cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Social Networks and Supplychain Management in Rural Areas: A Case Study Focusing on Organic Olive Oil
Creators: name: Medicamento, Umberto
name: De Gennaro, Bernardo
name: Medicamento, Umberto
name: De Gennaro, Bernardo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: organic olive oil supply chain
subject: network
subject: relationships

description: In recent years, due to the growing supply of organic production, the economic performances and the competitive advantages of the farms, have become more dependent on network organisations in the supply chains. This evolution equires methodological approaches able to capture all the variables involved in the generating value processes. The network dimension of the supply chain has become a key element, and enables us to understand better the competitive performances of firms. The relationships of firms, among intangible assets, are recently considered one of the main sources of profit. So the relational capital forms the essence of the value of the firm and it is advantages on the whole coming out by occupying a specific position (role) in the network of social relationships, the social network (Costabile, 2001). The goods present in a context are not enough to explain the wealth of a firm or a supply chain or a sector, so it is necessary to understand the nature of exchanges and how do they work trough the network. For these reasons our study compares supply chains of organic olive oil in Italy and in Spain using the Social Network Analysis. The data was collected by survey in two areas: the Sierra de Segura (Andalucia, Spain) and the province of Bari (Puglia, Italy). By the results of our study we can assert that the Sierra de Segura shows a simple network which allows, trough a cooperative organisation, to generate value for the farms. On the other hand, in the province of Bari the network organisation is quite disperse, denoting a luck of organisation which bring to a low level in competitiveness of the whole supply chain. At the same time, firms with a good economic results have also a central position in the network.
Something of a Paradox: The Neglect of Agriculture in Economic Development
Creators: name: Bezemer, Dirk J.
name: Headey, Derek D.
name: Bezemer, Dirk J.
name: Headey, Derek D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Agricultural Productivity
subject: Economic Growth
subject: Poverty Alleviation
subject: Urban Biases
subject: Public Expenditure
subject: Foreign Aid
subject: Washington Consensus.

description: This paper argues that investment in agriculture has a large and continuing developmental importance in terms of both economic growth and poverty reduction. Moreover, targeted public resources have proven to be indispensable in achieving these results. Both arguments are supported with novel analyses which update and strengthen the traditional case for agriculture-led development with public-sector involvement. But despite the strong case for agriculture-led development strategies, the authors find that the financial resources allocated towards this sector have strongly declined over the last three decades, and they suggest that a shift towards new development paradigms since 1980 might be a significant explanation for this apparent Agricultural Paradox. This conjecture is tested with data on foreign aid, public expenditure, PRSP contents, and empirical analyses of the intellectual resources devoted to the study of agriculture in development by World Bank researchers. The authors conclude with a critical discussion of these disturbing trends.
Adopting Organic Agriculture: An Investigation Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour
Creators: name: Hattam, Caroline
name: Hattam, Caroline
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: organic agriculture
subject: theory of planned behaviour
subject: entry barriers
subject: O13

description: Certified organic production by small-scale farmers in developing countries is increasingly promoted as an opportunity to access a growing and dynamic market, while at the same time, enhance productivity and improve incomes. Nevertheless, adoption has been limited. The economics literature suggests profitability is the main constraint, however, the sustainable agriculture literature is inconclusive and considers attitudes of significant importance. Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this study investigates the psychological barriers to adoption using small-scale avocado producers from Michoacan, Mexico as a case study. The data is obtained from a household study carried out during 2004 and is modelled using an ordered probit model. Despite positive attitudes towards organic production, intentions to convert are negative. Intentions are significantly influenced by social pressures (subjective norm) and the perceived ability to successfully convert to organic production. Promotion of organic production will therefore require a focus on information asymmetries within the wider population, development of technical skills, the alleviation of credit constraints and the creation of an enabling environment.
Sound velocity and dimensional crossover in a superfluid Fermi gas in an optical lattice
Creators: name: Koponen, T.
name: Martikainen, J. -P.
name: Kinnunen, J.
