cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
New weaning food for prehistoric babies and origin of caries
Creators: name: Stefanović, Sofija
name: Jovanović, Jelena
name: Penezić, Kristina
name: Blagojević, Tamara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: Increase in caries is described in many Neolithic populations and often interpreted as a consequence of diet based more on carbohydrates. However, we suggest that intensification of caries is probably more connected to new way of food preparation with Neolithic than with new type of food. Special threat for deciduous teeth was new weaning food for babies, probably kind of porridge based on grinned cereals and milk which form a sticky paste around the teeth causing dental caries. We combine different lines of archaeological and bioarchaeological evidences from the territory of the Central Balkans which suggest appearance of new weaning food and increase of caries on deciduous teeth with Neolithic. First, we present our results of microscopic study of 40 Early Neolithic bone spoons from the sites Starcevo and Donja Branjevina, on which we had found evidences of deciduous teeth bite-marks, suggesting their usage for feeding the babies with porridge. Second, we present appearance of caries on children of known duration of breastfeeding from sites Lepenski Vir and Ajmana on which we had found correlation between duration of breastfeeding and caries presence. Our results indicate that in further understanding of origin of caries more attention should be on new way of food preparation in Neolithic than on food itself.
Fear Factor: How Political Insecurity Shapes the Diffusion of Financial Market Deregulation
Creators: name: Wray, Christopher R.
name: Wray, Christopher R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Political Economy

description: Nearly 30 years after "financial repression" was flagged as a major problem in developing countries, nearly all nations have at least partially liberalized their financial systems. Explanations for this spread of financial market deregulation have emphasized either "top down" mechanisms (globalization, pressure from IOs and the U.S.) or "bottom up" mechanisms focusing on domestic coalitions (derived from configurations of economic interests). In contrast to these broadly structural approaches that de-emphasize the choices of agents, this paper focuses on the micro-foundations of diffusion by emphasizing the incentives facing office-seeking leaders. I argue that politically insecure leaders are potent agents of diffusion because they are particularly likely to "learn" the lessons of financial market reform and emulate the liberalizing practices of others for two reasons. First, the hefty economic boom often associated with financial liberalization provides a tempting way to attempt to buttress their near- to medium-term grip on power. As they observe other nations in their region experiencing a boom, leaders fearful of losing office will be quick to learn the lesson and particularly eager to jump on the liberalization bandwagon, accelerating regional deregulation cascades. Second, insecure governments may be particularly susceptible to pressure from international organizations: they have motivated biases both to believe the efficiency claims of liberalizers and strong reasons to seek the "seal of approval" for their policies. Either way, politically insecure leaders will be quick learners about the benefits of liberalization. To assess these arguments, I estimate hazard models of political survival to generate a proxy for political insecurity. With this proxy for insecurity in hand, time-series cross-sectional logit models of the timing of reforms are estimated. The argument implies that while politically insecure leaders may speed diffusion, their depth of commitment will be shallow, and that reforms motivated partly by fear of losing office will be more likely to unravel than those taken out of deeper conviction.
Dark Matter Deficient Galaxies Produced Via High-velocity Galaxy Collisions In High-resolution Numerical Simulations
Creators: name: Shin, Eun-jin
name: Jung, Minyong
name: Kwon, Goojin
name: Kim, Ji-hoon
name: Lee, Joohyun
name: Jo, Yongseok
name: Oh, Boon Kiat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent discovery of diffuse dwarf galaxies that are deficient in dark matter appears to challenge the current paradigm of structure formation in our Universe. We describe the numerical experiments to determine if the so-called dark matter deficient galaxies (DMDGs) could be produced when two gas-rich, dwarf-sized galaxies collide with a high relative velocity of $\sim 300\,{\rm kms^{-1}}$. Using idealized high-resolution simulations with both mesh-based and particle-based gravito-hydrodynamics codes, we find that DMDGs can form as high-velocity galaxy collisions separate dark matter from the warm disk gas which subsequently is compressed by shock and tidal interaction to form stars. Then using a large simulated universe IllustrisTNG, we discover a number of high-velocity galaxy collision events in which DMDGs are expected to form. However, we did not find evidence that these types of collisions actually produced DMDGs in the TNG100-1 run. We argue that the resolution of the numerical experiment is critical to realize the "collision-induced" DMDG formation scenario. Our results demonstrate one of many routes in which galaxies could form with unconventional dark matter fractions.
description: 18 pages including 13 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ. For associated movies and information, see https://ejshin0.github.io/page/category/visualizations.html and https://physics.snu.ac.kr/cosmo/index/research.html#dmdg
Correlation between structure and properties in multiferroic La$_{0.7}$Ca$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$/BaTiO$_3$ superlattices
Creators: name: Singh, M. P.
name: Prellier, W.
name: Mechin, L.
name: Simon, Ch.
