cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Productivity and Profitability Impact of Genetically Modified Crops – An Economic Analysis of Bt Cotton Cultivation in Tamil Nadu
Creators: name: Loganathan, R.
name: Balasubramanian, R.
name: Mani, K.
name: Gurunathan, S.
name: Loganathan, R.
name: Balasubramanian, R.
name: Mani, K.
name: Gurunathan, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Cotton production in India is at cross roads for the past few years. Till recently it was the hybrid that was at the focus but the era of genetically modified cotton has arrived. There has been lot of hue and cry regarding the commercialization of Bt cotton in India since Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) has approved the use of Bt cotton seeds. This study has analysed the economic impact of biotechnologically engineered cotton cultivation in Tamil Nadu and the factors affecting the adoption of Bt cotton varieties. The study is based on a sample size of 76 Bt cotton farmers and 44 non-Bt cotton farmers from Salem and Perambalur districts. The results have indicated that only about one-third of the non-Bt cotton farmers are not aware about Bt cotton. Higher yield and higher profitability and lower pest problems have been cited as the important factors behind preference for Bt cotton. The less number of pesticide sprays in Bt cotton is likely to have lot of environmental and health benefits to both farmers and labourers. However, high cost of seeds and incidence of pests and diseases other than bollworm have been reported to be the major bottlenecks in Bt cotton cultivation. The study has made some suggestions to disseminate Bt cotton technology on a wider scale.
Starspot evolution, Differential Rotation and Correlation between Chromospheric and Photospheric Activities on Kepler-411
Creators: name: Xu, Fukun
name: Gu, Shenghong
name: Ioannidis, Panogiotis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the starspot evolution, the surface differential rotation (SDR), the correlation between chromospheric activity indicators and the spatial connection between chromospheric and photospheric activities on the active star Kepler-411, using time series photometry over 4 years from Kepler, and spectroscopic data from Keck I 10-m telescope and Lijiang 2.4-m telescope. We constructed the light curve by re-performing photometry and reduction from the Target Pixel Files and Cotrending Basis Vectors with a manually redefined aperture using the software PyKE3. An efficient program, GEMC_LCM, was developed to apply a two-spots model to chosen light curve segments with three spot groups at fixed latitudes (30, 45), (30, 60) and (45, 60). We found a periodic variation of the starspots at period of about 660 days which independs on spot latitudes, and estimated the lower limit of SDR as $P_{\text{eq}} = 9.7810(0.0169)$ days and $α= 0.1016(0.0023)$. Simultaneously, the relative variations of chromospheric activity indicators were derived by subtracting the overall mean spectrum from individual spectrum. It is found that Ca II H and K emissions are strongly correlated with each other, and there also exists a correlation between H$α$ and Ca II H & K emissions, with large dispersion, in accordance with previous results. Furthermore we find the correlation between Ca II H and K emissions is different in 2011 and 2012. The chromospheric emission variation shows a highly spatial anti-correlation with the light curve, suggesting a spatial connection between the chromospheric active region and spot region.
description: 14 pages, published at MNRAS, 501:1878-1890
On q-functional equations and excursion moments
Creators: name: Richard, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A15, 39A13, 60C05,82B41

description: We analyse q-functional equations arising from tree-like combinatorial structures, which are counted by size, internal path length, and certain generalisations thereof. The corresponding counting parameters are labelled by a positive integer k. We show the existence of a joint limit distribution for these parameters in the limit of infinite size, if the size generating function has a square root as dominant singularity. The limit distribution coincides with that of integrals of k-th powers of the standard Brownian excursion. Our approach yields a recursion for the moments of the limit distribution. It can be used to analyse asymptotic expansions of the moments, and it admits an extension to other types of singularity.
description: 35 pages, 1 figure. New introduction, typographical errors corrected
D2.3.18 Status report to CO/SMB covering sample collection & analysis for each country and dissemination activities
Creators: name: University of Leeds
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
The EuroFIR Food Platform
EuroFIR

description: Introduction

A total of 35 foods [5 foods per partner country] will be analysed from EuroFIR funding and additional 46 foods will be analysed by UL, 20 by AFSSA and INRAN with additional funding from FSA, AFSSA and INRAN respectively. This report presents a final list of foods provided by each partner including list of nutrients and costs incurred.