name: Torma, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the sound velocity in cubic and non-cubic three-dimensional optical lattices. We show how the van Hove singularity of the free Fermi gas is smoothened by interactions and eventually vanishes when interactions are strong enough. For non-cubic lattices, we show that the speed of sound (Bogoliubov-Anderson phonon) shows clear signatures of dimensional crossover both in the 1D and 2D limits.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, replaced with the published version
Access of Eastern African Farmers to Domestic and International Markets: Opportunities and Constraints
Creators: name: Bahiigwa, Godfrey
name: Bahiigwa, Godfrey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Market access
subject: trade reforms
subject: regional integration
subject: economic growth
subject: Eastern African farmers

description: This paper reviews the opportunities and challenges that Eastern African farmers face in accessing domestic, regional and international markets. With rising population and incomes, domestic markets offer great opportunities for farmers. However, because of structural, institutional and organizational constraints, small scale rural farmers may not benefit much from domestic urban markets unless they are organized and trained to meet the high quality product standards demanded by urban consumers and supermarkets. ECA countries stand to gain more by investing in commodities that are consumed within the region, than from traditional cash crops destined for international markets. Regional integration offers opportunities for larger markets and efficiency gains and this is happening, although countries still have to do more to ease the flow of goods across the region, including joint investments in infrastructure to link markets, harmonizing trade policies, and removing trade barriers that limit cross-border trade. Access to international markets remains constrained because of trade distorting practices in developed countries, especially tariff peaks and tariff escalation, domestic support to their farmers, and export subsidies. All these practices render African products uncompetitive, discourage investments in agro-industries, thus limiting growth in jobs and incomes, and slow down the pace of economic growth and overall poverty reduction. African countries stand to gain more from liberal trade policies than from aid from developed countries.
Diffused vorticity approach to the oscillations of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a harmonic plus quartic trap
Creators: name: Cozzini, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The collective modes of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate confined in an attractive quadratic plus quartic trap are investigated. Assuming the presence of a large number of vortices we apply the diffused vorticity approach to the system. We then use the sum rule technique for the calculation of collective frequencies, comparing the results with the numerical solution of the linearized hydrodynamic equations. Numerical solutions also show the existence of low-frequency multipole modes which are interpreted as vortex oscillations.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Unified anisotropic strength criterion rank two for fibrous materials like wood
Creators: name: Koczan, Grzegorz
name: Kozakiewicz, Paweł
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 74A10, 74A45, 74E10, 74R20

description: Wood is a fibrous orthotropic material additionally characterized with sign-sensitivity. Thus, determining the universal conditions of its strength constitutes a complex task. In their work, the authors present the anisotropic generalization of the Huber criterion which is closer to Norris's proposal, as opposed to Hill (and Hofmann) and Mises proposal. The obtained criterion incorporates conditions which are additionally imposed on a special case of Tsai-Wu criterion for composite materials.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, 53 references, 20 equations
Additional file 1 of Psychological impact of an epidemic/pandemic on the mental health of healthcare professionals: a rapid review
Creators: name: Stuijfzand, Suzannah
name: Deforges, Camille
name: Sandoz, Vania
name: Consuela-Thais Sajin
name: Jaques, Cecile
name: Elmers, Jolanda
name: Horsch, Antje
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1. Search Strategies.
On-line smooth trajectory planning for manipulators
Creators: name: Macfarlane, Sonja
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This work proposes a smooth, on-line, trajectory generation method for manipulators. The ability to compute a trajectory on-line increases the ease and speed with which manipulator programming can be done. It also reduces a manipulator's downtime and provides a certain amount of autonomy to the manipulator. These properties are especially desirable in industrial applications. Smooth trajectories are used to avoid controller and actuator saturation thereby reducing actuator wear, and improving tracking accuracy. They also improve manipulator motion times. Existing trajectory generation strategies can be divided into two groups: those based on the dynamic model of the manipulator, and those based on the kinematic limits of the actuators. Trajectory generation methods based on the dynamic model of the manipulator typically cannot be implemented on-line due to the required optimization processes, which can have widely varying computational requirements. Furthermore, their complexity is prohibitive for industrial implementation. Those based on the kinematic limits of the actuators provide computationally simpler solutions and can be used on-line. However existing kinematic-based trajectory planning algorithms that are suitable for use on-line, either do not incorporate jerk limits or involve the use of transcendental functions to limit jerk. The latter method increases the computational load. The trajectories proposed herein can be tracked using typical industrial controllers. The solution is based on forming a fifth order polynomial (quintic) trajectory following a sine-wave template, such that the velocity, acceleration and jerk limits are respected throughout the trajectory. All trajectories between two points can be planned by calculating the time, position, speed and acceleration at a maximum of seven control points, which describe the trajectory. This provides a tractable near time-optimal trajectory which can easily be generated on-line. The trajectory paths consist of straight lines joined by splines (blends) to ensure that the manipulator does not stop at each way-point. Limitations on the blend speed are proposed to ensure that the acceleration and jerk limits are respected during the blend. In addition, a high level planning architecture is provided for on-line trajectory planning. An implementation of the proposed trajectory generation technique and its comparison to an industrial technique show improved motion times, consistent kinematic profiles and improved path tracking.