name: Raveau, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superlattices composed of ferromagnetics, namely La$_{0.7}$Ca$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$ (LCMO), and ferroelectrics, namely, BaTiO$_3$(BTO) were grown on SrTiO$_3$ at 720$^o$C by pulsed laser deposition process. While the out-of-plane lattice parameters of the superlattices, as extracted from the X-ray diffraction studies, were found to be dependent on the BTO layer thickness, the in-plane lattice parameter is almost constant. The evolution of the strains, their nature, and their distribution in the samples, were examined by the conventional sin$^2ψ$ method. The effects of structural variation on the physical properties, as well as the possible role of the strain on inducing the multiferroism in the superlattices, have also been discussed.
description: To be published in Journal of Applied Physics
Comparing Regulatory Systems: Institutions, Processes and Legal Forms in Industrialised Countries
Creators: name: Ogus, Anthony
name: Ogus, Anthony
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Public Economics

description: The aim of this paper is identify and compare the key features of regulatory systems in industrialised countries. By way of essential background, the first section deals with the constitutional and cultural environment which underpins the systems, but it also includes a discussion of regulatory traditions and styles which, for example as between anglophone and continental European regimes are significantly different. Institutional frameworks are discussed in the second section, covering, inter alia, the relationship between regulatory agencies and government, the breadth of remit of regulatory institutions and the degree of discretion conferred on them by legislation. The latter necessarily gives rise to issues concerning the forms of and institutions of accountability. In the third section, we consider regulatory procedures and management. Noteworthy here are, on the one hand, the systems of consultation and the extent to which public hearings are encouraged and, on the other, cost-benefit or regulatory impact analysis to which, in some jurisdictions, are mandatory for regulatory policy- makers. The final section is concerned with legal instruments and here we concentrate on the growing distance between traditional "command and control" methods and those relying on financial incentives and other economic instruments. Appended to the paper are two case studies which attempt to show how these features are deployed by different jurisdictions in two areas of concrete policy- making: taxicabs and water quality.
Children feeding practices and growth patterns during Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Danube Gorges
Creators: name: Jovanović, Jelena
name: de Becdelievre, Camille
name: Goude, Gwenaëlle
name: Stefanović, Sofija
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, major shift in subsistence, has been correlated with a general decline in health status and a global reduction of body proportions. Recent stable isotope analyses performed on Mesolithic and Neolithic individuals from the Danube Gorges (Balkans, 9500-5500 BC) document significant differences in term of children feeding practices. Therefore, we examine here how different feeding practices could have influenced children growth patterns and health status. We reconstruct the evolution of growth patterns and health status per age categories (infant-early childhood-childhood), and interpret the results in the light of our current understanding of breastfeeding and weaning patterns.
Microwave response of interacting oxide two-dimensional electron systems
Creators: name: Tabrea, D.
name: Dmitriev, I. A.
name: Dorozhkin, S. I.
name: Gorshunov, B. P.
name: Boris, A. V.
name: Kozuka, Y.
name: Tsukazaki, A.
name: Kawasaki, M.
name: von Klitzing, K.
name: Falson, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental study on microwave illuminated high mobility MgZnO/ZnO based two-dimensional electron systems with different electron densities and, hence, varying Coulomb interaction strength. The photoresponse of the low-temperature dc resistance in perpendicular magnetic field is examined in low and high density samples over a broad range of illumination frequencies. In low density samples a response due to cyclotron resonance (CR) absorption dominates, while high density samples exhibit pronounced microwave-induced resistance oscillations (MIRO). Microwave transmission experiments serve as a complementary means of detecting the CR over the entire range of electron densities and as a reference for the band mass unrenormalized by interactions. Both CR and MIRO-associated features in the resistance permit extraction of the effective mass of electrons but yield two distinct values. The conventional cyclotron mass representing center-of-mass dynamics exhibits no change with density and coincides with the band electron mass of bulk ZnO, while MIRO mass reveals a systematic increase with lowering electron density consistent with renormalization expected in interacting Fermi liquids.
Private Sector Development Strategy: Some Critical Issues
Creators: name: Hodge, Graeme
name: Hodge, Graeme
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: International Development

description: This paper aims to articulate aspects of the Private Sector Development Strategies of two key Development Banks in order to reflect on commonalities and differences. The paper reviews these strategies and focuses on what is included and what is omitted, as well as commenting on the characteristics of these strategies as corporate direction setting. The degree to which strategies seem to have incorporated organisational learning, power relationships and cultural contexts is then assessed.
AN APPLICATION OF THE PHOSPHORUS CONSISTENT RULE FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY ACCEPTABLE COST-EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF BROILER LITTER IN CROP PRODUCTION
Creators: name: Paudel, Krishna P.
name: Limaye, Ashutosh S
name: Adhikari, Murali
name: Martin, Neil R.
name: Paudel, Krishna P.
name: Limaye, Ashutosh S
name: Adhikari, Murali
name: Martin, Neil R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Production Economics

description: We calculated the profitability of using broiler litter as a source of plant nutrients using the phosphorus consistent litter application rule. The cost saving by using litter is 37% over the use of chemical fertilizer alone to meet the nutrient needs of major crops grown in Alabama. In the optimal solution, only a few routes of all the possible routes developed were used for inter- and intra- county litter hauling. If litter is not adopted as the sole source of crop nutrients, the best environmental policy may be to pair the phosphorus consistent rule with taxes, marketable permits, and subsidies.