The sampling protocol that was developed by UL was agreed and followed by all partners with variations in the number of modified and ethnic foods, number of samples, outlets and locations depending on the resources [time, personnel & funding] and availability of foods (Table 8). For documentation purposes sample records were collected and two examples of one modified ethnic food and one ethnic food are described in this report.

The lists of laboratories carrying out the nutritional analysis have been agreed and many are currently undertaking the analysis. The majority of the methods being used for analysis are accredited and comply with the EuroFIR list of validated methods. This report presents all the methods used, accreditation, validated methods and the costs for each partner laboratory or laboratories. A number of forms including [Instructions for Laboratory Analysis (a), Requested Analysis Form (b), Laboratory Methods of Analysis Form (c), Laboratory Analysis Results Form (d)] have been complied. Partners and the laboratories carrying out the analysis will complete these forms. An example of each form is presented in this report.
Classification of normal operators in spaces with indefinite scalar product of rank 2
Creators: name: Holtz, Olga
name: Strauss, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47B50, 46C20, 47B15, 15A21

description: A finite-dimensional complex space with indefinite scalar product [.,.] having v- = 2 negative squares and v+ >= 2 positive ones is considered. The paper presents a classification of operators that are normal with respect to this product. It is related to the study by Gohberg and Reichstein in which a similar classification was obtained for the case v = min{v-, v+} = 1.
description: 42 pages
An Economic Analysis of Modern Rice Production Technology and its Adoption Behaviour in Tamil Nadu
Creators: name: Devi, K. Sita
name: Ponnarasi, T.
name: Devi, K. Sita
name: Ponnarasi, T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Rice is the staple food in Tamil Nadu and is grown in an area of 2.6 Mha with a production of 8.19 Mt and productivity of 3.2 t/ha. In the context of high water demand by rice farmers, any strategy that would produce higher rice yield with less water is the need of the day. One such system is “System of Rice Intensification” (SRI), which was developed by Fr. Henri de Laulanie in Madagascar in 1980. The general objective of the study is to find the economics and the farmer’s adoption behaviour of the system of rice intensification. The study has revealed that the per hectare cost of cultivation is about 10 per cent lower in SRI than the conventional method. The logit framework has indicated that age, farm size, income of the farm, number of earners in the family and number of contacts with extension agencies are positive and highly influence the adoption behaviour of the farmers. Lack of skilled labour, awareness, training on new technology and experience have been opined as the main problems in adoption of this technology by the farmers. To sum-up, farmers have been vastly benefited by SRI technology and it has helped them in their socio-economic upliftment. The adoption of SRI technique has helped increase the rice production without increasing the area under its cultivation and has proved to serve as an alternative method for rice cultivation.
A Study on the Extent of Adoption of Various Recommended Technologies in Wheat Cultivation in Punjab
Creators: name: Singh, Mandeep
name: Chahal, S.S.
name: Singh, Mandeep
name: Chahal, S.S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The extent of adoption of various recommended production technologies and returns from wheat crop in Punjab have been studied for the years 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09. The results reveal that the area under recommended varieties of wheat has decreased from 95.29 per cent in 2006-07 to 90.63 per cent in 2008-09. At the same time, it has been observed that a majority of the sample farmers grow wheat at recommended time by using recommended quantity of seed per acre. Although the percentage of farmers who treat the seed before sowing wheat crop has increased from 27.81 per cent in 2006-07 to 39.00 per cent in 2008-09, still a majority of the farmers do not follow this technology. It has been advocated by the PAU that zero tillage of wheat can save up to Rs 1000 per acre but this technology was adopted by 13.94 per cent, 13.64 per cent and 14.22 per cent of the sample farmers respectively during the above said years. Despite various shortcomings, it has been found that about 31.82 per cent, 25.37 per cent and 29.14 per cent of the sample farmers had sown the crop through broadcasting method during 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09, respectively. The study has concluded that nitrogen was being applied at more than the recommended level, phosphorus was being applied at the recommended level and potash was not being applied by the farmers in wheat crop in Punjab. It has been noticed that 55.95 per cent, 41.00 per cent and 71.58 per cent of the sample farmers applied herbicides in wheat crop after the recommended period. The study has brought out that there exists a number of gaps in the adoption of recommended production technology of wheat crop, which need to be plugged properly to enhance productivity as well as net returns to wheat producers in Punjab.
Tilted Bianchi Type V Bulk Viscous Cosmological Models with Varying $Λ$-Term
Creators: name: Pradhan, Anirudh
name: Srivastav, S. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conformally flat tilted Bianchi type V cosmological models in presence of a bulk viscous fluid and heat flow are investigated. The coefficient of bulk viscosity is assumed to be a power function of mass density. The cosmological constant is found to be a decreasing function of time, which is supported by results from recent type Ia supernovae observations. Some physical and geometric aspects of the models are also discussed.
description: 13 pages, no figures
A Structural Analysis of Contractual Innovations within the CIS Milk Industry
Creators: name: Jackson, Elizabeth
name: Gorton, Matthew
name: White, John
name: Jackson, Elizabeth
name: Gorton, Matthew
name: White, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Farm Management
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Utilising primary survey data, this paper evaluates the relationships between a set of supplier development strategies and performance within the milk industry in Armenia and Ukraine. Improving supplier performance is a critical task for the dairy industry in the Former Soviet Union as, during the 1990s both the quantity and quality of agricultural output deteriorated sharply. Fragmented supply chains led to high transaction costs and, in some cases, market failure. Drawing on the work of Krause et al. (2000) and Doney and Cannon (1997), a theoretical framework is presented that proposes that, either directly or indirectly, supplier assessment strategies, supplier incentives, competitive pressure, direct involvement, and trust between buyers and sellers, lead to improvements in supplier performance. Data from 618 milk producers were analysed by structural equation modelling to test ten research hypotheses. All relationships are significant except those related to supplier assessment. In particular, the results indicate that both trust and competitive pressure have a direct and positive impact on performance improvement. Trust can be fostered by buyers providing feedback and performance data to suppliers. In contrast, direct involvement strategies are negatively related to performance improvement and weaken farmers’ trust. Implications for managers are discussed along with suggestions for further research.
Additional file 3 of A video protocol for rapid dissection of mouse dorsal root ganglia from defined spinal levels
Creators: name: Sleigh, James N.
name: West, Steven J.
name: Schiavo, Giampietro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Removal of axon bundles from extracted lumbar DRG.
ЮРИДИК ЖАВОБГАРЛИК ТУШУНЧАСИ, МОҲИЯТИ ВА АСОСЛАРИ
Creators: name: Ниёзматов, Зафарбек
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Юридик фанларда юридик жавобгарликнинг моҳияти олимларнинг алоҳида эътиборини жалб қилади. Бироқ, адабиётлар илмий бўлишига қарамай улар ишнинг муҳим қисми ҳуқуқий муаммоларни ўрганишга бағишланган ва шу пайтгача юридик доктринада юридик жавобгарлик каби ҳуқуқ тоифасининг концепциясини аниқлашда бирлик мавжуд эмас
Risk and Contract Relationships
Creators: name: Freier, Axel E.
name: Kuhl, Rainer
name: Freier, Axel E.
name: Kuhl, Rainer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Farm Management
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Risk and Uncertainty

