cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The choice of climate change adaptation strategies among food crop farmers in Southwest Nigeria
Creators: name: Enete, A.A.
name: Otitoju, M.A.
name: Ihemezie, E.J.
name: Enete, A.A.
name: Otitoju, M.A.
name: Ihemezie, E.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Climate Change
subject: adaptation strategies
subject: food crop framers
subject: Nigeria

description: The performance of food crop production is currently, greatly threatened by climate change. However, the extent to which these impacts are felt depends principally on the adaptation measures used by farmers to cushion the effects of climate change. This study centered on the factors that drive the choice of major adaptation measures by farmers in Southwestern Nigeria. The study used multistage sampling procedure to select 360 food crop farmers in the area. Primary data were collected through surveys to achieve this. Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics and multinomial logit model. The results indicated that the main climate change adaptation strategies were multiple crop varieties, land fragmentation, multiple planting dates, crop diversification, off-farm employment and cover cropping. Factors influencing the choice of these adaptation strategies were household size, age, education, gender, average farm distance, access to credit, tenure security, and agro-ecology. A summary of their influence on the farmers’ choice of adaptation strategies suggests a relatively growing popularity for the use of cover cropping as an adaptation strategy among them. Increased use of cover cropping as climate change adaptation strategy should therefore be encouraged among farmers. In addition, land tenure security encouraged the choice of crop diversification among the respondents. This is also considered a very important strategy, given that different crops have varying degrees of resilience to climate change. A kind of land reform strategy that could make the farmers more land secured is therefore recommended.
12256: Frederick Augustus Abberley
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Frederick was Eleanor's grandfather. Frederick was born in Chelsea, London in 13th October 1886 to George & Elizabeth Abberley a Labourer.

In 1911 he was an Assistant in a Green Grocers and was living with the family. He married in 1915 and had 2 children, the youngest was a boy named after him and was born after Frederick's death but he died as an infant.

Frederick was a Private in the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade regiment number S/25639 and was killed in action 23rd October 1916 and was awarded the British War medal and the Victory medal.

He is buried at the Thiepval cemetery.

Eleanor brought in to be digitised a photograph of the headstone, his medal and a printed story and books on the Somme.
Gravitational decay of the Z-boson
Creators: name: Nieves, Jose F.
name: Pal, Palash B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the decay process of the Z boson to a photon and a graviton. The most general form of the on-shell amplitude, subject to the constraints due to the conservation of the electromagnetic and the energy-momentum tensor, is determined. The amplitude is expressed in terms of three form factors, two of which are CP-odd while one is CP-even. The latter, which is the only non-zero form factor at the one-loop level, is computed in the standard model and the decay rate is determined.
description: 30 pages, Latex, uses Axodraw. (Some typographical errors corrected, and some references added in the new version.)
Economic efficiency of artisanal fishing households under oil pollution environment in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria
Creators: name: Gbigbi, Theophilus M.
name: Enete, Anselm A.
name: Chude, Stella N.
name: Gbigbi, Theophilus M.
name: Enete, Anselm A.
name: Chude, Stella N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Economic efficiency
subject: oil pollution
subject: artisanal fishing
subject: Niger Delta region, Nigeria