Starčevačka grupna grobnica na Vinči ili mesto neolitskog zločina
Creators: name: Stefanović, Sofija
name: Jovanović, Jelena
name: Miljević, Maja
name: Živanović, Saša
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: Током археолошких истраживања на Винчи 1931. године, Милоје Ва- сић открио је групну гробницу која је припадала старчевачкој култури. Васић је сахрану девет одраслих индивидуа окарактерисао као “костур- ницу са дромосом”, а аутори који су се након њега бавили овим налазом, иако су имали различите ставове о архитектонским карактеристикама гробнице, нису доводили у питање да се ради о групној гробници. Међу- тим, недавна анализа оргиналне фотодокументације “групне гробнице” која се чува у Археолошкој збирци Филозофског факултета у Београду обављена у Лабораторији за биоархеологију, пружила је сасвим друга- чију интерпретацију овог налаза. Наиме, за четири индивидуе (гробови 2, 3, 4 и 8) недвосмислено је утврђено да су сахрањене грудима и лицем ка земљи, што поред тога што наравно не одговора страчевачкој погреб- ној пракси, може да указује или на специфичну погребну праксу која до сада у овој културу није забележена или, што је вероватније, на то да су бар када су у питању ове четири индивидуе, у питању или насилне смрти или одређен негативни однос према овим покојницима или пак да је сама локација место злочина. Да се највероватније ради о неолитском месту злочина говори нарочито положај индивидуе из гроба 8 код које су, поред тога што је сахрањена грудима ка земљи, фемури савијени тако да су постављени на леђа, што је положај до којег је морало доћи насил- ним актом који је врло вероватно подразумевао и везивање. Циљ рада је да се покаже како форензички приступ и самој фотодокументацији може пружити обиље нових података не само о погребној пракси него евентуално може омогућити и откриће праисторијских места злочина.
Entanglement versus mixedness for coupled qubits under a phase damping channel
Creators: name: Cardoso, E. S.
name: de Oliveira, M. C.
name: Furuya, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantification of entanglement against mixing is given for a system of coupled qubits under a phase damping channel. A family of pure initial joint states is defined, ranging from pure separable states to maximally entangled state. An ordering of entanglement measures is given for well defined initial state amount of entanglement.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures. Replaced with final published version
Ispitivanje ishrane prvih zemljoradnika i populacione dinamike u neolitu centralnog Balkana
Creators: name: Filipović, Dragana
name: de Becdelievre, Camille
name: Jovanović, Jelena
name: Budel, Thomas
name: Penezić, Kristina
name: Stefanović, Sofija
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: У светској литератури широко је прихваћено мишљење да су појава пољопривреде и развој седелачког начина живота довели до пораста степена фертилитета у људским заједницама, што је даље узроковало увећање популације и густине насељености, да би, на крају, допринело формирању најранијих урбаних центара. Није, међутим, до сада испитан ниједан директан доказ, попут биолошких индикатора видљивих на или у скелетним остацима људи, који би дефинитивно доказао ту претпостављену везу између “узрока” (промене у исхрани) и “последице” (демографски раст) овог процеса. Пројекат BIRTH (који финансира Европски истраживачки савет / European Research Council) за циљ има да испита везу између конзумирања “нове хране” и популационе динамике током периода у ком на Балкану долази до преласка на пољопривредну производњу. Претходне антрополошке и анализе стабилних изотопа у људским остацима прикупљеним са неколико мезолитских и ранонеолитских локалитета у региону сугеришу могући раст популације почев од краја касног мезолита, као и варијације у дужини периода дојења деце почетком неолита. У оквиру BIRTH пројекта, један од истраживачких корака је анализа биомаркера очуваних на и у људским костима и зубима, као и на алаткама. Присуство биомаркера биљака послужиће као основ за утврђивање улоге доместикованих биљака и животиња у археолошки препознатом повећању стопе фертилитета у време развоја пољопривреде.
Optimal unambiguous filtering of a quantum state: An instance in mixed state discrimination
Creators: name: Bergou, Janos
name: Herzog, Ulrike
name: Hillery, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deterministic discrimination of nonorthogonal states is forbidden by quantum measurement theory. However, if we do not want to succeed all the time, i.e. allow for inconclusive outcomes to occur, then unambiguous discrimination becomes possible with a certain probability of success. A variant of the problem is set discrimination: the states are grouped in sets and we want to determine to which particular set a given pure input state belongs. We consider here the simplest case, termed quantum state filtering, when the $N$ given non-orthogonal states, $\{|ψ_{1} >,..., |ψ_{N} > \}$, are divided into two sets and the first set consists of one state only while the second consists of all of the remaining states. We present the derivation of the optimal measurement strategy, in terms of a generalized measurement (POVM), to distinguish $|ψ_1>$ from the set $\{|ψ_2 >,...,|ψ_N > \}$ and the corresponding optimal success and failure probabilities. The results, but not the complete derivation, were presented previously [\prl {\bf 90}, 257901 (2003)] as the emphasis there was on appplication of the results to novel probabilistic quantum algorithms. We also show that the problem is equivalent to the discrimination of a pure state and an arbitrary mixed state.