description: The current structure of the German agri-food-sector is deduced from an increasing (international) competition and its division into small and medium business units particularly on the producers’ side. The roots of this development lie in a more a hundred year’s history of a productive branch that was intensively shaped by co-operatives. Nowadays this cooperative structure competes with networks and capital market-oriented firms that raise the question of the today’s role of cooperatives (see Kühl/ Hanf, 2004) In the following sections different approaches evaluating possible strategic paths of the actors within the production chain in the agri-food-sector will be presented. As a consequence risk issues agricultural economists have to address will be differentiated. Just (2003, p. 135) claims that “for the most part, longer-term risk issues have been examined only in the agricultural finance literature”. We support his statement when we estimate general valuation models – especially to judge the sustainability of cooperatives – as too much referring to the past and try to integrate more future oriented methods as in the case of due diligence.
Speckle interferometry at SOAR in 2019
Creators: name: Tokovinin, Andrei
name: Mason, Brian D.
name: Mendez, Rene A.
name: Costa, Edgardo
name: Horch, Elliott P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The results of speckle interferometric observations at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR) in 2019 are given, totaling 2555 measurements of 1972 resolved pairs with separations from 15 mas (median 0.21") and magnitude difference up to 6 mag, and non-resolutions of 684 targets. We resolved for the first time 90 new pairs or subsystems in known binaries. This work continues our long-term speckle program. Its main goal is to monitor orbital motion of close binaries, including members of high-order hierarchies and Hipparcos pairs in the solar neighborhood. We give a list of 127 orbits computed using our latest measurements. Their quality varies from excellent (25 orbits of grades 1 and 2) to provisional (47 orbits of grades 4 and 5).
description: Accepted by The Astronomical Journal. 10 pages, 5 Figures. Measurements and non-resolutions, published electronically, are available from the first author. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1905.10436
Supply Chain and Network Performance: Metrics for Profitability, Productivity, and Efficiency
Creators: name: Weaver, Robert D.
name: Weaver, Robert D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Networks
subject: Collaboration
subject: metrics
subject: productivity
subject: efficiency