description: Fish supplies more than 87% of the animal protein in Nigeria, and more than 90% of coastal communities depend solely on fishing and fisheries related activities for their survival. Available information however, shows that Nigeria’s inland water bodies are producing less than 13% of their estimated fishery potential. And domestic demand for fish has never been met by dependence on output from available aquatic sources. Nigeria therefore imports over US$ 200 million worth of frozen fish per annum. The capacity of artisanal fisheries to play its role of bridging this food gap, providing employment and generating income, particularly for the coastal communities in Nigeria, will largely depend on the adoption of appropriate management strategies that will ensure efficiency and sustainability given their debilitating oil pollution environment. This study employed a Cobb- Douglas stochastic frontier cost function to measure the level of economic efficiency and its determinants among these households. A multi-stage random sampling technique was used to select 160 respondents from whom input-output data, prices and socioeconomic characteristics were obtained. The results of the analysis showed that individual levels of economic efficiency ranged from 0.10 – 0.96 with a mean of 0.68. While age, household size and number of fishing trips made in a week decreased, access to credit, membership of co-operative society, and oil spill increased, significantly, the respondents’ level of economic inefficiency. These observations particularly suggest that the farmers were yet to harness the potentials of farm credit and membership of cooperative societies in their farm business, perhaps as a result of poverty. We recommend training workshops and seminars to remedy this. There is also the need for policies that could compel oil companies to minimize oil spill within the farmers’ fishing environment. The adverse effects of oil spill on the environment and the economic politics of forcing oil companies to deal with it are global problems that the international community could assist poorer nations find ways out of it.
Additional file 1 of Perspectives on program mis-implementation among U.S. local public health departments
Creators: name: Allen, Peg
name: Jacob, Rebekah R.
name: Parks, Renee G.
name: Mazzucca, Stephanie
name: Hengrui Hu
name: Robinson, Mackenzie
name: Dobbins, Maureen
name: Dekker, Debra
name: Padek, Margaret
name: Brownson, Ross C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Supercooled Liquids Under Shear: Theory and Simulation
Creators: name: Miyazaki, Kunimasa
name: Reichman, David R.
name: Yamamoto, Ryoichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the behavior of supercooled fluids under shear both theoretically and numerically. Theoretically, we generalize the mode-coupling theory of supercooled fluids to systems under stationary shear flow. Our starting point is the set of generalized fluctuating hydrodynamic equations with a convection term. A nonlinear integro-differential equation for the intermediate scattering function is constructed. This theory is applied to a two-dimensional colloidal suspension. The shear rate dependence of the intermediate scattering function and the shear viscosity is analyzed. We have also performed extensive numerical simulations of a two-dimensional binary liquid with soft-core interactions near, but above, the glass transition temperature. Both theoretical and numerical results show: (i) A drastic reduction of the structural relaxation time and the shear viscosity due to shear. Both the structural relaxation time and the viscosity decrease as $\dotγ^{-ν}$ with an exponent $ν\leq 1$, where $\dotγ$ is the shear rate. (ii) Almost isotropic dynamics regardless of the strength of the anisotropic shear flow.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures
Examination of the Ketogenic Diet on Seizure and Non-Seizure Symptom Improvements in Pediatric Epilepsy Patients
Creators: name: Sarlo, Gabrielle L.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3209
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The ketogenic diet (KD) is an alternative treatment option for patients with refractory epilepsy. The dietary therapy community has defined diet efficacy as a 50% or greater reduction in seizures, with about 50% of patients usually reporting benefit. The aim of this study was to examine KD efficacy within its current definition (seizure control), as well as within alternative definitions. These alternative definitions of efficacy included efficacy defined by positive changes in seizure duration and/or severity and efficacy defined by non-seizure symptom improvement. A retrospective chart review of demographic, initial visit, diet initiation, and 3-month visit data was conducted for patients ≤18 years who underwent diet initiation at the Dietary Therapies for Epilepsy Clinic at Children's National Medical Center between the years of 2015-2018. Sixteen patients (62%) had a percentage of seizure reduction from baseline to 3-month post diet. Of those patients, 10 (63%) saw a 50% or greater reduction in their seizures. Changes in seizure duration or severity could not be adequately assessed due to missing data. Of the 26 patients with a 3-month visit, 14 (54%) reported non-seizure symptom improvements. There were no diet or patient characteristic predictors of diet efficacy when efficacy was defined by seizure control, nor when the definition was altered to represent patients with non-seizure symptom improvement. Limitations of the study such as the small sample size and missing data resulted in a lack of available analyses for potential variables of interest, as well as the inability to perform rigorous data analysis. Standardized patient forms among clinics could be a useful tool to promote improved data collection and increase study sample sizes in the future. Improvements in data collection of both seizure and non-seizure symptoms would allow for enhanced investigation into the benefits and potential drawbacks of the KD beyond seizure control. Additionally, future research should focus on mechanism of action(s) for the KD, as this will help not only to further inform its potential use in epilepsy, as well as in other neurological disorders, but also aid in the creation of novel dietary therapies.
Economics of plantain production in oil producing communities of Bayelsa State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Kainga, P.E.
name: Nnadi, C.D.
name: Jimmy, S.P.
name: Ugorji, K.S.
name: Kainga, P.E.
name: Nnadi, C.D.
name: Jimmy, S.P.
name: Ugorji, K.S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Economics
subject: plantain production
subject: oil producing communities
subject: Bayelsa State