Noncommutative scalar field minimally coupled to gravity
Creators: name: Bertolami, Orfeu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model for noncommutative scalar fields coupled to gravity based on the generalization of the Moyal product is proposed. Solutions compatible with homogeneous and isotropic flat Robertson-Walker spaces to first non-trivial order in the perturbation of the star-product are presented. It is shown that in the context of a typical chaotic inflationary scenario, at least in the slow-roll regime, noncommutativity yields no observable effect.
description: Talk presented at the Workshop on Quantum Gravity and Noncommutative Geometry, 20-23 July 2004, Universidade Lus\'ofona, Lisbon, Portugal. To appear at Int. J. Mod. Phys. A
Modelling the Impact of Decoupling on Structural Change in Farming: Integrating Econometric Estimation and Optimisation
Creators: name: Hennessy, Thia C.
name: Rehman, Tahir
name: Hennessy, Thia C.
name: Rehman, Tahir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: Decoupling
subject: Farm Level Modelling
subject: Linear Programming
subject: Succession
subject: Labour Allocation

description: Implementation of the Mid Term Review of the Common Agricultural Policy on farming in Europe is expected, and intended, to initiate structural changes in European agriculture. This impact of the agricultural policy reform will be triggered at the farm level with both up- and down-stream effects for agriculture in Europe. Modelling such a phenomenon is challenging. An integrated modelling approach, involving farm level optimisation models and exogenously estimated econometric models of farmer behaviour, is developed for Ireland; this framework is a general one and is applicable elsewhere. Entry and exit from farming, postulated as the main consequences of the policy reform, are estimated exogenously to determine their role in the allocation of farm labour. The results for Ireland show that farm numbers will decline more rapidly under decoupling relative to a baseline situation. Further, decoupling is likely to favour beef farming but, an increasing number of beef farmers will have to rely on outside income to sustain that system of farming. Dairy farmers will face a price cost squeeze and structural change in this sector will be accelerated.
Sequencing seismograms: A panoptic view of scattering in the core-mantle boundary region
Creators: name: Kim, Doyeon
name: Lekic, Vedran
name: Ménard, Brice
name: Baron, Dalya
name: Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Scattering of seismic waves can reveal subsurface structures but usually in a piecemeal way focused on specific target areas. We used a manifold learning algorithm called "the Sequencer" to simultaneously analyze thousands of seismograms of waves diffracting along the core-mantle boundary and obtain a panoptic view of scattering across the Pacific region. In nearly half of the diffracting waveforms, we detected seismic waves scattered by three-dimensional structures near the core-mantle boundary. The prevalence of these scattered arrivals shows that the region hosts pervasive lateral heterogeneity. Our analysis revealed loud signals due to a plume root beneath Hawaii and a previously unrecognized ultralow-velocity zone beneath the Marquesas Islands. These observations illustrate how approaches flexible enough to detect robust patterns with little to no user supervision can reveal distinctive insights into the deep Earth.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures. Supplement available at: http://www.geol.umd.edu/facilities/seismology/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Kim_et_al_2020_SOM.pdf
On Measuring the Value of a Nonmarket Good Using Market Data
Creators: name: Bullock, David S.
name: Minot, Nicholas
name: Bullock, David S.
name: Minot, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Our purpose is to present in detail numerical methods of measuring the value of nonmarket goods using market data, under either weak neutrality, weak complementarity, or any other preference restriction meeting the requirements discussed in this paper. It has been claimed in a number of places in the literature that numerical methods cannot be used to measure the value of nonmarket goods unless the very restrictive Willig conditions are satisfied. We show that this claim is mistaken, and that numerical methods can be used whether or not the Willig conditions are satisfied. Our numerical methods are more flexible than the existing analytical method because ours can be used with any Marshallian demand system.
Additional file 1 of Impact on quality of life 3 years after diagnosis of prostate cancer patients below 75 at diagnosis: an observational case-control study
Creators: name: Houédé, Nadine
name: Rébillard, Xavier
name: Bouvet, Sophie
name: Kabani, Sarah
name: Fabbro-Peray, Pascale
name: Trétarre, Brigitte
name: Ménégaux, Florence
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Profile of subjects from the EPICAP cohort contacted and included in this study.