description: The architecture of the firm involves determination of a boundary that encompasses the functions managed by the firm. The past decade has seen substantial reorganization of firms where vertical or horizontal integration has been unbundled into weaker forms of collaborations including value chains and networks. This observation has forced a re-conceptualization of the boundaries of the firm to incorporate such collaborations. These collaborations are virtual and highly dynamic. They emerge and persist when two conditions are met. First, they must enable generation of greater value than might be attained through independent operation and anonymous transactions through markets. Second, the resulting growth must be shared with members in a way that retains their participation. Each of these conditions can be verified only if performance of the collaboration can be established. This paper recognizes the need for such “metrics of performance”. While conceptual approaches have been studied in the management literature, this paper considers from theoretic perspectives these issues and derives measures of the performance of the overall collaboration as well as of the participating enterprises. The paper presents a framework that can be applied to both vertical and horizontal collaborations as found in supply chains and networks. The paper offers suggestions on empirical methods for estimation of measures derived.
U.S. Honey Supply Chain: Structural Change, Promotions and the China Connection
Creators: name: Ward, Ronald W.
name: Boynton, Bruce
name: Ward, Ronald W.
name: Boynton, Bruce
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Farm Management
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Among almost all natural food goods, honey is probably one of the most unique in terms of its production history and importance. It is often a by-product from the primary function of pollination by bees. Honey color and flavor is directly related to the types of plants being pollinated. For some agricultural products, honey has limited economic value beyond the food source for the bees, while for others, such as citrus, the value of the honey is much greater since the flavor, texture, and color yields highly desirable honey attributes. Bee pollination is essential to almost every sector of agriculture. For some agriculture goods, beekeepers recoup their returns through payment for the pollination services. When the pollination leads to desirable honey varieties, the value of the honey serves as the indirect payment for pollination services. Hence, the economic viability of the honey market is an essential element for supporting the bee colonies needed for pollination. A weak honey market should directly affect beekeepers’ abilities to provide essential pollination services to all agriculture sectors. Efforts to enhance the demand for honey clearly have implications far beyond just the value of the honey since the cost of pollination would be significantly higher if it were not for the sales of honey.
Additional file 1 of A video protocol for rapid dissection of mouse dorsal root ganglia from defined spinal levels
Creators: name: Sleigh, James N.
name: West, Steven J.
name: Schiavo, Giampietro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Spinal column bisection.
Collaborative Working Environments in Food Supply Networks
Creators: name: Pankiewicz, Maciek
name: Schiefer, Gerhard
name: Fritz, Melanie
name: Pankiewicz, Maciek
name: Schiefer, Gerhard
name: Fritz, Melanie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: collaborative working environment
subject: e-community
subject: e-collaboration.