description: This study examined the economics of plantain production in oil producing communities in Bayelsa State with a view to ensuring a green economy. The specific objectives were to: describe the socio-economic characteristics of plantain producers, determine the socio-economic variables that influence productivity in plantain production, determine the technical efficiency in plantain production, estimate cost and return associated with plantain production, identify constraints faced by plantain farmers in the study area. To materialize this, 60 structured questionnaire from 6 oil producing communities were selected and data were analysed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression. The results showed that greater number of the plantain farmers fall within an age bracket of 39-59 years, with an average age of approximately 40 years. Majority of the plantain producers were female, this showed that plantain production is a female crop in the study area. The result also showed that greater number (65 %) of farmers used family labour; the involvement of skilled labourers (educated youth) may be attributed to lack of employment in oil producing companies. The result further showed that the estimated average farm size in the study area was less than I hectare which connotes that the farmers were operating on small scale farming, with an estimated average output of 300 bunches of plantain per year. Major determinants of productivity in plantain production in oil producing communities were farm size, sex of farmer and labour in harvesting plantain as they were statistically significant (p≤ 0.05).
Regional Sequence Expansion or Collapse in Heterozygous Genome Assemblies
Creators: name: Asalone, Kathryn Celestia
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: High levels of heterozygosity present a unique genome assembly challenge and can adversely impact downstream analyses yet is common in sequencing datasets obtained from non-model organisms. Here it is shown that by re-assembling a heterozygous dataset with variant parameters and different assembly algorithms, assemblies whose protein annotations are statistically enriched for specific gene ontology categories can be generated. While total assembly length was not significantly affected by assembly methodologies tested, the generated assemblies varied widely in fragmentation level and collapse or expansion which are underlying the enrichment or depletion of specific protein functional groups. It is shown that these statistically significant deviations in gene ontology groups can occur in seemingly high-quality assemblies and result from difficult-to-detect local sequence expansion or contractions. Given the unpredictable interplay between assembly algorithm, parameter, and biological sequence data heterozygosity, here the need for better measures of assembly quality than N50 value, including methods for assessing local expansion and collapse, is highlighted.
Thermodynamics of a trapped interacting Bose gas and the renormalization group
Creators: name: Metikas, G.
name: Zobay, O.
name: Alber, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply perturbative renormalization group theory to the symmetric phase of a dilute interacting Bose gas which is trapped in a three-dimensional harmonic potential. Using Wilsonian energy-shell renormalization and the epsilon-expansion, we derive the flow equations for the system. We relate these equations to the flow for the homogeneous Bose gas. In the thermodynamic limit, we apply our results to study the transition temperature as a function of the scattering length. Our results compare well to previous studies of the problem.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
The effect of rainfall variability on maize production in Lagos State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Okeowo, T.A.
name: Ogunbameru, A.
name: Ogunyemi, O.I.
name: Okeowo, T.A.
name: Ogunbameru, A.
name: Ogunyemi, O.I.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Rainfall variability
subject: maize yield
subject: Lagos State