Zur Mikrostruktur des Exportbooms
Creators: name: Wagner, Joachim
name: Wagner, Joachim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Firm panel data
subject: export boom
subject: Germany

description: Dieser Aufsatz nutzt geheime Einzeldaten aus amtlichen Erhebungen in niedersächsischen Industriebetrieben, um einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Exportbooms zu werfen. Hierbei zeigt sich eine ausgeprägte Heterogenität der Exportdynamik zwischen Betrieben innerhalb einer Hauptgruppe, Technologieklasse und Größenklasse. Weder die Betriebsgröße noch der Industriezweig noch die Lohnkostenentwicklung weisen einen statistisch signifikanten Zusammenhang mit der Wahrscheinlichkeit auf, dass ein Betrieb zur Kategorie der Exportsteigerer gehört. Zwischen der Arbeitsproduktivitätsund der Exportdynamik bestehen statistisch signifikante positive Abhängigkeiten - aus ökonomischer Sicht sind diese allerdings als sehr gering einzuschätzen This paper uses plant level longitudinal data from official statistics to investigate the micro-structure of the recent German export boom. It is shown that firms inside industries, technology groups, and size classes are rather heterogenous. Neither firm size, nor industry, nor the rate of change of wage costs is statistically significantly related to the probability of growth of exports. Changes in labor productivity and export dynamics are correlated positively; however, this effect is rather small.
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of tropospheric ozone reanalyses with independent ozonesonde observations in East Asia
Creators: name: Sunmin Park
name: Seok-Woo Son
name: Myung-Il Jung
name: Jinkyung Park
name: Park, Sang Seo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: 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: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures and tables.
Yen of Yuan? China's Role in the Future of Asian Monetary Integration
Creators: name: Hefeker, Carsten
name: Nabor, Andreas
name: Hefeker, Carsten
name: Nabor, Andreas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: China
subject: Asia
subject: Monetary Integration
subject: Exchange Rate Regimes.

description: Most proposals for Asian monetary cooperation assign a special role to the Japanese yen as an anchor currency. We focus instead on the potential role of the Chinese renminbi. It becomes increasingly clear that China will assume the role of the dominant economy in the region, and that it will become a more important destination for Asian products than Japan in as little as five years. This development should assign a special role to the Chinese currency and its exchange rate to the other Asian currencies. It is rather unlikely that the renminbi will assume a dominant role immediately but by drawing comparisons with the European monetary integration process, it seems possible to design a system in which most of the present currencies have a role, but where the relative weights shift over time. The evolution of the ERM is a model for the process of Asian monetary integration.
Interpolated stanzas in Ephraim's madroshe III-VII on faith
Creators: name: Palmer, Andrew
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 93 (2009): Oriens christianus, Band 93
Languages for modeling the RED active queue management algorithms: Modelica vs. Julia
Creators: name: Apreutesey, Anna Maria Yu.
name: Korolkova, Anna V.
name: Kulyabov, Dmitry S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work is devoted to the study of the capabilities of the Modelica and Julia programming languages for the implementation of a continuously discrete paradigm in modeling hybrid systems that contain both continuous and discrete aspects of behavior. A system consisting of an incoming stream that is processed according to the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and a router that processes traffic using the Random Early Detection (RED) algorithm acts as a simulated threshold system.
description: in English; in Russian
Die Osterweiterung aus raumwirtschaftlicher Perspektive - Prognosen regionalokonomischer Theorien und Erfahrungen aus der bisherigen Integration in Europa
Creators: name: Lammers, Konrad
name: Lammers, Konrad
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Enlargement
subject: regional convergence
subject: integration
subject: economic geography

description: Im Zuge der Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union eröffnen sich für die Beitrittskandidatenländer gute Möglichkeiten, wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten aus Westeuropa und anderswo zu attrahieren und im Pro-Kopf-Einkommen aufzuholen. Der Aufholprozess der Beitrittsländer wird jedoch von zunehmender regionaler Divergenz in diesen Ländern begleitet sein. Diese Einschätzung beruht auf den Erfahrungen bei früheren Integrationsprozessen in Europa, insbesondere bei der Süderweiterung, und der ökonomischen Entwicklung in den Kohäsionsländern. Die bisherige Entwicklung der Beitrittskandidatenländer, die im Hinblick auf Handels- und Direktinvestitionsverflechtungen bereits in hohem Maße mit Westeuropa verflochten sind, bestätigen diese Einschätzungen. In the course of integrating Eastern Europe into the EU the accession countries will have a good opportunity to attract industries from Western Europe and elsewhere and to catch up in per capita income. However, the catching up of the accession countries will be accompanied by an increase in regional divergence within these countries. This is concluded from the previous experiences with integration in Europe, especially the Southern enlargement, and the economic performance of and within the cohesion countries. The performance of the accession countries so far, already highly integrated with Western Europe in terms of trade and direct investment before their legal membership, confirms these conclusions.