description: This paper will discuss the ongoing research in area of conceptualization, design of collaborative working environments and its adoption for food supply networks. There will be a group needs approach for designing such environments presented. Tracking and tracing, agreements on quality policy, improvements in logistics, dissemination of innovations, cooperation in quality planning and market orientation, access to knowledge bases, etc. are all examples which build on an increased horizontal or vertical integration in information and communication activities. For these purposes adoption of collaborative working environments may be of a crucial importance for food supply networks.
Big Bird: Transformers for Longer Sequences
Creators: name: Zaheer, Manzil
name: Guruganesh, Guru
name: Dubey, Avinava
name: Ainslie, Joshua
name: Alberti, Chris
name: Ontanon, Santiago
name: Pham, Philip
name: Ravula, Anirudh
name: Wang, Qifan
name: Yang, Li
name: Ahmed, Amr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Transformers-based models, such as BERT, have been one of the most successful deep learning models for NLP. Unfortunately, one of their core limitations is the quadratic dependency (mainly in terms of memory) on the sequence length due to their full attention mechanism. To remedy this, we propose, BigBird, a sparse attention mechanism that reduces this quadratic dependency to linear. We show that BigBird is a universal approximator of sequence functions and is Turing complete, thereby preserving these properties of the quadratic, full attention model. Along the way, our theoretical analysis reveals some of the benefits of having $O(1)$ global tokens (such as CLS), that attend to the entire sequence as part of the sparse attention mechanism. The proposed sparse attention can handle sequences of length up to 8x of what was previously possible using similar hardware. As a consequence of the capability to handle longer context, BigBird drastically improves performance on various NLP tasks such as question answering and summarization. We also propose novel applications to genomics data.
Local fluctuations in an aging glass
Creators: name: Sinnathamby, K. S.
name: Oukris, H.
name: Israeloff, N. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polarization fluctuations were measured in nanoscale volumes of a polymer glass during aging following a temperature quench through the glass transition. Statistical properties of the noise were studied in equilibrium and during aging. The noise spectral density had a larger temporal variance during aging, i.e. the noise was more non-Gaussian, demonstrating stronger correlations during aging.
CFHT MegaPrime/MegaCam $u$-band source catalogue of the $AKARI$ North Ecliptic Pole Wide field
Creators: name: Huang, T. -C.
name: Matsuhara, H.
name: Goto, T.
name: Shim, H.
name: Kim, S. J.
name: Malkan, M. A.
name: Hashimoto, T.
name: Hwang, H. S.
name: Oi, N.
name: Toba, Y.
name: Lee, D.
name: Santos, D. J. D.
name: Takagi, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $AKARI$ infrared (IR) space telescope conducted two surveys (Deep and Wide) in the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) field to find more than 100,000 IR sources using its Infrared Camera (IRC). IRC's 9 filters, which cover wavebands from 2 to 24 $μ$m continuously, make $AKARI$ unique in comparison with other IR observatories such as $Spitzer$ or $WISE$. However, studies of the $AKARI$ NEP-Wide field sources had been limited due to the lack of follow-up observations in the ultraviolet (UV) and optical. In this work, we present the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) MegaPrime/MegaCam $u$-band source catalogue of the $AKARI$ NEP-Wide field. The observations were taken in 7 nights in 2015 and 2016, resulting in 82 observed frames covering 3.6 deg$^2$. The data reduction, image processing and source extraction were performed in a standard procedure using the \textsc{Elixir} pipeline and the \textsc{AstrOmatic} software, and eventually 351,635 sources have been extracted. The data quality is discussed in two regions (shallow and deep) separately, due to the difference in the total integration time (4,520 and 13,910 seconds). The 5$σ$ limiting magnitude, seeing FWHM, and the magnitude at 50 per cent completeness are 25.38 mag (25.79 mag in the deep region), 0.82 arcsec (0.94 arcsec) and 25.06 mag (25.45 mag), respectively. The u-band data provide us with critical improvements to photometric redshifts and UV estimates of the precious infrared sources from the $AKARI$ space telescope.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Affecting cue selection through contextual integration
Creators: name: Eichhorn, David P.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation presents research examining the role of contextual patterns, salience, and individual differences in the determination of how much is incidentally remembered from a cognitive task performed during the exploration of a naturalistic outdoor environment. Previous empirical findings suggest that the human mind often selects cues for the storage and retrieval of information based upon a rigid, predetermined hierarchy, frequently disregarding useful contextual cues in favor of features most directly relevant to the information itself. Drawing from environmental psychological principles, factors are outlined that contribute to the salience of contextual cues, the most important of which is the cognitive integration of the context with the observer and the integration of both with the task or mental operation at hand. Such integration is referred to as "contextual integration" and may represent an over-arching schema that serves as a cognitive or affective indicator of personal significance. The first of two reported experiments demonstrated superior memory for contexrually integrated stimuli over those given more rudimentary consideration. The second experiment found changes in memory resulting from an interaction between the type of task performed and the mediating role of a cognitive style known as field-independence. This interaction supports the notion that there are predictable patterns to the cognitive management of contextual information. The effects of these patterns are better accommodated by contextual integration than any single construct such as personal relevance or depth of processing. Furthermore, arousal states and affective ratings of the environment, in Experiments 1 and 2, respectively, showed differential changes in reaction to more or less integrated situations. Conducted almost entirely in a natural environment, the research presented attempts to more closely merge the empirical ideals of the environmental and cognitive areas in psychology.
Climate Change and International Markets for Australian Food Exports
Creators: name: Creese, Jonathan
name: Marks, Nicki
name: Creese, Jonathan
name: Marks, Nicki
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: climate change
subject: food
subject: agriculture
subject: value chain
subject: retailer