description: Despite technological advancement in maize seed and production improvement, the climate as a single factor still has significant influence on maize yield in Nigeria. With changes in weather and climate being experienced, the study therefore focused on the effect of climate on maize production which is expressed as a function of the variability in the rainfall pattern in Lagos State. The study employed the use of secondary data of rainfall and maize yield spanning 10 years from 1997 to 2006. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and simple linear regression. The planting date of maize fluctuated between 1999 and 2000 and the yield declined between 1999 - 2000 and 2002-2003 in response to variability in rainfall. Average estimates of rainfall and maize yield were 1,422.9 mm and 2,135 tonnes for the period under study while their variance estimates were 80908.77 mm and 46 tonnes with coefficients of variation of 19.99% and 10.04% respectively. The results also show that average change in rainfall impacted positively on maize yield throughout the period with a slope coefficient of 0.192 which means a unit increase in rainfall will lead to 0.192 unit increase in maize yield. The farmers were encouraged to adopt drought resistance maize varieties and collective irrigation facilities to cope with climate change phenomenon.
Regional Sequence Expansion or Collapse in Heterozygous Genome Assemblies
Creators: name: Asalone, Kathryn Celestia
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: High levels of heterozygosity present a unique genome assembly challenge and can adversely impact downstream analyses yet is common in sequencing datasets obtained from non-model organisms. Here it is shown that by re-assembling a heterozygous dataset with variant parameters and different assembly algorithms, assemblies whose protein annotations are statistically enriched for specific gene ontology categories can be generated. While total assembly length was not significantly affected by assembly methodologies tested, the generated assemblies varied widely in fragmentation level and collapse or expansion which are underlying the enrichment or depletion of specific protein functional groups. It is shown that these statistically significant deviations in gene ontology groups can occur in seemingly high-quality assemblies and result from difficult-to-detect local sequence expansion or contractions. Given the unpredictable interplay between assembly algorithm, parameter, and biological sequence data heterozygosity, here the need for better measures of assembly quality than N50 value, including methods for assessing local expansion and collapse, is highlighted.
Accelerating Universe from Extra Spatial Dimension
Creators: name: Chatterjee, S.
name: Banerjee, A.
name: Zhang, Y. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple higher dimensional FRW type of model where the acceleration is apparently caused by the presence of the extra dimensions. Assuming an ansatz in the form of the deceleration parameter we get a class of solutions some of which shows the desirable feature of dimensional reduction as well as reasonably good physical properties of matter. Interestingly we do not have to invoke an extraneous scalar field or a cosmological constant to account for this acceleration. One argues that the terms containing the higher dimensional metric coefficients produces an extra negative pressure that apparently drives the inflation of the 4D space with an accelerating phase. It is further found that in line with the physical requirements our model admits of a decelerating phase in the early era along with an accelerating phase at present.Further the models asymptotically mimic a steady state type of universe although it starts from a big type of singularity. Correspondence to Wesson's induced matter theory is also briefly discussed and in line with it it is argued that the terms containing the higher dimensional metric coefficients apparently creates a negative pressure which drives the inflation of the 3-space with an accelerating phase.
description: 09
Additional file 2 of Impact of individual background on the unmet needs of cancer survivors and caregivers – a mixed-methods analysis
Creators: name: Watanabe, Kaname
name: Katayama, Kayoko
name: Yoshioka, Takashi
name: Narimatsu, Hiroto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Table A1. Logistic regression analysis (except survivors, adjusted by cancer type).
12260: William, Alfred, Stanley, Charles and Harold Cook
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: June Clark is the great niece of the Cook brothers.

All five brothers volunteered in the Somerset Light Infantry. Four brothers survived the war, Harold died. The family story is that two of the brothers were gassed but this not been verified.

William was a sapper in the Royal Engineers from the beginning of the war.

Alfred, who was a Sergeant of Police in India before the war, signed up as a territorial and later joined the Northumberland Fusiliers. He was injured in an arm and his back and was in Whitby during the bombardment.

Stanley was in Royal Garrison Artillery and little else is known other than the family story that during WWII he was in the S.O.E. involved in operation Greyhound.

Charles died of tetanus whilst working in Bruton Saw Mill.

Harold died in Fromelles when serving with the Oxford & Buckinghamshire Regiment aged just 19, killed after only 12 days at the front.

Their father William, who had served in the Royal Navy, was warmly congratulated on having five sons serving in WWI and this was reported on the front page of their local paper (to be confirmed).