I-BiDaaS - D2.5: The Data Fabrication Platform (DFP, Final Version)
Creators: name: Boehm, Omer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This report contains details about the I-BiDaaS automated methodology for fabrication of synthetic and realistic data sets. Various data analyses results are ingested by test data fabrication platform and are used to create a set of constraint rules that model the learned data. Using this model, the user can fabricate large data sets that exhibit similar properties as the real data, thus making it realistic. The work described in this document is the implementation of an end to end automation process where metadata combined with data analysis results are fed into the platform to automatically fabricate complete realistic data sets.
National and International Developments in Technology - Trends, Patterns and Implications for Policy
Creators: name: Koopmann, Georg
name: Munnich, Felix
name: Koopmann, Georg
name: Munnich, Felix
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Declining R&D intensities at the national level coincide with growing international technological links. Deviations of individual OECD countries from the average R&D intensity reflect differences in industry structure as well as in sectoral R&D intensity. At the same time, the sectoral distribution of R&D expenditure varies substantially less across countries than do the respective growth rates. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is the most important vehicle for the exploitation of "home-grown" technology abroad. FDI frequently also entails the generation of knowledge abroad in own R&D facilities the nature of which increasingly shifts from adaptation to innovation development and knowledge-seeking. In addition, international technological collaboration via in- and outsourcing and inter-company alliances is gaining growing significance. The policy challenges posed by technological internationalisation include the provision of better market access, more effective patent protection and competitive regimes, as well as the promotion of clustering and networking and international cooperation. Sinkende FuE-Intensitäten auf der nationalen Ebene gehen mit einer wachsenden internationalen Technologieverflechtung einher. In den Abweichungen einzelner OECDLänder von der durchschnittlichen FuE-Intensität spiegeln sich Unterschiede in der Industriestruktur und in der sektoralen FuE-Intensität wider. Gleichzeitig unterscheiden sich die Länder weniger in der sektoralen Verteilung der FuE-Ausgaben als in den Zuwachsraten. Direktinvestitionen sind das bedeutendste Vehikel der Verwertung inländischer Technologie im Ausland. Sie führen häufig auch zur Erzeugung neuen Wissens in ausländischen FuE-Einrichtungen, die verstärkt eigene FuE statt reiner Anpassungsentwicklung betreiben und ausländisches Wissen suchen. Neben Verwertung und Erzeugung gewinnt die internationale technologische Kooperation via In- und Outsourcing und Allianzen zwischen Unternehmen wachsende Bedeutung. Die politischen Herausforderungen der technologischen Internationalisierung schließen einen verbesserten Marktzugang, effizienteren Patent- und Wettbewerbsschutz sowie die Förderung der Cluster- und Netzwerkbildung und internationalen Kooperation ein.
Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation
Creators: name: Harms, Philipp
name: Lutz, Matthias
name: Harms, Philipp
name: Lutz, Matthias
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Aid
subject: Foreign Direct Investment
subject: Institutions

description: Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries' institutional environment, we find that, evaluated at the mean, the marginal effect of aid on private foreign investment is close to zero. Surprisingly, however, the effect is strictly positive for countries in which private agents face a substantial regulatory burden. After testing the robustness of this result, we offer a theoretical model that is able to rationalize our puzzling observation.
A Class of Second Order Tangent Sets
Creators: name: Kutateladze, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49J52

description: Under consideration are the construction and properties of some special class of second other tangent sets on using the technique of nonstandard analysis.
description: 4 pages
First-principles calculations of the dispersion of surface phonons of the unreconstructed and reconstructed Pt(110)
Creators: name: Hong, Sampyo
name: Rahman, Talat S.
name: Heid, Rolf
name: Bohnen, Klaus Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present result of calculations of the surface phonon dispersion curves for Pt(110) using density functional theory in the local density approximation and norm conserving pseudopotentials in a mixed-basis approach. Linear response theory is invoked and both the unreconstructed, and the missing row (1x2) reconstructed surfaces are considered. We find that the reconstruction is not driven by a phonon instability. Most of the observed phonon modes for the (1x2) structure can be understood in terms of simple folding of the (1x1) Brillouin zone onto that for the (1x2) surface. Largest changes in the phonon frequencies on surface reconstruction occur close to the zone boundary in the (001) direction. Detailed comparison of atomic force constants for the (1x1) and the (1x2) surfaces and their bulk counterparts show that the bulk value is attained after three layers. Our calculations reproduce nicely the Kohn anomaly observed along the (110) direction in the bulk. We do not find a corresponding effect on the surface.