description: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to alert food producers to emerging market demands associated with climate change. Design/methodology/approach – The study draws on literature review and applied market research. Findings – Many food retailers are applying pressure to their value chains to measure and manage carbon emissions. Although consumers play a role, consumers are not the main driver compelling retailers to respond to climate change. Research limitations/implications – This study only interviewed retailers in the United Kingdom and Japan as these are markets that are of particular interest for Australian food exporters. Originality/value – Consumers and retailers in export markets are responding to climate change. The research suggests that food producers may need to consider market signals in addition to regulatory pressure and/or environmental concern when assessing their response to climate change.
Polarized Proton Pionic Capture in Deuterium as a Probe of 3N Dynamics
Creators: name: Canton, Luciano
name: Levchuk, Leonid G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proton analyzing power Ay in pion production reaction pd --> pi0 3He has been calculated including one- and two-body meson production mechanisms with a proper treatment of the three-nucleon dynamics and an accurate solution of the 3N bound-state problem for phenomenological two-nucleon potentials. In the region around the Delta resonance, the structure of the analyzing power can be understood once interference effects among amplitudes describing intermediate Delta N formation in different orbital states are considered along with the additional interference with the S-wave pion production amplitudes. Then, the inclusion of three-nucleon dynamics in the initial state produces the structure of the analyzing power that has been observed experimentally.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 2 of A video protocol for rapid dissection of mouse dorsal root ganglia from defined spinal levels
Creators: name: Sleigh, James N.
name: West, Steven J.
name: Schiavo, Giampietro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Extraction of lumbar DRG.
title: Анатомия, физиология, патология органов слуха, речи и зрения
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Северо-Осетинский государственный педагогический институт
Year: 2020

description: В пособии изложены теоретические основы дисциплины, с описанием нормы и встречающихся патологий сенсорных органов, отвечающих за развитие или патологию слуховой, разговорной и речевой функций у человека. Настоящее учебно-методическое пособие адресовано студентам коррекционно-педагогического факультета, обучающимся по направлению подготовки 44.03.03 «Специальное (дефектологическое) образование», профиль «Логопедия».
Birational rowmotion and coxeter-motion on minuscule posets
Creators: name: Okada, Soichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E18 (primary), 06A11 (secondary)

description: Birational rowmotion is a discrete dynamical system on the set of all positive real-valued functions on a finite poset, which is a birational lift of combinatorial rowmotion on order ideals. It is known that combinatorial rowmotion for a minuscule poset has order equal to the Coxeter number, and exhibits the file homomesy phenomenon for refined order ideal cardinality statistic. In this paper we generalize these results to the birational setting. Moreover, as a generalization of birational promotion on a product of two chains, we introduce birational Coxeter-motion on minuscule posets, and prove that it enjoys periodicity and file homomesy.
description: 27 pages, 11 figures
Whither Aquaculture R&D? Results from a Delphi Study
Creators: name: Stricker, Susanne
name: Guettler, Stefan
name: Mueller, Rolf A.E.
name: Schulz, Carsten
name: Stricker, Susanne
name: Guettler, Stefan
name: Mueller, Rolf A.E.
name: Schulz, Carsten
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Farm Management
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Risk and Uncertainty