The brothers were from a family of at least 12 children.
Observable Gravitational Waves in Minimal Scotogenic Model
Creators: name: Borah, Debasish
name: Dasgupta, Arnab
name: Fujikura, Kohei
name: Kang, Sin Kyu
name: Mahanta, Devabrat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We scrutinise the widely studied minimal scotogenic model of dark matter (DM) and radiative neutrino mass from the requirement of a strong first order electroweak phase transition (EWPT) and observable gravitational waves at future planned space based experiments. The scalar DM scenario is similar to inert scalar doublet extension of standard model where a strong first order EWPT favours a portion of the low mass regime of DM which is disfavoured by the latest direct detection bounds. In the fermion DM scenario, we get newer region of parameter space which favours strong first order EWPT as the restriction on mass ordering within inert scalar doublet gets relaxed. While such leptophilic fermion DM remains safe from stringent direct detection bounds, newly allowed low mass regime of charged scalar can leave tantalising signatures at colliders and can also induce charged lepton flavour violation within reach of future experiments. While we get such new region of parameter space satisfying DM relic, strong first order EWPT with detectable gravitational waves, light neutrino mass and other relevant constraints, we also improve upon previous analysis in similar model by incorporating appropriate resummation effects in effective finite temperature potential.
description: 36 pages, 6 figures, matches version accepted for publication in JCAP
How Good Is a Strategy in a Game With Nature?
Creators: name: Carayol, Arnaud
name: Serre, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider games with two antagonistic players --- Éloïse (modelling a program) and Abélard (modelling a byzantine environment) --- and a third, unpredictable and uncontrollable player, that we call Nature. Motivated by the fact that the usual probabilistic semantics very quickly leads to undecidability when considering either infinite game graphs or imperfect-information, we propose two alternative semantics that leads to decidability where the probabilistic one fails: one based on counting and one based on topology.
Additional file 1 of Impact of individual background on the unmet needs of cancer survivors and caregivers – a mixed-methods analysis
Creators: name: Watanabe, Kaname
name: Katayama, Kayoko
name: Yoshioka, Takashi
name: Narimatsu, Hiroto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Additional file. Supplementary result.
12224: Battle of Cambrai
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Rosemary is the Granddaughter of Joseph Harry Timberlake. Joseph was born 14th November 1884 in Islington, London. He was in the battle of Cambrai in the 6th Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. His service number was 23711.

He walked behind the 'new weapon' the tank. He has no known grave but it is known that he died 20th November 1917. His wife was Anne Timberlake and his son was born in the April 1917.

A photo of Joseph was brought in and an embroidered card "For God King and Country".
Transforming Nigerian agriculture in the context of a green economy: financing challenges, opportunities and mechanisms
Creators: name: Olomola, Aderibigbe
name: Adesugba, Margaret
name: Olomola, Aderibigbe
name: Adesugba, Margaret
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Nigerian agriculture
subject: green economy
subject: financing challenges
subject: opportunities and mechanisms

description: Concern is growing about green economy in the country on account of the bourgeoning population with rising poverty and increasing risk of food insecurity and environmental degradation and in consonance with the renewed emphasis being given to the phenomenon all over the world. Although the agricultural sector has demonstrated improved performance since the inception of ATA in 2011, financing bottlenecks remain; and the major concern is the lack of emphasis on green finance. This paper advocates for financing mechanisms to support a transformation agenda that moves agriculture away from activities that are nature degrading and environment polluting to those that are nature preserving and environment friendly. It argues that an agricultural financing framework to engender a green economy in Nigeria must be pursued within the context of sustainable development and poverty alleviation in which the integration between economic, social and environmental pillars of development are recognized and reinforced. Specifically, the paper examines the gaps between agricultural transformation and green finance in Nigeria, identifies the constraints and opportunities for green agriculture financing and articulates appropriate financing mechanisms. These include value chain financing to support integrated farming systems, support for organic agriculture by NIRSAL, financing of product and agricultural system certification, financing the monitoring of natural resource exploitation and restoration, financing the development of climate change buffers, inter-agency collaboration in financing desert encroachment and restoration of degraded land and mainstreaming green finance in the implementation of the staple crop processing zone component of ATA. In conclusion, the paper calls for the crafting of a “green-print” for a green agricultural economy – a well-informed policy layout for greening agricultural growth in Nigeria with an implementation plan to serve as the solid investment foundation required for the industrialization of the Nigerian economy.
Magnetars: Time Evolution, Superfluid Properties, and Mechanism of Magnetic Field Decay
Creators: name: Arras, P.
name: Cumming, A.
name: Thompson, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the coupled thermal evolution and magnetic field decay in relativistic model neutron stars threaded by superstrong magnetic fields (B > 10^{15} G). Our main goal is to evaluate how such ``magnetars'' evolve with time and how field decay modifies the transitions to core superfluidity and cooling dominated by surface X-ray emission. Observations of a thermal X-ray spectral component and fast timing noise place strong constraints on the presence of a superfluid core. We find that the transition to core superfluidity can be significantly delayed by field decay in the age range ~ 10^3-10^5 yrs. The mechanism of Hall drift is related to the stability of the core magnetic field, and to currents flowing outward through the crust. The heating effect is enhanced if it is continuous rather than spasmodic. Condensation of a heavy element layer at the surface is shown to cause only modest changes in the outward conduction of heat.
description: Submitted to Ap.J. Letters 1 December 2003; revised 16 January 2004
12227: Letters home and his wife's diary
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Rosemary is the Granddaughter of George Edgar Hyde.