D VITAMININING ASOSIY XUSUSIYATLARI, TAVSIFI VA FOYDALARI
Creators: name: Tuxtayeva, Mashhura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqolada D vitaminining asosiy xususiyatlari va uning inson tanasiga ta'siri muhokama qilinadi. Zamonaviy ixtisoslashtirilgan adabiyotlar va dolzarb ilmiy ma'lumotlar tizimli ravishda o'rganildi. Vitamin D ning eng yaxshi tabiiy manbalari ko'rsatilgan. D vitaminining ma'lum tibbiy sharoitlarda va kasalliklarda inson organizmiga mumkin bo'lgan salbiy ta'siri alohida tahlil qilinadi.
I-BiDaaS - D2.6: Universal Messaging Bus (Final Version)
Creators: name: Ristow, Gerald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This deliverable reports on the I-BiDaaS data ingestion and integration solution for collecting and distributing real-time streaming raw data (structured, unstructured, noisy and possibly incomplete). It focusses on data pre-processing and securing Universal Messaging.
Additional file 1 of X chromosome variants are associated with male fertility traits in two bovine populations
Creators: name: Fortes, Marina R. S.
name: Laercio R. Porto-Neto
name: Satake, Nana
name: Nguyen, Loan T.
name: Freitas, Ana Claudia
name: Thaise P. Melo
name: Daiane Cristina Becker Scalez
name: Hayes, Ben
name: Raidan, Fernanda S. S.
name: Reverter, Antonio
name: Boe-Hansen, Gry B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Statistical power to detect the genetic variance of bull fertility phenotypes. Statistical power analyses for detecting the genetic variance with the genomic relationship matrices models used are provided for each measured phenotype, within each breed.
Magnon Polarons induced by a magnetic field gradient
Creators: name: Vidal-Silva, N.
name: Aguilera, E.
name: Roldán-Molina, A.
name: Duine, R. A.
name: Nunez, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we report the theoretical possibility of generating magnon polaron excitations through a space-varying magnetic field. The spatial dependence of the magnetic field in the Zeeman interaction gives rise to a magnon-phonon coupling when a magnetic field gradient is applied, and such a coupling depends directly on the strength of the gradient. It is also predicted that the direction of the magnetic field gradient allows control over which phonon polarization couples to the magnons in the material. Here we develop the calculations of the magnon-phonon coupling for an arbitrary (anti)ferromagnet, which are later used to numerically study its consequences. These results are compared to the ones obtained with the phenomenological magnetoelastic coupling in YIG, where we show that the magnon polaron bandgap seen in YIG can be also obtained with a magnetic field gradient of $\sim 0.1$T/m which can be achieved with the current experimental techniques. Our results propose a new way of controlling the magnetoelastic coupling in an arbitrary material and open a new route to exploit the magnon-phonon interaction in magnonic and spintronic devices.
Additional file 2 of X chromosome variants are associated with male fertility traits in two bovine populations
Creators: name: Fortes, Marina R. S.
name: Laercio R. Porto-Neto
name: Satake, Nana
name: Nguyen, Loan T.
name: Freitas, Ana Claudia
name: Thaise P. Melo
name: Daiane Cristina Becker Scalez
name: Hayes, Ben
name: Raidan, Fernanda S. S.
name: Reverter, Antonio
name: Boe-Hansen, Gry B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Additional methods and results. This additional file includes details on the SPDA and SCSA methods, on the studied populations and their structure, and results for the GWAS performed. For further analyses on the structure of the Brahman population, we refer to the principal component analyses previously published [48]. The variance component model that underpins the software used accounts for sample structure in genome-wide association studies [67].