description: 8 pages
複数人が共有する場のためのBGM選曲手法
Creators: name: 松本大希、滝口恭平、小高大典
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: 複数人、共有する場、BGM選曲

description: 近年、携帯音楽プレイヤーの普及によりお気に入りのプレイリストを作成する といった機会が増えつつある。そのため、音楽情報処理の研究分野においても、プ レイリストを自動で生成したり、各々のユーザに適切な楽曲との出会いを提供す るための研究が数多くされている。しかし、これらの研究はユーザが1人でプレ イリストを利用する場面を想定しているのがほとんどであった。そのため、複数 人が同じ場所にいて共通の BGM を聴く状況には適用できなかった。複数人がプレ イリストを共有する上で重要なことは、その場にいる複数人ユーザが楽しめるプ レイリストを生成することであるが、既存の選曲手法の多くはその実現には至っ ているとは言えない。 そこで本研究では、複数人が共有する場のための BGM 選曲手法を提案する。本 手法の基本的なアイディアは、その場にいる各ユーザのお気に入り楽曲情報を取 得し、過半数の人がお気に入りに指定した楽曲を選曲することである。しかし、単 に共通の楽曲のみを抽出すると十分な曲数を確保できない可能性がある。そこで、 アーティストレベルでの共通曲を抽出する機能を導入する。YouTube のお気に入 り機能を利用して、本手法を実装し、評価実験を行った結果、提案手法によって 十分な曲数を確保しながら、ユーザが気に入った曲を抽出できることが明らかに なった。
Kollaparambil, Jacob: The Babylonian origin of the southists among the St. Thomas Christians
Creators: name: Kaufhold, Hubert
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 77 (1993): Oriens christianus, Band 77
2001 Outlook for Louisiana's Agriculture
Creators: name: Barnett, John
name: Boudreaux, James E.
name: Cannon, Mike
name: Dunn, Michael A.
name: Gauthier, Wayne M.
name: Giesler, G. Grant
name: Gillespie, Jeffrey M.
name: Guidry, Kurt M.
name: Hinson, Roger A.
name: Johnson, Gene
name: Lavergne, Theresia
name: Legendre, Benjamin L.
name: Lutz, Greg
name: Morrison, Walter
name: Owings, Allen
name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
name: Reed, Don
name: Saichuck, John
name: Salassi, Michael E.
name: Schupp, Alvin R.
name: Twidwell, Ed
name: Wegenhoft, Ken
name: Barnett, John
name: Boudreaux, James E.
name: Cannon, Mike
name: Dunn, Michael A.
name: Gauthier, Wayne M.
name: Giesler, G. Grant
name: Gillespie, Jeffrey M.
name: Guidry, Kurt M.
name: Hinson, Roger A.
name: Johnson, Gene
name: Lavergne, Theresia
name: Legendre, Benjamin L.
name: Lutz, Greg
name: Morrison, Walter
name: Owings, Allen
name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
name: Reed, Don
name: Saichuck, John
name: Salassi, Michael E.
name: Schupp, Alvin R.
name: Twidwell, Ed
name: Wegenhoft, Ken
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Farm Management

description: With an ever-changing production and marketing environment, agricultural producers are faced with a number of difficult decisions. This publication provides Louisiana's agricultural producers with a view of the potential marketing and production environment they are likely to face in 2001. It is hoped that the information provided in this publication can help producers as they make their farm management and production plans for 2001.
[Letter from Johan Nordal Fischer Wille]
Creators: name: Wille, Johan Nordal Fischer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1907
Subjects: Hagen, Ingebrigt Severin

description: Expresses gratitude for all the help with the printing of the paper. Is working daily with the Chlorophyceae of Engler. Changes will be made. Chlorosphaeraceae are being put under the Tetrasporaceae. The Pleurococcaceae are being divided into two families, Pleurococcaceae and Oocystaceae. Hydrodictyaceae is being divided into Hydrodictyaceae and Coelastraceae.