description: In the summer of the year 2008 a worldwide online Delphi study on the future of R&D in aquaculture was conducted. The Delphi method is widely used to survey experts on the anticipated developments within a specific domain. We employ this method to ascertain the likely future directions of aquaculture research in developed, high-income countries. For the convenience of our respondents we conducted the survey on the web. Results of the survey show that aquaculture experts agree that aquaculture research in general has made substantial achievements and will continue to make even more achievements in the future and also aquaculture research achievements will have very large impact on the productivity of the aquaculture farm as well as on the quality of fish produced in aquaculture systems. This paper presents the first descriptive results of the Delphi study.
Specialized Stores Serving Participants in USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Can Reduce Program Food Costs and Increase Food Store Access
Creators: name: McLaughlin, Patrick W.
name: Martinez, Stephen
name: McLaughlin, Patrick W.
name: Martinez, Stephen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Public Economics
subject: Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
subject: WIC benefits
subject: Nutritional needs
subject: Prenatal nutritional needs
subject: WIC-approved stores
subject: Retailer size
subject: WIC redemptions

description: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is USDA’s third-largest food assistance program. The program provides supplemental foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and healthcare referrals at no charge to low-income and nutritionally at-risk pregnant and postpartum women, as well as infants and children up to age 5.
Heider Balance in Human Networks
Creators: name: Gawronski, P.
name: Kulakowski, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, a continuous dynamics was proposed to simulate dynamics of interpersonal relations in a society represented by a fully connected graph. Final state of such a society was found to be identical with the so-called Heider balance (HB), where the society is divided into two mutually hostile groups. In the continuous model, a polarization of opinions was found in HB. Here we demonstrate that the polarization occurs also in Barabasi-Albert networks, where the Heider balance is not necessarily present. In the second part of this work we demonstrate the results of our formalism, when applied to reference examples: the Southern women and the Zachary club.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures. Presented on 8th Granada Seminar on Computational and Statistical Physics, Modeling Cooperative Behavior in the Social Sciences, Granada, Spain, 7-11 February 2005
D2.3.19 A standard protocol for producing validated new data on the nutrient composition of ethnic foods [n=40] for inclusion in the National Databases
Creators: name: University of Leeds
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
The EuroFIR Food Platform
EuroFIR

description: There should be confidence in the quality of the data entering the EuroFIR database. Therefore, it is essential that all data reaches the minimum quality requirements set by WP1.3 [Development of a quality framework for food composition data]. Data quality is used as a measure of ensuring whether the data is fit for the purpose for which it will be used. Although nutritional composition databases have been used in a variety of ways, the same requirements are addressed when compiling the data (Greenfield and Southgate, 2002; EuroFIR, 2007) ...
Accelerating Atomistic Simulations with Piecewise Machine Learned Ab Initio Potentials at Classical Force Field-like Cost
Creators: name: Zhang, Yaolong
name: Hu, Ce
name: Jiang, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Machine learning methods have nowadays become easy-to-use tools for constructing high-dimensional interatomic potentials with ab initio accuracy. Although machine learned interatomic potentials are generally orders of magnitude faster than first-principles calculations, they remain much slower than classical force fields, at the price of using more complex structural descriptors. To bridge this efficiency gap, we propose an embedded atom neural network approach with simple piecewise switching function based descriptors, resulting in a favorable linear scaling with the number of neighbor atoms. Numerical examples validate that this piecewise machine learning model can be over an order of magnitude faster than various popular machine learned potentials with comparable accuracy for both metallic and covalent materials, approaching the speed of the fastest embedded atom method (i.e. several μs/atom per CPU core). The extreme efficiency of this approach promises its potential in first-principles atomistic simulations of very large systems and/or in long timescale.
description: This work has been accepted by Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Knowledge Management in the Food Supply Chain
Creators: name: Rodriguez Monroy, Carlos
name: Fuentes-Pila, Joaquin
name: Martinez Soto, Moises E.
name: Velasco, Julia
name: Morris, Anne
name: Rodriguez Monroy, Carlos
name: Fuentes-Pila, Joaquin
name: Martinez Soto, Moises E.
name: Velasco, Julia
name: Morris, Anne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: management
subject: knowledge
subject: agrifood supply chain
subject: price stability