Red squirrel demography and behaviour in a managed interior Douglas-fir forest of British Columbia
Creators: name: Herbers, Jim R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: I examined the affect of logging intensity and pattern on the North American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) by measuring density and demography from zero to four years after logging, and by measuring territory size, habitat use, and behaviour of individual animals from three to five years after logging. This study was done in an interior Douglas-fir forest (IDF) near Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Patterns of tree removal ranged from small patch cuts (<1.6 ha) to individual tree selection (diameter-limit logging) and intensity of tree removal ranged from 20-50% by volume. From two to four years after logging, red squirrel abundance declined in a 1:1 relationship with the volume of conifer tree removal. Absolute variation in squirrel abundance was highest in the uniform tree removal treatments and lowest in unharvested habitat. Red squirrel recruitment, survival, body weight, and reproduction was unrelated to pattern or intensity of tree removal. In general, these results are consistent with the predictions of the ideal free distribution model of habitat selection. I conclude that logging intensity had the greatest effect on red squirrels, but that uniform tree removal logging may result in poor quality habitat during years of conifer cone crop failure. From three to five years after logging, red squirrel territory size was best explained by the density of Douglas-fir trees larger than 30 cm diameter-at-breast-height (DBH). Similarly, red squirrels prefered conifer trees larger than 15 cm DBH, with the strongest preference for trees between 30 and 44 cm DBH. Despite large differences in conifer tree density on individual territories, red squirrel activity budgets did not change. Further, red squirrels avoided canopy openings created by logging, but this did not affect their use of forest edge compared to interior forest habitat. I suggest that variation in conifer seed production may explain the relationship between Douglas-fir density and red squirrel territory size, habitat selection, and behaviour. I conclude that logging did not have a biologically meaningful effect on red squirrels, either overtime or across the range of habitats I sampled. However, diameter-limit logging may create poor habitat for red squirrels during years when little or no conifer seed is produced, or when logging dilutes conifer trees further than those sampled in this study. Individual tree selection treatments will likely not remain poor habitat for more than five years if greater than 50, 30 cm DBH Douglas fir trees are retained.
Determination of heavy quark non-perturbative parameters from spectral moments in semileptonic B decays
Creators: name: The DELPHI Collaboration
name: Abdallah, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Moments of the hadronic invariant mass and of the lepton energy spectra in semileptonic B decays have been determined with the data recorded by the DELPHI detector at LEP. From measurements of the inclusive b-hadron semileptonic decays, and imposing constraints from other measurements on b- and c-quark masses, the first three moments of the lepton energy distribution and of the hadronic mass distribution, have been used to determine parameters which enter into the extraction of |V_cb| from the measurement of the inclusive b-hadron semileptonic decay width. The values obtained in the kinetic scheme are: m_b(1 GeV) = 4.591 +/- 0.062 +/- 0.039 +/- 0.005 GeV/c^2 m_c(1 GeV) = 1.170 +/- 0.093 +/- 0.055 +/- 0.005 GeV/c^2 mu_{pi}^2(1 GeV) = 0.399 +/- 0.048 +/- 0.034 +/- 0.087 GeV^2 \tildeρ_D^3 = 0.053 +/- 0.017 +/- 0.011 +/- 0.026 GeV^3, and include corrections at order 1/m_b^3. Using these results, and present measurements of the inclusive semileptonic decay partial width of b-hadrons at LEP, an accurate determination of |V_cb| is obtained: |V_cb| = 0.0421 x (1 +/- 0.014 (meas.) +/- 0.014 (fit) +/- 0.015 (th.)).
description: 44 pages, 15 figures, Accepted by Eur. Phys. J. C
Dissipative relativistic magnetohydrodynamics of a multicomponent mixture and its application to neutron stars
Creators: name: Dommes, Vasiliy A.
name: Gusakov, Mikhail E.
name: Shternin, Peter S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate hydrodynamic equations for nonsuperfluid multicomponent magnetized charged relativistic mixtures, taking into account chemical reactions as well as viscosity, diffusion, thermodiffusion, and thermal conductivity effects. The resulting equations have a rather simple form and can be readily applied, e.g., for studying magnetothermal evolution of neutron stars. We also establish a link between our formalism and the results known in the literature, and express the phenomenological diffusion coefficients through momentum transfer rates which are calculated from microscopic theory.
description: 25 pages, 2 figures, published in PRD
Subsidizing Education in the Economic Periphery: Another Pitfall of Regional Policies?
Creators: name: Sudekum, Jens
name: Sudekum, Jens
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Regional Policy
subject: Education Subsidies
subject: Human Capital
subject: Labour Mobility
subject: European Union

description: One of the most prominent instruments of regional policy is to foster education and human capital formation in economically lagging regions. However, regional policy of this type can actually hurt instead of help the poor areas. The reason is that individual geographical mobility increases with the personal skill level. Through education subsidies, particularly if targeted on relatively high skilled workers, individuals can cross some threshold level of qualification beyond which emigration accrues. Regional policies then result in a human capital flight harmful to individuals remaining in the economic periphery. This fatal result does not hold for such policies that foster basic education and focus on the relatively low skilled.