Gravitational Structure Formation, the Cosmological Problem and Statistical Physics
Creators: name: Pietronero, Luciano
name: Labini, Francesco Sylos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Models of structure formation in the universe postulate that matter distributions observed today in galaxy catalogs arise, through a complex non-linear dynamics, by gravitational evolution from a very uniform initial state. Dark matter plays the central role of providing the primordial density seeds which will govern the dynamics of structure formation. We critically examine the role of cosmological dark matter by considering three different and related issues: Basic statistical properties of theoretical initial density fields, several elements of the gravitational many-body dynamics and key correlation features of the observed galaxy distributions are discussed, stressing some useful analogies with known systems in modern statistical physics.
description: 5 pages 1 postscript figure. Proceeding of the conference Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference NEXT-SigmaPhi
The stress of farming: bodies and health during the Mesolithic and the Neolithic Transition in Serbia
Creators: name: Jovanović, Jelena
name: Blagojević, Tamara
name: de Becdelievre, Camille
name: Stefanović, Sofija
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: The Neolithic transition, the passage from mobile foraging to sedentary farming, was a major shift during human prehistory: a series of behavioral and ecological transformations substantially modified the daily lifestyles and eventually impacted human biology. Studies suggested that this transition positively impactedfertility rates, promoted reproduction and enhanced population fitness; however, bioarchaeological studies carried on human remains have also documented a general decline in health status and a global increase in morbidity, suggesting that the shift toward agriculture also paradoxically had an adverse effect on individuals' physiological fitness. Using 200 Mesolithic and Neolithic skeletal remains (9500-5500 BC) discovered on the territory of Serbia, this research test the assumption that the transition to the Neolithic brought important biological changes which are reflected by a higher prevalence of various skeletal and dental pathological conditions, and by a global reduction in the size of populations under the effect of growth disturbances. Two lines of evidence are compared chronologically and spatially: non specific stress markers (Cribra orbitalia, Porotic hyperostosis, Enamel hypoplasia), indicators of diet (dental caries and calculus), and body proportions (body mass, stature and body mass index).
ESTIMATED COSTS OF SOLDIER AND COMBINE SUGARCANE HARVESTING SYSTEMS IN LOUISIANA
Creators: name: Salassi, Michael E.
name: Champagne, Lonnie P.
name: Salassi, Michael E.
name: Champagne, Lonnie P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Soldier (wholestalk) harvesting of sugarcane has been the predominant method of harvesting sugarcane in Louisiana for many years. With the short harvesting season and frequently wet harvesting conditions found in the state, this type of harvesting system has proven to be a very flexible and suitable system. Combine (billet) harvesters have the ability to recover more of the sugarcane in the field, compared to soldier harvesters, particularly in fields with lodged sugarcane. This report quantifies some of the differences in machinery requirements, performance rates, and estimated costs of operating soldier and combine sugarcane harvesting systems in Louisiana.
OPTIMIZING COMPLEX BIOECONOMIC SIMULATIONS USING AN EFFICIENT SEARCH HEURISTIC
Creators: name: Kazmierczak, Richard F.
name: Kazmierczak, Richard F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: simulation
subject: optimization
subject: Complex Method
subject: hill-climbing

description: For simulation to be truly useful for investigating many problems in agricultural economics, non-simplifying optimization techniques need to be employed. General methods for simulation optimization that do not inhibit system characterization or analysis are available, and they would appear to provide much of the mathematical and optimizing rigor demanded by economists. This paper describes the theory and algorithm of a robust and efficient simulation optimization approach, the Complex Method. An example of implementing the algorithm is illustrated using a pest management problem.
(Dis)continuities in fishing practices at the onset of Neolithic: a case study from Starčevo, Serbia
Creators: name: Živaljević, Ivana
name: Stefanović, Sofija
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: fishing
Neolithic
Pannonian Plain

description: Whereas the significance of fishing is well documented at a number of Mesolithic and Early Neolithic (c. 9500 - 5500 cal BC) sites
 in the Danube Gorges (the Danube stretch between present-day Serbia and Romania) and is corroborated by archaeozoological,
 isotopic and archaeological evidence, this important activity has received less attention in the study of surrounding areas.
 The issue of determining the role of fishing is particularly relevant for the understanding of transitions from foraging to first
 food producing economies in the North-Central Balkans, the latter commonly associated with the Starčevo-Körös-Criş cultural
 complex (c. 6200 - 5500 cal BC). Existing data on isotopic dietary signatures of human remains from Early Neolithic Starčevo-
 Körös-Criş sites signal a more terrestrial diet (Whittle et al. 2002; 2005), however archaeozoological data from several Körös sites
 in Hungary (Bartosiewicz 2012) suggest that the role of fishing, in addition to being obscured by inadequate recovery techniques,
 would have varied greatly depending on site location and other socio-economic factors. In this paper, we present and discuss the
 results of the analysis of fish remains from the eponimous, Early Neolithic site of Starčevo-Grad in Serbia. The site is situated on
 the former bank of the Danube at the edge of its floodplan, little over a 100 km upstream from the Danube Gorges as the crow
 flies. The faunal remains collected over the course of 1932 and 1969-1970 excavation campaigns (originating from both domestic
 and wild animals, waterfowl and fishes) were previously published by Clason (1980), and are indicative of a both stock-breeding
 and a hunting/fishing economy. The fish remains, albeit few, were collected mostly by hand; and the role of fishing was probably
 more substantial. The occurrence of large fish hooks and fishing net weights speak in favour of such hypothesis, as well as the
 environment of the site, which was located in the very proximity of the river. In addition to the re-analysis of the remains from
 older excavations of Starčevo-Grad, our study also included the analysis of fish remains collected during 2003-2008 excavation
 campaigns. The aim of this paper, as well as future analyses of Early Neolithic faunal assemblages is to problematize the
 presumed dichotomy between Mesolithic and Early Neolithic subsistence strategies and to assess the role of fishing at the
 advent of food producing economies in the Central Balkans.
