous. Finally the following countermeasures are put forward to promote agricultural productivity in Shaanxi Province: improve the construction of agricultural infrastructure, and increase agricultural input; accelerate the project of extending agricultural technology into households, and promote the conversion and use rate of agricultural scientific and technological achievements; establish and improve industrial system of agriculture, and speed up the building of various agricultural cooperative economic organizations.
MOESM3 of Community youth teams facilitating participatory adolescent groups, youth leadership activities and livelihood promotion to improve school attendance, dietary diversity and mental health among adolescent girls in rural eastern India: protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Rath, Suchitra
name: Prost, Audrey
name: Subhashree Samal
name: Hemanta Pradhan
name: Copas, Andrew
name: Gagrai, Sumitra
name: Shibanand Rath
name: Gope, Raj
name: Nair, Nirmala
name: Tripathy, Prasanta
name: Komal Bhatia
name: Rose-Clarke, Kelly
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Trial outcomes and detailed questionnaire items.