Dark Matter particles in the galactic halo: results and implications from DAMA/NaI
Creators: name: Bernabei, R.
name: Belli, P.
name: Cappella, F.
name: Cerulli, R.
name: Montecchia, F.
name: Nozzoli, F.
name: Incicchitti, A.
name: Prosperi, D.
name: Dai, C. J.
name: Kuang, H. H.
name: Ma, J. M.
name: Ye, Z. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The DAMA/NaI experiment (about 100 kg highly radiopure NaI(Tl)) was proposed, designed and realised to effectively investigate in a model independent way the presence of a Dark Matter particle component in the galactic halo by exploiting the annual modulation signature. With a total exposure of 107731 kg day, collected over seven annual cycles deep underground at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the I.N.F.N., it has pointed out -- at 6.3 sigma C.L. -- an effect which satisfies all the peculiarities of the signature and neither systematic effects nor side reactions able to mimic the signature were found. Moreover, several (but still few with respect to the possibilities) corollary model dependent quests for the candidate particle have been carried out. In this paper the obtained results are summarized and some perspectives are discussed at some extent.
description: 32 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables, in publication on Int. J. Mod. Phys. D
Infinite number of conditions for local mixed state manipulations
Creators: name: Gour, Gilad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that a finite number of conditions are {\em not} sufficient to determine the locality of transformations between two probability distributions of pure states as well as the locality of transformations between two $d\times d$ mixed states with $d\geq 4$. As an example, an infinite, but minimal, set of necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a local procedure that converts one probability distribution of two pure pair of qubits into another one is found.
description: 4 pages
Were the Hollywood film studios' research libraries significant in Hollywood film production, 1914–1950?
Creators: name: Lambert, Corinne
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Were the Hollywood film studios' research libraries significant in Hollywood film production, 1914–1950?
Spitzer Observations of Deeply Obscured Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Spoon, H. W. W.
name: Keane, J. V.
name: Cami, J.
name: Lahuis, F.
name: Tielens, A. G. G. M.
name: Armus, L.
name: Charmandaris, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on our first results from a mid-infrared spectroscopic study of ISM features in a sample of deeply obscured ULIRG nuclei using the InfraRed Spectrograph (IRS) on the Spitzer Space Telescope. The spectra are extremely rich and complex, revealing absorption features of both amorphous and crystalline silicates, aliphatic hydrocarbons, water ice and gas phase bands of hot CO and warm C_2H_2, HCN and CO_2. PAH emission bands were found to be generally weak and in some cases absent. The features are probing a dense and warm environment in which crystalline silicates and water ice are able to survive but volatile ices, commonly detected in Galactic dense molecular clouds, cannot. If powered largely by star formation, the stellar density and conditions of the gas and dust have to be extreme not to give rise to the commonly detected emission features associated with starburst.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, invited paper for the proceedings of IAU symposium 231 "Astrochemistry: Recent Successes and Current Challenges", D.C. Lis, G.A. Blake & E. Herbst, eds
Additional file 6 of An e-registry for household contacts exposed to multidrug resistant TB in Mongolia
Creators: name: Naker, Kush
name: Gaskell, Katherine M.
name: Munhjargal Dorjravdan
name: Naranzul Dambaa
name: Roberts, Chrissy H.
name: Moore, David A. J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. Patient anonymous feedback V2 17,082,017.docx. Questionnaire template provided to patients for anonymous feedback on eregistry.
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) - Liability for Non-Permanence under the UNFCCC
Creators: name: Bode, Sven
name: Jung, Martina
name: Bode, Sven
name: Jung, Martina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
subject: CDM
subject: Climate Change
subject: UNFCCC

description: Prior to CoP 10, our discussion paper "On the Integration of Carbon Capture and Storage into the International Climate Regime" argued that carbon capture and storage (CCS) was similar to carbon sequestration in the area of Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF). This was criticized by several readers who observed that treating CCS as a removal activity (sink) would not be compatible with the UNFCCC sink definition, what we already had mentioned in the paper. The present paper is based on the UNFCCC definition and analyses how CCS could be integrated into the climate regime. As CO2 may re-enter the atmosphere after injection into geological reservoirs, the question of long-term liability has to be considered. Apart from this aspect, additional complexities arise from the fact that CO2 capture and storage can be carried out in two different countries. A classification of CCS cross-border activities shows that not all cases with non-Annex I participation fall under the CDM. Furthermore, we elaborate on the problem that seepage of CO2 from reservoirs located in non-Annex I countries - under current rules - would not be subtracted from the emission budget of any country. For these cases, solutions guaranteeing liability for possible non-permanence of CCS are proposed.