Testing Ghasemi-Nodehi-Bambi spacetime with continuum-fitting method
Creators: name: Ghasemi-Nodehi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The continuum-fitting method is the analysis of the thermal spectrum of the geometrically thin and optically thick accretion disk around stellar-mass black holes. A parametrization aiming to test the Kerr nature of astrophysical black holes was proposed in Ghasemi-Nodehi and Bambi in EPJC 76: 290, 2016. The metric contains 11 parameters in addition to the mass and spin parameters. One can recover the Kerr case by setting all parameters to one. In this paper, I study the continuum-fitting method in Ghasemi-Nodehi-Bambi background. I show the impact of each of the parameters on the spectra. I then employ \c{hi}2 studies and show that using the continuum-fitting method all parameters of Ghasemi-Nodehi- Bambi spacetime are degenerate. However, the parameter b9 can be constrained in the case of a high spin value and the Ghasemi-Nodehi-Bambi black hole as reference. This degeneracy means that the spectra of the Kerr case cannot be distinguished from spectra produced in Ghasemi-Nodehi-Bmabi spacetime. This is a problem as regards measuring the spin of astrophysical black holes and constrain possible deviations from the Kerr case of General Relativity.
description: Published
RURAL LAND VALUES AND TENURE ARRANGEMENTS IN LOUISIANA
Creators: name: Kennedy, Gary A.
name: Henning, Steven A.
name: Vandeveer, Lonnie R.
name: Kennedy, Gary A.
name: Henning, Steven A.
name: Vandeveer, Lonnie R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: This report presents the results from the first annual Louisiana Rural Land Market Survey. The survey was designed to collect detailed information from rural real estate professionals regarding market conditions in their areas. Results of this study suggest that land values vary by area of the state and the primary commodity grown on the tract. Substantial variation in land value within areas and by parish suggests a number of factors affect rural land values and markets. Further research will be designed to measure the effects of these various factors on rural real estate markets.
Model-Independent Multi-Variable Gamma-Ray Burst Luminosity Indicator and Its Possible Cosmological Implications
Creators: name: Liang, Enwei
name: Zhang, Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a multi-variable regression analysis to several observable quantities for a sample of 15 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The observables used in the analysis includes the isotropic gamma-ray energy (E_{gamma,iso}), the peak energy of the nu F_nu spectrum in the rest frame (E_p'), and the rest frame break time of the optical afterglow light curves(t_b'). A strong dependence of E_{gamma, iso on E_p' and t_b' is derived. We also extend the analysis to the isotropic afterglow energies in the X-ray and the optical bands, respectively, and find that they are essentially not correlated with E_p' and t_b'. Regarding the E_{gamma, iso(E_p', t_b') relationship as a luminosity indicator, we explore the possible constraints on the cosmological parameters using the GRB sample. Our results indicate 0.13
description: 10 pages (emulateapj) plus 12 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
PROJECTED COSTS AND RETURNS FOR BEEF CATTLE, DAIRY PRODUCTION, SWINE PRODUCTION AND FORAGE CROPS IN LOUISIANA, 1997
Creators: name: Boucher, Robert W.
name: Gillespie, Jeffrey M.
name: Boucher, Robert W.
name: Gillespie, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Data for this report are based on Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station research results and selected surveys. The procedure used in this report was to apply new machinery and other current input price data to production practice data. Production practice and performance data for beef cattle and associated forage crops are based on surveys of beef cattle producers supplemented with research records for beef herds maintained at six branch stations of the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station.Production practice data for dairy production are based on unpublished survey data, Cooperative Extension Service recommendations and records from the LSU dairy herd.