George's wife wrote a diary of life at home whilst George was doing his training in Reading Barracks. George was in the Royal Buckingham & Berkshire Regiment and served in France. His daughter Evelyn did not recognise him when he returned home.

After the war George was a milkman and he never spoke about the war. He died in 1963.

Rosemary brought in the diary, a photo of George, a handkerchief and a number of letters he sent to his daughter.
Estimation of Farmer's Response to Price Dynamics in Partial Adjusted Autoregressive and Distributive Lagged Models: An Application to Rubber Production in Nigeria
Creators: name: Abiola, M. O.
name: Ada-Okungbowa, C. I.
name: Abiola, M. O.
name: Ada-Okungbowa, C. I.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Rubber price
subject: Autoregressive model
subject: Partial adjustment
subject: Supply response

description: The study examined the response of rubber output to price dynamics in Nigeria. Secondary data of rubber output in hectares and price for a period of forty four years (1960-2004) from Central Bank of Nigeria and National Bureau of statistics were used for the study. Inferential statistics; partial adjusted autoregressive and distributive lagged models of regression were applied to the secondary data obtained. The result of partial adjusted autoregressive model indicates that the one period lagged producer price had a short run elasticity of 0.043 and it is significantly different from zero with observed long run elasticity of 6.7169. The adjusted lagged coefficient had increasing effect on hectarage of rubber in the period under review. A stationary situation was observed given that DFr (tau) calculated (3.818) was greater than DF r (tau) statistics of -2.620. Equilibrium exists but the rate of adjustment from both directions is slow. The distributive lagged model short run elasticity of 0.003 and 0.007 for the two lagged periods indicates that previous prices had increasing effect on rubber output. The study concludes that price policies are effective tools for obtaining the desire level of output in rubber production in Nigeria.
Social accountability
Creators: name: Fox, Jonathan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Empirical evidence of tangible impacts of social accountability is mixed. This meta-analysis reinterprets evaluations through a new lens: the distinction between tactical and strategic approaches to the promotion of citizen voice to contribute to improved public sector performance. Field experiments study bounded, tactical interventions based on optimistic assumptions about the power of information alone, both to motivate collective action and to influence the state. Enabling environments for collective action combined with bolstered state capacity to respond to citizen voice are more promising. Sandwhich strategies can help ‘voice’ and ‘teeth’ to become mutually empowering, through state-society synergy.
Social accountability
Creators: name: Fox, Jonathan
Publisher: name: World Development
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Empirical evidence of tangible impacts of social accountability is mixed. This meta-analysis reinterprets evaluations through a new lens: the distinction between tactical and strategic approaches to the promotion of citizen voice to contribute to improved public sector performance. Field experiments study bounded, tactical interventions based on optimistic assumptions about the power of information alone, both to motivate collective action and to influence the state. Enabling environments for collective action combined with bolstered state capacity to respond to citizen voice are more promising. Sandwhich strategies can help ‘voice’ and ‘teeth’ to become mutually empowering, through state-society synergy.
An analysis of interest rate deregulation as a policy instrument for stimulating agricultural finance and growth in Nigeria
Creators: name: Oniyishi, L.O.
name: Arene, C.J.
name: Ifiorah, C.M.
name: Oniyishi, L.O.
name: Arene, C.J.
name: Ifiorah, C.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Interest rate deregulation
subject: agricultural finance and growth
subject: Nigeria