description: The object of the present article is to discuss Knowledge Management (KM) in the Agrifood Supply Chain (ASC). In the 21st century, the ASC is under strong tensions. This is evident in the drastic changes in the global scene. For example, in the year 2008, food prices were high and unstable. In the last years, the importance of knowledge as a source of competitive advantage for organizations has increased considerably, so it is necessary its management in the ASC in order to surpass the challenges of the 21st century. KM is a direction tool that focuses in determining, organizing, directing, providing and supervising the practices and activities related with the knowledge (intangible active) required to achieve the strategies and objectives of the business or industry, generating a value for the organization at the moment to reach capabilities and competences. In inter-organizational environments, KM is centered on horizontal alliances between two or more partners. However, there are few authors who have analyzed the vertical alliances between suppliers and customers (the supply chain). The existing KM models are applicable for the ASC, as long as a series of conditions are present in the same one. Among these conditions there is one which prevails: The different enterprises that integrate the ASC must coordinate themselves in order to constitute a dynamic network, in which learning barriers are eliminated, so knowledge can flow freely through them. In conclusion, the development of KM models in the ASC, in the framework of untimely, temporary and structural changes in the globalised world, represents a necessary tool to offer safety and quality food to the world-wide population in the 21st century. In this way, food markets will tend to become stabilized in the long term and adequate answers can be provided to the more vulnerable communities and regions.
The Jang equation, apparent horizons, and the Penrose inequality
Creators: name: Malec, Edward
name: Murchadha, Niall Ó
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Jang equation in the spherically symmetric case reduces to a first order equation. This permits an easy analysis of the role apparent horizons play in the (non)existence of solutions. We demonstrate that the proposed derivation of the Penrose inequality based on the Jang equation cannot work in the spherically symmetric case. Thus it is fruitless to apply this method, as it stands, to the general case. We show also that those analytic criteria for the formation of horizons that are based on the use of the Jang equation are of limited validity for the proof of the trapped surface conjecture.
description: minor misprints corrected
Dynamically Warped Theory Space and Collective Supersymmetry Breaking
Creators: name: Carone, Christopher D.
name: Erlich, Joshua
name: Glover, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study deconstructed gauge theories in which a warp factor emerges dynamically and naturally. We present nonsupersymmetric models in which the potential for the link fields has translational invariance, broken only by boundary effects that trigger an exponential profile of vacuum expectation values. The spectrum of physical states deviates exponentially from that of the continuum for large masses; we discuss the effects of such exponential towers on gauge coupling unification. We also present a supersymmetric example in which a warp factor is driven by Fayet-Iliopoulos terms. The model is peculiar in that it possesses a global supersymmetry that remains unbroken despite nonvanishing D-terms. Inclusion of gravity and/or additional messenger fields leads to the collective breaking of supersymmetry and to unusual phenomenology.
description: 28 pages LaTeX, JHEP format, 7 eps figures (v2: reference added)
Effects of optical design on speckle in fiber based optical coherence tomography (OCT)
Creators: name: Muralidharan, Bharadwaj
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2018
Subjects: Optical coherence tomography
Speckle
Optical design
Aberrations

description: Angle resolved optical coherence tomography (AR-OCT) was developed to observe the back-scattering angle of incident light on tissues to diagnose the functional state. In order to build the setup, a pathlength multiplexing element (PME) is utilized thereby creating sub-bands in the image. The top most sub-band corresponding to the low angle/ low angle of the sample path exhibited a poorer resolution as expected, with bigger speckles. This necessitated to look at the effect on the speckle characteristics due to the variation of numerical aperture (NA) of the sub-band beam at the collection fiber (smaller than the fiber NA) and the stop aperture size. To the effect, a standard swept source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) built with SMF 28E+ fibers with NA of 0.14 was compared with a SS-OCT built with higher NA fibers. For this research, UHNA 3 fibers with NA of 0.35 was used. The initial results showed that the SS-OCT with high NA fibers had a smaller speckle than that with lower NA fibers. However, the images obtained with most commonly used tomography scanning method neither reflected the results of the initial observation nor fitted into existing explanations. When the experimental protocol was revisited, the results suggested that the speckle size at the collection fiber was restricted by the clear aperture of the optics. As the clear aperture was expanded, the finer details of the speckle field got coupled into the collection fiber, with the fiber aperture (or, mode field) determining the speckle size of the OCT image, corroborating with the initial results. To evaluate the performance, the speckle contrast of the images obtained with these OCT systems were computed along with the aberrations in the optical setup. From the results, it was clear that the monochromatic aberration such as spherical aberration increased the speckle contrast sharpening the edges while the chromatic aberration reduced the speckle contrast blurring the image. Moreover, the reduction in speckle size also reduced the speckle contrast when the illumination beam of the OCT under-sampled the clear aperture of the optics