Dilemmas of practice in rehabilitation settings as experienced by physical therapists
Creators: name: Carpenter, Christine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Little research has explored the dilemmas of practice experienced by practitioners working with rehabilitation clients who are assimilating disabilities, resulting from injury or chronic conditions, into their lives. Consequently, there is limited literature to support educational initiatives or clinicians' decision-making in these settings. Accordingly, this qualitative study was designed to explore 'expert' physical therapists' perceptions of dilemmas of practice in rehabilitation settings. Using an ethnographic design, multiple interviews were conducted over a period of six months with each of ten participants. The researcher's theoretical background and 'insider' role were thoroughly explicated. Interpretive analysis was grounded in three overarching themes that emerged from the participants' accounts and compared with relevant theoretical constructs and research in physical therapy and other health professions. In the first theme the 'authority' of the concept of evidence-based practice as it is currently promoted within physical therapy was questioned. A need was identified to develop rigorous alternative sources of 'evidence' to support current practice that are more congruent with the multifactorial and client-centred nature of rehabilitation service provision. A second theme explored situations interpreted as causing moral distress in which the participants found themselves prevented from acting effectively on behalf of the clients, as a result of admission and discharge decisions and perceived misuse of rehabilitation resources within the organization and health system. The third theme related to the advantages and disadvantages of being involved with the interdisciplinary team. A lack of understanding of different professional philosophies of practice was perceived as a contributing factor to conflict and miscommunication. These themes are related to issues of professional accountability and suggest that physical therapy needs to develop a clearly articulated philosophy and conceptual models, including the concept of client-centred practice, that would reflect practice, serve to guide research and promote interdisciplinary collaboration. Alternative sources of 'best' evidence need to be developed that more realistically reflect complex 'practice' knowledge. In addition, the profession needs to commit to developing a comprehensive ethics curriculum offered in education programs and through interdisciplinary learning opportunities, by which physical therapists will be better prepared for the moral deliberations inherent in their professional role.
PROJECTED CASH FLOWS AND PROFITABILITY FOR REPRESENTATIVE LOUISIANA FARMS, 1997
Creators: name: Boucher, Robert W.
name: Vandeveer, Lonnie R.
name: Boucher, Robert W.
name: Vandeveer, Lonnie R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Farm Management

description: The purpose of this report is to supplement the series of annual cost projections for enterprises by providing profitability and cash flow projections for several whole farm situations throughout the state. Whole farm projections of returns and expenses are expected to provide information regarding the relative profitability of individual farming situations throughout the state. Estimates from cash flow projections provide information concerning the timing of cash flows and the distribution of cash flows for individual farm situations and comparison of estimates for these situations provide an indication of the relative cash flow positions of farms across the state. These projections are expected to be of value to farmers, agricultural credit agencies, extension personnel, researchers, and other professionals with an interest in the agricultural production industry.
PROJECTED COSTS AND RETURNS - COTTON, SOYBEANS, CORN, MILO AND WHEAT, NORTHEAST LOUISIANA, 1997
Creators: name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The enterprise budgets for owner-operators and tenant- operators are presented in two formats. One format is a summary of costs and returns for the enterprise. This format presents costs by broad categories such as herbicides, insecticides, etc. The other format presents a detailed listing of the operations, the equipment size and the associated power unit along with the date performed and the associated costs for tractor, machinery and materials. Together these formats provide the detailed information necessary to adjust budgets to individual situations. In addition, the appendix to this report contains detailed cost estimates for an extensive list of equipment, irrigation systems, and operating inputs. These may also be used to modify budgets contained in this report or construct new enterprise budgets.
A moving-grid approach for fluid-structure interaction problems with hybrid lattice Boltzmann method
Creators: name: Di Ilio, Giovanni
name: Chiappini, Daniele
name: Ubertini, Stefano
name: Bella, Gino
name: Succi, Sauro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a hybrid lattice Boltzmann method (HLBM) for solving fluid-structure interaction problems. The proposed numerical approach is applied to model the flow induced by a vibrating thin lamina submerged in a viscous quiescent fluid. The hydrodynamic force exerted by the fluid on the solid body is described by means of a complex hydrodynamic function, whose real and imaginary parts are determined via parametric analysis. Numerical results are validated by comparison with those from other numerical as well as experimental works available in the literature. The proposed hybrid approach enhances the capability of lattice Boltzmann methods to solve fluid dynamic problems involving moving geometries.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures
Forcing inertial Brownian motors: efficiency and negative differential mobility
Creators: name: Kostur, Marcin
name: Machura, Lukasz
name: Hänggi, Peter
name: Luczka, Jurek
name: Talkner, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The noise-assisted, directed transport in a one-dimensional dissipative, inertial Brownian motor of the rocking type that is exposed to an external bias is investigated. We demonstrate that the velocity-load characteristics is distinctly non-monotonic, possessing regimes with a {\em negative differential mobility}. In addition, we evaluate several possible efficiency quantifiers which are compared among each other. These quantifiers characterize the mutual interplay between the viscous drag and the external load differently, weighing the inherent rectification features from different physical perspectives.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures
[Letter from John Stanley Gardiner]
Creators: name: Gardiner, John Stanley
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1907

description: Expresses gratitude for the proposal to call a Lithothamnion after his name. Will send the other algae when the others are returned to Ms. Gepp, who is rather pleased with the collection we have got for her. Has found a white [Gypsina], a white [Polytrema] and a Foraminifera in the same collection that was sent to Foslie. Wants to have a plate in the introduction showing characteristic Lithothamnia reef builders.