description: The study examined interest rate deregulation as a policy instrument for stimulating agricultural finance and growth in Nigeria. The study specifically ascertained the factors that determine the aggregate credit volume to agriculture within the periods of regulation and deregulation in the Nigerian economy, determined the effects of government finance interventions on agricultural sector performance in the Nigerian economy, determined the periodic effects of macroeconomic financial indicators on Agriculture’s gross domestic product (GDP) contribution to Nigerian economy and estimated the level of real credit growth of agricultural finance in Nigeria. Descriptive statistics, Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression technique and chow test were used for data analysis. The chow test showed that there was a significant differential effect on the aggregate credit volume to agricultural sector between the regulated and deregulated regimes. Interest rate was an important determinant of aggregate credit volume to the agricultural sector in Nigeria, especially during the deregulated period but monetary authorities should ensure appropriate determination of interest rate level that will break the double-edge effect of interest rates on savers and investors.
Sudakov expansions at one loop and beyond for charged scalar and fermion pair production in SUSY models at future Linear Colliders
Creators: name: Beccaria, Matteo
name: Melles, Michael
name: Renard, Fernand M.
name: Trimarchi, Salvatore
name: Verzegnassi, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the high energy behaviour of the amplitudes for pair production of charged leptons, quarks, Higgs bosons, sleptons, squarks and charginos at lepton colliders. We give the general expressions of the leading quadratic and subleading linear logarithms that appear at the one loop level, and derive the corresponding resummed expansions to \underline{subleading} logarithmic order accuracy. Under the assumption of a relatively light SUSY scenario and choosing the MSSM as a specific model, we compare the predictions of the one-loop and of the resummed expansions at variable energy. We show that the two predictions are very close in the one TeV regime, but drastically differ in the few ($2,3$) TeV range.
description: 43 pages, 13 Encapsulated PostScript figures
Random Matrix Filtering in Portfolio Optimization
Creators: name: Papp, Gabor
name: Pafka, Szilard
name: Nowak, Maciej A.
name: Kondor, Imre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We study empirical covariance matrices in finance. Due to the limited amount of available input information, these objects incorporate a huge amount of noise, so their naive use in optimization procedures, such as portfolio selection, may be misleading. In this paper we investigate a recently introduced filtering procedure, and demonstrate the applicability of this method in a controlled, simulation environment.
description: 9 pages with 3 EPS figures
Additional file 9 of Google Health Trends performance reflecting dengue incidence for the Brazilian states
Creators: name: Romero-Alvarez, Daniel
name: Parikh, Nidhi
name: Osthus, Dave
name: Martinez, Kaitlyn
name: Generous, Nicholas
name: Valle, Sara Del
name: Manore, Carrie A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 9. Variables selected by applying different variable selection routines and definitions of each of the selected predictors.
A gendered social accounting matrix for South Korea
Creators: name: Lofgren, Hans
name: Kim, Kijong
name: Fontana, Marzia
name: Cicowiez, Martin
Publisher: name: Program on Gender Analysis in Economics, American University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: CWE-GAM Working Paper Series: 20-04 Program on Gender Analysis in Economics (PGAE) American University, Washington, DC
12217: Harold Thomas Hooper
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Harold was Roger's maternal grandfather. He was born 10th September 1890 in Swindon, Wiltshire. His occupation was a Collier before he joined the Navy.His service record shows the "Date and Period of C.S. Engagements" is 10th September 1908 - 12 yrs age 18. He was made an Able in July 1909. He entered the Fleet Reserve. His first service date was 30th June 1906 aboard the Impregnable. His last ship was Victory 1 and he left 4th June 1921. He received a long service medal in the RFR, he had joined 4th October 1913. His service number was 236885 and he served for 12 years.He was awarded 4 medals: 1914 - 15 Star British War Medal 1914 -1918 Victory Medal Long Service and Good Conduct MedalIn the war he served on a number of ships.He died 18th January 1934 in Somerset.The family story was that he was 12 years old when he joined.
An investigation into 30% recycled wood fiber paper and sugar cane paper
Creators: name: Byun, Yoon Ji
name: Chan, Amelia