In search of plants in the diet of Mesolithic-Neolithic communities in the Iron Gates
Creators: name: Filipović, Dragana
name: Jovanović, Jelena
name: Rančić, Dragana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Danube Gorges/Iron Gates
Mesolithic-Neolithic
pollen
seed/fruit
strach

description: There are now several different plant assemblages originating from the Late Mesolithic, Mesolithic-Neolithic (transitional) and Early(/Middle) Neolithic layers of the sites in the Iron Gates area(c. 7400-5500 BC – Borić 2011). To a varied, but also very limited extent, they can be used to glean the availability of plant food sources and the possible components of plant-based human diets over these periods in the region. The botanical archives are, however, beset by problems such as the small size, unclear archaeological and chronological provenance, complex taphonomy and analyticalmethodological issues. This paper reviews the, so far available, evidence and highlights the associated problems delimiting the potential for integrating the datasets and the reconstruction of plant-based diets of the Iron Gates Mesolithic and Neolithic communities.
PROJECTED COSTS AND RETURNS FOR BEEF CATTLE, DAIRY, BROILER AND FORAGE CROP PRODUCTION IN LOUISIANA, 2001
Creators: name: Boucher, Robert W.
name: Gillespie, Jeffrey M.
name: Boucher, Robert W.
name: Gillespie, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This report presents projected costs and returns for beef cattle, dairy, broiler and forage crop production in Louisiana for 2001. Data for this report are based on Louisiana agricultural Experiment Station research results and selected surveys. The procedure used in this report was to apply new machinery and other current input price data to production practice data. This report is organized as follows: Tables 1 - 4 present forage requirements assumed for beef cattle production and summaries of costs and returns for each of the enterprises examined in this report. Tables 5 - 7 report breakeven selling prices for each of the products produced from these enterprises. Budgets in this publication are presented in two sections. The first section (tables with `A' designation) presents budgets showing a summary of estimated costs and returns for each enterprise. The second section (tables with `B' designation) presents cost budgets showing detailed costs and labor requirements by operation for each enterprise. The detailed cost budgets are presented in the same sequence and bear the same table numbers for each enterprise presented in the first section. For these enterprise budgets, expenses are itemized as fixed and variable, and returns above direct and total specified expenses are also calculated. Each of the budgets incorporates overhead costs as a residual claimant. The total overhead costs for a firm are related to tenure and size of business. The overhead costs included in this report are estimated on a per acre basis, and thus are included in enterprise budgets on a per acre of land use basis. Land use for beef and dairy is calculated as acres of open permanent pasture plus acres used for silage or summer annual forages. Since livestock enterprises are combinations of both crop and livestockproduction activities and some pasture crops are double cropped, particular attention is called to the accounting procedures used. No overhead is charged to forage production activities. Therefore, overhead costs appear directly as a residual cost in beef cattle and dairy enterprise budgets. Wintergrazed weanling calves do not include overhead charges since it is assumed that all wintergrazed crops would be double cropped on either pasture or cropland. Broiler budgets do not include overhead charges. A land opportunity cost is charged for livestock enterprises. This is interpreted as the amount that would be charged for the land if it were being rented to another producer. It assumes that pasture is rented at $15/acre. A land opportunity cost is not charged for broilers.
Interstellar glycolamide: A comprehensive rotational study and an astronomical search in Sgr B2(N)
Creators: name: Sanz-Novo, M.
name: Belloche, A.
name: Alonso, J. L.
name: Kolesnikova, L.
name: Garrod, R. T.
name: Mata, S.
name: Müller, H. S. P.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Gong, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Glycolamide is a glycine isomer and also one of the simplest derivatives of acetamide (e.g., one hydrogen atom is replaced with a hydroxyl group), which is a known interstellar molecule. Using a battery of state of the art rotational spectroscopic techniques in the frequency and time domain, around 1500 transitions have been newly assigned. Based on the reliable frequency predictions, we report a radioastronomical search for glycolamide in the well known high-mass star forming region Sgr B2(N) using the ALMA imaging spectral line survey ReMoCA. We also searched for glycolamide toward Sgr B2(N) with the Effelsberg radio telescope. We report the nondetection of glycolamide toward this source with an abundance at least six and five times lower than that of acetamide and glycolaldehyde, respectively. Our astrochemical model suggests that glycolamide may be present in this source at a level just below the upper limit, which was derived from the EMoCA survey. We could also not detect the molecule in the region's extended molecular envelope, which was probed with the Effelsberg telescope. We find an upper limit to its column density that is similar to the column densities obtained earlier for acetamide and glycolaldehyde with the Green Bank Telescope.
description: The article will be published as a regular paper in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Forthcoming article since 19 May 2020)
THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CROP LOSSES: A COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM APPROACH
Creators: name: Sherony, Keith R.
name: Knowles, Glenn J.
name: Boyd, Roy
name: Sherony, Keith R.
name: Knowles, Glenn J.
name: Boyd, Roy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The impact of crop losses on the U.S. economy are analyzed using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model. In doing so, concerns about widespread crop losses due to a global climate change or environmental event are addressed. The CGE approach allows for analysis of the interactions between supply and demand within agricultural markets as well as between these markets and the rest of the economy. The results suggest that policy responses which allow free market pricing signals to determine production mitigate the effects of an event that approximates the drought of 1988.