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Paper is one of unavoidable resources being used in university. In the University of British Columbia, roughly about 82.7 millions of paper are being used yearly. To make paper usage more efficient while campus community keeps its sustainability, Paula Goldspink, who is from the UBC’s Supply Management, aims to find an alternative for wood fibre paper UBC currently uses. Mike Nilan, from the TreeZero Company, made a suggestion to Paula of having UBC replace the 30% recycled wood fibre paper they currently purchase from Grand & Toy (G&T) with paper made of sugar cane. The product of the TreeZero Company, the TreeFrog paper is manufactured and produced in Columbia without using any traces of wood chips. By using the triple bottom line analysis (TBL), this report provides a thorough investigation into the social, economic and environmental impacts of using sugar cane paper on a local and national scale.The raw materials used to make both the wood fibre paper and the sugar cane paper was being investigated. The analysis into the environmental impacts covers the ecological footprint of each type of paper with the amount of pollutants produced and released annually. Economical impacts include the relative cost of sugar cane paper to wood fibre paper which was calculated based on raw materials, labour, pulp and bleach used for making the papers including an investigation into the cost of importing sugar cane was also being considered alongside with revenue and loss of the industry. Social benefits, such as more available jobs, the amount of salary for farmers, and profit of local sugar cane industry were also being discovered throughout the analysis. In general, the proposal of switching from using wood fibre paper to sugar cane paper was found to have more advantages than disadvantages. The manufacturing process was discovered to be the same for both types of paper and the price of sugar cane is much cheaper than wood chips in near future. Sugar cane paper uses no trees at all and produces fewer pollutants while deforestation is needed for wood fibre paper. As a final point, sugar cane paper will aid in the improvement of the sugar cane industry and the income of the farmers in other countries. Sustainability awareness will be widely promoted and UBC’s image as a leader in sustainability will be well-known in Canada and to the world. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Reference intervals for 12 clinical laboratory tests in a Danish population: The Lolland-Falster Health Study
Creators: name: Bruun-Rasmussen, Neda Esmailzadeh
name: Napolitano, George
name: Jepsen, Randi
name: Ellervik, Christina
name: Rasmussen, Knud
name: Bojesen, Stig Egil
name: Lynge, Elsebeth
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Reference intervals (RIs), developed as part of the Nordic Reference Interval Project 2000 (NORIP) are widely used in most European laboratories. We aimed to examine the validity of the NORIP RIs by establishing RIs for 12 frequently used laboratory tests based on data from a local Danish population and compare these local RIs with the NORIP RIs. Using an a posteriori direct sampling approach, blood sample data were assessed from 11,138 participants aged 18+ years in the Lolland-Falster Health Study (LOFUS), of whom 2154 turned out to meet criteria for being healthy for inclusion in establishing RIs according to the NORIP methodology. The 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles were calculated for alanine aminotransferase (ALAT), albumin, alkaline phosphatase, bilirubin, creatinine, hemoglobin, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, iron, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, thrombocytes, total cholesterol, and triglycerides. When comparing our estimates with the NORIP, the lower reference limits (RLs) for bilirubin and iron were lower, and higher for ALAT, thrombocytes and triglycerides. Upper RLs were lower for albumin (males and females ≥70 years), bilirubin and iron, but higher for alkaline phosphatase, triglycerides and for creatinine in men. In LOFUS, approximately 20% of the participants were healthy and qualified for inclusion in the establishment of RIs. Several of the local RIs differed from the NORIP RIs.
Sudakov Resummation for Subleading SCET Currents and Heavy-to-Light Form Factors
Creators: name: Hill, Richard J.
name: Becher, Thomas
name: Lee, Seung J.
name: Neubert, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hard-scattering contributions to heavy-to-light form factors at large recoil are studied systematically in soft-collinear effective theory (SCET). Large logarithms arising from multiple energy scales are resummed by matching QCD onto SCET in two stages via an intermediate effective theory. Anomalous dimensions in the intermediate theory are computed, and their form is shown to be constrained by conformal symmetry. Renormalization-group evolution equations are solved to give a complete leading-order analysis of the hard-scattering contributions, in which all single and double logarithms are resummed. In two cases, spin-symmetry relations for the soft-overlap contributions to form factors are shown not to be broken at any order in perturbation theory by hard-scattering corrections. One-loop matching calculations in the two effective theories are performed in sample cases, for which the relative importance of renormalization-group evolution and matching corrections is investigated. The asymptotic behavior of Sudakov logarithms appearing in the coefficient functions of the soft-overlap and hard-scattering contributions to form factors is analyzed.
description: 50 pages, 10 figures; minor corrections, version to appear in JHEP
Stochastic modeling of citation slips
Creators: name: Simkin, M. V.
name: Roychowdhury, V. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present empirical data on frequency and pattern of misprints in citations to twelve high-profile papers. We find that the distribution of misprints, ranked by frequency of their repetition, follows Zipf's law. We propose a stochastic model of citation process, which explains these findings, and leads to the conclusion that 70-90% of scientific citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers.
description: Some corrections and additions. To appear in Scientometrics